"Investment in shares?" Xu Zhi pondered.

Qi Lin said with a smile: "Yes, Shanghai No. 1 Machinery Factory has thousands of employees, is one of the largest factories in Shanghai, has been providing parts for Shanghai cars, but in recent years the industry has been sluggish, resulting in difficulties in capital turnover, if you can get foreign shares, will be able to regain life." ”

Xu Zhi swept the factory area of this machinery factory, the area is very large, should not be less than 300 acres, this machinery factory because of the long history, now the location is in the prime location of Puxi, surrounded by residential areas, a kilometer to the north There is a large free trade farm.

Land in this location was only available to former factories, and now even Mack Truck or Volkswagen can only build factories in the suburbs.

Of course, the suburbs are now and will be prosperous in the future, but they still can't compare to the location of this machine factory.

Outside of the factory, some shops, small parks, and vegetable farms are owned by the factory. In this era, the factory was actually a collective, and the houses of the employees were allocated by the factory, which was generally near the factory, and the small shops and vegetable fields in the vicinity were actually owned by the factory.

The greater convenience is that this is not the capital, as long as the relationship with the leaders of Shanghai City is well handled, the future operation will be much simpler.

After thinking about it, Xu Zhi said: "It's not impossible to buy shares, but we also have to send people into the factory to participate in the management, and we have to send people to be resident financially, what does Mayor Qi think?"

"No problem, as long as the scope of the law allows, we can agree. Qi Lin agreed with a smile, the reason why he was arranged here was actually because he was in a bunch of deputy mayors in Shanghai, mainly responsible for the industrial sector, and the First Machinery Factory was under his jurisdiction.

He is very aware of the situation of this factory, because of some special reasons, the efficiency of the No. 1 Machinery Factory is getting worse and worse, don't look at the busy factory today, this is actually for the United States to see, usually many times can only give workers holidays.

The government has subsidized millions of yuan in the past year, but the factory has not improved, and he is also troubled by the matter.

And now this time is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, once the United States agrees to take shares, not only can bring a huge amount of foreign exchange funds, but also will inevitably bring a lot of orders in the future, and the foreign exchange obtained can just be imported equipment, as long as there are stable orders, the factory can turn losses into profits, and the government no longer has to continue to subsidize this bottomless pit, not to mention that joint ventures are now the central government's policy.

"In this case, when the Mark project is confirmed, we will discuss this matter," Xu Zhi said with a smile. Although the location and size of the factory are good, he attaches more importance to the supporting construction of the Mark factory, and the United States intervenes in the management, although there will be many contradictions in the future, but as long as the quality can be guaranteed, it will be fine.

"Boom ......"

As soon as Qi Lin was about to say something, there was a slight vibration in the distance, followed by a sound similar to an explosion, but it was not loud.

"What's going on?" Xu Zhi was a little curious, but found that Qi Lin and the others didn't seem to care, so he asked curiously.

Qi Lin said with a smile: "I'm sorry, Mr. Xu, I forgot to say it before, the sound coming from the east is that the Baosteel project is under construction, and the ground is being broken and piled over there, and explosives are often needed." ”

"Baosteel!" Xu Zhi nodded, talking about the largest project in the country in the 80s, it was not SAIC Volkswagen, nor McDonnell Douglas aircraft cooperation project, but a set of the world's most advanced steel production line imported from Japan's Nippon Steel at a cost of about 8 billion US dollars.

The development of industry, first in steel and oil!

Before 94 years, the domestic economy's demand for oil was far less than that of later generations, throughout the 80s, the mainland was a pure oil exporter, and oil exports accounted for 25% of all domestic exports.

But steel is a different matter, in 78 years, the annual output of the entire mainland steel was less than 30 million tons, which is not comparable to a large foreign factory, nor can it be compared to South Korea, Brazil and Argentina at the same time. At the same time, special steel, stainless steel and other products are completely unable to produce independently, and the mainland imports 20 billion US dollars of materials every year, of which 3 billion US dollars are steel.

For a large country with a population and economy that intends to develop, it is obviously not possible to rely on imported steel for a long time to engage in infrastructure construction, coupled with the fact that the heavy industry of the whole country was in the three northeastern provinces at that time, and the transportation was inconvenient in this era, and the lack of heavy trucks also led to the extremely high cost and cost of transporting steel from the north to the south, which is one of the reasons why a large amount of steel needs to be imported every year.

In 78 years, the central government decided to build a large steel plant in the south, and after inspecting more than a dozen cities, it finally chose Baoshan District, Shanghai City.

The central government's original plan was to build an ordinary steel plant in Shanghai to solve the growing shortage of steel in the south, but after visiting several international advanced steel mills, the central government decided to use Japanese experts as technical guidance to build a new production line like Nippon Steel, that is, the first phase of Baosteel's plan.

In the first five years of reform and opening up, the central government set up technology introduction projects in steel, chemical industry, petrochemical, minerals, and automobiles, among which Baosteel's investment was the highest, accounting for one-third of the fiscal revenue of that year.

Qi Lin said with a smile: "The Baosteel project has just resumed work during this time, so the above is more concerned about the progress requirements, and this kind of blasting sound is often heard during this time. ”

"Just resumed work?" Xu Zhi recalled, Baosteel did encounter this kind of thing in history, as if it was 1980

Because of its proximity to the Yangtze River, Baosteel occupies alluvial soil along the Yangtze River, which used to be fertile land, but now it is dangerous to put a heavy steel company on top of it, because the bearing capacity of the underground foundation is very low, which has led many people to worry about whether the factory will slide into the Yangtze River after it is completed.

In order to stabilize the foundation, a large number of steel pipes and reinforced concrete have to be consumed to strengthen the foundation.

However, in the summer of 80, there was still a serious displacement of the pile foundation, coupled with the financial constraints of the central government, it stopped for a few months, and then some people of insight struggled, many engineers calculated overnight, and came to the conclusion that the Baosteel base was safe, so that the central government agreed to continue to build the plan of Baosteel.

Qi Lin said with a smile: "There were some small accidents last year, Baosteel is currently in full swing to resume work, and strive to achieve the first production in 82 years, when the Mark company should also be put into production smoothly, so that the steel materials needed by the Mark company can also be purchased on the spot, and the cost will be much cheaper." ”