Feng Xiaochen has always expected things like a god, but his prophecy this time has not come true. The EU investigation team led by Bovard did not go back to Europe in disgrace, but was busy negotiating OEM and procurement matters with Chinese wind turbine manufacturers and spare parts manufacturers, as if the purpose of their trip was not to ask the Chinese side for their crimes, but to seek cooperation.

With the rising price of oil and the rise of the global trend of energy conservation and emission reduction, wind and solar power have become the hottest energy investment areas at the moment. The main factor hindering the development of wind and solar power is cost. Due to the long-term high price of wind turbines, the cost of wind power is much higher than the cost of fossil fuel power generation, resulting in wind farms cannot compete with traditional thermal power unless there are government subsidies, which in turn has affected the market development of wind turbine companies.

Today, with the help of cheap labor and the savings brought by large-scale production, the Chinese have reduced the price of wind turbines by more than three percent in one go, which makes European wind turbine companies see opportunities. They all thought that if the wind turbines were to be manufactured in China, or even just to use Chinese-made components, the price of the wind turbine could be greatly reduced.

With lower prices, they will be able to lobby EU countries to increase the scale of wind power construction. Isn't it a pie-in-the-sky blessing that they can make no less profit per kilowatt of wind turbines, and an increase in the number of wind turbines sold, which means that shareholders can make more money?

As for whether the transfer of production to China will lead to the hollowing out of European industry and the unemployment of European workers, this is not something for these executives to consider. Shouldn't the government be the one to worry about employment and welfare? Taxes in European countries are frighteningly high, and the government collects so many taxes, what's wrong with worrying more?

The same situation arose with the investigation team that went to several places, and Bovard and Emmeline watched the previously murderous corporate executives turn their faces like flip books, hooking up with the Chinese personnel one by one, as close as long-lost brothers, and they really wanted to cry without tears.

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What about your faces!

"Mr. Bovard, should we find a way to stop them from doing this?" said Emmeline, who approached Bovard and asked him, after the various commissions had returned to the capital.

"Stop, how?" asked Bovard angrily.

"Kyle and Lin Chong reached a verbal agreement, in which Kyle said that it would transfer their core technology of 1.5 MW wind turbine manufacturing to Lin Zhong free of charge, on the condition that Lin Zhong would manufacture 200 1.5 MW wind turbines for the Bissp wind farm in Portugal. In this cooperation, we have suffered at least two losses, one is that our core technology in Europe has been acquired by the Chinese, and the other is that the business of the Bishpu wind farm has actually fallen into the hands of the Chinese, and we originally hoped that this project would create 400 jobs in Europe. Emmeline said.

Bovard sighed: "The same is true of my side, Dowling Company said that it will transfer its fan reducer technology to China's Xinmin Hydraulic Company, and Xinmin Hydraulic Company will manufacture fan reducers for them on an OEM basis, and Dowling Company will only be responsible for the sales of reducers in the future." You know, Dowling's reducers account for 40% of the European wind turbine reducer market, and if they move this business to China, their companies in Europe will have to lay off at least 2,000 people. ”

"Didn't you stop them from doing this?" asked Emmeline.

"How can I stop it? Xinmin Hydraulics has established a production line with an annual output of 15,000 sets of reducers, which is far more intelligent than Dowling's," Bovard said. The ex-factory price of their reducer is 30% lower than the cost of Dowling, and even if Dowling does not cooperate with them, they will snatch all of Dowling's market in two to three years. In doing so, Dowling was just an act of self-preservation. ”

"Perhaps, we should stipulate that for new wind farms in Europe, the proportion of equipment manufactured in Europe should not be less than 50%......" Emmeline said subconsciously, only to find that this seems to be the EU's previous affair with China, the difference is only that at that time, the Chinese put forward the requirement of a 50% localization rate, while the EU is holding high the banner of free trade, requiring the Chinese government to cancel this regulation.

"We can't. "The wind investors in Europe won't accept our demands. In addition, even if we do it, it will not cause any harm to the Chinese, because the future hot spot for wind power construction is in China, and they can grow only by relying on their own wind power market. If Europe protects itself, it will eventually lag behind China in technology and lose its competitiveness forever. ”

"However, we are no longer competitive. Emmeline said.

"I think we've at least been able to maintain our R&D competitiveness," Bovard said. Mr. Nai of Dowling Company told me that after they moved the manufacturing business of reducer to China, they could focus on the development and design of reducer, and China was just their OEM. ”

Emmeline nodded, "Well, hopefully it's true." ”

"May God bless Europe. Bovard raised his head, looked at the smog over the capital, and comforted himself: "In any case, moving production links to China will at least reduce Europe's pollution emissions." ”

The European mission left. With the exception of a few people, such as Bovard, Emmeline, and Heinzl, most of the members of the mission felt that the trip was worthwhile. This time, they simply inspected the production situation of Chinese wind turbine enterprises and preliminarily agreed on cooperation intentions with the Chinese side. In the future, companies will also send formal inspection teams and negotiation teams to discuss specific cooperation methods with the Chinese side, which does not need to be repeated.

"Mr. Feng, I really convince you, such a dead game of chess actually let you live, and even turned defeat into victory, cutting a large piece of meat from the Europeans. According to our preliminary statistics, the OEM intentions and parts procurement intentions agreed between the companies in the European investigation team and our domestic enterprises are worth no less than 4 billion euros. The European Union organized so many people to come from afar, which is really a loss for the wife and the army. ”

After sending off a group of Europeans, Xu Zhenbo patted Feng Xiaochen's shoulder and said with emotion.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Director Xu has won the award, and this is not my credit. In this game, we have the upper hand, so that no one can lose. This year, our national investment in fixed assets has reached more than 20 trillion yuan, and this is our confidence. If we don't have such a large scale of infrastructure, we can't let enterprises expand their production scale, so that the cost will not be reduced. ”

"Didn't you say philosophically that quantitative change leads to qualitative change, and this is the case in our fan industry, right?" Xu Zhenbo also dragged up the theory.

"This is true not only for wind turbines, but also for energy, electricity, steel, machinery, and all industries. Feng Xiaochen said, "Let me give you a number, from 1966 to 1980, we designed and manufactured a total of 5 slab continuous casting machines of more than 700 mm, from 1981 to 1990, 9, and from 1991 to 2000, there were 12. From 2001 to the present, do you know how many units?"

"How do I know this?" Xu Zhenbo scolded with a smile, "You are engaged in equipment manufacturing, and you deal with these numbers all day long." I'm engaged in foreign trade, and I don't involve import and export matters, how can I know?"

Feng Xiaochen said happily: "So far, 88 units have been put into production, and at least 20 more units will be put into production before 2010. In other words, in the 10 years since 2001, we have put into operation at least 108 large-scale slab casters, which is equivalent to four times the total number of large-scale slab casters put into operation between 1965 and 2000. ”

"10 years is equivalent to 4 times the time of the past 35 years, isn't this equivalent to 10 years equal to 140 years?" Xu Zhenbo smacked his tongue, "I really can't imagine that we have come to this point unconsciously." ”

In fact, Xu Zhenbo also knows some of this kind of data. Since the beginning of the new century, China has begun to exert all-round efforts in all fields, and the same is true in foreign trade. China's total annual import and export trade is now nearly 300 times that of 30 years ago. In addition, the foreign trade deficit problem that has plagued China for many years has now been fully reversed and turned into a large surplus. The country's foreign exchange reserves have doubled and now risen to $2 trillion.

Xu Zhenbo has been doing foreign trade work since the 70s, and he can be regarded as an "old foreign trade". The word that their generation heard the most was "shortage of foreign exchange," and the word they talked about the most was "earning foreign exchange through exports." In those days, everything that involved the production of foreign exchange earned had almost all privileges. As long as everything is said to be for the purpose of exporting foreign exchange, all departments will give the green light to let it go.

In order to earn foreign exchange through exports, all localities and units do not hesitate to sell at a loss, and valuable oil, coal, copper ore, tin ore, and so on are all commodities that earn foreign exchange through exports. If someone takes a piece of equipment, they can exchange a shipload of ore from us. There are also various jokes related to it, the most spoofed is that the Japanese bought the coal we produce, transported it to Tokyo Bay to reclaim the sea, and waited for the day when the world ran out of coal, and then dug it up for use......

All of this has changed unconsciously. China is no longer a country with a shortage of foreign exchange, and China no longer needs to export resources in exchange for foreign exchange, on the contrary, we have to spend a lot of foreign exchange to import resources from abroad. In the words of those young people on the Internet, what kind of foreign exchange reserves are not just green waste paper printed by Americans? What's the use of storing them there, it's better to use them to buy some oil and come back. As for saying that there is too much oil to buy, it doesn't matter if you can't use it up for a while, find a few caves and pour it in, and then pull it out when it's not enough.

From selling coal to others for reclamation, to buying oil and returning to irrigate caves, how did such a reversal be achieved?

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