Wang Jinsheng, deputy director of the Dingnan Provincial Planning Commission, was courteous and gentle, and in the words of later generations, he was a quiet and beautiful man. He was not surprised that the Ministry of Finance and the State Development Planning Commission talked to him separately and pointed out that there were problems with the bidding requirements for the Shating Power Plant and asked for revisions. Even with regard to the State Development Planning Commission's request to postpone the bidding for three weeks, he agreed after a limited amount of bargaining.

In his opinion, if the State Planning Commission does not hum or hap on this matter, it will be a strange thing. After all, the intention of limiting the bidding scope to 360,000 kilowatts belongs to Sima Zhao's heart, and everyone knows it. Dingnan Province dared to do this, that is, it was mentally prepared to be criticized by the superiors. Criticize it, criticize it, it's really not good, I'll punish myself for three cups, and I'll get it, what else can you do with me?

However, in the course of Wang Jinsheng's talks with officials of the State Development Planning Commission and the Ministry of Finance, it was not without his strange feelings. The other party's dissatisfaction seemed to be stronger than he expected. The deputy director of the Planning Commission, named Wang Zhenbin, even said a cruel remark, saying that the idea of a game of chess in the whole country would not be outdated at any time, and Dingnan should not take the country in his eyes just because he had made some money as the forefront of reform and opening up. This kind of remark sounds a bit heart-wrenching, it can be regarded as a kind of beating, Wang Jinsheng behaved submissively at that time, and lost a lot of smiles. After he came out of the Planning Commission, he felt a little pimple in his heart, and he always felt that something was wrong.

"Director Wang, what do you mean by Director Wang?" said the director of the investment department of the Dingnan Planning Commission, who accompanied Wang Jinsheng to the State Planning Commission for a talk, asked him for confirmation.

"I'm wondering, too. Wang Jinsheng said, "Lao Wang, I have dealt with him in the past, and he is still a very good talker, but today he is a little tough." ”

"Could it be that some leader from above has spoken?"

"It's hard to say, it's hard to guess about such a thing as policy. ”

"That'...... Director Wang, are our bidding requirements still changing?"

"Of course you can't change it!" Wang Jinsheng said, "Find some details to change, just have an explanation." The requirement of 360,000 kilowatts must not be changed, which is the key to whether the Kemper project can fall into our Dingnan. ”

This matter is still a bit winding to say. Kemper, an American electronics company, has been preparing to build an assembly base in China since last year, and has visited several provinces to evaluate where to put it. Dingnan Province is also one of the provinces that Kemper has inspected, and like other provinces, Dingnan Province is also determined to win this project and has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to fight for it.

It was at this time that the World Bank loan for the Shating Power Plant was confirmed, and the process of selecting equipment suppliers began. Kemper put forward a condition to Dingnan Province, hoping to hand over the Shating Power Plant project to Coleman Company of the United States to do, as a condition for Kemper to settle the electronic base in Dingnan Province.

The reason why Kemper made this request was that it had some affiliations with Coleman, and roughly that some of its major shareholders also owned Coleman's shares, and they would not refuse to help Coleman get a big project. After all, Dingnan Province was originally ranked first on the site selection list of Kemper, in other words, if there was no Shating Power Plant, Kemper would have already started to invest in Dingnan.

Dingnan didn't know about this situation, and it was just when it was time to curry favor with Kemper, and people put forward such a condition, how could Dingnan Province not respond quickly. The commissioner negotiated with the representatives of the Coleman Company several times, and found that this matter was a bit difficult to handle, because the Coleman Company's quotation was somewhat high, and there was nothing unique about the technology. World Bank projects need to go through the bidding process, and it is not something that Dingnan Province can give to whoever it wants. If there is a comprehensive evaluation of technology, price, etc., Coleman will almost definitely be eliminated.

In recent years, with the steady improvement of domestic thermal power equipment manufacturing technology, the winning rate of foreign thermal power equipment manufacturers participating in domestic project bidding has been declining. The main advantage of Chinese companies is the price, because the price is not only limited to the price of the equipment itself, but also includes the price of equipment installation and maintenance. The cost of sending a worker from a Western country to work in China is prohibitively high, and a single ordinary maintenance can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. And the choice of domestic manufacturers does not exist this problem, even if people send a maintenance team to live with you all the year round, it will not cost tens of thousands of yuan, and it is still RMB.

The only advantage for foreign manufacturers to participate in China's domestic project bidding is technology. Now that the technological gap has dropped from a few generations to a difference within generations, there is not much left of this advantage. If there is a huge price difference, not to mention how to choose the capital of Dingnan Province, the World Bank's loan officials will have to ask them to choose domestic companies.

When there was no choice but to do anything, someone gave the Southern Provincial Planning Commission a trick, saying that it could do something about the bidding requirements. Coleman has 360,000 kilowatts of units, which are not available at any of China's domestic motor plants. As long as the bidding conditions are limited to 360,000 kilowatts, Chinese companies will be automatically eliminated. And when only Western companies were left to compete with each other, Coleman still had the strength to fight.

By the way, it was the loan officers of the World Bank who came up with the idea. The World Bank knows no borders, but its officials have a homeland...... Well, well, in fact, the World Bank official who came up with this idea is not an American, but an Indian, but you can't stop him from having an American heart. As for whether this American heart is red or dyed green by the dollar, no one knows. The conscience of heaven and earth, he has never violated the rules in his work, he just mentioned the ignorant Chinese officials when chatting in private, who makes the family a good teacher?

There is a plan, but whether to do it or not is also carefully considered by the Dingnan side. The state policy is to require the use of domestically produced equipment as much as possible, and even the Dingnan Planning Commission itself is in favor of this policy, because there are several large equipment manufacturing enterprises in Dingnan Province, and this policy is beneficial to them. But when Dingnan Province changed its role and became the user of the equipment, their views changed, which is called the ass deciding the head, and no one is exempt from vulgarity.

To use bidding conditions to eliminate domestic enterprises, it means that working against national policies will offend national ministries and commissions, which Dingnan Province knows very well. However, if this is not done, there is a possibility that the Kemper project will be snatched by someone else, and this loss will be even greater. The two evils are the same, and Dingnan Province finally decided to offend the higher-level ministries and commissions, and it is a big deal to find some opportunity to make up for it in the future. What a political achievement it should be to take down the Kemper project, and what is it to receive a few words of criticism for this?

Besides, the ministry and committee will not really get angry, that is, they will routinely criticize a few words, who will hold a grudge against you for such a thing? Which province is not allowed to play a game of policy at the end of three days, if you hold a grudge for such a small matter, will people remember it?

As a result, there was such a bidding document, and there was also the expected meeting between the Planning Commission and the Ministry of Finance. Wang Zhenbin's beating let Wang Jinsheng know that the opinions of the top on this matter are greater than other things, which means that Dingnan Province will be a little more restrained in the future, and it is best not to cause trouble in the next month, and if you want to make trouble, it will be delayed until next month, and this month's troublemaking index has been used up......

With this in mind, Wang Jinsheng returned to the Beijing Office and instructed the staff of the Beijing Office to go around several ministries and commissions to express his sincerity of repentance. Just when he finished arranging the relevant matters and was thinking about who to invite to dinner in the evening, Li Chaohua came to him with a nervous face, and he was still holding a newspaper with the fragrance of ink in his hand.

"Director Wang, something happened, and the bidding for the Shating Power Plant was poked out in the newspaper. ”

"What!"

Wang Jinsheng was taken aback, took the newspaper, looked at the registration first, and knew that it was just a local-level tabloid, which usually cheated the subscription with negative news and entertainment news, and felt a little more at ease. In the past two years, the state's policies have been liberalized, and many newspapers have changed their supplements into newspapers that focus on social entertainment, and some have even engaged in some public opinion supervision in a fake way, and have the functions of deceiving readers' eyeballs and collecting hush money from exposed units. As Dingnan Province is at the forefront of reform and opening up, the number of such newspapers is far greater than that of other inland provinces, and Wang Jinsheng is not surprised to see this.

After reading again, I saw what Li Chaohua said on a page that was not very important. It was a review piece, with a rustic title, called "The Tender That Changed the Taste." At the beginning of the article, it was indeed a ruthless story, claiming that the bidding for a power plant called a certain pavilion in a certain province had been jointly blocked by the State Development Planning Commission and the Ministry of Finance a few days ago, and the scheduled bidding had to be postponed indefinitely.

"Nima, can this matter be interpreted like this?" Wang Jinsheng couldn't laugh or cry. As a writer of opinion articles, do you have any common sense in the system? It is clear that the Longshan Electric Machinery Factory went to make a fuss, and in order to appease, the two ministries and commissions asked Dingnan Province to make a gesture and appropriately postpone the bidding time for a few days.

The latter content is even more outrageous, the author pulls the tiger skin as a banner, and moves out some speeches of the central leaders who can't beat the eight poles as evidence, explaining that the bidding of this "certain pavilion power plant" is detrimental to the national character and personality, and it is heinous and heinous, and the relevant responsible persons should be brought to justice, and it is best to cast an iron statue and put it in Lin'an to kneel with Qin Hui and his wife to thank the people.

"It's just a fart!" Wang Jinsheng couldn't be calm anymore, crumpled the newspaper into a ball, and threw it out viciously.