How everyone was talking behind their backs, Feng Xiaochen just didn't know. He came out this time to change his fate, but in fact, the pressure was not great. An investment of $500 million is not a huge amount in China today. The Xiaguang Iron and Steel Plant dared to make bold statements, which shows how abundant the funds of the private sector are. Feng Xiaochen greeted several private steel companies before going out, claiming that Tu Kechun was not the only one who was willing to go to the bottom, so to speak, don't look at Yan Delin, Guo Peihong and other state-owned enterprise leaders are indifferent to this matter, but the private enterprises are gearing up and enthusiastic.

The reason for this is related to China's import iron ore distribution mechanism. China lacks high-grade iron ore at home, and all of this is imported from abroad. The import of iron ore requires the use of foreign exchange, and the country's foreign exchange has been in short supply, the use of these precious foreign exchange imported iron ore, naturally can not be distributed by the market casually, but by the country's ferrous metal minerals import and export company to be responsible for the allocation.

The ferrous metal minerals import and export company is a state-owned enterprise, and the implementation of the work arranged by the Ministry of Foreign Trade, in the distribution of iron ore, it is natural to give priority to state-owned steel enterprises. More than 95% of the iron ore imported every year falls to large state-owned steel enterprises such as Jiangshan Iron and Steel, Lingang Iron and Steel, and Pushan Iron and Steel, and only less than 5% can be obtained by private steel enterprises, and some conditions are often attached.

The use of imported high-grade ore smelting, and the use of domestic low-grade ore smelting, the process is only slightly different, but the difference in cost is very large. Using high-grade ore to smelt iron and steel, enterprises can make huge profits. If it is replaced with medium and low-grade ore, the company is barely able to achieve no loss. It is for this reason that both state-owned steel enterprises and private steel enterprises must try their best to get more imported high-grade ores, rather than using domestic low-grade ores.

State-owned steel companies, with their own backgrounds, can easily obtain imported ore, and naturally lack interest in investing in mines in Africa. However, it is extremely difficult for private steel companies to import ore, and I heard that there is an opportunity to invest in a high-grade iron ore, how can it not be a reason not to rush forward. According to Tu Kechun and his others, there is no need for the Economic and Trade Commission to find state-owned steel enterprises to raise funds, and these large private steel enterprises can just get the Pete Sig iron ore mine down. As for the future production of ore, of course, it should be decided by several of their funders.

Feng Xiaochen understood the thoughts of Tu Kechun and others, but he couldn't help but go to various steel companies in person, preach to them about the necessity of investing in Pitsig Iron Mine, and then let these steel companies come up with money to join. After all, state-owned enterprises are the sons of the Economic and Trade Commission, and how can the Economic and Trade Commission not let the state-owned enterprises choose such a beneficial thing first? As for saying that Feng Xiaochen sent all the meat to Yan Delin and the others, they just refused to use chopsticks, so Feng Xiaochen could not be blamed. To paraphrase a later generation, I gave you a chance.

As a time-traveler, Feng Xiaochen is well aware of the importance of investing in a large iron ore mine in Africa. At present, China's iron ore imports are completely pinched in the hands of large miners in countries such as Australia and Brazil, and people can pinch you as much as they want, and they have raised the price by 71% within a year, and China can only grit its teeth to accept it. If you have a big mine in your hand, you won't have no hole cards when you bargain with the other party.

Yan Delin and others could not see this situation, and mistakenly thought that importing ore from abroad was a breeze and would not pose any risk. It is precisely because of this that Feng Xiaochen wants to leave a sentence, saying that people have no foresight, but they must have near-term worries. This near-term worry is something Feng Xiaochen can see, in fact, it will be a year or two later.

Feng Xiaochen asked Huang Ming and Zhou Mengshi to make a statistical table and take them back to the capital to report to the leaders of the Economic and Trade Commission, and he took Meng Yang to the seaside of Hui'an City, Haidong Province, where a large-scale factory has been built, which is the extreme manufacturing base led by the equipment industry company.

"Hehe, Mr. Feng personally came to inspect our base?"

Xue Ducang, the director of the base and also the head of the administration department of the equipment industry company, greeted Feng Xiaochen with a large group of people outside the gate of the base, and he shook hands with Feng Xiaochen while saying in a somewhat ridiculous tone.

"Old Xue, are you planning to drive me back?"

Feng Xiaochen asked with a fake tiger face. Xue Ducang is more than 20 years older than him, he is an elder in front of him, and he rarely calls him Mr. Feng seriously, but now he is calling him like this, which is obviously a joke. But Xue Ducang joked, Feng Xiaochen must be solemnly corrected, otherwise the other party will think that you have acquiesced to this title, and you will continue to be called like this in the future.

Xue Ducang knew Feng Xiaochen's temper, and at the same time understood that Feng Xiaochen showed a low profile in front of him in order to leave an approachable impression on everyone, so he didn't insist at the moment, and immediately changed his tone and said with a smile: "How can it, Xiaochen, I heard that you are coming, the comrades at the base, and the people from various companies are looking forward to it, if I drive you back, they will not eat me alive?"

As he spoke, several other persons in charge of the extreme base also stepped forward and shook hands with Feng Xiaochen one after another. The extreme manufacturing base is led by the equipment industry company, and jointly established by more than a dozen large equipment manufacturing enterprises, due to the lack of funds in the early stage of construction, and absorbed some private enterprises including Quanfu Machinery Company. Most of the leaders at all levels in the base are people sent by various enterprises, and these people are also quite familiar with Feng Xiaochen, and they can chat a few words when they meet.

After the cadres of the base met with Feng Xiaochen, the heads of a group of township enterprises came over, headed by Ruan Fugen, chairman of Quanfu Machinery Company. He and Feng Xiaochen are old acquaintances, and there is some authority among the owners of these township enterprises, he and Feng Xiaochen exchanged a few greetings, and then took on the role of the master of ceremonies, and began to introduce his peers to Feng Xiaochen one by one:

"This is Qiao Mingfa, the chairman of Fengsheng Steel Structure Company, Mr. Qiao; this is Fang Dianfa, the boss of Zhonglong Boiler Company, he and I grew up together; this is Liu Zhaodi of Juxin Industrial Company, Mr. Liu, don't look at Liu is always a woman, but it is really a woman who does not let the eyebrows be shaved, in our private enterprises in Haidong, no one does not admire Mr. Liu's courage......"

Feng Xiaochen shook hands with these people one by one, some of whom he had known before, and more of them seemed a little strange. In addition, he is a little strange, so many bosses of private enterprises have come to greet him, what kind of position is this?

Ruan Fugen seemed to see Feng Xiaochen's doubts, and he explained with a smile: "Mr. Feng, don't you know? Mr. Qiao, Mr. Fang, and Mr. Liu all heard that you were coming, and they made a special trip to meet you. They all said that if it weren't for Mr. Feng presiding over the construction of this extreme manufacturing base and making the base open to private enterprises like us, how could they be today. ”

Hearing him say this, the private business owners next to him also echoed:

"Yes, yes, Mr. Feng, my old Qiao can have today, all thanks to you and Mr. Xue's blessings. ”

"Mr. Feng, don't you know, in the past, our company couldn't make a larger container, and I couldn't eat it when I saw that the order was really anxious. Thanks to the extreme manufacturing base, I received orders for more than a dozen large containers in the first half of this year alone, and the money was ...... Hey. ”

"Mr. Feng doesn't discriminate against us, which touches us so much. There's nothing to say, I'll do the east tonight, everyone will go, and Mr. Feng will get drunk and rest. ”

"You old king, why do you want to be the host? I have already arranged for us to go to the fishing boat by the sea to eat seafood, and make sure that it is all freshly caught......

"What do you want you to arrange, I was originally a fisherman, and I personally went to catch seafood to entertain Mr. Feng......"

The more everyone talked, the more lively it became, and some people almost planned to step forward to pull Feng Xiaochen's placket. These people have a very big business, and they are all rich people with a lot of money, but they are still farmers in their bones, and they don't know what it means to be subtle.

Xue Ducang stepped forward and explained to Feng Xiaochen in a low voice. It turns out that these enterprises are developed by relying on the extreme manufacturing base, and many of them are located next to the base. Before the base was built, these enterprises could not do business scale because they lacked the ability to manufacture large-scale workpieces, and they could only grasp the slightly larger equipment.

In addition to the more than a dozen large state-owned equipment enterprises in which the company has invested in the industry, other enterprises, whether state-owned enterprises or private enterprises, can use the equipment, personnel and technology of the extreme base to manufacture large-scale workpieces as long as they pay processing fees.

In this way, the extreme manufacturing base has become a supernumerary workshop for many enterprises, which is equivalent to upgrading the ability of a cadre enterprise to a higher level. For example, Fengsheng Steel Structure Company, Zhonglong Boiler Company, Juxin Industrial Company, these enterprises, originally have a certain equipment manufacturing capacity, but limited by the lack of manufacturing capacity of a few large workpieces, it is difficult to undertake large-scale complete sets of equipment orders, can only do some complete sets of equipment in the single machine. Now that they have the Extreme Base, they are able to take on the business freely. The profit of a complete set of equipment is, of course, much higher than that of a single machine. The extreme base has made up for the shortcomings between the single machine manufacturing and the complete equipment manufacturing for them, so that their profitability has increased rapidly.

These people knew that the extreme manufacturing base was initiated and built by Feng Xiaochen, and they also knew that the policy of opening up the base to the outside world was proposed by Feng Xiaochen, so they regarded Feng Xiaochen as their nobleman. This time, when I heard that Feng Xiaochen was coming to inspect the work, everyone rushed over, just to thank Feng Xiaochen at the first time.