After shaking hands with everyone and greeting everyone, Feng Xiaochen, accompanied by Xue Ducang, walked into the extreme manufacturing base and came to the conference room of the office building. In the conference room, there were already more than a dozen people sitting, presumably they had been waiting for a while, the room was full of smoke, and there were dozens of cigarette butts in the ashtray alone.

Seeing Feng Xiaochen enter the door, everyone stood up one after another, some stood in place and nodded to Feng Xiaochen, and some pushed away their chairs and came forward to shake hands with Feng Xiaochen. Xue Ducang explained with a smile next to him: "Xiaochen, they originally said that they were going to meet you at the door, but I stopped them. I said that the bosses of those township enterprises are all at the door to greet them, and if they go in again, you are afraid that you will have to stand in the sun for half a day today. ”

"Yes, Minister Xue said so, and we can't do anything about it. Mr. Feng, we are really rude. ”

A middle-aged man who had just stepped forward to shake hands with Feng Xiaochen said with a smile. Feng Xiaochen recognized him as the deputy director of production of Xinyang No. 2 Chemical Machinery and Equipment Factory, named Zhao He. Xinyang No.2 Chemical Machinery is one of the national key chemical machinery and equipment manufacturing enterprises, and the main leaders of the factory, Feng Xiaochen are all known, and they have had a lot of dealings before.

These people in the conference room are all in the same situation as Zhao He, and they are more familiar with Feng Xiaochen, so there is no need to pay attention to going to the door to meet this kind of hypocrisy. Xue Ducang asked everyone to sit and wait in the conference room, precisely because of this consideration.

Feng Xiaochen replied with a smile: "Director Zhao, it's too rude to say anything. Without your support, our equipment industry company can be said to be difficult to move an inch, I have too many chores, did not visit your factory, should say that it is me who is rude. ”

"Hahaha, Mr. Feng is too polite!"

"Mr. Feng has every opportunity, and it should be us who report to Mr. Feng. ”

"Mr. Feng, I do have an opinion on you, our Director Chen specially prepared two bottles of 30-year-old Moutai, just waiting for you to taste, everyone is waiting for you. ”

A dry chicken, a duck and a mouthful of polite words, as the so-called sedan chair is carried by everyone, the corporate circle is not as particular as officialdom, relatively speaking, the speech is more direct, but it will also appear more enthusiastic. Feng Xiaochen is young and promising, and he has indeed done a lot of practical things for various enterprises, although occasionally there are things where the tongue touches his teeth, which will cause some unpleasantness, but the overall relationship between everyone is still very good, and most of the respect or appreciation for Feng Xiaochen here is also sincere.

After a pleasantry, Xue Ducang led Feng Xiaochen to sit down on the main seat of the conference table, and sat on his side, as for Feng Xiaochen's other side, it was Wu Shican, the director of the strategic planning department of the equipment industry company, who arrived in advance. Feng Xiaochen came to Hoi An this time, not only to inspect the extreme manufacturing base, but to discuss with everyone about the four sets of large fertilizer equipment in Argentina. In the past two months, Cao Zhiyuan, Leng Feiyun, Wu Shican and others were so busy that they were not touching the ground, while liaising with the Argentine side, and on the other hand, they were negotiating with domestic equipment manufacturing enterprises.

At the beginning of the meeting, Xue Ducang acted as the moderator of the meeting. He first briefly welcomed the arrival of Feng Xiaochen and the leaders of various enterprises, and then went straight to the point and said:

"Through the active efforts of Director Cao of the Global Center and Minister Wu and Minister Leng of our equipment company, and with the strong cooperation of various equipment companies, the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture has agreed in principle to our participation in the bidding of four sets of large fertilizer equipment. Our competitors are mainly the Japan Chemical Equipment Association, which has submitted bids to the Argentine side in conjunction with several long-established Japanese chemical equipment companies, including Iketani Manufacturing, Akima Kaisha, and Morishao Iron Works. Speaking of which, these Japanese companies are all our teachers, and we can be regarded as apprentices challenging teachers, which is really difficult. ”

"Yes, I think back then, I also went to Iketani Manufacturing to study, the gap between us at that time was really worlds apart, people engaged in design, all operated on the computer, we didn't even have a computer in the factory, to calculate an equation had to go to the provincial computing institute to make an appointment, a wait is several days. Zhao He sighed.

"Speaking of which, the little devil's skills are indeed quite good, and the business management is also good. I remember that the earliest quality management system of our factory was learned from the little devils, and I felt really awkward at that time, but now it seems that it is really not possible without this set of things. A cadre from another company also added.

The introduction of fertilizer equipment manufacturing technology from Japan was one of the major projects presided over by the Heavy Equipment Office in the early years. Taking the opportunity of introducing Japanese fertilizer equipment in China, the Heavy Equipment Office put forward the principle of "joint design and cooperative manufacturing", requiring Japanese enterprises that undertake the manufacture of fertilizer equipment to transfer some key technologies to the Chinese side, and part of the equipment will be manufactured by Chinese enterprises, and give Chinese guidance in the manufacturing process.

In response to this request from the Chinese side, the Japan Chemical Equipment Association, which coordinates the export of equipment, is also quite entangled, worried that the apprentices of the church will starve to death of their masters. However, the Chinese side bit the bullet and claimed that if Japan does not agree to transfer technology, China will turn to the Netherlands, France and other countries to import equipment. Faced with the huge profits of large fertilizer equipment, the Japanese side finally chose to give in, agreed to transfer some key technologies, and provided a part of the patent license to the Chinese side, allowing the Chinese side to use the Japanese patent to manufacture large fertilizer equipment on its own.

With the help of that technology introduction, the backbone enterprises of the equipment industry such as Beihua Machinery and Xinyang No. 2 Chemical Machinery gradually mastered the manufacturing technology of 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 520,000 tons of urea through digestion and absorption of imported technology, and since then have independently built a number of sets of similar equipment, so that China's fertilizer manufacturing capacity has been greatly provided, and the urea importer has become a urea exporter.

However, in the past, the large fertilizer projects built by the Chinese side were all located in China and had not participated in the competition in the international market. Some fertilizer projects in Africa, South Asia and other places are small and medium-sized ammonia plants, and these technologies have long been mastered by China, at best, they have only been optimized with imported technology. This time to participate in Argentina's four sets of large fertilizer equipment bidding, is the first time that a Chinese company to launch large fertilizer equipment overseas, and the competitor is precisely the teacher of the year, which can not help but sigh a lot, and at the same time a little uneasy.

"We have analyzed that the technology of manufacturing fertilizer equipment in Japan has not improved much compared to when we learned from them more than ten years ago. In our words, they are lying on the merit book and eating the old book, and they have been eating it for more than ten years. And we have been working hard all these years, and in terms of technical level, it is not inferior to the Japanese. Therefore, this time the apprentice challenges the teacher, and we still have a great chance of winning. ”

Jiang Xianyu, the technical director of the North Chemical Machinery Factory, is a technical expert, who has been tracking the technical trends of international chemical equipment for many years, and has some understanding of the level of chemical equipment manufacturing in Japan. This time, the equipment industry company handed over the task of undertaking four sets of large fertilizer equipment in Argentina to Beihua Machinery and Xinyang No. 2 Chemical Machinery as the general contractor, Jiang Xianyu was the most excited, and at the same time the most confident.

Feng Xiaochen nodded and said: "Director Jiang is right, Japan was busy with the financial industry and real estate industry in the past few years, and a large amount of capital has shifted from the industrial industry to the virtual economy, which has delayed technological innovation. After 90 years, the real estate bubble burst, and many companies were affected, and they were unable to carry out large-scale technology research and development, so it was inevitable that technological progress would be slow. ”

"We also showed signs of financial overheating in the past two years, and even Hoi An has real estate speculation. However, it is still stronger than Japan, and a group of private entrepreneurs like Boss Ruan and them still invest a lot in equipment procurement and technology research and development, and their technical strength has risen rapidly. Xue Ducang said.

"Not to mention our state-owned enterprises. Jiang Xianyu said with a smile, and then pointed at Feng Xiaochen with his hand, and said: "This is also thanks to Mr. Feng, if it wasn't for Mr. Feng reciting the mantra to us all day long, let us spend money on research and development, I'm afraid we will also use the money to build a staff dormitory." ”

"It's not like I'm chanting a mantra. Feng Xiaochen corrected, "I just conveyed the instructions of the leaders of the Economic and Trade Commission. We are a developing country, and without a strong real economy, it is impossible to have real prosperity by relying on such things as finance and real estate alone. In fact, Japan does not want to engage in the real economy, but it is really pitted by the Plaza Accord. The yen has appreciated sharply, and it is better to make money by speculating in stocks than to do business, so who else will do business?"

"Let's take advantage of an opportunity. Wu Shican interjected, "Japan is our biggest competitor, and its strength has declined, which is the most beneficial to us." Argentina's four sets of large fertilizer projects, for us is not only nearly 1 billion foreign exchange income, more importantly, this is the first time that our equipment manufacturing industry and Japan such a strong country in international competition, if we win, can boost morale, for our future comprehensive access to the international market, is of great benefit. ”

"Minister Wu is very right!" Feng Xiaochen nodded and praised, "So, this project, we are determined to win." In terms of technology, there is still a gap between us and Japan, but we can fight with them for price and service, even if it is a loss to make money, we must take down these four sets of equipment and make it a business card made in China. ”

"Haha, Mr. Feng, don't worry, it's impossible for us to lose money. I have calculated, even if we push the price down to only 70% of the Japanese, we will still be profitable, you can tell me, how can the Japanese compete with us?" Jiang Xianyu said confidently.