As soon as the two of them started, everyone clamoured:

"Yes, yes, the problem of funding is easy to solve, mainly because of the lack of manpower. ”

"In fact, funds are also tight, but gritting your teeth and lehring your belt can also squeeze out money, the key is that the technical strength is not enough, and you are afraid of delays. ”

"Mr. Feng, I think, can we consider shrinking the front, just doing one or two projects, and not blooming on all sides......

"In the direction of coal-to-fuel, I think it can be postponed, and now that the price of oil is so low, there is no need for coal-to-fuel!"

"PTA is too difficult, shouldn't you push it back, can't you chew it too much......

Everyone was looking at Feng Xiaochen, wanting to see if their opinions could work. Feng Xiaochen just smiled and said nothing, letting everyone play to their heart's content. After talking for a while, they were bored, so their voices slowly lowered, and finally no one spoke.

"It's all over, right?" Feng Xiaochen glanced at everyone, and when he saw that everyone was silent, he smiled and said, "Everyone's opinions are very good! It is indeed difficult for us to propose a million-ton PTA project and a million-ton coal-to-fuel project. In particular, the technology of coal-to-fuel is still in the exploratory stage abroad, and we started later than others, but the goal is higher than others, which is indeed more difficult. ”

"Yes......" Zhou Rongquan wanted to echo, but as soon as he said a word, he saw Zhen Lin, who was sitting opposite him, winking at him, Zhou Rongquan felt a pang in his heart and quickly shut up.

The PTA project and the coal-to-fuel project were both proposed by Feng Xiaochen, and now he himself says that it is indeed difficult, you must not think that he listened to your opinions, this is just a speaking technique that first suppresses and then raises. The people present are all veterans of officialdom, who can't hear the smell of this, that is, Zhou Rongquan doesn't know if he was hangover and didn't wake up, or if he was hit by the door frame when he went out in the morning, he actually wanted to call Feng Xiaochen good.

Sure enough, as soon as Feng Xiaochen changed his words, he began the "but" that everyone expected.

"But, leaders, time is running out. Feng Xiaochen said solemnly, "Our country is in the process of negotiations on joining the WTO, and the developed countries have put forward many demands on us, including asking us to open up the equipment market, adopt a non-discriminatory policy in major equipment procurement, and prohibit all kinds of subsidies for domestic products." In the past, we used administrative protection methods, requiring users to choose domestic equipment, and giving financial subsidies to equipment with a certain level of localization rate, so that everyone now has a good life without worrying about food and clothing. When we join the WTO and begin to fulfill our WTO commitments, will we be able to make money as easily as we do now?"

"Won't you, Mr. Feng?" Gu Weicheng said stunned, "When the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation came to us for investigation, we made it clear that the chemical equipment industry cannot be completely opened to the outside world, we started late, and our technology is backward compared with Western countries. ”

"That's right, our equipment industry is the basic industry of the country, how can we let foreigners come in?"

"Didn't the central leaders say last month that they wanted to protect the equipment industry?"

"yes, you should give us some time!"

The others also shouted, this time everyone's voices were a little louder than just now, and the look of anxiety on their faces was more real. The equipment company requires all enterprises to commit to the research and development tasks of key technologies, and everyone still has a little bit of base in their hearts, and they shout a few words just to bargain with the equipment company. And the opening of the market is such a thing, everyone really feels threatened. This sense of threat is not something they only feel after listening to Feng Xiaochen's words today, as early as a year or two ago, there were experts in the media who were alarmist, saying that as soon as the country opened, China's industry would return to its pre-liberation period overnight. Oceanophobia is a hereditary epidemic in China, and everyone present has some symptoms to a greater or lesser extent.

Feng Xiaochen waved his hand to make everyone quiet, and then said: "I can understand everyone's feelings, regarding the protection of the equipment industry, our equipment company has also put forward a request to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and the state has also done a great job, sacrificing the interests of many other fields, in exchange for a longer protection period for us." However, everyone asks themselves, do we really want to hide behind the country for the rest of our lives, and let the agriculture and mining industries make sacrifices for us and protect us, so many large state-owned and super-large enterprises, which are full of talents and well-equipped, do we really want to hide behind the country for the rest of our lives, and let the industries such as agriculture and mining make sacrifices for us and protect us?"

"This ......"

Everyone was speechless, Feng Xiaochen's words were so righteous and awe-inspiring that it was really difficult for people to jump out and refute them. But if you want to accept his point of view, everyone thinks it is inappropriate, the technology is not as good as people is objective, the country has been protecting it for so many years, so what does it matter if it is protected for a few more years?

"I think there is some truth in Mr. Feng's words. Yin Xianglin spoke timidly, he didn't support Feng Xiaochen in a big way, because he was afraid of offending the anger of the public, he looked at everyone and said: "We used to always say that the workers' big brother, among the workers, peasants, businessmen, and soldiers, we are also at the forefront of the industry. I heard that when foreign countries engage in trade, they are trying to protect agriculture, and if we always let the country sacrifice agriculture to protect our industry, especially heavy industry, it is indeed a bit unpleasant to say. ”

"Alas, isn't our technology not up to par?" Zhou Rongquan said.

"In terms of technology, there is actually not such a big gap. This is Wu Shican interjecting, seeing that everyone's eyes are on him, he simply continued: "Over the years, our companies have a lot of technical reserves, and the petrochemical design institute and the chemical design institute have also achieved a lot of results. If we make a breakthrough in the key technologies, some other small problems in the process, with our accumulation over the years, there is not much of a problem, right?"

Leng Feiyun also spoke in a timely manner, he said: "Another point is that we still have a cost advantage. All things being equal, cost is also an important consideration. The last time we won the Argentine fertilizer project, it was obtained in direct competition with several old Japanese chemical companies, and did not rely on the government's policy protection. Since we can beat the Japanese in the international market, we don't have to be afraid of them in the domestic market. ”

There is some truth to that. Zhen Lin said softly, "As far as the current 15 million ton refinery project is concerned, I think that if it is replaced by American companies or German companies, it is just these technologies, maybe the details are slightly better than ours, but in terms of labor costs, we can throw them three streets, according to what WTO procurement bidding standards, we will not necessarily fail." ”

Gu Weicheng looked at Feng Xiaochen and asked, "Mr. Feng, what do you mean by the equipment company? Do you want the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation not to protect our industries during the negotiations?"

Feng Xiaochen said: "This is not true. However, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation hopes that we will be able to make some compromises, and that some areas that are relatively mature can be considered opening up to foreign countries, and that the period of protection for some areas that are not yet mature will be appropriately shortened. In terms of petrochemical equipment, if we are only given a five-year protection period, and after five years, we will be able to fully open it to foreign countries, do you think we can afford it?"

"Five years?"

All of them silently calculated in their hearts. From the bottom of my heart, of course, everyone wants the protection period to be as long as possible, and how pleasant it is to live without competition. But when Feng Xiaochen said this, everyone knows that the equipment company has been under pressure, to be precise, this is foreign pressure on China, if China insists on not opening these markets, then the WTO accession negotiations may be affected, or the country will have to make sacrifices in more important aspects.

Of course, you can also force the state to extend the protection period of the industry in line with the idea that the dead friends will not die and the poor, and exchange the sacrifices of agriculture, mining, service industries and other fields for them for a protective umbrella. But in doing so, on the one hand, they feel that they can't hold on to their face, which is just as Feng Xiaochen said, everyone is a large state-owned enterprise with a lot of talents and well-equipped, and this bit of face is still needed. On the other hand, whether or not they can share worries for the country at a critical time is also an important condition for examining a cadre, these people are leaders of state-owned enterprises, and they also have the idea of going further.

"If it's only five years, we'll have to hurry. Zhen Lin was the first to break the silence.

"Yes, five years, it's too intense!" Zhou Rongquan also chimed in.

What they said was to accept Feng Xiaochen's conditions in disguise, the so-called "nervousness" means that it can still be done, but it just needs to put in some effort. When the other leaders heard their statements, they all nodded slowly in agreement. Just now, they have thought clearly, there is a five-year protection period, if we pay a little more attention, invest more people, property and property, so that the technical level of the enterprise to a new level is still hopeful. At that time, even if the door of the country is opened and Western counterparts come in to compete, they will not be without the strength to fight.

"Okay!" Feng Xiaochen had a smile on his face, and he said, "It's great that everyone has such determination." The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation's WTO accession negotiation group will solicit your views again in the next few days, and I hope you will give them a confident answer. As for ourselves, as Director Zhen said, we must indeed pay close attention to the key technologies that Minister Wu said just now, we must get them out within five years, even if they do not reach the same level abroad, at least they should be usable. As for the problem of talent, it is actually very simple, as long as the problem of treatment can be solved, are you still worried that there is no talent?"