After coming out of the Oriental Jialai Company, Heinzl took Chupp to six or seven wind farms non-stop to learn about the procurement of wind turbines. In all wind farms, he has received the same information, that is, Chinese domestic wind turbine companies have collectively reduced the price of wind turbines, and the average price per kilowatt is about 30% lower than that of European companies, which has an absolute price advantage.

Heinzl is not giving up, and he suspects that there is some kind of tacit understanding between these wind farms and Chinese wind turbine companies, such as signing a private interest subsidy agreement, deliberately disclosing a grossly unreasonable low price to the outside world in order to exclude European wind turbines. He found European wind power investors and asked them to inquire about Chinese wind turbine companies, and the answer they got made European investors overjoyed, Chinese wind turbine companies can provide wind turbines at a price lower than European companies, and the quality is not too far worse than European wind turbines, if this is the case, why should they buy wind turbines from European companies.

"This is a low-price dumping behavior, which will be sanctioned by international trade rules!"

Heinzl angrily shouted at European investors. Originally, I wanted these investors to inquire about the market for themselves, but who would have thought that they would help Chinese wind turbine companies advertise, and Heinzl's feelings can only be described as Sunned_by_dog.

"Well, we're looking forward to you getting to the bottom of it. "If it turns out that they are not dumping, but have found a way to control costs, I suggest that European wind turbine companies learn from them." ”

For wind power investors, whether Chinese wind turbine companies dump or not has nothing to do with them, they are happy to see this kind of price reduction. In the eyes of the investor entrusted by Heinzl, there is no doubt that the offer of European wind turbine companies is unreasonable, and the executives of these companies drive luxury cars and live in luxury houses, and all the expenses are made from their wind power investors. Or China's wind turbine companies have a conscience, and this price is full of discipline.

Heinzl appeared in front of Bovard again, this time to ask the European Union to investigate the malicious price competition of Chinese wind turbine companies.

"Do you have any proof?" Bovard looked at Heinzl as disgusted as if he had seen a fly. This guy is really endless, and it's literally treating EU officials like a pile of fresh.

"I don't have proof!" Heinzl said justifiably, adding without waiting for Bovard to go on a rampage: "But I asked the technical directors of five European wind turbine companies to evaluate it, and everyone agreed that a price of 470 euros per kilowatt was absolutely impossible." Even taking into account the relatively low labor costs of Chinese, the cost per kilowatt of domestic wind turbines in China will be between 580 and 600 euros. ”

In 2008, the ratio of the euro to the yuan was about 1 to 10 to 11, and 600 euros was equivalent to 6,300 yuan, which was lower than the cost of European wind turbine companies, but it was not a big gap.

Bovard played with the pen in his hand and said: "The ability of Chinese to control costs has always been very strong, and you can't look at Chinese companies by the standards of European companies." Your workers and engineers spend too much time drinking coffee, and as far as I know, the Chinese don't drink coffee, which saves them a lot of time. ”

That's a bit of a slap in the face. The welfare in German companies is too good to be outrageous, and some companies take a month of summer vacation in the summer, and the bosses and workers happily run to the beach to escape the summer, and the wages are still paid, and these costs are undoubtedly spread out into the price of the product.

In recent years, Chinese-made products have been continuously exported to Europe, and many local European companies have been crushed by the price of only half of local products. Those companies that have been brought down have complained to the EU, accusing Chinese companies of dumping and selling at prices lower than the cost of production. At the request of these companies, the EU has also conducted a number of anti-dumping investigations, but most of them have failed to reach conclusions in favor of European companies. It is true that Chinese companies are able to produce a wide range of products in large quantities at a fraction of the cost of European companies, and they sell them at even lower prices at home, which cannot be explained by dumping.

This time, Heinzl came to accuse Chinese wind turbine companies of dumping, and Bovard's first reaction was disbelief. In the case of the drilling platform, Heinzl had exaggerated to Bovard, obviously just drawing a concept map, he could boast that he had completed the overall design, Bovard fell into such a bad way, if you believe Heinzl again, it is a fool.

"Mr. Bovard, I have been commissioned by all European wind turbine manufacturers to make a request to the European Union. The Chinese government has lifted the requirement on the localization rate of wind turbines, but has supported wind turbine companies to crowd out European companies at extremely low prices through various non-public means, which is a disguised trade protection. We hope that the EU will lodge a protest with the Chinese government and investigate Chinese wind turbine companies to determine whether they are competing maliciously at prices below cost or receiving disguised subsidies from the Chinese government. In short, we absolutely cannot accept the argument that Chinese companies cost less than 470 euros per kilowatt of wind turbines. ”

Heinzl grimaced, and said to Bovard in a solemn manner. He has a joint complaint of European wind turbine companies, even if it does not represent all European companies, at least it covers more than 70% of European wind turbine production capacity. These companies are like Prometheus, rushing to China to open up the market, but they have run into a nose of dust. And that's not all, the news of China's low wind turbine prices has also spread to Europe, and now European wind power investors are also preparing to abandon European local wind turbine manufacturers and turn to China to seek wind turbine supply, which makes European companies how to endure.

"If you insist on asking the EU to do this, the EU will comply with your demands. Bovard said helplessly. Who gives the family the right to speak, but the slogan "For businessmen" is written outside the door of the European Union. Thinking that he had to go to China again, and that he was going to do something that would be slapped in the face, Bovard also wanted to find a dog to sun.

It's impossible to refuse a request from a business, but it's always okay to put off a bit. Bovard accepted the complaint sent by Heinzl, first reported it to the Secretary-General, and then spent a lot of time consulting relevant materials, basically reading two or three documents a day. It took four or five weeks for Bovard to call China's Ministry of Commerce and inform them of the accusations made by European wind turbine companies against Chinese companies for malicious competition.

China's Ministry of Commerce, of course, did not respond immediately, but spent several weeks conducting an investigation, and then reported its findings to the EU, pointing out that the accusations made by European companies are groundless, and that Chinese companies have always abided by the law and strictly abide by market rules, and have never done anything to disrupt the market order. As for why China's wind turbines are so cheap, because...... We're so cheap, if you don't accept it, you're going to beat me.

"European companies want to conduct on-site surveys of Chinese wind turbine companies to confirm that their production costs are indeed in line with their own statements. Bovard made a request to the Chinese side.

"However, you are conducting an anti-dumping investigation into the color TVs and steel fasteners that China sells to Europe, so is it appropriate to start an investigation into wind turbines at this time?" the Chinese side questioned.

"I think we can end the investigation into color TVs and steel fasteners early...... Bovard responded.

Trade relations are like this, if you want to make demands in this area, you need to make concessions in other areas, otherwise people will say that you don't know how to measure, and the two sides will not be able to deal with each other. If the EU wants to investigate China's wind turbines, it must correspondingly give up some other rights in exchange for China's cooperation. The end of the investigation of color TVs and fasteners,It is a condition for China to accept the EU to carry out the fan investigation,If the EU does not agree,Then don't expect China to agree to the wind turbine investigation。

"Mr. Feng, on behalf of the country's color TV companies and fastener companies, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you. Xu Zhenbo informed Feng Xiaochen of the EU's requirements on the phone, and said half-jokingly and half-sincerely.

"It's all our country's enterprises, can you say who thanks whom?" Feng Xiaochen replied with a smile.

"You lowered the price of wind turbines, and you flashed those European companies, and now people are in a hurry and say they want to investigate. I'll just ask you: Can our fan companies withstand the investigation?" asked Xu Zhenbo.

Feng Xiaochen replied lightly: "There is no problem at all. In addition to those confidential links, other production links, whatever they think, can check our original ledgers. The price reduction of our fans is above board, and no one can find out the problem. ”

Xu Zhenbo said: "That's great. But don't be so happy with your promises, it's better to hide something and find any excuse. Go back and have EU officials come to our Ministry of Commerce to coordinate, so that we have another chance to negotiate with them. ”

"Haha, I said a long time ago, Director Xu is not a traitor. Just a few wind turbines, how many times have you counted the Europeans, I feel sorry for the EU officials. Feng Xiaochen said.

Xu Zhenbo said: "This is mainly due to your efforts. Seriously, I still don't know how you've managed to bring down the cost of wind turbines. The EU said that they had asked experts from more than a dozen wind turbine companies to discuss, and everyone thought that it was impossible to reduce the price of wind turbines to 5,000 yuan per kilowatt, and you actually did it. ”

Feng Xiaochen laughed: "What is this, at most three years, we can reduce the cost to 3,000 yuan per kilowatt, believe it or not? In this world, if anything is mastered by us Chinese, we can quickly make it into a cabbage price, and those old European companies cry more often." ”