Zhao Zhimin, as the top figure in the study of domestic metallurgical process, is much more sought-after than it seems on the surface, at least in terms of scale, in the iron and steel enterprises that invited Zhao Zhimin to join, Meigang must not be regarded as conspicuous.

Shen Huai did not have great expectations for Zhao Zhimin to agree to join Meigang, and he even only hoped that Zhao Zhimin could recommend suitable candidates to set up and preside over the research institute for Meigang.

Hearing Zhao Zhimin's promise, Shen Huai was really happy, and he didn't let go of his hand for a long time.

Zhao Zhimin joined Meigang, in addition to his own professional and management ability, which can greatly improve Meigang and make up for the shortcomings of research, perhaps more importantly, in the field of domestic steel and related industries, Zhao Zhimin has a broader vision than Zhao Dong, Xu Xiting and others.

Although Meigang has made some achievements in the past two years, it is not well-known in the country, and it has no influence in the field of steel industry with only 200,000 tons of steel production capacity, which has caused great inconvenience in many aspects.

Since last year, Shen Huai has considered the issue of reserve strength for the future of Meigang, and at this stage, the main thing is to select those outstanding graduates who have passed the Donghua examination to attract them to Meigang for employment and development.

Due to historical reasons, the development level of basic education and human resources in Donghua should be at the middle and upper reaches of the province. In 94, the admission rate of the Donghua college entrance examination was as high as 8%, and the number of people with university degrees in the city was nearly 50,000. If Mei Gang wants to supplement the grassroots management and technical strength, it is enough to select the best from among the graduates of Donghua University.

However, if Meigang wants to develop into a world-class steel conglomerate, it needs to have talents who can promote Meigang to go higher and farther in the future, and it is far from enough to limit the vision to the college students who have been admitted from Donghua - and in this regard, Meigang obviously does not have any advantages at present.

People go to high places, water flows to low places, Meigang can open high salaries, private iron and steel enterprises in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, can also open high salaries, and in terms of employment, life and future development prospects, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions obviously have more advantages than Donghua.

Meixi Town is well built, but after all, it is still only a small town, and Donghua is too far behind the developed cities of Jiangsu and Zhejiang as a whole, and it is even more difficult to compare with first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangcheng.

With the same annual salary of 18,000 yuan, doctoral students like Han Wenji and some outstanding talents who have returned from studying abroad will not look at Donghua at all.

Only when Zhao Zhimin joins Meigang will it be possible for Meigang to develop through him, attracting his students and leaders in research leadership to consider Meigang.

Although Zhao Zhimin agreed to join Meigang, he first had to complete the technical transformation cooperation with Meigang, and he didn't know whether the mine was willing to release people.

Shen Huai was somewhat impatient.

Mining and metallurgy is subordinate to the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, and because the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry may be abolished by the State Council, some people are more or less apprehensive.

Shen Huai considered whether he could persuade the mining and metallurgical industry to agree to release the people first, so that Zhao Zhimin could be appointed as the chief engineer of the new Meigang plant, and in addition to continuing to be responsible for the technical transformation project in cooperation with the mining and metallurgy, he could also coordinate the overall technical situation of the construction of the new plant.

Shen Huai immediately called his sister-in-law Song Wenhui and Song Hongjun, not knowing who he could pass through, and he could ask the General Institute of Mining and Metallurgy to release people happily, and he would not put Kameigang's neck on the personnel transfer.

Half an hour later, his sister-in-law Song Wenhui called him and replied: "As long as Zhao Zhimin is willing to give up the benefits given to him by the General Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, he is still willing to release his ......."

"My sister-in-law is out of the horse, a top two. Shen Huai laughed.

During this time, he felt the lack of talent more deeply.

The production line of the old factory must ensure efficient and safe operation, the construction speed of the new factory cannot be slowed down, and if there is a figure like Zhao Zhimin to join, why does he need to run around outside all month, and why does Zhao Dong need to sleep on the construction site all day?

Meigang has long drawn up the treatment standards for the introduction of special talents.

For Zhao Zhimin, the annual salary of 150,000 yuan - even considering the benefits he will give up in the mine, Shen Huai will directly allocate a set of western-style buildings from Zhuyuan to him as compensation - is not attractive, but he still agreed.

Even if the cross-shareholding work with Huaineng Group is completed, Meigang will still be regarded as a public-owned enterprise as a whole, and it is difficult to make a great breakthrough in the salary issue at once. Including Zhao Dong and others, the salary officially received from Meigang is not high, and their main income comes from equity appreciation, which is closely related to Meigang's growth.

Although Shen Huai promised that Zhao Zhimin would be allowed to invest private capital in the new Meigang plant, the new Meigang plant itself was in urgent need of fundraising, and the new Meigang plant still seemed to be a very risky project, so this could not be regarded as an additional treatment for Zhao Zhimin.

The next day, Shen Huai convened a meeting of Meigang's management to inform him of the harvest of his trip to England and the preparation for the establishment of Huaineng Group, and Zhao Zhimin was also invited to participate.

At this meeting, Zhao Zhimin was able to see Shen Huai's plan for the future development of Meigang more comprehensively:

Meigang is only a core ring in Shenhuai's industrial layout, and the prospect of Huaineng Group is not limited to the real development, and at the same time, Pengyue and Hongji are responsible for opening the channel of scrap steel import and steel export with Western Europe, which will make Meigang's future development market space broader.

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Zhao Zhimin's resignation from the mine management and the handover of the work were very smooth, without any obstacles, and in late April, he officially went to Meigang to take over as the chief engineer of the new plant and the general manager of the research institute, and at the same time undertook the preparation of the General Administration of Engineering Technology and the research institute for the construction of the new Meigang plant.

At the same time, Zhao Zhimin was accompanied to Meigang by Han Wenji, a student he had just passed the doctoral dissertation defense, and Liu Tao, his main assistant in the Fourth Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Since Han Wenji, Liu Tao and others are all members of the team responsible for the technical transformation project of Meigang's new plant, they have been with the construction of the new plant since years ago, and they are very familiar with the situation of Meigang.

They joined Meigang with Zhao Zhimin, in addition to continuing to be in charge of the technical transformation project, they could also immediately share the huge pressure on the shoulders of Shen Huai, Zhao Dong and Pan Cheng at this time.

Under the leadership of Nobuo Yamazaki and Zhou Ming, the preparation of the joint venture plant is not slow.

The joint venture plant also completely copied Fuji Steel's steelmaking plant in Kimitsu, Japan, as a template, and quickly completed the preliminary preparatory work, and the groundbreaking ceremony of the construction site was also held in mid-April, and the construction site was in full swing, only three months later than the new Meigang plant.

At the same time, Huaineng Group Co., Ltd. was officially registered in Meixi Town.

Huaineng Group signed a series of cooperation agreements with Meigang, Meixi Industrial Investment Group, Meixi Town Government, Pengyue, Zhujiang Construction, etc., to complete the cross-shareholding of Meixi Power Plant and Meigang, complete the capital injection and shareholding of Meixi Port Co., Ltd., and at the same time registered and established two third-level enterprises in Meixi Town, including Huaineng Real Estate and Huaineng Industrial Construction, to accept part of the business divested by TEPCO Group.

At the same time, Huaineng decided to invest 20 million yuan to build the headquarters building of Huaineng on 60 acres of land allocated free of charge in Meixi Town, opposite Pengyue International Hotel.

By the end of April, 11 state-owned factories under the city, including the city's steel mill and the city's forging plant, had also completed their restructuring.

The city steel mill was renamed Donghua Iron and Steel Group, but the soup was not changed, and the chairman and general manager were concurrently served by Gu Tong as usual, and no one could shake it. Tan Qiping was also afraid of affecting the overall situation of the construction of the joint venture plant, and he had no intention of withdrawing Gu Tong, who was docile to him, for the time being.

The restructuring process of the city forging plant is more complicated.

Logically speaking, the city has complete control over the city's forging plant, and the Municipal Planning Commission requires that all candidates for the board of directors be recommended by it, but in the end, only Zhao Yicheng and the other three were approved by creditors. Under the final negotiation, five people were selected from the employees, and two creditors including Yang Haipeng entered the board of directors together as ** directors without voting rights.

In addition to the board of directors, the management of the city forging plant was all disassociated from the city, and was rehired from appointment to employment, and only one deputy director was transferred back to the city through the relationship with the planning department, and was disassociated from the city forging plant.

Although Meigang has borrowed money from the city forging plant with additional debts, from the fourth month, in addition to maintaining its own operations, the city forging plant has to add an additional debt of four or five hundred thousand yuan every month, and the pressure is still not small.

The city forging plant was established no later than the city steel mill and Meigang, and it was the production of shaft forging parts at the beginning. When the Donghua iron and steel industry began to scale in the mid-to-late eighties, the main business of the city forging plant turned to the production of various types of non-standard steel structural parts for the steel plant.

The scale of the forging plant in the city seems to be small, there are many difficulties in recent years, and there are many factors, but it is also directly related to the fact that the steel industry in Huaihai Province has not developed much in the past few years.

In a sense, it can be said that the city forging plant is not only the current supplier of Meigang, but also the potential customer of Meigang in the future. This is also the main reason why Shen Huai strongly intervened in the city forging plant at the end of last year.

Shen Huai and Zhao Dong have studied the city forging factory under the leadership of Zhao Yicheng, although it has been seriously dragged down by the triangular debt, it has been difficult to turn losses into profits, and it has not been able to expand its business, but the production order after self-rectification is also good in so many state-owned factories in the city.

It was precisely Zhao Yicheng and others who fought through whistleblowing and other means, united with the workers, and forcefully sent the seriously corrupt former factory director and others to prison, and their relationship with the city was not harmonious, but they had more prestige among the workers - these were in line with the characteristics of Shen Huai's selection of collaborators in Donghua.

Of course, Shen Huai considered that Meigang had a bad relationship with the city, and that there might be great resistance to directly acquiring the city's state-owned factories, so he detoured back to the debt problem and forced the city to comply.

In the early stage of the construction of the new Meigang plant, the orders placed to the city forging plant exceeded the total business volume of the company last year.

Some less important structural parts will be handed over to the city forging plant nearby processing and production, can reduce the construction cost of the new Meigang plant, and more importantly, steel structural parts, especially the widely used steel structure, the market demand is extremely strong section steel products, most of the iron and steel enterprises at home and abroad, on the direct control of the production of steel products heavy industry enterprises, expand market share.

Shen Huai considered restoring the normal production order of the forging plant first, and directly through the debt-to-equity swap, by controlling it, focusing on the development of standard steel products, enriching the product line of Meigang, so as to break through the current single product pattern that can only supply rebar to the market.