Time flies.

7 October 1990. The Beijing Asian Games are over. The people of the whole country and the leaders of the country have finally turned their attention to the national economy and the world situation.

At this time, the national inflation that had been in place since 1988 came to an end and was replaced by sluggish consumption. The people only feel that the money is no longer depreciating, the prices are not rising, and the crazy desire to shop has suddenly subsided, but the enterprise is like walking in the two heavens of ice and fire. A few months ago, despite the debt and policy risks, things could be sold after all, but now they are good, and after the raw materials bought back at a large price are produced into finished products, no one cares, and the pressure of inventory makes every business breathless.

In the blink of an eye, the newspapers began to use the term "weak market" to describe the state of the economy, and the end of the rush to buy in Chapter 253 of the Chinese people re-entered the era of savings, and different enterprises fell into different troubles.

Xiamenhaicang is like a still sea, and I don't feel the slightest wave. Just like Dahua Industrial Group.

The integrated group company has hundreds of millions of assets and cash, which is first-class among private enterprises at this time. Coupled with the professional market, it has not been affected too much. Dahua Gas Company is also perfectly deployed in the five provinces, the earliest Shandong has entered the stage of charging gas delivery, due to the use of prepaid gas cards, the speed of recovery of funds is not much, but it is enough to fill the daily operating expenses.

Sioux City himself turned his attention to the methanol base in Haicang.

The first batch of 120,000 tons of equipment has been transported to the construction site, making the once empty land gradually become richer.

Dozens of foreign engineers arrived with the car and took up positions on the construction site. While revising the drawings, the equipment was put in place and waiting for the construction personnel to arrive.

Large petrochemical equipment, such as methanol and ethylene, has always been order-based. The next order produces a set of equipment, sometimes modified according to the customer's needs. For example, the methanol equipment that Sioux City is now ordering requires the use of domestic catalysts, which can reduce the cost of foreign products.

Correspondingly, the timing of the equipment in place varies. Small general-purpose parts are often the first to arrive, such as large equipment such as reaction tanks, which need to wait slowly. Some popular years even have to wait for half a year.

On the one hand, Sioux City urged, and on the other hand, the infrastructure of the base was rectified. In addition to methanol equipment, living equipment such as dormitories and canteens are also indispensable. In addition, Dahua Laboratory also secretly studied and studied the 120,000 tons of methanol equipment of Casali.

China is a big coal country, and its energy structure is dominated by coal. Therefore, the petrochemical equipment such as methanol, which is mainly manufactured by the petrochemical companies of state-owned enterprises, also uses coal as raw material. Compared with gasified natural gas, solid coal makes it much more difficult, so domestic methanol equipment has always been in the stage of catching up with the world level.

Sioux City started with oil, and now it is already in a state of tension when it goes upstream to petrochemical products, and it is not possible to produce its own petrochemical equipment, which is not in line with economic principles. However, he did not let go of this opportunity, Dahua Laboratory secretly set up a petrochemical equipment research institute, recruited some people, and started the localization work first.

This is also the only way for the study of Chinese style. Buy a complete set of equipment first, no matter how people design it, first find a way to make parts, and wait until every part can be made, you can produce 100% domestic copycat products, and then the next step is to design and research by yourself.

The R&D method with Chinese characteristics may not sound as cool as the way of foreign research institutions, but it is very practical.

No matter how beautiful the scientific research propaganda is, no matter how good it sounds, it is all false. The most important thing is to be able to develop something good and make the business make money, so that the business and the research structure can survive.

Foreign companies often spend tens of billions of yuan in assets and billions of dollars in R&D investment, some of which are capital to conduct head-to-toe research, and some are capital to accept failure. Companies like Casali in Switzerland can invest tens of millions of dollars a year in developing a methanol plant, and they also have to research large equipment such as ethylene, ethanol, and synthetic ammonia, and it would be good to succeed half of the success every year.

As for the time to recover costs, it is estimated that it will fall to 5 or even 10 years from now.

Therefore, the 120,000 tons of methanol they are making money now are likely to be produced by inputs 10 or even 15 years ago. Ten years ago, in 1980, how could China come up with tens of millions of dollars to continue to study methanol equipment for several years, not to mention 15 years ago in 1975, even if it was invested in research, it would give priority to the research of large fertilizer products such as synthetic ammonia.

Even in 1990, Sinopec did not dare to invest 100 million US dollars in methanol equipment, not to mention half of the success rate, and seventy percent of the certainty was not good.

In contrast, step-by-step localization has less pressure on all parties. Any enterprise can choose to imitate one or some parts of the imported equipment, first imitate the wearing parts to replace the foreign after-sales service, then imitate the common parts and general parts, and finally imitate the special parts and important parts......

In this way, every step of the process, every research result, can be converted into revenue in a short period of time, maybe only a few million or even hundreds of thousands to start a project, and the cost can be recovered within a year or two, whether it is the producer or the customer, can get benefits from it.

For China, which is still in the underdeveloped stage, there is nothing more important than maintaining the survival of enterprises. If the company dies of blood loss due to too much R&D investment, no matter how beautiful the previous research is, it is estimated that no one will appreciate it.

On the contrary, the plan of gradual localization can allow enterprises with assets of hundreds of millions of yuan in China to start projects that can only be started by enterprises with assets of tens of billions of dollars abroad, which is actually a big killer for the development of China. Of course, for foreign manufacturers, this process is not so wonderful - some foreign companies will even file a lawsuit because of this, and do everything possible to prevent China from localizing in the contract.

Occasionally, they will succeed, but most of the time, they will fail.

Just like Dahua Industrial, which now sends dozens of professionals to help Casali's engineers for free, no matter how careful they are, there is always some information leaked. Even if it is all public information, it is a rare information for the "Chinese" countries of the third world. Especially if you are targeted, you can learn more things.

With the cooperation of both parties, the design drawings were all in place in just three days. The leading Swiss engineer, Buckman, was very happy and praised the progress of the project. The faster they complete the project, the higher the rewards and compensation they receive.

Sioux City and other members of the Dahua system are naturally happier, and the price of methanol in the international market of three or four hundred dollars per ton means that an additional $100,000 of methanol can be produced one day earlier.

Shanghai Petrochemical Plant and other units also visited the construction site with great interest. As early as during the bidding for the Setan oil field, in order to deal with the Ministry of Energy, Sioux City promised to import methanol equipment from the Shanghai Petrochemical Plant. However, the output of their methanol equipment could not meet Dahua's needs, so the two sides re-co-ordinated, and they became learning from Kalisa's technology and mainly transforming and dismantling equipment from Brazil.

The only one who is not happy may be Wang Sheng of the Formosa Plastics Department. The faster Dahua progresses, the more pressure will be on Formosa Plastics. However, they have not been able to stop Dahua Industrial from putting into production -- if they themselves cannot finalize the contract, can they let other companies not be able to finalize the contract? What's more, Dahua Industrial was invited by them.

Wang Sheng had nothing to say, so he could only wander around the construction site in Haicang boringly. At this time, another convoy came rolling in the loess.

"And new equipment?" Wang Sheng was helpless for a while. If Dahua Industrial's methanol equipment is really put into production, Formosa Plastics will be embarrassed. This is not only the pressure from the mainland, but also the pressure from Taiwan, they will not look at the Dahua and Haicang bases separately, but will only feel that the Haicang plan has entered a substantive stage, which is obviously not good news for Formosa Plastics.

The convoy eventually stopped outside Dahua Petrochemical, and a group of people jumped out of the car with shovels and shovels and the like, and then began to line up loosely.

Su Cheng also noticed, left the foreign expert, and slowly paced over.

"What is this for?" Wang Sheng was puzzled. To say that they are here to work, the tools are too rudimentary, and they are next door to the Dahua Petrochemical Company, where the land has just been leveled.

Before Su Cheng could see a Ding Chouyin come out, these people shouted slogans and ran. I saw the person in front pushing the wheelbarrow to draw the line, and the person behind went into battle with a hoe and shovel and ran out of a ditch.

"Is this going to dig a canal? Is this kind of battle necessary?" There were eight carts and three or four hundred people at the scene, standing in a row with a strong voice, and Wang Sheng obviously couldn't understand.

Su Cheng stood side by side with him, and said uncertainly: "It seems that there are still trees." ”

The two guessed for a while, confused. Yang Ming ran to ask, came back with a strange expression, and said: "They are the construction team organized by the city, all cadres of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and the Taxation Bureau, and they want to make a park outside our factory." ”

Dahua Chemical Company has 400 acres of land, which is said to be relatively spacious, but it can only be casually greened, and it is impossible to spread out like a huā garden.

It seems that the eyes of Wang Sheng, Yang Ming continued: "The enterprises and institutions in the city must organize people to participate in the construction of Haicang, and there will be a unit of people every day in the future, until the park next to our factory is built." ”

Wang Sheng asked strangely: "Why don't you let the work be done?" ”

"If the city wants to show its support, the subordinate units of the organization will be more sincere. Su Cheng smiled bitterly, and when he saw that Yang Ming wanted to speak, he asked again, "What's wrong." ”

Yang Ming hesitated for a moment and said softly: "When I was questioning just now, a director of the tax bureau asked me if Dahua Petrochemical could stuff a few more people. When I said I couldn't be the master, he wasn't very happy. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Ming was a little uneasy. He was brought out by Su Cheng from the Shengli Machinery Factory, and he knew very well the style of state-owned enterprises and administrative organs, and he was deeply afraid that he would cause trouble for Su Cheng.

Su Cheng only froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "I'm afraid you won't be the only one who has met the request." In this case, you go and ask other cadres, and if there is a request, it will be reported to you. ！！！