Chapter 385: LNG Ship

The headquarters of Dahua Industrial in Pudong is full of greenery.

Rows of metasequoia, camphor, and luan trees shade the sky and the sun. The moment you walk into the yard, you can feel the rare shade, as if the environment has its own biological air conditioning.

Clusters of bauhinia, peonies, phlox and other flowers or buds, flowers bloom, attracting many citizens and tourists to take pictures.

Through a row of ginkgo gates, the style inside changes abruptly.

A variety of plants form a semi-enclosed space one after another, and with the help of pavilions and water pavilions, they are like rooms, becoming an alternative office space for Dahua employees.

Compared with last year, the garden level of Dahua headquarters has improved again. Thousands of acres of land along the Huangpu River are planted with precious flowers and trees, which can be said to be the first part of the domestic urban landscape. Coupled with the generous treatment of Dahua Industrial, every horticulturist who wants to work here has to work hard to press the bottom of the box in order to gain a firm foothold.

Every 100 meters, there is a small office building, which is like a mansion on Xiafei Road, behind the large glass and balcony, there are small department workshops. If you are lucky enough to have a senior job title or become a middle manager, you can be assigned to a separate office. This kind of treatment is unique in the whole of China.

Before the fiscal and taxation reform, the central government departments had nothing to do with the wealth and arrogance. Relying on the advantages of fewer personnel and more funds, the salaries and bonuses of the personnel of the central ministries and commissions are quite a lot, but it is quite difficult to say that it is quite difficult to build an official office. However, the local finances are richer, and the mayors and county magistrates of some small places can enjoy an office of 100 square meters. But it has to be compared with the office area of Dahua Industry, that is, the enjoyment of the landlord's old wealth.

However, Dahua's garden work area is like Zhongluyang Park, so that merchants from the south to the north can't see it. There are not a few people who go back to imitate, but the price of garden flowers has risen by a few percentage points.

It's just that afforestation and architectural styles can be imitated, and with the advantages of the prosperous river view of the Huangpu River, Dahua's work area must be the first in China. This alone is enough to more than double Dahua's advantage in human resources.

Today, Dahua Industrial is not only recruiting university graduates, but also poaching mature backbones of state-owned enterprises and private enterprises. In addition, the re-employment of retired government officials to work in Dahua Industrial's strategic division is one of Sioux City's stated goals.

Although most of the Chinese officials are scrapped wood, among the tens of millions of party members under the big waves, there are always some "generals", and some people in the academic and business circles have voluntarily joined Dahua Industrial. 1992 was the second wave of China's sea tide, millions of people left their public offices to pursue their dreams and wealth, and the best of them will always be absorbed by Dahua Industrial. In particular, veterans with experience in business, diplomacy and politics are the focus of Dahua Strategic Division, which is used to supplement Dahua Industrial's own youth.

With regard to the proposition of "establishing diplomatic relations between China and South Korea," the experience of many "newcomers" has played a role. China's attitude, the ROK's attitude, the DPRK's attitude and response, Taiwan's attitude and response, the United States' attitude, and the attitude of Japan and ASEAN countries will all have to be judged. Only then can we make a judgment on whether the establishment of diplomatic relations will be successful, and then make an analysis of the timing and conditions.

Any large trust company is in great need of this kind of discretionary background analysis, business decisions should be based on political, diplomatic and economic decisions, and some companies that have invested in Venezuela have judged that Chávez will nationalize and reduce billions of losses by withdrawing from Liso, and the opposite is wrong.

One in and one out, the silent loss is more than the silver in the national treasury of a group of African countries.

The Trilateral Committee initiated by David Rockefeller and the Foreign Relations Committee, in which Mobil, Citigroup, and IBM are mainly involved, also need to include a group of elite think-tank characters before engaging in money and power trading—figures such as Clinton, Cheney, Bush Sr., Rice, Kissinger, and Powell are actually proving themselves as aides and diners before becoming super-powerful political figures.

From this point of view, the political ecology of the United States is like China's Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

At this time, although the strategic division of Dahua Industrial has collected some "doormen", it does not rely on them in the final decision-making. It's just that the members of the business department are required to read the documents written by the "doormen".

The first thing Sioux City did when he returned to the company was to read these background papers at a different level.

Some documents he took a longer time to read, and some documents were lost just by looking at the title. Due to the need to judge the situation, Su Cheng did not allow Yang Ming and other members of the secretarial office to sift through the documents of the strategic division, so that his own workload was added.

After reading the documents for a long time, Sioux City announced the convening of the second meeting.

At the last meeting, everyone unified their thinking and decided to participate in China-ROK economic and trade cooperation. As for the level of participation and the direction to choose, it became the topic of the second meeting.

Yang Ming arranged the meeting room on the roof of the boardroom.

The board building is three stories high, with a tender green bamboo forest in front and a tall luan tree behind it, shading a large area of shade.

Zhang Chao, Zhong Zhigen, Chen Zunian, Qin Shiwei, Liu Qiu, Li Lin and others were all present.

Economic cooperation with political goals is the most difficult and the easiest, depending on which direction you are in. China's foreign economic cooperation in 1990 was very difficult. On the one hand, we have to create a breakthrough to break the foreign blockade, and on the other hand, we have to contribute to the Asian Games, whether it is a company in charge of exports or a company in charge of imports, life is very difficult

However, on the issue of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, China has the initiative. Dahua Industry takes this opportunity to join economic and trade cooperation, which is naturally quite beneficial.

Dahua currently has three stable cash flows, the Setan Oilfield, the Haicang Base, and the Tyumen Oilfield Technical Service Contract that has just been awarded, while the places where Sioux City needs to spend money are none other than Dahua Laboratories and Dahua Gas. Jinan Power Engine Factory and Maritime Transportation Company, as well as Dahua Shipbuilding, which has a 50% stake, are all in a state of small profit and do not need to provide funds.

As a result, Sioux City will have $1 billion in cash a year with nowhere to go, and it is the best choice to find two piglets that can lay golden eggs from the developing South Korea, and then raise big fat pigs.

Everyone has been thinking about how to choose the problem for two days, and at this time they all have relatively mature ideas.

The first project to be mentioned was "Heavy Chemical".

I only listened to Zhang Chao talk eloquently: "China, Japan and South Korea have a foundation in heavy chemical industry. Over the years, South Korea has received a lot of new technologies from the United States and Europe, and their labor costs are close to ours. Dahua Petrochemical has been trained through the Haicang project, and if it can get some of South Korea's heavy chemical technology, it will have a great opportunity to impact the international chemical market...... Of course, this will have to compete with the big trading companies in Korea and Japan......"

Su Cheng was noncommittal, pointing to his ears, meaning to only listen and not speak.

If he has a tendency, others will naturally not be able to speak freely.

Zhang Chao nodded understandingly, and after finishing his suggestion, he sat firmly and remained silent.

Next, Chen Zunian of Jinan Power Machine Factory proposed machine tool processing technology.

In recent years, the international machinery market has also had a place for Koreans. If Jinan Power Machine Factory can obtain some machine tool technology, it may be able to transform into a large machinery group.

However, this is contrary to the construction idea of Sioux City, and he just smiled, and his heart has been crossed.

The proposals of "fine chemistry" and "electronics industry" have also been released. These two projects, which also belong to South Korea's advantages, are at least advanced in the Asian region.

Sioux City still only listens and doesn't speak.

The opinions put forward by the public are also becoming more and more diverse, household appliances, finance, and agricultural product processing have all been put forward......

Horizontal diversification was the trend of the 90s, and Chinese companies with a little scale tended to diversify.

Those who make meat products go to real estate, those who do machinery go to hotels, those who make furniture go to players, and so on.

Dahua Industrial has a large amount of cash reserves, and has a very high cash flow options, which is really broad. No matter how strange the suggestion is, it can always be more or less feasible.

Just when Su Cheng was a little sleepy when he listened, Yan Xuecan, who used to be the liaison of Dahua Shipbuilding, raised his hand and said: "I heard that South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industry has completed the shipyard of LNG ships in 91 years, if we can get the technology of LNG ships, we can maintain production just by transporting natural gas from the UAE by ourselves." In the future, Dahua Gas will definitely increase the scale of LNG transportation when the scale of the company expands, and I think this is also a general direction of energy transportation in the future. ”

"LNG ships are the nobles of merchant ships, the technical content is quite high, and the cost is also the highest among all transport ships, although it is the future development direction, but at the current price, it is really difficult to say how many orders can be made, and we Dahua does not have its own shipyard. "Gu Haijian does offshore oil research and knows a lot about LNG ships. In fact, the research work of Dahua Shipbuilding itself, except for the acquisition of the German Fenorr Shipbuilding and the Dutch Nucor Company, the rest is all in the Offshore Oil Research Institute of Dahua Laboratory, and Haliburton is inclined to be a shareholder after the initial investment. Their family has a big business, and they can't afford to look at the market of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Sioux City leaned back, as if studying the ceiling overhead.

Those who knew him well knew that this was what Sioux City was thinking.

Yan Xuecan was encouraged by this and hurriedly said: "Although Dahua does not have a shipyard, we can deepen the relationship with COSCO Shipping, through shareholding and other means, COSCO Shipping will do ship production, and Dahua Shipbuilding will master technology and orders, as long as the initial investment is sufficient, we will soon be able to support a large shipyard." Regardless of the heavy industry that seems to be very difficult for shipyards, in fact, we can learn from the Korean experience. South Korea's shipbuilding industry started with Hyundai Heavy Industries. In the 70s, the South Korean government seized the opportunity of the world's industrial transfer, and in just a few years, it became internationally competitive. What is being done domestically is to use cheap labor to compete with European and Japanese shipyards at outstanding prices. That is, in 20 years, South Korea will be able to make LNG ships. In contrast, COSCO Shipping's mold is much better, and even if we buy the technology and equipment of LNG ships for $1 billion now, it won't take long to pay back. ”

"Since South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries has only obtained the NG ship technology, how can it be willing to sell it to us. ”

"Naturally, no. Nowadays, it is an economic and trade activity carried out in conjunction with the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea, and the exchange of heavy money in high-tech industries. Yan Xuecan is not very confident in what he said, but the content is really imaginative.