Lin Yonggui pushed open the door of the office, felt a burst of heat, quickly took off his coat, and shook his hands and feet before sitting on the chair, ready to approve today's documents.

Strictly speaking, he only has two hours in the morning to approve documents, and if it is a little later, there will be an endless number of cadres to ask for a meeting, and there will be no time to rest.

He had just sat down, rubbing his hands together and preparing to read the papers, when the phone rang.

Lin Yonggui's face was solemn. The one who dares to call at this time must not be his subordinates, otherwise it is not to do things but to find faults.

He coughed deliberately before picking up the phone and said warmly: "Hello, I'm Lin Yonggui." ”

"Lao Lin, I'm Liu Wanhai. "The voice on the phone was a bit deafening, like laughter in a bomb shelter.

"Oops, long time no see......"

After a greeting, Liu Wanhai laughed as if he was segmented: "Lao Lin, I heard that Su Dong of Dahua Industrial came out of your hands?"

"His first job was in the oil field. ”

"Can you introduce me to me? Liu Wanhai asked with a smile.

"It's not like your style. Lin Yonggui said in surprise: "The dignified South China Chemical Plant, do you still need me to introduce you?"

In 1990, most of the clothes people wore were made of chemical fiber, and most of the utensils they used were plastic. It's all thanks to the chemical plant. At this time, the classification of state-owned enterprises, in addition to pollution, the chemical industry is treated well, at this time the private chemical plant is not yet a climate, the chemical system is quite good, South China chemical plant is no exception.

Liu Wanhai laughed and said without reluctance: "Dahua's 120,000 tons of methanol is about to be put into production, and our South China Chemical Plant is hot." You don't know about the shortage of raw materials now, hey. Lao Lin, your oil field has a lot of benefits. ”

Lin Yonggui couldn't help but smile. The planned price per ton of crude oil is more than 400 yuan. The unplanned price is 680 yuan, and the difference between one in and one out is more than 200 yuan. Except for the Petroleum Corporation, it is all up to Lin Yonggui to decide, which is naturally comfortable.

The South China Chemical Plant is a midstream manufacturer. The garment factories, textile factories or pharmaceutical factories and plastic factories below it require the bulk purchase of raw materials in the plan, but the chemical factories themselves also require the purchase of raw materials such as methanol, ethylene and propylene from the upstream, which is naturally not as good as the pure upstream oil fields.

Lin Yonggui thought to himself: The methanol produced by Dahua is always to be sold, and the South China Chemical Plant is also a big customer, so it can be done. So, he laughed twice and admitted: "I'll make a call to see if there's a chance." ”

Liu Wanhai is grateful.

Lin Yonggui hung up the phone. Shaking his head with a smile, when he was about to ask the secretary for the number, the phone rang again.

"Hello. Lin Yonggui. ”

"Lao Lin. I'm Lao Zhou......" is also a classmate of a chemical factory.

After saying a few words, Lin Yonggui put down the microphone suspiciously. This time, he didn't have the slightest intention of taking the contract. Before he could figure it out, the phone "jingled" again.

"Hello, I'm Lin Yonggui. ”

"Lao Lin, I'm old money. "Another classmate from a chemical factory.

Lin Yonggui cut off the wrinkles in his head, and asked: "Old Qian, Dahua didn't start building a methanol plant today, why did you call now?"

Lao Qian immediately became nervous: "What, there is still someone to greet you?"

Lin Yonggui smiled bitterly and said "yes".

Lao Qian sighed: "This is really, it rained overnight." Why do they all want to go crookedly? ”

Lin Yonggui held the microphone a little farther away, as if he wanted to see the creature on the other side of the microphone clearly, isn't this guy also going the wrong way? He didn't know what to say, and asked in a roundabout way: "What's going on?"

Lao Qian said sadly: "Dahua's new construction is 120,000 tons of methanol, we think about it, it would be good to be put into production within two years, who would have thought that he would be put into production at the end of the year, and then contact, want to engage in thousands of tons of planned indicators, it is not possible at all." ”

"All robbed?"

"Where is the robbing of the ......" Lao Qian gritted his teeth and said: "Dahua Industrial is a private enterprise, and they have no planned indicators." Tell me, 120,000 tons, and not 12 tons per year, it is a private enterprise, who would have imagined it. ”

Lin Yonggui had nothing to say, and he also forgot that Dahua was the stubble of a private company. Of course, if you really want to think about it, it is very clear, but when you want to associate it with other companies, it is natural to forget Dahua's private enterprise identity.

The current methanol plant in China, with an annual output of more than 10,000 tons, is not considered a small factory. With an annual output of 30,000 or 40,000 tons, the output value can exceed 100 million.

Dahua's 120,000-ton methanol plant, although not the largest methanol plant in the country, is the largest methanol plant with a single equipment. Or rather, a factory with the most advanced equipment. Although it has been 10 years since the reform and opening up, upstream raw material enterprises such as Shengli Oilfield will only become stronger and stronger, and where will private enterprises be looked at. That is, 20 years later, large iron and steel enterprises and large petrochemical enterprises are still dominated by state-owned enterprises, so there is no room for private enterprises to move.

In contrast, in 1990, it was still at the juncture of the country's retreat and democratic advancement, and Dahua's status as a private enterprise was not too eye-catching. It's just 120,000 tons of unplanned methanol, which makes Lin Yonggui speechless. A large part of the reason why the major oil fields regard oil production as the only criterion for evaluating cadres is that the excess production can be distributed as unplanned materials. The bonuses and benefits of the employees and the small treasury of the leaders all come from the value of the plan.

In contrast, the chemical plant built by Dahua in one year has more unplanned output than the Shengli oilfield.

Lin Yonggui was surprised, holding the phone but couldn't agree anymore, and refused: "Dahua Chemical belongs to Sucheng alone, since he is not a state-owned enterprise, then there is no quota in the plan, should there be no such thing?

"Where did we let him ship at the planned price, and now it's an unplanned price, and he doesn't sell it either. That's why I found you here. "Old Qian is full of bitterness.

"If he doesn't sell it unplanned, where will he sell it?"

"Earn foreign exchange through exports. ”

Lin Yonggui was relieved and said: "There is an opportunity to earn foreign exchange through exports, and it is useless for you to find anyone." ”

Although the price of domestic industrial products is high, it is still a little inferior to international prices, especially the relationship between the exchange rate and export tax rebates, and domestic sales have always been inferior to foreign sales. Local and central governments also encourage enterprises to earn foreign exchange through exports. Not to mention that some enterprises want to increase production, even if they are waiting to be fed or even their lives are hanging by a thread, the government will still encourage foreign exchange earnings.

Everyone understands this truth, and Lao Qian naturally knows it, explaining: "Actually. 120,000 tons of methanol, there is no reason to sell out in one go, and there should be some leftovers. Alas, the result is that methanol is rising sharply in the international market. This Dahua's luck is not acceptable. ”

In mid-November, the U.S. Congress passed amendments to the Clean Air Act, which immediately doubled the value of methanol. Although the price factor has not yet been revealed, the reversal of supply and demand is obvious. Dahua Petrochemical rushed to carry out trial operation at this node, which naturally attracted snowflake orders.

In the Haicang plan, the mainland requires 100% of Formosa Plastics' products to be exported. Dahua Petrochemical Company was built on the land of Haicang in the name of the supporting plant of Haicang Petrochemical Base, so it naturally had to comply with the requirement of 100% foreign exchange earning.

In this regard, there has been a fierce debate within Dahua Industrial. Many people have advised Sioux City to reduce the proportion of exports, such as 80% or 60%, so as not to have poor foreign sales channels, resulting in backlogs or even suspension of production. Methanol is not an easy product to store, the faster its circulation, the lower the storage cost, for the output of 120,000 tons, tens of yuan per ton is a lot of money.

However, Sioux City, known to history, firmly rejected this suggestion. Without lobbying, a contract for 100% export sales was signed, and the US Plot Air Act was waiting.

Methanol can be added as fuel. If you use the means of virtual economy to analyze, a region that consumes 9,000 tons of fuel a year, adding 10% of methanol, is the amount of 9 million tons, far beyond the world's methanol production limit, other consumption does not fall, this consumption growth, where is the reason why methanol does not rise.

At this time, Sioux City's 100% export contract turned into a talisman. Advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended. The influx of buyers is proof of this. 120,000 tons is equivalent to the amount of several factories, is it difficult to sell them all? Or, you can always find some kind of gap, leaking thousands of tons and hundreds of tons.

There are also many shrewd import and export traders, gathered in Haicang County, looking for opportunities, and those who dare not engage in underwriting contracts will want to pay a deposit in advance and occupy the goods at the current price.

Wang Sheng looked at these manufacturers, his eyes were red.

The Haicang plan has been carried out to this day, and Formosa Plastics has not yet gained any substantial benefits. On the contrary, Dahua Industry built a factory and put it into production, but not a drop of methanol was produced, and someone rushed to send money.

What made him most indignant was that Su Cheng didn't want to send the money in a hurry.

The most unjust thing for him is that Formosa Plastics is also afraid that the price of methanol will rise and the raw materials will be insufficient, so he was sent to rush to send money and deposits. The largest chemical plant on both sides of the Taiwan Strait is Formosa Plastics, and the fundamental purpose of their petroleum refining is to supply their own factories. Therefore, the mainland insisted on 100% export, and Formosa Plastics agreed, because they used their own raw materials, even if they were exported.

The rise in methanol prices naturally has a great impact on Formosa Plastics. Looking all over the world, the one that is about to be put into production and has not yet signed a sales agreement is Dahua Petrochemical in Sioux City.

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