After getting off the plane, Wang Keling happily invited Su Cheng and others to stay at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. It's like a Chinese inviting Americans to Capitol Hill, it's all about showing off.

Su Cheng let him show off. If it weren't for Formosa Plastics, it would not have been easy for him to live in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. Before the reform and opening up, it was completely impossible, and the dozen or so small buildings were only aimed at foreign heads of state and important guests, such as Khrushchev, Nixon, Kim Chong-il and other powerful figures, who were the serious guests of the Diaoyu Guotai Hotel. For example, Kissinger and Powell can only live in small buildings 5, 6, and 7, and they will not be allowed to enter even if Building 18 is empty.

After the reform and opening up, Diaoyu Guotai Hotel began to do market-oriented transformation, but there are still certain requirements for guests...... In Su Cheng's view, the so-called requirements are mainly the level, and only domestic units at or above the ministerial level can open a letter of introduction to come in for a meeting, and foreign guests abroad must have the status of a Fortune 500 company......

Formosa Plastics is naturally in the guest category of the Diaoyu Guotai Hotel. Therefore, Wang Keling was able to book a small building at a price of 50,000 US dollars a day for Dahua Industrial Group and his party.

People took out $50,000, and Sioux City was relieved to show off!

There are nearly 20 members of the Dahua Industrial Group, including Chen Zunian, Li Lin, Zhong Zhigen, and other management, as well as Liu Qiu, Zhan Chunrong, and other researchers. Emotional spillover.

Zhong Zhigen stood in the middle of the living room, looking at the furnishings around him, and secretly compared them with the mansions and palaces he had seen abroad.

Li Lin also couldn't wait to visit the conference hall and imagine what it would be like for Chinese and foreign leaders to meet here.

Chen Zunian grabbed the briefcase that he had used for more than ten years with the word "Shanghai" written on it, sat on the sofa first, and then slowly baked it on the back of the sofa. As if trying some kind of scorching temperature, he waited for a few seconds, and then slowly made a posture of Erlang's legs. Gently lit a cigarette and sighed: "I didn't expect to be able to live in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse after half a hundred years old." ”

"Jichai must be able to be one of the top 100 in China. You can also come here for a meeting. ”

"Really?"

"Really. Sioux City casually promised.

Chen Zu began to calculate the extent of the world's top 100.

Su Cheng put a row of keys on the coffee table and said with a smile: "Everyone has a room, and they can go to which room they get when they get the key." The VIP large bedroom has a large living room and minibar, as well as a corresponding small meeting room. The regular VIP suite also has a small living room and bathroom. Drawing to the large bedroom is considered luck. Everyone chose their room, cleaned up, and in a quarter of an hour they met in the conference hall on the first floor. ”

The Diaoyu Guotai Hotel is full of dozens of villas, which are specially used to entertain diplomatic delegations, and the Dahua Industrial Group's manpower is not enough to live in the room.

The young researcher Zhan Chunrong cheered and took the lead in snatching a key. After one glance, he rushed upstairs. Although he was a recent graduate of a master's degree, Su Cheng knew that in less than ten years, he would be able to write a "masterpiece": "Rock Mechanics of Petroleum Engineering" -- another monograph that could kill 99 percent of college graduates.

In the memory of Sioux City. This book proves the value of Zhan Chunrong. He went from a small lecturer who had a little difficulty applying for an associate professor to a world-class rock engineer, and was finally hired by an American company with a high salary, working in the oil production line all year round. His later main achievements focused on drilling the surrounding rock, casing, cement sheath, etc. of the borehole under complex in-situ stress conditions. Although it sounds a bit suspenseful, it is actually very simple, Zhan Chunrong's research results. Being able to drill deeper and longer extended-reach wells, horizontal wells and other difficult oil wells is also a researcher that Dahua urgently needs.

Before the explosion of the book, even Zhan Chunrong himself was not sure of his own value, and Dahua Laboratory signed a long-term contract with him, added him to the dividend sharing plan, and provided him with a large number of opportunities in rock mechanics, including rare confirmatory drilling - in other companies or schools, it is impossible to have such good conditions, Dahua Industrial's approach, so that Zhan Chunrong quickly embarked on the bull platform and was in a rapid upward channel.

There are as many as 30 such researchers in the Dahua laboratory. It doesn't sound like much, but it's enough to put any research institution to shame, because each of them can dominate a separate lab. It can be said that it is the biggest reliance of Sioux City, with the management of modern enterprises and relatively abundant funds in the country, Dahua can hold a meeting in the Diaoyu Guotai Hotel.

Formosa Plastics, by contrast, has an advantage in scale, and they have always been good at leveraging their scale.

Just last year, Formosa Plastics invested more than NT$20 billion in Taiwan, single-handedly boosting the island's GDP by several percentage points. If the $7 billion investment settles in China, it can also boost Chinese mainland's GDP by several points, generate huge demand in the upstream and downstream, and create greater and huge marginal benefits every year.

Taking advantage of this kind of economic influence, which is so huge that it can affect politics, Wang Yongqing waved Taiwan to smash the mainland, and the mainland to smash Taiwan.

Everyone knows it, but the more this is the case, the higher the standard of reception he gets on the mainland.

Su Cheng and others, as guests, were also told that they would have to wait two days to meet Wang Yongqing, and before that, there were interviews with several units such as the Ministry of Energy and PetroChina, all about the importance of the Haicang plan.

The implication is to let Dahua not be self-defeating and ruin the relationship with Formosa Plastics.

Sioux City received two families, and simply said that the illness was gone. He also didn't bother to explain Formosa Plastics' intentions to these bureaucrats, or rather, the bureaucrats knew Formosa Plastics' intentions, but they just didn't want to admit or face them.

This is a difficult problem even for the top. They were reluctant to give up the Haicang plan, but they were unable to implement it.

For Sioux City, which knows the history, things are much simpler.

The old method was destined to fail to allow the Haicang Plan to be implemented, since this is the case. Then let's do something new.

Of course, it is good to implement the Haicang plan, and it is also good if the implementation of the Haicang plan cannot be implemented. So as not to waste a lot of manpower and material resources.

This kind of thought made Su Cheng's attitude quite calm when he saw Wang Yongqing, which formed a stark contrast to the others.

A thin old man, what is there to worry about, Su Cheng thought. That's how it works.

He met, shook hands, and greeted as if he was facing Chen Zunian. Although Chen Zunian is 20 years younger than Wang Yongqing, in Su Cheng's opinion, what is the difference?

Watch Sioux City sit down. Wang Keling looked Sioux up and down, and in the petrochemical industry, most of the businessmen they saw were respectful businessmen, which was completely different from Sioux City's attitude and behavior.

The Chinese side accompanied two key officials, one was Mao, the director of the National Development and Reform Commission, whom he had met, and Mi Lihui, a younger official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mi Lihui was energetic, energetic, and elite, and coughed lightly to set the tone: "Su Dong, Senior Wang is a patriotic person we respect. The main reason for this meeting is that Mr. Wang wants to hear your suggestions and ideas on the Haicang Plan, unify your thinking, and develop together. ”

Su Cheng listened to his tone and looked at Director Mao.

Director Mao is like a human version of the unlucky bear. Roll up your mouth as a mud bodhisattva and don't speak. Su Cheng then had a plan, and went straight to the point according to the established strategy: "When it comes to the suggestions and ideas for the Haicang plan, I hope to implement them as soon as possible. Instead of one or two small plants, a large ethylene plant and refining project were implemented quickly and, if possible, completed in 24 months. That's the only way. Our methanol project will not be affected and losses will be incurred."

Big ethylene is much more complicated than big methanol, 24 months is not a loose number, if it is a domestic battle method, it may be completed, but if it is done by 9 to 5 construction workers, it will have to be done from now on. In other words, Sioux City demanded that Formosa Plastics begin building large ethylene immediately.

Wang Yongqing's eyelids moved slightly, like a person sleeping with his eyes open.

Wang Keling replied on his behalf: "Su Dong, the Haicang plan is Formosa Plastics' plan. Therefore, the Haicang plan needs to be led by Formosa Plastics. We have a series of problems to solve, and the specific time point is also one of them, so we can't be sure that the Haicang plan will be completed in 24 months. On the contrary, if Dahua can be consistent with Formosa Plastics, it will be of great benefit to the early implementation of the plan. ”

"What are you waiting for?" Sioux tried to pull the conversation back into its own channel. This meeting is very rare, Wang Yongqing has lived in the United States for a long time, and he does not return to Taiwan much every year, and even Taiwan politicians such as legislators have to meet him in the United States. With Su Cheng's current status, he may not be able to see Wang Yongqing again until the end of the Haicang plan.

The appearance of this conversation can be regarded as an ice-breaking test in the upper echelons of the mainland, which was won back by Sioux City through repeated stimulation of production increases, but it is also such an opportunity. If it ends uneventfully, or goes along the lines of Formosa Plastics, Sioux City has wasted this opportunity.

Wang Keling was really stunned and said: "We are waiting for the results of the negotiations and the response of the mainland side. ”

"If the mainland responds, for example, that all the conditions you put forward are approved first, do you promise not to change the conditions? "On such occasions, Sioux City was ready for almost every word. After nearly two years of discussion, the mainland side did agree to the conditions put forward by Formosa Plastics for the first time, but Wang Yongqing revised the conditions for the purpose of occupying the market or other unclear purposes, and demanded that the former 100% export of ethylene products be changed to 100% domestic sales. The export-oriented Haicang plan has become another version of market technology. As a result, the plan was delayed for another year.

If it weren't for the second delay, the Haicang plan might have been realized. Sioux City conjectures that moving from the promised 100% export to 100% domestic sales, although only a word difference, should not be an impulsive decision. Because it represents two different strategies.

He turned his attention to Wang Yongqing.

Wang Keling laughed twice unconsciously, and said lightly: "If the requirements of the two sides match each other......

At this time, Wang Yongqing stretched out a soft hand to stop Wang Keling from continuing.

Director Mao, who was pretending to be a bodhisattva, couldn't help but sit up.

Wang Yongqing actually prevented Wang Keling from returning to such a simple question of right and wrong, which was obviously unexpected by everyone.

In addition to being surprised, Director Mao naturally wanted to think of another either/or answer.

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