Dahua Petrochemical's improvised basketball court was converted into an "interview" venue. Eight basketball hoops are crushed by cement slabs, covered with white cloths, and pinned with red slogans, which also look similar.

Warm sunlight shines through the window lattices into a group of small buildings facing south. The building is only two stories high, and the outside is whitewashed, which looks miserable and devoid of beauty. But it was built fast enough, and when the sewer pipes were laid on the construction site, the small building was built, and the sewer was not completed, and the small building was completed.

For the sake of astonishing efficiency, Sioux City stubbornly endured vulgar architecture. The small building was originally used as an administrative building, with 24 offices, but now 10 have been vacated, and high-status officials and entrepreneurs are put in, and chairs are placed under the open windows to serve as stands.

The remaining three sides of the basketball court, one of which was demolished as a temporary board house, truly reflected the definition of a temporary one, and the remaining two sides were filled with machinery and roads. The overbearing petrified pipes, like countless shrunken roller coasters, meander and crimson, each leading to where it should go, like steel vines surrounding the bushes of varying heights, endlessly, and there is no end to sight.

Ding Zhipeng sat in the middle with another State Council leader, looked at the petrochemical pipeline outside and was stunned for a moment, and said: "I haven't seen you for a few months, and it's really fast." When will it be officially put into production?"

"In two or three months, it's about the same. After passing this interview, you can put it into trial operation and then officially put it into production. ”

"This is Dahua speed!" Ding Zhipeng applauded twice.

The officials in the middle of the table were about the same age, and their skin was warm and white. The brow is staring at the Sichuan character, and it is also obvious when it is calm. He smiled reservedly, and followed Ding Zhipeng's words: "Su Dong is very discerning, Dahua is very efficient, and I hear it from time to time in Bei*Beijing." Some of our comrades are the opposite. ”

Ding Zhipeng leaned around and said with a smile: "Director Mao has a story. ”

The two of them were the highest-ranking cadres on the scene, and others sat or stood in the middle. With a smile on their faces and ears pricked up, they are all good listeners who have been trained for many years. With Ding Zhipeng's words. Immediately, there was a quick response and said, "Please tell us about Director Mao." ”

Everyone likes to tell stories, and Director Mao is no exception. The Sichuan character on his brow was slightly relaxed, and he said in a slightly cordial tone: "It's not a story." Tell us a little bit of experience to remind our cadres. That is, a few months ago, in order to meet the large ethylene project of Formosa Plastics, all small ethylene projects that were not half built in the country were suspended. Some cadres came to the committee to cry, saying that it was a 30,000-ton ethylene project that was finally applied for, but they stopped when they said they stopped, and they couldn't figure it out. I told him that the project he applied for in '86 was approved in '87, and it took 3 years. Why hasn't it been built yet, and if it does, how can it be stopped...... Dahua's project made me feel emotional, 3 months of infrastructure. The gap between 3 months to build and 3 months to put into production is shocking!"

Everyone nodded their heads with thoughtful expressions.

Senior cadres never talk about things, and Director Mao waited for two seconds. smiled at Wang Sheng on the side: "Formosa Plastics should also learn from Dahua." The sooner the petrochemical base is completed and put into operation, the sooner it will be rewarded. Haicang and Fujian areas can also produce chain benefits. The domestic suspension of ethylene project approval should not last too long, otherwise, local cadres will make a fuss, and we will also be very passive. ”

He reminded Formosa Plastics. Wang Sheng had no choice but to smile and say "yes".

Director Mao laughed, pulled the topic out again, and said: "When I was on a plane yesterday, I ran into Lao Jiao and went to the United Nations headquarters in New York. Iraq is making a lot of noise, resolution after resolution, nervous...... Su Dong, Dahua's Middle East oil fields are in the United Arab Emirates, have they been affected?"

The second half of 1990 was a tumultuous one. On 2 August, Iraq occupied Kuwait, and on 3 October, East and West Germany were merged.

Sioux City only remembers that the last and most effective UN Security Council resolution on Iraq was issued in November, and now it is almost there, if it does not appear. When the resolution was passed, which indicated a deadline for the withdrawal of troops, the fog naturally opened.

Since it was just gossip, Sioux City deliberately narrowed down the topic, saying: "Dahua's Setan oil field is indeed in the United Arab Emirates, because the Persian Gulf is not very safe, and I have asked the UAE crown prince to borrow us an oil pipeline for several hours a day to bypass transportation from Saudi Arabia." ”

Director Mao's eyes lit up and said, "It's not easy to borrow oil pipelines, right?"

"It's very difficult, and it took a lot of connections to get it done. Oh, I negotiated a contract a few months ago, and now it's almost impossible. Sioux City thought to himself, can the benefit of $1 million a day not be difficult? Converted into time, with their oil pipeline for an hour, the bribe alone costs $200,000. However, there are ways to bribe well, because many oil fields are blocked because of the Persian Gulf, the oil produced cannot be transported, and there is not enough oil storage equipment, so it can only be injected back into the ground, not to mention that the price of oil is rising, or it has not risen, which is also a matter of losing millions every day. When the wind calms down, the oil field will not increase production because you inject crude oil back. These days' losses have turned into solid production losses.

Others don't know that Director Mao is appointed in the National Development and Reform Commission, so how can he not know the importance of the oil pipeline. In peacetime, the low cost of transportation of oil pipelines is very popular in oil fields, and it is usually used only by national oil companies. It's wartime, and pipelines are only going to be more important.

Director Mao listened to Su Cheng's relaxation, looked at him deeply, and wandered outdoors, I don't know what I thought.

Ding Zhipeng sighed in his heart, and also went to the nature of speaking. The others reacted quickly, and soon someone answered, keeping the atmosphere lukewarm.

China in 1990 may have been the least understood year since the reform and opening up. Many cadres are no exception, and even if they are concerned, they are more focused on the reunification of the two Germanys, and the topic is quickly deflected.

After a while, the interview with Casali began.

The invited cadres of state-owned enterprises such as Shanghai Petrochemical and Beijing Petrochemical gradually shifted their attention to the basketball court.

A total of 160 Dahua Petrochemical Company workers were interviewed. They will be the first operators and replacement operators for the test machine. Casali had to train and test them to ensure that two or three people per position were fully mastered before they could recoup the final payment, which was also included in the tens of millions of dollars in equipment costs.

Testing Dahua's employees is a very important responsibility for Casali. Once all operators and substitute operators have passed the test, mechanical failures are the first thing to consider and Casali takes care of until the test is successful in a safe and economical way. However, if there are operators and substitute operators who fail the test, then the test cannot be carried out, let alone production, and Casali's work is not complete, and they must continue to train Dahua's employees until everyone is qualified.

Although such a clause forms two kinds of constraints, the most serious constraint is the responsibility of the test machine. Because the maintenance cost caused by the test machine is much more expensive than the training.

Therefore, in a large company like Casali, the "interview" has always been strict, and there is not much human affection to talk about.

Su Cheng mentioned this truth a little, and everyone present immediately understood. One by one, their eyes changed.

Ding Zhipeng asked, "Has Dahua tested it before?"

Sioux replied, "No." ”

"For the first time?"

"For the first time. ”

Ding Zhipeng couldn't help but slap the table, and improved the atmosphere in a mocking tone: "You guy is really bold, aren't you afraid that you will fail to pass and lose face in front of Director Mao?"

Director Mao really put aside the concept of the world, and said with a smile: "Young people are full of courage and deserve praise." Let's see if Dahua can succeed at one time. ”

"It has to be successful. I don't want to fly half of China anymore. Ding Zhipeng shook his head vigorously.

Everyone was in tune, and secretly admired Su Cheng's connections. Ding Zhipeng's relaxed words show that the relationship between the two is very harmonious, and there is really a lot of information revealed.

Casali is a Swiss company, and it has nothing to do with the Chinese government, so no matter how many "big people" watch, they only do their own thing on the playground, and place the simulated operating tables one by one in order. Its shape, as if the operating part has been removed, is an imitation of a methanol operating system.

This simulation system is a bit like the way armored soldiers are trained in the army. Make a separate set of steering wheel, brake, accelerator, gearbox, and seats. Although it does not have a function, but the operation mode is there, the examiner sets several conditions, and the operator carries out according to his words, and the operation is right or not.

The whole set of simulated methanol operating system is a little more cumbersome, and the examiner sets the conditions, and the operator not only has to operate according to this, but also pays attention to the feedback of the previous operator.

Buckman didn't give them time to discuss, and said in a loud voice: "The simulation operation assessment will start in 2 minutes, please ask the operator to be in place......"

Dahua's employees ran to their positions.

To the surprise of Casali's engineers, most of the Dahua employees were in the right place, which was not easy for a chaotic simulation system with hundreds of seats. Unbeknownst to them, Dahua's Pudong training base already had its own simulation system.

"Let's go, set the conditions, the heat pipe pressure is 8 megapascals, and the fresh air is operated in one way......" Buckman was a Swiss of Germanic descent, tall and hoarse, standing in front of a basketball hoop as if he were defensive.

As soon as his words fell, a Chinese employee translated it. Subsequently, a team leader raised his voice and said: "The no-load of the single machine is tested at one time, and the compressor is ...... to heat up."

Wang Sheng's eyes stared down without blinking, and the taste in his heart was indescribable.

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