Chapter 961: Excessive Demands
Bao Feiyang smiled and said to Cheng Huayan: "Secretary General Cheng, the details are like this. You also know that when I was in Wanghai County, I cooperated with Fangxia Ceramics Group a lot, so I am still familiar with their situation. Fangxia Ceramics Group is headquartered in eastern Guangdong, eastern Guangdong is the second largest shipbuilding center in China outside the big triangle, Fangxia Ceramics Group has invested in shipping and shipbuilding in the past two years, this time they were originally cooperating with South Korea's Dadong Shipyard, hoping to introduce South Korea's Dadong Shipyard capital, technology and business in their shipyard invested in eastern Guangdong, this matter was originally talked about very smoothly, who knew that the parent company of Dadong Shipyard suddenly broke out of a financial crisis, implicated in the original well-run Dadong Shipyard into bankruptcy, Therefore, the original cooperation plan between Fangxia Group and Dadong Shipyard could only be interrupted, and then Fangxia Ceramics Group even wanted to directly acquire South Korea's Dadong Shipyard, so as to enter the shipbuilding industry in a big way. β
"However, there are some problems in the policy of South Korea, and the Koreans are not willing to sell the shipyard to our Huaxia Capital, and Fangxia Ceramics Group after a period of contact and in-depth research, also found that the shipbuilding industry is too deep, and it is obviously not a good idea to enter rashly, so they changed to cooperate with the Korean local enterprise Korea Shanshui Group, which is also interested in acquiring Dadong Shipyard, hoping to assist South Korea Korea Shanshui Group to complete the acquisition of Dadong Shipyard, and continue the original cooperation plan after the acquisition is completed."
"I also know that this South Korean Shanshui Group has investments in Shanghai, and Governor Hong also dealt with them when he was in Shanghai, and at that time they revealed that the operating costs of Shanghai are relatively high, and they want to invest in the Tongcheng area." Cheng Huayan nodded, took Bao Feiyang's words and interjected, although Bao Feiyang said that the whole thing was extremely complicated, and the details were also very full. But he was not gullible, but deliberately said something that seemed to be true and false.
Bao Feiyang couldn't help but secretly slander in his heart, this is really a cunning old fox, seize the opportunity to make a move, no one knows what Hong Ximing's relationship with South Korea's South Korea Shanshui Group when he was in Shanghai before, and what Cheng DΓΉ he came into contact with, even if there is no such thing. Bao Feiyang also has no way to go to the South Korean Shanshui Group to confirm, let alone say it in front of Cheng Huayan now, wouldn't it be another slap in the face of the leader.
Bao Feiyang said a few words in his heart, but he smiled at Cheng Huayan and said: "I don't know this, but according to Mr. Tu of Fangxia Paper Company, the investment in Haizhou was originally proposed by South Korea's South Korea Shanshui Group, and Fangxia Ceramics Group's original intention was to cooperate in the shipyards in eastern Guangdong, where the conditions of the shipbuilding industry are better and the industrial chain is more perfect. However, South Korea's Shanshui Group does not seem to have any intention of entering the domestic shipbuilding market in China immediately, so Fangxia Ceramics Group proposed a shipbuilding middleware project in Haizhou to South Korea's Shanshui Group to supply Shanshui Group's shipyards in South Korea and reduce its production costs in South Korean shipyards. β
Of course, this is only the first step of the plan of Fangxia Ceramics Group, after the completion of the integration of Dadong Shipyard in the future of South Korea Shanshui Group and Fangxia Ceramics Group, Fangxia Ceramics Group will further ask the tripartite joint venture company to consider investing in the whole ship manufacturing project in China, and another participant in the joint venture project, North American Tucker Oil Group, is also very supportive of the idea of Fangxia Ceramics Group. However, considering that the whole ship manufacturing has relatively high requirements for the industrial chain. The competitiveness of our Haizhou area is limited, and it may not meet the requirements of the joint venture project of Fangxia Ceramics Group in the shipbuilding project. At present, according to the plan of Fangxia Ceramics Group, it is still placed in eastern Guangdong, and the shipyard in eastern Guangdong is injected by South Korea's Shanshui Group, Fangxia Ceramics Group and North American Tucker Oil Company. β
Cheng Huayan couldn't help frowning secretly after hearing these words, this situation was a little different from what they knew before, and the situation that Cheng Huayan knew now was what Bao Feiyang raised in the Standing Committee of Haizhou Prefecture and City, as well as some information that he heard in the Tongcheng area. There is also a lack of access to this in the Tongcheng area, and the information is very limited. Therefore, it is mainly the ones that the Haizhou region has made public at the Standing Committee.
Cheng Huayan looked at the calm Bao Feiyang with doubts, then turned his head to look at Xue Shaohua, who was optimistic about the whole time, and then turned his head to Bao Feiyang again and asked, "Is it, South Korea Shanshui Group actually has a whole ship project?" You didn't seem to mention it before? β
Bao Feiyang met Cheng Huayan's puzzled eyes, nodded affirmatively at him and said, "Yes." South Korea's Shanshui Group, Fangxia Ceramics Group and Tucker Petroleum Co., Ltd.'s joint venture project has nothing to do with the shipbuilding middleware project that we are now preparing to launch in Haizhou, so I haven't mentioned it before, and this is only the current plan of South Korea's Shanshui Group and Fangxia Ceramics Group and Tucker Oil Company. In addition, the relevant departments of the province did not ask me about the situation in this regard. β
Cheng Huayan lowered his eyelids and groaned for a moment, because the information was not equal, he was not sure how true Bao Feiyang's words were, and he couldn't judge, and Bao Feiyang's statement just now suddenly disrupted his original plan, he thought about it and said to Bao Feiyang: "Well, I already know the general situation." Secretary Wang has been emphasizing that the province's industrial development should be coordinated as a whole, to avoid duplication of construction and vicious competition in the industry, to form a joint force rather than internal friction, Governor Hong two days ago in the Tongcheng area of the inspection, in the speech on the development of the province's shipbuilding industry, to focus on building the shipbuilding industry in the Tongcheng area, so that it and Shanghai to form a domestic and international shipbuilding industry center. β
"Governor Hong believes that Hucheng has a number of large shipyards such as Hujiang, mainly producing large ocean-going ships, and the Tongcheng area will become the manufacturing center of the country's rivers and offshore ships, as well as the sub-center of less than 100,000 tons, relying on the shipbuilding industry in Shanghai, forming a shipbuilding supporting industrial base, and taking the shipbuilding industry as the starting point to promote the upgrading of the economy in the Tongcheng area, making it the engine that leads the economic development of Jiangbei Province, which is related to the overall situation of the province's economic development." Cheng Huayan said slowly.
"The city of Haizhou can forge ahead and introduce shipbuilding projects from South Korea, and Governor Hong highly affirmed this. However, from the perspective of the overall development of the province's industry, the shipbuilding resources in the province should be concentrated in the Tongcheng area, and the Haizhou area does not seem to have the industrial base for the development of shipbuilding. β
Cheng Huayan looked at Xue Shaohua, pondered the wording, and finally said: "Governor Hong has set the development direction of the shipbuilding industry focusing on the Tongcheng area. And let me do a good job of coordination, so I have to make a request to Secretary Xue today, can Haizhou City take the initiative to give up this project and assist the province to promote this project to settle in Tongcheng area? Of course, the Haizhou region has made sacrifices for this, and the province and Tongcheng area will definitely consider it. If there is a suitable project, it will definitely be promoted to settle in Haizhou, Secretary Xue, what do you think? β
Xue Shaohua heard Cheng Huayan directly make this request, and he couldn't help but feel a little angry in his heart, this request was too much. He is the secretary of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee, not the secretary of the Tongcheng Municipal Party Committee, and he can barely do it if he does not compete with the Tongcheng area for provincial projects, but where can he take the initiative to let the projects in the Haizhou area go to the Tongcheng area? Let the cadres in Haizhou know. Don't break his Xue Shaohua's backbone?
Cheng Huayan's bias is too obvious, right? The Tongcheng area is biological, so our Haizhou area is raised by the stepmother? Although he knew that Cheng Huayan was adhering to Hong Ximing's meaning, Xue Shaohua was still a little angry in his heart.
Holding back the dissatisfaction in his heart, Xue Shaohua smiled a little embarrassed: "Originally, the secretary general put forward this request, and our Haizhou region should be pursued as one, but this project is relatively special, first, this is the South Korean Shanshui Group took the initiative to prepare to settle this project in Haizhou area and city, of course, we can introduce officials from Tongcheng area to each other." But it seems inappropriate to take the initiative to refuse, in fact, it is to take advantage of this cooperation with South Korea's Korea Landscape Group. Comrade Feiyang has also done a lot of work, hoping to introduce more cooperation projects from South Korea, and if this project leaves a bad impression on the foreign guests in South Korea, it will inevitably affect the follow-up work. β
Cheng Huayan smiled slightly: "You take the initiative to consider investors, and you would rather sacrifice your own interests than provide better recommendations to the other party." Wouldn't it be better to get the favor of the other party? β
"The Secretary-General is right." Xue Shaohua smiled and nodded: "However, this foreigner's thinking may be different from ours." Secretary-General, as you know, when foreign businessmen come to us, we have to entertain them with the most solemn courtesy, and they also enjoy this kind of treatment. Why? β
"We have 5,000 years of history and cultural heritage. It's a country of etiquette, but what about these foreigners, they've been developed for hundreds of years, and in the language of the countryside, they're nouveau riche, and they enjoy this kind of courtesy very much, and the more enthusiastic we are, the happier they are, and they may invest, Secretary-General, don't you say? β
Cheng Huayan is shrewd, and he has already seen that Xue Shaohua's words are not good, but this question is really difficult for him to answer, say yes, he just fell into Xue Shaohua's trap, and if he says no, it is not in line with the truth.
Bao Feiyang couldn't help laughing secretly, who said that Xue Shaohua would not be cheated when he got to this position, but even if Xue Shaohua was cheating, he would not be like a scoundrel in the market, but he could still make Cheng Huayan speechless with a dignified speech.
Cheng Huayan smiled a little reluctantly, so he had to avoid the important and lightly avoided the topic and said: "Secretary Xue, how can you say this about foreign businessmen, they are here, they are our guests, the term nouveau riche is inappropriate, very inappropriate." β
"Yes, yes, Secretary-General, you're right, I'm saying this as an analogy. Anyway, many foreign businessmen like our warm reception, and the more enthusiastic we are, the happier they are. But now we tell them that we are not suitable for you here, but we are more suitable for you, and they are likely to be unhappy and doubt our sincerity in attracting investment, which will affect our image in Korea. Xue Shaohua said.
Cheng Huayan glanced at Xue Shaohua deeply, he already knew that there was nothing good about the other party's words: "I can't say that, as long as we really think about each other, I think foreign businessmen will always understand." β
Xue Shaohua smiled bitterly and nodded: "Yes, of course what the Secretary-General said makes sense." β
However, even Cheng Huayan could see that Xue Shaohua's words were a little insincere, because if he was Xue Shaohua, even if he was willing to give up the shipbuilding project, I am afraid that he would really have similar worries. The kind of influence that Xue Shaohua said is indeed possible.
He lowered his eyes, smiled, and said slowly: "Moreover, this matter may not be directly proposed by your government, I heard that your cooperation with Fangxia Ceramics Group is better, then you can do the work of Fangxia Ceramics Group." Let Fangxia Ceramics Group put it forward! β
"Hehe, what the Secretary-General said is also a way, but the influence of the Korean Shanshui Group in South Korea is relatively large, and everyone originally saw that the Korean Shanshui Group was going to invest in the Haizhou area, so they became interested in the Haizhou area, if the Korean Shanshui Group did not come in the end. It will still have some negative impact on our investment promotion work. β
Xue Shaohua said: "Second, as the Secretary-General just said, our shipbuilding industry in Haizhou is really poor, and Haizhou, as one of the top ten deep-water ports in the country, has only one thousand-ton slipway, which is not even as good as Luzhou." If there is a problem with the ships entering and leaving the port, they can usually only go to Qindao in the north or Hucheng in the south for maintenance, which is extremely inconsistent with the status of the port in Haizhou, and also greatly affects the development of the port in Haizhou. As a result, although the port in Haizhou has been strongly supported by the province, it has not been able to develop for a long time. β
"Therefore, this time the Korean project can be settled in the Haizhou area, and we also hope to take this opportunity to improve the shipbuilding capacity of the Haizhou area, so that the shortcomings of the port in the Haizhou area can be made up to a certain extent. Otherwise, in the face of competition from other ports, especially Qindao and even Luzhou Port, I am afraid that the shape will be very bad. β
For this. Cheng Huayan had been prepared for a long time, after all, he also knew that the Haizhou region would not give up the fat in his mouth. So under the banner of the province's industrial planning, there are not many reasons that Haizhou can put forward, except for the one that has just not been put on the table, Haizhou can come up with a bright and bright propaganda that is, the importance of shipbuilding industry to the development of Haizhou port.
Cheng Huayan nodded and said very approvingly: "Well, Secretary Xue is very important in this point. The province has also been attaching great importance to the development of the port in Haizhou, and of course there is some consideration for this. The province means that Haizhou regional port as the only deep-water port in Jiangbei Province, but also to ensure priority development, Governor Hong also proposed that the Tongcheng area and Haizhou area should be coordinated and jointly developed, and the Tongcheng area should be used as a shipbuilding base. At the same time, the Tongcheng area can provide support to the Haizhou area and develop large-scale ship repair projects in the Haizhou area. β
"Of course, I wonder what form this project will take?" Xue Shaohua asked, Cheng Huayan's words also did not surprise him, the province can not force Haizhou to make such a big concession, in addition to the general righteousness of the province's industrial planning, it must also make some compensation to Haizhou.
Cheng Huayan said: "I heard that the Haizhou area is promoting the integration of several shipyards under the city, the shipyards in the Tongcheng area can participate in investment cooperation, and the province can also support relevant technological transformation and infrastructure projects." β
Xue Shaohua knew that this was the quid pro quo proposed by the province, using a $30 million investment project to exchange a few million yuan for the city's shipyard in the Tongcheng area, but it may only be more than one million, or even less than one million investment, related technical support, and provincial support, which is not cost-effective from an economic point of view.
Moreover, what Haizhou has lost is foreign-funded projects, and for local governments that place great emphasis on attracting investment, the significance of foreign-funded projects is completely different. Although it seems that the conditions of Haizhou cannot be compared with the Tongcheng area adjacent to Shanghai, the Haizhou area cannot become the center of the shipbuilding industry, but it also has the opportunity to become a sub-center, or become the center of the region, and develop the shipbuilding industry to a certain extent, and become a pillar industry in the Haizhou area.
To give up this project and follow the arrangement of the province is to give up such an opportunity, and even affect the future economic development of the entire Haizhou area and city.
Obviously, this is not a fair and reciprocal exchange.
Cheng Huayan's confidence lies in the fact that this is not a simple economic exchange, in a general sense, the province has an established industrial plan, and Haizhou is a prefecture-level city under Jiangbei Province, of course, it must also be done in accordance with this plan; In terms of interests, there is a loss in the Haizhou area, but theoretically if it is supported by the province, this loss can be compensated, for example, the province supports the Haizhou area in other projects.
He is well versed in the way of officialdom and knows that in the final analysis, the decision is made by people, and as the leader of Haizhou City, Xue Shaohua needs to consider not only the development of Haizhou, but also his personal development, from this aspect, Xue Shaohua is definitely impossible to disobey the will of his superiors for his momentary political achievements, offend the leadership, and cut off the possibility of his future upward development, so that even if he won the project, he got some political achievements at that time, In the end, it did not increase the bargaining chips for his personal future development, but became an obstacle and a burden, and if he was a smart person, he would definitely not make such a choice. (To be continued......)