At the end of the month, a delegation of Chinese businessmen from Malaysia finally arrived in Haizhou, with more than 40 members, including more than 20 enterprises and investors, the most notable of which was Guo Bonian of Dingfeng Group. Although Guo Bonian is not a descendant of the Chen family of Dingfeng Group, he is a representative figure of Dingfeng Group's transformation from family management to professional manager management in recent years. In Malaysia's Chinese business district, many people who are familiar with Dingfeng Group believe that Guo Bainian will soon enter the core management of Dingfeng Group.

After about a week of investigation and exchanges in Haizhou, some Chinese businessmen determined the project and scale of investment in Haizhou, and signed more than a dozen project investment agreements before and after, mainly covering grain processing, electronic manufacturing, port services and other fields, Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia have a certain strength, but the advantages in the field of heavy chemical industry and high-tech industry are not very obvious.

= In addition to the finalized project investment agreement, the Chinese business delegation and the Haizhou government have also signed more than a dozen letters of intent for investment, these projects require a longer period of demonstration and discussion, but the Chinese businessmen have shown great enthusiasm and sincerity, and there is a great possibility of investment.

Dingfeng Group has also identified an investment project, they will invest in the construction of an oil processing plant in Haizhou Food Processing Industrial Park, this project is actually more unexpected, even Bao Feiyang did not expect Dingfeng Group to be in the domestic oil project, he also asked Guo Bonian for advice.

At present, the domestic oil market is relatively overcapacity, the oil processing capacity exceeds the annual output of oil crops, the oil production exceeds the consumption, overcapacity, inventory backlog, and the domestic oil price is still relatively high, no matter how you look at it, it is not a good investment project.

But Guo Bonian thinks. Although the domestic oil market has been saturated, the total saturation does not mean that the market is truly saturated. He believes that there are still many opportunities in the domestic oil market, such as the proportion of refined oil is not high, and the scale is not enough, so the cost of oil is relatively high; In addition, domestic edible oil products are mainly rapeseed oil and soybean oil, and the utilization rate of cereal oilseeds, including corn germ, wheat germ and rice bran, is too low. Grain oil is a natural nutritional health product, and the market space will be large in the future.

There are many domestic oil refineries, but at present, there is no national big brand, this time to come in, the timing is very appropriate, if after a period of time, and so on the domestic oil market to appear more influential brands, Malaysia Dingfeng Group wants to come in. The cost and difficulty have to increase exponentially.

After talking deeply with Guo Bonian, Bao Feiyang had to admit that Guo Bonian saw it very accurately, and seized the gap in the market, and it was a scale of 100,000 tons, obviously Guo Bonian was full of confidence in this market.

As for Bao Feiyang's other "barrel of oil", which is the focus of Dingfeng Group's investigation and negotiation, Guo Bonian said that Dingfeng Group is interested in investing. However, Dingfeng Group alone could not support the entire refining and chemical project, so it could only continue to negotiate as a long-term project.

Before the Malaysian delegation left the Haizhou area. Bao Feiyang had a long talk with Guo Bonian. He repeated his point of view to Guo Bonian again.

"The investment in refining and chemical projects is large, and Haizhou has a good deep-water port and hinterland, which is an excellent choice for the development of refining and chemical projects, but there are too many places with similar conditions in China, and only Huaxia Petroleum Group and Huaxia Petrochemical Group have this strength to launch refining and chemical projects in China, and they can choose many areas. There will be no initiative to overcome many difficulties and launch large-scale refining and chemical projects in Haizhou, but there are still many domestic enterprises that want to get involved in this area. For example, Xucheng Refining and Chemical Company, such as Huaxia Offshore Oil Company, and Tucker Oil Company of the United States. The restriction of the policy is on the one hand, we can find a way to solve this, the oil source is not a problem, but more important is the digestion of the product, the refining and chemical industry has the highest requirements for the industrial chain. ”

Guo Bonian came to Haizhou this time, and Chen Yongzhi told him before leaving, so that he could communicate with Bao Feiyang more. When Guo Bonian first met Bao Feiyang, he was also shocked by Bao Feiyang's youth, and he was a little contemptuous, but after several contacts, Guo Bonian found that Bao Feiyang was far more mature than his age, and he was very open-minded, and some views were very sharp and direct.

After listening to Bao Feiyang's words, Guo Bonian nodded and said: "The petrochemical industry has always had the saying that oil is the head and the tail, and the advantages of industrial agglomeration are very obvious, for example, our joint venture project between Dingfeng Group and BASF and Mobil in Singapore mainly produces styrene and propylene oxide, which is a part of the industrial chain of the entire chemical park. The Singapore government has always hoped to expand the scale of the chemical zone and make the industrial chain longer, and if the Haizhou area wants to develop refining and chemical industry, the scale and the length of the industrial chain will be the key. ”

Most of the world's large-scale chemical parks can achieve integration, that is, between different enterprises and different projects, they can realize the interconnection of production equipment, mutual supply of upstream and downstream products, and pipeline interconnection, so as to optimize the use of resources and reduce operating costs.

However, to build such a chemical zone, it is necessary to carry out overall planning from the beginning, and the investment in the project is very huge, and only in very good conditions can such a project be promoted, such as the Yulang Chemical Park in Singapore, which is built in the form of a petrochemical complex composed of several companies.

"Although the growth rate of the domestic economy in the past two years is declining, this is only a cyclical adjustment, in fact, we see that China's demographic dividend, market dividend, and reform dividends have not been fully utilized, so there will definitely be a relatively long growth period in the future. As the world's most populous and third-largest country in terms of area, the energy it has shown in the process of rapid development will surprise everyone. Now there is a large trend of the world's manufacturing industry to transfer to China, but there is still a big gap in the heavy chemical industry, such as many of our chemical raw materials still rely on imports, which are opportunities for domestic heavy chemical industry projects. Bao Feiyang said.

"Between the river and the North Sea, on the long coastline, there should be a petrochemical base, and Haizhou Regional Bay is the best choice." Bao Feiyang said: "At present, we are inviting experts from Shanghai Gongji University to make plans, and we will start the establishment of petrochemical projects in the second half of the year. ”

Tucker Oil is an emerging oil exploration and production company, but they are more flexible in their way of doing business, especially after Bao Feiyang and the Tang family of Mexico acquired Tucker Oil Company, Tucker Oil Company has developed very rapidly. On the one hand, with the help of the Tang family, they entered the Mexican oil exploration and exploitation industry; On the other hand, they cooperated with the Northwest Petroleum Company and entered the Chinese mainland.

After several years of development, Tucker Oil Company has made oil exploration and exploitation business in many countries and regions in the world. However, the oil industry is greatly affected by the international political and economic environment, especially the upstream industry, and once the oil price fluctuates, oil companies will face great risks.

Therefore, the world's oil giants, such as ExxonMobil, Anglo-Dutch Shell, etc., are also petrochemical giants, and the American Tucker Oil Company must also take this step if it wants to become a giant.

Tucker Oil is already developing downstream, but as a rising star, it is very difficult for them to insert a leg into the mature petrochemical area, and some small projects cannot satisfy their appetite, nor can they bear the heavy responsibility of transforming Tucker Oil Company. If the Haizhou area can build a petrochemical industrial zone, and the American Tucker Oil Company is deeply involved, it will be a good thing for both sides.

Of course, the huge investment in petrochemical parks is not something that the American Tucker Oil Company can do, and there will be some restrictions on the policy, so the Haizhou region still has to win the support of Huaxia Petroleum Corporation or Huaxia Petrochemical Corporation, even if the two largest oil giants in China do not come, the minimum bottom limit must be for a large central enterprise or provincial enterprise to participate. In addition, it is very difficult to plan, construct and attract investment for the entire petrochemical park.

However, Guo Bonian can still see from Bao Feiyang's description that Bao Feiyang's plan for the development of heavy petrochemical industry in Lingang Development Zone has been very fully considered, although he is very confident, he is not blindly optimistic, he has fully considered the difficulties, and has corresponding countermeasures and solutions.

As far as Guo Bonian is concerned, he is not optimistic about the petrochemical base in Haizhou, after all, the large-scale refining and chemical base is not something that can be built, even if it is a few developed countries, there are not a few large-scale refining and chemical bases, and several major petrochemical bases such as Hucheng, Ningcheng, and Maoming have been formed along the coast of China, and resources are also concentrated in these places.

Bao Feiyang's idea is not to rely on domestic resources, especially the power of the two barrels of oil of Huaxia Petroleum Corporation and Huaxia Petrochemical Corporation, but to let the American Tucker Oil Company, which has entered China, take the lead, unite with local state-owned enterprises such as Northwest Petroleum and a central enterprise, and raise funds from overseas, and unite the forces of all parties to build such a petrochemical base.

In this way, although Guo Bonian still feels that Bao Feiyang's plan is very difficult, at least he has seen the roadmap, and if he can go on step by step, it is not impossible to achieve it. (To be continued......)