Chapter 45: The United States Blows the Chinese Wind (1)
November 1981, United States. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
A whirlwind of Chinese procurement has been blown.
Hundreds of Chinese companies, including Fengchao Investment Holding Company, and thousands of representatives, began to take purchase orders and purchase all kinds of industrial equipment and technology needed in the United States.
Including steel, chemical, mining, textile, semiconductor, shipbuilding, port equipment, non-ferrous metal smelting, hydropower units, etc......
Basically, as long as the United States has industrial equipment, China wants it!
Because, at this time, many of the industrial equipment in many factories in China are decades-old industrial equipment, some long-lived equipment, and even machinery and equipment in the Republic of China and even the late Qing Dynasty, as long as they can still be used, they have been reluctant to scrap.
Therefore, even if the United States is about to phase out equipment that the United States is about to eliminate, it can greatly promote China's industrial capacity and technological level.
Compared with the United States, which strictly guards and prohibits the sale of "high technology".
In fact, the most basic low-tech industrial equipment is the most urgently needed equipment for the republic.
At present, China's main strategy is as follows:
Burst production capacity! Burst production capacity!! Burst production capacity!!
If you are not afraid of overcapacity, you are afraid that there will be no overcapacity!
Just thinking about the production capacity of this world, the traverser feels sad - this world, the world's steel production capacity is about 300 million tons.
China's current steel production capacity is only about 20 million tons!
Don't mention that ironmaking is a blast furnace - in the same period in the origin world, there were already blast furnaces of more than 5,000 cubic meters, but this world did not!
Forget it, there are less than 50 blast furnaces of more than 2,000 cubic meters in the world.
In the history of the origin world, in the early 70s, there were more than 120 iron-making blast furnaces of more than 2,000 cubic meters in the world. Excuse me...... In the face of the beta invasion, the people of this world say how hard they work, who can believe it?
In short, it is obviously a problem of insufficient quantity, and people in this world think that the quality is not enough. You have to expose the black technology.
Black technology is very awesome, but it is absolutely impossible to mass-produce things!
In addition to complete sets of industrial equipment, also buy some common consumer goods in the United States, mainly to take back as samples, and then, copycats!
In short, as long as it is urgently needed, useful, or simply not available in China, you can buy it.
Of course, a large number of U.S. government officials also supervised to prevent China from fishing in troubled waters, and some equipment that was prohibited from being exported to China was also transported.
"These don't work!"
"No, you can't export to China."
A bunch of bureaucrats are making trouble over there, not only the Chinese procurement staff scolding their mothers, but even the American capitalists scolding their mothers.
Then, the two sides are quietly doing a PY deal, and some of the equipment that is prohibited from exporting to China will be exported to a third country first, and then through other countries, it will be exported to China.
Although, it will increase the cost a little, however, some equipment is urgently needed in China, and a little more expensive is acceptable.
The main sources of procurement funds are bonds issued by China in the United States and payments for large-scale oil exports to the United States in the future.
You must know that the current international oil price is $80 a barrel, and even if it is sold to ExxonMobil Oil Company in the United States at a discount of 20%, each barrel of oil can get $64 in foreign exchange. Exporting 100 million barrels of oil annually yields $6.4 billion in foreign exchange.
In the course of this transaction, the United States naturally made huge profits. This profit includes ExxonMobil Oil, which has obtained more oil supply and further consolidated its leading position in the petrochemical industry, even if China's oil exports are not cheap, but now that the oil supply in the Middle East is almost interrupted, for many Western countries, it does not matter if it is a little more expensive, the key is to have oil supply.
After all, even if humanity has reached this point, the sales of private cars in the United States have not decreased at all. Big cities are full of traffic jams, and the U.S. population is now fleeing to the U.S. because of people from all over the world, and even though the U.S. has raised the barriers to entry for refugees, such as asset requirements, education requirements, etc., its population size has still grown to 400 million.
The production and sales of automobiles exceed 30 million units per year. More than 300 million car owners. So much so that the oil supply in the United States cannot even meet the domestic demand.
At present, the largest oil-consuming market in the world is not Eurasia, which is at war, but the rear country, the United States! This has to be said, it is a great irony!
In addition to the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Europe are all short of oil. Europe, in particular, has imposed restrictions on oil consumption as a way to meet front-line demand.
The United States is not unaware that now it needs to curb oil consumption and restrict private cars.
But...... The vested interests of the automobile industry and the oil industry are too great, and under the influence of these big men, even if there are some people of insight in the United States who propose to restrict private cars, they will be jointly suppressed by the automobile and oil industries!
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"Li, I'm curious, what kind of enterprise is your phoenix nest?" John, a senior partner at Goldman Sachs in the United States, served Li Feng a cup of coffee.
"Joint-stock enterprises have state institutions and state-owned enterprises as shareholders, and at the same time, they also have private capital. Governance is also based on the board of directors, and we have a lot of management power, unlike state-owned enterprises, which are subject to interference by higher government departments. Li Feng said with a smile.
"So, is it possible to let the assets of your companies operate in the United States, or list and issue shares in the United States?" John asked.
"The issuance of shares in the United States, which is temporarily restricted by law, is not yet possible. However, there are already plans to open a branch in the United States, and Phoenix Nest USA is waiting for the approval of the U.S. government before it can be opened! Li Feng smiled.
"What type of company?" John asked.
"It's mostly entertainment genres, including movies, music, comics, fiction publishing, and more." Li Feng explained, "We are a large country with a large population, and we have all kinds of talents, and our talents in Chinese art creation are innumerable. In addition, the influx of refugees from more countries has further increased the number of literary and artistic talents in our country. So, we can create movies that are no less than Hollywood, or other works. The cost is cheaper than Hollywood, after all, one of your superstars is worth tens of millions of dollars, and our well-known actors, the salary of 10,000 yuan is already very high. ”
"Oh my God, what a profit!" John couldn't help but say, "If it can be as blockbuster-level as "Drone War", then, I dare say, acting for the distribution of Chinese films in the United States must be a lucrative business." ”
"A movie of that quality is hard to come by!" Li Feng took a sip of coffee while it was hot and said.
"Even if it's a little bit closer, as long as it is on the same level as Hollywood, and at the same time, the cost is lower, then it will definitely make money." John's eyes began to roll.
"If you are interested, you can act as an agent for the distribution of some works." Li Feng said encouragingly.
"Well, if there are good works, I don't mind, quit my job in finance and transform into a publisher of literary and artistic works." John said that although he is currently at Goldman Sachs, earning hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year with his eyes closed, he knows that this is not his ability, but the strength of Goldman Sachs. There are 20,000 people like him in the entire Goldman Sachs, and with the help of Goldman Sachs' platform, they can easily get hundreds of millions of dollars or even billions of dollars in big business, and then draw huge bonuses from them.
Of course, working for Goldman Sachs can only make a little bit of oil and water, and the bulk of the profits, after all, Goldman Sachs still earns it.
For example, Goldman Sachs plans to underwrite $10 billion in China's issuance of dollar bonds. The issuance fee is as high as 5%, which means that Goldman Sachs sells the bonds and makes a profit of $500 million with his eyes closed.
John is the executive in charge of the project at Goldman Sachs, and on the Chinese side, it is mainly Li Feng who does the bond issuance. It's not that Li Feng is smart, but that many people in China don't know much about capitalism.
Of course, once raw and twice cooked. There are already a lot of people in China who are learning the rules of the capital market. In the future, there will also be a large number of financial workers who, for the benefit of the Republic, will play games with the opponents of these capitalist countries in the international financial market.
Making money from the American entertainment market to subsidize the domestic market, this brain-hole idea, without the support of the entertainment resource pool from the parallel world, is certainly impossible. But now...... But it's very simple!
After all, the traversers have brought a lot of otherworldly entertainment resources, and selling them in the American market is almost equivalent to having no business.
"There are good works!" Li Feng smiled and said, "However, if you want to become our collaborator, then, let's set a small goal first, and earn him 100 million first!" Once you've accomplished this small goal, consider long-term cooperation plans! (To be continued.) )