"This is going to be wronged by our chairman Lin Da." Chen Tian saw that Lin Zhenhua understood what he meant, so he laughed and teased. Chen Tian knew that Lin Zhenhua had always liked to compete with foreign companies, and now let him show weakness to the enemy, which was indeed a very aggrieved thing.

Lin Zhenhua waved his hand and said: "There is nothing wronged about this, as a business, it is okay to have the spirit of bending and stretching." In fact, before I heard you talk about these things, I also vaguely felt that I couldn't tear up my face with American companies so early. Hearing you say that, I'm even clearer. Let them have a few rounds first, it doesn't matter. ”

"Will your overall development plan be affected?" Chen Tian asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "The impact is not big, and we originally did not plan to use American companies as competitors in the near future. Our number one imaginary enemy now is the German ALK. ”

"Haha, I find that your appetite is getting bigger and bigger, ALK is a level bigger than Sihu, I have the impression that its annual output value is hundreds of billions of dollars, can you eat it?" Chen Tian said that his scope of work is originally related to security issues in the economic field, so he also knows a little about the situation of these internationally renowned enterprises.

Lin Zhenhua said: "ALK's strength is indeed very strong, but in the past few years, it has been going downhill. Not only our Hanhua Heavy Industries, but also many of our domestic mechanical and electrical enterprises are in competition with ALK, with the continuous improvement of the technical level of our national enterprises, the market of ALK is gradually being eaten away by us. I'm sure that after a while, Alk will definitely be dragged down by us. ”

In the general impression, the larger the scale of the enterprise, the more difficult it is to be defeated, in fact, this is an illusion. Large enterprises have the difficulties of large enterprises, one is that the larger the enterprise, the greater the fixed costs, which requires sufficient business to ensure the profitability of the enterprise; Second, large enterprises tend to be more clumsy, and it is very troublesome to make business adjustments, and their ability to adapt to the market is far less than that of small enterprises.

To bring down a large enterprise, it is not necessary to completely occupy its market, as long as it erodes 30% of its market, its own cost is enough to crush itself. In fact, until the bankruptcy, the company still retained some markets, but these markets were no longer enough to support the cost of the company, so the company could only go bankrupt. Lin Zhenhua wants to defeat ALK, and the method he adopts is the same.

ALK is a large-scale equipment manufacturing enterprise, products related to machine tools, chemical equipment, power generation equipment, rolling equipment, etc., due to strong technical strength, its products have a strong competitiveness in the international market. In recent years, with the gradual rise of China's equipment manufacturing industry, ALK has encountered the invasion of Chinese products in the international market. That's right, from ALK's point of view, Chinese products can only invade it, and it is far from the point of attacking.

The equipment provided by Chinese companies is at least 10 years behind ALK in terms of technical level, and it is not the same in terms of quality. But one of the great characteristics of Chinese products is that they are cheap, and there is also a point that the environmental requirements are much lower than those of ALK's counterparts. For example, the same set of coal-fired boilers, Chinese products have no special requirements for the quality of coal, almost soft and hard. ALK's boilers are much more squeamish, and users have to pay extra for pre-screening and cleaning of the coal.

As a price to pay for both hard and soft, the service life of China's boilers is only half that of ALK boilers, and the thermal efficiency is more than 20% lower, not to mention pollution. For rich countries, of course, it is more worry-free to choose ALK boilers, but for those poor countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, it seems that Chinese boilers are also a good choice.

Faced with the onslaught of cheap products in China, ALK had to abandon some low-end markets and eliminate some products that were no longer profitable. Such a concession has not hurt ALK's muscles so far, so it has not attracted the attention of ALK's top management. In the eyes of ALK's top management, the Chinese can only make a small fuss on low-end products, and ALK, as an equipment manufacturing giant, why not give up some low-end products? You know, the high-end is where the profits are the most lucrative. ALK doesn't care about the competition of Chinese companies, but Lin Zhenhua regards ALK as his next key target. He believes in the principle of water drops and stones, and believes that as long as he continues to snatch the market from ALK, no matter how inconspicuous the share he grabs each time, it will eventually accumulate enough to make ALK die without a place to bury.

"I've heard that you've been staring at this alk all along, and the grudge between you and it probably isn't just now, right?" Chen Tian asked.

Lin Zhenhua said: "That's right, as early as more than 10 years ago, I had already put it on my blacklist. The first time, at the Frankfurt Equipment Fair, we were going to order an electric stove from them, but they actually threatened to embargo us, and from then on, I held my breath and planned to clean it up. Later, our country encountered difficulties, Western countries jointly imposed sanctions on our country, and other Western companies went through the motions, but this ALK performed the most actively. At that time, I told Lao He that a company like this must give it some color. ”

Chen Tian nodded: "Director He really listened to your words and made a blacklist through the State Planning Commission. From that year to now, ALK has never been able to qualify for the Chinese market. Your hand is poisonous enough. ”

Lin Zhenhua smiled slightly, and the blacklisting of ALK was his suggestion to He Haifeng. Since ALK does have a strong political tendency, the State Planning Commission really imposed counter-sanctions on it, requiring domestic enterprises not to import ALK equipment. Of course, such a ban was not publicly issued in the form of documents, but formed an unspoken rule. Over the years, ALK has participated in many bidding for projects in Chinese mainland, but each time it has lost for various reasons, among which it is naturally the Planning Commission's hints at work.

In the past 20 years, the world's largest equipment market is Chinese mainland, and ALK has been excluded from this market, and the losses are conceivable, which is one of the reasons for ALK's declining day.

"Okay, then I'll just sit and wait to see how Alk is eaten by Chairman Lin." Chen Tian said with a smile.

Chen Tian's purpose in coming to Jinling was naturally not only to meet Xiao Hei, a young celebrity, but he also had many other jobs to do. Lin Zhenhua came to Jinling for something that had been planned more than ten years ago, that is, the relocation of the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge. The purpose of relocating the bridge was to unlock an iron lock on the Yangtze River and allow this golden waterway to function fully.

The Jinling Yangtze River Bridge was built in 1968, and under the technical conditions at that time, the significance of building such a magnificent bridge is naturally extraordinary. The bridge was the pride of the times, and the image of the bridge was used on the front of the 2 dimes banknote issued at the time.

However, due to the limitations of the times, there is a hidden flaw in the design of this bridge, that is, the clearance from the bridge to the water surface is only 24 meters, which makes it impossible for many 10,000-ton sea vessels to pass, thus limiting the development of Yangtze River shipping.

In the past, there weren't many supplies to transport along the Yangtze River, especially not too many export goods, so this shortcoming didn't have a noticeable impact. With the development of China's export-oriented economy, the number of goods exported from the mainland to overseas has been increasing, and since the 10,000-ton ships cannot reach the river section above Jinling, the export commodities from these places can only be transported by ship to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then loaded onto ocean-going vessels from there for export. This process of river-sea transshipment has added a lot of costs and greatly affected the transportation cycle.

In the real history, due to the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge as a standard, when a new bridge was built on the Yangtze River, it was all 24 meters as the clearance standard, which made a lock become dozens of locks, tightly locking this golden waterway. When future generations want to solve this problem, there is no way to start. …,

In the world of the novel, due to the foresight of a time-traveler like Lin Zhenhua, this issue has been taken seriously more than ten years ago. It was in 1987 that Lin Zhenhua first proposed that the governments of provinces and cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River jointly submit a report to the central government, requiring that the clearance of new bridges on the Yangtze River should not be less than 40 meters. The report was approved by the central government, and since then the 40-meter clearance has become the norm for new bridges in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

It is precisely because of such a precautionary arrangement that today, only a 24-meter bridge with a clear space of Jinling Yangtze River Bridge is left on the Yangtze River. As long as this bridge is dismantled, the 10,000-ton ship can be traced all the way up to the land of Jingchu, and its economic significance is self-evident.

When Lin Zhenhua first proposed this idea, the country's financial resources were still very limited, and it was almost unthinkable to dismantle such an important bridge. More than ten years have passed, the country has become rich, dozens of new bridges have been built on the Yangtze River, and more magnificent new bridges have been built not far upstream and downstream of the original Jinling Yangtze River Bridge. The time is ripe for the demolition of the old bridge.

Lin Zhenhua came to Jinling this time to attend the ceremony of demolishing the old bridge. Due to the unique historical significance of the bridge, after some debate, the state finally decided to retain the structure of the bridge and adopt the method of relocation, moving it to the side of the Yangtze River to make way for the waterway. In this way, the bridge has lost its role as a link between the two sides of the strait, and has only become a patriotic education base to commemorate the spirit of self-reliance and arduous struggle.

This result is much milder than Lin Zhenhua's earliest idea of blowing up the bridge. Of course, the cost of this is also very considerable.

It's worth the price to preserve some of the historical relics.