Hearing Lin Zhenhua's timid request, He Haifeng smiled and said, "Your reluctant request, just mention it to Minister Gao." Our System Reform Commission is a Qingshui Yamen, but we don't have a penny. ”

Gao Zuxing nodded and said: "Well, I have long heard that there is a Xiaolin manager in Jiangnan Province, who has plucked the feathers of geese, and he is never willing to suffer." This time you have suffered such a big loss, if you don't make any reluctant requests, I am not sure. ”

Everyone laughed together, half because of Gao Zuxing's humor, half because of Gao Zuxing's position, the leader told a joke, even if this joke is cold, you have to laugh along.

Lin Zhenhua also laughed, he touched his head, and said: "I didn't expect my image to be so bad in the eyes of the ministry leaders, I should really review it." ”

"Okay, don't be poor, say what you ask." Hua Keqin encouraged on the side.

Lin Zhenhua said: "My reluctant request, in fact, is in Minister Gao's place, which is a matter of one sentence. I would like to ask the Ministry of Foreign Trade to give us a special policy for Hanhua Company, the patent fee of 4 US dollars will not be settled in foreign exchange, but will be directly left to us in the form of foreign exchange. ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the people below all scratched. Asking for foreign exchange retention is too big. Everyone is engaged in foreign trade, we all know how precious foreign exchange is retained, this year, there is foreign exchange that can be freely used, it is too bullish.

Not to mention anything else, when cadres went abroad, they only had a dozen dollars of pocket money a day, and everyone had to save money so that they could stay and buy a large household appliance. If you have foreign exchange in your company, when a leader in the province, region, or county goes on a business trip, you exchange some foreign exchange for him, which is not considered a bribe, but also a great favor for others.

There have been countless requests for foreign exchange retention, but very few have been approved. Even if they can be approved, the amount of money they can hold back is very limited, and a few hundred dollars is a good idea. However, the manager of Kobayashi, who didn't have any hair on his mouth, actually opened his mouth to leave all the $4 behind.

4 US dollars does not seem to be much, but everyone can calculate that at this year's Canton Fair, the transaction volume of five-blade fans is estimated to be more than 2 million units. The patent fee of $4 per unit is a full 8 million. You are a manager of Xiaolin, with $8 million in foreign exchange in your hand, what do you want to do?

Sure enough, Gao Zuxing was also stunned: "Xiaolin, your appetite is too big, right?" As far as I know, there is no company in China that can keep so much foreign exchange, right? ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "It's because there is no one, so it makes sense." ”

He Haifeng said roundly: "Xiaolin, tell me your reasons." As a domestic enterprise, your raw material procurement is in China, what do you need foreign exchange for? As far as I know, you imported a lot of foreign equipment last year, and in terms of foreign exchange, the Jiangnan Provincial Foreign Trade Department also took great care of you and did not cause you trouble. ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "I want to explain this matter. We want to keep this foreign exchange, not for our own use, but to serve the society. ”

"How to serve the society, you talk about it, if what you say makes sense, the ministry can consider your requirements." Gao Zuxing said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "We left this money and wanted to use it to set up a patent foundation. The leaders don't know that we have spent seven or eight thousand dollars before and after applying for a patent for a five-blade fan, and we will continue to pay patent maintenance fees every year in the future. And that's just the cost of a patent, and if more patents are involved, then the cost is even more substantial. These upfront fees were kindly sponsored by lawyer Qian Yuanping, a patent attorney in Hong Kong, and I still owe him favors. ”

Lin Zhenhua was hypocritical, and first avoided the source of foreign exchange for which he applied for a patent, otherwise everyone would wake up and find out what money he used to apply for the patent, and he would also have a troublesome matter. On the issue of the source of foreign exchange, he had already crossed the caliber with Qian Yuanping on the first day, and Qian Yuanping expressed his willingness to carry this black pot for him. This pot is on Lin Zhenhua's back, it is a black pot, and when it is buckled on Qian Yuanping's head, it is red, how can it be regarded as a patriotic Hong Kong businessman.

"How can your company get private money to sponsor you?" Gao Zuxing said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "I want to give him money, but how can I have foreign exchange?" Last year we signed a contract of more than $40 million, and I didn't have a penny left, so how can I get the money? ”

Gao Zuxing said: "You say this, I understand a little, you mean that to apply for a patent, uh, and maintain a patent, you need to use foreign exchange, so you want to be able to leave some foreign exchange to do this, right?" ”

"Exactly."

"But it doesn't take that much money, does it?" Gao Zuxing said, "You ask for $4 to stay, how can this cost millions of dollars, how many patents do you plan to apply for?" ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "We are currently developing some new products, and once these new products are developed, we will immediately apply for international patents, which may involve the application and maintenance of dozens or even hundreds of patents, and it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of dollars will be used." In addition, I have another idea, which I would like to share here, and I would like to ask the leaders to correct me. ”

"What thoughts?"

"As I said earlier, we want to set up a patent foundation. The foundation will be open to businesses and individuals across the country to provide funding for them to apply for patents. ”

"You're saying that you're going to use this money to fund other companies to apply for international patents?" He Haifeng asked keenly.

He didn't quite understand Lin Zhenhua's thoughts, and he didn't know what Lin Zhenhua's statement was for. In many contacts with Lin Zhenhua, He Haifeng already knows that Lin Zhenhua is a person who has the overall situation in mind and has a strong sense of responsibility for the country and the nation. From this point of view, it is understandable that Lin Zhenhua took out his own money to apply for patents for other domestic enterprises.

However, He Haifeng also knows that Lin Zhenhua is not a person who abuses love, otherwise, he would not have sacrificed patented weapons to fight against infringing manufacturers. Patent application is something that all enterprises should do, and it is not that companies have no money to do it, so let Lin Zhenhua pay his own money to do things for other capable enterprises, which is not Lin Zhenhua's style.

Hearing He Haifeng's question, Lin Zhenhua smiled and said, "You can say it this way, or you can say it another way." ”

"Then tell me about it." He Haifeng said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "First of all, I want to explain the reason why I established this foundation. I have observed that many domestic enterprises do not cherish their unique technology, while some unscrupulous foreign manufacturers have already set their sights on our domestic technology, and are stealing our patented technology by various despicable means, and preemptively registering it in their own name. If they succeed, we will have to pay others for our own technology, which is not a trivial problem. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Gao Zuxing asked in surprise.

Hua Keqin interjected on the side: "I just heard from lawyer Qian in Hong Kong about this matter two days ago, and I was also shocked at that time. ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "Lawyer Qian is not sensational. Let me give you an example, our Anhui rice paper, which is the traditional craft of our country, is famous all over the world. However, we have not yet applied for a patent for the production technology of rice paper. Let's think about it, if other countries, such as Yueben, understand the process of rice paper production and apply for a patent first, then what should we do? ”

"It can't be, right?" A representative from Anhui Province said, "This is a clear thing, who doesn't know that rice paper is our country's technology, and I can apply for it if I want to?" ”

He Haifeng nodded solemnly and said, "Xiaolin is right, international patent applications, but whether you are obvious or not, people just follow the procedures." Although it is not very rigid to determine the ownership of patents according to the order of priority, if we do not have stronger evidence, others can indeed snatch the patent. It is said that this culture is greatly influenced by Chinese culture, and if they find some historical evidence to prove that they have long had the production technology of rice paper, and they have filed a patent application before us, it is really difficult to say who this patent belongs to in the end. ”

The Anhui representative said disappreciatively: "Director He, you can rest assured about this, the production of rice paper has always been very secret, and I ...... it."

At this, he suddenly became dumb, and a look of panic flashed in his eyes.

"What's wrong?" Gao Zuxing asked.

"I ...... I ......," the Anhui representative stammered, "and I remembered that just two months ago, a cultural delegation had asked to see our rice paper production process. ”

"Did you let them see it?" Gao Zuxing asked anxiously.

"How could we have thought of so much!" The Anhui deputy said aggrievedly, "They were brought by comrades from the Ministry of Culture, and this is a matter involving cultural exchanges between China and China, and of course we cannot refuse." We sent someone to show them the whole production process, they were very interested, and they also had a video recorder......"

"Alas!" Gao Zuxing sighed, "What do you say you are doing!" ”

He Haifeng said with a calm face: "I don't blame them for this, when we were investigating in the State Patent Office, the comrades from the Patent Office also reminded us of this, but what they said was not as direct as Comrade Xiaolin said." I think that the matter of rice paper may really need to be brought to our attention, Minister Gao, after you go back, do you ask the ministry for instructions, and immediately start the patent application for the production process of rice paper, you must be ahead of me. ”

Gao Zuxing nodded again and again: "Director He is right, this matter is very anxious." Regardless of whether I really want to snatch our patents or not, we will not be wrong if we put the villain first and then the gentleman, and estimate the matter a little more seriously. ”

"Not only rice paper, but also many other traditional crafts, such as cloisonné, Tang Sancai, Huimo......" Lin Zhenhua counted one by one with his fingers. Every time he counted one, the faces of the representatives of one or several provinces below turned gray, and when he counted about the same, the table was silent, and everyone thought that there were several important products in their province that were facing the problem of leakage and patent loss.

"At this point, our Xiangping Province is still doing very well." A director of the Xiangping Provincial Department of Foreign Trade said, "We have a traditional cyan porcelain, which is a secret process that has been passed down for hundreds of years. This point was set by Director He when he was in our Provincial Department of Light Industry. ”

As he spoke, he nodded to He Haifeng and complimented: "Now it seems that Director He was very foreseeable back then." ”

He Haifeng asked: "Director Li, what's the matter, have I looked for our celadon factory recently?" ”

Director Li replied: "That's right, they came several times again, and they wanted to see our stove, but they were all rejected by the comrades of the porcelain factory. In the end, I had no choice but to ask them to bring back some ashes from the chimney, saying that they were going to put them on the table as a souvenir. Everyone said, it's ridiculous. ”

Lin Zhenhua looked at Director Li and asked, "Director Li, are they going to burn the ashes?" ”

Director Li replied: "Of course, we will not refuse this request. They were quite serious, and they made a nice bottle and put a small bottle and left. I think they really like our porcelain, they love the house and the black, and even the black gray. ”

Lin Zhenhua sighed softly, and then said leisurely: "Director Li, you don't need to give me a bottle of furnace ash, just give me a piece of dust no more than 50 microns is enough." I'm going to put this dust under an electron microscope and peel it off layer by layer with a probe, just like looking at the growth rings on a tree trunk, and analyze the burning of each layer, so that the sintering process in your kiln can be completely restored. Also, through the spectral analysis of this dust, I can basically analyze what trace elements are contained in your porcelain clay, and even estimate the proportion of various trace elements. ”

"What you said is true?" Director Li's face also began to turn gray, a little like a kiln.

He Haifeng interjected: "I don't study ceramics, but, in principle, I think what Xiaolin said is not very outrageous." It is feasible in principle to restore the entire sintering process from a piece of dust, but it is difficult to say whether the scientific and technological level of this can be done. ”

"That'...... ......," Director Li also stammered, "Manager Lin, do you mean that our celadon craft may have been stolen by myself?" ”

"Totally." Lin Zhenhua said, "Microscopy is not a difficult technology, I think I should have mastered it." They want the ashes from your kiln, not out of interest, but as an act of industrial espionage. ”

"No, I have to inform the province immediately." Director Li said excitedly, "I want them to apply for patent protection immediately, this is an important export product of our province, if I let Yue master this technology, let alone whether it is a patent grab, just to replace our export to Yueben, we will be miserable." ”

(To be continued)