The senior leaders attached great importance to Lin Qiangsheng's intention to invest 10 billion US dollars in the construction of a large petrochemical project in China, and sent a special person to the capital airport to greet him.

It should be said that $10 billion is indeed a big project for the mainland's economy, which has just been reformed up for four or five years. There are also many people in the central leadership who do not know how to undertake this funding. Despite this, in a very short period of time, the central authorities have made a great deal of solid preparations for this purpose, and have set up a special working group divided into several working groups to undertake tasks separately.

The working group contacted several important petroleum and petrochemical industry bases in China, Daqing Refinery, Yanshan Petrochemical, Qilu Petrochemical, NanJing Petrochemical and other large domestic refinery chemical bases, as well as railway shipping, electric power, heavy industry and other departments.

Mr. Lin's overall vision is to invest US$5 billion in the first phase to build a petrochemical plant with an annual oil refining capacity of 10 million tons and an annual ethylene output of 800,000 tons, as well as its own power plant and ocean and inland waterway fleet. 50% of the products are supplied to the international market and 50% are supplied to the domestic market. Five years later, Dongxing Group will continue to invest a total of 5 billion US dollars in the second and third phases of the project to build petrochemical plants all over the country, and finally reach an annual refining of 50 million tons of oil refining and a large-scale energy and chemical group producing 6 million tons of ethylene in 10~15 years!

Focusing on this idea, Lin Qiangsheng put forward three conditions to the relevant departments: first, the mainland side will provide a certain amount of crude oil to Dongxing; the second is that the two sides operate in the form of joint ventures; Third, the mainland side will provide land for the construction of factories. In addition, in order to show the sincerity of cooperation, Lin Qiangsheng also submitted a deposit of 10 million US dollars to the Chinese government in advance to purchase industrial land.

Lin Qiangsheng took Xie Ying and petrochemical experts and a negotiating team hired from the United States to Beijing, where they were cordially received by the leaders of the State Council. The group was arranged to stay in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse and received a high-standard reception.

Before Lin Qiangsheng's arrival, senior leaders had specially convened a working meeting attended by the heads of relevant units. At the meeting, everyone very carefully implemented the details of a number of reception activities. But everyone at the meeting also expressed to the organizers and the central government whether the country has the ability to accept this investment!

Everyone still remembers the time when the reform and opening up opened the country a few years ago. At that time, the central government, including the local government, signed more than 70 projects from Europe, of which 22 large-scale projects involved a capital scale of one billion US dollars, with a total investment of nearly 8 billion US dollars!

However, after so many projects came in, it made the Chinese economy, which was already in economic difficulties and in a transition period, even worse, and the introduction of tens of billions of dollars of projects, after calculation at that time, the domestic need for supporting funds reached more than 35 billion yuan. As well as the contradiction between supply and demand of a huge amount of supporting materials, this blind introduction of foreign capital was unbearable for the country at that time!

As a last resort, under the intervention of Ye Chen and the two leaders, these projects were gradually stopped, and some duplicate construction projects were simply discontinued.

It was not until 83 and 84 years that the domestic economic situation began to improve, and some important projects related to the international people's livelihood were mainly the projects that had introduced complete sets of equipment and began to restart, and the construction of relatively large ones such as Daqing Petrochemical Plant and Qilu Petrochemical Plant began.

At a time when these projects have just been restarted, the state has introduced a huge amount of foreign investment of 10 billion US dollars, and many people doubt whether China will be able to start this large petrochemical project, and whether it will add another heavy burden to the domestic economy, which has just improved. And importantly, foreign companies require half of the products to be sold domestically. Whether the domestic market has the ability to digest so many products is also a question!

This situation was reported to the leadership, especially 286, after much deliberation and questioning of experts in the relevant economic fields. Considering the domestic and international economic situation, 286 felt that time was running out and it was urgent to launch some large-scale projects immediately, and China's economy should develop quickly.

"This $10 billion is not only to look at the domestic but also to look at the world, now Europe and the United States have got rid of the problem of economic stagflation, and the economies of the United States and Western Europe have begun to recover. China should seize this round of economic tide and strive to develop in the field of industrial depth to catch up with this wave of world economic situation! Mainly, these tens of billions of dollars are not invested in so much money at one time. It's in batches, and if you want foreign businessmen to invest so much money at one time, people won't do it! ”

"For the products sold in China, this issue should be fully communicated with foreign businessmen. If the product cannot be sold, the foreign businessman will not be able to recover the investment, we must explain the domestic economic situation to others in detail, explain our concerns to foreign businessmen, and we must do the work ahead! ”

286 also communicated with several important leaders of the party. I have fully demonstrated to them that this foreign exchange can bring great benefits to the country!

In recent years, although the upper echelons have shouted very loudly about reform and opening up, the repercussions at home and abroad have always been a bit of a hot one. Not only are there skeptical voices inside and outside the party, but even many foreign businessmen, including Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, do not trust the domestic government!

Although the state vigorously supports the development of the SAR government, the three or two kittens attracted every year are too weak and do not cause any sensational influence at home and abroad. The lead is limited! And if this 10 billion US dollars is introduced, it will prove that China's reform and opening up is really optimistic, and there are really large consortia to invest in, which will have a huge encouraging effect on the domestic economy and the driving role in the international economic circles!

It should be noted that this is a project brought in by foreign businessmen and not by the Chinese government, and the influence at home and abroad is difficult to predict!

In addition, 286 and several leaders said that in recent years, with the substantial improvement of Sino-US relations, the United States has listed China as a quasi-ally country that is not an ally, and the US government has lifted part of the arms embargo on China. The United States has taken the initiative to relax export restrictions to China, and President Reagan even signed a presidential decree that China's imports of US military equipment in the future do not need to be approved by Congress, and the technological advancement of China's imports can be higher than that of the Soviet Union's arms trade!

As the military exchanges between the two countries began to heat up again, China came up with a large number of military project procurement lists, but the enthusiastic Chinese representatives encountered a serious problem, there is no money, China's foreign exchange reserves are short, there is no money to buy the military equipment we want and urgently need, and the Americans have sold it and we can't buy it, which is too sad!

The Chinese delegates who negotiated in the United States dried their mouths because they wanted to save some foreign exchange to buy equipment.

And how big the problems that this $10 billion will solve for China, and how much advanced military equipment and technology will be added to China, is simply at the right time!

The leaders thought of the problem of military construction in China, and the backward land, sea, and air force needed to import a large amount of advanced technology and equipment, so they were a little more firm in the idea of introducing the $10 billion foreign exchange!

Especially in the past two years, Ye Chen and the others have retreated into the background, and the authority of 286 in the central government has reached its peak, and at this time, it can be said that the old man has really begun to exert his authority!

After getting the support of most of the leaders, he personally hosted a banquet at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse 286 to receive Lin Qiangsheng and his party, and the old man took Lin Qiangsheng's hand and chatted with him.

Lin Qiangsheng introduced the development history of Dongxing Company to 286, especially the automobile industry and electronics industry, which were emphatically introduced.

"You have made a lot of efforts to the economic construction of China in recent years, electronics, automobiles, these two categories belong to the field of advanced products, and play a role that cannot be ignored in the national economy and people's livelihood! They are leading industries that can drive the development of many industrial categories. If you want to become an industrial power, you must seek a breakthrough at the top of the industrial pyramid and promote the common development of industry from point to point. You are doing a good job, if there are more Lin Qiangsheng in the country, then why is China's economy not prosperous! Deng Lao smiled and praised Lin Qiangsheng a few words, and the others present also nodded in unison.

Also present was Chairman Yang Shangkun, who also looked at the young man in front of him with a smile on his face.

Although Lin Qiangsheng is very reserved, his old face can't help but be a little hot, and he said modestly: "These achievements are inseparable from the efforts of enterprise managers, and they are also inseparable from the diligence of employees!" ”

286 looked at Lin Qiangsheng with a very satisfied gaze, and he smiled and said to Lin Qiangsheng: "Xiaolin, how did you come up with the idea of developing the chemical industry?" This industry is very difficult, but young people are bold! ”

Lin Qiangsheng explained: "In the past, the country's industrial capacity was strong or not to see its total steel production, and the larger the steel production, the stronger the country's strength, the stronger the country!" And now looking at the industrial capacity of a country, the international community no longer thinks that the amount of steel production can be represented! ”

"Oh? What kind of country does the international community think is an industrial power? Deng Lao asked curiously, it was not the first time he had heard of such a statement, but he didn't expect Lin Qiangsheng to mention it again today.

"Big chemical, a country has the ability to manufacture 500,000 tons of ethylene complete sets of equipment, manufacture its core machine, and even develop 800,000 tons of ethylene production equipment, a country with such production capacity and research and development capabilities is a symbol of industrial power!" Lin Qiangsheng said.

Deng Lao nodded heavily, China's 300,000 tons of ethylene production equipment has just been successfully trial-produced and put into production, and developed countries have crossed the 500,000-ton threshold to a higher 800,000-ton ethylene production equipment!

Even Japan, not far from China, has the capacity to produce 500,000 tons of ethylene complete sets of equipment, which is remarkable and confuses domestic leaders.

We are not short of experts and the level is not low, China can even manufacture atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs, and even rockets have been put into the sky, but why can't we produce such advanced production equipment, this problem has also been bothering many people in China.

Deng Lao nodded and said to Lin Qiangsheng: "China will support your petrochemical project as much as possible, and I also hope to see the day when this project is completed!" (To be continued.) )