At the beginning of the reform and opening up, the relevant departments began to negotiate with foreign businessmen to introduce ethylene plant production technology and equipment, and four sets of 00,000 tons/year ethylene project contracts were signed in Dasheng, Qilu, Yangzi and Huhai. However, since 979, the country has carried out national economic adjustment, and because of the lack of foreign exchange, the state decided to suspend the construction of these four sets of ethylene projects.

In the previous life, it was not until the establishment of the China Petrochemical Corporation in 9 years that the construction of the four sets of ethylene projects that had been suspended was started. Among them, the total investment of Yangzi ethylene project is 7 billion yuan. At that time, it was known as the second largest project in the country after the Gezhouba Water Conservancy Project.

Four years later, in July 97, with the help of Zhongyāng, the first phase of the Yangtze ethylene project was launched, and hundreds of suppliers, hundreds of large and small construction units, and 50,000 construction troops together with foreign experts began to build vigorously, and the number 77 became a household name in the whole country, a key word known to women and children. Until 99/00, the Yangtze 00,000-ton ethylene project was accepted by the state.

After 6 hours and 45 minutes of cracking, the atmospheric diesel oil is slowly fed into the cracking furnace tube, and after 6 hours and 45 minutes of cracking, it is transformed into ethylene with all the technical indicators qualified, the purity is as high as 999%, and it is better than the national standard.

It took eight years for China to resist Japanese aggression and eight years to build the 00,000-ton Yangtze ethylene project. At that time, the United States produced 6 million tons of ethylene per year, and RI produced 7 million tons this year, and the sum of several newly started chemical plants in Chinese mainland was less than 0 million tons, which still could not meet domestic needs.

Now the development speed of the industry is much higher than in the previous life, and the demand for ethylene is naturally rising, no wonder Vice Premier Yu Gangqiu is in a hurry, no wonder he asked Guo Zhuocheng for help.

Guo Zhuocheng said seriously: "I really don't have any experience in chemical plants, and my mind is blank. I just agree now, and I don't dare to promise you what I should do. However, if I am asked to build a project, I will start one or two projects first. ”

Yu Gangqiu smiled bitterly: "Aren't I without money at hand?" We seem to have a lot of foreign exchange, but it is not easy to use it intensively. ......, I heard that when you were in Weijin City, you told the leader of a hydraulic parts factory that you could help him find venture capital, so can you find venture capital for our ethylene project? ”

Guo replied: "This kind of engineering is completely different from the production of mechanical parts, and it is too risky. Not only are there many capital requirements, but also the construction period is long, the scale is large, and the impact of the government is unpredictable, so it can be said that there are too many factors that are uncontrollable in the risk. Where would the company in charge of venture capital dare to take this risk? ”

In the previous life, a 300,000-ton ethylene project used 50,000 horses to build a steel giant city on wasteland. What's more, it is impossible for him to come up with 7 billion yuan now, this figure is not a small number, even if it is forcibly taken out, the production and operation of the network game group company is likely to be in trouble. There is also the fact that the Iraqi oil fields are now purely burning money, and a lot of money needs to be burned.

Network Game Group Co., Ltd. is Guo Zhuocheng's hen that lays golden eggs, what he has to do now is how to make it healthier, how to make it lay more golden eggs, where will he be willing to let it be damaged?

Yu Gangqiu said: "I know your difficulties, our Planning Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Chemical Industry have all been troubled by ethylene. It hurts to see that the foreign exchange that your military industry has earned so hard is flowing abroad. The loss of foreign exchange is still a trivial matter, as long as ethylene can be bought, it is not impossible. The problem is that China's industry and agriculture are developing rapidly, and too much ethylene is needed, so people will take this card and arbitrarily raise prices. No, the price of ethylene is now up 30 percent from the middle of the year, and this is only a few months? You really can't figure out a way? I don't mean you to take real money out, I know you don't have a lot of money right now, and it's okay to help a few small businesses, but it's impossible to do this kind of big thing. Our country can also grit its teeth and come up with a sum of money, and we want to make do with it a few times and complete it...... At least one 300,000-ton project should be completed. ”

Guo Zhuocheng thought for a moment and said, "It's not that there is no way. Just ......" Speaking of this, Guo Shucheng stopped talking.

Ethylene is the most basic raw material in the chemical industry, people can not eat and wear and live without it, toys, clothes, kitchenware, household appliances, house decoration, vehicles, pipelines, cables, etc. do not use it, its market prospects are extremely broad, even in the previous life when Guo Zhuocheng sacrificed, China and even the world's demand for ethylene is huge and can not meet people's requirements, it can be said that investing in ethylene is also to cultivate a cash cow, this tree is bigger than the automobile industry in the previous life. As long as the ethylene production plant is scaled up, it is not uncommon to make billions or even tens of billions of dollars in profits every year.

The reason why the production of ethylene makes money is mainly because the technical requirements and investment threshold are too high, and the scale is too small, not only does not make money, but loses money, and the scale is bound to be controlled by the state. It can be said that without a worth of tens of billions of dollars, there is no extravagance to talk about investing in ethylene projects. At the same time, even with a value of tens of billions of dollars, without a strong zhèngfu backstage, and do not talk about investing in this project, only the basic raw material of ethylene - tens of millions or even a ton of crude oil per year - is not something you can buy if you want to, but also subject to the regulation of national policies.

This is also the reason why ethylene has been strained and cannot be fundamentally solved.

Yu Gangqiu did not say anything to urge Guo Zhuocheng to speak quickly, let alone scold him as before, he knew that the reason why Guo Zhuocheng did not immediately express his thoughts was that there were huge difficulties in the realization of this idea, or it was inconsistent with national policy, or it was contrary to national interests in a certain way, or the risk was too great when implementing it.

Guo hesitated for a moment and said: "The state allows foreign or private equity participation in banks, or simply allows foreign capital to set up investment banks in China." Of course, the state may impose limits on the operations of this investment bank, such as not allowing the absorption of domestic deposits, not allowing loans to private individuals, and only allowing investment in specified industries. ”

Allowing foreign investors to set up banks in China is a sensitive issue, and it was not until late 2006 that the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Administration of Foreign-Funded Banks were promulgated to open up the banking sector as part of China's commitment to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 200. The regulations require wholly foreign-funded banks and Sino-foreign joint venture banks to be registered in China, like Chinese banks, with a registered capital of not less than RMB 000 million, a working capital of each branch of not less than RMB 100 million, and no personal deposits of less than RMB 000,000.

Guo Zhuocheng is really too advanced in raising this issue now, but Guo Zhuocheng feels that only in this way can the problem of foreign capital flowing into China be solved. At present, foreign investors do not understand China's policies and related conditions, and they cannot risk investing heavily in a project, even if they know that the project is very profitable. After all, China hated both capitalists and capitalism a few years ago, and who knows if it will be confiscated in the future.

They prefer an organization, i.e., a bank, to step in and sacrifice a portion of their profits to increase the safety factor. Unless the bank fails or the bank is confiscated, their investment will be lost.

Of course, the main reason for Guo Zhuocheng to say this method is to gather together the money and banks of those people who dare to take risks but do not have a lot of funds, so that they can form a joint force and do great things.

Allowing foreign capital to set up foreign-funded or Sino-foreign joint venture banks in China is not something that a vice premier can decide, and after listening carefully to Guo Zhuocheng's reasoning, Vice Premier Yu Gangqiu shifted the topic to other aspects.

After talking for about an hour, Guo Zhuocheng said goodbye to Vice Premier Yu Gangqiu and went to Professor Qian Xuesen's home according to his instructions.

Guo Zhuocheng had been to Qian Xuesen's house before, and this time the command driver naturally went over with familiarity.

When they had just finished checking their documents and were about to go inside, Professor Qian had already walked up quickly and said happily, "Xiao Guo, I've been waiting for you for a long time. ”

Guo Zhuocheng jokingly asked, "What's the matter, your old real yàn room has no money again?" ”

Qian Xuesen laughed happily: "Rich, rich." Now we're a big deal. There are a few brother units that still want to make a fortune from me, and I said what are you looking for me as a nerd, if you want to find it, go to the God of Wealth. Isn't your little Guo the God of Wealth?

I believe that under your leadership, we will be able to have enough food and clothing, and we will be able to develop our science and technology in a blowout. The technology blowout you said that day was very good, and I think that as long as we are willing to invest in funds like this, the technology blowout is not impossible. ”

Guo Zhuocheng hurriedly said: "Yes, you are right. ......, hehe, listen to what you mean, have we made any progress in science and technology? ”

The blowout development of science and technology has appeared many times in the process of scientific and technological development in the world, such as the steam engine era in Britain, countless never-before-seen machinery swarmed, making people dizzy, its industrial production speed is dozens of times, hundreds of times that of the past, and the industrial products produced in one year are equivalent to the sum of the previous hundreds of years.

Before and after World War II, there was also a technological blowout in the United States, although radar and jet aircraft were not invented by the United States, but they were also carried forward in the United States, plus radio, computers, nuclear weapons, etc., so that other countries could not reach the dust. With advanced technology, powerful high-tech weapons, and the United States taking advantage of the opportunity of the two world wars to do business on a large scale, a country that has only been established for more than 100 years has suddenly become the world's largest power.

The Soviet Union also had a technological explosion in the fifties. During World War II, the main industrial areas of the Soviet Union were bombed into ruins by fascist Germany, and the countries that needed to receive assistance from the United States and Europe to barely make ends meet during the war became the second largest power in the world in just over a decade after the war, and ranked among the best in the world in aviation and aerospace, and no one dared to underestimate it, and even the United States was afraid that the iron hooves of the Soviet Union would step on all parts of the world.