Lin Qiangsheng and Wu Kejian, Wang Huashan and others took a plane and passed through the capital after transiting. Sea, Tokyo, and 15 hours later in San Francisco. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wu Kejian and others had to inspect the United States for half a month, and the group stayed at the Nikko Hotel under the leadership of Lin Qiangsheng.

This hotel is located near Union Square, a 7-minute drive from Fisherman's Wharf and close to City Hall and Chinatown. It belongs to JAL, so it continues the Japanese sense of service, clean, tidy and comfortable, and the price is reasonable.

Subsequently, six agricultural experts, including Han Guiqing, president of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Guan Fengzhi, director of the Institute of Economic Crops, also went to San Francisco.

They met with Lin Xiang and others, who had arrived in the United States earlier, and the two sides had an exchange. It turned out that Lin Xiang had arrived in the United States half a month earlier, where he was here to inspect agricultural machinery and improved seed technology, as well as food and beverage processing equipment.

The expedition began after the personnel arrived, first of all, the Central Valley Agricultural District of California, where many of the world's advanced seed companies are distributed, and many laboratories and breeding bases are also located here, which is very valuable for the investigation.

In addition to inspecting the seed company, Wu Kejian and others also investigated the flax production equipment and textile production equipment to understand the world's advanced level and seek cooperation and introduce technology.

Agricultural experts such as Han Guiqing and Guan Fengzhi have to have a specific understanding of California's crops and cash crops, and at the same time deepen exchanges with various seed companies, they are professional.

These people have to inspect and introduce many varieties of soybeans, rice, wheat, sugar beets, potatoes, flax, sunflowers, grains, fruits and vegetables, flowers and other varieties in California.

Lin and Lin Xiang said goodbye to everyone for a while and flew to Dictor City, Illinois, where they met Alan Andrés, chairman and CEO of ADM.

On the way here, Lin Xiang has already introduced some information to his younger brother, ADM is the largest grain and oil group in the United States, and its business involves many fields in the grain and oil industry such as food, oil, biochemical, feed, and grain. The company set up an office in Hong Kong in 1983 and was one of the first agricultural giants to enter the Chinese market.

Lin Xiang said: "We came to the United States to purchase soybean crushing equipment, these giants are very interested, and there are many international famous companies bidding for the bid, including ADM, Bunge, Cargill, one of the best in the United States, and Louis Dreyfus Company in France. These four companies are also the world's four largest grain merchants, and they are commonly known as ABCD. ”

Lin Qiangsheng said in surprise: "It turned out to be them, they have been famous for a long time!" ”

The four major food groups, which occupy the main share of the world's grain trade, have always kept a low profile, and there is not much news about them, but no one can underestimate the role of ABCD in the world's food environment.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once warned the world: If you control food, you control mankind. It is somewhat exaggerated to say that the four major grain merchants control human beings, but their control over grain is an indisputable fact.

Lin Qiangsheng secretly thought that in the future, it may be the world's five major grain merchant organizations, ABCDE. What English name should he think of, called Oriental Star? East-star or something, it's not very smooth.

Just when Lin Qiangsheng's thoughts were deserted, his sister Lin Xiang continued: "After bidding, I selected the soybean crushing equipment of ADM company. This enterprise is more comprehensive, and it is also engaged in the production and promotion of cocoa processing, flour processing, corn processing, food additives, nutritional supplements, steroids, edible oils and other products. With a total of about 270 mills of various kinds, it has the world's largest grain and oilseed processing plant, the largest soybean crushing processing plant and corn additives manufacturing plant in the United States, the second largest flour mill in the United States, and the world's fifth largest grain export trading company! ”

Lin Qiangsheng said in amazement: "The origin is not small, their achievements in agriculture are our example!" ”

Lin Xiang said excitedly: "If you learn about these agricultural enterprises in the United States, you will find that they are simply everywhere in this society. Not only the production of agricultural products, but even the remaining waste of agricultural products are also processed into a variety of high-end goods for sale, such as health care products and pharmaceutical industries, this is the way we will go in the future! ”

Alan Andrés walked up to Lin Qiangsheng, took the initiative to shake hands and said with a smile: "Welcome to Mr. Lin, we may have known each other a long time ago." ”

Lin Qiangsheng asked strangely, "Why?" ”

Alan smiled: "The data system used by our company comes from Sun company, and most of our computer equipment uses Compaq and Dell, and Cisco company does network services for us. ”

He said with admiration: "It's amazing to be able to create a successful company, let alone you to create so many successful companies." As far as I know, there are few people in the U.S. who have been as successful in tech as yours! ”

He said: "We at ADM are very happy to work with entrepreneurs like you because we believe in your vision! ”

Lin Qiangsheng smiled and glanced at Lin Xiang, and then said to Allen: "Mr. Andres, thank you for your compliment, this is not the first time we have cooperated, and it is not the last!" ”

Andres laughed more heartily, touting the young man for getting a huge order, and he didn't mind saying anything like that again.

Lin Xiang rolled her eyes, she didn't have this kind of treatment, she didn't expect her younger brother to be so famous in the American business world, but she was also honored to be an older sister when she saw her younger brother being slapped on the back.

They visited a soybean crushing plant and a feed production company in ADM, where Dongxing wants to build two plants in Ben Cheng and Keshan County in Q City, with a daily processing capacity of 1,000 tons and 5,000 tons of soybeans respectively, with a daily refining capacity of 2,000 tons and 1,000 tons, with an annual oil processing capacity of up to 300,000 tons.

The grain companies in the United States are veritable big granaries, and these grain giants are very willing to invest in agricultural breeding, investing hundreds of millions of dollars in agricultural research every year, and they also participate in the direct production of agriculture, contract a large amount of land, and truly turn farmers into workers, not only providing seeds, fertilizers, mechanization, planting technology and other all-round services.

Lin Qiangsheng said with emotion: "Americans treat agriculture as an industry!" ”

Lin Xiang also nodded and said: "Now the country is advocating agricultural reform, but the investment funds are limited, and the agriculture in our province cannot implement the contract system within the Guannei. ”

Lin Qiangsheng smiled: "Sister, your idea is very right, we will do it in the future!" ”

Lin Xiang smiled heartily and said to Lin Qiangsheng: "Okay, this time our sister and brother have the same opinion, and I will focus on agriculture and food in the future, I think these things are interesting!" ”

At the end of the visit, Alan Andres took an opportunity and asked tentatively: "Mr. Lin, our ADM company is very concerned about the development of agriculture in China. As far as I know, you have contracted 100,000 acres of arable land in the far north of China. ”

He proposed to Lin Qiangsheng: "Is it possible for us to work together, ADM is very optimistic about the Chinese agricultural market, and we will jointly invest in a large oil processing company in China, what do you think?" ”

Lin Qiangsheng asked in surprise: "You want to directly enter the field of agricultural product processing in China?" ”

Alan nodded and said: "Yes, the ADM board of directors has this meaning, we want to build a soybean crushing plant in the south of China, we have the best soybean production base in the United States, high quality and good oil yield, if Mr. Lin is interested, welcome to participate in this program." ”

Lin Qiangsheng frowned, this is a bad situation, Dongxing has just been about to open up the field of soybean processing, and international giants have come to seize China.

In the past, these international giants have entered China's agricultural processing links, and they have easily defeated local private small enterprises with financial and technological advantages, and bankrupted soybean purchasing stations and small and medium-sized processing plants.

Driven by profits, large crushing enterprises in major ports in the south have imported American beans and Brazilian beans, which not only damaged private enterprises but also shook the agricultural foundation and damaged the interests of soybean farmers.

Lin Xiang looked at his younger brother and hesitated, knowing that he was not very willing to enter the country, after all, the scale of this multinational giant was not comparable to that of Dongxing, which had just entered the field of agricultural products.

She said to Allen: "Mr. Andres, we welcome ADM to invest in soybean processing enterprises, but whether your soybean raw materials can enter the Chinese market depends on the government's attitude, in recent years, although China has relaxed its grain imports, but in the soybean field has not been liberalized, if ADM wants to enter China, it must use local raw materials!" ”

Alan frowned and thought about it, nodded and said truthfully: "That's true, I hope that Dongxing Group will make more efforts in China's soybean imports." ”

Lin Qiangsheng neither refused nor supported, and said perfunctorily: "I will ask the relevant departments about the policy when I go back, China's grain imports are very conservative, and we have little experience in this area." ”

"The authorities?" Alan Andres doesn't understand which department this relevant department is, and he can't ask, in fact, ADM hopes that Dongxing Group can come forward to open up relations with China, and now it seems that the other party is obviously not interested. (To be continued.) )