The chief patted the armrest of the chair and said to Lin Qiangsheng regretfully: "What you said is very good, let me understand the technical situation of automobile development at home and abroad." It's good and eye-opening! ”

Saying that, the old man shook his head and said: "But Comrade Xiaolin, at present, our domestic economy has encountered some difficult situations, and we have to slow down our development!" Now the state has stopped many of the projects introduced the year before last, and the domestic economic environment and industrial development are still lagging behind, and those projects that introduce foreign capital have to be asked to delay their construction, including projects like SH Baosteel! ”

"Now you propose to engage in a joint venture with Anshan Iron and Steel to produce automotive plates, it is very difficult to get the consent of your superiors!" The chief shook his head and said helplessly.

Lin Qiangsheng looked at the people in the room suspiciously, and then looked at Qi **, and saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, so he asked him in a low voice: "Isn't this project welcome by the country?" Why disagree? ”

Qi ** shook his head helplessly and nodded to him and said, "It's not that you don't welcome it, but now there are indeed difficulties in the country!" I'm afraid that the project you proposed to build a large-scale automotive sheet production base will be difficult for the superiors to agree! ”

"The country signed a lot of large and medium-sized cooperation projects with foreign countries in 77 ~ 78 years, and the scale of the introduction of foreign capital in the case of domestic construction can not keep up with the situation that our country can hardly bear! Now the superiors have to compress the project construction plan, stop the construction and slow down the construction, and cancel a number of introduced projects! ”

After Lin Qiangsheng heard Qi Jinping's words, he said hesitantly: "Is this what it means to not build a project at all?!" ”

Qi ** nodded and said: "Yes, this year's domestic economic policy is to not build if it can be built!" ”

Next, Qi ** introduced the current domestic economic situation to Lin Qiangsheng and revealed some policies for this year.

In 1976, the country had just ended the 10 years, in order to speed up the speed of China's economic development and achieve the goal of leapfrogging economic construction (everything in the country is good to leap forward, and the leaders were more anxious than the angry youth), in 1977, the country launched a vigorous industrial Daqing and Dazhai activities from top to bottom. Since then, China has begun contacts with developed countries in Europe and the United States, and China has successively sent delegations led by Gu Mu to visit Europe, and state leaders have also visited Japan and the United States. At this time, Europe and the United States were falling into a stage of economic stagflation, surplus products, and too much capital to be spent by banks, so China brought back a large number of imported projects from Europe (mainly) and other countries under the condition that it was very blind at home and abroad.

This is another large-scale project of introducing complete sets of equipment after the introduction of "156" projects from the Soviet Union in the 50s of the 20th century and the introduction of 4.3 billion US dollars from Western countries in the first half of the 70s (43 plan).

Lin Qiangsheng learned that this batch of complete sets of equipment, stand-alone machines and technical patents imported at the end of 1977. The total amount is as high as 6.5 billion US dollars! Moreover, these are the lifeblood industries of the national economy, including 380 million US dollars for agricultural industry, including 2 sets of large-scale fertilizer plants with pulverized coal and heavy oil as raw materials, 2 sets of key fertilizer equipment with natural gas or pyrolysis tail gas as raw materials, and 400 million US dollars for light industry, including 3 sets of large-scale petrochemical equipment and 4 sets of chemical fiber equipment; 2 sets of synthetic leather devices, 3 sets of washing powder raw material devices; US$1.3 billion in the petroleum industry, including exploration equipment such as seismic survey vessels, digital seismographs, and data processing systems; US$1 billion for the coal industry, including one set of open-pit coal mine equipment with an annual output of 10 million tons, two sets of main equipment for mines and coal washing plants with an annual output of 4 million tons, and two sets of key equipment for coal washing plants with an annual output of 3 million to 4 million tons; 500 million US dollars for the power industry, including one set of 600,000 or 900,000 kilowatts of nuclear power stations, large water and thermal power construction machinery. Furthermore. 700 million US dollars in the metallurgical industry, 620 million US dollars in the chemical industry, 300 million US dollars in the machinery industry, and 500 million US dollars in the defense industry and defense scientific research.

Subsequently, in 1978, the central government further made the idea of expanding the introduction of foreign capital and equipment, and after the retreat of the State Council, without full demonstration and comprehensive balance, under the condition that there was no response to foreign exchange and borrowed foreign capital, China signed many import contracts with foreign countries. According to statistics. In 1978, China signed contracts for the introduction of new technologies and complete sets of equipment with a total amount of 7.8 billion US dollars, involving more than 50 projects. Among them, there are 22 larger projects, namely Shanghai * Hai Baoshan Iron and Steel General Plant, Daqing Petrochemical Plant, Qilu Petrochemical Plant each 1 set of 300,000 tons of ethylene production equipment, Nan * Jing 2 sets of 300,000 tons of ethylene production equipment, Dongfang Chemical Plant with an annual output of 30,000 tons of acrylate equipment, Zhejiang Zhenhai Oil Refinery, Xinjiang Urumqi Oil Refinery, Ningxia Yinchuan Chemical Plant each 1 set of heavy oil as raw materials with an annual output of 30,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 520,000 tons of urea project, Shaanxi Chemical Fertilizer Plant with coal as raw materials of 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia, 900,000 tons of nitrate phosphate fertilizer plant, 100 sets of comprehensive coal mining units, Dexing copper mine base, Guizhou aluminum plant with an annual output of 80,000 tons of electrolytic aluminum project, Shanghai Petrochemical Plant chemical fiber phase II project (200,000 tons of polyester and synthetic fiber project). Yizheng Chemical Fiber Factory with an annual output of 530,000 tons of polyester and synthetic fiber engineering, Pingdingshan Cord Factory (with an annual output of 13,000 tons of nylon 66 salt-impregnated cord fabric), Shandong Synthetic Leather Factory (with an annual output of 3 million square meters of synthetic leather), Lanzhou Synthetic Leather Factory, Yunnan Sodium Tripolyphosphate Project, Huolinhe Coal Mine (20 million tons/year), Kailuan Coal Mine (3 coal washing plants with an annual output of 40 million tons of raw coal), Shaanxi Xianyang Color TV Picture Tube (with an annual output of 640,000 14-inch color picture tubes, 320,000 22-inch color picture tubes) and so on. According to the estimation at that time, these 22 projects required a total of 13 billion US dollars in foreign exchange to complete the contracts according to the design requirements, plus the necessary supporting projects in China. A total of more than 60 billion yuan is needed!

At this time, the time period when Lin Qiangsheng made a request to the chief was a period when some leaders severely criticized the country for making another mistake of taking the initiative and taking the liberalism. Lin Qiangsheng's mention of yì is a crime against the wind, and the superior leaders will not pay attention to him at all, so Lin Qiangsheng can only talk about it here at the chief.

After listening to Qi **'s introduction, coupled with some things he knew in later life, he gradually understood how unrealistic the idea he proposed at this time was, and it seemed that the joint venture plan with Anshan Iron and Steel could only be shelved.

However, the construction of the automobile plate production base can not wait, otherwise the domestic cold-rolled steel plate vehicles will be completely backward after the large-scale use of hot-dip galvanized sheet abroad, and at that time Chinese cars will have no competitiveness in front of foreign cars! What's more, Lin Qiangsheng also wants to establish a production and R&D base for new automotive materials, and he is lagging behind step by step, this thing can't wait!

Lin Qiangsheng thought of this, raised his head and looked at the chief, and said pleadingly: "Chief, the development of science and technology is changing with each passing day, and there will be a big change in automotive materials in five years, we can't wait and can't afford to wait!" ”

"Comrade Xiaolin, if you have any ideas, just say them, and those that can help you solve them will definitely be solved!" The chief nodded sympathetically. At the beginning, it was his old man who advocated the large-scale introduction of foreign technology, but he did not know that science and technology were developing with each passing day, and he was very eager to hope that China's development could be faster and faster.

"Chief, I don't need a penny from the country, and I don't need the country's material resources! Completely self-financed materials to build an automotive sheet production base, so do you think it is okay? Lin Qiangsheng said pleadingly.

The chief looked at Lin Qiangsheng in surprise and asked curiously: "Do you plan to raise funds and materials to build an automotive sheet production base?" Don't need a national contribution? ”

Lin Qiangsheng hurriedly waved his hand and said: "The state only needs to assist me with some technical talents, it is best to be proficient in mechanical engineering masters, as well as scientific researchers who have research on metal metallurgy, the more experts and professors, the better!" Otherwise, it would be difficult for me to build such a large-scale equipment as a hot-dip galvanizing production unit! ”

The chief pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Since you don't want the state to contribute money and materials, this is much easier, you can directly propose to the local government to build a factory, and no one can control you if you build a factory yourself!" What kind of expert talent do you want and do you have a goal? You list it and I'll take a look at it for you. There is nothing else in the country, that is, scientists and technicians still have some land! ”

Lin Qiangsheng was overjoyed, clapped his hands happily and said, "Okay, I'll provide you with a list right away, you can help me contact them!" ”

"You little ghost, the ghost idea has hit me!" The chief laughed with interest. (To be continued......)