Chapter 88

China has a population of 560 million, which is the latest statistic. Eighteen years of "peaceful and prosperous times", the Chinese population has reached a point where the whole world has to pay attention. This is a huge market, and it is also a constant headache for the Chinese government. With so many people having to eat, how to solve the problem of food and clothing? None of this can be solved by paying lip service. China's agricultural sector has made a lot of efforts and done countless unknown jobs. The government's investment in agricultural science and technology has always been among the best in various scientific and technological research. China has the largest agricultural population and the largest agricultural technology team. This is the result of the accumulation of 18 years of education, and every province in the country must have a school specializing in agriculture, and every town must have an agricultural science and technology station.

Even so, it will take unremitting efforts to solve the problem of food and clothing for the whole people. It's not that agricultural people don't work hard, it's that agricultural production is too low now. The developed textile industry in the eastern coastal area and even the Yangtze River basin has solved the problem of wearing clothes, but there has always been a food shortage, and it is necessary to import grain every year.

After Fang Jianxiong arrived in the United States, the first order he threw out was a grain purchase order worth 200 million US dollars. There is no doubt that this is a very clear signal that Fang Jianxiong has brought a huge order. It is not only state procurement, but also private procurement. What do the Chinese need? Americans know this very well in their hearts, food seems to be important, but in fact it is not what the Chinese want most. In the past, the Americans would not have sold high-tech products. For example, high-precision machine tools, large hydraulic presses, engine production lines, material technology, etc. But this time the United States doesn't care about that!

With a large number of banks failing and a quarter of the population unemployed, how to solve this problem is the most important problem at present. Whether you can get orders from the Chinese is the most important thing. The products produced in the factory are piled up in the warehouse, and no one wants to sell them as scrap metal. The freighters moored in the wharf can't even get the money for maintenance, and they can't even sell scrap iron at a price. As long as someone buys everything in dollars, there is no fear that no one will want to sell it.

There are many rich people in New York, but there are also many rich people who have gone bankrupt in recent years, and ordinary people have lost more jobs. The most important thing for these people every day is to queue up and receive a little free bread and a hot soup from the government. For the bankrupt and the unemployed, how to survive is the most important question. For those business owners who are about to go bankrupt, how to keep their poor belongings is the most important thing. It should be said that these entrepreneurs are still very lucky. Anyway, I have some possessions to sell, unlike the bankers who went bankrupt and jumped off the building in the first wave of the stock market crash, and they didn't even have their lives.

"Mr. Dress. What we need is very clear. I don't want to repeat it, but what kind of reply did you give me? This old-fashioned steam turbine technology is the technology of twenty years ago, what am I going to do? Do you produce inland barges? Chen Zhaokeng, who appeared on a slipway with a team of 20 technicians, looked completely arrogant. The tone of his voice made Dresser on the other side feel the urge to strangle this guy.

"I'm sorry Mr. Chen. We will never transfer the technology of new steam turbines. If you need a finished product, we can provide the world's highest quality and most advanced steam turbine products. Dressy resisted the impulse and patiently continued the conversation. Negotiations are like that, and it's normal to have a lot of tug-of-war.

Once upon a time, the Chinese were so humble in the face of foreigners, but now. Hehe! Is it okay to be rich and uncle? Chen Zhaokeng stood up without saying a word, kept smiling and said, "Then there is no need to talk?" Goodbye, Mr. Dress. Walk. Go to the next one, we have to be busy today, at least five companies to talk about cooperation. Chen Zhaokeng turned around, Dressleng was on the spot, and then rushed forward as if his butt was on fire. Pulling Chen Zhaokeng's sleeve, he replied shyly: "Chen." We can go on and on, like the cooperation you just said. ”

Chen Zhaokeng couldn't hide his smug smile and said, "Mr. Dress, do you think we still have a basis for cooperation?" It seems that you are not the only one with similar technology, right? ”

Dresser hurriedly said: "Of course, there is a basis for cooperation, and my company's sincerity is still very strong. ”

Chen Zhaokeng said: "Since this is the case, then continue to talk." We can find someone to buy all the boats on the slipway, including semi-finished products, and of course the price must be right. However, the steam turbine production line and technical information I needed, including material synthesis technology, had to be used as a prerequisite for cooperation. If that's not enough to satisfy you, we can work together to produce the latest steam turbines in China, and we own 51 percent, which is the bottom line, otherwise don't waste everyone's time. ”

Similar negotiations are taking place across the United States. For example, in Detroit, Eurasia Jiangnan Automobile Group, SAIC Motor Group, Tianjin North Automobile Group, and Shenyang Automobile Group in Northeast China. These companies, which are supposed to be rivals, have joined forces to sweep through Detroit. That's right, it's a sweep. Whatever China doesn't have and needs, someone will come up with dollars to sue the Americans, "I want this thing, and you can set a suitable price."

Detroit is the Motor City, the arsenal of democracies during World War II. What does the city's manufacturing mean for the United States? What are the salient features of the city's demographics? and so on, before coming to this kind of Chinese enterprises have done full research. The phrase "open your eyes and see the world" is not simply said. After more than ten years of accumulation, Chinese entrepreneurs are no longer so easy to fool, and Chinese will not be as inferior as in the past. In fact, the inferiority of the Chinese can already be said to have been eliminated after experiencing the Sino-Japanese War, the European War, and the Siberian War. Even some democrats are clamoring that "the Celestial Empire has returned"! Of course, such people are in the minority. After the domestic entrepreneurs really came to the United States, they were still severely shocked by the industrialization of the United States, but these entrepreneurs quickly regained stronger self-confidence in the low-level posture of the Americans by relying on the dollars in their pockets.

That's right, it's low. Especially in a city like Detroit, Americans don't have much energy. A large number of dilapidated enterprises are not wanted, and a large number of unemployed people are queuing up on the streets waiting for relief. The recruitment of Chinese talents in the first step has made these Chinese entrepreneurs see through the weakness of Americans.

Although the economic crisis has brought a strong impact to many small and medium-sized enterprises in eastern China, in the process of this impact, Chinese enterprises have begun to transform, product transformation, and market transformation. The huge population base and the sustained and rapid development of the economy and the mainland market soon allowed these Chinese companies to find a new direction for the development of the economy. With the introduction of the Chinese government's new economic policy, the government has vigorously invested in infrastructure, vigorously supported heavy industry, and vigorously supported high-tech industries.

To give a very simple example, as far as NORINCO Group, which produces engineering equipment, is concerned, just government orders are enough for NORINCO to produce for ten years. Now there is only one problem, insufficient production capacity. Those who are also facing insufficient production capacity are similar enterprises. The Cabinet issued a policy of increasing infrastructure construction to stimulate the economy, and the provinces naturally responded enthusiastically, and at the same time followed the same path, and local finances also began to tilt in these directions.

You know, the companies that survived the first two years of the economic crisis are not constantly related to the government.

If the production capacity is insufficient, there will be no problem of competition in the market, so these companies will join forces to find trouble with the Americans. For example, Ford, which has always been less enthusiastic about the Chinese market, was very bullish, and when negotiating with the Chinese Shenyang Automobile, it actually sold an old production line for a sky-high price, and even threatened that the Chinese were only worthy of riding in horse-drawn carriages.

Just such a thing, Ford, who was very cool in his mouth at the time, soon tasted the bitter fruit. After it was rumored that a Chinese company would cooperate with Ford and buy Ford's latest production line, Ford's stock price rose, but only half a month later, everything changed. Ford's peers have spread the good news and have reached large-scale cooperation agreements with Chinese companies. After spending two weeks in Detroit, Chinese entrepreneurs held a press conference to say that the China Auto Industry Alliance's (provisional) business base in the United States had ended. During this period, a $300 million procurement and cooperation plan was reached with its U.S. automotive counterparts. After the press conference, Ford's stock hit rock bottom.

Ford, who recognized the reality, hurriedly went to the people of the China Automobile Industry Alliance to discuss cooperation, and under the mediation of the US government, some cooperation projects were reluctantly reached. But compared to Ford's peers, it's really not worth mentioning. The reason is simple, after a scientific and careful investigation, the Chinese market needs at least 80,000 cars this year. The reality is that the combined production capacity of Chinese automobiles is only 30,000 units a year. And the sales of these 80,000 cars are still increasing year by year. The news was announced at this time, and in just one week, the major American car companies were alive. Cars can't be sold in the United States, no problem, they are sold in China. The trucks in stock of the major automobile companies have all been bought by Chinese businessmen, and although the price is only eighty percent of the price and has to be put into the freight, the headquarters is rotten in the warehouse countless times stronger.

In less than two months, the United States has not been as stunned as the fighting power of the rich people of the Chinese people!

"Are you still worried about the rust of the machines you have produced in the warehouse? Go to the Chinese, as long as the price is right, they will buy! Still can't afford to pay for the maintenance of the ships parked in the docks? Let's go find Chinese,......。 This was the headline of the Wall Street Journal, a well-known American newspaper, on January 30, 1932.

Chinese entrepreneurs continue to follow the perspective of the protagonist without mentioning the industrial technology, equipment, and products needed to clean up the United States like locusts crossing the border. Fang Jianxiong, who crossed the United States to Washington, met US President Herbert Hoover for the first time.