Siemens headquarters, Munich, Germany.

At this moment, the German industrial giant is holding an internal high-level meeting, and the COO looks around at the participating executives and says: "The 2023 quarterly results are in line with expectations, and the market value of the Siemens Group is now close to 145 billion euros. Revenue increased by 5.11% year-on-year to 92.3 billion euros; Net income rose by 12 percent to 7.62 billion euros. Real revenue increased by 2.1 percent, but the Power Generation & Gas Group business still declined sharply, with new orders falling 1 percent to 96.7 billion euros, dragged down by the Power Generation & Gas Group. ”

During this period, Siemens' market capitalization increased by 12.4 percent to 139.2 billion euros. Profit in the real business increased by 10 percent year-on-year to 11.6 billion euros. Double-digit growth in the Building Technologies Group, Digital Industries, Transportation Group and Process Industry & Drive Group offset the negative impact of the decline in the Power Generation & Gas Group and Siemens Gamesa. ”

After the report, Joe Kaiser, the current head of Siemens, who was led by the meeting, nodded, and said in a deep voice: "This performance financial report can achieve a surplus, mainly relying on peers, the old rival GE is now in trouble, the United States is in chaos, if you don't get the authorities to be impeached, the turmoil will inevitably last for a year or two." In fact, the increase in profits in most of the company's industrial businesses was not enough to offset the sharp decline in the profits of the power generation and gas group. ”

"Today, the weakness of the global power generation market and the overcapacity of large gas turbines have led to a significant decline in orders and weighed on the performance of the power generation and gas groups. However, it should also be noted that in recent years, the currencies of some countries have generally depreciated, affecting Argentina, India, Russia and other countries. The main products of power generation and natural gas groups, such as boilers, steam turbines, generators, etc., are all high-net-worth capital, which require a large amount of foreign exchange to pay. ”

Speaking of this, Caesar said happily and helplessly: "Recently, there has been a big mess in the United States, and the next whole year will enter a period of global capital contraction, and the financing cost of the capital market will increase greatly, resulting in a large number of high capital expenditure enterprise power generation projects have to shrink the scale, which will inevitably affect the company's orders." ”

Gamesa's performance fell 19% year-on-year, with EBIT of 180 million euros, down 56% from last year's reported 320 million euros, and the main factor hitting Siemens Gamesa's performance was competition from peer companies in China.

The main pressure to compete with the Chinese is not technical issues, but price pressures, especially onshore wind power. Frankly speaking, Europeans and Americans have a headache with the "cabbage price" Dafa of the Chinese people, and Caesar wants to cut this business in a fit of anger for the gamersa business, but he knows that he can't cut it, and immediately after the cut, the Chinese people will have to inch in, and let the market out, and when they have money, they will immediately open up new areas, and then continue to repeat the old tricks......

So even if it's a loss, you have to withstand it.

During the meeting, Caesar's secretary came in and whispered next to him: "Sir, the vice president of the European region of the coastline group has come to visit, and I hope to talk to you about the possibility of business cooperation between the two sides alone." ”

Cooperate?

Siemens does not have much business with the Coastline Group, but there is still cooperation, mainly in the semiconductor industry, but the scale is not large, and Siemens' core business is still electrical.

They are all super-large multinational giants, and it is nothing new to have business crossovers.

Wait a minute...!

Caesar's heart suddenly perked, new business cooperation?

Suddenly, I immediately thought of the recent incident, the Coastline Group has recently broken up with the Americans, and it is still in a hot lawsuit.

Doesn't that mean......

Caesar's heart was thrilled at the thought of this, but he endured nothing and got up and groaned, "Break up!" ”

Suddenly, he was the first to leave the meeting table, and his secretary also followed in small steps.

A few minutes later, in a VIP reception room, Caesar met a Chinese face and greeted him with great warmth: "Mr. Hu Yang, welcome to Siemens. ”

Obviously, Caesar knew the vice president of the European region of the Coastline Group, and he had to have significant business dealings with the Coastline Group in the European market, and basically had to deal with Populus euphratica.

Naturally recognized.

"Mr. Caesar, the contemptible man has taken the liberty of visiting this time, so he simply spoke up." Hu Yang said with a smile, and Caesar smiled and said it was okay and waited for his next step.

After a moment, Hu Yang added: "I am here to forward this letter to you on behalf of the headquarters, which is a letter from Ms. Qiao Wei, the executive director of my group company and the CEO of Life Light. ”

After speaking, Hu Yang immediately took out a paper letter from his arms.

"Oh?"

Caesar was very surprised when he heard this, and the paper letter seemed more solemn, and the head of Siemens couldn't help but pay attention to it, took the letter and opened it silently, and read it without saying a word.

Dozens of seconds later, Caesar's eyes suddenly widened as he stared at the letter, and he stood up in shock: "God, is this true?" Your company and SGCC (State Grid) will invest in 247 projects in Latin America, Africa and Europe, with a total amount of 350 billion US dollars??? ”

Even though he tried his best to hide it, Caesar's hands holding the letter still trembled slightly, and his heart yelled excitedly.

These Chinese people are really crazy, this kind of super project with super-large-scale expenditure is absolutely impossible to set up in Europe, and no country has the ability to do it, and neither can the European Union.

First of all, the 350 billion US dollars cannot be taken out, it is absolutely impossible, and no one has the ability to unite the European member states, this kind of thing can only be done by the Chinese, and only the Chinese dare to do this.

Hu Yang smiled in his heart, Rao is the head of the German industrial giant Siemens, and he can't be calm, he likes to see these Europeans and Americans who have never seen the world, but then again, no one can calm down on this matter, because there is a paragraph in the letter, which simply means inviting Siemens Group to "join in".

"Mr. Kaiser, as we all know, SGCC has long announced that it will establish the world's first global power grid, and our group company's Life Light has joined it to lead the global power grid international plan together with SGCC, which is an ambitious and vast international plan, and it is also a win-win project, and Siemens Group is a giant in the industry that has attracted worldwide attention......"

When Hu Yang, who had a calm face, said this, Caesar's heart became more and more excited beyond words, not to mention anything else, as long as he can join the huge international plan of the Chinese people, more than 200 large investment projects, and can get a piece of the pie, Siemens Power Generation and Natural Gas Group will definitely be able to quickly turn losses into profits, and worry about what overcapacity, so many investment projects, boilers, steam turbines, generators, etc. are to be purchased.

Hu Yang added with a regretful face: "To be honest, our group company was initially inclined to cooperate with GE Group in North America, because it is backed by the powerful United States, and now the reason is also well known, although the recent lawsuit between our group company and North America will not hinder our cooperation with GE, but for such a large-scale engineering project, what we need more is stability, and stability is overriding everything." ”

"There is no doubt that there are too many unstable and uncertain factors in North America now, and Germany and Siemens, the German industrial giant, have become the best partners for international cooperation with us, and we believe that Germany is more stable than the United States."

Hearing this, Caesar laughed inwardly, laughing in his heart, and almost woke up laughing in his dreams.

Even if I tried to hide it, my inner emotions still couldn't stop showing three points, and my smile was really hard to hide.

The sworn enemy GE Group is estimated to be so angry that it vomits blood, as well as Apple, over the years, GE has relied on the intervention of the United States behind it, and has robbed Siemens of countless orders.

Caesar's heart was dark, as if all the breath he had been holding in his heart for five years was out, and he even had a bad taste to see how his old rival would feel after knowing the news.

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