Zhao Gong and Xie Gong were both frightened by this number and almost jumped up from the spot.

The funds for the establishment of their institute do not add up to that much!

How many projects is $400 million enough for them?

Even big planes can do it!

During this period, Huaxia could not build large aircraft, and 90% of the international civil aviation market was monopolized by Boeing and Airbus, which made a lot of profits every year.

And we had to rely on them for a long time.

There was once a widely circulated saying that the price of a shirt exported by Huaxia was only 2-3 US dollars, and the gross profit was about 1 US dollar, and it was necessary to sell 800 million shirts in exchange for an Airbus A380 aircraft.

This is not a glorious thing, and it highlights the dilemma that there are many labor-intensive industries in China and low profits in low-end manufacturing.

Technology is really valuable, if you don't have it, you can only pay a high price to buy a product made by others, as for how much to sell to you, it is completely up to others to decide.

In many high-end industries, Huaxia does not even have bargaining power, and only when the technical barriers are broken, can the other party sit down with you calmly and talk about the price.

It's just that at that time, we don't need it much.

Chen Weidong sneered in his heart, he had long been mentally prepared for the sky-high asking price of the island country, but when he heard them quote the price, he was still a little surprised.

At present, there are more than 30 million US dollars of machine tools on the market, which can already be described as sky-high, not to mention the 400 million US dollars.

Even if you get it to the European market and really buy it secretly from the Germans, I'm afraid you can customize similar machine tools, and you don't need to buy it from the island country at all.

It's just that it's all dismantled into parts and shipped back a little more troublesome.

Although Infinity has money, it is not stupid enough to spend an extremely high premium to buy something that is obviously not worth that much money.

Toru Nakano and other seven or eight people from island countries all have an expression of love to buy but not love.

They deliberately quoted such a high price, just to scare off Chen Weidong and them, hoping that they would retreat in the face of difficulties, buy some ordinary production lines, and low-end equipment.

This is already very advanced for Huaxia.

Why do you have to buy such a good device?

What's more, it's not that we don't sell it, it's that you yourself can't afford it because it's too expensive.

The price, we have already given.

Zhao Gong and Xie Gong did their best and communicated with them several times.

However, the island countries are not willing to make concessions at all on the price of this machine, and they are biting the price of 400 million US dollars, and saying that this is already the lowest price.

Both of them are engaged in scientific research, and they are not negotiators, so in the end they can only sigh and break up unhappily.

In fact, the people of the island countries are also worried that the sale of precision machine tools to Huaxia will improve the level of manufacturing in China, which will reduce the competitiveness of their products, and ultimately the gains outweigh the losses.

After all, the current catch-up speed of Huaxia Technology has made many countries vigilant.

Subsequently, Chen Weidong and the others were not interested.

After a cursory look at the factory, the group returned to the hotel.

Even Toru Nakano invited them to dinner together, but they all refused.

The six of them gathered in Chen Weidong's room, not knowing what to say.

The atmosphere was a little dreary.

They have been shocked too much today, and they need to digest it too.

Chen Weidong leaned back on the sofa, smoking quietly, he knew that he had to come up with a countermeasure at this time, otherwise they would definitely go home empty-handed.

Just as he was pondering.

Xie Gong on the side hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said: "Mr. Chen, tomorrow I will ask my old friend, he works in a private research institute, maybe they will have a way." ”

Chen Weidong was shocked, and said with some surprise: "Xie Gong, is this true?" If it's a private institute, things are much easier! ”

There were several ways that came to his mind in an instant, and they might all be useful.

Li Yun and the others said curiously: "Private research institutes? Will their instruments and equipment be more high-end than the ones we see today? ”

Chen Jie didn't understand either, and asked: "Why can private individuals in their island country afford to build a research institute?" At present, there are not many private research institutes in China. ”

Xie Gong was asked a series of questions by them, and he didn't know how to explain it, he was only engaged in scientific research, not economics, and he never thought about this problem.

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He said hesitantly: "Maybe it's because the people of the island countries are richer.....

Chen Weidong snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand and said, "I'll tell you about this problem." ”

"The islanders are rich, their annual GDP reaches trillions of dollars, and they are indeed developed countries, and they are very willing to invest in scientific research projects."

"According to some data, the annual R&D investment of the island countries has reached more than three percent of the gross national product! You can do the math! ”

Chen Jie jumped up from the sofa and said in surprise: "Then their annual investment in scientific research has reached tens of billions of dollars?!" ”

"What's all the fuss about this, in order to maintain the leading technology and prevent being overtaken, the people of the island country have never been stingy in their investment in scientific research."

"Besides, after the end of World War II, the island countries did not fulfill the war reparations at all, although their society and the people at the bottom at that time suffered a major blow, but those conglomerates, large companies, and profound backgrounds still have a lot of wealth!"

"After the outbreak of the Caoxian War, the United States fully stationed troops in the island country, and the people of the island country did not need to pay too much investment in the military, and they had spare energy to develop science and technology, economy, and education!"

"Therefore, those miracles in the 30 years after the war were originally caused by the United States, and their main purpose was to let the island countries contain the development of Southeast Asia."

"It's just that later, when the island country thought it was rich, it wanted to challenge its master, but the result was naturally a complete failure, and it was frantically harvested by Wall Street in the capital market, and fell into a 30-year economic regression ....."

Chen Weidong talked eloquently, stunned Li Yun and the others, they never thought that there were so many complicated factors in this.

And everything Chen Weidong showed is not consistent with the information at all!

If every high school student in Huaxia can have this kind of thinking and insight, are you afraid that it will not take off!

Chen Weidong also realized that he seemed to have deviated from the topic, and as soon as he talked about these things, he quickly changed the topic.

"Tomorrow, Xie Gong will contact the research institute, Zhao Gong will contact those factories, and Li Yun will contact the embassy..... Don't be idle, go according to the original plan. ”

He immediately called the shots.

"Ah Wei, what about us?"

Chen Jie paused, everyone had work to do, and he always felt embarrassed if he didn't do things.

"We don't have a branch in the island country yet, you go to register one, and recruit some staff, the ability is secondary, preferably your fanatical brain-dead ....."

Chen Weidong had some thoughts in his heart and began to speak slowly, while assigning tasks to everyone.

And he himself has an important thing to do.

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