In the next two days, Chen Zhiwen met with the leaders of Shanghai City many times, many of which are considered to be acquaintances, and everyone has mentioned the matter of Midea's super factory intentionally or unintentionally, but everyone knows the proportion, because at present, it is not yet the time for the competition between cities.

On the third day, Chen Zhiwen was invited to the Baosteel factory in Baoshan District, Shanghai City.

"This is Baosteel, it feels really grand." Still in the distance, Liu Xiaoli saw the steel forest outside through the car glass and sighed.

"Of course, how can a factory built at $8 billion not be big." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"$8 billion?" Liu Xiaoli is also the first time to hear this number, very surprised, this year in Hong Kong, can be regarded as seeing a lot of the world, but even Hong Kong's largest listed company, the current market value is less than 3 billion, the building in Central, the highest value, is estimated to be 500 million US dollars, and even the United States, a year turnover of 3 billion US dollars, but has entered one of the world's top ten electronic companies.

"Heavy industry, you can't just look at inputs, it drives the overall economy of a country, don't calculate it with simple numbers." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said.

If it is him personally, not to mention the need for 8 billion US dollars, that is, as long as 800 million, it is impossible to invest in heavy industry, from a personal point of view, to do some low-tech business, more cost-effective, such as real estate, finance, or the use of prophetic advantages to develop the electronics industry, and then have capital, and then invest in the future retail giants, so as to slowly control the daily necessities industry chain, which is the most cost-effective, the highest returns, and so that these industries have developed to a very high level, and it is unlikely to double the growth of the industry, and then appropriately invest in some more "heavy" industries, such as the automotive industry.

But even the automobile, compared with the steel industry is still far behind, but the mainland government, in terms of foresight, is very far-sighted, even if the cost is large, but also to develop heavy industry, including steel, chemical, petroleum smelting, etc., it is precisely because these industries began to prepare in the 70s, to mature after the 21st century, the mainland government in the economic development can create a miracle of continuous growth.

Otherwise, around 2000, if there is not enough steel, no petroleum smelting technology, and no basic chemical industry in China, it will be absolutely easy for Europe and the United States to pinch the economy. Just a simple lack of steel, I am afraid that even the most basic highway can not be developed, let alone the automobile industry, shipbuilding industry, these are not Baosteel, the latter super-large industries, there is no chance of development.

Of course, technology can be developed, but raw materials are still stuck, which cannot be changed, which is also a problem that has plagued the mainland for 20 years, but fortunately, there is more than one supplier, and at the same time, the combination of various geopolitical factors has finally survived the difficult period.

However, Chen Zhiwen also knows that this project has been pitted a lot by small Japan and Germany, but there is no way, the advanced steelmaking technology is not sold by all countries, and Baosteel can only build it head-on.

Soon, the car came to the door of Baosteel, where a group of people had already received at the door.

"Mr. Chen, welcome to Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant." After Chen Zhiwen and the others got out of the car, a man about 50 years old led by the reception team came over with a smile and said.

Director Ma next to him hurriedly introduced: "Chen Sheng, this is Mr. Li Ming, the current director of Baosteel. ”

"Hello, Director Li." Chen Zhiwen also shook hands politely and said. As the first director of Baosteel, it is not an ordinary person, you must know that this factory is directly managed by the central government, which has given the most important step in the progress of the reform and opening up of the entire mainland, and I will cooperate with him for a long time in the future.

"I have long heard of Mr. Chen's name in Hong Kong, and what he has done in Hong Kong is also to win glory for us Chinese." Li Ming said with a smile. After all, Hong Kong's return to the motherland can be said to be one of the biggest things after the reform, and almost the entire country's resources need to cooperate with this thing.

And what happened in Hong Kong, many leaders in Yanjing are also always paying attention, and a lot of British capital in Hong Kong has also become a headache for the mainland government to a certain extent and needs to be handled carefully, but when Chen Zhiwen acquired Land, British capital in Hong Kong also became low-key. And the acquisition of British-funded giant enterprises by Chinese capital has also increased the self-confidence of all Chinese, on this issue, Chen Zhiwen can be said to have indirectly helped the mainland government, although he himself did not mean this, but the result is so, plus Chen Zhiwen also invested a lot in Yanjing, naturally the entire Yanjing leadership has a good impression of him.

"Yes, I will not allow British businessmen to continue to be arrogant among the Chinese in Hong Kong." Chen Zhiwen also smiled lightly and said, he can't help ZZ, but he can still fight against those capitalists in the UK, especially Land, which is so high-quality, but it operates like shit, and at the same time, the major shareholder Jardine Matheson has no equity, don't talk about him, that is, Li Jiacheng and Bao Yugang If these people have enough capital, they will definitely bite it without hesitation.

After the 70s, the mainland had good relations with the United States and Europe, and became one of the five permanent members.

HSBC befriended Li Ka-shing in the original history, in fact, it was to bet on both sides, if it wasn't for the mainland's influence, why did HSBC need to do this? You must know that before the 70s, Chinese capital could only choose factories, shipping and other industries that had little conflict of interest with British capital, and some people chose banks, but they were invisibly harvested later.

"Haha, what Mr. Chen said is good, my Chinese nation does not seek hegemony, but at least we must live in this world fairly." Director Li Ming laughed and said, "Please come in, everyone." ”

"Okay, thank you." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Li Ming and a group of leaders of Baosteel took Chen Zhiwen around the entire steel mill and walked to a workshop to introduce, but for safety reasons, everyone only looked down on the high floors outside the workshop and inside the workshop, and did not really get close to the production line. At present, Baosteel has not yet started large-scale construction, and now it is only trying to test production.

This is also the first time that Chen Zhiwen knows how iron ore is turned into steel, and then into various different styles of steel.

Afterwards, everyone came to a large conference room in Baosteel, where various fruits and drinks were also prepared.

"Director Li, at present, Baosteel can make steel for automobiles, such as the body or steel that can be used for automobile processing." After some small talk, Chen Zhiwen suddenly asked.

In addition to the cooperation of iron ore, the most important thing is that the Yanjing Jeep factory is also in urgent need of further localization.

This is not only a requirement of the central government, but also a request of Chen Zhiwen, who is not one of those car brands that only want to export auto parts from the mainland and then make money from them, even Volkswagen, which is actually the same idea in the early days.

The biggest benefit of localized parts production is that it can immediately reduce a lot of costs, especially some large and heavy parts, such as the skeleton structure of the car, the surface of the iron sheet, the seat frame, the chassis material, etc., the price itself is not cheap in the United States, and it also needs long-distance shipping to the mainland, plus tariffs, the cost can be tripled.

Even through Hutchison's large investment in local auto parts companies, compared with the number of parts on the car is still far behind, now, a large number of Yanjing Jeep parts are still imported, although the domestic currently allows this kind of operation, but it is not durable, and the cost is unusually high, but also leads to self-produced jeeps, sales in China are not very good, although, compared with the original imported cars are a lot cheaper, but invested hundreds of millions of dollars in factories, if there is no sales, can not return to the cost, Not to mention the next step of expansion and the planned introduction of a car line.

Among them, the first and most important step is to be able to buy suitable steel from the local area, so that the cost can be greatly reduced, the domestic price can be reduced, so as to increase sales, and then the next step of parts localization, and finally to reduce the cost to the greatest extent, but also the earliest to occupy the domestic market, so as to play a word of mouth, and even the earliest to establish a nationwide sales channel and after-sales and so on.

"In fact, we have planned to produce steel on the car, but the output is not large, and there are many kinds of steel requirements on the car, and we also need time to gradually overcome the problem of reproduction." Director Li Ming replied.

"Okay, as long as it can be produced, I will arrange for Yanjing Jeep to purchase steel from Baosteel." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile, as long as it can be produced, it is not a problem, even if it cannot meet all the needs now, it may be solved one by one.

At present, the steel used in Yanjing Jeep is imported, and the local Jeep 212 produced by the joint venture is made in China, but it does not meet the requirements of AMC at all, but considering the cheap price, that's it, after all, the domestic market, it is difficult to do the same as foreign countries, and the quality of Jeep 212, each customer is also normal by default, can be repaired.

"No problem, the use of steel in the country's automobile industry is also one of the purposes of Baosteel's establishment." Director Li Ming said.

Before the 80s, although there are cars in China, but the life and quality problems always plague everyone, the quality of steel is one of the main problems, Baosteel at the beginning of its establishment, there is a purpose of producing steel for automobiles, but the problem can not be solved at once, it takes a lot of time to overcome the problem.

"Mr. Chen, we invite you here this time to discuss Baosteel's purchase of iron ore from your Christmas Creek Iron Mine in Australia. I don't know what you think? A deputy director next to Director Li Ming asked with a smile after receiving instructions.

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