Eventually, the Equipment Industry Division was established.

However, the internal and external pressures on the opening of the market are indeed very great.

Therefore, it is not good for the superiors to blatantly and directly assign too many functions of the original Ministry of Machinery Industry to the name of the Equipment Industry Department.

In the name of national defense and security, we can only transfer some of the units that focus on them to the system of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense for management.

Of course, if we start from the perspective of the Department of Science and Technology and Industry alone, further expand the scope of authority, and also include a total of more than a dozen large and medium-sized enterprises with high influence in the industry.

"Director Lan, in the future, we will need a lot of support from you in our work."

In Ding Gaoheng's office, Chang Haonan shook hands with Lan Xinzhi, who had just received the order and officially became the director of the Equipment Industry Department, and said with a smile.

"Eh, where is the best way to say support, according to Director Ding's deployment, our department is to cooperate with Mr. Chang's work."

Lan Xinzhi's statement is very in place.

Support can be given or not.

But cooperation is a clear master-slave relationship and must be given.

Moreover, even if it is only from Lan Xinzhi's personal point of view, he can complete the leap from the secretary position to the number one leader of the department-level department, not to mention all, at least eighty percent of it depends on Chang Haonan's operation.

After all, the idea of establishing a division of equipment industry was first proposed by the latter.

The difficulty of snatching a position from a department that existed in the past and going to a new department with a blank sheet of paper to occupy a pit is not at the same level at all.

Moreover, as the first leader of a new department, as long as he is not too abstract and unhuman, then this department will definitely leave a personal imprint to a considerable extent.

It will be of great help for future development.

Not to mention the rest of the support that follows.

When he got the appointment, Ding Gaoheng made it clear that if there was no high evaluation from Chang Haonan, then the determination of this appointment would not be easy to make.

These two things are enough for Lan Xinzhi to decide his position for the rest of his life.

"This time, I still have to thank the Economic and Trade Commission for absorbing most of the firepower for us."

Ding Gaoheng stood in front of the office window, looked at the misty capital outside the building, and began to tell Chang Haonan and Lan Xinzhi about the things that happened below the water surface during this time:

"They came up and proposed to set up a State Machinery Industry Bureau to take over most of the functions of the Ministry of Machinery Industry, this request was too direct, and it suddenly became the target of public criticism."

"Not only those people in China, but even the United States, which is engaged in negotiations with us on WTO accession, has exerted pressure through some channels, saying that it is inconsistent with the principle of opening up the market, and let us consider it carefully."

Speaking of this, his expression still carried a little haze.

After all, if this matter is really to be talked about, it is still affected by foreign pressure.

However, there is no way, WTO accession is the most important task for China at this stage, and in a situation where the overall national strength is far inferior to that on the other side of the ocean, the struggle still has to be tactical.

"Fortunately, after their tossing, it has the effect of lifting the roof, and when we propose that some of the enterprises involved in national defense and security be placed under the management of the Commission of Science and Technology, the voice of opposition is much smaller."

"Now, although we don't actually have much authority in our hands, but fortunately, we have set up the shelf of the Equipment Industry Division, as long as the organizational structure can be determined, the rest of the things will have room for operation."

Ding Gaoheng's interest today is not low, after all, he can be regarded as leading his department to win a battle on the battlefield without gunpowder.

He paused slightly, then turned around:

"As for where the ceiling of this department will be in the future, it will depend on what kind of work we can achieve next."

Originally, the establishment of a new department was equivalent to the formation of a new army, and Ding Gaoheng was just playing a routine role to encourage him.

As a result, Chang Haonan on the other side came directly to Bo Zhen:

"Director Ding, we are ready in this regard, the inauguration ceremony of the Torch-C.B. Ferrari Company could have been held in the middle of the month, and I specially asked Director Lan to postpone it to next week, and then in early April, which can be regarded as a good start for the Equipment Industry Division!"

Although the Torch Group itself is not under the jurisdiction of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, the authority of the Equipment Industry Department includes part of the content of industrial planning, although it is far less powerful than the Ministry of Machinery Industry can directly determine the direction of policy development, but fortunately, it can be regarded as maintaining some operational space.

The last document issued by the Ministry of Machinery Industry before its dissolution was to assign some of the functions of the Machinery Industry Sub-Council of the Council for the Promotion of International Trade to its own name.

Immediately afterwards, the Department of Equipment Industry took advantage of the situation to obtain the relevant authority to carry out the promotion of international trade in the industry.

Ding Gaoheng didn't even have time to calm the surprise on his face, so he sat back at his desk:

"It just so happens that the first document after the establishment of the Equipment Industry Department has not yet been issued."

"Comrade Xinzhi, you go back and draft a document to promote foreign cooperation in the high-end machine tool industry, and send it out before next week, just to match Xiaochang's actions."

Lan Xinzhi had just taken up his post, and he was at the time when he was at his most ambitious, and immediately "snapped" a straight position:

"Yes!"

Everyone knows that machinery manufacturing, a heavy asset field, whether it is industrial adjustment or development is slow, it is impossible to see results on the first day of the second day.

But there are some things that are all about a gesture.

Although 99% of the cooperation between Torch Group and C.B. Ferrari has actually been completed ahead of schedule, and even the technical personnel sent by both sides have already started the business, as long as the landmark event such as the signing ceremony is placed after the posting, it can express support for industrial policy.

Including the Equipment Industry Department, this matter can also be generously written into next year's annual work summary as a performance, and no one can find fault.

……

Everything was carried out smoothly according to Chang Haonan's plan.

Two days later, the Department of Equipment Industry issued the No. 1 document [1998] of the National Science and Technology Equipment, which officially listed "accelerating the research and development of equipment industry technology and actively seeking foreign exchanges and cooperation" as the focus of development in the remaining three years of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

At the beginning, naturally there were more people waiting to see the jokes.

After all, Huaxia had no say in this field in the past, and the market was almost entirely occupied by imported products.

Even soon, some media made a bit of cynicism with the headline "It is not advisable to "release satellites" under administrative pressure".

The article said that in the context of the rigid system and low level in the field of domestic machinery manufacturing, the so-called "foreign exchange and cooperation" is impossible to achieve, and at best it can only exist as a kind of "face project" of leadership.

Instead of spending a lot of resources to do this kind of useless work, it is better to be practical, completely liberalize the industrial policy, introduce more dynamic private capital, and start from the low-end part of the industrial chain.

After a generous statement, if it weren't for the signing ceremony with C.B. Ferrari, it would have been read, maybe Chang Haonan himself would have believed it.

"This eloquent article, Director Lan must be put away, it is very commemorative."

Chang Haonan finished reading the entire article, couldn't help but laugh, and handed the article that occupied half of the page to Lan Xinzhi.

"I'm going to get someone to frame it and put it on my desk."

Lan Xinzhi also lost the nervousness he had when he saw a similar report for the first time before, and he almost couldn't hold back and quipped:

"It's an incentive for our equipment industry division......"

"I think you might as well wait."

Ding Gaoheng, who was next to him, said and put a cigarette under his nose and sniffed it, and then stuffed it back into the cigarette case.

In the past two years, because of Chang Haonan, he has almost quit smoking.

"Tomorrow afternoon, the inauguration ceremony of Torch-C.B. Ferrari will be held, and I have already contacted the two major newspapers and Ta Kung Pao, and I will be able to publish a report the next morning."

"When you put these two pieces together, the motivation effect may be better."

Chang Haonan even directly put forward a murderous suggestion:

"Just frame one more copy and send it anonymously to the newspaper that posted the article before......"

In short, the equipment industry division is off to a good start, and it is ready to go.

(End of chapter)