After toasting, Qin Hai and Ning Zhongying returned to the main table. Apart from the two of them, the rest of the people at this table were all the highest-ranking officials. I don't know whether it was Qin Hai who had more face or the Daqin Group who came here.
These senior officials who participated in the group's founding celebration did not leave after the celebration, but stayed to continue attending the dinner.
Seeing Qin Hai sitting back, the officials who were chatting stopped and looked at him with smiles on their faces, with gentle expressions on their faces.
A deputy director named Bai of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense looked around and saw that no one was making a suggestion, so he picked up his glass and said: "Since everyone is humble, let me toast Chairman Qin first. It was Chairman Qin who just said that
We, this glass of wine is from me to Chairman Qin. Chairman Qin, you don’t have to drink other wines, but you must drink this glass of wine, because I represent this glass of wine to you on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of cadres and workers on the national defense science and industry front.
, thank you for your support of our defense industry."
Qin Hai quickly raised his glass and said repeatedly: "Director Bai, I don't dare to take this position, I don't dare to take this position. Xiao Qin, I haven't done enough. I'd rather give this glass of wine to the cutest people on your front."
"Haha, let's go together then." Director Bai smiled, raised his glass, and drank a drink with Qin Hai.
Hearing the conversation between Qin Hai and Director Bai, Cui Hongchun, the Vice Minister of Agriculture on the side, asked in surprise: "What, Director Bai, did Chairman Qin also help you develop new products systematically?"
"That's right. A new product developed by Director Qin specifically for our system has been sold to the United States and has created a lot of revenue for our system. It can be said to have solved our urgent need. Just rush here.
For this matter, I have to make a special trip from the capital to express my gratitude to Director Qin." Director Bai said with emotion.
The new body armor developed by Qin Hai for 70x has now been put into formal production. The first batch of products has also been sent to the United States. The amount of this order is as high as 800 million yuan, which is equivalent to the allocation of more than a dozen research institutes by the Science and Technology Commission
, for such a thing, Director Bai would be willing to come to Pingyuan ten or eight times, not to mention make a trip.
"Xiao Qin is indeed amazing. He contributed a lot to the localization of Pusang Automobile. Last year, he set up a materials college and solved more than a dozen important materials research problems for our Machinery Committee. The most valuable thing is
Yes. All these things he did were not paid for by the state, but he borne the corresponding expenses himself. I came here today just to say thank you to Xiao Qin." Yang Xinyu from the Mechanical Committee continued what Director Bai said.
Said the head.
Cui Hongchun nodded and said: "Yes, Xiao Qin has also been very helpful to our Ministry of Agriculture. It is Xiao Qin's contribution that our country's agricultural machinery products were the first to go abroad and rush to the world."
As soon as they started, others followed. Representatives from Linxi Province, Shannan Province, and Pujiang City all expressed their gratitude to Daqin Group for its investment in their provinces and cities, and hoped that Daqin Group would continue to expand its investment in their local areas.
, and promised to provide various preferential policies allowed within the scope of the policy. As for Yang Xinyu, Cui Hongchun and other ministry officials, naturally from the perspective of this system, they hope that Daqin Group can tilt its business structure towards their system in the future to provide them with more services.
Much help.
Qin Hai responded enthusiastically to everyone's compliments and attempts to win over them. A group of senior provincial and ministerial officials who were unattainable in the eyes of ordinary people were able to put down their pretensions and have a drink with him. All they had to do was call themselves brothers.
, which also made Qin Hai feel quite flattered. He knew that what everyone valued was the strong financial resources of the Daqin Group and his unpredictable skills. It must be said that officials have some ambitions for their own political achievements.
It was quite hard sometimes.
The banquet lasted for nearly three hours until the guests and hosts had enjoyed themselves. Most people were drunk before it ended. When everyone walked out together, Wang Hongsheng patted Qin Hai on the shoulder and asked: "
How about it, Xiao Qin, are you not drunk?"
"Fortunately, Director Wang, I'm not too drunk." Qin Hai replied with a smile. After that, he added in a subtle way: "I haven't drunk so much wine in normal times. I'm probably happy today. I performed at my best."
Already."
Wang Hongsheng said with a smile: "Exceeding your performance is one aspect. You added water to the wine bottle. I'm afraid that's the main reason, right? Don't think I can't see it."
"Director Wang is very aware of the situation. As expected, my little trick was not hidden from Director Wang." Qin Hai chuckled and admitted the fact that he cheated. In fact, in a banquet like this, the host must be the one who drinks the wine himself.
He did some trickery, adding water to 50% white wine, and diluting it to a concentration of less than 10%, so that the master’s drinking capacity could increase five times out of thin air. If he didn’t do these tricks, how could Qin Hai cope with it?
To survive such a big scene.
"Since you're not too drunk, how about you come over to my place and have some tea together?" Wang Hongsheng suggested casually.
Wang Hongsheng's words sounded like a request for advice, but Qin Hai knew that it was actually equivalent to an order. The deputy director of the Planning Commission invited you to drink tea, so there was no room for you to hesitate. He smiled and responded: "I heard that Wang
When the director goes on a business trip, he has to bring his own good tea. I have always wanted to try it, and today I got the chance."
After explaining a few words to Ning Zhongying and Song Hongxuan, Qin Hai followed Wang Hongsheng to the hotel room where he was staying. After entering the room, Wang Hongsheng invited Qin Hai to sit down together, and then ordered his secretary to start making tea.
Wang Hongsheng likes to drink tea. When he goes out, he always asks his secretary to take tea and tea sets with him. The secretary boils a bottle of boiling water using the "heat fast" provided in the room, then takes out a Gongfu tea set from his luggage and scalds it with boiling water.
I got the teapot and teacups, put Tieguanyin tea leaves in the teapot, and started a rather tedious process of making tea.
"Xiao Qin, I invite you to come to the room. I want to have a casual chat with you." Wang Hongsheng looked at the steam rising from the tea set and said to Qin Hai leisurely.
"If Director Wang has any instructions, just put them forward and I will study them seriously." Qin Hai said with a fearful attitude.
Wang Hongsheng waved his hand and said: "It's not an instruction, I'm just chatting with you. Xiao Qin, I listened to what you said at the ceremony about the group's development goals today, and I feel that you have great ambitions."
"The material market itself is huge. The global output value of steel alone is nearly 200 billion US dollars a year. Our group can only account for one ten thousandth of it now, and it can only be regarded as a small effort." Qin Hai
replied.
"Do you want to capture such a big market?" Wang Hongsheng asked.
Qin Hai smiled and said: "Of course it is impossible to occupy them all, but it is completely necessary to occupy a relatively large share. Without enough shares, I will not be able to obtain enough profits, and I will not have money to research and develop new materials.
As you know, developing new materials requires huge investment. Sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars are invested, and there may not be any sound at all."
Wang Hongsheng asked: "However, the domestic steel market is now showing signs of saturation. Our Planning Commission is considering reducing steel production capacity, but you plan to expand the Cenzhou Second Steel Plant. Aren't you afraid that your products will be unsaleable in the future?"
Qin Hai shook his head and said: "Director Wang, domestic steel is still far from saturation. Our country's crude steel output is only 70 million tons a year now. I think that in the future, less than 500 million tons will not be enough."
"500 million tons!" Wang Hongsheng felt like he was shocked, and he said disdainfully, "I think you, Xiao Qin, are used to showing satellites, so you dare to talk about such a number. You know the annual crude steel output in the world now
How much is it, just over 700 million tons? How dare a developing country like China dare to produce 500 million tons of crude steel?”
Qin Haidao: "China will not always be a developing country. We have to catch up with developed countries, and there are still many lessons to be learned. We need to build roads, build railways, and build houses for people, all of which require the use of steel. And developed countries need to use steel.
The country's infrastructure construction has been completed, so the demand for steel is not as large as ours. The 500 million tons of steel a year I said is not just crazy, it is nonsense, this is calculated by our group's research department."
Wang Hongsheng said: "Our Planning Commission's prediction is that by the end of this century, China's annual steel demand will reach about 100 million tons; by 2010, it will probably reach 200 million tons. This is already a relatively optimistic estimate, provided that China's economic
It can maintain the growth rate of previous years without major ups and downs."
Qin Hai opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but swallowed it back. According to his recollection, in actual history, by 2000, the gap with the number mentioned by Wang Hongsheng was not big. But by 2010, China
Annual steel production has reached 600 million tons, accounting for 45% of global production. The reason for this rapid growth is that after entering the new century, China's urban construction and road transportation construction have experienced a blowout growth.
This has driven the demand for raw materials such as steel and cement.
At this point in 1991, it was difficult for people to foresee the situation more than ten years later. Therefore, if Qin Hai told Wang Hongsheng this situation, the other party would definitely disagree. In this case, Qin Hai would not
It's necessary to waste your breath.
"The country now has a plan to gradually liberalize the prices of steel, chemical raw materials and other planned products in the next two to three years. What do you think of this?" Wang Hongsheng changed the topic and turned to Qin Hai.
A new question.
"It is imperative to liberalize planned prices." Qin Hai responded, "Currently, the prices of production materials are seriously underestimated, and there is a huge gap between planned prices and black market prices, which is not conducive to the development of the basic materials industry, so liberalizing prices is inevitable.
Choice. However, I am worried that after the liberalization of basic material prices, the overall price in the market will fluctuate significantly. I don’t know whether the country is ready for this." (To be continued)