"The main reason is that our leaders at the top did not understand the situation and made subjectivist mistakes. Our country's polyester technology has always been very backward. In the 1970s, our relations with the West improved, and the country proposed to vigorously develop polyester
, to meet people's living needs, so several large-scale polyester installations were directly imported from abroad.
“At that time, we did not have the ability to independently develop large-scale polyester plants. Even a 5,000-ton plant was beyond our reach.
"In this way, we had a preconceived idea that the price of polyester equipment would be like this, 10,000 yuan per ton, which is easy to remember. But we never thought about how much the price would be if we made it ourselves.
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"Actually, leaders in some places may be aware of this situation, but..." Wu Zhefu interrupted, but stopped when he said "but" and did not go on.
Gao Fan and Pan Yue both understood the subtext behind this "but". Wu Zhefu clearly said that the introduction of polyester equipment was paid for by the state. For local governments, the more the merrier, since it does not cost money anyway.
government money.
Wu Zhefu interjected these words to excuse Zheng Linong and stop him from taking the responsibility blindly on himself. But what he said after that was a bit heart-wrenching. With his status, he was not suitable for local cadres and Gao Fan.
I would say this in front of outsiders, so I chose a meaningful "but".
Gao Fan said: "Actually, the unit price of polyester equipment is not that expensive. The unit price of large equipment is higher than that of small equipment, but it is not as high as 10,000 yuan per ton.
"The reason why foreign manufacturers offer such sky-high prices is because they are sure that we will not be able to build such a device ourselves. No matter how they quote, we have to hold our noses and admit it."
"So, Xiao Gao, how do you know the price of polyester equipment?" Zheng Linong suddenly asked Gao Fan with great interest.
You know what you wear!
Gao Fan answered in his heart.
As far as the history he knew, China had been making efforts to localize polyester devices, but it was not until the late 1990s that it built its first large-scale 100,000-ton device. And what followed was
That is, the unit price of imported polyester equipment has dropped dramatically, to 1/5 of the previous level.
Only then did the Chinese know how much profit foreign manufacturers had made from China over a long period of time. There were nearly a hundred sets of imported equipment, and the money stolen by others was calculated in tens of billions.
The tens of billions in the 1980s and 1990s were the hard-earned money of more than a billion people!
"When I was helping Aunt Zhou study the ammonium urinary correction program in the factory, I read a lot of information, including information on polyester equipment. I think there are similarities between polyester equipment and ammonia synthesis equipment. From the perspective of the ammonia synthesis equipment,
The manufacturing cost can completely estimate the cost of the polyester device," Gao Fan said.
Pan Yue said: "The difficulty of the polyester plant is higher than that of synthetic ammonia...I mean compared with the small synthetic ammonia we make ourselves, and compared with the imported 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia, the difficulty of the polyester plant is not the same.
It's pretty big.
"Xiao Gao's statement is correct. We compared the prices of the chemical equipment we built ourselves, and we also know that the prices of the imported equipment are inflated. It is a complete robbery of money."
"Robbing money..., that's a good way to say it." Zheng Linong sighed, "Back then, they came with guns to grab money and things, but we beat them away. Now they have changed their method, and they still want to rob us in essence.
This time, we have to break their claws."
"This is a matter of time." Gao Fan said confidently, but then changed the topic and said: "However, our technical level is not as good as others at present, and we still have to learn from their techniques. All we can do is to stick to it.
It's a good fence to prevent them from putting their hands in. That's why I asked Director Pan to take the lead in building a 5,000-ton device."
"Are you saying that in the future we will use our own 5,000-ton equipment to replace imported large-scale equipment?" Zheng Linong asked.
Gao Fan said: "Nothing is impossible. The production capacity of yellowing is 60,000 tons. If we build 12 sets of 5,000-ton units, it is equivalent to building a new yellowing."
"There is still a difference." Pan Yue quickly corrected, "Huanghua has a high degree of automation. The 60,000-ton factory has less than 1,000 cadres and employees. In fact, even 500 people are enough.
"If we build 12 5,000-ton factories, each factory will require at least 200 people, so 12 factories will have 2,400 people."
"Isn't it bad to have more people?" Gao Fan said with a smile, "There are unemployed young people everywhere now. If we can recruit more people, wouldn't it also reduce the country's employment pressure?"
"..." Pan Yue was choked and couldn't speak for a long time.
Gao Fan's words were of course an attempt to argue, and they were done in a very unscrupulous manner. Pan Yue was an honest man, how could he cope with this kind of argument?
However, Pan Yue must also admit that there is some truth to Gao Fan's words.
A very important reason why foreign countries are keen on installing large-scale equipment is that labor costs are too high, and large-scale equipment requires fewer workers, which can save a lot of personnel wages.
But this problem does not exist in China, because there are too many Chinese people, and the salary level of Chinese people cannot even reach 1/30.
Therefore, the low production efficiency of small equipment is something that does not need to be considered at all. If you can save hundreds of millions of yuan in investment, it can be enough to pay wages to many workers. Do you still need to care about how many more people there are?
"One more thing." Gao Fan said with a smile, "Minister Zheng, after you return to Beijing, you will issue a document to encourage various places to use small devices instead of large ones, and also stipulate that large devices will not be introduced in the future without special reasons."
"As a result, foreign manufacturers will have to lower their prices." Zheng Linong laughed.
This is called telepathy. As soon as Gao Fan made a move, Zheng Linong knew what he meant.
"This is called playing hard to get." Wu Zhefu concluded.
Zheng Linong said: "We need to capture it, but we must control it. If foreign manufacturers can significantly reduce prices, they don't need to lower their prices to 20%. Even if it is reduced to 30%, we can continue to introduce several sets of equipment.
"However, we must pay close attention to the matter of localization. If you don't have any skills, others will dare to bully you."
Having said this, he turned to look at Pan Yue and asked: "Old Pan, just now Xiao Gao suggested that you go to Hua'an Company as the chief engineer and take the lead in the development of 5,000-ton equipment. This matter ultimately depends on you.
It’s personal preference. If you don’t want to go to the company, I won’t force you to do it. You see..."
"Minister Zheng, I...I am willing!" Pan Yue stood up suddenly. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something bold, but his words were stuck for a moment and he didn't know how to say it.