Gao Fan plunged into Maolin Research Institute, but handed a huge trouble to Maolin Provincial Chemical Industry Department.
This troublesome matter is the joint venture between the American Odin Factory and Maolin Chemical Machinery Factory.
Before Gao Fan left the United States, he met Valance again and learned that the Chemical Industry Department of Maolin Province had established contact with him and was discussing the specific details of the joint venture.
When Gao Fan returned to Beijing, he called Xu Ying to inquire. Xu Ying's reply was that the atmosphere of the remote negotiation between the two parties was quite harmonious, but due to unfamiliarity with each other and the huge cultural differences between China and the United States,
It may take several months for this negotiation to be finalized.
In Gao Fan's opinion, he hopes that the two parties can complete the joint venture as soon as possible. He is also waiting to hand over the vitamin C production equipment to this joint venture for production. But judging from Xu Ying's words, this matter does not seem to have happened.
It was so easy, so he was wondering whether to make other plans.
It was precisely because of this expectation that Gao Fan stayed in the school for a few more days and did not rush back to Maolin. Then, he was invited by the "relevant departments" to the Fenglin Research Institute.
Things under the sun are so dramatic. Just a few days after Gao Fan entered the Maple Forest Research Institute, the negotiations between the Maolin Provincial Department of Chemical Industry and the Aoding Factory made breakthrough progress. The Aoding Factory stated in principle
We will cooperate with the Maolin Provincial Department of Chemical Industry and send an executive named Dampier to fly to China to conduct an on-site inspection of the Maolin Chemical Machinery Factory.
After receiving this news, Xu Ying of course immediately thought of contacting Gao Fan and asking Gao Fan to accompany Dampier on the inspection. Or to be more precise, let Gao Fan be one of the people accompanying Dampier on the inspection. After all,
When American investors come to Maolin Province, more than one department from the province needs to send people to accompany them.
Xu Ying called Canghai Fertilizer Factory and heard that Gao Fan had participated in a research project involving national defense secrets and was currently half out of contact. Even Gao Yiping didn't know when he would be back.
Gao Fan is not a formal employee of Maple Forest Research Institute, and he only participates in the research of national defense coatings as an auxiliary staff, not as the project leader. If the Chemical Industry Department of Maolin Province sends an official letter to the provincial bank and requests Gao Fan to come back temporarily to help, that is also
It can be done.
But there is really no strong reason from the Department of Chemical Industry, and the opinions of several department leaders are not unanimous. Several people feel that Gao Fan's role in this matter is just to help pull the strings. Now the foreign guests have arrived in Mao
Now that Lin is here, there is no point in dragging Gao Fan over.
The Provincial Foreign Affairs Office and the Department of Foreign Trade all have personnel who are proficient in foreign affairs, and the Department of Chemical Industry has many backbones in the chemical industry. Is there anything else that this little kid cannot get involved in?
If Gao Fan was in Maolin, there would be no harm in calling him to join him. But now that he is not in the province and is said to be participating in some important project, there is no need for the province to mobilize all the troops to bring him back.
Xu Ying also thinks so in her heart. What she thinks more about than others is that Gao Fan contacted her about this matter, so if the joint venture succeeds in the future, Gao Fan's name should be on the credit book. He is now
If you don't participate in accompanying Dampier on the inspection, it will be a bit disadvantageous to share the credit in the future.
However, this is not an important matter after all, right?
In this way, the provincial government instructed the Department of Chemical Industry to take the lead, with the participation of the Department of Foreign Trade, the Foreign Affairs Office and other departments to form a reception team, with Xu Ying as the team leader and fully responsible for receiving Dampier.
Since there is no airport in Maolin Province that can land international flights, Xu Ying rushed to Beijing with a few people, picked up Dampier, and took a flight back to Ruizhang.
Just like the treatment Bob received when he first arrived in Ruizhang, Dampier received a warm welcome as soon as he got off the plane. There was no need to elaborate on all kinds of red tape such as flowers and banquets.
After three days of drunken "rest" every day, Dampier finally began to inspect the Maohua Machine.
As the leader of the reception team, Xu Ying naturally had to accompany her throughout the entire process. In addition to her, Dampier was also accompanied by Liang Guodong, director of the Mechanical Division of the Department of Chemical Industry, Ji Yulin, engineer of the Chemical Design Institute, and the work assigned by the Provincial Economic Commission.
Personnel Wu Yawei and translator Ge Zhiliang sent by the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office and others.
As for Maohua Machinery Factory Director Guo Jiahua, Chief Engineer Yang Jinglin, etc., they cannot be regarded as accompanying personnel, but are the people responsible for introducing the situation to Dampier.
"Mr. Dampier, this is our metalworking workshop. There are a total of 26 lathes, 12 milling machines, 4 grinders, and 1 gantry planer in this workshop. Among them, these 12 lathes here were purchased just a few years ago.
Yes, you see, the paint on it is still brand new."
Yang Jinglin pointed to the machine tools in the workshop and introduced them to Dampier.
Knowing that foreign guests would come to inspect, Maohua Machinery carried out a thorough cleaning a week in advance. All the debris that had been piled up randomly in the workshop was removed, and the trolleys and tool boxes for transporting workpieces were carefully placed.
It appears horizontally and vertically.
All machine tools have been thoroughly wiped, and some old sludge that has accumulated in the gaps for decades has been dug out by workers with knives, making these machines look shiny.
The workers in the workshop were also required to put on new work clothes, and each person also learned a few foreign words such as "Hello" and "Three grams of oil" so that they could cope with inquiries from foreign guests.
"Seller of cakes, is this true? I can't believe my eyes!"
Dampier turned a blind eye to the workers standing behind the machine tools, dressed like their new sons-in-law. Instead, he showed a strange interest in the machine tools themselves, or he could be said to be somewhat shocked.
He walked forward, touched a CA6140 lathe with his hand, and shouted this with an exaggerated expression.
Translator Ge Zhiliang faithfully translated Dampier's words to everyone. Xu Ying frowned slightly and asked in a low voice: "What does he mean?"
Ge Zhiliang then turned to Dampier and tactfully relayed Xu Ying's question. Dampier smiled slightly and said: "Ms. Xu, I really didn't expect that this time when I came to China, I would be able to see the same type of lathe that my grandfather used.
Reminds me... of a lot of things."
After hearing Ge Zhiliang's translation, everyone looked at each other. Everyone felt that this didn't sound right.
The lathe he touched was one of the newly purchased lathes that Yang Jinglin solemnly introduced. In his mouth, it was an old thing that his grandfather had used?
"Oh, these grinders are very familiar to me. Our Odin factory used to have several grinders like this. Then... let me think about it, it must have been fifteen years ago. We sold them as scrap metal.
I didn’t expect to see them here.”
Dampier didn't care what the Chinese people accompanying him thought, he just sighed to himself.