Of course, the fact that the United States has come into contact with export restrictions on parts and components needed for deep space technology does not mean that they will give up. It means that they have adopted more comprehensive suppression methods.
The new year has arrived, but the international market is not calm. Every day, huge changes are taking place that have not been seen in the past ten years.
"In the past month, the prices of several raw materials that we are in short supply have generally increased by about 50%." In the office, Meng Xiaobai listened to Deng Yun's report.
"What about Shanxin Group?" Meng Xiaobai asked.
"Currently, Shanxin Group's steel production is stable, but some rare metal raw materials are still in short supply. Shanxin Group has sent five groups of employees to Senilia to mine mines," Deng Yun said.
"Yeah." Meng Xiaobai motioned for her to continue.
"In addition, the EU antitrust law enforcement authorities have opened a case. They suspect that we use abnormal business methods to monopolize the market in the European market." Deng Yun said, "If the investigation is established, they may issue us a fine of one billion euros."
"Monopoly? What's the reason?"
"The reason is that we refuse to provide technology patent authorization to relevant European companies in terms of chip and holographic projection technology, which undermines normal market competition." Deng Yun said.
"Haha, they also want this kind of reason?" Meng Xiaobai said with a smile, "Do they still have few restrictions on our technology?"
"It's indeed a lot." Deng Yun responded.
"If they want to investigate, let them investigate." Meng Xiaobai emphasized, "But we refuse to open these technologies to them because these are national confidential technologies and we will not authorize them. If they want mobile phone chips or holographic projections
Components can be purchased from Deep Space Technology.”
"If they insist on issuing a fine, appeal first. If the appeal is fruitless, then we would rather withdraw from the European market." Meng Xiaobai said.
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Mo Yiran, the head of the European Union, antitrust enforcement agency, and Deep Space Technology's French headquarters, expressed Meng Xiaobai's meaning euphemistically to investigator Carlisle.
"Thank you for your cooperation, we will investigate clearly." Carlisle sent Mo Yiran away, and then sighed helplessly, "The investigation can be suspended."
"Why, Mr. Carlisle, we have every reason to give them a ticket!" the secretary asked.
"Yes, this is our territory. Of course we can find countless reasons to issue them a sky-high fine. According to EU rules, violations of the Anti-Market Monopoly Law can impose a fine of up to 10% of the company's global sales."
A fine," Carlisle explained, "but they won't accept it."
"I can imagine that once we issue a fine, they will sue us soon. Or they will withdraw from the European market. People have become accustomed to their products, and then they will scold us." Carlisle said, "More
Besides, according to their country’s technical confidentiality treaty, they don’t have any problems.”
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While the EU has given up on issuing fines for deep space technology, Meng Xiaobai is also making the group's plans for the new year.
The original company remained basically unchanged, and he reinvested in several companies. In addition to some manufacturers in the upstream and downstream of the supply chain, Deep Space Technology Group added four major subsidiaries.
First, the financial system of Shen Kong Technology Group was separated and Shen Kong Financial Investment Co., Ltd. was established, specifically for fund management and project investment.
Secondly, a Deep Space International Trading Co., Ltd. was established to specialize in foreign trade transactions and other commercial activities.
The third one is Blue Star Heavy Industry. It separated some people and equipment from Blue Star Automobile Manufacturing Group to set up a heavy industry enterprise specifically to manufacture heavy equipment and began to develop and manufacture large-scale machinery and equipment.
The last one is Deep Space Exploration Technology Company.
This company is Meng Xiaobai's highlight this year. The purpose of Deep Space Technology from the beginning is to explore the deep space of the universe. However, due to lack of funds and strength, Meng Xiaobai has never tried it before.
This year has reached the fourth year of the establishment of Deep Space Technology. Today's Deep Space Technology is not what it used to be, and it has the ability to start climbing higher on the technology tree. That's why Meng Xiaobai registered the Deep Space Exploration Technology Co., Ltd.
Strictly speaking, this company should be a sub-group. Because Meng Xiaobai has already planned to establish multiple subsidiaries under Deep Space Exploration Technology Co., Ltd., including aerospace technology, transportation rockets, communication network satellites, etc.
These subsidiaries or sub-groups will form a group group of deep space technology aerospace and outer space technology.
Of course, Meng Xiaobai currently does not have that much money to get it all in one go. Aerospace and aviation technology is a big money burner. This kind of thing can easily burn off hundreds of millions or billions in minutes!
So Meng Xiaobai started with aerospace technology, investing money to establish the Deep Space Exploration Aerospace Technology Research Institute and building a team.
The issue of deep space technology spending money on aerospace technology sparked a period of discussion, but because there were no follow-up reports, the news quickly fell silent.
Meng Xiaobai first went to Blue Star Heavy Industry to guide the research and development of heavy machinery and equipment. Among them, the equipment needed for mining is a top priority.
The rise in prices in the international raw material market has caused their raw material costs to surge. In order to prevent competitors from getting stuck on raw materials, Meng Xiaobai wants to increase the speed of raw material mining, so he first promotes the research and development of large-scale mining machinery.
"High-power excavators, electric forklifts and drilling rigs are the top priority among mining equipment." Meng Xiaobai looked at the drawings and said to himself, "This is another new challenge."
The mechanical knowledge he learned was not enough to design heavy industry equipment. So Meng Xiaobai started learning again, and his teacher was naturally Jin Mu from the planet Cybertron.
Meng Xiaobai stayed at Blue Star Heavy Industry for two months, studying, designing, manufacturing, improving, etc. In two months, with the help of Jin Mu, he finally designed a batch of qualified heavy industry equipment and manufactured them all.
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This is also due to the improvement of metal smelting technology of Shanxin Group and the technology accumulation of Blue Star Machinery Manufacturing Factory.
In the past two months, Shanxin Group purchased two mineral properties in Senilia and from the hands of King Kaila, and obtained a mining license.
"Take our heavy machinery and go to Senilia to test the waters!" Meng Xiaobai ordered.
The people of the group immediately began operations to export the newly produced heavy machinery and equipment to Senilia and transport it via ocean-going cargo ships.
After Meng Xiaobai was fully prepared, he embarked on the journey to Senilia again. This time, he not only had to test the equipment, but also reached an agreement with the king of Keira and other kings of Senilia to completely solve the problem of raw materials.