China is a major petroleum refining country. Because of the authorities’ emphasis on the energy industry and long-term investment, China’s petroleum refining capacity exceeded 100 million tons as early as 1988. Now, it is estimated that China’s annual refining capacity in 1998 The chemical volume is 170 million tons. Although it cannot be compared with the 750 million tons of the United States and 240 million tons of Japan during the same period, it is still more than enough compared with other Western developed countries such as Germany, which has a refining and chemical production capacity of 110 million tons.
However, the problems are also obvious.
This is because the deep processing capacity in the refining and chemical field is seriously insufficient. Most of the income from China's refining and chemical industry is still basic primary refining products such as diesel and gasoline, and the quality is generally not flattering.
As for basic industrial raw materials such as olefins in the field of deep processing, taking the currently scarce ethylene product in mainland China as an example, the annual production capacity in 1998 is expected to be only 3.7 million tons, which is only equivalent to 8% of the 45 million tons of ethylene annual output in the United States.
It is conceivable that if China's refining and chemical industry cannot provide basic olefin chemical raw materials for a long time and cannot supply the massive demand for synthetic rubber, artificial fibers, synthetic plastics and other products, it will be difficult for China to become the world's factory.
In the past year, in order to deal with the shortcomings in the petrochemical field, the Chinese government deliberately integrated related industries and reorganized the two major groups of PetroChina and Sinopec. It was against this background that CNOOC's IPO began to advance, with the goal of Promote the industrial upgrading of China's petrochemical industry.
The two refining and chemical projects of the Westeros System in Lianyungang and Ningbo were also created in the context of this industrial reform.
China's refining and chemical industry does not prohibit foreign investment from entering. Of course, potential barriers aside, this is certainly the case at least on the surface. Including the attitude of the upper levels of the authorities, they also hope to introduce foreign investment to strengthen competition and achieve the catfish effect.
The problem is, no one sees things that simply.
Therefore, the Westeros system provides two refining and chemical integration projects, complete deep processing areas, rather than basic refining and chemical plants that produce various primary oils. This will first avoid conflicts with various local snakes in basic business. compete.
But the problem is still there.
The key is that these two projects are quite large. Each has an annual refining and chemical production of 5 million tons. When added together, the two projects equal 10 million tons, which is directly equivalent to 6% of China's current total refining and chemical production capacity.
Turning to the specific basic compound production capacity, not to mention other aromatic basic materials, let’s take the most critical ethylene product as an example. The estimated production capacity of the two factories is 300,000 tons each, and the total is 600,000 tons.
China's total ethylene production capacity in 1998 was only 3.7 million tons, with only two factories, accounting for 16%.
Moreover, if the two factories develop well, it is impossible to say that they will not expand production in the future. With the strength of the Westeros system, it is likely to develop into a larger refining and chemical industry cluster.
In short, even if in the current plan, the proportion of Chinese state-owned capital in the two factories will reach 30 to 40%, it will inevitably arouse concerns from all parties, either worrying about the impact on China's refining and chemical industry structure, or worrying about the impact on their own sites. Embezzlement, or more conspiracy theories, some worry that this is an industrial upgrading plan by overseas capital to attack China's refining and chemical fields, blah blah blah.
Of course, there are a lot of people who agree.
The first is a huge investment of US$1 billion. After the financial crisis, deflation began in China and there was a lack of funds in various fields. Both cooperative enterprises and local governments were eager to take advantage of it.
This is a lot of GDP!
Secondly, there are people in the upper echelons of the government who hope to introduce these two catfishes to stimulate the state-owned giants who are inevitably lazy under the protection of policies to work hard. At the same time, in the context of the ongoing wave of layoffs, create a large number of jobs and alleviate domestic conflicts.
Amidst the back-and-forth between all parties, the meeting in Beijing was finally held.
The Lianyungang project has actually been approved, this time mainly for Ningbo.
However, to put it bluntly, if the Ningbo project fails to pass the approval, Lianyungang is still just the beginning after all. Since similar investments are not popular, in order to ensure the safety of our own capital, it is difficult to say whether there will be changes in the future, and the possibility of cancellation directly It’s not big, but it’s conceivable to reduce the investment scale.
This is a result that everyone knows very well.
After all, even if Simon has a good relationship with China's top leaders, the problem is that the king of hell is easy to meet, but the devil is difficult to deal with.
Still the kind that can haunt people to death.
Anyone with a little experience, especially businessmen, understands this truth.
Simon is not naive either.
Therefore, if you don’t get clear support at the beginning and push forward reluctantly, you are likely to have troubles in the future.
The meeting at two o'clock in the afternoon lasted until more than five o'clock. For more than three hours, there were back and forth, exchanges of words, and the atmosphere was not harmonious.
Chen Qing did not speak during the whole process, but listened silently, occasionally lowering her head to write a few words on her notepad.
After the meeting ended, and just after leaving the conference room, Lin Lan chased after Chen Qing and asked worriedly: "Sister Chen, do you think it can be done?"
Chen Qing waved her hand to talk later, smiled and briefly exchanged greetings with a senior official from the State Planning Commission who came out immediately. The two parties were actually familiar with each other, but the current situation was not suitable for talking more, so they went their separate ways after a few casual words.
Then two or three others did the same.
Lin Lan is also a human spirit. After watching quietly, she finally left the office building and came to the parking lot. She held Chen Qing's arm with a smile: "Sister Chen, look at the situation, is it done?"
He even winked deliberately as he spoke.
I have to say that in fact, both of them were born in 1968, the same year as someone else, and it is not necessarily clear who is older and who is younger. However, just like Lin Lan calls brother-in-law in front of Simon without hesitation, with Chen Qing, Because Chen Qing acted too mature, Lin Lan, who inevitably ignored the issue of age, also subconsciously called Chen Qing Sister Chen.
Chen Qing didn't mean to pay attention to these details and said, "In the next two days, the results should be there."
Lin Lan saw that Chen Qing had no intention of saying more and that people around her were talking too much, so she didn't ask any more questions and instead said: "Sister Chen, there is a reception dinner here in the capital next, do you want to go with us?"
Chen Qing shook her head: "Forget it this time. I've flown around half the world in the past few days. I need to have a good rest tonight."
Lin Lan didn't force it, just said: "I will be in the capital in the past few days. When will we have dinner together?"
Chen Qing asked, "Where do you live?"
"Provincial Guest House."
Chen Qing also liked this girl who had a similar personality and invited her, "Why don't you come to Mao'er Hutong? Can we have dinner together anytime?"
"Oh, I'm not going," Lin Lan shook her head with a strange expression, and added: "My sister specifically didn't let me go."
Chen Qing immediately thought of Lin Su and the second little guy in the other person's belly, and suddenly felt bad: "Then forget it."
Lin Lan knew that Chen Qing was actually not a good-tempered person, so he didn't mind seeing her change her face.
The two sides chatted for a few more words, and the investment team of Westeros Company and the person in charge of South Korea's SK Group also came over to say hello. The latter was Zhong Shenhao, who was personally selected by Chen Qing. After a certain person dedicated his wife and daughter to Not only was he exempted from prison, but he was also promoted to a middle-aged man who had the power of the Korean side of this project.
Seeing Zhong Shenhao step forward to greet him respectfully, Chen Qing smiled again and chatted with the other party, adding a few words in Chinese to test the other party's Chinese ability.
This is Chen Qing's request for the Korean team.
At this stage, the country is basically groveling towards foreign investment. Very few require foreign representatives to master Chinese. They all actively cooperate, and only Chen Qing dares to do so.
It's not that I'm looking for a sense of superiority or anything like that, but for the smooth progress of the project.
After chatting like this for a while, Chen Qing nodded to express satisfaction. Then she remembered something and said to Zhong Shenhao: "The speech you gave at the meeting about the prospects of the refining and chemical industry was good. Do you have a draft? Can you give me a copy?"
"Yes, of course," Zhong Shenhao bowed in response, turned to a young man behind him and said, "Haoxian, give me the manuscript of your speech quickly."
The young man was originally standing not far from the two of them, slightly confused by Zhong Shenhao's groveling in front of Chen Qing. Hearing the call, he stepped forward a few steps before he realized what he was doing, opened his handbag, lowered his head and started rummaging.
Rummage, rummage.
Chen Qing waited patiently for more than ten seconds, and finally frowned, looked at Zhong Shenhao, and said in a rude tone: "Is this your illegitimate child?"
Zhong Shenhao felt Chen Qing's sarcastic tone and started to break out in cold sweat. He did not dare to hide it: "Ms. Chen, this is Haoxian, my nephew. Oh, he is also Enjing's brother, Quan Eunjing."
As the two talked, Quan Haoxian finally found the information. Of course, he heard the conversation between the two nearby. He was inevitably nervous and handed the thin speech manuscript to Chen Qing with one hand.
Chen Qing did not answer, but glanced at Zhong Shenhao.
Zhong Shenhao felt that there was more than just cold sweat on his forehead. He turned around decisively, took the information and slapped his nephew on the face: "Idiot, didn't your mother teach you manners?"
After speaking, regardless of the young man who stumbled back a few steps, he turned to Chen Qing with a smile on his face. He bowed and presented the manuscript with both hands: "Miss Chen, I'm so sorry."
Only then did Chen Qing take the information, hand it to Jiang Shanwu beside her, and then said to Zhong Shenhao: "I don't care whose brother he is, and I don't care what rubbish you add to your team. If the project in Ningbo cannot be completed, Okay, I will only make trouble for you, Mr. Zhong, you should know that I am very good at making trouble for others, do you understand?"
Zhong Shenhao bowed again tremblingly: "Yes."
When Chen Qing saw him nodding, she didn't say anything more, turned around, got in the car and drove away.
In the parking lot, including Lin Lan and others who had not yet left, they all watched this scene with expressions of surprise and even horror, even if they could not hear the conversation between the two parties.
Even if some people probably know Chen Qing's identity, how dare someone in South Korea do this
Zhong Shenhao maintained a respectful posture until Chen Qing's car disappeared from sight, then he straightened up, not paying attention to the strange expressions of the people around him. He knew very well the cruelty of a certain female Rakshasa, and if he lost this face, he would lose it. If you want to get it back, you are courting death. So he just got into his car silently and motioned to his nephew, who had just been beaten, to sit next to him.
When the car started, Zhong Shenhao, who still couldn't hide his anger after all, saw his nephew covering his face and looking at him frequently. He became angry again, raised his hand to cover his face and hit him with another blast: "Idiot, you idiot, I let you Think hard about your work, I'll ask you to study Chinese hard, you know how to pick up girls, Chinese girls are easy to pick up, right? Unfortunately, you can't pick up girls anymore, you can go back to Korea tomorrow morning!"
Quan Haoxian, who was holding his head and being beaten by his uncle, was not angry at first. Hearing that Zhong Shenhao wanted to drive him back to South Korea, he suddenly became anxious: "Uncle, where did I go wrong? Can you explain it clearly?"
Zhong Shenhao slapped him again, but unfortunately this time he only hit Quan Haoxian's head, and the rebound caused pain in his palm. He scolded: "Idiot, didn't you hear what I just said? Since you don't know where you are wrong. , then you should go back to South Korea."
"I'm just a little slow in finding files. Is it that serious?"
Zhong Shenhao simply ignored it.
Quan Haoxian, who was talking back, felt guilty when he saw his uncle being like this. He came to China during this period and was praised and worshiped everywhere, as well as the women here... In short, this was something he couldn't even think about as an unemployed vagrant in Korea. What you dare to think about, if you are driven back to South Korea...how can you do that!
Thinking of this, Quan Haoxian paused, not wanting to admit his mistake and beg for mercy, but said: "Uncle, last time, don't forget, it was my family Eun Kyung who called someone for help, so that you could avoid...avoid going to jail. , you can’t do this to me.”
When Zhong Shenhao heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he didn't bother to call again. He didn't even explain to this hopeless nephew that the person his niece was calling for help was probably the woman just now. He just took out a cigarette and lit it. He said again: "Go back tomorrow and work hard to learn Chinese well and gain professional knowledge in refining. I will take the assessment personally in a year. If you pass, I will ask you to come over and help me."
Quan Haoxian realized that his uncle was actually being serious, and finally couldn't sit still: "I won't go back, I, it's okay if I'm wrong, I'll start working hard tomorrow."
Zhong Shenhao just said: "I'll wait for someone to book your flight ticket for tomorrow."
Quan Haoxian was even more anxious, scratching his neck: "I, I won't go back."
Zhong Shenhao gritted his teeth and glared: "You can try."
Quan Haoxian moved his body in his seat and quietly moved farther away from his uncle to avoid being beaten again, but he repeated: "I won't go back."
"I'll have you strapped to the plane."
The atmosphere fell into silence.
After a while, Quan Haoxian finally began to beg for mercy: "Uncle, you can't do this to me, my mother, and Eun Kyung, you can't do this to me."
Zhong Shenhao also exploded again and slapped him again: "Idiot, why do you think I brought you to China? I'm not good enough for you? But, let's not talk about just now, look at what you have done during this time, You idiot, mud, and unworthy thing, if you don’t go back, right? I’ll beat you to death and send your body back!”
Of course Chen Qing doesn't know what will happen next, nor does she care.
The day after the meeting, Chen Qing was once again summoned to the yamen where the meeting was organized yesterday, and met with the chief assistant. The two talked for more than ten minutes about Ningbo's refining project. When they left, the matter had been settled.