For a moment, the atmosphere among the three of them was a little dull.
Zhang Heng ignored Fang Hao's thoughts and took the lead in walking ahead. As soon as he left the airport, he saw two black cars parked not far away. Beside the car was a man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a gray suit. A tall, thin Chinese man in a suit.
"Are you three people from Hengxing Technology?" The tall and thin man asked quickly when he saw Zhang Heng and the others coming.
"I am Li Yiru who is contacting you, and this is my boss Zhang Heng, Mr. Zhang." Li Yiru walked between the two of them and introduced him skillfully according to the rules of the business world.
"Hello, Mr. Zhang, I'm really amazed. I didn't expect the boss of Hengxing Technology to be so young. According to our Chinese saying, it is true that a hero emerges from a young age." The tall and thin man showed a look of amazement and silently took a picture of Zhang Heng. A horse. "I am Zhu Fugui, and my ancestor is also from China, Changxi, China."
"Where, I have heard the name of the famous entrepreneur Zhu Fugui for a long time." Zhang Heng shook hands with the other party and said calmly, "I still have a lot to learn. Mr. Zhu, as a business elite, you are free. But you must give me guidance as a junior.”
"Where should we go? Let's give each other advice."
The two chatted for a while, then Zhu Fugui opened the car door and invited Zhang Heng to get in the car, while Li Yiru and Fang Hao got into another car.
Zhu Fugui is the legal person and CEO of Kangbo Pharmaceutical Company. He immigrated to Singapore when he was young. After working hard for most of his life, he finally established Kangbo Pharmaceutical Company, a small business. He originally thought he could prosper, but he was too ambitious. , touching the minefield of small companies-drug research and development.
As modern medical technology becomes higher and higher, the development costs and technical content requirements of new drugs are also getting higher and higher, and drug research and development is becoming more and more difficult. Small companies with tens of millions of dollars like Kangbo Pharmaceuticals are not qualified to play. Started.
The emergence of a new type of drug requires not only a lot of money, but also corresponding talents and luck. Pfizer invests billions of dollars in research and development of new drugs every year. Even so, it often loses everything. From here, you can See the difficulties in pharmaceutical research and development in the world today.
Because of this, most of the companies in the world that really have the ability to develop new drugs are the pharmaceutical giants in European and American countries. However, the pharmaceutical industry is indeed a huge profit industry. Although research and development is difficult, once a new patented drug of huge value is developed, the profits will be huge.
For example, the star anti-cancer drug Gleevec is a first-line drug for the treatment of leukemia developed by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Company, with an effective rate of up to 95%. And it has also achieved definite efficacy in the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors. The market price of Gleevec in China is 23,500 yuan per box. One box can be used for about a month, and the annual cost is more than 280,000 yuan! In fact, the production cost of Gleevec is only a few dollars per box, which translates to only 50 yuan!
The 50-yuan drug sells for more than 20,000 yuan in China. Except for half of the cost, which is the patent fee charged by Novartis, the rest of the profit is taken away by hospitals and distributors.
Before Huaxia's imported drugs reach the hospital, they have to go through at least three levels of "exploitation" by dealers. Each level has an average premium of 5%-7%. Moreover, due to the existence of the "drugs support doctors" system, Huaxia Hospital still pays less than the actual purchase price. The basic price increase is 10%-15%. These reasons are superimposed on each other, which finally leads to the existence of sky-high price drugs.
The reason for all this, in the final analysis, is that Chinese pharmaceutical companies dare not develop new drugs themselves, and would rather spend a lot of patent fees to manufacture other people's drugs. Anyway, they will make money no matter what.
Therefore, after knowing that Zhu Fugui took the initiative to develop new drugs, Zhang Heng actually admired him very much. Regardless of his ability, at least this person dared to think and do it.
Zhu Fugui seemed to know that the person in front of him was definitely a financial backer. He was very polite to Zhang Heng. Not only did he come to the airport to greet the three of them, he even booked three standard rooms in a five-star hotel and gave Zhang Heng a ticket before visiting his company. Had a reception banquet.
After finishing the meal, Zhang Heng directly asked Zhu Fugui to take him to visit the laboratory of Kangbo Pharmaceutical Company. The laboratory is located in Qiao Biomedical Park in Weiyi Technology City. In addition, Kangbo Pharmaceutical Company also has a pharmaceutical company. The workshop, but the location of the pharmaceutical workshop is far away, located on Jurong Island on the southwest coast of Singapore.
Jurong Island is an artificial island connected by reclamation in Singapore. It is about ten kilometers away from the urban area and has a total area of 32 square kilometers. It is a gathering place for factories in Singapore and has gathered a large number of chemical project factories.
Zhang Heng got in the car and Zhu Fugui discussed it for a while and decided that the first stop would be the laboratory. After the laboratory tour was completed, it was his turn to visit the pharmaceutical workshop.
The combination of Singapore, a country and a city, gives people a unique impression of cleanliness. Whether it is the rows of skyscrapers or the wide green roads, they all give people a lively rhythm. Moreover, Singapore is also known as one of the cities with the best security in the world, and the police are very efficient.
Zhang Heng sat in the car and looked out of the car. He had indeed seen cleanliness, but the good public order seemed a bit undeserved, because he had already discovered that a black Mercedes-Benz had been following behind his car, and it had been there since he got off the plane. Followed.
The license plate number of that car is indeed a Singapore license plate, but due to the refraction of light by the glass, you can't see what's going on inside the car. You can only see the other person hanging faintly behind your car across two or three parking spaces. He has already followed several people. street.
Zhang Heng turned around calmly and exchanged polite greetings with Zhu Fugui. In less than half an hour, the car drove into Qiao Biomedical Park.
"Mr. Zhang, this is the building where my laboratory is located." After the car drove to a pillar-shaped building, Zhu Fugui got out of the car and pointed to the road ahead, "This biological experimental building has gathered all the data from around the world. There are ten laboratories of one of the best pharmaceutical groups, and many public laboratories are vacant. If you acquire our company and are not satisfied with our small laboratory, you can also rent more advanced experimental equipment. Everything is available here. "
"I hope so." Zhang Heng smiled and walked into the building under Zhu Fugui's guidance. However, as soon as he entered the hall, he saw three or four security guards standing on both sides. Outsiders who want to enter the building must register and notify us, which is very strict.
Seeing the order here, Zhang Heng finally nodded with satisfaction, and then followed Zhu Fugui in the elevator to the 32nd floor, where a metallic door stood in front of him.
"This is our company's exclusive laboratory. We spent nearly ten million dollars to buy it. Unlike now, even if we have money, we can't buy it. We can only rent it." Zhu Fugui said with some pride.
Zhang Heng nodded secretly. It was precisely because he had spotted this laboratory that he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to acquire this company. Otherwise, a pharmaceutical company with no reputation and on the verge of bankruptcy would not be worth Zhang Heng's 50 million US dollars. Buy.
I saw Zhu Fugui lying at the window next to the door with a serious face verifying his irises and fingerprints. Soon, the red light on the door turned green with a beep, and a crack suddenly opened in the tightly sealed door.
"Please come in, because this is a sterile laboratory, so the three of you must wear dustproof clothing." Zhu Fugui made a gesture of invitation.
Zhang Heng nodded, and after walking in, he directly found a dressing room and changed into dark yellow dustproof clothes. Then he entered the inside of the laboratory. He saw that the entire laboratory was divided into three rooms by walls made of tempered glass. One of them is a testing room, and the other two are drug synthesis rooms and laboratories.
"These instruments are all brand new and have been used for less than half a year. Especially in the testing room, the machines inside have not been turned on a few times. They are all imported from Europe and the United States." Zhu Fugui pointed to these instruments.
Zhang Heng observed it. These equipment were as clean as new. They were indeed new equipment that had not been used much. However, their advanced level was open to question. If Zhang Heng wanted to cultivate the first batch of clones here, he would need to purchase the equipment himself. Just fine.
Thinking of this, Zhang Heng also lost interest in visiting. He just wanted to observe the confidentiality level and the size of the space. Now it seems that the tightness here is up to standard, but the space is not large. However, Zhang Heng knew that if he wanted to mass-produce human clones, it would not be possible to rely on such a laboratory. He would have to have a dedicated assembly line factory. This was just a laboratory for the first batch of human clones.
After visiting the laboratory, Zhu Fugui once again took Zhang Heng to the pharmaceutical workshop. He saw the disapproval in Zhang Heng's eyes. He vigorously told the advantages of his company along the way. It seemed that what he was talking about was not a bankrupt company, but a bankrupt company. A Fortune 500 company is average.
Zhang Heng secretly observed on the way, and sure enough, the car was still following him, but he didn't know whether the other party's target was Zhu Fugui or himself.
When he arrived at Jurong Island, Zhang Heng sighed secretly. The pharmaceutical workshop of Kangbo Pharmaceutical Company was only two acres in size, and it was located on a traffic thoroughfare. There were large chemical plants on both sides. People came and went, so it couldn't be regarded as a clone. Human assembly line production factory.
Seeing this, Zhang Heng lost interest in visiting. After following Zhu Fugui around for a while, he went back home and agreed with Zhu Fugui to sign the acquisition contract at noon tomorrow.
Zhu Fugui was very excited that the two parties had reached an agreement and strongly requested to take Zhang Heng out for some fun in the evening, but Zhang Heng refused.
When they returned to the hotel that Zhu Fugui had booked for the three of them, it was already evening. After casually eating some unique Singaporean delicacies, Zhang Heng returned to the room and squinted his eyes as he looked downstairs.
As expected, the Mercedes-Benz was still parked downstairs.
It seems that the other party is indeed coming for me.