Although Tianshu Machinery Company achieved relatively good results in 1985, it did not expand its business boundaries and the domestic infrastructure was basically stable during this year, resulting in no surge in operating income.
As for foreign business, since Sunflower Investment Company began to invest heavily in the real estate markets of various countries, the demand for construction machinery and equipment has increased, which can be regarded as a pretty good result.
In addition to these construction machinery, there is also production line equipment. With the large-scale reform of domestic enterprises, an important one is technological reform, which has caused a lot of growth in their business.
However, since this business is not carried out by Tianshu Machinery Company alone, their operating income is not so impressive compared to the overall income.
Moreover, the high-end precision equipment on the production line is provided by Tiangong Precision Instrument Company, so Tiangong Precision Instrument Company definitely accounts for the majority of the income on the production line.
However, starting in 1986, the large-scale domestic infrastructure construction plan began to be implemented. By then, their sales of various construction machinery will win an unprecedented period of rapid growth.
For this reason, Zhao Yi asked Tianshu Machinery Company to prepare for the expansion of recruitment and production from the very beginning. Not to mention the infrastructure projects invested by the state, it is the urbanization construction carried out by China Housing Corporation. The amount of construction machinery required is very large. horrifying.
Although in 1985, Tianshu Machinery Company's total sales were only 75 billion yuan, this year, their total sales are expected to exceed 150 billion yuan, or even more.
This depends on the speed of domestic infrastructure development, and this piece of cake will not be completely eaten by Tianshu Machinery Company. After all, many companies have been engaged in this area of business before.
Although the level of their construction machinery and equipment is still far behind that of Tianshu Machinery Company, after so many years of demonstration effect, their technology has caught up little by little, and the gap is no longer so obvious.
Nowadays, in addition to the construction machinery and equipment with relatively high technical content, which is monopolized by Tianshu Machinery Company, the competitive environment for some commonly used construction machinery and equipment is becoming increasingly harsh.
Therefore, this year's construction machinery and equipment market will be a free-for-all. Although demand has increased, there will also be an unprecedented increase in the number of companies that want to take advantage of it.
Of course, China Housing Company's construction machinery equipment orders will be given to Tianshu Machinery Company. After all, the two companies are considered brother companies. As long as Tianshu Machinery Company's supply capacity can keep up, China Housing Company will purchase all their equipment.
But when it comes to state-invested infrastructure projects, how many orders they can get depends on their ability. It is really difficult for Zhao Yi to influence this area of procurement.
However, since Tianshu Machinery Company currently has the largest volume, the highest output scale, and the fastest expansion of production capacity, even in terms of supply relationships, Tianshu Machinery Company will still come out on top.
It is precisely because the domestic demand for construction machinery and equipment will be very strong for a long time to come. At the meeting, Tan Delin was also full of joy, and his meaning was very obvious. Tianshu Machinery Company has finally come forward.
Nowadays, among the companies under Zhao Yi, there are fewer and fewer companies with operating income of less than 100 billion yuan. Even the Star Express Company, which was still worried before, has reached a turnover of more than 100 billion yuan.
Although Zhao Yi doesn't highly recommend the theory of operating income alone, after all, at the previous annual meeting, everyone still paid more attention to this point. The larger the scale of the company, the higher the operating income, and the confidence and volume of speech will be greater.
This situation is unavoidable, and Zhao Yi has no intention of stopping this comparison mentality. When there is comparison, there will be motivation. If there is motivation, then he will work hard to expand the company's business and run the company well.
Of course, this kind of comparison must be controlled within a certain range. Mutual hostility cannot occur due to comparison, nor can business quality decline.
Finally, Zhao Yi asked about the research status of seabed mining equipment. According to Tan Delin's report, the research and development progress in this area is basically stuck on quantum communication, and the progress in other aspects is still very normal.
Zhao Yi did not give any instructions in this regard. He had already foreseen the occurrence of this situation. Quantum communication technology is not easy to break through, and it also needs to be miniaturized. The possibility of realizing it in the short term is very low.
Just like Polaris, which was entrusted with an important task, Zhao Yi didn't even ask Zhang Ruimin how their quantum computer development was going at the meeting. Because the possibility of achieving Zhao Yi's goal in the short term was very low, he simply didn't ask. .
At the end of the meeting, Zhao Yi asked Tianshu Machinery Company to focus on deep-sea oil field mining technology. Compared with the research and development of seabed mining equipment, deep-sea oil field mining technology is much easier to implement.
Although the technical content of offshore oil field mining is still not low, it is among the top technical difficulties in the world, let alone deep sea oil field mining technology.
But it is impossible not to study this. Huaxia International Petrochemical Company is not qualified to exploit my country's offshore oil and gas resources. These oil and gas resources belong to the state, and of course it is impossible for a private company to exploit them.
So Zhao Yi set his sights on the high seas. The high seas are terra incognita and belong to whoever can mine them. Moreover, due to the extremely high technical difficulty, other countries and companies can only watch as Huaxia Petrochemical Company mines them. .
However, these are actually backup methods. Oil prices are not very high now, and since the end of last year, international oil prices have begun to fall. They have continued to fall and cannot stop falling, and will eventually fall to around US$10 a barrel.
However, this was the situation in the previous life. In this life, due to the rapid development of the domestic economy, the demand for oil has increased. Fortunately, it is basically industrial oil, and the number of cars is very low. The consumption of oil in this area is very small, and the impact will not be Extremely large.
But Zhao Yi will not wait until oil reaches its lowest point before buying. By then it will be too late, so Huaxia Petrochemical Company has already begun to buy oil aggressively.
Huaxia Petrochemical Company will buy as much excess oil as there is on the market. This opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and there will never be such cheap oil in the future.
Moreover, they are also responsible for the national strategic oil reserve. In order to reduce the cost of their own oil reserves, they can only replenish the inventory as much as possible during this period. Of course, the more the better.
From December 1985 to March 1986, OPEC's daily production only increased by 2.5 million barrels. Although it seemed like a lot, it was nothing compared to the amount of oil that Huaxia Petrochemical Company wanted to reserve.
Even with a daily increase of 2.5 million barrels in the past four months, the total new production is only 300 million barrels, and Huaxia Petrochemical Company's plan is to reserve 500 million barrels of oil.
This output is not enough for Huaxia Petrochemical Company, not to mention that the increase in production will lead to a drop in prices. In this case, it is impossible to drop to 10 US dollars.
Fortunately, Sunflower Investment Company has previously invested in many oil exploration companies. Although it does not have operating rights, it can still provide reasonable suggestions.
This time OPEC chose to increase production, in fact, to compete for oil market share. Previously, most of the oil share was occupied by American oil companies, which greatly reduced the benefits obtained by OPEC member countries.
As an emerging oil consumer market, China has definitely attracted their attention. In order to balance the trade deficit, China also chose to import a large amount of oil from Eagle Sauce.
If you want to compete for China's emerging oil consumption market, you must provide relatively cheap oil to Chinese oil companies. Otherwise, why would they choose you
Sunflower Investment Company suggested to these OPEC members that if they expand their daily production to more than 4.5 million barrels and the price is suitable, they will definitely be favored by Chinese oil companies.
Such a simple suggestion would certainly not be convincing. At this time, China International Petrochemical Company was operating in the Middle East and held secret talks with various member countries.
In fact, this sudden increase in production can be absorbed by Huaxia Petrochemical Company alone, and it will not affect the international oil price. However, this situation is very unfavorable to Huaxia Petrochemical Company.
So before anything happened, Huaxia Petrochemical Company reached a gambling agreement with these member countries, that is, if the oil after increasing production cannot be sold, they will be responsible for covering the bottom line.
Of course, the price will not be very high. The bottom price is US$10 per barrel, which is still based on the lowest price in the previous life. If the production volume increases significantly this time, the price will definitely fall below this price.
While $10 may seem low, the cost of oil production for OPEC members is actually lower than this price. Even at this price, they still have a lot of room to make money.
With someone else in the know, OPEC members are obviously much more courageous. No matter whether they can sell it or not, they will still make a profit without losing money. Of course, they will increase production by 5 million barrels per day, one more than in the previous life. times.
This situation also caused the international oil price to fall to US$10 a barrel in a short period of time, instead of reaching the US$10 level in March and April as in the previous life.
Fortunately, Huaxia Petrochemical Company has already built a large number of oil storage bases, which can fully absorb their share of increased production. Moreover, during this period, it is not only Huaxia Petrochemical Company that is grabbing oil, but other oil companies are also stocking up on oil.
So it seems that the daily increase in output is much greater than in the previous life, but Huaxia Petrochemical Company can still live with it, and there is no problem at all.
Moreover, Huaxia Petrochemical Company really made a gesture to give other international oil companies priority in purchasing oil from OPEC members, but they did not take action immediately.
It’s just that this time the daily output increased too much, and the international oil giants began to be unable to keep up. Of course, the price continued to fall. When it reached US$10 per barrel, Huaxia Petrochemical Company began to announce large quantities of oil purchases.
Starting from January this year, the newly produced oil from OPEC has basically flowed unilaterally into the hands of Huaxia Petrochemical Company. Huaxia Petrochemical Company is also like a bottomless pit, and it is completely impossible to see where its bottom line is.
Two months later, OPEC members also knew that something was fishy, but they just felt that Huaxia Petrochemical Company was behind the scenes anyway.
In fact, OPEC members are willing to sell it at this price, plus the environmental transformation plan signed by Yaoguang Environmental Management Company and Saudi Arabia, as well as the desalination plant construction project.
These all cost money, and at this time, Saudi Arabia had just taken its oil resources back into national ownership, and oil prices had been hovering at low levels for a long time, and they had not yet become rich.
Therefore, Saudi Arabia is actually the most active among OPEC in increasing production this time, and their oil extraction costs are also the lowest. Although it seems to harm long-term interests, short-term interests are also interests, and it is also good.
However, OPEC members now also know that if they continue to play like this, they will definitely collapse, so they have begun to reduce production, and oil prices have begun to slowly increase.
According to the forecast of Huaxia Petrochemical Company, the entire oil storage cost is about US$16 per barrel, which means that it will only cost about US$8 billion to complete the entire oil storage plan.
Even if production is restored to original production in the future, oil prices will not increase much and are expected to remain around US$20 per barrel for a long time.
With such low-cost oil, of course our country mainly imports oil. The country is also aware of the problems caused by long-term trade deficits, and now consciously imports bulk commodities from overseas to balance the trade deficit.
The cost of offshore oil field exploitation is much higher than that of onshore oil field exploitation, not to mention the cost of deep sea oil field exploitation. No matter how advanced the technology is, the cost will still be much higher than the cost of land oil field exploitation.
In this case, we give priority to oil imports. Only when the price of oil is too high or the oil transportation routes are blocked, will we consider extracting oil ourselves.
However, you still need to show off. After the deep-sea oil mining equipment is developed, Huaxia Petrochemical Company will build an experimental mining platform.
The purpose of this is to warn these oil countries and organizations not to try to control oil prices. Once the price exceeds our psychological expectations, then we can only produce our own oil.
In the final analysis, it is to prevent others from taking advantage of the situation. In the previous life, our country faced this kind of embarrassment with the prices of iron ore and oil. It basically had no say in the situation, which led to a sharp increase in the cost of bulk commodity procurement in our country.
Another energy-related company is Xinhui Energy Company. This company's business is mainly to meet domestic energy demand consumption, so in 1985 it was still building thermal power plants desperately.
As for photovoltaic power generation, wind power, tidal power generation and other power generation methods, they can only be used as supplementary energy sources, and it is unlikely that they will become mainstream.
However, the development speed of these businesses overseas is very fast. Only the export of photovoltaic power generation products and wind turbine sets has created revenue of 30 billion yuan for Xinhui Energy Company, which has doubled compared with the previous year.
The operating revenue of domestic power grid equipment increased slightly compared with the previous year, reaching 25 billion yuan, while domestic power generation revenue was 50 billion yuan.
In 1985, their total revenue was 105 billion yuan, and their annual net profit was a new high, reaching 20 billion yuan. This did not include the capital invested in the first year. Overall, they were still in a state of loss.
Of course, the new investment in thermal power generation in 1985 is also included in the cost. Otherwise, the profits obtained will be very considerable.
The reason why net profit is so much higher than the previous year is because the power plants built in the previous two years can already make up for the investment in new power plants, while other operating income is net income.
As the scale of power generation continues to expand, Xinhui Energy's operating income will continue to increase, and its net profit margin will definitely increase further.
In addition, what makes Zhao Yi happy is that the nuclear power plant invested by Xinhui Energy Company has received approval from relevant departments and will officially start construction in 1986.
With the development of the economy, domestic coal prices have continued to rise. Although the price of coal for power generation has received special care, this situation cannot last long.
Now the relevant departments have begun to study that if they want to further open up the coal market operation, the price of coal will skyrocket, and the price of coal for power generation will definitely also increase to a certain extent.
This is one of the reasons why Xinhui Energy Company insists on investing in the construction of nuclear power plants. Although it seems that the unit power generation price of nuclear power plants is more expensive now, this may not be the case in the future.
According to the predictions of Xinhui Energy Company, the power generation price per kilowatt-hour of the nuclear power plants they have invested in and constructed is about 0.1 yuan. This is because the entire set of technologies and equipment are self-owned.
This set of nuclear power technology has a very high utilization rate of nuclear energy and excellent power generation efficiency, which creates better conditions for their profit margins.
Generally, it is difficult to maintain the rated power when nuclear fuel is burned to about 3% to 4%. Xinhui Energy Company has indeed solved this problem very well, greatly increasing the profit margin of nuclear fuel and reducing the number of replacements of nuclear fuel. .
In short, using the nuclear power technology of Xinhui Energy Company, both the power generation cost and the environmental impact are very small, and the safety is greatly guaranteed.
This is one of the reasons why Xinhui Energy Company insists on building a nuclear power plant. If the cost of power generation is too high, or the environmental pollution is too serious, or the safety cannot be guaranteed, Zhao Yi will not let them build a nuclear power plant.
Regardless of other aspects of the nuclear power plant, safety is the top priority. Once something goes wrong, the impact will be far-reaching. Zhao Yi doesn't like to cause trouble.
So when Xinhui Energy Company began to study nuclear power generation technology, Zhao Yi provided them with a lot of information because he was afraid that the technology they developed would not meet his requirements.
In fact, Xinhui Energy Company's nuclear power generation technology has been developed long ago, but it has not been approved by the relevant departments because they also need to evaluate the safety of the nuclear power plant.
Moreover, the construction of the nuclear power plant this time is not built by Xinhui Energy Company alone, but in cooperation with CNNC. The relevant government departments still cannot fully trust Xinhui Energy Company's strength in this regard.
There is no way around this. After all, Xinhui Energy Company has no experience in this area before. Even if the technology it develops is advanced enough, its construction experience is definitely not as rich as that of CNNC.
The most important thing is that the nuclear power plant of Xinhui Energy Company is not a small project, but has a power generation capacity of 10 million kilowatt hours, which is equivalent to the total power of 10 1000MW generating units.
This is because it is the first time to build a nuclear power plant and it cannot be too big. However, even so, it is already the single nuclear power plant with the highest power generation in the world.
After that, the use of this nuclear power plant will be evaluated. If it is determined that there are no problems and there is room for improvement, then the construction of a new nuclear power plant will be carried out after improvements are made.
And this is also evidence for Xinhui Energy to enter the international nuclear power generation market. As long as nuclear power plants continue to generate electricity stably, they will definitely have a place in the international power generation market.
Just like Xinhui Energy Company's thermal power generation technology, it has begun to attract the attention of other countries, because Xinhui Energy Company's thermal power generation technology is quite excellent in terms of fuel utilization and pollution treatment.
For other countries, this is the highest level of thermal power generation technology, and it has basically reached the limit of thermal power generation. There is not much room for improvement, at least it does not make much sense.
Now power generation companies in some countries have begun to contact Xinhui Energy, but it is still unknown whether specific cooperation can be achieved, but Liu Neng is still very optimistic about these markets.
By then, exporting thermal power equipment will bring a lot of operating income to Xinhui Energy Company. As for whether the technology will be learned by others, Zhao Yi is not too worried.
Because Xinhui Energy Company's thermal power generating units are among the best in the world in terms of materials and processing technology, breakthroughs in these aspects cannot be made casually.
Moreover, most of the technologies in these devices are unique to Xinhui Energy Company and have been patented. It is also very difficult to bypass these patents and develop your own technology.
Although Zhao Yi usually doesn't worry much about Xinhui Energy's business, based on their development speed and future plans, their potential is quite huge in the future, and their future revenue will not be weaker than that of Shenlong Automobile Company, which currently has the largest revenue. (End of chapter)