Chapter 90 All the way south
When he started the trial and electronic pet machine in the New York trial and the first release in the United States, Jester was sleeping. It was the second day when he received the news about the trial and the starting performance of the trial and the starting performance.
He had just arrived in Shanghu at this time. After all, the investment location he announced was Shanghu or Shenzhen. The content of his meeting with the head of the Ministry of Electronics Industry has not been disclosed to the public yet.
Originally, Shenzhen wanted Jester to visit them first. When they wanted to come, as long as Jester had seen their conditions, they would definitely not have any ideas about Shanghai. But Jester declined on the pretext of wanting to visit the landscape of the motherland by the way.
The determined route is to go to Shanghai, Fuzhou, and finally Shenzhen, and then take the opportunity to return to the United States from Hong Kong.
When Jester arrived in Shanghu, the mayor and the municipal party secretary of Shanghu welcomed him at the same time. After all, they all knew that Jester was the biggest tyrant in the Chinese investment group this time, and their identity was extraordinary. Especially Mr. Wang, he naturally learned about the meeting between Jester and Minister Jiang from other channels.
So they are all very enthusiastic.
Jester also learned about the deeds of this Wang in later generations. Although he didn't have much, he also knew a little about it. His father was a veteran of the late Tongmenghui. In 1992, the negotiation between Jianbing and Gu Zhenfu was opened in 1992. It was the person who was responsible for this Wang.
Shangshanghai is naturally far inferior to later generations, and there is no such atmosphere as the most prosperous city in the Far East thirty years later.
There were no cars on the busy Jingnan Road in later generations. Now Shangshanghai is still the center of the domestic textile industry and the domestic commercial center. Even familiar companies can tell a few of them even if they are not familiar with this era, such as Shangshanghai Jiahua, which produces Liushen Hualu.
The largest investment in Shanghai in recent years is Baosteel. The total investment this time is worth tens of billions of yuan, which is far from comparable to Jester. Moreover, this is also the first steel plant in China with an annual output of one million tons. It was exchanged from Japan by the second generation project with precious oil.
Since the project was established in 1977, the ground was broken in 1978, and the first phase of the project was completed in 1985, the total investment was close to 12.8 billion yuan. The current exchange price of the official RMB and US dollar is 1:1.5, which means that the total investment amount this time is as high as more than 8 billion US dollars. This figure may not be large in later generations. Thirty years later, a more developed prefecture-level city can be used, but you must know that in the current mainland, the annual fiscal revenue is only a few tens of billions.
It can be said that this steel plant was built by the people of the whole country while saving food and was also carrying the expectations of the people of the whole country for a modern steel plant. Every knowledgeable person knows what steel means to a country. Just as the American steel king Andrew Carnegie said back then, every piece of steel contains the secret of national strength.
Jester was invited to visit Baosteel, which was about to be completed in the first phase of the project. When he looked down from a high place, he felt as if he was watching a city made of steel.
It's really very, very spectacular.
The accompanying staff on the side also introduced the steel output that the Baosteel Phase I project will have after the completion of the first phase of the Baosteel project is how important it will be for the mainland that is being reopened now. He was still regretful that Jester came one step later. If he came one month earlier, he would have the opportunity to have a meeting with Mr. Kakuan Inayama, the head of the New Nippon Iron.
The new Japanese Iron and Steel is New Japanese Iron and Steel. The predecessor of this company was the famous Hachiman Ironmaking during World War II. It was also the Japanese representative of Baosteel's oil-changing equipment plan. The largest steel company in Asia is one of the few huge steel empires in the world. It is also the core of Mitsui Niki Club. When Jester heard this accompanying staff member who looked proud on his face, he really couldn't bear to tell what would happen in the future.
Because this will completely shatter the accompanying staff's dream.
In his opinion, Baosteel's plan has been unstoppable until now. Moreover, although the Japanese set traps in Baosteel construction, it is actually irrelevant. If you want to build a world-class steel enterprise, the high price is something you have to pay.
However, this price is too heavy.
The reason is that the smelting equipment provided by Japan is too advanced. Although this is just something they intend to eliminate, it is still too advanced for these domestic equipment with only the level of technology in Europe and the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.
This batch of equipment was originally used by Nippon Iron to smelvet the Brazilian and Australian rich ore, while the domestic iron ore are all poor iron ore. The smelting of steel is a very fine industrial project. What kind of equipment should be used to smelvet what kind of ore is certain. The equipment used to smelvet the Brazilian rich ore cannot be used to smelvet the poor iron ore.
But importing rich ores requires huge foreign exchange.
The most important means of entrepreneurship in the mainland is to export oil. This time, almost all the oil sources of oil exchange equipment come from Daqing. The problem is that after the major discoveries of more than ten years of domestic oil, new oil exploration has stagnated. It was originally planned that Daqing could produce 100 million tons of oil in the 1980s, or 750 million barrels of oil, but now Daqing's annual output is only 50 million tons.
In addition, the current global economy has experienced economic stagflation due to the excessive oil price, and the price of oil has also declined. The world economy is like a roller coaster ride. Global economic development has stagnated and oil demand has plummeted. At this time, Japan no longer needs oil as urgently as in 1978 and seeks domestic demand. Due to the decline in prices, production cannot grow. At that time, the domestic situation of severe foreign exchange was short of foreign exchange, which was heavily reliant on resource exports in exchange for foreign exchange.
The most critical reason is that in the case of insufficient foreign exchange at home, and without the desire to stop production of the world-class steel plant that has been built with great effort, it is necessary to use scarce and precious foreign exchange to purchase high-quality iron ore in Australia and Brazil.
It is because Baosteel swallowed countless precious foreign exchange that many projects that were urgently needed at that time were discontinued, the technological transformation of many enterprises had to be stopped, and the number of important technical positions that needed to study abroad had to stop. Jester didn't know these, but he knew that it must be a very large number.
Is this all worth it? As the second generation said, indeed, Baosteel has improved the domestic steel industry level for twenty years. But the problem is here. The mainland carried out 156 major projects in the 1950s, and in the 1970s, the introduction of the 43 plan cost a total of more than 4 billion US dollars. The 13 large fertilizer plants that solved the problem of hunger of 800 million Chinese people did not need to spend money to learn lessons, but why did the market start to spend money to learn lessons when it was changed to technology at the beginning?
This also made Jester sigh that this is a problem.
After visiting Baosteel, Jester was in a bad mood. He thought it was because of his poor hospitality, but only Jester knew that it was not the case. He wanted to keep up with Shanghai Baosteel to explain the possible traps, but he knew that he was not pleased with both sides.
Baosteel's general trend has come true, and it is not something that a small American Chinese can change.
In other words, my investment amount will not exceed 100 million US dollars at most. Why do I make a fuss about a heavy industry project that has put the expectations of the entire country and invested up to 8 billion US dollars?
Moreover, Baosteel's plan was personally instructed by the second generation project, and I wonder how many people want to gain political achievements from it.
You can't do it yourself, and you can't be this evil person.
As for later generations, the statement that the Baogang project was not deceived by the Japanese, Jester sneered. If it weren't for the Japanese, the mainland would have unilaterally tore up the second phase of Baosteel's agreement? You should know that the equipment in the first phase agreement was basically built by the Nippon Iron Manufacturing of New Japan Railway. Even paint and welding rods were made in Japan. In this case, if all Japanese technology and equipment are used, the mainland will only exchange for the second phase of German goods? And most importantly, tearing the second phase agreement of Baosteel requires compensation.
After a hurry to finish his trip to Shanghai, Jester headed south to Fuzhou.
When I arrived in Fuzhou, Jester started to inquire about Yanshan Software. After several turnovers, I realized that Yanshan Software has not yet been established. However, Jester saw the all-in-one Atari cartridge made by Fu Zan on the market. He saw it on a VCS2600 game console in Fuzhou Youth Palace.
Using this as an introduction, Jester asked to meet with the author who wanted to make this all-in-one card tape.
There was no problem with Fuzhou's accompanying Fang. That afternoon, Jester met Fu Zan, who was just 24 years old at the Fuzhou guesthouse where he was staying.
"Is this what you did?" The conversation between the two sides was simple, and Jester opened with a very direct question.
Hearing Jester's words, Fu Zan nodded embarrassedly and admitted, "It's me, it's very rough."
After hearing his answer, Jester smiled and shook his head and said, "No, you did a good job, especially the idea of this card. By the way, when did you get into the Atari 2600 game console?"
After chatting for a few words, Fu Zan saw that the American rich man who was much younger than him had no airs and was easy to talk. In addition, he was a talkative person himself, so he spoke much smoother: "I was in touch when I was helping a videotape test Atari's game console in electronics. I thought it was quite interesting, so I took it apart and looked at it. I found that this thing was quite simple, so I changed the game myself, but in fact I only made a few cassettes."
Then Jester asked tentatively: "Do you have the idea of making a game yourself? It's not about changing the game you've already made, but about all the contents of the game you've made yourself."
"Yes!" Unexpectedly, as soon as Fu Zan heard Jester's words, he immediately slapped his thighs. His tone became excited. "I recently planned to propose to the school to set up a computer service department. I stayed up late to write a instructions for using the music software. It was a set of computer music arrangement and performance software developed for the FO Apple-compatible machine of the Fuzhou Microcomputer Factory. But what I am really interested in is still making games like Atari's "Canal Wars".
While saying that, he also smiled, "But it is definitely impossible to agree to the suggestion of making games for schools. Now schools are building these school-run enterprises to make money. There are only a few Atari game consoles now. In Quanfuzhou, you may not find a hundred games. Who can I use them to make games?"
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