Northern Chemical Machinery Factory, Kuigu City, Shanbei Province.

The Crown car carried Feng Xiaochen and his party into the factory gate and drove straight downstairs to the factory office building. As soon as the car stopped, the office director Ru Yanqing trotted forward and opened the rear door. Then, the factory director Zhao Yadong also came over, reached out with a smile, and shook hands with Feng Xiaochen who got out of the car to greet him:

"Assistant Feng, welcome! Come and let our small factory shine brightly!"

Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Haha, Director Zhao was joking. Who doesn't know that Beihua Machinery is a leading enterprise in our country's chemical industry? If you Beihua Machinery is a small factory, then our equipment company can only be regarded as a bag company. Before we set off this time, Mr. Luo specifically told me to say hello to Director Zhao for him, and asked us to learn from Director Zhao seriously. Director Zhao cannot hide his own personal information."

"Thank you, Mr. Luo, for your concern. I dare not be a student of the National Academy of Social Sciences. You, Assistant Feng, are a graduate student of the National Academy of Social Sciences, and Professor Chen's soccer. All the cadres and staff of our factory are waiting for Assistant Feng to guide us in the work."

"Director Zhao is going to remind me to respect your doctorate in the Party School, right? My master's degree is really not enough to see in front of Director Zhao."

"It's so embarrassing to say that, I'm a doctoral student. I just joined in the fun and got a diploma. I'm not hiding Assistant Feng. Even my doctoral thesis was written by several penmen in the office..."

The two of them complimented each other, and in a blink of an eye he said a lot of nonsense. Zhao Yadong is in his 40s and is a young and strong cadre in the system. Nowadays, he pays attention to academic qualifications when promoting and appointing cadres. Zhao Yadong is not immune to the common sense. He found a party school to study for a doctorate, but he himself knew the quality of the diploma. He might be able to whisper in front of others, but he dare not whisper in front of Feng Xiaochen, a master of the Academy of Social Sciences, because before Feng Xiaochen's professional ability, few people could match it in the industrial circle.

After greeting each other, Zhao Yadong greeted Zhou Mengshi, who was with Feng Xiaochen, and Huang Ming said hello, and then the group rushed to the factory building with entourage. Zhao Yadong and Feng Xiaochen walked side by side at the front, asking in a low voice as they walked:

"Assistant Feng, you came to our Beihua Machinery this time. Are there any major projects? To be honest, our factory is almost out of business now. All the cadres and staff of our factory are waiting for the stars and the moon, just waiting for superiors like you to arrange business for us."

Feng Xiaochen said: "Haha, Director Zhao, what is my superior leader? At best, it is just a memophone to pass the message on behalf of the superior leader. However, there is one project, but I don't know if Director Zhao is interested."

"Of course I'm interested!" Zhao Yadong said without hesitation, "Who dares to choose a business at this time? For our system companies, 20% or 30% of them have completely stopped production, and the rest are like our Beihua Machinery. There are some small work to do, but it is seriously insufficient to start work. It would be great to be able to barely maintain a break-even balance. If you are not careful, you will lose."

"Okay, let's go to the conference room to talk. The project costs a lot, but the technical requirements are also very high. If Beihua Machinery wants to go ahead, it will have to bear some pressure."

"Don't be afraid of being stressed. Didn't you often say that people are light and light without pressure..."

"Haha, that's the best."

As the two said, they had already arrived at the door of the conference room. Zhao Yadong reached out and asked Feng Xiaochen to come in first. He pushed Zhao Yadong with his hand and asked him to walk in front. He followed him into the conference room. Then, the others accompanied Zhou Mengshi and Huang Ming in, and the guests and hosts sat down respectively. A waiter had already brought tea and hot towels to him. This was the style of a large state-owned factory.

Before the talks began, as usual, the host and the guest introduced themselves to each other. The Beijing Machinery Association participated in the talks include Deputy Factory Director Huang Tianshu, Technical Director Jiang Xianyu, Production Director Xu Zhenxin and others, and they were actually all seen by Feng Xiaochen. In recent years, Feng Xiaochen has visited and visited equipment manufacturing companies with a slightly larger scale in China. He has basically visited many times, and Beihua Machinery is no exception. However, it has been more than two years since he visited Beihua Machinery last time. If some people don’t introduce them to him, he really can’t remember them.

Feng Xiaochen, the assistant general manager of the National Equipment Industry Company, is very familiar with the people of Beihua Machinery. Eight years ago, because Beihua Machinery had quality problems when subcontracting large fertilizer equipment, Feng Xiaochen was commissioned by the Reinstallation Office to deal with it and sent Cheng Yuanding, the then director of the factory, to prison. Zhao Yadong was transferred to Beihua Machinery to be the factory manager after that. Some of Huang Tianshu and others were transferred from outside, and some were lower-level cadres at the time, who were gradually promoted through their qualifications. Everyone more or less knew about the incident back then, and they also felt a little bit of awe for Feng Xiaochen.

"Since everyone is acquaintance, I will talk straight to the point. Section Chief Zhou and Chief Huang, who came to Beihua Machinery this time, came to ask everyone for help. The 600,000-ton large ethylene project built by our country is currently undergoing intense designs, and it is expected that the ground will be broken early next year. This project is invested 7 billion yuan, and some companies alone will definitely not be able to obtain it. We hope that leading chemical system companies like Beihua Machinery can participate and share some pressure for us."

Feng Xiaochen explained his purpose in a peaceful tone.

"Invest 7 billion, my goodness! Assistant Feng, how much can we get from Beihua Machinery?" Huang Tianshu couldn't help asking. If you haven't experienced the pain of insufficient start-up, you won't know the preciousness of the business. A 7 billion project is placed in front of you, and any leak is enough for Beihua Machinery to eat and wear warmth.

After all, Zhao Yadong is the factory director, not as rash as Huang Tianshu. He asked calmly: "Assistant Feng, Daethylene should be the business of the petroleum system. How could our chemical system companies participate?"

Feng Xiaochen said: "Director Zhao, there are no petroleum systems and chemical systems now. Aren't we all the companies on the market? Of course, in this project, several large companies in the oil system must take the lead, such as the Northeast Factory, Northwest Factory, and Pujiang Factory in the oil machinery industry, which are all the main forces in the project. However, our country has never had such a large petrochemical project in the past, and the strength of these companies is not enough to complete the entire project, so we hope to invite some large companies in the chemical system to participate."

"No problem. We obey the country's arrangements and will definitely draw elite troops to complete this task." Zhao Yadong said passionately.

"Assistant Feng, can I ask what tasks are the specific arrangements for us?" Xu Zhenxin asked. He is the director of production, so he naturally starts from the perspective of production.

Feng Xiaochen made a gesture to Huang Ming. Huang Ming pulled open the briefcase, took out a stack of drawings, and pushed them along the tabletop to Xu Zhenxin. Xu Zhenxin thanked him, took the drawings and began to check. Jiang Xianyu, the technical director sitting next to him, also leaned over and looked at him. As he looked, both of them frowned.

"Why, is it difficult?" Zhao Yadong noticed the performance of the two and asked calmly.

"It's not difficult." Jiang Xianyu responded.

Zhao Yadong said in a long voice: "Old Xu, look at what you said. If it is not difficult, will Assistant Feng and others travel thousands of miles to our Beihua Machinery? What are you afraid of if you are afraid of if you are a little difficult? Let's find a way to overcome it."

Xu Zhenxin pushed the drawings to Zhao Yadong and said with a bitter face: "Director Zhao, this is not a way to overcome difficulties, but we can't do it at all. You see, Assistant Feng and others hope that the business we undertake includes more than a dozen extra-large pressure vessels. For example, this 1500-centimeter ball tank is 14 meters high when standing up, so our container workshop cannot be put down at all, let alone processing. Also, the pressure-resistant shell of this reactor needs to be molded forged with a large hydraulic press. We don't have such a large pressure die forging machine, so we can't do it at all."

"Well, this is indeed a bit troublesome." Zhao Yadong nodded, then turned his face to Feng Xiaochen and said, "Assistant Feng, you see, this is our actual difficulty. Our container workshop was built in the early 1980s, and we didn't consider building such a large container at that time. We have always planned to rebuild a new container workshop, but our factory's current operating conditions are really willing but not capable..."

Seeing the pretended behavior of the king and his ministers, Feng Xiaochen was amused. The 600,000-ton ethylene project was not a secret at all. In the early stage, various seminars were held hundreds of times. Beihua Machinery had also sent people to attend some meetings and had already known about the tasks he was about to undertake. Zhao Yadong acted like he was wholeheartedly thinking about the country and asked his subordinates to raise difficulties. In fact, it was a double act for Feng Xiaochen and the others to see. For such a large project, the country must have various supporting technical transformation funds. The cadres of Beihua Machinery obviously set their sights on these technical transformation funds and wanted to take the opportunity of the project to let the country invest in the transformation workshop and add some equipment. In the past, things like this were common. The more the key projects were, the easier it was to get benefits from the country. People in the enterprise were all proficient in this.

"Director Zhao, Director Xu, you don't have to worry." Feng Xiaochen said, "The country's major project construction is to form our own production capacity through projects. We have never done 1,500 cubic meters of ball tanks in the past. There are not such a large workshops in the oil system. Therefore, it is necessary to build a new workshop. If we build a new workshop, we can also use other equipment in the future."

"Is that?" Zhao Yadong was happy, "So, Assistant Feng supported us in building a new container workshop? In terms of funds, is it investment in ethylene or a special fund from the country?"
Chapter completed!