After shook hands with everyone and had a full show of friendly show, Feng Xiaochen, accompanied by Xue Mucang, walked into the extreme manufacturing base and came to the conference room of the office building. In the conference room, there were more than a dozen people sitting, probably because they had been waiting for a while. The room was filled with smoke, and there were dozens of cigarette butts in the ashtray.

Seeing Feng Xiaochen enter the door, everyone stood up one after another. Some stood there nodded to Feng Xiaochen, and some pushed the chair away and walked up to shake hands with Feng Xiaochen. Xue Mucang explained with a smile, "Xiaochen, they originally said they wanted to greet you at the door, but I stopped me. I said that the bosses of those township enterprises were greeting at the door, and if they got involved, you would be afraid that you would stand in the sun for a long time today."

"Yes, if Minister Xue says this, we can't do anything about it. Mr. Feng, we are really rude."

A middle-aged man who had just come up to shake hands with Feng Xiaochen said with a smile. Feng Xiaochen recognized that he was the deputy director of the production of Xinyang Second Chemical Machinery Equipment Factory, named Zhao He. Xinyang Second Chemical Machinery is one of the national key chemical machinery equipment manufacturing enterprises. Feng Xiaochen knew the main leaders of the factory and had had a lot of dealings before.

The people in the conference room were all the same as Zhao He and were more familiar with Feng Xiaochen, so there was no need to pay attention to going to the door to welcome this false condom. Xue Mucang asked everyone to wait in the conference room for this reason.

Feng Xiaochen replied with a smile: "Director Zhao, it's too disrespectful to say anything rude. Without your support, our equipment industry company will be difficult to move forward. I have too many errands to do in this period of trouble and have not visited your factory. I should say it's me who is rude."

"Hahaha, Mr. Feng is so polite!"

"General Feng is a manager of all kinds of things every day, so we should report to General Feng."

"Mr. Feng, I do have any objections to you. Our Director Chen specially prepared two bottles of Moutai for 30 years, waiting for you to taste it. Everyone is waiting for you to wait for you to see it."

A group of people talked politely, one mouthful, one mouthful, one mouthful, and the people carried the flower sedan chair. The business circle is not as particular as the officialdom. It is relatively more direct, but it also seems more enthusiastic. Feng Xiaochen is young and promising, and he has indeed done a lot of practical things for various companies. Although occasionally there are tongues that touch the teeth, it will cause some unhappiness, but everyone's overall relationship is still very good. Everyone here respects or appreciation for Feng Xiaochen mostly comes from sincerity.

After a greeting, Xue Mucang led Feng Xiaochen to sit down on the main seat of the conference table, and sat on one side of him. As for Feng Xiaochen, the other side of Feng Xiaochen, Wu Shican, the director of the Strategic Planning Department of the Equipment Industry Company, who arrived in advance. Feng Xiaochen came to Hoi'an this time not only to inspect the extreme manufacturing base, but to discuss with everyone about the four sets of large fertilizer equipment in Argentina. In the past two months, Cao Zhiyuan, Leng Feiyun, Wu Shican and others were so busy that they were not stuck. While contacting Argentina, they also negotiated with domestic equipment manufacturing companies. At present, there were some insights. Feng Xiaochen came to listen to the report and helped solve some problems.

At the beginning of the meeting, Xue Mucang acted as the meeting host. He first simply welcomed Feng Xiaochen and the leaders of various companies, and then he got to the point and said:

"After the active efforts of Director Cao of the Global Center, Minister Wu and Minister Leng of our equipment company, and with the strong cooperation of various equipment companies, the Argentine Ministry of Agriculture has agreed in principle that we have participated in the bidding for four sets of large fertilizer equipment. Our competitors are mainly the Japan Chemical Equipment Association, which have joined forces with several Japanese old chemical equipment companies including Ikegai Production Office, Akima Club, and Morishishi Tenggong Office, and have submitted bids to Argentina. Speaking of which, these Japanese companies are our teachers, and our apprentices are challenging the teachers, which is really difficult."

"Yes, I also went to Chigu Production Institute to study back then. The gap between us was really huge. People were working on computers when designing, and we didn't even have a computer in our factory. If we had to calculate an equation, we had to go to the provincial computing institute to make a reservation. It took several days to wait." Zhao He sighed.

"To be honest, the Japanese have indeed had excellent skills and good corporate management. I remember that our factory's earliest quality management system was learned from Japanese. At that time, I felt really awkward. Now it seems that it is really not possible without this set of things." Another company's cadres also added.

The introduction of fertilizer equipment manufacturing technology from Japan was one of the major projects chaired by the Reinstallation Office in the early years. Taking advantage of the opportunity of introducing Japanese fertilizer complete sets of equipment in China, the Reinstallation Office proposed the principle of "joint design and cooperative manufacturing", requiring Japanese companies that undertake the manufacturing of complete sets of fertilizer equipment to China, and to transfer some of the equipment to Chinese companies, and give Chinese guidance during the manufacturing process.

In response to China's demand, the Japan Chemical Equipment Association, which coordinates the export of equipment, is also quite entangled, worried that the disciples of the church will starve the master to death. But China bite it and claimed that if Japan does not agree to the transfer of technology, China will turn to the Netherlands, France and other countries to import equipment. Faced with the huge profits of large fertilizer equipment, Japan finally chose to surrender, agreed to transfer some key technologies, and provided China with a part of the patent license, allowing China to use Japanese patents to manufacture large fertilizer equipment on its own.

With the help of that technology introduction, the backbone enterprises of equipment industry such as Beihua Machinery and Xinyang Secondary Machinery gradually mastered the complete equipment manufacturing technology of 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 520,000 tons of urea through digestion and absorption introduction technology, and then independently built several similar equipment, which greatly provided China's fertilizer manufacturing capacity, and changed from a urea importer to a urea exporter.

However, before this, the large fertilizer projects built by China were all located in China and had not participated in the competition in the international market. Some fertilizer projects built in Africa, South Asia and other places are small and medium-sized synthetic ammonia devices, and these technologies are already mastered by China. At best, they only used the introduced technology to make some optimizations. This time, participating in the bidding for four sets of large fertilizer equipment in Argentina is the first time that Chinese companies have launched large fertilizer equipment overseas, and the competitors they face are the teachers of the year. This makes everyone feel a lot of emotion and a little nervous.

"We have analyzed that Japan's fertilizer equipment manufacturing technology has not made much progress compared to when we learned from them more than ten years ago. In our words, they are lying on the credit book and have been consuming their old capital for more than ten years. And we have been working hard all these years, and our technical level is no less than that of the Japanese. Therefore, this time, we still have a great chance of winning when our apprentice challenged the teacher."

The person who spoke was Jiang Xianyu, the technical director of the Northern Chemical Machinery Factory. He is a technical expert. He has been tracking the technical trends of international chemical equipment over the years and has a good understanding of Japan's chemical equipment manufacturing level. This time, the Equipment Industry Company handed over the task of taking over four sets of large fertilizer equipment in Argentina to Beihua Machinery and Xinyang Secondary Machine as the general contractor. Jiang Xianyu was the most excited and confident.

Feng Xiaochen nodded and said, "Director Jiang is right. Japan was busy in the financial industry and real estate industry in the past few years. A large amount of funds have shifted from the industry to the virtual economy, delaying technological innovation. After 90 years, the real estate bubble burst, and many companies were affected and were unable to carry out large-scale technological research and development, so technological progress is inevitable."

"We also showed signs of financial overheating in the past two years. Even Hoi An speculates in real estate. However, it is still better than Japan. A group of private entrepreneurs like Boss Ruan and others have invested a lot in equipment procurement and technology research and development, and their technical strength has increased very quickly." Xue Mucang said.

"Not to mention our state-owned enterprises," Jiang Xianyu smiled, then pointed at Feng Xiaochen with his hand and said, "This is thanks to Mr. Feng. If Mr. Feng wasn't that Mr. Feng would recite the tight-knot curse for us every day and let us spend money on research and development, we might also use the money to build the staff dormitory."

"This is not because I recite the curse of tightening the hoop." Feng Xiaochen corrected, "I am just conveying the instructions of the leaders of the Economic and Trade Commission. We are a developing country. Without a strong real economy, it is impossible to have real prosperity by relying on finance and real estate alone. Japan is actually not unwilling to engage in the real economy, but it is really cheated by the Plaza Agreement. The yen has appreciated significantly. It is better to make money by doing business than trading stocks. Who else would do business?"

"We have seized an opportunity," Wu Shican interrupted, "Japan is our biggest competitor. Its strength has declined, which is the most beneficial to us. The four large fertilizer projects in Argentina are not only of nearly 1 billion foreign exchange income, but more importantly, this is the first time that our equipment manufacturing industry has been competing internationally with a strong country like Japan. If you win, it will boost morale and will be of great benefit to our comprehensive entry into the international market in the future."

"Minister Wu is very right!" Feng Xiaochen nodded and praised, "So, we are determined to win this project. In terms of technology, we still have some gaps with Japan, but we can compete with them for prices and services. Even if we lose money and gain publicity, we must take down these four sets of equipment and make it a business card made in China."
Chapter completed!