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Chapter 699 Financial Crisis Strikes

Taking Argentina's large fertilizer project as an opportunity, the equipment company launched a new round of international marketing. A series of large equipment, including large fertilizers, metallurgical equipment, thermal power equipment, and open-pit mineral complete sets, have gradually entered the international market. The biggest feature of Chinese equipment is its low price and good after-sales service, which is even more attractive than the price.

The main market for Chinese equipment is the vast developing countries. These countries have poor industrial foundations and lack the ability to maintain large-scale equipment. In the past, they imported equipment from developed Western countries, and the other party adopted a "turnkey" method and were very secretive about the technical details of the equipment. It would be fine when the equipment was running normally, but once there was a malfunction, the user could be said to be ineffective. Western manufacturers sent people to repair it, which was not only very slow, but sometimes it took several months, but also had an extremely arrogant attitude. No matter what the equipment had, Western manufacturers pushed the responsibility to the user and then demanded high maintenance costs. Sometimes, even though the user knew that it was not their own responsibility, but because his skills were not as good as others, he could not say anything, so he could only blackmail the other party.

The style of Chinese companies is completely different from that of Western companies. Not to mention that it is not a fault of user responsibilities, even if the user does have improper operation, Chinese maintenance personnel will not blame each other, but patiently explain the operational key points to the other party. The low maintenance price makes users in these developing countries feel that they owe the Chinese people.

Good service makes up for China's technical level shortcomings. When bidding for some projects, the owner's representatives will try their best to give high scores to Chinese companies, completely ignoring the dark faces of sales personnel from Japan and European and American companies next to them.

Feng Xiaochen led the export of all these equipment products. He participated in the bid planning meeting for each project and repeatedly discussed the details of bidding strategies, product pricing and other aspects with the export equipment companies. After China won the bid, Feng Xiaochen reminded the equipment manufacturing companies to strictly control the quality and must not make any quality errors. When overseas projects start construction, Feng Xiaochen will personally or send people to these construction sites to inspect the construction and installation work, and communicate closely with the local owners.

The China Industrial Equipment Overseas Service Center, led by the Equipment Industry Company, was established on various continents one after another. At the beginning, a service center was established on each continent, and soon expanded into two or three. The establishment of service centers increased the service response speed of Chinese equipment companies to overseas customers, won the favor of customers, and brought a large number of subsequent orders.

A large number of overseas businesses have brought huge profits to various equipment manufacturing companies. Before the factory managers and managers could use the money to build a new office building or a new office building, Feng Xiaochen had already brought Wu Shican, Wang Genji, Leng Feiyun and other thugs to them:

Large-scale coal intensive comprehensive mining complete sets of equipment, ultra-supercritical thermal power assembly equipment, 300,000 kilowatt large pump assembly equipment, key technologies for petrochemicals, key technologies for coal chemicals, large offshore equipment, large axle heavy-long marshalling heavy-load freight train technology... These are all projects included in the national major equipment development plan. How much money can you spend and how many people can you arrange to participate?

There are very few companies who dare to directly reject Feng Xiaochen's request. Who doesn't know that the equipment industry company has great powers. It can decide which major domestic projects to be handed over to, and can also find new businesses overseas at any time. It can be a large order of hundreds of millions of dollars, which makes people dizzy. With the equipment company, you can enjoy the food and drink, and offend the equipment company. Who knows what kind of monster the young general manager will give birth to, and it will make you worse than death.

On one side are carrots and on the other side are big sticks. Even if the bosses of large equipment companies have owed IQ fees, they know how to take sides. They repeatedly comforted themselves and said, "Didn't Feng Xiaochen say that if they develop these new technologies, they can grab orders in the high-end market in the future. That's a good business with several doubled profits."

As winter and summer change, winter goes and spring comes, time passes in a hurry. Until one day, Chen Shuhan sent Feng Xiaochen a large box of red mountains on the outskirts of Xinling from Nanjiang Province. Feng Xiaochen suddenly realized that a year had passed again.

"Xiao Meng, how about this flower?"

Feng Xiaochen looked at the wild flowers still blooming in the big cardboard box and asked Secretary Meng Yang with a smile.

Meng Yang sighed: "It's so beautiful! And this flower is also a real scripture. After being transported on the road for so many days, it's still bright and beautiful."

Feng Xiaochen said: "Part one handful of it, take it back to your lover, so that she can be happy too."

Meng Yang waved his hand quickly and said, "I don't dare to do this. Is this what President Chen gave to Professor Du? You should have taken it back and handed it to Professor Du in person."

Feng Xiaochen said: "It's okay, there's a box full of it. Go and invite Mr. Hao, Minister Wu, Minister Leng and others to come over. Each of them takes a handful of them away. Even if it's a benefit for our company."

The leader made a speech. No matter how ridiculous or naive the words seemed, Meng Yang had to execute them without fail. He left the office and invited all the middle and high-level cadres of the company, including Hao Yawei, Wu Shican, Leng Feiyun, Wang Genji and other companies. Office director Zheng Yuxin was not among the middle-level cadres invited by Feng Xiaochen, but when she heard that there was Yingshanhong as a welfare, she also laughed and hugged, and then broke through everyone's fake interception and returned to the office to distribute them to the girls.

"When I got off the cadre school, there were a lot of these rosy blooming in the wild mountains next to the cadre school every spring. At that time, every Sunday, we would go to the mountain to pick flowers and pick flowers when we came back to raise them in a bucket, and we would not thank them for half a month."

Wu Shican held a handful of flowers and told the young people about his past.

"Well, when I was in the army, there were also such red mountains beside the garrison. However, our group of big soldiers were not so happy to pick flowers. Just looking at the flowers all over the mountain, I felt very happy." Leng Feiyun also shared his experience.

"This is the first time I have seen this kind of flower close up. I have only seen it in movies in the past." said Wang Genji, who was born in the capital.

Hao Yawei was a romantic person. He picked a bouquet of flowers and held them in his hand, then looked at everyone, then looked at Feng Xiaochen, and asked in surprise: "Xiaochen, you called us all over, isn't it just to send us flowers?"

A sentence made everyone in the room amused. It wasn’t everyone who thought that the words themselves were humorous. It was really a shameful expression of Hao Yawei’s habitual behavior that made people laugh. It was normal for company leaders to connect with each other and give a small gift. Feng Xiaochen felt that he had some fresh fun and wanted to share it with everyone. When he came to Hao Yawei, he had to ask in one go if there were any other purposes.

"Old Hao, what else do you think I have to do besides sending flowers to you?" Feng Xiaochen asked with a smile.

Hao Yawei seemed serious. He sat down on the sofa and said, "Xiaochen, in fact, if you don't send Xiao Meng to call me, I'm just about to come here. I thought you heard the news too..."

"What news?" Feng Xiaochen also put away his smile. Seeing this, several other middle-level leaders stopped making fun of each other, but instead held the flowers and sat down, waiting for Hao Yawei to speak.

"The Economic and Trade Commission has issued a notice to each unit, requiring each unit to count the foreign exchange earnings and foreign exchange usage in the next year. It seems that it is necessary to strengthen foreign exchange control." Hao Yawei told everyone.

"Isn't this kind of thing happening in two days?" Wang Genji said disapprovingly. China has always been a country with foreign exchange shortage. In the 1980s, foreign exchange was so tight that civil servants had to make careful calculations when going abroad, and no one cent of foreign exchange dared to spend randomly. In recent years, as China's participation in international economic and trade cooperation continues to expand, the scale of foreign exchange receipts and expenditures has also expanded, and the situation of foreign exchange tension has improved. However, the national foreign exchange management department still dared not relax at all. It was indeed a notice every few days, requiring the strengthening of foreign exchange controls, not wasting, not intercepting privately, etc. Hao Yawei informed everyone of this news so seriously, no wonder Wang Genji felt disdainful.

Hao Yawei shook his head and said, "Xiao Wang, you don't know anything. This time the notice above was written very seriously. I feel it is very different from the notice I sent in the past, so I just thought about coming to Xiaochen to discuss it, but I ran here to get a bouquet of flowers..."

Everyone laughed again. Such a beautiful flower actually became a burden in Hao Yawei's eyes, which was also speechless.

Feng Xiaochen followed everyone and said, "Old Hao, your feeling should be right. I also think that the country should be strengthening foreign exchange controls. In the future, we must increase our efforts to earn foreign exchange and limit unnecessary foreign exchange expenditures, because the country may have a relatively difficult period."

"I don't think so." Wu Shican said with a frown, "The domestic economy was overheated in the past two years, prices soared, and the situation was indeed not optimistic. But after the rectification of the past two years, prices have been controlled, and the foreign trade situation is also good. The situation will be fine in our system. Xiaochen, where did you feel that the country will have a difficult period?"
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