Material Empire

Qin Hai is a businessman, and businessmen generally don't go to extremes when doing things, and it is difficult for a businessman who does not leave a way for others to survive himself to become bigger. In the matter of governing small iron and steel, what he considered from the very beginning was how to transform these illegal operations into legal ones. This kind of thinking played a great role in his governance of the rare earth chaos in the south. It not only solved the problem, but also won many allies for himself. Xin Jinlong is now able to listen to Qin Hai's orders, not because he is afraid of Qin Hai's power, but because Qin Hai has opened up a better path for him than before, allowing him to earn more money than before under the premise of legality . In fact, most people are willing to be law-abiding citizens, so that they can make money with peace of mind and don't have to worry about it. Why not do it?

The situation of people like Lu Dashuang is the same as that of Xin Jinlong. If Qin Hai can help them change from illegal to legal, then the difficulty of solving the small steel problem will be greatly reduced. play its due role.

Starting from this principle, Qin Hai had already thought up a whole set of plans on the way back from Xingchuan, and now it was time to report to Cui Hongchun for support.

"Director Cui, my thoughts are as follows..." Qin Hai said, "China's economy has entered the fast lane at present, the real estate economy in various places is developing very rapidly, and the construction of various infrastructures in the country is also heating up. In this Under such circumstances, China's steel demand will still maintain a rapid growth trend in the next 10 to 20 years. By 2012, the national steel demand is expected to exceed 500 million tons.

Such a large steel demand requires more steel enterprises to meet it. If these small steels we see today can be regulated and allowed to improve their technology and expand their scale, they will play an important role in the future. The harm of small iron and steel is nothing more than two aspects. First, the scale is small and the technical level is poor, leading to serious excessive energy consumption and pollution; second, due to the lack of supervision, the poor quality of products has caused serious social harm.

If we can help these small iron and steel enterprises to expand their scale through alliances, and then provide policy support for them to improve their technology and strengthen quality supervision, all these problems can be easily solved. Who would be willing to make low-end steel to make black-hearted money when they can produce qualified steel and make money aboveboard? At the same time, if there are enough small and medium-sized iron and steel enterprises to make up for the shortage of supply in the steel market, then the strip steel will have no soil for survival and will naturally disappear. "

"Yes, this is a very good idea." Cui Hongchun praised, "Change the practice of blindly suppressing, turn from confrontation to cooperation, and turn enemies into friends. This is indeed a good way to solve the problem."

Qin Hai said solemnly: "These small business owners are not our enemies. To be honest, those who can start the strip steel business under the pressure of the government are people with brains and dare to take risks. Use us According to Song Hongxuan, general manager of the group, this is a group of people with entrepreneurial spirit. China needs countless entrepreneurs to build a comprehensive market economy. Our current entrepreneurs are not too many, but too few. Let this A group of people with entrepreneurial potential have been operating illegally, which is a waste of talent."

Cui Hongchun said with a smile: "The more you talk about it, the more suspenseful it becomes. Everyone knows that the people who engage in ground strip steel are a group of illegal profiteers. When you talk about it, they have turned into some kind of entrepreneurial spirit. Well, tell us, we How can these entrepreneurs be saved?"

Qin Haidao: "First of all, we need to change our concept. Many small iron and steel factories have the desire to improve technology. The difficulty they encounter is that they can't hire experts, and they can't afford experts. Can we adopt the method of sending technology into the factory? The Economic and Trade Commission and various provinces and cities take the lead in organizing experts and technicians from universities, research institutes, and large steel companies to go to these small steel plants to provide them with free technical guidance and help them get rid of inefficient production methods.”

"You mean free?" Cui Hongchun widened his eyes, "What is this? Do they have any credit for their illegal business? Why should they provide services for free?"

Qin Haidao: "Director Cui, if you do the math, you won't think this way. How much manpower and material resources have we spent to investigate and deal with these small steel factories? How much damage has been caused by the flow of low-quality products from these small steel factories into the construction industry? Losses? If we use these costs to hire experts and help them improve their technology, how much unnecessary losses can we recover?"

"This is fallacy..." Cui Hongchun shook his head, "Go ahead and let me hear what your other thoughts are."

"Secondly..." Qin Hai went on to say, "The state will fund the redemption of the unqualified equipment currently used by these small iron and steel factories. At the same time, the state will provide them with a sum of money to issue low-interest loans to help them purchase qualified equipment. Meet the technical requirements stipulated by the state."

Cui Hongchun grinned and said, "Xiao Qin, you really have a lot of money. How much does it cost to redeem the substandard equipment of these small steel factories and provide low-interest loans? Do you really think that the national finance is a cash cow?"

Qin Haidao: "We have roughly calculated that if it is to engage in short-process steelmaking and transform the outdated production process to form an annual production capacity of about 500,000 tons, it will need about 50 million to 80 million funds. Due to the high production efficiency, the product The quality of steel is good, and the price of steel can be 200 to 300 yuan per ton higher than the current production of strip steel. Calculated in this way, after deducting other costs, after the equipment is put into production, the full investment can be recovered in more than a year. Such a thing must be someone Willing to do.

Now some enterprises are unwilling to update their equipment. One reason is that the original old equipment was bought with money and scrapped out of thin air, which does not conform to their frugal psychology. The second is because it is difficult to raise enough funds to update the equipment, so knowing that you can make more money after replacing the equipment, you can only sigh. If the country can solve their two difficulties, most of them are willing to accept reform. "

"But how much does the country need to spend?" Cui Hongchun asked.

"In the short term, about 10 billion to 20 billion funds need to be allocated. Most of these funds are loans and can be recovered. They are only temporarily lent to these enterprises. Because of the existence of these small steels, the environmental losses suffered by the country are far It is far more than 10 billion, has the country calculated this account?" Qin Hai said.

In China from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the new century, along with the rapid economic growth, high-energy-consuming industries such as steel and cement flourished, and a huge negative loss was the decline in air quality. The smog that made people talk about it later was mainly originated from this period. In later generations, the state spent hundreds of billions of yuan trying to control smog pollution, but it was difficult. If it was possible to spend much less money than this ten years ago to subsidize the technological transformation of small steel and small cement, it will save ten times or a hundred times the cost of treatment in the future.

Cui Hongchun's hesitation comes from the limitations of his time. On the one hand, no one could have imagined that China’s economy would develop so much. At the time, 10 billion or 20 billion was an astronomical figure, but only 10 years later, hundreds of billions of governance costs were no longer a problem. On the other hand, people back then were much more tolerant of pollution than later generations. When the country was poor, fresh air was just a luxury. Only when the country was rich did people realize that a good environment is actually a way of life. required.

After listening to Qin Hai's words, Cui Hongchun fell into deep thought, weighing the pros and cons of various plans. It has to be said that Qin Hai's thinking is very novel, and it has brought a ray of hope to the troubled operation of managing small steel. However, mobilizing tens of billions of funds to transform the small iron and steel is not something that Cui Hongchun can decide alone. I am afraid that he needs to go to the level of the central government to make such a big determination.

"If Director Cui has doubts, we can do a pilot first. As for the funds, our group can afford it. The Economic and Trade Commission only needs to give us an authorization. What do you think?" Qin Hai threw out his last plan with a smile .

"No problem." Cui Hongchun answered without even thinking about it this time. He knew that Qin Hai had a lot of funds in his hands, and there was no problem in supporting a pilot project. As for authorization, he can fully trust Qin Hai's character and knows that Qin Hai will not make any unreasonable demands.

"You are the deputy head of the working group personally appointed by the chief, and you can authorize yourself. What else do you need from the Economic and Trade Commission?" Cui Hongchun said.

"I'm just the deputy leader of the small iron and steel action team, which involves personnel adjustments, police deployment, and troop transfers..." Qin Hai began to count for Cui Hongchun with his fingers.

"Wait!" Cui Hongchun stretched out his hand to stop Qin Hai, "What are you planning to do? Why is there still a troop transfer?"

Qin Hai pointed at Xin Jinlong and said, "Old Xin, please explain this to Director Cui."

Xin Jinlong looked embarrassed, but Qin Hai called his name, and he dared not refuse, so he could only bite the bullet and say to Cui Hongchun: "Director Cui, I used to be in small mines, and those who are in small steel The boss is no different. We people, to put it bluntly, don’t cry when we don’t see the coffin. If we don’t have some tough measures, we won’t be obedient. So, this time, I suggest to Mr. Qin that these small bosses You have to come to the hard ones first, subdue them, and then give them sweet dates, and then they will have to eat if they don’t.”

"This kind of thing... only you, Xiao Qin, can do it." Cui Hongchun shook his head helplessly, "It seems that the chief is right to ask you to do this. How about it, I will be in charge of coordinating other matters. To transfer the army, you have a way better than me, Mr. Ji treats you like his own grandson, just ask him to do it."