Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 224 A born villain, looking for a fight!

Early in the morning, Li Weidong received a call from Zheng Jianan from Hong Kong Island.

"Lawyer Zheng, have you gone to work so early?" Li Weidong asked teasingly.

"I'm not looking for you!" Zheng Jianan continued: "I have consulted patent experts. Your egg steamer patent cannot be registered as an invention patent, but can only be registered as a utility model. Mainly because before this, it has been

There is a product like an electric steamer, and your egg steamer is just a new technology solution based on the electric steamer."

"If you use a new type of registration, will there be a PCT patent certificate?" Li Weidong asked.

"Yes." Zheng Jianan continued: "Although the Paris Convention does not stipulate the concept of utility models, the PCT organization's interpretation of patents includes utility models. So there are still PCT patent certificates."

Li Weidong nodded: "It's better than nothing!"

Zheng Jianan continued: "I must remind you that some countries do not use utility models as an independent type of patent protection, while some countries use utility models as an independent type of patent protection. Therefore, utility model patents are often used when encountering disputes.

Sometimes, it is more difficult to protect rights than invention patents.”

"I understand. In fact, patents are meant to guard against gentlemen and villains. However, they are my rights and interests, and I cannot give them up! If you should register a patent, you should continue to register it."

Li Weidong continued: "One more thing, help me check where the Hong Kong Island office of Nishiba Electric Co., Ltd. is located, and whether there is a person named Takakura Bunta there."

Li Weidong was a little unhappy that the egg steamer did not get an invention patent, but it was normal to think about it. After all, electric steamers have been on the market for many years, and the principle of the egg steamer is similar to that of an electric steamer.

It looks the same, just with the addition of a shelf for eggs.

Even in later generations, many countries classified the egg steamer as a type of electric steamer, and marked the egg steamer as an electric steamer in the import and export directories.

Although the electric steamer was invented a long time ago, it has never been popularized. This is because countries that can afford an electric steamer do not eat steamed food; and countries that often steam food cannot afford an electric steamer.

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Due to eating habits, Western countries rarely use the "steaming" method to cook food. In fact, except for the Chinese, almost no country knows how to steam food. Even countries like Japan and South Korea, which are influenced by Chinese food culture,

"Steaming" is a cooking method rarely used.

In China in the 1980s and 1990s, many places still used wood to steam steamed buns! How could you buy an electric steamer in a place that didn’t even have electricity?

Therefore, as long as Chinese people don’t buy something like an electric steamer, there is no need to expect it to be sold in other countries.

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Li Weidong came to Ma Dexing's office with the newly developed egg steamer.

"Director Li, what new product have you developed?" Ma Dexing asked with interest.

"This thing is called an egg steamer, which is specially used to steam eggs." Li Weidong handed the egg steamer to Ma Dexing.

"Do you have a special machine for steaming eggs?" Ma Dexing looked at the egg steamer and said, "Is this sold to foreigners again?"

Li Weidong nodded: "Isn't that right? We Chinese people can just boil a pot and boil eggs."

"Director Li, you are really ambitious, and you are still thinking about making money from foreigners! The foreign trade situation this year is so severe, many foreign businessmen's orders are no longer guaranteed, and the delivery of your toaster has also been delayed.

What? I estimate that at the Canton Fair in October, there may be a significant decrease in foreign businessmen from Europe and the United States." Ma Dexing said.

"The egg steamer was not developed for the European and American markets, but for the Japanese market. Japanese people's eating habits are still different from those of European and American countries," Li Weidong said.

"Japanese market? This is a good idea. According to the current data fed back by the customs, Japan is our second largest export destination after Hong Kong Island. This year's exports to Japan will account for about 10% of the total foreign trade exports.

% or more." Ma Dexing said.

Li Weidong continued: "Director Ma, I have encountered some difficulties in the production of new products, so I came to you for help this time."

"Oh? Is there anything else that can be difficult for you, Director Li?" Ma Dexing asked.

"The main reason is that raw materials are hard to find." Li Weidong said, opened the egg steamer, pointed at the stainless steel disc inside, and then said: "Director Ma, the material I use here is stainless steel, and stainless steel is not easy to find now.

, if it is mass-produced, I also hope that the department can coordinate the raw materials of stainless steel."

Ma Dexing frowned: "Stainless steel! This thing is really not easy to work with."

"Director Ma, if it was easy, I wouldn't have found the hall." Li Weidong said.

"As far as I know, there are only a handful of domestic companies capable of producing stainless steel. This is a planned material. You have to get approval from the State Planning Commission before you can get it," Ma Dexing replied.

"Director Ma, after all, I developed this product for export to earn foreign exchange. The department should be able to secure priority supply of raw materials for export products!" Li Weidong asked.

Ma Dexing nodded: "We will definitely provide maximum protection for products that are exported to earn foreign exchange. The difficulty in this matter now is that only a few companies such as Taiyuan Steel, Anshan Iron and Steel, and Baosteel have the production capacity for stainless steel materials.

The steel companies in our province currently don’t have stainless steel production lines. I can’t control the companies outside the province. So I can only coordinate some stainless steel materials through ministries and commissions.”

"Okay, please, Director Ma, please help me ask the ministries and commissions if they can give me a batch of stainless steel raw materials." Li Weidong said.

Li Weidong waited for two days, and Ma Dexing finally got news.

"Director Li, I have reported the matter of stainless steel materials to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation has also communicated with the Planning Commission, and the answer I got is not very optimistic!" Ma Dexing said.

"What was the response from the ministry?" Li Weidong asked.

Ma Dexing sighed and said: "Our country's stainless steel production is very limited. The stainless steel production capacity of several major domestic steel plants has been divided up as early as the beginning of the year. If you want to find stainless steel outside of the plan in the second half of the year, it is basically

A very difficult thing.

Originally, stainless steel could be imported to fill domestic demand, but this year's foreign trade environment is not good, foreign exchange is still relatively scarce, and stainless steel imports have also encountered difficulties.

At present, stainless steel production capacity is insufficient. The stainless steel produced by several major steel plants must be given priority to meet the project needs of military industry enterprises and the 863 program, followed by key domestic enterprises. It is difficult for other enterprises to obtain stainless steel!"

"Isn't it also possible to export orders to earn foreign exchange?" Li Weidong asked worriedly.

"It's not impossible, it's very difficult." Ma Dexing continued: "If you can really get an export order to earn foreign exchange, I will report it to the leaders in the department. Even if you go to the ministry to blackmail you, you have to find a way to blackmail this stainless steel raw material.

!It’s just that for this kind of thing, it’s hard to say when it comes to actual operation!”

"I understand, thank you, Director Ma." Li Weidong nodded and thought to himself, it seems that Plan B is about to be implemented!

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The Canton Fair in October will be held as scheduled.

There are indeed a lot less foreign businessmen in this Canton Fair, especially those from white-skinned European and American countries. Many of them did not participate. Looking around, foreign businessmen from Southeast Asia and Africa have become the majority. In addition, there are Hong Kong people who speak Cantonese.

business.

At that time, nearly 40% of the goods exported from China were shipped to Hong Kong Island. A small part was consumed by Hong Kong Island itself, and most of them were used for re-export trade.

Li Weidong passed by the tea exhibition area and only heard a few exhibitors selling tea discussing foreign trade orders there.

"The British foreign businessman who originally bought our black tea transferred all his orders to Kenya a few days ago."

"Is there tea in foreign countries? Because we only have tea produced in China!"

"Of course tea is grown in foreign countries, such as India, Kenya, and Sri Lanka, and the British also grow tea themselves."

"How do you know that the British transferred tea orders to Kenya?"

"Kenyans are talking about it! Just now there was a foreign businessman from Kenya who wanted to learn about the tea-making process from me!"

"Did you tell him?"

"Of course not. This is something left by our ancestors. It's what we eat with. How can we tell others at will."

Li Weidong visited several more exhibition areas, and the situation was similar. Most of the people who came to purchase were from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and African countries. The consumption power of these places is obviously not as good as that of developed countries such as Europe and the United States. Not only did they give small orders, but they also kept bargaining.

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The situation in the exhibition areas for various raw materials is relatively good, but the situation in the exhibition areas for industrial products is much worse. Especially for industrial products with some technical content, few foreign investors stop by.

The home appliance exhibition area is even more like this.

Although China's home appliance industry developed rapidly, it was mainly based on assembly at that time. There were small-scale home appliance assembly companies scattered across the country, but there were only a handful of manufacturers that could produce key components.

In this case, China's home appliance industry also has the advantage of cheap labor. If the cost of imported parts and freight are taken into account, China's home appliances do not have a clear advantage in price.

The price advantage of the product is not great, and the brand is not as loud as foreign brands, so naturally no foreign businessmen come to place orders.

As a result, in the deserted home appliance exhibition area, one kind of exhibitor could only stay there bored, watching the models and ladies walking back and forth holding billboards.

Cai Qianjin and Jiang Aiguo walked over from a distance, pretending to be leaders inspecting, and walked into the home appliance exhibition area.

"Oh, why aren't there any foreign investors?" Cai Jinjin said loudly.

"Yes, the home appliance exhibition area in previous years was quite lively!" Jiang Aiguo said, deliberately walking up to Li Weidong, pretending to have just seen Li Weidong, and said in surprise: "Oh, this is not Li Factory.

How long! Long time no see!"

Cai Qianjin also came over: "Director Li, you must have signed a big order again, right? Is it ten million US dollars or twenty million US dollars?"

"Lao Cai, with this year's market, let alone 10 million U.S. dollars, it's hard to get a signature even for 1 million U.S. dollars!" Jiang Aiguo said gloatingly.

"Director Li is different from others! They come to the Canton Fair to eat meat! A mere one million US dollars is equivalent to half a bowl of soup. Director Li doesn't like it!" Cai Jinjin said sarcastically.

"One million U.S. dollars is still a big order!" Jiang Aiguo said with the same sarcasm: "But Director Li has seen it, even if it is an order of more than one million U.S. dollars, Director Li will regard it as a price-fixing sale.

head!"

This second general, Humph, had been cheated by Li Weidong several times before. Now that the home appliance exhibition area was crowded, the two of them quickly took this opportunity to mock Li Weidong.

Li Weidong looked at the two singing in harmony and smiled coldly.

"These two scoundrels are really born villains, and they are making themselves uncomfortable! Wouldn't it be nice to just stay here? You have to give me a slap in the face!"

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