Reborn Tycoon Rise

"Invest in shares?" Xu Zhi pondered over it.

Qi Lin smiled and said: "Yes, Shanghai No. 1 Machinery Factory has thousands of employees and is one of the largest factories in Shanghai. It has been providing parts for Shanghai cars before, but the industry has been in recession in recent years. , leading to difficulties in capital turnover. If we can obtain foreign investment, we will definitely be able to regain a new life."

Xu Zhi scanned the factory area of ​​this machinery factory. The area is very large, it should be no less than 300 acres. Because of its long history, this machinery factory is currently located in a prime location in Puxi. It is surrounded by residential areas to the north. There is a large free trade farm just one kilometer away.

Only factories in the past could obtain land in this location. Now even Mack Trucks or Volkswagen can only build factories in the suburbs.

Of course, the current suburbs will also be prosperous places in the future, but they still cannot compare to the location of this machinery factory.

Outside the factory, some shops, small parks, and markets are owned by the factory. Factories in this era were actually aggregations. Employees' houses were allocated by the factory, usually near the factory, and nearby small shops, markets, etc. were actually owned by the factory.

The greater convenience is that this is not the capital. As long as the relationship is properly handled with the leaders of Shanghai and Shanghai, future operations will be much simpler.

After thinking about it, Xu Zhi said: "It's not impossible to invest in shares, but we also need to send people into the factory to participate in management, and we also need to send people to be permanent in terms of finance. What does Mayor Qi think?"

"No problem. As long as the requirements are allowed within the scope of the law, we can all agree." Qi Lin agreed with a smile. The reason why he was arranged here was actually because he was the main responsible person among a group of deputy mayors in Shanghai. In the industrial sector, the First Machinery Factory is under his jurisdiction.

He knows the situation of this factory very well. Due to some special reasons, the efficiency of the First Machinery Factory is getting worse and worse. Even though the factory is very busy today, this is actually done for the United States. Most of the time, it can only Give workers a holiday.

In the past year, the government has subsidized millions of yuan, but the factory still has not improved, and he is also troubled by this matter.

Now, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Once the United States agrees to take a stake, it will not only bring huge amounts of foreign exchange funds, but also a lot of orders in the future. The foreign exchange obtained can just be used to introduce imported equipment. As long as there are stable orders, the factory will We can turn losses into profits, and the government no longer has to subsidize this bottomless pit, not to mention that joint ventures are now a central policy.

"In this case, we will discuss this matter after the Mark project is confirmed," Xu Zhi said with a smile. Although the location and size of the factory are good, he values ​​​​the supporting construction of the Mark factory more, and American capital will intervene in the management. Although there will be many conflicts in the future, as long as the quality can be guaranteed, it will be fine.

"boom……"

Just as Qi Lin was about to say something, there was a slight vibration in the distance, followed by a sound similar to an explosion, but the sound was not loud.

"What's going on?" Xu Zhi was a little curious, but found that Qi Lin and others didn't seem to care, so he asked curiously.

Qi Lin smiled and said: "Sorry, Mr. Xu, I forgot to mention it before. The sound coming from the east is that the Baosteel project is under construction. Ground is being broken and piles are being driven over there, and explosives are often used."

"Baosteel!" Xu Zhi nodded and said that the largest project in the country in the 1980s was not a cooperation project between SAIC-Volkswagen and McDonnell Douglas, but a set of the world's largest equipment imported from Japan's Nippon Steel at a cost of about US$8 billion. Advanced steel production lines.

To develop industry, steel and oil should be the first priority!

Before 1994, the domestic economy's demand for oil was far less than that of later generations. Throughout the 1980s, the mainland was a pure oil exporter. Foreign exchange earnings from oil exports accounted for 25% of all domestic exports. At this moment, oil is the guarantee of domestic foreign exchange security. Core.

But steel is another matter. In 1978, the annual steel production in the entire mainland was less than 30 million tons, which was not comparable to a large foreign factory, nor to South Korea, Brazil and the three countries at the same time. At the same time, special steel, stainless steel and other products are completely incapable of independent production. The mainland imports US$20 billion in materials every year, of which US$3 billion is steel.

For a country with a large population and economy that intends to develop, it is obviously not feasible to rely on imported steel for infrastructure construction for a long time. In addition, at that time, the entire country's heavy industry was located in the three northeastern provinces. At this time, transportation was not convenient and there was a lack of heavy trucks. As a result, the cost and price of transporting steel from the north to the south are extremely high, which is one of the reasons why large amounts of steel need to be imported every year.

The shortage of steel in the entire south has seriously affected the country's development. In 1978, the central government decided to build a large steel plant in the south. After inspecting more than a dozen cities, it finally chose Baoshan District, Shanghai.

The central government’s original plan was to build an ordinary steel plant in Shanghai to solve the growing shortage of steel in the south. However, after visiting several internationally advanced steel plants, the central government decided to use Japanese experts as technical guidance to build the steel plant. The latest production line is the same as Nippon Steel, which is the first phase of Baosteel's plan.

During the first five years of reform and opening up, the central government established technology introduction projects in steel, chemicals, petrochemicals, mining, and automobiles. Among them, Baosteel's investment was the highest, accounting for 1/3 of that year's fiscal revenue.

Qi Lin said with a smile: "The Baosteel project has just resumed work during this period, so the superiors are more concerned about the progress requirements. This kind of blasting sound is often heard during this period."

"Just resumed work?" Xu Zhi recalled that Baosteel did encounter this kind of thing in history, it seems that it was in 1980

Because Baosteel is close to the Yangtze River, it occupies the alluvial soil along the Yangtze River. This alluvial soil used to be fertile land, but now it is very dangerous for a heavy steel company to be placed on it because the bearing capacity of the underground foundation is very low, which has also caused many people to I was worried that the factory would slide into the Yangtze River after it was completed.

In order to stabilize the foundation, a large amount of steel pipes and reinforced concrete had to be consumed to strengthen the foundation.

However, in the summer of 1980, a serious pile foundation shift occurred. Coupled with the financial constraints of the central government, it only stopped for a few months. Later, with the efforts of some far-sighted people, many engineers calculated overnight and concluded that Baosteel The conclusion that the base was safe allowed the central government to agree to continue the plan to build Baosteel.

Qi Lin said with a smile: "There were some minor accidents last year. Baosteel is currently resuming work with all its strength and strives to achieve its first production in 1982. By then, Mark Company should also be put into production smoothly. In this case, the steel needed by Mark Company will be Materials can also be purchased locally, and the cost will be much cheaper.”