There is no direct flight from Xucheng to Birmingham, UK. Shen Huai and Sun Yalin will go to Hong Kong first, and they will first meet Song Hongjun in Hong Kong. In order to save costs, Shao Zheng did not go abroad with him.

Sun Qiyi avoided seeing it; Song Hongjun helped gather some insiders in Hong Kong and gave Shen Huai a chance to promote the project, but the results were not great.

Although Chinese businessmen in Hong Kong and Taiwan are optimistic about the development of the mainland since the reform and opening up, their investment in export-oriented production and trade has mainly flowed to the southeastern coastal areas with relatively good economic foundations, such as Guangnan and Jiangdong, in the middle and early stages of the 1990s.

It seems that with the Zhujiang River as the boundary, in the coastal areas from the Zhujiang Estuary to the north, in the mid-to-early 1990s, the investment from Hong Kong and Taiwan decreased sharply. Further north is the Shandong Peninsula and the coastal areas of the Liaodong Peninsula, which can attract investment from Japan and South Korea to a relatively large extent, but Huaihai Province is stuck in the middle and becomes a low-lying area in terms of attracting investment.

Song Hongjun is also very helpful in advocating, but many businessmen are practical.

Almost no one would think that in a region where the per capita GDP is less than HK$2,500 and the per capita income is less than HK$2,000, how can the investment environment be better?

Shen Huai and Sun Yalin stayed in Hong Kong for two days, but they could not talk about the investment of 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

This 10 million yuan is only an investment intention. There are so many people who can't save Song Hongjun and Sun Yalin's face, and promised to take the time to go to Donghua to investigate, whether it can be implemented in the end, maybe.

Song Hongjun had no intention of making additional investments in new projects, and even persuaded him to give up on the way to send Shen Huai and Sun Yalin to the airport:

"It's not easy for your dad to get into the deputy province. You have to understand his mood, and he is also afraid that you will screw things up. He can only be accused of being a godson - now if you give up importing second-hand from West Ummings For the steel-making line, my 10 million yuan will continue to be invested in Meixi Town. I think, as for Meigang at this time, you have done a solid job, and money and political achievements are indispensable, so why bother going to insurance?"

"This project is very important to Meigang and Donghua's future development. No matter how hard or difficult it is, I have to overcome it; if I give up easily, Meigang will not be where it is today," Shen Huai said. , "Brother Hongjun, if you need funds for other businesses, I won't blame you for anything..."

"What are you? What are you talking about? What if I just gave you the 10 million yuan for nothing?" Song Hongjun laughed, "I'll just say, if you think that steelmaking is imported from West Youmings The line is feasible, my 10 million will definitely arrive on schedule, you don't have to worry about my side."

Shen Huai also knew that his father must have called Song Hongjun. If Song Hongjun could not take away the 10 million funds he had promised to invest at first, he had already withstood the pressure.

On the plane, Shen Huai couldn't help being a little pessimistic about this trip, and asked Sun Yalin, "Do you think your second uncle, Sun Qiyi, will let the wind out in advance..."

Sun Yalin glanced at Shen Huai, and said disdainfully, "You said that with your virtue, what kind of rumors do you need my second uncle to make? Tell me, who would be as foolish and bold as me now in the Sun family and dare to hold it? All the money on you?"

Shen Huai laughed and asked again, "What about your dad? I'm afraid we won't be able to meet in Birmingham this time."

"Just look at how much he wants to see my daughter?" Sun Yalin said, "It's also your fault. Now that I'm so close to you, I'm about to become an alien and a freak in the Sun family." She added, "Think about it. People's hearts are also strange. If your two fool father, if he is only a deputy director-level official, he will not expect to block the governor and minister in this life. For more than a year, he has jumped two levels in a row. If you jump to the deputy governor, even if countless people say that this is someone comforting your Song family, you will not be able to stand your two foolish hopes that you will be able to get a governor or minister to work for a few years. The provincial department is also better than it is now. But you have a trouble-making son like you who doesn’t listen to discipline, and makes him feel uneasy. Do you think he will feel unlucky in his heart?”

Shen Huai smiled. He didn't want to speculate on what his "father" mentality was, but he had to admit that Sun Yalin sometimes spoke to the point:

If his father didn't want to simply hang up as vice governor for two years and then go back to the ministries and commissions to get an idle position at the deputy minister level and retire, he would probably have a closer integration with Su Weijun and Tan Qiping in the capital of Huaihai Province, and politically. Move closer to Governor Zhao Qiuhua and sing opposite Tian Jiageng, the trouble is still to come...

Shen Huai and the flight attendants asked for blankets, wrapped them in bed, and stopped thinking about these headaches. They rushed to Birmingham, England, and it was important to meet Zhou Zhibai and Zhao Dong first.

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Birmingham is located in the middle of England. As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, the industrial system gradually became large in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today, it is the second largest city in the United Kingdom, one of the manufacturing centers in the United Kingdom, and the largest metal industry in the world. Processing Zone. Birmingham has a wide range of industrial sectors, ranging from ferrous metallurgy, non-ferrous metallurgy, machine tools, instruments, carriages, aircraft, chemicals, to military industry, automobiles and other industries.

At present, almost 30% of the UK's exports are manufactured in the Birmingham area. West Umins Industrial Group is just one of many industrial companies in Birmingham.

However, the entire Western European economy has fallen into weakness since the 1980s, and Birmingham's economy is also shifting to the tertiary industry, financial industry, tourism and new energy industries, which makes Birmingham's traditional industrial clusters face severe adjustments.

Mei Steel intends to purchase the electric furnace steel production line that West Umings will eliminate, and West Umings's attitude is welcome. This electric furnace steel line is planned to be eliminated soon, and there are only two years left until the scrapping period. If no manufacturer is willing to take over, it can only be sent directly to the steelmaking furnace as scrap steel.

West Ummings' price for this electric furnace steel wire is also not high, just slightly higher than the scrap price.

West Ummings is not stupid either. For them, transferring the entire electric furnace steel wire to Meigang at the scrap price does not seem to take any advantage, but they can save a lot of demolition costs. At Birmingham labor prices, the demolition cost is several million dollars.

After it is transferred to Meigang, it will be dismantled by Meigang.

Whether the steelmaking line is dismantled or shipped to China for re-installation, as well as future production line debugging, Meigang will hire a considerable number of engineers from West Umings, which can help West Umings relieve some of the current layoff pressure. Selling the facilities of the steel-making line cheaply to Meigang does not count. The steel-making line needs to be up and running, and there are some technologies from the West Umins Industrial Group. The transfer of technology can also allow West Umins to obtain an additional income.

In order to save costs, Zhao Dong, Pan Cheng and Zhou Zhibai led the team to Birmingham in advance to confirm that the steelmaking line could be used, and they also showed considerable sincerity in their initial contact with Sino-Western Yumings Industrial Group, so they directly rented a factory in West Yumings. The workers' dormitory is used as the preparatory office for new projects overseas.

West Umings also directly assigned David Allen, the general manager of the steel plant, and others to be in charge of contacting Meigang.

David Allen was only thirty-five or sixteen years old, a typical white English man, tall, with blond hair. At such a young age, he can be independently responsible for the operation of a steel plant with an annual output of 400,000 tons of steel within the conservative West Umins Industrial Group.

However, before this production line is demolished to Meishan Iron and Steel, most of the employees of the steel plant will be laid off. Even if David Allen gets a new position within West Ummings Industries, it won't be ideal.

David Allen's expertise is in the operation and management of traditional industries, and the traditional industrial clusters in Birmingham are shrinking; another steel plant in West Ummings may be dismantled in two years. Allen's expertise would also be of little use in Birmingham.

Therefore, in the first few days after Shen Huai came, David Allen did his duty as a professional manager, but he couldn't help showing some depression, not to mention special enthusiasm.

The annual salary of foreign managers like David Allen can easily be more than 100,000 to 200,000 pounds, which Meigang cannot afford now.

Of course, even if Shen Huai is willing to hire him for a long time, others may not be happy.

David Allen and other engineering management personnel who participated in the negotiation at West Ummings were full of doubts and confusion about Meigang's behavior. Take it back for what? Can it really be installed and run for another ten or eight years?

The poor imagined that the emperor used gold poles all day long, and the emperor wondered why the poor did not use minced meat.

I don't know if Sun Qiyi was making some noise behind his back. Sun Yalin's father didn't have time to come to Birmingham; Shen Huai didn't have time to go to Paris to see the old Sun family, and he knew that this time the past would not have any ideal results.

Because Zhao Dong, Pan Cheng, and Zhou Zhibai led the team in the early stage and did a lot of meticulous work, Shen Huai made quick decisions after arriving.

Coincidentally, this steelmaking line in West Yumings is scheduled to officially stop running after Christmas. Shen Huai can still seize the last two or three days to better observe the steelmaking line when it is running. actual condition of the device.

The main electric furnace steel line currently operated by Meishan Iron and Steel is the technology imported from the United Kingdom in the early 1980s; it is very close to the line of West Ummings in terms of technology - this is also the main reason why Shen Huai must win this line. reason.

With the existing technical strength of Meishan Iron and Steel, it has great advantages to operate this line well. If you miss this village, you won't have this store, and Shen Huai can only grit his teeth.

It took Shen Huai three days to climb, together with Zhou Zhibai, Zhao Dong, and Pan Cheng, to finalize some doubtful points that could not be determined in the early stage. In the workers' dormitory on the outskirts of Birmingham, he officially decided to launch a new project, and cooperated with Xi Jinping. Negotiations for dismantling and the introduction of related technologies were initiated by the Umins Industries Group.

Shen Huai decided to carry out the demolition of the production line at the same time as the factory infrastructure.

It takes about four to six months for the equipment of the entire production line to be dismantled and shipped back to China. Shen Huai obviously won't let the country sit there empty-handed for these four to six months.

Shen Huai decided that Zhao Dongxian would return to China to carry out the preparatory work for the pre-construction of the project. He and Pan Chengxian stayed in Birmingham in the workers' dormitory on the outskirts of Birmingham~lightnovelpub.net~ Negotiating with West Ummings Industrial Group while negotiating The drawings of the steel mill were translated.

Shen Huai also wants the domestic design institute to directly apply the infrastructure plan of the West Umins Steel Plant, and then take technical considerations during the construction process, so as to save costs and time to the greatest extent, and speed up the project. construction progress.

Zhou Zhibai has Pengyue's affairs to be responsible for, and it is impossible to focus most of his energy on this project. Since Pengyue has business dealings with the UK in scrap steel trading, he will be additionally responsible for future equipment transportation.

Sun Yalin flew to France and continued to be responsible for fundraising.

If no more funds came in, the 100 million capital that was collected in the early stage—a considerable part of which was still converted from land—even if the CNCB business loaned tens of millions more, this amount of capital would not be enough to consume for three or four months.

In three or four months, if no new funds come in, and even the dismantled equipment cannot be shipped back to China, the project will naturally not be able to continue.

Shen Huai lived in Birmingham for 20 days, and when the details of the agreement were finalized, Pan Cheng and others were allowed to stay in the UK, while he returned to China alone. (83 Chinese Network)