Sail across the sea

Chapter 251 That's a Thing in the Past

Gao Fan was only half right.The Hatch family is indeed optimistic about China's development potential, but China is not the only emerging market that the Hatch family is optimistic about.

The Hatch family's investment philosophy is to place multiple bets, invest some funds and talents in each promising market, and then adjust the proportion of investment according to market changes.

In the past few years, Latin America was the most promising market for the Hatch family, and they invested a lot of money in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and other countries.However, with the occurrence of Mexico's debt default, the risk of a large-scale sovereign debt crisis in Latin America has increased sharply. The Hatch family is trying every means to withdraw funds from Latin America and turn to East Asia and Southeast Asia.

Bob is one of the children sent by the family. He also has some cousins ​​who went to South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, India and other countries, where they investigated investment opportunities and made friends with dignitaries in the political and business circles.He even has a few cousins ​​who are still in Latin America, looking forward to finding opportunities to pick up leaks in the coming financial turmoil.

All these children have a cooperative and competitive relationship with each other. They all hope to make achievements in the market they are responsible for, so that they can get a better position in the family and allocate more resources in the future.

Gao Yiping felt that Bob was an outsider, but in Bob's mind, the Canghua Vitamin Factory was his own business.He wants to start with this small business and gradually expand his influence.

As for those acts of pretending to be silly and cute, it was just a cover color designed by Bob for himself.He didn't expect to be able to deceive Gao Fan, as long as people like Gao Yiping and Gu Kunquan couldn't see through it.

Gao Fan didn't bother to care about Bob's petty thoughts.In the face of absolute strength, any skill is superfluous.Gao Fan knew how huge the Chinese economy would be in future generations. If Bob just wanted to take a free ride, Gao Fan didn't care.But if Bob wants to plot something against China, Gao Fan believes that he can easily thwart his attempt.

"By the way, Dad, how is the production of urea in our factory?"

Leaving aside the topic about Bob, Gao Fan asked Gao Yiping about the fertilizer factory.

The ammonium urine conversion project of Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Plant started last year and was successfully completed a few days ago.During Gao Fan's trip to Yangcheng, the fertilizer plant's urea plant had a trial production of feeding materials. Gao Fan had already heard Gao Yiping talk about this situation on the phone.

After the trial production, it is the official production, and the device has entered the full-load operation state.The effect of the ammonium urine modification process can only be tested under the condition of full production.

After Gao Fan came back yesterday, he was only interested in introducing Hatch Group’s investment and Bob’s visit to his father, and had no time to inquire about the production of urea.Now that Bob's business has been arranged, he will ask about it.

"The effect is very good!"

Hearing Gao Fan's question, Gao Yiping became visibly excited:
"Experts from the country and the province stayed on the production line for a few days, looking at various data. The equipment in our factory uses the process proposed by you and your aunt Zhou. Experts from the Ministry of Chemical Industry made it In comparison, it is said that the efficiency of the device on Xinye’s side has increased by more than 5%, and the investment is 10% less than theirs.”

"Should you trust me now?" Gao Fan asked with a smile.

"What do you believe!" Gao Yiping said with a fake face, "You just came up with a few ideas, and the final design was not made by your Aunt Zhou and the experts from the Ministry of Chemical Industry? People said, the few ideas you proposed It’s a ghost idea, but it’s just a bit of inspiration to others, and it’s far from the real design.”

"Yeah, I understand, I understand." Gao Fan nodded repeatedly.

In fact, some time ago, he had heard from experts from the Chemical Design Institute and Zhou Xiaoyun that the core process of the ammonium urine conversion device in Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory was designed according to his ideas.More than one expert told him that the person who contributed the most to this set of devices is Gao Fan.

These words will naturally reach Gao Yiping's ears. According to Gao Min's private telling to Gao Fan, Gao Yiping has been bragging to others in Versailles on many occasions, saying that his son has made great achievements in this ammonium urine reform project. what a contribution.

As for what he said just now, it is naturally the father's habitual operation in front of his son, and he may say a few more old sayings such as "nine cows do not boast about themselves".

"but……"

Just when Gao Fan was about to accept his father's instruction, Gao Yiping changed the subject, frowning and said:

"There is no problem in production, but the sales of the urea produced has become a big problem. I still want to hear your thoughts."

"Sales?" Gao Fan was taken aback, "Isn't there a shortage of urea now, why is there a problem with sales?"

You know, it is 1983, and there is a shortage of everything in the country except for the surplus of unemployed youth.In the past, the fertilizer produced by chemical fertilizer factories was still the kind of ammonium bicarbonate with relatively low fertilizer efficiency, which was in short supply for a long time.

The Bureau of Agricultural Materials can sometimes get some imported Japanese urea, which is basically invisible to ordinary farmers. When the urea was still on the railway, it had already been divided up on paper by cadres large and small in the county.

Today, the chemical fertilizer factory has changed its shotgun and can produce urea itself. Gao Yiping actually said that sales have become a big problem.Is it because there are too many related households who come to buy urea, and the production capacity of 4 tons a year is not enough?

Gao Yiping said: "The lack of urea you mentioned is a thing of the past. In the past, our factory produced 5000 tons of synthetic ammonia a year, produced it into ammonium bicarbonate, and then distributed it to the rural areas of the county. There must be a gap. But now all of a sudden If we get 20000 tons of synthetic ammonia, it will be far from surplus."

Regardless of ammonium bicarbonate or urea, the active ingredient is the synthetic ammonia, or more precisely, the nitrogen in the synthetic ammonia.The nitrogen content of ammonium bicarbonate is 17.7%, and that of urea is 46.7%. About 1 kg of urea is worth 2.6 kg of ammonium bicarbonate.If it is considered that ammonium bicarbonate is easy to decompose and cause the loss of fertilizer efficiency, the effect of 1 kg of urea is actually more than 3 kg of ammonium bicarbonate.

The past production capacity of Canghai Chemical Fertilizer Factory was to produce 5000 tons of synthetic ammonia a year, process it into 2 tons of ammonium bicarbonate, and distribute it to the rural areas of the county. There is still a large gap, so the supply is in short supply.

However, after ammonium-to-urea transformation, the fertilizer plant's production capacity has been increased to 2 tons of synthetic ammonia and 4 tons of urea, equivalent to 12 tons of ammonium bicarbonate, far exceeding the rural needs of the county.

Of course, the demand for fertilizers in rural areas is also changing dynamically.As the countryside becomes richer, the purchasing power of farmers continues to increase.In later generations, a county like Cangtang will have no difficulty digesting 4 tons of urea.

But not now, because farmers are still very poor and cannot afford so much chemical fertilizer.

(End of this chapter)