Sail across the sea

Chapter 322: Let Him Come and Have a Look

It turned out that what was being built on this construction site was the first small-scale polyester unit in China with an annual output of 5000 tons, which was promoted by Gao Fan. It was jointly invested by more than a dozen township enterprises organized by Yu Guorong and developed and constructed by Shuinan Chemical Equipment Factory.

At the beginning of the year, Yu Guorong accidentally heard from Pan Yue about the development of a small polyester device by the Water Chemical Research Institute, so he went to Gao Fan to verify the feasibility of this matter.

After receiving a positive answer from Gao Fan, Yu Guorong returned to Shuinan, contacted more than a dozen business friends, raised more than 1000 million yuan in funds, and then came to Shuihua Equipment to discuss the construction of a 5000-ton small polyester unit.

The development of a small polyester unit was the task assigned to the Shuinan Provincial Chemical Industry Department by Zheng Linong when he came to inspect the work last year. The specific implementation fell on the shoulders of Shuihua Equipment and Pan Yue.

The Shuinan Provincial Chemical Industry Department appointed Pan Yue as the chief engineer of the Shuihua Plant and told him to develop a small polyester unit as soon as possible, but chose to forget to allocate the required R&D expenses to the Shuihua Plant. Pan Yue held the imperial sword issued by the deputy minister, but he was unable to make any progress without the necessary resources. After half a year, there was no progress at all.

Yu Guorong's arrival was like timely help to Pan Yue. A small polyester plant costs more than 1000 million yuan, and the cost of land acquisition and civil engineering is not much. Most of it is the cost of equipment manufacturing and installation, in other words, the income of the water chemical plant. Therefore, the leadership team of the water chemical plant cannot help but pay special attention to it.

Yu Guorong obtained the secret information from Gao Fan and claimed that the fees he paid included the cost of developing the small polyester device. He needed to obtain the right to profit from this technology. In the future, Hydrochemical Equipment would use the same design to build small polyester devices for other companies. Each device would need to pay Yu Guorong 10 yuan in technology usage fees.

Upon hearing this request, the leader of the Water Chemical Engineering Department immediately made a harsh statement, saying that there has never been such a rule, the technology belongs to the Water Chemical Engineering Department, and Yu Guorong can buy if he wants, but can get out if he doesn't want to.

But Yu Guorong also had his own confidence. He told the leaders of Shuinan Chemical Industry that if the other party did not agree to this condition, he would go to chemical machinery factories in other provinces to take this order. By then, the honor of developing the first domestically produced small polyester device in China would have nothing to do with Shuinan Province.

This threat directly hit the soft spot of the Shuihua leadership. Or more precisely, it hit the soft spot of the Shuinan Provincial Chemical Industry Department.

Everyone remembered that the matter of Xiao polyester was arranged by Zheng Linong. The Shuinan Chemical Industry Department had been slow to give Pan Yue funding, which was an act of lip service. If the ministry investigated, the department leaders would be the first to suffer.

The reason for not allocating funds to Pan Yue can be attributed to financial constraints, which can be considered an objective reason to some extent. When the leaders investigate the matter, the three glasses of wine as punishment can be replaced with Red Army Coke.

But now local enterprises in Shuinan have raised more than 1000 million yuan in funds and found Shuihua Engineering Group. It would be unreasonable for you to say that you cannot take on this project due to financial constraints.

  The request made by others actually makes some sense. If you don't have R&D funds, and others are willing to pay you to do R&D and get the right to profit from some of the technology in the future, what's wrong with that?

Finally, the Chemical Industry Department made the final decision and consulted with the Ministry of Chemical Industry. Shuinan Chemical Equipment Factory signed a contract with "Renqiao District Guoguang Chemical Company" represented by Yu Guorong, stipulating that Guoguang Company would pay RMB 100 million to entrust Shuihua Equipment to design and develop a small polyester unit. After the design is completed, Shuihua Equipment will calculate the manufacturing and installation cost of a small polyester unit based on the design results. Guoguang Company will entrust Shuihua Equipment to build such a unit in Renqiao District at the price calculated by cost plus necessary profit.

The two parties agreed that Guoguang Company would own part of the technical income rights of the small polyester device developed by Shuihua Institute. In the next ten years, Shuihua Institute would need to pay Guoguang Company a technology usage fee of 10 yuan for each such device it built.

Regarding the final investment in a set of equipment, the two parties also reached an agreement in the form of a memorandum, that is, the total investment in the equipment shall not exceed 1200 million yuan.

It should be mentioned here that the idea of ​​introducing foreign funds for technology research and development was discussed by Gao Fan and Pan Yue before. Pan Yue felt that he could not accept this approach at first, but was finally persuaded by Gao Fan. During the negotiation between Yu Guorong and Aquaculture Equipment, Pan Yue acted as a successful insider. The production process of polyester is not complicated. In recent years, China has introduced several large-scale polyester devices from abroad. Pan Yue has visited them and has some understanding of the design ideas of polyester devices. After receiving the 100 million yuan design fee paid by Guoguang Company, Pan Yue led the engineers of the Aquaculture Equipment Technology Department to design day and night, and it took less than half a year to come up with a complete set of drawings.

According to the drawings, the total investment for a polyester plant with an annual output of 5000 tons is just over RMB 1100 million, or only RMB 2200 per ton of production capacity, far lower than the RMB 1 per ton of production capacity of imported plants.

The Shuinan Provincial Chemical Industry Department reported this achievement to the Ministry of Chemical Industry. The Ministry of Chemical Industry arranged for the National Chemical Engineering Design Institute to organize a group of experts to go to Shuinan for appraisal. The appraisal results showed that the design of this equipment was qualified, filled several gaps in the country, and had certain significance. Needless to say,

As the investor, Yu Guorong was also invited to attend the appraisal meeting of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, but of course he was only an observer. Listening to the titles of the experts announced by the host of the appraisal meeting, and looking at the gray hair and thick glasses of the experts, Yu Guorong was already 70% convinced of the reliability of this technology. However, he still insisted on asking Gao Fan to come and take a look.

"Who?" Geng Xinren, the director of the Water Chemical Plant, was a little confused.

"Gao Fan." Pan Yue repeated for Yu Guorong. Yu Guorong had a heavy accent, and Gao Fan's name sounded like the name of a plant.

"Who is Gao Fan?"

"he……"

Pan Yue was speechless. He really didn't know how to introduce this person.

"Gao Fan is a top student at Peking University. He ranked first in the college entrance examination in Maolin Province last year." Yu Guorong thought of Gao Fan's background that Chen Xingquan had introduced to him before, so he showed it off.

"You took the college entrance examination last year, so aren't you still a college student now?" Geng Xinren was annoyed. "Director Yu, are you okay? We invited so many experts to make appraisals, but you don't believe them. Why do you want a kid to look at them?"

"Are you talking about Gao Fan from Maolin?" an expert came over and asked with a frown.

"Yes, how come, President Song, do you know him?" Geng Xinren asked. He recognized that this expert was Song Chunyuan, the head of the expert group of this appraisal meeting and the vice president of the National Chemical Engineering Design Institute.

"Why is Gao Fan haunting us?" Song Chunyuan said angrily, then sighed and said, "If it's him, you can ask him to come and take a look..."

(End of this chapter)