industrial overlord

Chapter 718 Wind Power Base
Across the vast Pacific Ocean, the two countries with the highest total industrial output value in the world have launched a battle of the century in the field of clean energy.

In January 2009, Sisay was sworn in as the 1th president of the United States; in February, Sisay signed the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" with a total of 56 billion U.S. dollars, which included clean energy including wind energy and solar energy as a revitalization One of the most important sectors of the U.S. economy.However, it needs to be pointed out that this amount of nearly 2 billion U.S. dollars is all expenditures in the 7870 years from 8000 to 2009, and it is only a mere 2019 billion U.S. dollars amortized every year.

The following month, the Chinese central government announced at the National People's Congress that in order to stimulate domestic demand and ensure stable economic growth, China will allocate 4 trillion yuan, or about 5700 billion U.S. dollars, for investment in key areas in the next two years. The amount of investment is as high as nearly 3000 billion US dollars.

In April, U.S. President Cicely visited California and specially visited Green Power, a famous local wind power equipment manufacturer, and promised to provide a series of support policies such as subsidies, loan guarantees and tax cuts to the wind power industry to help the cleanliness of the United States. Energy companies are growing rapidly.

In May, China's National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Energy and other departments jointly issued several opinions on accelerating the development of China's clean energy industry. The support given to clean energy companies by any of these opinions is far higher than Xisai's verbal commitment.

In June, the U.S. Department of Energy approved in principle 6 clean energy companies’ requests for government loan guarantees, and ordered commercial banks to provide loans to these companies as soon as possible.

In the same month, the State Council of China approved the establishment of several clean energy industry bases across the country. After hearing the news, various provinces and regions launched their own plans for "Optics Valley" and "Wind Valley".

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"Director Huang, thank you for your long-term strong support to our Jiangnan Province. This time, I hope that Director Huang can continue to support us." This is the Development and Reform Commission building in Sanlihe, Beijing. In the office, he said to Huang Gang with a smile.

Huang Gang served Lin Zhenhua a cup of tea, and said with a bitter face, "I said Mr. Lin, you Jiangnan Province are too greedy. You have already taken over the large aircraft project. This is a large project with an investment of hundreds of billions. How dare you Still not satisfied, even a small wind power base project has to be contested, will you let other provinces and cities live?"

The large aircraft project mentioned by Huang Gang is the full name of the China Large Commercial Aircraft Research and Development Project. The goal is to develop large commercial aircraft with a take-off weight of more than 2005 tons that China has all independent intellectual property rights from 2025 to 100.Such a project requires the efforts of the whole country to complete it. Among them, Jiangnan Province was assigned two sub-projects of aircraft engine and fuselage, which almost cut off half of the large aircraft project, and angered officials from other provinces and municipalities. They all went to the National Development and Reform Commission to protest.

There are naturally reasons why Jiangnan Province was able to obtain these two sub-projects.Due to the achievements of Hanhua in the development of gas turbines, it is a matter of course for large aircraft engines to settle in Xunyang. Because gas turbines and aircraft engines have many similarities, Hanhua can assist in the development of aircraft engines, which can avoid many detours. .

The fuselage project is also located in Xunyang, thanks to Lin Zhenhua's plan for Xunyang a few years ago.

After the fuselage of a large aircraft is manufactured, it must be transported to the final assembly plant for integration. Such large components can only be transported by water. Therefore, the layout of the fuselage factory must be close to large rivers, lakes or coastal areas.

Lin Zhenhua thought of this problem a few years ago. He suggested that Xunyang City should leave a large area of ​​industrial land near Yunmeng Lake as an important weight for future competition for the fuselage factory project. Facts have proved that other The competitors in the city did not consider this issue, so Xunyang became the only city that passed the first round of screening.

Including the two major projects of the engine and fuselage of the large aircraft, Jiangnan Province, which is already at the forefront of the country in terms of industrial level, is even richer and richer.But even so, when the country launched a clean energy development plan, Jiangnan Province couldn't help jumping out and joined the ranks of striving for clean energy production bases.

Clean energy projects can be implemented in any province, regardless of whether there is a production base or not.But if there is a state-approved clean energy production base, the local government has more autonomy in terms of land, taxation, loans, etc.In today's China, capital is no longer a scarce resource. The scarcest and most valuable resource is the state's policies. This is why all regions strive for clean energy production bases.

Huang Gang told Lin Zhenhua that this was just a "small wind power base project". In fact, this project is not small at all.The National Development and Reform Commission has calculated that in the next 10 years, China's wind power equipment industry will be able to create an output value of several trillion yuan.If any province can have a wind power industry base, how can it cut a very considerable corner from this cake worth several trillion yuan.

The earliest plan determined by the Development and Reform Commission was to approve five clean energy production bases across the country, which did not include Jiangnan Province.The reason for this consideration is naturally to balance the provinces and reflect the principle of equal benefit.Jiangnan Province won two large sub-projects in the large aircraft project, and had to make some concessions in other projects, which is also a common practice.

Officials in Jiangnan Province naturally understand this rule, but they also understand another rule, that is, crying children get milk.When encountering benefits, no matter whether it is justified or not, you must fight for it. Even if you don’t fight, at least let the higher authorities know that you have this desire. A grievance suffered once, thus giving you some compensation.

With such a mentality, the Jiangnan Provincial Development and Reform Commission also organized a huge lobbying team, which came to Beijing to contact various ministries and commissions.As the most influential entrepreneur in Jiangnan Province, Lin Zhenhua was naturally arrested by the province and sent him to work in the Development and Reform Commission.Who doesn't know that Mr. Lin has an extremely close relationship with Director Huang of the National Development and Reform Commission?Director Huang is precisely the one who has the most say on the issue of clean energy bases.

Hearing from Lin Zhenhua that he came here for the clean energy base, Huang Gang's head suddenly doubled in size.These days, there have been no fewer than 100 local officials who have come to him to talk about this matter, and he is exhausted.Regarding Jiangnan Province's request, Huang Gang had already planned in his heart that he would never approve it.But the moment he saw Lin Zhenhua, Huang Gang began to have a premonition that his wishful thinking might be in vain. Lin Zhenhua has always had such a way to make others willingly agree to his request.

"Zhenhua, you have to think about it for our Development and Reform Commission. If you let Jiangnan Province take over all the good things, what will others think of us? The principle of a game of chess for the whole country should be adhered to. The revitalization of China cannot rely on you Jiangnan Province. Save a province to achieve it, right?" Huang Gang tried in vain to persuade.

"Huang Gang, why don't you listen to my reasons first?" Lin Zhenhua said.

Huang Gang waved his hands and said, "I won't listen, you always have a set of fallacies, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold back, and be bewitched by your fallacies."

Lin Zhenhua pretended to be helpless, and said resentfully: "I hear what you mean, you want to kick me out."

Huang Gang said: "If you want to drink tea, just drink it. If you want to talk about the wind power base, then don't talk about it."

"Well, then I'll just drink tea." Lin Zhenhua said calmly, after all, he really didn't say anything, and took a teacup to taste the tea seriously.

Huang Gang sat beside him for a while, waiting for him to start talking.Unexpectedly, Lin Zhenhua has practiced very well now, and if he doesn't say a word, he really doesn't say a word. After drinking a cup of tea, he stands up again, goes to the water dispenser to get another cup, and continues to sit down and sip.

"Oh, forget it, you'd better talk about it." Huang Gang conceded. In fact, he told Lin Zhenhua not to open his mouth. He was just playing a prank. From the bottom of his heart, he still wanted to hear Lin Zhenhua's thoughts.Over the years, every idea Lin Zhenhua has come up with will eventually benefit the country. Huang Gang believes that this time Lin Zhenhua will also have some good ideas.

"Let me tell you?" Lin Zhenhua said deliberately.

"Tell me." Huang Gang said, seeing Lin Zhenhua's teasing face, he couldn't help but add: "I said Mr. Lin, my patience is limited, if you force me like this, I will really Stop listening."

"Don't, don't, I say it's okay?" Lin Zhenhua quickly admitted his mistake. Anyway, Huang Gang is also the chief director of the Development and Reform Commission. If he goes to the local area, the governor will have to come out to greet him.No matter how arrogant Lin Zhenhua is, he can't make the director of the National Development and Reform Commission a cadre, right?

"Huang Gang, let me ask you, what is the purpose of the National Development and Reform Commission to only approve 5 bases?" Lin Zhenhua started by asking questions.

Huang Gang said: "The main purpose is to control the scale of clean energy projects and avoid blind expansion."

"So, are our country's clean energy projects already saturated?" Lin Zhenhua continued to ask.

Huang Gang said: "Saturation is definitely not achieved, but as far as the current situation is concerned, only wind power, the planned production capacity of wind power equipment companies has exceeded the needs of existing wind farm projects. Therefore, the control of production capacity Blind expansion is still very necessary.”

Lin Zhenhua said: "However, we don't have many wind farm projects. If we hope that wind power will account for 2030% of the total power generation by 20, the number and scale of our current planned wind farms are still far behind. Woolen cloth."

Huang Gang sighed, and said: "This is a contradiction. Of course, the country regards wind power as an important development direction, but so far, the cost of wind power generation is still higher than the grid-connected electricity price, which is equivalent to every kilowatt-hour of electricity generated. , the state has to subsidize a few cents. Under such circumstances, how dare we greatly expand the scale of wind farms?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "The development of any technology has to go through such a stage. The cost must be relatively high at the beginning. Once the scale is formed, the cost will drop. I don't need to explain this to you, a PhD in economics. Bar?"

Huang Gang said: "In theory, this is the case, but the price of wind power equipment in our country is still very high. When the equipment price can be lowered, we can talk about reducing the cost of power generation. This question should be answered by your company for us. Bar?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "That's right, I came today to talk to you about this matter."

(End of this chapter)