Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 376: Talks Failed, Temporarily Terminated

"Director Bai, are we really not going to talk about this anymore?"

After the meeting, a director of the Foreign Investment Department asked, he was a little unwilling, after all, this was an investment of 8 billion US dollars, which was the largest investment amount since the reform and opening up.

If it succeeds, their Foreign Investment Department will have made a great contribution.

"How do we talk? Can you persuade Xiao Rizi to give up the chip order, or can you persuade them to open up their communications business to us?"

Bai Kang shook his head and said, "It's been half a month. If they are sincere, they should at least give us some hope instead of rejecting us all the time."

After hearing this, the director of the Foreign Investment Department asked, "What if the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building..."

"Oh, even our minister may not dare to say that, unless you find a higher-level leader, but they will definitely believe Comrade Fengnian from the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building."

Bai Kang chuckled and said, among the senior cadres in the city of Sijiu, everyone knows that it is best to listen to Zhou Fengnian when it comes to technical matters.

Given his contributions to the development of science and technology over the years, if you had an argument with him, you would definitely be wrong.

The leader of Jiangxi Province went to the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building three times, but still failed to persuade Zhou Fengnian to give in.

Not to mention 8 billion US dollars, even 10 billion US dollars would be useless.

Bai Kang had talked with Zhou Fengnian and he knew how important the communications business was. A tiny city in Hong Kong could bring hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building every year.

If Xiao Ri opens two cities, the communications business department of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building will be able to expand to five within three years, and may be able to occupy two state islands within ten years.

By then, the revenue and influence will not be comparable to 8 billion US dollars, and the importance will be on a different level.

Moreover, in the field of machinery and heavy industry, Zhou Fengnian can develop domestic factories, but he has too many things to do and is unable to handle it.

The director of the Foreign Investment Department sighed and said, "It's a pity, after all, the investment amount is so large."

Bai Kang said: "Don't feel sorry for it. The Fourth Machine Department can earn it back in more than a year. They are the important ones."

There are many export projects under the management of the Ministry of Machine Building, including Shenzhou computers, lithography machines, semiconductor chips, etc., and it is easy to make billions of dollars a year.

After Bai Kang returned, he quickly reported the matter to his leader. After the leader learned about it, he had no choice but to put the matter on hold.

The key to this cooperation lies in whether Xiao Rizi will give in. If they don't, the cooperation cannot go on.

Zhou Fengnian has a very tough temper. When You Lijun went to Zhou Fengnian's office, he was almost scolded out. Now no one wants to offend Zhou Fengnian.

After the matter was shelved, Xiao Rizi became quite anxious. They really needed more advanced chips, but they did not have the conditions to manufacture them themselves.

Now even their own brand of lithography machine research and development plan has been shelved. The last lithography machine they developed was "surrounded" by China's cheaply sold colorful lithography machines and could not be sold.

A large amount of research funds was wasted.

It is almost hopeless to ask them to research more advanced lithography machines now; firstly, the company owes a large sum of money, and secondly, there is no guarantee that the products developed will be accepted by the market.

If they develop it and China sells a batch at a low price, they will lose hundreds of billions of yen. No matter how rich they are, they cannot afford such waste.

At the Sijiucheng People's Hotel, a senior official from Jiang Province received a phone call and sighed after listening to what the other party said.

After he hung up the phone, a director from the provincial office came up and asked, "Leader, what just happened?"

"The negotiations have been put on hold. If Xiao Ri does not back down, this investment will basically be stopped."

"Stopped? That's 8 billion US dollars!" Director Le of the Provincial Office said in shock: "Why don't the higher-ups make more efforts? If this is implemented, our province's economy will take off!"

In the past two years, attracting investment and developing the economy have almost become the main theme. Hong Kong and foreign businessmen are the main targets in various places, and anyone who can invest will be treated as a guest of honor.

Therefore, there are also some scammers pretending to be Hong Kong businessmen to cheat people. Although there have been a few such incidents, when people meet Hong Kong and foreign businessmen in various places, they still can't help but entertain them with all their might.

If the investment is implemented together, it will be a political achievement.

Therefore, the 8 billion US dollars investment in Xiaorizi really attracted the attention of the entire Jiang Province. Even the deputy leader of a province put aside his daily work and came to Sijiu City to track the income.

Once implemented, US$8 billion will flow into Jiangxi Province within five years, creating tens of thousands of jobs, and the derived industrial chain will almost turn a backward city into an economic star city in the province.

Their entire Jiang Province might have been able to leap into the top few in the country, but in the end it was ruined.

"It's great that they can tell me the results, but they can't reveal the specific details, which is not in compliance with regulations."

The deputy leader of Jiang Province sighed. Although he didn't say it explicitly, he could guess what was going on. It was simply that the deal was not reached.

However, he had no idea what the Ministry of Foreign Trade would do next.

Director Le asked: "Leader, what should we do next?"

"Next"

The deputy leader of Jiang Province didn't know what to do for a moment. Logically, he should have gone if there was no result, but he was really unwilling to miss out on such a big project.

"I'll call Comrade Guo Jiang first."

When the deputy leader of Jiang Province decided to make a phone call, Director Le immediately left the room.

After about ten minutes, Director Le was called in. As soon as he entered the room, he asked impatiently, "Leader."

"Director Le, go find out how the nuclear power plant project in Lu City was successful and who was responsible for coming to Sijiu City in the first place?"

"Hmm? Leader, I see. I'll go ask right away."

Although Director Le was confused, he was still prepared to find someone immediately to clarify the matter.

The deputy leader of Jiang Province was afraid that Director Le would not understand the matter and would not implement it properly, so he explained: "At the beginning, our first nuclear power plant construction project was also presided over by Comrade Zhou Fengnian, but at that time many places were suitable for building nuclear power plants, but in the end they were snatched away by Lu City.
This was told to me by Comrade Guo Jiang. He is familiar with a comrade over there and occasionally heard some things. "

Although Lu City met the requirements at first, there were more cities that met the requirements than Lu City, but in the end the first nuclear power plant was taken away by them.

After the nuclear power plant is built, there will be almost no shortage of electricity in Lu City, even for industrial use. This has a lot to do with Zhou Fengnian.

Director Le understood immediately after hearing this and said, "I understand, leader. I'll go ask."

Although he made many promises, Director Le let out a long sigh after leaving the People's Hotel.

As the director of a provincial office, he doesn't have many connections. Although he came from Beijing, he hasn't been back for almost eight years.

But I can only try to find out.

After thinking for a while, Director Le went straight to find the friend he had left with that year. He seemed to be working in the Ministry of Machine Building now and should know something.

(End of this chapter)