Ningshi. State-owned hotel!
This is the largest state-owned guest house in Ning City, but compared to ordinary guest houses, it has the best decoration and environment. It is usually used to entertain leaders.
Originally, it was impossible for Zhou Yang's level to be qualified to stay in a state-owned hotel.
But this mission was different, so the city specially approved it and arranged for him to be here directly.
After settling in, Section Chief Feng immediately sent Zhou Yang a batch of information, all about the basic situation of this beautiful state-owned enterprise.
At the same time, there are also some information related to the fertilizer plant project, which I plan to familiarize Zhou Yang with first, so as not to make his eyes dark when working.
Later, Zhou Yang read these materials in the hotel.
Zhou Yang read things very quickly, and he had read through a thick pile of information in just a few hours.
After reading this information, Zhou Yang fell into deep thought.
This fertilizer plant is really part of the Fourth Third Plan!
Three years ago, the President of the United States visited China, which eased relations between the two countries and greatly improved our international environment.
Subsequently, the country ushered in another upsurge in establishing diplomatic relations with foreign countries. By the end of the year before last, the country had basically completed the process of establishing diplomatic relations with developed capitalist countries other than the United States.
Breakthroughs in diplomatic relations have brought new opportunities for foreign trade cooperation!
At the same time, after entering the 1970s, Western developed countries were facing a severe economic crisis, with severe overproduction capacity, and commodities, capital, equipment, and technology were all eager to find a way out.
Without exception, these countries have taken a fancy to our country, which has the largest population in the world and relatively backward technology. This provides us with favorable international conditions for the introduction of complete sets of technical equipment.
Our country's top leaders also took advantage of this opportunity and spent huge sums of money to import advanced technology and equipment from Western countries.
As the key to food production, chemical fertilizers were introduced as a key project.
As early as a few years ago, senior officials shouted, "After so many years of liberation, the problems of food and clothing have not been solved. How can we explain to the people?"
At the same time, a consensus has been formed across the country from top to bottom: food must be seized and cotton must be seized.
Under such circumstances, the construction of this fertilizer plant has become the most concerned matter for the 20 million people in Saibei Province.
No wonder the Ning City Government is so nervous!
You must know that if this thing is done well, the success will last forever, but if it is done badly, I don’t know how many people will be unlucky.
But Zhou Yang knew very well that it was not that simple for foreigners to export technology and equipment.
It is understandable that these Western countries export technology to make money.
As long as we deal fairly, the cooperation between both parties is equal and voluntary, and abide by the spirit of the contract, then there will definitely be no problem.
Including Zhou Yang, everyone likes win-win cooperation!
But there are some countries that don’t think so.
They take advantage of China's lack of understanding of technical equipment to charge exorbitant prices, and often formulate some overbearing clauses in contracts.
Or leaving some loopholes in the equipment and using these loopholes to slowly cut off the Chinese people's leeks is not acceptable.
For example, we could not build the shield machines used in subway construction before, so we had to buy them from abroad.
At that time, the technology monopoly was in the hands of the United States, Japan and Germany. They were so open-minded that a shield machine cost 700 million.
Not to mention, once something breaks down after buying it, not only do we have to buy foreign parts at high prices, but we also have to hire maintenance engineers from abroad. We have to reimburse all travel expenses and entertainment expenses, and the working hours have to be calculated according to German standards.
The most important thing is that our people can't be there when others are repairing the machine, because we are afraid that you will secretly learn a little bit of technology.
Therefore, for the Germans at that time, a business trip to the big Eastern country was definitely a good trip. Not only could they eat, drink and play for free, but in the end they had to go home with hundreds of thousands of euros in tears.
This is why we should vigorously develop the manufacturing industry, because if we believe that "making is worse than buying", we will be stuck.
Of course, the ending is good. This behavior of foreign companies also aroused the indignation of the Chinese people, who decided to engage in research and development of their own.
After years of hard work, we have not only developed our own shield machine, but the price is only 70 million, which is only 10% of the imported price.
Relatively speaking, Germany is still a country that values integrity in the world.
The country where Ningshi imported the project this time is a beautiful country, which is notoriously evil and unreliable.
So Zhou Yang knew that he had to be very alert to avoid being cheated.
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There was nothing to say all night. Early the next morning, as soon as Zhou Yang got up, there was a rapid knock on the door outside the room.
When he opened the door, he saw that it was Section Chief Feng.
"Chief Feng, are you here so early?" Zhou Yang asked in surprise.
"Comrade Zhou Yang, wash up quickly, the city leaders want to see you this morning!" Section Chief Feng said hurriedly.
"That city leader?"
"Stop asking, you'll know when you go there!"
"Okay! Just wait for me!"
After saying that, Zhou Yang started to wash his face and mouth!
A few minutes later, the two walked out of the state-owned hotel, then got into a city car and went straight to the city hall.
Section Chief Feng remained silent along the way. He just avoided talking about anything Zhou Yang asked, or laughed.
Seeing that Zhou Yang couldn't get anything out of the question, he stopped talking.
No matter who the leader is, he will naturally know what he is going to do when he meets him.
Soon, the car arrived at the Ningshi Municipal Government.
To be honest, this may be the smallest and most shabby city government Zhou Yang has ever seen.
There are only two two-story buildings in the entire city government compound, one on the east and one on the east side. The rest are all low-rise bungalows.
It’s just that the house is small, but it’s also shabby.
Although the outside had been painted with paint, it was completely peeled off, making the place even more dilapidated.
The glass in some rooms is broken and can only be blocked with wooden boards or old newspapers. It is really hard to imagine that this is the office of a regional administrative office.
Under the leadership of Section Chief Feng, the two came to the second floor of the small building on the right, and then stopped in front of an office door with the deputy director's office.
Then, Section Chief Feng knocked on the office door nervously!
"Come in!"
Zhou Yang heard a familiar voice, but for a moment he didn't remember who it was.
When the two entered the office and saw the person sitting in the main seat, Zhou Yang immediately smiled.
What a coincidence, they are really acquaintances!
Deputy Director Wang looked at Zhou Yang and said with a smile: "Comrade Zhou Yang, I didn't expect us to meet so soon!"
"Hahaha, this world is really small!" Zhou Yang also smiled.
Yes, this is the Deputy Director Wang whom he met at Ninghai Iron Mine some time ago.
I learned from Zhong Hai that this person was the first deputy director of Ning City, that is, the second in command.
Deputy Director Wang looked at Section Chief Feng and said, "Xiao Feng, go and do your work first!"
"Yes, Director!"
When Section Chief Feng left, he thoughtfully closed the door for them.
Afterwards, only Zhou Yang and Deputy Director Wang were left in the room.
"Comrade Zhou Yang, I really didn't expect that the translator they were looking for was you. After seeing the list they submitted yesterday, I thought it was someone with the same name!"
Zhou Yang immediately said: "I didn't expect that the city would find me!"
"Haha, this is the candidate recommended by the Provincial Compilation and Translation Bureau. According to the comrade in charge of this matter, they were nagged by the people from the Provincial Compilation and Translation Bureau because of this matter."
Then Deputy Director Wang continued: "People said that your Ning City has the best translator in our province, and we need to recommend it. Later, the comrades in the office learned that there is such a number one person like you!"
Zhou Yang smiled and said: "Translation has nothing to do with people's livelihood after all, so it makes sense that the city doesn't have a grasp of the situation!"
"That's also a dereliction of duty on their part. I hope after this lesson, they will remember you as a genius!"
Zhou Yang did not answer the question, but immediately asked: "Director Wang, what is going on with this project? It seems that the higher-ups have never heard that a fertilizer plant is going to be built in our Saibei Province before!"
Upon hearing Zhou Yang's words, Deputy Director Wang was suddenly shocked.
He noticed that Zhou Yang was not talking about Ning City, but Saibei Province.
Obviously, the young man in front of him knew that the country wanted to build large-scale fertilizer plants across the country. He even knew that Saibei Province had not been considered before.
Although this matter is not a particularly confidential matter, it is not accessible to ordinary people. How did he know?
For a moment, Deputy Director Wang looked at Zhou Shen with eyes full of scrutiny!
