The senior executives of Pfizer are obviously a bit incredible. A pharmacy technician who graduated from college earns only a few dozen dollars a month?

At Pfizer, black aunts who clean toilets cost $600 a month.

Pharmaceutical factories are high-tech enterprises, and employees all need certain professional knowledge, which also determines that the labor costs and daily expenses of pharmaceutical factories are very high.

Chen Xia continued to fool him again:

"In addition to the low labor costs in China, the raw material costs are also very low. We can also place the synthetic raw material workshop in China. At that time, these raw materials can not only be used by our own company, but also sold to other pharmaceutical companies."

Western medicine is different from traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine requires a lot of Chinese herbs, minerals, animals, etc.

Most of the pharmaceutical ingredients and raw materials of Western medicine need to be extracted from chemical engineering.

For example, let’s take the common aspirin as an example:

Aspirin is produced by the reaction of salicylic acid and acetic anhydride.

How is salicylic acid extracted?

First, coal distillation (that is, the process of producing coal gas) will leave coal tar, and benzene can be distilled out from coal tar. The benzene is sulfonated with concentrated sulfuric acid and then eutectic and heated with caustic soda. Finally, it reacts with carbon dioxide at high temperature and high pressure to obtain "salicylic acid".

The technicians dehydrate acetic acid with concentrated sulfuric acid to obtain vinyl ketone, and then react with acetic acid to obtain "acetic anhydride".

These raw materials are simple but not easy, but they are actually not difficult. Many companies in later generations will outsource the raw materials, or directly purchase them in the raw materials market, instead of producing and extracting them themselves.

The labor cost in China is low and the material price is low. Then the price of the "raw materials" extracted by synthesis is definitely far lower than that in developed countries.

Chen Xia's words have already made the executives of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals excited.

Vice President Marcia also has her concerns:

"Chen, there is another problem now. I have been to your hometown of Yuezhou. This is a small town. If we invest in and set up a factory there, how can we solve the transportation problem of product exports?"

Everyone looked at Chen Xia again. This is the key. If it is produced but cannot be transported, it will be useless.

Even if a factory is to be built, it must be built in a place with convenient transportation, such as the very famous Shenzhen City in China at that time.

Before coming to Pfizer, Chen Xia talked about this investment environment with her "father-in-law" and also talked about whether transportation and logistics would restrict the development of Zhijiang Province.

Xu Hongtai told Chen Xia at that time that the external transportation of Zhijiang Province is actually very convenient, because there are many excellent deep-water ports along the coast of Zhijiang Province.

For example, the "Ningbo Port" with the world's largest cargo throughput in later generations.

On June 1, 1979, with the approval of the State Council, Ningbo Port was officially opened to the public. This means that foreign ships can enter and exit Ningbo Port freely, and cargoes around the world can be accessed.

Xu Hongtai quietly revealed that this year the province will also establish the "Ningbo Port Authority" to manage ports in Ningbo and Zhoushan, and continue to increase opening up to the outside world.

In the future, goods from Zhijiang Province and even goods from East China will no longer have to be exported from Xiangjiang, and Ningbo Zhoushan Port can solve external logistics.

This is a great benefit to Chen Xia.

You should know that the export volume of "Siji Small Department Store" and "Siji Textile Company" in Yuezhou is very huge. It was previously necessary to transport it to Xiangjiang by train and then ship from Xiangjiang to the moldy country.

This logistics cost is very high.

When Chen Xia heard Macia's question, he took out a map of China from his big backpack and hung it on the wall.

"Everyone, let me introduce it to you first. My Yuezhou is in this position."

Chen Xia drew a circle on the map, and the circle was where Yuezhou City was located.

"In the past, our Yuezhou goods needed to be exported from Xiangjiang." After that, Chen Xia drew a circle on the location of Xiangjiang.

"Look at it, it's almost 1,500 kilometers from Yuezhou to Xiangjiang, which is indeed very far away. Not only is transportation inconvenient, but the logistics cost will also be very high."

Everyone in the conference room looked at the map and nodded.

Chen Xia drew a picture on the map again,

"Look, more than 100 kilometers east of Yuezhou, this is a natural deep-water port in China. This port's throughput is now ranked 30th in the world and may become the world's number one in the future.

So we built a factory in Yuezhou, and the goods can be exported through Yongbo Port, which is very convenient here whether it is railway or highway."

Oh~~~ Everyone nodded. It turns out that the transportation in Yuezhou is so convenient.

Chen Xia finally added a fire:

"The key is that senior officials in Zhijiang Province or Yuezhou City are very close to me. They will definitely give us the greatest convenience within the scope permitted by the law without worrying about certain resistance."

Now everyone understands it well. Chen Xia can solve the most critical relationship between the local government. With such good conditions, what reason is there not to invest?

Chen Xia thought of establishing a joint venture with these pharmaceutical giants like sildenafil.

But the cooperation between the Tsuen Wan Pharmaceutical Factory in Tsuen Wan, where sildenafil is located is not very pleasant. GlaxoSmithKline, as expected, began to make financial contributions, just to try to pay as little dividends as possible.

This indirectly affected the relationship between the two companies. Chen Xia was still considering ending the cooperation between the two parties after the patent authorization expired.

However, there are still ten years before 1997, and Chen Xia’s layout in Xiangjiang is still inseparable from the support of British capital, so Chen Xia is not willing to have conflicts with GlaxoSmithKline now.

After all, I can only say that Chen Xia’s strength is still too weak and still lacks the right to speak in the face of foreign capital.

So Chen Xia’s current strategy is: increase patent fees and invest in the other party’s company, so that he can make money twice and maximize his own interests.

Moreover, because Chen Xia only holds a small number of shares and promises to always support the "Chairman", it will not pose a threat to the existing multi-structure of power within the company, and will not become a "thorn in the eyes" in others' eyes.

This is worry-free and can make a lot of money, and you don’t have to participate in intrigues. It is very suitable for Chen Xia’s “salted fish” style.

As for insisting on building a pharmaceutical factory in Yuezhou, this benefit is even more. Originally, he wanted to create political achievements for his father-in-law, Deputy Commissioner Gu.

Now suddenly another "predictive father-in-law" comes out to require political achievements. One thing that can create political achievements for two father-in-laws, why not do it?

Chen Xia himself, in addition to receiving dividends and patent fees, as long as the pharmaceutical factory is built in Yuezhou, he can develop peripheral enterprises, such as raw material providers, which specialize in building several raw material factories to provide them to "pharmaceutical factories".

This is equivalent to making money three times, eating three fish.

Chen Xia's lobbying was very successful.

On the third day, Chen Shuqin led her lawyer team to Mildew and signed a preliminary investment intention contract with Pfizer.
Chapter completed!