"Warmly welcome the triumphant return of the national hero!"
The big slogan with white letters on a red background frightened Yao Yuan.
Before that, he had not received any notice. The secretary-general of the provincial government told him on the phone that he would only come to the provincial capital to meet with the governor after arriving in the provincial capital.
National hero, this evaluation is too high.
This may not be a good thing, especially for Yao Yuan, who is well versed in the ways of survival in modern business. After seeing the final fate of people like Yun and Liu, who claim to be national enterprises and national entrepreneurs, Yao Yuan is convinced that people like him are always willing to do business.
The hero who calls himself a hero is very disgusted and frightened.
The flight attendant was ordered to coordinate with Yao Yuan on the details of getting off the plane, but Yao Yuan ignored him at all. As soon as the door opened, he walked down the spiral staircase and wanted to run.
There is a red carpet below, and you can tell that high-ranking officials are standing in a group, exactly like the scene on TV news where leaders greet foreign leaders.
When there were only three steps left, Yao Yuan's knees softened and he rolled down.
The person standing in the first place was the Executive Vice Governor. He was shocked and hurriedly stepped forward to help. Unexpectedly, Yao Yuan moved faster. He got up, patted his butt like a country boy, and showed his honesty to the Executive Vice Governor.
And a scared smile.
This scene was completely captured by the television cameraman.
Looking around, there are several familiar people. Zhou Liang, the executive deputy mayor of Nangang, and Yang Sheng, the executive deputy director of the Nangang Planning Commission, are the ones Yao Yuan is most familiar with.
Zhou Liang acted as the introducer and said with a smile, "Mr. Yao, welcome back to China. This is Vice Governor Zhang."
"Good governor, good governor, I, Yao Yuan, am so virtuous and capable." Yao Yuan said with shame.
Vice Governor Zhang laughed, shook Yao Yuan's hand enthusiastically, "You are too humble. Southern Industrial is a famous enterprise in our province. It has not only won large foreign oil fields, but also became the second largest company of the Azerbaijan National Oil Company."
Major shareholder, this is an example for our country’s enterprises to go global! Be proud and proud! You deserve it!”
"Ashamed, ashamed, really ashamed." Yao Yuan said hurriedly.
When the matter reached this point, Yao Yuan could no longer control it.
After accepting the flowers from the primary school students, they shook hands with each other according to the procedure, and then held a brief meeting with Vice Governor Zhang at the scene, allowing the TV reporter to take enough footage, and then the group headed to the provincial capital in a mighty manner, with police cars clearing the way.
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So Xiao Jiabing and others who rushed to greet him had to follow behind and had no chance to talk to the boss for the time being. The one who was most eager to talk to Yao Yuan was naturally Lin Shuting. As the saying goes, a short break is better than a newlywed, and the two in love have been separated for nearly two years.
It's summer vacation again, so one can imagine Lin Shuting's mood.
The long formal meeting lasted for two hours before it ended. There was a welcome lunch at noon. There were no eight regulations at this time, so we had to have a big meal. Then the governor invited Yao Yuan to the office. Except for the two of them,
There are only the Secretary-General of the Provincial Government and the Director of the Provincial Planning Commission.
This is the time to get down to business.
While Yao Yuanren was still abroad, the news had already spread back.
Azerbaijan is too far away, and the strategic significance of the Baku Oilfield has not yet been taken seriously by the Chinese people. After all, at this moment, few people believe that China's economy can continue to grow at an annual rate of 8% for thirty years.
Vice Governor Zhang does not have a deep understanding of petroleum energy, and the current situation is that supply exceeds demand.
But with US$1.5 billion in overseas investment, Vice Governor Zhang is too wise.
Vice Governor Zhang cannot control Southern Industrial's overseas investments, but he will not let go of Southern Industrial's domestic investments no matter what.
Vice Governor Zhang said straight to the point, "Mr. Yao, Director Qian learned during the meeting in Beijing that Southern Industrial plans to invest in building a petrochemical base in Xiamen. I heard that the investment is as high as 10 billion?"
Naturally, it is the Chinese currency.
This news was released by Yao Yuan on behalf of Li Yan, and it was a formal application, which was submitted directly to the State Planning Commission. The province initially had objections to this operation of Southern Industrial, and believed that you should communicate with the province first, and then the province
to coordinate.
However, after the news came back that Southern Industrial had acquired a large overseas oil field and became the second largest shareholder of the Azerbaijan State Oil Company, the province had no objections.
I can’t afford to offend!
Yao Yuan smiled and nodded, "After the plan is completed, it will form a production capacity of 1 million tons of ethylene, so the total investment will reach 10 billion. Leader, this is not a one-time investment, but investment in phases and batches, lasting for many years. The first phase investment
The funds are estimated to be around 1 billion."
That is...
Vice Governor Zhang felt a bit toothache. In his own eyes, the funds were almost equal to the province's total annual investment promotion, but in others' eyes, it was "only 1 billion."
Director Qian has been exposed to many large projects in the Planning Commission and has an in-depth understanding of the situation of Southern Industrial. In fact, he is the one who behaves most naturally.
He raised questions about Yao Yuan's one-million-ton ethylene production capacity, "Last October, Yangzi Ethylene passed the national acceptance inspection, with an annual output of 300,000 tons, and an investment of 7 billion Chinese yuan. Mr. Yao, I have no idea.
I mean, not to mention whether we have the ability to build an ethylene project with an annual output of one million tons, but if we talk about investment, 10 billion is probably not enough, right?"
Yao Yuan said with a smile, "The first phase will be completed with 300,000 tons, and the second phase is planned to be 500,000 tons. These two projects are planned to be completed within three years, with a total budget of 10 billion Chinese dollars. The third phase of the project is planned
It has an annual output of 800,000 tons and plans to invest US$1 billion."
"In fact, the planning document submitted by Southern Industrial to the State Planning Commission clearly states that the total investment in the Dongfang Petrochemical Base is US$10 billion. I don't know where the figure of 10 billion Huaxia dollars comes from. The ethylene production base is just the Dongfang Petrochemical Base
an integral part of.”
Vice Governor Zhang was dumbfounded. Director Qian, who thought he had all the information, was dumbfounded. The secretary-general in charge of records was also dumbfounded.
Last year, the country’s foreign exchange reserves were less than US$3 billion.
Yao Yuan said, "The entire Dongfang Petrochemical Base is planned to be completed in ten years. With Southern Industrial's current funds and profitability in the next ten years, there will be no problem in supporting the Dongfang Petrochemical Base."
After all, he was the governor. Vice Governor Zhang controlled his excitement, calmed down quickly, and asked, "What is the relationship between Southern Industrial and Oriental Petrochemical?"
"There is no horizontal relationship or vertical relationship. They are all enterprise groups that I personally control 100%. Dongfang Petrochemical is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dongfang Petroleum Corporation. The future petrochemical base is the asset of Dongfang Petrochemical. Of course, these are just
In my planning book, the petrochemical base is still just a drawing, so the company has not yet been registered." Yao Yuan explained.
Vice Governor Zhang made a decisive decision and said, "Mr. Yao, you are from Nangang, and we are one family. One family does not speak two languages. Our province is the forefront of reform and opening up. Why do you have to go to Xiamen to build a petrochemical base in Xiamen?
Make the decision, as long as you place the petrochemical base in Guangdong Province, the provincial government will support it unconditionally, and it doesn’t matter where you want to build it. How about Shenzhen City? National policies favor it and there are many preferential conditions."
It looks very much like the insurance sellers twenty years from now, but it is the efforts of this generation of officials that will enable China to achieve its glory twenty years from now.
The Shenzhen market is not suitable, but Yao Yuan cannot explain it.
Huizhou is an option, but the conditions are still not as good as Nangang.
The so-called conditions refer to the geographical location and environment. The particularity of the petrochemical base determines its special environmental requirements.
However, these are not the real reasons why Yao Yuan chose Xiamen as his first choice.
At the end of this year, a blockbuster news will break out in the mainland - Formosa Plastics Group will invest US$7 billion to build a petrochemical base in Haicang, which will have an annual output of 700,000 tons of ethylene and 10 million tons of oil refining.
In fact, as early as three years ago, the Formosa Plastics Group had already started discussing the Haicang plan with the mainland. After more than two years of protracted talks, the mainland showed its greatest sincerity and allocated 10,000 hectares of land alone.
It promised to add more and at the same time provided unimaginable preferential policies in other aspects.
But as a result, the Formosa Plastics Group suddenly requested to change 100% export sales to 100% domestic sales, which was equivalent to starving to death the three 300,000-ton ethylene plants that the country spent tens of billions of dollars to build. Immediately afterwards, the authorities on the other side issued a restriction order
, the huge Haicang plan failed.
Others lamented, but in Yao Yuan's view, the fundamental purpose of the Haicang plan proposed by Formosa Plastics Group was to put pressure on the authorities on the other side of the Taiwan Strait in order to implement the Six Lights Plan on the island. Mr. Wang had no intention of investing in the mainland!
Yao Yuan's purpose in choosing the location in Xiamen was to attract the attention of the competent authorities and ask them to compare Nanfang Industrial's petrochemical base plan with Formosa Plastics Group's Haicang plan. In fact, Yao Yuan and Lin Wei were already chatting.
The location of the petrochemical base was determined, located on the East Coast Island southeast of Nangang.
At this time, the Haicang Project was still in a top-secret state. Except for a few core people in the Formosa Plastics Group, only the top leaders of the mainland authorities knew about it.
Of course, Vice Governor Zhang and the others did not know either. In fact, historically, even the provincial government of southern Fujian where Haicang is located and the municipal government below knew nothing about the Haicang plan.
The one entering the construction site was Xinxing Group, a former engineering unit, and Li Yan was the first person in charge. Yao Yuan also learned from Li Yan that Xinxing Group was constructing and leveling the site in Haicang, and that's when he remembered the Haicang plan.
Just imagine, the site has begun to be leveled, but the Formosa Plastics Group has been unable to make up its mind. What is their real purpose is clearly revealed.
Yao Yuan thought for a while and said, "Leader, if the conditions are better, as a native of my hometown, I am very willing to contribute to the economic construction of my hometown. The petrochemical base is a huge project, and it is also a century-old project in the world.
If there is no strong and more favorable policy support for a large-scale project, it will be very difficult."
Vice Governor Zhang waved his hand, as if he saw 10 billion waving to him. Oh, according to Yao Yuan, it should be 10 billion US dollars.
He said with great pride, "You make conditions, and I will fight for them with all my strength. If the province cannot give them, I will go to Beijing to get them, and I will get them back at all costs!"