Volume Eighteenth Volume Eighteenth Chapter Eighteenth Small Discussion
While Lu Weimin was still in Beijing celebrating the last three days of the Spring Festival holiday, the United States announced it.↖
After intense negotiations, the bidding consortium formed by Shanghai Electric and Heihe Electric formed a grand alliance with GE and once again attacked Westinghouse Electric.
On February 4, the British Nuclear Fuel Company announced the bidding results. The bidding consortium of Toshiba of Japan and GE of the United States bid $3.3 billion. Toshiba of Japan alone invested $5.4 billion, while the bidding consortium of Shanghai Electric, Heihe Electric and GE invested $5.555 billion.
billion, which was ultimately won by a large bidding consortium.
Japan's Toshiba Corporation expressed regret and protest, believing that the British Nuclear Fuel Company's suspension of the first round of bidding and the second round of bidding was due to pressure from China and the United States and violated the principles of market economy. However, the British side refused to accept Japan's protest and announced
The results of the second round of bidding are valid.
The next step is to obtain approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and approval from the European Union. Shanghai Electric and Heihe Electric also negotiated with GE and agreed that the U.S. approval will be mainly handled by GE and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
, while for the EU, China is responsible for negotiations.
Next, there is still quite complicated work, which in addition to lobbying for approval from US and EU regulatory agencies, also involves raising funds for the acquisition.
More than five billion US dollars, even if shared among Chinese and American companies, is an astonishing amount. Of course, it is precisely because the amount is large enough that it has aroused the enthusiastic interest of financial institutions in China and the United States.
In addition to Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Barclays Bank of the United Kingdom will also participate in this financing, while China's Minsheng Bank, Industrial Bank, and CITIC Bank will also participate in this huge financing plan.
Not choosing the four major state-owned banks was Lu Weimin's advice to Zhao Ye and others.
After all, the field of nuclear power is too sensitive and it is a state-owned enterprise. Even if GE is an ally, it will undoubtedly arouse great suspicion and opposition in the United States. To minimize the suspicion in the United States, then through non-state-owned enterprises
Banks raise funds. Especially private capital banks and banks with foreign equity participation can relatively send a signal to foreign countries. This is a purely commercial behavior and market behavior and has nothing to do with anything else.
When Lu Weimin received Zhao Ye's call, he could hear that the other party's voice was full of excitement and exhaustion. After all, the work of the past six months has finally come to a result. Although this result still faces scrutiny from the US government and the European Union, after all,
The first step has been successful.
Zhao Ye also said on the phone that he would come back to rest for a while. After graduation, he flew to the United States again to negotiate with GE on the bidding amount, and there were also some secret terms and negotiations.
I have been staying in the United States and have not come back. Until now, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief and take a good rest.
Zhao Ye also said that this matter has come to an end for him and he will not be responsible for the next step. As for the idea of moving the Shanghai Electrical Production Base westward mentioned by Lu Weimin, he will personally take care of it and will form a group again at that time.
Come to Songzhou for an in-depth and detailed inspection. This is the precursor to finalizing investment and building a factory.
Of course, Lu Weimin is also aware of the behavior of these state-owned enterprises, but as long as Zhao Ye takes care of it himself, it will be slower. Lu Weimin will be satisfied.
"Okay, Lao Zhao, you should have a good rest and don't do everything yourself. It's not like you Hudian and Heidian have no people. These two huge group companies can't even find a few professional negotiators? The follow-up matters are all in
After the general principles are determined, the details come down to it. Professionals can solve these problems well. For example, financial financing problems are what professionals are good at. Do you still need to keep an eye on them?" Lu Weimin joked: "What are you doing?
How much salary did you get to work so hard?"
"Weimin, don't make sarcastic remarks. In my position, I'm afraid you are more concerned than me. With tens of billions of investment, and it involves Shanghai Electric's huge market in the nuclear power field in the future, it can be said that this hurdle has passed.
, we are not only looking at the whole country in the field of nuclear power, we have the ability and strength to go global." Although Zhao Ye was extremely tired, his spirit was extremely high, and his words were full of pride.
"Haha, Lao Zhao, this is what I said to you, okay? Now you are showing off in front of me. You Shanghai Electric may have an advantage in the domestic market because that is your home field, but you have to go abroad.
, except in markets like Iran and Pakistan, where we have an advantage due to domestic political factors, other countries, can you compete with the French? Can you compete with the Japanese? Even if the Japanese have not been able to win over Westinghouse, their boiling water reactors
We still have high technical attainments, so we can stop you all the time?" Lu Weimin chuckled, "Practice your own internal skills, and then think about the Japanese strategy in foreign markets. The Japanese are conquering the market.
The techniques are worthy of study by our domestic central enterprises."
After Haosheng beat and washed Zhao Ye, Lu Weimin put down the phone.
Su Yanqing has already led Yao Yao over.
Yaoyao is very sensible. When she saw her father talking on the phone, she didn't come over to disturb her. Once her father finished the call, she immediately rushed over and asked him to hold her and take her out to play.
Lu Weimin couldn't help but sigh.
"What's wrong?" Su Yanqing noticed that Lu Weimin seemed to be in a bad mood and thought something was wrong.
"It's nothing, I just think that this vacation has passed in a flash and I have to go back to Songzhou in the afternoon. I really can't bear to do it." Lu Weimin shook his head, picked up his daughter, and kissed her delicate cheek, "You are so good, daddy, take me with you.
Go out for a walk."
"If you want to come back, you can come back on the weekend. Anyway, there are flights to Songzhou in the afternoon. It's very convenient. You can just leave on the weekend afternoon. We don't take advantage of the country. We can handle the air tickets ourselves." Su Yanqing frowned.
"It's not like that. You are the secretary of the municipal party committee. You always fly to Beijing when you have no business. What do the cadres and the masses think? Those who know don't tell you, and those who don't know think that you are not focused on work at all and are only thinking about taking the high-level route.
." Lu Weimin shook his head, "Okay, I know for sure."
"Shanghai Electric is basically done?" Su Yanqing also knew that her husband didn't like others to comment on his work, so he didn't talk nonsense and changed the topic.
"The first step has been taken. There is still a lot of work to do next, but the first step is the most critical. If it works well, the problem should not be too big. For the United States, it depends on GE, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
Of course, Bank of America can also play some role." Lu Weimin nodded, "It's time for me to let Zhao Ye fulfill his promise. Songzhou's industrial development needs to further lay a solid foundation. The electrical industry in Shanghai has been transferred. Songzhou has no
There’s no reason not to take this piece.”
"For the people, I always feel that your Songzhou's industrial structure needs to be seriously considered. I have analyzed your Songzhou's industrial structure. The primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, and the secondary industry account for too large a proportion. It is completely like an industrial city.
But in fact, Songzhou should be a comprehensive city. Songzhou should also be a comprehensive city. There should be a lot of room for improvement in the proportion of the tertiary industry. But I found that you are still tirelessly pursuing the secondary industry.
Cultivation and development." Su Yanqing raised her own doubts.
Lu Weimin laughed and said, "Yan Qing, do you think our government should find ways to adjust the proportion of secondary and tertiary industries?"
Su Yanqing heard the meaning of Lu Weimin's words and shook her head, "Don't dig a hole for me. I understand what you mean. The development and proportion of the secondary and tertiary industries should indeed be determined by the market, but the government's policy is
You can play a guiding role, but I think you still insist on the supremacy of the secondary industry in your philosophy."
"Yan Qing, you are wrong. I value the tertiary industry very much, and I also know the significance and importance of the tertiary industry to a modern comprehensive city. Maybe you think Songzhou's secondary industry is already good, but I am still that
In a word, it is called standing out from the flock. If you really go among the flock of cranes, you will feel the gap. Songzhou's secondary industry still needs to be vigorously developed, and our tertiary industry should not be artificially elevated. I think for now, the third industry
The industry still serves the secondary industry more. Our Songzhou is not a consumption-oriented city, but a manufacturing city. The tertiary industry also needs to serve the secondary industry." Lu Weimin shook his head, "Our Songzhou
The urban population is growing rapidly, which also greatly restricts the increase in the disposable income of our urban residents. Only when the income of most urban residents increases to a certain stage, they have money in their pockets and dare to spend.
The development of the three industries will usher in a leap forward."
"For the people, your view is too classical and too simple." Su Yanqing still insisted on her own view, "The government can make a difference in guiding the development of the tertiary industry, especially the consumer industry, not to mention the housing prices in Songzhou.
Compared with cities of the same economic size, even compared with Changzhou, whose GDP is less than half of yours, it is much lower, and even slightly lower than Kunhu, which is abnormal."
"Yan Qing, I don't think that high housing prices are a good thing for a city, and the growth rate of housing prices in Songzhou is not low. Of course, I don't think that the current housing prices in Songzhou are normal. Maybe there will be one this year or next two years.
Rally."
Lu Weimin also knows that the current low housing prices in Songzhou are because the city government has intentionally expanded the land supply in the past two years. Unlike many local cities that intentionally control the land supply, resulting in a sharp rise in land prices, which naturally increases housing prices.
The state has unswervingly established the principle of not using land transfer fees as a financial pillar. Therefore, on this issue, the city still insists on planning land supply according to changes in supply and demand.
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