Spring Breeze 1991

"Warmly welcome the triumphant return of the national hero!"

The big slogan with white letters on a red background made Yao Yuan tremble with fear.

Prior to this, he had not received any notice, and what the secretary general of the provincial government told him on the phone was only to come to the provincial capital to meet the governor after arriving in the provincial capital.

National hero, this evaluation is too high and too high.

It may not be a good thing, especially for Yao Yuan, who is well versed in the way of modern business survival. After seeing the final fate of people like Yun, Liu, and others, who claim to be national enterprises and national entrepreneurs, Yao Yuan will always be indifferent. Those who call themselves heroes are very disgusted and afraid.

The purser 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 cabin door opened, he walked down the spiral staircase and wanted to run.

There is a red carpet below, and it can be seen that officials of high rank are standing in a group, which is exactly the same as the scene of leaders welcoming foreign leaders on TV news.

When the last three steps were left, Yao Yuan's knees gave way and he rolled down.

Standing in the first place was the executive vice governor. He was taken aback, and quickly stepped forward to help him. Unexpectedly, Yao Yuan moved faster, got up by himself, slapped his butt like a country boy, and showed his honesty to the executive vice governor. And a terrified smile.

This scene was completely filmed by the cameraman of the TV station.

Looking around, there are a few familiar people, Zhou Liang, the executive deputy mayor of Nangang, and Yang Sheng, the executive deputy director of the Nangang Planning Commission, 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."

"Governor is good, governor is good, I am Yao Yuan, He De He Neng." Yao Yuan said shamelessly.

Vice Governor Zhang laughed, shaking Yao Yuan's hand enthusiastically, "You are too modest. Southern Industrial is a famous enterprise in our province. Major shareholder, this is a role model for Chinese enterprises to go global! Feel proud! You deserve it!"

"Ashamed, ashamed, really ashamed." Yao Yuan said hastily.

Things have come to this point, Yao Yuan can't help it anymore.

After accepting the flowers presented by the elementary school students, they shook hands according to the procedures, and then held a brief meeting with Vice Governor Zhang on the spot, allowing the TV station reporters to film enough material, and then the group headed for the provincial capital in a mighty manner, and the police car cleared the way .

As a result, Xiao Jiabing and others who rushed over 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.The so-called little farewell is better than newlyweds. The two in love have been separated for nearly two months, and they are on summer vacation again. One can imagine Lin Shuting's mood.

The lengthy formal meeting lasted for two full hours before it ended. At noon it was a welcome lunch. There were no eight regulations at this time, so I had to have a big drink. Then the Governor invited Yao Yuan to the office. Except for the two of them, Only the Secretary-General of the Provincial Government and the Director of the Provincial Planning Commission.

This is the time to talk about business.

When Yao Yuan was still abroad, the news had already come back.

Azerbaijan is too far away, and the strategic significance of the Baku oilfield has not been valued by the Chinese people. After all, at this moment, few people think that China's economy can continue to race at an annual growth rate of 8% for 30 years.

Regarding petroleum energy, Vice Governor Zhang doesn't even have a deep concept, and the current situation is that the supply exceeds the demand.

But with the overseas investment of 15 billion US dollars, Vice Governor Zhang is too conceptual.

Deputy Governor Zhang can't control Nanfang Industrial's overseas investment, but he will never let Nanfang Industrial invest in China anyway.

Vice Governor Zhang said straight to the point, "Mr. Yao, Director Qian learned during a meeting in Beijing that Southern Industrial plans to invest in the construction of a petrochemical base in Xiamen. I heard that the investment is as high as 100 billion?"

Naturally, it is Huaxia currency.

Yao Yuan entrusted Li Yan to release this news, and it was a formal application, which was directly submitted to the State Planning Commission. At first, the province had objections to this operation of Nanfang Industrial, thinking that you should communicate with the province first, and the province to coordinate.

However, after the news came back that Southern Industrial had won a large overseas oil field and became the second largest shareholder of Azerbaijan National Oil Company, the province had no opinion.

I can't afford to offend you!

Yao Yuan smiled and nodded, "After the completion of the plan, the production capacity of 100 million tons of ethylene will be formed, so the total investment will reach 100 billion. Leader, this is not a one-time investment, but a phased investment, which lasts for many years. The first phase of investment The capital is estimated to be around 10 billion.”

That is...

Vice Governor Zhang felt a bit of a toothache. In his own eyes, it was almost equal to the total amount of the province's annual investment attraction, but in the eyes of others, it was "only 10 billion".

Director Qian has been in contact with many large projects in the planning committee, and he has also done an in-depth understanding of the situation of Southern Industry, but he is the one who behaves the most naturally.

He questioned Yao Yuan's million-ton ethylene production capacity, "Yangzi Ethylene passed the national inspection in October last year, with an annual output of 10 tons, and invested 30 billion Huaxia coins. Mr. Yao, I have nothing else I mean, not to mention whether we have the ability to build an ethylene project with an annual output of one million tons, but the investment, 70 billion is probably not enough?"

Yao Yuan smiled and said, "The first phase is 30 tons, and the second phase is planned to be 50 tons. These two projects are planned to be completed within three years, and the total budget is 100 billion Chinese dollars. The third phase is planned to be annual The production capacity is 80 tons, and the planned investment is 10 billion US dollars."

"In fact, the planning document submitted by Southern Industry to the State Planning Commission clearly stated that the total investment of the Dongfang Petrochemical base is 100 billion U.S. dollars. I don't know where the figure of 100 billion Huaxia coins came from. The ethylene production base is just the Dongfang Petrochemical base. A part of."

Vice Governor Zhang was dumbfounded. Director Qian, who thought he had all the information, was dumbfounded, and the secretary-general who was in charge of recording was also dumbfounded.

Last year, the country's foreign exchange reserves were less than US$30 billion.

Yao Yuan said, "The entire Dongfang Petrochemical base is planned to be completed in ten years. With the current capital of Southern Industry and the profitability of the next ten years, there is no problem in supporting the Dongfang Petrochemical base."

In the end it was the governor. Vice Governor Zhang controlled his excitement, calmed down quickly, and asked, "What is the relationship between Nanfang Industrial and Dongfang Petrochemical?"

"There is no horizontal relationship or vertical relationship. They are all enterprise groups that I personally hold 100% of. Dongfang Petrochemical is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dongfang Petroleum Corporation. The future petrochemical base is the asset of Dongfang Petrochemical. Of course, these only exist In my plan, the petrochemical base is just a blueprint, so the company has not been registered." Yao Yuan explained.

Vice Governor Zhang made a decisive decision and said, "Mr. Yao, you are from Nangang, and we are a family. One family does not talk about two families. Our province is the frontier of reform and opening up. Why do you go to Xiamen to build a petrochemical base? It’s up to you, as long as you put the petrochemical base in Guangdong Province, the provincial government will support it unconditionally, you don’t have any problem building it wherever you want, how about Shenzhen City, there are national policies, and there are many preferential conditions.”

It is very similar to selling insurance 20 years later, but it is the efforts of this generation of officials that China will be able to achieve its glory 20 years later.

The Shenzhen market is not suitable, but Yao Yuan can't explain it.

Huizhou is an option, but it is 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 requirements for the environment.

However, these are not the real reasons why Yao Yuan chose Xiamen as his first choice.

Just at the end of this year, there will be a big news in the mainland - Formosa Plastics Group will invest 70 billion US dollars to build a petrochemical base in Haicang, with an annual output of 70 tons of ethylene and 1000 million tons of oil refining.

In fact, as early as three years ago, the Formosa Plastics Group had already started to discuss the Haicang Project with the mainland. After more than two years of procrastinating talks, the mainland showed the greatest sincerity. The land alone allocated [-] hectares, and Commitment to additional, while giving unimaginable preferential policies in other respects.

But in the end, the Formosa Plastics Group suddenly demanded to change 100% export sales to 100% domestic sales, which is equivalent to starving to death the three 30-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, and the huge Haicang project died prematurely.

Others regretted it, but in Yao Yuan's view, the fundamental purpose of the Haicang Project proposed by the Formosa Plastics Group was to put pressure on the authorities on the other side of the island to realize the implementation of the six light projects on the island. Old man Wang has no intention of investing in the mainland!

The purpose of Yao Yuan choosing Xiamen as the location is to attract the attention of the competent authorities and let them compare the petrochemical base plan of Southern Industrial Group with the Haicang plan of Formosa Plastics Group.In fact, Yao Yuan and Lin Wei had already determined the location of the petrochemical base when they were chatting, which was on Dongan Island in the southeast of Nangang.

At this time, the Haicang Project was still in a top-secret state. Except for the core members of the Formosa Plastics Group, only the top leaders of the competent authorities in the mainland knew about it.

Of course, Vice Governor Zhang and the others didn't know about it either.In fact, historically, even the provincial capital of southern Fujian, where Haicang is located, and the municipal government below were ignorant of the Haicang plan.

It was Xinxing Group, the former engineer unit, who entered the construction site, 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, so he thought of the Haicang plan.

Just imagine, the site has already started to level up, but the Formosa Plastics Group has been unable to make up its mind. It is clear what their real purpose is.

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, it will be very difficult.”

Vice Governor Zhang waved his hand, as if he saw 100 billion dollars waving to him, oh, according to Yao Yuan, it should be 100 billion dollars.

He said proudly, "You make a condition, and I will try my best to fight for it. If the province can't give it, I will go to Beijing to ask for it, and I will come back at any cost!"