Tokyo, the new international airport.

A group of Chinese people came out from the arrival and stood outside and said goodbye:

“Goodbye, Mr. President, let’s go home!”

“Good-bye, take care of your body!”

Xu Wenliang shook hands with Feng Xiaochen, exchanged a smile of eyes, and each went with their own team.

According to the agreement signed with the three-piece steel, Qinzhou Heavy Machinery Factory sent a technical team led by Xu Wenliang to participate in the design of the rolling mill, and personally experienced the design process of the three-piece steel mill from scratch to learn their design experience.

Feng Xiaochen followed another team, which is a large fertilizer equipment delegation, the composition of the very complex, the ministry includes the National Planning Commission, the Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Machinery, the Ministry of Chemical Industry, etc., there are several provincial government officials in the local government, the enterprise includes five or six large fertilizer plants and four or five chemical equipment manufacturing plants cadres and technicians.If you want to divide from the professional point of view, there are roughly two camps, one is to use fertilizer and fertilizer, and the other is to manufacture fertilizer equipment.

The mission of this mission was full of contradictions from the beginning.Local officials and fertilizer plants put forward to investigate the manufacturing of fertilizer equipment in Japan, and then directly introduce large fertilizer equipment to form fertilizer production capacity as soon as possible.The Ministry of Machinery and several chemical machinery plants believe that the manufacturing capacity of fertilizer equipment should be introduced in order to achieve the localization of large fertilizer equipment, and how many fertilizer plants can be built in the future.

The Planning Commission, the Economic Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Chemical Industry and other aspects are ambiguous, both to support the purchase of equipment, but also to support the introduction of equipment manufacturing capabilities, more in the middle of the trembling, said you can buy a few sets, and then make a few sets, so that the two sides of the idea can be taken into account.

China is a large agricultural country, and the demand for fertilizer has always been very large.Since the 1950s, China has introduced Soviet technology, and gradually formed a small and medium-sized nitrogen fertilizer equipment production capacity with an annual output of 10,000 tons to 50,000 tons, and established a small fertilizer system in the "five small industries" on this basis.

At this time, foreign fertilizer production technology has become large-scale, with an annual output of 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia devices becoming a popular trend.Large fertilizer and small fertilizer in energy consumption gap is greatly, according to estimates, the annual output of 300,000 synthetic ammonia large-scale device tons of ammonia power consumption of 38 degrees, and the annual output of 5000 tons of small device tons of ammonia power consumption of 1363 degrees.In the early 1980s, the synthetic ammonia produced by large factories made a profit of 130 yuan per ton, while small factories were only $27 per ton.

In addition, domestic nitrogen fertilizer is mainly a low nitrogen content of ammonium bicarbonate, that is, farmers commonly known as carbon ammonium, nitrogen content is only 17%, foreign use is urea, nitrogen content of 48%, the difference in fertilizer efficiency is also very obvious.

In the early 1970s, in order to increase grain production, China began to import urea from abroad in large quantities, spending a lot of foreign exchange.In order to get rid of this dilemma, in the mid-1970s, the country introduced 13 sets of large fertilizer equipment with an annual output of 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 520,000 tons of urea from the United States, the Netherlands, France, Japan and other countries; in the late 1970s, four sets of equipment of the same specification were added.

However, relying only on these 17 sets of imported equipment does not fully meet the demand for fertilizer in domestic agricultural production.The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Chemical Industry estimate that by the end of this century, the fertilizer required for domestic agricultural production will reach more than 40 million tons in terms of folding, and considering the structure of large, medium and small nitrogen fertilizers and phosphate fertilizers, domestic enterprises also need to build at least 30 sets of 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia devices.

In this way, the formation of two groups to buy equipment and manufacturing equipment, and evenly matched, can not be maintained.

The construction of equipment is the general direction set by the state, and the reinstallation office where Feng Xiaochen is located undertakes such a mission.Among the 11 major technical equipment responsible for the reinstallation office, it includes large fertilizers.The state clearly put forward that large-scale fertilizer equipment is the key equipment to ensure national agricultural security, and it is necessary to master this technology.In this sense, the party that advocates their own equipment has a "political correctness" of the sword, and there is also a morale to speak.

However, the party who advocates the purchase of equipment also has sufficient reason.Buy a set of equipment in three years to put into production, to provide much-needed urea for agricultural production.And if you choose to build your own equipment, from digestion and absorption to the maturity of technology, there is no ten or eight years can not be done.During this time, farmers need fertilizer, and if the state can't provide it, it means that food can't increase production, hungry for a billion people's stomachs, who is responsible?If provided by the state, it would be dependent on imports, which would also cost valuable foreign exchange.

The import price of a ton of urea is calculated at $100, and the equipment with an annual output of 520,000 tons of urea is put into operation a year earlier, which can save 50 million US dollars in foreign exchange expenses.If you wait for domestic equipment, even if it is only a delay of five years, the loss of foreign exchange will be as high as 200 to 300 million US dollars, and this money is enough to introduce five sets of equipment.

From 1971 to 1985, the state introduced 17 sets of large fertilizer equipment and other related equipment, spending 1.06 billion US dollars in foreign exchange; in 1988, the import of fertilizers has reached 2 billion US dollars.Is it time to introduce equipment to replace fertilizer imports, or would you rather import fertilizers than equipment, and make way for domestic equipment, this multiple choice question is not difficult to do?

The phrase “it is better to buy” is sometimes justified if it is not mixed with ideological labels.

In addition to these big truths that can be put on the table, there are some small truths that cannot be said, but everyone knows, which is also very important, and even more important than the previous truth.

Unlike the rolling mill, the introduction price of large fertilizer equipment is not particularly high.In the mid-1970s, China introduced 1700 mm hot-milled and cold-milled production lines, with a total investment of 3.89 billion yuan, while a set of 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 520,000 tons of urea production equipment was introduced in the same period, with an investment of only 300 million yuan.The former because of the huge investment, the local government can not afford, must be paid by the state, so the Commission can be mandatory must be "joint manufacturing", and gradually improve the level of localization.And the investment required by the latter is the provincial government can raise, people pay for equipment, the state has any reason to say?

Large chemical equipment enterprises are directly owned by the state, and the province cannot afford such a large enterprise.The fertilizer plant belongs to the province, and the fertilizer produced and the profits obtained are the benefits of the province.Which province is willing to give up the fat on the mouth and take the chemical equipment factory directly under the country to practice technology?

As for the introduction of equipment can bring personal benefits to the parties, it is even more difficult to put on the table, but who can say that this factor is not important?

Feng Xiaochen jumped in now, such a vortex.This expedition is led by the Commission, from the beginning agreed to participate in the participants, has been contradictory, sword drawn, so that the leadership of the Commission have a headache.Because of the problem of the introduction of large-scale equipment, the Commission requires the reinstallation office to send people to participate and coordinate the camera.Luo Xiangfei also knows the trouble of this matter, with the mentality of dead horse as a living horse doctor, sent his own watchful treasure Feng Xiaochen, hoping that with the wit of Feng Xiaochen, he can sort out a clue in the middle of this mess.

The large fertilizer equipment expedition and the Qin heavy mill design delegation were the same aircraft to Japan.Feng Xiaochen originally intended to talk more about the plane and the personnel of the delegation, who expected to be pulled over by Xu Wenliang and Cui Yongfeng as soon as they got on the plane, and talked about the rolling mill problem along the way.It will be difficult to send them away, Feng Xiaochen will return to his team.

"Xiao Feng, I will introduce you to Mr. Qian Guiwuzhi, vice chairman of the Japan Chemical Equipment Association."

Wang Shicheng, the head of the delegation, saw Feng Xiaochen coming over and smiled and showed him the people who came to meet the Japanese side.Wang Shicheng is a deputy director of the Economic Commission, and the reinstallation office is located in the agency below the Commission, so Wang Shicheng is Feng Xiaochen's indirect superior.However, Wang Zhicheng is a very smart person, he has long heard that the director Zhang Weicong is quite appreciative of Feng Xiaochen, and because Feng Xiaochen came up with the idea of setting up a consulting company to solve the employment problem of many of the children who are waiting for the Commission, many cadres of the Commission are interested in him, so Wang is not convenient to put the top of his superiors in front of Feng Xiaochen, and he is very kind to him.

"Mr. Qian, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Feng Xiaochen stepped forward, bowed to Qian Guiwuzhi, and greeted each other in Japanese.

“I can’t believe your Japanese is so good!”Wang Shicheng half-true and half-falsely sent out an exclamation, "No wonder Director Luo so heavy you."Yes, Mr. Qiangui, I forgot to introduce you to Mr. Feng Xiaochen, deputy director of the Major Equipment Office of our Commission, and the introduction of major equipment is directly responsible for the department where Director Feng is located.”

After that, he said it to the choir.The translation translated his words to Qian Guiwuzhi, Qian Guiwuzhi's face showed a little surprised color, and then bowed to Feng Xiaochen and said, "So, this time the cooperation between you and me, it is necessary to rely on Feng Director."

Feng Xiaochen smiled, “Haha, Mr. Qiangui is wrong, Director Wang was joking with you just now.”Director Wang is my leader, all the people in our delegation are my leaders, I just treat them as a handy handyman for translators and running errands.But I hope we have a good time together.”

Qian Guiwuzhi also could not distinguish between Wang Shicheng's words and Feng Xiaochen's words who is more reliable, but with the idea that he would rather kill wrongly and never miss it, he still said to Feng Xiaochen politely: "Yes, cooperation is pleasant."Come, guys, this way, let's go to the hotel to stay, and then go to the most prestigious resort outside Tokyo to soak in hot springs to solve the lack of fatigue on the road."