“Isn’t that an obvious man?”

In the office of Luo Xiangfei, general manager of the equipment industry company in Beijing, a middle-age man sat on the sofa, patted a document with his hand, and complained to Luo Xiangfei.

This person is named Duan Zhengwei, is the director of Longshan Electric Factory, and Longshan Electric Factory is a leading enterprise for domestic production of generators.This time, Duan Zhengwei took the chief engineer to build talent, production vice president Ou Gui was born in Beijing to participate in the bidding of the Shating power plant in Dingnan Province, and the moment he got the bid, he was almost vomited with blood.He went to the Planning Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Mechanical Committee and other units to quarrel, harvest a bunch of helpless replies, and finally came to the equipment industry company, to Luo Xiangfei launched a complaint.

Shating Power Plant is a key project in Dingnan Province and is also a project included in the national key project list.Because the project uses World Bank loans, according to the World Bank rules, the need for global bidding, which is already common sense for domestic companies.

The purpose of the World Bank project requires global bidding, one is because the Bank funds come from all over the world, so the project should also allow countries to have equal interests and cannot be monopolized by a few countries through the operation of the dark box; the other is to hope that the tender method will ensure that the winning project has the best cost performance and improve the efficiency of the use of funds of the World Bank.

But there are policies and countermeasures, which are obviously not the patent of the Chinese people, and governments around the world understand this.For their own access to World Bank loans, countries will engage in some name to ensure that their companies or specific foreign companies with interests with their own interests have more opportunities to bid.Of course, if these companies still can't stand out in the case of fame, it proves that they really can't support the wall, and governments will not relax their demands to damage their projects.

China is a country with equipment manufacturing capabilities, and a developing country that has access to a large number of World Bank loans.The country has always had an unspoken rule for bidding for the World Bank project, that is, it is necessary to make domestic enterprises win the bid as much as possible to ensure that the fat water does not flow outside the field.In the early years, the technical level of domestic enterprises was poor, and many projects could not be taken down, and had to be handed over to foreign manufacturers, but the state could still find ways to let these foreign manufacturers subcontract some of their business to domestic enterprises, so that domestic enterprises could learn technology in subcontracting, and also share some profits.After more than ten years of technology introduction, the current domestic enterprises have the power of World War I, and began to shift from subcontracting to the overall undertaking.This time, Duan Zhengwei came to Beijing to plan to put the project of the Shating power plant as a whole.

Longshan Electric Factory is one of the first few electric power plants in New China, as early as the 1950s, relying on the technology introduced from the Soviet Union, produced 50,000 kilowatts of high-pressure thermal power units.From the 1960s to the 1970s, Longshan Electric Factory, in the absence of foreign technical reference, overcame various difficulties, developed 200,000 kilowatts and 300,000 kilowatts of thermal power units, and produced more than 20 sets, which successively put into operation to generate electricity.

In addition, while developing a 300,000-kilowatt unit, Longshan Electric Factory was also assigned by the National Planning Commission to participate in the research and development of the 600,000-kilowatt thermal power unit, which was only unsuccessful for various technical, economic and even political reasons.

After 1978, with the national development policy, Longshan Electric Factory introduced the design and manufacturing technology of 300,000 kilowatts and 600,000 kilowatts from abroad, first using foreign components for domestic assembly, and then gradually conquering the manufacturing process of important components to improve the level of localization.By the early 1990s, in addition to a few key components, there are still obstacles, the need to import from abroad, Longshan Electric Factory has basically mastered the production technology of 300,000 kilowatts and 600,000 kilowatts of thermal power units, and formed a part of independent intellectual property rights, able to undertake the construction of domestic thermal power plants.

The 1990s was a period of China's economic adjustment and growth, and electricity demand increased almost exponentially.The huge demand for electricity has brought the climax of power plant construction, and especially the construction of thermal power is more urgent, because the construction period of thermal power plants is much shorter than that of hydropower plants, which can meet the needs of local economic development as soon as possible.

With so much demand for thermal power equipment, the state can never be sent to foreign enterprises, one is because the state does not have so much foreign exchange, and the other is not afraid to rely too much on foreign countries, so as not to be subject to people.Think about it, if half of the power generation equipment in a country's power grid is provided by foreign countries, in case people install a Trojan horse in it, start at a critical time, half of the country will have to fall into darkness, in the era of modernization, it almost means victory without war.

It is also because of the foresight that the country in the 1980s can be described as the introduction of technology at the expense of heavy money, forcing several leading motor enterprises such as Longshan Electric Factory to digest and absorb the introduction technology as soon as possible, forming an independent manufacturing capacity.Longshan Electric Factory can have the strength to participate in this tender, it is the result of this effort.

But who thought that on the tender documents formulated by Dingnan Province, the first clause put the paragraph Zhengwei down, which said: Shating power plant intends to use 4 sets of 360,000 kilowatts of units.

“Nima!“That’s not clear, we don’t want to win!”Duan Zhengwei directly threw the bidding documents on the face of Wang Jinsheng, deputy director of the Dingnan Provincial Planning Commission.

The power specification of power generation equipment is exquisite, the thermal power unit produced in China was originally 50,000 kilowatts of specifications, and then gradually developed 100,000 kilowatts, 125,000 kilowatts, 200,000 kilowatts, 300,000 kilowatts and 600,000 kilowatts, has formed a fixed system.Because of the existence of such a system, when it was decided to introduce foreign technology in the late 1970s, it also chose the specifications of 300,000 kilowatts and 600,000 kilowatts, and did not introduce the specifications such as 360,000 kilowatts.

The standardization of equipment specifications is very necessary, it can make the technology of each enterprise to a certain extent, facilitate the transplantation of technology and equipment, reduce equipment maintenance costs.It is also because several domestic electric power plants have uniformly adopted the two specifications of 300,000 kilowatts and 600,000 kilowatts, so the domestic coal-fired power plant construction is designed according to this specification, either two 300,000-kilowatt units or two 600,000-kilowatt units, and no other specifications will appear.

But this "all" was broken by the Sha Tin Power Plant.They put forward four sets of 360,000 kilowatts of tender requirements, which is clearly not to allow domestic enterprises to win the bid.

“Commer President, how can you say that?”Wang Jinsheng quite a little spit on the connotation of self-made, he did not care about the offending of Duan Zhengwei, but put the tender documents back to Duan Zhengwei's hands, slowly said: "4 sets of 360,000 kW units, we and the World Bank experts repeatedly discussed to determine down."Now the state is also advocating the user responsibility system, we as users, have the right to put forward their own equipment needs, can not because you can not produce 360,000 kilowatts of units, we will change their own needs, this does not become a step to play? 」

"Cut yours..." Duan Zhengwei said hello to the women of Wang Jinsheng's family, and said to his mouth or swallowed back.He and Wang Jinsheng were not familiar enough to be able to speak without hindrance, and cadres at this level were not suitable for public scolding the street like a bitch.He pointed to the bidding documents in his hand and asked Wang Jinsheng: "You say that you can't cut your feet, then why not mention 350,000 kilowatts, not 370,000 kilowatts, you have a kind of writing 370,000, let Siemens, Westinghouse specially make you a mold, this is the ability!" 」

“This is the advice of the World Bank experts, and I don’t understand it.Or is it the director of the store that you are going to talk to the World Bank?”He said, humpingly.

“They are in charge!What World Bank experts, they must be complicit with these Bank experts, the purpose is not to let us win the bid!”

In Luo Xiangfei's office, Duan Zhengwei was not so good at cultivation, he patted the table and shouted to Luo Xiang.

“This is a serious problem!”Luo Xiangfei's eyebrows also wrinkled.The so-called World Bank experts suggest that such a nonsense, that is, to deceive the children of kindergarten is still useful, Luo Xiangfei has been in the economic circle for so many years, where do not understand these cats.To put it bluntly, the Dingnan Provincial Planning Commission does not want to use domestic equipment, but because of the national policy and the bidding requirements of the World Bank, it is not convenient to directly kick domestic enterprises out, so it is necessary to make such a specification limit.

The difference between 300,000 kilowatts and 360,000 kilowatts is not big, which power plant construction will not calculate the production capacity to such an accurate degree.Because the load of the power grid itself is also fluctuating, the power plant capacity roughly meets the demand, and a little fluctuation can be adjusted through the power grid.

As mentioned earlier, when countries are in the reciprocal bidding rules of the World Bank, they will make some famous names and put forward some provisions that are beneficial to their own enterprises to limit the competition of foreign companies.China has the same bidding policy for projects using World Bank loans in various regions, requiring them to take care of domestic companies as much as possible.Dingnan Province is good, instead of doing hands and feet to take care of domestic enterprises, but to do the hands and feet of domestic enterprises outside the scope of bidding, this is the red fruit and fruit with the national policy to do, not to mention the moment Zhengwei angry, Luo Xiangfei is also angry.

He could be angry and angry, and he really had no way to correct the practice in the province of Dingnan.Over the years, the state has been engaged in decentralization, local autonomy is increasing, such as the use of the World Bank loans to carry out construction, led by the national Ministry of Finance, but the specific how to tender, but by the Dingnan Provincial Planning Commission to decide.People say that they need four 360,000 kW units, you can only coordinate, can not order them to change.

Since Wang Jinsheng dared to take such a request, he must be ready to carry it with the country, and Luo Xiangfei at this level, I want to coordinate, and I am afraid that there is no opportunity to even speak.