For this prophecy of Feng Xiaochen, Dong Lao and Meng Fanze have chosen to be silent.How little money China is is, the generation knows best.Before the reform and opening up, the state, but to express its determination on something, it is often necessary to add a sentence "preferably to tighten the belt", which means that the state's funds are saved from eating, and investment means that it is necessary to be hungry for a few days.Since the reform and opening up, the statement of tightening the belt has been less, but in the process of attracting investment in various places is also full of tears, what "who can't live with investors, the government and who can't live with" such slogans, it is not just casual to say.Investors in the eyes of all levels of government is the absolute master, in the end, not because of lack of funds?

However, this is also quietly changing.After 20 years of reform and opening up, private capital has gradually formed, the country's financial situation has also improved greatly compared with the past, and the problem of shortage of funds has not been as severe as in the past.The two old people are able to participate in high-level decision-making figures, of course, these macroeconomic changes are also known, coupled with Feng Xiaochen has repeatedly had some accurate predictions in the past, so this time out of such a frenzy, the two old people have nothing to say.

Feng Xiaochen knew from the silence of the old people that the other party had accepted his point of view, and then said: "Just said the problem of funds, the second problem is technology, this is the strength of our equipment industry company."We have introduced technology from Western countries, after years of digestion, absorption, innovation, at present, metallurgical equipment, power equipment, mining machinery, chemical equipment and other aspects have made great progress.There are still some gaps in our technology level compared with Western countries, but for developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, such technology is enough, and more high-end technology is not to say that we can't take it, and even if we can get it, they don't need it."

“So the next step is to export your technology to Africa?”Meng Fanze asked.

Feng Xiaochen smiled slightly and said, "In fact, even if it is the technology we have now, some of them exceed the needs of African countries."For example, the supercritical 600,000-kilowatt thermal power unit technology just mastered by Longjiang Electric Power Plant has the advantages of energy saving and reducing emissions, and belongs to the high-clean thermal power unit.This unit can adapt to China's environmental protection requirements, the National Planning Commission requires new power plants in various places must use such units.However, many African countries have low levels of economic development and environmental pressure are not as big as ours, so they do not need the units of this latest technology, but our predecessors' thermal power equipment is more favored by them.”

Dong Lao frowned and said: "People are now underdeveloped in industry and have little pressure on environmental protection, but in the future, they will develop their industries, and they will not face the same problems of environmental protection?"Over the years, our environmental pollution problem has become more and more serious, and some experts are criticizing the concept of "pollution first and then control".Africa’s development is lagging behind ours, should we also remind them to avoid taking such an old path?”

“I’m afraid this won’t go around, will it?”Feng Xiaochen said.

“Why don’t you go around?”The old man asked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "A set of the previous generation of 300,000 kilowatts of units, the equipment cost only 50 million US dollars, and if replaced by our latest high-cleaning unit, the cost directly increased by 60%, reaching 80 million US dollars."For users, they get a set of units, if there is no environmental pressure, why should they buy more expensive units?

“How can your new unit cost so much?”The old man asked.

Meng Fanze laughed and said, “Old Dong, you have been deceived by this little Feng.”I have heard that in order to sell the previous generation of units to Africa, they deliberately adjusted the price system, lowered the price of the previous generation of units, and raised the price of the new unit, in order to make African countries willing to choose the old model of the unit."

"You can't say that either."Feng Xiaochen said awkwardly, "The units we export to Africa, there are some of the equipment that is obsolete by the power plant, so the price is relatively cheap."In fact, compared to Western manufacturers, we are already very kind, which is mainly due to the problem of African countries' ability to pay, and it is not convenient to export too expensive equipment to them."

"That's it."Dong Lao understood that these years the country began to pay attention to environmental protection, the domestic thermal power plant put forward a very strict environmental protection requirements, some power plant old equipment can not meet this requirement, can only be scrapped in advance.But said that it is scrapped, in fact, the equipment itself can still be used, there is no quality problem.Everyone is used to the hard days, who is willing to send sixty-seven percent of the new equipment back to the furnace?

As a result, a special business has emerged, that is, the old equipment that has been eliminated from the country has been properly refurbished and repaired, and sold to countries with relatively backward economic development in South Asia and Africa.Like China in the early 1980s, these countries are shy and shy, survival is the most important thing, where there is leisure to pay attention to environmental protection, these environmental protection is not too standard old equipment, just to find them to take over.

Of course, when Chinese companies sell these devices, they also make it clear to customers that customers fully know that these devices are second-hand goods, and they are only cheap, so there is no element of fraud.In contrast, some Western countries sell second-hand goods directly as one-handed goods to African countries, and the price is several percent higher than that of first-hand goods, which is a complete overbearing.

“Now we can see the significance of introducing foreign technology.”Meng Fanze said with emotion, "India and our economic development level at that time, at the beginning of the founding of India, India's industrial base is even better than ours."But now they can only buy the second-hand rolling steel production line that we have eliminated, and we use the latest domestic technology production lines."

"The cost of our domestic equipment is almost less than the price of second-hand equipment sold to India, and some companies are almost taking the money earned from the elimination of second-hand equipment and bought new sets of equipment."Feng Xiaochen cheerfully reported.

For this kind of thing, Dong Lao and Meng Fanze are happy to see, and they will not say anything about compassion.At the beginning, China's backward technology and bought equipment from Western countries, is this not the case?I remember that year Nanjiang Iron and Steel Factory intends to introduce a hot-buted production line from Japan, the Japanese in the equipment list of big hands and feet, even the flush toilet is counted in the equipment, such humiliation, the Chinese will remember a lifetime.

"Tell me about your third, man."The old man switched the subject.On the matter of technical assistance, he has already heard that there is no need for Feng Xiaochen to explain it again.In fact, the cooperation between the equipment industry company and the Ministry of Industry of Gabe is a typical example of the success of technical assistance, and Dong Lao has seen the relevant reports in the past.

Feng Xiaochen nodded and said: "In terms of talent, it may be the biggest obstacle to the development of African countries."The average level of education of Africans is very low, with illiteracy rates of more than 50 per cent in many countries, and even for the literate population, the level of literacy is not the same as that of our junior high school students.”

"I've heard of this."Meng Fanze added, "Our country's anti-blindness standards are very high, the requirements of rural residents are to know 1500 Chinese characters, and the requirements of urban residents are to know 2,000 Chinese characters, which can basically meet the reading and writing requirements."The standard in some countries is that it is not illiterate as long as you write your own name, so it is difficult for those countries, even for the literate population, to read a newspaper.”

“That is it.”Feng Xiaochen said, "because the level of education is low, so many African countries officials are also very low quality, do not understand management, regardless of the rules of economic and trade cooperation, in the past and Western countries to deal with, often on some common sense issues cheated by the other side, and even do not know."

Dong Lao smiled faintly and said, “This is not only an educational problem, but also an eye problem, right?”We've had that loss in the past."

"But we quickly learned the rules of the market."Feng Xiaochen retorted.

Dong Lao smiled: "You are right, you are not afraid of losing, afraid of losing and learning from experience."In the past few years, we have paid a lot of tuition fees, but we have also really learned some knowledge.This time, when China participates in the WTO accession negotiations, the negotiating officials in the foreign trade sector are very sophisticated and much better than our generation.”

"That's because a handsome man like you is in the back as a sea god's needle."Feng Xiaochen quickly took a picture of the ass.Compared with Dong Lao, Feng Xiaochen's generation, whether it is a cultural level or an understanding of international rules, is far more than that.But this is not because they are not as smart as the younger generation, but only the limitations of the times.As the older generation, there should be more appreciation and support for the new generation, while the new generation should have awe for the older generation and should not be taken lightly at any time.

The old man waved his hand, which was to accept Feng Xiaochen's compliment.Feng continued: “Most of the officials in African countries are educated in the West, and what the West inculcates them is a colonialist idea, which makes them instinctively think that this is a matter of natural truth in the face of Western exploitation and lack the awareness of fighting against Western countries.”

“So you’re going to educate them against exploitation?”Monfer laughed and joked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "This is not, I just think that we can share China's development experience with them, the focus is on independence, self-reliance these eight words."If they can grasp the essence of these eight words, they will be able to take a stand in international cooperation and not be at the mercy of others.”

"It's not easy to get those eight words."Meng Fanze lamented, "Think about the eight words we paid a huge price for these eight words, without a firm will, it is impossible to persist."