"According to our analysis, they are eating that we have to purchase a certain equipment in their middle to be so tough.According to their current offer, they can get at least $60 million in excess profits for each device, and 20 is $1.2 billion.If they sign a secret agreement that promises to transfer the interests of the other two regardless of which of the homemarks, it is entirely possible to join forces and raise prices together.”Han Hong explained to Feng Xiaochen.

He nodded, and he had just thought of it.Not to mention that all countries have the so-called "anti-monopoly law", for this kind of conspiracy to be combated, in fact, when it involves international trade, each country will adopt a selective disregard for the monopoly behavior of their own enterprises, because this monopoly damages the interests of consumers in other countries, and the country where the monopoly enterprise is located will not be ignored.

If the consumer country is strong enough, it is natural to impose sanctions on production enterprises and issued huge fines, and multinational enterprises such as Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm have suffered huge fines from other countries in the future, and they have to obediently recognize the punishment, because the other side holds the target market of these enterprises, and they have to be unreliable.

But this time, China can not punish companies such as Himanz, because China needs them to provide equipment, people can wait for the price.In this world, justice will always exist only within the range of the ship’s gun.For the market, strength determines everything, people are willing to sell a device for hundreds of millions of high prices, you can do anything else?

“What is the committee’s opinion?”Feng Xiaochen asked.

Han Hong smiled and said, "This question needs to be answered by Feng."

Feng Xiaochen thought about it and said, "In my opinion, although there is no evidence of price complicity in the three enterprises of Himanz, Tongyong and Shuangluo, the facts are already here, and if they are not conspirating, it is strange."In the case of complicity in their existence, it is probably impossible for us to negotiate to bring them down in price.”

"We've tried, and there's basically no possibility."Wang Zhenbin said.He was an official who had participated in the negotiations and knew how the companies were doing at the negotiating table.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Since this is the case, then we only have two programs, first, accept the high price they open, eat this dumb loss."Second, we make it ourselves.”

“How sure is your own creation?”Han asked seriously.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Yin weight long-distance natural gas compressor, as early as three years ago has been developed, these three years have been industrial experiments, so far the experimental effect is very good."But objectively speaking, the heavy compressor still has several defects, the first is that the industrial experiment is not long enough, in the course of the experiment found a lot of problems, but also corrected, it is not clear whether there are other problems that have not yet been found.Secondly, due to material and process problems, the expected service life of the heavy compressor is lower than that of Himanz and other three, and the performance indicators are also slightly inferior.Third, the production capacity of the weight is limited, to provide 20 compressors, there is a certain difficulty.

Han Hong said: "We also generally understood this situation, so in this tender, we ruled out the weight of the past."West gas East is a major project across the century, and the guarantee we have given to the central government is foolproof, and the heavy compressor is obviously difficult to meet the requirements of foolproof.”

“What if we give up our inconvenient demands?”Feng Xiaochen asked.

“How is that possible!”Han Hong blurted out.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Director Han, in fact, imported equipment can not meet the foolproof requirements, the reliability of any equipment can not reach 100%, their equipment may reach 99.9999%, we may only 99.99%, less than they 9."

Han Hong said with a wry smile: "These 9 are also very important, people can do 3 years without failure, we can only do 3 months, the difference between this is too big."With reliable equipment, use unreliable equipment produced by itself, in case of problems, who can bear this responsibility?

“But what if there is an embargo on us abroad?”Feng Xiaochen asked.

“The embargo?”Han Hong groaned, then frowned and began to think.

The word embargo is no stranger to the Chinese.After the Sino-Soviet opposition in the late 1950s, China was subjected to the two camps of the East and West technology and equipment embargo, the equipment required for domestic production is almost entirely self-sufficient, at that time, the most important thing is to solve the problem of "there is no", as for reliability, can only be considered as the second place.In the early 1970s, China-US relations thaw, and China began to obtain some technical equipment from Western countries, and introduced a series of complete sets of equipment including 1700 mm mills, 300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia, and 300,000 tons of ethylene, which improved the industrial level by a step.But even in the so-called "China-US honeymoon period", Western countries still maintain a high-tech equipment embargo on China, first the Batumi agreement, and then the Wassenaar agreement, not to mention a series of actions after the United States blonde leader came to power.

Chinese industrialists with rich experience in the embargo are actually very calm about the embargo.Can buy advanced equipment, of course, to buy, the logic of the master's skills, the Qing Dynasty people understand, now people can not understand?If you can't buy it, then don't be afraid, it's not too much to tighten your pants and do it yourself.Two bullets and one star are made like this, what's the big deal?

This matter of natural gas compressors, the commission is actually drilling the tip of the bull.Yuhe has already developed the compressor, but the performance is not as good as that of Western companies such as Himanz.If the cost-effective of their products is reasonable, the use of technology is more mature imported equipment to ensure the quality of the West-East gas transmission project, of course, a good choice.But now people are asking for prices, the price is already very poor, what is the difference with the embargo?In this case, why can't we use our own equipment?

As for foolproof, in fact, imported equipment will also fail, but also the service life constraints, what is the foolproof thing in this world?

"You have some reason for this idea."Han Hong thought for a while and said slowly, "However, the current situation and foreign embargo is still not the same, because foreign countries have not said not to sell to us, but the price is higher than our expectations."Some experts believe that the high price of foreign countries does not mean that it is blackmailing us, but that foreign companies pay more attention to the results of product quality.The product quality is good, and the price is naturally high.We are not responsible to the country and the people to pursue low prices and give up quality requirements.”

"I grass, what kind of expert is this, do you know what the pricing mechanism is?"Takeaway 80 million pieces of equipment, sell us 140 million, this is not called extortion?"Feng Xiaochen directly exploded a rough mouth.

Wang Zhenbin smiled slightly and said, "Old man, this is the opinion of an expert when we met last month, this expert, in fact, you know him, is your old acquaintance, Professor Gao Lei."

“Ha!”Feng Xiaochen couldn't help but laugh, and it was this man, who was the man.Think of that year, he put forward the theory of international cooperation, requiring China to give up the equipment manufacturing industry and focus on being an international assembly plant.As a result, after a clamor, his theory was rejected by the high and practical departments, and he was silent for a while.In recent years, he has gradually become active, but the "fear of the ocean" in the bones has not changed.Feng Xiaochen has also seen several articles he published and the remarks made in an interview with reporters, and his tone is basically that foreigners can do everything, China is useless, and China is only on its knees.

"Your research committee's taste is too heavy, how can you ask such a cartilage patient to be an expert?"Feng Xiaochen commented disdainfully.

Han Hong smiled and said, "Listening is dark, listening is clear, Professor Gao is also an internationally renowned economist, when we open a seminar, it is definitely necessary to ask him such a big expert to express his opinion."Moreover, he is not alone in taking a similar view, and his view is more representative.”

Wang Zhenbin added: "At least six or seven of the economists we invited in the ten are close to the high professor's views, and even if they don't invite him, others will say the same."

“Six out of ten?”This time it was the turn of the tongue.The circles he usually contact are mainly engaged in industry, and everyone talks about how to catch up with Western developed countries.He does not know that in the circle of economists, Western omnipotence is the mainstream, you dare to say that China has the ability to catch up with the West, believe that people can call hundreds of alumni in minutes to jointly sign a request for expulsion from your school?

“Director Han, what is your opinion?”Feng Xiaochen turned to Han Hong and asked.

Han Hong smiled faintly and said, “The views of these scholars are only used as a reference.According to some people, we do not need to engage in industrial policy at all, and we do not need to exist in the Planning Commission.To tell you the truth, when there was a meeting, a scholar really proposed that the NDRC should be withdrawn, and that the existence of our NDRC hinders China's development.If we listen to them, we don't work."

"Well, this scholar is also a scholar with a windy heart."Feng Xiaochen teased.

Han Hong sneered, “Of course the wind bone is necessary, but at the same time, it must have a brain.”That’s not worth caring about, and the direction of our economy and self-reliance will not change.Xiao Feng, you just mentioned the idea is good, if foreign countries directly to us to impose an embargo, our West gas East transmission is also to be engaged.Since imported equipment cannot afford, we use domestic equipment, just to give domestic equipment a chance.