Chapter 387 Someone in the court is easy to do
The actual car experience is very good, which is more convincing than any introduction.
Even Li Nanhai, who went for a test drive with a critical eye, couldn't find any faults.
What happens next is naturally simple.
Ji Hua came on stage to explain the working principle of 4AT to everyone, and then took everyone to visit the laboratory and factory. This inspection is over.
Naturally, there will be a party in the evening.
"Leader, whether it is a gearbox or other parts, if you want to produce high-performance parts, you need good raw materials."
"Although we try our best to source raw material supplies from China, the properties of many materials are still quite different from what we want."
"Even if the requirements are lowered, some raw materials still need to be imported from abroad. This situation is very detrimental to the development of the BMW Group and even the development of the Chinese automobile industry."
After three rounds of drinking, Jiang Hui naturally wanted to take this opportunity to communicate with Zhou Jian, the person in charge of the First Machinery Department.
Asking the leader for help is sometimes a skill.
If you are unwilling to ask someone for help with anything, then the relationship will not be deepened.
"This is indeed a big problem. Not only do factories import raw materials from abroad, but even some military industrial companies in the Fifth Machinery Department use imported raw materials."
"But the threshold for raw materials, especially high-end materials, is very high. The Ministry of Metallurgy is already working hard, but it is not possible to achieve a breakthrough so quickly."
Zhou Jian naturally knew the problem Jiang Hui mentioned, but he didn't have any good solution.
Even the military industry department is troubled by this problem.
"Yes, materials belong to the category of basic science. If you want to improve technology in this area, it cannot be completed in a short time."
“But the gap in special steel, a raw material widely used in automobiles, has caused great trouble to our development.”
"Our factory has now set up a special materials research and development team, hoping to solve some problems through its own efforts."
"For example, the hot stamped steel plates used in our new models were developed by ourselves and then produced in cooperation with Shougang."
"In the future, we also plan to work hard to find breakthroughs in some steel types such as bearing steel, gear steel, spring steel, and mold steel."
“To this end, we are planning to build a small-scale special steel plant to serve the needs within the BMW Group.”
The special steel plant falls under the management of the Metallurgical Department. The BMW Group used to work under the leadership of the First Machinery Department. Now it is going to be involved with the Metallurgical Department. Jiang Hui naturally has to lay the groundwork with Zhou Jian first.
Otherwise, the leaders will feel uncomfortable when the time comes, which will definitely affect the advancement of some supporting policies.
Fortunately, the problems Jiang Hui mentioned also exist objectively, and the First Machinery Department really has no way to solve these problems.
You can't help but let people figure it out on their own, right?
"Xiaojiang, even if you are building a small-scale special steel factory, the various processes and equipment involved are very different from your other factories now."
"Have you considered finding a special steel factory to deepen cooperation, which would be easier?"
Zhou Jian understood what Jiang Hui meant, but he was also a little worried that the BMW Group would not be able to handle the construction of the steel plant.
This thing falls into the category of heavy industry.
"We originally considered this, but there is no suitable special steel factory here in Lingnan. If we look for it in other places, it will be very inconvenient to cooperate."
"The most important thing is those special steel plants. Not everyone has the same ideas as us. When everyone's systems and ideas are different, cooperation will be stumbling. It is better to build a special steel plant by yourself. It would be easier to purchase crude steel from other steel mills for processing.”
"We have formed a good cooperative relationship with several machine tool manufacturers in the United States some time ago. At that time, whether we purchase special steel smelting equipment from Japan like Baosteel, or purchase it from the United States, we can consider it."
The steel industry is still a sunrise industry in China, but in Japan and the United States, it is an industry that has fallen into a development bottleneck.
Relevant equipment manufacturers are also much more active in selling equipment to external parties than general machine tool manufacturers.
This is also a good thing for the BMW Group.
"Since you have made up your mind to make special steel yourself, the ministry must also support you."
"I am an old acquaintance with the person in charge of the Metallurgical Department. I will say hello to him first about the relevant approval procedures."
"They should also be very happy to see foreign-funded companies willing to invest in the special steel industry in China and improve the level of special steel in our country."
There are people in the court who are easy to do things with.
Even without the help of the First Machinery Department, Jiang Hui was able to successfully build the special steel plant.
But it's a little more troublesome after all.
Now we just need to ask Zhou Jian to take action, and then ask Zhu Jiansheng to find his classmates at Capital University of Science and Technology to recommend a group of talents, and things will be much easier to handle.
……
Zhou Jian served as a soldier in his early years and was somewhat vigorous and resolute in his work.
After returning from the inspection at Nanshan Gearbox, he immediately communicated with the Metallurgical Department in person.
The Ministry of Metallurgy had previously known that Shougang's high-strength automotive steel plates were closely related to Jiang Hui, and had witnessed the rise of the BMW Group. Naturally, they were happy to see the emergence of Nanshan Special Steel.
As for Shencheng, it is natural to give land to land and policy to policy.
As for whether special steel plants will cause pollution, this is not something that everyone will consider at all.
Development is the last word, and everything else has to be put aside for the time being.
In recent years, the importance of economic construction has been recognized by many people, and everyone everywhere is working hard to develop the economy.
There are even signs that some places are worried about people going to the sea, and the social status of those who set up stalls on the roadside has also been rapidly improved.
After all, if you, a worker in a large state-owned enterprise, receive a salary of thirty or forty yuan a month even if there are droughts and floods, how can you compare with someone else who earns dozens of yuan a day by setting up a stall?
A few years ago, people felt that setting up a stall was unseemly, like running on the street.
Once this impression changes, the situation will naturally change.
"Director, the BMW Group has established Nanshan Special Steel to produce various special steels for automobiles."
"I'm worried that in the future they will also produce high-strength automotive steel plates and hot stamped steel plates themselves."
As the chief engineer of Shougang, Zuo Guangsheng is quite satisfied.
In the past few years, Shougang has developed very well, and Zuo Guangsheng has also received various commendations and awards from the Ministry of Metallurgy.
He still has seven or eight years to reach retirement age, and he doesn't want the factory to have operational problems before he retires.
So when I heard that BMW Group had established Nanshan Special Steel that day, I immediately realized the crisis.
“Special steel factories basically process rods, wires, and some thick plates, which are very different from the production process of automobile plates.”
"I heard that Nanshan Special Steel should give priority to bearing steel, gear steel and various special steels used in chassis." "Ordinary steel and automobile steel plates will still be purchased from outside."
As the factory director of Shougang, Zhou Gang is naturally well-informed.
Zuo Guangsheng had already received the news, so he naturally heard about it.
"It may be like this at the beginning, but once Nanshan Special Steel's operations get on track, it may expand its business."
"Automotive steel plates will definitely be their first choice at that time."
Comparing his feelings, Zuo Guangsheng felt that he would not miss the big cake of automobile steel plates.
Especially as the BMW Group's sales get better and better, more and more automotive steel plates will be needed.
"What you said is not impossible. This requires the sales department to communicate well with BMW and maintain a good relationship."
"If the steel plates someone needs often fail to arrive on time, or there are some quality problems, then it will stimulate the other party to do it themselves."
"Otherwise, the BMW Group's main business is the automotive industry after all, and it should not spend so much effort producing steel plates."
"Cars not only need to use steel, but also need to use aluminum and various resin materials. Is it possible that the BMW Group will also have to produce these materials by itself?"
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When Zhou Gang said this, Zuo Guangsheng felt that it made sense.
Could it be that I am thinking too much?
……
Compared with the calmness on the Shougang side, the people on the Baosteel side were in a bad mood.
"Chief Engineer Cheng, Wu Ming, a rebellious boy, suddenly transformed and is now the general manager of Nanshan Special Steel."
“The ministry actually supports a foreign company to produce special steel in China. Doesn’t this disrupt the domestic steel layout?”
As the director of Baosteel's technical department, Li Dagang has always been resentful of the sudden job change of Wu Ming, the head of the technical department.
As the backbone of the Technology Department, Wu Ming's departure even affected the development of some projects of the Technology Department, and also allowed everyone to see the truth that Li Dagang's technical level was not as good as Wu Ming.
No wonder Li Dagang had such a big opinion against Wu Ming.
"I have already given feedback to the factory director, but this project is supported by the leaders within the department, and the No. 1, No. 5 and No. 7 Machinery Departments have also expressed their support very strongly."
"It is impossible to change."
Cheng Qiang is naturally unhappy with Nanshan Special Steel.
As the largest steel project built in China after the reform, Baosteel has been favored by thousands of people in the past two years.
Many people are thinking about working in Baosteel, even becoming a worker.
As a result, since Wu Ming left, he also took away several high-level technicians and engineers from the technical department.
This can't be tolerated.
The most important thing is to leave as soon as possible, and now a Nanshan Special Steel Company has been established.
When the time comes, the better the performance of Nanshan Special Steel, the more it will slap Baosteel in the face.
After all, the country has invested so many resources in you. As a result, Nanshan Special Steel has mastered some key special steel technologies, but Baosteel cannot. What will the leaders think?
When you are a leader of a state-owned enterprise, what you care most about is the opinion of your superiors.
It's about what's underneath their butts.
"Even if the First Ministry of Machinery supports it, why are the Fifth and Seventh Ministry of Machinery so active?"
As a subsidiary of the Ministry of Metallurgy, Baosteel has relatively little contact with the Fifth Machinery Department and the Seventh Machinery Department.
The materials that the other party's subordinate factories need to use have been supplied by designated steel mills before Baosteel was established, and have nothing to do with Baosteel.
"Jiang Hui's father-in-law is the president of Capital Institute of Technology, and Capital Institute of Technology is a subsidiary of the Fifth Machinery Department. Jiang Hui should be familiar with the leaders of the Fifth Machinery Department."
"As for the Seventh Machinery Department, I heard that Jiang Hui provided many of the design plans for the intercontinental ballistic missile launch vehicle built by the Special Vehicle Factory of the University of Science and Technology, so it is related to the Seventh Machinery Department."
As the chief engineer, Cheng Jianqiang naturally knows a lot more information than Li Dagang, the head of the technical department.
It was precisely because he knew Jiang Hui's background that even if he was very unhappy inside, he tried not to express it in front of outsiders.
"Jiang Hui's technical level in the automotive field is very high, but it does not mean that he is also very good in the steel field."
When Li Dagang said this, Cheng Qiangqiang was a little speechless.
This subordinate's ability seems a bit worrying.
However, considering that the other party's father-in-law was the leader here in Shanghai, he was not angry and instead explained to the side.
"When Jiang Hui was still working at the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant, he teamed up with the then Capital Steel Institute and Shougang to develop high-strength automobile steel plates, and later cooperated with Xing Steel to develop some special automobile steels."
"This year they cooperated with Shougang to develop a hot stamping steel plate. I don't know what it will be used for."
"It can be seen from these situations that Jiang Hui also has relatively deep research in the field of steel."
If it weren't for the fact that the other person was not in the same line as him, Cheng Qiangqiang would also admire Jiang Hui very much.
He is also a technical person himself, and he knows very well how difficult it is to achieve results in these fields.
This is totally a genius.
"Where did he get so much energy? He worked on gearboxes, engines, and a bunch of auto parts. Now he even studies steel."
Li Dagang muttered speechlessly.
For a person like him, he feels that he is a proud man of heaven.
But compared with Jiang Hui, it feels completely incomparable.
"Let's first see what Nanshan Special Steel does. If we mess up, it will naturally have no impact on us."
"If the other party really comes up with some new steel types, then I will also propose to the factory to arrange a group of people to focus on special steel research."
Baosteel wants to be the largest steel company in China. Whether in the field of ordinary steel or special steel, Cheng Jianqiang has great ideas.
Anyway, at least it cannot be surpassed by the newly established Nanshan Special Steel.
Otherwise, when they go to the Metallurgical Department for meetings in the future, they won't be able to be so straight.
(End of chapter)