Chapter 615 The Return of Song Wanru and the Iron Event
"Ha ha, let's not talk about it. It's annoying to talk about it." Tang Yu smiled freely and changed the topic, "Brother Fang, I just suddenly remembered that a person who is qualified as the manager of Yufei's personnel department."
"Oh? Who is it?" Fang Jianming asked.
"It's like my sister." Tang Yu said with a smile, "Wanru sister is a master of economics who came back from studying abroad. After returning to China, she has set up an electronic instrument factory one after another. Blackwater International has also made a lot of efforts. Since I want to withdraw, I will naturally not stay there. She will definitely withdraw, whether it is just theoretically or The practical knowledge is extremely rich, and I am absolutely qualified as the manager of the personnel department, which also saves me the time to find someone else.
"It's naturally better if Wanru is willing to be the manager of this personnel department. I thought before that you would be promoted within the group. Since you are going to let Sister Wanru come out in person, it is naturally perfect. Oh, by the way, why didn't Sister Wanru come today? Didn't you inform her?" Fang Jianming and Song Wanru knew Song Wanru earlier than Tang Yu. Naturally, he was very clear about Song Wanru's ability. Song Wanru has the ability, qualifications and background. It is most appropriate to be the boss of this personnel department.
"Wanru sister went to the old man of the Song family in Xi'an a few days ago. I guess she will come back in the next few days. Originally, this matter should have been raised at the meeting just now, but I forgot it by mistake, but now everyone is here, and it's not too late to bring it up." Tang Yu said with a smile.
"Well, if she can really come, then my pressure will be much less, and her management ability is beyond doubt." Fang Jianming nodded.
"The preparation of Yufei Group is not a matter of a day or two. Take your time and don't worry. I'm afraid the most urgent thing now is your website. As long as your website is created, I will invest a lot of money in publicity. Let's speculate it up first. When it becomes popular, everything else will be logical. Anyway, now, the international network technology stocks are in a hot mess. Even if they lose money, there are a lot of talents, and shareholders are still willing to buy it. Tang Yu said to Tang Tianyu.
"Well, after I go back, I will contact a few of my students and former classmates. The production of the website is not difficult, but if you want to make it exquisitely, it will take some time for me to design this website in a month." Tang Tianyu said.
In fact, although the website is easy to make, as long as you are willing to burn money, it can be burned soon. However, e-commerce is different, and it also requires third-party payment and so on. At this time, there is no mature platform in China. Everything needs to be done from scratch and done by yourself. A month is also quite stressful.
"Well, okay, I'll give you a month." Tang Yu nodded and looked at Zhou Xiaohong and Xie Mengji. "Sister Zhou Mengji, when you go back, let the advertising department change the advertisement of the TV station. Under each advertisement, you have to add the URL of the website designed by my uncle. Oh, speaking of the URL, we don't seem to have named this website yet. Please help me think about it. What name should I choose?"
Tang Yu seemed to be a little helpless. He was going to run a website to go public on NASDAQ, but before the development, he didn't even have a name.
With Tang Yu's words, everyone began to discuss, but after a long time, Tang Yu did not give a result.
"Well, since our website is mainly shopping and e-commerce, it's better to call it Kugou Internet Cafe." Tang Yu saw that no one expressed his opinion, so he had to choose a name by himself.
"Kugou.com? Well, it's good. It sounds good. OK, that's it. Tang Tianyu muttered two words about Kugou.com, and felt quite smooth. He nodded and said.
Just after everyone was chatting, they basically came up. Tang Yu got up, picked up the cup in front of him, and there was a drink inside. "Come on, I'll use this drink instead of wine. Let's drink for the rise of Yufei."
"Cheers." Everyone stood up, picked up the cup containing the drink and shouted in unison.
"Cheers to the rise of Kugou."
"Cheers."
For a while, the atmosphere in the room became warm.
After the dinner, just as Tang Yu was about to leave, Fang Jianming stopped him.
"Brother, wait."
"What's wrong, Brother Fang?" Tang Yu asked softly.
"Brother, are you free this Sunday? My old man wants to see you." Fang Jianming walked to Tang Yu and said.
"Mr. Fang wants to see me again? Is he and his old man all right now? Tang Yu has heard more or less about Fang Jianming's family. Originally, a big family was destroyed by several worms. The old man of the Fang family was angry last time. At such an old age, he is probably not in good health.
As expected, it was not as Tang Yu expected.
"Do you think it's okay? I had already drawn a clear line with that family and vowed not to step into that house again. But yesterday, when I saw Grandpa coming to me with a haggard face, I couldn't be cruel anymore. That group of people were really hateful, but in the end, I let Grandpa, an old man, come to clean it up. The endgame is too cruel. Fang Jianming's eyes were full of grief.
"Clean up the mess? Not so much. Anyway, the Fang family is a big family. Even if it begins to decline, it won't become an endgame so quickly. Tang Yu whispered.
"Well, brother, you don't know how incompetent Fang Jianxun's group of guys are. The day before yesterday, a subordinate of Baozhiyuan called me and mentioned Fang Jianxun's absurdity to me. That day, a foreign businessman went to the company and wanted to get the regional agency of life nuclear energy. If this matter is done, it can be said that He gave a shot of strength to the source of the sluggish treasure, but do you know how Fang Jianxun's idiot did it? He actually kicked him out because he couldn't understand the other party's dialect. The other party was a businessman in northern Shaanxi, and northern Shaanxi was a blind spot in the Baozhiyuan commercial coverage network. Originally, this was a good opportunity to explore the market. That idiot actually kicked him out because he didn't understand his dialect. Do you think it's good for Bao Zhiyuan to be handed over to such a scum? Fang Jianming's face was full of sadness and indignation. He thought about how much effort he had put into the source of treasure. Now looking at the decline of it in the hands of that idiot day by day, Fang Jianming's heart is dripping blood.
Hearing Fang Jianming's explanation, Tang Yu was speechless. Fang Jianxun was really the best, the best - scum.
"Why did that old man Fang come to me? Let me help him discipline that useless grandson? But it seems that I don't have this ability." Tang Yu asked.
"I'm not sure about the specifics. Grandpa just begged me to help him contact you. As for what he is looking for you, I don't know." Fang Jianming shook his head.
"Well, okay, I'll definitely go on Sunday." Tang Yu did not hesitate and readily agreed. The Fang family, specifically speaking, Mr. Fang Bozhen had helped him a lot. If it hadn't been for the old man's nod, Fang Jianming would not have dared to divert so much money from the family for Tang Yu to develop VCD.
"Thank you, brother." Fang Jianming patted Tang Yu on the shoulder gratefully. The Fang family did help Tang Yu, but Tang Yu helped Tang Yu more. If it hadn't been for Tang Yu's reminder at the beginning, I'm afraid that most of the Fang family would have lost in the real estate bubble in Hainan. After that, Tang Yu has made suggestions for the Fang family many times, whether it is the green tea project or life nuclear energy. The project is still the mineral water market, and even the establishment of the clubhouse. These are all Tang Yu's ideas worth a lot of money. Although these projects are destined to go bankrupt because the current Fang family is Fang Jianxun's idiot, these projects are doomed to go bankrupt, but they can't discount Tang Yu's favors family at all. The idea is a golden idea and can't make money. Son, I can only blame you for your indit ability.
The most important thing is that Fang Jianxun actually wanted to annex the VCD project run by Tang Yu. Doing so is undoubtedly equivalent to repaying virtue with resentment. If ordinary people are in Tang Yu's position, I'm afraid they will hate the Fang family long ago, let alone meet the old man of the Fang family.
"Brother Fang, I have a clear sense of kindness and resentment. I know very well who is good to me and who is bad to me. You and Grandpa Fang are kind to me and have helped me help my company tide over the difficulties several times. I remember these in my heart. It is not you who are bad to me, but the group of evil horses of the Fang family." Tang Yu said with a smile.
After being separated from the crowd, Tang Yu just got on the taxi back home, and the phone rang.
"Hey, Xiaoyu, I'm your sister." Song Wanru's soft voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Oh, like my sister, have you returned to Liaohai? Why did you come back so soon? Isn't it scheduled to come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? Tang Yu asked with a smile.
"It's not because of you. Well, don't talk on the phone. Come to the teahouse in front of my house. Let's meet and talk." After saying that, Song Wanru hung up the phone.
Tang Yu put down the phone and said to the taxi driver in front of him, "The provincial government compound."
The driver looked at Tang Yu in surprise through the rear mirror and muttered to himself. It seemed that this boy was a second-generation official. No wonder he was dressed so brightly.
It's true that it's dressed brightly. After all, there will be a meeting today. In order to show the grandeur and seriousness of the meeting, Tang Yu, accompanied by Yang Hanning, went directly to the Armani store to buy a suit after leaving the campus.
Armani is Tang Yu's favorite suit. In terms of design style, they are neither trendy nor traditional, but a good combination between the two. Its clothing seems to be rarely related to fashion. George Armani's design follows three golden principles: the first is to remove anything unnecessary; the second is to pay attention to comfort; the third is that the most gorgeous thing is actually the simplest. This is George Armani's very accurate evaluation of himself. American fashion designer Bill Blas commented on Armani and his clothes: "The design of his women's clothing style is really unique and impeccable. He is the genius of the times. It is not the diametrical division between men and women, and it is not the strict separation between day and evening clothes. Armani's style, personality color, cultural conflict and the fashion created by communication has made him the most influential fashion designer since the 1980s.
Financial Street power suit Giorgio Armani is the favorite of Wall Street. Men make a lot of money to have one, while women are addicted to the elegance and nobility revealed in its washing style. For a long time, the letters Giorgio Armani have been associated with the image of elegance and moderation. His clothes are neither rude or illegal, nor too gorgeous and vulgar, and roan between classic elegance and casual romance. Giorgio Armani's clothing has the meaning of class and taste - not only expensive, but also self-restrained. In most cases, "wearing Armani" is a status symbol, although it is a new economic era that promotes personal freedom. At any time or occasion, Giorgio Armani's clothing is not inappropriate or popular. Many world executives just like Giorgio Armani's own creative style and become his followers. Giorgio Armani's accessories include leather goods, shoes, glasses, ties, scarves, etc., which are as exquisite textures and simple lines as clothing. Compared with Lagerfeld, who wears sunglasses and shakes a paper fan all day long, and the gorgeous and indulgent Versace, Armani is more like an ascetic - the style is neither new nor traditional. He can create an almost perfect and amazing balance between market demand and elegant fashion: neutral colors, elegant tailoring makes people not need to deliberately show off, and delete irrelevant details in the design, which is also a great contribution to clothing tailoring. His simplicity has always wandered between tradition and modernity, blurring the indelible boundary between tradition and modernity. Armani shows the luxurious temperament unique to traditional European clothing in simplicity, and at the same time, it cleverly intersperses the sense of modernity into the traditional artistic conception, making the clothing have an "inexhaustible" style. At first glance, you will feel very mediocre, but at the second look, you will feel that it has washed away the complicated nobility and noble modern **. It may be this unique charm hidden under the ordinary appearance that makes him control a large number of loyal consumers like a magician. Giorgio Armani has made an unprecedented bold subversion of women's clothing styles, making Armani suits the favorite of high-end professional women. The most representative is the advent of Armani men's and women's "powersuit" in 1980, and "powersuit" has become a symbol of the era of international economic prosperity. This design is inspired by Hollywood in the golden age and is characterized by wide-shoulder lapels and wide trousers. Richard Kiel appeared in Armani's "Power Suit" in American Dancer, and the brand began to impress the audience.
Not to mention, wearing a carefully tailored Armani at this time, Tang Yu really looks like the second ancestor, saying that it is a small white face.
Tang Yu, the teahouse mentioned by Song Wanru, knew that it was not far from the office compound. After taking Xiao Yuxin shopping several times, he went to the teahouse for a cup of tea and had a rest.
Tang Yu approached the teahouse and saw Song Wanru wearing a white short sleeve at a glance.
The short sleeves are tight, firmly tied around Song Wanru's body, showing her plump and hot figure vividly. The lower body is a skinny jeans, which highlights the slender legs of Song Wanru. With the white Li Ning sneakers under her feet, Song looks like a beautiful girl. Generally.
"Sister, how long have you been waiting here?" Tang Yu stepped forward, sat down opposite Song Wanru, and asked with a smile.
"It wasn't long before I arrived." After saying that, Song Wanru stared at Tang Yu's face and looked at Tang Yu's straight hair. He couldn't help touching the corners of his mouth with his hands. He was very careful when he just ate and didn't get rice grains. What does it mean by looking at herself like this?
"Wanda, do you have something to do with me? Don't look at me like that, okay? I'm so upset." Tang Yu said softly.
Puff... Song Wanru was amused by Tang Yu's silly appearance, and he couldn't help giving him a charming look, "stupid..."
Tang Yu touched his nose awkwardly. I'm not stupid. Have I ever seen a fool make billions? Of course, with the exception of fools, he really made a fortune by fools and became a big brand.
"I heard about Blackwater International from my father. I was afraid that something would happen to you, so I came back early, but I just saw that your face didn't look strange." Song Wanru explained.
She has just learned about Blackwater International. In fact, the country is not ready to use coercive means to take back Blackwater International. It just reveals the outlet to Shen Ruihong through other people's mouths, but Tang Yu is very knowledgeable. As soon as the country reveals this aspect, it does not hesitate to be accurate. Be prepared to hand over the Blackwater International and not prepare to pinch it into your hands to harm others and yourself. The end of the iron year is still vivid. Although the iron book at this time has not reached that point, and Lao Dai may not have such an idea at this time, Tang Yu can imagine the final end. Thinking that Tang Yu's mind is I can't help shivering when I remember the state's treatment of Tieben Laodai.
Tieben's Lao Dai is a bitter child who grows out of the wormwood grass. He was born in a small village called Danan Village in Changshi. At the age of 12, because my family was too poor, I had to drop out of school to make a living. His first job was to pick up scrap metal. With the development of the model economy in southern Jiangsu, many small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises have been set up around Changshi. Lao Dai goes to the factory to pick up and buy scrap copper and iron every day. Although he didn't have much education, he seemed to have a special talent for business. After saving a little money, he bought a hand-held tractor, so that the radius of the acquisition was suddenly much larger. Soon after, he bought back a machine that pressed the collected broken iron into iron blocks, which could be sold higher. The price.
For a long time after the reform and opening up, the energy shortage has been the biggest bottleneck plaguing enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta, and because of this, the steel industry has always been better. Around 1984, Lao Dai made a piece of land next to his old yard and set up a steelmaking workshop called Sanyou Roll Factory. He bought several used converters and iron furnaces that have been eliminated from state-owned enterprises such as Shanghai Iron and Steel Plant III, forming a simple industrial chain. After accumulating certain experience in steelmaking, Lao Dai went to a place near Changshi to contract some workshops of state-owned steel mills that were on the verge of bankruptcy. It was an era when the system determined efficiency. Once the lifeless steelmaking workshop in the hands of the factory director of a state-owned enterprise was transferred to Lao Dai, it immediately became a money-making machine. At most, there are as many as five contracted workshops under his name.
In 1996, Lao Dai registered and established Jiangsu Tieben Cast Steel Co., Ltd. with a registered capital of 2 million yuan. The meaning of "iron book" is to start with iron and not leave the industry. Around 2000, the area of Tieben's factory had expanded to 18 hectares, with more than 1,000 workers and sales revenue of more than 100 million yuan. However, the scale of the factory is still small, the technical level is very low, and it produces low-grade products such as rollers and continuous casting blanks. In order to take Tieben to a new level, Lao Dai decided to go to the blast furnace project, because only in this way can he jump out of thousands of small steelmaking factories. Three years later, the iron-based blast furnace project was completed. Lao Dai knelt down in front of thousands of workers, and tears and sweat mixed down. This year is the year of the take-off of iron capital. The annual steel production has soared to 1 million tons, and the sales revenue has exceeded 2.5 billion yuan. In the "China's 400 Rich List" of New Fortune that year, he ranked 376th, with an estimated asset of 220 million yuan. In the process of the construction of the blast furnace project, a bigger dream rose in Lao Dai's heart.
After 2001, with the sustained and high-speed growth of the macro economy, there is an overall shortage of various energy sources, among which steel and electricity are the two most popular materials. In the steel market, whether it is wire or plate, ordinary steel or special steel, the price generally continues to rise, almost to the level of "one price a day". At the gate of the iron factory, large trucks from all over the country line up every day, waiting to pick up the goods. Such a scene appears every day. According to Lao Dai's estimate, China's steel fever can last for at least 5 to 6 years, which should be a rare market for steel people in their lifetime.
Lao Dai chose the address of the new factory in a narrow coastal area along the Yangtze River. In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, there is a very prominent steel corridor. From west to east, Wuhan Iron and Steel in Hubei, Jiujiang Iron and Steel in Jiangxi, Ma'anshan Iron and Steel in Anhui, Nanjing Iron and Steel in Jiangsu, and Baosteel Group in Shanghai, all of which are among the "Top 100 Industrial Enterprises in China". Lao Dai, who hasn't finished primary school, wants to build the future iron book around these national bigwigs.
Tieben's new construction plan has been actively supported by the Chang Municipal Government. As soon as Lao Dai's idea was put forward, it immediately received a response from the municipal government. Everyone knows that steel is a large-input and large-output industry, and the dream of Tieben has suddenly become the dream of the Chang Municipal Government. In the view of many officials in Changshi, Lao Dai is a trustworthy person. He is thin and taciturn. He has no hobbies in his life. He just stays in the factory all day and competes with technicians. He is a well-known local "five, no boss" - he doesn't take high-end cars, doesn't go into entertainment venues, doesn't eat and drinks, doesn't gamble, and doesn't even live in high-end hotels. His daily life is very frugal. All the savings in the family are invested in the factory. His father and stepmother have been growing vegetables and farming in the countryside. His family lived in a very simple small house in a steel factory. One wall of the house was hit by a big truck, and he didn't care. The car he drives all year round is a debt-paid Santana 2000. Even if he becomes a billionaire on the rich list, he does not change his thrifty nature.
At the beginning, Lao Dai's idea was not as grand as later. In May 2002, he proposed a plan to build a new factory that is a little more than twice the existing production capacity. Its main construction is two blast furnaces and a deep-water wharf with a depth of 14 meters, covering an area of 2,000 mu and an annual output of 2.6 million tons of wide and thick plates. The total investment is about 1 billion yuan, mainly with its own capital. .
However, driven by the enthusiasm of the people concerned, the iron project has been changed again and again, and it is expanding day by day. In just six months, the scale of the project was increased from more than 2 million tons at the beginning to 4 million tons and 6 million tons. Finally, it was set at 8.4 million tons, and the scale rose from 2,000 mu to 9,379 mu. The project estimate is astronomical 10.6 billion yuan, and the product is positioned as a marine board and High-grade products such as threaded steel.
At that time, the fixed assets of the iron capital were 1.2 billion yuan and the net assets were 670 million yuan. It is undoubtedly a "small horse-drawn cart" to launch a project of more than 10 billion yuan with such a capital scale. Lao Dai said to his subordinates, "Where can I find such a good opportunity with such support in the local area?" It was also after confirming the information supported by the government that the local bank boldly lent money to Tieben, so Tieben suddenly obtained 4.399 billion yuan of bank credit.
It is difficult for a private enterprise to start a steel project with an investment of tens of billions of yuan and covering an area of nearly 10,000 mu, which is difficult to obtain the approval of the relevant central authorities. China's steel industry is a semi-monopoly industry with an entry threshold. According to relevant regulations, projects with an investment of more than 30 million US dollars must be submitted to the National Development and Reform Commission for approval. If the iron project is reported as it is true, the approval process is not only protracted, but also the opportunity to be approved is very slim.
China's economic reform has always had a tradition of "breaking through the barrier". The so-called "go fast when you see the green light and go around when you see the red light". Many reforms have been successfully implemented in this kind of breakthrough and will be spread as a beautiful talk in the future. There are also many who have fallen in this process and become typical examples of violations of the law. This gap between reform and development and system design has become a gray phenomenon throughout the history of Chinese enterprises. Changshi people have also tried to "break through" in the iron project. People's fluke mentality is that once hundreds of millions or even billions of yuan are invested, can't it be stuffed back into the mother's stomach of the child who has already been born?
As a result, Tieben's 8.4 million-million-ton project was split into 7 sub-projects and 1 dock project and reported respectively. Tieben correspondingly set up seven "Chinese-foreign joint venture companies" with their own names. In the approval of the construction land, the land was "combized into zero" and divided into 14 pieces of land for approval. The Economic Development Bureau of Changshi High-tech Zone, where the project is located, quickly approved all the infrastructure projects within one day. Lao Dai later told the reporter who came to interview in the detention center: "All the formalities at that time were done by the government, and we didn't ask about these things. When the government says it can move, we will start work.
If the iron project has not been forcibly suspended, then Changshi's "breakthrough" will become another wonderful case of government departments actively supporting the bold development of private enterprises.
With the strong support of the government, Lao Dai has devoted all his energy to the feasibility of the project.
Although the steel industry is a big and big industry on the surface, the secret of its profit is still the art of controlling scale and cost. More than 100 years ago, Andrew Carnegie geniusly discovered such a rule when he was building his steel empire. He said: "The low price is directly proportional to the scale of production. Therefore, the larger the production scale, the lower the cost... Reduce costs, seize the market, and drive full power. As long as the cost is controlled, the benefits will naturally come."
Lao Dai has not read Carnegie's book, but he has followed the Carnegie Guidelines.
The scale of 8.4 million tons is enough to make Tieben one of the largest steel companies in China. At that time, there were only two steel mills of more than 10 million tons in China, Baosteel and Tanggang. Lao Dai has hired many top steel experts to participate in the demonstration and positioning. In terms of technology, the most advanced equipment in China has been used from forging and melting, ironmaking to sintering, coking and other parts, and the blast furnace adopts the 120-ton blast furnace allowed by the state.
Like almost all fields, private steel enterprises have always had cost advantages. According to some data, the cost of ironmaking in private enterprises is 60 to 90 yuan lower than that of state-owned enterprises, the cost of steelmaking is 60 to 150 yuan per ton, and the cost of finished products is 100 to 300 yuan per ton. Therefore, Lao Dai said, "It's like building a house at home. You can buy a ready-made house. It's very expensive. We can buy materials ourselves, and it will be 50% cheaper. We only need more than 300 million yuan to build a blast furnace, while others need 700 million or even 800 million yuan. In order to form a long-term cost advantage, Lao Dai also reached a long-term iron ore supply agreement with an Australian company, which is much cheaper than the market price. At that time, his agreed price was more than 300 yuan per ton, and about 1,000 yuan per ton on the market, and the price remained unchanged for a long time.
Lao Dai's investment measures, coupled with the continuous high temperature in the steel market, have made almost everyone optimistic about this project. Lao Dai himself is also very confident. He said to the Jiangsu media reporters who came to interview: "I have to surpass Baosteel in three years and catch up with Pohang in five years." Baosteel and Pohang are the two largest steel mills in China and South Korea, ranking fifth and third in the world respectively. A chess piece in the chess game. When Lao Dai Hao said that he wanted to "chaobaogang and chase Puxiang", there was actually a thick fog around him. The world is like chess and erratic. Lao Dai is a chess piece who only cares about himself and rushes forward.
For Chinese entrepreneurs, "what is politics" is always a problem. In this group, we see too many over-enthusiast, blind people, blatant opponents, and ignorant people, but we rarely find people who are measured and accurate, calm and orderly.
When he was in prison, Lao Dai, a "private steel king" with only a primary school degree, did not figure out this problem, or he never asked himself this question. At that time, there were two major discussions in China. Their conclusions would greatly affect the chess game of China's economic growth, but Lao Dai was in a change without knowing it.
Lao Dai is probably the least well-known one. When he was dreaming of steel by the Yangtze River, Lao Guo of Shanghai Fosun was planning to build an almost the same-sized steel factory in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Liu Yongxing of the famous Sichuan Hope Group was planning an electrolytic aluminum project with an investment of more than 10 billion yuan in Inner Mongolia. .
When Lao Dai was excited about his steel dream by the Yangtze River in Changshi, the Chinese economic and media were discussing a lot with him. Unfortunately, he didn't have time to pay attention to these difficult "book student arguments". He seldom reads the newspaper, and a well-known Beijing expert once showed him the article in "Chinese Entrepreneur". The expert finally said, "If your project is completed, you must be the richest man in China."
Lao Dai, who was busy on the construction site, smiled. He didn't hear the mystery hidden in the word "if".
Lao Dai's sentence "catch up with Baosteel" sounds different to some people.
Steel used to mean everything for a modern country. Since the Industrial Revolution, a country's steel production capacity has been almost a symbol of strong national strength. During the Cold War, the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union was actually a competition about steel for a long time. Soviet leader Stalin put forward the slogan "steel is everything", and the United States spared no effort in investing in the steel industry. For many years, it has been the world's largest steel power.
According to data, around 2002, the number of steelmaking enterprises across the country increased from 114 in the 1980s to more than 260, with an average annual output of less than 700,000 tons, of which the average scale of more than 200 is less than 100,000 tons/year. The problem of "scattered, messy and small" is very prominent. In 2002, the total investment in the national steel industry was 71 billion yuan, an increase of 45.9% over the previous year. In 2003, this figure reached 132.9 billion yuan, and investment increased by 96% year-on-year. Similar to the steel industry, investment in electrolytic aluminum increased by 92.9% and cement investment increased by 121.9%. Macro-investment overheating has gradually become the consensus of the decision-making level. At the end of 2003, the gate of macro-control was finally pulled down. On February 4, the State Council held a special video teleconference on strictly controlling overinvestment in some industries, which clearly required the clean-up and inspection of the three major industries of iron and steel, electrolytic aluminum and cement. The State Council immediately organized the Audit Office, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, and China. Personnel from the People's Bank of China and other departments formed eight inspection teams to go to various places for investigation. The focus of the inventory is those private enterprises that enter the three major industries and invest blindly.
In this way, Lao Dai and his iron book were involved in an unexpected stormy wave.
Iron tragically became the "flag sacrificer" of macro-control in 2004, but it was accidentally caused by the problem of illegal land use.
In the context of macro-control, the iron problem quickly changed from land destruction to illegal construction. Lao Dai, who was in the whirlpool of events, began to become restless. He himself didn't know how things could get worse and worse. He was running around the construction site all day in those days. According to his budget, by the end of May, the first blast furnace of the steel mill will be completed and can be put into production immediately. At that time, "raw rice will be cooked". He said to his subordinates, "Such a big project will be completed as soon as it is completed. At most, it is a fine, and it is impossible to dismantle it." However, the situation is much more serious than he thought. Since the notice issued by the State Council in December last year, investment in heavy chemical industrial projects in various places has not cooled down. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, the country's fixed asset investment in the first quarter still increased by 43% year-on-year, the highest growth rate since the mid-1990s, among which the investment growth rate in the steel industry was as high as a terrible 107%. At this time, iron projects with a number of major suspicions such as illegal occupation and illegal construction jumped on the table, which undoubtedly became the most suitable and typical punishment object.
The iron company was handled in a high-profile manner, which was a landmark event of macro-control in 2004. People's Daily pointed out in an editorial entitled "Resolutely maintaining the smoothness of macro-control decrees": "The State Council's instructing Jiangsu Province and relevant departments to deal seriously with the relevant responsible persons involved in this case is an important measure to strictly administer according to law and maintain the smoothness of macro-control decrees." This editorial reveals the typical role of Tieben in this macro-control. The Tieben incident is considered to be a watershed for this round of regulation. Before that, the central government had been trying to control the overheating of investment through the adjustment of monetary policy. However, when the results were not obvious, the government was definitely more stringent and forcibly increased the intensity of administrative regulation. Since then, many private enterprises' investment projects in steel, electrolytic aluminum, cement and other industries have been stranded. The Jianlong project of Shanghai Fosun Group and Liu Yongxing's Sanmenxia electrolytic aluminum project of Sichuan Hope Group have been suspended. Under the fierce battle between the death of Tieben and the life of Jianlong, Tieben finally couldn't survive and became the victim of a vigorous macro-control movement. When it was strictly ordered to suspend work, the investment of bank loan funds had reached 2.6 billion yuan. In this sense, the iron capital was overturned, and the biggest financial losses were those risky state-owned banks.
In the iron event, the following phenomena are very thought-provoking:
In steel and other industries, when private capital is strictly suspended, state-owned and international capital have made great strides. At the same time of the iron incident, Baosteel and the world's largest steel company at that time, Azale, and the second largest company, New Japan Steel, jointly launched a 1,800 mm cold rolling project. In addition, it also signed a long-term order agreement with Hammersley of Australia to purchase 7 million tons of iron ore per year. The president and chairman of the company announced that Baosteel intends to spend 50 billion yuan to 60 billion yuan by 2010 to expand its output from 20 million tons to 30 million tons and increase its production capacity by 50%. This news shocked the global steel industry.
Immediately, Wuhan Iron and Steel Group, China's fourth largest steel company, said that several large-scale projects of Wuhan Iron and Steel have been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, with a total investment of more than 20 billion yuan. Other large state-owned steel enterprises have also launched new projects: Benxi Iron and Steel Group cooperated with Pohang to launch a cold-rolled plate project; Anshan Iron and Steel Group and Germany's second largest steel company in Europe, ThyssenKrup, jointly invested 180 million US dollars to build a hot-dip galvanized sheet project with an annual output of 400,000 tons; Tangshan Iron and Steel Group and Ma'an Shan Iron and Steel Group has signed an order agreement for 3 million tons of iron ore with BHP Billiton, the world's largest mineral resources company.
The pace of investment of multinational steel companies in China does not seem to have stagnated. Just three days after Lao Dai's detention, in Suzhou Industrial Park, only 105 kilometers away from Changshi, Australia's Bosg Steel Company invested 280 million Australian dollars (about 1.7 billion yuan) in a steel project and held a lively groundbreaking ceremony. Mao Simin, president of the company, said, "Everything went surprisingly well. In less than a month, we got the business license." Suzhou Industrial Park revealed that Bosger's project took only 7 working days from the submission of application materials to the issuance of business licenses.
Some media commented that a 1.7 billion yuan project can get a business license within 7 days, which is simply fantastic for investors in most regions of China. Because according to the current national regulations, projects with an investment of 50 million yuan to 200 million yuan must be approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, and projects of more than 200 million yuan must be submitted to the State Council for approval. The whole process is cumbersome, and it is impossible to approve it without a year and a half. Moreover, steel investment is the top priority of macro-control, and the iron event is approaching. The speed of the approval of the Bosger project is really amazing. Xu Shousong, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency, wrote with great emotion in his book "Iron Book Survey": "The same industry, at the same time, the same province, Tieben and Bosig, how can the fate of the two steel companies, one earth and one ocean be separated from the two doors of life and death? Some people sing and dance softly in the door, and some people sing and cry outside the door.
From the industry data of the whole year, it can also allow people to see the real side. In the months after the iron base was severely punished, the country's steel production seemed to have been controlled for a short time, but it has accelerated month by month since June. Starting in July, the daily production level has set a record, and by October, it exceeded 800,000 tons per day to 807,400 tons. In the first 10 months, a total of 272 million tons of steel was produced nationwide, an increase of 24.12% over the same period last year. In 2005, steel production continued to move forward on the track of rapid growth, with the national production of 371 million tons of steel, a year-on-year increase of 24.1%. What's more significant is that in 2004, only two steel mills in the country produced more than 10 million tons of steel, and by 2005, it suddenly soared to eight, all of which, except for Shagang, are large state-owned enterprises.
In the sense of data, the "killing chicken and Monkey" effect of Tieben has not really been achieved. In this case, some people call macro-control "macro overheating and regulating private enterprises".
Even in regulated private enterprises, the fates are very different. Jianlong, who was ordered to stop production at the same time, has another life-and-death scenario.
The launch of Jianlong Iron and Steel Company began in April 2002, almost at the same time as Tieben. Lao Guo is as optimistic about the future steel market as Lao Dai. Fosun entered the steel industry in 2001. In July of that year, Fosun invested 350 million yuan to acquire 30% of Tangshan Jianlong's shares. Two years later, it jointly established Nanjing Iron and Steel Joint Co., Ltd. with Nanjing Iron and Steel Group, an old private steel enterprise. Fu Galaxy actually controlled 60% and controlled the listed company Nangang Co., Ltd. In this year, Nangang Co., Ltd. The profit was 489 million yuan.
It was under the extraordinary profit ** that Lao Guo bet on Ningbo, and the Jianlong project was invested and built in the capacity of Nangang. In February 2004, the National Development and Reform Commission and the China Banking Regulatory Commission formed a joint investigation team to settle in Jianlong. In May, one month after the Tieben incident, CCTV exposed the Jianlong incident. There were three main violations: first, illegal examination and approval, turning the project that should have been approved by the competent department of the State Council into local examination and approval; second, starting work without the approval of the environmental protection department; third, short-term loan long-term investment, the bank's 700 million yuan mobile capital Gold loans are converted into fixed asset investment. Judging from these circumstances, the illegal nature of Jianlong is very similar to that of Tieben, so it is called "Itieben Second".
When Jianlong was called to stop, its construction progress was similar to that of iron. The iron-making blast furnace, hot rolling workshop, dock, etc. were basically completed, and the actual investment had reached 4.8 billion yuan. After the news of the suspension of the project came out, Fosun's stock price plummeted. Unlike Tieben, after the incident, although six cadres, including the Planning Commission and the Bureau of Land and Resources, were punished, no one in Jianlong was detained, and Lao Guo, the actual controller of the project, was not restricted. He still had room for self-help. Immediately after being investigated, Fosun issued an announcement that the company had nothing to do with Jianlong and its shareholders.
In September, Lao Guo suddenly hinted at an Yangtze River Delta forum in Hangzhou that Jianlong also hid a "shadow shareholder", that is, Liu Yonghao's New Hope Group, a famous private entrepreneur and vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.
Lao Guo's hint is nothing more than to constantly test the bottom line of the upper level's handling of the Jianlong incident. Judging from the later developments, what really turned the peak of the Jianlong project was the participation of a large state-owned steel enterprise in Zhejiang.
While the Jianlong Project is under construction, Hangzhou Iron and Steel Company has also begun to build a steel project covering an area of 5,400 mu on Daxie Island, Ningbo. Due to the entanglement of demolition and other problems, when more than half of the Jianlong Project had been built, the Daxie project of Hanggang had not officially started.
After Jianlong ran aground, the Zhejiang Provincial Government immediately put forward the intention to integrate Jianlong and Hanggang. In this regard, Tong Yunfang, chairman of Hanggang, who is in a favorable position, said, "You can either control or not participate."
Of course, Lao Guo is not willing to be eaten. At the forum in Hangzhou, he made it clear that the government is right to comprehensively consider the development of Hanggang and Jianlong, but the integration must be in a reformed way, not in an old-fashioned way, and must solve the problem of who is at the core in an optimized and most competitive market way. He told the reporter: "It's okay for state-owned enterprises to participate in shares, but private enterprises have to control. Don't let state-owned enterprises control private enterprises in the name of macro-control. Caijing asked in its comments on this matter: "In this negotiation between private enterprises and state-owned enterprises and the government, the former, which has been judged to be illegal, is obviously in a weak position. But the question is, is it necessary to let state-owned enterprises control it before it can be released?
Lao Guo's struggle and media questions proved to be ineffective. In August 2004, a piece of news has spread all over the financial circle: Hanggang and Jianlong have reached a preliminary restructuring agreement. Hanggang holds 51% of the shares and Lao Guo holds 49%. The opinions on the handling of the Jianlong incident were also issued as scheduled, and the State Council delegated the authority to deal with the illegal projects of Ningbo Jianlong Iron and Steel to the Zhejiang Provincial Government. This means that the reorganized Jianlong project has obtained "legal admission".
At the beginning of 2006, the National Development and Reform Commission approved the Ningbo Jianlong Iron and Steel Project with the document "Department and Reform Industry". According to the approval, the National Development and Reform Commission agreed to reorganize Ningbo Jianlong Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. in combination with its own structural adjustment. Hangzhou Iron and Steel Group as the controlling major shareholder and other shareholders to reorganize it into Ningbo Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.
Lao Guo escaped from death at the expense of his controlling rights.
It's the same thing, but there are two completely different ends. How can Tang Yu not know the way here?
He knew very well that Tieben was just a steel group. Lao Dai came to this end if he didn't listen to the command of the country. Blackwater International and Tieben were different. It was a real violent institution. If he didn't listen to the greeting, maybe Qincheng Prison would be his last end. He said that he would sit on the road that day. The plane will die inexplicably. It's better to be kind. Everyone has all the face.
Song Wanru was born in a political family. Naturally, he would not fail to understand the darkness of high-level politics, so he was a little worried about Tang Yu, so he hurried back.
"What's wrong? What can happen to me? For the sake of Blackwater International, do I still have to jump off the building? Tang Yu smiled softly.
"Don't pretend. Who doesn't know that you have paid so much for Blackwater International. Now Blackwater International, which manages itself, is strange that you don't have any idea at all. The more you do, the more you are, the more uneasy your heart is. You are hiding you with your calm face. An uneasy heart." Song Wanru said worriedly.
Tang Yu was conquered by Song Wanru's powerful theory, with a wry smile on his face. "Sister Wanru, you think too much. In fact, Blackwater International has been taken back by the state. I have been psychologically prepared for a long time. When I first started Blackwater International, it was like such a day, but I didn't expect that because of Indonesia, the central government I suddenly realized the horror of Blackwater International, so I took it back. I didn't expect it to be so soon. As for the idea, it's a lie to say nothing at all, but even if you have an idea, you can't stand up and challenge the country. I'm not that stupid, so you don't have to worry at all. I." Tang Yu explained.
"That's good, that's good. It's good that you're fine. It makes me worry for nothing." Song Wanru patted her towering chest with a look of lingering heart.