Xu Cheng has not yet had a direct flight to Birmingham, England. Chen Huai and Sun Yalin go to Hong Kong first and meet Song Hongjun in Hong Kong first. In order to save money, Shao Zheng did not go abroad with him.

Sun Qiyi avoided it; Song Hongjun helped gather some people in the circle in Hong Kong to give Chen Huai an opportunity to promote the project, but the results were not very effective.

Although Hong Kong and Taiwan Chinese businessmen are optimistic about the development since the reform and opening up of the mainland, investments mainly focus on outward-oriented production and trade will mainly flow to Southeast coastal areas such as Guangnan and Jiangdong in the early 90 years.

It seems that the coastal areas with Zhujiang River as the boundary. From the Zhujiang River mouth to the north, the investment absorbed from Hong Kong and Taiwan decreased sharply in the mid-to-early 1990s. Further north, the Shandong Peninsula and the coastal areas of the Liaodong Peninsula can attract investment from Japan and South Korea to a greater extent. However, Huaihai Province is stuck in it and has become a low-lying land in attracting investment.

Song Hongjun is also very helpful in advocating, but many businessmen pay attention to reality.

Almost no one would think that in a region where the per capita GDP is less than HK$2,500 and the per capita income is less than HK$2,000, how good can the investment environment be?

Chen Huai and Sun Yalin stayed in Hong Kong for two days, and only talked about an investment of less than 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

This ten million is just an investment intention. There are a few people who can’t erase the face of Song Hongjun and Sun Yalin and promise to take time to go to Donghua to inspect. It is still possible to implement it in the end.

Song Hongjun had no intention of investing in new projects any more. He even advised him to give up on his way to the airport when he sent Chen Huai and Sun Yalin to the airport:

"It is not easy for your father to be a deputy minister. You have to understand his mood. He is also afraid that you will ruin things and he will only be charged with the crime of being incompetent in children. If you give up introducing second-hand steel wire from West Ouminth, I will continue to invest my ten million in Meixi Town. I think, for Meigang at this time, you have done your work solidly, and money and political achievements are indispensable. Why bother to take advantage of the insurance?"

"This project is crucial to Meigang and Donghua's future development. No matter how hard it is or how big the difficulties are, I have to overcome them. If I give up easily, Meigang will not have the same situation as today," Chen Huai said, "Brother Hongjun, if you need funds for other businesses, I will not blame you for anything..."

"What are you saying? So what if I give you that ten million for free?" Song Hongjun smiled, "I'll just say that if you think it's feasible to introduce steel wire from Seyomims, my ten million will definitely arrive as scheduled. You don't have to worry about me."

Chen Huai also knew that it must be his father who called Song Hongjun. It was already a matter of resisting the pressure if Song Hongjun could take away the 10 million yuan he had agreed to invest at first.

When he arrived on the plane, Chen Huai couldn't help but feel a little pessimistic about the trip and asked Sun Yalin: "Do you say your second uncle Sun Qiyi have also let the news out in advance..."

Sun Yalin glanced at Chen Huai and said disdainfully: "With your virtue, what else do you need my second uncle to make? Tell me, who is as stupid and bold as me, and even if you dare to take money, you can even hit you?"

Chen Huai laughed and asked again, "What about your dad? I'm afraid I can't meet in Birmingham this time."

"It depends on how much he wants to see my daughter?" Sun Yalin said, "It's also your fault. I'm so close to you now, and I'm almost an alien or a freak in the Sun family," he said, "Thinking about it, it's strange to people's hearts. If your second fool's father is still just a deputy department-level official, he would not hope to be able to stand the governor and minister in this life. In the past year or so, he has jumped two levels in a row and jumped to the deputy governor at once. Even if countless people say that this is someone else comforts your Song family, you can't stand your second fool's father's hope to be stable for a few years and be able to get a governor or minister. Even if it's a real power, the deputy provincial and ministers are better than now. But you're a son who makes trouble and doesn't listen to discipline, and he's worried. Do you think he feels unlucky?"

Chen Huai smiled. He was unwilling to guess what his "father" mentality was, but he had to admit that sometimes Sun Yalin spoke to the point:

If his father didn't want to simply stay in the vice governor for two years and then go back to the ministry and commission to get a deputy ministerial-level idle position until retirement, he would probably have a closer combination with Su Weijun and Tan Qiping in Huaihai Provincial Capital, and might also move closer to Governor Zhao Qiuhua in politics and sing a stage drama with Tian Jiageng, and the troubles are still to come...

Chen Huai and the flight attendants were asked to come to the blanket and sleep, and no longer think about these headaches. They rushed to Birmingham, England and met with Zhou Zhibai, Zhao Dong and the others first.

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Birmingham is located in the middle of England. As the birthplace of the industrial revolution, the industrial system gradually became large as early as the 16th and 7th century. It is now the second largest city in the UK, one of the manufacturing centers in the UK, and the largest metal processing area in the world. Birmingham has a wide range of industrial sectors, ranging from ferrous metallurgy, nonferrous metallurgy, machine tools, instruments, cars, aircraft, chemistry, to military industry, automobiles and other industries.

Currently, almost 30% of the UK's exported products are manufactured in the Birmingham area. The West Eummins Industrial Group is only one of the many industrial enterprises in Birmingham.

However, the entire Western European economy has fallen into weakness since the 1980s, and Birmingham's economy is also shifting to the tertiary industry, finance, tourism and new energy industries, which has caused Birmingham's traditional industrial clusters to face drastic adjustments.

Meigang intends to purchase the electric furnace steel production line that will be eliminated in West Ouminth. West Ouminth's attitude is welcome. This electric furnace steel wire is the part that is about to be eliminated, and there are only two years left before the scrapping period. If no manufacturer is willing to take over, it can only be sent directly to the steelmaking furnace as scrap steel.

Siyumins's offer for this electric furnace steel wire is not high, just a little higher than scrap steel.

Siyumins is not a fool either. For them, transferring the entire electric furnace wire to Meigang at scrap steel does not seem to be a good deal, but they can save a lot of demolition costs. Based on the labor price in Birmingham, the demolition costs will cost millions of dollars.

After transferring it to Meigang, Meigang will be responsible for demolition.

Whether it is the removal of steelmaking wires or shipment to domestic reinstallation, or future production line debugging, Meigang will hire a considerable number of engineers from Siyumins to help Siyumins relieve some of the current layoff pressure. The cheap selling of steelmaking wires to Meigang is not counted as the steelmaking wires must be run, and there are some technologies from Siyumins Industrial Group. The transfer of technology can also make Siyumins get an additional profit.

In order to save costs, Zhao Dong, Pan Cheng and Zhou Zhibai led a team to Birmingham in full swing to confirm that the steelmaking line could be used. In addition, he also showed considerable sincerity in contact with Zhongxi Yumins Industrial Group, so he directly rented a worker dormitory in Xiyumins for use as a new project in the overseas preparation office.

In terms of West Oummies, he also directly appointed David Allen, the general manager of the Steel Plant, and others to be responsible for contacting Meigang.

David Allen is only thirty-five or six years old, a typical English white man with tall and blond hair. He is so young that he can be responsible for the operation of a steel plant with an annual output of 400,000 tons of steel within the conservative West Omins Industrial Group. He is also very promising and has a background.

However, before the demolition of this production line to Meigang, most of the steel plant employees would have to be laid off. Even if David Allen can obtain a new position within the West Ouminth Industrial Group, it would not be ideal.

David Allen's expertise is in the operation and management of traditional industries, while the entire traditional industrial cluster in Birmingham is shrinking; another steel plant in West Eummins will likely be demolished in two years, and David Allen's expertise will be rare in Birmingham.

Therefore, in the first few days after Chen Huai came, David Allen fulfilled his duties as a professional manager, but he couldn't help but show some depression, and he was not particularly enthusiastic.

Foreign managers like David Allen often have annual salary of more than 100,000 pounds, and Mei Gang can't afford it now.

Of course, even if Chen Huai is willing to hire him for a long time, he may not be happy.

David Allen and other engineering managers involved in the negotiations in West Oumins were full of doubts and confusion about Meigang's behavior. They were full of doubts. Why did they dismantle a steel wire that would be scrapped in another two years? Can it be installed and operated for another ten or eight years?

The poor imagine that the emperor uses a golden pole all day long, while the emperor wonders why the poor don’t have meat.

I don’t know if Sun Qiyi made any noise behind his back, but Sun Yalin’s father didn’t take the time to come to Birmingham; Chen Huai didn’t have time to go to Paris to meet his old friends in the Sun family, and I also knew that there would be no ideal result in this past.

Because Zhao Dong, Pan Cheng, Zhou Zhibai and others led the team in the early stage and did a lot of meticulous work, Chen Huai made quick decisions after he arrived.

It was a coincidence that the steelmaking line in West Oummit was scheduled to officially stop operating after Christmas. Chen Huai could seize the last two or three days and better observe the actual situation of the equipment when the steelmaking line was running.

The main electric furnace steel wire that Meigang now operates is the technology introduced from the UK in the early 1980s; it is very close to the line in West Eummins - this is also the main reason why Chen Huai must take this line.

With Meigang's existing technical strength, operating this line has a great advantage. If you miss this village, you will not have this store, and Chen Huai can only grit your teeth and go up.

It took Chen Huai three days to climb, and together with Zhou Zhibai, Zhao Dong, and Pan Cheng, he finalized some doubts that were not very certain in the early stage. He formally decided to launch a new project in the workers' dormitory outside Birmingham, and negotiated the demolition and the introduction of related technologies with West Ouminth Industrial Group.

Chen Huai decided to carry out the demolition of the production line and the factory infrastructure at the same time.

It takes about four to six months to dismantle the equipment of the entire production line and ship it back to China. Chen Huai obviously won’t let the four to six months sit there and wait empty-handedly.

Chen Huai decided that Zhao Dongxian would return to China to prepare for the preliminary construction of the project. He and Pan Chengxian stayed in Birmingham, and in the workers' dormitory outside Birmingham, negotiating with the West Ouminth Industrial Group while translating the drawings of the steel plant.

Chen Huai also wanted the domestic design institute to directly apply the infrastructure plan of the West Ouminth Steel Plant, and then do technical considerations during the construction process, so as to maximize the cost, save time, and speed up the construction progress of the project.

Zhou Zhi Bai You Pengyue has to be responsible for a matter, and it is impossible to devote most of his energy to this project. Since Pengyue has dealings with the UK in scrap steel trading, he will be responsible for future equipment transportation matters.

Sun Yalin flew to France to continue to be responsible for raising funds.

Without more funds, the 100 million capital accumulated in the early stage - a considerable part of it was converted into land - even if the worker Bank of China loaned tens of millions of dollars, this amount of funds would not be enough for three or four months of consumption.

In three or four months, if there is no new funds coming in, even the dismantled equipment cannot be transported back to China, so the project will naturally be unable to continue.
Chapter completed!