this man is not calm

Chapter 462 Hope and Dead End
For cross-border trade, online shopping is not a panacea. In order to make this path successful, there are still many links that need to be opened up. Logistics distribution and payment settlement are the two most difficult problems to solve. In addition, there are many details that need to be paid attention to.

Today is the day of the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening. Jin Shang would not be tactless and say anything unpleasant. If he encountered something he didn't like, he would just smile and not say anything. Before Sun Daqi asked for help, it would definitely not be appropriate to pour cold water on him.

For Yigoo.com, its current options are actually very limited. It cannot get involved in bulk transactions such as grain, metals, coal, minerals and heavy industrial products. Current e-commerce cannot afford such a heavy pressure. The only things it can really offer are textiles and clothing, daily chemical products, batches of small-scale handicrafts and light industrial products, and non-staple food products, which are sold in small and medium-sized batches. Expecting to sell things to individual foreign customers through B2C means is tantamount to seeking fish in a tree.

In today's international trade, if you want to save costs, you still have to go to the Canton Fair, the Shanghai Fair and a few border ports for concentrated exhibitions and sales. It is actually quite difficult to expect to open up foreign markets on your own without anyone to introduce you.

This is the role of the Internet. It can transcend the barriers of time and space, quickly match supply and demand, and complete transactions.

At the exhibition venue, Sun Daqi excitedly announced that after Yigoo went online, it quickly received orders for 30 million clothing items, with a value of more than 500 million yuan. The guests at the conference also cooperated to liven up the atmosphere. No one asked whether it was a premeditated arrangement to "fake orders" or whether there were really foreigners with sharp eyes who discovered such a huge business opportunity.

Old Sun was really busy today. Jin Shang and Yang Qi only took the time to exchange a few words with him and prepared to leave. There were still many well-known and unknown elites from all walks of life who needed him to receive. They could talk to them later when they had time.
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The e-commerce website has welcomed a strong competitor, but Jin Shang is happy to see it happen. The market is so big that it is impossible for one company to dominate everything. The overseas market is vast and boundless, so it is not the time for them to compete with each other.

As for the competition in the domestic market, we’ll talk about it later.

On May 23, Xiao Jinfeng, who is already two years old, had a fairly lively birthday party with the blessings of his family. At this age, he can already speak relatively precise short sentences to express his thoughts, and he walks fairly steadily. He has several family dogs to play with, so he won't feel lonely even if the adults don't have time to be with him.

The little guy who grew up in a good family atmosphere may be naughty and have a bad temper occasionally, but he is generally a likable child.

Compared to his brother who has been a "child prodigy" since childhood, Xiao Jinfeng's performance is much worse. The early education courses prepared by his mother Mei Xinghong are only slightly better than nothing.

Although he has no talent for studying, he is not lagging behind in growth. He used to look a little chubby, but now he keeps growing. It is foreseeable that he will be a very strong young man in the future. He eats a lot, is very strong, and runs fast. He will disappear if you are not careful. If Huang Er and Jin Biao had not taken good care of him, I don't know how much trouble he would have caused.

He would often play games with the toilet paper, snatch the pet's dog food to taste it, use his mother's drawing paints and ink to draw, and so on.

Lately, I seem to be addicted to watching cartoons, and I imitate them from time to time to vent my seemingly endless energy.

The old grandmother in the family didn't have any good way to deal with this "naughty child". The little guy seemed unable to feel the serious aura of Madam Xian that made it difficult for people to approach him and kept people at a distance. He always found ways to get close to the old lady and act coquettishly to get benefits.

The concept of "greater-generation kinship" is not obvious in Jin Shang. Both of them are not the type to show their emotions openly. His father Jin Shi and mother Mei Xinghong also have their own reservations. Only the youngest brother Jin Feng seems to have broken this tacit understanding.

With this exception at home, it’s obviously much more lively, which is a good thing.

After a happy weekend, it is another Monday, the last week of May, only five days away from the Dragon Boat Festival. The weather in Beijing is already a bit hot, cool in the mornings and evenings, and sultry at noon.

The weather in the first half of the year was pretty much what experts predicted. There were some anomalies for sure, but the details were not very accurate.

The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the south are dry and rainless, the land is cracked, and the irrigation pressure of water conservancy facilities is not small. In the upper reaches, there are continuous heavy rains, and the water level rises frequently, with three shocks a day. When the rain belt moves downward, the flood situation will become more difficult.

The Pearl River Delta is experiencing heavy plum rains, and warnings are being issued frequently in various places, requiring greater attention.

The rare large-scale flooding of the Songhua River (Nenjiang River) in Northeast China should not be taken lightly.

As for North China, there were consecutive droughts in spring and summer, and the rain was slow to arrive. The water levels of several rivers dropped, and many cities were forced to move their water intake points.

The sandstorm blowing in from the northwest arrived as expected, causing the air visibility in the capital area to drop seriously during this period. A faint smell of burning was everywhere. The sales of air purifiers operated by Jinxi Mall increased dramatically in a short period of time, and there were not enough technicians to deliver the goods to the door for installation.

In addition, Jinxi Culture's seawater (sewage) desalination plant, which was originally scheduled to be delayed in completion, worked overtime to complete it, increased the purchase of pressurized reverse osmosis membrane equipment, and the plan of "making water with electricity" was very obvious.

Not only has the data center's water consumption surged as the sprinkler system was activated, but external pressure is also forcing factories to quickly expand production.

According to the information obtained by Jin Shang, the middle and east line projects of the "South-to-North Water Diversion" project will be accelerated.

As the trend of global warming becomes more and more obvious, the weather changes in the Western Pacific region are becoming more and more drastic, and the seasons are not as regular as before. The construction of water conservancy facilities must be strengthened.

It is rumored that the long-delayed and controversial large-scale hydropower station project in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River has finally been approved for construction. The total investment is expected to be astonishingly large, amounting to hundreds of billions of yuan.

The "Binglu" bottled drinking water built in Beihai was delivered to the Gyeonggi region in trainloads, shocking Zhang Hua, my second uncle-in-law, who had not taken this "small business" seriously.

Not only bottled water was delivered, but also northern fruit juice drinks, wine, milk powder, instant noodles, meat products, oils and fats, and bagged starch.

Many places are preparing for the possibility of further deterioration of the weather.

Floods and droughts are constant, even Yao and Tang could not avoid them!

Thanks to the country's relatively complete water conservancy infrastructure, it will not cause too much harm. However, floods in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are probably inevitable. There is too much rain in the northeast, which affects the growth of crops and hinders summer harvest and autumn sowing.

The situation in Beijing is not so bad. The output of the solar greenhouses and fully enclosed plant factories in Majiabao has been very stable. There is no shortage of meat, eggs and milk. The output of green vegetables, edible fungi, and medicinal materials such as golden thread vine is also quite a lot. It can roughly maintain a balance between income and expenditure. If subsidies and tax incentives are taken into account, it is a small profit.

Especially this year, the wholesale prices of pork, mutton, beef and cabbage have risen, and the output of oyster mushrooms cultivated in a low-light environment has increased. The market acceptance is good, the demand is large, and the price is stable. It is a long-term business.

In addition, the chemical energy storage pilot project of the "wind-solar complementary" power station is about to pass acceptance. The production line that uses pyrolysis and hydrolysis of waste paper, plastic and wood to produce methanol energy storage is not difficult and the trial operation is acceptable.

By developing co-solvents, we have successfully developed a mixed fuel of methanol and biodiesel and a biogasoline mixed with 15% ethanol, and have begun to use it in the company's internal operating vehicles. There is basically no need to modify the original vehicles, and they can be directly refueled and used.

As for the hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) R&D center with methanol combined with electric propulsion system, there are still many problems.

Looking at the laboratory development progress roadmap in front of him, Jin Shang couldn't help but press his swollen temples.

If you are not a professional engineering major, it is really troublesome to review these technical applications.

No matter how much he wanted to, as the boss, Jin Shang couldn't possibly make decisions with his eyes closed without knowing anything.

"In other words, this type of hybrid car has a history of more than 30 years, but the first hybrid powertrain system was not announced in North America until last year, and the first batch of commercial vehicles were put on the market two months ago?" Twenty years later, the field of private cars that only talk about hybrid and extended-range was just beginning to take shape in mid-1998!

Advanced foreign automobile manufacturers have only just reached the stage of "testing the waters" and testing the market's response.

Hong Renquan, who was already semi-retired, took a sip of tea and answered with certainty:

"This technical route and development idea are not surprising at all. Mr. Jin, you also know that I am an old veteran specializing in the field of shipping, and I have some understanding of it. In fact, this technology has long been applied to ships. The shipping market is ever-changing, and the water environment is harsh. The main engine power system of the ship generally maintains a margin of about 15% to cope with unexpected emergencies. In order to reduce the waste of output power overflow, the shaft-driven generator, referred to as the 'shaft generator', was born..."

The main engine burning heavy oil drives the propeller through the transmission shaft to push the ship forward. It is also a natural idea to add a shaft-belt generator to the transmission shaft to convert mechanical energy into kinetic energy and reduce the pressure of the ship's electrical load.

Car powertrains are much smaller and more sophisticated than ship power systems, but the basic principles are similar.

The general research and development idea of ​​hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) is to use electric propulsion at low speeds, which is suitable for urban roads and frequent start-stop environments. The engine always runs efficiently at an ideal speed to charge the on-board battery; at high speeds, it is directly driven by a fuel (methanol) engine.

Efficient, stable, energy-saving, low-carbon, environmentally friendly, in short, it has many benefits.

As for plug-in hybrid, non-plug-in hybrid, extended range, downhill energy recovery, small battery or large battery, etc., these are all subdivided routes in the general direction. In the future, we will develop new models according to the market to meet the needs of customers with different needs.

The key is the combination of the fuel engine and the electric motor. With the company's existing R&D capabilities, it is not enough to come up with a mature solution.

But it's not completely without foundation. After the general framework is determined, the details will be finalized.

“Are foreign models consistent with the direction of our research and development?”

"do not know!"

Hong Renquan spread his hands helplessly.

"It's a concept car designed to test the market trend. It has a low production volume and a high price. Not many people buy it. Or... you can't buy it even if you spend money. We can only infer it based on public information. At present, the Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Branch has acquired several small factories, recruited a group of technical teams, and has also produced some results..."

"Do you have a prototype? It just needs to be drivable and look like a real car!"

As for finalizing the car model, submitting it for review, and opening a factory for mass production, don't even think about it. Wait until Jin Shang becomes a multi-billionaire, or owes the bank hundreds of billions, then consider it.

"Yes, I have seen it. Although it can move, it is not presentable. It is just for show!"

"It's fine as long as they have it. I'm just afraid that the technical department will take advantage of the leadership and use some clichés to fool the head office. Rewards should be given if they deserve them, and patents should be applied for if they deserve them. Don't let go of any domestic or foreign technologies. Focus on self-research, but don't get stuck in a rut. If there is mature technology on the market, buy it if you can, and poach technicians if you can't."

Spending money is useful most of the time, but if you really can’t figure it out, then it’s not about the money anymore.

"This... I'll try to pay attention to it! Research and development is one aspect, and there are also qualifications in new energy and green electricity. How do you say it?"

"It's a bit troublesome!"

Speaking of this, Jin Shang was filled with irritation. Previously, he thought that the gimmick of green electricity energy storage could classify methanol into the category of hydrogen energy, and take advantage of the gimmick of new energy, low carbon and environmental protection.

As for methanol fuel, it is low-carbon, but in the final analysis it is just an alternative fossil fuel (raw material). Even if it is related to wind power and photovoltaics, it is not enough to change its essence.

"Difficult to do?"

"There is a lot of controversy! The production of hydrogen (hydrogen energy) is basically dependent on petroleum and natural gas chemical industry, which is the same route as methanol. Why is the former considered a clean energy, but methanol is not? Even ethanol has its own arguments..."

"Ethanol is a bioenergy source with unlimited sources, while methanol is mainly produced from coal chemical industry. It's hard to argue with that!"

Seeing Jin Shang's troubled expression, Hong Renquan smiled leisurely and said,

"Everything depends on human effort. The scale of our wind power, photovoltaic power, waste recycling and energy storage is still too small, and cannot be compared with coal chemical and petrochemical industries at all."

For the same methanol used in flow applications on the market, can you tell which drop is clean and which drop is dirty?
Only when recycling waste and using new energy to produce methanol for energy storage becomes the mainstream in China can we change everyone's views.

"Any good suggestions?"

“We need to win over allies and like-minded partners! Think about it, who will benefit the most and who will be most anxious if methanol is added to the list of clean energy?”

"Uh?"

Jin Shang's mind suddenly lit up and he understood immediately.

"This is a wake-up call! Petrochemical and coal chemical industries are the biggest beneficiaries, and I am just making a small move here, at least for now!"

Apart from Panda Auto and CSSC Electrical and Mechanical Services Ltd., which have alcohol-oil hybrid fuel engine technology, are there no other domestic automakers that have considered using it?

If only one or two people say so, it won't make sense. But if everyone says so and it builds momentum, it will be difficult to reject it at will.

As if he had anticipated this result, Hong Renquan further suggested:

"If you really decide to develop further, it is necessary to understand the concept of 'electronic methanol'. I have put the information on the attached page at the back."

(End of this chapter)