this man is not calm

Chapter 513 Cooperation Platform
Let Li Xuan sit down first, Jin Shang and Aragaki Tadayoshi slowed down and talked a few more words.

"I've said before that your company's strategy is not bad, but the timing is not good..."

"That's right. Everyone knows that the low-carbon and environmentally friendly field is a huge market. Flexible fuel vehicles should be a perfect match for the needs, but they just can't be sold, especially in the South American market where high hopes are placed..."

Don’t even mention South America. Even Southeast Asia, where the brand is well-known, has not seen any improvement.

Bioethanol (ethanol gasoline) is indeed a big cake, but Panda Car cannot have a piece of it, and it is not even qualified to "sit at the table".

It was precisely because of seeing what happened to the pioneers that Jin Shang decided to give up his luck and no longer expect to achieve great success overnight. Instead, he started to take steady steps, starting with the supply chain, allowing the market acceptance to gradually increase and customers to gradually adapt, and then come back to make up for the shortcomings.

In the fiercely competitive business world, being half a step ahead is called foresight, being one step ahead means life or death is unpredictable, and being two steps or even more ahead means you are either a fool or a madman!
Panda Auto started to develop the alcohol-oil flexible fuel market two years ago. It must be said that it had a good vision, but it took it for granted in terms of specific execution and grasp of opportunities.

After the two exchanged a few polite words, Jin Shang suggested directly:

"There is still a lot of room for cooperation between you and me. Panda Car's small-displacement engine tuning technology is really good..."

"Thank you for your compliment. Like CSSC Electromechanical, you are a decades-old manufacturing company and have some real skills. Your diesel engines, dual-fuel engines, human-machine interaction systems, and modification capabilities are also not weak."

"Everyone takes what they need and makes up for their shortcomings!"

Panda Motors is a car company based on two-wheeled motorcycles, three-wheeled motorcycles, small and medium-sized agricultural motorcycles and multi-purpose vehicles (including pickup trucks and vans). To have grown from a car repair stall to its current stage, the management must be capable, but it still made the mistake of being impatient and reckless in key decisions.

CSSC Electromechanical's technical accumulation in the gasoline engine field is too weak, so it has entered the commercial vehicle and passenger vehicle fields, targeting the electric vehicle, extended-range vehicle and hybrid vehicle market segments that traditional car companies look down upon.

Especially for hybrid (extended-range) engines, ordinary Otto cycle engines are obviously not suitable, and they can only develop into small-displacement Miller cycle and Atkinson cycle engines.

Improving the thermal efficiency of fuel is the key parameter. Fuel saving, stability, long life and adaptability to various working conditions are more important. Things like power, torque and speed should not be too outrageous.

To generate electricity or directly drive the wheels, there is no need for a gearbox to transmit power, which bypasses the field where traditional car companies have a firm grasp of key technologies and reduces the difficulty of car manufacturing.

In the field of small-displacement engines, Panda Motors is quite capable. It cannot be said to be very advanced, but its engineers are able to fully utilize the advantages of internal combustion engines, which are durable and have low maintenance costs. They sell motorcycles and small-displacement commuter vehicles to Southeast Asia and Central Asia, and have a good market share, which is enough to prove their capabilities.

Apart from this, the direct competition between the two parties is not fierce. Jinshang is determined to focus on new energy vehicles (pure electric, extended-range and hybrid), while Panda Motors intends to gradually enter the traditional power vehicle market from niche areas. Perhaps they will end up in the same place in the future, but now they have come together because of common interests.

Perhaps, one day in the future, Jinxi Culture will be able to recruit it as a wing. Now, it is a relatively close partner, and it is only natural to invite its representatives to participate in the New Year's Eve Spring Festival Gala.

A few minutes later, Jin Shang finished chatting and came to the front row guest area of ​​the theater and sat down. His fiancée Li Xuan, father Jin Shi, mother Mei Xinghong and younger brother Jin Feng had been waiting for a long time. His grandmother Xian Guizhen did not show up and refused on the grounds of being unwell. She likes to travel around and is not very keen on this kind of indoor public activities.

The babbling Jin Feng could already speak quite clearly. He saw his older brother Jin Shang from a distance and greeted him. The latter skillfully took out a lollipop from his pocket and handed it to him, making the little guy smile.

Jinfeng, who is almost three years old, will be sent to kindergarten in the second half of the year. Before the New Year, I took him to a nearby kindergarten to experience it. Little Jinfeng probably thought it was a place similar to the community playground. He didn't realize that school-age children had to go to school away from their parents, so he wasn't worried at all.

After sitting down, the family had a rare moment to sit down and chat.

Li Xuan and Mei Xinghong actually didn't have many common topics. Neither of them was particularly keen on socializing, but they did have some common topics. With the help of the fun-loving Xiao Jinfeng, the atmosphere became lively, and the two of them chatted fairly harmoniously.

Not super intimate, but not bad.

As for the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, it’s already pretty good like this.

In fact, Jin Shang also knew that both of them were smart people and it would be difficult for them to quarrel over any conflict. At most, they would become distant from each other. It was already good enough to maintain minimum harmony.

Jin Shi habitually took out a cigarette and wanted to light it, but when he realized the occasion was not right, he put it back, reached out to pick up the orange on the table, peeled it and ate two slices.

“This year has gone by so fast and it’s been so fulfilling.”

"The textile export business is good?"

"That's not just ordinary hot temper."

Speaking of this, Jin Toki responded proudly,
"Fortunately, the production capacity was increased quickly, and most of the profits were reaped. However, the factory area in Beijing has been expanded to its limit, and the supply of labor and raw materials is not as convenient as in the south. I plan to build a branch factory in Jiaoao and Shaoxing..."

Jiaoao has a large deep-water port, which saves transportation and logistics costs, and the supply chain is also decent. Shaoxing's advantage is that the local mature light textile city concentrates the resources of the Yangtze River Delta, and has low labor costs and developed industry, which is conducive to promoting mechanization to replace manual upgrading.

Furthermore, both companies have the support of local refineries and can obtain high-quality and low-cost first-hand chemical fiber raw materials.

For the clothing and textile industry, the most concerned issues are raw material prices and labor costs, followed by hidden expenses such as water, electricity, taxes, and transportation and logistics. Given the current domestic situation, it is impossible not to develop the textile industry, absorb a large number of migrant workers with basic education, barely maintain the "trickle-down effect", balance the secondary distribution, and pay attention to basic people's livelihood. These are the top priorities.

Today, Jinshi's garment factories have a total of more than 5,000 weavers and tailors, as well as more than a thousand security guards, drivers, accounting, marketing and internal audit teams, which is almost reaching the management limit of a single factory.

This is more than the 4,800 full-time employees under Jin Shang, but it is far less if interns, temporary workers and outsourced workers are included.

"Can you handle setting up the stall all at once?"

"It's OK. There are some capable old employees in the factory who can be trained and promoted. It's just two branches, so it won't be a problem. Uniqlo has already gone there and explored the way, so it shouldn't be a big problem. The south is still relatively friendly to foreign investment..."

"I'm not hungry, so I just eat in a relatively good manner. When you rashly enter a new area to expand your business, market factors are often not decisive."

"I understand this. It's just a textile and garment factory. It's not too eye-catching." Jin Shang nodded when he heard this. This statement was normal.

Just like the Xiaolingtong business under Jinxi Culture, if it hadn't been for greeting with Hao Qilian, it would have been difficult to distribute the products.

The equipment is not a high-tech product. Similar competing products of all sizes have already appeared in various places. If it weren’t for the huge first-mover advantage, we would have been overwhelmed by these "small fish"!

The fresh food supermarket, Uniqlo and hot pot city chain businesses are progressing steadily, almost in sync with the cinema chain of the Nan brothers, and even faster than the real estate business of his second uncle Mei Yingnian.

The latter is a capital-intensive, asset-heavy business. With leverage added up, it expands extremely fast and carries great risks. Even with fundraising from multiple sources, it cannot fill the almost bottomless pit.

"Let's not talk about me. As long as you're not too reckless and follow the general trend, there won't be any problem. It's just a matter of making more or less money. But you've made quite a stir, and more and more related parties have been involved. Can you still control the situation?"

"It's not a big problem!"

"I just saw a vice president of an oil company chatting with a table of bank representatives. Is your business enough to alarm such a senior executive of the head office? Such people...are of high rank!"

“There is a lot of room for cooperation in discussing energy structure.”

Adjusting his sitting position, Jin Shang lowered his voice and explained slowly,

"As you know, my IT business relies on both software and hardware. Data centers, electronics factories, glass panels, chip wafers, etc. are almost all super energy-intensive businesses that rely entirely on industrial electricity in the market. The pressure is huge and it is not friendly to all parties."

For example, server units, assembly line electronics factories, wafer fabs and the like cannot operate at peak loads as required by the power grid. Once they start operating, they will continue to operate non-stop. If a failure causes poor operation, the consequences will be disastrous.

It is simply unacceptable for ordinary manufacturing companies to stop production during peak hours in the day to ensure electricity for residents, and work overtime at off-peak hours at night.

In this case, it is necessary to maintain sufficient energy supply for "self-generation and self-use".

Perhaps in ten years, domestic power generation will be able to catch up with demand, and Jinshang will be able to "customize" the distribution network, which is absolutely impossible nowadays.

A super-large data center consumes one-sixth of the electricity generated by a large city with a population of tens of millions. Even Huang Zhengkuo’s greetings cannot meet the demand for stable power supply.

Once you get involved in the energy industry, it is impossible not to deal with these "giants".

It is not possible to rely solely on unstable wind power and photovoltaic power. We need to have a "Plan B". Natural gas is the key fuel selected by Jinshang to "shave peaks and fill valleys" and save energy and reduce emissions.

"Liquid ammonia and natural gas are ideal fuels for power generation. There will be certain incentives, although not as obvious as in Western Europe, but it is also very good. The cost is only slightly higher than hydropower and coal-fired power generation, and it is very stable. In addition, expanding their uses and building a new energy system around them is the focus of attention from all parties."

"That's it!"

These days, the value of natural gas has not been fully realized, the price is very low, and large oil and gas fields are unwilling to focus on it; liquid ammonia is simply an industrial raw material, not a mainstream energy fuel.

"Natural gas and liquid ammonia are actually very suitable as alternative fuels for dual-fuel engines. The successful use of ships has proven to be feasible. If it is extended to vehicle fuel, it seems very promising."

“It is very suitable for urban transportation and logistics transportation on fixed routes and applicable scenarios, but…”

Jin Toki, who quickly figured out the key, asked back,
"Passenger cars still need infrastructure support, so it's too early."

"Yes, this is a difficult problem. It cannot be solved overnight. Besides..."

Jin Shang sighed helplessly, seeming to remember something.
"As alternative fuels for internal combustion engines, natural gas and liquid ammonia both have the disadvantages of relatively slow combustion and long ignition delay period. If ignited with diesel or emulsified heavy oil, there will be problems of incomplete combustion, reduced power, and substandard exhaust emissions. What's more troublesome is that natural gas and ammonia are difficult to burn, have high ignition temperatures, and require more energy to burn. There are many obstacles when using lean combustion and high air-fuel ratio to improve efficiency, so..."

Seeing that Jin Shi was interested, Xiao Jin said with a little pride:

"Hydrogen is an excellent combustion aid. Mixing some hydrogen with natural gas or ammonia will greatly improve the lean combustion effect. Not only will the power and torque be increased, but the lean combustion thermal efficiency can easily exceed 40% in the laboratory..."

This is awesome!

The eastern coastal areas of China are the main electricity consumption areas. Photovoltaic resources are neither good nor bad, and are certainly not as good as those in the north. However, offshore wind resources are abundant, but the maintenance cost of offshore wind power is very high, and they are basically networked.

The problem is that Northeast China, North China, Northwest China and the Far North have no shortage of energy, are sparsely populated and are net export regions. Even if the amount of wind and photovoltaic power generation is large, or how much synthetic hydrogen ammonia is produced, local consumption is too little to support the southeastern coastal provinces with high electricity consumption.

With breakthroughs in hydrogen production through water electrolysis and pipeline transportation of natural gas blended with hydrogen, a smooth road has emerged. This is a new hydrogen energy storage and transportation technology that is different from ultra-high voltage transmission.

This is not traditional petrochemical energy technology, but renewable hydrogen energy technology. When his technical team made decisive progress, Jin Shang realized that this thing has a lot of room for cooperation with traditional petrochemical energy companies, and can even connect new energy (wind power and photovoltaics), water electrolysis to produce hydrogen, fuel cells, ships, automobiles, power generation and chemical industries.

While traditional petrochemical energy is sitting on the Diaoyutai and making huge profits, it is also under considerable pressure. Don’t you want to switch to new energy and catch up with the times in areas including shipbuilding, sea shipping, and automobile freight?

It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I can’t find the direction.

Coincidentally, Jin Shang provides them with a platform.

"No matter what, this is an opportunity! The more friends you make, the more you may need it. The theoretical upper limit of the hydrogen blending ratio in the laboratory is currently 20%, and there should be some room for improvement. Let's first select a few trial scenarios..."

(End of this chapter)