The car giant started by marrying the daughter of the king

Chapter 387 Someone in the court is easy to do

The actual car experience is very good, which is more convincing than any introduction.

Even Li Nanhai, who went for a test drive with a critical eye, couldn't find any faults.

The next thing is naturally simple.

Ji Hua came on stage to explain to everyone the working principle of 4AT, and then took everyone to visit the laboratory and factory. This inspection was over.

Naturally, there will be a social event in the evening.

"Leader, whether it's a gearbox or other parts, if you want to produce high-performance parts, you need good raw materials."

"Although we try our best to find raw material supplies from China, the performance of many materials is still quite different from what we want."

"Even if the requirements are lowered, some raw materials still need to be imported from abroad. This situation is very detrimental to the development of the BMW Group and even the development of China's automobile industry."

After three rounds of drinks, Jiang Hui naturally wanted to take this opportunity to communicate something with Zhou Jian, the head of the First Ministry of Machine Building.

Asking for help from leaders is sometimes a skill.

If you are not willing to ask others for help with everything, then there is no way to deepen the relationship.

"This is indeed a big problem. Not only do these factories import raw materials from abroad, but even some of the military enterprises under the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building also use imported raw materials."

"But the threshold for raw materials, especially high-end materials, is very high. The Ministry of Metallurgy is working very hard, but it won't be able to achieve a breakthrough so quickly."

Zhou Jian naturally understood the problem that Jiang Hui was talking about, but he didn't have any good solution.

Even the military industry is troubled by this problem.

"Yes, materials belong to the category of basic science. It is not possible to improve the technology in this area in a short period of time."

"But the shortage of special steel, a raw material used in large quantities in automobiles, has caused great trouble for our development."

"Our factory has now set up a special materials research and development team, hoping to solve some problems through our own efforts."

"For example, the hot stamped steel plates used in our new models were developed by us and then produced in cooperation with Shougang."

"In the future, we also plan to work hard to find breakthroughs in bearing steel, gear steel, spring steel, mold steel and other types of steel."

"To this end, we are planning to build a small-scale special steel plant to serve the needs within the BMW Group."

The special steel plant falls under the management of the Ministry of Metallurgy. BMW Group previously worked under the leadership of the First Ministry of Machine Building. Now that it is starting to become involved with the Ministry of Metallurgy, Jiang Hui naturally has to lay the groundwork with Zhou Jian first.

Otherwise, the leaders will feel unhappy, which will definitely affect the promotion of some supporting policies.

Fortunately, the problems Jiang Hui mentioned do exist objectively, and the Ministry of First Machine Building has no way to solve them.

You can't just let others find a way to solve the problem themselves if you can't help, right?
"Xiao Jiang, even if we build a small-scale special steel factory, the various processes and equipment involved are very different from your other current factories."

"Do you consider finding a special steel mill to deepen cooperation? It would be easier?"

Zhou Jian understood what Jiang Hui meant, but he was also a little worried that BMW Group would not be able to handle the construction of the steel plant.

This thing is definitely in the category of heavy industry.

"We originally considered this, but there is no suitable special steel plant in Lingnan. If we look for one elsewhere, it will be inconvenient to cooperate."

"The most critical thing is that not every special steel mill has the same idea as us. When everyone's system and ideas are different, cooperation will be bumpy. It would be better to build a special steel mill by ourselves and purchase crude steel from other steel mills for processing. That would be much simpler."

"We have established good cooperative relations with several machine tool manufacturers in the United States some time ago. When the time comes, whether we purchase special steel smelting equipment from Japan like Baosteel, or from the United States, it is all possible to consider."

The steel industry is still a sunrise industry in China, but in Japan and the United States, it has reached a development bottleneck.

The enthusiasm of relevant equipment manufacturers to sell equipment to foreign countries is much more active than that of general machine tool manufacturers.

This is also good news for BMW Group.

"Since you have made up your mind to make special steel yourself, the Ministry will definitely support you."

"I am an old acquaintance of the head of the Ministry of Metallurgy. I will greet him first regarding the relevant approval procedures."

"They should also be very happy to see foreign companies willing to invest in China's special steel industry and improve our country's special steel level."

There are people in the court who are easy to do things with.

Although there was no help from the Ministry of First Machine Building, Jiang Hui was able to build the special steel plant smoothly.

But it will be a bit troublesome after all.

Now we just need to ask Zhou Jian to take action, and then ask Zhu Jiansheng to ask his classmates at Capital University of Science and Technology to recommend a group of talents, and things will be much easier.

……

Zhou Jian had been a soldier in his early years and was quite decisive in his work.

After returning from his inspection of Nanshan Transmission, he immediately communicated with the Ministry of Metallurgy in person.

The Ministry of Metallurgy had known before that Shougang's high-strength automotive steel plates were closely related to Jiang Hui, and had also witnessed the rise of the BMW Group, so they were naturally very happy to see the emergence of Nanshan Special Steel.

As for Shenzhen, they naturally provide land and policies as needed.

As for whether special steel plants will cause pollution, this is not something that people would consider at all.

Development is the bottom line, everything else should be put aside for the time being.

In recent years, the importance of economic development has been recognized by many people, and all regions are working hard to develop the economy.

There are even signs in some places that they are concerned about people going into business, and the social status of those setting up stalls on the roadside has also increased rapidly.

After all, as a worker in a large state-owned enterprise, you only receive 30 or 40 yuan a month even if you are guaranteed a stable income. How can you compare with others who make dozens of yuan a day by setting up stalls?
A few years ago, people felt that setting up stalls was unpresentable and like being a street urchin.

Once this impression changes, the situation will naturally change.

"Director, the BMW Group has established Nanshan Special Steel to produce various special steels for automobiles."

"I'm worried that in the future they will even produce high-strength automotive steel sheets and hot-stamped steel sheets themselves."

As the chief engineer of Shougang, Zuo Guangsheng is quite proud of himself.

In recent years, Shougang has developed very well, and Zuo Guangsheng has also received various praises and awards from the Ministry of Metallurgy.

He still has seven or eight years before retirement age, and he doesn't want the factory to have operational problems before he retires.

So when I heard that BMW Group had established Nanshan Special Steel that day, I immediately realized the crisis.

"Special steel factories basically process bars, wires, and some thick plates, which are very different from the production process of automotive plates."

"I heard that Nanshan Special Steel will give priority to bearing steel, gear steel and various special steels used in chassis." "Ordinary steel and automotive steel plates will still be purchased from outside."

As the director of Shougang, Zhou Gang is naturally well-informed.

Zuo Guangsheng had already received the news, so naturally he heard about it too.

"It may be like this at the beginning, but once Nanshan Special Steel's operations are on track, we may expand our business."

"When the time comes, automotive steel sheets will definitely be their first choice."

Putting himself in other people's shoes, Zuo Guangsheng felt that he would not miss out on the big cake of automotive steel plates.

Especially as the sales of BMW Group are getting better and better, more and more automotive steel plates will be needed.

"What you said is not impossible. This requires the sales department to communicate well with BMW and maintain a good relationship."

"If the steel plates they need often fail to arrive on time, or if there are some quality problems, then they will be motivated to get them themselves."

"Otherwise, the BMW Group's main business is the automotive industry after all, and it would not have spent so much effort on producing steel plates."

"Cars require not only steel, but also aluminum and various resin materials. Could it be that the BMW Group will have to make these materials itself?"

After hearing what Zhou Gang said, Zuo Guangsheng felt that it made some sense.

Is it because I think too much?

……

Compared with the calmness on the Shougang side, the people on the Baosteel side were in a very bad mood.

"Chief Engineer Cheng, Wu Ming, the traitor, has transformed himself and now becomes the general manager of Nanshan Special Steel."

"The ministry actually supports a foreign company to produce special steel in China. Doesn't this disrupt the domestic steel layout?"

As the director of Baosteel's technical department, Li Dagang has always been resentful about the sudden job-hopping of Wu Ming, the head of the technical department.

As a backbone of the technical department, Wu Ming's departure even affected the development of some projects of the technical department for a time, and also made everyone see the truth that Li Dagang's technical level was not as good as Wu Ming's.

No wonder Li Dagang is so dissatisfied with Wu Ming.

"I have already reported this to the factory director, but this project is supported by the leaders in the ministry. The First, Fifth and Seventh Ministries of Machine Building have also strongly expressed their support."

“It’s unlikely to change.”

Cheng Jianqiang is naturally unhappy with Nanshan Special Steel.

As the largest steel project built in China after the reform, Baosteel has been the darling of the world in the past two years.

Many people are trying their best to get a job at Baosteel, even if it is just to become a worker.

As a result, after Wu Ming left, he also took away several highly skilled technicians and engineers from the technical department.

This can't be tolerated.

The most important thing is that he left and now he has established a Nanshan Special Steel.

The better Nanshan Special Steel's performance is, the more it will slap Baosteel in the face.

After all, the country has invested so many resources in you, but some key special steel technologies have been mastered by Nanshan Special Steel, but you, Baosteel, cannot. What will your leaders think?

As a leader of a state-owned enterprise, what you care about most is the opinions of your superiors.

This is about where their butt is.

"It's fine if the First Ministry of Machine Building supports it, but why are the Fifth and Seventh Ministries of Machine Building so enthusiastic as well?"

As a subsidiary of the Ministry of Metallurgy, Baosteel has relatively little dealings with the Fifth and Seventh Ministries of Machine Building.

The materials needed by the other party's subordinate factories had already been supplied by designated steel mills before Baosteel was established, and had nothing much to do with Baosteel.

"Jiang Hui's father-in-law is the president of Capital University of Technology, and Capital University of Technology is a subsidiary of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building. Jiang Hui should be familiar with the leaders of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building."

"As for the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building, I heard that many of the designs for the intercontinental ballistic missile launcher developed by the Polytechnic Special Vehicle Factory were provided by Jiang Hui, so it is related to the Seventh Ministry of Machine Building."

As the chief engineer, Cheng Jianqiang naturally knows a lot more information than Li Dagang, the director of the technical department.

It was precisely because he knew that Jiang Hui had a background, so even though he was very unhappy in his heart, he tried not to express it in front of outsiders.

"Just because Jiang Hui has a high level of technical skills in the automotive field doesn't mean he's also good in the steel field."

After hearing what Li Dagang said, Cheng Jianqiang was a little speechless.

This subordinate's ability seems a bit worrying.

However, considering that the other party's father-in-law was a leader in Shanghai, he did not get angry, but instead explained it on the side.

"When Jiang Hui was still working at the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant, he worked with the then Capital Iron and Steel Institute and Shougang to develop high-strength automobile steel plates. Later, he cooperated with Xinggang to develop some special automobile steels."

"This year they have cooperated with Shougang to develop a hot stamping steel plate. I don't know what it will be used for."

"From these situations, we can see that Jiang Hui has also done in-depth research in the field of steel."

If the other party was not on the same side as him, Cheng Jianqiang would also admire Jiang Hui very much.

He himself is a technical person and knows very well how difficult it is to achieve results in these fields.

This is a total genius.

"Where does he get so much energy? He works on gearboxes, engines, and a bunch of auto parts. Now he's even researching steel."

Li Dagang muttered speechlessly.

People like him feel that they are already favored by heaven.

But compared with Jiang Hui, I feel there is no comparison at all.

"Let's see what Nanshan Special Steel does first. If it fails, it will naturally have no impact on us."

"If they can really come up with some new steel grades, I will also propose to the factory to arrange a group of people to focus on researching special steels."

Baosteel wants to become the largest steel company in China. Cheng Jianqiang has many ideas whether in the field of ordinary steel or special steel.

At least it cannot be surpassed by the newly established Nanshan Special Steel.

Otherwise, they will not be able to stand up straight when they go to the Ministry of Metallurgy for meetings in the future.

(End of this chapter)