Chapter 1405: pliers

September’s Iborg is the most beautiful season of the year. This young city is backed by the high Himalayas, faces the wide Indus plain, and the beautiful Laval Lake to the east. The mountains are undulating and the lake is clear. After 30 years of tireless construction by the industrious Pakistani people, it is like a large garden with beautiful mountains and clear waters.
Tan Zhenhua filled the last shovel soil and patted it vigorously with the shovel. Then he breathed a sigh of relief, and then reached out to try to remove the sweat from his forehead, and put a pose that he thought was the most handsome, facing him. The reporters who surrounded him showed a smile, and suddenly lit a flash, almost blinded.
Invited by President Huck to plant a tree by himself at Shakerbali Peak Park. This is Tan Zhenhua’s last official trip in Iborg. You must know that planting trees here is not something anyone can do. , When this mountaintop park opened, Zhou Shoufu was the first tree planted here.
With the planting of this tree symbolizing friendship and cooperation, the "Gwadar Port Development Project" that took more than two years has finally ended the lengthy negotiations and is about to enter the actual implementation stage.
In accordance with the agreement reached, Gwadar designated about 100 square kilometers of land and attached waters around the port area as the "Gwadar Economic Development Zone", a "Gwadar Economic Development Zone Group" jointly established by the "Red Flag Fund" and the Pakistan Railway Government Co., Ltd. is responsible for construction and operation. Among them, the main contractor of the project construction is "China Harbour Engineering Co., Ltd.", and the main contractor for the investment and operation of the entire economic development zone is "Gwadar Economy" wholly-owned by "Wharf Group" Development Zone Operation Co., Ltd.
and PSA, which worked hard and finally compromised with Tan Zhenhua, obtained the business related to the specific operation of Gwadar Port.
PSA’s compromise is more than just talk. In order to insert a foot in the construction and future operations of Gwadar Port, so as not to lose the final say, PSA had to agree to a series of stringent contract terms. He blocked the possibility of working without any effort, and at the same time made some promises to Tan Zhenhua in private.
During this period, an interesting episode occurred.
The general contractor for the construction of the entire Gwadar Economic Development Zone is "Huaxia Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd.". This is naturally Tan Zhenhua’s consistent style of "no water flows to outsiders." Pakistan Railways did this to the big bosses who really paid the money. The choice also adopted a default attitude, but put forward a series of requirements in terms of plan planning and equipment procurement of port machinery, especially in terms of port machinery. The Pakistani iron people have always been in the critical spirit of "no money but good things". The port machinery products to be adopted are basically international first-line brands.
Although the things of these brands are ridiculously expensive, they are really advanced and easy to use. Besides, you don’t want them to pay for them anyway, so naturally they can make them as good as possible, right? These things can last for many years.
In fact, according to Tan Zhenhua’s idea, he originally wanted to use this large-scale project construction to increase the manufacturing level of domestic port machinery by the way. He can send representatives to negotiate with the Ministry of Communications and its subordinate "China Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd." After some communication with the delegation, he had to give up this idea regrettably-it is true that China's current port machinery industry is too weak and has no ability to compete with international first-line companies.
But he didn't get everything. At least, he knew a director in charge of HAECO of the Water Transport Department who came with the negotiation delegation of the Ministry of Communications.
The director has a 7 in 50 this year. According to his age and rank, he is basically hopeless to get promoted. According to Tan Zhenhua’s recognition when he saw him at the beginning, he thought that this person can enter the negotiation delegation based on the above. It is customary that before the middle-level leading cadre retires, he arranges a benefit for going abroad until he knows this name.
The director who is about to retire is named Guan Tongxian.
This is the shadow of the famous tree of people. After knowing the name of the chief, Tan Zhenhua felt awe, and immediately got close to him.
Several conversations strengthened Tan Zhenhua's confidence, it is him!
Therefore, after Guan Tongxian expressed his worries that foreign companies monopolized the port machinery industry and believed that China had to catch up in this field immediately, Tan Zhenhua immediately raised his tongue to express himself. He has the same view, but has been suffering from not finding a suitable partner and leader. If these two can be solved, he is willing to invest in this matter.
This is called "the speaker has no intention and the listener has the intention." Guan Tongxian, who is 57 years old this year, felt a move in his heart...
Afterwards, many students knew about it. More than a year later, in China Magic Capital, a company was born with a registered capital of only one million US dollars and only a dozen employees, which was invested by the China Ministry of Transportation and participated in the "Red Flag Fund". A small enterprise, whose former director Guan Tongxian, who is about to retire, will serve as the chairman and general manager. It is mainly engaged in the manufacture of port machinery. Under his suggestion, this enterprise has a profound brand name-Zhenhua Port Machinery , English abbreviated as "ZMPC".
Later, the business of "Zhenhua Port Machinery" developed rapidly like a rocket, and soon occupied almost all of China's domestic market, and horizontally expanded to all aspects involving steel structure application scenarios, which greatly exceeded the scope of HAECO. Marketing the world, the company changed its name to "Zhenhua Heavy Industries".
Ten years later, "Zhenhua Heavy Industry" has occupied more than 70% of the global port machinery market and has become the de facto monopoly king.
In 2002, the then head of state of China visited the United States and passed through San Francisco. It coincided with the passage of the Golden Gate Bridge with four giant cranes delivered by Zhenhua Heavy Industries to the United States, because the top of the crane was only 30 cm from the bridge. For the sake of caution, San Francisco The city temporarily closed the Golden Gate Bridge for 25 minutes, causing traffic congestion in San Francisco. People who got off the car flocked to both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge to see the "causing" Chinese cranes. Ten thousand people were empty, and the Chinese head of state's motorcade also stopped. Hearing this, at this moment, his heart must be full of pride. (This paragraph is historical facts, the author's note.)
As for why the business of "Zhenhua Port Machinery" has developed so rapidly, and how it took just ten years to master the design and manufacturing process of large-scale port machinery, it still needs to be received from the beginning of the establishment of the company. Speaking of the first business...Well, this matter is a small matter for Rongqianzhiyu, and I will explain it later.
The Gwadar development case has been settled, and Tan Zhenhua has also established a deep friendship with the Pakistani government and the military. He believes that with the passage of time, this friendship will become stronger and stronger until it is unbreakable.
The Pakistan Railway, in Tan Zhenhua’s layout, is not only a key for China to break the strategic dilemma in Malacca, but also a bridgehead linking the energy channel in the Middle East and eyeing the Persian Gulf, and it is also the clamp of the "three grumpy brothers" in the Indian Ocean. Upper jaw!
Since it is a pair of pliers, the upper jaw naturally has the lower jaw.
It's time to go back to Yangon to pick the fruit he has cultivated for a long time.