Chapter 553 Strategic Deception
The joint venture established by Torch Group and CB Ferrari is indeed an earth-shattering event for China's domestic machinery manufacturing industry.
However, on an international scale, it has not had any direct impact yet.
After all, China has never made any waves in the field of high-end machinery manufacturing in the past.
Except for the media who witnessed the launch of MS45T that day and a few insiders in the industry, most people, even if they knew about the establishment of Torch-CB Ferrari, most of them only regarded it as something that China had established in the past ten or twenty years. Like other joint ventures, it is just a means for CB Ferrari to enter the Chinese market——
As a pure distributor, you are at most responsible for the production and manufacturing of some less important parts.
Moreover, since China and the EU launched cooperation in the aviation field last year, European machine tool companies have also begun to secretly export some equipment that they did not sell in the past.
Now that I see CB Ferrari daring to be the first to try something, I feel brave enough at most.
Not many people are truly aware of the nature of the cooperation between the two parties and the round of reshuffle that will be brought to the machine tool industry.
At least not yet.
……
A few days after the signing and ribbon-cutting ceremony.
"Mr. Chang, this is feedback on your previous business list."
Lan Xinzhi handed the collected information to Chang Haonan, and then sat on the chair opposite the desk:
"Although there was some resistance, we basically got it all."
"Now, as long as the main engine factory is ready and you send the processing flow chart separately, you can start to promote production."
As the design work of the heavy-duty die forging press comes to an end, the production of more difficult and troublesome equipment has been put on the agenda.
For China, whose overall industrial level is not yet high, the only option to manufacture such giant equipment is to mobilize the whole country.
In fact, the Equipment Industry Department first made dumplings just for this dish of vinegar.
Therefore, after Lan Xinzhi took office, he naturally made the production of die forging presses the No. 1 project personally supervised by the director.
It should be said that as a new organization, the Equipment Industry Department's work efficiency is quite good.
At least Chang Haonan was satisfied with the information in his hand.
After flipping through the pages quickly, he raised his head again and said to Lan Xinzhi:
"In the past two days, Comrade Yan Yongnian and I are leading the project team to conduct the final design calibration and drawing confirmation of the die forging press. If nothing goes wrong, we will start issuing drawings by the end of this month."
The latter nodded:
"Then I will notify the persons in charge of the relevant units of the basic situation regarding the production of forging presses as soon as possible, and ask them to adjust their business and production capacity as soon as possible, leaving sufficient priority."
As the first project that he presided over as director (actually, of course, he was responsible for it), Lan Xinzhi naturally hoped that it would be completed as quickly as possible.
If the idea of "giving a gift to the 50th National Day" can really be realized, apart from Chang Haonan, he will definitely benefit the most.
After a brief pause, Lan Xinzhi changed the topic again:
"In addition, Mr. Chang, now that the Equipment Industry Department has been officially established, there is no need for this project to be called a pre-research project. It is time to become a full-time company."
"Please decide what the name of the project should be, and I will handle the specific procedures."
He has a very clear understanding of the nature of his current position——
At least for a short period of time, the Equipment Industry Department was actually Comrade Chang Haonan's secretarial team.
Fortunately, Lan Xinzhi was a secretary himself, so he was familiar with these tasks.
"Just call it a 750MN giant die forging hydraulic press."
Chang Haonan wasn't going to do anything fancy either.
A simple device needs a simple name.
As for why it is 750MN (7.5 tons)...
Because after converting the rack structure from the steel wire wound type to the plate and frame combined type, Chang Haonan and the others analyzed the bearing capacity of other subsystems in detail, and squeezed out a 680% design margin based on the original design calibration of 10MN.
Strictly speaking, it is similar to the surge margin of the previous engine. Such excess margin is caused by the insufficient design level at that time.
But it's a good thing for Chang Haonan today.
Anyway, he can make it now.
By the way, this equipment is tied with the two in Russia, making it one of the three largest die forging equipments in the world.
After watching Lan Xinzhi write down the project name in his notebook, Chang Haonan continued:
"In addition, remember to be realistic and realistic about the technical difficulties faced by the units involved in the production of die forging presses. If any company urgently needs to improve its precision processing level, you can report it specifically. I will ask Wei Yongming to arrange for the joint venture company to provide assistance. They jump in line to supply goods.”
Wei Yongming, who just graduated from Qinghua University in March, was directly recruited by Chang Haonan into the Numerical Computing Business Department. Now he is directly connected with CB Ferrari Group and is responsible for the system development and optimization of new machine tools.
"Also, the core intellectual property of the die forging press lies in the overall structural design and frame production and assembly. In addition to these, in order to ensure production efficiency, 100% localization rate is not required."
"However, whether it is imported or domestically produced, all products are treated equally. Full performance testing must be conducted in person, and you cannot just look at the test report issued by the supplier."
"If something goes wrong, even if we kill the person responsible, the damage will be difficult to recover, so we must not be careless..."
"..."
Chang Haonan mentioned more than a dozen precautions one by one, and Lan Xinzhi also wrote them down in his notebook one by one.
After the serious talk, the two finally relaxed a little.
"Speaking of which, the establishment of our joint venture does not seem to have caused much international repercussions..."
Lan Xinzhi put the pen back into his pocket and said in a casual tone.
Chang Haonan then smiled and asked:
"Director Lan hopes that the international reaction will be more severe?"
Hearing this question, Lan Xinzhi shook his head subconsciously, but then nodded again:
"I mean, on the one hand, I hope to continue to make a fortune quietly. This is also in line with our strategy of keeping a low profile and biding our time."
"But on the other hand..."
Having said this, he scratched his head in embarrassment:
"Such a great achievement, and I hope it can be seen internationally, giving us Chinese people a chance to feel proud."
"It's indeed a bit contradictory..."
This complicated mentality is quite common among Chinese people in this era.
Even Chang Haonan had the same idea when he was just reborn.
Later, I slowly stopped worrying about it.
"There's nothing to be conflicted about."
Chang Haonan waved his hand. Although he appeared to be nearly 20 years younger than Lan Xinzhi, he looked more like an elder:
"Behind "keep a low profile and bide your time," isn't there another sentence that will make a difference? Two sides of the same coin, let's look at it dialectically.
"Personally, I still hope that the international response is weaker now, so that when we really soar into the sky, we will be even more proud."
Lan Xinzhi didn't really have any other ideas. He nodded immediately and agreed:
"That's right. Producing real results is the most important thing. As for other countries' opinions, just let it take its own course."
"Speaking of which, we are able to maintain such little movement this time, largely thanks to those old friends."
Chang Haonan said as he took out a few newspapers from the drawer of his desk and handed them to Lan Xinzhi opposite:
"These media outlets in the southern cities have written several articles in succession in the past few days, stating in a straight-forward manner that our Torch-CB Ferrari products are just re-shells of imported equipment and do not involve independent research and development at all."
"Even I almost believe it."
At the end of his words, Chang Haonan's tone had a hint of smile.
He thought of the legend of the "Strategic Deception Bureau" that had been circulated on the Internet in his previous life.
Of course, these media outlets have bad intentions.
It's just that by mistake, it was implemented.
"TMD, how could you fabricate it out of thin air..."
Lan Xinzhi has obviously seen too little, and does not have a deep understanding of these media's efforts to confuse right and wrong, and his tolerance is not very high.
"We really have no control over media matters."
Chang Haonan shook his head helplessly and amusedly:
"However, it won't do us any harm if they continue to write like this."
"At least, you can confuse those foreigners who don't know what's going on, and buy us more time to develop..."
