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Volume 1 117 Americans want to rent submarines

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    A team from the Ministry of Commerce and a team from the Physical Reform Commission quickly gathered around Qi Yiming.  Although Qi Yiming has only traveled for more than a year, he can be regarded as "experienced in hundreds of battles."  For larger-scale or more important economic and trade negotiations, Qi Yiming is still more capable than the bureaucrats of this era.  He is quite familiar with international practices and related techniques. If he were to be placed twenty years later, Qi Yiming would be just an ordinary handyman. However, there was a lack of talent in the 1980s. There were smart people but their understanding of foreign countries was still limited, so  The Ministry of Commerce is very accustomed to bringing Qi Yiming together during major economic and trade negotiations.

    The highlight of this economic and trade negotiation is still with the Americans. Since Qi Yiming visited the United States last year and reached a tentative agreement, the two sides have begun to reduce tariffs on each other. China has also opened up a group of American capital for investment and joint ventures. Generally speaking, business  Economic and trade cooperation is much deeper than the cooperation between the two countries in the political and military fields.

    At this time, there are no issues of intellectual property infringement or cyber attacks. Many American companies have cut their brains and want to enter China, and many American companies want to transfer a large number of labor-intensive industries to China.

    ??The matter of industrial transfer does not fall under the same umbrella. Generally speaking, everyone is welcome to enter and treated differently.  The more textiles, food processing, cultural and sports supplies, etc., the better, and they will not cause much pollution. Naturally, it is the best to provide employment.  Glass, paper, chemicals, steel, and a series of other industries that easily cause serious pollution will not be allowed in if they do not meet environmental protection standards.

    ¡°Just imagine that the enterprises that Qi Yiming assigned to his country are all built in accordance with the highest environmental standards. Although it is a little slower and the cost may be higher, it is not immoral and will not cause haze to change and a large number of rivers to be polluted in the future.

    Since then, domestic enterprises have developed rapidly and are basically concentrated in light industry and a small number of heavy industries.  Steel and chemical industries are also growing, but not as rapidly as other industries.  This has also created a gap. Many companies have strong demand for various materials such as steel and plastic products. For example, car construction, driving, and home appliance casings all need these things, but the domestic industry cannot satisfy so much.  Especially when some advantageous industries have received a large number of export orders and the huge domestic market is swallowing up, it is impossible to produce so many products.

    Therefore, in order to ensure the production of these advantageous products, China has to import the steel, plastics and other primary industries it needs from the United States, the world's largest industrial power, when environmental protection standards are used to suppress the development speed of highly polluting enterprises.  products and raw materials.

    Fortunately, not all the things made in China are wanted now, and the United States is also interested in buying some of the products produced in China. This way both sides can avoid meeting their respective needs through barter transactions when China is still short of foreign exchange. The governments of both sides use their own  Currency settlement, and the respective companies getting the products they want, is a win-win situation.

    An officer from the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, like an assistant prepared for the players before entering the boxing ring, explained to Qi Yiming: "The main problem now is that the United States wants to compress the price of our industrial products through large-scale entry and the hijacking of raw material imports.  . We believe that the price we offer is sufficiently favorable, at least 20% cheaper than similar products in the world, and a series of products such as integrated circuits, personal computers, and VCD machines are also our own intellectual property rights."

    Qi Yiming drank some tea and rinsed his mouth, and said with a smile: "So both sides have their own advantages. Let's see who can compromise more."

    Entering the negotiation conference room, it was still as usual. People on both sides were either bargaining or looking through documents. Anyway, it didn't look very peaceful. Qi Yiming also entered the battle mode and began to listen to opinions and analyze quickly.  This meeting in suits and leather shoes was no different from a real bargaining session in a vegetable market. In the end, Qi Yiming was exhausted. Although the result was not completely in line with his final vision, it was not a loss.

    China will exchange large quantities of integrated circuits, PCs, automobiles, light industrial textiles, processed foods, and some handicrafts for hundreds of thousands of tons of agricultural products, fertilizers, steel and other alloy materials, primary-shaped plastics and other products from the United States.  The entire trade contract is approximately US$4 billion, which is a good economic stimulus for both parties.

    If a large number of American agricultural products enter China's circulation market at will, it will certainly help solve China's food shortage situation, but it will be a huge blow to domestic farmers whose production levels are relatively backward. Therefore, except for limited quantities put into the market, most of them will be put into the market.  It is processed into various non-staple foods, and some are even exported again after processing. Most of them may become snacks such as potato chips and shrimp crackers, and then return to the United States.

    ¡°China, on the other hand, has received a large amount of raw materials provided by the strong basic industries of the United States, which can be further used in high value-added industries such as automobiles, shipbuilding, aviation, and machinery with technological advantages, mainly to meet domestic demand, and some can also be exported to earn foreign exchange.  After the 1970s, the traditional industries in the United States have slowly declined.??Relying on the take-off of the electronics industry, it has stabilized its position as an industrial power and also won the title of an innovative power.

    By promoting such trade, Qi Yiming is actually squeezing the development of emerging industries in the United States. Even if he cannot kill the electronic technology industry, he must weaken them. At the very least, he will concentrate the upstream chains of the wafer industry in his own hands, and focus on the finished products.  There is also fierce competition in the market.  At the very least, the computers currently sold in the United States are definitely not as high-tech as domestically produced computers.  Chinese products also have price advantages, which naturally makes these companies very sad.  Moreover, these industries have not yet formed a stable interest group at this time, and it is difficult for them to have sufficient political status to influence government decision-making like steel and energy companies.

    Even when faced with an anti-dumping investigation, Qi Yiming was able to mobilize resources to deal with these emerging industry groups in the United States.

    After completing the business negotiations, Qi Yiming was about to leave the Canton Fair, but he did not expect that another American businessman stopped him.

    "Hello, Mr. Qi, I am Jameston, from the Pentagon"

    Qi Yiming was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Excuse me, why do you want to contact me privately?"

    The representative of the U.S. Pentagon invited him: "If possible, please come to the dinner we hold. Maybe it will be a more appropriate occasion to talk."

    "Okay, I will attend the dinner." Qi Yiming couldn't figure out the man's purpose, so he promised and left first.  He quickly found personnel from the company's business intelligence department for questioning, but found nothing. He had no choice but to call Liao Huairen to ask him about the situation.

    Liao Huairen was unambiguous after answering the phone and told him: "The Americans want to do an arms deal with us."

    It is not that the United States, with its powerful military industry, has no precedent for outsourcing weapons. In fact, a large number of internal parts come from its allies.  Qi Yiming asked: "What do they want to buy?"

    "It's not that they want to buy it. They want to rent two of our 039A submarines for training purposes. Well, you must also know that the Navy has a captain named Li Chun who killed everyone in the Rim of the Pacific joint military exercise.  One submarine killed several ships in succession and even severely damaged an aircraft carrier. Not only the Americans, but also Australia, Canada and even Japan were interested in our submarine. The Americans were the first to propose it.  , They are pursuing a fully nuclear-powered submarine, and conventional-powered submarines are not in line with the navy¡¯s development strategy. On the one hand, they want to use them as imaginary enemies, and on the other hand, they must learn from our AIP technology. It is really shameless.¡±

    Qi Yiming nodded, not surprised at all.  In fact, in the original history of the plane, the first AIP submarine to become an army was the Gotland built by the Swedes using a Stirling engine, and the Americans used the same method to rent this AIP submarine for three years.  Sweden was naturally unable to resist the demands of NATO leaders, so it had to give the submarine to the Americans for three years of research.  The Swedes later developed the Visby-class stealth corvette, and the Americans became interested again.  This kind of thing happens frequently. There are many technologies in the United States that are definitely not legitimate.

    The monthly rent of the Gotland is 1.5 million U.S. dollars, and the rent for three years is more than 50 million. In fact, this is a lot of money, if you do not take into account the leakage of technology.

    Qi Yiming curled his lips. It was not cost-effective for him to simply lease it to the Americans. Moreover, Qi Yiming did not trust the American emperor so much when leasing his own ships in active service to the United States.  He thought for a while and asked Liao Huairen: "Are there any countries that want to purchase submarines through formal channels?"

    "I heard that Canada has a strong interest. They only have two submarines in service, and they are all old British submarines in the 1960s. Their combat effectiveness is very poor. The capabilities demonstrated by our 039A make them very eager to get her. I guess  Now they are discussing how to obtain it, and technology transfer should be part of it," Liao Huairen said.

    Qi Yiming smiled and said: "There's no way. I don't plan to spread AIP's technology for a while. 039A is for our own use. It may be a little bigger for other countries. We have two  The performance of the S20 foreign trade submarine with a submersible displacement of more than 1,000 tons is naturally inferior to that of the 039A, but it is still much more advanced than similar products. "

    Liao Huairen asked again: "Then how do you plan to reply to the United States?"

    Qi Yiming had a sly smile on his face and said: "If you are willing to rent it to someone else, I plan to design a contract to sell two S20s to Canada. The United States can choose to rent Canadian submarines."

    "This is a way to prevent our own active ship technology from being leaked. Moreover, Canada is the closest follower of the United States, so it doesn't matter if the Americans spy on it. But aren't you afraid that the technology will be leaked to the United States?"

    Qi Yiming said: "More or less, but the United StatesIt seems that it is impossible to build a diesel-electric submarine even if you learn it. Building a diesel-electric submarine will have an impact on the layout of the navy's all-nuclear submarines.  And ours is not the best AIP technology. We will have newer and better technologies in the future.  What's more, our main submarine also belongs to the nuclear submarine force.  "
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