Chapter 353: Funding and Technology
A demolition center was specially built at the Yaroslav Railway Station in Moscow.
Many of the scrap steel arrived by train were equipment parts, or were simply intact equipment. Researchers from Dahua Laboratory and hundreds of workers from Jinan Power Machinery Factory first analyzed the equipment, and then decided whether to continue to treat it as scrap steel or as old equipment.
If it is old equipment, it will get a set of shock-absorbing equipment and ship it in wooden boxes. If it is scrap steel, it can only be piled with other scrap steel, and then shipped to Beijing before deciding its fate.
There are not many people who are interested in Soviet equipment, but there are very few companies like Dahua Industrial that can penetrate the Soviet Union. There are very few Chinese companies that can transport two or three train equipment back every day. Therefore, those who are interested in Soviet equipment but do not have the resources to select equipment from the Soviet Union will come to Huo Chang in Dahua to "make gold".
It can only be considered gold digging. Intact equipment will definitely be picked up by Dahua, and equipment with expensive components will be listed separately. Only extremely rare equipment will be sold to other factories at a bargain price. It is rare to expect technicians and front-line workers in Dahua Laboratory to get a clue at the same time, especially when there is a list of Soviet factories for sale, the price of equipment will be almost the same.
Despite this, equipment from the Soviet Union was cheap after all. Moreover, Dahua was indeed not prepared to make money through this means... to reduce the costs of related companies and improve the production capacity of supply chain companies. Dahua Industry itself has an improvement that cannot be ignored.
The depth of a company may not necessarily be reflected in profits, but in resistance to losses. With the support of thousands of companies and the technical efforts to continuously reduce costs, such companies can survive for a long time and resist the influence of political movements and economic climate to the greatest extent.
Russians watched truckloads of light industrial products transported in and truckloads of scrap steel were transported out. Most of them didn't feel anything. Most of them still believed in shock therapy in Western countries. Including many officials at the upper level of the country, everyone believed that the economic pain of the Soviet Union was caused by ideology. As long as the ideology was changed, the Russians could immediately become rich, just like people from European and American countries.
It is this idea that supports the Russians through many difficult years...the long and long difficult years...
Before this, few people were concerned about whether some of the disassembled machines could be used. Anyway, the factories were no longer produced, so what did they have to do?
Of course, there are always some responsible workers, or officials with ulterior motives, who will try their best to keep the factory, but in the chaos, there are very few companies that can do this. Some companies can stay not because of how hard the management is, but because it is not cost-effective to dismantle it.
Dahua Laboratory also organized a technical team to select equipment in the Soviet Union. However, the ones that can be dismantled and taken aback were not as many as Sucheng imagined, and only a few equipment every day - of course. In the eyes of technicians, there are enough equipment.
Corresponding to expenditure are the increasing small deposits.
This was something that neither the Chinese bank group nor Su Cheng expected. Because of micro loans, Chinese banks such as Shenzhen Development Bank have a very good reputation in Russia, which attracted many people to deposit money in banks, many of them after completing the loan. Not only will they store the money in Chinese banks, but they will also deposit more for convenience.
In March, when the Russian State Bank first census of banks across the country, it was discovered that Shenzhen Development Bank had already entered the top 100 banks, followed by several other Chinese banks...
At this time, Russia had many banks and foreign banks were as numerous as winter bamboo shoots. It was not easy to enter the top 100, especially banks in non-Western countries, which were weak in strength and lost many government thresholds, and had almost no resistance to banks in developed countries.
The success of Shenzhen Development suddenly aroused the interest of other banks.
It didn't take long, for example, Menatpa Bank also started to operate the same business. Even when passing through Red Square, you can see billboards on the roadside, with people's avatars and large Russian characters on them.
"What is it written?" Su Cheng sat in Volgan and asked Sikong Guan next to him.
The latter squinted his eyes and smiled, "It's the bank's advertisement. I am Mikhail Khodorkovsky, I guarantee your future and buy the stock of Menatpa Bank! Menatpa is a commercial bank."
"The famous Yukos Oil Company in the future." Su Cheng sighed, not to mention whether it was a compliment or a derogatory sentence, but more, it was just a pure admiration.
Khodorkovsky, one of the seven financial emperors in Russia, has shined in the financial and oil industries since his first pot of gold, and was once considered the hope of Russian industry. However, he eventually became Putin's sacrifice and used his life to interpret the character and characteristics of another public figure.
He made a fortune faster than Sucheng. The money he earned and his position in the national economic system were far better than Sucheng.
Khodorkovsky's ending also made many people sigh.
At present, the billboard that Su Cheng saw was the toddler Khodorkovsky, who was confident in taking the first step to monopolize his oligarchy.
Su Cheng couldn't help but sigh.
Sikong Guan, who was in the same car, looked at Sucheng in confusion, then looked outside, and asked: "Yukos Oil Company? Is it a Russian oil company that relies on money rankings? Does it have anything to do with Khodorkovsky?"
"I heard that he was interested in Yukos Oil Company." Su Cheng's explanation was enough to dispel Sikong Guan's idea of asking questions.
The latter did not ask much, but just shook his head and said, "Yukos Oil Company is worth billions of dollars. This is the lowest estimate. Where can I get the Menatpa Bank? Or are you interested? With Dahua's asset status, it is still possible to buy Yucos Oil Company."
Su Cheng was moved, but he shook his head and said, "The situation is turbulent, and such an investment is too great."
If Russia does not have a monster Putin, he might have really taken action. But Putin, who was born in the KGB, is not a good bird. He can be said to be doing everything he wants in the process of re-nationalizing the oil and gas industry. Khodorkovsky was arrested and detained in amid the sound of opposition. Foreign executives of Yukos Company crashed, and journalists and government officials were shot and killed... Russian environmental ombudsmen and special prosecutors were rampant throughout Russia. They even created some models to nationalize, the dismembered Yukos model threatened with criminal charges, the peaceful low-price redemption is the Siberian model, and the helium model used in Shell and BP - officials claim that world-class helium is stored in a certain place, and the business license may be revoked...
This policy of re-nationalization is completely unreasonable. Energy companies have not only encountered them in Russia, but also in Venezuela, Egypt or Saudi Arabia. It is a strategic risk in the company's operations. If Sucheng didn't know, it would be fine. Now that we have foreseeed the occurrence of nationalization, we naturally cannot rush over like a bull... Judging from the experience of BP, no matter how big the oil fields they obtained, it would be good to get back hundreds of millions of dollars when they finally left. Including the cost investment in the whole process, it is a big deal to make money or not, let alone wasted energy and time.
Sikong Guan just said casually. When he heard Su Cheng say "the situation is turbulent", he couldn't help but turn his head and ask: "I thought you were optimistic about the situation in Russia. If the situation is turbulent, our loan would be dangerous."
"It's just a turmoil in the energy industry. Russia's foreign exchange income mainly relies on oil and natural gas. The government is powerless to do anything to various companies and has no execution ability. But after all, this is different from financial investment. Once the oil industry enters, it will withdraw within ten or twenty years. Not to mention profits, it would be good if it doesn't make any losses."
After hearing what he said, Sikong Guan nodded and said, "I thought Dahua Industrial would learn from those foreign oil companies and settle in Russia. It seems that Director Su would not do this?"
"If it's just technology and capital investment, it's not completely impossible." Su Cheng smiled slightly. Since the 1990s, Russia's economic development has not been slow, exceeding 5% every year. In this case, the income of energy and financial oligarchs has doubled. If it only appears in the name of shareholders, although the profits of a whole oil field have not been high, it can also reduce many troubles and its influence remains unchanged.
Not bad, it would be fine to withdraw from Russia around 2000. Before Putin showed his fangs, Russian financial oligarchs were crazy with too much money, and they would definitely be happy.
Sikong Guan suddenly realized: "No wonder you want to meet with the Communist Youth League Chamber of Commerce."
The Communist Youth League Chamber of Commerce is actually a Chinese saying. During the Soviet reform process carried out by Gorbachev, the Communist Youth League was one of the few institutions allowed to distribute their income and was a typical representative of self-funding funds. The result was that the Communist Youth League of Soviet universities became chambers of commerce, and they were all doing their best to do business.
The Soviet Union collapsed, and the Communist Youth League Chamber of Commerce changed its name and stayed, becoming a real company. Because they were commercial institutions that had been operating for a long time, they were the companies that were most qualified to inherit the Soviet legacy. Many Russian wealthy people started with the Communist Youth League, and those young and senior officials of the Communist Youth League often had prominent family backgrounds and dense networks of relationships.
What they lack is financial and technical support.
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Chapter completed!