After Zhong Guangbiao signed a cooperation agreement with JP Morgan, You Wangang began to contact the Ministry of Foreign Trade Cooperation on behalf of the Hanchuan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government.

Changhe Energy is going to bid for the Akjiubin project. The provincial party committee and government have reported to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs in the form of a public letter. The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs also replied to the letter to initially agree to Changhe Energy Group's intention to acquire foreign mergers and enterprises, but asked the Hanchuan Provincial Party Committee and Government to provide more detailed information to facilitate the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs to conduct a final review.

In fact, on this issue, the main leaders of Hanchuan Province have also conducted informal communication and reports with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Trade and even relevant leaders of the State Council. However, since they were not very sure about this project, the Hanchuan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government did not make a formal decision, so they could only report in an informal way first.

Until now, the Hanchuan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government have made decisions in the form of meeting minutes, so formal procedures are required to be followed for the central government's report.

This is not a contradiction. The bidding time in Kazakhstan is too tight, so we can only adopt this multi-pronged approach to advance, otherwise the time will definitely not be too late.

You Wangang is a pre-stop station. He first reports and communicates with the leaders in charge of relevant departments, and then the main leaders come to Beijing to conduct formal reports with the main leaders of the department and relevant leaders of the State Council.

The procedures for state-owned enterprises are so cumbersome, but they are necessary, especially when it involves such a large amount of capital acquisition and requires the use of foreign exchange. Now the country's foreign exchange is far less abundant and quite expensive than it will be in twenty years, so it needs to be more cautious.

Having said that, if it is a private enterprise, you do not have the qualifications to participate in such a huge project at this stage. Just using foreign exchange issues can make you fail.

Sha Zhengyang and Zhong Guangbiao have accompanied You Wangang to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs twice, submitted relevant materials to relevant departments and bureaus respectively, and met with the deputy minister in charge of cooperation and reported.

Overall, it was quite smooth, but it gave Hanchuan the feeling that the efficiency was too low and the progress was too slow. It was completely following the established procedures, no matter how tight the time you were below.

"It's too procrastinating." Sha Zhengyang couldn't help but sigh. To be honest, he was mentally prepared, but he still couldn't stand this approach of following the steps, every detail and every step before he could give an answer.

Or is this project too abrupt, or the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation has never encountered such a case of local state-owned enterprises going overseas to acquire, and many of them were the first to be encountered for the first time.

In fact, this kind of thing is not the first thing. Sha Zhengyang also reminded the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs that he could operate according to the original investment and acquisition model of PetroChina in Peru and Sudan, but he hoped to hurry up. However, it was obvious that those people could not listen to their own fingers and everything had to be done according to the rules they set.

This is their power and must be firmly protected, otherwise how can they show their presence?

This is comparable to the fact that it is an external acquisition in twenty years, especially in this type of resource industry or high-tech industry, the country will strongly support you, and even be willing to take the initiative to provide you with financing and loan support, and it will almost come up to ask you if the foreign exchange is enough.

In contrast, Sha Zhengyang felt extremely depressed and could only complain in secretly.

You Wangang and Zhong Guangbiao were in a bad mood, and the procedures and steps of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation were quite complicated, of course this was also the practice of this era.

By the way, you have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to spend abroad. How can this make these old antiques feel at ease? They don’t use magnifying glass to examine it carefully?

Especially, your Changhe Energy is just a provincial enterprise in Hanchuan Province, not a central enterprise. As for the ambitions of your Hanchuan Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, nothing to do with me?

What is the national energy security strategy? Oh, that's the case, but why do you say that your behavior can represent the country? If you really want to represent the country, can you be the turn of a company in the province to play the leading role?

The deep-rooted distrust comes from your Changhe Energy Group's strength and fame, which is not enough for these people to take you into consideration. This is Yanjing City. If you are a broken senior official, we will follow your baton happily? Let's dream.

Back at the Beijing Office, You Wangang gathered Zhong Guangbiao and Sha Zhengyang together to discuss the next move.

"Governor You, I'm afraid we can't go on like this at their pace. If so, even if the bid is sent, the bidding time determined by Kazakhstan will be completed before the end of June. We still need to have a lot of negotiations with Kazakhstan, so it's too late, and Kazakhstan will feel that we are insincere."

Sha Zhengyang made his own opinion straightforward.

You Wangang also knows that if this continues, the bidding will be inevitable. Although the bid is already being made and there is no problem to hand it over to Kazakhstan before the end of this month, there are actually many specific details that need to be negotiated and negotiated with Kazakhstan later. Just like you have to promise to help Kazakhstan double its refining capacity within three years. How to achieve this? Even if you write a penalty for breach of contract, Kazakhstan does not want to punish it, but wants to fulfill its promises. You have to convince others, so that they will eventually agree to you to acquire the Akjiubin project. This is not an easy thing.

So the early work was very complicated and trivial, and Sha Zhengyang could even predict that the negotiations with Kazakhstan would definitely be calculated in dozens of times.

Now Changhe Energy Group has no advantage, and JP Morgan is not superior either, so it can only send surprise troops to seek recognition from Kazakhstan.

This even rose to the relationship between countries. If this continues, Changhe Energy itself can only give up in the end.

"Who made us not PetroChina or Sinopec? Even if we are CNOOC, it would be fine." Zhong Guangbiao was also moved.

"It makes no sense to say this now. We can't wait. Minister Wang is also asking, and he also communicated with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation by phone, but the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation insists on following the procedures. They believe that such a large project must go through formal procedures, otherwise the risk will be too great and no one can bear it." You Wangang frowned.

"The risk is huge? Do they need to bear the huge risk? As the owners, we don't know what we know?" Sha Zhengyang sneered, "To put it bluntly, is it better to hold on to our little power and be reluctant to let go. If we do not show our own sense of existence, how can we be worthy of ourselves?"

Sha Zhengyang's words made You Wangang and Zhong Guangbiao sigh and feel deeply, but they couldn't help but smile. This boy's words were mean enough and hit the nail on the head, but it was useless.

"Zhengyang, what do you think we should do now?" You Wangang pondered: "If you continue like this, it will be too late in time. Even if we have no problem with bidding, there is no advantage when bidding. It will be difficult to defeat Amoko and Texgu."

The overall strength of Changhe Energy Group is still too weak, especially since it has no experience in overseas mergers and acquisitions and operation companies before. This is a fatal weakness. Even with the support of JP Morgan, this weakness is still obvious and it is difficult to convince people.

To impress Kazakhstan, you must have enough weight and pay enough price. Otherwise, even Kazakhstan can terminate the contract, let alone you are still in the bidding stage.

Therefore, Changhe Energy originally planned to take action quickly during the past two or three months, especially to make some progress in the Olsk refinery project to prove its strength and sincerity, but now it has been stuck in the country and cannot even take the first step. If it is delayed, it will probably be a series of failures. It may even be a failure as soon as it takes the first step.

"I think we may have to take an unconventional path, which may offend people a little, but there is no other way." Sha Zhengyang has been thinking about this issue in his heart, "We cannot lose this opportunity, and we cannot afford to lose it, so I think it is worth offending people."

"Oh? You said." You Wangang became serious.

"By bypass the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Affairs and directly look for the main leaders of the State Council and Vice President Hong." Sha Zhengyang said bluntly: "The reform of the energy system is also the main focus of Vice President Hong, and this is also related to the security of the national energy strategy in the future. I believe that the first step of our Changhe Energy Group is also beneficial to the national energy strategy. Moreover, as non-central state-owned enterprises, we are not so dazzling and eye-catching when going global. Kazakhstan, even Europe, the United States and Russia, will not be so sensitive, and the chance of success is greater. I believe that from the perspective of the central leaders, they should see this."

You Wangang and Zhong Guangbiao were both excited and moved, but they immediately realized the sequelae and side effects of doing so.

This is not just about offending others. In the eyes of many people, you are bad rules! You are responding to the problem at a higher level. Did I say I won’t do it for you? Have you deliberately delayed your business? Or did you ask for it? No, so why should you react to the main leader by going beyond your level? You are suing the criminal complaint and making a bad rule!

In the minds of some leaders, they hate this situation the most, and it is even worse than not doing anything.

This is only one aspect.

On the other hand, what will the central leaders think? You can do things in Hanchuan Province without following the procedures. If this is the case, what else should these rules and regulations be used?

Special matters should be handled according to the situation. The key is whether you are a special matter or not. It depends on the leader.
Chapter completed!