Two days later.

Lu Zhou High-tech Zone.

Outside factory building No. P652.

At this moment.

Under the leadership of the high-tech zone director Yang Hongzhi, whose name the foolish author suddenly remembered, Xu Yun and others successively passed through the gate and entered the factory area.

Compared to the day of signing the contract, the formation of Xu Yun's group this time was undoubtedly much larger:

Aside from Xu Yun and Gu Qunqing.

Tian Liangwei and Secretary Zheng from Ke Da Innovation Fund also brought their assistants and arrived on site together with Xu Yun.

Additionally, there were several accompanying personnel from Ke Da, totaling eleven or twelve people.

It can be said.

The main high-level personnel of Huadun Biotech were all present outside the factory today.

As for the reason for deploying so many Nascent Souls... well, the reason is.....

Of course, it's because today is the day for equipment commissioning.

Not long ago.

Upon receiving the message from Zheng Zu, Xu Yun immediately bid farewell to Xiaorong and flew back to Lu Prefecture with Gu Qunqing the next day.

As for Xiaorong, he temporarily stayed in Yangcheng to handle family matters. After all, his child is still in school, and explaining it can be quite troublesome.

In short, according to the agreement between both parties, Xiaorong will arrive in Lu Prefecture to join Xu Yun in a week.

"Dean Tian, Dr. Xu, Secretary Zheng."

Upon entering the factory building, Yang Hongzhi first pointed to another middle-aged man beside him and said:

"As the saying goes, guests should not interfere with host affairs. Currently, the factory belongs to Huadun Biotech, so Director Qian and others will introduce the situation specifically."

The Director Qian that Yang Hongzhi referred to is named Qian Guanglin, a small-framed middle-aged man with high cheekbones and dark skin, looking rather weathered.

Qian Guanglin was originally a production manager at an integrated circuit company under Ke Da Innovation Fund, once managing over two thousand people.

After a corporate restructuring, he was transferred to work at another assembly plant for several years, gaining extremely rich production experience.

Not long ago, after confirming the factory address.

New Creation Fund recommended Qian Guanglin as the production manager, and Xu Yun, having reviewed his resume, immediately voted in favor.

He is a highly experienced and capable person, deeply connected to Ke Da industry, perfectly suited for overseeing chemically risky production.

At Yang Hongzhi's indication.

Qian Guanglin nodded to everyone, leading the way while speaking:

"Leaders, as you should all know, the production line we ordered is mainly divided into two parts."

"One part is the ring-structure production process, and the other is the filling production process. The former has a high technical content, while the latter is relatively ordinary."

"Thus, the earliest equipment we received was from the filling production segment, specifically the TC708 formulation production line sent by Modu Chemical, consisting of fourteen module sets in total."

"Regarding the ring-structure phase, its main purpose is to produce 10-epoxy-3,6-docosadiene, including reactions such as nickel acetate/sodium borohydride catalytic hydrogenation, Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation, and alkyl epoxide rearrangement, so the equipment requirements are very high."

"We ultimately chose Nutrien Company's FOERDA-T632 series production line, which is currently the leading company in this field globally."

"The equipment arrived at Modu Port five days ago and reached Lu Prefecture the day before yesterday, and it has been fully commissioned now."

Xu Yun and Tian Liangwei nodded lightly upon hearing this.

Due to the influence of the Batu Treaty in earlier years, many industries in the country suffer from a chronic ailment:

They can match or even surpass international levels in theory and research, but there is a significant lag in the production equipment segment.

Take the five-axis machine tools back then, for example.

That is a truly heroic story full of struggles, where the eighteen "luohans" of domestic machine tools strived for decades, yet the level in five-axis linkage is still somewhat behind.

Pleasantly surprising is the rise of Dalian Kede, and from a long-term perspective, there is hope of catching up with the leading ranks.

Then there's the matter of shield tunnel boring machines.

Although these aren't strictly embargoed equipment, we suffered quite a loss on them once.

In 1997, when the country was preparing to create the longest railway at that time, the Xikang Railway.

This railroad had to bore through the Qinling mountains, which was no small project.

Back then, the engineering institute estimated the construction time, and using conventional construction methods, it would take a long time, at least ten years to get through.

Yet, if 600 million yuan were spent on importing two shield machines from overseas, the tunnel could be finished in just two years.

So back then, the Rabbits gritted their teeth and tightened their belts, importing shield machines from Europe and America.

It was in this transaction that the Rabbits tasted success, which spurred them to self-develop shield machines.

But it was only after local self-development of shield machines that the Rabbits discovered.

A shield machine back then only needed 30 million really, and those two machines in '97 were marked up ten times...

So while we say on the surface that the more embargoes there are, the more self-developments occur, those years of technical embargo indeed caused us significant trouble, with effects lasting till today.

In fact.

Not just back then.

Even the three FOERDA-T632 production lines Xu Yun and the others purchased now were subject to a marked-up transaction.

Or to be more precise.

The equipment Nutrien sells to the domestic market all carry a mark-up.

Nutrien was established in 2017 after the merger of PotashCorp and Jia Yang from Maple Country. In 2021, it ranked eighth among the top 10 global agricultural companies, with revenue nearing 20 billion US dollars.

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