Chapter 1037 (1/2)
As they walked a little closer to the banquet hall, Jack Welch said, ”well, Simon, I heard that you are planning to build a thermal power plant in Ukraine. The last order for nuclear power plant units was given to Westinghouse. Is there any reason not to cooperate with GM this time?”
Affected by the shortage of power resources in Rovno state, in addition to the No. 4 unit of Rovno nuclear power station still under construction, vistro system is planning to build a 2000 MW thermal power station in Ukraine recently.
Unlike the Rovno nuclear power plant, the total investment of a 950 MW Unit 4 can reach 1.5 billion US dollars, and the cost of thermal power plant is much lower. However, no matter how low the construction cost of a 2000 MW thermal power plant is, it is estimated that it will cost US $500 million. Such a project is enough for Jack Welch to fight for himself.
Simon saw Welch mention this matter, did not directly answer, but asked: ”Jack, the GM team should have contacted rifney?”
Jack Welch nodded: ”of course, but the reply over there is to adopt local equipment and solutions. Simon, frankly speaking, I admit the industrial strength of the former Soviet Union, but it is no longer better than before. Moreover, you must know that the general generator set is much better than that of the former Soviet Union in all aspects.”
”But it's a lot more expensive,” Simon said, shaking his head and laughing. ”Jack, the last Rovno nuclear power plant, frankly speaking, was a state-owned enterprise in Ukraine, and for other reasons, Westinghouse equipment was used. This time, it's basically my personal investment. Of course, I have to consider the cost, so I'm sorry. ”
Unit 4 of the Rovno nuclear power plant could have been completed with a subsequent investment of only US $500 million. However, under the operation of Westinghouse, Ukrainian nuclear power company and the Ukrainian Ministry of energy, the price was abruptly raised to 800 million US dollars, not to mention the insidious money in private, which was ultimately paid by the already stretched Ukrainian government.
Now that it's up to Simon to do it himself, he certainly won't be the big culprit.
Compared with nuclear power, the technical difficulty of thermal power is much lower. Only local enterprises in Ukraine can undertake it. If local schemes and equipment are adopted, the planned investment of US $500 million may still have a lot of savings. Simon's plan is to excavate and reorganize a related engineering technology. After all, this thermal power station is not necessarily the last one.
Jack Welch saw Simon refuse, did not give up, again strive for: ”Simon, I give you a good discount.”
Simon shook his head again and said with a smile, ”Jack, maybe you can guess my layout on the Ukrainian side. This time, the thermal power plant is not the only one, but that side is very important to me. It's definitely not just business.”
Simon said that. Welch, who is also very clear about certain things, did not continue. However, he could not help asking, ”Simon, it seems that you are going to artificially create a special economic zone in Ukraine, eh, according to the concept of China, right?”
”That's right.”
”Well, there must be other areas where we can cooperate.”
”That's for sure, Jack. Speaking of it, if GM wants to build some factories in Eastern Europe, it's a good choice to go to Rovno.”
Jack Welch didn't expect Simon to turn away so quickly and start his own business. He laughed, but nodded: ”of course, if there is a suitable project, I will consider it.”
When it comes to this, Simon thinks it's the end, and he's going to turn to other guests. Welch calls him back and says, ”there's another thing, Simon, about Time Warner. The performance of Warner Brothers is really terrible.”
Welch obviously refers to the fact that Warner didn't have a box office movie of more than 100 million in the past summer season. After all, this is the first summer season after GE's acquisition of Time Warner. Although the responsibility for this performance is not on the side of the parent company, it certainly makes Welch lose face.
Simon shrugged: ”well, Jack, it's not my responsibility.”
Welch just couldn't help complaining. Seeing Simon say so, he found out for a moment that he really had no reason to blame Simon. Could he blame Denise entertainment for being so powerful that Warner didn't have a way to live?
As a legendary professional manager, he has no such habit.
Moreover, if he is the head of other Hollywood film companies, he may not be able to help talking about cooperation with Simon at this time.
However, after secretly studying a series of foreign cooperation projects of danielis entertainment, Welch found that although other Hollywood film companies have made a lot of money in the cooperation with danielis entertainment, they have actually lost their independence to some extent, which is absolutely harmful to the long-term development of an enterprise.
The current situation of Hollywood is largely due to the fact that other studios in the past few years have indirectly promoted each other's growth through their cooperation with Denise entertainment.
The most typical is probably the DC movie universe project.
When Welch thinks of this, he is very upset. Although Warner is the main source of interest, the young man in front of him controls the initiative completely. Although the other side only has less interest, in fact, it is mainly the distribution Commission, but it is equivalent to using most of Warner's resources to make money for herself, while Denise entertains herself We can continue to develop our own projects.Jurassic Park series, evocation movie universe series, Pixar Animation Series, and so on.
Even, Warner now wants to turn his face around and dare not break up.
Because Denise entertainment also has the biggest chip, no less than DC's marvel. Once the two sides fall out, danilisi entertainment only needs to hold the copyright of the big three superheroes at the core of the DC movie universe, and neither side can continue to develop the DC series, but there can start Marvel movie universe.
All in all, it's really hard.
After a moment's change of expression, he remembered the phenomenal reality show ”American Idol” which was also broadcast on ABC TV online week of danielis entertainment. For a moment, Welch had no temper and could only raise his glass to Simon.
Simon understood, probably able to understand Welch's mood, also raised his glass, did not say more, but took Maria and her daughter who had just been standing quietly to him.
The party lasted until one o'clock in the afternoon.
Simon left the hotel with two women and came to the parking lot. The bodyguard opened the door, and urijana got on the car first. Simon was just about to get on the bus when Maria hooked his coat: ”can I take the car in the back?”
Simon got out of the way and said, ”you can sit with Uriah. I'll sit in the back and talk to a about something.”
Maria turned a little red and got into the car obediently.
A moment later, waiting for the car to start, Maria in the car finally spoke carefully and asked her neighbor urijana, ”are you really pregnant?”
Ulyanna leaned lazily on the leather chair and said, ”otherwise, would he come?”
Maria paused and whispered, ”what are you going to do?”
”It's what he's going to do,” urijana said, kicking off her shoes and curling up in her seat to make herself more comfortable. Looking at the scenery outside, she said, ”we don't have much decision-making power, but I guess what he's thinking.”
”Well?”
”He wants you to take the child.”
Maria opened her eyes, subconsciously glanced at urianna's abdomen and said, ”how can this be done?”
Urijana doesn't care: ”what else? In fact, it is obvious that you are better at educating your children. Your children are excellent. Anita can be admitted to the National University of technology. Victor, the three of them, just came to the United States, can directly cross the language barrier and enter private schools. In contrast, Anna and Nick can only stay at home to study English for the time being. ”