Chapter 133 Fertilizer Plant Application
Xie Yun took on the task of writing the application and discussed some details with Qian Daguang. She was familiar with the factory construction process and understood every link from scratch. However, there was a big difference between building a factory in this era and in later generations, and she could not make any mistakes in the details.
That night, Qian Daguang stayed in the county guesthouse. Xie Yun did not go home either. He worked overtime in Secretary He's office and stayed up late to write the application.
Qian Daguang can't stay here too long and has to leave tomorrow. She has to finish the application and show it to him before he leaves.
Secretary Li and Director Zhong have gone back, and the follow-up work is led by the county, so they have nothing to do for the time being.
Xie Yun called the grain station and asked Stationmaster Xu to tell Zhang Ruifeng that she would stay in the county tonight and would not go back.
Stationmaster Xu said, "Wait a quarter of an hour and call back. I'll have your mother answer the phone. You can tell her in person so she doesn't worry."
"Okay, thank you, Station Master Xu."
Fifteen minutes later, Xie Yun called again and it was Zhang Ruifeng who answered the phone.
"Mom, I can't go home tonight. I'll go back tomorrow."
"Where do you live then?"
"I'm in the county party committee office. I have to work overtime tonight. I'll just take a nap after finishing it. I'll go home and sleep again tomorrow."
"You have to stay up late? Can't you write it tomorrow?"
"No. I have to ask a leader from out of town to look over it after I finish it, and he'll be leaving tomorrow. I'll catch up on some sleep tomorrow, it's fine. It's just like when I pulled half the night before during the rush to harvest."
"Okay, then you should take care of yourself. Don't worry about home, Mumu and I are fine."
"Hey. I'm hanging up then."
"Hang up."
Xie Yun officially started writing after dinner. She carefully considered each word and sentence and wrote a draft. After finishing it, she checked it carefully and revised some parts that she was not satisfied with. She closed her eyes and thought about it for a while, then checked it again. She found that there were still some parts that she was not satisfied with. After revising it, she thought about it again, checked it again, made some modifications, and was basically satisfied.
She took out a new sheet of paper and copied it again, making sure it was clear, logical, and free of typos.
At this time, it was almost dawn.
Xie Yun, who had been busy all night, did not feel sleepy at all.
As someone who has a little knowledge of history, Xie Yun knows that my country's fertilizer industry is underdeveloped. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, production equipment was mainly imported from the big brother. After the relationship between the two sides broke down, we focused on independent research and development, but the results were obviously unsatisfactory.
In the 1960s, we began to contact Western countries again. In October 1962, the State Council decided to set up a chemical fiber group and a chemical fertilizer group, and instructed the two groups to convene experts to be responsible for technology introduction. In August 1963, the State Planning Commission established a five-member group to import complete sets of equipment, which started a series of introduction work.
Today, large-scale fertilizer production capacity of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tons per year is largely imported. For example, the Dongsheng Fertilizer Plant, where Qian Daguang served as deputy director, produces 160,000 tons of urea annually. Its production line was imported in 1964.
After the introduction of the machine, research was probably conducted, but the results were probably not ideal. Therefore, in the 1970s, the country launched the "43 Plan" to import equipment from abroad. It was called "43" because the plan was intended to cost 4.3 billion yuan, but in the end it actually cost more than 5 billion yuan.
Fertilizer production lines are really introduced again and again.
During this special period, the country seemed closed, but in fact import work was still going on.
Xie Yun wanted to do something. Although she didn't have any finished equipment in her space, she did have a lot of technical information, all of which she had purchased. She also collected some publicly available technical patents.
She also bought a lot of small bits and pieces that were of no use to her at all. She wasn't interested in the products themselves, but the technology contained in the materials used in the products.
For example, she bought all kinds of fishing rods, all made of different materials and models, secondhand. She knew the wife of a fisherman who was obsessed with equipment and couldn't wait to buy new equipment. So, she secretly listed his old equipment on Xianyu (a popular online shopping platform), and Xie Yun became a regular customer.
In fact, she didn't fish at all, she just liked the material of the fishing rod.
She wanted to buy something big like a machine tool, but she didn't have enough money, and she couldn't buy it through legitimate channels. She could buy some weapons from foreign countries for nothing, but she didn't have the nerve to buy machine tools for nothing.
The proposed fertilizer plant in Qushui County, with an annual output of several thousand tons, is considered small, using domestically produced equipment. While it's certain to produce synthetic ammonia, it's unclear whether it can also produce urea.
The fertilizer production process is not complicated. Nitrogen is obtained from the air, and hydrogen is obtained by splitting water. Nitrogen and hydrogen are then combined under high temperature, high pressure and catalysts to produce synthetic ammonia. Synthetic ammonia is used as the core raw material to produce nitrogen-containing fertilizers, such as urea.
From synthetic ammonia to urea, a urea synthesis tower is needed, which has a relatively high technical content. Although China can independently produce small-scale urea synthesis towers with a daily output of about 100 tons, I don’t know whether Qushui Fertilizer Plant has this honor.
At that time, domestic urea was of low quality and high cost, and many fertilizers were actually imported.
She should do something.
What should she do?
The knock on the door interrupted her thoughts, "Come in."
Secretary He pushed open the door, holding an aluminum lunch box with a small basket on top, which contained buns and fried dough sticks.
"Xiao Xie, you've worked hard. Go wash your face and wake up. Come have breakfast first. Director Qian said last night that he can stay here until noon. If that's not possible, go and rest for a while."
Xie Yun smiled and said, "I've already finished writing it. Please take a look at it and then show it to Director Qian later."
She stood up, went to the sink in the yard to wash her hands and face, and then went back into the house to have breakfast.
The aluminum lunch box contained mung bean porridge. This was the first time Xie Yun had eaten rice porridge since entering this world. Rice wasn't grown here, so it was hard to find. Even the state-owned restaurants only sold noodles, not rice.
The rice porridge is thick and the mung beans are blooming, which looks very appetizing.
He Zeshan said, "This rice porridge is made at home. The rice was sent to me by a friend from the south. When my girlfriend heard you were staying up all night writing, she criticized me and said my work arrangements were unreasonable. Then she made you some rice porridge, saying it's good for your stomach and you need to eat porridge after a busy night. I bought the buns and fried dough sticks at the restaurant. You can try them too."
Xie Yun drank the porridge and that was it.
Mrs. He is right. After staying up all night, it is suitable to drink some porridge.
Xie Yun finished her porridge and took her lunch box to the courtyard to wash it. He Zeshan had just finished reading her application report and praised her, "You have a really good memory. Yesterday, Director Qian talked about a lot of professional knowledge. I didn't remember all the names of those equipment, but you remembered them all. And, Director Qian didn't mention this urea synthesis tower yesterday, did he?"
Xie Yun smiled and said, "It's true that they didn't mention it, but without a synthesis tower, we can only produce synthetic ammonia, not urea. I saw this in the newspaper before. Although Director Qian didn't mention it, I wrote it down. If it's approved, we can produce urea. The purity and effectiveness of the ammonia water are still a little lacking."
He Zeshan nodded and said to her, "Then let's go to the guesthouse and find Director Qian. Let him take a look. If there's no problem, I'll report it so he can get back to the provincial capital as soon as possible, and you can go home and rest early. Don't go to work today. I'll approve you for a day off."
"That's wonderful."
Xie Yun followed He Zeshan to the guesthouse and found Qian Daguang. He and Zhou Quan had just finished breakfast at the guesthouse.
"Finished writing? So quickly?"
"Yeah. I've been busy all night."
Qian Daguang said, "It's not that urgent. Your Uncle Zhou and I can leave at noon. It doesn't matter if we get home late."
Xie Yun smiled and said, "It's better to drive during the day. I write almost as much during the day as at night. Please help me check it, so that I can leave early and get home early, so that my family won't worry."
Qian Daguang nodded, took Xie Yun's report and read it carefully, then said with a smile, "It's quite comprehensive. You even added a part."
Xie Yun smiled and said, "We have to give it a try to see if it works."
Qian Daguang smiled and said, "That makes sense. It's well written, and I quite approve of it. So, you submit the report, and our factory will help to drum up support. The country has always encouraged the establishment of fertilizer plants, so I don't think it will be a big problem."
Hearing him say this, He Zeshan and Xie Yun both felt reassured.
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