Chapter 298: Is This Possible?
In the past six months, there has been a lot of opening up, and international magazines have gradually appeared in the country.
Education and technology, in particular, are beginning to be vigorously promoted.
Monthly magazines like 《International Biology》 entered the library of Hua University three months ago, with twenty copies purchased and mailed from abroad each month.
But even so, one has to queue up every month to borrow them, and the borrowing period cannot exceed three days.
Major biopharmaceutical research institutes and pharmaceutical companies across the country have also made purchases.
《International Biology》 is currently the world’s most authoritative professional magazine on medicine, biology, and biopharmaceuticals. Every article published in it has undergone multiple reviews and is ultimately judged to be of a very high standard.
Currently, the papers published in 《International Biology》 each month are all from well-known or even top experts in biology, medicine, and biopharmaceuticals from abroad.
No one from China has yet had a paper published in 《International Biology》, including Teacher Wei and two other top domestic pharmaceutical experts.
Originally, Teacher Wei had the best chance of being published, but then the movement happened, and he was sent down for nine years, thus missing the opportunity.
Now he doesn’t have any particularly outstanding pharmaceutical projects, so he still needs to work hard.
The other two pharmaceutical experts were also affected by the movement. Even if they had projects initially, they couldn’t mail out their papers, fearing that they might be reported and labeled as capitalist roaders.
Now that the domestic level has seriously fallen behind, there is even less hope of publishing.
So one can imagine the sensation it would cause in the domestic pharmaceutical industry if Song Chu could publish a paper there.
Although Teacher Wei has some regrets about not having published, he now feels that it would be good for his student to make up for this regret.
Song Chu asked, “Teacher, are you familiar with the submission process for 《International Biology》?”
She herself is not very clear about it, after all, things are different now compared to the future.
Teacher Wei nodded with a smile, “Yes, I know. I even know a way to submit to a deputy editor.”
“If you find it troublesome, just revise the paper and give it to me. I’ll help you submit it.”
That’s exactly what Song Chu wanted. “That’s great. I’ll ask Teacher to help me submit it.”
“Will you write the English version yourself, or will you submit it and let them translate it? I’m not sure about the translation quality that way,” Teacher Wei asked.
He had studied abroad before, and his English was good, but after nine years of being sent down, he no longer had contact with this aspect, especially professional written English papers, and he had become very rusty. He couldn’t help Song Chu with that.
He knew that Song Chu’s English was very good, but he didn’t know how her written papers would be.
Song Chu confidently replied, “I’ll write it myself. I’m quite good at this.”
“Good. Then revise both versions and give them all to me. I’ll mail them together,” Teacher Wei found that his student was very capable in all aspects and didn’t need him to worry about anything.
Song Chu nodded, “Okay, Teacher.”
It was almost time for class to end. Teacher Wei dismissed the experimental class first and kept Zhou Yang and the other two to continue talking with Song Chu.
These were the students he valued, so naturally, he hoped they would get along well and interact more.
After chatting for a while, Song Chu asked, “Teacher, is it completely impossible to negotiate for a complete pharmaceutical production line?”
Hearing this, the smile on Teacher Wei’s face became heavy. “Yes, we’ve tried to negotiate many times before, but it’s simply impossible.”
“We were originally negotiating for one with Country D, but not only were they trying to fob us off with a production line that was outdated by several years, but the price was also ridiculously high. Companies from other countries are basically unwilling to sell complete production lines. They only sell some separate equipment, and we have to bite the bullet and buy the scattered pieces to use for now.”
“Because of this, we can’t mass-produce some drugs that are more in line with current technology, such as the new antipyretic you developed.”
He pointed to Song Chu’s paper, “Even if your anti-inflammatory drug’s research, experiments, and clinical trials are successful, it still can’t be mass-produced. This is even more difficult than the antipyretic.”
This is also the most troublesome aspect for them at present. They have already developed the drug but can’t produce it. It feels like guarding a gold ingot that can’t be spent.
Zhou Yang and the others have been in this industry for many years, and their smiles also disappeared unconsciously when this was mentioned.
“Alas, we simply don’t have the technology to develop production lines. We’ve always been thinking of importing one first, studying it thoroughly, and then seeing if we can develop our own production lines based on it.”
Teacher Wei sighed, “It’s a pity that we can’t even buy a complete production line now. I don’t know when we will be able to have one.”
Song Chu could feel the sadness of her teacher and the others, and she also felt a sense of heaviness.
“I came to the capital this time specifically for the complete production line. Publishing the paper and registering the two patents are also to pave the way for this,” she said.
Teacher Wei and the others were surprised, “What? You came for the complete production line?”
“Tell us more,” Teacher Wei asked with an inquisitive look.
If someone else had said this, he definitely wouldn’t have believed it or had any hope, but since it was Song Chu, he couldn’t help but want to believe that she might have a way.
Song Chu didn’t hide anything, “I know a big businessman in the machinery industry. He’s good friends with a pharmaceutical expert from the Sai’ante Company. I asked Gu Yue to invite them to Kyoto recently.”
“I’m more than fifty percent sure I can persuade that Sai’ante pharmaceutical expert to report to his superiors and apply for approval to let us import a complete production line.”
“I already have a direction for the specific plan.”
Teacher Wei couldn’t help but get excited, “You really have more than a fifty percent chance?”
Song Chu nodded and said affirmatively, “Yes, I do.”
“That’s great! Then you should prepare well recently. If you need any cooperation, Old Wen and I will definitely cooperate fully.”
Teacher Wei paused and said, “Whatever you need, the domestic pharmaceutical companies will certainly cooperate fully.”
Currently, there isn’t a single domestic pharmaceutical company that doesn’t want to import a complete production line, let alone a production line from Sai’ante, one of the top three pharmaceutical companies in the world.
They probably didn’t even dare to dream about it before.
If Chu Chu can negotiate for one, he thinks the companies will fight to get it.
As for what method Song Chu would use to persuade the Sai’ante expert, he didn’t ask further. He just chose to believe.
After hearing this, Zhou Yang and the other two felt that their teacher and Junior Martial Sister Song Chu might be too optimistic.
Previously, the country had tried many methods to negotiate with medium-sized pharmaceutical companies without success in importing. Not to mention a complete production line from the third-largest company in the world. Is this possible?
This was their first time meeting Song Chu. Although they acknowledged her talent and ability in biopharmaceuticals, they really couldn’t have much hope when it came to negotiating for a production line.
They didn’t even dare to say it out loud, otherwise they were afraid that people would ridicule and mock Junior Martial Sister Song Chu for being unrealistic and overestimating herself.
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