Life in China gives unique experience of studying of new methods of corruption in Russia. In particular in power sector, housing and communal services, modernizations and development of fuel generation companies, regional branches of "Teploenergo".
I got to know it carrying out research of the power market of China and its influence on pricing in Russia by request of one of the western corporations.
It's not a secret that China is ahead of the whole planet in the field of manufacture of equipment and materials for electric power industry. It was promoted also by the western corporations which in pursuit of cheap labor placed and continue to place their manufactures in The Celestial Empire. Thus, prices for products produced in China are by 30 - 100 % lower, than they are offered in the Russian market.
However, at first the western companies bring equipment produced in China to their stocks and then sell it to Russia and worldwide as if produced on factories in Europe. Or America. Business is business. Nothing's personal.
What's the reason why the Russian power suppliers glancing with envy at the neighbor, its production, prices continue to buy equipment and materials in Russia, from intermediaries? Why prices for energy and housing and communal services naturally grow.
The answer is simple. The Chinese and foreign companies-manufacturers refuse to pay "kickbacks". The more so in the sum of from 20 to 60% from the goods price. While intermediaries in Russia do it easily. Who from managers of budgets will refuse from such "freebie" (excuse me, from such gratitude)?
That's why we buy pump equipment of the Chinese manufacture in Russia at the price of a gold breakage. Transformers, compressors, insulators, high-voltage and low-voltage equipment, cable production, fire-resistant products, pipelines, bearings, metal rolling, polymeric pipes for both hot and cold city water supply and many other which price already contain "Mercedes", "Toyotas", "Bentley" and other innocent pleasures of modest managers from power sector. From regional "Teploenergo".
As my friend Jan Min - the professor of Harbin Polytechnical University says, expert in power equipment - Russia should first employ the Chinese fighters with corruption and then import equipment and materials. May be he is right?
