Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon - Vol 2 Chapter 496
Chapter 496 Divide the pie!
In the evening, Li Weidong took He An’an with a new type of massage chair that had not yet been on the market, and came to Uncle He’s home, and had a meal by the way.
Of course, Li Weidong came to Uncle He, not just to eat food, but to inquire about the cake splitting.
To do business in China, it is natural to follow the policy closely. After all, Uncle He is the leader of the Ministry of Machinery Industry, and he must have mastered the core policy information in this regard.
Uncle He also understands Li Weidong’s intentions. After the third round of drinking, he said: “Weidong, this time the country’s very big bread is helping companies. For companies, it is indeed a golden opportunity.
But in this matter, although I can help you say a few good things, it is the expert group directly led by the superior that makes the decision. In the end, the expert group has the final say. ”
Li Weidong nodded suddenly, who can be called “superior” by Uncle He, that is, the few people who counted with their fingers.
Uncle Ho continued: “There are too many domestic enterprises in difficulties, and some of them are national key projects that year, and there are countless provincial-level enterprises. These enterprises all made outstanding contributions to the country.
So who should distribute the pie and which company should survive is not a matter of one or two people. These days, the summoning department has a lot of support, but this reform is related to the national economy and people’s livelihood, and it is related to the future of the domestic agricultural machinery industry. Even if I speak, it is not easy.
I will try my best to help you fight, but in the end, whether you can fight for it depends on your own level of Beverly Farm Machinery. There is a saying that you need to be **** yourself when you strike iron. I will help you to say a few good things, which can only be regarded as an external force! ”
“Uncle, I understand what you said, but if you weren’t here, I wouldn’t really dare to divide the cake.” Li Weidong said with a smile.
“What are you polite to me? The family will not talk to each other! As long as you don’t violate the policy and discipline, I will help you if I can help.” Uncle He smiled, and then said: “Besides, I may not be able to help you much. It is estimated that it will not be long before my work will be transferred.”
Li Weidong was stunned for a moment. Such unbelieving words were not like those spoken by a leader of Uncle Ho’s level. He carefully figured out Uncle Ho’s smile just now, and found that Uncle Ho’s smile contained some sorrow and helplessness.
The next second, Li Weidong suddenly remembered something, and he asked: “Uncle, is it because the ministries and commissions are going to streamline their institutions again?”
“How do you know?” Uncle He was slightly surprised, and then shook his head in relief: “Almost forgot, you can give us a lecture, so naturally you will know some internal news.”
Li Weidong remembered that next year, the state will carry out a streamlining reform of ministries and commissions, reducing the number of ministries and commissions from 40 to 29. All industrial specialized economic departments will have almost one size fits all.
After this reform, the state gradually ended the system of direct management of enterprises by professional economic departments, and instead used policies to guide the development of enterprises.
In that reform, the Ministry of Electronics Industry, the Ministry of Coal Industry, and the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry were all abolished, and the Ministry of Machinery Industry was naturally included.
Many of these ministries and commissions were established in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and have made outstanding contributions to the development of the national economy.
Among them, the Ministry of Machinery Industry is considered to be the oldest. China used to set up the first to eighth, a total of eight Ministry of Machinery Industry. Later, the state was responsible for the ministries and commissions of electronics, aviation, shipbuilding, military industry, and nuclear engineering. The ministry was split out.
Uncle Ho has worked in the Ministry of Machinery Industry for most of his life, and when he learned that the Ministry of Machinery Industry would be revoked, his heart was naturally mixed.
Li Weidong thought for a while, Uncle Ho is not yet at the age of retirement, and the next organization will be streamlined, and the cadre structure will be streamlined. There are more wolves and less meat. Uncle Ho may be difficult to get promotion.
So Li Weidong asked: “Uncle, if the organization is streamlined, which department will you be transferred to?”
“It should be a local area. The specific province to go to depends on the organization’s arrangement.” Uncle He said.
“Airborne to a place!” Li Weidong estimated in his mind that he should be a member of the Standing Committee at the level of Uncle Ho.
Uncle He turned the topic off; “Don’t talk about me for now, let’s talk about helping agricultural machinery enterprises this time. One is at the policy level.
At the technical level, the National Agricultural Machinery Research Institute will take out some technologies and share them with enterprises. Don’t underestimate the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, they still have a lot of scientific research technology at the bottom of the box, which can reach the international level. ”
Li Weidong nodded. China’s Agricultural Machinery Research Institute was established in the 1950s and is a scientific research unit directly under the central government. After the restructuring, it was also a central enterprise at the deputy ministerial level and was later merged into the Machinery Industry Group Corporation.
As a national-level scientific research institution, their scientific research technology is certainly not weak, at least in China’s one-third of acres, which is the top.
And if an enterprise can get technical support from a national-level scientific research institution, it will undoubtedly win an award. The technology developed by the state with human, material and financial resources is used by companies for white prostitution, and then put on the market to create profits, companies will wake up in their dreams.
Uncle He went on to say; “As for policy support, you are an enterprise yourself, and you can understand it without my introduction.”
The agricultural machinery industry is already subsidized. If it can be supported by policies, it will be more effective than anything else.
Li Weidong asked: “Uncle, besides technology and policy, will there be financial support?”
Uncle Ho smiled: “Don’t even think about the funds. If the state can get the funds, it would have directly paid for the enterprises to help them. Besides, giving people how to fish is worse than giving people how to fish.
If you give money directly, there will always be a day when it will run out. The only way to solve the problem is to help the enterprise complete the transformation and upgrade, and adapt to the current market environment.
And according to the information I have, not only is there no money for you, you have to pay for it. For example, introducing new technologies requires purchasing new equipment. In addition, there are also personnel training and market expansion, which also cost money. ”
“I’m not afraid to spend money, I’m afraid I won’t be able to share this pie.” Li Weidong said.
Uncle Ho then said: “Compared with other companies, your Beverly Project has two differences. First, you are not a state-owned enterprise, but a joint-stock company. This can be regarded as an advantage or a disadvantage. .”
“I understand the disadvantages. The state must give priority to state-owned enterprises in helping enterprises. Our private enterprises have always stood back. As for the advantages you mentioned, I don’t quite understand.” Li Weidong said.
“Advantages, it’s also very simple to say, because you are not a state-owned enterprise, so in terms of business strategy, you will be more flexible than state-owned enterprises. You must know that the country’s exploration of economic reforms is not limited to the reform of state-owned enterprises, but also The development of the private economy, your Beverly Project, will become a good research object. After all, there is no private enterprise of your size among domestic agricultural machinery companies.”
As Uncle He said, his expression became more solemn, and then he said: “But as you said, the state’s assistance must be limited to state-owned enterprises. If your private enterprises want help, you must do better than state-owned enterprises. Even better! Even if you are just as good as a state-owned enterprise, those who help will give priority to helping the state-owned enterprise.”
“Uncle, don’t worry about this. Most state-owned enterprises have not yet adapted to the rules of the market economy. In this regard, I must do better.” Li Weidong said confidently.
This is not Li Weidong’s bragging. The state-owned enterprises in the 1990s all came from the planned economy era. Their adaptability to the market economy is indeed not as good as private enterprises.
After several reforms of state-owned enterprises in the future, they will slowly learn the rules of survival under the market economy.
Uncle Ho continued; “Your other weakness is the product. The core product of your Beverly Project is a light agricultural transport vehicle, right?”
Li Weidong nodded: “Mainly agricultural tricycles and five-wheelers, and they will also be converted into sanitation vehicles and triplets for soliciting customers.”
“But this is not traditional agricultural machinery?” Uncle Ho smiled slightly, and then said; “As far as I know, no matter it is the agricultural machinery system in the United States, the agricultural machinery system in Europe, or the agricultural machinery system in Japan, there is no such agricultural tricycle! ”
“What the uncle said is that agricultural tricycles are actually aimed at the Chinese market and specialize in researching and developing products. In developed countries, we use small trucks. Our country is poor, and farmers cannot afford small trucks. It is more appropriate to use cheap tricycles.” Li Weidong Explained.
“I understand all of what you said, but the problem is that the agricultural machinery research department has not done research similar to agricultural tricycles before. If you want to get technical support from the agricultural machinery research department, your best agricultural tricycle is definitely There is no technical support, you need to make new products.”
Uncle He paused, and then said: “If you re-make a new product, not only will the capital investment be very huge, but it will also be a test for technology, production and sales. The country does not want to repeat investment. a waste of resource.
Let me give you the simplest example, such as the combine harvester. If the country wants to choose an agricultural machinery company and provide them with advanced combine harvester technology, do you think you will choose your Beverly Project, or you will choose a company that produces combined harvesting now Machine enterprise?
Choosing your Beverly Project requires re-teaching production technology, re-building new production, and re-training skilled workers; while choosing a company that produces combine harvesters now, you only need to upgrade and improve on the original basis. Which do you think? cheaper? ”
Li Weidong frowned slightly, he knew that Uncle He was telling the truth.
As a new product, the agricultural tricycle has successfully filled the blank area of rural transportation, and it can indeed be sold well.
However, precisely because agricultural tricycles are new products, domestic agricultural machinery research institutions are also blank in their research on agricultural tricycles.
China’s agricultural machinery system originated from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union’s heavy industry is strong, and the level of agricultural machinery manufacturing is naturally high. Especially in terms of combine harvesters, the performance is not inferior to European, American and Japanese products.
Even after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, most of the CIS countries still use Russian agricultural machinery.
After the 1980s, the development direction of the world’s agricultural machinery has changed. The United States is still the kind of large-scale mechanized agriculture, which emphasizes farming more land with less manpower; Europe is moving towards automation, where people can be used without people; Japan is refined, as intensive farming as possible, producing high-quality agricultural products.
The Soviet Union began to weaken during this period, and their agricultural machinery development also fell into a standstill. Fortunately, the industrial foundation is strong, and the future Russian agricultural machinery can still occupy a place in the market.
When the development direction of the world’s agricultural machinery began to change, it was also when China had just begun to reform and open up. In this era, the Chinese agricultural machinery industry did not know who to learn from.
Continue to learn from the Soviet Union, people have begun to decline, there is no need to find a backward person to be a teacher.
It is impossible to learn the large-scale mechanized agriculture of the United States. Chinese farmers have just contracted land and there are not a few acres of land for a household. The whole village may not be as large as a farm in the United States. How can it be possible to develop large-scale mechanized agriculture.
To learn about automation in Europe, there is not so good technology, and there is not so much money. What’s more, there are some labors in China, who can’t wait to employ more people, so how can it be possible to develop automated agricultural machinery.
Japan’s agriculture is probably the most similar to China. Japan has more people and less land, and the per capita arable area is small. Although China has a vast land and abundant resources, it has a large population, and 70% of the area is not suitable for farming, so the per capita arable area is also very small.
However, there are still some areas in China where large-scale agricultural operations can be carried out. In densely populated areas, the land is scattered and only small-scale farming can be carried out. Intensive farming is the only way to increase agricultural productivity.
More importantly, China has a large population, and no country in the world can support so many people. Food security must be the top priority.
In this respect, China’s agricultural situation is unique in the world, so China’s agricultural machinery industry can only go out of a path that suits you, and simply learn from abroad.
But what is certain is that, whether it is the United States, Europe or Japan, there is no such thing as an agricultural three-way vehicle in their agricultural machinery system.
Li Weidong frowned and thought for a moment. If he wants to share the pie of agricultural machinery enterprise reform, he can’t cling to agricultural tricycles, but develop new products.
This is also in line with Li Weidong’s vision for the development of Fukang Agricultural Machinery.
Whether it is an agricultural tricycle or a passenger tricycle, the technical content is not high.
With the development of domestic industry, breakthroughs will be made in various mechanical and material technologies. At that time, whether it is the engine or the rear axle assembly, it will no longer be a technical problem.
In the future, Aba’s e-commerce platform will search for the engine and rear axle assembly of agricultural vehicles. There will be a lot of suppliers, and there are many high-quality and cheap ones.
So it will be sooner or later that the core technology of tricycles will be broken by other manufacturers.
Eggs cannot be put in the same basket. Sooner or later, Li Weidong has to find a new way out for the agricultural machinery factory.
Now that there is support from the country, it is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
But the problem is that if the existing agricultural machinery is developed, the Beverly Project will inevitably lag behind other enterprises.
“You need to find a new product.” Li Weidong’s mind quickly turned, and he quickly recalled that the second-hand agricultural machinery that had been dumped by himself in his previous life was not produced by domestic enterprises.
Suddenly, Li Weidong’s mind suddenly came to light, and he thought of a product.
Then Li Weidong asked; “Uncle, at the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, there should be some research on cotton harvesters, right?”
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