Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon - Vol 2 Chapter 593
Chapter 593 The excavator is really good!
Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company.
Yue An Bao personally handed a cup of tea to Li Weidong, and then said, “I heard that the students in the technical school have been taken to the next-door Fukang Engineering for an internship before they graduated, and they have to stay in the factory directly after the internship is over!
In fact, I am also short of skilled workers here. If everyone went to the Beverly Project, what would we do here! We also have to recruit a group of skilled workers every year! Chairman, you can’t favor one over another! ”
“You can rest assured that it won’t delay your recruitment.” Li Weidong continued: “I just received a large order from an international exhibition recently. The production capacity of Fukang Engineering is somewhat insufficient, so I temporarily transferred from the technical school. Some students went to help.
When this batch of orders is completed, the students should go back to school. With the scale of the Fukang project, there are still so many workers that cannot be absorbed. I can’t afford to support so many workers either. Of course, some of them will also stay in the factory to work. ”
“Isn’t it true that all the skilled workers have been picked up by the Fukang factory?” Yue Anan said with some dissatisfaction.
Li Weidong replied: “People are interning in Fukang Engineering. In the process, Fukang Engineering has paid corresponding resources to let them choose people first, which is understandable! But you can discuss it with Ding Youliang later and let him Choose some of the better ones and distribute them to you.”
“That’s not the one left by others!” Yue An’an pouted.
“My Boss Yue, you can be content. These students have spent some time in the workshop after internships in the Fukang project. Are they technically more proficient than the newcomers? You can be considered cheap!”
Li Weidong smiled and then said, “If you can also take a large order and the production capacity of the factory can’t keep up, then I will also transfer students from the technical school to come here for an internship! You can choose people first.”
“It’s so easy to find large orders! Our country is still dominated by small farmers, and agricultural machinery is sold in pieces, and there are few large orders of tens of millions or hundreds of millions. As for overseas, those are developed countries. The market, it’s not our turn yet.” Yue Anan sighed helplessly.
Li Weidong comforted: “Actually, in terms of recruiting, you don’t have to worry, I predict that in the next few years, there will be a wave of enrollment in technical schools, and many people will choose technical jobs.
Since the 1980s, until last year, the number of new-born people in our country exceeded 20 million every year, especially from 1985 to 1990, which was the year with the largest number of people born in our country.
Now this generation is about to complete the nine-year compulsory education, and our country will also usher in a wave of demographic dividends. By then, there will definitely be no more people entering performance learning. The number base of these students has increased, and there will always be more excellent technicians. ”
“That doesn’t necessarily mean they all go to mechanic. I heard that pastry chefs and beauty salons have always been popular professions.” Yue Anan said.
“In the next ten years, the income of the service industry will still be lower than that of the manufacturing industry. And after this time, if you go to Fukang Engineering for an internship, you will have the opportunity to directly stay in the factory to work, which should allow many people to come to the technical school to apply for electrical welding, machine tools and other majors.”
Li Weidong paused, then said, “After all, studying technology is to find a job. As long as the employment prospects are good, there is no need to worry about not having students. I heard that the entrance of the admissions office at the technical school is about to be crowded out.”
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There were seven or eight people queuing in front of the public telephone booth, and Li Tieniu was one of them.
After waiting for a long time, it was finally Li Tieniu’s turn. He took out his phone card, entered the card number and password, and made a call.
The post-000s have no direct contact with public telephones. These days, you can only see public telephone booths in places like international airports.
It is still relatively common to use public telephones overseas. Not to mention those places where the infrastructure has not been updated for decades, even in countries with relatively developed mobile communications such as Japan and South Korea, public telephone booths can still be seen on the roadside or in some public facilities.
The most important thing is that some public phones also support mobile payment, which is quite amazing. I took a smart phone and found a phone booth to make a public phone call. After finishing, I can scan the code to pay for the call. It’s a genius design!
Many overseas public phones are coin-operated. Although domestic public phones can also be coin-operated, most of them still use phone cards.
There are also many types of telephone cards, such as magnetic cards and IC cards, which can be used directly by inserting them into public telephones.
There is also the kind of mobile phone recharge card that needs to enter the account password, similar to the mobile phone recharge card of later generations. Before using the card, you must insert the card, remember the account number and password, and enter the account password before making a call.
At that time, the price of mobile phones was still relatively expensive, and even if the price of mobile phones began to drop later, for a long time, the mobile phone bills were relatively high.
The most embarrassing thing is that the mobile phone at that time not only cost money to make calls, but also the party who answers the phone. “It’s a long story”, then hang up the phone quickly.
So there was a very strange phenomenon at the time. After the phone rang, the person took out the phone and said, “I’ll call you back”, then hung up the phone, picked up the landline, called the other party back, and the two of them talked again. matter.
In that era, if someone told you “I’ll go back to you”, it was not because he had something to answer the phone, but because he was unwilling to pay for the answer. If the other party said, “I’ll get back to you in a minute”, they must be looking for a landline.
Ordinary working class is obviously reluctant to pay this high cost. As a result, all kinds of public telephone booths have sprung up like mushrooms after the rain. The relatively low price is widely welcomed by the public, and it is more convenient and fast to communicate with family members.
In those days, when it was time to get off work, migrant workers would flock to the public phone booths, eager to talk to their families on the phone, and queuing was a common occurrence.
Especially in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta regions, there is a relatively high concentration of migrant workers. Since everyone has similar work and rest time, they all make phone calls together. When there are many people, the voices are so noisy that they cannot hear clearly at all. , a phone call down, an average of half a box of throat lozenges are consumed.
Li Tie Niu’s house did not have a telephone installed, so his call went directly to the village committee.
After a while, the loudspeaker of the village committee came from the receiver: “Li Dashan, Li Dashan, Li Tieniu from your family is calling!”
After waiting for a long time, the voice of my father Li Dashan finally came over the phone.
“Father, I’ve earned money!” Li Tieniu said excitedly.
“Make money? What kind of money do you make? Didn’t I let you learn a craft? If you can’t learn the craft, what kind of money do you make!” Li Dashan said.
“Father, I earn money through craftsmanship. Didn’t I go to Fukang Engineering for an internship two days ago? I told you on the phone before, now that the internship is over, the internship salary has also been paid, and there are still hundreds of dollars! “Li Tie Niu said.
“Didn’t you learn craftsmanship from your master during your internship? Why do you go to learn craftsmanship from others and they pay you instead?” Li Dashan asked in confusion.
“Father, the boss of the Fukang Engineering Factory is a good man. He pays wages for apprenticeships.” Li Tieniu said.
“Really or not, there is such a good thing? You shouldn’t be deceived, right?” Li Dashan asked suspiciously.
“Dad, don’t worry, I haven’t been deceived, I’ve already got the money.” Li Tieniu said.
“Then this factory is not bad. Even the apprentices are paid wages, so they will definitely not be in arrears! Tie Niu, I tell you, you should go to a place where you don’t pay wages. Don’t be like your uncle. Yes, go out to work and meet a boss who has no conscience, and he will not pay wages for the New Year, that year is considered a waste of work!” Li Dashan warned.
Li Tieniu said, “Father, I’ll tell you another good news. The factory where I practiced felt that I did a good job and decided to hire me. The contract has been signed, and I will be a worker in the future!”
“Really?” Li Dashan was also surprised, and then asked; “When I went to that technical school to study, didn’t it say that I only taught skills, not assignments? Why are you still a worker?”
“I don’t know. I went there with me, and all those who did a good job became workers. There are many people who went to another factory next door and became workers. I think it’s the same as assigning work!” Li Tie Niu said.
The story of Li Tieniu becoming a worker in the city soon spread in the village.
At the same time, there is another news that spreads, that is, go to technical school and assign work!
As soon as the news came out, the village exploded.
Around 2000, urban hukou no longer had any advantages, but for most rural people, they still longed to go to the city to work and live, and longed to become “urban people”.
To be a worker in a factory, in the eyes of ordinary rural people, is to become a symbol of urbanites. Zhao Tieniu, a native rural child, went to a technical school and was assigned a job, becoming a “cityman”, in the eyes of the villagers , is one step to the sky!
The next day, Zhao Dashan’s house became lively, and people came to visit in an endless stream, not only from his own village, but also from the village next door. Everyone came to inquire about how to go to the technical school and what method was needed to make it happen. Their children also became workers.
At the same time, the number of people applying to technical schools has soared several times. Everyone is there to “distribute work”.
At that time, even college students were not included in the assignments, and the wave of layoffs in the late 1990s also impacted the employment situation of young people.
Now suddenly there is a school that can assign jobs, and it is still a technical school that can be attended by money, which naturally attracts many people to apply.
Moreover, these applicants have chosen technical majors related to manufacturing such as electric welding, lathes, etc., and it is clear that they hope to work in Fukang Engineering or Fukang Agricultural Machinery in the future.
Even people from the school’s admissions office have repeatedly emphasized that the so-called “assignment of work” is actually only a part of it. Only good students have the opportunity to be retained by the Fukang project. It’s an endless stream.
Almost everyone with whom he was with thought that he was the “more excellent student” and would definitely be selected by the factory to become a proper worker.
People always have a sense of expectation for the future. The more long-term expectations, the more unrealistic.
For example, if you ask junior high school students, they all say that they will be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University in the future; when they are in the first year of high school, their goals will become 985 and 211; I am thankful to be admitted to my undergraduate degree!
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India, Bangalore, the third largest city in India, is also the place where Indians boast as “Silicon Valley of India”.
When India was just independent, Nehru, the founding Prime Minister of India, chose Bangalore as India’s high-tech development base. Because the climate for drivers here is relatively pleasant and the environment is very good, it is suitable for human habitation, and it is very suitable for the development of precision manufacturing.
The Indian government has also moved many state-owned scientific research institutions to Bangalore, such as the Defense Research and Development Organization responsible for rocket and satellite space research, the Indian Scientific Research Organization, the National Aeronautical Laboratory and so on.
In the 1970s, India began to carry out educational reforms again, and many universities were moved to Bangalore, such as the Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Management, Indian Institute of Information Technology and other famous Indian universities, all gathered here.
In the 1980s, Bangalore began to attract the attention of international high-tech companies. At that time, many international high-tech companies entered Bangalore in order to enter the Indian market.
For example, Texas Instruments entered Bangalore in 1987, IBM entered in 1991, and General Electric also set up a research and development center in Bangalore. At that time, Bangalore really had the energy to become the Asian technology center.
Entering the 21st century, India has finally become the world’s largest “IT wage earner”. Especially after the burst of the Internet bubble, many American companies contracted software business to India in order to solve the cost. Nearly 50% of the output value of the world’s software industry in Peak Century comes from India.
In fact, the work that India is responsible for hardly involves core research and development, mainly providing software outsourcing services. It is a logic to transfer labor-intensive industries from Europe and the United States to developing countries. It is just clothes and shoes, which have become software. Serve.
For example, if you complain to an Internet company in the United States, the person receiving you is not an American, but a customer service in India, and it is not an American who solves your problem, but an Indian company outsourcing from the United States.
It is precisely because the core research and development is not involved that India has never had a world-class technology company, and India, the so-called “software country”, has not been able to produce a world-renowned application.
In later generations, many “printers” said every day how powerful India’s IT industry is. In fact, as early as 2018, the IT output value of a city in Shenzhen exceeded that of the whole of India. In the years that followed, the gap continued to widen.
India’s software outsourcing service actually relies on enough code farmers. However, with the development of technology today, software automation, robot consulting technology, and big data analysis are becoming more and more mature, which greatly reduces the demand for “software coolies”.
To give a simple example, in the past, the customer service of many large enterprises was still manual, but now they all use intelligent AI services, and even many online stores have AI customer service, so there is no need for manual labor at all.
The development of software automation, AI functions and big data analysis is obviously a fatal blow to India’s IT industry. India lacks core technology research and development, and if it only provides outsourcing services, the future IT industry will only decline.
However, in 2000, the software service industry in India was still very strong. Bangalore gathered the most “software coolies” in the world to provide services to European and American countries.
Therefore, at this time, Bangalore is in the process of construction and construction of various buildings and infrastructures to meet the needs of the development of the IT industry.
On a construction site, an Indian driver was sitting in the cab of the excavator, fiddling with the operating lever gracefully.
The excavator driven by the driver was produced by Fukang Engineering.
Not far away, a few young children picking up garbage were staring at the excavator curiously.
The driver looked at the children and yelled loudly: “Get out of here, is this where you can come?”
Several children were so frightened that they quickly ran away.
These children are “untouchables” in India.
India’s caste system divides Indians into four grades, from high to low, Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Sudra. In addition, there is also an “untouchable”, which is commonly known as the “untouchables”.
Untouchables have a very low social status in Indian society, it can even be said that they have no status, and they can only do the lowest jobs.
It may be difficult for foreigners to distinguish Indian castes, but Indians can tell them at a glance.
Although the driver was not of a high caste, he looked down on the untouchables. Being surrounded by untouchable children, the driver felt very unhappy. He felt that untouchables were not qualified to watch his work, so he scolded the children directly.
And the children of the untouchables also know that they are as cheap as ants and have been scolded by the caste, so they can only leave quickly.
drove the child away, and the driver continued to operate and play stunts. I saw that the driver dug a few more shovels, and then the shovel could not dig a little, and the engine began to smoke, and then it simply turned off.
“This excavator is broken!” Not only was the driver not in a hurry, but a smile appeared on his face.
The excavator is broken, so he can rest today, and he still gets a lot of wages!
“The imported excavator this time is really good. If it breaks down twice in three days, I can also rest with me!” The driver said to himself.
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