Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon - Vol 2 Chapter 668
Chapter 668 Overtaking
This trick of directly targeting wholesalers is indeed very effective.
When professional anti-counterfeiters started targeting wholesalers, the number of counterfeit puppy products on the market began to decrease rapidly.
Intermediaries are obviously an extremely important part of commodity circulation. Blocking the middlemen means blocking upstream manufacturers and downstream retailers at the same time.
Retailers can’t get the goods from wholesalers, so the fake products of puppy electrical appliances will not appear on the market.
Wholesalers don’t buy puppy appliances from manufacturers, and manufacturers won’t continue to produce them.
What’s more, many small workshops that produce fake and shoddy products originally arranged production according to the requirements of wholesalers. What kind of products the wholesalers want, the small workshops produce what kind of products.
The group of professional counterfeiters that Li Weidong was looking for were all from second-class backgrounds. They did a lot of cheating and abductions on weekdays. How could there be any moral standards at all! Anti-counterfeiting is the means used is very inferior.
But those businesses who make and sell counterfeit goods know that they are fake and shoddy and still do it, and they have nothing to say about morality. This kind of person is targeted by professional counterfeiters and then knocks a lot of money, which can be regarded as self-blame.
Li Weidong also knows that in the professional fight against counterfeiters, he can still live happily for more than ten years, which has caused countless headaches for counterfeiters and counterfeiters. It was not until the promulgation of the “Civil Code” that the good days of professionally cracking down on counterfeiters officially ended.
The main basis for the claim of professional anti-counterfeiters is the “Consumer Rights Protection Law”, and the “Civil Code” distinguishes professional anti-counterfeiters for the purpose of profit from normal consumers. Since you are not a consumer, you are not protected by laws such as the “Consumer Rights Protection Law”, and there is no one-for-one compensation.
Therefore, many professional anti-counterfeiters in later generations turned their attention to food or medicine, and used regulations such as the Food Safety Law to make claims.
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Fukang Agricultural Machinery Company, Li Weidong rode an electric tricycle and slipped around in the yard.
Fukang Agricultural Machinery successfully placed the motor on the tricycle and developed an electric tricycle.
Li Weidong got off the tricycle, nodded with satisfaction, and said, “This car is not bad.”
Yue Anquan, who is next to him, said: “Compared to the oil-burning motor tricycle, it is still a little worse. The power of the motor is still not as good as that of the internal combustion engine. In addition, there is the problem of charging. It takes several hours for the tram to be fully charged. It can be topped up in a minute or two.”
Li Weidong said: “The performance of electric tricycles is still not as good as that of motor tricycles in the short term. If you want to pull several tons of goods, electric tricycles will have to wait for a few years, but this thing is enough in the city. .
The reason why we are doing this electric tricycle is mainly because of the ban on motorcycles. Motor tricycles are not allowed in the city, so we need a replacement.
The current electric tricycle is like a typical small vendor setting up a stall. Retired old people pick up children, buy vegetables, or carry three or four passengers on three wheels. It should be enough.
Besides, you need to eat one bite at a time, and you need to go step by step. It takes time and accumulation to improve the performance of the electric tricycle. There is no need to eat a big fat man in one go! I think our electric tricycle has achieved this level and can already be listed! ”
“Okay, I will arrange mass production and product launch as soon as possible.” Yue An’an paused, then said: “Also, I was thinking, should we also make a batch of electric bicycles by the way?
Although the price of electric bicycles is relatively expensive these days, it is about the same price as a scooter, and its performance is not as good as that of a small motorcycle. I think the market prospect of electric bicycles is still very large. ”
Li Weidong thought for a moment and said, “Yes, anyway, we already have the motor technology, so it should not be difficult to develop electric bicycles. However, I think that our research and development direction should be toward the development of pedal-type electric vehicles, not electric bicycles.”
“Chairman, do you mean to make an electric bicycle look like a scooter?” Yue Anan asked.
“Well, you think, why do consumers buy electric bicycles? It’s not to save effort! If electric bicycles also use pedals, then it is better to buy a bicycle directly!”
Li Weidong went on to say: “So let’s just abandon the concept of electric bicycles and make pure electric vehicles, like motorcycles, made into pedals.”
Early electric bicycles just added a motor and a battery to the bicycle, and there was no hub-type motor drive. The bicycle chain was used to drive the bicycle. In fact, the frame structure of the bicycle was used.
Because of technical limitations, the motor performance at that time was average, and the battery performance was also average. Regardless of the long charging time, it could not travel far with a full charge, and it often ran out of power halfway through.
At this time, the role of the two pedals is revealed, the car is out of power, I can stare and walk!
So in the early days of electric bicycles, pedals were standard. At that time, people could often see people pedaling an electric bicycle on the street, just because there was no electricity.
Don’t look at this kind of pedal electric bike is very backward in all aspects, the price at the time was not cheap, even more expensive than some light scooters.
With the development of technology, electric bicycles have gradually become motorized and become today’s electric vehicles. Countless delivery guys ride it.
Although there are still two pedals, they are basically similar to decorations, and no one will use them. That kind of pedal-type electric car, prefer to push, and it is more comfortable than using pedals.
After the test drive of the tricycle, Li Weidong came to the conference room again. At this time, the management and scientific research core of Fukang Agricultural Machinery had been waiting for a long time.
The upcoming meeting is a meeting of the company’s future development strategy, because the reform of agricultural taxes and fees has been fully rolled out.
Just listen to Li Weidong said: “The country is fully implementing the reform of agricultural taxes and fees. We all know that the reform of agricultural taxes and fees will reduce the burden on farmers. This is not only an opportunity for our agricultural machinery enterprises, but also an opportunity. challenge!
my country’s agricultural tax system actually includes three forms: agricultural tax, agricultural special product tax and animal husbandry tax. The agricultural tax and fee reform rolled out across the country this year is mainly to cancel the abolition of township overall planning and rural education fundraising. Fees and government funds, fundraising.
Cancel the slaughtering tax and the uniformly stipulated labor volunteers; adjust the agricultural tax and agricultural special product tax policies;
According to the instructions of the central government, the animal husbandry tax and the tax on special agricultural products except tobacco leaves will be abolished from next year, and the scope of the pilot program for the cancellation of the agricultural tax will be expanded. Subsidies are given to farmers of large agricultural machinery households.
The state has requested that the proportion of agricultural tax in all tax revenues next year should be reduced to 1%. I estimate that by that time, some major grain-producing provinces in China will be exempted from agricultural tax in whole or in part, and some provinces will have their agricultural tax reduced. Until nationwide, the agricultural tax is completely abolished!
The abolition of the agricultural tax will increase the income of farmers. With the money in their hands, farmers will inevitably consume more agricultural machinery. Therefore, I think that in the next few years, the sales of agricultural machinery in my country will increase significantly. With this opportunity, we can do not miss it. ”
When it comes to the abolition of the agricultural tax, everyone’s face is full of joy. The agricultural machinery industry as a whole has been relatively sluggish in recent years. In the wave of corporate restructuring in the past few years, many companies are optimistic about the agricultural machinery industry. Therefore, there has also been a wave of blindness in the agricultural machinery industry. expansion.
In the following years of market competition, more than half of the agricultural machinery industry has been eliminated. It is good for large-scale agricultural machinery enterprises, but small enterprises in some places will inevitably go bankrupt.
Fukang Agricultural Machinery relies on the large orders of cotton harvesters, which can be regarded as a relatively nourishing life. However, because the entire industry is in recession, the enterprise still has a sense of urgency from top to bottom.
Now that we know that the agricultural tax will be abolished and the entire agricultural machinery industry will usher in the spring, everyone naturally has a feeling of getting ahead.
Li Weidong went on to say: “The country’s abolition of agricultural taxes should be considered a good thing for the entire agricultural machinery industry. But our country’s entry into the WTO is a mixed blessing for the agricultural machinery industry.
The good news is that after joining the WTO, we can finally connect with the world and sell our products to various countries around the world; the worry is that foreign advanced agricultural machinery products will also enter our country and seize our market.
In terms of technology, let alone our Fukang agricultural machinery, even the leading enterprises in the domestic agricultural machinery industry are not comparable to those international brands. And our advantage lies in low product prices, and local sales and after-sales channels.
But foreign big brands are not completely without means, such as John Deere, Kubota, Yanmar, New Holland and other foreign agricultural machinery giants, either come to China to build factories, or have joint ventures with domestic agricultural machinery companies.
If these international agricultural machinery giants move their production lines to China, their production costs will inevitably be greatly reduced, and the efficiency of after-sales service will also be more convenient. If they are in joint ventures with domestic agricultural machinery companies, even the channels are ready!
It can be said that in the next few years, we will not only face domestic opportunities, but also pressure from foreign companies. That’s why I’m holding this meeting today.
I hope that today’s meeting can formulate a set of future development strategies to better cope with the situation at home and abroad, and guide the development of the company in the next few years. ”
Li Weidong said and looked at Yue Anan. Yue Anan immediately understood, took out a document, and said, “Our management has also had several discussions on the future strategic development direction of the company, and I will report to the chairman today.”
Yue An An’s report was eloquent for most of the day. The main content is that when the domestic market is steadily developing, it is also necessary to expand the foreign market. In general, it is an expansionary development plan.
Li Weidong is still very satisfied with this development plan. The next ten years will be an era of rapid economic growth in China and a year of opportunities for enterprise development.
In the past ten years, the situation at home and abroad has been very good for the development of enterprises. In addition to the stock market, all aspects of the domestic economy have achieved substantial growth, and enterprises can also enjoy the benefits of development.
In terms of the international situation, although foreign anti-China forces are still making small moves, the United States first fell into the quagmire of war, and then became a mess because of the subprime mortgage crisis, which also gave Chinese companies room for rapid growth.
In the next ten years, the main axis of China is development, and the direction of Chinese enterprises is expansion!
If this opportunity is missed, it will be dozens of times more difficult for Chinese companies to expand when the Sino-US trade war and technology war begin.
After Yue’s safety report, Ni Guilin, the chief engineer, reported on the company’s future R&D direction.
Fukang Agricultural Machinery has two core products, one is agricultural tricycle, and the other is cotton harvester.
The technical aspect of fuel-fueled agricultural tricycles has reached a bottleneck. With the development of internal combustion engine technology, it is difficult to greatly improve the performance.
In terms of load, due to the impact of the volume of agricultural tricycles, it is impossible to have a greater increase. Can’t add another trailer to the agricultural tricycle!
Therefore, it is difficult to make a revolutionary improvement in the technology of agricultural tricycles. Some small-scale improvements can only be made in terms of comfort or stability, such as improving the convenience of control, improving the comfort of driving, and so on.
Since the internal combustion engine has come to an end, electrification is the direction of future development, and this is also the direction of future efforts for research and development goals.
As for the cotton harvester, although Fukang agricultural machinery can be made, it is still far behind the cotton harvester in the United States.
Since China joined the WTO, John Deere of the United States has begun to enter the Chinese market on a large scale. This is the world’s largest cotton harvester, and its product performance is much higher than that of Fukang agricultural machinery. I can’t even feel my ass.
Therefore, Fukang Agricultural Machinery can only stabilize the market of low-end cotton harvesters first, gradually increase research and development efforts, and improve products, so as to resist John Deere’s offensive.
In addition, for other agricultural machinery products, Fukang Agricultural Machinery must continue to increase investment in research and development, and strive to be in line with international standards, so as to expand overseas markets and sell products to foreign countries.
Ni Guilin reported while Li Weidong recorded. After Ni Guilin finished reporting, Li Weidong said, “I have no problem with the agricultural tricycle and cotton harvester, but I have doubts about the research and development direction of other products.
Chief Engineer Ni, I have a question, except for cotton harvesters and agricultural tricycles, in terms of ordinary agricultural machinery production technology, what level are we in in China? ”
“A little bit above average!” Ni Guilin continued: “Our R&D investment in recent years has been relatively high, and if the proportion of profits is about two to three times that of other large agricultural machinery enterprises, the technological progress is also relatively obvious.
But it is undeniable that our overall technical level is still far behind the top domestic agricultural machinery leading enterprises, especially in terms of core technology, we are relatively lacking.
Enterprises such as Dongfanghong, Zhonglian, Xinnong, etc., were formerly time-honored state-owned enterprises, with good technical foundations and state support. They have some core technologies that can reach the world’s advanced level.
And we lack this core technology. The technology we have is mainly conventional technology. If it is applied to production, it can only be regarded as ordinary, but not proficient. ”
“That is to say, these agricultural machinery faucets can also make products that we can make, but we can’t make products that have core technologies?” Li Weidong asked.
Ni Guilin nodded: “It’s like this!”
“Then the gap between us and the world’s leading agricultural machinery companies is even bigger, right?” Li Weidong asked.
“To be honest, we are completely incomparable with international giants such as John Deere, Kubota, and New Holland!” Ni Guilin said.
Li Weidong took a deep breath: “Since the gap is huge, if we follow the conventional development direction, we will never be able to catch up with these leading companies, let alone international giants. We must change our development thinking before we can bend the curve. Overtaking!”
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