Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 932 Dilemma
"That's right, a small business like ours in Shenzhen must survive in a group. Only in this way can it be possible to make the business bigger and stronger." Duan Yun echoed at this time.

"It's okay for us brothers to hold a group together, but don't think about it simply. It may be okay to stand firm in Shenzhen, but it's too difficult to develop." At this time, a man in a suit and gold sitting opposite Duan Yun The man in his 30s with silk glasses said with some disdain.

"What's your opinion, Manager Zhou?" Through the previous introduction, Duan Yun has already learned that this man in his 30s wearing gold-rimmed glasses is named Zhou Jianglong, and he is the general manager of Hongfei Electronics Factory, which mainly produces semiconductor diodes and triodes. There are more than 100 employees under him.

"Do you know how many small private factories there are like us in Shenzhen? I asked at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. By the end of last year, there were more than 300 self-operated enterprises engaged in the production of electronic products, and most of them were small and medium-sized enterprises. Enterprises, even if we all work together to wear a pair of trousers, it’s useless to put it bluntly, and those big electronics manufacturers won’t look at you at all.” Zhou Jianglong snorted disdainfully.

"Manager Zhou, you can't say that. That's right. There are more and more electronics factories here in Shenzhen. As the saying goes, there are too many monks and too little food. Everyone's life is really sad, but if we can help each other, maybe we can change things. Some situations..." Xiao Qiang said.

"I'm a straight-talking person, and I'm not afraid of offending people. We are all buddies here, and I say this for everyone's benefit." Zhou Jianglong gently raised his glasses with his hand, and then said: "How many of us are brothers?" A good relationship is a good relationship, but grouping is not very reliable. What do you think we are grouping for? Do you want to raise prices collectively or share technology and sales channels? If you want to raise prices collectively, you are producing transformers , I am producing diodes, and he is processing circuit boards. Is it useful for the three of us to collectively raise the price? For the same processing of an original, you pay two yuan, and others will take away the business with 1 yuan and 9, and this is not bad. Yes, some people are willing to do it for 1 yuan, 7 yuan or even 1 yuan. You think you won’t earn less and you don’t want to do it, but some people want to do it! What do you think you should do? What can you do?”

When he said this, Zhou Jianglong was clearly emotional.

In fact, not only Zhou Jianglong, but other companies present are also facing this state of vicious competition. In order to snatch orders, peers maliciously lower prices, and profits are diluted again and again. In order to quickly gain a firm foothold in Shenzhen, some newcomers Heels, to please those big electronics manufacturers, and even take orders at a loss, resulting in a very difficult situation at the bottom of Shenzhen's electronics industry.

"Indeed..." Qian Zhongqiang who was on the side nodded lightly when he heard the words, and the faces of the others also showed a bit of sternness.

"... As for exchanging technical experience and sharing sales channels, this is even more nonsense. A small private factory like ours in Shenzhen is actually no different from a beggar. Private enterprises and large state-owned factories need funds. We have funds, we need technology, and the equipment is imported. How can we compare with others? In addition to sales channels, those joint ventures mainly focus on exporting foreign exchange, and domestic sales channels are the private land of those large state-owned enterprises. There are special channels, what do we have? Apart from doing OEM for big factories here in Shenzhen, even if you have the ability to produce your own products, you can’t sell them. Which shopping mall would buy from a small factory like ours? Products? Unless you set up a street stall!" When Zhou Jianglong said this, his tone was a little bit annoyed.

Shenzhen has always been known as the window of reform and opening up and a paradise for entrepreneurs, but in fact it is not as good as it is said.

The so-called entrepreneur’s paradise does not refer to their small private factories engaged in real industries, but to those “loafers” who have various channels and gray channels. The most profitable people in Shenzhen are these rogues. As for Xiao Qiang, In terms of making money, a private enterprise like Zhou Jianglong can't even reach people's ankles.

The so-called downfall is that during the transition from a planned economy to a market economy in the Mainland, especially in the era of the dual-track price system, some people take advantage of the price difference between planned commodities and unplanned commodities to buy and sell related commodities in the market for profit. Daoye".

There was a popular saying in the 80s: "10 million out of 9 billion people are still looking for 1 million", which shows how popular Daoye was in that era.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, there were many people operating under the name of trading companies and engaged in various rogue businesses, including Wang Shi, who cooperated with Duan Yun, who was actually one of the bigger rogues, and the one who made more money than him Daoye is also a lot of people.

But among real enterprises, private small enterprises have never been the object of government support, or the government did not pay much attention to these private enterprises at the beginning.

Generally speaking, the products of foreign capital or joint ventures who come to Shenzhen to build factories must be sold to the outside world. It was not until the mid-to-late 80s that some of their products were allowed to be sold domestically.

And those large state-owned enterprises that are deployed in the province have always been the enterprises supported by the SZ municipal government. In the early days, Shenzhen also gave these enterprises a lot of support. Both policies and taxes are much more lenient than those in the mainland.

In addition, when Mayor Liang Xiang was in power in the 80s, Shenzhen and the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly established the earliest science and technology industrial park in China, trying to introduce the country's scientific and technological achievements and state-owned enterprises with advanced technology to Shenzhen. It can be seen that large state-owned enterprises have always been The group with the highest priority for the development of high-tech industries in the SZ municipal government.

It’s just that this policy of the SZ municipal government has proved unsuccessful in practice. The institutional problems of state-owned enterprises have constrained the innovation drive and spirit of enterprises, and it is because of the so-called “buying is worse than building, and renting is worse than renting” proposed by many domestic scholars. It also led to the final bankruptcy of this policy of the SZ municipal government.

As for those small private enterprises, generally speaking, the SZ municipal government does not pay much attention to them, lacks policy support and tax support, and leaves them to fend for themselves. This is actually the real situation of private enterprises when the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone was established.

Relatively speaking, Duan Yun's electronics factory and machinery factory, because they have their own brands and advanced production equipment, will get the attention of some superiors. After the opening ceremony of the machinery factory last time, Deputy Mayor Qiu promised Duan Yun When Yun encounters difficulties, he can contact him directly. This is a treatment that other private business owners in Shenzhen do not have, and it is already quite rare.

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