The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 464 Changes!!!

After the family finished their breakfast, they went their separate ways.

Liu Zhiye's private car driver had been waiting outside their house for a long time because he had an important military meeting to attend today.

Gan Ning returned to the Liujiazhuang Sub-district Office to continue working, while Liu Shuxian and her two siblings stayed in the city, strolling around leisurely.

On the way to the headquarters, Liu Zhiye leaned against the car window, quietly gazing at the scenery passing by quickly outside the window. He couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart. Many significant changes have taken place in this society.

This year, the country officially implemented reform and opening up, and it was also the second year after the resumption of the college entrance examination.

With the convening of the National Science Conference in March of that year, while the economy was growing rapidly, the strategic decision was made to advance towards scientific and technological modernization, establishing the historic conclusion that science and technology are productive forces.

The capital city is also undergoing..., and is gaining new vitality.

Wangfujing Commercial Street is crowded with people, and people from all over the country are here to choose the products they like...

At this moment, there are already three-wheeled taxis plying in Caijia Hutong in Dazhalan outside Qianmen.

Individual tailors also emerged, setting up stalls on the streets to provide “instant service” to customers.

There are also farmers in the suburbs of Beijing who ride bicycles along the streets to sell all kinds of fresh vegetables.

In fact, the biggest changes have occurred in the Mtougou area in western Beijing, or more precisely, the Liujiazhuang area.

The name Mentougou comes from the fact that it is located in Quanmen.

In the early years, the capital city was long threatened by nomadic peoples, so the imperial court built the Inner Great Wall in the mountainous area west of Beijing as the last line of defense to protect the capital city.

At that time, Mentoukou Village also built a fortress guarding the throat of the ancient Yuhe Avenue.

After the Qing Dynasty, the areas inside and outside the Great Wall were unified.

The Guancheng in the west of the capital lost its military function, and temples were built on the city walls of the Guancheng, which gradually evolved into an overpass.

Since the Yuhe Ancient Road passes under the Guancheng, and the gate of the Guancheng is arch-shaped, people call this building "Arch Gate", which is called "Circle Gate" according to its homophony.

This valley is cleverly divided into two parts by the overpass, presenting completely different naming styles.

The area located on the west side of the overpass is given the beautiful name of "M-headed ditch", which has a profound meaning and vividly depicts its geographical location as the "ditch in front of the gateway".

Turning to the east, the other side of the valley is named "Dayugou" based on the geographical location of the village at its exit, which conveys its geographical characteristics concisely and directly.

Mtougou District is located in the mountainous area in western Beijing. It used to be a "poor and backward" mountainous area. There was even a saying: "If you have half a bowl of porridge at home, don't come to Mtougou."

Before liberation, many refugees from Beihe and other places flocked to this land and devoted themselves to the coal mining business in M ​​Gou District.

At that time, the workers who were digging coal in Mtougou could carry more than one ton of coal every day and were paid half a bag of flour for it.

This incentive mechanism of "the more you carry, the more you earn" made the workers very motivated. Some people could even earn a whole bag of flour in a day, which was a considerable income at the time and enough to support a family.

At that time, not only were there pit workers digging out the black gold coal with sweat dripping down their faces, but there were also many girls from other places who had a keen eye for talent and were willing to look for their ideal partners here, and were proud to marry the hardworking pit workers.

At that time, there was a witty folk song circulating, which vividly described this scene: "Whose daughter is betrothed to the kiln blackie, changing new clothes and old clothes to be beautiful, enjoying the oil bottom and oil surface, and the coal core and coal fire warm her heart."

In those years of frequent famine, being able to live a life without worries about food and clothing undoubtedly became a beautiful landscape in everyone's eyes, attracting envious glances from others.

Liujiazhuang has undergone rapid changes in recent years. It seems that it is undergoing a gorgeous transformation on the stage of urban construction, just like the miracle of a chrysalis turning into a butterfly.

There is a widely circulated saying: World-famous cities are often dependent on a famous river, just as the Huangpu River and the East China Sea have jointly given birth to the prosperous Shanghai.

Similarly, the Yongding River, the lifeblood of the capital, flows leisurely from the northwest to the southeast, winding for more than a hundred kilometers among the mountains in the Liujiazhuang area, and finally merging into the Mencheng Plain formed by its alluvial deposits.

Deep in the mountains, there are mountain villages with interconnected paths, the sounds of chickens and dogs, and curling smoke from cooking fires, as well as bustling streets with tall buildings and heavy traffic.

Many people find it hard to imagine that there is such a place in the capital city of Beijing.

Tiananmen Square is more than 50 kilometers north, and the drive takes no more than an hour. It is surrounded by mountains and gurgling rivers, like a paradise.

Liujiazhuang, the "Pearl of Western Beijing", has undergone twenty years of transformation and is now famous throughout the country, becoming a shining business card of the capital.

Almost every year, inspection teams from all over the country come here to visit this hot land, explore the secrets of its development, and learn from its successful experience.

Today, Liujiazhuang Subdistrict Office is home to nearly 7 residents with local household registration. In addition, there are more than migrant workers traveling back and forth here.

The composition of these floating population is complex. There are migrant workers who come to work, students who come to study with dreams in their hearts, active-duty soldiers with a mission to fulfill, and private entrepreneurs who run small businesses.

Liujiazhuang Subdistrict Office is carefully planned into four urban areas with distinctive characteristics.

Xicheng District, as an old district with a long history, is dominated by bustling commercial streets in its core area, bearing the traces of time and commercial prosperity.

Dongcheng District is an emerging residential area. It not only has a beautiful environment, but is also equipped with complete facilities, including schools at all levels with strong faculty and modern business office areas. It is an ideal place for residents to live and work in peace and contentment.

Beicheng District, known for its strong industrial strength, is a gathering place for factories and enterprises in the entire region. The roar of machines and busy production have injected strong impetus into the development of the regional economy.

Nancheng District, as an emerging development area, mainly accepts immigrants. It brings together people from all over the world. With their own dreams and hopes, they jointly write a new chapter for Nancheng District.

The results of the 77 Liujiazhuang population census.

Among them, there are 3.5 males, 3.2 females and 19.7 floating population.

Birth rate: 18.93‰ Death rate: 6.87‰ Natural population growth rate: 12.06‰

The GDP (gross domestic product) of Liujiazhuang area in that year was 20.3 billion yuan.

Among them, the primary industry: 6.2 million yuan, the secondary industry: 10.5 billion yuan, the tertiary industry: 2.6 million yuan, and the per capita GDP: nearly 8000 yuan.

CPI (Consumer Price Index): 10.7% increase over the previous year
In 77, the fiscal revenue of Liujiazhuang Sub-district Office was 1.5 million yuan.

However, the national GDP (gross domestic product) of Xiaguo in that year was only 3222 billion yuan, or 350 yuan per capita.

The income level of Liujiazhuang people is far more than twenty times the national average.

Therefore, being able to have a household registration in Liujiazhuang has become an opportunity that everyone dreams of, and they are willing to fight for it at all costs.

However, the management of household registration in Liujiazhuang area is extremely strict.

It is not easy to obtain a household registration here, unless you are a highly educated elite, or a professional veteran with outstanding performance, or an outstanding worker representative emerging from the grassroots, or a person who has made outstanding contributions to society.

The reason for the developed economy is that the people here liberated their minds early and worked hard to develop the region's characteristic industries.

Liujiazhuang's "wild mountain wine" is a unique product and is now famous overseas. It is exported to many countries and has earned a lot of foreign exchange for the country.

"Yeshan Liquor" is now the fifth largest winery after Moutai, Wuliangye, Fenjiu and Luzhou Laojiao, and ranks much higher than "Red Star Erguotou".

In addition, the local traditional Chinese medicine industry has also flourished. It has not only been successfully exported to Japan, but also introduced the country's advanced production lines, gradually developing into a modern large-scale pharmaceutical company with more than 10,000 employees.

The Liujiazhuang Pharmaceutical Factory houses a high-profile national medical laboratory and three influential scientific laboratories for senior officials.

It maintains a close cooperative relationship with the four top universities in the country, and many new scientific research results are born and published here every year.

Moreover, it has also cooperated with old Chinese medicine brands such as "Tong Ren Tang" and "Yunnan Baiyao" to jointly develop and produce dozens of Chinese patent medicines with obvious therapeutic effects.

At present, among the traditional Chinese medicine companies in Xia State, Liujiazhuang Pharmaceutical Company ranks third.

In Liujiazhuang, the fastest growing enterprise is the "Meidi" home appliance factory.

The factory currently produces a wide variety of home appliances, covering electric fans, ceiling fans, radios, tape recorders, car radios, black and white televisions, washing machines, telephones and many other areas.

The factory is huge, with five major factory areas and more than 20,000 workers.

As it is still in the expansion stage, the factory has invested most of its profits into further expanding production. The factory's production line is a fairly advanced international top equipment imported from Japan, for which the factory paid a considerable price.

In order to obtain these production lines, the factory had to transfer some of its self-developed patents to Japan (provided by Liu Zhiye).

Moreover, given that the mainstream television sets in the world have all turned to color TVs, home appliance manufacturers will start building color TV production lines this year.

In addition, according to the plan, the company will vigorously expand home appliance businesses such as household air conditioners in the year after next.

In the next few years, the home appliance manufacturer will set about establishing a home appliance group and strive to catch up with other international home appliance giants.

Compared with internationally renowned home appliance giants including Panasonic, Samsung, LG Electronics, Bosch-Siemens, Whirlpool, Electrolux, SEB Group and Maytag, Liujiazhuang's home appliance companies are just getting started.

Compared with developed countries, Xiaguo at that time only had one Haier Electric Appliance Group, which was quite impressive. However, their production lines were also very backward.

Founded in 1949, Haier Electric Appliances Group specializes in the design and manufacture of home appliances such as refrigerators, air conditioners, and televisions.

In the original time and space, after the reform and opening up of the Xia Dynasty, especially the implementation of the reform and opening up policy in 1978, the home appliance industry ushered in rapid development.

Between 1978 and 1987, foreign brands such as Panasonic, Toshiba, and Sony began to enter the Chinese market, popularizing knowledge about modern home appliances. Domestic home appliance companies such as Haier, Gree, and Changhong also began to be established and developed during this period.

It is the beginning of the reform and opening up, and the domestic home appliance enterprises in Xiaguo are booming. This gives Liu Zhiye and the people of Liujiazhuang an opportunity.

Now is the early stage of reform and opening up, and the home appliance industry in Xiaguo is booming, which has brought unprecedented opportunities to Liu Zhiye and the people of Liujiazhuang.

At this historic moment, vigorously developing home appliance companies is undoubtedly a wise move.

Because, in the following years, many well-known brands emerged like mushrooms after a rain, such as Jingcheng brand televisions, Feiren brand sewing machines, Red Light tube radios, Watson brand electric fans, and later giant companies such as Haier, Hisense, Gree, TCL, Changhong, Skyworth, and Panda, all came to the fore.

Competition in the home appliance industry will become increasingly fierce, and Liujiazhuang has been deeply involved in this field since the beginning of the reform tide, so its first-mover advantage will undoubtedly be very significant.

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Liujiazhuang has a rich variety of pillar industries. In addition to the brewing, pharmaceutical and home appliance manufacturing industries, which account for the largest proportion, heavy industry also occupies a place, ranking fourth.

Among them, heavy industry mainly covers "hardware" products, "small hardware" tools, bicycles, tricycles, and the eye-catching motorcycle production.

Yes, you read it right, it is a motorcycle.

This motorcycle factory in Liujiazhuang can be regarded as a pioneer in the domestic civilian motorcycle manufacturing industry. It was established in early 1978.

Motorcycles were a technologically complex, high-end product in those days, with national production of less than 5 units, and almost all of them were military products.

Reality did not dampen the determination of the people of Liujiazhuang. Soon after, the Liujiazhuang Vehicle Factory established a 12-person motorcycle preparation team, which went to Eastern Europe, Japan and other countries for inspection.

The cooperation conditions with factories in Eastern European countries were harsh. The other party proposed that the heart of the motorcycle - the engine must be theirs, and Xiaguo motorcycles could not enter the market where they had sales outlets. In addition to the huge technology transfer fee, they had to pay an additional 1.5% technology commission fee.

The delegation then set off for Japan and visited the Honda and Yamaha factories. They found that Japanese motorcycles were not only of good quality but also had a wide variety. After comparison, they finally ordered 20 Honda PA50 models.

In April this year, Liujiazhuang Motorcycle Factory began to set up a motorcycle research institute, vowing to build the first prototype in five months as a tribute to this year's National Day.

There are no drawings or special equipment, and 80% of the materials are not compatible. The only way to do this is by the most primitive “copycat” style of surveying and imitation.

"Some precision parts, such as engine pistons, can only be made by craftsmen bit by bit by hand. Plastic and rubber cannot keep up, so workers use their old sandals as raw materials."

Three months later, Xiaguo's first civilian motorcycle was born.

This civilian motorcycle, named "Great Wall" CC50, weighs 100 kilograms and has a speed of to kilometers per hour.

Retired uncle Liu Yuanhai insisted on trying to ride a motorcycle himself, but he was too excited and made a mistake in operation, and lost his front teeth.

On the Party's Founding Day this year, fifteen "Great Wall" CC50 motorcycles produced in Liujiazhuang rode around Tiananmen Square, causing a great sensation.

In July this year, the Great Wall Motorcycle Factory began mass production of motorcycles. In order to narrow the gap with the international level as soon as possible, Great Wall determined the development strategy of "first introducing international advanced technology, and then independent development and innovation".

Therefore, "Great Wall" chose to cooperate with the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer, Honda of Japan.

They first carried out technical modifications on the CC50 car developed by Great Wall. Through testing, Honda's technicians identified more than 50 problems with the CC140 model.

In terms of the technology of core components such as carburetors and magnetos, "Great Wall" finally mastered the key technologies in the manufacturing process through repeated research and surveying. Through transformation, the upgraded version of CC50, CC70, was born.

Later, all the parts of the Great Wall CC70 were domestically produced, and its fuel consumption data was lower than that of imported parts, making it a veritable "fuel-saving king".

A year later, Great Wall CC70 was officially launched on the market.

If the Great Wall CC50 is an entry-level model, then the CC70 is the model that truly made Great Wall famous all over the world.

By the mid-to-late 80s, owning a Great Wall CC70 motorcycle was a symbol of wealth and status, just like BMW and Mercedes-Benz today.

"Great Wall" motorcycles not only develop rapidly themselves, but also drive the development of a large number of enterprises.

Cross-industry professional collaboration was another major decision Jialing made later.

A few years later, in order to expand overseas sales.

"Great Wall" Motorcycle had to price its motorcycles, which cost more than 2800 yuan each, at 1999 yuan in China and 2999 yuan overseas.

So in the first few years, motorcycle sales have been liberally subsidized overseas.

Take the CC50 motorcycle as an example. The whole vehicle has 1560 parts. The cost of processing just one spring is more than 10 yuan, and the cost of the 19 springs in the whole vehicle is more than 100 yuan. If the production of all the springs in the vehicle is outsourced to a professional factory, the price will be controlled below 40 yuan.

Therefore, "Great Wall" started the work of supporting spare parts across systems and industries.

From the initial 5 companies to more than 100 companies later, driven by "Great Wall", many motorcycle companies were born around Beijing, making Beijing famous as the "Motorcycle Gang".

"Great Wall" also quickly turned losses into profits.

Starting from the first batch of 1978 CC2000 motorcycles they produced in 50, Great Wall's production and sales volume ranked first in the domestic industry for 17 years.

In 1994, "Great Wall" was successfully listed in Shanghai, becoming the first listed motorcycle group in China.

However, these are all later stories. The current "Great Wall" motorcycles are still in their infancy.

Liu Zhiye came from the later generations and was well aware of the development trends in various fields after the reform and opening up.

Among them, manufacturing was the first to be affected and developed most rapidly; real estate followed closely behind, as well as the opening up of the financial sector; there was also the booming Internet industry; and the pharmaceutical and health industry also came from behind and showed great vitality.

However, the current financial and Internet sectors have not yet entered their development period.

Therefore, Liu Zhiye carefully planned the development strategy of the "Liujiazhuang Consortium", focusing on the manufacturing and pharmaceutical and health industries, while steadily moving towards the real estate sector.

Because, starting from this year, Xiaguo began to reform its housing system and gradually promote the commercialization of housing.

In the late seventies, people's housing types began to diversify.

In addition to traditional bungalows and shanty towns, tube-shaped buildings have become a common form of residence.

Moreover, Liujiazhuang is very familiar with the real estate industry.

Over the past decade, Liujiazhuang has gradually come to the fore under the guidance of a group of experts in the field of architecture such as "Yangshi Lei".

Later, they recruited highly skilled retired engineers from the Beijing Military Region and jointly established the powerful Liujiazhuang Construction Engineering Company.

The rapid development of Liujiazhuang is largely due to this professional and powerful construction engineering company.

Today, the company has obtained special-grade construction qualifications and has frequently participated in the construction of major national projects in recent years. It is well-known and has attracted much attention.

(End of this chapter)