The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 634: Trusted General
Kunming City, Dianchi Lake.

Panshan Group Headquarters.

The Spring Festival holiday has passed, and the employees who had been on holiday have returned to work one by one.

Even if Liu Tao didn't pay too much attention, he could still feel the post-holiday syndrome. Everyone was at work but their hearts were still on vacation.

This situation will probably continue until after the Lantern Festival.

Since Panshan Group got on the right track, it has strictly implemented the eight-hour work day unless there is an emergency.

It is rare to work overtime, double shifts, triple shifts or even quadruple shifts like before!
Just proceed with normal production!

Liu Tao had just returned to the headquarters when Feng Defeng came to him.

After Zhao Guoping left Panshan Group, Feng Defeng took over as general manager and party secretary of China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation, becoming the third most important person in Panshan Group after Liu Tao and Li Fuguo.

However, Feng Defeng did not completely take over all of Zhao Guoping's positions.

Because the six combined brigades will soon be separated from Panshan Group, Feng Defeng will not serve as deputy director and political commissar of the Panshan Group's armed forces department.

I am also less involved in outside affairs.

Feng Defeng was promoted by Liu Tao, and he can be considered an old hand from the Panshan Machinery Factory era. He is very familiar with the entire Panshan Group. This time he took over as the general manager of China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation and quickly completed the handover with Zhao Guoping.

Holding a notebook, Feng Defeng reported to Liu Tao about the current affairs of the China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation.

Guangdong Province, Hainan Province, Fujian Province, Jiangxi Province, Hunan Province, Jingchu Province, Anhui Province, Zhejiang Province, and Jiangsu Province are all carrying out the rectification of their weapons industry systems and will fully incorporate them into the system of the China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation.

Even though the third-line factories of the weapons industry system in these provinces have all completed the military-to-civilian conversion, there are still many large and medium-sized military factories.

What China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation needs to do is to reorganize and upgrade these military factories, or even demolish and rebuild them.

Because even large and medium-sized military factories have old factory sites and outdated production lines.

This requires a steady flow of blood transfusions from China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation. To thoroughly complete the reorganization, China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation must invest at least 20 billion yuan.

There is also the Chengdu Tank and Armored Vehicle Production Base. The first phase of the project has been put into operation, the second phase is expected to be officially put into operation in the middle of next year, and the third phase is expected to be put into operation the year after next.

As for your province's 011 aviation industrial base, it is jointly implemented by China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation and China Southwest Industrial Group Corporation.

"Now that there are no more wars and fewer people fighting overseas, we dare not operate our bullet and artillery shell production lines normally." Feng Defeng couldn't help but feel a little worried when he said this.

There was no such trouble before.

Liu Tao smiled and said, "In the future, these overseas orders will definitely decrease. There is nothing we can do about it. Apart from the Iran-Iraq War, which other countries are at war?"

"As for other places, even if there are some unrest, the consumption of bullets and artillery shells will not be too great!" Liu Tao shook his head. He had actually been mentally prepared for this situation.

Bullets and artillery shells were the biggest consumption items in the Iran-Iraq War.

So far, both sides have consumed more than tens of billions of rounds of bullets and more than tens of millions of artillery shells.
This is not to say that both sides fired so many bullets and artillery shells, because many of them would be destroyed.

The Iran-Iraq War was a very interesting situation. Both sides had advanced aircraft, advanced tanks and armored vehicles. Some had advanced tactics, while others were backward tactics from World War I and World War II. Some even fought guerrilla warfare, and the more they fought, the better. As for other places, the consumption of bullets and shells was not so great.

Of course, the export volume of bullets and artillery shells overseas is still considerable, but it is much less than before.

Another point is that peace has been restored on the southern battlefield and the consumption of troops has been greatly reduced.

"The focus of future exports will still be on tanks and armored vehicles, various types of self-propelled artillery, aircraft and warships. These are the top priorities." Liu Tao said, he opened the drawer and handed four contract agreements to Feng Defeng.

These four contract agreements were signed during the Spring Festival in Beijing.

Contracts can be big or small.

The big contracts are as high as 50 billion US dollars; the small contracts are just over million US dollars.

Feng Defeng took a look and smiled. He gave Liu Tao a thumbs up and said, "The factory director is amazing. He was able to sign such a big contract during his trip to Beijing."

Liu Tao smiled and said, "You should work hard in this regard, interact more with those embassies, and even go out bravely."

"Nowadays, you have signed too few contracts!" Liu Tao said.

Feng Defeng looked ashamed.

In the military industry and trade business, most of the big contracts were signed by Liu Tao.

This is completely different from the civilian sector, which basically relies on its own sales. Even for exports, it mainly relies on its own trading companies in Hong Kong to sign orders, using Hong Kong as a springboard to look for opportunities around the world.

"Comrade Zhao Guoping has left. Now you are in charge of the China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation. You must increase your efforts in this regard." Liu Tao reminded.

Feng Defeng said: "Understood, Director!"

Liu Tao repeatedly reminded about some important matters. Although the revenue of China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation has been surpassed by other companies, it can still contribute a lot of profits every year. Moreover, China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation shoulders half of China's ordnance system, and its ordnance production accounts for more than 70% of the national output.

Although the First Machine Factory can now produce Type 80 main battle tanks, Type 80 self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and other equipment, its output is very limited and far less than that of Panshan Group.

Moreover, the pass rate of these equipment produced by other units is not as high as that of Panshan Group, let alone the excellent rate.

After the integration, although the rank of China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation is lower than that of China Northern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation, its importance is greater!

In Liu Tao's mind, China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation is the most important and core among all second-level companies!

This is also why, when Feng Defeng was transferred to China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation, his ranking among party group members soared and directly reached third place.

If Li Fuguo had not joined the party group earlier, his ranking would even be lower than Feng Defeng.

The ranking of Panshan Group's Party Committee members, except for Liu Tao, the unshakable Party Committee Secretary, is mainly determined by two factors: one is their positions, and the other is the order in which they became Party Committee members.

Now, with the six combined brigades about to be separated from Panshan Group, the countdown to Li Fuguo's departure from Panshan Group has also begun. By then, Feng Defeng will even become the second-in-command of the entire Panshan Group.

(End of this chapter)