1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 475 This is outrageous!
On December 12, DZ City Urban Infrastructure and Industrial Upgrading Fund Co., Ltd., which had been in preparation for more than a month, was finally established.

This super company was originally established to support a series of infrastructure expansions and industrial developments after Dezhou was upgraded to a prefecture-level city, so the listing time is very appropriate... Not only is it appropriate, but it also clearly expresses the relationship between this fund company and the subsequent development of Dezhou, as well as the infinite hope the city has for it.

Generally speaking, urban investment companies are either public institutions or wholly state-owned enterprises, and they are directly under the leadership of local competent authorities.

However, thanks to the times, in this era of crossing the river by feeling the stones, this newly established, experimental super enterprise is not a traditional urban investment company, but a fusion of "urban investment + large fund";
Not only that, it is neither a public institution nor can it be regarded as a local state-owned enterprise in the pure sense, but rather another type of integrated state-owned enterprise of "local + central enterprise".

Of course, although DZ City Urban Infrastructure and Industrial Upgrading Fund Co., Ltd. is very different from the traditional urban investment companies, its basic organizational framework is the same as that of urban investment companies... In fact, the organizational frameworks of large state-owned enterprises of the same category are similar these days. Even if the framework of Dahua Company is moved over, it will not feel much incongruity.

The only three differences are:

1. Under the shareholders' meeting, although the board of directors, supervisory committee and party committee group are run in parallel, according to the articles of association of the new fund company, the authority of the party committee group has been fully guaranteed and has returned to the level of a normal state-owned enterprise. This is significantly different from the actual situation of Dahua Company.

2. Although Dahua is the sole operator and manager of the new fund company, there is a "Strategic Committee" above the management team and below the board of directors; that is to say, although any operating decisions of the new fund are initiated and made by Dahua, these decisions must be explained to the Strategic Committee and approved unanimously.

This means that the board of directors of the new fund company will only be involved in three matters: additional funds, equity changes, and dividends, while the specific project participation rights and decision-making rights are all delegated to this "strategic committee."

What’s more interesting is that Yang Mo is not only the general manager of the new fund company, but also serves as the chairman of the strategic committee.

This architectural design, which looks like taking off pants to fart, actually has a profound meaning when you think about it carefully.

3. Although the main framework departments under the new fund company seem to have borrowed the design of Dahua Company, the board office, operation management department, compliance and risk control department, investment management department, general office, planning and finance department, etc., all look similar, but two new functional departments of the same level have been added - the Party Committee Office and the Discipline Supervision Office.

It is obvious that the business/process supervision of the new fund company will be much stricter than that of Dahua, and the will of "following the party" will be more implemented.

Well, the fund company is extremely important to the future urban construction and industrial development of DZ City, and its size is also huge. There is no problem with being so cautious in organization.

In fact, the organization had already talked to him, telling him not to have any psychological burden and to carry out future work as planned.

Yang Mo naturally expressed his understanding of this, and then he readily let his new colleagues see his working style at the first mid-level and senior management meeting on the day of the fund company's listing...

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“Only by keeping our mission in mind and not forgetting our original intention can we achieve our goals. Since the name of our company is [DZ City Infrastructure Construction and Industry Upgrading Fund Co., Ltd.], we should understand what our mission is!”

Yang Mo did not make so many opening remarks. After a few simple greetings, he waved his hand and asked the staff transferred from Dahua Company to distribute paper documents to each person, whether familiar or unfamiliar.

"A tall building starts from the ground. Dezhou has never pursued a glamorous surface, nor does it want to be a donkey dung egg with a smooth surface. Therefore, as long as I am the general manager, Dezhou Urban Property Fund will not invest a penny in useless face projects!"

With a burning gaze, he looked around at the dozens of faces in front of him, and after announcing his attitude in a pointed manner, Yang Mo waved his hand and said, "No more nonsense, let's look at the data!"

Although the people transferred from Dahua Company have long been accustomed to the vigorous and decisive style of their boss, the cadres transferred from other regions and other units were all stunned... You have just taken office, and you are young and proud. This is the first time you meet everyone. Shouldn't you chat with the people in the audience in a friendly manner, interact with them, and then give a passionate inaugural speech?
Going straight into work so soon?
This, this, this is too unreasonable, right?
With you taking the lead, what do you expect the secretaries, deputy general managers, and committee members behind you to do?
All the prepared manuscripts were written in vain!

But they were not stupid. When they saw their colleagues from Dahua Company opening the covers of the documents as quickly as possible, they immediately began to follow their example. Some strong leaders liked to set examples as examples when they first took office, and they did not want to be the unlucky ones.

"As of the third quarter of this year, Dezhou, I mean the entire Dezhou region, has accumulated a total industrial output value of more than 44 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.6%. The fourth quarter data has not yet come out, but according to the prediction of the comrades in the Statistics Bureau, the fourth quarter will be even better, and the year-on-year growth may soar to more than 28%... It seems to be a very ideal number."

Yang Mo paused for a moment, and found that many people had no feeling when they heard this number, and some even showed a hint of smugness on their faces. He snorted and knocked heavily on the podium: "Just looking at the surface data without digging deeper is just being a hooligan!"

"As a member of the economic development of DZ City and the general manager of Dahua Company, I can tell you responsibly that I know better than anyone here how such a high growth came about!"

"Since May, relying on the increasing number of local new factories and supporting infrastructure in the commercial demonstration center investment projects, a large number of heavy industrial products such as building materials, electromechanical, and mechanical equipment have been absorbed;"

"Since August, the sudden tourism boom in DZ City has absorbed a considerable amount of light industrial products represented by textiles and souvenirs;"

"Since October, Dahua's package of brand overseas activities has created a large number of production orders for agricultural and sideline products, food, daily necessities, and medical and health products, directly promoting the output value of a series of supporting links such as agricultural materials, plastic chemicals, papermaking, artificial fibers, packaging, handicrafts, and transportation!"

The expression on his face was full of seriousness that was seriously inconsistent with his age. Yang Mo's tone was full of heaviness: "It is no exaggeration to say that if we exclude the driving effect brought by the series of business activities led by Dahua Company, even if we only do the demotion assessment..."

"Then the year-on-year growth of DZ City's industrial output value in the first three quarters of this year is also negative, and it is at least 5% negative growth... Do you understand the problem here!?"

Although they did not mind Yang Mo establishing his authority when he first took office, and the organization had repeatedly emphasized that they must pay attention to the way of cooperating with Yang Mo, the newly appointed Party Secretary Zhao Yongde could not help but feel uncomfortable when he heard Yang Mo repeatedly emphasize the contribution and indispensability of Dahua Company at the first mid- and high-level meeting on the day the new fund company was established.

I know that Dahua is an awesome company, and I also know that DZ City's brilliant performance this year is closely related to Dahua. But today is the first day that the fund company is listed. Your repeated emphasis on this will not only shake the morale of the troops, but will also inevitably make people doubt the intention of your words!

To know,
Thinking of this, Zhao Yongde checked the switch of the microphone in front of him, coughed lightly, then turned his body slightly and reminded in a low voice: "Mr. Yang, most of the comrades here have never been involved in investment work before, and lack relevant professional training. They may not be familiar with terms such as devaluation assessment, and may not be able to figure out the key points... Otherwise, let's skip this section for the time being."

Zhao Yongde's reminder was very obscure and his words were very carefully chosen, but he was very sure that Yang Mo could understand his intention of interrupting him.

Yang Mo glanced at Zhao Yongde calmly, then smiled softly: "Secretary Zhao is right to remind you."

Having said that, he did not want to skip the next words: "Why after removing the traffic boost, the industrial output value of DZ City in the first three quarters actually showed negative growth... Open the third page of the data in your hand and you will know it at a glance!"

"As of the third quarter, the export competitiveness coefficient of primary agricultural products in DZ City has risen from 1989 in 0.089 to 0.113 this year... This is a very good trend. At least it has exceeded the critical line of 0.1. At least it proves that the greenhouse vegetable planting, 817 broiler breeding and standardized breeding work that DZ City is vigorously promoting have achieved initial results and have become quite competitive in the international market."

"The export competitiveness coefficient of agricultural and sideline products has also increased from 0.0461 last year to 0.078 this year... Although it has not reached the ideal line of 0.1, the speed of improvement is gratifying, which also proves that DZ City is now starting to attach importance to the combination of publicity and cultural creation. The route is correct."

After talking about two sets of very gratifying data in one breath, Yang Mo's tone suddenly became sharp: "But in sharp contrast to agricultural and sideline products, the export competitiveness coefficient of our industrial products... is simply hard to describe!"

"The export competitiveness coefficient of textile fibers and their waste (mainly cotton textiles) has dropped from -0.0093 last year to -0.0114 this year... This means that the technology of our textile fiber products is not only significantly weaker than that of similar international mainstream products, but also the quality control is far behind that of similar foreign products."

"Organic chemicals have dropped from -0.0107 last year to -0.013 this year... This is based on the fact that Texas has carried out joint scientific research projects with a number of pharmaceutical companies in the island country this year and introduced a series of generic drugs and supporting projects. Without the support of these projects, it is not impossible for the export competitiveness coefficient to drop to -0.02!"

"Electrical machinery and electrical appliances have fallen from -0.249 last year to -0.251 this year... Although the decline does not seem to be very large, everyone should understand that electrical machinery and electrical appliances are one of the main export industrial product categories of our Qilu. Every one-thousandth drop in the export competitiveness coefficient is a huge blow to the local industrial manufacturing industry!"

"In addition, the mechanical equipment and transportation equipment also dropped from -0.2341 last year to -0.2607 this year. The decline is simply shocking... If the export coefficient continues to drop like this, these equipment will only be sold as scrap metal except for being exported to underdeveloped countries in Africa!"

"What is even more worrying is our telecommunications equipment..."

Yang Mo read out seven or eight pieces of data in one breath. His tone was heavy and his description was painful. Even people who didn't understand industrial economics could realize the difficulties that industrial products in Texas are facing today.

In fact, by now, everyone has heard that the export competitiveness coefficient seems to be an extremely important criterion.

If it is 0, it means that your product has reached the basic average level internationally.

If it reaches or exceeds 0.1, then your competitiveness is very strong;
But on the contrary, if your export competitiveness coefficient is negative, or even falls below -0.1, that would be very serious.

Among the industrial products in Texas today, all those with a relatively large share have negative export competitiveness coefficients, and some even fall below -0.2... Although Yang Mo did not explain what it meant for the export competitiveness coefficient to fall below -0.2, after comparing the before and after, and thinking about it, you will know what it means.

You know, it has been twelve years since the reform and opening up. Today, the country is flooded with various foreign products. In this era of increasing liquidity, the export competitiveness coefficient is not only related to foreign markets.

Feeling that the situation was developing in a rather bizarre direction, Zhao Yongde could no longer sit still. He glanced at the chairman of the Supervisory Board and several old comrades from the Strategic Committee who looked unhappy. After hesitating for a moment, he finally pressed the switch of the microphone in front of him. Taking advantage of Yang Mo's pause, he chuckled and interrupted, "Indeed, DZ City is facing many difficulties now, but that is also the original intention of the organization to establish our Urban Property Fund Company!"

"But as the saying goes, we have to walk one step at a time and eat one bite at a time... Although the task facing our Urban Property Fund is both difficult and huge, it is precisely because of this that we need to carefully analyze and deal with every objective problem, and then work together to overcome the difficulties!"

At this point, Zhao Yongde turned around and looked at Yang Mo with a smile, and asked in an inquiring tone: "Mr. Yang, today is the first day that the Urban Property Fund Company is listed. This is also the first formal meeting of all of you. How about... let's put work aside for the time being and let everyone introduce themselves to each other first?" Zhao Yongde's intention was very obvious, and everyone could hear it.

Objectively speaking, from a standpoint, there was nothing wrong with Zhao Yongde's pursuit of "unity"; and he also took Yang Mo's face into consideration. Although he did not want Yang Mo to establish too much authority in such an occasion as a "meeting with new colleagues", he did not embarrass Yang Mo in any way, neither in his words nor in his words... You know, he is the secretary of the Party Committee, and in terms of organizational principles, his status is slightly higher than that of Yang Mo, the general manager.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yongde's good intentions were in vain. Yang Mo just shook his head and said, "The teacher said that we have to seize the day... Now Dezhou has been promoted to a prefecture-level city, the plate has become bigger, and the responsibility has become heavier... But as the foundation of Dezhou, the actual situation of the industrial manufacturing industry is extremely bleak. The industry has more than a thousand employees of state-owned enterprises, and the situation is so urgent that we can't wait to come!"

At this point, Yang Mo turned around and tapped the chairman's table gently: "I am a person who doesn't like to waste time, and the current situation does not allow us to waste time. So I personally think that since all the company's management cadres are here today, it is better to do it today than to wait for a day. Today, I will arrange a few urgent tasks... As for getting to know each other, we are colleagues in the same company. There will be plenty of opportunities to interact with each other in the future, and there will be plenty of time to get to know each other in the future!"

After these words were spoken, not only Zhao Yongde, but the other executives on the rostrum could not help but turn their heads to the side.

Assign work tasks directly instead of discussing them?
I know that Dahua is the sole operator of the fund company. As the general manager, you do have the right to make management decisions, but...

Should we go through the basic process?
If you assign tasks directly without discussion like this, where will you put the Strategic Committee and those veteran comrades?
Taking a deep breath, Zhao Yongde reminded in a low voice: "Boss Yang, if I remember correctly, the company was only listed this morning, and there has been no strategic discussion meeting yet, right? Before assigning tasks...shouldn't we first inform and explain to the Strategic Committee?"

Although the emphasis was on the Strategic Committee, it was also a reminder to Yang Mo that according to procedures and conventions, for any major matters, you not only need to explain and clarify to the Strategic Committee, but also need to reach a consensus with the Party Committee group.

Unexpectedly, Yang Mo just turned off the microphone and smiled: "Business is like a battlefield, every second counts. The situation is urgent now, so I can only use my emergency decision-making power as the general manager... Besides, all the comrades of the strategic committee are here. If there are any different opinions, you can raise objections on the spot!"

"Temporary decision-making power" and "veto power" can be said to be the two essential rights for Yang Mo to take on a task. The former guarantees his right to make emergency decisions against all odds when necessary, while the latter gives him the right to negate some unreasonable group resolutions through subjective judgment. These can be regarded as his two magic weapons to protect himself since his debut… At the end of the year, you can settle accounts with him based on his transcript, but at the beginning of his tenure, if he lacks any of these two powers, don't expect him to step out and take the lead in the work.

Given the size and nature of Dezhou Urban Development Fund Company, it is naturally impossible for the organization to violate the principle of democratic centralism and grant him a veto power. However, based on his past outstanding performance, there is no problem or criticism in giving him emergency decision-making power... In fact, the cumbersome voting process commonly seen in large state-owned enterprises is indeed not suitable for today's rapidly changing era.

When Zhao Yongde heard Yang Mo mention the words "temporary decision-making power", his eyelids twitched a few times, but he remained silent in the end.

The reason why the organization designated Dahua as the sole operating manager of the new fund company was, on the one hand, because there was no more suitable candidate; on the other hand, it wanted them to play the role of "bringing in the new with the old."

Therefore, whether it is reporting and explaining to the Strategic Committee or making detailed explanations to the Party Committee group for major projects, a considerable part of the considerations is actually to ensure the smooth continuation of this "old and new" mechanism.

Yang Mo was absolutely aware of this, so even if he took ten minutes in advance to hold a strategic discussion meeting, just to make it look like a formality, and then spent another ten seconds to communicate with him verbally, and then directly arranged the work at the meeting, there would be no difficulty at all.

But Yang Mo did not do so. Instead, he bypassed the Strategic Committee and himself and directly used his emergency decision-making power...

Obviously, this is intentional.

The purpose is to use the "first impression" to greatly weaken the presence of the strategic committee and the party committee group, and then recreate the original scene of Dahua Company, so that everyone will gradually get used to having only one voice in the fund company.

He didn't understand why Yang Mo was so overbearing and strong right from the start when the organization had already made so many concessions, both overtly and covertly...

But he knew very well that the situation was stronger than the person. If he had a conflict with Yang Mo now, he, the party secretary, would be the one to be punished, not the young general manager beside him.

Damn, if the personnel changes in the DZ city authorities hadn’t been so drastic, my work wouldn’t have been so difficult to carry out!

After quickly guessing some possibilities, Zhao Yongde felt for the first time what it meant to be affected by a fire in the city gate and sighed helplessly...

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Seeing that the new work partner next to him had no "working principles", Yang Mo looked at him with a little surprise, then frowned, and then turned on the microphone with a normal expression: "So far, Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company has issued corporate bonds to 27 sponsors for 7 key urban infrastructure projects and 29 industrial projects, raising a total of 18.2 billion funds... Together with the special funds for urban construction injected by DZ City, the company has a total of 22.5 billion funds in its account!"

Looking at the faces of the people below who may have known about this for a long time but were still a little stunned by the figure, Yang Mo said calmly: "Although 22.5 billion is a lot of money, it is just a drop in the bucket for a prefecture-level city that is in urgent need of expansion... For the manufacturing industry in DZ City, which is still experiencing a general ecological decline, it is not even a drop in the bucket."

"I don't want to discuss in depth why the manufacturing industry in DZ City has experienced ecological decline. I just want to tell you one fact. If you want to change the current status of the manufacturing industry and the thousands of companies in DZ City, the only way out is to clear inventory, accumulate funds, introduce technology, improve quality, and go overseas to grab market share!"

"But I emphasize again that the organization spared no expense to set up a fund company like ours, not for us to talk big... Everyone can see the problem, and everyone can come up with a few solutions, but whether you can do it or not is the solution to the problem!"

Yang Mo knocked heavily on the table, his face cold and stern: "Since I just mentioned the path of clearing inventory, saving funds, introducing technology, improving quality, and going overseas to grab the market... Based on the principle of whoever raises the problem should solve it, then we can't just talk nonsense."

"So, taking advantage of the listing of Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company today, I officially announce..."

"The main target market is the Bear Country."

"The main bodies are the competent authorities of DZ City, Lanling City and Dezhou Urban Property Fund Company;"

"Dahua Company, Drilling Company Momobai Investment, and Xialiu Sales Agency are the central receiving points;"

"The local state-owned enterprises and township enterprises in Dezhou and Lanling are at the end;"

"The light and heavy industrial products exchange plan with an initial scale of 10 billion per year... that is, the first phase of the [inventory reduction] plan, has been officially launched!"

"Now, please ask the heads of the following departments to carefully keep records of their work!"

"Planning and Finance Department..."

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On the first day of the company's listing, Yang Mo, the renowned general manager, left aside the other leaders who were waiting to speak, and then, somewhat unreasonably, personally arranged the work tasks and deadlines for each department. All those who came into contact with Yang Mo for the first time could not help but pinch their thighs secretly.

Damn it,
This is too swift and decisive, and the work process and arrangement are too transparent! ?
This, this, this...

Is it really good to be so transparent?
If you don’t reserve some “flexibility zone”, aren’t you afraid that the leaders of various departments will be unhappy?

And...whoever raises the problem should solve it?
Doesn't this mean that in the future at Texas Urban Real Estate Fund Company, we can no longer just make speeches at meetings and get away with it as we did before?
Damn, the general manager of the company has already demonstrated it himself. If you still want to slack off and just pick two problems at work to deal with them on paper, you can just wait for the organization to call you for a talk!

more importantly……

This new boss is too powerful!

It's only the first day, and he doesn't even bother to give a damn about the face of the Party Secretary and the senior comrades from the Supervisory Board and Strategic Committee. How can we get away with not completing the tasks to the specified standards within the specified time as required by him?

Looking at the situation, it’s useless no matter who tries to plead for mercy!
It is possible that the general manager's thunder will strike you directly before the organization comes to talk to you.

Damn it, life is going to be difficult from now on!

Realizing this, almost everyone unconsciously put their legs together, and then listened quietly without breathing to the instructions given by a young man on the stage. Even if it was about other departments, they did not dare to miss a single word, for fear of accidentally missing a word and not understanding the general manager's complete intention, which would then cause them to suffer the consequences.

As for the other leaders on the rostrum, some of them began to look gloomy as they listened to Yang Mo's incredibly meticulous arrangements of the nodes.

Damn, this guy named Yang is really protective of his food.

No respect for old comrades!
There is no intention of getting closer to the organization at all!

There is no awareness of uniting people from all walks of life!
It's outrageous!!

(End of this chapter)