1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 48 Oh my, who told us Qilu people to be straight? (1)

Nowadays, any state-owned enterprise is bound to have its own tertiary industry projects - these can be as small as a few small stores or as large as an industrial cluster in a certain industrial chain.

Therefore, in order to avoid certain troubles, since ancient times, a large number of state-owned enterprises have separated departments responsible for tertiary industry projects and directly managed them.

However, since this department with a strong commercial connotation did not conform to certain mainstream values ​​for a long time, people were reluctant to mention it. Not only did it have a very low presence in the management, but even its name was often not suffixed with "department".

This is the current situation of "Xintai Management Company".

As the tertiary industry management unit of Southwest Drilling Company No. 1, not only does its name have a strong private color, but the person in charge, Qin Xin, is only a deputy section-level cadre. Unlike Director Zhang, who is also a deputy section-level cadre, this small cadre in what is essentially a subordinate department is not only one level lower than others, but he is not even qualified to attend some important meetings of the company. Even at the annual company meeting, he can only sit in the last row and be a mute.

There was no way. Many tertiary industry projects in state-owned enterprises these days were completely different from commercial projects as understood by later generations. For various reasons, not only did they fail to generate much real profit, they often had to bear some unwarranted blame - in a situation where he was not involved in any of the blame, he, as a manager, was in such a miserable state.

Therefore, when he received a temporary notice yesterday asking him to prepare the materials and hold an advance discussion meeting on project planning that he had never heard of before with several departments this afternoon, he subconsciously thought that it was another department that had made a mistake and they wanted him to take the blame - this kind of thing is not uncommon. Although the business of Xintai Management Company has basically little to do with other departments, with the skills of those old foxes, it is a piece of cake for them to implicate themselves in the cause and effect.

However, when he walked into the meeting room with great reluctance, he immediately realized something was wrong.

As the saying goes, small matters should be dealt with in big meetings, and big matters should be dealt with in small meetings - unlike the usual meetings that were packed with a whole room, there were only four people sitting in today's conference room.

Mr. Li, Chief of the Asset Management Department,
Chief He of the service team,

Director Zhang from the General Office,
as well as……

A young man I had never seen before.

Damn it! Except for that young man, the rest are all department heads!

You know, although they are all departments, they are divided into [department-level departments] and [section-level departments]. The difference of one level makes a huge difference in status. Now the heads of the three section-level departments have called me to a small meeting...

What's happening here?
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"At present, the company has a total of 113 tertiary industry projects, covering areas including catering, food processing, primary processing of agricultural products, short-distance logistics, auto repair, civil engineering, clothing factories, hotel accommodation, personnel agency, and mineral investment..."

"Except for the catering projects that are fully self-operated, the rest of the tertiary industry projects are basically opened according to the needs of various departments, and are mainly small and micro enterprises..."

"For example, the food processing project has the largest number of projects... At the beginning, according to the company's document requirements, we cooperated with the service team to jointly open more than 40 projects such as cake shops, noodle shops, rice noodle processing factories, cold dish and non-staple food stores..."

Listening to the situation report, Qin Xin was holding the materials and reading out the data as if he was reading a textbook.
Yang Mo, who was sitting quietly next to Zhang Wenshun, seemed not to hear the strong sense of shirking responsibility in his words. He just recorded every piece of data in his notebook very seriously.

As we all know, even the state-owned enterprises in later generations were small circles of their own, let alone now?
Based on the concept of "small but complete", the tertiary industry projects of units like drilling companies almost cover the employees' food, clothing, housing and transportation - if conditions did not allow, Yang Mo directly suspected that they would learn from other units and directly set up a few projects such as color TV factories, washing machine factories, and automobile factories to meet the needs of employees and reflect the superiority of the unit.

Don't think it's an exaggeration. In later generations, a number of well-known color TV, washing machine and automobile brands were demarcated from the tertiary industry projects of state-owned enterprises.

Think about it, even mining is classified as the tertiary industry of the drilling company, so what is impossible? Although it is just a small coal mine, and its location is far away near the Magic City that Yang Mo can't understand at all.

But the consequences of doing so are also obvious. With a consumer base of more than 10,000 people in the drilling company, how can it possibly support so many tertiary industry projects? ——It is not decades ago. With the advancement of urbanization, changes in traffic conditions and policies, "enclosing land and growing on your own, self-sufficiency" has long become a thing of the past. If it were not for the service team's monthly blood transfusion and procurement in the name of labor insurance and welfare, at least half of these tertiary industry projects would not have even a penny of benefit.

Therefore, after hearing Qin Xin finally report the loss figure of "571.5 million yuan", which was enough to scare people at that time, Yang Mo was not surprised at all - this was only in 1988. After 92, it was not uncommon for large state-owned enterprises' tertiary industry projects to have annual losses of more than million yuan.

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More than half an hour later, under the slightly impatient instructions of Section Chief He, Qin Xin completed the report on the tertiary industry projects under Xintai Management Company in the most concise words.

"Now, let's discuss which experimental projects to be reported for approval next year. Which ones are more suitable?" As the largest funder of the company's tertiary industry projects, Section Chief He of the Service Team took over the topic. Looking at Section Chief Xiang and Director Zhang of the Asset Management Section who were thinking, Section Chief He's eyes stayed on Yang Mo for a while, and finally skipped him and locked his eyes on Qin Xin: "Manager Qin, you are the person in charge of Xintai Company and you know the company's tertiary industry projects best... You start first!"

Seeing that he was about to be thrown out to test the waters right from the start, Qin Xin's face was a little stiff: "Thanks to the company for considering me and letting me serve as the manager of Xintai Company. In the past six years, I have been carefully reading company documents every day, understanding the spirit of meetings, and practicing business skills... According to the instructions of the leaders, our company has also been paying close attention to changes in the external market environment, and trying to..."

He was interrupted by Section Chief He when he was halfway through his words: "Speak to the point!"

Seeing the impatience on Section Chief He's face, as if he was shooing away a fly, Qin Xin felt bitter. After pondering for a while, he said carefully: "If the leaders want to form a guidance group to come and guide our Xintai company's operations next year... I think the three projects of electric furnaces, electric water heaters, and short-distance transportation may be more suitable."

Qin Xin added: "According to my observations over the past few years, as the economic situation improves, people are more willing to spend money to improve their lives... and industrial products, even those with the lowest technological content, have much higher value and profits than agricultural and sideline products and food... In addition, with tens of thousands of employees and their families in our company as a bottom line, as long as we are willing to mobilize them, it will not be too bad, so..."

Looking at the somewhat timid man in front of him, Yang Mo suddenly looked at him with a new respect.

Objectively speaking, in the current social environment, the three projects mentioned by Qin Xin are actually quite reliable.

There is naturally no need to say much about short-distance transportation.

In this era of extremely underdeveloped logistics, the hundreds of trucks of various types in the drilling company's transportation team are simply priceless treasures if they can be mobilized;

Although more than 70% of them are special vehicles such as tankers, mud trucks, and cranes, the more than 50 ordinary Dongfeng trucks are definitely a force that cannot be underestimated at the moment.

And the electric heater...

Although this thing has only appeared in the mid-1980s, it is a luxury item in a sense due to the scarcity of electricity at present, and its audience is not actually very wide;
But people in later generations all know that with the development of the economy, this thing has become an absolute must-have product for families, and the market is boundless!
Although the electric water heater mentioned by Qin Xin is just a water tank welded with tinplate, with two electric heating rods connected inside, it is really rough and ugly, and has obvious safety hazards - but everyone who has been involved in this industry knows that even in later generations, the basic structure of this thing is nothing more than this.

Drilling companies have no shortage of technical personnel who are proficient in mechanical and electrical engineering. All they need to do is do a little technical public relations, solve safety problems, and then replace the shell with a nice-looking and fashionable one. Selling it for a few thousand yuan is not too expensive at all - of course, all this needs to be planned out 92 years ago.

As for the electric stove...

In fact, it is the small electric stove that Yang Mo uses to cook porridge on weekdays. Although this thing looks extremely low-end and the workmanship is extremely simple, don't forget that this is a critical moment for the country to vigorously promote urbanization. As more and more people move to cities to work and live, this electric stove, which can be called a household artifact at present, even if it has no technical content, but as long as it can make good use of its advantages as a central enterprise, the huge demand will definitely guarantee that this project will make a lot of money in at least 15 years.

In a word, it would be foolish to talk about business without considering the background of the times. As far as the current situation in China is concerned, although these three projects have little technical content and no moat at all, they can definitely be regarded as good tertiary industry transformation projects!
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But it is obvious that Qin Xin, a young manager who has been sitting on the bench in a marginal department for a long time, made a mistake.

For leaders like Section Chief He and Section Chief Xiang, who are not from related majors but are the top leaders of powerful departments, Qin Xin's suggestions full of practical content are too unattractive, to the point that they don't even want to listen to them.

To use the words within the system...it means lack of positioning and lack of conceptual thinking!

That's right!

At a certain level, leaders need not direct answers, but conceptual descriptions from a high level!
Just as Section Chief Xiang of the Asset Management Department frowned and was about to say something...

“Bang~Bang~!”

Following two knocks on the door, the receptionist stepped aside and a young man in his thirties appeared at the door of the meeting room.

Secretary Xie from the General Manager's Office!!?
Why is he here at this time!? ?

After recognizing who the person was, the expressions on the faces of the three department heads suddenly became serious...

(End of this chapter)