The car giant started by marrying the daughter of the king

Chapter 228: Lighter, simpler, cheaper, classic is coming
Chaoyang Motorcycle Manufacturing Plant became a Sino-foreign joint venture factory.

This matter is not big or small and can be regarded as news in the capital area.

Especially when they heard that some companies in Hong Kong were willing to invest their new motorcycle technologies and equipment in the Chaoyang Motorcycle Manufacturing Plant, many people became interested in the joint venture.

"Director, I think we can put the negotiations with AMC back on the agenda. They are quite willing to form a joint venture with us."

As one of the people who paid the most attention to Jiang Hui's movements in the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant, Chen Qi was naturally the first to know that Chaoyang Motorcycle Manufacturing Plant had become a joint venture.

This made his heart itchy.

Although Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant now has the new BJ212, its development momentum is very good.

However, if it can form a joint venture with AMC or even General Motors and import new products, its influence in the country will be further enhanced.

Who knows, by then even FAW will have to lag behind their factory and eat dust.

"Well, this time we took the initiative to send them an invitation letter and asked them to come over to discuss the details of the cooperation."

"As long as they are willing to provide technical information on new models and related equipment and funds, we agree in principle to build a joint venture with them to build a car factory."

Zheng Haiming naturally knew why Chen Qi was so active in promoting the joint venture.

Although he will officially leave the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant and join the First Ministry of Machine Building next year.

But the development of the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant is definitely still something he cares about.

"I think they would agree to provide technical data, but they wanted us to import parts directly from the United States to assemble the models. This would cost a lot of foreign exchange and make us uncompetitive compared to domestic car manufacturers."

"This is a big problem, so the best thing is to ask them to support us in promoting the localization of parts from the beginning."

"We can use our existing supporting factories to produce parts for their new models. As long as we can localize most of the parts, the cooperation between the two sides will become very promising."

In the past two years, Chen Qi has also learned about the ideas of major global automobile companies regarding entering China.

For most manufacturers, in the initial stage they hope to produce car models by importing parts and assembling them locally.

This can shorten the preparation time to the greatest extent possible and allow new models to be put on the market as soon as possible, thereby maximizing their interests.

If China did not lack foreign exchange, this plan would not be a big problem.

When China's automobile industry later went global, it basically adopted a similar plan, first building assembly plants and then slowly expanding the scale of localized production.

But China is now going crazy due to the lack of foreign exchange.

The various parts that need to be imported for a car can easily cost several thousand dollars, or even tens or twenty thousand dollars.

With such a high import amount, if 10,000 cars are produced a year, wouldn’t all the foreign exchange reserves be consumed?
After thinking about it, Chen Qi also knew that this plan would not be approved by the relevant parties.

"When we negotiate, we can emphasize our demands in this regard, and the conditions in other aspects can be appropriately relaxed."

Zheng Haiming and Chen Qi quickly reached some preliminary ideas and prepared to focus on promoting this matter in the next step.

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For the people at Chaoyang Motorcycle Factory, the first thing they felt after the joint venture was a salary increase.

In order to win over the people and minimize the opposing opinions, everyone's salary was increased by another 5 yuan.

For workers, this increase is very good.

Many people only earn about 30 yuan a month.

For Jiang Hui, if each person's monthly salary increases by 5 yuan, his monthly expenses will increase by more than yuan, or less than yuan a year.

Compared with the possible future profits, this amount of money is nothing.

If you can't even earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year after all the hard work, then what's the point of the hard work?

"Director, is this the new motorcycle provided by BMW Technology?"

Li Zifu looked at the pile of drawings on Jiang Hui's desk, the most conspicuous of which was an appearance drawing.

Viewed from the perspective of later generations, the appearance of this motorcycle is ordinary and has no impact.

But in this era, it is still very eye-catching.

Jiang Hui made some optimizations and adjustments based on the later Honda 70 motorcycle, which is the same series of products as the domestic classic Jialing Honda 70.

The curb weight of this motorcycle is only 70 kilograms, and Jiang Hui simply named it BMW 70.

Compared with the 70 kg curb weight of the Jialing Honda 80 motorcycle behind it, it is 10 kg lighter.

Of course, in terms of engine power, it will definitely not decrease synchronously, but will maintain the same level.

This ensures that the maximum load capacity of the BMW 70 reaches 160kg.

In an era when there were not too many fat people, it could basically meet the riding needs of three adults.

And this is the official maximum load capacity. In fact, even if the load reaches 200 kilograms, the bike can still be ridden normally, but the wear of various parts will be accelerated.

The engine uses a single-cylinder air-cooled four-stroke engine with a maximum power of over 3.3 kilowatts.

In order to reduce weight, the BMW 70 is designed to be very simple, and the manufacturing cost can be further reduced.

"Yes, this BMW 70 is the next key project to be promoted in the factory. We strive to achieve mass production in the first half of next year."

Although many design concepts are copied from Honda 70, some changes have been made, and the copied models are not yet in mass production, so there is nothing to worry about. Even if it is exported to Southeast Asia and some disputes arise, it is difficult to determine that BMW 70 has infringed on the patent.

Especially in terms of appearance patents, as long as it is not a complete copy, it is the most difficult to judge.

As for China, although the patent law will soon be implemented, what will happen in the end is another matter.

Just like the labor law, it has existed for a long time.

But what?
How many companies still have a one-day-off policy?

How many companies fail to pay social insurance and provident funds normally?

Not to mention the 007 and 996 shifts without overtime pay.

"It's very challenging to produce it in half a year."

Although Li Zifu also hoped to launch the new product as soon as possible, it was already the end of November 1980.

There is not much time left for the factory to prepare.

"As long as this motorcycle is put into mass production and launched before June next year, all workers' wages will increase by 6%."

"If the sales of this motorcycle exceed 1 units next year, we will give everyone an extra month's bonus at the end of the year."

"If the sales volume reaches 2 vehicles next year, we will give everyone an extra two months' bonus at the end of the year."

"And so on, there is no upper limit."

When Jiang Hui said this, Li Zifu's eyes immediately turned red.

If any worker dares to lag behind, he will definitely be ostracized to death by others.

In the entire capital, no factory dares to offer such a bold incentive plan.

If the performance is really good, it is possible that everyone's income next year will be twice as much as this year.

"Director, rest assured, the BMW 70 will be available for sale on a large scale before June next year."

"Whoever dares to hold us back, I will fire him directly without you having to say anything!"

Li Zifu is also full of energy now.

Don't think that his family's financial situation will be easy just because he becomes the deputy factory director.

He also wants to have a few months' bonus.

"The premise is that the quality must meet the requirements. Don't let the BMW 70 be mass-produced but have a bad reputation. That would be meaningless."

Jiang Hui's next step is to further strengthen the total quality management methods introduced from Japan by the Capital Internal Combustion Engine Factory and then promote them in the Chaoyang Motorcycle Manufacturing Plant.

Many of the details in it are easy to stipulate but difficult to implement.

Just like supermarkets in later generations, why do Pang Donglai and Sam’s Club have such good reputations?
Is it really because their rules and regulations are more complete?
In fact, the root cause may not be this, but that others have implemented it well.

As for why it was implemented so well, the most important thing is definitely that the money was provided.

Jiang Hui does not intend to cut costs desperately in terms of labor costs.

A motorcycle now costs two to three thousand yuan, and there are many that even cost more.

How much of it can be accounted for by the workers’ wage costs?

Less than 1%!

There is definitely enough room to raise everyone's salary. When the benefits and other things are good, talented people will naturally come here on their own initiative.

This way you can save yourself the trouble of recruiting people!

"No problem. For the next six months, I will move directly into the factory and live there. I will definitely not hold you back."

Li Zifu felt that this might be the most precious opportunity in his life.

He had been working for more than 20 years and was considered experienced.

But I have never had that kind of exciting work experience.

This time, he is ready to give it a try!
Once the BMW 70 is really put into mass production and sales reach more than units, the Chaoyang Motorcycle Manufacturing Plant will be completely alive.

By then, the factory with more than 200 people will soon have thousands or even tens of thousands of people.

It is entirely possible that it will further develop into a large factory with tens of thousands of people in the future.

As the deputy factory director, his influence and power naturally increased.

Not to mention anything else, there will definitely be no problem in arranging a few children of relatives and friends to work in the factory.

Nowadays, many people are willing to pay several hundred or even 1000 yuan to arrange for a worker to enter a unit like the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant.

If the treatment at Chaoyang Motorcycle Manufacturing Plant is better than that at Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant in the future, then the value of the recruitment quota will be even greater.

Whether it is for money or favors, it is very worth looking forward to.

(End of this chapter)