The car giant started by marrying the daughter of the king

Throughout 1989, a lot of things happened around the world.

But for BMW Group, everything is going well.

For Shenzhen and even China, it is also a thriving scene.

Although various changes in the world have also brought certain impacts to the country, the tremendous vitality that has erupted from the reform city with Shenzhen as the frontier has also been great.

The whole society is drawn into "money-making" activities.

People don't pay that much attention to the world.

As for college students from various schools, they are actively planning to join the BMW Group.

In the past two years, BMW Group has actively explored overseas markets and established a large number of branches in Polar Bear.

We have also stepped up promotion efforts in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and other regions.

As a result, the number of personnel who need to be sent to overseas branches will naturally increase rapidly.

The number of sales and technical support personnel working overseas alone now exceeds 1000, and is still increasing rapidly.

For China in 1989, this was definitely an exaggerated statistic.

Joining the BMW Group not only allows you to earn a high income, but also gives you the opportunity to go abroad.

This is definitely a very attractive thing at a time when going abroad is very popular.

"Boss Jiang, the various activities over at Polar Bear are getting more and more crazy now."

"Last week, the head of a bank in a certain city directly approved a loan of 9500 million rubles for us."

"The price is just $50 in cash from us."

Fang Huihui spent quite a bit of time with the polar bears this year.

After the polar bear visited in May, relations with China returned to normal.

BMW Group's business development in the polar bear region has entered a new stage.

Correspondingly, the speed at which various light industrial products from China enter Polar Bear is also accelerating.

In this regard, Jiang Hui's father-in-law was the most touched.

"Be careful not to leave any traces behind."

"Profits that should be given up can be given up appropriately."

"But the rubles obtained through loan must be exchanged for various raw materials, equipment and other materials as soon as possible."

"Then we will have the polar bears transported to various ports, and we will organize a fleet to transport them back."

In the next few years, there will be a huge feast for the polar bears, and Jiang Hui definitely doesn't want to miss it.

After seizing the opportunity, the strength of BMW Group can be further consolidated.

At that time, we can also enter a new stage of development.

"Our BMW Technology is now a well-known company in Hong Kong, and we can also get in touch with the shipping king."

"For the transportation business over at Polar Bear, we entrust their fleet to do the transportation."

"There shouldn't be any problem in this regard."

"As for the various transportation tasks within Polar Bear, since it is an upright export business, there is no resistance from within them."

"With proper management, the efficiency of transportation is acceptable."

"In the coming year, our newly built large warehouse on the edge of Shenzhen will receive a large amount of raw materials every month."

"It is estimated that by then, the aluminum ingots, special steel and other raw materials will be enough for our group to use for several years."

Fang Huihui thought about the various loan projects that the Polar Bear Branch was carrying out, and she was still worried about the future procurement scale.

Such massive purchases are carried out in the name of BMW Technology, a foreign-funded company.

Otherwise, you will definitely encounter many problems.

"I still say the same thing. The more raw materials and equipment we get back from the polar bears, the better."

"In addition, we can also find ways to communicate with talents related to various materials and mechanical design."

"As long as we have the talent who is willing to work in Hong Kong or Shenzhen, we will take as many as we can."

Compared with poaching people from the United States or Japan, the cost-effectiveness of Polar Bear talents is obviously higher.

Their technical level in the semiconductor industry may not be very high, but they are still very strong in traditional mechanical design and material research and development.

If the BMW Group wants to continue to develop rapidly in the future, it will naturally need more talents in this area.

"No problem. In the past year, there have been many problems and conflicts among polar bears."

"Especially after the various things that happened in Eastern Europe, it also brought a great impact to the polar bears themselves."

"Technicians who originally had no interest in working abroad are now starting to relax their attitudes."

"We have already established contact with technical personnel from some material manufacturers and equipment manufacturers."

“There will definitely be some gains in the future.”

Fang Huihui had a relatively clear idea of ​​Jiang Hui's thoughts.

Although there are still many things she doesn't understand, she has no problem with execution.

After chatting with Fang Huihui about the polar bears, Jiang Hui called his father-in-law again.

The spring breeze of reform has completely blown across the land, and the domestic economic development speed can be said to have entered a state of rapid progress.

Jiang Hui felt that he could add some fuel to the fire.

"Dad, I think you can find an opportunity to communicate with the transportation department to promote the development of national highways."

“If you want to get rich, build roads first.”

"The development of expressways can play a very important role in promoting the economic development of various regions."

“It will also boost the development of various infrastructure industries such as cement and steel, and promote large-scale employment.”

"With improved road traffic conditions, sales of various vehicles will also increase, and ultimately the development of the automotive industry will also benefit."

There is naturally no need to beat around the bush when communicating with Zhu Jiansheng.

Jiang Hui directly expressed his thoughts.

The current traffic conditions in various parts of China are very unsatisfactory.

In the future, every village will have cement roads, which is totally unimaginable for people today.

Most of the villages do not have cement roads yet.

Most county towns do not have highways yet.

There are still no expressways connecting most cities.

Such a situation is obviously very unfavorable for economic development.

In the past, when the overall environment was not so clear, Jiang Hui would definitely not have made such an exaggerated proposal.

But it is different now.

The era of large-scale infrastructure can definitely come ahead of time.

Once the pace of large-scale infrastructure construction is started in advance, China's development in the next ten years will be effectively guaranteed.

Later, through the era of large-scale foreign trade, China's economy will continue to develop rapidly for more than ten years.

By the time the international community reacted, China had already overtaken its rivals and its strength was completely different.

"Building highways has many benefits, but local governments don't have that much money."

Zhu Jiansheng immediately got to the point.

In this era, there is a shortage of money everywhere.

In the early 1980s, people were thinking of solving the problem by printing money, but this led to various forms of inflation.

Now I don’t dare to use this method easily.

Various practices will be more in line with the laws of economic development.

But this only made the lack of money even more serious.

“I think the funding issue can be solved through several options.”

"One way is to ask a local bank for a loan to build a highway, and then use the highway's toll collection rights as collateral."

"Another way is to attract foreign investment from places like Hong Kong and other cities, or to attract some people from the country to participate in the investment."

Jiang Hui proposed a plan for building highways that was commonly used in later generations.

Although there are very few cars now, the toll seems to be not much.

But Jiang Hui knew that future developments would be very fast.

The toll collection on various highways will develop by leaps and bounds.

This is totally a profitable thing.

Although the rate of return on investment may not be particularly high, it is actually very considerable for large funds.

"It's not that easy. Many banks don't dare to lend money to local units easily."

"Foreign investors are less interested in investing in infrastructure projects, as they feel the risks are high."

Although Zhu Jiansheng is not in charge of the traffic management department, he is still relatively clear about some basic situations.

In his opinion, Jiang Hui's proposal was somewhat taken for granted.

“As long as everyone can see the prospects of the project, there will be many people interested.”

"If it doesn't work, BMW Technology can support a few projects in Lingnan Province to try it out first."

“By then there will surely be other funds that will be interested.”

Although the BMW Group has launched many new projects in recent years, it earns more money every year.

So there is actually no shortage of money in the account.

Besides, there are countless banks willing to lend money to the BMW Group.

The loan interest rate is also much more favorable than that of other companies.

But Jiang Hui has never been interested.

If necessary, there is actually no pressure at all to take out an appropriate loan of several hundred million RMB.

Normal business operations will involve certain liabilities.

Unlike the BMW Group, which never borrows a single penny from banks.

All the banks have some opinions about this.

"You, BMW Technology, are interested in the highway project?"

Zhu Jiansheng asked back with a little surprise.

In his opinion, the highway project is too different from the business currently operated by BMW Group.

There is no need to engage in such business.

"Dad, I'm not primarily interested in the highway business. I'm interested in the country's major infrastructure projects."

"The launch of this kind of large-scale project will have a huge impact on the overall economy."

"If we at the BMW Group want to increase sales in China, we need to see significant improvements in the domestic economy and traffic environment to achieve better results."

"In the next five years, I hope that the BMW Group's sales volume at home and abroad will be equal."

"In ten years, domestic sales will exceed foreign sales." Jiang Hui knows that the potential for domestic automobile sales is huge.

However, if this potential continues to develop normally, it will only be gradually released after 2000.

Jiang Hui definitely doesn't want to wait that long.

"Since you are interested, I will try to promote it."

"But for such a large project, it certainly won't happen that quickly."

"It would be great if we could have a formal conclusion by the end of this year or early next year."

"If you are in a hurry, you can consider letting BMW Technology contact Lingnan Province to build some highway projects in the province first. The difficulty should be much lower."

Zhu Jiansheng thought about it for a while and gave his suggestion.

If Jiang Hui thinks this is necessary, then he will definitely support it.

After all, it doesn't seem like it will be harmful to China's development.

……

"Boss Jiang, we at Nanshan Equipment are planning to cooperate with the Polytechnic Special Vehicle Factory to build a brand new factory and focus on various engineering machinery."

Lin Qiaosheng knew the special relationship between Jiang Hui and Capital University of Technology.

As a rising giant in the domestic truck and engineering equipment fields, the influence of the Ligong Special Vehicle Factory is also constantly increasing.

Relying on the technology accumulated on Hummer military vehicles and intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, they are also like fish in water in the field of heavy trucks and engineering equipment.

Today, the sales volume of Ligong heavy-duty trucks has become the first in the segment.

That is to say, they do not produce light trucks like FAW and Second FAW, otherwise the top spot in domestic truck sales would have been held by the Polytechnic Special Vehicle Factory.

Although Jiang Hui was not directly involved in the operation of the Polytechnic Special Vehicle Factory.

However, when the early missile launcher was being designed, he personally helped with many of the designs.

Even the exterior design of the cab was personally designed by him.

If some design elements are slightly adjusted and used on heavy trucks, they will also look very modern.

After all, the appearance style of FAW's trucks is from decades ago and is completely uncompetitive.

“In the next few years, the future of the engineering equipment industry is very worth looking forward to.”

"The Polytechnic Special Vehicle Factory is planning to build a new factory, so it's just in time."

Jiang Hui naturally fully understood the practices of the Polytechnic Special Vehicle Factory.

He even suspected that they would make a big move so quickly because his father-in-law leaked the news to the Polytechnic Special Vehicle Factory.

Once a large infrastructure project is officially launched, there will naturally be a huge demand for various engineering equipment.

There are quite a few domestic manufacturers of engineering equipment, but they are all small in scale and their technology is not very advanced.

Therefore, it is the imported engineering equipment such as Komatsu and Caterpillar that have seized the market in many areas.

This kind of situation is definitely not what everyone wants to see.

"Yes, this time the factory they are going to put into production has increased its production capacity to more than 10 units."

"Many of the related installation equipment were handled by our factory."

"Through this opportunity, our factory has accumulated a lot of experience in various special equipment in the engineering equipment processing industry."

"If other manufacturers want to expand their factories in the future, we will most likely be able to get related orders."

In recent years, Lin Qiaosheng has led Nanshan Equipment into the fast lane of rapid development.

The development of industry is absolutely inseparable from the development of the equipment industry.

Even labor-intensive enterprises also have various equipment needs.

Not to mention related industrial industries such as the automotive industry and industrial equipment industry, the demand for equipment is even higher.

"You should also pay more attention to the technological upgrades of industrial equipment."

"During this period, we also brought back a lot of equipment from the polar bears."

"Some can be used directly, while others can be upgraded with a few modifications."

"Using this opportunity, you can arrange personnel to dig up a group of Polar Bear technicians and bring them back."

“They still have an advantage when it comes to some large equipment.”

"For example, large forging machines or die-casting machines will have relatively high demand in our country in the future."

Jiang Hui directly gave some specific instructions.

In the equipment industry, the difficulty of operating super-large equipment often increases exponentially.

In this regard, polar bears are very strong.

If Jiang Hui wants to move into some big projects in the future, equipment such as large forging machines will become quite important.

Only a few manufacturers in the world can produce this kind of equipment, so it is easy to be stuck in production.

"No problem. I'll go to Polar Bear in person in a while and see if I can recruit some technical experts."

"If that doesn't work, we can also invite a group of experts to come and exchange ideas through technical cooperation."

"We'll find a way to keep them here later."

Lin Qiaosheng prepared to implement Jiang Hui's instructions without any hesitation.

This is a good opportunity to expand the production scale of Nanshan Equipment. How could he have any objection?
In the past year, we have imported a lot of raw materials related to equipment production through Polar Bear.

Cast iron materials for some high-precision machine tools usually need to be left for a period of time, a process called natural aging treatment.

Natural aging treatment is to store the castings in a natural environment for a long time, using changes in ambient temperature and the continuation of time to promote the release of internal stress and the transformation of organizational structure.

During the casting process, internal stress will be generated inside the cast iron material. If these stresses are not released in time, they may cause deformation or cracks in the machine tool during later use, affecting the accuracy. Natural aging treatment helps to gradually release these stresses, making the casting size more stable and able to maintain accuracy for a long time.

Some high-end machine tools or machine tool castings with extremely high precision requirements may use natural aging treatment for several years or even more than ten years.

For example, some traditional European machine tool manufacturers, in pursuit of ultimate precision and stability, will leave cast iron materials for 5, 10 years or even longer.

With the development of technology, the practice of relying solely on long-term natural aging is becoming less and less common.

More often, a combination of multiple time-limited treatments is used, and the time is also shortened.

However, even so, the natural aging time of general high-precision machine tool cast iron materials is about one or two years.

This is obviously not very friendly to Nanshan equipment.

After all, Nanshan Equipment was established less than ten years ago.

If you rely solely on yourself, there is no cast iron material that has undergone a long period of natural aging.

When it comes to producing high-precision machine tools, there are certain natural disadvantages.

Now through cooperation with the polar bears, this problem has been well solved.

On the one hand, we got a large number of raw materials directly from polar bears that had undergone a long period of natural aging.

On the other hand, we import a batch of recently produced raw materials and place them in the warehouse to slowly wait for their natural aging.

Lay the foundation for the rapid development of Nanshan Equipment in the future.

Although the equipment industry is developing rapidly now, Jiang Hui knows that the speed will be even faster after the year 2000.

We should start stockpiling a batch of raw materials now so that they can be used after the year 2000.

For ordinary enterprises, if they are not large enough, it is difficult for them to afford such large-scale reserves of raw materials.

Not to mention that the raw materials will be prepared on a much larger scale than the current production scale.

The capital occupied alone is enough to make many companies stay away.

In the domestic "Eighteen Arhat Factories", the factory managers do not have enough patience to do this kind of work.

After all, more than ten years later, I am no longer in that position.

Even if the performance of the product has been greatly improved, what can it do?

On the contrary, if too many resources are invested at the moment, it will affect the company's operating conditions.

Due to various reasons, the development speed of domestic high-precision machine tools has not been ideal.

Otherwise, it would not be Nanshan Equipment's turn to take the lead.

……

"Mr. Jiang, we are going to expand the crude steel business of Nanshan Steel Plant to ensure that we have enough crude steel to smelt special steel."

"In the entire Lingnan Province, only Shaogang has done well in this regard."

"Taking advantage of the current reform momentum, I want to acquire Shaoguan Iron and Steel."

"Or at least acquire 51% of the shares."

With the rapid development of China, Nanshan Iron and Steel Plant naturally felt the changes very quickly.

For all industries to develop, they more or less need to involve various raw materials.

As the most basic raw material, steel is naturally the most affected.

Wu Ming was especially aware of the "big infrastructure" project proposed by Jiang Hui.

In this case, he must be worried that there will be a temporary shortage of crude steel supply in the future.

"It is indeed much more convenient to acquire a crude steel manufacturer than to invest directly on our own."

"Otherwise, recruiting personnel alone would waste a lot of our time."

Jiang Hui could fully understand Wu Ming's thoughts.

As the spring breeze of reform has blown across China this year, the pace of foreign-funded enterprises entering China has also accelerated significantly.

Under such circumstances, various acquisition businesses have become more common.

Some issues that were more sensitive in the past have now become relatively less sensitive.

No wonder Wu Ming felt that the opportunity had come.

"Yes, Shaoguan Iron and Steel's position in the domestic steel industry is not very high, but at least it has a relatively complete crude steel processing production line."

"When we acquire the equipment, we will upgrade and transform it to meet our production needs in the next few years."

"The key is that Shaoguan Iron and Steel is relatively close to us, so it will be more convenient to coordinate various tasks."

Wu Ming further explained his thoughts.

He came here today to formally propose this to Jiang Hui, and he must have done a lot of related work before that.

He hopes to formally implement this project within the next six months.

"No problem, you can communicate directly with the superior department of Shaoguan Iron and Steel."

"As long as we deal with the competent department, I think everything can be discussed with Shaogang."

Jiang Hui knew that many people envied the high salaries offered by BMW Group.

As long as Nanshan Iron and Steel Plant acquires Shaogang and improves their treatment, everyone will have fewer complaints.

As for the issue of the iron rice bowl, it is essentially a question of money.

Once the money is paid, everything will be easy.

The current wages of Shaogang workers are not low in the local area, but in the eyes of Wu Ming and Jiang Hui, they are not high at all.

Even if we buy out everyone's years of service and then have them join the new company, it won't cost much.

It may even serve as a classic case of foreign companies acquiring state-owned enterprises, so that other foreign companies will spend a little more money when acquiring them. (End of this chapter)