The car giant started by marrying the daughter of the king

Chapter 68 Big Moves in China's Automotive Industry
After seeing Chen Qi off, Chen Chenxing came over actively.

"Master, the clay model is a key node in the BJ212 upgrade project, and the factory attaches great importance to it."

"Since Chief Engineer Chen is planning to make the clay model confirmation a bigger deal, I think the project team office needs to do something as well."

Chen Chenxing is now more active than anyone else in Jiang Hui's affairs.

Many people now know that he is Jiang Hui's apprentice.

The master-disciple relationship in this era is definitely second only to the father-son relationship.

As long as Jiang Hui does well, his life as an apprentice will not be bad either.

"What specific ideas do you have?"

Don’t underestimate Chen Chenxing, who was a nobody in the technical department before. His professional skills were not very outstanding, and his interpersonal skills were not very smooth.

But he wasn't actually stupid, he just felt his previous job was a bit boring.

"The manufacturers on the automobile industry street are basically our supporting factories. The key parts such as the engine and gearbox on our BJ212 are all produced by these factories."

"Under such circumstances, only if these supporting factories are very confident in the project will they be willing to invest the greatest resources and energy to promote the upgrading of parts and solve various problems encountered in the mass production of parts."

"The best way is to invite them to visit the 1:1 clay model and let them have confidence in the upgraded BJ212."

"And this is also a chance for them to see your new abilities, Master."

After hearing what Chen Chenxing said, Jiang Hui couldn't help but nodded.

It certainly won’t do any harm to have the heads of the major supporting factories come and have a look.

Although having talent is like being pregnant, and everyone will know about it after a long time, but if you can get it all in one go, who would be willing to wait?

"I will discuss the specific arrangements for the clay model tour with Director Lu and Director Liang later and report this idea to them."

I didn't raise any opinions just now, so it's a bit inappropriate to go directly to Chen Qi now.

But there would be no problem at all if I reported to Lu Jianqiang and Liang Yi.

Letting more people know that the BJ212 upgrade project jointly promoted by the Design Department and the Technology Department was very successful will definitely be something that will be supported.

Soon, Jiang Hui went to implement this matter.

Several major supporting factories have also received calls and arranged for personnel to visit the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant this Saturday morning to view the clay model of the new BJ212.

When everyone heard that they could see the appearance and interior of the new BJ212 in advance through the clay model, they were naturally very enthusiastic.

When Zhu Jiansheng came over the next day, the clay model tour had almost been arranged.

“It’s really a good thing to make this event bigger.”

"Now there is a lot of work to be done, but Capital Automobile Manufacturing was able to come up with a brand new BJ212 design in such a short time, and also worked with the core supporting manufacturers to upgrade the three major components and other key parts."

"This can be used as a typical example for publicity. The prototype car has not yet been produced. Otherwise, we can invite higher-level leaders to come and inspect it."

Zhu Jiansheng immediately realized the importance of this matter.

If done well, Jiang Hui's image of being versatile and having strong professional skills will spread.

Especially during this period, the serialization of "Desire" in "People's Literature" made Jiang Hui very famous among many workers. From time to time, people would wait outside the design department just to see Jiang Hui's true face.

As an industrial enterprise, most of the workers in the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant are men. Even so, there are still one or two thousand female workers in the entire factory.

If Jiang Hui wasn't already married, his office would probably be filled with matchmakers.

Now that everyone knows that he has such a great talent in car exterior design, his popularity will definitely rise to a higher level.

"China's automobile industry is still far behind the rest of the world. The combined output of all the domestic automakers, including FAW and Second Automobile Works, is only about 150,000 vehicles this year."

"This number is not even a fraction of that in the United States and Japan."

In front of his teacher and father-in-law, Jiang Hui didn't have many reservations when speaking and basically said whatever he thought.

According to the information he has learned, Japan's domestic automobile production this year will exceed 1000 million vehicles, and America's will also exceed 800 million vehicles.

Especially in the sedan sector, the gap is even greater. Their daily sedan production is equivalent to China's annual production.

Of course, Jiang Hui, who knows the development trends of many things in the future, will definitely not lose confidence.

It doesn't seem like I'm part of this era. After seeing the huge gap, my mentality has changed completely.

It can be said that the 1980s and 1990s that followed were the eras in which China’s public intellectuals were most pro-Western.

The reason is that these public intellectuals have seen the huge gap between China and abroad, and feel that no matter how hard China tries, it cannot catch up with others.

But Jiang Hui knew that Japan and America now had very good urban construction and industrial development, but in another forty years, their cities would not have changed much, while China would have changed completely.

This seemingly impossible-to-catch-up gap can eventually be made up at a speed beyond everyone's imagination.

For Jiang Hui, this process naturally contains huge opportunities.

His automobile empire will inevitably be established in this process.

Of course, it was only 1978, so it was too early to think about starting your own company. It would take at least a few more years.

"The higher-ups are already aware of the situation you're talking about."

"Just yesterday, I heard that the First Ministry of Machine Building and other departments jointly sent invitations to well-known automobile manufacturers around the world to discuss cooperation matters, such as General Motors and Ford in the United States, Renault and Peugeot in France, Nissan and Toyota in Japan, and Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen in Germany."

"These car companies should have received invitations. Some of them must have seen the huge market potential in China and will come to China for inspection in the coming period."

"In the future, our automotive industry is likely to undergo a huge change."

As a professor of the Vehicle Engineering Department of Capital Institute of Technology, Zhu Jiansheng's sources of information are obviously much more informed than Jiang Hui's.

Just like what he just said, it was not reported in the newspaper, and most people had no idea that there was such a big move in China's automobile industry in September 1978.

The establishment of joint venture car companies such as Shanghai Volkswagen and Capital Jeep, which are well-known to everyone in later generations, are actually closely related to this major move.

Even some subsequent plans of companies such as General Motors, Ford, and Toyota are closely related to this incident.

Of course, only Jiang Hui could realize the great significance of this matter.

(End of this chapter)