My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 450 The original is the best.
This joint venture is absolutely the first of its kind in China, at least in Beijing.

The industrial production lines introduced in cooperation with Russia in the 1950s and 60s could never have had the awareness of modern industrial assembly lines, let alone the attitude of prioritizing quality above all else.

Don't even talk about the exquisite craftsmanship of Da Mao's products.

It must be the changes brought about by modern industry in Europe and America.

When Samsung first started making mobile phones, the founders used a road roller to crush their own inferior products.

To build a positive image externally and to serve as a warning and reminder internally.

It's quite a gimmicky move.

A landmark event in China's industrial reform and opening up was when the CEO of Haier refrigerators publicly smashed dozens of substandard refrigerators.

This established the brand's reputation for high quality.

The factory even put that sledgehammer in a museum.

As a result, no matter how much publicity there was later, it would be downplayed whenever it reached Beijing: "I remember that Wei Dong was the one who smashed the car with a hammer, right? I remember it so clearly."

"They didn't even consider who they were talking to when they delivered the first blow of reform and opening up..."

That very evening, CCTV broadcast the news: "Pingqi employees, in their reform and innovation, have dealt this heavy blow to quality..."

Although they didn't give Wei Dong a close-up of his face, there were just too many big shots present.

Witnessing firsthand the moment when everyone was so embarrassed they were practically digging their toes into the ground, the vice president stepped forward and, as "arranged" by the foreign general manager, smashed down the door.

There weren't many workers on site, but it wasn't enough to warrant a fight with the Chinese deputy general manager, especially one as impassioned as the general manager yesterday.

In short, it was just right to let Wei Dong do this.

The impression of this first joint venture car company was formed from the news. A car company that would smash itself if there was a quality problem was really awesome!
However, everyone present felt that this was a performance put on by Wei Dong and the American general manager, or that it confirmed Wei Dong's genuine understanding of this quality management trick.

After all, when Wei Dong was smashing it so loudly, there was a female translator explaining.

If Qin Yuye were an ordinary Hong Kong girl, she probably wouldn't understand the quality principles of the production line in this way.

Unfortunately, she happens to be the owner of a clothing factory, and her family has a deep understanding of brand operation. If there is a product quality problem, she will not hesitate to grind it up, destroy it, and remake it.

At that time, the deputy commander and a few others explained it very clearly in both languages ​​in a low voice.

He and Wei Dong achieved a perfect match.

They made a sudden quality incident appear as if it were a deliberate performance to showcase their quality control standards.

A perfect rescue.

Therefore, when the deputy commander begins his state affairs exchanges, Wei Dong will inevitably stay behind.

Facing a large group of financial and economic departments that quickly gathered, I provided a comprehensive explanation of the principles behind computer-based fund management programs.

This seemingly simple procedure, which replaces meal and shower tickets within companies, is actually a prototype of a banking or social security system.

The old security guard, who happened to be working in the tax compound, knew a detail that was hard for outsiders to know.

Even with the internet, important departments such as the tax system and banks still receive a huge volume of hard drive deliveries every year.

That's right. For industries that value confidentiality, accuracy, and data security, transferring massive amounts of data files is not as efficient as simply sending a hard drive via express delivery.

So in the early days, it didn't matter whether there was a network or not, since ledgers and such were all transmitted manually anyway, so they just switched to disk and hard drive transmission.

Wei Dong doesn't need to talk about networking. At this stage, most computers are standalone. He can still bring up the concept of striving to develop a local area network as soon as possible.

This alone is enough to make the domestic financial and economic departments extremely happy.

In 1985, when the mainland was just beginning to learn from foreign computer ticketing systems in the civil aviation system, a computer manufacturer suddenly emerged that could provide such inexpensive computer products and even customize software services.

It's a bit unbelievable that these departments are getting in touch with international "advanced" computerized financial systems.

But look at this magnetic stripe card access control system and meal ticket recharge system; they can indeed apply what they've learned to their own industry.

The key point is that this host, priced at 599 yuan, would not exceed 2,000 yuan in total price if paired with a domestic monitor, which would only elicit a lot of exclamations.

The machines they can access are mostly priced starting at 20,000!
One-tenth the price!
Moreover, all foreign computers would make these departments subconsciously wary.

How can we allow such important and confidential economic data to be exposed on foreign products, especially in areas like repair and maintenance? What if it gets stolen?
Now that these domestically produced products are cheap and plentiful, I'm naturally very interested in seeing some finished products right away.

Rang Weidong originally intended to promote computers in the education system as home computers and science popularization computers. At this point, he was definitely not thinking about how many units he could sell or how much money he could make.

Instead, incredibly, he managed to get involved in the group procurement of relevant departments.
Isn't this stealing business from that second son of a certain guy?

At this price point, it's actually quite difficult to snatch it away in this day and age, even if the King of Heaven himself came along.

This isn't like thirty or forty years from now, where a piece of equipment costing a few thousand can be manipulated into bidding for hundreds of thousands under various pretexts. This is because it's a complete system built from scratch, and everyone involved is watching closely.

So after Wei Dong finished his popular science explanation, he arranged for the leader of the Zhonghua Learning Machine to come over and have in-depth exchanges with these departments along with these computer experts.

It's equivalent to providing customized software program services to see if it can meet various accounting needs.

Some computer software that has already been imported from abroad can be inspiring.

After all, there are several major banks in more than 3,000 counties and cities across the country, plus various branches and sub-branches that use them extensively, so it's not easy to reach hundreds of thousands of units.

The price of the computer alone is over 20,000 yuan, not including the expensive banking and accounting software and printer accessories.

That must be billions of dollars in foreign exchange reserves!
So everyone present gathered around the two computers in the canteen and the gatehouse of the joint venture car factory, asking questions repeatedly and constantly beckoning their own people to help.

This immediately created a large meeting of over a hundred people at the joint venture automobile factory.

Even training computer technology personnel for these departments would be of great significance.

Let Wei Dong extricate himself from dealing with the Economic Commission.

I don't know if it's because of the hammering, or if this access control system is just good at "showing off".

With almost no obstacles, Wei Dong obtained the local trade quota legitimately!
According to the joint venture's foreign partner, the annual production capacity will increase to 5,000 vehicles next year, 7,000 the year after, and then 10,000 and 20,000 vehicles per year.

The minimum foreign trade quota is 500 million!

Improved year by year.

This is already ten times the foreign trade quota of Jiangzhou.

To keep Wei Dong's face calm, as if he were helping the car joint venture to negotiate a barter solution, everyone knew that this was actually an extra export privilege being granted to him.

The foreign exchange earned from these additional exports was used to offset the accounts for imported auto parts.

If we also include the import of computer chips, the import volume is two to three million US dollars per quarter.

This allowed Wei Dong to effectively obtain import and export volume roughly equivalent to that of a small free trade zone.

For others, it might be difficult to raise hundreds of millions of dollars worth of export goods every year, but for Rang Weidong, the export of jeans alone, which is currently worth two to three million US dollars per month, has already exceeded 100 million dollars for the whole year.

Now, he has been given further authority to expand his foreign trade quota, allowing him to export directly from Shanghai or arrange for other products to be sold overseas.

The various clothing, computer accessories, yak meat, and even SOD products they have on hand might actually be enough to support a large export trade.

Could it be that buying and selling airplanes will really be the next step?
Fortunately, Wei Dong's mental age of sixty allowed him to control his facial expressions quite well.

Sign the agreement quickly.

Finally, they went to meet with Collins, bringing along both the female translator and the male monitor.

Qin Yuye was still a little incredulous about her professional achievements, but she tried to emulate Wei Dong's calm demeanor.

Wu Xi didn't hold back in teasing him: "You've really gone all out this time, securing an export quota of 500 million. Do you know how fiercely everyone in the city is fighting for these import and export quotas?"

Wei Dong scoffed, "They're in it for the money, I'm here to help these scoundrels solve their problems!"

He then became quite blunt: "This joint venture car factory offers almost no preferential policies. Imported parts for assembly are subject to tariffs of over 100%. The water, electricity, and gas supply departments also treat the joint venture like a piece of 'Tang Monk's flesh,' demanding exorbitant prices. Frankly, even if I were a foreign businessman, I wouldn't invest in this factory."

Wu Xi drawled out, "Oh, so you're already thinking of yourself as a foreign businessman?"

Wei Dong helplessly emphasized: "Business is business. Doing business should be done according to the rules of business. It's a very simple matter of putting yourself in someone else's shoes. To put it simply, compared to Jiangzhou Economic Development Zone, we have offered very favorable conditions for attracting investment in all aspects, from taxation to land supply. Under such circumstances, it is actually quite difficult to operate a joint venture factory."

The Jiangzhou Economic Development Zone was basically the framework that he helped Director Tang to develop.

It can be said that it is close to the type of common development zone that will operate smoothly in twenty or thirty years.

But it's clear that there are too many non-commercial factors at Pyeongsang.

Wu Xi refused to change positions and insisted on staying and watching.

Wei Dong then bluntly stated to Collins: "I know you are having a difficult time negotiating this production capacity. Now, through my mediation, the previous five-year agreement of more than 10,000 units can be relaxed to gradually reach an annual production of 20,000 units, according to your production plan."

Collins was also excited: "Pete! Since you came, I really feel that work has started to become wonderful. I will write to head office and ask for a high salary for you."

Wei Dong no longer cares about this high salary: "But correspondingly, the import of parts for thousands or tens of thousands of vehicles every year puts a lot of pressure on our country's foreign exchange payments. So we not only require that the localization rate of parts be increased year by year, but also how about using barter to pay for these parts?"

Collins definitely refused without hesitation...

What era are we living in? Still engaging in such primitive transactions!

(End of this chapter)