My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 582 Good seedlings shouldn't be cut off.

The meeting room was also separated by floor-to-ceiling glass, giving it a distinctly modern metropolitan business feel.

The employees also noticed that the leaders who came to inspect today were somewhat different.

There were just too many security guards standing outside the conference room with serious expressions.

Only Ram, holding the child, stood at the meeting room door, completely unaffected by the scene, trying her best to let Xiaodie see her father.

So it's like a rural dropout girl taking care of a child standing at the door of a university classroom.

The atmosphere wasn't so serious or solemn.

So only the sharp-eyed elder sat sideways in the corner, occasionally observing this rare scene.

But he listened attentively to what Wei Dong was saying.

Because they directly used themselves as an example: "We came into contact with Jiangzhou Cosmetics Factory last November. It is one of the five golden flowers of Jiangzhou's light industry. It has a French chemical production line that cost more than 5 million yuan to import, but it has been losing money for two consecutive years. The reason is simple: it has good tools but does not know what good things to produce, let alone how to sell them."

The problem with PowerPoint right now is that it can't load images, but Steve said that they solved it by expanding the hard drive and memory and using a 386 chip.

The ability to display color images on a monitor alone would be a huge advantage, further highlighting Rang Weidong's "foresight".

Even now, Wei Dong is demonstrating his strengths in this way: "This is a common problem faced by most economic reforms, especially for third-tier factories, which are struggling to operate. So after we got involved, the problem we solved was what to produce and how to sell it."

Switching to the next mode will give you the most common frame mode in PowerPoint: Jiangzhou Cosmetics Factory (arrow), Ouniya (joint venture) Cosmetics Company (arrow), Zhuanertai Advertising (arrow), and Marketing Sales.

This clearly explains the previous helplessness of state-owned factories trying to do everything, and the current situation where professionals do professional work: "Jiangzhou Cosmetics Factory is collectively owned. We did not participate in the restructuring, nor did we allow state-owned assets to be lost. The shampoo fragrance, advertising investment, and brand packaging came from Hong Kong. So, the cosmetics factory earns money from production, and the joint venture earns money from branding. By making suitable products and advertising them on TV, we can enable more people to use good shampoo. Only then can the new life of this product be fully born."

In the mid-1980s, all sorts of stories and myths about talented people and product sales were rampant.

In reality, it was all just a bunch of reckless, chaotic attempts in the early stages.

With a little bit of cleverness and a little thought, even if it's not particularly good, as long as it surpasses all the other junk, it can stand out and sell like hotcakes.

The market of one billion people is here, and the foundation laid after initial industrialization is also here.

They can't produce high-tech products, but they can easily pass off ordinary consumer goods as high-end ones.

Rang Weidong had already expressed his feelings after working in Shangzhou, Jiangzhou, and even Pingjing. He didn't understand the macro-level stuff; he just felt that the sales model between manufacturers and consumers had collapsed, which led to the collapse of both ends.

The inability of manufacturers to pay wages and the reliance on ration coupons for supplies are both due to problems in the sales and distribution process.

So now, in a concise explanation, the next step would be a long string of detailed figures: "The shampoo production immediately went from 200,000 bottles per month in short supply to a capacity of over 700,000 bottles per month, an eightfold increase in output, and it is still accepted by the market. The monthly output value has reached 4.2 million yuan, and we strive to reach an output value of over 100 million yuan next year. This is a successful case of cooperation between collective ownership and joint venture brands."

People in Jiangzhou couldn't help but lead the applause.

As a pilot city for economic system reform under separate planning, they faced immense pressure. Among so many state-owned factories, this was the only case where such a successful reform was achieved without investing a single penny or violating the red line of state-owned assets.

Even the machinery factory, elevator factory, and computer factory that Wei Dong and his team led didn't have such immediate results.

In reality, what Wei Dong reported was the output value, which was the price of the cosmetics produced by the factory. The total market sales had just exceeded ten million per month.

Now that we're discussing restructuring, let's stick to the factory's data and not exaggerate or inflate the figures.

At least that's what the city thinks.

Everyone else joined in the applause.

Unexpectedly, Wei Dong changed the subject: "Okay, at this point, the product manufacturers are profit-driven. One ton of raw materials can produce two tons of product. Can I figure out how to produce three tons? If the price of raw materials goes up, in order to maintain profits, can I make the bottles smaller? These crooked ideas can make more money, which will definitely drive some people to take risks. What should we do?"

The crowd frowned again.

Wei Dong then began to explain: "Well, some places think this is a sign of rising capitalism, so they simply forbid it and want to go back to the old ways. Others have suggested strengthening ideological work within the factory and improving the Party Secretary's management. I think it would be better to have a quality supervision bureau or something similar to manage this..." As he spoke, he tapped on the keyboard, and the next page popped up: "The core of our shampoo is actually the addition of SOD, a biotechnology ingredient that can nourish the hair and scalp. So we now want to export our product to the US. In short, we hope to earn foreign exchange overseas. Well, to enter the US market, we must accept the strict review of the US FDA, which is the US Food and Drug Administration."

The projected screen displays several steps involved in the FDA review process.

"Don't escalate this to anything else. It's not hard to understand, is it? For them, these are imported goods, and they must strictly check whether they meet consumer safety standards. Food, medicine, and daily chemical products are things that come into contact with personal safety, and you can't joke about them."

Some people did show expressions of displeasure and resistance.

But being able to explain it face-to-face makes it easier to feel relieved. Right: "We... are now in charge of this work at customs?"

Wei Dong nodded: "Yes, the General Administration of Customs is responsible for the inspection. I won't go into the technical details, but the key point is that there's a clause in this review document that says if you apply for this review to enter the Citibank market, you have to accept unannounced and sometimes unannounced inspections of the manufacturers. They'll send people to our country to inspect the production process..."

Even so, some people couldn't help but shout: "Why should we! The era of imperialism pointing fingers is over!"

In fact, even Qin Yuye didn't know much about this matter, but Wei Dong happened to experience it. That private representative from Shangzhou City made finger-sized vacuum-packed snacks, and thirty years later he also wanted to export his products. There were plenty of people arranging this kind of thing.

They actually sold to Citibank, but a year or two later, Citibank came to inspect the production process and found hygiene problems. They issued a fine, and if the fine wasn't paid, the company was kicked out of the market.

Wei Dong had to suppress the urge to pinch his nose and speak as softly as possible: "What I mean is that we can do the same thing. Many manufacturers do have this kind of clever trick. They submit their products for inspection in a very thorough and complete manner, but after passing the inspection, they try to cheat. There should be a management department and management model to supervise the quality of products after they are legally launched on the market, instead of just stamping the seal and then ignoring it. They only go through the motions during the annual inspection. They are being responsible to their country's consumers. Whether a country is powerful or not is determined by its national strength. If we become strong, we can do the same thing. This is a business practice."

Some people are still shaking their heads.

Unexpectedly, it was the sharp-eyed one who chimed in: "This is the quality system certification used abroad now. We have no experience in this area. There have been many changes. When we were first liberated, it belonged to the State Administration of Foreign Trade because it mainly involved the quarantine of import and export commodities. Later, it was transferred to the Ministry of Health because they were more professional in this area. Agricultural products were still handled by a department under the Ministry of Agriculture. A new document was issued two years ago, and now the consideration is to merge the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Foreign Trade into the State Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Department. So it is temporarily under the jurisdiction of the General Administration of Customs. Xiao Rang said that this goes deeper. It involves adding domestic and foreign quality inspection on the basis of import and export inspection. Let's discuss it separately. Continue."

At that time, Wei Dong wondered what this person did for a living.

The temperament is completely different.

But the alternative proposal directly disrupted the rhythm of Wei Dong's original explanation of the case.

He wanted to emphasize the need to strengthen quality supervision, or to express that the problems encountered in a commodity economy are not the fault of the commodity economy itself, but rather the inevitable result of such human nature's interplay, and that strengthening management is the solution.

The core message is: don't think that my making money is the fault of economic opening up, and just cut it off and call it a day.

The approach should be to curb unethical and disorderly profiteering and promote orderly competition.

This unexpected deviation from the expected rhythm almost choked him.

But the advantage of PPT is that it's like having a draft paper; you can just follow the pages and continue speaking.

The background of the sanitary napkin factory is the simplest. The Pingjing factory can also be visited. Moreover, Weidong has now basically copied 80% of that Japanese production line and even used electronic industrial control programs, which has indeed earned applause.

The story of how the Xishan Electronic Computer Industrial Park slid to its current scale, transforming from a third-line artillery factory in the mountains into a camera factory, merging with other sister factories, and now incorporating the research and technological upgrading capabilities of various third-line factories such as the Computer Research Institute, has been reassembled into a computer product manufacturing scale.

Internally, it has achieved a monthly production capacity of nearly 10,000 units, and externally, it currently has a monthly production capacity of about 100,000 units, and is moving towards a capacity of 200,000 units.

Sure enough, someone else astutely noticed this huge gap: "Is it because domestic sales are basically unprofitable that you've slowed down the supply and concentrated your main production capacity on export products? I'm not criticizing you, I just want to inquire about this situation."

Wei Dong, who deliberately included this comparison in the PPT, breathed a sigh of relief and explained: "There are two reasons. First, this generation of computer technology is actually not mature. We are currently only producing and supplying to the financial and banking sectors, which are truly essential for their use. Then, we will try our best to provide it to educational institutions to cultivate students' understanding of computers and stimulate their interest. Sales in other markets are not very active. This thing is about to enter a period of rapid development. If we spend a lot of money to buy it this year, it may be outdated next year. So we will wait and accumulate strength to develop our own research and development capabilities."

Upon hearing this, everyone's expressions clearly showed a hint of agreement.

To everyone's surprise, Wei Dong added, "Secondly, of course, export earnings are very important. The Shanghai plant has driven several of our plants to work like crazy over the past three months, generating a total foreign exchange output value of US$2.4 million. This funding has helped us introduce a world-class memory chip production line to the Xizhou plant, and we are also striving to introduce the most advanced computer main chip production line. This will determine whether our domestic computer development will be left behind by foreign countries. So at this stage, we must make money first. Only with money can we burn into the black hole of semiconductor R&D."

Actually, the second half is no longer important. $2.4 million?!

Is this just the output value of these few factories for three months?
They were all surprised.

(End of this chapter)