My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 674 But I didn't expect this juicy gossip to be so unexpected.
At last year's Shanghai Auto Expo, there were 73 tentative orders, totaling US$12 million, which, when converted to RMB, did not exceed 100 million.

Even so, the contract fulfillment rate is less than 10%.

Because the material bureaus and industrial bureaus that signed the contracts were basically vehicle-using units all over the country, some people actually thought that signing a letter of intent meant they could take delivery of the vehicles, and that the money would be paid by the state.

For example, a certain construction corps signed a contract for twenty Pajeros, only to receive a tax payment notice three months later and find out that they had to pay a customs duty of 200% of the vehicle price!
So 90% of the orders were cancelled.

This kind of understanding is so outrageous.

Not only are these units outrageous.

The above example also shows that just one month after the exhibition, tariffs were raised from 120% to 200%, simply because they were unwilling to lose foreign exchange.

We strongly discourage the purchase of imported cars.

Therefore, last year's auto show, which mainly featured imported cars, only generated around ten million yuan in actual transactions.

What Wei Dong had told Secretary Zhai before was that if the number exceeded this figure, we would invite the leaders to give a closing speech, so that we wouldn't be left with no achievements.

So early in the morning, he took the initiative to buy ten Jiang'an minivans, and also asked Shen Laosan to take the opportunity to buy a Peugeot 505 station wagon from the Yuezhou factory.

I had heard before when I went to Yuezhou that this brand was in high demand and short supply there, and you basically couldn't get it without connections.

Now, if you come to Jiangzhou for a car show, why take the car back after the show? You might as well "deal with" it here.

A car priced at 200,000 yuan is not something many families in Jiangzhou can afford.

Besides wanting to ensure the exhibition's final "results" weren't too disastrous, Wei Dong was also drawn to the car's "eight-seat" feature.

Then they asked the auto repair shop and the urban construction company to buy more than ten domestically produced cars with good sales volume. In addition, they bought the few exhibition cars from Pingqi that they would buy in full, and bought thirty cars in one go!
The minivans were then given to high-performing branch offices in various regions, and the urban construction company also started using Cherokees in various locations. In Jiangzhou, various units concentrated on using domestically produced vehicles with higher failure rates.

His family quietly bought one-tenth of the property, spending around three million.

Besides boosting sales at the exhibition, it also serves as support for the development of outstanding car companies.

I was surprised when I saw the data that Lao Gao had compiled that evening.

This data had already been sent to Pingjing, and the Economic Commission immediately called to ask him what was going on.

Of course, the tone was one of surprise. If the parts sold for over 100 million, doesn't that mean the cars will sell even more later?

They probably only heard a few figures over there, but the list that Wei Dong received was definitely more detailed.

Especially after using the spreadsheet that Dong Xueqing was used to: "I was a little surprised too. I'll wait until tomorrow... and try to find out more about the situation tonight. It seems that more than ten of the better-selling domestic brands have signed a large number of spare parts supply contracts. The spare parts are distributed among seventy or eighty suppliers. Let me see, there is a company that makes full-vehicle wiring harnesses. Oh, oh, oh, this company has even signed a contract with 212. Some of the factories seem familiar. Overall, it is domestic brand car manufacturers that are signing orders. The joint venture factories only signed some seat frames for Cherokee."

The person on the other end of the phone was still in a good mood: "You made a solemn promise to me to increase the localization rate of joint venture brands, but it seems the results are so-so."

Wei Dong didn't launch into a long-winded explanation of the difficulties: "The joint venture factories are all state-owned factories. Do you think it's possible for a few excellent private car factories to improve and then push them to improve, otherwise they won't have enough motivation?"

This kind of thing happened frequently in various industries afterward, with private and privately-owned enterprises forcing state-owned factories to reform.

He hesitated for a moment, then said, "As the core of industry, it's best for car factories not to take such big steps."

Wei Dong had previously warned car manufacturers that only a few of the best privately owned companies should be retained, mainly to concentrate resources on producing high-quality cars.

He hasn't realized yet that he's distorted the tree's growth rings: "Then I'll investigate further in the next couple of days and report back to you."

The other side also said, "The effect is satisfactory. Everyone is saying it's good. I'll first ask the Sichuan province to help you set the tone. I heard you didn't even invite any leaders to speak at the opening ceremony, hahaha, we still need to show some support."

Wei Dong was instructed to project an image of being down-to-earth and hardworking: "Get things done first, and then ask the leaders for their feedback and suggestions after you have achieved results."

But when the delegation from Sichuan Province arrived the next day, the vehicle sales had already exploded.

In retrospect, it was probably because the first day was a Sunday, and there were too many ordinary citizens in the audience. These days, it's mostly companies, especially state-owned companies, that buy cars.

My company doesn't work on Sundays.

You're only coming to buy a car on Monday?

Even if they are people sent from out of town to buy cars, they still need to rest on Sundays, or they might just give up and come back on a weekday when they see so many visitors.

So, the number of cars sold on the first day soared to more than 5,000 on the second day!

Moreover, more than 90% of them are domestic brands!
This is another mess caused by Wei Dong. He might have to frequently check if Chongchong has any swallows.

Because of his auto show, all the domestic car manufacturers started to copy Cherokee, Jiang'an, and Santana in setting up their own booths.

I felt that was about right.

Ordinary viewers may not be able to tell the difference between hand-painted, hand-sprayed, and robot-painted works, or they may not care about it.

A Cherokee costs between 160,000 and 220,000 yuan, while a "fake Cherokee" made in Hebei province next door, with two rings as its logo, costs 80,000 yuan!
Exactly the same, except it looks a little "chubby".

If a county-level agricultural company or a tax bureau were to buy a car, which would you choose?
These days, there are no car review apps, no car sales rankings on websites, and no content creators explaining the pitfalls of various car models.

If the Cherokee requires a letter of introduction, card units can be purchased in limited quantities.

Consumers bought that damn domestic car almost without hesitation.

This one sold the best, 1,200 vehicles!

It's said that the factory manager was looking everywhere for Lao Gao, wanting to kowtow to him!
Then they spent the night placing orders for spare parts everywhere.

That's one hundred million!

A single brand can generate 100 million in sales in a single day!

I never even dared to imagine this before.

People decades from now may not know how enthusiastic county bureau leaders were about buying cars in the 1980s. A few years ago, even county heads could only be equipped with a 212 (a type of car), but with the relaxation of reform and opening-up policies in the last two years, county bureau units can now also be equipped with official vehicles.

Providing a car to a leader may require approval and will most likely result in criticism.

However, some special positions can be equipped with off-road vehicles. Nowadays, road conditions are poor everywhere, and off-road vehicles with better passability are classified as special work vehicles.

SUVs and pickup trucks have broadened people's horizons these days, showing that the back seats of these vehicles are almost the same as those of sedans.

Then I'll just go around in circles and buy this kind of car.

As a result, all the capable people in the county would go out of their way to find cars, from coastal ZS cars to cars obtained through connections and permits within the country.

Whoever can find connections to get a car, bring a driver to drive it back, and assign it to the leader, then the rest is self-explanatory.

Almost everyone in those shell companies upstairs in the white building has experience and business dealing in reselling these kinds of cars.

So people might hesitate to buy a sedan, but buying an SUV, especially an "imported" SUV that can look like it costs 200,000 for only 80,000 yuan, really hits the nail on the head for consumers.

Other domestically produced off-road vehicles and minivans are also selling well.

The Liming SUV, Saibeijian SUV, and Hongxing 11-seater minivan that appeared in TV commercials alongside the Cherokee all sold extremely well!
Many organizations specifically requested the car that appeared on TV; the Cherokee that appeared alongside it was too expensive, and they felt the 212 was too basic.

The 212 costs 28,800 yuan. Wouldn't it be more cost-effective to spend 60,000 to 70,000 yuan to buy a proper hardtop SUV?

Even though both Dawn and Northern Arrow actually use the 212 chassis, the vehicle body is much more imposing than the 212's canvas cover.

So selling hundreds of cars at the auto show is no problem at all.

Even various brands and models sold some of their products.

This amounts to a total sales volume of over 400 million.

Although most of them were domestic enterprises and institutions, and various counties and cities sent people to snap up the goods.

But at least it's all domestic consumption. It's like the country spent more than 400 million yuan, which was injected into dozens or hundreds of car factories and then distributed to hundreds or thousands of parts manufacturers, thus boosting productivity.

It's more reliable than allocating funds or subsidies to state-owned car factories.

Because of that Cherokee-like manufacturer, domestic car manufacturers placed orders for spare parts worth another two or three hundred million yuan.

At this point, the entire auto show will no longer have to worry about its performance.

It's only been two days, so it's not too difficult to say that the total contract value for the entire expo will exceed one billion.

Do you remember? Jiangzhou was planning to build an industrial and trade building. They had set up a pilot project in the dock area, where more than 2,000 supply and demand companies moved in, and the transaction volume reached more than 200 million yuan in six months.

It's already over 800 million in just two days!

Everyone in Jiangzhou was overjoyed and searched everywhere for Rang Weidong.

As a result, this guy unusually slammed his fist on the table in private, because he knew that the Cherokee knock-off was of very poor quality!

The Shangzhou Tax Bureau bought it because it was cheap, and ended up losing a lot of money.

Before long, the shock absorbers broke, the paint rusted, the air conditioner stopped cooling, and there were problems with ignition. In short, there were problems everywhere.

This company is a typical example of one that he previously said should be shut down in a meeting.

Of the more than two hundred companies, this was one of the few that he could remember vividly, and unexpectedly, it helped make this company famous.

The entire exhibition center was indeed very busy today. Everyone figured out that ordinary visitors should be directed to the joint venture car exhibition hall first, and then try to ensure that they only move between the car manufacturers' booths. Each booth can arrange for or hire two security guards to block ordinary visitors from going to the booths and disturbing their purchasing needs.

Exhibitions and sales, sales are the ultimate goal.

So today, Wei Dong was satisfied to see the grand scene on the first floor, and mainly spent the second floor communicating with various familiar members of the car group about the situation.

He was very excited and urged them to help these parts factories improve their technology after making money, instead of immediately spending the money on eating, drinking and having fun. He even "intimidate" them on what would happen if they took the lead now.

As a result, I was invited to dinner and saw the statistics that Dong Xueqing had pulled up on the "folding computer".

It felt like eating shit!

A four-star hotel has opened, making it the only one of its kind in Jiangzhou.

One of them opened a self-service restaurant, which has reportedly been making headlines among the leaders of the manufacturers at the exhibition these past few days.

Only leaders of large factories can stay in this high-end hotel that doesn't require letters of introduction and only cares about money. The buffet breakfast costs 24 yuan, and lunch and dinner are all-you-can-eat for 88 yuan.

Shen Cuiyue then urged us to give it a try, so she asked Wei Dong to pick up Dong Xueqing from the city as usual. We saw her and Qin Yuye already sitting at a small round table, chatting and laughing elegantly while drinking beverages, and my heart started racing for no reason.

Lamu, who was sitting at the next table, quickly got up and took the insect from him. Zhuoma coaxed Xiaodie to give her father a kiss before going back to continue eating.

This finally presents the first time that the four of them have sat together in a circle.

So, after asking Wei Dong to sit down, he instructed Feng Chu to open the folding computer he was carrying, insert the new data card, and check the situation.

Seeing his reaction, Qin Yuye frowned deeply: "You're not trying to use this as an excuse to run away, are you?"

Shen Cuiyue was also baffled: "Whether other factories make good or bad products is none of our business. That's a problem with our own factory's management."

Dong Xueqing added insult to injury: "Even if it's a counterfeit product, you can suggest that the relevant departments strengthen quality supervision. Why get so angry? I haven't eaten yet, you're not allowed to leave!"

Wei Dong's heart was screaming, "I want to go to work! I want to fight on the business front! I want to drive the development of the automotive industry!"

I don't want to eat with three wives!
(End of this chapter)