My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 675 With so many important matters to attend to, don't bother me with trivial things.
So thankfully there are black pearls.

If a call to the factory area fails to locate Supervisor Shen, the call will be transferred to her landline.

It's about one kilometer from the factory area, right across from the electronics building, and about 500 meters from the exhibition center.

They all fall within the scope of the economic development zone, which is also the area covered by Black Pearl.

Jianghu Girl skillfully took the phone from her waistband and said "hello." She didn't realize how pretentious this was in mainland China in 1986, when there was no such option as a mobile phone.

Anyway, I felt like a lot of eyes were turned to me in the whole restaurant, they were all amazed!

I never imagined there was such a way to communicate.

Even if someone had seen a walkie-talkie, Chief Black Cat would always hold it directly in front of his mouth to speak.

what is this?
The big bosses in Hong Kong movies aren't like this.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the exquisite little box was handed to the man.

Wei Dong breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the corner by the window, quietly talking about his feelings about the exhibition's performance that day, mainly about his experience with this factory's products, and suggesting that the quality should be strictly controlled.

This actually made the city officials think that the young people were incredibly calm!

Everyone else was overjoyed by the hundreds of millions in transaction volume, but you were still calmly considering the quality issues that would follow.

Of course, Jiangzhou City must have instructed him to call the Economic Commission, the Ministry of Machinery Industry, and the China National Automobile Industry Corporation, since the quality problems of the car factory in northern Hebei can only be monitored and addressed from a national perspective.

It's quite peculiar that everyone tacitly agrees that it's more effective for Weidong to handle these matters himself than for the local authorities to negotiate.

Such things were not uncommon in the 1980s.

He wasn't smug; he turned around and reported back to the Economic Commission, even pulling over a folding computer to analyze the data.

"Joint venture car manufacturers already lack the motivation to increase localization rates due to the limitations imposed by the conditions. The production lines brought in by joint ventures have high requirements for materials at every stage. It's like our sanitary napkins; imported production lines require all raw materials to be imported. It took us two years to replicate the production line, but we still haven't been able to produce domestic raw materials. We have no choice but to continue using alternative materials and continue to work on developing better materials."

"The same applies to cars. Imported production lines mean that all structural and body panels must be perfectly precise. There are no stamping machines in the country that can produce sufficiently precise exterior parts. Buying stamping machines alone is useless because there are not enough good domestic steel plates. If we import steel plates and machines to achieve localization, it would be better to buy imported stamping machines that are good at stamping and also do the surface painting at the same time."

"But today I discovered that even if a domestically produced car is only about 70-80% of what it used to be, it can still be sold. The only thing to do is to keep a close eye on the quality and not be too sloppy. If these private manufacturers can invest their profits in better equipment instead of squandering them, the scale of domestic technology they develop little by little will be more reliable than that of state-owned enterprises."

The words have already been said quite subtly: state-owned factories really are a system of egalitarianism, and even if they become joint ventures, the problem of low efficiency is hard to change.

It would be better to start by supporting private car companies.

Back then, hundreds of millions of US dollars were spent to buy so many imported cars and distribute them to various state-owned factories for study, learning, and imitation. If the money had been concentrated on equipping a private factory with equipment, they might have been able to set up an entire production line, from stamping to welding, painting, and final assembly.

Unlike now, where imports are everywhere, but they are all half-finished assembly lines with their choke points blocked, lacking the crucial upstream links.

He genuinely felt heartbroken.

They're not even as good as the smaller domestic factories that put in the most effort.

However, it cannot be denied that this round of introduction of foreign car companies has truly shown the domestic automobile manufacturing industry what advanced models are like.

Unlike him, even though he wasn't in the automotive industry, he had seen plenty of quirky stories through various mobile channels such as short videos and news.

They still think it's perfectly normal.

In this era of limited information channels, many things can only be obtained through difficult and painstaking means.

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to casually ask, "Then why don't you start a car factory?"

Wei Dong quickly shook his head: "No, no, I work in sales. In the past year or so, nearly 300 college students have joined auto parts manufacturers with our support. Whether they leave their jobs to start their own auto parts businesses or join these manufacturers, we support their choices. At the very least, they can continue to work in the automotive industry, from parts to complete vehicle sales. Next year, we will recruit even more of these college students. I want to define them as warriors of the automotive revolution. Those who initiate and promote this will be their new career. Those who cannot start can stay and still have jobs. In this stage of reforming the job allocation system after graduation, I think it is more effective to help more college students realize their value. In the specific manufacturing industry, I am already working in semiconductors, which is very important."

The Economic Commission's overall considerations are definitely different: "The situation these past two days has certainly surprised everyone. The Shanghai Auto Expo was also held last year, which exposed many problems and generated various different opinions. Private car companies... right now, none of them have anything to show for themselves."

Wei Dongcai suddenly realized that he had been confused. About two-thirds of the parts factories were small factories, including private, privately-owned, joint ventures, and contracted small and medium-sized parts factories, all of which were new forces that had emerged in recent years. The other third were large factories that had been transformed from state-owned enterprises and still retained the dominant state-owned assets.

Just like the Chuandong Machinery Factory in Shangzhou and the Hongyan Machinery Factory in Jiangzhou, they also came to the exhibition. It seems that the former can produce various lathes, milling machines and universal grinders, and the latter provides marine-grade engines and diesel generators. In fact, they are all products from the 1950s and 1960s, which are completely incompatible with the current automobile industry.

And almost all car manufacturers fall into this category.

Apart from a few state-owned automobile factories with joint venture backgrounds and a few long-established automobile factories that produce trucks, all the others were enterprises that chose automobiles as their product during the restructuring and reform of various machinery factories.

At the very least, it has to be a county- or regimental-level military vehicle repair shop with hundreds or thousands of employees to have the capability to tinker with vehicles and put them on the road.

Even though the large trucks mainly use Jiefang and Dongfeng chassis, the small cars are concentrated on the 212 chassis.

At the very least, one needs to be able to do sheet metal work, painting, assembly, and other mechanical tasks. Among more than two hundred brands, at most two or three operate on a contract basis; no private or privately-owned company dares to start making cars. This made Wei Dong really hesitant to proceed.

In the past few days, Wu Shengyun, Lin Wangfu, Dawa, Hong Tiancheng and other capable people have come to visit and exchanged views with the familiar Hongyan Machinery Factory and Chuandong Machinery Factory.

Should the shipping company take advantage of its brothers manufacturing ship engines and diesel generators to build more large ships?

Wei Dong stopped him with a look.

Do you want to be crowned emperor?

Do you still worry that my business isn't big enough?

There are ocean-going terminals, container companies, inland waterway fleets, and a car manufacturing plant with an annual production capacity of several thousand to tens of thousands of vehicles.

Believe it or not, anyone who dares to recruit people from Pingqi is considered to be undermining the country.

Whichever foot you step into the meeting room is wrong; you should be dragged out and beheaded.

Therefore, I am even more determined: "This definitely requires your and everyone's visionary selection. I fully support and assist such private entrepreneurs. Joint venture car companies have already taken steps and certainly need it, but it may be more feasible to promote development through private enterprises... Yes, look at our Jiangzhou shipbuilding company. Didn't it open up a lot of opportunities by promoting a private shipbuilding company?"

Even the son of that shipping magnate, who is only a couple of years old, is still working hard to build ships from scratch and acquire more.

Even though it is actually state-owned, it operates under the guise of being private, and its profits far surpass those of many state-owned shipping companies.

The State Economic Commission was still concerned about the progress of the localization rate of the entire automobile industry: "The joint ventures that were previously assigned a target of achieving a 40% localization rate by 88, is that achievable?"

The tax bureau still knows the tricks: "It depends on what kind of statistics you use. Is it a percentage of the total number of parts in the car, a percentage of the total cost of the car, or a percentage of the total cost of the car, or a percentage of the total cost of the car? All of these can be done. But what we want is to be able to actually manufacture cars ourselves, and to form our own automotive industry that can... yes, sustainable development, right?"

They all laughed: "Your wording is correct, but the path to domestic production is uncertain."

Rang Weidong was not shirking responsibility: "Give us another two years, and I believe the Cherokee can be scaled up to 40%, but whether the overall development scale will be good or not is uncertain. I am really not optimistic about the progress of the joint venture."

So the other party considered it and decided: "Then I'll go to Jiangzhou to see the scene. This step also needs to take into account the acceptance of all parties."

Wei Dong quickly expressed his welcome and hung up the black pearl.

He noticed that the three girls had stopped their quiet conversation and turned to look at him.

I quickly gestured that I still had to make a call, and that you two should talk.

I racked my brains to call Lao Cheng. Since Collins came to Jiangzhou to participate in the exhibition and Wei Dong was in charge, Lao Cheng simply stayed at Pingqi to control the situation.

Today, we sold over 500 hardtop 212s, prompting Weidong to suggest opening up production to sell them.

The key focus of the joint venture at this stage is to learn how to use the Cherokee's production line principles to increase production capacity for the 212.

Moreover, so many factories are using the 212 chassis for improvement, so why can't the 212 itself be improved on this basis?

A simple redesign, a new set of seats, and some more comfortable suspension adjustments would only cost around 50,000 to 60,000 yuan.
This is a long story.

The girls didn't discuss whether he had a long story or a short one, and continued chatting.

Dong Xueqing wanted to serve some food to the children's father, but the two of them were staring intently at her, so she didn't get up.

But while chatting, she still casually forked the shrimp dumplings from her plate onto her husband's plate.

Wei Dong got so engrossed in the conversation that he unconsciously picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

Qin Yuye immediately and discreetly brought over some vegetables as well, and this guy still didn't waste any.

Then Shen Cuiyue brought over a piece of beef, and they all watched as Wei Dong ate it.

Anyway, as soon as they started talking about engines and transmissions, Wei Dong felt that the atmosphere on the table had become quiet and frozen. When he looked up, he saw three smiling faces looking at him.

Look at the chopsticks in his hand.

Shen Laosan provoked, "Master, you've already eaten this, you have to give me an explanation."

Wei Dongzheng, still savoring the lingering fragrance in his mouth, exclaimed, "What kind of nonsense are you spouting? Are you trying to set me up with another honey trap?"

It's just baffling.

(End of this chapter)