Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 364 A wave of benefits for nothing (please subscribe)

This time, two large Whirlpool production lines were introduced. Li Weidong needed to find at least a thousand more workers. If the elimination rate during the training process was also included, he would have to recruit approximately 1,500 to 2,000 people before he could finally retain 1,000 workers.

qualified workers.

Li Weidong was helpless to recruit so many workers at once. In later generations, a microwave oven production line would only require 30 to 80 workers, depending on the degree of automation, and generally no more than a hundred people.

In the manufacturing industry in the early 1990s, a large amount of work still needed to be completed manually. It was normal for a microwave oven production line to have several hundred people working in two shifts.

A mechanical arm in later generations can support dozens of workers, and it is absolutely true.

If it is just a visual inspection, the robotic arm does not seem to move faster than a human.

However, the robotic arm does not need to rest, go to the toilet, eat, sleep, or change shifts. At most, it needs a few drops of lubricating oil every once in a while.

If you are a worker, even if you work continuously without taking a break or going to the toilet, you will always feel tired after working for a period of time, your work efficiency will decrease, and the yield rate of the products you produce will also decrease.

As early as the early 1960s, industrial robots appeared in the world. By the 1980s, industrial robots gradually became popular in developed countries.

However, the industrial robots in this era are mainly complete sets of systematic robots, and their intelligence and lightweight accuracy are not enough.

In other words, the industrial robots at that time could be bought as a complete set. If you wanted to buy a robot for a certain production step individually, it was one thing whether the manufacturer was willing to sell it. Even if you bought it, since it was not a complete set, you could not buy it individually.

use.

A complete set of industrial robots is very expensive and has to be quoted in units of "hundred million". Therefore, industrial robots at that time were mainly used in large-scale, high-value, and high-profit manufacturing industries such as the automobile industry.

A car sells for tens of thousands of dollars, and the manufacturer of the car can still make back the capital by buying a set of industrial robots. If it is a microwave oven or other small household appliances, buying a set of industrial robots is simply not enough money, so manpower has to be used.

Assemble.

The 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century were the last days of the home appliance manufacturing industry as a labor-intensive industry. After 2010, more and more automation technologies were applied to the home appliance industry, and home appliance manufacturing no longer

It requires a lot of manpower.

This is also a microcosm of the global manufacturing industry. Automation technology is becoming more and more mature and costs are getting lower and lower, resulting in fewer and fewer workers in the manufacturing industry and higher and higher technical thresholds.

In twenty years, from manpower to automation, for a country, these twenty years may be the last train to enter an industrial country. By seizing this opportunity, the country can complete industrialization. If this opportunity is missed, perhaps

We have to wait for another industrial revolution before we have a chance to become an industrial country.

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The next day, Li Weidong visited Chen Chuanxin, the city leader in charge of poverty alleviation.

Li Weidong did not plan to recruit so many workers himself, firstly because of the trouble, and secondly because Li Weidong felt that such a good opportunity could not be wasted.

As an enterprise, if you want to provide a thousand jobs at one time, you have to do this in exchange for some benefits.

In addition to being in charge of poverty alleviation, Chen Chuanxin is also in charge of the city's industry. This is an endless job. There is an endless stream of business leaders coming to see Chen Chuanxin. Sometimes, even after queuing for a whole day, Chen Chuanxin may not be able to see him.

Fortunately, Li Weidong is special. He is a model of private entrepreneurs in Qinghe, and he launches satellites every two days, so Li Weidong only waited for more than an hour before meeting Chen Chuanxin.

"There will be a meeting later with the leader. Director Li, you only have fifteen minutes," the secretary reminded.

"Fifteen minutes is enough." Li Weidong nodded and walked into Chen Chuanxin's office.

"Director Li is here, please take a seat." Chen Chuanxin pointed to the sofa and continued: "You are very well-informed. The city just held a meeting yesterday to finalize the matter, and you came to the door today!

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Li Weidong was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Leader, I don't quite understand what you mean. What are you talking about that was only decided yesterday? Does it have to do with me?"

"Aren't you here for the industrial park?" Chen Chuanxin was also stunned.

Li Weidong asked: "Is the city going to build an industrial park?"

"Well, it turns out you don't know yet, I made a big mistake!" Chen Chuanxin smiled and continued, "The city decided to build an industrial park to increase the intensity of the city's industrialization, highlight industrial characteristics, and optimize

Functional layout to better adapt to market competition and modern industrial provincial level.

This industrial park is planned to be located in Taiping Town, with 1,200 acres of land initially planned. At that time, the government will encourage a group of companies to sneak in. The first companies to sneak in will have some preferential policies, such as land use tax exemptions, electricity consumption, etc.

subsidies, etc.

When I learned that you came to me, I thought it was about the industrial park, and you wanted to occupy a geomantic omen in the industrial park first!"

Li Weidong knew about this industrial park in Taiping Town. The government had all prepared the land, roads, water and electricity and other supporting facilities, making it very convenient for companies to move in.

Moreover, the geographical location of the industrial park is superior. When the highway is built in the future, a special entrance and exit will be set up in Taiping Town.

At that time, land prices were also cheap, and the government also offered some preferential tax exemptions in order to attract factories to move into industrial parks.

Don’t be a fool if you have land!

What's more, the location of Li Weidong Loader Factory is already within the urban area, and the location of Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory has also become an urban area more than 20 years later. Sooner or later, these two pieces of land will be expropriated for real estate development.

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Rather than improvising, it is better to plan ahead and move the factory to the industrial park first.

So Li Weidong immediately nodded: "This Feng Shui treasure land must be occupied! Leader, I don't want more, just give me a hundred acres of land first."

"A total of 1,200 acres of land has been planned. If you want a hundred acres by yourself, you won't be afraid of the wind blowing your tongue!" Chen Chuanxin said.

Li Weidong said: "Boss, I plan to move the loader factory, Fukang Agricultural Machinery Factory, and my puppy electrical appliance factory to the industrial park."

"That won't take a hundred acres!" Chen Chuanxin said, shaking his head.

"In addition to building factories, I also need to build dormitories, canteens, bathhouses and other supporting facilities for employees," Li Weidong continued.

"You can build a dormitory or something like a building! There's no need for a hundred acres!" Chen Chuanxin said.

"Leader, we can't use one hundred acres now, but we will definitely use it in the future." Li Weidong continued: "For example, my puppy electrical appliance factory will continue to expand in the next few years, and a large number of workers will be employed."

"We'll talk about the future later, let's talk about the present first!" Chen Chuanxin said.

In Chen Chuanxin's view, "in the future" is who knows how many years later. By then, he may have gone to work somewhere else. Even if Puppy Electric becomes a world-class enterprise, it is not his political achievement, so it is still

Seize the present moment.

Li Weidong smiled slightly and said, "Okay, I'll listen to the leader, let's talk about the present. My puppy electrical appliance factory will add two more production lines recently, so I plan to recruit a group of workers.

I remember you said before that when recruiting workers in the future, you should take more care of the remaining labor force in impoverished mountainous areas. I came to you this time to conscientiously implement the leadership’s instructions!"

"Oh? Recruiting workers is a good thing!" Chen Chuanxin nodded, and then asked: "How many people do you plan to recruit this time? Can there be 200 people? If there are 200 people, we can almost conquer seven or eight villages.

Surplus labor!"

Li Weidong raised two fingers: "At least two thousand this time!"

"Two thousand?" Chen Chuanxin was startled, and then his face lit up with joy.

Based on the wage level of an electrical appliance factory, if 2,000 farmers from mountainous areas can work in the factory, it will be equivalent to solving the problem of 2,000 poor households. Under normal circumstances, this would require several years of hard work by dozens of poverty alleviation cadres.

Li Weidong also deliberately talked too much. If he didn't raise the number, he would not be able to gain any advantage from Chen Chuanxin.

Moreover, not everyone can pass the pre-job training. There are always some stupid people who cannot pass the pre-job training. When Li Weidong drives these unqualified people away, Chen Chuanxin will have nothing to say.

It's my fault that these people are not qualified to work in electrical appliance factories because they don't work hard.

Not everyone can endure the militarized management of the electrical appliance factory and the intense overtime work. For example, Japan's "overtime maniac" Chuichiro Noda only lasted a month.

So even if we really recruit 2,000 people, only a little over 1,000 people will be able to stay in the end.

I saw Li Weidong continue to say: "Leader, we are just a company after all. We have no idea where the poor towns and villages are in our city. Even if we want to recruit people in poor areas, we can't find places, so I hope

The leader can give us some help and help our company solve this problem!"

"That's easy to say!" Chen Chuanxin said immediately: "I will immediately ask the Poverty Alleviation Office to sort out the poor villages and towns in our city and send them to your factory!"

But Li Weidong shook his head: "Leader, I think, if you don't do one thing and have two masters, you can just ask the comrades from the Poverty Alleviation Office to recruit all the people for me and send them directly to our factory!"

"What? You still want the Poverty Alleviation Office to help you recruit people?" Chen Chuanxin glared at Li Weidong, thinking that this person is too ambitious!

Li Weidong then said, "Leader, think about it, if our company goes to poor areas to recruit people by itself, the credibility will definitely not be as good as the government. We are afraid that the farmers in the village will not trust us and dare not come! If the comrades from the Poverty Alleviation Office come forward, the people will definitely come.

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In addition, our company does not have a detailed understanding of the poverty situation in various villages and towns. When recruiting people, it is inevitable that it will not be so accurate. If it is replaced by comrades from the Poverty Alleviation Office, they understand the specific situation and can achieve targeted poverty alleviation.

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"Targeted poverty alleviation!" Chen Chuanxin repeated the word and suddenly realized the deeper meaning behind these four words.

If the company is allowed to recruit people by itself, it is up to the technology company to decide which village or town to recruit. In the end, the company will recruit 2,000 workers, and in exchange, 2,000 poor households will be lifted out of poverty.

And if the Poverty Alleviation Office is asked to recruit people, it is up to the Poverty Alleviation Office to decide which villages and towns to go to. The Poverty Alleviation Office can completely target the villages and towns where poverty alleviation is most difficult, or concentrate on certain poor villages.

At that time, the same two thousand poor households will be lifted out of poverty, and at the same time, several poor villages will be removed from poverty.

Chinese people are used to being poor. When they don't have so many resources, they can only concentrate their efforts on big things. If we can concentrate our efforts to lift a few villages and towns out of poverty collectively, it will definitely be more meaningful than two thousand individual households out of poverty.

And when writing work reports, this is also an even more dazzling political achievement.

Thinking of this, Chen Chuanxin realized that Li Weidong was deliberately giving him a favor to improve his political performance.

It was related to poverty alleviation, so Chen Chuanxin felt that it was necessary for him to accept this favor.

So Chen Chuanxin said: "Director Li, you are very good at targeted poverty alleviation! Let's leave the recruitment to the Poverty Alleviation Office. You just wait to recruit people. I will give it to the Poverty Alleviation Office later.

Make a call from Director Zhang and ask him to personally take charge of this matter. If you have any questions, you can report them directly to me!"

With Chen Chuanxin’s words, recruiting people will be no problem.

However, Li Weidong didn't intend to stop there, he didn't want any benefits yet!

"Boss, I have one more thing. Our factory is hiring so many workers at once, and we need to build new factories and dormitories. This is a huge investment.

Moreover, after the workers are recruited, they have to be trained for a month before they can take up the job. The monthly expenses for these two thousand people are quite a lot. For our company, this is a huge financial pressure!"

Li Weidong paused and then said: "So I would like to ask the leader to help us and give our factory some preferential policies so that our factory can successfully overcome this hurdle!"

"Come on, the favor you just owed must be repaid immediately. This Li Weidong really doesn't suffer!" Chen Chuanxin smiled helplessly, and then asked: "Director Li, what kind of preferential policies do you want?"

"In terms of local taxes, such as land use tax, urban maintenance and construction tax, etc., can there be some exemptions?" Li Weidong asked.

Chen Chuanxin frowned and thought for a while. Among the local taxes, local corporate income tax accounted for the majority. Other than that, other items were not high. A reduction or exemption was acceptable.

What's more, if the government spends money to help 2,000 poor households get out of poverty, the expenditure will be even higher. In this way, even if some local tax items are exempted, it is still a good deal for the government.

So Chen Chuanxin nodded: "Okay, you can also be regarded as a poverty alleviation enterprise. We will give you some exemptions and reductions in local taxes, which also encourages enterprises to participate more in poverty alleviation work!"

Li Weidong breathed a sigh of relief. These miscellaneous local tax items may not seem to have high tax rates, but they add up to a lot. For enterprises, paying less of these scattered taxes can reduce a lot of burdens.

Li Weidong asked again: "Boss, can you give our factory a preferential price for electricity?"

As an electrical appliance factory, electricity is the most consumed product in daily production. Even if we give you a 20% discount, you can save a lot of money over the course of a year.

Moreover, Chen Chuanxin himself is the leader in charge of industry. This matter of industrial electricity consumption falls within Chen Chuanxin's jurisdiction.

However, Chen Chuanxin frowned and said with an embarrassed look, "The Electric Power Bureau has been losing money!"

"In the future, the State Grid will still be losing money every year!" Li Weidong complained in his heart, and then said: "Boss, I don't want to waive the electricity bill, just give me a discounted price."

Chen Chuanxin nodded, if we only wanted a discounted price, then things would be much easier to handle.

Electricity cannot be stored. When a power plant generates electricity, it is best to be used directly by users. As long as the users use the electricity, the power plant will not lose money. On the contrary, as long as the users do not use the electricity, the power plant will generate electricity in vain, and it will naturally lose money.

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So for the power industry, it doesn't matter if electricity is sold cheaper, the key is that you have to use electricity.

In the future, those large electricity consumers will also be able to get a preferential electricity price from the electric power department. Basically, when a company's annual electricity consumption exceeds one million kilowatt hours, it will have the right to negotiate with the electric power department.

From the perspective of the power sector, if we can use a preferential price to encourage companies to use more electricity, we will ultimately make money for ourselves.

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Li Weidong asked for a 40% discount on the electricity price, and then left Chen Chuanxin's office happily.

The recruitment of 1,000 workers this time was originally within the scope of the electrical appliance factory's plan. If you can exchange some benefits from Chen Chuanxin, it is like getting it for nothing!

After getting in the car, Li Weidong took out his BP machine. When he met Chen Chuanxin just now, Li Weidong had turned it to mute. Now, there were several more phone numbers on the BP machine, all of which were calls from Du Jiahai, an agricultural machinery manufacturer.

"It's only been ten minutes, so many calls have been made. This is a life-threatening call! It seems like something big has happened over there at the farm machinery!"

Thinking of this, Li Weidong immediately drove to a nearby newsstand and found a public phone.

In 1993, big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou already had mobile phone base stations that could provide mobile call services. However, small places like Qinghe obviously did not have such conditions, so they had to call public phones.

Soon, the call was connected.

"Lao Du, are you looking for me so urgently? Did something happen in the factory?" Li Weidong asked.

Du Jiahai immediately replied: "Director, someone reported the agricultural vehicles produced by our factory!"

Today's update is delivered. Thank you for your subscription. During this May Day holiday, except for the first day, I slept almost all the time. I could sleep fifteen or six hours a day, which can be regarded as replenishing my energy. I will start to recover tomorrow.

Normal update, can't sleep anymore. But I may have to take a day off on Mother's Day.