Reborn Industrial Tycoon

In the evening, Li Weidong took He An'an to Uncle He's home with a new massage chair that had not yet been launched, and had a meal by the way.

Of course, Li Weidong came to Uncle He not just to get some money, but to inquire about the pie sharing.

When doing business in the country, it is natural to follow the policies closely. After all, Uncle He is the leader of the Ministry of Machinery Industry, so he must have mastered the core policy information in this regard.

Uncle He also understood Li Weidong's intention. After drinking for three rounds, he said: "Weidong, this time the country is helping enterprises. It is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for enterprises.

However, although I can put in a few good words for you on this matter, the real decision-making is made by the expert group directly led by the superiors, and it is the expert group that has the final say on how to divide the pie."

Li Weidong nodded suddenly. Those who could be called "superiors" by Uncle He were just the few he counted on his fingers.

Uncle He went on to say: "There are too many enterprises in difficulty in the country, many of which were national key projects back then, and there were countless provincial-level enterprises. These enterprises all made outstanding contributions to the country back then.

So who should share the pie and which company should be allowed to survive cannot be decided by one or two people. There are many people who come to call the system these days, but this reform is a matter related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

When it comes to the future of the domestic agricultural machinery industry, even I can’t say anything.

I will try my best to help you fight for it, but whether you can fight for it in the end depends on your own level of Fukang Agricultural Machinery. There is a saying that you need to be strong to make iron. I can only say a few good words for you, which can only be regarded as external force!

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"Uncle, I understand what you said, but if you weren't here, I wouldn't have dared to share this pie." Li Weidong said with a smile.

"Why are you being polite to me? One family doesn't talk about two families! As long as it doesn't violate policies and disciplines, I will help you if I can." Uncle He smiled and then said: "Besides, I may not be able to help you much.

, I guess it won’t be long before my job will be adjusted.”

Li Weidong was slightly stunned. Such self-confident words were not coming from the mouth of a leader of Uncle He's level. He carefully examined Uncle He's smile just now and found that there was some sadness and helplessness in Uncle He's smile.

The next second, Li Weidong suddenly remembered something, and he asked: "Uncle, are the ministries and commissions going to streamline their organizations again?"

"How do you know?" Uncle He was slightly startled, then shook his head in relief: "I almost forgot, you can give us lectures, so you can naturally know some inside information."

Li Weidong remembers that next year the country will carry out reforms to streamline ministries and commissions, reducing the number of ministries and commissions from 40 to 29. All industrial and professional economic departments will almost be cut across the board.

After this reform, the country gradually ended the system of direct management of enterprises by professional economic departments, and instead used policies to guide the development of enterprises.

During that reform, the Ministry of Electronic Industry, the Ministry of Coal Industry, the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry, etc. were all abolished, and the Ministry of Machinery Industry was naturally included.

Many of these ministries and commissions were established in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China and made outstanding contributions to the development of the national economy. However, they could not escape the fate of being abolished because they were unable to adapt to the new market economic situation.

Among them, the Ministry of Machinery Industry is the oldest. China has established eight ministries of machinery industry from the first to the eighth. Later, the state was responsible for ministries such as electronics, aviation, shipbuilding, military industry, and nuclear engineering. In fact, they all started from the machinery industry.

Split off from the ministry.

Uncle He has worked in the Ministry of Machinery Industry for most of his life. When he learned that the Ministry of Machinery Industry would be abolished, he naturally had mixed feelings.

Li Weidong thought for a while, Uncle He was not yet old enough to retire, and the organization he was about to take over was streamlined, and the cadre establishment would also be streamlined. There were more wolves and less meat, so it would be difficult for Uncle He to be promoted.

So Li Weidong asked: "Uncle, if the organization is streamlined, which department will you be transferred to?"

"It should be local. Which province you go to depends on the organization's arrangements." Uncle He said.

"Airborne to the place!" Li Weidong estimated in his mind that with Uncle He's level, if he went to serve at the provincial level, he should be a member of the Standing Committee.

Uncle He changed the topic; "Don't talk about me first, let's talk about the support for agricultural machinery companies this time. This time the state provides assistance, there are mainly two aspects, one is at the technical level, and the other is at the technical level.

One is at the policy level.

On a technical level, the National Agricultural Machinery Research Institute will provide some technologies and share them with enterprises. Don’t underestimate the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute. They still have a lot of unparalleled scientific research technologies that can reach international standards.

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Li Weidong nodded. The China Agricultural Machinery Research Institute was established in the 1950s as a scientific research unit directly under the central government. After the restructuring, it was also a central enterprise at the deputy ministerial level and was later merged into the Machinery Industry Group Corporation.

As a national-level scientific research institution, their scientific research technology is definitely not weak, at least in this three-acre area of ​​China, it is the best.

If a company can get technical support from national-level scientific research institutions, it will undoubtedly win a prize. The technology developed by the state at the expense of manpower, material and financial resources is used by companies for free, and then put on the market to create profits. Companies will laugh in their dreams.

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Uncle He went on to say, "As for support at the policy level, you are a business owner yourself, so you can understand it without me introducing it."

The agricultural machinery industry is inherently subsidized. If it can get policy support, it will be more effective than anything else.

Li Weidong asked openly: "Uncle, in addition to technology and policy, will there be financial support?"

Uncle He chuckled: "Don't even think about funds. If the country could get the funds, it would have directly spent money to help enterprises. Besides, teaching people how to fish is worse than teaching them how to fish.

If you give money directly, there will always be a day when you run out of money. You can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Helping companies complete transformation and upgrading and adapt to the current market environment is the fundamental way to solve the problem.

And according to the information I have, not only do I have no money for you, you also have to pay for it. For example, to introduce new technologies, you have to purchase new equipment. In addition, there are also personnel training and market aspects.

Expansion also costs money.”

"I'm not afraid of spending money, but I'm afraid that even if I spend money, I won't get a piece of the pie." Li Weidong said.

Uncle He said: "Compared with other companies, your Fukang Project has two differences. First, you are not a state-owned enterprise, but a joint-stock enterprise. This can be regarded as an advantage or a disadvantage.

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"I understand the disadvantages. When the state supports enterprises, it must give priority to state-owned enterprises. Our private enterprises have always stood back. As for the advantages you mentioned, I don't quite understand." Li Weidong said.

"The advantages, it's very simple to say, are because you are not a state-owned enterprise, so in terms of business strategy, you will be more flexible than state-owned enterprises. You must know that the country's exploration of economic reform is not limited to the reform of state-owned enterprises, but also

For the development of the private economy, your Fukang Project will become a good research object. After all, among the domestic agricultural machinery companies, there is no private company of your size."

Uncle He said, his expression became a little more solemn, and he continued: "But as you said, the state's assistance will definitely be limited to state-owned enterprises. If you want to get assistance, your private enterprises must do more than state-owned enterprises."

It has to be better! Even if you are only doing as well as state-owned enterprises, the state-owned enterprises will be given priority in support."

"Uncle, don't worry about this. Most state-owned enterprises have not yet adapted to the rules of the market economy. I am definitely doing better in this regard." Li Weidong said confidently.

This is not Li Weidong's boast. The state-owned enterprises in the 1990s all came from the era of planned economy. Their adaptability to the market economy is indeed not as good as that of private enterprises.

In the future, after state-owned enterprises have undergone several reforms, they will slowly learn the rules of survival under the market economy.

Uncle He went on to say, "Another weakness of yours is your products. The core product of your Fukang Engineering is light agricultural transport vehicles, right?"

Li Weidong nodded: "Mainly agricultural tricycles and five-wheelers. They will also be converted into sanitation vehicles and three-wheelers for soliciting customers."

"But this is not a traditional agricultural machinery, right?" Uncle He smiled slightly and continued; "As far as I know, no matter whether it is the American agricultural machinery system, the European agricultural machinery system, or the Japanese agricultural machinery system, there is no such agricultural tricycle!

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"What my uncle said is that agricultural tricycles are actually developed specifically for the Chinese market. Developed countries all use small trucks. Our country is poor and farmers cannot afford small trucks, so cheap tricycles are more suitable." Li Weidong

He opened his mouth and explained.

"I understand all the situations you mentioned, but the problem is that the agricultural machinery research department has not done research similar to agricultural tricycles before. If you want to get technical support from the agricultural machinery research department, your best agricultural tricycle must be

There is no technical support, so you need to make new products."

Uncle He paused for a moment and then said, "If you make a new product from scratch, not only will the capital investment be huge, but it will also be a test for technology, production and sales. The country does not want to repeat investment.

Waste of resources.

Let me give you the simplest example, such as a combine harvester. If the country wants to choose an agricultural machinery company to provide them with advanced combine harvester technology, do you think it will choose Fukang Engineering or a company that produces combine harvesters now?

machine company?

Choosing your Fukang Engineering requires re-teaching production technology, re-building production facilities, and re-training technical workers; but choosing a company that currently produces combine harvesters only requires some upgrades and improvements on the original basis. Which one do you think?

Better deal?"

Li Weidong frowned slightly, knowing that Uncle He was telling the truth.

As a new product, agricultural tricycles have successfully filled the gap in rural transportation and can indeed sell well.

However, precisely because agricultural tricycles are new products, domestic agricultural machinery research institutions have no research on agricultural tricycles.

China's agricultural machinery system also originated from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's heavy industry was strong, and the level of agricultural machinery manufacturing was naturally high. Especially in terms of combine harvesters, their performance is not inferior to that of European, American and Japanese products.

Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, most CIS countries still use agricultural machinery produced in Russia.

After the 1980s, the development direction of agricultural machinery in the world has changed. The United States is still a large-scale mechanized agriculture, which focuses on cultivating more land with less manpower; Europe has moved towards automation, and does not need people if it can be done without people;

Japan, on the other hand, is meticulous and cultivates as intensively as possible to produce high-quality agricultural products.

The Soviet Union began to weaken during this period, and their agricultural machinery development also came to a standstill. Fortunately, with a strong industrial foundation, Russian agricultural machinery in the future can still occupy a place in the market.

When the world's agricultural machinery development direction began to change, it was also when China had just begun its reform and opening up. In this era, the Chinese agricultural machinery industry did not know who to learn from.

Continue to learn from the Soviet Union, which has begun to decline, so there is no need to find a backward person as a teacher.

It is impossible to imitate large-scale mechanized agriculture like the United States. Chinese farmers have just contracted land, and each household only has a few acres. The entire village may not have as much land as a farm in the United States. How can it be possible to develop large-scale mechanized agriculture?

Let’s learn from European automation. We don’t have such good technology and don’t have that much money. What’s more, China has a labor force that wants to use as many people as possible. How can it possibly develop automated agricultural machinery?

Japan's agriculture is probably the most similar to China's. Japan has more people but less land, and the per capita cultivated area is small. Although China has a large land and abundant resources, it has a large population, and 70% of the area is not suitable for farming, so the per capita cultivated area

Also very few.

However, there are still some areas in China where large-scale agricultural operations can be carried out, but in densely populated areas, the land is scattered and only small-scale farming can be carried out. Intensive farming is the only way to increase agricultural productivity.

More importantly, China has too many people. No country in the world can support so many people. Food security must be given top priority.

From this aspect, China's agricultural situation is unique in the world. Therefore, China's agricultural machinery industry can only find a path that suits itself. Simply learning from foreign countries will definitely lead to acclimatization.

But one thing that is certain is that whether it is the United States, Europe or Japan, there is no such thing as an agricultural three-way vehicle in their agricultural machinery systems.

Li Weidong frowned and thought for a moment. If he wanted to get a piece of the agricultural machinery enterprise reform pie, he couldn't stick to agricultural tricycles, but had to develop new products.

This is also in line with Li Weidong’s positioning for the development of Fukang Agricultural Machinery.

Whether it is an agricultural tricycle or a passenger tricycle, the technical content is not high.

With the development of domestic industry, breakthroughs will be made in various mechanical technologies and material technologies. By then, neither the engine nor the rear axle assembly will be a technical problem.

In the future, if you search for agricultural vehicle engines and rear axle assemblies on the Aba Aba e-commerce platform, a large number of suppliers will appear, and many of them offer high quality and low prices.

Therefore, it is only a matter of time before the core technology of tricycles is broken through by other manufacturers.

Eggs cannot be put in the same basket. Li Weidong will have to find a new way out for the agricultural machinery factory sooner or later.

Now that the country is providing support, it must be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

But the problem is that if we develop existing agricultural machinery, Fukang Engineering will inevitably lag behind other companies.

"We need to find a new product." Li Weidong's mind started racing. He quickly recalled that among the second-hand agricultural machinery he had tossed around in his previous life, there were some that domestic companies had not yet produced.

Suddenly, Li Weidong had an idea in his mind and thought of a product.

Then Li Weidong asked, "Uncle, the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute should be researching cotton harvesters, right?"