When will I have a long tassel?

Tang Zifeng's idea was formed after working in Yiji. This idea comes from practical knowledge. When he first came to Linyiji, Tang Zifeng felt that Linyiji had strong technical strength and good product quality. As long as it did a good job in marketing, it would be able to squeeze out those small private machine tool companies and monopolize the entire market.

But after getting in touch with reality, Tang Zifeng found that his ideas were too theoretical. In this market, there are some customers who do not particularly care about the quality of machine tools. Sometimes they receive a temporary order and need to purchase a batch of machine tools to complete the order. For these customers, they are not sure whether they can get their next order. Therefore, they will not purchase high-quality and high-priced machine tools, but will choose some cheap and inferior machine tools, as long as they can complete the work in front of them.

Small private machine tool companies can provide products for such customers and drive the price to an unimaginably low level. It's not that Linyiji can't make such inferior machine tools, but Linyiji can't do this because it will ruin its own brand.

Since you can't do it yourself, then this market has nothing to do with you, so what's the harm in letting others do it? With these inferior machine mattresses, Korean companies cannot quote too high a price for machine tools. If the price of a machine tool is 10 times that of others, and the lifespan of a machine tool is only 3 times that of others, how will customers choose?

If we can cultivate a group of private machine tool companies to make trouble with Korean companies and break their attempts to develop in the Chinese market, why not?

Xie Tiancheng is also an experienced leader. He understood Tang Zifeng's idea as soon as he heard it. He nodded and said: "This is a good idea. Later we will talk to the leaders of other machine tool companies and let them consider this idea."

Tang Zifeng said: "We must remind them that helping private enterprises is to weaken Korean-owned enterprises. And weakening Korean-owned enterprises is to weaken our own competitors. On this issue, private enterprises are our allies, and Not an opponent."

"Yes, this reminder is very necessary!" Xie Tiancheng responded.

After talking about the first point, Tang Zifeng continued: "The second aspect is that we, the large state-owned manufacturers, must strive to improve their technical level and target the domestic mid-to-high-end machine tool market. At present, the domestic high-end machine tool market is almost completely occupied by imported machine tools. Yes, our own market share is very small. The mid-range market is almost equally divided, and we mainly rely on our price advantage to retain half of the market.

"In the final analysis, our technical level is too low, especially CNC technology, which is far behind foreign countries and even at a disadvantage compared with Korean companies. If this problem is not solved, we will be eliminated sooner or later."

Xie Tiancheng said: "This problem is also a commonplace. How do you think about solving it?"

"Hold together to keep warm." Tang Zifeng said, "Many machine tool companies in Japan and Germany are century-old companies with deep foundations. It is difficult for us to compete with them just by relying on each company alone. We consider that we must bring together the whole country Large-scale machine tool companies will unite to jointly tackle key problems and share results. Only in this way can we hope to catch up with and surpass foreign machine tool giants. At this point, we also hope that the Second Bureau can provide us with support."

"What kind of support?"

“Institutions and Funding.”

Xie Tiancheng said: "I can understand you talking about funds. We will ask the finance department to provide you with more financial support for technical transformation. Recently, the central leadership also made an important instruction, pointing out that machine tools are the mother of industry and the key to all industries." The ancestor of the machine tool. If machine tools cannot achieve autonomy, our entire manufacturing industry will be controlled by others. If we seize machine tools, we will have the weapons to march into any field."

Zhou Heng interjected: "This is the reason why the old man named our machine tool 'Changying Machine Tool'. The old man said: If you have a long tassel in your hand today, when will you tie the black dragon? The machine tool industry is the foundation of our country's manufacturing industry. Chang Ying, if you want to bind the Canglong, please ask Chang Ying first."

Xie Tiancheng said: "Yes, the central leaders also have this view. Therefore, we will make a report to the finance department recently, asking the finance department to increase support for the development of the machine tool industry. The funding issues you are worried about should be greatly affected." Obviously alleviated. What I just talked about was the funding issue, so, Xiao Tang, what do you mean by the institutional issue you mentioned?"

Tang Zifeng said: "In terms of institutions, we need to promote horizontal cooperation among major state-owned machine tool manufacturers. The methods of cooperation can be diversified, such as jointly developing certain technologies and then sharing the research and development results, as well as establishing joint-stock companies to develop new technologies. Products. In the end, each company must form a pattern in which you have me, and I have you, and develop together.”

Xie Tiancheng shook his head and said: "You take this idea a bit for granted. Not to mention that we are engaged in a market economy now, even in the planned economy era, various manufacturers were still trying to compete with each other. At that time, the exchange of technology was not Yes, but when it comes to competing for investment and projects, companies will definitely not give in to each other. Director Zhou knows this. You said that you hope that companies will establish joint-stock companies and develop new products, but it is too difficult. Big.”

Tang Zifeng said: "Precisely because we are now engaged in a market economy, it is more convenient to cooperate. In the past, technology exchanges were free of charge. The result was that no one was willing to develop technology because it took a lot of effort to develop technology. , people just come and take it away for nothing. We use the market method to do it, whoever pays gets the benefit, and if you want to eat the peach, you have to water it, so it is easier for everyone to cooperate."

"Old Zhou, what do you think?" Xie Tiancheng asked Zhou Heng. He felt that it was difficult to convince Tang Zifeng by himself, so he roped in Zhou Heng to help him.

Zhou Heng said: "Xiao Tang has discussed this issue with me. I think it all depends on people. The situation of each company is different. Some companies are willing to cooperate, while others want to go it alone and are unwilling to cooperate with others. We When the time comes, it will be good to find companies that are willing to cooperate.”

"The key is that the bureau should encourage this kind of cooperation so that we can make a name for ourselves." Tang Zifeng said.

Xie Tiancheng thought for a while and said, "You should submit a report on this matter. The bureau will discuss it. If it is feasible, it would not be difficult for the bureau to send a notice to each company."

"Then this matter is settled." Tang Zifeng said, "The third aspect also needs to be handled by the state, which is to prohibit Korean-funded companies from merging with our high-quality machine tool companies. If they are those without technology accumulation Small businesses can merge if they want to, but established companies like Linyiji, which have decades of tradition, cannot be allowed to merge."

"This is also difficult." Xie Tiancheng frowned and said, "If it is an enterprise belonging to our Machinery Department, we can easily control it and not allow the other party to merge, which is also possible. But each province and city has its own local enterprises. They are eager to attract investment, and it is very common for these high-quality enterprises to be joint ventures with foreign parties, and it is difficult for us to interfere."

Tang Zifeng smiled and said: "If it's not difficult, why do we need the bureau leaders to come forward?"

Xie Tiancheng also smiled and said: "But the bureau leaders are not omnipotent. If the province wants to take out its own companies to form joint ventures with foreign investors, we can't control them."

Zhou Heng said: "Director, in this regard, is it possible to ask the central government to issue a document to define high-quality machine tool enterprises as important enterprises related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and prohibit joint ventures with foreign investors? Or even if there is a joint venture, it must be controlled by the Chinese party and cannot be handed over. To foreign parties for control.”

Xie Tiancheng said: "This is not easy to operate. The country has clearly proposed to reduce interference in normal economic activities. Moreover, our country is currently negotiating to join the World Trade Organization. Market opening is also one of the important conditions for joining the WTO negotiations. If the government Too much intervention in matters such as corporate mergers may affect the overall situation of China's accession to the WTO."

"This..." Zhou Heng also hesitated. WTO accession negotiations are a major event at present. Reducing government intervention in economic activities and opening up the market are prerequisites for China's accession to the WTO, which cannot be violated casually. What Tang Zifeng said just now prohibits South Korean companies from merging high-quality machine tool companies, which is an act of government intervention in the economy. If South Korea raises questions on this matter, China will have to consider South Korea's request.

Tang Zifeng naturally knew about joining the WTO. He thought for a while and said, "Director Xie, can we compromise on this matter? The bureau will determine a list of the most important machine tool companies and include them in the scope of restricting foreign joint ventures. As for For other companies, let the market choose.”

"This is okay." Xie Tiancheng picked up the pen and wrote down this item.

In fact, Xie Tiancheng has also considered the issue Tang Zifeng mentioned. China is a country that cares very much about the integrity of its industry. As far as the machine tool industry is concerned, the country has a very complete pattern. All types of machine tools can be manufactured independently. Although the technical level of most machine tools cannot be compared with the world's advanced level, at least This solves the problem of "have you got it or not", which will prevent China from being at a loss when faced with "stuck" foreign countries.

The market demand for some categories of machine tools is relatively small, and only one company in the country can manufacture them. Such companies are companies that fill the domestic gap. If this company is controlled by foreign capital, it means that there will be a vacancy in China's machine tool industry structure, which is very detrimental to the country's industrial security.

In the past two years, this situation has occurred in other industrial fields. A certain company that was the only one capable of producing a certain type of equipment was merged by foreign capital, causing China to lose its ability to produce this type of equipment. This issue has attracted the attention of relevant departments, and some departments have also proposed ideas to protect key enterprises.

Next, Tang Zifeng said some other opinions, and Xie Tiancheng took notes one by one. Zhou Heng sat next to him and only added a word or two to Tang Zifeng when necessary, or explained something for Tang Zifeng when Xie Tiancheng didn't understand it for a while.

After Tang Zifeng finished speaking, Xie Tiancheng also wrote down several pages in his notebook. Looking through these pages, Xie Tiancheng felt something strange in his heart.