Chapter 495: Divide the pie!

In the evening, Li Weidong took He An'an and brought a new massage seat that was not yet on the market, and came to Uncle He's house to have a meal by the way.

Of course, Li Weidong didn't come to Uncle He just to get food, but to inquire about sharing the cake.

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

Uncle He also understood Li Weidong's intentions, and after drinking for three times, he said, Weidong, this time the state is very generous in helping the company. For the company, it is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

But on this matter, although I can say a few good words for you, the real decision-making is the expert group directly led by the superior. In the end, how the pie is divided is also the expert group's decision.

Li Weidong nodded suddenly, who could be called superior by Uncle He, that is, the number of people who counted with their fingers.

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

So who should share the cake and which company should survive, it is not something that one or two people can say. These days, there are a lot of people who come to the summoning department, but this reform is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and it is related to the future of the domestic agricultural machinery industry.

I will try my best to help you win, but whether you can win in the end depends on your own level of Fukang Agricultural Machinery.

Uncle, I understand what you said, but if you weren't here, I wouldn't necessarily dare to share this cake. Li Weidong said with a smile.

Why are you being polite to me? The family doesn't say anything! As long as it doesn't violate the policies and disciplines, I will naturally help you if I can. Uncle He smiled and then said, Besides, I may not be able to help you much. , It is estimated that it will not be long before my work will be transferred.

Li Weidong was stunned for a moment. Such self-confident words were not like those spoken by a leader of Uncle He's level. He carefully pondered the smile of Uncle He just now, and found that Uncle He's smile contained some sorrow and helplessness.

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, and naturally you can know some inside information.

Li Weidong remembers that next year, the state will carry out the reform of the streamlining of ministries and commissions, reducing the number of ministries and commissions from 40 to 29. Almost all economic departments specializing in industry will be one-size-fits-all.

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

During that reform, the Ministry of Electronics Industry, the Ministry of Coal Industry, and the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry 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.

Among them, the Ministry of Machinery Industry is the oldest. China has established the first to the eighth, a total of eight Ministry of Machinery Industry. Later, the state was responsible for the ministries and commissions of electronics, aviation, shipbuilding, military industry, and nuclear engineering. Separated from the department.

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

Li Weidong thought about it, Uncle He is not yet at the age of retirement, and the next organization will be streamlined, and the staffing of cadres will also be streamlined.

So Li Weidong asked, Uncle, if the organization were to be streamlined, which department would you be transferred to?

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

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

Uncle He changed the subject; Let's not talk about me, let's talk about the assistance to agricultural machinery enterprises this time. This time, the state's assistance is mainly in two aspects, one is technical, and the other is technical. One is at the policy level.

At the technical level, the National Agricultural Machinery Research Institute will come up with some technologies and share them with enterprises. Don't underestimate the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, they still have a lot of scientific research technology on the bottom of the box, which can reach the international level.

Li Weidong nodded. China's Agricultural Machinery Research Institute was established in the 1950s. It was a scientific research unit directly under the central government. Later, it was restructured and became a central enterprise at the vice-ministerial level. It was then 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 China, it is the top.

And if the enterprise can get the technical support of the national scientific research institution, it will undoubtedly win an award. The technology developed by the state with human, material and financial resources is used by enterprises for free prostitution, and then put on the market to create profits, enterprises will wake up with a smile.

Uncle He went on to say: As for the support at the policy level, you are an enterprise yourself, and you can understand it without my introduction.

The agricultural machinery industry has always been subsidized. If it can get policy support, it will work better than anything.

Li Weidong asked, Uncle, in addition to technology and policies, will there be financial support?

Uncle He chuckled: Don't think about the funds. If the state could get the funds, it would have already paid directly to help the enterprises. Besides, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.

If you give money directly, there will always be a day when you will run out of money. You can only cure the symptoms but not the root cause. Helping enterprises to complete the 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 is there no money for you, but you have to pay. For example, the introduction of new technologies requires the purchase of new equipment. In addition, there are personnel training and market expansion, which also cost money.

I'm not afraid of spending money, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to share this 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, which can be regarded as an advantage or a disadvantage. .

I understand the disadvantages. The state's assistance to enterprises must give priority to state-owned enterprises. Our private enterprises have always stood behind. As for the advantages you mentioned, I don't quite understand. Li Weidong said.

As for the advantages, it's very simple to say. Because you are not a state-owned enterprise, you will be more flexible and flexible than state-owned enterprises in terms of business strategy. You must know that the country's exploration of economic reform is not limited to the reform of state-owned enterprises. There are also The development of the private economy, your Fukang project, will become a good research object, after all, there is no private enterprise of your size among the domestic agricultural machinery enterprises.

Uncle He said, his expression became a bit solemn, and he continued: But as you said, the state's assistance will definitely take care of state-owned enterprises to a limited extent. If your private enterprises want to obtain assistance, you must do more than state-owned enterprises. Better! Even if you are only as good as state-owned enterprises, those who help will give priority to helping state-owned enterprises.”

Uncle, don't worry about this. Most of the state-owned enterprises have not yet adapted to the rules of the market economy. In this regard, I must do better. Li Weidong said confidently.

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

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

Uncle He continued: Your other weakness is products. The core product of your Fukang project is a light-duty agricultural transportation vehicle, right?

Li Weidong nodded: It's mainly agricultural tricycles and five-wheelers, and it will also be converted into sanitation vehicles, as well as three-wheelers for soliciting customers.

But this isn't traditional agricultural machinery, right? Uncle He smiled and continued; As far as I know, no matter whether it is the agricultural machinery system in the United States, the agricultural machinery system in Europe, or the agricultural machinery system in Japan, there is no such agricultural tricycle!

What the uncle said is that agricultural tricycles are actually developed for the Chinese market. In developed countries, small trucks are used. Our country is poor and farmers cannot afford small trucks. Cheaper tricycles are more suitable. Li Weidong Opened the mouth to explain.

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, you need to make new products.

Uncle He paused for a while, and then continued; If you re-create a new product, not only will the capital investment be huge, but it will also be a test for technology, production and sales, and the country does not want repeated investment. a waste of resource.

Let me give the simplest example, such as 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 your Fukang project or a company that produces combine harvesting now? Machine business?

If you choose your Fukang project, you need to re-instruct production technology, rebuild new production, and retrain skilled workers; while choosing a company that produces combine harvesters now, you only need to make some upgrades and improvements on the original basis. Which do you think cheaper?

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

As a new product, agricultural tricycles have successfully filled the blank area of ​​rural transportation, and can indeed sell well.

However, it is precisely because agricultural tricycles are new products that 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 the aspect of combine harvesters, the performance was not inferior to that of European, American and Japanese products.

Even after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, most of the 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 the kind of large-scale mechanized agriculture, focusing on cultivating more land with less manpower; Europe has moved towards automation, and it can be done without humans. Japan is refined, as intensive as possible, and produces high-quality agricultural products.

The Soviet Union began to weaken during this period, and the development of their agricultural machinery fell into stagnation for a time. Fortunately, the industrial foundation is strong, and the future Russian agricultural machinery can still occupy a place in the market.

When the development direction of the world's agricultural machinery began to change, it was also when China was just beginning 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, people have already begun to decline, there is no need to find a backward person as a teacher.

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

Learning automation in Europe does not have such good technology or so much money, not to mention that China has some laborers who wish to employ as many people as possible. How can it be possible to develop automated agricultural machinery.

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

However, there are still some areas in China that can carry out large-scale agricultural operations, while 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's population is too large, and no country in the world can support so many people. Food security must be the top priority.

From this aspect, China's agricultural situation is unique in the world, so China's agricultural machinery industry can only go out a path that suits itself, and simply study abroad, and it will definitely be unaccustomed to the environment.

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

Li Weidong frowned and thought for a moment. If he wanted to share the big pie in the reform of agricultural machinery enterprises, he could not hold on to agricultural tricycles, but 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. At that time, whether it is the engine or the rear axle assembly, it will no longer be a technical problem.

In the future, on Alibaba's e-commerce platform, if you search for the engine and rear axle assembly of agricultural vehicles, there will be a lot of suppliers, and there are many suppliers with good quality and low price.

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

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

With the support of the state now, it is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

But the problem is that if the existing agricultural machinery is developed, Fukang Engineering will inevitably lag behind other enterprises.

You need to find a new product. Li Weidong's mind quickly turned, and he quickly recalled that the second-hand agricultural machinery that he had dumped in his previous life was not produced by domestic companies.

Suddenly, Li Weidong's mind flashed, and he thought of a product.

Then Li Weidong asked, Uncle, at the Agricultural Machinery Research Institute, there should be some research on cotton harvesters, right?