Chapter 577 Come and invest in building a factory!

Squad leader Niu finally learned to drive a cotton harvester.

Sitting in the cockpit of the cotton harvester, with an endless cotton field in front of him, Squad Leader Niu has a feeling of pride.

The cockpit of the cotton harvester is relatively high, and the field of vision is much better than sitting in a tank!

Although the size of the tank is not small, the internal space is still very cramped. When driving the tank, you can often leave the cockpit and climb outside to get some air, but most of the time you can only stay inside the tank and pass through the narrow observation port. , to find out what's going on outside.

In contrast, the cockpit of the cotton harvester is large enough, and it is still covered with glass on all sides, giving a feeling of being in an open area.

Hanging up the gear, the cotton harvest is moving forward slowly. Although the speed is much slower than that of the tank, it feels leisurely and content. The squad leader Niu can even cross his legs and hum the tune of his hometown.

This cotton harvester is only the first-generation product of Fukang agricultural machinery. It is not perfect in terms of performance. The failure rate is higher than other mature agricultural machinery products. Therefore, Li Weidong sent technicians here. First, it breaks down at any time. In order to repair at any time, the second is to give feedback on common faults.

At the same time, when the machine is running, the noise is relatively large, and the mechanical vibration is relatively strong during operation, which is even more severe than using a tractor.

If ordinary people drive this thing for a day, even if their hands and feet are not numb, their minds will be buzzing with noise.

But none of this is a problem for tank crews.

No matter how loud a cotton harvester is, can it be much louder than a tank? The tank was moving, talking in it, and the shouting could not be heard clearly, and it was all possible to talk through the radio.

No matter how powerful the vibration of the cotton machine is, can it still be compared to tank firing? When the tank fires, the huge recoil, if not protected, can throw people several meters away.

The noise and vibration of the cotton harvester is nothing compared to the daily training of tank soldiers. Let the tank soldiers open the cotton harvester, just like a vacation.

At this time, the squad leader Niu really enjoyed this state.

In previous years, when I harvested cotton, I carried snakeskin sacks against the bright sun, and did physical labor non-stop. It was really sweaty, and my entire arm was numb after a day.

Now sitting in the cotton harvester, fiddling with the gear lever a few times, even if the harvest is completed, there is no need to be exposed to the sun, you can watch the scenery, and even in the cab of the tea room where you have a big tea pot.

It's so comfortable!

Comrades, it's time to eat! The voice sounded from behind, and it was the farmer who came to deliver food to them on an agricultural tricycle.

Comrade, let's take a bite at noon, eat a slaw, and let the cafeteria cook something for you when you go back in the evening. The person who delivered the meal said.

Latiaozi is noodles, this thing is really anti-hunger, and it is the first choice of local people for lunch.

Although the squad leader Niu drove the cotton harvester all morning, he did not feel hungry. After all, he just sat there and did not consume too much physical strength.

Comrade, it's not enough to serve again! The aunt who delivered the meal handed a portion of noodles to the monitor.

This auntie is very healthy and her hands are not shaking, so there are quite a few dishes in this noodles.

Squad Leader Niu took advantage of the situation and looked behind, only to find that the original endless cotton field had become an endless open space, and the buildings on the farm had disappeared from the field of vision, and even the smoke from the cooking could not be seen.

Squad Leader Niu was startled and said to himself, Have you harvested so much in just one morning? It feels like our ten cotton harvesters have harvested hundreds of acres of land!

So the squad leader Niu asked, Auntie, how long have you been here to deliver the meal?

Is it a lump of noodles? The road is a little long, and it took a little time. I'm sorry! The aunt who delivered the meal continued with a guilt expression: I have water here, and it will be better if you add some water and mix it.

Auntie, it's not about the face, I just want to know how long it took you to come here, so that everyone can figure it out,

How many acres of cotton we harvested this morning. Monitor Niu smiled, and then asked; I guess there must be hundreds of acres, right?

Hundreds of acres? How can there be such a small amount! The food delivery aunt pointed to the surroundings, and then said, Let me see, you must have harvested four or five hundred acres of cotton this morning!

Four or five hundred acres! Mr. Niu was surprised, obviously taken aback by this number.

Then the squad leader Niu looked back at his cotton harvester and muttered to himself, This thing is so powerful!

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At ten o'clock in the evening, monitor Niu finished his day's work and was ready to go back to rest.

A truck came, and a group of new soldiers came down from above to take over the work of the cattle squad leader, and the cattle squad leader returned to the farm by car.

People stopped the machine endlessly, changed a group of drivers, turned on the searchlights, and continued to work at night.

Although there will be dew at night, the quality of the harvested cotton may be slightly worse, but at this time, what is needed is the yield. After the harvest is completed one day earlier, this batch of cotton harvesters can rush to the next farm and continue to complete the harvesting task.

Harvesting cotton is a race against time, not to mention a million cotton harvesters, so they can't be idle, they have to work 24 hours a day.

On the way back to the farm in the car, the squad leader Niu realized that he had collected so much cotton in one day.

At the warehouse entrance of the farm, a bunch of packaged cotton is being transported into the warehouse. Inside the warehouse, the cotton has also been piled up into a hill.

Squad Leader Niu looked at the snow-white cotton and asked in shock, Are we harvesting all of these today?

That's right, there are still several cars over there, and they haven't been packed! The farmer replied.

How many kilograms did you collect today? Monitor Niu asked subconsciously.

It is estimated that the total amount for the whole day is close to 200 tons! The man replied.

200 tons? 200 tons in one day? Isn't our cotton harvester harvesting 20 tons of cotton! Squad Leader Niu gasped.

In previous years, when picking cotton, a sturdy guy like the squad leader Niu would pick 200 kilograms of cotton a day, but now he has picked 20 tons a day, a thousand times more than before!

This cotton harvester is so powerful, it's really a machine with thousands of troops!

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On the cotton field, a whole row of cotton harvesters are working, and not far away, a dozen second-generation Pajeros are parked there, which is out of tune with the surrounding environment.

The second-generation Pajero was introduced to China when it came out in the early 1990s. By the mid-1990s, there were already domestic manufacturers producing this car through a fully assembled model.

At that time, Pajero was regarded as the most luxurious off-road vehicle in China, and it was more advanced than the Grand Cherokee introduced in the 1980s.

The road conditions in the northwest region are not as good as those in the eastern provinces, and the use of off-road vehicles is relatively extensive, so many enterprises and institutions are equipped with off-road vehicles, but there are not many units that can use more than a dozen Pajeros.

A group of people in suits got out of the car, led by Uncle He.

I saw Uncle He pointed at the cotton harvesters at work, and said to a gray-haired man beside him, President Qian, that is the cotton harvester we purchased this year. This farm has 68,000 mu of cotton. , are harvested using cotton harvesters.

Our Production and Construction Corps has planted an additional 1 million mu of cotton fields this year, and is expected to increase the harvest of 150,000 tons of cotton. These newly added cotton fields are basically all harvested by machinery, so the harvest will definitely be completed on time to ensure that the cotton can be harvested in time. supply.

The gray-haired president nodded and asked, In other words, can this 150,000 tons of cotton be supplied stably every year?

As long as you don't encounter any natural disasters that affect the output of cotton, there should be no problem in stabilizing the supply. Uncle He paused and continued;

Of course, if necessary, we can also increase the planting area of ​​cotton. We have nothing else here. There is a lot of land. There are large open spaces, and cotton can be planted at any time!

After Uncle He's introduction, including President Qian, several others also showed very interested expressions.

This President Qian is the chairman of the Zhejiang East Textile Association and the chairman of a domestic textile leader. The people behind him are members of the Textile Association and are also the heads of various textile enterprises.

Uncle He finally invited these people.

Attracting investment has always been an important job at the local level. Uncle He's mission this time is to get enterprises from the Zhejiang East Textile Association to invest and build factories in the northwest.

What Uncle He can rely on is that the Northwest can supply high-quality and cheap cotton.

Cotton is the most important raw material in the textile industry. For enterprises, the closer to the raw material supply base, the lower the production cost.

Cotton needs to be spun first and then woven. From the perspective of transportation cost, it is definitely more economical to transport good fabrics than to transport cotton.

Under normal circumstances, one ton of seed cotton can produce about 330 kg to 420 kg of lint cotton. The cotton in the Northwest is of high quality, so it can produce 400 kg of lint cotton.

400 kg of lint can produce 360 ​​kg of ordinary cotton yarn, or 320 kg of combed cotton yarn.

The freight per ton of goods is fixed, that is to say, one ton of seed cotton and one ton of cotton yarn, the freight is the same. But the value of the goods was three times worse.

If these textile mills build factories on the spot where cotton is produced, they can save two-thirds of the transportation cost by directly transporting cotton yarn to the east.

For a commodity like cotton, saving two-thirds of the transportation cost is still a lot of money. Whether a company can make a profit after a busy year is likely to depend on the two-thirds of the transportation cost.

However, while saving costs, enterprises must also consider a stable source of raw materials.

If an enterprise comes to set up a factory, but the local area cannot provide enough cotton for production, then the enterprise will purchase cotton from the eastern region and sell it back to the east after production, but it will lose a fortune.

Manpower has always been the most important factor restricting cotton production in the northwest region. There is a shortage of people in the northwest, but people are needed for cotton picking. The cotton picking army, which is expected to migrate like migratory birds in September and October every year, cannot fundamentally solve the problem, and it will not solve the problem. Stablize.

Now with the cotton harvester, the problem of unmanned cotton picking has been solved, and the cotton planting area can also be expanded.

Just like the 150,000 tons of seed cotton in the mouth of Uncle How, at least 50,000 tons of cotton yarn can be produced, and the profit that 50,000 tons of cotton yarn can bring will be envied by any textile enterprise.

At that time, China was still in the era of vigorous development of the textile industry. The country still had to earn foreign exchange by exporting clothes, shoes, hats and socks. As the upstream raw material of the textile industry, cotton was naturally in short supply.

I just listened to Uncle He and then introduced: Although our cotton production has increased a lot, but because of its good quality and affordable price, it has basically been booked. Your member companies of Zhejiang East Textile Association have also ordered a lot.

However, cotton picking requires a process. Even with the help of a cotton harvester, we have to wait until the middle and late October for the entire autonomous region to complete the cotton picking work.

Therefore, when shipping, we also have a priority order. In principle, whoever places the order first and pays the deposit will give priority to the delivery, and those who place the order later can only wait first.

However, there is an exception. Our local textile enterprises are given priority to supply, and local textile enterprises can also give priority to some high-quality sources of goods, which is considered as some care for tax-paying enterprises.

Uncle He made it clear that he was saying, come to us to invest and build a factory!

Of course, President Qian heard what Uncle He meant, and he said: I don't come to the northwest very often, and I don't know much about the situation here. However, according to my observations along the way, the infrastructure in the west is still not as good as that in the east. If If a factory is built here, I don’t know if there is any problem with the company’s water and electricity use.”

You can rest assured, we are not short of water here, and we are not short of electricity!

Uncle He went on to explain: Although the first and second largest deserts in the country are both here, companies will not be built in deserts!

We have a lot of mountains here, with glaciers on the mountains, groundwater underground, and many amber rivers, so the water resources are still very rich. Our per capita water resources here are more than double that of eastern cities.

As for electricity, we not only have no shortage of electricity here, but also the price of electricity is very cheap. We are originally a large coal-producing province. Coal is our important industry. The price of coal is cheap, and the price of electricity is naturally cheaper. Therefore, if we build a factory here, the cost of electricity is also much lower than that of the eastern provinces.

In addition, we have some preferential policies for companies that come to invest, such as land or taxation. If the investment scale is relatively large, we can also give special preference to infrastructure construction...

Uncle He began to vigorously promote the preferential policies for local investment promotion.

...

Zhang Jianshe is sitting at the desk correcting official documents.

The secretary knocked on the door and came in and said, Leader, Deputy Secretary He is here.

Comrade He Rong, please come in. Zhang Jianshe said.

After a while, He Rong walked into the office and sat in front of Zhang Jianshe.

Zhang Jianshe put down his pen and said with a smile, Old He, I was just going to ask you how the delegation from the Zhejiang East Textile Association is doing, but you came here unexpectedly.

I came here to report this matter to you. He Rong took a deep breath, handed over a folder, and said excitedly:

The negotiation is done. Thirty-three companies in the Zhejiang East Textile Association have signed investment intention contracts with us, and the investment amount exceeds one billion yuan!

One billion! Okay, that's great! Zhang Jianshe was in a good mood in an instant: Although this one billion figure will be a bit watery, as long as half of it can be implemented, we will be satisfied.

He Rong smiled slightly: Leader, when it comes to the implementation of funds, I am more confident than you! In the past two years, the domestic textile industry has developed very rapidly, and the demand for cotton has also increased greatly.

As far as I know, this cotton yarn is almost in short supply. As long as it is produced, there will be people rushing for it, so as long as we can supply a large amount of high-quality cotton, we will not worry about these textile companies not coming to us to settle down!

Zhang Jianshe nodded: I have recently been summarizing the cotton picking situation of various farms. With the cotton harvester, the picking efficiency has indeed been greatly improved. I transferred a soldier from a tank battalion and collected more than 100,000 tons of cotton. Cotton. In normal terms, this is the labor of tens of thousands of people.

But this cotton harvester is expensive enough, one million. However, it can bring one billion investment, and this cotton harvester is not a loss!

It's more than a loss, this is definitely a profit! In addition to attracting investment, selling cotton is also money! Uncle He said with a smile.

Look at my brain, just thinking about attracting investment, forget about selling cotton! Our cotton can also sell for a lot of money! Zhang Jianshe patted his forehead and continued;

If the investment of Zhejiang East Textile Association can be implemented, we feel that we can continue to expand the cotton planting area next year and attract more textile enterprises to invest here.

If the cotton planting area is expanded, this cotton harvester will definitely continue to be purchased. This kind of large-scale planting, manpower alone is unreliable, and mechanical equipment must be used.

We will discuss with several other comrades at the meeting next Monday, and we will order another hundred cotton harvesters from the manufacturer!