Chapter 579 Who is fishing?

The two-day interview made Kong Zhenlong feel that life is not easy for cotton pickers. They have traveled thousands of miles from their hometowns and came to the Northwest. They finally earn some hard-earned money and bring them home. They will also encounter black forces such as pickpocket gangs. All the money was taken away.

This immediately made Kong Zhenlong feel sympathy for the cotton pickers.

Life is not easy! Kong Zhenlong looked at the young man named Gen'er in front of him. At this time, he was huddled in the seat by the window, watching everyone passing by the aisle vigilantly. Recovered from the pickpocket gang.

This matter has cast a big shadow on this child! Kong Zhenlong thought to himself.

He looked at the boy's two elders from the same village again. At this time, the two of them had no guilt, and were still drinking cheap liquor and eating peanuts.

Although Kong Zhenlong looked down on the two from the bottom of his heart, he did not condemn them. After all, it is the nature of living things to seek good luck and avoid evil. It is reasonable to apply oil to the soles of the feet when encountering danger.

It's not easy for these cotton pickers to make money. If that kind of cotton harvesting is used on a large scale, wouldn't these people's jobs be taken away? Kong Zhenlong sighed and then thought:

The improvement of production efficiency brought by the cotton harvester is a good thing, but the livelihood of the hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers is also very important! This topic really needs to be reported in depth. I should go to the cotton harvester manufacturer. Take a look.

Kong Zhenlong is not overflowing with sympathy, but rather comprehensively thinking about issues.

After all, they are the ace reporters of Focus Talk. They don't just look at the surface when they look at problems. They report in depth, excavate the core, and present facts from different angles.

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Fukang Engineering Company, Li Weidong is playing with the loader model in front of him.

This model is very delicate, all the joints can move, and even the control levers in the cockpit can be seen. Li Weidong said with satisfaction.

Ding Youliang, who was next to him, immediately introduced: This is based on our products, in equal proportions. All the parts were acquired and built. It took a lot of effort to make these models.

After all, I am going to participate in the exhibition in Dubai. This time it is an international construction machinery exhibition. The models should be made more refined, and it is definitely cheaper to make such a few models and bring the whole equipment to Dubai. Li Weidong speak up.

Ding You nodded brightly: That's right, this kind of international construction machinery exhibition, let's just join in the fun and really ship the equipment, if we can't get the order, we will lose a lot of freight. It's better to bring a The model is over!

Why, Lao Ding, don't you have the confidence to take a few orders? Li Weidong asked with a smile.

Ding Youliang sighed lightly: It's not that I don't have confidence, it's that my strength doesn't allow it! As far as I know, there are many construction machinery companies in the United States, Japan and Europe who participated in the exhibition in Dubai this time, and they are all international players in the construction machinery industry. giant.

Such as Caterpillar, John Deere, and Terex in the United States; Komatsu, Hitachi, Kobelco, and Sumitomo in Japan; Liebherr and Wacker Neuson in Germany; Volvo, Sandvik, Umberto; Metso from Finland, H from Italy, Manitou from France, and Palfinger from Austria will all participate in the exhibition.

Compared with these big international companies, we are the green onions! If it wasn't for the first time the UAE held the International Construction Machinery Exhibition and wanted to make the scene bigger, we wouldn't even have the qualifications to participate!

I can't say the same thing. Although our products are not as good as international brands in terms of quality and performance, they are better at cheap prices! I think there will always be people who will be greedy for cheap. Li Weidong said.

Chairman, after all, this is Dubai, not a poor place like Africa or South Asia. Just being cheap is not very attractive. The oil-producing countries in the Middle East are very rich, and they don't just buy things for cheap. Ding Youliang speak up.

That's right. But the market in the Middle East is really good. Like you said, countries in the Middle East have money, and they can afford expensive products. And in the field of construction machinery, there is no such country in the Middle East. Enterprises, so they can only rely on imports. It would be a pity if people don’t get a share of the market, where people are stupid and rich.” Li Weidong said.

Among the Arab countries in the Middle East, there is no strong manufacturing industry, nor is it developed in terms of machinery manufacturing, and construction machinery is basically imported.

The key point is that there are still oil-producing countries, and they can afford a lot of money, so they have always been regarded as the best market by developed countries.

And the competition in this high-quality market is also fierce. Construction machinery companies in the United States, Japan, Europe and other countries have been fighting each other for decades here.

The Middle East is relatively close to Europe, and coupled with the history of colonization, the Middle East has always been regarded as its own back garden by European companies;

The United States, through its control of oil, coupled with a strong military force, allows American companies to enter the market in the Middle East;

As a rising star, Japanese companies can also occupy a place in the Middle East market with higher quality and better details.

In contrast, China's construction machinery is not as good as developed countries in Europe, America and Japan in terms of technology, quality, or brand. The only advantage is that the price is cheap. Not much.

Local tyrants do not demolish, do not buy cheap goods, they cannot afford to lose that person!

In fact, the Middle East is not completely without the construction machinery manufacturing industry. There is a country whose machinery manufacturing industry is very strong, and it can even be said to be the top level in the world.

That is Israel.

Israel's technology is very developed, and the level of machinery manufacturing is even higher. Israel can manufacture excellent construction machinery.

But because of contradictions, it is absolutely impossible for Arab countries to buy construction machinery from Israel. Even if Israel gives it away for free, Arab countries are not necessarily willing to ask for it.

And Fukang Engineering is about to participate in the UAE Construction Machinery Exhibition held in Dubai.

This is the first time that the UAE has held a construction machinery exhibition. In order to make the exhibition bigger, companies from many countries have been invited to participate, including the world's top construction machinery companies and many 18th-tier construction companies.

As far as the UAE is concerned, all visitors are guests anyway. Since you come to show me a favor, whether you are a rich man or a poor man, I will welcome you. Anyway, I am a rich country, and I don’t care if I entertain you more by myself.

This is probably like an ancient rich man's family doing red and white affairs, and there will always be some beggars who come to eat and drink. For example, when a beggar says two words of congratulations during a red event, or when a beggar comes to the door to cry twice, he will always get a bowl of rice as a reward from the host.

Fukang Engineering has no reputation at all in the world. Even in China, it cannot be regarded as a first-class construction machinery enterprise. The domestic scale is larger than that of Fukang Engineering, and its technology is also more advanced than that of Fukang Engineering.

Therefore, in the eyes of a rich country like the United Arab Emirates, the Fukang project is probably like this kind of beggar who comes to eat. Since people come, they will stutter, so as not to be called stingy, but instead lose the face of the local tyrants.

In fact, even if the domestic first-class construction machinery companies go to the exhibition, they will still be easily beaten in the face of international giant companies.

Although there were many Chinese construction machinery companies at that time, most of them were big but not strong, and their product technology was far behind the international giants, and no one could beat them.

If it is placed in the future, more than one fifth of the top 50 construction machinery companies in the world are Chinese companies.

It is precisely because of the gap in technology that in Ding Youliang's eyes, Chinese companies participating in this exhibition basically focus on learning, to see what technologies are worth learning from other top international companies.

And the stinky brother of Fukang Engineering is probably just going to go through the scene, just to make up the number, and it is already very good to be able to display a few toy-like models.

As for things like orders, don't even think about it!

Bringing a few models to Dubai doesn't cost much for consignment fees, so Ding Youliang simply regarded this visit to Dubai as a bonus.

With several important executives and the core backbone of the scientific research department, we went to Dubai for a walk at public expense.

Li Weidong didn't think so, although he also knew that sending the products of Fukang Engineering to Dubai for an exhibition would be an act of humiliation. However, in line with the principle that there are no dates and no dates, Li Weidong still wants to fight to see if there are any orders.

Li Weidong is really poor now. Because of Taifeng and Taisheng Mine, he owes the bank one billion yuan, so there is no chance of making money, and Li Weidong will not let it go.

Li Weidong and Ding Youliang were discussing the details of going to Dubai to participate in the exhibition, but Yue Anan called from Fukang Agricultural Machinery next door.

Chairman, a reporter has come and said that he wants to interview the cotton harvester. I have arranged for the publicity department to entertain first. Yue Anan said.

Isn't it this reporter? What's all the fuss about? There are quite a few reporters visiting cotton harvesters these days. You can handle it yourself. Li Weidong said.

This time the situation is a bit special. Many ordinary media came here, but reporters from Focus Talk. I don't think it's sloppy. I have to report it to you. Yue Anan said.

Hearing the words Focus Talk, Li Weidong suddenly became vigilant. This is not an ordinary program and needs to be treated with caution.

So Li Weidong opened his mouth and said, I happen to be on the side of the Fukang project right now. I'll visit in person in a while to receive this reporter comrade!

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Not long after, Li Weidong met Kong Zhenlong.

Regarding the cotton harvester, several waves of reporters have interviewed before, and the publicity department of Fukang Agricultural Machinery is also able to cope with this aspect with ease.

For example, the detailed introduction of the product, the product development process, etc., in addition to the detailed introduction, Kong Zhenlong also gave Kong Zhenlong a lot of written materials prepared in advance.

But Kong Zhenlong was not satisfied. He still proposed to interview the leaders of Fukang Agricultural Machinery in person, so Li Weidong came forward.

Chairman Li, I didn't expect my luck to be so lucky to meet you in Qinghe. Kong Zhenlong said with a smile.

Kong Zhenlong's remarks are also elevating Li Weidong. Under normal circumstances, people with high status can't be seen by themselves. When Kong Zhenlong uses good luck to describe it, he actually has a position in Li Weidong.

As expected of an ace reporter, a simple sentence can show his level. With such an opening remark, it can also win the favor of Li Weidong, which is also helpful for the next interview.

Li Weidong said: I have always been very welcome to the media, as long as I have time, I will definitely not refuse an interview with a reporter, especially if a program as in-depth as Focus Talk interviews me, I can't even ask for it. !

Daily business touts are no strangers to old fried dough sticks like Li Weidong.

Kong Zhenlong didn't talk too much, and went straight to the topic, only to hear him say: Chairman Li, I went to the Northwest to interview the increase in cotton production, and I found that your St. John's cotton harvester is in The process of increasing cotton production has played an important role.

The cotton harvester can solve the problem of insufficient manpower for cotton picking. Take your cotton harvester as an example. It can pick ten acres of land in one hour. The work efficiency of a cotton harvester is about equal to the manual cotton picking of 100 laborers. . So this saves a lot of manpower.

But there is a problem. I wonder if Chairman Li has ever thought that one cotton harvester is worth the workload of a hundred people, that is to say, every time the farm buys a cotton harvester, 100 cotton pickers are squeezed out. If all cotton fields use cotton harvesters, how can hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers maintain their livelihoods every year?

As expected of a reporter from Focus Talk, the question is really sharp! Others come to interview, they are always complimenting, but he can dig deeper employment problems. Li Weidong secretly thought.

Then Li Weidong smiled slightly and said, The situation in which the cotton harvester takes away the jobs of the cotton pickers you mentioned exists in theory, but in practice, it will not happen within ten years.

Because this involves a cost issue. After all, cotton harvesters are high-end agricultural machinery, which are relatively expensive and cannot be bought by ordinary people. For example, the cotton mobile phones we produce sell for more than one million yuan.

The cheapest imported cotton harvester costs more than 2 million yuan, and the more expensive ones can cost 4 to 5 million yuan. Just imagine how many farms can afford a cotton harvester? And that's not counting the diesel fuel consumed and the parts lost in use.

In contrast, the wages of cotton pickers are not high. How many workers can be hired to pick cotton if one million is used? Therefore, ordinary farms or cotton farmers still directly hire people to pick cotton, which will be more cost-effective in terms of cost.

So for now, cotton harvesters are just a supplementary means, mainly to deal with the shortage of cotton pickers. If someone can be hired, I think cotton farmers will still give priority to using manual cotton picking.

Of course, the income of cotton pickers cannot always be maintained at the current state. In the future, with the development of the country and the increase of national income, the wages of cotton pickers will also increase.

In the future, when the cost of hiring cotton pickers is higher than the cost of mechanical harvesting, I think the situation you mentioned, the cotton harvester taking away the jobs of cotton pickers, will happen.

Li Weidong's remarks were reasonable and well-founded, and Kong Zhenlong couldn't help but nodded convincingly.

But after thinking for a while, Kong Zhenlong said, Chairman Li, according to what you said, although the cotton harvester will not take away the jobs of hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers in a short period of time, in the long run, it will What is bound to happen?

Yes. Li Weidong nodded without hesitation: With the development of science and technology, it is a trend that machines replace manpower. This is true in any industry. This is an inevitable phenomenon of human development and social progress.

That is to say, with the development of technology, cotton pickers will be eliminated by cotton harvesters sooner or later. Kong Zhenlong took a deep breath and asked, Don't you think they are a kind of sacrifice?

So while we are developing, we must also find ways to solve this type of problem. Li Weidong said.

How do you think it should be resolved? Kong Zhenlong asked immediately, as if he didn't want to give Li Weidong a chance to change his tune.

This is a good question! Li Weidong's mouth rose slightly, and then he said, Reporter Kong, are you willing to go to a few places with me? When you arrive at the scene and check it out, I think you will find the answer.

Kong Zhenlong was stunned for a moment. It was the first time he had encountered such a situation as a reporter for so many years.

In previous interviews, they sat there asking one question and one answer, but under Kong Zhenlong's sharp questions, many people would be speechless when asked by Kong Zhenlong.

However, it is often proposed by Kong Zhenlong to check this kind of thing on the spot. The interviewee always wants to cover up, and reluctantly takes Kong Zhenlong to the scene.

Now things have turned around. Li Weidong took the initiative to bring Kong Zhenlong to the scene, which made Kong Zhenlong not recover for a while.

Kong Zhenlong's interview is like fishing. The initial question is like a bait, and then he lures the other party to bite the hook step by step, and finally digs out deep content.

However, the tricky smile on Li Weidong's face seems to be saying, you fish have finally taken the bait!

I seem to have been caught by fish! Kong Zhenlong thought to himself.