Chapter 581 Manufacturing is the answer

Sitting in the car, Kong Zhenlong had been thinking about Li Wei's concept of teaching a man to fish, and then he showed a hesitant expression.

Reporter Kong, do you have any questions? Just ask! Li Weidong said actively.

Chairman Li, I totally agree with what you said about teaching people how to fish, but if you think about it carefully, this is not an easy task, at least in terms of cost, right?

Kong Zhenlong paused, then said, It's like driving an excavator. After you finish your studies, you will earn a lot, and the tuition will not be low, right? I think it's more expensive than learning how to drive a car.

There are also professions such as car repair, cooking pastry, beauty salon, etc., if you want to learn it, you will need a certain amount of money. That is to say, the teaching a man to fish in your mouth is not free.

Of course. Li Weidong nodded: I am a businessman, and the purpose of running a technical school is naturally to make a profit. We are not a compulsory education institution, and naturally we have to charge tuition fees, and the tuition fees are indeed not cheap.

But for many rural families who are not very wealthy, they may not be able to pay the high tuition fees? That is to say, it is very difficult for them to come to technical schools to learn technology. Even if they want to Learning technology also pays so much tuition.”

Kong Zhenlong paused, then continued; When I went to interview cotton pickers before, I met a child who just turned sixteen. His family was not rich, and he went to the northwest to pick cotton just to be able to pick cotton. Save enough money for a betrothal gift to marry the girl next door.

But on the return train, the money he made from picking cotton was almost stolen by a pickpocket. Fortunately, the police comrades showed up and caught the pickpocket, so he kept his hard-earned money.

This child is lucky. Although he doesn't know any technology, he can make money and marry a wife with his strength. I imagine an army of hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers. Most of them are like him. They have no skills and can only make money by strength.

Chairman Li, you have also said before that there are hundreds of millions of farmers in China who lack the skills to make a living. With such a large population, how can we have so many resources to provide them with vocational and technical training?

This question is a good question. Given the current situation of our country and the size of the population, it is completely impossible to popularize vocational and technical education. Li Weidong nodded and continued;

Our country is not yet rich, and it would be great to be able to popularize nine-year compulsory education. There is simply not that much money and resources to provide vocational education to hundreds of millions of people.

Therefore, for a long time in the future, vocational education can only exist as a supplementary form. It can allow some people to find jobs and even become rich, but it cannot solve the problems of most people.

That's why I'm taking you to the next place, where you may get a more complete answer.

Chairman Li, you haven't told me where we are going! Kong Zhenlong asked curiously.

The place we are going to is the Puppy Electric Factory. For now, this should be the largest foundry in East China. In the future, it will become the largest foundry in Asia and even the world! Li Weidong said with a smile .

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After the expansion in recent years, the scale of the Puppy Electric Factory has become very large, and the entire land in Xiangyang Town is basically planned for the Puppy Electric Factory.

At present, the number of workers in the entire factory area has reached an astonishing 120,000 people. Although this is incomparable to later generations of Foxconn's factories with 200000000000000000000000000, but around 2000, it is already the top ten domestic factories.

In fact, the entire Xiangyang Town originally had a population of only over 50,000 people. Now, more than 50,000 people in the town have basically stopped farming. They either go to work in the Puppy Electrical Appliance Factory or are engaged in the logistical support of the Puppy Electrical Appliance Factory. Work.

120,000 people eat, drink, and consume a lot of materials every day.

These have become the source of income for the residents of Xiangyang Town. Those who have the ability will go to the factory to contract a canteen or a small shop. Halls, barber shops, etc., even selling a pancake and fruit meat buns, can solve their livelihood, at least make more money than farming.

On several roads next to the electrical appliance factory, morning or night markets have spontaneously formed, selling snacks, various daily necessities, as well as all kinds of pirated books and pirated tapes.

Workers off the night shift go to the morning market, and workers off the day shift go to the night market. The scale of 120,000 workers is enough to easily support thousands of vendors.

Kong Zhenlong traveled all day long and went to many big companies, so he was well-informed, but he was still surprised when he saw the scale of the Puppy Electric Factory.

Are these all dormitory buildings? So many buildings, how many people can live there! Kong Zhenlong looked at the four-story dormitory buildings, and said with a look of surprise:

Chairman Li, the scale of your electrical appliance factory is really big enough. I have interviewed many large state-owned enterprises, but such a large-scale enterprise is not common.

Li Weidong said: At present, there are 120,000 employees in our factory, and there are almost 20,000 people who provide living and logistical support for these employees!

These dormitory buildings in front of you are all eight people per room, and the conditions are neither good nor bad, basically similar to the dormitories of ordinary colleges and universities.

This factory of yours reminds me of those big mines and oil fields back in the day when towns could be built with just one company, Kong Zhenlong said.

The most resource-based cities or towns in China are built on the basis of a large mine or a large oil field.

For example, DQ City was originally just a town, surrounded by pastures. Since the discovery of oil fields, it has gradually developed into a city.

At this moment, a group of young people appeared in the field of vision. They were holding the clothes and shoes they just received, as well as daily necessities such as washbasin towels, and were lining up to go to one of the dormitory buildings.

This is our newly recruited employee. Each of our employees has to pass an examination and a medical examination before entering the factory, and after entering the factory, they must undergo training. Only after passing the training can they take up their posts. Reporter Kong, are you interested in coming to us? Let's take a look at the training department? Li Weidong asked.

Dare to obey! Kong Zhenlong nodded.

Everyone came to the training department. There is also a large workshop, but there is no assembly line. The workers are practicing some basic operations of assembling home appliances.

The people who are being trained are basically young people, they all look like they are around 20 years old, and there are some slightly immature faces, they are definitely still minors, and there are very few older ones.

Chairman Li, the workers here are generally relatively young. Kong Zhenlong said subconsciously.

Young people are more capable of learning, and it is easier to pass the training. Li Weidong then asked: There should be a lot of old cotton pickers, right?

Kong Zhenlong nodded: The age of the cotton pickers is relatively average, some are young and some are older, but most of them are young and middle-aged, those in their thirties and forties, and a lot of them over fifty. Not many years old.

The teenage children are far away, and it's a large and sparsely populated Northwest China. After all, the family is still worried. But it's the same as coming to the factory. There is a fixed place of work, food and accommodation are guaranteed, and the children are sent here. Parents are also at ease.”

Li Weidong went on to say; To be honest, in the past few years, we recruited a lot of child labor here, and those thirteen- or four-year-old children were all sent to their homes, just because we took care of our food, house, and housing. There is a salary.

We said no child labor, but people begged us to take them in. Many village officials even helped to say good things and had to send people over. After all, in the eyes of farmers at that time, being a worker was a very honorable thing.

In recent years, we have also strengthened the management of recruitment, and it is strictly forbidden to recruit child laborers under the age of 16. Those who cannot prove their age without an ID card must either bring a household registration book or a certificate from the village.

However, there are still many people who take advantage of the loopholes, even though they are less than sixteen years old, they let the village open a certificate. In this rural area, it is all based on false age, and a fifteen-year-old can issue a sixteen-year-old certificate.

And according to the tradition of our country, regardless of the date of birth, after the Lunar New Year, it is one year older. Some children born at the end of the year are obviously fourteen years old, and they are two years old. They come with a certificate of sixteen years old. At work, we are helpless.

This situation occurs all over the country. Even in rural areas in economically developed areas, it is inevitable that they will be bound by homestays. Kong Zhenlong nodded.

National laws stipulate that it is not allowed to recruit children under the age of 16, but in terms of implementation, more flexible choices are made according to the actual situation.

In the era of state-owned enterprises, when children could take up their parents' positions to work, it was inevitable that they would start working before the age of sixteen.

Take Li Weidong, for example, who took over his father's job at the age of sixteen. Fortunately, Li Weidong's birthday was at the beginning of the year. If he was born later, Li Weidong would have become a child laborer.

Many post-50s, post-60s, and even early 70s resumes show that they started working at the age of 13 or 14. Don't be surprised after reading it, the national conditions at that time were like this.

Fourteen years old is two years old, and it is sixteen years old. There is nothing wrong with participating in work.

Later, the private economy gradually developed and expanded, and the number of jobs gradually increased. However, compared with state-owned enterprises, the employment of labor in the private economy is far less standardized than that of state-owned enterprises, and there are more cases of using workers under the age of 16.

And there are more and more people who come out to work and earn money under the age of 16. These people basically haven't even graduated from junior high school.

Some of them are from poor families and cannot complete their studies, so they can only go out to work.

In fact, there are not many such people. Chinese people have always attached great importance to education. Even the poor know the importance of education. Therefore, many poor families, as long as their children can pass the test, even if they are smashing the pot and selling iron, they must provide for their children. go to school.

In later generations, there were several successful self-made people. They all devote their whole villages to the university, and then they became famous.

Therefore, most of the people who drop out of school and come to work are really not good at learning. Since they are not the materials for school, it is better not to go to school at all. They come out early to work and earn money to support themselves.

But if you can get the first place in the class, how many drop out to work?

To put it another way, the last-to-last in the class, how many cheeky people are determined to take the doctorate?

In fact, the problem of age has never been a problem. It is a common thing to do things in the file and change the age to be older, so that it is easier to join the work earlier.

The news also often reports some cases where the age of the file does not match the age of the ID card and household registration book. Most of them have modified their file age in order to find a job or join the army.

These people who revised their age were enjoying the benefits at the time. When they retired, they felt that they were at a disadvantage, and then they went to revise. If they couldn't change it, they went to reporter Abyss, saying that they made a mistake in the past and can't change it now. It's like a vegetarian meal in the relevant department.

In fact, it's all self-inflicted. When I changed my age to take advantage of it, why didn't I go to the reporter, and when I was at a disadvantage, I remembered that the reporter was here?

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Li Weidong said and looked at his watch: It's almost dinner time, Reporter Kong, let's go to the restaurant. I'll show you the food here. It's pretty good.

There are more than one restaurant in the factory. Li Weidong took Kong Zhenlong and walked into one of the restaurants. At this time, the rows of windows were already prepared with hot food.

Kong Zhenlong looked at the credit card machine beside the window and said, Is it a credit card to eat?

Li Weidong explained: In the past, the cafeteria was free, and you could eat as much as you wanted. At that time, the workers recruited were really short of stomach. .

The workers recruited in recent years basically do not have the problem of food and clothing, so there has been some waste of food, so we have changed to swiping the meal card.

Workers receive a monthly meal allowance of 150 yuan. They can use this subsidy to recharge their meal cards, or they can go out to eat, eat whatever they want, and buy as much as they can, so as to prevent food waste.

The dining windows in the cafeteria are also contracted by different people. They have a competition mechanism with each other. If the food is delicious and the price is cheap, it will naturally attract more workers to eat.

In addition, the factory will also provide some subsidies according to the sales amount of each window. The more sales, the more subsidies. This is also hope that the price of the canteen will not be too high, so in general, it is more cost-effective to eat in the canteen.”

Kong Zhenlong walked to a window and looked at the dishes. There were cold seaweed, fried shredded potatoes, stewed tofu with cabbage, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stewed potatoes, Kung Pao chicken, and a seaweed soup. .

Reporter Kong, look at the quality of the food, it's much better than those who went to the Northwest to pick cotton, right? Li Weidong asked.

It's quite a lot. Those workers who pick cotton in the northwest of the country can have fried rice or noodles to eat. It's not bad. In most cases, they eat dry food with boiled water. Kong Zhenlong said.

As the bell rang, workers flocked to the cafeteria one after another, and the scene of tens of thousands of people moving looked quite spectacular.

The cafeteria was quickly filled with people, and people who had worked hard all day quickly began to feast on their hearts.

Our factory area now has 120,000 workers, and it is still growing. Now it will increase by 10,000 to 20,000 people every year. It is estimated that it will expand to 250,000 to 300,000 people in the future!

Li Weidong pointed to the workers who were dining, and then asked, Reporter Kong, why do you think there are so many people willing to come and work here?

It includes food, clothing, hair, and wages. This food is pretty good. If I don't know anything, I'd also like to come to work in your factory! Kong Zhenlong replied with a smile.

How is the environment here compared to going to the Northwest to pick cotton? Li Weidong asked again.

Of course it's much better. You don't need to be exposed to the wind and the sun. Although the assembly line is a bit boring, it's not heavy physical labor after all. It should be much easier than picking cotton. Kong Zhenlong replied.

Li Weidong said: My factory has solved the employment of 120,000 people, plus logistical support, almost solved the livelihood problem of 150,000 people.

If there are such four or five factories, it can almost solve the livelihood problem of hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers, right? So what if there are hundreds or thousands of these factories? Can it solve the livelihood problems of hundreds of millions of people?

Kong Zhenlong was stunned for a moment. There are many zeros in the hundreds of millions, and his mind did not turn around for a while.

Li Weidong went on to say: To the question you raised before, teaching people how to fish is part of the answer, and here is another part of the answer! And the answer here can solve the problem of hundreds of millions of people! This is manufacturing!

Li Weidong said, turned his head, and said solemnly: Compared with vocational and technical training, developing manufacturing is really teaching people how to fish. Our country is such a big country, with such a large population, if we want to eat well, wear clothes Well, with good use, manufacturing is our answer!