Chapter 1476 Competition and Change (Part 2)

In July 1980, Shangmei Factory applied to the Shanghai Municipal Government for the allocation of 500 acres of surrounding land to build factories, office buildings and welfare housing.

Since Shanghai is the city where most educated youths return to their hometowns, in order to solve their housing problems after returning, Shanghai City is the most active in this era in favor of raising funds to build houses.

In those two years, Shangmei Factory contributed a lot of foreign exchange to the Shanghai Municipality, so the Shanghai Municipality readily agreed.

After three years, the expansion of the Shangmei factory has been completely completed.

Because they have many art designers themselves, they have designed a lot of beautiful and romantic elements for their factory. Greening facilities are everywhere for free, so the Shangmei Factory, which occupies a very large area, seems to be in the surrounding area. A scene.

Walking inside, you can feel the atmosphere of art at any time.

In addition, Shangmei Factory has made all the characters in its works into dolls and placed them in every corner of the factory, in front of every lawn and garden, making it look like a fairy tale world.

Such a beautiful scenery has attracted primary and secondary schools in Shanghai to regard the Shangmei Factory as a scenic spot when they go out to visit, making them dumbfounded.

But the children's request cannot be refused, and the Shangmei Factory originally serves children, so it can only be open two days a week to receive these children.

Other unimportant departments, or some minor details that newly graduated students are responsible for, can be visited by these children, so that they can feel the charm of art production.

Over time, Shangmei Factory even dedicated a building to this kind of promotion and reception work.

As for those important departments that are rushing to make progress, others are naturally not allowed to enter.

In order to enrich his team and receive a large number of animation production orders, one of Yan Dingxian's important tasks in the past few years has been to continuously recruit outstanding graduates of art majors and animation majors to work in Shangfang Art Factory.

Even those who have not gone to school but have strong confidence in their art skills can sign up for recruitment.

The reputation of Shangmei Factory has actually been well-known in the art and animation departments of major universities.

Especially in the past few years, through the cooperation between Shangmei Factory and Xiangjiang Qilin Culture, various wages and benefits have far exceeded the national average.

There are many people who earn two to three hundred a month, and the benefits during the New Year and holidays are even more frightening.

Not to mention, Shangmei Factory has allocated houses to outstanding employees for free.

How important it is to have your own house in Shanghai! ?

Therefore, anyone who has some ability and career ambitions wants to work in Shangmei Factory, so that they can realize their ambitions and become famous at the same time.

It was also under this background that Shangmei Factory carefully selected countless outstanding talents every year and expanded them into its own team. Eventually, it had more than 700 on-the-job employees.

These people have made very rapid progress with the guidance and help of veteran employees, especially the Wanjia old men and the special old men who were retired and re-employed.

In less than two or three years, they will be able to shoulder the responsibility of Shangmei Factory and become the backbone of the factory.

With them, this is the confidence that Yan Dingxian dares to challenge the Asahi Group, the largest animation company in Japan.

However, Yan Dingxian was not sure whether he could succeed or not.

In terms of production sophistication, Shangmei Factory will definitely surpass Asahi Group.

However, in terms of production speed and expressiveness, as well as the use of modern production machines, Shangmei Factory lags behind Asahi Group.

This can be seen from the fact that Kirin Culture handed over the most important animations to the Asahi Group.

"Conan", the most popular detective film among animated films, now has a strong reputation and influence around the world. It is said that the animation alone generates more than 300 million Hong Kong dollars in profits for Qilin Culture every year.

In addition, the derivative products of "Conan" are also selling well among teenagers, with annual profits of not less than 1 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Although not as good as Transformers toys and Saint Seiya dolls, this brand is undoubtedly very successful.

The biggest factor in success is actually not the comic book, but this cartoon.

Therefore, among the Kirin culture, many people appreciate the Japanese production level and speed. ——There are too many people in Qilin Culture who have gone to Shangmei Factory, so Yan Dingxian knows it very well.

In comparison, the cartoons produced by Shangmei Film Studio and several other cooperative art film studios have a good reputation and are well-produced, but there are no popular and profitable comics.

This is their disadvantage.

But in general, Shangmei Factory still has much greater advantages.

One-third of the employees of Qilin Culture are from Shangmei Factory, which has a strong foundation of recognition. When making choices, they will tend to choose Shangmei Factory.

Even Chang Juanxi, the first animation director of Kirin Culture, was an employee of Shangmei Factory, and Hu Yi, the second and current animation director, was also from Shangmei Factory.

Even in terms of decisive opinions, they do not have the say as big as Le Yiling, but the right to make suggestions and opinions are important factors for Le Yiling to refer to.

The most important thing is Yin Jun.

As we all know, Yin Jun single-handedly contributed to the success of Shangmei Factory.

I don’t know why, but when Yin Jun started making comics, he went to great lengths to invite the backbone of Shangmei Factory in the Mainland to build the framework of Qilin Culture.

Yin Jun invited Japanese or even Koreans to come, but it did not have much impact on the development of Qilin culture.

As long as there is Yin Jun's original story and Yin Jun's foresight, there will be no problem.

But for Shangmei Factory, this is a life-saving straw.

Since those few years, the state has actually provided much less support for the cultural industry. If it were not for the cooperation with Qilin Culture, they would have gradually declined in recent years.

Let alone aggressive expansion and finding people, even if we can maintain the previous scale, it is unrealistic.

Today's Shangmei Factory is so prosperous that it is one of the top animation production factories in Asia, mostly due to Yin Jun's support.

Yin Junke has never concealed his fondness for the mainland or his support for his own people, which is where Shangmei Factory has the confidence.

Yan Dingxian and Chang Huanxi talked about things today, and they also talked about this matter.

"I'm planning to go to Xiangjiang tomorrow." Chang Huanxi said directly without any nonsense, "It just so happened that three new comics were added this month, and I also went to find out about the situation. Of course, the most important thing is to get "" Won the animation production rights of "Dragon Ball"!"

"Is it difficult?" Yan Dingxian looked at his favorite general with admiration.

Yan Dingxian originally liked Chang Juanxi in the past. Chang Juanxi made such a big difference in Xiangjiang, but he still resolutely returned to the Shangmei Factory and lived with a salary of more than 800 yuan.

More than 800 yuan a month is already among the top ten in Shangmei Factory, but compared to the 1 million Hong Kong dollars a year salary offered by Yin Jun to Chang Juan Xi, it is simply not enough to even carry shoes.

But Chang Juanxi still came back, which was praised by several old men.

Yan Dingxian decided at that moment that Chang Juanxi would be the next director of Shangmei Factory recommended to the organization when he retired.

Not only because of his ability and loyalty, but also because he has a very good relationship with Yin Jun and also has a good relationship with Le Yiling.

When Qilin Group was first founded, Chang Juanxi and Le Yiling worked upstairs and downstairs and interacted frequently. Such friendships were uncommon.

Nowadays, basically no one below has the opportunity to have such close contact with the Queen of Music.

Now Chang Juanxi has actually been promoted to the deputy director of Shangmei Factory, and is in charge of animation production.

"It's definitely difficult, but even if I don't want this face, I still have to ask Yin Jun for help." Chang Juanxi said sternly, ""Dragon Ball" is too important for us to go to the art studio! In the end, it's the same place A step, or a big step forward, it depends!”

"right!"

Yan Dingxian nodded heavily, "If "Dragon Ball" can be produced quickly and well, then we will completely overwhelm the Asahi Group and become the number one in Asia. This will also have a huge impact on our daily production of other animated films. benefit!"

There is less support from the above for Shanghai Fine Arts Factory, but some of the tasks that should be done are not lacking. Every year, Shanghai Fine Arts Factory needs to produce several animated films and cartoons for children across the country to watch.

By cultivating so many talents and having such sufficient funds in hand, the animated films produced by Shanghai Film Studio in recent years have become more and more sophisticated and have won many awards internationally.

This made the older generation of retired employee masters praise repeatedly, saying that their generation of Shangmei factory workers not only opened up their own fields, but also did not forget the purest concept of animation, and passed down the Shangmei factory very well. the spirit of.

Being able to make money, achieve artistic achievements, and be loved by children all over the country is also the pride of Shangmei Factory.

In this way, their artistic creations will have life, and everyone will have a sense of belonging and glory.

"In addition, factory director, our apartment buildings are already saturated. Many young people newly recruited to the factory have been asking recently, when will we start building new apartments?" Chang Juanxi asked again, "Many The young men are all waiting to be assigned a new house before going to the girl’s home to discuss marriage!”

Of the 500 acres of land approved by the city, half is used to build apartment buildings.

Shangmei Factory has built a total of 60 units and 720 houses, all with a uniform area of ​​80 square meters, enough for a family of three or even five.

But now there are more than 900 people in Shangmei Factory. The remaining one or two hundred people actually live in the old apartment building, which only covers an area of ​​30-50 square meters. Even the toilet and kitchen are shared.

In the past, everyone was like this, and of course it was nothing.

But seeing that the seniors, brothers and sisters can all live in spacious and bright high-rise buildings, but they still live in Tongzi Building, the young people are naturally a little panicked and want to own a house.

"Well, I have already asked the city for permission." Yan Dingxian said with a smile, "They have initially agreed to allocate the land, but this time we have to pay some money."

"Yin Jun mentioned this matter last time when he called me." Chang Huanxi said, "Together with our current houses and land, if the ownership can be secured, it would be best to turn it into our factory. It’s our own, not just allocated. After all, the allocated land has no guarantee for us.”

"He specializes in real estate business, so he should know better than us on this point, and he never does unnecessary things." Yan Dingxian thought for a while, then nodded slowly, "Anyway, we have money now, so we can Do this! It won’t cost much more, but it will be much more secure if you hold the land in your own hands.”