Chapter 303 Breaking the Low-Level Technology Monopoly "Please Give Me Your Monthly Ticket"
Less than two days after the press conference held by Wu Bian in Shanghai, the conference was held all over the country. His words were probably the most explosive public expression of his views by a domestic entrepreneur in recent years, which caused a stir. got a very strong response.
So much so that Boss Zhu personally called to ask about the specific situation. After all, some of the words written in the newspaper were taken out of context and could not fully reflect his mood and intentions at the time.
But for the higher-ups, they were still surprised when they suddenly saw Fan Wubing's words.
"Your theory on mining seems quite interesting, and what you said about capital accumulation seems a bit out of place at the moment, but in general you are still very discerning and can be said to be very thorough.
"Boss Zhu said to Fan Wubing, "If you have any special ideas recently, you might as well tell them and listen to them. It will also inspire our work. "
"Hey, why are you bringing this up? Thoughts. I heard a jingle a while ago and it seems a bit interesting. Let me read it to you." Fan Wubing seemed a little uninterested, but Boss Zhu specially called him. When he called to ask, he was too embarrassed to turn it down, so he said, "The village deceived the town, and the town deceived the county, all the way to the State Council. The State Council issued the document, and read it layer by layer. After reading the document, I went into the hotel, and the document was not there at all." cash."
After hearing this jingle, Mr. Zhu said with a bit of laughter and tears, "I heard this jingle from Shifang, isn't it causing trouble in my heart?"
In fact, Mr. Zhu also knows that this jingle is quite real. In the officialdom, people always pay attention to hiding things from the superiors and deceiving the subordinates, so they are deceived layer by layer. This matter cannot be groundless, just like the civilized thing that happens every year. The inspection and acceptance work for sanitary cities is the same, that is, the village must deal with the township, the township must deal with the county, the county must deal with the city, the city must deal with the province, and the province must naturally deal with the central government.
This is not to say that there must be cheating or something, but due to the efforts invested in the production site, the treatment during the inspection is definitely different from the usual treatment. Just the frequency of sprinkler trucks will be many times more, not to mention the Talk about other painting, repairs and new equipment.
Fan Wubing didn't want to bother his boss anymore. After all, being a politician in a big country was not easy, so he brought up the matter of his automobile industry.
After Boss Zhu listened to Fan Wubing's basic road description. I thought about it seriously. Then he said. "If you do this, I'm afraid those joint venture factories will have no way to survive."
Now domestic automobile manufacturers. The main ones are FAW, Automobile, and Shanghai Volkswagen, which ones are the most powerful. There are also some other small factories. But the strength is not good. Therefore, Boss Zhu was a little worried about Fan Wubing's behavior. Everyone's jobs were destroyed.
In fact, Boss Zhu is very concerned about the localization of car technology.
From the approval of the joint venture with Germany in 1981 to the successful assembly of the first Santana sedan at the Shanghai Automobile Manufacturing Plant in 1983. People didn't know it at the time. Assembling the Santana is like transplanting a tree. relatively easy. Producing Santana is like taking the soil from which the tree grew. That is to say, all the high-quality parts and components that make up the car are transplanted to China.
Until the late eighties. Santana was successfully localized. It means that the soil for China's automobile industry has begun to take shape. It laid the industry foundation for China's subsequent breakthroughs and success in automobiles.
then. I have been working at Shanghai Volkswagen for more than two years. Localization is less than 3%. That’s the radio, tires, signs and antennas. Facing doubts from all aspects. A Chinese general manager of Shanghai Volkswagen jumped to his death. The people of Shanghai were favored by the central government and the whole country. Pay close attention to local and industrial areas.
At that time, the country was in very short supply of foreign exchange. Santana started out by assembling CKD parts. At that time, it cost US$10,000 in foreign exchange to import parts to assemble a Santana. If Santana cannot be domestically produced after the assembly quota is used up. Shanghai Volkswagen will face closure. Achieve localization as soon as possible. Saving a lot of foreign exchange is a problem that needs to be solved urgently. It’s both realistic and very grim.
However, at that time, Chinese auto parts companies mainly supplied trucks and had never provided cars. Santana was Germany's latest car technology in the early 1970s, and the domestic technology gap was many years behind. When a German reporter came to Shanghai for an interview at that time, he reported back that this would be a failure. Faced with the technical requirements of Sangqi, it is a frustrating fact that the country’s supporting capacity for auto parts is close to zero. Many parts companies that supply Sanche cars need to introduce technology or enter into joint ventures to adapt.
Due to the difficulty in localizing Sanche parts and components, major manufacturers such as FAW and Second Automobile Works Co., Ltd. have retreated. I thought that some big manufacturers could handle the casting and forging blanks for engine blocks and crankshafts, but after two or three years of work, they still couldn't produce them. Relevant parties believe that localization standards can be deviated from, and transitional standards can be established based on national conditions. Treating adhering to German standards as speaking for foreign countries is helping foreigners to block Chinese people.
In 1987, Boss Zhu listened to a report on the localization of Santana in Shanghai. He said that the localization of Santana must be 100% qualified and lower.
OK. He proposed the establishment of a Shanghai Santana sedan localization community to coordinate the enthusiasm of parts factories for cooperation and establish a community of destiny bound by interests.
Later, looking back at the Santana localization community, many parts companies have developed relying on Shanghai Volkswagen platform resources and have become leaders in the industry and small giants in parts.
By 1990, Santana's key components such as body, engine, gearbox assemblies and front and rear axle assemblies were successively made in China. At the same time, Shanghai Volkswagen produced 60,000 complete vehicles and 100,000 engines annually. Production capacity has been formed, and a supporting system composed of more than 180 parts companies across the country that meets the German Volkswagen quality assurance system standards has been established. In August of the same year, Shanghai Volkswagen bid farewell to CKDD, ended the assembly and production of sedans with imported parts, and finally achieved localization.
Based on the above, Fan Wubing greatly admires what Boss Zhu has done. If he had not stood up and spoken out at that time, or relaxed his requirements, there would be no domestic automobile industry that is gradually developing now.
"Don't worry, the domestic car market is not so easy to be saturated." Fan Wubing assured Boss Zhu, "What I do is also good for them. At least those foreigners have to come up with some real products." Come and compete with me with real materials, otherwise, you won’t be able to make money in China by relying on their technologies that should be eliminated.”
When Boss Zhu heard what Fan Wu said, he nodded with a smile and replied, "This statement is advisable. Okay, if someone complains to me later, I will just send them away."
China has two original intentions for opening up its market to joint ventures in automobile manufacturing. The first is to rapidly develop the automobile industry and expand China's automobile production capacity to meet market demand. The second is to exchange the market for technology, learn advanced automobile technology, and catch up with the world.
However, overseas giants who have been working hard for hundreds of years are far smarter than the Chinese. They know what kind of cars to build at the lowest cost and highest profit, and they also know how to protect their technology monopoly. Santana, which was launched in Germany in the early 1970s, and Jetta, Fukang and Peugeot 505, which were withdrawn from the market in Europe in the late 1980s, still awkwardly monopolized China's roads until the mid-to-late 1990s.
Shanghai Volkswagen later launched a new car, the Santana 2000. Technically speaking, this car was basically a lengthened and modified shell of the old Santana. However, it was such a product and it was still the latest domestic sedan before 1999. .
What is even more shameful is that Shanghai Volkswagen does not have the skills and strength to undertake this small facelift independently. It sent a team of dozens of people to Brazil and Germany, and the only thing they could participate in was to increase the length of the car by 100 millimeters. By this time, people suddenly discovered that the desire to exchange the market for technology was just a wishful dream.
The reason why Fan Wubing wants to build a car is probably because he can't stand these foreigners bullying the Chinese with these rags. He can introduce competition in the car market from him, improve the quality of the car, and lower the price, so that he can live up to his investment. of these funds.
But in the final analysis, the money I invested was not much, at least it was much less than the money I spent to build the airport and highways, so it was still a good deal.
After learning from the news that Fan Wubing was about to enter the automobile manufacturing industry, Fan Wubing's young fiancée Shen Ying immediately called and asked about the specific situation.
"Actually, it's nothing. I just acquired a Japanese automotive technology research institute and digested some of their technologies. Now there are no obstacles to making my own cars. After a while, I will have the first one rolling off the production line. How about I drive the car over to you?" Fan Wubing smiled and held the microphone and said to Shen Ying.
"Okay, but are there tiger leather seats?" Shen Ying asked with a smile.
Fan Wubing smiled sheepishly and replied, "My tiger leather seat was made by Wuzhi Xiaoji in Japan. If I did this in China, I'm afraid it would violate the criminal law, but sika deer skin is fine." Yes, there are artificially raised ones.
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"Forget it, you are so cruel to skin such a beautiful animal like the sika deer -" Shen Ying immediately expressed her dissatisfaction.
Fan Wubing shrugged his shoulders, thinking that tigers are fine, while sika deer are ruthless. What kind of logic is this? Logically speaking, the number of tigers is much less than that of sika deer. I really don’t know what girls like them are thinking in their hearts.
However, Fan Wubing had thought that the first batch of molded vehicles produced by his company would probably be digested by himself, and there would be no less than a thousand vehicles. One of them would be sent to his relatives and friends, and the other would be to himself. The losses of senior executives and key employees of its various companies have been reduced.
Therefore, in this model, the standard needs to be set slightly higher. If something is too crude, I will be embarrassed to use it to frustrate others.
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