After arranging for the Strategy Department to do the planning, Qi Zheng began to find a way to contact the top level of the government.

This is the case with the energy sector, which cannot be separated from government support.

A clear example of this is biodiesel. The government's industrial policy is inseparable from the government's industrial policy to incorporate biodiesel into the existing refined oil sales system, or to encourage government-managed vehicles such as public transportation and sanitation to give priority to the use of biodiesel blended fuel, or to reduce and eliminate traditional diesel production capacity.

At the very least, if China's diesel industry standard adopts a biodiesel standard as a mandatory national standard, Jin Province, which has China's largest energy forest base in the future, can easily absorb production capacity, and if China's diesel standards do not encourage the promotion of biodiesel, the millions of tons of biodiesel that will be sold out of thin air will have to find another market.

Qi Zheng pinched the phone in his hand, thought for a while, and called Hu Qiyuan, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission.

In addition to being in charge of the Department of Fixed Asset Investment, the Department of Rural Economy, the Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection, he has also been in charge of the Regional Department (including the work related to the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei), the Western Department, and the Revitalization Department...... Most of Jiagu's strategic investment plans are related to his responsibilities.

Because of this, Qi Zheng and other high-level Jiagu officials usually do not have much to do with him - although Hu Qiyuan is a "Jiagu supporter" in the national ministries and commissions, it is one thing to have a tendency and another thing to have close ties.

Of course, it's true that Jiagu likes to keep a certain distance from the authorities, but it is not against the principle to maintain communication with the higher-ups.

The phone was quickly connected, and Hu Qiyuan agreed happily to Qi Zheng's request for an interview.

Qi Zheng urgently flew to the capital.

Walking into the office of the National Development and Reform Commission, there was no time to greet him, Director Hu smiled and said: "Dong Qi is here, sit down, and tell me your opinion." ”

Qi Zheng sat down and said, "That's what I said on the phone, it's mainly the energy forest plan of Jin Province." I want to promote the 'cooperative system' planting model, where the government or powerful enterprises fund large-scale planting, and we in Jiagu provide production materials and planting management technology, and the growth and maintenance, fruit picking and other links are outsourced to farmers' cooperatives, and at the same time, we also enjoy the ...... dividends."

Director Hu listened silently.

Resolving overcapacity in the domestic coal industry involves the diversion and resettlement of at least more than 1.3 million people. As a major coal province, Jin Province is bound to be a key area for downsizing and diversion. The issue of employment and resettlement of workers in the process of reducing production capacity is the most important and complex issue for the government and enterprises in the coming period.

In general, the government is looking for investment arrangements that provide employment. But companies, especially energy companies, don't necessarily care.

If you look at the energy forest as a mineral deposit, looking at the energy enterprises, it is a gluttony that only enters and does not leave, allowing individuals to participate in the sharing of oil fields.

Manpower they have. Large energy state-owned enterprises are frighteningly large, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of employees, and adding a "factory" of 10,000 or tens of thousands of people does not feel the pressure on human resources at all. In other words, they don't have to re-recruit at all, and the idle and paid staff and managers are enough to run a large energy forest base.

The adoption of the cooperative system is tantamount to asking state-owned enterprises to change their management model, and there is nothing more difficult for a bureaucracy, even if it is a semi-bureaucracy.

Knowing this, Director Hu raised his head and asked, "If you are worried that the energy companies in transition are not professional or inefficient, why don't you directly integrate the energy forest conservation personnel into the Jiagu employee system?"

Qi Zheng shook his head decisively: "Jiagu is now focusing on controlling the scale of regular employees to travel lightly, rather than swelling human resources......"

It is true that the inclusion of energy forest conservation personnel in the Jiagu staff system is indeed the most direct approach.

With the rate of return of the industries under the Jiagu system, investment in production can earn at least 20% of the profit every year, and its capacity is very large, accommodating hundreds of thousands of people without encountering bottlenecks.

However, it was precisely because of the human factor that Qi Zheng refused to expand the size of the workforce.

Now the domestic labor cost can no longer be said to be cheap, and with the birth rate of the population is declining year by year, in another ten or twenty years, after the labor cost further rises, how much pressure should the Jiagu Group face when it expands into hundreds of thousands or even millions of people?

There are also management challenges. It is said that "more than 10,000 people, boundless", the management of millions of people, or efficient management, the difficulty is increasing exponentially.

Looking at the two companies with the largest number of employees in China, PetroChina and Foxconn, both have a scale of more than one million people. The former relies on policies and monopolies to support the protection of employees, and the latter relies on high pressure, but that reputation, tsk......

Jiagu does not have the conditions of the former, nor does he have the ruthlessness of the latter; Qi Zheng does not have the confidence to lead hundreds of thousands of millions of people, and it is not possible to break through the layers of sniping in the future.

Because as a human being, we don't have a stable logical demand curve like a machine, and both workers and company employees will always demand better treatment and benefits – it's not difficult to do this during an upswing, but it's hard to meet the needs of many people during a downturn. Especially after employees begin to retire in large numbers, no matter how good the monopoly is, it cannot support this pure consumption.

This kind of unpredictable and ever-expanding artificial risk is beyond even a single country can bear, and the management of Jiagu led by Qi Zheng is naturally very cautious - if there is a reduction in production, large-scale layoffs will not only bring unease to the company, but also the breakup of countless families.

In this case, hiring fewer employees, hiring better employees, and constantly training their own employees has become one of the most effective means for Jiagu to avoid risks.

At the very least, even in times of bad economic conditions, fewer and better employees don't become a huge burden. In contrast, those state-owned enterprises with many people and weak technical level will not be easy to turn over when life is not good.

"Frankly, I'm selfish. But for mining companies that want to invest in energy forests, it is not a good thing to reduce the burden in this way......" Qi Zheng said here, paused for a moment, and let Director Hu digest it a little, before he said: "Moreover, letting cooperatives participate in dividends can also mobilize the enthusiasm of members, and plants are ...... if they are managed extensively."

"Extensive management will probably eat up all the advantages brought by technological innovation. "Director Hu doesn't need Qi Zheng to finish speaking, he understands.

But after understanding, he still couldn't help but hesitate.

Although state ministries and commissions can guide state-owned enterprises, it is really difficult to say whether state-owned enterprises will obey and to what extent.

He was more worried about Jiagu, and said: "You are now the sweets of all parties, but according to what you said, the pressure will not be small." ”

"There's always going to be pressure. ”

"However, at a time when mining companies in Shanxi Province are using energy forests as a life-saving straw to share the cake, this kind of pressure may be unusual. "Director Hu is very sincere, he really thinks about the problem from Jiagu's point of view.

Jiagu's opinion will greatly affect the development of the energy forest plan in Jin Province, but if the requirements of Qi Zheng are followed, it will inevitably be suspected of gaining an inch, but it is not beautiful.

Even if you are forced to agree in the end, in the long run, it is likely to affect the relationship between the two parties.

It is not comparable to the agricultural project invested by Jiagu itself, such a risk, Jiagu did not have to take it.

But some people feel obliged.

From the perspective of Jin Province, in the past, it was for a black industry at the expense of other green industries.

Interestingly, the history and future of Jin Province, the challenges and the way out, the crux and the good medicine are clearly written in the official style in the "Report on the Situation of Jin Province" every year.

Powerful people are still in the temple, but in the end, they mostly become "official".

Now, Jiagu has the ability to help Jin Province support other green industries with a healthy black industry. And Qi Zheng didn't want this ability, and in the end he was reduced to an "official".

-- Revitalization without the participation of the people is not real revitalization.

Qi Zheng smiled and said, "I know what you mean, stability is the most important. But what if I can get investors to willingly agree to my plan?"

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