Tang Zifeng's idea was formed after working on Linyi Machine, which came from practical cognition. When he first arrived at Linyi machine, Tang Zifeng felt that Linyi machine has strong technical strength and good product quality, as long as the marketing work is done well, it will definitely be able to squeeze those small private machine tool enterprises and monopolize the entire market.

But after coming into contact with reality, Tang Zifeng found that his ideas were too theoretical. In this market, there are some customers who are not particularly concerned about the quality of the machine tools, and they sometimes need to purchase a batch of machine tools to complete the task of this order because they have received a temporary order. For these customers, it is uncertain whether the next order will be available. Therefore, they will not buy high-quality and high-cost machine tools, but will choose some cheap and low-quality machine tools, as long as they can complete the job in front of them.

Small, privately owned machine tool companies can offer products to such customers, pushing prices to an unimaginably low level. It's not that Linyi can't build this kind of inferior machine tool, but Linyi can't do this, because it will smash its own brand.

Since you can't do it, then this market has nothing to do with yourself, so what's the harm in letting others do it? There are these inferior machine tools at the bottom, the machine tool quotation of Korean enterprises can not be too high, if the price of a machine tool is 10 times that of others, and the life of a machine tool is only 3 times that of others, how will customers choose?

Why not train a group of private machine tool companies to make trouble with Korean companies and break the attempt of Korean companies to use the Chinese market for development?

Xie Tiancheng is also an experienced leader, as soon as he heard it, he understood Tang Zifeng's thinking, he nodded and said: "This idea is good, we will talk to the leaders of other machine tool companies when we go back, and let them consider this idea." ”

Tang Zifeng said: "I want to remind them that helping private enterprises is to weaken Korean-funded enterprises. To weaken Korean-funded companies is to weaken our own competitors. The private sector is our ally, not our adversary, in this matter. ”

"Yes, this reminder is necessary!" Xie Tiancheng replied.

After talking about the first point, Tang Zifeng continued: "The second aspect is that we, the state-owned factories, should strive to improve the technical level and aim at the domestic high-end machine tool market. At present, the domestic high-end machine tool market is almost completely occupied by imported machine tools, and our own market share is very small. The mid-range market is almost evenly divided, and we mainly rely on price advantages to keep half of the country.

"In the final analysis, our technical level is too low, especially CNC technology, which lags far behind foreign countries, and even compared with Korean companies. If this problem is not solved, sooner or later we will be eliminated from the competition. ”

Xie Tiancheng said: "This problem is also a cliché, how do you think to solve it?"

"Huddle together for warmth. Tang Zifeng said, "many of the machine tool enterprises in Japan and Germany are century-old enterprises, the heritage is very deep, we rely on each enterprise alone, it is difficult to compete with them." We consider that we must unite the country's large-scale machine tool enterprises to jointly tackle key problems and share results, so that we can hope to catch up with and surpass foreign machine tool giants. At this point, we also hope that the second game can give us support. ”

"What kind of support?"

"Institutions and funding. ”

Xie Tiancheng said: "You say funds, I can understand. We will ask the financial authorities to provide you with more financial support for technological transformation. Recently, the central leading comrades have also made an important instruction, pointing out that the machine tool is the mother of industry and the ancestor of all instruments. Machine tools can't be autonomous, and our entire manufacturing industry will be controlled by people. By seizing the machine tool, we have the weapons to march into any field. ”

Zhou Heng interjected: "This is the reason why the old man named the machine tool for our Linyi machine 'Changying Machine Tool'. The old man said: Today's long tassel is in hand, when to tie the dragon. The machine tool industry is the long tassel of our country's manufacturing industry. ”

Xie Tiancheng said: "That's right, the central leading comrades also hold this view. Therefore, recently we will make a report to the finance, asking the finance to increase the support for the development of the machine tool industry, and the financial problems you are worried about should be significantly alleviated. I just talked about the problem of funds, so, Xiao Tang, what do you mean by the system problem?"

Tang Zifeng said: "In terms of system, it is necessary to promote horizontal cooperation among various state-owned machine tool manufacturers. Collaborations can take a variety of forms, such as cooperating on certain technologies and then sharing the results of the developments, as well as establishing joint ventures to develop new products. In the end, each enterprise should form a pattern of you have me, I have you, and develop together. ”

Xie Tiancheng shook his head and said, "Your idea is a bit taken for granted. Not to mention that we are now engaged in a market economy, even in the era of the planned economy, various factories were still working each other. At that time, there were things about exchanging technology with each other, but when it came to competing for investment, competing for projects and the like, various companies were absolutely not giving in to each other, which Director Zhou understood. You said that it is too difficult for you to hope that all enterprises will become joint stock companies and develop new products. ”

Tang Zifeng said: "It is precisely because we are now engaged in a market economy that it is more convenient to cooperate. In the past, the exchange of technology with each other was free, but as a result, everyone was not happy to develop technology, because the technology that had been developed with a lot of effort was taken away by people in vain. We use the method of the market, whoever pays will benefit, and if you want to eat peaches, you have to water, and it is easier for everyone to cooperate. ”

"Old Zhou, what do you see?" Xie Tiancheng asked Zhou Heng, he felt that it was difficult for him to convince Tang Zifeng alone, so he pulled Zhou Heng to help in the battle.

Zhou Heng said: "Xiao Tang has communicated with me about this question. I think it's man-made. The situation of each company is also different, some companies are willing to cooperate, and some just want to eat alone and are not willing to cooperate with others. When the time comes, we will find those companies that are willing to cooperate with each other. ”

"The key is that the bureau encourages this kind of cooperation, so that we can be famous. Tang Zifeng said.

Xie Tiancheng thought for a while and said, "Regarding this matter, you can make a report." The bureau discussed it, and if it was feasible, it was not difficult for the bureau to send a notice to each company. ”

"Then the matter is settled. Tang Zifeng said, "The third aspect also needs to be done by the state, that is, to prohibit Korean-funded enterprises from merging with our high-quality machine tool enterprises." If it is a small enterprise that does not have technology accumulation, they will merge if they want to, but an old enterprise with decades of tradition like Linyiji cannot allow them to merge. ”

"It's also difficult. Xie Tiancheng frowned and said, "If it is an enterprise belonging to our machinery department, we can control it and not allow the other party to merge, which can also be done." However, each province and city has its own local enterprises, and they are eager to attract investment, and it is very common for these high-quality enterprises to come up with joint ventures with foreign parties, and it is difficult for us to interfere. ”

Tang Zifeng smiled and said, "If it's not difficult, what else do you need the bureau leaders to do?"

Xie Tiancheng also smiled: "But the leaders of the bureau are not omnipotent, and the province wants to take out its own enterprises to make joint ventures with foreign businessmen, and we can't control it." ”

Zhou Heng said: "Director, in this regard, is it possible to ask the central government to issue a document to define high-quality machine tool enterprises as important enterprises related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and prohibit joint ventures with foreign investors." Or even if it is a joint venture, it must be controlled by the Chinese party and cannot be handed over to a foreign party. ”

Xie Tiancheng said: "This is not easy to operate, and the state has clearly stated that it will reduce interference in normal economic activities. Moreover, our country is currently in the process of negotiating its accession to the World Trade Organization, and the opening of the market is also one of the important conditions for the WTO accession talks, and if the government interferes too much in such a matter as enterprise mergers, I am afraid that it will affect the overall situation of WTO accession. ”

"This ......" Zhou Heng also hesitated. Reducing government intervention in economic activities and opening up the market are all prerequisites for China's accession to the WTO, and this cannot be violated casually. Tang Zifeng just said that the prohibition of South Korean-funded enterprises to merge high-quality machine tool enterprises is an act of government intervention in the economy, and if the South Korean side raises questions on this matter, the Chinese side has to consider the South Korean side's request.

Tang Zifeng naturally knew about joining the WTO, he thought for a while, and said: "Director Xie, can you compromise on this matter, the bureau has determined a list of the most important machine tool enterprises, and included them in the scope of restricting foreign joint ventures." As for the other companies, it is left to the market to choose. ”

"That's fine. Xie Tiancheng picked up the pen and wrote down this article.

In fact, Xie Tiancheng also considered the problem that Tang Zifeng said. China is a country that cares about the integrity of the industry, as far as the machine tool industry is concerned, the country has a very complete pattern, all categories of machine tools can be manufactured independently, although the technical level of most machine tools can not be compared with the world's advanced level, but at least solve the problem of "there is nothing", which makes China in the face of foreign "stuck neck", not to be at a loss.

Some categories of machine tool market demand is relatively small, and there is only one enterprise in the country that can manufacture, so such an enterprise belongs to the enterprise that fills the domestic gap. If this enterprise is controlled by foreign capital, it means that there is a vacancy in the pattern of China's machine tool industry, which is very unfavorable to the country's industrial security.

In the past two years, this has happened in other industrial fields, where a certain enterprise, which is the only one capable of producing a certain type of equipment, has been merged by foreign capital, making China lose the ability to produce such equipment. This issue has attracted the attention of relevant departments, and some departments have also put forward ideas to protect key enterprises.

Next, Tang Zifeng said some other opinions, and Xie Tiancheng recorded them one by one. Zhou Heng sat next to him, only helping Tang Zifeng add a sentence or two when necessary, or making some explanations for Tang Zifeng when Xie Tiancheng didn't understand for a while.

After Tang Zifeng finished speaking, Xie Tiancheng also wrote several pages in his notebook. Looking at these pages, Xie Tiancheng had some strange feelings in his heart.