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With the countdown of the host, Han Hao and Governor Zhou Nansheng jointly unveiled the red cloth for the plaque of the brand-new China Automotive Research Institute, marking the official opening of the R&D center in Jiangzhou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The institute deliberately adopts the layout of the word "medium", and when you look down from the sky, you can see that the buildings are distributed in a Chinese-shaped structure.

Now only the first phase of the project has been completed, which can temporarily accommodate 2,000 people, and the automobile and motorcycle research institute originally located in Hushan has been relocated as a whole.

In the future, it will become the driving force for the development of Zhonghua Group, and all new models will be born here and go to thousands of households.

On the other side of the road from the R&D center, the headquarters building of Zhonghua Group is under construction, and moving the headquarters to Jiangzhou, the provincial capital, is a strategy set by Han Hao early on.

Although Hushan is very good, it has been unable to meet the needs of the development of the huge China Group, for example, foreign technical experts came to guide and had to get off the plane in Jiangzhou for a few hours, which clearly illustrates this point.

However, Hushan is still an important production base of Zhonghua Group, undertaking the main production capacity of motorcycles and micro-cars.

As a local government, Haizhou, of course, did not want the headquarters of Zhonghua Group to leave, and in order to develop the automobile industry, the city was supported by the construction of an industrial park. Now that the peaches are ripe, Jiangzhou, the provincial capital, reaches out to pick them, and it is uncomfortable for anyone to put them on them.

In this regard, Bo Dongfeng, secretary of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee, was very helpless, and the headquarters of the Zhonghua Group was approved by the province, and promised that all the original taxes would remain the same, and Haizhou could still obtain many benefits from the Hushan base. But in the future, the Chunghwa Group will not enjoy much revenue, especially the Chung Hwa car production line and the BMW joint venture are all located in Jiangzhou, and these predictable huge tax sources are watching to leave.

Therefore, the local government is very close to the large enterprises in the jurisdiction, and even if the Zhonghua Group has a good relationship with the city, it is still slightly embarrassed when moving its headquarters.

"Well, I can understand what you're doing in terms of personal relationships, but the position of the ass I sit on makes me have to object. Originally, in the future, with your group, Haizhou can leap to the top three in the province, but now it has been robbed of half of the credit by Jiangzhou, the provincial capital, and the people of Haizhou are unwilling. ”

When meeting in private, Bo Dongfeng couldn't help but complain to Han Hao that the Haizhou Municipal Government really didn't want to let the headquarters of Zhonghua Group leave.

"Long live understanding, maybe in the future, when you come to govern Jiangzhou, your views will be completely reversed!"

Han Hao replied that Bo Dongfeng has a good reputation in the province, and it is likely to go to the next level.

"I can't care so much, now I have to be responsible for the more than four million citizens of Haizhou, let go of your big fish, I will be scolded on the street!"

Complaints are complaints, the province has issued a message and the Zhonghua Group is determined to relocate, and the Haizhou municipal government can only obey the overall situation.

Also present at the unveiling ceremony today was Lu Wuluo, secretary of the Jiangzhou Municipal Party Committee, who smiled from ear to ear at the landing of the headquarters of the China Group.

According to the estimation of the city's think tank, Zhonghua Group will provide Jiangzhou with a 20% increase in GDP share in the next five years, becoming the city's leading super-key taxpayer.

"Mr. Han, in the future, Jiangzhou will provide intimate and thoughtful services for Zhonghua Group and escort your car Mercedes-Benz all over the world!"

Secretary Lu said in public at the ceremony.

A giant of the size of the Chunghwa Group, wherever it is placed in China, is a guest of honor of the local government.

"The automobile as a key support industry in the province has achieved some initial results. Relatively speaking, in the field of domestic heavy industry, Zhehai Province has gone from nothing to catching up, and has achieved the envy of brother provinces, all of which are inseparable from the development of Zhonghua Group. ”

Baosteel acquired Jiangzhou Iron and Steel Plant and put its joint venture project with ThyssenKrupp in Jiangzhou Iron and Steel Plant, which is another major industrial project for Zhehai.

Governor Zhou Nansheng knew that Baosteel's layout was because of the Zhonghua Group.

As the pearl of modern industry, automobiles can bring many supporting industries to land, relying on the industry leader of Zhonghua Group, it can improve the industrial strength of Zhejiang and Haihai to a higher level.

Seeing the brand-new laboratory and international top equipment and equipment, the technical backbone of returnees led by Zhao Quanfu has obtained a better development platform.

Han Hao fulfilled one of his promises, to provide the best working environment in China for returnees, and the hardware level is first-class in the world.

The management of the Automotive Research Institute is presided over by Zhao Quanfu, so the talents who return to China can quickly enter the role without too much cultural adaptation problems. These returnees in China have done a good job, and have attracted more overseas talents to return to China to join, resulting in an increase in the number of high-quality talents in the R&D team of Zhonghua Group.

"Go back to China for development, the treatment is no worse than staying in the United States, and there are more opportunities. It is just a screw abroad, but it can become a wrench in China and can manage many screws. ”

On the BBS of the North American Chinese Engineer Exchange, there are more and more posts about returning to China. Through the Internet, engineers at home and abroad can exchange their experiences.

"Record what I saw on the 32nd day of my return!"

An electronic engineer who returned to China to join the China Automotive Research Institute insisted on recording his observations and feelings on BBS every day.

"Today, the new building of the China Automotive Research Institute is officially opened, and the hardware here is no less than my laboratory in the United States.

The cultural integration and conflict of work philosophy that I was most worried about did not happen, and the American management style allowed me to get into the work mode very quickly. By the way, I am already a small leader of a 12-person team with little experience, which is unimaginable in the United States.

I slept less than 7 hours a day, but I felt more excited than ever before, because the anticipation of leading a team to solve tough problems kept my brain excited. After returning to Japan for one month, I felt like I was back in college and back to the state I used to discuss with my classmates, which was a great atmosphere.

Before returning to China, I always thought that I would have to experience the reality of hard work when I returned to China. In fact, I felt a completely different treatment. Whether it is life or work, Zhonghua Group has considered the R&D personnel thoroughly. There is a special life housekeeper who is responsible for the life of us bachelors, and we don't have to worry about laundry, cleaning, eating, shopping, etc.

Outside of work, the biggest gain is that I finally don't have to eat hard-to-swallow hamburgers in the United States every day, and Chinese food is NO.1!"

Such diary-style posts have attracted the attention of many overseas engineers, who have followed the development of the domestic automotive industry through these windows, so as to make reference for their future choices.

Chery cars are now selling very well, and sales in Anhuai Province alone have exceeded 10,000 units. Of course, this is also related to the strong support of Anhuai Province, and any vehicle linked to the purchase of cars at public expense must give priority to the purchase of Chery brand. The taxi market in the province is also monopolized by Chery with administrative power, and the province has also specially reduced or exempted the cost of private car purchases, which has given Chery enough nutrients for rapid growth.

If it were not confined to Anhuai Province, Chery CEO Zhan Xiaqiu estimated that the annual car sales would be at least 20,000.

Therefore, breaking through the barrier and going to the whole country has become the biggest shackle that Chery is facing now!

This shackle is not easy to break, because it is directly led by the central government, and Chery, as a local state-owned enterprise, cannot break free.

To this end, Chery has been in contact with SAIC, and SAIC has agreed to Chery's defection, but Chery needs to enter SAIC by transferring part of its assets free of charge.

Zhan Xiaqiu knew how hard Anhuai Province had paid for the birth of Chery, and now he was going to give 20% of his assets to SAIC for free just for a birth permit, and he really couldn't make up his mind. In particular, SAIC Motor has set another condition, that is, Chery Automobile will obey SAIC's arrangement in the future and become a production base for its technology cascade transfer.

This made it difficult for Chery to accept it emotionally, so Zhan Xiaqiu had to pin his hopes on another person.

"Brother Guoan, Elder Chen recommended you to me for help. This time Chery is really desperate, I hope that my brother can help each other, and the people of Anhuai will be grateful in the future. ”

Zhan Xiaqiu personally went to the capital for public relations, but the competent authorities were unable to solve this problem, and the car catalog was not something they could dominate, and it needed to be decided at the highest level of the State Council. In other words, in the hands of only one person, he is at the helm of China's economy.

Before returning in vain, Zhan Xiaqiu asked Chen Zhutao, a veteran of the automobile, for advice on how to break the situation.

"The bell must be tied to the bell, and you Chery must get the approval of the top leader if you want to catalog. ”

At the recommendation of Mr. Chen, Zhan Xiaqiu found Li Guoan, a senior reporter of Xinhua News Agency, and entrusted him to write an internal reference to submit to the national leadership. Talk about Chery's thinking and practice of devoting itself to China's automobile industry, and gain the understanding of the central leadership, so as to give them an official car catalog.

If the catalogue can be obtained from the central level, then the dilemma of taking refuge in SAIC will be avoided.

Li Guoan has been campaigning for the automobile industry all these years and sympathizes with Chery's suffering, so he quickly wrote a large number of internal references and prepared to release them when the time is ripe.

China is expected to formally join the WTO by the end of next year, so the State Council has begun to make various work arrangements for this purpose.

"The gnawing of the two bones of the United States and the European Union shows that our accession to the WTO has been a flat step. Joining the WTO, as I have said many times, is a huge opportunity for China to integrate into the entire world economic system.

Many comrades may still have doubts about what to do after joining the WTO. Today, I would like to focus on 10 major issues that need to be paid attention to in the development of China's economy in 2001!

All members of the State Council team attended the meeting, and the premier convened an internal work conference in Zhongnanhai to set the tone for China's economy next year, which will determine the direction of China's economic development in the coming year.

"Enhancing the vitality of large state-owned enterprises is one of the priorities of our work, and in the future, we need to use state-owned enterprises that control the lifeblood of the national economy to resist the impact of foreign capital.

Foreign capital is a flood, but it is not a beast of prey, and when they come to China, they must abide by China's rules and tame them for our use.

As long as the country's backbone enterprises form a dam to prevent floods, then China's economy will be able to develop safely and smoothly.

In order to ensure the development of backbone enterprises, for all new and under-construction projects, my opinion is to strengthen the examination and approval, and those that can not be built will not be built, and those that can be postponed will be temporarily postponed. We should concentrate all our energies on developing the backbone state-owned enterprises, and we should no longer let too much internal friction go ahead and give priority to satisfying their growth needs.

Here, I would like to give an example.

Although it seems that our automobile industry has made certain achievements, it is still very weak in the national environment, and the total output of the country's automobile enterprises is not as good as that of its neighbor Toyota.

The automobile industry is an area where we believe that joining the WTO will be the focus of the impact, so the state should continue to support the three major automobile groups, encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to take the initiative to move closer to them and reorganize, and form China's automobile aircraft carrier. ”

The premier spoke eloquently at the meeting, and Li Guoan, a senior reporter in the economic field of the Xinhua News Agency, sat on one side and listened. When he heard the above words, he knew that Chery's good wishes to impress the top management through internal reference were just wishful thinking.

So, just after the meeting ended, there was no time to write a report on the meeting, so Li Guoan dialed Zhan Xiaqiu's phone with his mobile phone.

"Just after the economic meeting, the state will be more stringent in economic regulation and control next year, and it will be difficult to approve large projects. Now that the wind direction is unknown, I suggest that you Chery join SAIC immediately and don't hope to impress the senior leaders with internal references. Using 20% equity to buy a way out, I think it's still very cost-effective after weighing the pros and cons. If there is no catalog, Chery will have a very difficult next year!"

Information sometimes cannot be measured by monetary value, and Li Guoan's words made Zhan Xiaqiu finally give up his illusions and agree to hand over 20% of the equity in exchange for a ticket to the sedan market.

SAIC now does not have its own brand sedans, only Volkswagen and GM two joint venture partners, and now Chery is expected to become their third brand.

Chery Automobile's sales of more than 10,000 did not impress SAIC, and their acceptance of Chery was more of a need to give face to the old leaders. Imitating the cooperative relationship between Zhonghua and FAW, SAIC also set the "four nos" rule for Chery, no investment, no debt, no participation in management, and no dividends. In fact, there are still restrictions such as not exporting technology, not being able to use SAIC for online sales, and not being able to learn from SAIC's management experience.

In SAIC's view, Chery is just a drag oil bottle, which can only be relatively isolated.

The Prime Minister's speech at the economic meeting quickly leaked out, and was confirmed by the leaders of the automobile department, the state will not approve new car manufacturers in principle, and continue to maintain the scale of the existing industry catalog.

Seeing that Chery resolutely sold itself into the arms of SAIC, Yueda Kia Company, which was so anxious that it stomped its feet, was gone.

The state is very clear that it will not approve new car manufacturers, and Yueda Kia will continue to face the threat of black households in the future if it does not find its in-laws to marry itself.

Originally, China's auto industry saw a glimmer of the opening of the car catalog, but the door was closed with the premier's speech.

In the premier's view, supporting the development of large state-owned automobile groups is the main contradiction, and opening up the catalogue to allow other capital to enter is a secondary contradiction, and we can make plans after joining the WTO.

Yueda Kia had no choice but to agree to the conditions offered by the Second Automobile and transfer 25% of the equity of the joint venture company to the Second Automobile, thus becoming a member of the huge family of the Second Automobile.

The new company will be called Dongfeng Yueda Kia, of which FAW and Yueda will hold 25% of the shares, and Hyundai-Kia will hold 50% of the shares.

20% of the 25% shares obtained by the second automobile are free of charge to buy the road, and the remaining 5% of the shares are purchased in cash at a price of 40 million yuan.

Although Yueda Company is very unhappy, it is the biggest victory to get the car production catalog in such a situation. If it drags on any longer, Hyundai-Kia will withdraw its investment, and its car dream will be completely shattered.

The biggest winner is the second automobile, they have gained a foreign joint venture partner, although Hyundai-Kia is slightly weaker than the Japanese company, but it is better than nothing, not to mention that this is just food to the mouth.

"Finally, we are no longer the boss of the wrongs, this is what our second automobile should do! Look at the FAW, attacking cities and villages all over the country, and it is too late for big fish to eat small fish to wipe their mouths. ”

Knowing that they had obtained 25% of the equity of Yueda Kia, the old employees of the second automobile no longer blamed Miao Yuwei like the last time they had a joint venture with China. If you hold 20% of the current shares of Zhonghua Group, then the second automobile can make a lot of money. FAW used this time to continue to expand, which made the people of FAW envious for a long time, and now it is finally their turn to eat meat.

The current Fengshen car project of the second automobile is very successful, and the Fengshen bluebird is in short supply in the market, and more than 4,000 units have been sold in a short period of time, and it is initially estimated that it will be profitable this year.

However, the biggest achievement is that the second automobile and Nissan motor are getting closer and closer through this project, and the two sides have preliminarily determined the intention of the joint venture, and the details are to be negotiated.