In Deep Sea City in mid-September, summer has just ended, and the blazing sun is still grilling the whole land.

As a sign of the country's reform and opening up, Shenhai City has been at the forefront of economic development with "special policies and flexible measures", although the nominal per capita GDP is not as good as that of Shanghai, but because of the abundance of materials and employment opportunities, most people's lives have far exceeded that of ordinary people in China, including Shanghai.

In August this year, the high-level central government visited Shenhai City and saw the prosperity of the special economic zone, which was even more joyful, and the people's good life is the first indicator of national development.

"Time is money, efficiency is life. This is the propaganda slogan of Shekou Industrial Zone in 1979, that is, this year, the big leader affirmed this sentence, and soon spread throughout the mainland, so far, Shenhai City has finally set a long-term policy of resolute reform and opening up, and entered the next step of rapid development.

"These Santanas are pretty good. In the southeastern suburbs of Shenhai City, in a huge industrial area, Xu Zhi and a group of people saw 20 Santanas lined up on the road inside the factory.

"The Volkswagen production line in Shanghai has just been assembled by CKD, and a batch of Santana has just been produced on a small scale, and the Shenhai Municipal Government has used some connections to get 100 vehicles, and 20 vehicles have been allocated to our company, which I plan to use to reward high-tech talents who have made outstanding contributions to the company, so as to inspire more people to realize their potential. Huo Jianning said with a smile next to the boss.

In the eyes of many people and even officials in the mainland, these Santana cars are a dream that they cannot chase for a lifetime, but for their group of top professional elites from Xiangjiang, they don't look down on it at all, and they really can't drive manual transmission cars, plus the Xiangjiang headquarters attaches more importance to the relationship between Xiangjiang employees and mainland employees in the mainland.

Huo Jianning, as the person in charge of the entire electronics industry city project in the mainland, is naturally very valued by Xu Zhi, and also knows some of the boss's ideas, so he decided to take this batch of Santana as a year-end reward for some mainland employees.

"There is a reward for merit, especially some of the top technical talents, who can create great benefits, and we will also give them back a part of the reward. Xu Zhi smiled and said: "It's best to post the news of our company's reward car to the newspaper or TV station, so that everyone knows that we are buying horse bones." ”

"No problem, I'll arrange for a reporter to come over for an interview. After Huo Jianning finished speaking, he immediately informed the secretary beside him.

"Domestic people also value houses, let's do it to the end, reward a house and a car!" Xu Zhi said after thinking about it, the current Shenhai City, except for some prosperous commercial areas invested by Xiangjiang Capital, the housing prices in other places are very cheap, and tens of thousands of yuan can buy a house.

Of course, for ordinary people with an average monthly salary of less than 100 yuan in this era, it is still a sky-high price, and in any era, it will not be so easy to buy a house.

As for the Santana, the official price is 180,000 yuan, and there is no market, even if it can be mass-produced in Shanghai in a few years, it is also a priority to supply local government departments and large state-owned enterprises, and many small cities can also allocate a few cars in the early 90s.

Even Santana is divided, so naturally they don't care about an extra house, after all, these rewarded people have made a lot of contributions, and have made great contributions to technological innovation or saving production costs.

"It's simple, there are many communities near our factory, you can buy a few sets. Huo Jianning agreed.

"Alright, let's go. Xu Zhi naturally doesn't care too much about this kind of trivial matter, and he came here today mainly to inspect the entire factory.

"Okay, chairman, the factory in front of you is the assembly area 3, which is responsible for the assembly of RCA and Midea color TVs. Huo Jianning also followed and personally introduced the nearby factory layout to Xu Zhi.

Because the factory is very large, employees who often need to move inside are equipped with bicycles, and Xu Zhi and others are riding in an electric convertible borrowed from a nearby golf course.

After two hours in the morning, Xu Zhi visited several key places such as the assembly and production base of Midea TVs, the color picture tube production line, and the testing laboratory.

"Chairman, it's noon now, I've already arranged a luncheon at a nearby hotel, and the time is just right if it's over now!" Huo Jianning suggested when he saw that it was already three days old.

"Don't be so troublesome, just eat in the company cafeteria!" Xu Zhi said.

"Cafeteria?" everyone was stunned.

Seeing this, Xu Zhi said, "What's the matter?

"Of course not, we usually eat in the company cafeteria. Huo Jianning smiled, and then instructed one of the people next to him: "Go to the cafeteria and prepare a single room." ”

The electric car turned a corner, and Xu Zhi saw a group of people queuing in the distance, the line was zigzag, and there was no end in sight, and they were all young men and women, who looked to be in their twenties, and there were a large number of security guards on the side to maintain order.

"What's going on over there?recruitment?" Xu Zhi asked.

Huo Jianning glanced at it and replied: "Yes, there is a special recruitment place, a new color tube workshop has been established recently, and almost 500 people need to be recruited, and many people have applied." ”

"500 people?" As the electric car approached, Xu Zhi said: "Look at this, there are thousands of people!"

"This is actually a normal phenomenon, our company's welfare is very good, including food and accommodation, working meals with meat every day, the accommodation environment is better than most of the nearby people's homes, and the salary is nothing to say, so every recruitment can attract a large number of people, many people from nearby provinces are running to our side, which is still the condition that we must graduate from primary school. Huo Jianning said with a smile. Midea's factory is highly paid, but the conditions are also high, and the most basic workers must also know common Chinese characters, and the positions with a slight role must be graduated from junior high school or even high school.

Under normal circumstances, a large number of highly educated talents are arranged by the Shenhai Municipal Government, organized collective transportation from nearby cities, and then taken up after the assessment, while ordinary workers are recruited by the company itself, basically hundreds of people come to apply every day, and today we have encountered a new workshop to recruit people, and there are more natural people.

"This is a good point, a little better for the workers, I will make the quality better." Xu Zhi nodded, in Midea's own factories and supplier system, in addition to safety, there is also an important assessment indicator, that is, the employee turnover rate, enterprises with too high turnover rate will be focused on, the reason is very simple, the turnover rate is high, there are fewer skilled workers, and it also shows that the treatment is not good, and the treatment is not good, and the treatment is not good, after all, the quality is made, not checked.

Huo Jianning said with a smile: "Chairman rest assured, the salary of our factory is very famous in the whole Shenhai City, some time ago I heard about a thing, a female worker in our factory was arranged by the family on a blind date, the other party is a formal staff of the customs, college graduates, just like this, our little girl still looks down on others, because the other party's salary is too low." ”

"It's kind of interesting. Xu Zhi was a little surprised.

"Here in Shenhai City, there is a saying called 'have the ability to marry a beautiful girl', and many men's dreams are to either enter the United States or marry a beautiful girl. Huo Jianning said with a smile.

"Foreign companies are good. Xu Zhi also worked in foreign companies in his last life, but foreign companies in the 21st century have largely been assimilated by domestic enterprises, and their advantages are no longer obvious, and in the 80s, it is simply a world of difference.

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After lunch, Xu Zhi came to Huo Jianning's office to discuss some important matters.

"Lao Huo, you have worked hard in the past few years to build such a large production base in the mainland. Although he said the scene, Xu Zhi also had to say that Midea's home appliance business was able to expand smoothly, and the production behind it was indispensable.

Over the past few years, Midea has built a total investment of more than US$500 million in this industrial zone in the Deep Sea Special Zone, which mainly produces household appliances such as color televisions, refrigerators, and air conditioners, as well as core components in the upstream. For example, the color display of color TVs, the compressors of refrigerators and air conditioners, and other auxiliary spare parts are not of high technical content, and Midea has contracted all of these to some state-owned enterprises and a group of private enterprises that have the ability and courage to make a career in the deep sea.

In order to facilitate management and improve the efficiency of cooperation, all suppliers of household appliances are uniformly planned, stationed in this Shenhai City Electronic Industrial Park, with a total area of up to 10 square kilometers, in terms of production capacity, it is currently the first in China and the second largest production base in Asia, with a production capacity of nearly 2 billion US dollars.

Since the 80s, the construction of this base has begun, and in a few years such a large production base has been built, in which the work is complicated and the requirements for the helm are extremely high.

"It's not just me who works, the people below are also doing their jobs, and the Shenhai Municipal Government has also helped a lot, otherwise the whole project would not have been successful so quickly. Huo Jianning replied smoothly.

In order to quickly complete the three links and one leveling, Shenhai City mobilized more than 5,000 engineers sent by the central government to build Shenhai, and in two months, these square kilometers of farmland were turned into industrial zones with complete hydropower and roads.

"Rest assured, no one with merit will be missed, and everyone will be rewarded. Xu Zhi said with a smile. Huo Jianning has a very high position in the entire Midea system, and his position is vice president, second only to He Guoyuan, who is responsible for the production of all factories in the entire mainland.

"Thank you, chairman. Huo Jianning thanked.

"Lao Huo, I came to Shenhai City to find you this time, in fact, there is still an important task for you to complete?" Xu Zhi said.

"What task?" Huo Jianning also became cautious.

Xu Zhi said: "I need you to double the production capacity of the mainland. ”

"Double it again?" Huo Jianning couldn't help but be startled.

Xu Zhi nodded and said: "For the main color TV and color tube, other household appliances may also have to increase the scale, but the normal development depends on the needs of the market." ”

Nowadays, Midea company, in the field of electrical appliances, the strongest is still color TV.

With Best Buy's strong electronic product sales capabilities and the channels of RCA's color TV business, Midea's color TV sets have annual sales of up to 6 million units in the United States, at the same time, with Hutchison's sales channels and a large amount of advertising investment, Midea's home appliances have also entered the market of many countries in Southeast Asia, coupled with the company's internal personal computer and arcade orders, this year's Shenhai City home appliance base is only the number of color TV exports will exceed 10 million units.

"Chairman,With the current production capacity of the factory in Shenhai City,If it is doubled,Are we ready to enter the field of small-size color TV?"Huo Jianning has some questions,Today's Midea company,It is also a large company in the field of color TV,The share of the international market is not small,And in any field,It is difficult for large companies to go further,Not to mention the sudden doubling of production capacity,The only way to quickly expand the market is to enter the field of small-size color TVs。

"Small-size color TVs are not popular in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, but there is a market in Asia, but the competition is too fierce. Xu Zhi shook his head and said: "The increase in production I am talking about is mainly 25-39 inch medium and large size color TVs." ”

Different from later generations of LCD TVs,It is difficult to make color TVs bigger in size in this era,Not because the technology can't be reached,But the weight of large-size color tube TVs is too large,42Inch is already the limit that the people can accept,The color TV production capacity of Shenhai City is mainly this kind of medium and large size color TV。

The bigger, the better!

This is not a patent that Chinese love!

Anyone loves large-size TVs,European and American countries have developed economies,People basically only choose medium and large-size color TVs,This is also the first battlefield of many international electrical giants。

As for the small size of the color TV and even with the black and white TV, the technical content is not high and the profit is very low, most of the giant companies gave up these low-level products as early as the 70s, which is also one of the reasons why Samsung Electric can rise, with the low wages of South Korea, Samsung undertook a large number of orders from the West and Japan, and then produced its own brand, and then hit the high-end market.

Xu Zhi continued: "There are two main purposes for you to increase your production capacity in this area, the first of which is to prepare for entering the mainland market in the future. ”

"However, we are not qualified to sell domestically at the moment. Huo Jianning frowned and said, it was impossible for the deep-sea base to take shape so smoothly at the beginning, relying on itself.

It is precisely because the initial promise was to only export and earn foreign exchange for the country that it has received a lot of help from the central government to the deep sea city.

Xu Zhidao: "Of course I know this, but I got some information, the central government intends to open up some foreign-funded industries, electrical appliances are also one of them, that is to say, a large number of foreign electrical appliances will enter the mainland, rather than such cheap foreigners, it is better to cheap us, how to say that our products are also domestic production, that is, to drive employment can also save foreign exchange."

After going to the capital to participate in the National Day parade this time, I will discuss this matter with the above, and you just need to wait for news. ”

Huo Jianning thought for a while and asked: "In this case, our other electrical products can also enter the domestic market by the way?" There is another question, as far as I know, the average income in the mainland is very low, and if you want to enter the mainland market, small-size color TVs and black-and-white TVs are the most suitable products. ”