Coming to Xibei County again, unlike the first time Han Hao came to obtain the Huaxia brand motorcycle trademark, this time he just entered the country, and was warmly welcomed by the main leaders of Xibei County and even Xizhou City. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The police car opened the road, and the main leaders of Xibei County greeted them at the highway intersection, showing that the local people attached great importance to Han Hao's coming.

The Xibei Motorcycle Factory, which originally produced agricultural vehicles, has now become the largest source of tax revenue and employment base in Xibei County. Huaxia Motorcycle's local branch is capable of assembling and producing nearly 400,000 two-wheeled motorcycles every year, driving the local economy. Many motorcycle factories in China have a production scale of less than 200,000 units a year, and now a branch of Huaxia Motorcycle is twice the level of the industry's passing line.

Han Hao came to Xibei to inspect local resources and prepare to put the agricultural tricycle project here. At the beginning, Xibei Motorcycle Factory was a small enterprise that produced agricultural vehicles, and now Han Hao is ready to set the next profit growth point of the company's motorcycles.

The Hushan factory is about to start large-scale production of electric motorcycles, and the land and production capacity are limited, so the agricultural tricycle project is considered to be placed in Xibei.

Yuan Kecheng, the former director of the factory, is now the deputy director of the Huaxia Motorcycle Xibei Branch, focusing on logistics management, and the director of the factory is transferred from Hushan by Han Hao. He has a limited level of technical production, but he has a lot of experience in managing logistics, and he has a certain prestige, so Han Hao continued to hire him as a factory manager. Otherwise, according to his age, Yuan Kecheng can retire.

Recalling that he had been closed to Han Hao and was unwilling to sell the factory, Yuan Kecheng felt that he was short-sighted. Now part of the Huaxia industrial system, the number of motorcycles produced every week is higher than the annual production of the old factory, and the welfare of the factory's employees has been improving, which is equivalent to paradise compared to other bankrupt state-owned enterprises in the county.

In the past two years, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) located in China's grassroots county-level administrative divisions have been faced with a situation of grasping the big ones and letting go of the small ones, and laying off workers and diverting them. Basically, 99% of the state-owned enterprises located in county towns are "small" state-owned assets withdrawn, and compared with the monopolistic "large" state-owned enterprises, they are outcasts of the state.

Many state-owned enterprises in Xibei County have gone bankrupt and laid off and diverted, national highways have been blocked by workers several times, and there are often people gathering in front of the county government to ask for food.

Fortunately, the Huaxia Motorcycle Branch has absorbed a lot of unemployed laborers, otherwise the Xibei County Government will have a hard time.

The Xibei County Government once intended to send all the loss-making state-owned enterprises in the county to the Huaxia branch with good efficiency, and only asked it to help resettle the laid-off workers, but of course Han Hao refused. In the past two years, it has been a common case of throwing a handful of enterprises in difficulty with good conditions to state-owned enterprises, and as a result, they have brought down good enterprises.

For workers, the Huaxia branch is in need, but it must be selected through assessment, and there are no uncles who are used to eating big pot rice.

Now if the Huaxia branch is expanded, it will be a big project and a big joy for the Xibei County Government. Everyone knows that now Huaxia Motorcycle is taking the lead in China, and the new project will surely usher in hot sales. The tricycle project is expected to invest nearly 80 million yuan, and it is a blockbuster investment in Xibei and even in Xizhou City, which is directly under it, and it is listed in the province.

Du Junping, the former secretary of the county party committee, has been promoted to deputy mayor of Xizhou City, and because he has dealt with Han Hao, he will accompany him this time.

"Mr. Han, you can choose the land in the county, our city and county have prepared the greatest sincerity, just hoping that this new project can be landed. After years of cooperation, you also know our style of doing things, and what you say will never be empty talk. ”

Now that Han Hao is in the limelight, he has appeared on the cover of the Asian edition of Time Magazine, and the second person on the domestic rich list, Du Junping remembered that the young boy he saw back then has now become a super investor who has to shake his feet in China, and he can't help but sigh that people can't compare with others.

He was successfully promoted to deputy mayor by virtue of his political achievements in Xibei County, which is also a step up, but compared with Han Hao, the achievements are insignificant. Du Junping looked at Han Hao with a look of envy in his eyes.

If he were like him, he would probably run to enjoy life immediately, and he would no longer have to fight for the black yarn hat like walking on thin ice. However, compared with his peers, he can be regarded as a successful career, and he can be regarded as the elite of the dragon and phoenix society among the people, Du Junping comforted himself.

Han Hao didn't notice the other party's thoughts, the local government of Xibei County was okay in terms of service, and there was no move to close the door and kill pigs for the Huaxia Branch, a large taxpayer, otherwise he would not consider continuing to invest in the local area.

"The land will be determined according to the terms we have negotiated, but the special power supply lines and preferential tax rebate policies still need to be negotiated, and the logistics warehouse needs to be built by you to build a special road docking. ”

Blind land concessions are not what Han Hao values now, he pays more attention to the improvement of the supporting environment.

In the evening, the secretary of the Xizhou Municipal Party Committee also came to the banquet to invite Han Hao, and whether the task of attracting investment can be taken to a higher level depends on the new Huaxia motorcycle project.

After looking around, Han Hao basically decided to invest in the project of Shangma agricultural tricycle in Xibei. With a market size of nearly 3 million agricultural tricycles in the country every year, it is not difficult to get a piece of cake according to the strength of Huaxia Motorcycle. The price of agricultural three-wheeled market is generally over 10,000 yuan, and in Han Hao's view, there is a huge profit margin. In the case of the decline in the growth rate of two-wheeled motorcycles, three-wheeled motorcycles will be the next profit growth point of Huaxia Motorcycles.

The road where the countryside surrounds the city, Han Hao doesn't dare to forget that now the vast countryside needs a tricycle, so he will enter this field.

Getrag has entered into a partnership with Dana, a U.S. parts manufacturer, to sell a 30% stake to the other company, raising funds to develop a next-generation dual-clutch DCT automatic transmission, and will work with Dana to develop the DCT transmission.

As for the specific amount of the transfer, it is estimated that it should be no less than 700 million US dollars.

Since then, Huaxia Industry's application to jointly develop DCT automatic transmissions with GETRAG has been officially rejected, and the Germans have chosen the Americans to gamble and not pull the Chinese.

Of course, there is no way for Han Hao to take out 700 million US dollars at once, although he is quite worthy, it will not be easy to arbitrage so many assets immediately.

However, if Getrag is really willing to be invested by the Chinese, Han Hao believes that the country will not give up this hard-won opportunity to overtake in the automatic transmission, and will definitely find a way to get a $700 million loan to Huaxia Industry.

In addition, Han Hao's request for Getrag to transfer and introduce 5MT transmission technology did not succeed, and the other party only agreed to transfer the backward 4MT technology, and the price was twice as high as Han Hao's bid.

In fact, whether intentionally or unintentionally, international auto and parts giants have imposed a technological blockade on automatic transmissions from China.

Although Getrag and Huaxia Industry have set up a joint venture factory in Hushan, the source of technology has always been in the hands of the Germans, and the key components are imported directly from Germany, and the joint venture plant is more of an assembly plant.

After coming to China for a while, Getrag was also familiar with the Chinese business environment, and there were already proposals to terminate the joint venture with Huaxia Industry and set up a wholly-owned factory to obtain more sales profits and control the leakage of technology.

Considering that Huaxia Automobile is now the largest source of customers for GETRAG, the German headquarters rejected this proposal, but as it expands and develops more other customers in China, it will not rule out the implementation of this wholly-owned plan in the future.

"Manual transmission technology is relatively easy to understand, and we can get a solution from another technology provider. But the automatic transmission is much more troublesome, if the difficulty of the manual transmission is 1, then the automatic transmission is 100, and the difference between the two is very different. ”

Zhao Quanfu, director of the Automotive Research Institute, has officially taken office, and he also has his own understanding of the key technology of transmission.

"Among the auto giants, the most recent company to master the automatic transmission is South Korea's Hyundai, their Mobis transmission is based on Mitsubishi's transfer of technology, the British Ricardo company provides solutions, and in 1992, relying on independent research and development and innovation to get the AT transmission.

From 3AT to 4AT, South Korea's Hyundai has made rapid progress in the accumulation of automatic transmissions, and now it has caught up with the world's mainstream level. In addition, it also has a layout in CVT transmissions, and although it has not been able to come up with mature products for a while, it has been ahead in terms of technology accumulation. ”

Compared with Tubalu like Han Hao, Zhao Quanfu, who has drunk foreign ink and entered the internal camp of international automobile giants, is more familiar with the internal intelligence of the international automotive industry.

"The technical challenge of AT transmissions lies in patents and material processes. Patents are monopolized by Japanese companies, and unless we can create a completely new structure and exchange patents with each other, as modern times do, patents are a wall that we can't get around. There is also the material process, the heat treatment process of the materials used in the transmission is absolutely secret. Even if the exact shape of the transmission is used a few times, the reason is that the material is not durable, and the high-precision gears inside the transmission cannot withstand too much operation. Even the Americans do not have as much knowledge as the Japanese in the heat treatment process of materials. ”

When Han Hao asked Huaxia Industry to choose an automatic transmission breakthrough from which direction, Zhao Quanfu patiently explained to Han Hao the difficulties of various choices.

"CVT transmissions are mainly in the hands of Jatco and Aisin, and are basically used in Japanese cars. But behind them, there is another figure that is the king behind the scenes. The transmission steel belts used in CVTs have always been in the hands of Bosch in Germany, and both Japanese and Koreans rely on the steel belt products provided by it. If we want to develop a CVT transmission, we have to turn to Bosch. As for the patented technology, it still has to compete with Japanese manufacturers. ”

The mainstream automatic transmissions on the market today, whether it is an AT or a CVT, are extremely high-threshold technology fortresses.

"As for the DCT dual-clutch transmission, there are no mature commercial products on the market at present. However, according to sources, Volkswagen and BorgWarner are jointly developing DCT transmissions that can change the landscape of the automatic transmission industry. It is expected to be officially commercialized in 3 to 5 years, and this set of technology is also in the process of increasing research, and they plan to cooperate with the Americans. Fortunately, DCT has no patent barriers, and now everyone is almost on the same starting line, and once it is successfully developed, it can perfectly bypass the technology monopoly fortress of AT and CVT.

The reason why Volkswagen wants to study DCT to replace AT and CVT is that it does not want to be choked in terms of core technology. Both AT and CVT have Japanese capital backgrounds behind them, and once Volkswagen competes directly with Japanese manufacturers, it is easy to be fussed about automatic transmissions. ”

There are ready-made examples of AT and CVT transmissions that can be disassembled and studied, but there is no finished product outflow of DCT, and it is still a question whether it can be commercialized in the future.

Now Huaxia Industry wants to enter the research and development of automatic transmissions, and it needs to choose a direction to focus on breakthroughs.

The question is, which direction should be chosen to be the most realistic?