I thought that Zhou Jingming would definitely agree to such a proposal, but I didn't expect that this time Zhou Jingming shook his head directly, with a solemn look on his face, "I am also about to tell Director Li about this, at this stage, I don't think this is the best time to introduce luxury cars like Mercedes-Benz and BMW into China." ”

"Can you tell us your reasoning?" asked Lee Ming-che, puzzled. In his opinion, if he can win the cooperation with Mercedes-Benz and BMW, it will be an excellent opportunity to stimulate the development of the domestic automobile industry, and Li Mingzhe can't think of any reason not to cooperate.

If this was placed a few years ago, how could there be such an opportunity in China, Mercedes-Benz and BMW luxury cars, simply disdain to seize the Chinese market, and now these two companies have thrown an olive branch to China at the same time, which is simply a rare opportunity!

But why wouldn't Zhou Jingming support such a decision?

"Director Li, have you ever thought about how our own national brands will survive once these foreign automakers get together to enter the domestic auto market?" Zhou Jingming asked solemnly.

As soon as Zhou Jingming's question was raised, Li Mingzhe immediately fell silent, he only considered the benefits brought by car companies such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz after entering the domestic market, but ignored a series of problems caused by this.

There is no problem with what Zhou Jingming said, how should national brands survive?

"The original intention of introducing joint venture projects is to digest and absorb the advanced technology of foreign car companies, but this is actually difficult to do, first, these foreign car companies will not easily hand over their core technology to us, and secondly, with the current domestic industrial base, it is not so easy to absorb the technology. ”

Zhou Jingming paused, and then continued, "Once we deviate from the direction of introducing joint venture projects, just use joint venture cars as a tool to make money, and ignore the absorption and innovation of technology, and ignore the development of independent brands, then the joint venture project will not only become a good prescription for the development of China's automobile industry, but will even evolve into a poison that hinders us from developing our own national cars!" Just imagine, if the entire automobile market is flooded with joint venture cars, even those car companies that want to develop the national automobile industry are afraid that they will be squeezed by these joint venture cars and have no room for survival!"

In his previous life, in the domestic automobile market, the brand cars with the largest annual sales volume have always been SAIC Volkswagen, FAW-Volkswagen, SAIC-GM, and FAW Toyota......

All of them are joint venture cars!

Self-owned car companies have basically been marginalized.

And the joint venture car to make money fast, but also become a lot of joint ventures of the gentle township, for the independent brand R & D investment is very little, just ask, as long as the introduction of foreign car brands into the country, crowned with the title of "joint venture", you can make a lot of money, how many companies are willing to invest a lot of money, to engage in thankless independent brands?

SAIC and FAW have developed to this day, and have launched several independent brand models that have attracted the attention of the world?

Li Mingzhe became more and more silent, as the director of the Industrial Policy Department, he should have considered such a thing, but he didn't expect that he also stepped into the cliché of rushing for quick success and quick profit, and he didn't have Zhou Jingming's long-term and thorough vision of things!

"I understand what you said, I will go back and think about it again, the industrial policy of the Ministry of Mechanics, the pace should indeed be more stable. Lee Ming-che nodded and said thoughtfully.

Not to mention anything else, this is the Santana introduction project with Volkswagen, if it were not for Zhou Jingming's assistance, where would Volkswagen hand over the core technology of the engine to China?

Where will they complete the localization project so quickly and fully absorb the technology of this joint venture project?

"Director Li, the joint venture project must still be carried out, but at this stage is not in a hurry to introduce BMW and Mercedes-Benz such luxury cars, SAIC Volkswagen has just been established not long ago, the foundation has not been solid, and our domestic automobile industry is also in the initial stage of the rise, the need for a certain industrial policy to protect, and so on until our own national brand grows to a certain stage, and then the introduction of related joint venture cars, enhance competition, enhance the sense of crisis of the national brand, it is not too late. ”

Of course, there is one thing that Zhou Jingming did not say, that is, with the current national income, a 150,000 Santana is still unaffordable, and luxury cars like Mercedes-Benz and BMW are even more unaffordable.

"I see. Lee Ming-che nodded, "Then we will suspend negotiations with BMW and Mercedes-Benz, and we will no longer consider setting up new joint ventures in the next few years." ”

After the two of them discussed the matter of Yanjing holding an auto show for a while, Zhou Jingming returned to his residence.

The next day, the news of the end of the Shencheng International Auto Show has also been frantically reported by the major media, in addition to the positive evaluation of the positive role of the auto show in stimulating the domestic auto market, Zhou Jingming also appeared in the field of vision again.

The local newspaper "Xinmin Evening News" in Shanghai called Zhou Jingming with the title of "the father of China's auto show".

Xunming Gear Factory.

The day after the end of the auto show, Zhou Jingming returned here. Although nominally he owns half of the equity of this factory, in fact, since the acquisition and reorganization of Xunming Gear Factory, Zhou Jingming has basically not interfered in the production here, and He Yingxun has always been in charge, and Zhou Jingming has been the shopkeeper.

Zhou's mother and Xuan'er also came to Shencheng with Zhou's father after the Chinese New Year this year, and lived in the family compound of Xunming Gear Factory at this time.

Zhou Jingming and He Yingxun, as the directors of the factory, naturally got a set, and the houses of the two families were connected together, and Zhou Jingming finally had his own apartment after working in Shencheng for three years.

At this time, Zhou Jingming's family, He Yingxun and He Yingqing, plus Zhou Jingming's family of four are all here, Zhou's mother and He Yingqing are busy cooking in the kitchen, Zhou's father is playing in the living room with the little girl, and Zhou Jingming is painful He Yingxun The two of them are discussing things in the study.

"Brother-in-law, this is the financial statement of the gear factory for the first half of this year and the work plan for the second half of the year, you can take a look at it first. He Yingxun, who was sitting next to Zhou Jingming, took out two documents and handed them to Zhou Jingming.

"I won't look at the financial statements, there's nothing to look at, but as for the work plan, I can take a look. Zhou Jingming smiled and took the bottom copy of the two documents.

Since he handed over the gear factory to He Yingxun, it means that he has 100% trust in He Yingxun.

"In the second half of the year, we plan to expand the business scope of the gear factory, and are ready to negotiate cooperation with Nanqi Yuejin, and the preliminary plan has been formulated, and we plan to negotiate with Iveco at the beginning of next month.

Zhou Jingming looked at it, and He Yingxun made an introduction.

"Wait a minute, the gear factory is going to set up a research institute to develop hypoid gears?" Zhou Jingming suddenly pointed to a piece of content on the document and asked.

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