Understanding this section, Feng Xiaochen then began to inquire Yao Weiqiang about the technical level, production situation and corporate credit of Hoi An Chemical Machinery Factory and Quanfu Machinery Factory. Yao Weiqiang, www.biquge.info of the pen, also really knows a lot about these two companies, and answers Feng Xiaochen's questions one by one, without concealing or whitewashing at all. The Ruan family brothers are just business friends to him, and Feng Xiaochen is his nobleman, of course he knows which is more important, and how can he say any lies.

After listening to this, Feng Xiaochen had some new understanding of Ruan Fugen. He thanked Yao Weiqiang, hung up the phone, and came to Luo Xiangfei's office.

"Director Luo, there is such a thing, let me report to you. ”

As Feng Xiaochen spoke, he introduced Ruan Fugen's visit, and also explained what he heard from Yao Weiqiang. After listening to this, Luo Xiangfei frowned, and after a long silence, he asked:

"Xiao Feng, do you judge, is this Ruan Fugen pulling business for his brother's company by the way, or does he want to pull the business himself and then use the power of his brother's company to do it?"

"I judge the latter. Feng Xiaochen said with certainty.

Luo Xiangfei nodded: "That's how I judge." If this is the case, then this business cannot be handed over to him, and even the real business section chief of Anhua Machinery Factory will talk about this matter in the future, and we can't agree, because there is a possibility of collusion. ”

"Why can't you hand it over to him?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Luo Xiangfei was stunned for a moment: "Isn't this obvious? He is just a social team enterprise, according to the situation you just introduced, it is actually his private enterprise, how can we subcontract such an important business to them?"

Feng Xiaochen said: "Boeing, General Motors, and Lockmartin are all private enterprises, which does not prevent them from becoming the world's most famous equipment manufacturers. ”

"......" Luo Xiangfei was choked, and said helplessly after a while: "Xiao Feng, this is completely different, you are secretly changing the concept again." ”

Feng Xiaochen said with a smile: "Why is it different? What foreigners can do, we Chinese can't do?"

Luo Xiangfei rebuked: "It's all a fallacy! We are a socialist country, and others are a capitalist country, so how can it be the same? Aren't the enterprises of a capitalist country just private enterprises? But we are a socialist country; although the current policy advocates the development of townships and towns and the private economy, these economic components can only be used as a supplement to the ownership system of the whole people, and cannot become the main body. ”

Feng Xiaochen said: "The experience of capitalist countries shows that private enterprises can also become important equipment manufacturing enterprises and contribute to the country. If we deprive them of development opportunities because of the nature of their ownership, then it is equivalent to strangling Boeing and GM with our own hands, and also stifling the development opportunities of enterprising and ambitious entrepreneurs like Nguyen Phuc Gen.

"So, do you support subcontracting the task to Ruan Fugen?" Luo Xiangfei looked at Feng Xiaochen and asked seriously.

"Yes. Feng Xiaochen nodded solemnly and said.

"Have you considered the risks?" Luo Xiangfei asked again.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Reform is a risky undertaking, by the way, this is what you often tell us. ”

Luo Xiangfei couldn't cry or laugh: "These are completely different things. Reform is risky, and we should rise to the challenge. But the nature of the risk of handing over a key national project to a private enterprise is completely different. Private enterprises are all profit-seeking, and it is impossible for them to keep their promises and value quality, and this risk is completely different from the risk of reform. ”

"The Japanese companies that have undertaken our large-scale fertilizer project this time, including Koma Chemical Machinery Co., Ltd., Moritao Iron Works Co., Ltd., and Iketani Manufacturing, are all private companies. The domestic subcontracting enterprises in our intention, including Xinyang Second Chemical Machine, Northern Chemical Machine, and Haidong Chemical Machinery, are all state-owned enterprises. Director Luo thinks who is more trustworthy and quality-oriented?" Feng Xiaochen retorted sharply.

"......" Luo Xiangfei was dumbfounded, he had the intention to say that Feng Xiaochen's words were fallacies, but reason told him that what Feng Xiaochen said was a true fact.

The attitude of the Binhai Provincial Department of Chemical Industry towards imported equipment and domestic equipment can explain everything. They would rather ask for a full set of equipment from Japanese companies than for Chinese companies to participate in subcontracting. Among them, the difference in the technical level of Chinese and Japanese enterprises is of course an important factor, but the attitude of both sides towards quality is also one of the factors.

The medium-sized fertilizer plant built by Xinyang No. 2 Chemical Machinery for Binhai Province has no technical obstacles, but the quality is unsatisfactory. In the final analysis, this is not only a question of inferior skills, but also a question of responsibility.

For those private companies in Japan, product quality problems will bring them the destruction of the enterprise, and a company that cannot satisfy its customers will eventually go bankrupt and go bankrupt. For state-owned enterprises such as Beihua Machinery and Xinyang No. 2 Chemical Machine, if there is a quality problem, it is a few complaints, three glasses of wine, and then it will be gone. Over time, the quality awareness of these state-owned enterprises has become more and more indifferent, and their self-motivation has become weaker and weaker, and they only want to do some easy work and make some easy money.

Luo Xiangfei has read an investigation report on the operation of domestic large-scale steam turbine generator units, and there is no need to mention the deficiencies in production technology, which makes him feel speechless that a large number of quality problems are disclosed in the report, and many of these quality problems are only caused by poor production quality control and unserious inspection.

For example, a generator in a power plant found that the rotor was magnetized and the winding was short-circuited between turns during overhaul, and the reason was that the ventilation holes were not milled in the line turns, which caused serious overheating of the insulation. In another example, after two years of operation of a unit in a power plant, it was found that 518 of the 2,208 rotor buckets were damaged by foreign objects, and further inspection found that the welding rods, iron filings, and welding slag left in the generator totaled as much as 1 kilogram, and the rotor buckets were damaged by collision with these foreign bodies.

The most black humor is that in another unit of another power plant, the maintenance staff actually found a pair of glasses from the generator, and I don't know which short-sighted operator left it behind, what is the difference between this and the doctor leaving the scalpel in the patient's stomach?

Technological backwardness can also be attributed to the fact that China's industrial foundation is too thin to be compared with developed countries. Forgetting to mill the ventilation holes and leaving as much as 1 kilogram of foreign matter in the motor, can this be explained by the backwardness of technology?

Luo Xiangfei has been engaged in industrial management and understands these situations very well. It is also due to this situation that the State Economic Commission (SEC) promoted a total quality management system two years ago. This time, Luo Xiangfei accepted Feng Xiaochen's suggestion and asked all enterprises undertaking the subcontracting task of large fertilizer equipment to sign quality and delivery time contracts with the Heavy Equipment Office, just to use economic means to urge enterprises to pay attention to quality and credit, but met the resistance of Cheng Yuanding, Deng Zongbai and others. This shows that the people in charge of these enterprises do not intend to do things seriously at all, they have no confidence in the quality control ability of the company, and they do not want to change this status quo.

As the responsible persons of key state-owned enterprises, they should have a sense of responsibility, a sense of honor, and be worthy of the state's trust in them. But in fact, they regard this trust as capital, to paraphrase an old saying, it is called lying on the merit book and not thinking about making progress.

However, a grass-like factory director of a private enterprise like Nguyen Phuc Gen will treat a business opportunity as a treasure, for fear of making a mistake. Who is more trustworthy in comparison?

"However, in such a big country as ours, the future equipment manufacturing industry still has to rely on these large state-owned enterprises after all, and it is very detrimental to national security to completely hand over to a private boss like Nguyen Phuc Gen. After Luo Xiangfei was silent for a long time, he gave a new reason.

Whether private enterprises can support the country's equipment system is a complex academic question, and even before Feng Xiaochen crosses, it is still an inconclusive question. Feng Xiaochen remembered that later generations of China in the equipment manufacturing industry is still relying on state-owned super-large enterprises as the support, of course, these state-owned enterprises have been reborn, not only in the technical level has made great progress, quality control system and management concepts have also undergone a rebirth like sublimation.

Regarding Luo Xiangfei's point of view, Feng Xiaochen couldn't and didn't want to question it, he said: "Director Luo, you are right, our country, as a country with public ownership as the main body, should indeed take large state-owned and extra-large enterprises as the backbone of the equipment manufacturing industry. But before we can do that, we have to get them moving and get out of their current state of slackness. In order to achieve this, we need to have some catfish to stir up the system, and farmer entrepreneurs like Nguyen Phuc Gen are good spoilers. ”

Regarding the catfish effect, Luo Xiangfei understands. It is about Norwegian fishermen transporting sardines by placing several catfish in sardine tanks in order to prevent the sardines from suffocating to death due to being crowded together. Catfish are sardines' natural predators, and under its threat, sardines will constantly flow and struggle so that they can keep them alive. The catfish effect is sometimes referred to as the eel effect, which has a similar meaning.

Cheng Yuanding, Deng Zongbai, and the state-owned enterprises they manage are currently like a group of lazy sardines, which seem to be alive, but they are already in the twilight. At this time, there need to be some competitors to threaten them and give them a stimulus, which can stimulate their motivation and make them rejuvenated.

If they don't react to this stimulus, then they can only become a meal for the catfish. The market is so cruel that not wanting to make progress means being eliminated.