Chapter 422: Four Points
Of course, Jiang Xinwei doesn't know a lot about the success of high-speed rail in technology introduction, digestion and innovation, and the so-called experience he thinks about is just what he saw from the Internet in his previous life. Since high-speed rail has been recognized and loved by more and more people in China, especially after high-speed rail has become a high-tech business card of the country out of China, more people have begun to pay attention to it, more people are thinking about why it will be successful, people like to compare high-speed rail with the automobile manufacturing industry, superficial people often scold a few words in charge of the introduction of automotive technology guys, praise the people responsible for the introduction of high-speed rail technology, but there are also many people who have carefully discussed the reasons for the success of high-speed rail, and published in various publications and websites.
Jiang Xinwei has read a lot of such articles in his previous life. At that time, it was more about watching the excitement, basically between the superficial and the sophisticated, and occasionally I would discuss it with my friends. However, he never really studied it as a subject, after all, he was only a technical executive in a company in his previous life, and spent most of his time in scientific research.
Since starting his own business in this life, with the growth of Feixun Technology Company step by step, his stance and method of thinking about problems are different from those in his previous life, and he has a more comprehensive view of problems. Although he doesn't remember much about the successful experience of high-speed rail in his previous life, combined with the current situation of the domestic manufacturing industry and the experience of Feixun Technology Company in dealing with foreign businessmen, Jiang Xinwei still has a lot of ideas about the introduction of technology in the automobile manufacturing industry in a short period of time.
He said to Zheng Zitong: "Director Zheng, I think there are several key points that should be grasped in the introduction of technology in the automobile manufacturing industry. First, concentrate market resources to fight a war of annihilation. Second, if you don't see a rabbit, you don't scatter an eagle. Third, I am the main person and treat everyone equally. Fourth, take a long-term view. Don't rush to chase big economic benefits right away. ”
He said that these four points are based on the successful experience of high-speed rail. At that time, the Ministry of Railways grasped all the high-speed rail orders in hand, and the Ministry of Railways quickly launched the "200 km/h railway EMU project" after adopting the "medium and long-term railway network planning".
This is undoubtedly a big cake, and the locomotive group alone is worth more than 50 billion yuan, which makes foreign businessmen salivate. Of course, what attracts them the most is the future market of our country. According to the railway speed plan announced at that time, that is, during the 11th Five-Year Plan period, China's railways will build passenger dedicated lines with a speed of 200 kilometers per hour and above and 7,000 kilometers of intercity rail transit.
This figure was not considered much later, but at that time it was an unbelievable figure for foreign businessmen, you must know that Japan has only built more than 300 kilometers of high-speed railways for many years, and the total operating mileage of high-speed railways in the world is only more than 6,000 kilometers. However, China built 7,000 kilometers at once, more than the sum of the world at that time, and it will definitely increase in the future, and the railway market in developed countries was close to saturation at that time.
Thereupon. Under the temptation of large orders, the world's high-speed rail enterprises Hula Hula all ran over, and the initiative was firmly in the hands of the relevant departments of our country, thus laying the foundation of "no rabbit and no eagle". Not only can these cunning manufacturers be suppressed in terms of price, but they can also put forward their own requirements in terms of technology transfer.
It is precisely because of this good foundation -- all high-speed rail enterprises have round eyes and want to get a piece of the pie, and the Ministry of Railways has taken the opportunity to put forward an "excessive" demand when bidding for bids: The Ministry of Railways only allows domestic locomotive and rolling stock manufacturers to participate in the bidding! However, the premise is that these manufacturers must have foreign advanced and mature electric EMU technology as their backing!
In other words, you gringos want to participate in the bidding? Yes. But you have to participate with a domestic company, and it is mainly a domestic company. You can only do so in the form of technical support. Moreover, when awarding the contract, the bidding team also stipulates that the enterprises participating in the bidding must promise that only the first locomotive is imported from abroad, the second and third columns must be foreign parts and components, and the rest of the locomotives must gradually increase the localization rate. If the localization rate does not meet the requirements. Sorry, the Ministry of Railways does not pay and no longer procures.
That is to say, if the foreign technology is not digested and absorbed by domestic enterprises, and the Ministry of Railways has not seen the "rabbit", the "eagle" of orders and payments will not be spilled out, and you are all busy in vain.
Zheng Zitong didn't expect Jiang Xinwei to say four main points at once. If someone else said it, he might laugh and ignore it, but the person in front of him was Jiang Xinwei, so he didn't dare to be perfunctory. For a while, he couldn't remember everything Jiang Xinwei said, so he had to ask what he remembered: "Jiang Xinwei, what does it mean to take me as the main and treat everyone equally?"
Jiang Xinwei explained: "Focusing on myself means not to be swayed by foreign public opinion and certain articles and views of certain domestic experts and scholars, and not to read their articles and think that if we want to pursue a market economy now, we must act according to the so-called economic laws, and we must compete in China at the beginning of the introduction of technology, and we must open more than a dozen or even dozens of automobile factories in China at once." I think that if there are many factories that manufacture automobiles, there will be competition with each other, and the quality of automobiles in our country will go up.
Only a fool would think so. In the case that China's enterprises do not have a comprehensive grasp of technology, and even the main technology has not mastered the competition, the main body of competition is not our enterprise at all, but foreigners, because the cars produced by our enterprises are basically assembled from foreign parts, when the market is competing, our enterprises are at most to see the excitement, and can not promote the technological progress of our enterprises. ”
Then, Jiang Xinwei paused and said slowly:
When our manufacturing enterprises do not dominate the technology at all, and the market encounters competition, our enterprises are not concerned about the competition of technology, not about whether the technology they have mastered has progressed, but more about how much dividends they can get in cooperation with foreigners. They are only happy if they pay more dividends. As for whether technology is progressing, on the contrary, I don't care at all, and I don't have much qualifications to care.
On the contrary, precisely because we value dividends based on the number of shares, our business leaders, including our employees, hope most that we produce more cars and sell more cars. They often think about how to sell more cars and how to launch more cars.
In China's current automobile market, foreign cars, joint venture cars, their quality is often higher than domestic cars, sales have always been good, it can be said that the sales volume of cars is almost only related to the amount of production, basically how much production and how much sales, in this way, enterprises will naturally work hard to produce, desperately to foreigners to spare parts, components for assembly, will not develop and design by themselves, let alone create their own brand, because the use of foreign parts to assemble locomotives is the safest, the speed of production trains is also the fastest, There are so many and fast returns, why not do it? Why do you stupidly go to development and take risks?
Once the central ministries and commissions have agreed to cooperate with foreign companies and domestic manufacturers, it is the relevant departments of the provinces and cities that decide on the final landing of automobile cooperation plants. The leaders of these provinces will use all their resources to win foreign investment and cooperation factories in their own jurisdictions, either for their own political achievements, or for the sake of local tax revenues, or for the workers in their jurisdictions to have higher incomes.
However, this kind of competition is not a competition for technology, but a competition on how to make the policies in their own jurisdictions more preferential, and how to make foreign businessmen more willing to fall within their own jurisdictions. Foreigners are naturally overjoyed, so they resolutely do not transfer the technology that can not be transferred, and ask for the transfer of technology to either delay or keep a hand, or use some outdated technology to deal with it.
Anyway, as long as the local government has car sales, only taxes, as long as the factory workers have income, of course they will not give the technology to the bottom.
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After listening to Jiang Xinwei's serious explanation, Zheng Zitong finally understood how wishful thinking it was to carry out technical cooperation with foreign businessmen before, and there were so many mistakes in the automobile cooperation business that he had been proud of.
If Jiang Xinwei knew what he was thinking, he would definitely sneer and tell him: "Not perhaps, but inevitable." In the 21 st century, how many people still know what domestic automobile brands they have? A few brands are pitifully looked down upon by the Chinese people, and they can only rely on low-price sales to endure hardships and live a precarious life.
Zheng Zitong asked: "Mr. Jiang, do you mean that we should first integrate all the things of automobile cooperation?
Jiang Xinwei shook his head and said, "I didn't study your introduction policy. Second, several enterprises have already cooperated with foreign businessmen, and relevant cooperation agreements have been signed, and if you rashly put forward additional conditions, the foreign businessmen may not agree to amend the contract, and the local government may not support your directive. At the end of the day, I'm worried that you're going to be helpless in the face of reality. ”
Zheng Zitong nodded with a wry smile and said, "Yes." We are now trying to do what you just said, and it is difficult to implement them. It is easy to put down power, but it is difficult to collect it. What's more, we have also signed contracts with foreign businessmen, which does not allow us to go back on our word. If only I could have gotten your advice a few years ago. …… , Mr. Jiang, is there any other way to make up for it?"
Jiang Xinwei thought for a while and said, "It's not nothing. …… and start anew...... Yes, start anew!"
(Thanks to Hehe Weilong for the reward, thanks to wy1954, the hand of the orchid, eide_cq, *watermelon vine*, hippopotamus elephant, sleepless bear, jzddy_1, samfmbj, ethereal star, s lonely gentle z, broken heart NO1 and other book friends of the monthly pass) (to be continued ......)