Chapter 87 Mingyuan, are you interested?

“weishenme？” Su Aijun only felt as if a basin of cold water was poured on his face, and asked urgently. Yu Zhengmin and the others also showed a look of surprise, they did not understand that Fang Mingyuan could so surely conclude that the passenger transport company would definitely lose money.

“weishenme？” Fang Mingyuan remembered that in his previous life, the Ministry of Railways had implemented a plan to separate network transportation, and had also set up many passenger and freight companies across the country, which had been in operation for a long time. But eventually, all of these passenger and freight companies disappeared silently, and everything went back to the way it was before. But he couldn't explain it to Su Aijun like this.

Fang Mingyuan's mind flickered, and he said: "Uncle Su, I admit that the network transportation separation plan can change the distribution method of the national railway to eat a big pot of rice, on the one hand, let these passenger and freight companies directly obtain income, on the other hand, these passenger and freight companies have to pay the railway bureau for the use of lines, stations and locomotives, that is to say, these enterprises must really calculate transportation costs, reduce costs, and reduce waste." In the future, it is even possible to introduce multiple competitors on the same railway route, so as to achieve efficient internal competition and provide better service to passengers. And I believe that as a company that needs to take responsibility for its own costs and revenues, they will inevitably be in sharp contrast to the railway bureaus that still maintain the old system in terms of opening up markets, increasing revenues, saving expenses, and using various resources efficiently. ”

"Isn't that pretty haode?" Su Aijun - confused, confused, puzzled, incomprehensible, aren't these all the goals that the reform wants to achieve?

"But there will also be new questions, for example, how to divide some of the benefits between the passenger transport company and the station? The station should belong to the railway bureau, right? Another example, in some places where the functions and powers are duplicated, will the two sides pass the buck to each other, and for example, the problem of the allocation of wagons between the passenger transport company and the freight company, the problem of scheduling, and the problem of temporarily applying for additional cars. Will the railway bureau take this opportunity to eat passenger and freight? For another example, the long-distance passenger and freight cars from Fengyuan to the Northeast will inevitably pass through multiple railway bureaus on the way, and everyone will eat a big pot of rice together in the past, so this benefit does not need to be calculated too clearly, anyway, in the end, the meat is rotten in the pot, and the Ministry of Railways has the final say. Nowadays, everyone is a self-financing company, why should you make money in my territory? The clearing and trading between the railway bureaus is inevitable, and the business links such as locomotive traction, power supply, and road network use will inevitably involve a number of railway transport enterprises. Since there are no clear financial liquidation rules, a transparent dispatching and command system, and an explicit--transportation capacity allocation mechanism; Since the cost is not clear, the income is not clear, and the profit is not clear, how will the benefits be distributed? The most direct and simple question is whether the station will be willing to sell tickets for trains passing by other bureaus, or that the train that originally got on and off at one platform will be arranged to the farthest and most inconvenient nine platforms, or that the train that originally departed at 8 p.m. will not be arranged for you to go until 11 p.m., have you thought about these possible problems? ”

"We've thought about all of these and we're working on rules to address them. The reason why we decided to find a line for pilot is to take this opportunity to find loopholes in the rules and improve the mechanism as much as possible before rollout. Yu Zhengmin didn't dare to have the slightest contempt for Fang Mingyuan at this time, and he had already heard it through this paragraph, and this young man saw the difficulties of railway reform quite thoroughly.

"Mingyuan, it seems that you have put a lot of effort into the railway reform!" Su Aijun looked at Fang Mingyuan for a long time and said, "How about it, are you interested in joining in, personally holding the knife, and conducting this pilot?" ”

"Him?" Yu Zhengmin opened his mouth in surprise and asked a teenager to personally carry out the pilot of railway reform, which is too fantastical, if outsiders know, they will not be scolded to death.

"Uncle Yu, don't underestimate this kid, now he is a little rich man with a net worth of hundreds of millions. Know Carrefour supermarkets? That's his family's estate! And he's the founder! Su Aijun said softly.

Yu Zhengmin and the others were shocked by this news, and they looked at the two of them speechless for a long time, this news is really amazing! After staying in Fengyuan Railway Bureau for so long, how could you not know Carrefour, the largest supermarket in Fengyuan City?

It is one of the largest private enterprises in Qinxi Province and a well-known enterprise in the commercial field. In Fengyuan City alone, there are five or six stores that have opened or will be opened, and the annual profit can be said to be extremely considerable.

They couldn't believe it, but they had to believe it, it was impossible for Su Aijun to lie about this kind of thing!

"Uncle Yu, this kid likes to be low-key, most people know that Carrefour is the property of the Fang family, but they don't know that the original founder is him, so please keep this secret for him." Su Aijun said solemnly.

"That's that!" Yu Zhengmin replied subconsciously.

"Uncle Yu, Uncle Su, to be honest, to say that I am not interested in the railway, that is talking nonsense with my eyes open. But it would be too early to say that I am interested in investing in railways. I admit that investing in railways and increasing transport capacity is an indispensable link in the development of the national economy. However, as a businessman, I have to make sure that my investments are at least breakeven, right? As things stand, I don't see any prospects for a possible profit. Fang Mingyuan groaned for a long time, "As far as I know, the two major powers of operation and scheduling of wagons and railway pricing are in the hands of the Ministry of Railways and relevant government-agencies, right?" Moreover, each railway bureau is not an enterprise unit that can be accounted for independently, and in order to balance mutual interests, the Ministry of Railways will cross-subsidize the income of these railway bureaus at the end of each year. In other words, almost every railroad agency does not end up with a reflection of their real earnings over the course of the year. In addition, the cost accounting of a single railway transportation is more complicated, so there has been a rumor in the industry that each railway bureau can only retain as much of the hidden benefits as possible by blurring the operating costs. Don't know if that's true? ”

Yu Zhengmin nodded with a wry smile, this can't be hidden from him, even if he doesn't admit it, Su Aijun will nod his head.

As Fang Mingyuan said, the cost settlement and revenue distribution of each railway bureau are now determined more by the Ministry of Railways than by market trading rules. That is to say, the amount of income of the railway bureau is basically the final say in the distribution policy of the Ministry of Railways, and the line usage fee, locomotive traction fee, catenary usage fee, and demarshalling fee are not only vague, but also chaotic. In this way, the local railway bureaus realized that it was easier to run the "department" to make money than to work hard to develop the market. As a result, the railway bureaus are still desperately competing for the secondary distribution of the Ministry of Railways, and have not devoted their main energy to improving the level of jishu, improving service quality, and optimizing the allocation of resources.

"And as far as I know, in some railway freight stations, you often find goods and cars, but they just don't load and transport. Uncle Yu, Uncle Su, can you tell me that this kind of seemingly incredible thing will happen in Weishenme? Fang Mingyuan asked with a smile.

Yu Zhengmin and Su Aijun were relatively speechless, in fact, this problem also lies in the unique management system of Huaxia Railway. The higher-level units of the railway system will issue a transportation task target to each road bureau every year, and if the subordinates are active and exceed the task, then the task index for the second year will naturally be improved. The income of the local railway system must first be handed over to the Ministry of Railways, and the Ministry of Railways will return to the local railways according to the established proportion or a certain standard, so the more the lower-level railway transportation system does, the more passive it becomes, so that each level of transportation units naturally has no enthusiasm. This phenomenon of "whipping fast cattle" has also hindered the development of the Huaxia Railway to a large extent.

"I also know that the transportation work of the railway department is roughly: every year the Ministry of Railways issues production and operation tasks to the railway bureaus, and each railway bureau issues a transportation plan every month, and the transportation volume of food, medicine and other goods has task indicators, and the transportation of these goods must complete the task indicators regardless of whether they are profitable or loss. Uncle Yu, isn't that so? Fang Mingyuan didn't wait for the two to answer, and continued to ask.

Yu Zhengmin and Su Aijun looked bitter, and Fang Mingyuan's questions can be said to have been asked everywhere on the key points of reform. Railway transportation, it is true that whenever those key materials stipulated by the Ministry of Railways arrive, the transportation of other goods must be postponed. This has directly led to the long-term distortion of railway freight rates.

For example, November every year is the time when the winter storage of coal in the north is in full swing, and it coincides with the period of "two festivals" commodity guarantee transportation, which can be said to be the busiest day for railway transportation in the north every year. But in this golden month of transportation, the leaders of local railway enterprises in China are busy with how to arrange the transportation of the Ministry of Railways every day, because if the transportation of the Ministry of Railways is not completed, it will be difficult to transport high-profit "white goods" except coal. This phenomenon is known as the "black" and "white" reversal of local railways.

"There is a strong contrast with the lack of railway capacity, in the busy line or during the Spring Festival rush period, ordinary passengers can not buy tickets at the ticket window at the first time, but sometimes find a considerable number of vacant seats after getting on the train, this abnormal phenomenon and so on, if you can't get an exact solution, who dares to shed this piece of muddy water?"