Chapter 224: What the Imperial Capital Sees
Chen Xu sat in the luxurious cabin with Erlang's legs crossed, lying on the small table and writing something. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The InfoChinook helicopter flew through the sparse clouds, roaring straight towards the Donghu Pharmaceutical Factory in Wuchang, the clouds scattered like frightened white rabbits, dodging two high-speed rotating rotors.
Almost at the same time, Wang Su, as the director of the fund-raising group, had just stepped off a direct flight from Xiangping to the imperial capital. Compared to the cold weather in the south, where the cold air penetrates through the bone marrow; Although the dry cold in the north is also unpleasant, at least the dryness always gives people a refreshing feeling, unlike the wet air in the south, which always gives people a slimy feeling.
The imperial capital has been sealed by heavy snow, the ancient city has been turned into an ice city, and the snow on the roof of the airport terminal is as thick as half a person, and there is a feeling that the roof will be crushed. Snowflakes the size of rice grains are still floating in the sky, and they may turn into goose feather snow at any time.
Wang Su took a deep breath from the moment he stepped on the land of God, the cold air could ease his nervousness, today he is going to meet several of the country's top leaders, each of them is a revolutionary father, usually only in textbooks and newspapers and magazines can only see the great man, to be able to see the last one is already exciting, if you can see several at the same time, it is really a great honor.
This time accompanied Wang Su is the party committee secretary of the Southern Heavy Industry Group, Secretary Qin, an old man who is almost 60 years old, with a childish face and strong spirit, working twelve hours a day is his lifelong habit, and the work arrangement, promotion, transfer, and welfare of all employees of the group are dispatched by his hands, which is second in command after Chen Xu.
The group can still operate normally without Chen Xu, in fact, this product has never been in charge of the company's daily affairs, and often travels around the world, and it is the norm to find no one for half a month for ten days. But if the company is without Secretary Qin, it will really be chaotic, tens of thousands of employees eat and drink every day is a busy job, involving the actual interests of employees, a little late will cause trouble. Only Secretary Qin, a practical official who has been in charge of the standing affairs of a province, can take care of it in an orderly manner, if Ah Fu is Allen's housekeeper, then Secretary Qin is Chen Xu's housekeeper, they are so omnipotent, reassuring.
Secretary Qin is the core figure appointed by the imperial capital to control the personnel transfer of the party of the Southern Heavy Industry Group, from the provincial cadres to the Southern Heavy Industry Group, the power seems to have shrunk and the exit is not so prestigious, but the things in charge are all related to the future of the country, and the status has become higher.
Because Secretary Qin was familiar with the imperial capital, and there were many protégés, Chen Xu asked him to take Wang Su to the imperial capital to do errands, so as not to let this guy run around like a headless fly in the imperial capital.
Wang Su, a senior executive of the company who was promoted in the line of fire, seems to be a figure within the group, but he is not a fart when he arrives at the emperor. Therefore, you have to let an old bird like Secretary Qin come to recognize the door, and at the feet of the Son of Heaven like the imperial capital, where dignitaries and nobles walk all over the ground, no one will pay attention to him at all.
The snow in BJ City is so thick that the dead trees along the road are covered with a layer of ice crystals, even on the thinnest branches. The roadside is full of vendors, and the common people wear colorful down jackets, like the last time Chen Xu came to the imperial capital, almost all of them were green military coats, or dark cotton coats, only a few years after the reform and opening up, the results have been very obvious, and it has only been a long time since the clothes on people's bodies have been changed, and the heavy military coats have been eliminated and replaced by light and soft down jackets.
On both sides of the road, there are individual private shops lined up one after another, from the street to the end of the street, and there are also a large number of large foreign-funded shopping malls and foreign brand stores in the busy section. In particular, the most popular products in electrical appliance stores, are still color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, these household essential electrical appliances, compared with the unattainable high profit prices of imported electrical appliances two years ago, after the large-scale localization of household appliances, these goods have returned to rationality, not only the price of many brands is also quite cheap, a 35-inch large color TV is only seven or eight hundred yuan, which is equivalent to the salary of ordinary workers for a year.
However, in this era of housing, medical treatment, and even rice, flour, grain and oil are distributed and supplied by the unit, the unit is responsible for all the food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the wages of the workers can all be saved, so buying a large color TV with a year's salary is not too expensive for people in this era, and they don't even need to grit their teeth, and the family may decide to buy it after a little discussion.
Moreover, with the completion and operation of the first national chemical industry center, the problem of low fertilizer production in the country has been completely solved, and the output of crops has been rising steadily under the supply of sufficient and low-cost fertilizers. In addition, taxes have also begun to be gradually reduced, peasants' incomes have begun to increase, and the burden of taxes has been removed, and the rural labor force has begun to be released.
All this made the peasants gradually have spare money in their hands, and immediately after the workers, they also began to pursue color televisions, refrigerators, and washing machines. The huge rural market has been opened, so that the domestic home appliance manufacturers coveted, in order to forcibly seize the market price war has been hit until the eyes are red, even at the expense of selling in the rural areas of the country to start their own brand, of course, the most beneficial is the ordinary people, usually only the city people use the unattainable household appliances, they can also enjoy.
Compared with household appliances, these technical difficulties are low and easy to popularize the goods, the most conspicuous is that the road has begun to appear in the Southern Heavy Industry Group of the automobile factory production of the 'Blue Star car', the introduction of the BMW three series full set of technology of civilian cars, as soon as it is listed, it has won the popularity of the people with excellent performance and low prices, such as the imperial capital, the magic capital of these big cities have been sold out, inland small cities need to find scalpers to increase the price to get a new car, the hot sales market has greatly increased the confidence of the Blue Star Automobile Factory, Resolutely expand production, expand the original production line with an annual output of 50,000 cars to 300,000 vehicles, and begin to introduce all the technologies of BMW 5 Series, and begin to lay out the mid-to-high-end automobile market, and strive to build Bluestar Automobile into a conscience national brand praised by everyone within eight years.
The biggest impact is the squeeze on Santana, Jeep, Toyota, these imported cars, China's auto market has just started and can't sell many cars a year, but the growth of China's auto market is very large, sales are almost doubling every year, so it is worth investing resources to establish a sales system.
With the Blue Star Automobile Cheng bite gold killing, imported brand cars no longer dare to sell at a high price with a proud attitude, more than 300,000 Santana dropped to 200,000, and then to 160,000 still no one cares, and now there are signs of another price reduction.
The facts are all in front of everyone, the same performance and the same quality, even if the Blue Star car is sold by scalpers, it is only sixty or seventy thousand, you are three times more expensive than others, really when the Chinese's money is blown by the wind! It's normal to not be able to sell.
The second is to monopolize government orders, Bluestar Automobile was originally a car brand under Southern Heavy Industry, which belongs to an absolute state-owned enterprise. In the past, there was no choice, so everyone could only choose imported cars, but now there are high-quality domestic cars, and no one in all the public institutions in the country dares to buy imported cars against the wind, so they can only obediently choose to buy Bluestar as a unit car.
The loss of government orders has further hit imported cars, such as the Soviet Union's Lada and Volga have completely lost orders, and it is estimated that it will be a sure thing to withdraw from the Chinese market in another year or two.
Of course, the hot sales of Bluestar automobiles are only this automobile company, and the annual output is still a drop in the bucket when it is sprinkled across the country, even in the most prosperous imperial capital, cars are still scarce, and people mainly travel bicycles and motorcycles.
After Wang Su and Director Qin got out of the airport, they summoned a taxi to go to the city, and the taxi moved quickly on the streets of the imperial capital, because the road was smooth except for the traffic lights, and the driver rarely stepped on the brakes.
In this era, the highway was still very empty, the traffic was sparse, and the distance between vehicles was more than enough to maintain twenty or thirty meters. Unlike later generations, the whole city was a parking lot, and the roads were full of cars with the front of the car attached to the tail, and you couldn't get out of the city for two or three hours when you were stuck in traffic.
Because the landing on Mars is a large-scale military project, it naturally has to be submitted to the army's high command for preliminary review before it can be submitted to the Council of Elders for a final decision.
As the highest command body of the national army, there is no sign outside the building, but the guards on duty outside the door are reminding passers-by that this building is not close to the living, and if people from other places come over, it is estimated that they will not even be able to find a place.
The security of the building is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and there is no mystery inside at all, but as soon as the two of them walked to the gate, there were immediately guards who came to ask for their identities, and several guards in the small house next to them also began to be vigilant.
Director Qin took out his ID and identified himself, and after the guards checked it clearly, he instructed the two to register in the duty room at the door. Finally, a guard was assigned to lead the two into the office building, through the hall and down the stairs through a long hallway, before they came to a wooden door.
The guard muttered a few words to a secretary in a tunic in the nearby secretary's room, then turned and left.
The secretary walked out of the door and glanced at Director Qin and Chen Xu, signaled the two to wait for a while, and then pushed the door and entered the office. After a while, he came out and whispered to the two, "Please come in, the chief is already waiting for you." (To be continued.) )