Chapter 141: Transformation
During the Chinese New Year, weapons and supplies from China continued to flow to the port of Rostock and the island of Rügen in East Germany. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
More than 50,000 tons of goods are shipped from China to East Germany every month. Not only did it include the weapons and daily necessities that were urgently needed by East Germany, but in fact, Chinese goods had penetrated all aspects of East Germany, and about half of the goods on the shelves of the entire East Germany had been replaced by Chinese goods.
Of course, China is not purely dumping goods, but also imports a large number of optical lenses, electromechanical products and various heavy industrial products that East Germany has advantages in. In fact, many industrial products that were originally planned to be imported in West Germany, Japan and the United States were also imported into East Germany in large quantities.
In this way, the trade between China and Germany and the export of goods dumped to East Germany have solved the shortage of various food and daily necessities in the country to a certain extent.
As for China's imports of East German products, it solved the problem of insufficient operating rates and unemployment in East German factories. At the economic level, it increased the ability of the GDR to fight a protracted war.
However, even so, the issue of military pressure cannot be ignored, because it is an indisputable fact that, according to various materials and data, the speed of riots has accelerated in several beta nests in Europe.
The top brass of the East German National People's Army made an assessment of the recent war, believing that relying on the traditional tactics and weapons of the current East Germany, it is estimated that it will not be able to survive several waves when it encounters a beta cluster with a scale of more than 100,000 or even more than 200,000.
According to the assessment of Chinese military experts, the scale of the BETA's offensive is always on the rise. To this end, the East German leadership accepted the Chinese side's suggestion to evacuate industrial capacity and population in an orderly manner, so as to avoid being unprepared and suffering serious losses to the population and productivity of the beta cluster.
In addition to gradually evacuating the population close to the front line to the rear of the GDR, the East German government decided to transfer part of its industrial capacity to China at the suggestion of the Chinese side. The East German government provided equipment and personnel, and the Chinese side provided funds and venues, and the two sides established a joint venture.
For example, the Sino-German Railway Industry Joint Stock Company, a newly established company, was invited by the Chinese Ministry of Railways to invite East Germany to provide technical resources to open factories in China and fulfill orders for the Chinese market.
In addition, the century-old East German Zeiss company, the most famous brand of East Germany, organized one-third of the personnel and equipment to China to establish the Chinese Zeiss company.
In the 20th century, ZEISS was the world's strongest company in the field of optics, and even after the split into West German Zeiss and East German Zeiss, the two ZEISS companies still occupied the top of the optical pyramid. Optical lenses are more than just lenses for cameras, camcorders, and telescopes. In fact, in fields such as medicine, semiconductors, and so on, optical lenses also play a vital role.
The introduction of ZEISS is equivalent to solving the shortcomings of optical surface for China, and a large number of technologies can be obtained. For the East German government, ZEISS opened a branch in China to directly produce and develop products for the Chinese market, which can not only play a role in earning foreign exchange, but also play a role in consolidating Sino-German friendship.
In addition, the purpose of setting up companies overseas is to avoid the worst-case scenario -- if East Germany itself falls and a large amount of equipment and personnel cannot be transferred, most of the remaining citizens of East Germany will become refugees even if they flee overseas, and it will be difficult for the country and the nation to turn over. However, if the GDR still has a lot of assets abroad, and the countries concerned do not loot and freeze their assets, then the GDR can still have the last bit of dignity to resettle its nationals in overseas industries and earn income through labor, instead of becoming the kind of refugees who eat and wait for death.
At present, there are more than 10,000 people transferred from East Germany to China, because they are basically customized according to China's needs, and the technical personnel are transported. Either technical personnel or skilled workers, the overall quality of this group of personnel is relatively high. At least, Germany's more than 100 years of industrialization has cultivated a technical foundation far higher than the average quality of Chinese workers at this time.
This quality is reflected in experience, and when China still needs to continuously educate workers on common sense, most of them can only work as low-tech assembly line assembly workers. East Germany, because of its tradition of technical training of workers, made many workers not only experienced in production, but also had certain technical insights. In fact, the vast majority of process improvements are done by low-level skilled workers, and if we blindly rely on highly educated engineers and scientists in offices and laboratories to solve problems, then, because they do not know so much about the details of production, their innovation and research may be divorced from reality. Or, theoretically true, but there are a lot of problems that need to be solved in the process of coming out of the lab and promoting the technology to the industry.
Skilled workers find deficiencies in the production process and carry out improvements and innovations, many of which can have immediate results and be applied in the factory.
Of course, the exchange of talents and the exchange of talents were two-way, and East Germany sent a large number of personnel to China at the same time. The number of Chinese personnel in East Germany also exceeded 30,000. Among them, the vast majority of them are military-related personnel, but there are also many personnel from other fields.
Even some of the unfortunate men began to look at East Germany, whose per capita income surpassed that of China. But at the same time, the shelves of the GDR were always empty.
As a result, on the basis of official trade, some non-governmental Chinese merchants also took great risks to do business in East Germany.
For example, in the markets of Berlin, there are stalls of Chinese merchants.
"Big brother, do you want to buy clothes? Thick down jacket, definitely duck down! Very cheap, 28 yuan. What, there is no yuan? East German mark, this ...... I'm sorry, we small traders don't understand this exchange rate. Therefore, only RMB or USD are accepted. An uncle in his thirties honestly introduced the goods, "No RMB? There's a stall not far away that can exchange marks. ”
Theoretically, the monthly income of East Germans is generally more than 1,000 marks, and theoretically, the exchange rate of East German marks is about the same as that of the yuan. But if you really want to believe this exchange rate, you haha...... The purchasing power of 1,000 East German marks is equivalent to three or four hundred yuan at most.
Since the official exchange rate in East Germany was meaningless, banks generally did not exchange currency. The people of East Germany wanted to exchange foreign currency, mainly through the black market. In the past, it was mainly exchanged for foreign exchange such as pounds, West German marks, francs, US dollars, etc., but now there is another foreign exchange - the Chinese yuan!
Because of the RMB-denominated goods, it is very worthy of the people. At present, the city of Berlin, China, has about more than one million yuan per month, which is put on the market through black market channels, and is quickly scrambled up by the East German people! Due to the tight supply of the renminbi, the exchange rate on the black market has also risen to the extent that 1 yuan is worth 2.5 marks.
In other words, there is one more kind of goods exported by China to East Germany - the renminbi! (To be continued.) )