Chapter 8: Helpless
Fortunately, at this time, the body's memory came into play, and Yang Zhi slowed down, remembering that Tang Yang had asked Yang Zhi to write a new product plan more than half a month before the accident. As for the fact that there are so many people in the department, there are many people who understand technology, and there are even more people who are more experienced than Yang Zhi, why should Yang Zhi be in charge of this plan?
In fact, it is mainly because Yang Zhi graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology, one of the strongest universities in China, which is commonly known as "Harbin Institute of Technology" Machinery Manufacturing Department, and because Yang Zhi is young, he has just joined the work for a short time, and has not been bound by the rules and regulations in the work, and often has some new ideas and new ideas, and is a technical leader in the department, so Tang Yang hopes that Yang Zhi can write a plan that is both level and innovative.
Yang Zhi knew that this plan had been written the day before the accident and was going to be handed over to Tang Yang the next day, but the accident happened before he could do so.
"Director, it's been written, I'll go back to the office and show it to you right away!" Just as he was about to blurt out this sentence, Yang Zhi suddenly found that this was not an opportunity for himself? No, you can't hand it in now! You have to take a good look at the proposal, and it is necessary to revise or even rewrite it. With his many years of experience in the automotive industry, he will definitely make the proposal even better!
After making up his mind, Yang Zhi said: "Director, the plan has been written, but I want to revise and improve it for you to see, but how do you know myself, so I think can you give me two more days to sort out my thoughts and improve it again?" After finishing speaking, Yang Zhi was a little apprehensive, what if the leader in his 50s thought he was deliberately delaying!
Fortunately, Tang Yang is a veteran college student in the late 50s and a technical leader. He admires young people who understand technology and are down-to-earth, and it just so happens that Yang Zhi was like this before, which is very much in line with the appetite of this old director. Sure enough, the old director didn't get angry when he heard this, and muttered for a while, "That's okay!" You think about it again and leave it to me in a few days! You've just recovered, don't be too reluctant, alas, but you're in a hurry! Tang Yang took a few puffs of his cigarette hard. It seems that the pressure on this old director is not small!
Out of the director's office, although Yang Zhi was full of confidence just now, he was a little bottomless at this time, he knew how to know technology well, but he didn't know much about the current market demand and product situation! Back in the big office of the Planning and Technology Department, Yang Zhi saw the newspaper on the table and suddenly flashed an idea, he could read the newspaper and read the magazine to understand the background!
At this time, Wu Yanli also came over and asked in a whisper, "Are you okay?" You weren't scolded, were you? In the past two years, the sales in the factory have not been very good, and the factory leaders are very annoyed, so that we must plan competitive new products to increase sales and improve performance. Hearing this, Yang Zhi's eyes lit up, isn't there anyone who understands the situation!
So, in his spare time all day, Yang Zhi was in the office, in the canteen where he ate at noon and in the corridor, constantly chatting with Wu Yan and his colleagues inside and outside the office, intentionally or unintentionally talking about the benefits of the factory and the tractor market, and really got a lot of first-hand information. In addition, I went to the factory reading room to read various newspapers and related magazines in the last one or two years, and obtained a lot of information and policy supplements. By sorting out these news and information, Yang Zhi probably also knew the situation of the tractor factory and the situation of the tractor market.
It turned out that such a large state-owned enterprise with a glorious history and a huge scale had already begun to decline at this time with the transformation of the planned economy into a market economy. Because of institutional problems and historical reasons, there is a unique phenomenon in China's state-owned enterprises, "enterprises run society!" ”。 Yituo is certainly no exception. In addition to factories and production facilities, kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, hospitals, gymnasiums, cinemas, workers' clubs and so on are all available in the factory area. It can be said that tens of thousands of workers and their families are under the management of the factory, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death, etc., everyone takes the factory as their home, works very hard, and often works overtime on weekends without complaints.
After 1978, the state no longer issued a production plan to Yituo, and ordered the Dongfanghong-40 tractor, which actually has great development potential, to stop production, which caused the development of Yituo to suffer heavy losses. Crawler tractors are unsalable, tens of thousands of workers are "looking for rice to cook" everywhere, and some branches have even sold beef!
Since 1981, the state has instructed Yituo to start a trial of independent sales and be responsible for its own profits and losses. The sudden change caught the old state-owned enterprises that had been accustomed to it for decades off guard, and the sales of the Oriental series of crawler tractors fell sharply. In 1980 Oriental crawler tractor sales 2. More than 40,000 units, but in 1981 it plummeted to less than 10,000 units, and the situation improved slightly in the following years, but the peak sales were only 1. More than 40,000 units.
In the face of such a situation, shouldering the heavy responsibility of solving the problem of eating tens of thousands of workers, do you say that the factory leaders are not in a hurry? Do you say that the appointed Director Tang can not be "Alexander"? Yang Zhi could finally understand Director Tang's expression at that time. This also explains why Yang Zhi heard the whining that day, and the reason why he felt a trace of dilapidated and decadent in this large-scale factory!
After returning home for dinner, Yang Zhi locked himself in that small room, meditating on countermeasures and how to complete the plan. "Son, come out and eat some dates, this is what your uncle brought from Xinzheng's hometown, it's sweet!" Yin Zhimei shouted. "No, Mom, you and Dad can eat! I'm not done yet, I'm going to use it tomorrow! Hearing Yang Zhi's answer, when Yin Zhimei was about to call again, Yang Dachang spoke: "My son is working!" Don't bother him yet!" Yin Zhimei gave up.
Yang Zhi thought hard for a while and couldn't figure it out. You say that it is not difficult to design a new tractor product, even if there are some high indicators that need technical research, it is nothing, but can such a new product be recognized by the market and consumers? Now the main Dongfanghong tractor in the factory is definitely a good product, durable leather and strong carrying capacity, but why is the market not good? What kind of new products can meet the needs of today's consumers?
Yang Zhi also specialized in technology in his previous life, and he was not very good at marketing and planning. In addition, although I have collected a lot of information in the past few days, I don't know so much about the situation at this time.
Is it because the appearance is not new enough? No, it's not that demanding at this point. That's the interior? It's not right, after all, it's not for domestic production at this time. That's the motivation? But as far as Yang Zhi knows, the 26 diesel engine used by Dongfanghong now is not bad. Yang Zhi shook his head a little swollen, the top students of the Aachen Institute of Technology in Germany and the edification of Harbin Institute of Technology in this world are actually at a loss for the stupid and stupid tractor? !