Chapter 818: Greasy
The final assembly workshop was in full swing, and these workers were all former workers of the Volga plant, and they all had very rich experience in assembling models. []
The development model of Russia's domestic automobile industry is basically similar to that of the Celestial Empire, long before the collapse of the former Soviet Union, their automobile industry also implemented a rationing system for a long time, and later produced a considerable part of it for civilian use.
However, in the research and development of models, they are basically the same as in China, they have been standing still for decades, and there is no development.
Later, after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Russia went through a chaotic decade, and during this decade, Russia was chaotic because of the political and economic landscape, not to mention the development of automobiles.
After Putin came to power in 1998, he began to vigorously sort out the domestic economic context, and even so, the Russian automobile industry knew that around 2002, it was relieved.
However, at that time, some brands from Europe and the United States, such as General Motors, Ford, Volkswagen, Citroen, as well as Toyota, Honda, Hyundai and other car companies from Japan and South Korea, have begun to enter Russia and begin to seize the market.
In terms of the design and development of the automobile industry, Russia was almost in a poor and white situation, and they were almost powerless to fight back against the invasion of foreign car brands, and they could only watch these foreign car companies eat their market in a big way.
The pride of the Russian automobile industry, Volga and Gas, has also been awakened from the dream of dominating the Russian market, but in the face of the siege of foreign-funded car companies, they are powerless and can only watch the shrinking market share.
However, the situation in the Russian car market is better than in China, and that is that the national self-esteem of the Russian people is very strong. Although the former scenery of the second largest country in the world is no longer there. But the Russians have inherited the mentality of a natural world power from the former Soviet Union.
When it comes to purchasing cars, they know that their country's car products are inferior to those foreign ones in terms of performance and quality. However, they still insist on supporting their own products.
This has led to the strange phenomenon that although the models made by the AvtoVAZ are still ugly, the performance is still extremely poor. But they are still able to maintain their position as the market leader in Russia.
However, at that time, the life of the workers in the Volga was not easy, and a large part of the workers were facing the same situation as the workers in China.
However, fortunately, this cooperation with Huayang Power has saved a considerable number of Russian automobile manufacturing workers, a considerable number of these people have very good quality, and the technology and experience are not bad in all aspects, and this cooperation with Huayang Power has created nearly 10,000 jobs for them at least.
Look at those skilled workers at the speed of a cycle of minutes. Working on one model after another, Jin Xiaoqiang couldn't help but sigh at the treasure left by the former Soviet Union to Russia, and these well-trained workers are a lot of wealth. It is with the purity of these skilled workers. Russia will be able to guarantee the industrial heritage of their nation.
"That's right, Mr. Mokhailov. Are our production lines currently able to meet the needs of the Russian market? ”
Jin Xiaoqiang asked casually, and at this time, Palyuukin, the assistant sent by the Volga headquarters who was standing next to the factory director Mokhailov, gave Mokhailov a look again, and the Volga head office had of course communicated with Mokhailov.
"Misterkin, you may not know how popular the sales of our joint venture brand are in Russia, when we cooperated, the maximum annual production was set to be 150,000 vehicles, but now we have received orders that have been sent three months later, this is only the order of Russia in Europe, and in the Far East, because it is too far away, we have not been able to cover, so I hope we will talk when we meet this time to see if we can expand part of the production capacity.........,
Mokhailov laughed like an old fox, and the expression on his face could be said to be extremely flattering, after all, this person in front of him was a big benefactor, and it was with his full support that Volga was able to achieve today's results.
Before this, don't look at the sales of AvtoVAZ has always occupied the throne of the champion of domestic car sales in Russia, but everyone knows that AvtoVAZ is relying on the support of so many old models, and if it goes on like this, sooner or later it will be affected by the collapse of those foreign companies.
They also want to cooperate with companies like Volkswagen or General Motors, but these guys are very harsh on all conditions, and they are also facing the same dilemma as the joint venture of the Celestial Empire, that is, these foreign companies are unwilling to introduce world-class technology into Russia, they are only willing to bring in some second-hand technology, which makes the Russian people with a great power mentality feel very dissatisfied.
Coupled with the special nature of such a large enterprise as the Volga and the intervention of the Putin government, several joint venture plans between the Volga and Western enterprises broke up.
In the end, there was no way for the Volga side to retreat and find the world's second-rate car manufacturer Citroen, but even so, the Russians felt very unhappy, because everyone knew that Citroen's automobile manufacturing technology could only be said to be second-rate in the world.
And what the French are best at is actually usury!
What they never expected was that at this time, through the president's matchmaking, Huayang Power, a suddenly rising automobile manufacturing company in the Celestial Empire, actually came to the door.
And after some assessment, everyone came to a conclusion, that is, Huayang Power's technology is not worse than those world-class car companies.
Obviously, the Russian people are also well aware of this, which can be seen from the popularity of Huayang Power's models in the market.
The originally designed production line with an annual output of 150,000 vehicles can no longer meet the needs of the Russian market.
At this time, Paliuukin, the senior vice president who rushed from the Volga headquarters, also said to Jin Xiaoqiang on the side.
"Yes, Misterkin, you are not often in Russia, so I am afraid it is difficult for you to imagine the Russian people's love for Huayang Power's products, now because of the lack of supply in the market, many people often have to place orders for three months, or even five months before they can get the car, so there are already many people who are dissatisfied, we are very sincere in AvtoVAZ and hope to expand the production line and produce more models to meet consumers."
Palyoukhin and Mokhailov sang and harmonized, and Jin Xiaoqiang vigorously promoted their ideas, but Jin Xiaoqiang was constantly calculating in his heart.
It is said that in this first phase of the sub-factory, they did not invest much in Huayang Power, that is, in some production lines, they contributed part of the funds, and the rest were all done by Volga.
And after the factory was built, they just shipped some core components such as engines and transmissions from China and handed them over here for the Russians to assemble.
The payment on my side is really not very big, but this factory has been open for more than a year now, but it has brought itself no less than 300 million US dollars in dividends, it seems that the Russian car market is really hot enough.
It's just that Palyoukhin and Mokhailov are selling like they are trying so hard, to put it bluntly, they just want to increase their efforts to supply them with core components, they want to increase production, but is it really that simple?
Jin Xiaoqiang did not rush to agree to the two of them, but took the lead to return to the company's office, which is the management center of this factory, and the environment is of course much better than the noisy factory, full of white-collar men and women wearing suits and leather shoes and one step skirt. …,
Having entered the company's conference room, soon the clerk brought fragrant coffee and refreshments, Mokhailov, Palyoukin and a number of other senior managers of the factory were seated.
"Let's talk about it, what is the situation, the current domestic car market share in Russia is only more than 3 million units per year, although it has grown rapidly in recent years, but it is not so popular?"
Jin Xiaoqiang asked indifferently, as if it was right, Russia's current annual production of cars is so much, and it doesn't seem to be comparable to the Celestial Empire, but remember that people only have a population of more than 100 million.
It is simply impossible to build a large factory with an annual output of hundreds of thousands or even millions like the Celestial Empire, unless you are a monopoly and monopolize the market.
By 2012, Brazil had grown to become the world's fourth largest car market, after the Celestial Empire, the United States, and Germany.
Now the annual output of the joint venture factory of Huayang Power and AvtoVAZ can have 150,000 vehicles, even if it is expanding production capacity, Jin Xiaoqiang believes that expanding to 200,000 is enough, if it is more, then it is likely to cause idle machinery.
So he thinks that these two people are advocating vigorously to let themselves expand production capacity and expand factories, which is likely to be boring.
Because if you expand the new factory, maybe like this time, you don't need to provide too much money yourself, but in the supply of engines, you must increase your efforts, and the manufacturing of automobile engines, Russia, like the Celestial Empire, is also a lame player