Chapter 299 299 Development of foreign trade

The United States and Saudi Arabia have successively finalized two large orders, and at least within five years, all military industrial enterprises and the military will be able to eat "brain fat," and with the astonishing profits of China's armaments and the manufacturing capacity of the bases, which are completely beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, these two orders together can make at least a net profit of more than $10 billion. Think about the fact that the PLA has more than 2 million troops, and the military expenditure for a whole year is only 8.5 billion US dollars, and the money earned can pay for the defense budget for another year.

Naturally, there is no need to duplicate expenditures on the national defense budget, and the military is now in a state where the surplus cannot be spent, and the bulk of the military needs to be invested in the development of technology in various research institutes. At this time, the main source of armament design and technology is naturally the base combat laboratory, but even if it is necessary to master many technical skills, it is not an easy task. Qi Yiming and the military were not stupid enough to ignore the improvement of their own country's technical capabilities because of the existence of the base.

China's current international trade, a bit of the nineties of Russia, Ukraine meaning, more than 10 percent of the export volume is occupied by military products, this is also at this time made in China has not fully opened the world market cause. Therefore, the high-level officials of the Celestial Empire, including Qi Yiming, have tried their best to promote the country's early resumption of customs relations and obtain better foreign trade conditions.

Military products are the best embodiment of a country's science and technology, and may also be the most eye-catching embodiment, and a country's good munitions show that the country's industrial capacity is good enough, and the manufacture of other products is more secure. Military products are usually considered to be quality assurance due to their strict requirements, so many businesses like to advertise with slogans such as "military quality".

The Celestial Empire's munitions were well made and sold, not only as an advertisement for their own munitions, but also as an advertisement for the entire country's industrial manufactured products. After the continuous good news, although Qi Yiming did not attend the exhibition at the Canton Fair this year, he still led the products of all industries to go out, and finally obtained a huge turnover of 12.1 billion US dollars.

“…… Among the goods traded at the Canton Fair, as last year and the year before last, the best selling is our electronic products, especially our latest lighter and more portable laptops, which caused a sensation in the industry, Europe and the United States and other manufacturers ordered frantically, and even the Japanese manufacturers who rejected our electronic products in the past also bought a batch, it seems that Toshiba, IBM and other manufacturers, in the face of our large-scale offensive, have almost can't eat. ”

Qi Yiming listened to Zhou Yutong's report and smiled slightly, China is already the leader of the 3C industry in this plane, after entering the field of personal computers in 1985, domestic brands Lenovo, Tsinghua Unigroup, Inspur, Shenzhou, etc. have been brought out by Qi Yiming, a guy with a bad taste. Because of the technical support of the base, and the hiring of batches of high-level business talents, these brands have established their own image of industrial upstarts. The average annual export of computers reached 22 million units, this is only in the beginning of the industry, if the real network age and the information age open, China in advance of the card position every year to sell hundreds of millions of computers is not a problem.

In addition to computer products, communication products are no less popular. Because it has the patented technology of global wireless communication and the Internet, as long as the country wants to access, it basically has to ask Chinese companies to help it, even the United States is no exception. Relying on this alone, the two major communication equipment service providers have made a lot of money, and the Cisco, which can only resist by relying on American policies in the future, is now unable to reach the heels of China's two powerhouses.

Personal mobile phones, fixed telephones and other products are also easy to sell, and the same as washing machines, TVs, air conditioners, cameras and other household appliances, cheap and high-quality products hit the global market, has caused the vigilance of many countries, and even a tariff barrier is brewing, if you can't break through the road of resumption, the market will be handed over, which is why Qi Yiming is so concerned about the resumption of negotiations.

Automobiles, ships, machinery and other products are still about tepid, but domestic cars have slowly penetrated their tentacles into Europe and the United States, and have begun to fight with Nissan in the low-end family car market. The yen has maintained an appreciation trend, and the price advantage of domestic cars has been revealed, in the eyes of many foreigners, the gap between Chinese cars and Japanese cars is not large, but Chinese cars are more trendy in terms of appearance design.

In some countries of the third century, Qi Yiming also encouraged the automobile companies to actively go deeper, and he used the domestic route to foreign transactions, and these automobile companies often took the price that was difficult to refuse, and went to the government departments of those countries to let them purchase official cars. When the Chinese cars driven by government departments run on the highways of these third-century countries, they will soon be recognized by the locals, and it will also drive the trend of private people buying Chinese cars.

If you want to make money, don't be afraid of hardship and tiredness, Chinese marketing representatives have traveled through Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America and other developing countries, and even endured land inadaptability, cultural conflicts and warlord corruption and government blackmail, in order to make more money and make the country richer and stronger.

After all, all kinds of mechanical products are still shallow, and compared with American goods, European goods, and Japanese goods, consumers are still a little suspicious. The buyers of these mechanical products are of course different from ordinary consumers, impulsive consumption rarely happens, what you want is reputation and quality, of course, the price is also under consideration, they still do not trust Chinese products, but expect that there will be a few trial people after use, and then tell them whether Chinese machinery is good or not.

Perhaps the current Chinese machinery is not as fine as that made in Germany, but it is still very competitive compared to its contemporaries in Japan. In the 80s, when Japanese machinery was plundering the American and European markets, Japanese products in almost any field of production in this plane were blocked by Chinese goods, which made them very troubled.

Of course, although the amount of money sold is not as large as electronic products, the largest volume is still all kinds of light industrial products. When the blueprint for the country's industrial modernization was first formulated, some people once proposed to build a heavy industrial power like the Soviet Union, and some people proposed to build a high-tech power, but Qi Yiming laughed and did not care. China is a big country and has too many people, so everything has to be done comprehensively.

After seeing so many heavy industries, a bunch of computers, automobiles, and heavy machinery have been built, and there is no market to sell them to? The several large domestic enterprises that Qi Yiming is focusing on supporting now are basically in a state of subsistence and clothing, and they are definitely not really rich and expensive. Because of these traditional industrial fields, it is very difficult to break into, if you sell simple processed semi-finished products, such as steel, aluminum ingots, etc., it is still very easy to sell, but when it comes to the final product, just open up the market, without ten years of work, it is absolutely untenable. What did the factories across the country eat and drink at that time?

Engaging in industry is definitely not something that can be done by a few big leaders patting their heads and chests, let alone by a few young people shouting a few words about the four modernizations and becoming bigger and stronger. From the technical difficulty to product design, marketing, brand management and cultivation after entering the market, and then to a larger level, the social effects that can be produced are all considerations that Qi Yiming needs to do at the beginning.

At that time, Qi Yiming was very clear about what kind of industrialized country he wanted to engage in, with more light industry, a little more heavy industry fist enterprises, the integration of production, education and research, and attention to technological innovation and product upgrading.

China's huge population, and also need to carry out multiple rounds of urbanization process, a large number of working people need a job, and obviously heavy industry, high-tech industry can not provide enough employment opportunities. Only a large number of light industries can provide hundreds of millions of jobs for laborers, provide them with wages and opportunities to change their living standards. There is an absolute positive correlation between social stability and the prosperity of the country and the people's living standards. In addition, the light industry, which is related to people's most basic clothing, food, housing and transportation, directly determines the convenience and affluence of people's lives. Is it the same to be full, and can only eat dry food and pickles as having dozens of non-staple food choices? The same is dressing, can an old gray military uniform be the same as a trendy cotton T-shirt in the new season?

Therefore, in Qi Yiming's cognition, in the industrial reform with the help of the base, the development order of light industry should even take precedence over heavy industry and other high-tech industries. As a result, textile factories, food processing factories, furniture factories, ceramic factories, toy manufacturing factories, small commodity processing factories, and so on, which have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain in recent years, have not only solved the employment problem, but also pushed the country from a poor and backward country to a middle-income country at a high speed.

The rapid development of light industry has not only satisfied the domestic demand market for thousands of years, but also created a large number of products that can be used for export, creating convenience for the country to earn foreign exchange and the accumulation of original capital.

"China's exports of light industrial products have maintained explosive growth year after year, it is difficult to imagine that the external demand will be so large, in the first half of this year, outsourcing production bases to our domestic European and American enterprises are also increasing, textiles, garments are still in a state of China's standout. According to the authoritative forecast of the National Development and Reform Commission, it is estimated that around 1995, more than 70 percent of the world's ready-to-wear garments will be made in China. ”

Qi Yiming chuckled when he heard this, wasn't he such a world realm before he crossed over? Europe has repeatedly imposed retaliatory tariffs on Chinese textiles and conducted anti-dumping investigations, but if China does not sell clothes, they will have no clothes to wear. From the lowest-end stalls to internationally renowned brands, they are basically produced in China.

There is nothing bad about becoming a Shilu factory, the key is that the workers in the factory (Chinese) can also enjoy the best living conditions. This is also the highest goal he has been striving for.