industrial overlord

Chapter 188 The Refrigerator Problem

"Xiao Lin, the greatest hope for the refrigerator production line is on you. You have to help this no matter what. This is a major matter related to the welfare of the 500 employees of Hanhua Machinery Factory."

In the conference room of Hanhua Machinery Factory, the factory director Chen Weiguo said to Lin Zhenhua hopefully.

The factory leaders invited Lin Zhenhua to come back to discuss this matter, with the purpose of using Lin Zhenhua's influence in the Light Chemical Department to persuade Xie Chunyan.Lin Zhenhua's position in the Light Chemical Department is now in full swing. He can earn both RMB and US dollars. Even the Foreign Trade Department and the Economic Committee greet the Light Chemical Department from time to time, asking the department to take care of Lin Zhenhua.

Another factor also gave Lin Zhenhua a great say in this matter, that is, Lin Zhenhua holds a large amount of foreign exchange quota, and the biggest difficulty for Hanhua Machinery Factory to introduce refrigerator production lines is in foreign exchange.It is understood that a production line with an annual output of 10 refrigerators will use about 500 million to 800 million US dollars in foreign exchange, which is not a small amount.

Earlier, Chen Weiguo went to the Foreign Trade Office to learn about the introduction of production lines.The Department of Foreign Trade stated that the foreign exchange quota in the province is very tight, and if you want to spend such a large sum of money to introduce production lines, you can only establish a project with the central government.However, after hearing that Hanhua Machinery Factory is the superior unit of Hanhua Industrial Company, Hua Keqin revealed to Chen Weiguo that Lin Zhenhua had a large foreign exchange balance.

After Gao Zuxing returned to Beijing, he brought Lin Zhenhua's request for the establishment of a patent fund to the office meeting of the Ministry of Foreign Trade for discussion, which aroused the interest of all the leaders of the Ministry.Everyone agreed that the establishment of a patent fund is a very good idea, which will help improve the competitiveness of China's export commodities, and is a very far-sighted idea.

However, while this is a good thing, the Ministry of Foreign Trade cannot do it in person.A few million dollars is not a large amount for the Ministry, and it is not difficult to get it out.The difficulty is that once the fund is established, the provinces will inevitably reach out to the fund, take some trivial technologies over, and ask the fund to provide support.

The characteristic of the government's work is that it must be equal in a bowl of water, and one cannot favor one another, otherwise there will be opinions from below.If this fund is established by the Ministry, the money in the fund will eventually become pepper noodles, and every province will sprinkle a little, which will not really play the role of the fund.

And if this fund is entrusted to Lin Zhenhua to operate in the name of Hanhua Company, Lin Zhenhua can decide who to support or not to support.The Ministry of Foreign Trade can hide behind the scenes. For the projects they want to support, they can hint to Lin Zhenhua and let him invest money.The projects they didn't want to support were pushed directly to Lin Zhenhua to be the villain, and the local government had nothing to say.

After thinking about this issue, the Ministry of Foreign Trade immediately made a decision, instructing the Department of Foreign Trade of Jiangnan Province to divide the patent fee of 800 million US dollars received by Hanhua Industrial Company into two, half of which will be settled in foreign exchange according to normal procedures, and the other half will be kept in Hanhua Company. In hand, the special funds are used as a fund to support domestic enterprises to apply for international patents.The operation of the fund is entirely in the charge of Hanhua Industrial Company, and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade only provide business guidance.

In this way, Lin Zhenhua suddenly had 400 million US dollars in foreign exchange in his hands. Although this money was earmarked in name, it was still allowed for the province to temporarily embezzle it for importing equipment.

Lin Zhenhua can understand what the leaders of the Hanhua factory think of.Hearing Chen Weiguo's words, he responded with a chuckle: "The director Chen's words are off the mark. After all, I am still an employee of the Hanhua factory. If there are any instructions from the factory, even if I don't agree to them?"

"I just said that Xiaolin will not disappoint the factory on key issues." Liang Guangping said affectionately, "With Xiaolin's attitude, I think the refrigerator production line is basically 80.00% successful."

Lin Zhenhua waved his hands and said, "Leaders, please don't place such high hopes on me. I am also a soft-spoken person in the Qinghua Hall. I am not as respected as the leaders. Since the leaders called me back from Xunyang Discussing this matter, can I ask, why does our factory have a refrigerator production line?"

"This is a very clear thing." Jiang Manqing, deputy director of the factory, said: "Now the chemical industry in the country is in a downturn, and our factory's equipment orders are decreasing year by year. After the fertilizer equipment, we have never received a similar large order. If we don’t hurry up to switch production now, it is estimated that it will be impossible to switch in a few years.”

Lin Zhenhua said: "As far as I know, the large chemical fertilizer equipment of Guixi Chemical Fertilizer Factory has been very good after it is put into production. The Chemical Design Institute has evaluated it and believes that the quality is not inferior to the Japanese equipment of Erhua. Since we have such If we have strong strength, why don’t we continue to do our own business and have to switch to a new field?”

Zhu Tiejun said: "I really want to do my own business. It's more enjoyable to make big chemical fertilizers. This is called industry. What does it look like to make refrigerators? Now even a township enterprise can make refrigerators. For a state-owned heavy industry factory like ours, switch production to do it." Refrigerator, it’s embarrassing to talk about it.”

Liang Guangping said: "Old Zhu, your idea is wrong. There is no shame in being a refrigerator. Look at Xiao Lin and the others, they have done a good job in making electric fans. How beautiful are they in the hall now?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "Director Liang praised us too much. In fact, our electric fans are only running a time lag. The situation this year is not as good as last year. After next year, there will be a question mark on whether we can still make a profit. We still Let’s talk about refrigerators, I would like to ask, how does our factory see the prospects of refrigerator production?”

Jiang Manqing said: "We have already made sufficient calculations on this issue. We have learned that the investment to build a refrigerator production line with an annual output of 10 units is about 1500 million to 2000 million. Now according to the price stipulated by the state, 150 The ex-factory price of a single-door direct-cooling refrigerator is 676 yuan, and that of a 180-liter refrigerator is 774 yuan. The allowable fluctuation ratio is 8%. The profit of the refrigerator is expected to be about 20%. In this way, we can produce one refrigerator. Earning 150 yuan, producing 10 units a year is 1500 million units, which means that the entire investment can be recovered within one year."

Zhu Tiejun added: "This is of course an ideal algorithm. In fact, it is impossible to achieve full production as soon as the production line is completed. It is more realistic for us to set an annual output of about 5 units in the first one or two years. , at most two to three years, and the investment can be recovered."

Lin Zhenhua shook his head and said: "I also have some information here, and I will share it for the reference of the leaders. Some time ago, I went to Shanghai and visited some companies in Shanghai to learn something. There are currently two refrigerators in Shanghai. One is the Shanghai Refrigerator Factory under the Shanghai Bureau of Handicraft Industry, and the other is a county-run enterprise in Chongming County, called Chongming Refrigerator Factory. In addition, the Bureau of Handicraft Industry is preparing to build the Second Shanghai Refrigerator Factory, and the New China Machinery Factory under the Ministry of Aeronautics and Space The production of refrigerators is also in the pipeline. There are four refrigerator companies in Shanghai alone, and we can imagine how many there will be in the whole country.”

Chen Weiguo said: "We also know this situation. Not to mention Shanghai, but in our Jiangnan Province, there are already two refrigerator factories that have been launched. If we build one, it will be the third one."

"There are also petrochemical machines." Jiang Manqing added.

"Petrochemical machines also have refrigerators?" Lin Zhenhua asked in surprise.

Zhu Tiejun nodded: "I asked Xie Chunyan. Now there are two companies in the Department of Light and Chemical Industry who are applying for the introduction of refrigerator production lines. One is us, and the other is petrochemical machinery. They are similar to us, and life is not easy."

Chen Weiguo said: "The life of petrochemical machinery is not as good as ours. Although they have more tasks than us, they also have more people than us, so they can't eat enough. Last year we made large-scale chemical fertilizer equipment, and the profit was very high. Now There is still some money in the account. It is said that the petrochemical machine is already borrowing money from the bank."

"Wouldn't the light chemical department be connected to two refrigerator lines at the same time?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Liang Guangping said: "You're right. The current situation is that we have to compete with Petrochemical Machinery to see who can speak to the hall. I heard that the leaders in the hall are also divided into two factions, one supports Petrochemical Machinery and the other supports us. Several of our factory leaders touched it, and felt that the final key factor might be on you, Xiao Lin."

"The amount of foreign exchange that can be used by the Qinghua Department is the patent fund in the hands of your Hanhua Company. This money is under a hat, and no one else has the right to use it except you Xiaolin. Who do you say to invest in?" , who can vote for in the end." Chen Weiguo said.

"Does it need to be said, Hanhua Company is also a part of our Hanhua factory, how can the fertilizer and water flow to outsiders?" Party Secretary Zou Shicheng said as a matter of course.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Leaders, with all due respect, I don't agree with our factory developing refrigerators."

"Why!" All the factory leaders were stunned.Everyone thought that Lin Zhenhua might negotiate terms with the factory, but they didn't expect that he would object.Everyone believed in Lin Zhenhua's character and knew that he would not do anything that would be detrimental to the Hanhua factory. Why would Lin Zhenhua object to such a major event concerning the future of the Hanhua factory?
Lin Zhenhua said: "The reason for my objection is also very simple. There are too many companies targeting the refrigerator market, and our Hanhua factory does not have an advantage in this regard."

Jiang Manqing said dissatisfiedly: "Xiao Lin, I don't agree with what you said. Didn't Hanhua Company have an advantage in making electric fans back then? Didn't it turn out to be very good? When you were making fans, the factory strongly supported you. oh."

Lin Zhenhua said: "Director Jiang, our Hanhua company really has some advantages in making fans. The water lily fan we first launched has unique design. As for the five-leaf fan that was later exported to earn foreign exchange, it is an international patent product. It is ahead of domestic counterparts in technology. But even so, we are now facing the pressure of rising costs and falling profits, and it is estimated that this product will have no profit in one or two years.”

"Fan, this may be the case. However, refrigerators should not lose their profits so soon, right? There is a shortage of refrigerators in the market now. As long as they can be produced, they can be sold. This is still different from the situation of fans. .” Jiang Manqing said.

Lin Zhenhua said: "I'm not worried about the sale of the refrigerator. What I'm worried about is the supply of the original components of the refrigerator. As far as I know, most of the compressors and thermostats of domestic refrigerators are imported. A compressor The import price of compressors is US$50, if we produce 10 units a year, we will need to spend US$500 million in foreign exchange for the imported compressors alone, how to solve this money?

As soon as this sentence was uttered, the audience fell silent.

(End of this chapter)