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Chapter 516 Nanyang’s flagship product (second update, please subscribe)
Earning dollars is the most important thing!
This is the consensus among all businessmen in Nanyang. The place to earn US dollars is of course the overseas market.

In Nanyang, which has long established the national policy of "building a nation through trade," all businessmen attach great importance to overseas markets, especially the American market. Because of this, Air Borneo has one weekly flight to Los Angeles.

In the early morning, when the sun was about to jump above the sea level, a C95B long-range passenger plane flew towards the east, although the passenger capacity of Nanyang Aviation Industry's C95 was not as good as Douglas's DC6 and Lockheed's Constellation. But its biggest feature is its long range. Its prototype is the Savoia Marchetti SM.95. The Italian military once asked it to be modified for bombing New York. Its maximum range reached an astonishing 11000 kilometers.

After the war, Italian engineers learned from the design of DC6 and Constellation, improved it and finalized it into C95. Since its inception, it has been the pride of Nanyang Aviation Industry. It still maintains the characteristics of long range, while the C95B has an extended fuselage. Although the fuselage is lengthened, its take-off weight is greater because of the 2700-horsepower R-3350 engine. It is also the only model in the world that can fly directly from Dongning to Hawaii. passenger plane.

As usual, the cabin was filled with businessmen from all over Nanyang. Among them were traders, manufacturers, and investors like Yang Yuankai. However, among these people, the ones who received the most attention were those from the labor company. Zhu Yihai attracted a lot of people's attention from the moment he and his entourage got on the plane.

Boss Zhu was well-known when he was in Tangshan. I don’t know how many dignitaries were his guests - he has been responsible for labor recruitment in Nanyang for many years and was a confidant of the President of Nanyang. After arriving in Nanyang, he presided over the labor company , is a large company that integrates many trading, production and banking enterprises.

This is a big boss.

Facing such a big boss, every businessman wants to make friends, but no one will bother him. After all, he is a big boss.

In fact, no matter how big the boss is, he is just like ordinary people. He gets on this plane to go to the United States to earn US dollars.

The flight from Chang'an to the West Coast of the United States is a long one, taking 52 hours. During this period, it needs to pass through Dongning and Hawaii before reaching San Francisco on the West Coast. Of course, air tickets are also expensive, but for businessmen eager to make US dollars, this is not a problem.

"What Boss Zhu said is true. This is at the national level. From an enterprise level, earning US dollars is also the foundation for the development and growth of enterprises. After all, products must be sold to customers with spending power, and the United States is the largest market in the world today. , naturally we need to pay more attention to it.”

After dozens of hours of flying, most of the people in the cabin were familiar with each other. Yang Shikai, who was originally sitting in the row behind Zhu Yihai, sat directly next to him. During the more than 20 hours from Dongning to Hawaii, the two of them chatted. Naturally, it's all business matters.

Yang Shikai thought for a while and said again.

In the past few years, Zhu Yihai, who seems to have been engaged in immigration recruitment, is also constantly learning. His understanding of Nanyang is no worse than others, and he also knows why Nanyang established the national policy of "building a country through trade". The core reason is Materials were scarce.

Zhu Yihai, with a slight smile on his face, looked Yang Shikai up and down and said:

"The strategy of following the U.S. market is right. U.S. dollars, U.S. dollars, U.S. dollars are gold. Only with U.S. dollars can we purchase various supplies around the world."

"Clothes, toys, radios... basically everyone knows these products, but the US market is so big. If everyone makes clothes and toys, it will definitely be saturated one day, so I want to see if there are any other products. "

Zhu Yihai said to Yang Shikai:
“Nanyang is different from many places. Except for coal, oil, nickel, copper and other mineral resources that are self-sufficient, most resources are extremely scarce. This also means that we need to purchase coal and iron ore from abroad. All kinds of materials are needed to meet the needs of industrial production, and even food needs to be imported. Southerners like to eat rice, and northerners like to eat noodles, so we need to import flour. This also requires U.S. dollars. But currently no place It’s very possible that there are enough U.S. dollars, and only in the U.S. market, there is a steady stream of U.S. dollars that can be earned.”

"Well, let's see what sells well in the U.S. market."

"Indeed, what are your plans for going to the United States this time?"

"You can think of this, but it's not easy. Most people just follow the trend when doing business."

"Anyone can do business by following the trend, but when there are more people following, the competition becomes fiercer. If you want to make money, you still have to find another way."

Yang Shikai's answer made Zhu Yihai nod in agreement. "It is good to find another way, but we must also pay attention to the current market. The gross national product of the United States has reached 2 billion U.S. dollars, which is almost 5% of the world. It is precisely because of this that the United States has become the largest market in the world. Because of this, the whole world will focus on the U.S. market. Do you know what the biggest market in the U.S. is?"

"baby product!"

Yang Shikai answered directly.

Anyone who understands the production of Nanyang enterprises knows that Nanyang's largest export item to the United States is not clothing, but baby products.

"Yes, last year, 3 billion US dollars of baby products were sold in the United States alone, while 2 billion US dollars were sold the year before last. What does this mean? It shows that the fertility rate in the United States is very high, and the market is still far from saturation. There’s a big gap, how many baby products did we export last year?”

After asking the rhetorical question, Zhu Yihai asked and answered himself again.

"Including baby clothes, toys, strollers and other infant products, the total is 62.5 billion US dollars, accounting for 30% of Nanyang's total export value! And according to experts from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, next year, the market for baby products will It has exceeded 350 billion, and the European market is around US$100 billion. In fact, this market space is still very broad."

In fact, the reason why Nanyang was able to seize the baby products market was entirely driven by Li Yi'an - in order to seize the post-war "baby boom", he planned product layout from the beginning, from infant clothing, toys to strollers, etc. The research and development of various products allowed the Nanyang export industry to seize the largest blue ocean in the post-war market. After all, at that time, manufacturers in Europe and the United States were still focusing on adult products - a large number of military personnel retired and got married, which stimulated the demand for adult clothing, shoes and hats consumer goods. demand, thereby neglecting the importance of the infant market.

And Li Yi'an, who "foreseen" the baby boom in advance, started the layout in 46 years, and the results were obvious that year. Relying on this market opportunity, Nanyang achieved industrial take-off.

"This is all your credit. I heard that it was he who asked the Ministry of International Trade and Industry to formulate corresponding industrial plans, and then we seized this opportunity."

It is the president who single-handedly formulated Nanyang's industrial plan. This has long been public knowledge. Because of this, many people attribute Nanyang's economic success to having a "president who knows how to do business."

Yang Shikai almost feels the same way, but he has his own views on business.

"But it is precisely because we have seized this opportunity and achieved an industrial breakthrough that many factories are now producing this type of product. As the scale of the industry expands, competition among enterprises will inevitably intensify. Therefore, as an investment Shang, I want to seek breakthroughs in other areas."

Yang Shikai's answer made Zhu Yihai look at him with admiration.

"It's not easy for you to think like that, um..."

After thinking about it, Zhu Yihai took the initiative to extend the invitation and said.

"This time I am also in the United States to inspect the market. If you are interested, wait until you get off the plane and we will inspect it together!"

The sudden invitation made Yang Shikai feel pleasantly surprised. He felt that no matter what the results of this investigation were, it was worth it!

It doesn't matter whether you make dollars or not. The important thing is to be able to establish a relationship with a big shot like Boss Zhu!

This is much more important than US dollars!
(End of this chapter)