King of Industry

  Chapter 120 Imminent Change

  Zhao Guoyang cleared his throat and said: "Mayor Huang, if I'm not wrong. The reason why you SJ City made such a painstaking decision to stop the production of Songjiang cars should be because Songjiang Volkswagen wants to expand its scale, right?"

   Without waiting for Huang Zhigang to speak, Zhao Guoyang said to himself: "Actually, this is not difficult to guess. After all, the sales volume of Songjiang Santana in the past one year or so has been really good, and it has almost monopolized the domestic mid-end vehicle market."

   "Under such momentum, both the SJ City Government and Songjiang Volkswagen want to make persistent efforts to increase production and strive to create greater glories."

   "Indeed, the successful launch of the Santana model has directly allowed Songjiang Volkswagen to surpass FAW and Second Automobile, and embark on a fast track of development. It may be impossible for others to catch up in the next five to ten years."

   "But..." Zhao Guoyang changed the subject. "In my opinion, Songjiang Volkswagen's products are too simple to live on only this one car."

  Hearing this, not only Huang Zhigang, but even Fang Xuesen held his breath and looked at Zhao Guoyang without blinking, waiting for his detailed explanation.

Zhao Guoyang didn't hold back, he pondered for a while, organized his words, and began to express his views: "Several leaders, I have also ridden in a Santana car, so I will just talk about my opinions. Please correct me a lot.”

  "Due to the rapid expansion of the market, the positioning of Santana cars at this stage should gradually change from family cars to official vehicles and commercial vehicles."

"From the perspective of a family car, Santana's performance is undoubtedly good enough. But as an official car or business car, compared with the Audi 100, it has more comfort and rear space. They are all at a disadvantage.”

  Zhao Guoyang said very frankly: "In my opinion, it is imminent for Santana to continue to lead the domestic car market in the future and make some personalized changes!"

  After Zhao Guoyang finished speaking, the faces of several bigwigs in the conference room changed drastically.

  You should know that Director Fang and Mayor Huang discussed the future development trend of Songjiang Volkswagen based on the opinions of some domestic auto research experts during the meeting yesterday, and the final conclusion was almost the same as Zhao Guoyang's analysis.

   Zhao Guoyang was able to come to the same conclusion through his own analysis, which is really amazing.

  Fang Xuesen held back the astonishment in his heart, and asked in a deep voice: "Then Xiao Zhao, how do you think this personalized change should be made?"

   Zhao Guoyang couldn't help laughing when he heard the words: "Director Fang, you want me to answer this question. I really don't know how to explain it specifically. I can only briefly talk about my understanding of commercial vehicles..."

Amid the eager anticipation of a group of people, Zhao Guoyang raised three fingers and said: "Actually, in foreign countries, there are certain standards for the definition of commercial vehicles. The three aspects of sex."

   "As long as the two general directions of elongating the body and improving comfort are set, it will not be difficult to redesign a new model based on the existing Santana."

Zhao Guoyang then added: "In this regard, I think the design team can learn from the experience of some foreign models. As far as I know, Volkswagen has development teams in Western Europe and Latin America. If the leaders and R&D personnel of Songjiang Volkswagen can go there Once you go, take a look, visit, there must be a lot of gains..."

   After Zhao Guoyang finished speaking, he stopped with a smile, waiting for the big shots to digest his remarks.

   Zhao Siyan beside him, when she looked at him at this time, her eyes were already straightened, and she looked dazed, as if she was looking at a visitor from outside the sky.

   After a while, Li Kejian was the first to react. He looked at Fang Xuesen and Huang Zhigang, the two heavyweights who were still thinking deeply, took a deep breath, and said, "I personally completely agree with the suggestion that Xiao Zhao said just now."

   "Although the sales volume of Songjiang Volkswagen has always been in the leading position in the country, the problem of product simplification is still very prominent. If we can't plan ahead and plan in advance, then we cannot be too optimistic about whether the future will continue to be brilliant."

   Li Kejian looked directly at Zhao Guoyang and said with admiration: "Xiao Zhao said that he wants to design a brand new model to compete in the market of official and commercial vehicles. I think this point of view is very forward-looking."

   "With the improvement of our domestic economic level, the popularity of cars will definitely be further accelerated. Official and commercial vehicles will inevitably become the main force."

  Li Kejian turned his head to look at Huang Zhigang and said, "Mayor Huang, boldly going out is the most important step in the improvement of our country's auto industry. I think it's time for Songjiang Volkswagen to go out and have a look!"

   As a top player in the domestic machinery industry, Li Kejian's words carry a lot of weight.

  Many times, he is a guest at the State Department. Therefore, Huang Zhigang certainly did not dare to take this person's words lightly.

  In fact, even if Li Kejian did not express this attitude, Huang Zhigang had already made up his mind to fully accept Zhao Guoyang's opinion.

   Zhao Guoyang's analysis just now hit Huang Zhigang's heart every sentence.

  Especially his analysis of the future official vehicle and commercial vehicle market made him suddenly enlightened.

  The reason why Huang Zhigang has remained silent all this time is that he was just thinking about a problem—how to find a way to poach this Zhao Guoyang from Jiangnan Province.

"What Mr. Li said is that after the end of this exposition, our SJ city government will put the matter of 'Songjiang people going out' on the agenda. At that time, if possible, I hope you can come out and give Let's be a technical consultant in SJ City!"

  Li Kejian glanced at Director Fang beside him and said with a smile: "Hehe, as long as Director Fang approves, my old man will be fine."

  Huang Zhigang cast his eyes on Fang Xuesen and said, "Then Director Fang, I'll wait for a word from you now."

   Fang Xuesen agreed without hesitation: "Mayor Huang, this is not a big problem, let's put it aside for now, everything is easy to discuss."

   "Just now this topic is not over yet. Xiao Zhao just mentioned the 'three majors', and the 'three minors' haven't been mentioned yet! I still want to hear Xiao Zhao's views on these 'three minors'!"

  After Fang Xuesen finished speaking, Huang Zhigang, Liang Xiaofeng and others nodded secretly.

  The leaders of their SJ city are most concerned about Songjiang people. But Director Fang Xuesen is different. He is the leader of the central ministries and commissions. Naturally, he has to have an overall plan and consider all the domestic car companies.

   It is rare to meet such a freak with unique eyesight as Zhao Guoyang, Fang Xuesen naturally wants to hear his opinion.

  Seeing Director Fang's fiery gaze, Zhao Guoyang knew he couldn't hide.

  (end of this chapter)