Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1590 Zhao Xiyou

After a night of rest in the guest house of the SY City Government, at around 2 o'clock the next morning, two government official vehicles had already parked downstairs, and the driver stood beside the vehicle, waiting for Duan Yun to come downstairs.

Putting on a suit jacket, Duan Yun tidied his hair, then went downstairs with his assistant Guo Kai and several bodyguards, and took a car to the Jinbei Automobile Factory located in the suburbs of SY.

Looking at the Russian-style buildings flashing by from time to time outside the car window, Duan Yun still had some expectation in his heart.

Speaking of which, China's first domestically produced car came from Shenyang. In 1, the "Minsheng" brand car drove out of a factory in Shenyang, and it was General Zhang Xueliang who donated the production of the first domestically produced car.

Fifty-five years later, it was the "Jinbei Automobile Co., Ltd." that came into being in the tide of reform to invest in the construction of a modern automobile factory. In that era, "Jinbei" could be said to be a symbol of the automobile industry. Its rapid rise was praised by people. Most of them are the series of reform measures he dared to be the first in the world and the "golden cup spirit" of hard work and hard work.

Although Shenyang is a well-known heavy industry base in the country, the automobile industry in Shenyang in the 80s was still very weak. A car factory produced 130 small trucks, and another car factory produced small bread, all of which belonged to the then Shenyang Agricultural Machinery and Automobile Industry Bureau.

In the 90s, due to backward technology and lack of funds, the Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory is now in a difficult situation. Before Duan Yun came to Shenyang, the factory had been in arrears of wages for workers for as long as three months.

It is precisely because of this that when the car Duan Yun was riding in finally stopped at the gate of the Jinbei Automobile Factory, Zhao Xiyou, then the director of the Jinbei Automobile Factory, was smiling, his eyes flashed, and he walked up to him quickly.

"You are President Duan of Tianyin Group, right? Welcome!" Zhao Xiyou immediately stretched out his hands to hold Duan Yun's hand tightly after seeing Duan Yun, and said with a bit of excitement in his tone.

"That's right, I'm Duan Yun." Duan Yun smiled slightly, and then asked, "Are you Zhao Xiyou, the factory director?"

"That's right, I'm Zhao Xiyou!"

"Admiration for a long time!" Duan Yun's tone was a bit respectful at this time.

Before coming to Shenyang, Duan Yun had already collected a lot of information about Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory, and also learned about Zhao Xiyou, the director of the factory.

When it comes to the development of Shenyang Automobile, we have to mention Zhao Xiyou.

Zhao Xiyou, 57 years old, was born in a family of brewery workers in Lingyuan County, Rehe Province.

He lost his father when he was young, and his family was poor. In order to reduce the burden on the family, he came to Shenyang alone in 1952 before graduating from middle school to work.

Because he was eager to learn and willing to study hard, he took all the courses of junior high school and high school in night school, and was admitted to the Chinese Department of Liaoning University in 1960.

After graduation, he successively served as the deputy director of Shenyang Agricultural Machinery and Automobile Industry Bureau, and now he is the chairman and general manager of Jinbei Automobile Co., Ltd.

In 1958, Shenyang established an automobile manufacturing plant, which once produced "Julong" brand trucks. However, due to poor quality, hundreds of vehicles were produced, and "Julong" became "Wolong". For this reason, he published a satirical cartoon, which made Shenyang's cars notorious and made a fool of himself.

At the National Planned Industry Conference in 1980, Zhao Xiyou, as the deputy director of the Shenyang Agricultural Machinery and Automobile Industry Bureau, stood in an office of the State Commission for Discipline Inspection and asked the superiors in a sad tone to list Shenyang Automobile as a national plan. Taiwan is also OK.

However, because the Shenyang Automobile Factory is already "notorious", the final answer is "not even half a car!".

This incident hit Zhao Xiyou quite hard. After the reform and opening up, the door of the country was opened, and he went abroad for the first time to conduct an inspection abroad. In developed countries such as France, West Germany, the United States, Canada, Japan, etc. , General Motors, Chrysler, these world-renowned car companies, he marveled at the car models from Chevrolet to Citroen, from Falcon to Mustang, from Leliant K to Dodge 1. advanced.

Especially in Japan, computers have been used to design cars. The more he looks at it, the heavier the weight of lead in his heart.

After returning to China, he reported his reform ideas to the relevant leaders, suggesting that all the scattered auto manufacturers in SY City should be organized, the administrative industrial bureau should be transformed into an auto trust enterprise, and the production of assembly and parts factories should be organized according to the height. The professional organization of production turns the disadvantage of dispersal into the relative advantage of unity.

After careful consideration, the superior leaders finally accepted his suggestion. In 1983, Zeng Jianzhi of Shenyang Agricultural Machinery and Automobile Industry Bureau was transformed into an enterprise company, which could take the most important step in the development of Shenyang Automobile.

In 1984, Shenyang Automobile Industry Company, the predecessor of Jinbei, was established, with Zhao Xiyou as the chairman. One year and eight months after the establishment of Shenyang Automobile Company, fixed assets increased by 38%, automobile production increased by 1.4 times, and realized a profit of 2.6 million. It is equivalent to recovering a company's investment in one year.

However, while the factory achieved excellent performance, Zhao Xiyou also discovered the problem, that is, under the planned economic system, the vast majority of people did not regard the state collective enterprise as their own. No one is responsible for mistakes, so this also made Zhao Xiyou determined to reform.

The first step of Zhao Xiyou's reform was the "lease system", which broke the iron rice bowls of many people, and this kind of reform did arouse a thousand waves. Some people scolded the street and some people blamed them. However, in the end, 1 enterprises implemented collective or individual leasing. In terms of operation, after this reform, the output value profit and per capita income growth figures of each branch factory are astonishing.

Later, when Zhao Xiyou visited Japan, he was greatly inspired by the development of Toyota.

Originally, Toyota was just a small company engaged in textile machinery. In almost a year or two, with the help of capital, the market developed. In addition, during his investigation in the United States and Germany, he found that all major companies had adopted the joint-stock system. After returning to China, Zhao Xiyou asked his superiors It is proposed that "sunken vehicles should engage in joint-stock pilot projects."

State-owned enterprises engaged in joint-stock management, which was undoubtedly a taboo thing back then. However, some regions in China have already done so quietly, such as Shenzhen Bao'an, Shanghai Feile, Chengdu Shudu, BJ Tianqiao, etc. At that time, the central government had no policy on the joint-stock system. Permission, but there is no prohibition, so SY City finally approved Zhao Xiyou's proposal to establish a joint-stock company. In 1988, with the approval of the Shenyang Branch of the People's Bank of China, Jinbei began the first nationwide public offering in the history of New China. Moreover, in August of the same year, "People's Daily" also made a special report on the prominent position of the front page, which was regarded as an affirmation of this matter.

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