Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1601 Crisis Resolved
After receiving Duan Yun's shareholding and 4600 million yuan in cash, Shenyang Jinbei Automobile City immediately settled the wages of the workers and paid off the foreign debts of some people at the same time.

After learning that Tianyin Group had invested in shares and had received months of backlog of wages, the morale of the entire factory staff was high, which also quickly reversed the crisis facing Jinbei Automobile Factory.

At this time, the prices of domestically produced cars also began to rise across the board, which gave Jinbei Motors a chance to breathe, and their high-quality project Hiace van also began to increase prices, which to a certain extent made up for the appreciation of the yen. They bring cost problems, but also get a certain profit margin.

In fact, the main reason why domestic car prices have risen across the board is that many car products with domestic car labels are actually assembled cars with most of the auto parts imported from Japan. They are the same as the Sea Lion van, 98 The above % are all Japanese parts, and there is no profit margin if there is no price increase, so this is an abnormal "tacit understanding" of domestic car companies. After all, no one wants to do business that loses money and makes money.

In fact, there was such a car brand in Daxing where Duan Yun used to work, and there was an advertisement at the beginning: Saibeijian Automobile, the choice of experts.

At that time, the Daxing Saibeijian car was very popular, and even sold to BJ and Shanghai at one time, which became the pride of Daxing's auto industry. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Some original Japanese cars were divided into two and packed in containers, and the place of delivery was the Saibeijian Automobile Factory in Daxing. The detection of this smuggling case eventually led to the closure of the Saibeijian Automobile Factory and the cancellation of the business license for automobile production.

In addition to the Saibeijian Automobile Factory, more than 30 auto companies across the country have been investigated for smuggling activities, most of which have been closed down and their production qualifications in the auto industry have been cancelled. Behavior is completely eliminated in the country.

Compared with the tragic end of the Saibeijian Automobile Factory, the Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory was much luckier. Although they also sold smuggled cars to take advantage of national policies, thanks to the strong protection of the SY City Government, the Jinbei Automobile Factory finally survived.

In addition to the resurrection of the Sea Lion van project, the technicians Duan Yun sent to Shenyang Jinbei Factory in the early stage have returned to Shenzhen. After more than two months of investigation and analysis, they have found out the production technology of Jinbei Automobile Factory and all its subordinate enterprises. After arriving in Shenzhen, he immediately reported to Duan Yun.

In fact, Shenyang Automobile Works is considered to be one of the domestic automakers with good technical strength. Before foreign automakers entered China, Shenyang Automobile Factory was one of the key state-owned automakers in China. They produced 130 small trucks and Jinbei brand The quality of the van is relatively good among domestically produced cars.

Moreover, Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory is a trust-like group enterprise. Although its technology is backward, it has a complete industrial supply chain. It can independently complete automobile production without relying on external parts supply. Compared with other domestic automobiles The industry is still very strong.

However, such a group enterprise also has a fatal weakness, that is, it is big but not strong.

If all the subsidiaries of Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory have strong technical strength, then the automobile products they produce will definitely be very competitive. However, this is not the case. Many of them can't even be called factories, but can only be regarded as workshops, with backward technology and low production capacity. Apart from relatively low prices, they can be said to be useless.

Therefore, the backwardness of Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory is systematic. They do not have a modern production line. Even a few years ago, some surgical parts still needed manual beating by workers. It was not until the year before last that they were equipped with the latest domestic stamping machines. , The quality and efficiency of the cars produced in this way can be imagined.

If Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory wants to upgrade the entire parts supply chain, it will cost a lot of money. In addition to the four major assemblies of cars, other auto parts supply factories will also spend a lot of money to upgrade their technical equipment. The most feasible way is to Directly import a production line from abroad, and at the same time carry out systematic technology research and development. Duan Yun once made a preliminary estimate with his team of experts, and wanted to directly import a second-level automobile production line from abroad to transform Jinbei Automobile Factory A modern automobile company needs an investment of at least 4-2 million US dollars, and this is only a preliminary conservative estimate. The subsequent investment may be even more astonishing, and the total market value of Jinbei Automobile Factory is only 3 million yuan.

Judging from the investment situation of major domestic automobile industries at that time, Shanghai Volkswagen invested more than one billion yuan in the production of Santana.More than one billion is an astronomical figure for a private enterprise. Great Wall was still in debt when Wei Jianjun took over, but it had developed rapidly by 1998. At that time, the registered capital of Great Wall was only 3900 million;
Chery is very lucky to have the support of the Wuhu government, which has invested 7 to 8 million yuan, which is one of the reasons why Chery can develop rapidly.

The worst thing was Geely. At that time, Li Shufu was not supported by the government, had no money, and no technology. He was in a state of "three nos". His start-up capital was only about 1 million yuan, but he claimed to have 5 million yuan. Geely can survive , a large part of it depends on Li Shufu's persistence.

Two to three billion U.S. dollars is not a small amount for Telling Group. According to the current domestic exchange rate of 1:5 USD/RMB, the real exchange rate is actually around 1:7, and 3 million U.S. dollars is equivalent to Tianyin Group The total profit for the whole year, now Duan Yun and his wife have to divide this part of the profit in half, so Duan Yun wants to completely transform the Jinbei Automobile Factory, and introduce him to a scale that can compete with Shanghai Volkswagen, at least two years It is obviously unrealistic to be able to gather enough funds in a long time.

In addition to the investment in purchasing equipment and production lines, there is another key problem to be solved, that is, product research and development.

If it was placed one or two years ago, Duan Yun would not have been able to carry out such a comprehensive and large-scale technical upgrade of Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory, but now, with the arrival of more and more Soviet experts, Duan Yun finally has a lot of knowledge. Automotive talent pool.

In Duan Yun's plan, after the Soviet experts joined Tianyin Group, the first task Duan Yun assigned to them was to cooperate with Shenyang Jinbei Factory to carry out a comprehensive and systematic technical upgrade of this enterprise, especially the upgrade of 1 small Trucks and Jinbei vans, small-scale, step-by-step investment, the most important thing is to quickly cultivate a strong R&D team that can realize market changes.

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