Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1607 Chinese Heavy Truck
After finishing talking with Duan Yun, Xu Shaoqiang got on the plane back to BJ that afternoon.

Participating in the bidding for military vehicles is of great significance to Duan Yun. This is a major event related to the company's future development strategy, so he should not be negligent in the slightest. That night, a meeting was held within the company to discuss the coming of Soviet experts. Hua established a project team and invested in the introduction of foreign production lines.

Although Duan Yun has invested and set up a factory in Shanghai, it is impossible for his Longteng branch to produce complete vehicles in Shanghai. It can only produce supporting parts for the localization of Shanghai Santana Automobile. Being able to rely on Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory, after all, Shenyang Jinbei has complete supporting enterprises, as well as corresponding land and policy support from the local government, is Duan Yun's only choice for mass production of automobiles in the short term.

However, judging from the current situation of Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory, their production lines are relatively backward. If they want to quickly improve the production capacity and quality of automobiles, the only option is to introduce foreign production lines.

In terms of choosing to introduce automobile production lines, Duan Yun has already had his own direction and goals.

In fact, in the 90s, China's truck industry has ushered in a stage of rapid development.

Since the early 90s, all the major domestic car companies seem to be "full of blood and then move forward" and start to move forward steadily. With the needs of national construction, the production and sales of trucks have also risen sharply.

During the wave of reform in the 80s, after Liuqi joined Dongfeng Industrial Co., Ltd., it realized real large-scale production by "borrowing Dongfeng". Dongfeng LC141 model, in the same year, the production and sales of Liuqi Motor exceeded the 1 mark for the first time.

Affected by the policy, the design of Liuqi's models has also changed, and it began to march towards flat-top cars. In 1991, based on the Japanese Mitsubishi flat-top cars, it developed the first LZ1M flat-top car named Chenglong.

The Second Automobile also ushered in a leap forward. In 1983, the Second Automobile introduced Nissan Diesel technology. In February this year, Dongfeng EQ2 was officially put into production. This car uses the Nissan Diesel cab. It is a Cummins B series diesel engine, which is called "Eight Pingchai" by Chinese people.

The so-called "Bapingchai" is a flat-head diesel truck with a load capacity of 8 tons. At that time, there was a jingle that "drive on the Bapingchai, and the money will roll in." This car was popular all over the country at that time, and it once again stabilized Dongfeng It has a market position in plateau areas such as southwest and northwest, and its output exceeded 100 million vehicles that year.

In addition, not only Dongfeng started the research and development of flat-top cars, but FAW Jiefang did not show any weakness. In fact, as early as 1984, Jiefang had already started the research and development of flat-top cars. At that time, Jiefang also planned to introduce Japanese models from Mitsubishi. Although the T850 series of flat-top cabs in China did not succeed due to various reasons, Liberation did not give up on this.

At the end of the 80s, the relationship between our country and Japan was relatively good, and Japan also provided great assistance to our country. Therefore, during this period, the design routes of Japanese trucks began to enter the country, especially Nissan Isuzu, Mitsubishi, and Fuso.

Liberated the third generation, the CA3P150-ton flat-top truck officially introduced the cab of the 5-year-old T30 series. This car was first rolled off the assembly line at the Qingdao Jiefang Factory.

However, in the 90s, sales of medium- and medium- and heavy-duty trucks in China's domestic trucks continued to rise, but heavy-duty trucks were in the cold. Unlike Dongfeng, China's heavy-duty truck companies became more or less famous during the liberation period.

Because the domestic economy continued to develop at that time, many people got rich by buying cars and running transportation, so the demand for trucks with 8 tons to 10 tons was increasing day by day. Therefore, there is basically no sales in China, and the sense of presence is seriously insufficient.

Moreover, the quality of domestically produced heavy trucks is not very good. In the mid-80s, related technologies were introduced from abroad, the most famous of which was Steyr.

At that time, Steyr technology was at the international level in the late 20s and early 70s. The introduction of this technology was filled by the Chinese heavy truck industry at that time, and then the former China National Heavy Duty Truck Group began to absorb and integrate Steyr technology. Localization, independent research and development and innovation and other stages.

After the establishment of China National Heavy Duty Truck Technology Development Center in 1986, it has organized three drawings, the absorption and digestion of schedules and the work of Chinese culture. The Chinese culture of these drawings has guaranteed the requirements of organizing production and mass sales according to the plan, making Steyr technology very fast. It soon radiated to truck manufacturers and related scientific research units in more than 10 provinces and cities across the country, and built Steyr into a domestic advanced heavy-duty vehicle product platform.

In June 1989, the first domestically-made Steyr heavy-duty truck rolled off the production line at Jinan Automobile General Factory.

However, the quality of the domestic Steyr trucks originally produced was not very good, especially the engine problems, the start-up time was a little long, bad operating habits, and the intrusion of water and moisture could easily cause damage to the engine, or even the entire vehicle. In terms of reliability, it is not as cheap and reliable as the medium and heavy trucks produced by Dongfeng and Jiefang. It is precisely because of this that the sales of domestically produced Steyr were very small in the early stage.

Another popular car manufacturer, Changzheng Automobile Factory, introduced Tatra technology from Czechoslovakia in the 80s. Due to the relatively small output and high vehicle costs, it has not formed a relatively large market scale, so the project was eventually cancelled, and the factory was in It also went bankrupt after 2000.

And this is an opportunity for Duan Yun.

In this domestic tender for the second generation of military vehicles, it was divided into 2T, 0.5T, 1.5T, 3.5T and 5T, and 7T 12-ton basic vehicles, and among them, 6T heavy-duty trucks can be said to be the most important vehicles in the Chinese automobile industry. In terms of the reliability of Steyr's heavy-duty vehicles, it simply cannot meet the requirements of military procurement.

As for other medium-duty light trucks and medium-heavy trucks, this is the cake of Dongfeng and Jiefang, the two major automobile military companies. As long as these two companies can come up with a suitable plan, Duan Yun has no chance of winning the bid.

As for heavy-duty trucks, the heavy-duty trucks produced by China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Corporation are weak in technology. If Duan Yun can successfully introduce foreign heavy-duty truck production lines and have a large number of Soviet automotive engineers who are good at developing heavy-duty trucks, then the possibility of winning the bid will be very high.

As for the introduction of foreign heavy-duty truck production lines, Duan Yun set his sights on the European heavy-duty truck giant Volvo Group.

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