Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1623

Hearing the speeches of Duan Yun and Liu Donghai, the Volvo executives who participated in the meeting showed smiles on their faces. Speaking of this, they have actually relieved most of their vigilance.

Patent infringement and marketing planning have always been the most worrying things for foreign businessmen entering the Chinese market, but since the Chinese market environment is as good as Duan Yun and Liu Donghai said, and there have been "pathfinders" like Volkswagen, So at this moment, all Volvo senior management really shouldn't have any major doubts anymore.

"Mr. Duan, we need to discuss further on the matter of investing in your China. After you return to China, we will go to China for inspection and will give you an answer as soon as possible." Johnson said.

"Okay, we welcome everyone to visit mainland China, but no matter what the final result is, we will become friends." Duan Yun said with a smile.

"Very good!" Johnson nodded in satisfaction upon hearing this.

Volvo's investment in China to set up a factory is a major event, and it is absolutely impossible to achieve this through a simple interview. However, Volvo said that it will visit China, which is already the first step in the cooperation between the two parties.

Afterwards, the two sides discussed some specific cooperation matters and had lunch together in Volvo.

The design of the restaurant at Volvo headquarters is quite exquisite and luxurious, but the lunch here is relatively simple, pickled herring, meatballs wrapped in mashed potatoes and tomato sauce, almond tarts and cider, although there are not many dishes, but It is more delicately made, and the Swedish meatballs are very delicious, so Duan Yun couldn't help but praise a few words.

Unlike Chinese people, including Swedes, people in Europe and the United States do not have the habit of taking a lunch break. They just drink a cup of tea after dinner and then take Duan Yun to visit Volvo's car factory.

Volvo's car factory is located in Torslanda, Gothenburg, a beautiful seaside industrial area. The factory is very environmentally friendly and highly modernized.

As a European car company that was on the same level as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi and Volkswagen in the 90s, Volvo has been operating in Gothenburg for more than half a century. The locals are also proud to join the Volvo company, and some even have three generations in this company. factory work.

Entering the gate of the factory area, there is a large parking lot on the left. The vehicles parked inside are basically Volvo cars, including 60 produced in the 140s and 70 in the 240s. They have a complete range of cars and look very beautiful. Volvo cars Employees have a strong sense of honor, and they will never sell other brands of cars.

Under the leadership of President Johnson, the three of Duan Yun and others soon came to one of the production workshops of Volvo Cars. After entering the workshop, Duan Yun and others' eyes suddenly brightened.

This is a production workshop that produces Volvo 940 cars.

The 940 sedan is a new model launched by Volvo last fall. The Volvo 940 is very similar to the Volkswagen Santana. It should be said that the Santana is like it.

In fact, several European models in the 90s had roughly the same design concepts and similar appearances, but there were some differences in details. For example, this Volvo 940 has chrome-plated air intake bars. Although it is only a small process improvement, But it makes the whole car have a stronger texture.

Duan Yun and the others were deeply shocked by the high-tech level of the Volvo 940 automobile production workshop. The degree of mechanization is the highest, and it is definitely world-class.

All Volvo Cars manufacturing processes, including component production, steel forming (stamping), body construction, surface treatment and final assembly, use state-of-the-art technological solutions.

Many simple but precise tasks on the assembly line are done by the robotic arms on both sides. Only in some links that require complex operations are manuals replaced by machines.

But such a Volvo car, the price is not cheap.

After all, Volvo is an old luxury car brand after all. In the 90s, there were the famous Volvo 940 and 960. At that time, the high-end Volvo 960 sold for more than 90 yuan. The original 940 was still a four-cylinder car, and the 960 was launched later. Yes, it is more luxurious business, equipped with multi-point EFI 2.5L and 3.0L straight 6 engines, equipped with 4-speed gearbox, so more people will buy Volvo 960 later, of course this is relative to 940, after all, there are still There are German, Japanese and other luxury cars.

As for the 90 sedan produced in the early 93s, the domestic price at that time was as high as 70 yuan. At that time, the boss who bought the car basically bought it in the name of the company, so that part of the additional tax could be saved.

In fact, if Volvo can invest and set up a factory in China, the real cost of Volvo’s localization is about 20 yuan based on the three times higher price of imported cars. However, the investment and time required to build such a large-scale modern factory are very high. huge.

Johnson still attaches great importance to Duan Yun and others. He personally led the tour and explained the whole process. Deeply understand his deep feelings for this brand.

Looking at the advanced production line of the 940 car workshop, Liu Donghai and Zhao Xiyou who came to visit together were also shocked. Compared with the production line of the domestic Jinbei Automobile Factory, Volvo's production workshop is really much more advanced. If the Volvo factory is compared to a super In terms of a luxurious commercial building, Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory is like a temporary canteen built on the street.

It is an indisputable fact that there is a huge gap between China's auto industry and Europe. The three people, including Liu Donghai and Zhao Xiyou, are well aware of this. However, after actually visiting the advanced industrial plants in Europe, they were still shocked beyond restraint. .

So much so that after visiting the Volvo 940 car production line, both Liu Donghai and Zhao Xiyou became silent, as if they were thinking about something.

After the visit process on the first day, the three of Duan Yu stayed at the Volvo headquarters, and Volvo provided them with the most luxurious VIP presidential suites, with very luxurious facilities.

However, Liu Donghai and Zhao Xiyou who lived in the suite did not care about enjoying the comfortable time, but started to prepare some things.

"I must convince the leaders of our city of SY to bring this production line back to China no matter what!" After dinner, Liu Donghai said to himself, then went back to his room, took out a pen and paper, Prepare to write related report materials...

(End of this chapter)