Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1646 Amazing Quote

As the public relations team laid out a detailed schedule, Duan Yun directly spent 500 million yuan to pave the way for the mass production of his computer brand.

In addition to the public relations team, Tianyin Group has built 4 additional workshops in the chip factory at the beginning of the year, which will be used as workshops for assembling computers in the future.

Compared with chips, the computer production line is much simpler. Each workshop can be roughly divided into five areas, including raw material area, work area, product inspection bureau, finished product area, and dispatch area. The factory building is a constant temperature and dust-free workshop, but The dust-free level is relatively low, several levels worse than the dust-free workshop of the chip factory.

In fact, this kind of computer assembly workshop is not much different from ordinary electronics factories, but it is cleaner and more advanced. In addition, the requirements for workers are relatively high. For this reason, Duan Yun plans to transfer a group of old technicians from the electronics factory first, and provide simple training. After that, they can go to work, and these people will act as team leaders, responsible for management and training of new workers.

In the blink of an eye, in mid-August, Duan Yun finally received a fax from Volvo, Sweden, which was a copy of relevant information and quotations on the production line of Volvo cars. The entire faxed document was more than 8 pages long, detailing the performance of each device. Relevant parameters and prices.

And when Duan Yun saw the column of the total quotation, he was shocked. It turned out that the total quotation of Volvo's two production lines was as high as 5.4 million US dollars, which was much higher than he estimated.

Volvo is obviously making a big deal. After all, this is a production line of the last generation of international automotive technology, and the price is obviously a lot higher.

However, through the analysis of technical personnel, the two automobile production lines that Volvo quoted to China are full-system production lines, not just assembly lines, but also include the three major assembly production equipment and technology authorization of Volvo 740 sedan and F12 truck, and each There is a clear quotation on a piece of equipment, so the quotation provided by Volvo is not too exaggerated.

You must know that when German Volkswagen established a joint venture with the Shanghai Automobile Factory in China, it only provided an assembly line, and all other key parts of the car needed to be imported. Until the end of the 80s, the localization rate of the Santana car It is less than [-]%. It can be seen that compared with Europe and the United States, China's automobile technology is really far behind.

However, if these two full-set automobile production lines of Volvo can be introduced to China, then China's automobile manufacturing level can be quickly raised to a level that is in line with international standards. It is only the production technology of Volvo's previous generation of cars, but if China wants to achieve this level of independent research and development, it is likely to spend more money, and it will also require a lot of manpower and time.

It is very rare for developed countries in Europe and the United States to sell a full set of next-generation automobile production lines and equipment technologies to China. In the past, they could only buy equipment and technologies that were 2-3 generations behind the international ones, but this time, they were only one generation behind. Duan Yun was somewhat surprised by Volvo's decision.

But if you analyze it carefully, Volvo has its reasons for doing so.

On the one hand, the previous generation of Volvo car products has lost to similar products in the United States, Germany and Japan. It is precisely because of this that Volvo developed a new generation of car series in the late 80s. It is difficult to bring high profits to the company, and if the production is maintained, it will consume a lot of manpower and material resources of the company, which is a bit tasteless and a pity to discard.

But if this production line is sold to other countries, at least European and American countries will not accept it, because they have better technology. As for other underdeveloped countries, they do not have so much capital, and now only the Chinese market seems to have potential The largest, and Duan Yun also expressed his willingness to take over the order at a high price, so Duan Yun actually became the only customer for Volvo to sell the obsolete production line at a high price.

As for not choosing to build a domestic joint venture factory and let your own production line use the waste heat, the reason Johnson also told Duan Yun before is that after Johnson and his party visited the Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory, they felt that the investment required was too large for Volvo to afford. Moreover, the market prospects of Volvo 740 and F12 trucks in China are not clear, and to a large extent, they will not be able to recover their capital. Therefore, after the Volvo Group visited China last time, they rejected the matter of setting up a joint venture factory in China.

In the end, Volvo made a decision to package and sell its previous generation of car production lines to Duan Yun, but the quotation was very high. The estimated price of these two production line systems in Europe was 2-3 million U.S. dollars, but they were sold to China. They just doubled the price.

Duan Yun also knew that the other party wanted to slaughter him as a fat sheep, but he thought that the quotation of 5.4 million US dollars was still appropriate. If this production line could finally be put into production and start mass production, Duan Yun would be able to produce cars comparable to Santana cars. The ability to target cars of the same grade.

However, Duan Yun can’t get out the 5.4 million US dollars. The group’s foreign exchange that he can embezzle now is only 1 million US dollars. Although the group’s annual profit is very high, it has exceeded 20 billion yuan. According to the current Shenzhen foreign exchange exchange price, it is about It can be exchanged for more than 3 million U.S. dollars.

But these funds cannot be taken away. On the one hand, he needs to spend tens of millions every year to maintain the operation of overseas R&D centers. On the other hand, the company also has some electronic components that need to be imported from abroad, and the annual import amount also needs 3000 to [-] million. Dollar.

In addition, his wife Cheng Qingyan has invested a lot of foreign exchange in Hong Kong real estate and securities markets. At present, her real estate company is developing rapidly. After cooperating with Shenzhen Real Estate Group, she has purchased a large number of high-quality Hong Kong real estate in the past two years.

Moreover, it is currently impossible for Tianyin Group to convert all profits into foreign exchange. Domestic factory R&D centers also need to invest a huge amount of money every year to maintain, including the purchase of raw materials, layered expansion, investment in scientific research projects, product public relations and Propaganda requires hundreds of millions of funds every year.

So Duan Yun is now able to spend more than 2 million U.S. dollars in funds, and he needs to find another way for the remaining more than 3 million U.S. dollars.

As a shareholder of Shenyang Jinbei Automobile Factory, it is reasonable for him to pay half of the money for the full introduction of foreign production lines, but now the SY city government can't afford the money at all, which means that this is a plan to buy Volvo car production lines. It may eventually be forced to terminate, which is also a helpless thing...

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