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Chapter 1162 Poor traffic conditions beyond imagination

"Hello, President Zhang, and Secretary Feng."

Li Shixin, whose face was black and red from the wind and sun, looked a little tired, but Li Shixin was in good spirits. Standing in front of Zhang Qihang and Feng Guoqing, his expression was a little excited.

"Shixin, sit down," Zhang Qihang said with a smile, "Thanks for your hard work, should I give you a few days off and go home to have a look?"

Li Shixin was the leader of the team that had been arranged to go to the Hippo country to investigate the traffic conditions. As the team leader, he followed the convoy through the main roads of the Hippo country for a month, and he just came back.

"It's not hard," Li Shixin shook his head, and said, "Whether it's life or security, the company is very considerate. Except for being a little tired, we haven't encountered any difficulties... Let me report to you two first. This time I went to the hippopotamus country to investigate the situation."

Zhang Qihang nodded: "Alright then, tell me."

"The Hippo country government attaches great importance to our arrival. After we arrived in the Hippo country, we were received by many leaders of the Hippo country's government, and we did not go anywhere. The local Hippo country government will try to take care of our needs. It can be said that except for transportation Apart from the poor conditions, this trip to the Hippo Country was very smooth and enjoyable, and the vastness, magnificence and rich natural landscape of the African savannah also left a deep impression on everyone.”

Hearing this, Zhang Qihang raised his eyebrows: "So, the traffic situation in Hippo Country is worse than we imagined?"

"It's much worse," Li Shixin nodded, and at the same time took out his laptop from his bag, connected it to the projector in the small conference room, and explained to Mr. Zhang Qihang and Feng: "Mr. Zhang, Secretary Feng, we are During the investigation, we took a lot of videos and photos. It can be said that the road traffic conditions in Hippo Country, except for a few main roads, most of the roads have not been hardened. There is not much maintenance on the road, resulting in many big potholes on the road.

Our guide in the Hippo country told us that if it is the rainy season, the water in some pits can even reach over one meter, and this kind of mud road is very difficult to pass, so if our load Three-wheeled motorcycles also need to make adaptive improvements to this situation. For example, the height of the intake pipe and exhaust pipe must be higher than the height of the handlebars. The limited height cannot meet the conditions of the rainy season; It must also be improved, it must be the kind of large pattern tire similar to the driving wheel of a tractor, to ensure that the vehicle has sufficient mobility even on bad roads. "

Li Shixin explained, while Zhang Qihang and Mr. Feng nodded while looking at the picture on the curtain.

Before this, Zhang Qihang and Mr. Feng had actually been to some countries in Africa more than once, and they also knew that the road traffic conditions in Africa were not very ideal, because they were all on planes before, and everyone felt that no matter how unsatisfactory they were, they could Where is the difference?
But now looking at these field photos taken by Li Shixin, Zhang Qihang and Mr. Feng realized that the road traffic conditions in Africa, at least in the country of Hippopotamus, are really worse than they imagined, even compared with Syria, Their road traffic conditions are much worse.

Mr. Feng frowned and said, "Are the road traffic conditions in Africa so bad? It feels far worse than the dirt roads in our country in the 80s and 80s. The dirt roads in our [-]s and [-]s don't have so many big potholes. The road maintenance department of Hippo Country is What are you doing for food? Even if the country doesn’t have the money to build asphalt roads, at least they should fill in the potholes on the roads, right?”

Li Shixin is in his 40s this year, and he is very clear about the road conditions in the country in the 80s and [-]s, so when he heard Mr. Feng say this, he smiled helplessly and said: "Actually, there is no road maintenance department in Hippo Country... It cannot be said that there is no such department." , but this department is not the same. I asked the guide, and the guide was at a loss. He told me that he had never seen any national unit to repair the road, but those who lived near the road occasionally repaired it. "

Hearing what Li Shixin said, Mr. Feng was relieved: "That's not surprising."

"If this is the case, then our three-wheeled motorcycles really need to be improved for local adaptation," Zhang Qihang said, and asked Li Shixin: "During your research, the people of the Hippo Country have a good understanding of our three-wheeled motorcycles. What kind of attitude is the tricycle? Are you interested? Do you like it?"

"I like it! I like it very much!" Li Shixin nodded affirmatively, and he even gave Zhang Qihang an example: "For example, the tour guides we hired were all very happy after knowing that our cars might be produced in Hippo Country. During the whole test process, they basically sat in our three-wheeled motorcycles, and they also spoke highly of our three-wheeled motorcycles, saying..."

"I don't need to say compliments." Before Li Shixin finished speaking, Zhang Qihang smiled and waved his hands: "Apart from the tires, air intake and scheduling that you just mentioned, what other suggestions did these tour guides offer?"

In addition to understanding the road conditions in Hippo Country on the spot, this test also aims to listen to the voices of potential local consumers and pay attention to collecting their suggestions.

"Yes!" Li Shixin nodded immediately, and said, "During this investigation, we also paid great attention to collecting suggestions from local residents, especially those consumers who may become our potential customers. In addition, the tour guides also gave us many suggestions. For example, they suggested that we can develop three-wheeled motorcycles with different purposes and different functional versions. For example, we can add two rows of benches for carrying passengers, and we can also add a shed on the cab, so that when the rainy season comes Without delaying the transportation, some people suggested increasing the fuel tank, thinking that the current fuel tank capacity is still not large enough, and the fuel tank capacity can be increased to about 50 liters. In this case, it can run more than 1000 kilometers with a full load of fuel..."

Zhang Qihang nodded again and again, and when Li Shixin had finished speaking, he turned to Mr. Feng and said, "Mr. Feng, it seems that when we were developing tricycles, we can take out all the deformed vehicles."

When Huateng Industrial Group first produced three-wheeled motorcycles, the scale of the domestic automobile industry was not large and mature enough. As a result, many thoughtful consumers bought motorcycles and used them for motorcycles and freight. , Passenger transportation... Even Zhang Qihang didn't dare to think about expanding the use of motorcycles. Now listening to the suggestions put forward by these African black buddies relayed by Li Shixin, he has a feeling that he looked at all kinds of motorcycles more than ten years ago. The visual sense of motorcycles running around on the street.

Mr. Feng also laughed, and nodded again and again: "That's right, but I think it's good for us to only produce motorcycles. As for other things, they can be used as supporting industries and handed over to the local people."

"That's a good idea."

Zhang Qihang has no objection to Mr. Feng's suggestion. When Huateng Industrial Group was engaged in motorcycles, it only focused on the production of motorcycles, such as semi-enclosed hoods, fully-enclosed hoods, rear sheds and other various The "supporting facilities" of the car are all left to the imagination of local car owners.

Why bother, why bother to compete with those small handicraft workshops for food?

Besides, handing over these "supporting projects" to local people can also promote the development of the local economy.

"Our test team also thought so," Li Shixin echoed: "After hearing what we said, the tour guides accompanying the team were very happy. One of the tour guides said that he could weld. If our project is really If he can land in their hippopotamus country, he plans to start a car shed business."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Zhang Qihang and Mr. Feng laughed out loud.

After Zhang Qihang and Mr. Feng finished laughing, Li Shixin went on to say: "In addition to three-wheeled motorcycles, we found that Panther's vans and micro trucks are also very popular in the Hippo Country, especially the diesel-powered double-row microcars of the Panther." Card, people in the Hippo country think this thing is a variant of a pickup, and they like it very much.

For vans and microcars, the tour guides also put forward some suggestions, such as the roof must have a luggage box with the same length and width as the roof, so that the owner can put all the luggage on the roof. All the cars are used to sit people...

On the contrary, Qinchuan QQ, who participated in the test together, was hardly cared about by anyone. Everyone thought that this car was too small, and it was only suitable for rich people as households. However, rich people would not buy such a small car. People all over Africa like big cars, they think big cars are more stylish and a symbol of wealth...

As for light trucks, medium-duty trucks and heavy-duty trucks, there are of course markets in Africa, but limited by the income level of local residents, not many people can afford to buy them. I even saw 40 or [-] years ago in the Hippo country. Renault and Mercedes-Benz trucks are still driving on the road, I heard that these trucks are all second-hand trucks exported to Africa many years ago..."

Zhang Qihang and Mr. Feng nodded again and again, and recorded some things in the notebook from time to time. The things Li Shixin reported were much more detailed than what he had seen before. With the information brought back, Huateng Group will have a better understanding of the next investment.

Seeing Zhang Qihang and Feng Guoqing earnestly recorded, Li Shixin was also very happy, and then said: "As for the industrial supporting capacity, I can only say that we don't expect the Hippopotamus country to provide us with any supporting capacity in the short term. The African market is indeed good. , but if we want to invest in Hippo Country, the best way in the early stage is CKD, except for CKD, any other way will not work for the time being.

Mr. Zhang and Mr. Feng, our report is being sorted out. Looking back, these things will be reflected in our report. "

(End of this chapter)