Counterattack 1988

Chapter 691 The Best Candidate

Wang Lin wanted to wait for Li Wenxiu to come over and ask, but he fell asleep while lying down.

The next day is the Dragon Boat Festival, Wednesday.

In this era when there are only three days off for marriage, of course there is no rest for the Dragon Boat Festival.

Li Wenxiu missed her sleep last night, and after waking up early in the morning, she yawned several times.

Wang Lin lay on the bed and asked, "Wenxiu, brother Jun asked you to borrow fifty thousand yuan?"

"Oh—yes." Li Wenxiu smiled, "Did he tell you?"

"No, I saw it in your account book. He asked you what you borrowed so much money for?"

"I don't know, and I didn't ask. He asked me to borrow it, so I lent it to him. Can I not borrow it?"

"Didn't he say why he borrowed so much money?"

"No. Why don't you ask him?"

Wang Lin waved his hand: "Let's talk!"

In the morning, each family member ate two zongzi and went to work.

Wang Lin formally set up Aixiu Home Textile Branch.

First and foremost, of course, is talent.

Who is appointed as the manager of Aixiu Home Textile Company?
Wang Lin thought over all the candidates he was familiar with who were the deputy director or above, but he couldn't find a suitable candidate.

He brought Zhou Xia over to discuss.

Zhou Xia walked into Wang Lin's office and glanced at him with a shy face.

Thinking of the scene at the porridge restaurant last night, Wang Lin couldn't help but smile slightly: "Sister Xia, you have a really good figure."

Zhou Xia said slightly angrily: "You still say it! I let you take advantage of it, and you are still acting like a good boy!"

Wang Lin smiled and said: "Speak seriously. We are going to set up a branch of Aixiu Home Textiles. You recommend me a person to be the manager, and then recruit people as soon as possible to form a team."

Zhou Xia thought for a while and said, "Home textiles? Is it bedding?"

Even Zhou Xia is very unfamiliar with the word home textile.

Wang Lindao: "It can be understood in this way. More broadly speaking, home textiles are home textiles. All textile products used at home belong to the category of home textiles. Including curtains, fabrics, cushions, carpets, bath towels, kitchen textiles and other products."

"It has a wide range of applications, no worse than clothing."

"Well, home textiles can be regarded as one of the three major categories of the textile industry, which is divided into three parts of the world with clothing textiles and industrial textiles."

Home textiles have a long history, as old as mankind.

The most primitive bedding for human beings is directly obtained from nature such as grass, animal skins, cotton, and wool.

However, before the 20s, there was almost no such thing as home textiles in my country. Bedding such as sheets and quilts existed as separate individuals, and the supply of products was relatively simple. The purpose of the products was to meet people's most basic needs. It is more necessary to go to the store to pull a piece of cloth, and then go to the tailor shop to have it tailored.

Home textiles are just a term used to classify textiles, which is not popular among the people.

Therefore, ordinary people only know the word bedding, and it is understandable that Zhou Xia does not know the word home textile.

But Wang Lin is different from Zhou Porridge.

Firstly, Wang Lin is a reborn person, and secondly, he also worked in the textile industry.

Zhou Porridge also heard the word home textile because he worked in the textile industry.

Throughout the development process of my country's home textile industry, it has gone through three stages: the original period, the start-up period, and the blowout period.

The 90s that Wang Lin lives in now is undoubtedly the primitive period.

Now in the whole country, there is no company specializing in home textiles.

Even if there is a factory producing bedding, it is also mixed and matched.

The rise of my country's brand home textiles will take two thousand years.At this stage, with the continuous upgrading of consumption and competition in the home textile industry, the transition period of the home textile industry from the initial stage to the development stage, that is, the biggest change in the market is the structural adjustment cycle that has entered a high-speed development.

The home textile industry is an emerging industry with great potential and a huge consumer market with a scale of hundreds of billions.

According to Wang Lin's analysis, with the integration of the global economy and my country's accession to WTO, the international market's demand for my country's household textiles will definitely increase.my country's household textile industry is facing good development opportunities at home and abroad.Therefore, Wang Lin believes that my country's home textile industry has huge development space and market capacity in the future, and the home textile industry will become the main driving force for my country's textile economic growth.

To develop the domestic home textile market, one must first have a general understanding of the history of home textiles.

Humans first obtained fur by means of hunting, and collected wild kudzu hemp and wild silk as fiber raw materials, and used hand-kneading, weaving, weaving, knotting and sewing to assemble clothes.

People in the primitive society did not use tools or used simple tools such as bone needles, spinning wheels, and bone cones to process fibers or other materials roughly to meet people's most basic needs.

After a long period of time, until the middle and late period of the Neolithic Age 4000 to 7000 years ago, with the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, people began to artificially cultivate fiber raw materials, and invented and used some textile tools for weaving, which greatly improved the Productivity.

In the history of textile development for thousands of years, the costumes of the ruling class in our country have always been dominated by high-grade silk or jacquard fabrics. On the "Silk Road" along the route of Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, many famous brocades of the Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty were unearthed. Ruyi Brocade, Prolonging Life and Prolonging Life, Sun Brocade, Sea Lion and Crane Brocade, Han Ren Brocade, etc.At that time, there were not only silk jacquard fabrics, but also jacquard wool fabrics.

If Wang Lin wants to enter the home textile industry, he will face a more important challenge.

That is the most important raw material, which is cotton.

Talking about the development of the industry without raw materials is just talking on paper.

The elbow of raw materials is the key to the rise and fall of an industry.

If the raw materials are stuck abroad, the higher the Chinese people do in this industry, the harder they will fall.

At the time of Wang Lin's rebirth, countless excellent domestic companies had been sanctioned and flogged by foreign countries.

Cotton is not a native product of our country, but has been passed down from Tianzhu and Arabia.Although our country would eventually become one of the world's leading producers of cotton and cotton textiles and remains the center of the cotton industry today, cotton is not a native crop of our country.In fact, the word "cotton" in Chinese characters was borrowed from Sanskrit and other Indian languages.Around 200 BC, the people of our country already knew about cotton.

my country is the largest cotton producer, and its annual output accounts for about 34% of the world's total.Tianzhu ranked second, and the United States ranked third.

In the early 20s, my country's cotton planting areas were concentrated in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins, and the area of ​​cotton planted in the new provinces was still very small. However, after 90 years, the cotton production in the new provinces will account for 76% of the country's total planted area.

From the perspective of the supply side, when Wang Lin was reborn, that is, around 2020, my country's cotton supply was maintained at a level of about 600 million tons per year, and my country's cotton consumption was stable at 800 million tons per year. In fact, there is a gap of about 200 million tons per year in cotton consumption.

As the manufacturing industry shifted, so did the cultivation centers. In 1860, the United States almost monopolized cotton exports, but in the 21st century, only 14% of the world's cotton was grown in North America.my country and Tianzhu are in the forefront, producing 3400 million bales of cotton and 2600 million bales of cotton each year, while the United States only has 1700 million bales.Global production has increased seven-fold since 1920, and cotton cultivation has become extremely important to the economies of many countries, especially those in Asia and West Africa.

About 98 percent of all clothing sold in the United States is made abroad.my country alone provides 40% of the clothing for the United States.my country's factories have nearly half of the world's spindles and looms, and consume 43% of the world's raw cotton production!

From these data, we can easily see the importance of cotton to the textile industry.

There have been many cotton wars that have affected the world pattern in history.

For example, the war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the United States.The Northern and Southern Dynasties War in the United States originated from the conflict between the increasingly industrialized North and the South that relied on cotton and slaves.

70 years ago, the United States also had a cotton war with my country. my country played a combination of punches. In the end, the US cotton was completely defeated and withdrew from the Chinese market.

This matter is very long to talk about, and comrades who are interested can search for it by themselves.

Cotton is one of the national strategic materials, and its importance is self-evident.

If Wang Lin wanted to make home textiles, he couldn't do without cotton, the most important raw material.

At present, domestic cotton production is sufficient for domestic production.

But if Wang Lin's Aixiu Home Textiles really starts to do business, and when the foreign trade is expanded to a large extent, then the consumption of cotton will definitely increase.

People without thought, he must worry about.

When Wang Lin was doing something, he would definitely consider all factors first.

When he was producing sanitary napkins, he had already started a raw material factory, firstly to reduce production costs, and secondly to avoid being stuck by foreigners.

Wang Lin's vigorous development of the bamboo fiber industry is also for the layout of the textile industry.

In home textile products, bamboo-cotton blended fabrics can be widely used.

Bamboo fiber and cotton can be mixed, which can effectively reduce the dependence on cotton.

With bamboo fiber, there must be cotton.

There are many areas suitable for growing cotton in China, such as eastern Hebei, central Hebei, southern Hebei, southwestern Shandong, northwestern Shandong, northern Lu, northern Jiangsu, eastern Henan, northern Henan, northern Anhui, southern Shanxi, eastern Guanzhong of Shaanxi Province, and Cotton area in the Yangtze River Basin.

Shencheng, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places also belong to the cotton area.

Zhou Xia is quite familiar with Wang Lin.

She knew that when Wang Lin was doing a business, he would definitely make a decision before making a move.

"You still want to develop your own cotton area?" Zhou Xia asked.

Wang Lin stretched out his right hand and grasped it heavily with five fingers: "The most important thing, we must keep in our own hands. The international cotton price fluctuates, and some western countries are determined to persecute themselves, and they will use cotton to do business at any time. The thing is, if we really want to be in the home textile industry, we must have our own cotton producing areas. Otherwise, if Lao Mei pinches our necks, we will have no cotton to use. Then Aixiu Home Textiles will have to go bankrupt.”

His words are very serious, but not alarmist.

In fact, in 2009, our country experienced a cotton crisis.

In that year, more than one-third of my country's home textile enterprises withdrew, and the rest were struggling.

Zhou Xia said: "Although I don't know much about planting, I also know that planting cotton is not a good job. Most farmers are not willing to plant it."

Wang Lindao: "There are still people who are willing to plant."

From the 80s to the 90s, the income of many farmers depended on growing cotton.

Later, the per capita income was high, and the price of cotton fluctuated too much, which discouraged farmers' enthusiasm for growing cotton.

The country adjusted its cotton planting strategy in a timely manner, moved the cotton producing areas westward to new provinces, and subsidized thousands of yuan per ton of cotton, which stabilized China's dominance as a major cotton-producing country.

If Wang Lin wants to build his own cotton planting base, he can realize mechanized planting and picking and large-scale production.

When the company starts up, it can buy cotton first, and after the business starts, it can gradually realize self-sufficiency in cotton. In the future, it can also receive state cotton planting subsidies. Anyway, it will not lose money.

Zhou Xia said: "Speaking of which, the home textile industry you want to be in is an industry! This is a big article!"

Wang Lin smiled and said: "So, you must help me select an excellent talent to be the manager of Aishiu Home Textiles."

The development of the home textile industry is an idea put forward by Li Wenxiu.But Li Wenxiu can only think of opening a factory, but Wang Lin can turn it into a huge industrial cluster!

This is the level of the ideological realm of the two.

Zhou Xia thought about it seriously, and said with a smile, "I have a candidate, but I can't invite him. If you come forward, he might come."

Wang Lin's eyes flashed: "Who?"

Zhou Xia pursed her lips and smiled, "My uncle."

Wang Lin was surprised: "You mean Director Zhou Boqiang?"

Zhou Xia nodded and said, "That's him. Think about it, who else is more suitable than him?"

Wang Lin smiled wryly, spread his hands, and said helplessly, "Aren't you joking! How could Director Zhou come to help me?"

Zhou Xia said: "Who says it's impossible? It depends on your sincerity. Go and invite him, maybe he won't come."

Wang Lin couldn't help thinking about it.

Zhou Boqiang's leadership ability and personal courage, Wang Lin has experienced and appreciated Zhou Boqiang's leadership ability and personal courage.

It was under Zhou Boqiang's strong leadership that Shenfang Factory carried out drastic reforms, which kept Shenfang No. [-] Factory from being swept away by the tide of the times.

Under the leadership of Zhou Boqiang, the No. [-] Factory also got out of the mud and got on the right track.

The more Wang Lin thought about it, the more he felt that Zhou Boqiang was an excellent candidate.

But how can we persuade Zhou Boqiang to help?

Wang Lin took a lot of thought.

Zhou Xia said: "Don't think about it, just visit him first, and bring it up directly. If he disagrees, it's not too late for us to find someone else. To open such a big branch, we must have time to prepare, right?"

Wang Lin nodded and said, "It's not too late, let's go find Director Zhou together."

Zhou Xia said, "You want me to accompany you?"

Wang Lindao: "You are his niece, with you here, we have a little more chance of winning, don't we?"

Zhou Xia hummed: "Okay. Then I'll walk with you."

Wang Lin immediately called Zhou Boqiang.

He first called the Textile Bureau, but Zhou Boqiang was not there.

Wang Lin then called the factory office of No. [-] Factory.

This time the person who answered the phone was Zhou Boqiang himself.

"Hi Director Zhou, I'm Wang Lin."

Zhou Boqiang was very happy when he heard Wang Lin's voice: "Wang Lin, you haven't come to see me for a long time!"

Wang Lin smiled and said, "Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and sister Xia and I went to visit Director Zhou together."

"Okay, come here!" Zhou Boqiang smiled, "I just wanted to chat with you!"

(End of this chapter)