The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 431 Want to make money and go overseas to get orders

Chapter 431 Want to make money and go overseas to get orders

"Your weapons industry has a long way to go, and you must not let your guard down!"

Liu Tao instructed.

In recent years, the military has placed a number of orders one after another.

总计200辆80式主战坦克、80辆80式自行高炮、1300辆81式中型坦克、700辆轻型坦克、300辆水陆两用坦克以及400辆各类型自行火炮、各类型炮弹,总订单30亿人民币。

It can be said that these funds were saved by streamlining the troops and practicing frugality.

The consensus of the entire army is to build a semi-mechanized force and eventually a mechanized force.

"Director, some comrades within the group are dissatisfied with the current unit price of military purchases. They think the difference with the export price is too big and it should at least double," said Zhao Guoping.

Liu Tao waved his hand and said, "Comrades, you can have opinions, but we need to convince them. If you don't understand, you must first recognize it. If you can't recognize it, you must first agree with it. If you understand it, you must implement it. If you don't understand it, you can slowly understand it during implementation."

The completion of mechanization construction of the troops is not only a matter for the troops, but also a national event.

Only with a strong national defense can we ensure the safe development of the economy.

Without a strong national defense, there is no way to talk about economic security and development.

Only with sufficient national defense capabilities can we talk about safe economic development.

This can be seen from the opportunity China has taken to implement reform and opening up.

In contrast, Japan faces numerous obstacles no matter how well it develops. If it did not have the dog chain around its neck, with Japan's development momentum, it would probably have become the world's largest industrial power. After all, Japan's industrial development path after World War II was the right one, which led to its great strides in development.

But now, whether it is the television industry, the semiconductor industry, or the upcoming "Plaza Accord", they are all preventing Japan from making great strides forward.

When a dog is fattened up, it is not used to bark ferociously at its owner, but to be killed and eaten for its meat.

The purchase price was set so low in the beginning with the intention of supporting military construction.

"We are a state-owned enterprise now. Our first priority in China is not to make money, but to serve the country and the people!" Liu Tao said in a deep voice: "If you want to make money, go out and find more orders instead of staying in the office or just in China. You must be brave enough to go out and find orders all over the world!"

"We export military products to feed back to the country, not to make money from the army!" Liu Tao said: "If any comrade can't make sense of this idea, we will demote him and transfer him to other positions."

State-owned enterprises have their own missions and responsibilities.

Just like the later national railway, it spent huge amounts of money to invest in railway construction, continuously upgraded the railway system, improved luck, and incurred huge debts. Many railway lines were actually loss-making. This practice was controversial, but why did the national railway insist on doing it?
Because making money is not the top priority of the National Railway. In fact, it is very simple for the National Railway to make money. Just double the ticket price and freight price. Isn't it easy to make money?
Similarly, Southwest Ordnance Industry Group Corporation does not regard making money as its top priority in China. It can make money from other countries overseas. What is more important in China is to help the country complete the construction of semi-mechanized and mechanized troops.

Liu Tao has a clear understanding of this.

The development of Panshan Group, in addition to its own field, has also involved other fields, even highways and railways. This not only lays a solid foundation and background for Panshan Group, but also allows Panshan Group to walk on two legs, or even three legs or four legs, and can prevent the situation when arms are difficult to export and there is no money or even no operation.

There is another very important reason, which is to build an industrial chain and upgrade China's industry.

Take the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" for example. The total investment is as high as 700 billion yuan, which is absolutely jaw-dropping in this era. The number of construction workers mobilized and the difficulty of construction can be called the "project of the century". Whether at home or abroad, whether professionals or ordinary people, no one can see how the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" can make money, and it may not be able to recover the cost in or years.

However, Liu Tao is optimistic about the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. He believes that the Beijing-Kowloon Railway will not make money in the near future, but will have a generous return rate ten or twenty years later.

Even if there is really no money to be made, Liu Tao will still participate.

Firstly, the cost of building one kilometer at this time is only 2760 million yuan. If it is built twenty years later, the cost will at least increase tenfold.

Secondly, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway is a high-speed railway, which has an extremely long industrial chain and has strongly driven the comprehensive upgrading of upstream and downstream industries directly related to the high-speed railway.

The winding and roaring high-speed rail "dragon" has the "magic power" of turning stones into gold, allowing major industrial sectors to flow and sublimate, and changing the old appearance into a new one. The huge investment of the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway" has provided unprecedented market opportunities for traditional industries such as steel, cement, and sand and gravel. The investment per kilometer consumes an average of 0.333 tons of steel, 2 tons of cement, 3.11 tons of sand and soil, and 5.16 cubic meters of stone, which has driven the benefits of related industries by more than 600 million yuan and created at least jobs.

In other words, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway has driven benefits of more than RMB 2500 billion to related industries and created more than 152 million jobs.

In addition, high-speed rail has also driven the rapid development of upstream and downstream industries such as metallurgy, machinery, information, computers, and precision instruments. It can be said that this can form a huge high-tech R&D and manufacturing industry chain, and a number of key equipment manufacturing companies can grow rapidly in the industry chain.

Thirdly, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway has boosted the local economy. Originally, it took three days and three nights to travel from Beijing to Guangdong Province, but now the time has been shortened to about 11 hours.

This will have a huge impact on the radiation and driving effect on the cities along the "Beijing-Kowloon Railway".

"Comrade Zhao Guoping, I hope you also have a clear understanding on this point." Liu Tao looked at Zhao Guoping.

He guessed that perhaps Zhao Guoping thought so too.

Zhao Guoping nodded and said, "Don't worry, Director. I will do ideological work for the comrades."

Liu Tao smiled faintly and said, "This is the best. You have a lot of things to do now. You need to be comprehensive and be good at training people. There is no end to the work. What we want to do is not something that can be accomplished by one or two people. What is needed is for everyone to work together and move in the same direction."

Liu Tao doesn't want Zhao Guoping to go astray.

You know, it is not easy to cultivate a talented person who can stand on his own.

Zhao Guoping's growth helped Liu Tao take on many things instead of letting Liu Tao get bogged down in trivial matters.

After inspecting the Chengdu tank and armored production base, they went to the Sichuan-Shu Provincial Party Committee. After all, they needed help from the Sichuan-Shu Provincial Party Committee in many aspects.

Only by moving around more can we develop feelings and understand each other.

(End of this chapter)

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