The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 531 Living Together

The Ministry of Ordnance was officially abolished and merged with the Ministry of Machinery Industry (First Ministry of Machine Building) to form the State Machinery Industry Commission.

Zou Jiahua, head of the Ordnance Department, served as director of the State Machinery Industry Commission.

When Liu Tao arrived here, the sign had been changed.

The Fifth Ministry of Machine Building has completely become history, having completed its historical mission.

This will definitely make many people feel complicated and they will definitely miss it!
It's just that the arm is powerless against the thigh. The country needs to reform and open up, and institutional reforms are constantly ongoing. Whether you are willing or not, you have to obey the overall situation.

As soon as he arrived at the company, Liu Tao heard the employees talking about the latest salary reform.

Yes, this year China’s government agencies, enterprises and institutions have once again reformed their salaries and adjusted their remuneration.

It has to be adjusted almost every year, otherwise it will fall far behind the social wage increase level.

The rapid development of social economy has promoted the continuous increase of social wages.

Just like in Pengcheng now, the average monthly salary has reached 322 yuan, while in 1979 the average monthly salary was 64 yuan, a 5-fold increase!
The average monthly salary in Beijing is not as high as that in Shenzhen, but it has also reached 240 yuan, which has increased three or four times compared to 1979.

Of course, the average monthly salary of 240 yuan does not mean that everyone’s salary is 240 yuan. Some may be higher and some may be lower. The highest monthly salary may be 1000 or even 2000 or 3000 yuan, while the lowest may be only 100 yuan.

Although the wage level is rising rapidly, the housing prices are also rising rapidly, and are still out of reach for most ordinary people.

When Guangzhou launched the country's first commercial housing project, the selling price was 700 yuan per square meter (1982). Now, the selling prices of commercial housing in Guangzhou, such as Liuyun Community and Tianhe East, are 1200 to 1500 yuan per square meter, and they are selling very well, almost sold out within a few days of going on sale.

This is not because the real estate developers do not want to sell more, but because there is a guiding price set by the government.

Otherwise, it may exceed 2000 yuan/square meter or even 3000 yuan/square meter.

Similarly, housing prices in Pengcheng are also very high, with Dongxiao Garden priced as high as 1500 yuan per square meter!

The housing prices here in Beijing range from 1000 yuan per square meter to 2000 yuan per square meter.

In other words, this housing price is equivalent to 4 to 8 times the average monthly salary, which is still a considerable amount for an ordinary family today.

Liu Tao came to Liu Zhenbang's office. In Liu Zhenbang's office, Liu Zhenbang and several others were discussing the unit's welfare housing distribution.

However, the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building had more money before, so it planned to build a new staff quarters and invested some money to build dormitory buildings. Now these dormitory buildings have been built and are about to be distributed.

As a result, because the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building and the First Ministry of Machine Building have been merged into the State Machinery Industry Commission, the employees of the former First Ministry of Machine Building are revolting and are making a fuss, demanding the same treatment, which is causing great annoyance to the leaders.

There’s noise below, noise in the middle, and noise above!
After all, within a system, people are always related to each other, and the relationships are complicated and tangled.

"What's so difficult about this? Building a dormitory complex will only require waiting one or two more years!" Liu Tao said.

Liu Zhenbang rolled his eyes, "It's easy for you to say that, but who will pay for it?" "Your Panshan Group is a big company with a lot of money, but we don't have that much money here. Everyone wants a share of the house, and they're all settling their own bills. Why should the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building pay for it?" Liu Zhenbang said unhappily.

Although the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building and the First Ministry of Machine Building were merged into the State Machinery Industry Commission, it was actually just a change of name. The internal affairs had not yet been straightened out, and even the offices and accounts were separate.

"They have all been merged. Sooner or later, the account books will be merged. There will no longer be a Fifth Ministry of Machine Building and a First Ministry of Machine Building!" Liu Tao said, "For the construction of dormitories, whoever is rated as excellent and advanced will be given priority in housing allocation. If there is not enough money, the employees will pay part of the money, and the company will advance part of the money."

Welfare housing distribution is now being implemented all over the country.

Because relying solely on one's salary, no one, even the leaders of government agencies, enterprises or institutions, can afford to buy a house.

Therefore, employees usually pay part of the money and the company pays part of the money.

Liu Tao was not troubled by this. When each factory was built, a large number of houses would be built. These houses would be divided into rooms and given to those individuals who performed well and were rated as advanced. As for ordinary workers with average performance, they could only live in dormitories. This was also to motivate everyone to work hard and be serious.

If development reaches a certain level and is not enough, then build more dormitories.

This was the first time that Liu Tao encountered a situation where the Fifth and First Ministries of Machine Building were arguing over housing division just after they started living together for their own interests.

Even though the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building had lost a lot of money as a middleman because Panshan Group took back the right to settle foreign exchange and no longer went through the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, and settled foreign exchange directly with banks, the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building had lost a lot of money as a middleman and its income was much less than before, but the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building still had foreign trade every year. Although it was not as much as Panshan Group, it was still not small, which meant that the money in the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building's account was far more than that of the First Ministry of Machine Building.

Compared with the First Ministry of Machine Building and the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, it is like a beggar.

Liu Tao, who had just arrived at the merged unit, could already feel the many contradictions within it, and it might not be easy to sort them out later.

The military-to-civilian conversion of the third-line factories in the weapons industry system of the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building was successfully completed, but the military-to-civilian conversion of the third-line factories in the First Ministry of Machine Building was not completed very well, and there are still a lot of them, which will inevitably be solved by the merged State Machinery Industry Commission.

Now Liu Tao even suspects that the higher-ups are merging the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building with the First Ministry of Machine Building because they see that the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building is living too comfortably, so they want the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building to help its brother unit.

After staying in Liu Zhenbang's office for a while, the secretary came to tell Liu Tao to go to the meeting room.

One of the topics discussed in the conference room was to divide the national weapons system into north and south. The north would be assigned to the China Northern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation which was to be established, the south would be assigned to the China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation, and the Southwestern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation would be restructured into the China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation.

There is no doubt that this is a earth-shaking event for the entire weapons industry system.

Liu Tao didn't care about this, because all the third-line factories in the Southwest Ordnance Industry System had been incorporated into Panshan Group. The Southwest Ordnance Industry Group Corporation was already the largest ordnance group in the entire southwest and also the largest ordnance group in the country. The only ones in the entire southwest that were still under the jurisdiction of the Ordnance Industry Corporation were those large arsenals.

Panshan Group has sufficient funds and talent pool to acquire arsenals in other southern provinces.

Since the implementation of "military-to-civilian conversion", the third-line factories in the weapons industry system have all been incorporated into the local industrial bureaus. Those that remain in the weapons industry system are all large-scale arsenals without exception. There are not many large-scale arsenals in the entire South!
By incorporating them into the Southwest Ordnance Industry Corporation and transforming the Southwest Ordnance Industry Corporation into the China Southern Ordnance Industry Corporation, Liu Tao is confident that it will only take two or three years to consume these large military factories and incorporate them into the entire Panshan Group system.

However, this involves the administrative level of the Southwest Ordnance Industry Group Corporation, or the China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation.

It can't be divided into two, and the administrative level of China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation is lower than that of China Northern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation!

(End of this chapter)