The car soon arrived at the entrance of Volkswagen's headquarters in Shanghai. Several Germans were waiting at the door. Dong Mingwu was the first to get out of the car, and the others also filed out.
"Director Dong, hello, fellow factory directors, thank you for your hard work!"
The leader, a German, was mumbling to everyone, and the translator next to the director kept translating the other person's words.
"Mr. Thomas, we are here again. This time, professors from Huaxia University are here. They are the best experts in our country. You can't hide your secrets for a while!"
Dong Mingwu pointed at Xiong Huaizhi and others and smiled.
This Thomas is the general manager of Volkswagen in China, a white man in his forties.
"How can we hide our secrets? If you get those parts as soon as possible, we can happily cooperate!"
Thomas answered.
"Hello, old gentleman, I am Thomas!"
The other party walked up to Xiong Huaizhi and stretched out his hand.
Before the translator could speak, Xiong Huaizhi said in German: "Hello, Mr. Thomas, my name is Xiong Huaizhi!"
"Wow, the old gentleman actually speaks German?"
The other party was taken aback.
"I studied in Germany forty years ago and am a graduate of Ruhr University!"
"A graduate of the Ruhr University? That is the most prestigious university in Germany. It has trained many outstanding engineers. If you went to school there, you are my senior. Hello senior!"
After Thomas finished speaking, he bowed to Xiong Huaizhi very solemnly.
Germans attach great importance to industry, and Ruhr University is the cradle of German engineers. Even if you are the Prime Minister of Germany, you will treat a respected old engineer with courtesy.
"Mr. Thomas, you are welcome. Your company has come to invest in our country. We should thank you!"
Xiong Huaizhi said hurriedly.
"These are all students of Xiong Huaizhi!"
Dong Mingwu pointed at Liu Lang and the others and said, but he did not say Liu Lang's name because Liu Lang had told the other party before that he didn't like to be called a prodigy genius and was looked at as a "monkey" by others wherever he went.
But Liu Lang's figure cannot be concealed. At 1.2 meters tall, even though he is much taller than his peers, he still looks like a six or seven-year-old child.
Thomas and others were naturally very curious: Why did the other party bring a child here? What kind of trick is this?
These people were Germans and could not read Chinese newspapers. No one told them that there was a little genius in China. However, a translator beside them lit up his glasses and thought that this child might be the child mentioned in the newspaper.
Liu Lang, but when he saw that Dong Mingwu didn't point it out, he didn't say anything.
Volkswagen entered China five years ago. Although it is still far away from localization in five years, they have installed three sets of automobile assembly production lines in China and can produce two thousand cars every year. However, all the parts of these cars are
Those shipped in from abroad have nothing to do with China.
However, the assembly workers on the production line are all Chinese workers, which can be regarded as cultivating a group of industrial workers.
After more than two years of work, they have become proficient in assembling these cars together. Their salary is sixty-five yuan per month, which is already considered a high salary in China, but compared with Germany, it is dozens of dollars behind.
Many times, Shanghai Volkswagen can save a lot of money every year just in terms of labor costs.
As for the sales of the assembled cars, there is no problem. Most of them were purchased by government departments, and a small number were bought by those "people who got rich first". For example, the Shanghai Municipal Government purchased five Volkswagen imported cars.
Santner cars cost 200,000 yuan each.
Two hundred thousand yuan! The richest people in this era are called "ten thousand yuan households". Two hundred thousand yuan is a huge wealth that most people dare not even think about. If it were placed thirty years later, then
It is equivalent to more than two million yuan. You must know that thirty years from now, there will be countless people in the country who have two million yuan. But now, how many people in the country have two hundred thousand yuan in their pockets?
Liu Lang had seen various national statistics for last year a few days ago. Of course, this kind of data is not public and is a national secret. However, Liu Lang can obtain it at any time. After all, he now has the title of "Number One Non-staff Think Tank"
Well.
One of them is the statistics from 1984: the number of private cars in the country is 20,000, and the total population of the country is 1.6 billion, which means that only one person in every 53,000 people owns a private car. These people
Many of them are people like Mu Xiaohu. The remaining private cars, which are just over 10,000 people, were bought by their own hard work and money.
Most of these people live in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions in the south and Shenzhen City and Sheshi Special Economic Zone. They are the first generation of entrepreneurs in New China. Backward cities like Fucheng have a population of nearly one million, but they don’t have a single private car.
Not to mention Fucheng, even Shencheng, which has a population of millions, Liu Lang rarely sees private cars. In other words, only in the capital can there be a few occasionally seen on the street, such as Mu Xiaohu's Mercedes-Benz. The entire capital
Just two or three cars.
Although Volkswagen in Shanghai is just an assembly plant, the rigor of the Germans is still reflected everywhere. The large factory is clean and tidy, completely different from state-owned factories, and the workers wear uniform work clothes.
There is a clear board posted at the door with rules and regulations written in Chinese characters, even for Chinese people.
Liu Lang heard Dong Mingwu say before that the newly recruited Chinese workers were not used to it. They would forget to wear work clothes and safety helmets. The first time it happened, half a month's salary would be deducted. If it happens again, I'm sorry.
Terminate the work contract immediately.
Many visiting factory directors secretly scolded each other that this was an act of capitalist exploitation, and they all disdained to "partner with it." But they didn't know that this was called modern enterprise management, and it couldn't even follow the most basic rules and regulations.
, if a company wants to grow and become stronger, it is just a dream.
Among domestic enterprises, only the third factory that has been successfully privatized has some traces of modern management systems, but it is only superficial. But even if it is superficial, it is far better than other state-owned enterprises.
Even now, Liu Lang saw that the factory directors all had contempt on their faces, and they obviously disapproved of those who were working in neat work clothes, thinking that this kind of behavior was purely unnecessary and did not help work efficiency.
"Alas, these people can no longer keep up with the trend of the times! When there is a chance, let's send them to live in retirement!"
Liu Lang was thinking that with these people here, even if the company introduced advanced foreign technology, they would not be able to manage it well. The reform of state-owned enterprises is not only a matter of property rights, but also a change in the management system...!
These old factory managers followed Thomas and the others to the first workshop in a familiar manner.