As soon as he got on the car, Zhang Weidong discovered that this car was a parallel car flowing out of Jinmen Port.
Parallel cars are also called parallel trade imported cars.
The price is about 50% cheaper than cars imported through normal channels.
This does not mean that these cars are bad, on the contrary, these are pure original imported cars.
The reason why Zhang Weidong knew that Yu Qingyang's car was a parallel car was because he happened to know this car.
This is a Middle Eastern version of a parallel imported car.
It is said that the car was specially customized by a prince in the Middle East. Not only is the glass bullet-proof, but the doors have thickened steel plates, and the floor also has special non-magnetic steel plates.
It is said that this car has reached B6 bulletproof level.
Unfortunately, this car had just been delivered to the Middle East, and before the prince could enjoy his new car, he was assassinated.
This car was also transferred to Tianjin Port for sale.
And the import and export company that brought the car to China happened to be his friend's company.
So he was lucky enough to go for a test drive and was naturally deeply impressed.
He heard that the car was bought by a big shot in the capital.
Unexpectedly, this car turned around and became the car of his son's classmate, Yu Qingyang.
"Yangzi, your father bought you this car?" Zhang Weidong asked tentatively.
"No, it was a gift from my sister!" Yu Qingyang explained casually.
He had never driven such a good car in his previous life, and he really didn't understand all the mechanisms in this car.
He hadn't even figured out what functions this car had, so naturally he didn't know that this car would have such a big impact on Zhang Weidong.
"Your sister? I remember you seem to be an only child, right? Cousin, cousin?"
"No, it's my god-sister!" After saying that, Yu Qingyang explained habitually, "My mother knows my god-sister!"
Godsister and godbrother are not very good titles in later generations.
"oh!"
Zhang Weidong nodded and did not continue talking about this topic.
Although he is very curious about Yu Qingyang's god sister, he is not the kind of person who is nosy.
After all, if you continue to ask questions, you will be suspected of prying into other people's privacy.
"By the way, Yoko, what are your plans for the future?"
"Intend?
National bidding is gradually being standardized, and subcontracting is becoming more and more strict.
Maybe all subcontracted projects in the future will require construction qualifications.
I plan to finish this project and set up an engineering company of my own! Apply for a construction qualification and develop into a regular company!
Also participate in bidding for various engineering projects!”
"Well, it's a good idea that you have! Now this irregularity will finally end!
Maybe in ten years, maybe in twenty years, the construction market will gradually become standardized.
Our country has joined the WTO. In the future, various laws will become more and more perfect, and everything will be well-founded.
You start preparing now, and once the market becomes standardized in the future, you will adapt to the changes in the market faster than others." Zhang Weidong nodded in agreement.
Now, both the water conservancy industry and the construction industry are still in a state of disorder or semi-disorder.
But this state will eventually end and orderly competition will usher in.
He is from Jinmen and comes from a municipality directly under the Central Government. He has a clearer grasp of the direction of national policies.
Yu Qingyang's inference about Zhang Weidong was a thumbs-up.
He was very clear about the development of the construction market in later generations. Just as Zhang Weidong said, market competition has gradually become standardized and transparent.
This is the difference between developed coastal cities and inland cities.
In the inland cities of Dongshan Province, their thinking is still stuck in the 1980s and 1990s.
Especially in water conservancy construction units, few people want to go out, and they still rely on their superior supervisors to get work.
Although they were praised in the 1980s and 1990s, their thinking was still in the era of planned economy.
That is to say, the water conservancy industry is very lucky. It caught up with the flood of 1998 and the state invested heavily in water conservancy infrastructure. Otherwise, these water conservancy construction units would have starved to death.
Apart from anything else, just taking water conservation as an example, there are also machinery and equipment branches below.
But look at the machinery and equipment branch of the Jinmen Water Supply Corporation. It has only fifteen excavators, more than eighty dump trucks, and more than twenty bulldozers.
Looking at the Machinery and Equipment Branch of the Water Provincial Administration, there is not a single excavator, only seven old Huanghe trucks that are almost out of use, and three Dongfanghong bulldozers that require more maintenance time than work time.
Later, the Provincial Water Resources General Machinery and Equipment Branch was renamed the Earthmoving Branch. I guess it was too embarrassing to continue to be called the Machinery and Equipment Branch.
"By the way, Yangzi, at the end of this year and the beginning of next year, the company is planning to phase out a batch of machinery and equipment.
Are you interested?" Zhang Weidong changed the topic again.
"The obsolete machinery and equipment? Which machinery and equipment is Uncle Zhang referring to?"
“There are excavators, dump trucks, and bulldozers! This batch of machinery and equipment was all introduced in the mid-1990s!
Mr. Tang of the branch has made multiple reports to apply for the replacement of mechanical equipment, and the superior leaders have already approved it..."
Zhang Weidong revealed a lot of information to Yu Qingyang in episode 1.
The first is that the mechanical equipment needs to be updated and the original mechanical equipment is prepared for disposal.
The second is that this batch of machinery and equipment are all original imported equipment purchased around 1995.
Yu Qingyang couldn't help but want to complain. It was still the 1990s, but now it's the turn of the century. It's 2000, okay?
Original imported machinery that has only been used for five or six years will be eliminated as soon as you say it will be eliminated.
How domineering, what a waste!
But I like it!
Yu Qingyang smiled and asked: "Uncle Zhang, how are these mechanical equipments maintained?"
You need to ask this question clearly. When buying second-hand machinery, the condition of the vehicle is a key issue.
"Haha, those machines will be transferred to your side to participate in the construction this time. How about you observe it yourself!" Zhang Weidong said with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Yu Qingyang felt confident. Being able to be transferred from thousands of miles away to work means that the performance of these machines is pretty good.
Think about it, the original imported machinery has only been used for five or six years. As long as the maintenance can be kept up with, it is at least 70% to 80% new, not to mention that it is like new.
"Thank you, Uncle Zhang! I am very interested in these devices! I will ask Uncle Zhang to help me get some leads later..."
"No problem! However, our company does not accept credit, so prepare the money!" Zhang Weidong reminded.
This kind of processing machinery and equipment can be cheap for the country's goods, but it should not be owed on credit. Yu Qingyang still understands this.
"The end of the year, the beginning of the year, more or less! Uncle Zhang, what models are your bulldozers?"
"The bulldozer seems to be a Komatsu D85!" Zhang Weidong replied casually.
Yu Qingyang felt envious in his heart. Looking at this company, it was indeed a big company in a municipality. The bulldozers were all imported.
The reason why Yu Qingyang is so certain that it is imported goods is because in 2000, Komatsu had not yet entered into a joint venture with a domestic machinery manufacturer.
Therefore, Komatsu construction machinery at this point in time is all original imported machinery.