The first thousand three hundred and ninety-seventh chapter is more in line with the national condit
Some time ago, in order to compete for Northern Coal Company's mining area steam engine order, Tianjin AIA Company did not hesitate to find relevant officials of the Hebei Governor's Yamen and asked them to put pressure on Northern Coal Company not to let Northern Coal Company adopt the order from Zhaoqing Machinery Company, and instead
Place an order with their AIA company.
The officials of the Hebei Governor's Yamen naturally favor the companies in their own jurisdiction. Tianjin AIA Company is the only large-scale high-tech company in several northern provinces that can handle it, and it contributes to the local government every year.
A large amount of tax revenue was collected, so I also actively helped AIA companies.
Although Northern Coal Company is an enterprise affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, its business scope is not limited to Hebei. Basically, their business scope covers several northern provinces. However, Hebei still has to give face, but this face is only given.
Just give me a chance to compete fairly.
If your steam engine has high performance and low price, he will buy it. Otherwise, the governor of Hebei will come to visit you and it will be useless!
In terms of relationships, Zhaoqing Machinery Company is not bad either. They directly went to the senior officials of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to pass on the message, because Zhaoqing Machinery Company is a wholly-owned enterprise owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and Northern Coal Company is a brother company, comparable to Tianjin.
AIA is much stronger.
Although the results of the bidding have not yet come out, it can be seen from this how intense the competition between the two companies is now.
The rapid development of Tianjin AIA Company in the past few years is also closely related to their extreme emphasis on technology. On the one hand, they have vigorously cooperated with the Royal Institute of Technology and purchased their technology patent licenses. Of course, this kind of thing,
Nowadays, any company with some brains will do this.
As for the Royal Institute of Technology's technology licensing, except for a few sensitive products, most of the other product licensing is unlimited, and it is not an exclusive license. As long as your company's qualifications meet the standards, you can still pay for it.
, then you can obtain the technical authorization from the Royal Institute of Technology.
But again, most of the technology licenses from the Royal Institute of Technology are biased toward technology licensing, and many are even theoretical in nature. If you buy back the technology license, it will not be easy to build it.
Therefore, most companies will also set up their own technical departments. However, the technology that most companies research is just how to turn technology licensing into products, and there are relatively few self-developed new products.
Tianjin AIA Company is different. They walk on two legs. On the one hand, they have bought all the patent licenses they can buy. On the other hand, they have established a huge R&D institution on their own, and they have also carried out joint R&D with many domestic universities.
, this is to develop its own exclusive technology.
The technology patents purchased from the Royal Institute of Technology are all non-exclusive patents. This means that there are second or even dozens of similar products in the domestic market. However, if it is a new product developed by itself, then the strict patent regulations in the empire will
Under the protection, only you can produce this new product. This is a monopoly. You can buy as much as you like.
Nowadays, many small and medium-sized enterprises in China are not actually large in scale and do not have strong capital, but some of them are quite prosperous and their profits make even large companies jealous.
Basically, most of these small and medium-sized enterprises have their own technology patents and can produce one or two exclusive products.
There is a pencil company in Guangzhou that is a typical example. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the empire began to promote charcoal pencils. At that time, Li Xuan originally wanted to make a pencil, but he did not expect that someone else took over first. A man named Chen from Guangzhou
A young scholar accidentally discovered that lead can be used to write. After some thought, he invented the pencil. He then directly applied for a patent, and then set up a small workshop to produce it.
As a result, even the people at the Royal Institute of Technology could only watch their pencil patent application being rejected because Chen Xiucai applied for it a month earlier than them.
Finally, the pencil company established by Chen Xiucai in Guangzhou gradually turned a small workshop into a large company by relying on pencil patents. The pencils that can be seen on the market today are basically produced by his company. This is why Chen Xiucai
Became a millionaire.
Of course, this pencil patent only has four or five years left, and many companies are counting the days, waiting for the patent to expire and rush to imitate it.
The strict domestic patent protection system ensures that new technologies invested and developed by individuals or companies can be protected and earn huge profits. This is why many domestic companies attach so much importance to technology research and development.
However, there are not many companies that pay as much attention to technology research and development as Tianjin AIA Company does, investing more than 10% of the company's annual turnover in research and development.
This ten percent is not talking about profit, but turnover.
The development of Tianjin AIA Company and the development of Xuzhou Iron and Steel Company, although the industries are different, their development paths are basically the same. They both attach great importance to technology research and development and rely on technology to seize the market.
These two typical examples reflect the cruel competition in the entire empire's industry and commerce, especially in the industrial manufacturing industry!
It is impossible for a company without some technology to become bigger and stronger, and even survival is a problem.
Gone are the days of the past decade or so when you could get rich overnight by just setting up a factory and producing whatever you wanted.
Li Xuan maintains an encouraging attitude towards this kind of competition in the domestic market.
Only by maintaining healthy competition can we achieve better development. After all, the huge Tang Empire could not only rely on some enterprises controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
The fundamental purpose of the enterprises controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is not to develop the economy, but to develop national defense and stabilize people's livelihood. As for the ordinary market economy, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is not actually involved too much.
If you look at the industries invested by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, you can see that most of them are concentrated in heavy industry, and there are very few light industries. Even if there are, most of them were invested in the early years, or invested and established in recent years, but they belong to that category.
There is a certain demand for high-tech industries, but private enterprises are unwilling to invest or cannot invest in the industry.
Nowadays, most of the enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are concentrated in the industries of weapons, energy, shipbuilding, shipping, and chemical industry, and most of them are related to the national defense industry. Needless to say, the three major arms companies, and energy include
The three major coal companies include Yangtze River Shipping for shipping, Nanyang, Dongyang, and Western Trading Companies for overseas trade, Jiangnan Shipyard, Guangzhou Shipyard, and Tianjin Shipyard for shipbuilding, and Datang Chemical Company for chemical industry.
Almost every company mentioned above is basically related to national defense.
Therefore, although most of the enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are powerful and occupy a very large proportion in the national economy, they are still unable to control the development of the entire national economy.
Even in the shipbuilding, shipping, coal, chemical and other industries, although most of the top companies in these industries are companies affiliated with the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, in fact, most of them are private companies.
There are thousands of shipyards in the country, but the total number of shipyards under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is only about a dozen.
There are hundreds of large and small coal companies in the country, but there are only three coal companies under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
The same goes for shipping. There is only one shipping company controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, which is the Yangtze River Shipping Company. As for the rest, they are all private shipping companies.
This is true even for overseas trading companies. Although several major trading companies controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and the Pacific Trading Company controlled by the Royal Assets Division together account for half of overseas trade, the rest is generally divided up by private capital.
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Not to mention, in fact, apart from some relatively sensitive companies, many of these companies owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are actually listed companies. This means that the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises is basically only able to rely on majority equity holdings, and has not been able to do so.
Wholly owned.
Private capital occupies a very important position in the development of Datang's industrial and commercial economy, and it is becoming more and more important.
However, it would not be important enough to threaten the stability of the imperial regime, because Li Xuan would not allow it.
In Li Xuan's plan, the economic development model of the Tang Empire in the future will be that enterprises controlled by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises will dominate vital and sensitive industries such as national defense and people's livelihood, while private capital will serve as the mainstay in other general industries.
Role.
Private capital makes money and provides tax revenue to the empire.
As for making guns and artillery, stabilizing people's livelihood, etc., these are not their tasks, but the tasks of national capital.
The two are separated and can develop independently without interfering with each other.
Maybe after a hundred or even decades, the power of private capital will develop even greater, and the technology of private enterprises will develop better. By then, cooperation between state capital and private capital will be inevitable, but what will that bring?
Li Xuan doesn't care about such an impact, since he won't live until that time anyway.
Therefore, when Li Xuan saw Xuanping's 20-year report on the development of domestic industry and commerce, especially the development report of the private economy, he was quite pleased.
Although the political system of the Tang Empire and the entire folk customs were still strongly traditional feudal empire, this did not seem to affect the rapid development of industry and commerce.
In terms of the political system, it was because Li Xuan made a series of improvements. Although it was still imperial centralization in essence, the specific manifestations were similar to some later modern regimes, and it also absorbed certain ideas from later modern countries.
The advantages and disadvantages.
The combination of the two formed a very special Datang Empire!
You have to give this political system a position. It should be an improved imperial centralization system that is more in line with the national conditions of the Tang Dynasty and contemporary development!