Guanghui Automobile was formerly an old state-owned automobile factory in Donghai.
It was also a long-established automobile manufacturer that enjoyed a period of glory back then.
Unfortunately, under the impact of foreign joint venture brands, this major automobile manufacturer has suffered from poor performance for many years, and has no choice but to start reforms and attract shareholders.
However, automobile manufacturing is an industry with huge investment. The funds required for the research and development and manufacturing of a new car are astronomical.
The car factory couldn't spend so much money on research and development, so it could only copy other people's designs. However, this kind of copycat design was naturally difficult for the market to accept. Over time, the car factory did not perform well and eventually had to sell it to others.
Became a subsidiary company of Guanghui Group.
Guanghui Group is the leading conglomerate in Donghai, so being acquired by them is considered a lucky thing.
However, what the automobile factory did not expect was that just after Guanghui Group took over, it would be acquired by others.
The originally bright future suddenly turned dark again.
However, unexpectedly, things took a turn for the better. Although Guanghui Group had a new boss, this new boss also seemed to be very interested in building cars.
After receiving the news that Lin Chen wanted to visit the automobile factory that had been renamed Guanghui Automobile, the entire factory immediately started to move.
Sweeping the floor, cleaning the windows, sprinkling water and dusting, all kinds of preparations have been done since early in the morning. We must make a good impression on the new boss.
Not long after, Lin Chen's motorcade arrived.
Two Cadillac No. 1s opened the road to escort, and Lin Chen's stretched Cadillac was in the middle, looking impressive.
The security guard at the gate saw the procession from a distance and immediately opened the door to let people in.
After the convoy drove in, a middle-aged man in a suit immediately came over to greet him with a group of workers holding small red flags.
"Welcome, welcome, warm welcome!"
When Lin Chen and Tang Xin got off the car, the workers immediately shouted. A middle-aged man came up and said with a smile: "Hello, Director Lin, Hello, Director Tang, welcome to Guanghui Automobile Factory. I am the current employee of Guanghui Automobile Factory."
Factory Director Wang Wei, everyone has been waiting for you for a long time, please come in."
Lin Chen glanced at the workers nearby waving red flags and shouting slogans, and snorted in his heart.
This Guanghui Automobile Factory is truly worthy of being a state-owned enterprise. Its style and style are similar to those of state-owned enterprises. A factory does not want to make good cars, but focuses on formalism. It is strange that it can make good cars.
"Dong Lin, Dong Dong, we have prepared tea in the reception room, shall we go and sit for a while?"
"No need." Lin Chen waved his hand directly, "I want to see the workshop."
Wang Wei was stunned for a moment, then immediately smiled and said: "Okay, it seems that Director Lin attaches great importance to our factory, which is great. The two of you, please..."
As a long-established automobile factory, Guanghui Automobile Factory covers a large area, and this land alone is worth a lot of money.
Unfortunately, due to the poor profitability of the automobile factory, large areas here are basically idle now, with only three workshops currently in operation.
It's just that these workshops are no longer producing cars, but are producing auto parts.
Guanghui Automobile Factory's own brand has long since collapsed, and the original copycat cars have stopped production long ago because they could not be sold. Now the entire factory relies on OEMs to barely survive.
However, along the way, Lin Chen discovered that although the factory was deserted, the equipment here was quite good.
The entire automobile assembly line is available, and according to Wang Wei, the factory's production technology and capabilities are among the best in the country, otherwise other automobile companies would not be able to provide them with OEM business.
The only thing the factory lacks right now is its own car design.
Lin Chen nodded and was continuing to visit. Suddenly, a short middle-aged man rushed towards the team from the side.
The bodyguard next to Lin Chen immediately stopped him, but the middle-aged man refused to let him go and still wanted to go to Lin Chen. He shouted at the same time: "Director Lin! Director Lin! I have a big question about the car factory."
I have something to tell you!"
"What's going on?" Lin Chen turned his head strangely.
"It's that guy again? You guys go and pull him back for me!" Wang Wei saw the person clearly, his face changed, and he ordered other people in the factory who were following him.
Immediately, someone from the factory went over and wanted to take the middle-aged man away.
At this time, Lin Chen calculated in his mind: This man said that he had something big to say about the car factory. The probability of this being true is... 100%!
The so-called big thing is that the probability of corruption is... 0%!
Shouldn't you report it to the factory leaders?
What's going on?
Lin Chen couldn't help but be curious: "Wait a minute, let him come over and have a chat!"
Wang Wei wondered: "Director Lin, that guy is just a bully. We'd better not waste time on him."
"King of Cowhide?" Lin Chen was even more curious, "What do you mean?"
Wang Wei had no choice but to say: "The man's name is Chen Li. He is a worker in the factory. He likes to make small inventions. When the factory was still a state-owned enterprise, he said he hoped that the factory would invest money in researching battery cars, but he did not.
Human management. Later, after Guanghui Group acquired us, he also mentioned this matter to the leaders of Guanghui Group."
"Battery car?"
Aren’t battery cars just new energy vehicles?
Now, Lin Chen was more interested in Chen Li.
After a while, Chen Li was brought over.
And his purpose is indeed the same as what Wang Wei said just now, which is to promote his battery car theory.
Even though Chen Li looks to be in his fifties, his vision is very forward and he even said that battery vehicles are the key development direction of future automobiles.
He also said that Guanghui Automobile Factory is already old. If it wants to develop, it will be equivalent to starting from scratch. In this case, the new boss might as well consider battery cars to overtake in a corner.
Not only that, Chen Li seems to be really enthusiastic about battery cars. He even used the sales boom of the new electric sports car that Tesla released last year as an example to try to make Lin Chen see the prospects of battery cars.
While Chen Li was talking eloquently, Wang Wei and other people from the car factory were shaking their heads, but did not dare to speak out for fear of offending the new boss.
But they didn't know that Lin Chen actually listened with great interest.
And he deeply believed in what Chen Li said.
Cars have always been known as the engine of the country.
From engines, to automobile building materials and overall design, even as small as a screw, it is related to countless industries.
Therefore, the automobile industry is also known as the strongest industry.
Many top consortiums will have their own automobile groups under their subsidiaries, because the automobile industry plays a role similar to an adhesive and a leavening agent for those entity consortiums that want to respond.
Although most of Lin Chen's current industries are based on the virtual economy, he has never given up on industrial business.
So after seeing that there was a car company under the name of Guanghui Group, he immediately kept the company and planned to keep it for his own use.