Chapter 713 The clarion call for major upgrades (Third update, please subscribe)
What are the prerequisites for industrial transfer?
Most of the time, people think of the country’s industrial surplus, but at the beginning, the core is to eliminate backward production capacity. The usual approach is to sell the country’s backward equipment abroad, but this is just a one-off move. Buying and selling, so sometimes people will also use investment methods - moving their own backward machinery and equipment to foreign countries to set up factories, and using cheap foreign labor to make up for the low production efficiency and high production costs of backward machinery and equipment.
This is the original intention of industrial transfer - to eliminate backward production capacity.
What does the backward production capacity correspond to?
Of course it is advanced production capacity.
In fact, Nanyang still has a lot of advanced production capacity. The famous "Tiannv Brand Air Jet Loom" is the most advanced loom in the world. From the beginning of 1945 when the first "air-jet loom" was born in the British laboratory, to the "Tiannu brand air-jet loom" of Tiannv Textile Machinery Company in 1945, it was put into production.
Since then, air-jet looms have become the representative of the most advanced production capacity in Nanyang.
“…The weft insertion method is different from the mechanical weft insertion of ordinary looms. The mechanical weft insertion speed is limited by mechanical movement and cannot be raised very high. For example, the arrow shaft loom has the fastest weft insertion rate. The weft insertion rate is only about 600 meters/minute, and the weft insertion frequency is only about 300 times/minute. The fastest weft insertion rate of the Tiannv brand air-jet loom has reached 1700 meters/minute. As for the weaving width, it has increased from the initial 1200 mm. 2400 mm..."
As an engineer of a textile machinery company, Swati, when mentioning all this, couldn't help but echo in his mind the several times of help from His Excellency the President. When he was in London, with the funding of His Excellency Next, he made the original model of air-jet fabric, but due to the lack of control measures for air flow diffusion, the width of the fabric was only 450 mm. It was under your suggestion that they developed a combined duct piece to limit the air flow diffusion, so that Jet technology has made breakthrough progress, and it is precisely because of this that it was later put into production.
In the past few years, they have continuously improved their air-jet looms and developed auxiliary nozzle weft insertion technology, which has greatly increased the width and speed of the loom, and the test model even exceeded 2,000 meters.
The weaving efficiency has increased by more than three times on average. This efficiency is amazing, and of course it is also the core of the profits of Nanyang Textile Enterprises - the production efficiency is too high.
“However, due to technical reasons, we can only produce single-color, simple plain weave fabrics. However, the company’s technical staff have been working on further improving it...”
Listening to Swati's introduction, Zhu Jiechen, the general manager of the company, just nodded slightly and then asked.
“Is the development of the new arrow shaft loom going smoothly?”
Although the efficiency of air-jet weaving is high, its product quality is poor and the fabrics are single. Therefore, current Nanyang textile companies still cannot do without arrow looms. Of course, several models including Toyota G type Arrow looms, like air-jet looms, are the company's current flagship products.
“Everything is going well. At present, the weft insertion rate of the sample arrow loom in the laboratory has reached the fastest speed of 1000 meters/minute. However, due to thread breakage and other reasons, there are still some technical problems that need to be overcome. . ”
Swati then explained one by one the technical problems encountered during the development process. Although Zhu Jiechen was not a technician, he was not an outsider in technology. They chatted for a while. After that, Zhu Jiechen said.
"Chief Engineer Sri Lanka, the current market situation has undergone some changes. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry has issued a new document to encourage companies to invest in eliminating outdated production capacity abroad,"
mentioned Zhu Jiechen continued to talk about the recently hotly discussed "elimination of backward production capacity."
"At the same time, we also plan to work with the financial sector to promote equipment upgrades in the industrial field. The financial sector will provide low-interest loans to support companies in updating equipment and upgrading production capacity. In other words, there will be a large number of factories purchasing new equipment in the future, so we We must try our best to seize this opportunity, but we must not take advantage of foreign companies. Once such an opportunity is missed, there may not be another time.”
When he said these words, Zhu Jiechen did not know. What is surprising is that for a long time to come, industrial transfers will continue, and correspondingly, enterprise equipment will also continue to be upgraded.
"Industrial transfer cannot just be a matter of change. This point of view is correct."
In the office of the official residence, Li Yian looked at the documents while talking to Zhao Shijie and Zuo Shijie. Xiaohan said.
One of them is the governor of the Central Bank and the other is the director-general of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. They came here together today because of the industrial transfer.
"Yes, Your Excellency,"
Zuo Xiaohan said. "If everything is reversed, then what awaits Nanyang will definitely be an economic recession. In the final analysis, industry is the foundation. Without industry, the financial industry and the service industry will be without roots. Therefore, the purpose of industrial transfer is not It is not just to eliminate backward production capacity, but to promote the upgrading of enterprise production equipment."
Listening to his explanation, Li Yian put together the document in his hand. This document is for business. The document jointly issued by the Ministry of Industry and the Central Bank encourages companies to update equipment.
“Tell me, how did you come up with this?”
Li Yian was still very surprised that Zuo Xiaohan was able to discover the disadvantages of "industrial transfer". After all, it is very rare for people to see this and think of countermeasures. To a certain extent, this kind of thinking is undoubtedly ahead of its time. It can even fundamentally solve a series of problems caused by industrial transfer.
“After promulgating the proposal for industrial transfer, because you once mentioned the possibility of de-industrialization brought about by industrial transfer, I have been thinking about this issue. As you said, capital pursues profits. Yes, once they taste the sweetness brought by industrial transfer, cheap labor is like opium and they can’t quit it.”
That’s right!
In another world, there are several developed countries that have been able to stop using cheap products brought about by globalization. Bargains are really delicious!
What does this fragrance cost?
Unemployment of the middle and lower classes and deindustrialization of the country. This process is like a slow poison. At the beginning, everyone feels that the cheap goods are very fragrant, and then slowly transfers. In this process, people slowly pay the price for the cheapness. This price may even destroy a whole company. The foundation of the country.
It is precisely for this reason that when designing the "industrial transfer" plan, Li Yian mentioned that while the company is transferring its backward production capacity, it must also do a good job in relocating employees. It must not be done at once, but Zuo Xiaohan saw further.
The plan he gave will not only allow Nanyang to realize industrial transfer, but also ensure that Nanyang's foundation will not be damaged.
This is indeed a very good method.
In another world, with the so-called globalization, countless companies have disappeared in their own countries. They have located their production lines abroad, and capital has benefited from this process.
What about ordinary industrial workers?
Although they enjoy seemingly cheap foreign products, they are trapped in unemployment, just like another world, the American Rust Belt.
Having learned this lesson, the same thing will never happen in Nanyang.
Nodding slightly, Li Yian motioned for them to continue.
“Therefore, it must be restricted from the beginning. Although we have issued corresponding employee placement regulations, this only treats the symptoms rather than the root cause. The key is to introduce corresponding measures to encourage enterprises to While transferring backward production capacity, we should upgrade equipment domestically, thus avoiding domestic de-industrialization and employee unemployment, and at the same time improving domestic industrial production capacity."
"Not only that,"
Zhao Shijie said.
“Through financial support, the financial industry can also benefit from it and achieve further development.”
This is of course the fundamental reason why he supports this kind of industrial upgrading, and the financial industry can benefit from it. Get very good returns.
As soon as he finished speaking, Zuo Xiaohan continued to add.
"Furthermore, the industrial level of technical equipment will also be improved accordingly. After all, market demand will stimulate the development of the equipment manufacturing industry. Of course, so we must eliminate backward and inefficient equipment, old equipment that has expired, and transfer these equipment abroad. At the same time, it will not only lead to the de-industrialization of Nanyang, but will also further promote the industrial development of Nanyang and further improve the industrial level of Nanyang!"
After finishing his words, Zuo Xiaohan was full of expectations! Looking at Your Excellency, now is the time for Your Excellency to make a decision.
(End of this chapter)