Chapter 370: Holding the Emperor hostage to command the princes
Gu Xiguang glanced at Yao Zhengru and other people from Pingyang and the provincial government, nodded, sat down and spoke to everyone first.
“These are some comrades from the Publicity Section of the Yanjing Economic and Trade Commission. Tomorrow some media from Yanjing may come over and conduct some interviews and shoots with the Torch Group. I hope the Torch Group can cooperate! ”
What Gu Xiguang said is unclear, but Yao Zhengru, Li Weimin and other people in the official career could not hear the implication in Gu Xiguang’s words. How could the media that can let him say it himself have such a small background? ?
"The Torch Group must cooperate!" Zhang Xiaocheng said on behalf of the Torch Group, and then arranged for people to accompany the people from the Publicity Department to take pictures of the Torch Group.
After the door of the conference room was closed, Gu Xiguang asked directly, "What is the situation of Torch Group now?"
"At present, Torch Group has made every effort to increase production capacity. The upstream and downstream industrial chain companies in the Torch Industrial Park are currently employed. The number of employees has exceeded 15,000, and it is expected that by the end of the year, the number of employees in the Torch Industrial Park will be close to 27,000!"
Zhang Xiaocheng said to the people from Yanjing, " From the launch to today, the revenue of the entire Torch Group has exceeded 8 million yuan. The current orders of the Torch Group have exceeded 30 million, and the torch advertising business is also increasing rapidly
Torch Group. The group's daily production capacity has now increased to 1.2 million lighters. By next month at the latest, the production capacity will be increased to the level of 2 million lighters per day. Next year, the daily production capacity will reach 4 million. The annual production capacity has reached the expected level of 1.5 billion lighters, and the number of employees in the entire Torch Industrial Park will also reach the expected full strength of about 56,000 people!"
Hearing this, Gu Xiguang, He Heng and others said, Smiles appeared on their faces and they were the first to start applauding. According to the current posture of the Torch Group, it should not be difficult to achieve the goal when the Torch Group was established.
At this time, Yao Zhengru coughed and said, "When the Torch Group was originally established, it reserved space for the second, third and even larger production capacity.
If the sales volume of lighters can meet expectations, then the Torch Group It will also be expanded as expected to increase the production capacity to an annual production capacity of three billion lighters, five billion lighters, or even greater lighter production capacity. The upstream and downstream companies in the entire Torch Industrial Park also have lighter retailers, agents and other practitioners. , the scale may reach about 200,000 to 300,000!
Of course, this is the best expectation. It can open up the domestic market and open sales channels abroad to allow overseas users to accept the Torch Group’s products! !”
Yao Zhengru added at the end, but in the conference room, it was obvious that Gu Xiguang, He Heng and other people from the Yanjing department were breathing heavily.
What Yao Zhengru said was actually what Li Dongling wrote when he proposed the Torch Group plan. Being able to capture the entire lighter industry chain means that it can be regarded as a local pillar industry.
For a city, the benefits brought by this industrial chain may not be too much, but for a district or a county, there is still no problem in relying on this industrial chain to support a county.
In fact, in the previous life, a certain place relied on the lighter industry chain. At its peak, it supported more than 660,000 practitioners. Even in the era of automation, the number of practitioners was around 60,000 to 70,000, supporting the local 70 billion GDP, in the true sense, the food and clothing of millions of workers.
However, when the Torch Group was first established, it was said that it would become an industry with 200,000 employees, which was a bit of a fantasy. Li Dongling only gave this plan to Zhang Xiaocheng, Yao Zhengru, Wu Yaoguo and others. People close to the Torch Group have seen it.
Now, the Torch Group’s early goals are almost completed, so it can naturally take advantage of the situation to propose follow-up projects.
The Torch Group is currently one of the national key industrial park projects that the provincial capital and Yanjing are paying attention to. The second phase expansion also needs to be reported there, even though such a project will definitely not be blocked. , but you still have to follow the procedures that should be followed. The rules of the world are sometimes not only to restrain yourself, but also to protect yourself!
Moreover, what Yao Zhengru said now was not without purpose, but had already been discussed with Li Dongling, Zhang Xiaocheng, Wu Yaoguo and others.
Even Gu Xiguang, who has seen the world and participated in the reorganization and mergers of many large companies, heard that the Torch Industrial Park was planning to build 200,000 or even 300,000 employees. He couldn't help but take a deep breath.
An industrial park with an annual revenue of more than one billion and 50,000 to 60,000 employees, and an industry with revenue exceeding several billion and even a large amount of foreign exchange income, which can accommodate 300,000 employees, is completely Two fundamentally different concepts!
If we really achieve that step, in a certain sense, Torch Group will almost be able to dominate the domestic lighter industry.
Even if Yanjing wants to modify some rules of the lighter industry, it needs to communicate with the Torch Group in advance. After all, this is related to the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people, and there may be hundreds of thousands behind them. Families and jobs for millions of people, who dares to ignore it? !
"We still have to take it one step at a time. We can't rush it. Whether it's Pingyang or the provincial capital of Hanxi, the attitude is the same as Yanjing. They definitely hope that the Torch Group can develop, but we still have to be cautious! Of course, the Economic and Trade Commission and the major departments in Yanjing absolutely support the Torch Group!"
At this time, Gu Xiguang did not dare to agree to anything, with hundreds of thousands of people! Industrial projects cannot be decided directly by him now. They must be reported to the Economic and Trade Commission or even various ministries in Yanjing.
But Gu Xiguang feels that based on the past two years, the Economic and Trade Commission, Development and Reform and other departments will definitely support the expansion of Torch Group. Even if the situation of the state-owned factory is even worse, the Economic and Trade Commission and other departments may not be needed. Torch Group expands a little more radically so that it can recruit more personnel.
What Li Dongling was waiting for was Gu Xiguang's words. After he finished speaking, Li Dongling said, "Director Gu, there is indeed an urgent matter on the Torch Group's side. We need the Economic and Trade Commission to contact Yanjing. Help solve it! ”
Hearing Li Dongling speak, Gu Xiguang's face suddenly became serious, and the rest of the people who were whispering because of Yao Zhengru's words also looked at Li Dongling.
Why are so many of them gathered here today? Everyone knows that it is because of Li Dongling, and the Torch Group can be what it is today. Although Li Dongling praised a lot of people just now, he can find out the inside of the Torch Group. Everyone who knows the news knows who is really operating the Torch Group project!
When Li Dongling spoke, he couldn't help but attract the attention of everyone present. Gu Xiguang said directly to Li Dongling, "Director Li is the largest shareholder of Torch Group, so just speak frankly!"
"Lighter industry, Torch The group is not the first to do this. Dongou and other places have also done it, but they all encountered trouble in the end. They were targeted by America and Old Europe in the name of anti-dumping, and were banned from selling overseas, becoming Japan's benzene. , Bangzi, and America lighter brands!
The lighter manufacturers in these places are mainly family workshops or family companies, and they compete with each other on price, and the quality of their products varies.
As a result, domestic lighter manufacturers are in disarray and unable to stop overseas lawsuits. Moreover, domestic lighters are regarded as synonymous with junk lighters overseas and cannot be sold at a high price, so they are forced to work for overseas lighter manufacturers! "
Gu Xiguang frowned, but Gu Heng from the Foreign Exchange Department sighed. He knew that what Li Dongling said was the truth. Previously, domestically produced metal lighters were sued by overseas lighter manufacturers every three days, and then they were fined. Due to the ban, they couldn’t be sold at all, so they were forced to work for American and Nippon lighter manufacturers to earn a meager OEM fee.
“What does Director Li want to do? "Gu Xiguang hesitated for a moment, then asked.
Li Dongling laughed, "I already said it when the Torch Group was established.
In order to avoid what happened to the lighter industry in the past, which also happened to the Torch Group, and in order to open up overseas markets and allow the second and third phases of the Torch Group's projects to proceed smoothly, I hope that the Economic and Trade Commission and the Development Committee will The departments of reform, foreign exchange, customs, industry and commerce, and industry will take the lead to support Torch Group in establishing a lighter import and export association!
In the future, the Lighter Import and Export Association will formulate domestic lighter industry rules, formulate product quality standards, and avoid malicious competition. In addition, the export share, export price, and customs settlement of major lighter companies every year will also be uniformly responsible for the Lighter Import and Export Association! ”
Gu Xiguang, He Heng and others couldn’t help but take a breath of cold air. As soon as the Lighter Import and Export Association was established, Torch Group almost immediately became the leader of the domestic lighter industry.
Of course, this has pros and cons. In the past, the lighter industry was leaderless and each fought independently in the face of overseas competition and litigation. The result was a complete failure.
If the lighter import and export association proposed by Torch Group is established, then Torch Group will become a domestically produced lighter. The leader in the industry is qualified to handle lawsuits against domestic lighters in America, Old Europe and other places.
Another point is that when the resources of the domestic lighter industry are integrated, the Torch Group will be qualified to be a rising star. , challenged BIC and other established lighter manufacturers, and even overwhelmed them
In the past, in China, we could only OEM for foreign lighter manufacturers and earn meager OEM fees. The era when we can earn a meager OEM fee will be gone forever. What Torch Group needs to do is not to OEM for those foreign lighter brands, but to rob them. their jobs, smash their pots, and drive them out of this industry completely.
Why do the places that produce 70% of the world's lighters have to follow the rules and standards of several foreign lighter manufacturers? Why can't the global lighter industry standards be formulated by Torch Group?
The Lighter Import and Export Association is the shining sword of the Torch Group to the domestic and overseas lighter industry. The Lighter Import and Export Association is in the hands of the Torch Group. The Torch Group threatens the emperor to order the princes and affects the entire domestic lighter industry. !
(End of this chapter)