Chapter 187 Employee Benefits (Medium Cup)
October 14th.
The low-key motorcade slowly passed through Jiayuan County and then turned north.
Many of the farmlands on both sides are bare, with only the stubble after harvest remaining, still entrenched tenaciously on this vast expanse of Monan grassland.
In the pastures outside the farmland, the pastures began to wither and turn yellow. Many herdsmen drove tractors to collect the last crop of hay and prepare to store it for their cattle and sheep to survive the winter.
But this year, the local herdsmen looked a little more calm.
Because they don't need to worry too much about the supply of winter pasture and feed in the future, the impact of falling beef and mutton prices is only a temporary pain.
Reflected in the market, while the price of beef and mutton has plummeted, the price of lamb and calves has increased by 8∽12% compared with previous years.
The emergence of this phenomenon can only explain one problem, that is, cattle and sheep farmers are optimistic about the future domestic breeding industry. Even if the price of beef and mutton plummets, it still does not lower the farmers' expectations for the future.
The convoy passes the highway bridge over the Livestock River.
On the pickup truck, through the window glass, I could see that there were many more residential buildings in the livestock village. Among the many small one-story buildings, there were more than a dozen five- and six-story self-built houses that were not available before.
These self-built houses are newly decorated, with big red signs hanging on the tops of the buildings.
There are restaurants such as "Prairie Family", "Sichuan and Chongqing Hot Pot Restaurant", "Shaxian Snacks", and "Ajie Kebab".
There are "Tamin Chagan B&B", "Yinshawan Hotel", "Yanghe Bathhouse", "Healthy Bathing Center", etc. for accommodation and bathing.
There are also grocery stores, hardware stores, small supermarkets, vegetable and fruit shops, beef and mutton shops, barber shops, etc.
When Jiang Miao came here in March, Shangyang Animal Husbandry Village was still an ordinary village on the edge of the grassland. Deserted, empty and lonely were the main colors here.
Returning after half a year, the atmosphere of the city is a bit stronger than that of Jiayuan County.
The total population of Jiayuan County is only 151,100, of which 60,000 to 70,000 are in the county seat and 80,000 to 90,000 are in the villages.
Shangyang Animal Husbandry Village is the headquarters of the Monan Branch of Hailufeng Company and the core of the Taminchagan base. It not only has the branch office building, but also has supporting employee communities, employee training centers, agricultural machinery stations, and soybean seed processing Factory, forage processing plant, forage storage warehouse, grain storage warehouse.
To the west of Shangyang Animal Husbandry Village and next to Yinshawan Scenic Area is Taminchagan Breeding Base, which breeds more than 100,000 cattle and sheep.
Taminchagan Breeding Base also has many facilities, including breeding farms, veterinary stations, silage warehouses, organic fertilizer plants, slaughterhouses, refrigerated warehouses and logistics centers.
In the sandy land about 12 kilometers east of Shangyang Animal Husbandry Village, there are supporting facilities such as Taminchagan Bee Farm and honey processing plant under construction.
The number of employees of Guangmonan Branch here is almost 2,700 at this time, and the number of employees is still increasing rapidly.
The convoy entered the gate of Taminchagan base.
The branch office has been moved from the previous temporary container room to the office area next to the employee community.
Jiang Miao's motorcade was in the office area at this time.
There are a total of 12 office buildings in the entire office area, all of which are 9-story buildings. The templates for these office buildings are residential buildings.
Since residential properties are not considered, these office buildings were put into use in September, and the decoration inside is very simple.
Regarding Jiang Miao's arrival, branch managers Liu Zhiben and Wu Song did not notify many people. They took their assistants to greet her in the parking lot.
"Boss! Welcome to come and give us guidance."
Jiang Miao nodded: "Thank you for your hard work. Let's go in and talk about tomorrow's arrangements."
Liu Zhiben led the way: "Boss, please come this way."
Arriving at one of the new office buildings.
The area of this office building is not large, with a base area of only 500 square meters. However, the combination of 10 office buildings is enough. In addition, a large number of previous container houses have not been demolished. The two thousand people passing through the base provide sufficient accommodation space.
Taking the elevator outside the building, everyone arrived at the top floor of the office building.
The fresh air system has been turned on in the chairman's office in advance, and the temperature and humidity are relatively comfortable at this time.
Jiang Miao did not take a seat, but stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the entire employee community and office area through the one-way transparent glass: "Talking to the root cause, the temperature will start to cool down here next month. Have the heating arrangements for the employee community been arranged? ?”
"It has been arranged. We will customize several heating supply systems from a company that specializes in molten salt thermal storage and heating systems in July. All installation and commissioning will be completed by the end of the month."
Jiang Miao had seen the briefing from Monan Branch on this matter.
Molten salt heat storage and heating systems are currently not widely used in the north. Compared with traditional coal-fired hot water heating systems, the advantage of this system is that it can use electricity in off-peak hours, reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
Liu Zhiben talked about the arrangements for electricity use: "In terms of electricity use, we have signed a dedicated line cooperation agreement with Jingneng International's branch in Zhelimu City, and their wind power station will provide us with dedicated power supply, using the electricity from their wind power station. Valley Power, the contract electricity price is 0.145 yuan per kilowatt-hour.”
This is a win-win cooperation for Jingneng International and Hailufeng Monan Branch.
At present, wind power stations all over the world are facing a problem, which is the instability of wind power, which puts huge pressure on the power grid. Guodian has very high requirements for wind power to be connected to the Internet. Even if it can be connected to the Internet, it does not mean that all the wind power can be connected to the Internet. Wind power is effectively input into the grid.
This has led to a high proportion of wind power curtailment, especially for wind power in the Three-North region. The curtailment rate has always been higher than that of coastal wind power projects. The reason is that these Three-North wind power projects are far away from the core power consumption market.
For example, in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning, the proportion of abandoned wind power in local power generation is relatively high, with Heilongjiang Province accounting for 17.70%, Jilin Province accounting for 16.20%, and Liaoning Province accounting for 12.00%.
Although Zhelimu City belongs to Monan Province in terms of administrative division, from the perspective of geographical division, it actually belongs to the Northeast region. The proportion of wind power curtailment here is similar to that of Liao Province, at around 13.2%.
Jingneng International has three wind power projects in Zhelim City, with installed wind power capacities of 2.38 million kilowatts, 1.38 million kilowatts, and 1 million kilowatts, totaling 4.76 million kilowatts.
Judging from the wind energy availability in Zhelimu City, the average power generation time per year is about 3,500 hours, which means that the installed capacity of 4.76 million kilowatts can theoretically generate 16.6 billion kilowatt hours per year.
Based on a power curtailment ratio of 13.2%, Beijing Energy International’s three power generation projects in Jelimu City will abandon at least 2.19 billion kilowatt hours of electricity every year.
What is the concept of 2.19 billion kilowatt hours?
Residents of Jelim City consumed only 2.27 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity last year.
In other words, the wind power curtailment scale of Jingneng International’s three local projects alone is equivalent to the electricity consumption of local residents.
Now that Hailufeng is willing to take over their power abandonment, this is a good thing for Jingneng International.
The Monan Branch has built a molten salt heat storage system to heat the entire employee community, livestock-raising villages, breeding bases and factories.
These lava salt heat storage systems are also supporting facilities for the Taminchakan Thermal Power Plant, but this thermal power plant is still in the planning stage.
The waste electricity from wind power and photovoltaics is stored through molten salt heat storage, and then the entire thermoelectric power generation system is in a stable operating state. After the steam turbine of the thermal power plant generates electricity, the steam still retains a huge amount of waste heat. This waste heat can provide centralized heating for the surrounding area. .
In winter, it is used for heating residents and enterprises; in the non-heating season, it can be used to provide heat to forage processing plants, for rapid drying of forage, or to supply heat energy to canneries and grease processing plants.
Currently, Taminchagan Heating Company, a subsidiary of the Monan Branch, has signed a heating contract with nearby residents. The monthly heating fee is 3 yuan per square meter, and company employees pay half the price.
Taking an indoor area of 100 square meters as an example, the monthly heating cost for ordinary residents is 300 yuan, and for company employees it is 150 yuan.
As for why Jingneng International doesn’t build its own molten salt heat storage power plant.
The reason is also very simple.
Molten salt heat storage power plants require cogeneration of heat and power to be profitable, but this model of cogeneration can only be successfully achieved by large-scale industrial enterprises.
Otherwise, the waste heat of the thermal power plant will be wasted, which will reduce the operating income of the entire system, lengthen the payback period of investment, and increase project risks.
If you want to take advantage of the low-cost power generation from wind power and photovoltaic, if there is no corresponding industry to accommodate it, ordinary companies will not have the capital and ability.
After listening to Liu Zhiben's vivid description, Jiang Miao already knew the heating situation of the Taminchagan base. "Talking to the root cause, how are you arranging the housing in the employee community?"
"At present, all 1,800 houses in the first phase have been completed. 600 houses have undergone simple decoration. The remaining 1,200 houses will be fully decorated before the end of the year." Liu Zhiben, who stood behind Jiang Miao, paused for a while and looked at The boss didn't say anything, he continued:
"Considering that most of the employees in the Monan Branch have less than one year of working experience, we have not opened the reservation channel. Currently, the entire employee community and office area are managed by the Taminchagan Property Management Company under the branch. Then 600 simply furnished rooms are used as temporary dormitories for employees, each housing six employees, and each employee has a small independent room.”
"We also provide low-cost rental services. The monthly rent is 2 yuan per square meter. The standard room is 120 square meters. Currently, there are dozens of employees who choose to rent a house because they are couples here. .”
Jiang Miao turned around: "When I came here just now, I took a look around and found that the supporting facilities near the base are not enough. For example, for medical treatment, you need to go to the county town, which is more than ten kilometers away, which is inconvenient."
"Boss, let's open a hospital?" Liu Zhiben asked with some uncertainty.
Jiang Miao shook his head: "It's not cost-effective to open a hospital. It's enough to open an internal diagnosis and treatment station to solve employees' problems such as colds, fevers, and injuries. In addition, with the functions of emergency rescue and hospitalization, if you want to treat severe and difficult diseases, It’s better to go to a tertiary hospital.”
"I understand." Liu Zhiben quickly wrote the matter down in a small notebook.
Jiang Miao continued: "We will also open a small kindergarten. Many employees will definitely live here for a long time in the future. When they get married and have children, the children will definitely need to be settled."
"Boss, is there anything else you need to add?"
"That's it for the time being. In the future, you should chat with employees regularly and ask them what difficulties they have. Problems that the company can solve collectively can be summarized and reported to the head office."
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"Okay."
Only by paying attention to employee welfare can we retain people.
In a bitterly cold place like Monan, with freezing temperatures in winter, flying sand and dust storms in spring, if employee welfare and supporting facilities are not good, after working for a period of time, employees will feel that it is not suitable to stay here for a long time.
We must know that the Horqin Sandy Land contracted area of the Monan Branch is a full 30 million acres. In the future, it will require at least hundreds of thousands of employees, and the number of employees may be more than the population of Zhelimu City.
In this case, we cannot rely on the government to bear all the supporting facilities. After all, the government has to coordinate the overall situation. Even if the corresponding supporting facilities are planned, it will take time to build and improve.
In the early stage, Hailufeng could only rely on itself to provide various services to its employees.
At present, the supporting facilities for employees in the Taminchagan base include canteens, bathrooms, and toilets, as well as a small park, a small stadium, and an indoor activity center.
Liu Zhiben introduced him to the specific operation of these facilities.
Jiang Miao listened for a while, frowned, and then ordered: "Indoor activity centers must be managed well, such as chess and card rooms, billiard rooms, KTV, etc. Employees must be strictly prohibited from gambling and illegal activities. I will ask the Supervision Department to send People are specifically watching the use of these facilities.”
"Okay, I will also seriously warn everyone." Liu Zhiben quickly expressed his stance.
"This matter cannot be just a verbal warning, it must be implemented in the system. You should communicate with the legal department and issue a more detailed management regulations on employees' life style. If employees fail to repent after repeated warnings, they will be directly fired and reported to the police. Process.”
"Yes, I will arrange it as soon as possible."
In Jiang Miao's view, the life style of employees is a key issue that deserves attention. If left unchecked, a lot of problems can easily arise.
For example, in gambling, if someone loses his mind, extreme incidents can easily occur. This kind of thing can be big or small. If it is just an employee committing suicide by jumping off a building, it is easy to deal with. I am afraid of sabotage or indiscriminate retaliation during the production process. other employees.
The reason why he specifically mentioned this matter was because a vicious incident occurred in the engineering team that contracted the decoration project of the headquarters employee community some time ago.
The reason was that a few decoration workers gathered together to gamble, and one of them lost hundreds of thousands. After that person went back, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that those workers had cheated him. The next day, they had a fight on the construction site, and one of the decoration workers was beaten. The shovel broke his arm, and the worker who lost the money broke three ribs.
This incident made Jiang Miao very angry and scolded the contractor bloody.
This matter also attracted Jiang Miao's attention, and he has ordered the Legal Department to formulate regulations on employee life style management.
At the same time, companies that have contracted Hailufeng's related projects are required to sign supplementary terms on employee life style management. If similar vicious incidents occur, the corresponding contract payments of the contracting company will be deducted. If the situation is serious, the contract will be terminated directly.
The companies that had contracted related projects were also taken aback and quickly conducted internal investigations.
Within Hailufeng Company, Jiang Miao also ordered the Supervision Department to investigate employees’ lifestyle issues, and issued an internal announcement to encourage employees to report anonymously.
As expected, you wouldn’t know if you didn’t check, but you would be shocked if you checked.
The headquarters, Gannan branch, and Qiongzhou branch all discovered many problematic employees. Among them, 17 people participated in gambling. Some were gambling among internal employees, some were participating in online gambling, and some were gambling with outsiders.
The company fired 5 people, severely warned 12 people, and reported the matter internally.
Although the Monan Branch has not discovered this kind of thing, Jiang Miao knows very well that when many people are bored, they like to find something to do, and gambling is a way of entertainment for many people.
The Monan Branch has been very busy in the past few months, and many employees have just gotten to know each other, so there is no obvious gambling phenomenon. However, with the arrival of winter, a lot of work in the Monan Branch will stop, and then there will be free time Too much and problems will show up.
Therefore, Jiang Miao reminded Liu Zhiben to pay attention to this matter, so as not to make up for it again if something went wrong.
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At noon, Jiang Miao, Liu Zhiben and others had dinner in the canteen and inspected the management of the canteen.
Regarding the canteen's requirements, Jiang Miao's first concern was food safety. He carefully observed the cooking oil, seasonings, vegetables, fruits, and various meat products used in the canteen's kitchen.
As an agricultural company, and the Monan region is originally a major cattle and sheep production area, the beef and mutton here are supplied by its own slaughterhouse, and the fish and meat products are transported from the headquarters in the cold chain, so this part is not a big problem.
In terms of fruits and vegetables, Jiang Miao discovered that many fruits and vegetables were stored improperly.
"The cold storage in the canteen must be arranged as soon as possible. It is autumn now. These fruits and vegetables are fine, but they will easily go bad in summer."
"Okay, boss, I'll arrange it as soon as possible." Liu Zhiben was like a chicken pecking at rice, with sweat breaking out on his forehead.
One lap down.
Jiang Miao is quite satisfied overall.
This is also related to the fact that the purchasing department is independent of the branch. The branch and the canteen are not responsible for purchasing, and the purchasing department is very strictly controlled by the head office, so it will naturally not use bad ingredients.
After lunch, he, led by Wu Song, came to the Taminchagan Breeding Base.
First, I took a look at the breeding situation.
Properly maintained local cattle, cross-bred Simmental cattle, and cross-Angus cattle all perform well.
Local cattle are cared for in terms of flavor and growth rate, and their products are mainly supplied to Chaoshan beef hot pot.
Crossbred Simmental cattle are maintained for growth speed and lean meat content, and are mainly used as affordable beef products.
Cross-breed Angus cattle are maintained for growth speed, flavor, and marbling, and are supplied to Western restaurants and barbecue restaurants.
Jiang Miao saw that the marble pattern of more than 100 cross-breed Angus cattle was almost the same as that of Wagyu cattle. Obviously, these cross-breed Angus cattle could be used as breeding cattle to cultivate the next generation of domestic frost cattle.
Then he took a car from the north gate of the breeding base and headed to the organic fertilizer factory five kilometers to the north, located in the hinterland of the farm.
In order to facilitate transportation, a simple track is also arranged between the breeding base and the organic fertilizer factory, and cattle, sheep dung and organic fertilizer are transported to and from the two places by tram.
The reason why the organic fertilizer factory is located five kilometers away is mainly to reduce the smell produced during the fermentation process of cattle and sheep manure, which affects nearby residents and the Yinshawan Scenic Area.
In addition to conventional fermentation facilities, this organic fertilizer processing plant also has an earthworm farm and a black soldier fly farm.
Earthworm farms and black soldier fly farms are semi-experimental attempts and are currently only attempted on a small scale.
(End of chapter)