Chapter 68 Big moves in China’s automobile industry
After Chen Qi was sent away, Chen Chenxing actively joined in.
"Master, the clay model is a key node in the BJ212 upgrade project, and the factory attaches great importance to it."
"Since Mr. Chen is going to make the clay model confirmation a bigger issue, I think the project team office also needs to do something."
Chen Chenxing is now more positive about Jiang Hui than anyone else.
Many people now know that he is Jiang Hui's apprentice.
The master-disciple relationship in this era is definitely second only to the father-son relationship.
As long as Jiang Hui does well, his life as an apprentice will not be bad.
"What specific ideas do you have?"
Even though Chen Chenxing was a little transparent before the technical department, his professional skills were not outstanding, and his behavior was not smooth.
But his brain is not actually stupid, he just found his previous job a bit boring.
“The manufacturers on the automobile industry street are basically our supporting factories. The key components such as the engine and gearbox on our BJ212 are produced by these factories.”
"In this case, only these supporting factories are confident in the project and are willing to invest maximum resources and energy to promote the upgrading of parts and solve various problems encountered during the mass production of parts."
“Inviting them to visit the 1:1 clay model and letting them have confidence in the upgraded BJ212 is the best way.”
“And this is also a time for them to see the master. Opportunities for your new skills ”
Hearing what Chen Chenxing said, Jiang Hui couldn't help but nodded.
There will definitely be no harm in letting the heads of the major supporting factories come and take a look.
Although being pregnant is like being pregnant, everyone knows it after a long time, but if you can get it right in one step, who is willing to wait?
"I will discuss the specific arrangements for the clay model visit with Chu Lu and Chu Liang later, and report this idea to them."
I didn't offer any advice just now, so now I go directly to Chen Odd, it's somewhat inappropriate.
But to report to Lu Jianqiang and Liang Yi, there would be no problem at all.
Let more people know that the BJ212 upgrade project jointly promoted by the Design Department and the Technology Department has been a success, which is definitely something that will be supported.
Soon, Jiang Hui went to implement this matter.
Several major supporting factories have also received contact and arranged for personnel to come to the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant this Saturday morning to visit the clay model of the new BJ212.
After hearing that the appearance and interior of the new BJ212 can be seen in advance through the clay model, everyone is naturally very enthusiastic.
When Zhu Jiansheng came over the next day, the visit to the clay model had almost been arranged.
“It is indeed a good thing to make this event bigger.”
“Now that everything is waiting for improvement, the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant can come up with a brand new BJ212 design plan in such a short period of time. When it came out, it also brought the core supporting manufacturers to upgrade the three major parts and other key parts.”
“This can be used as a typical example to promote, that is, the prototype car has not been produced yet. Come out, or you can ask higher-level leaders to come and inspect it."
Zhu Jiansheng immediately realized the importance of this matter.
If done well, Jiang Hui's image of being versatile and professional will spread.
Especially during this period, the serialization of "Desire" in "People's Literature" gave Jiang Hui a great reputation among many workers. From time to time, people wait outside the design office just to take a look at Jiang Hui's true appearance.
As an industrial enterprise, the Capital Automobile Manufacturing Plant has most of its workers as men. Even so, there are still one or two thousand female workers in the entire factory.
If Jiang Hui hadn't been married, matchmakers would probably have filled his office.
Now that everyone knows that he has such a high talent in car exterior design, his popularity can definitely reach a higher level.
“There is indeed a big gap between China’s automobile industry and the world. The combined output of all domestic automobile manufacturers such as FAW and Second Automobile Works will only be about 150,000 vehicles this year.”
“This number is even less than a fraction of that in the United States and Japan.”
In front of his teacher and father-in-law, Jiang Hui didn’t have so many scruples when speaking, and basically said whatever came to his mind. .
According to the information he knows, Japan's domestic car production can exceed 10 million vehicles this year, and the United States can also exceed 8 million vehicles.
Especially in terms of cars, the gap is even greater. One day's car production is equivalent to China's year's production.
Of course, Jiang Hui, who knows the development trend of many things later, will definitely not lose confidence.
Unlike being a part of this era, after seeing the huge gap, my mentality completely changed.
It can be said that the following 1980s and 1990s were the times when Chinese intellectuals most admired foreign things.
The reason is that these public intellectuals have seen the huge gap between domestic and foreign countries and feel that China cannot catch up with others no matter how hard it tries.
But Jiang Hui knew that Japan and the United States now have very good urban construction and industrial development, but in another forty years, their cities will not have changed much, while China has completely changed.
This seemingly impossible gap can be caught up at a speed beyond everyone’s imagination.
For Jiang Hui, this process naturally contains huge opportunities.
His automobile empire will inevitably be established in this process.
Of course, it is only 1978, it is too early to consider starting your own company, and it will have to take a few years to do so.
"The situation you mentioned has been realized by the higher-ups."
"Just yesterday, I heard that the First Machinery Department and other departments jointly sent invitation letters to well-known automobile manufacturers in the world to discuss cooperation matters, such as the United States General Motors and Ford, France's Renault and Peugeot, Japan's Nissan and Toyota, and Germany's Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen."
"These car companies should have received invitations, and some car companies must have seen China's huge potential. We will continue to visit China for inspections in the future. Zhu Jiansheng, a professor in the Department of Engineering, is obviously a much better informed source than Jiang Hui.
Just like what he just said was not reported in the newspapers, ordinary people had no idea that in September 1978, the Chinese automobile industry actually made such a big move.
The establishment of joint venture car companies such as Shanghai Volkswagen and Capital Jeep, which everyone will be familiar with in later generations, is actually closely related to this big move.
Even some of the subsequent layouts of General Motors, Ford Motor, Toyota Motor and other companies are inextricably related to this incident.
Of course, only Jiang Hui can realize the huge significance of this matter.
(End of this chapter)