Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

After two days of interviews, Kong Zhenlong felt that the life of cotton pickers was not easy. They traveled thousands of miles away from their hometowns to come to the northwest, and finally made some hard-earned money to take home. They also encountered black forces such as pickpocket gangs, and they could be killed if they were not careful. All money was taken away.

This immediately made Kong Zhenlong feel sympathy for the cotton pickers.

"Life is not easy!" Kong Zhenlong looked at the young man named "Gen'er" in front of him. At this time, he was huddled in the window seat, looking at everyone passing by in the aisle warily. He had not stopped yet. Recovering from the incident with the pickpocket gang.

"This incident must have cast a big shadow on this child!" Kong Zhenlong thought to himself.

He looked at the boy's two elders from the same village. At this time, the two of them were still drinking cheap liquor and eating peanuts without any guilt.

Although Kong Zhenlong looked down on the two of them from the bottom of his heart, he did not condemn them. After all, it is the nature of living things to seek good fortune and avoid evil. It is reasonable to apply oil on the soles of the feet when encountering danger. You can't force others to act bravely!

"It's not easy for these cotton pickers to make money. If that kind of cotton harvesting is used on a large scale, wouldn't these people's jobs be taken away?" Kong Zhenlong sighed lightly, and then thought:

"The improvement in production efficiency brought by cotton harvesters is certainly a good thing, but the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers is also very important! This topic really needs to be reported in depth. I should go to the manufacturer of cotton harvesters. Take a look."

It’s not that Kong Zhenlong is overly sympathetic, but he thinks about issues more comprehensively.

After all, they are the ace reporters of "Focus Talk". They don't just look at the surface when looking at issues. They report in depth, dig into the core, and present the facts from different angles. This is their true ability.

Fukang Engineering Company, Li Weidong is playing with the loader model in front of him.

"This model is very delicately made. All the joints can move, and you can even see the control levers in the cockpit." Li Weidong said with great satisfaction.

Ding Youliang, who was standing next to him, immediately introduced: "This is based on our products, restored in equal proportions. All parts are purchased and built. It took a lot of effort to make these models."

"After all, we are going to Dubai to participate in an exhibition. This is the International Construction Machinery Exhibition. The models should be made more delicate. And it will definitely be much cheaper to make such a few models and bring them there than to transport the entire equipment to Dubai." Li Weidong said.

Ding Youliang nodded: "That's right. We are just joining in the fun of this kind of international construction machinery exhibition. If we really transport the equipment there, if we can't get the order, we will lose a lot of freight. It's better to bring one The model is over!"

"What, Lao Ding, don't you have the confidence to win a few orders?" Li Weidong asked with a smile.

Ding Youliang sighed softly: "It's not that I don't have confidence, it's that my strength doesn't allow it! As far as I know, there are many construction machinery companies from the United States, Japan and Europe who went to Dubai to participate in the exhibition this time, and they are also international leaders in the construction machinery industry. giant.

Such as Caterpillar, John Deere, and Terex in the United States; Komatsu Manufacturing, Hitachi Construction Machinery, Kobelco Construction Machinery, and Sumitomo Construction Machinery in Japan; Liebherr and Wacker Neuson in Germany; Volvo, Sandvik, Ambient, Finland's Metso, Italy's CNH, France's Manitou, and Austria's Palfinger are all participating in the exhibition.

Compared with these large international companies, we are nothing but an onion! If it weren’t for the fact that the UAE is hosting the International Construction Machinery Exhibition for the first time and wanted to make the scene bigger, we wouldn’t even be qualified to participate! "

"You can't say that. Although our products are not as good as international brands in terms of quality and performance, they are better because they are cheaper! I think there will always be people who are greedy for cheap." Li Weidong said.

"Chairman, this is Dubai after all, not a poor place like Africa or South Asia. Just being cheap doesn't have much appeal. The oil-producing countries in the Middle East are very rich, and they don't buy things just for the sake of being cheap." Ding Youliang He spoke.

"That's true. But the market in the Middle East is really quite popular. As you said, the Middle Eastern countries are rich and they can afford expensive products. And in the field of construction machinery, there is no decent company in the Middle Eastern countries. Enterprises can only rely on imports. It would be a pity not to get a share of this market where people are stupid and have a lot of money." Li Weidong said.

Among the Arab countries in the Middle East, there is no strong manufacturing industry, and machinery manufacturing is also underdeveloped. Things like construction machinery basically rely on imports.

The key point is that they are all oil-producing countries and can afford a lot of money, so they have always been regarded as the best market by developed countries.

The competition in this high-quality market is also fierce. Construction machinery companies from the United States, Japan, Europe and other countries have been fighting with each other here for decades.

The Middle East is relatively close to Europe, and coupled with its colonial history, the Middle East has always been regarded as its back garden by European companies;

The United States, through its control of oil and its powerful military power, allows American companies to enter the Middle East market;

As a rising star, Japanese companies can also occupy a place in the Middle East market by relying on higher quality and better details.

In comparison, China's construction machinery is not as good as that of developed countries in Europe, America and Japan in terms of technology, quality, or brand. The only advantage is that it is cheap, but for the local tycoons in the Middle East, this is not the case. Nothing.

The local tycoons don't demolish or buy cheap goods, they can't afford to lose that person!

In fact, the Middle East is not completely devoid of engineering machinery manufacturing industries. There is one country whose machinery manufacturing industry is very strong, and can even be said to be the top level in the world.

That's Israel.

Israel's technology is very developed, and its machinery manufacturing industry is even more advanced. Israel can produce excellent engineering machinery.

However, due to contradictory issues, it is absolutely impossible for Arab countries to purchase construction machinery from Israel. Even if Israel gives it away for free, Arab countries may not be willing to take it.

Fukang Engineering is about to participate in the UAE Construction Machinery Exhibition in Dubai.

This is the first construction machinery exhibition held in the UAE. In order to make the event larger, companies from many countries have been invited to participate, including the world's top construction machinery companies and many 18th-tier engineering companies.

For the United Arab Emirates, everyone who comes is a guest anyway. Since you are here to cheer me up, no matter you are a rich man or a loser, I welcome you. Anyway, I am a rich country and I don’t care about entertaining you one more person.

This is probably like when a rich man in ancient times held weddings and weddings at home, there would always be some beggars coming to eat and drink. For example, if a beggar says a few words of congratulations during an important event, or if a beggar comes to the house and cries a few times during a wedding, he will always be rewarded with a bowl of rice by the host.

Fukang Engineering has no reputation at all internationally. Even in China, it cannot be regarded as a first-class construction machinery company. There are many domestic companies that are larger than Fukang Engineering and have more advanced technology than Fukang Engineering.

Therefore, in the eyes of wealthy countries like the United Arab Emirates, Fukang Project is probably like this kind of beggar who comes to get food. Since people are here, they should be given food to avoid being called stingy and losing the face of the wealthy people.

In fact, even if domestic first-class construction machinery companies participate in exhibitions, they will still be easily beaten when faced with international giants.

Although there were many Chinese construction machinery companies at that time, most of them were large but not strong. Their product technology lagged far behind the international giants, and no one could beat them.

If we look at future generations, more than one-fifth of the top 50 construction machinery companies in the world are Chinese companies.

It is precisely because of the technological gap that in Ding Youliang's eyes, Chinese companies participating in this exhibition basically focus on learning, to see what top international companies have technologies worth learning.

As for Fukang Engineering, this stinking younger brother, he was probably just there for a formality, purely to make up for the numbers. It was already pretty good to be able to display a few toy-like models.

As for such things as orders, don’t even think about it!

Taking a few models to Dubai wouldn't cost much in shipping fees, so Ding Youliang simply regarded his trip to Dubai as a bonus.

Taking several important executives and the core backbone of the scientific research department on a trip to Dubai at public expense not only has a good reputation, but also can gather the centripetal force of the executives and the backbone of the scientific research department.

Li Weidong didn't think so, although he also knew that sending Fukang Engineering's products to Dubai for exhibition was completely embarrassing. But in line with the principle of hitting three poles if there are dates but no dates, Li Weidong still wants to fight for it to see if there is an order.

Li Weidong is really poor now. Because of the Taifeng and Taisheng mines, he owes the bank one billion, so Li Weidong will not let go of any opportunity that may make money.

Li Weidong and Ding Youliang were discussing the details of going to Dubai to participate in the exhibition, but Yue Ping An called from Fukang Agricultural Machinery next door.

"Chairman, a reporter came here and said he wanted to interview about the cotton harvester. I have arranged for the publicity department to go and entertain him first." Yue Ping An said.

"Isn't it this reporter? What's all the fuss about? There are quite a few reporters visiting the cotton harvester these days. Just handle it yourself." Li Weidong said.

"The situation this time is a bit special. Many ordinary media are here, but reporters from "Focus". I think we can't be careless and have to report to you." Yue Ping'an said.

Hearing the words "Focus Talk", Li Weidong immediately became vigilant. This is not an ordinary program and needs to be treated with caution.

So Li Weidong said, "I happen to be at Fukang Engineering now. I'll go over there in person later to receive this journalist comrade!"

Soon after, Li Weidong met Kong Zhenlong.

Regarding the cotton harvester, several waves of reporters have interviewed it before, and Fukang Agricultural Machinery’s Publicity Department has been able to deal with this aspect with ease.

Such as detailed product introduction, product development process, etc. In addition to detailed introduction, Kong Zhenlong was also given a lot of written information prepared in advance.

But Kong Zhenlong was not satisfied. He still wanted to interview the leaders of Fukang Agricultural Machinery in person, so Li Weidong came forward.

"Chairman Li, I didn't expect that I would be so lucky to see you in Qinghe." Kong Zhenlong said with a smile.

Kong Zhenlong's words are also to promote Li Weidong. Under normal circumstances, important people with status are not easy to meet. Kong Zhenlong used "good luck" to describe it, which actually meant that he had status with Li Weidong.

He is indeed an ace reporter. A simple sentence can show his skill. Using such an opening statement can also win Li Weidong's favor, which will also be helpful for the subsequent interview.

Li Weidong said, "I have always been very welcoming to the media. As long as I have time, I will definitely not refuse interviews from reporters. Especially for an in-depth program like "Focus Talk" to interview me, I can't ask for it more. !”

Daily business flattery is no stranger to veterans like Li Weidong.

Kong Zhenlong did not make any more pleasantries and went directly to the topic. He just heard him say; "Chairman Li, I went to the Northwest to interview about the increase in cotton production. I found that your Shenghan cotton harvester was The process of increasing cotton production has played a very important role.

Cotton harvesters can solve the problem of insufficient manpower for cotton picking. Taking your cotton harvester as an example, it can pick ten acres of land in one hour. The working efficiency of a cotton harvester is probably equivalent to that of 100 laborers manually picking cotton. . So this saves manpower greatly.

But there is a problem. I wonder if Chairman Li has ever thought about it. One cotton harvester is worth the workload of 100 people. In other words, every time the farm buys a cotton harvester, it will squeeze out 100 cotton pickers. If all cotton fields use cotton harvesters, how can the livelihoods of the hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers every year be maintained? "

"As expected of a reporter from "Focus Talk", the questions are really sharp! When others come to interview, they always praise him, but he can dig out deeper employment issues." Li Weidong thought to himself.

Then Li Weidong smiled slightly and said, "The situation where cotton harvesters take away the jobs of cotton pickers you mentioned exists in theory, but in practice, it will not happen within ten years.

Because this involves a cost issue. After all, cotton harvesters are high-end agricultural machinery. They are relatively expensive and cannot be afforded by ordinary people. For example, the cotton mobile phones we produce cost more than one million yuan each.

As for imported cotton harvesters, the cheapest ones cost more than 2 million yuan, and the more expensive ones cost 4 to 5 million yuan. Just imagine how many farms can afford a cotton harvester? And this does not include the diesel consumed and parts lost during use.

In comparison, the wages of cotton pickers are not high. How many workers can be hired to pick cotton with one million? Therefore, for ordinary farms or cotton farmers, it is more cost-effective to hire people to pick cotton directly.

So for now, cotton harvesters are just a supplementary method, mainly to deal with the shortage of cotton pickers. If people can be hired, I think cotton farmers will still give priority to manual cotton pickers.

Of course, the income of cotton pickers cannot always remain the same as it is now. In the future, as the country develops and national income increases, the wages of cotton pickers will also increase.

In the future, when the cost of hiring cotton pickers is higher than the cost of mechanical harvesting, I think the situation you mentioned will happen, where cotton harvesters take away the jobs of cotton pickers. "

What Li Weidong said was reasonable and well-founded, and Kong Zhenlong couldn't help but nodded in conviction.

However, after thinking for a while, Kong Zhenlong still said: "Chairman Li, according to your statement, although cotton harvesters will not take away the jobs of hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers in a short period of time, in the long term, this will What is bound to happen?”

"Yes." Li Weidong nodded without hesitation: "With the development of science and technology, it is a trend for machines to replace manpower. This is true in any industry. This is an inevitable phenomenon in human development and social progress."

"In other words, with the development of science and technology, cotton pickers will be eliminated by cotton harvesters sooner or later." Kong Zhenlong took a deep breath and asked: "Don't you think they are a kind of victim?"

"So while we are developing, we must also find ways to solve this type of problem." Li Weidong said.

"How do you think we should solve it?" Kong Zhenlong asked immediately, as if he was unwilling to give Li Weidong a chance to change his story.

"That's a good question!" Li Weidong raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and then said: "Reporter Kong, would you like to go to a few places with me? When we get to the scene, after you check it out on the spot, I think you will find the answer."

Kong Zhenlong was slightly startled. After so many years as a reporter, this was the first time he encountered such a situation.

In previous interviews, everyone just sat there asking and answering questions, but under Kong Zhenlong's sharp questions, many people would be left speechless by Kong Zhenlong's questions.

It is often Kong Zhenlong who proposes to check things like this on the spot. The interviewees always want to be secretive and reluctantly take Kong Zhenlong to the scene.

Now things are reversed. Li Weidong took the initiative to take Kong Zhenlong to the scene, which made Kong Zhenlong unable to recover for a while.

Kong Zhenlong's interview is like fishing. The first questions are like bait, and then he lures the other party to bite the hook step by step, and finally digs out in-depth content.

However, the scheming smile on Li Weidong's face seemed to say, you fish finally took the bait!

"I seem to have been fished for!" Kong Zhenlong thought to himself.

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