Chapter 251 Catfish
After understanding this section, Feng Xiaochen began to inquire about the technical level, production conditions and corporate credit of the Huian Chemical Machinery Factory and Quanfu Machinery Factory. Yao Weiqiang really had a deep understanding of these two companies and answered Feng Xiaochen's questions one by one without any concealment or embellishment. The Ruan brothers were just business friends to him, while Feng Xiaochen was his noble person. Of course, he knew which one was more important and how could he say anything lies.
After hearing this, Feng Xiaochen had some new understanding of Ruan Phuc. He thanked Yao Weiqiang, hung up the phone, and came to Luo Xiangfei's office.
"Director Luo, there is something like this, I will report it to you."
Feng Xiaochen said, then introduced Ruan Phucen's visit and revealed what he heard from Yao Weiqiang. After hearing this, Luo Xiangfei frowned and pondered for a while before asking:
"Xiao Feng, do you judge whether this Ruan Phucen is helping to help his brother's business, or is he trying to help to start his own business and then use the power of his brother's business to do it?"
"I judge it is the latter type." Feng Xiaochen said affirmatively.
Luo Xiangfei nodded: "I also judged this way. If this is true, then this business cannot be handed over to him. Even in the future, the real business section chief of the Hoi An Chemical Machinery Factory will talk about this matter, and we cannot agree because they have the possibility of collusion."
"Why can't you leave it to him?" Feng Xiaochen asked.
Luo Xiangfei was stunned: "Isn't this obvious? He is just a social team company. According to the situation you just introduced, it is actually his private company. How could we subcontract such an important business to them?"
Feng Xiaochen said: "Boeing, General Motors, and Locke Martin are all private enterprises, which does not prevent them from becoming the world's most famous equipment manufacturer."
"..." Luo Xiangfei was choked and after a while, he said helplessly: "Xiao Feng, this is completely different. You are changing your concept again."
Feng Xiaochen smiled and said, "Why is it different? What foreigners can do, but we Chinese cannot do it?"
Luo Xiangfei scolded: "It's all fallacies! We are socialist countries and people are capitalist countries. How can it be the same? Aren't enterprises in capitalist countries just private enterprises? But we are socialist countries. Although policies now advocate the development of townships and private economies, these economic components can only be used as supplements to the ownership of the whole people and cannot become the main body."
Feng Xiaochen said: "The experience of capitalist countries shows that private enterprises can also become important equipment manufacturing companies and contribute to the country. If we deprive them of their exhibition opportunities because of their ownership nature, then it is equivalent to we personally strangling Boeing and General Motors in their infancy, and also killing the exhibition opportunities of entrepreneurs like Nguyen Phuc. Isn't this a loss for the country?"
"So, do you support subcontracting the task to Ruan Phucen?" Luo Xiangfei looked at Feng Xiaochen and asked seriously.
"Yes." Feng Xiaochen nodded solemnly and said.
"Have you considered the risks?" Luo Xiangfei asked again.
Feng Xiaochen said: "Reform is a risky cause. By the way, this is what you often say to us."
Luo Xiangfei was amused and laughed: "This is completely different. Reform has risks, and we should face difficulties. But the nature of this risk is completely different by handing over key national projects to a private enterprise. Private enterprises are profit-oriented, and they cannot keep their promises and value quality. This risk and the risk of reform are completely different from the risk of reform."
"The Japanese companies that undertake our large fertilizer project this time, including Koma Chemical Machinery Co., Ltd., Morishi Teng Industrial Co., Ltd., and Iketani Manufacturing Co., Ltd., are all private enterprises. The domestic subcontracting companies we intend, including Xinyang Secondary Machinery, Northern Chemical Machinery, and Haidong Chemical Equipment, are all state-owned enterprises. Director Luo believes that who is more trustworthy and value quality?" Feng Xiaochen retorted sharply.
"..." Luo Xiangfei was hoarse. He wanted to say that Feng Xiaochen's words were fallacies, but reason told him that Feng Xiaochen was talking about the truth.
The attitude of the Binhai Provincial Department of Chemical Industry on imported equipment and domestic equipment can explain everything. They would rather ask for a complete set of equipment provided by Japanese companies than Chinese companies to participate in subcontracting. Among them, the difference in technical levels between Chinese and Japanese companies is of course an important factor, but the attitude of both parties towards quality is also one of the factors.
The medium-sized fertilizer device built by Xinyang Secondary Machinery for Binhai Province has no technical obstacles, but its quality is unsatisfactory. After all, this is not just a problem of inferior skills, but also a problem of responsibility.
For those private Japanese companies, if there is a problem with product quality, it will bring them a catastrophe. A company that cannot satisfy customers will eventually go bankrupt. For state-owned companies such as Beihua Machinery and Xinyang Secondary Machinery, if there is a quality problem, it means that it will complain a few times, a fine of three drinks, and then it will be left alone. Over time, the quality awareness of these state-owned enterprises has become increasingly indifferent, and their ambition is becoming weaker and weaker, and they only want to do some easy work and make some easy money.
Luo Xiangfei has read a survey report on the operation of large domestic steam turbine motor units. Needless to say, the shortcomings in production technology are insufficient. What makes him speechless is that the report discloses a large number of quality problems, and many of these quality problems are simply caused by poor production quality control and inadequate inspection.
For example, a motor in a power plant showed rotor magnetization during overhaul and the winding turns was short-circuited. The reason was that the partial unmilled ventilation holes in the turn were caused by severe overheating of the insulation. For example, after two years of operation of a unit in a power plant, 518 of the 22o8 rotor wind buckets were damaged by foreign objects during maintenance. Further inspection found that the total number of welding rods, iron filings, welding slags left in the motor reached as much as 1 kilogram, and the rotor wind bucket was damaged due to collision with these foreign objects.
The most humorous thing is that in another unit of another power plant, the maintenance personnel actually found a pair of glasses from the motor. I don’t know which myopic operator left it. What’s the difference between this and the doctor leaving the scalpel in the patient’s belly?
If the technology is backward, it can be attributed to the fact that China's industrial foundation is too thin and cannot be compared with that of advanced countries. I forgot to mill the ventilation holes and left as many as 1 kilogram of foreign objects in the motor. Can this be explained by backward technology?
Luo Xiangfei is a person who has been engaged in industrial management and is very clear about these situations. The State Economic Commission promoted the overall quality management system two years ago, which was also due to this situation. This time, Luo Xiangfei accepted Feng Xiaochen's suggestion and required all enterprises that undertake subcontracting large fertilizer equipment to sign quality and delivery time contracts with the reinstallation office, hoping to use economic means to encourage the enterprises to pay attention to quality and credit. As a result, he encountered resistance from Cheng Yuanding, Deng Zongbai and others. This shows that the person in charge of these enterprises did not intend to do things seriously at all. They had no confidence in the quality control capabilities of the company and did not want to change this status quo.
As the heads of key state-owned enterprises, they should have a sense of responsibility, a sense of honor, and be worthy of the country's trust in them. But in fact, they regard this trust as capital, and to put an old saying, it means that they are lying on the credit book and are not enterprising.
However, a factory manager of a private enterprise like Ruan Phuc, who is like a mustard, will regard a business opportunity as a treasure, fearing that something will go wrong. In comparison, who is more trustworthy?
"However, in our country as big as a country, the future equipment manufacturing industry still depends on these large state-owned enterprises. It is very unfavorable to national security by handing it over to a private boss like Ruan Phucen." Luo Xiangfei was silent for a long time and gave a new reason.
Whether private enterprises can support the national equipment system is a complex academic issue, and even before Feng Xiaochen traveled through time was still an unconclusive issue. Feng Xiaochen remembered that later China still relied on state-owned and super-large enterprises to support the equipment manufacturing industry. Of course, these state-owned enterprises have been transformed, not only have a great development in the technical level, but also have undergone a rebirth and sublimation of the quality control system and business management philosophy.
Feng Xiaochen couldn't and wanted to question Luo Xiangfei's view. He said: "Director Luo, you are right. As a country with public ownership as the main body, our country should indeed use large state-owned and super-large enterprises as the backbone of the equipment manufacturing industry. But before that, we must let them move and get rid of the current slack state. In order to achieve this goal, we need some catfish to stir up this system, and farmers and entrepreneurs like Ruan Phucen are good disruptors."
Luo Xiangfei understands the catfish effect. It says that when Norwegian fishermen transport sardines, in order to avoid suffocating and suffocating and suffocating to death by squeezing together, they put several catfish in the sardine tank. Catfish is the natural enemy of sardines. Under its threat, sardines will keep flowing and struggling, so that they can maintain their vitality. The catfish effect is sometimes called the eel effect, and it also means a similar meaning.
People like Cheng Yuanding, Deng Zongbai and the state-owned enterprises they manage are now like a group of lazy sardines. They look alive, but they are already in a state of depression. At this time, some competitors need to appear to threaten them and stimulate them, so that they can arouse their ambition and rejuvenate them.
Chapter completed!