Chapter 158 Director Luo
Why are you born, why do you stand.
It’s a new day, and for Luo Cheng, today may be a milestone for him.
The cube truck will undergo road inspection today. Once it passes the inspection, the local government will definitely start building a factory immediately. Even if there is no factory yet, Luo Chengdu is the director. Even in this era, there are factory directors first and then factories.
When the higher-ups want to set up a factory, they first appoint someone as the factory director, and then bring a group of people to set up the factory according to the required requirements.
Take Factory Director Zhang as an example. He was first appointed as the director of the repair shop, and was transferred back to the repair shop in his hometown from Uehu.
Early in the morning, Luo Cheng was still washing at home and hadn't eaten breakfast. The post-production staff of the auto repair shop actually came to Luo Cheng's home for no other reason than to bring him a cadre-style tunic suit and a pair of leather shoes.
The garment factory sent it over yesterday afternoon. Today, he has to take part in the road test of the block truck. Luo Cheng is a research and development staff member and a seventh-level engineer. He can't do it without cadre-looking clothes. Luo Cheng will definitely take photos with many people today as souvenirs. He can't dress too shabby.
Although the military uniforms are good-looking and originally imitated from the Soviet Union, they are now owned by local enterprises and not the military. Even~~ Well, this was the first time for the post-production staff to see Luo Cheng wearing an officer-style coat, and he was indeed more imposing than usual. But now that I've retired from the army, it's better to do as the Romans do.
In fact, as a corporate cadre, at the department level or above, your unit or company will help you customize a set of cadre uniforms. But Luo Cheng came to the repair shop, firstly, for a short time, and secondly, because he never held a formal department position in the repair shop.
Look at Team Leader Jiang and others. Basically all the study groups are wearing Chinese tunic suits. That means Luo Cheng wears work clothes.
The logistics staff told Luo Cheng to go to the factory early today. According to the procedure, before the square car leaves the factory, a photo of the production workshop team and the square car must be taken. The local unit may even have prepared banners, but will not take them out if the road test fails. Once successful, the banner will be pulled up.
Even those who know the tricks can guess what the banner is, 'Reporting victory, the Ngee Ann cube car test was successful'.
There were still steamed buns in the system. Luo Cheng asked Xiaoyu and the others to get breakfast by themselves. He was going to leave immediately. Don't mess with his food at noon, he won't be back today for sure.
Putting on the Chinese tunic suit, don't tell me, it fits well. Someone must have compared his height, or looked at the file height. However, these leather shoes are a little tight, but they should become looser after wearing them.
When Luo Cheng arrived at the factory, he was basically the last one to arrive, and it was only seven o'clock. The workers in the workshop and the staff from various departments in the office all came wearing clean clothes today.
You want to say that the Human Resources Department, the Propaganda Department, and the Logistics Department did not contribute, but it seems that they did. Even the organization department supported you mentally and didn't cause any trouble when you were building the cube car.
But those apprentices who are really moving things and doing things may not necessarily be there when they can take photos. The only advantage may be that the factory is basically closed today, so it is considered a day off within the factory. However, it was another busy day in the kitchen and canteen. There was a lot of meat prepared in the canteen today. It would be sad if they failed the road test.
After waiting for a long time in the repair shop, it was almost eight o'clock before people from the traffic control department and several other departments came over with a few reporters. Luo Cheng felt that although everyone in the factory was very excited, in the eyes of reporters, it was just a process job. Nothing was said. The people in the factory were ordered to stand by the reporters like idiots, and then each reporter took at most one or two photos and it was over.
Then arrange for people to drive away all the cars parked outside the workshop and go to the designated place for road inspection. And that is the official main site today. Enterprises and units that have bought their cars will come, and those who have not bought a car and want to buy it will also send people to look at it. In addition, there are many departments in local units. The inspectors are people from the provincial traffic control department.
Factory Director Zhang and Luo Cheng each took a few people from the factory to drive behind them to the vehicle inspection yard. Although they felt confident that they would pass the road inspection, at this moment, they were still a little worried about what might happen. If it fails the inspection, you need to bring someone over to get the problematic vehicle back.
Today's road testing is actually different from that of later generations. To be precise, it is called a driving test. If it is from later generations, before the car is put on the road, it will have to check the displacement, engine noise and other messy things. But now there is only one way, which is to drive a car.
The motorcycle driving test is easier than that of a car. It may be in this city. You can just drive to another city according to the planned route and then come back. It will take a few hundred kilometers and the test will be completed in most of a day.
The car driving test is much more difficult. It is considered that some obstacles should be set up for the test. Climbing hills, shaking roads, undulating obstacles, etc. Basically, it's a road trip to the suburbs, running back and forth on several roads, and inspectors will be stationed at each obstacle section to check.
What speed must be maintained for two to three hours?
Therefore, the driving test is a very boring process. The testers all choose the ones with better driving skills.
Luo Cheng and Director Zhang only need to check whether there are ten cars driving every time they cycle. The rest of the time they just chat with others.
During this driving test, everyone was excited at first, then calmed down, and as time went by, everyone's hearts were slowly lifted again, because the closer to the end of the test, the more likely they were to face success. when.
When the driving time reached the designated time, almost everyone ran to the entrance and exit. Every time a car came out, everyone cheered and clapped. Because when it was announced that the time had reached the standard, none of the ten block cars was left behind, and as the driver became familiar with the obstacles on the road, the speed of each lap increased a lot.
As the last car successfully returned to the testing site, Director Zhang immediately ordered people to light the prepared firecrackers.
At the end, all departments of the local units present came to congratulate, and the newspaper reporters were much more proactive and enthusiastic about taking photos than they were at the beginning. If this test fails, the newspaper will report it, but at most it will praise the pioneering spirit of the auto repair shop. There will not be a photo in the report, so that it will not be included in the newspaper section and become an interesting topic.
But it's different if it succeeds. This article will be larger. It will introduce who the leader is, how long it took, how hard work was done, and how hard it was developed. Because no matter what the facts are, the country now needs such inspiring and pioneering examples.
At this time, the people present, the business units who wanted to buy cars, were thinking about unplanned orders. This cube car will definitely be put into production immediately, but it will be planned production. Many small and medium-sized enterprises dare not even think about the planned orders. They don’t know how many years and months they will be in line after applying, and they are all counting on unplanned orders.
As for the quantitative production of local units, it is not easy to decide blindly. If the plan is too high and cannot be completed, it will only dampen the enthusiasm for production. If it is too low, local units will suffer.
Although today's enterprise production units are state-owned, they also have retention funds. It is impossible to hand over all the money produced and sold, and then report it to the finance department when the money is used.
In the early days of liberation, the corporate operating profit policy was that production and commercial enterprises could retain 2.15% to 5% of planned profits for themselves. The higher the profits of an industry, the lower the self-reserved orders will be. Take the match factory, for example. This kind of convenience product relies on volume. The ratio of profit to cost of a box of matches is very low, and you can basically set a 5% retention fee.
The 5% retention fund is easy to calculate. In this era, when companies buy things, such as raw material supply, they just get the goods first and don't pay a penny. When the time comes every month, they will do the financial docking and transfer the purchased items. Once the bills are cleared and workers' wages are paid, the remainder is profit. The company can keep 5% for itself, and the rest must be turned over to the state treasury.
If this is turned over to the national treasury, it is a matter for the local and national governments. If Ngee Ann wants to develop and construct, it relies on this profit.
However, the retention fund is only 5%, and even high-profit companies generally only have about 3%. In other words, if you price something for 100 yuan and deduct the cost and labor, the final amount that the company can get for its own use may be only 20 to 3 yuan.
Take a cube truck as an example. If you buy a 5,000-unit truck, the cost will be 1,500 yuan, and your profit will be 3,500 yuan. Then the company will retain 3% for its own use, which is 100 yuan.
The factory can use this 100 yuan of retained money as it likes, giving out bonuses and benefits, and directly giving out meat and other things to everyone during the Chinese New Year. Benefits are better for companies that are profitable. For every company that is profitable, some bills are issued during the New Year. There are also companies that cannot issue anything else.
With an output of RMB 5,000, a company can keep RMB 100 for itself. How many companies can make RMB 5,000 a year in profit? For example, some bamboo weaving factories in counties sell baskets, bamboo beds and chairs, and bamboo hot water bottle covers. Even if you don’t dare to have many regular workers, it’s considered good if the profit can be enough to pay wages. If there are a few hundred yuan in profit, the factory will only take a few yuan. Over the course of a year, the most you can keep for yourself is a few dozen yuan. You can’t just throw away this little money all at once. During the New Year, each person is given a piece of soap or a towel, and that’s it.
However, this is all about the retained funds within the planned production. If we rely on such a small proportion of retained funds, we will not be able to buy some extra meat to add meals to the factory. Can workers be motivated to work?
Therefore, in addition to the self-collection and retention of profits within the planned production, there is also an unplanned retention fund. Unplanned profits are called over-planned profits. For example, if the planned production of ten cars is planned and you produce twelve, the money earned from selling the other two cars will be unplanned.
Initially, the super-planned profit was set at 12% to 20%, which was used as a corporate incentive fund. But most of the domestic enterprises are small and medium-sized enterprises, and this small amount of self-retention is enough to distribute a little more. After all, it is not easy to achieve the planned production volume of this company. How much can you exceed?
Later, in order to stimulate enterprise production, a super-planned production was directly carried out, and enterprise units could keep 40% for themselves. This is a big deal. As long as the factory can make a slight profit, it will work at the right time without stopping at all, just to complete the planned production and produce more unplanned ones.
But this is talking about the profit distribution plan in the early days of liberation. It is different now. The economy is much better now than at the beginning. If 40% is used as a reward outside of the plan, it would be too much. It not only lowers the standard, but also The profits retained by the enterprise also stipulate the use.
For example, the cost of researching technology, trial production of new products, labor safety and security fees, and purchase of sporadic fixed assets are all borne by the company's profits. Of course, this is talking about commercial enterprise units, that is, enterprises such as automobile factories that manufacture goods. As for local units and service units, those costs are still borne by the state.
This is also the reason why Luo Cheng applied to develop a cube car like a car factory, not a local unit. There are also labor safety and security fees, including work-related injuries, medical care, and pensions. They are all supported by corporate profits. It is also easy to understand that fixed asset acquisition fees are for unit employee buildings. Commercial enterprises now have to pay for them themselves, while local units are only responsible for non-commercial units.
So although we are still in the age of workers, we have begun to pay special attention to corporate benefits. There is a huge difference between a good efficiency unit and a poor efficiency unit. Of course, most people don’t have a choice. It would be great if ordinary people can find a job.
But people with academic qualifications have a chance to choose when they are assigned jobs. Units also have a great demand for people with academic qualifications, so under normal circumstances, when people with academic qualifications are assigned jobs, they will generally recommend several units to choose from.
Now that the cube car has passed the road test, setting a production plan has become key, and more is planned. Anyway, if you can't complete the plan, you can keep 100 yuan for yourself by selling one car, and you have to bear various expenses for 100 yuan. If you can't complete the plan, the profit will be low. If the profit is low, you won't recruit more people casually. Not coming.
The local finance department hopes that enterprises can produce as much as possible, and the initial construction costs will depend on local allocations and will not kill the goose to lay the eggs. Moreover, they are all state-owned. Once the factories are opened, the workers are not motivated and cannot complete the production. Even if you want to cancel the factories, it will not work.
Now the top leaders of the local unit have found Luo Cheng. As for Factory Director Zhang, they have also received the news. From now on, the auto repair shop will only be an auto repair shop. Director Zhang is at most a director level, and the real decision maker is Director Luo Chengluo, who is about to take office.
First of all, everyone still agrees with the price of a vehicle of 5,000 yuan. No matter how high it is, a Jiefang truck only costs more than 10,000 yuan. Even a jeep costs more than 20,000 yuan, but it is more majestic than this square car, and the jeep also has a windshield. Therefore, local units also feel that the price is very good.
Then there is the output. The planned output is not determined by the amount determined. Generally, factories expand while producing, unless the product market is saturated. Therefore, the limited output is determined based on the current scale of the cube car factory.
If it were normal circumstances, it would not be our turn to negotiate production now. Instead, we would form a team and recruit employees before negotiating production. But now the employees of the repair shop are equivalent to the employees of the Cube Automobile Factory, and they already have production capacity. So we can directly talk about planned production.
As for employee recruitment, it is generally a matter for the neighborhood office and the human resources department. Even if Luo Cheng becomes the factory director, he only has the power to recommend people if he wants to arrange them.
Luo Cheng had asked Team Leader Jiang about this production matter before, and Team Leader Jiang said that he could avoid being appointed by the factory director of the local unit. You can go directly to Automobile Factory No. 1 and ask them to set up a branch of Automobile Factory No. 1 in Ngee Ann. In this way, we do not discuss production quotas with the local government, but with the No. 1 Automobile Factory.
This is why Team Leader Jiang said that Luo Cheng, as a seventh-level engineer in the engineering department of the No. 1 Automobile Plant, could ignore the local unit here.
If it goes to the No. 1 Steam Factory and becomes a branch factory, the self-retained profits will also be high. But there is one thing. In that case, the car factory may be a foreign monk by then. Although for the sake of local finance, it will not be too difficult to get it here, but it is not of the same mind as the local units and enterprises.
After becoming a branch factory, Luo Cheng can now politely refuse to talk about production. If Luo Cheng wants to become a local enterprise, as long as Luo Cheng expresses his willingness to discuss production with these leaders, then as soon as Luo Cheng opens his mouth, regardless of the specific amount of production, it is guaranteed that these leaders will treat Luo Cheng differently.
Asking about production quotas is actually a kind of trial.
At this time, Director Zhang also stood aside and couldn't say anything. This was a difficult choice. If it were him, he would choose to become a branch of the No. 1 Automobile Factory, so that even if he lacks ability and seniority, he can be transferred to the main factory to hold a management position. Moreover, if you become a branch factory, you will receive technical talent support from the main factory.
If it becomes a local enterprise, the training of skilled workers will be a big problem. Nghe An is just an ordinary urban area. If it were a municipality directly under the Central Government or a provincial capital area, many talents could be dispatched.
However, there are advantages to becoming a local enterprise. At least when building a factory, the land opposite the factory that is originally owned can be easily acquired. And if it is a branch factory, it may become a cooperative nature and directly ask for vehicles in exchange.
"I think we can only plan to produce ten vehicles at the moment, and there is a shortage of skilled welders."
Luo Cheng said, "There is still a cube truck that has been promised to the textile factory but has not yet been delivered." The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so we must not give workers more benefits. If it was a previous repair shop that didn't have much profit, it would just get more receipts. If it had bought more unplanned cars before the year, it wouldn't have been so troublesome to issue receipts. The money left over could be used to directly buy meat and distribute it to the employees. .
After hearing Luo Cheng's words, the person in charge of economics in Ngee Ann City announced the establishment of the Ngee Ann Square Car Factory on the spot without saying much else. Luo Cheng will become the first director of the Ngee Ann Cube Automobile Factory and will be appointed by the local government. The appointment letter will be sent to the repair shop the next day.
As for the initial planned output, Factory Director Luo would naturally give it a try and say ten units would be ten units. But generally once the planned output exceeds the planned output, the planned output will be automatically adjusted. There was also a rule in this era that excess planned production could only account for at most 50% of planned production.
That is to say, if you plan to produce 20 vehicles, you will only exceed the plan by 10 vehicles. You must produce 20 vehicles that exceed the plan. Then the next production plan will be increased to about 26 vehicles.
Planned production and why some factories exceed production quotas for several consecutive months will all be reported. This is because every time you exceed your quota, the planned production volume will increase proportionally next time. Otherwise, according to the unchanged planned output, it can simply be overfulfilled by simply adding more manpower.