Chapter 220 Want to Export Food
This meeting ended relatively quickly, and the forklifts were basically divided into tasks.
The forks of the forklift are directly produced by our steel rolling mill, and other plates are also purchased from the steel rolling mill.
Tires, wheels, diesel engines, etc. still rely on external procurement.
What our own factory can process and produce is only the shape of the car and some simple parts. Therefore, the current scale of automobile factories is completely pitiful. Except for the ability to process some small parts themselves, everything else has to rely on procurement.
This time, the production of some accessories does not require the purchase of equipment. The equipment in the military factory can actually process gears.
The forging of the car body was assigned to the people in the military factory, and some equipment Luo Cheng asked Director Zhao to allocate to the parts production workshop. Whatever you want to design in the future and what accessories you need to produce will be handed over directly to your own accessories production workshop.
The procurement of other parts was left to the logistics department, and the human resources department rushed to find people, both men and women, but the best ratio was eight to two. The automobile manufacturing plant is indeed a heavy industry. Women are now not only assigned to assemble engine parts, but also do light chores in other departments. Faced with the possibility of making hundreds of kilograms of iron lumps at every turn, women are weaker than men even if they practice strength.
The other is the driver, who asks the transportation station to dispatch five or six people. My car factory will now have five trucks, and I can now travel long distances to purchase goods. Although I don’t care about the transportation cost if I have others deliver the goods, the time I have to wait for the goods is not in my hands. As for the assembly of many things, sometimes it has to stop when one item is missing, and it cannot be continued because it is stuck. Even if it can be carried out, it will be too laborious to install it later.
And this time, it seems that there are many meetings that have nothing to do with their department, but in fact, even if you come to the meeting, you can feel that they are related. For example, the number of people in the factory can be expected to be several hundred more, plus the more than 150 people brought by Director Zhao. It is estimated that the factory will have about 600 people.
If there are many people, the HR department needs to increase its manpower. If there are many projects, the Finance Department needs to increase its manpower. There are even more workshops and more places to inspect, and the security department is also recruiting people. There are still not enough people in logistics, and there are various procurement arrangements. There is also a plan to expand the three-wheel truck transport fleet this month, which still requires manpower.
People in each workshop are also stressed, but they all feel pretty good. The workers indeed regard the factory as their second home. If the factory can develop well, everyone feels that it is okay to work hard. Moreover, Factory Director Luo takes good care of the workers. Now, although Factory Director Luo leaves most of the labor recruitment matters directly to Section Chief Liu.
However, an unplanned temporary labor recruitment has been reserved for internal staff. That is, for every ten people recruited, two of them will be used for internal recruitment. This is mainly because there were not many people in the factory at the beginning. Some old employees in the repair shop now bring two or three people into the factory.
The factory is expanding rapidly, and the employees inside are so motivated because they know they can take care of their children and even their nephews.
Luo Cheng initially told Director Zhang that he wanted to develop a factory with 10,000 people. Director Zhang thought the goal was ideal, but too long-term. There were only over a hundred people before, but in just one month, it has grown to over six hundred people. And it’s only the beginning of the second month, and many materials and accessories are being processed and purchased from outside factories.
According to Luo Cheng's production plan, he said that just one engine could build a large factory with 10,000 people. Now the factories and equipment cannot keep up. Otherwise, given the current population of unemployed young people in Ngee Ann, car manufacturers and steel rolling mills will be recruiting a large number of workers. Soon the unemployed young people in Ngee Ann will have jobs.
However, today’s unemployed young people are all unskilled. Even if we want to expand, we can only do it step by step. If we recruit too many unskilled workers, we will not be able to bring them here.
The meeting broke up within half an hour this time. If we were short of people, we were looking for personnel, and if we were short of things, we were looking for logistics. Although the forklifts are not currently in production and there are no planned requirements, Luo Cheng has decided to build ten units a month.
The weight of a 2T forklift is definitely more than 2T. The fork calculated in the drawing and the rack in front of the fork weigh two to three hundred kilograms. Therefore, to be on the safer side, it is impossible to write in the drawing that the body weight is 2.2T. It is really only 2.2. It is necessary to make it 2.3 or above.
Therefore, for a 2T lifting forklift, the body weight will be at least about 2.6. But it is much stronger than imported forklifts. The imported 1.4 deadweight forklift can only lift a weight of 0.7T. Not to mention the domestic ones, which are imitations of other people's products. If they are not improved, they won't even meet other people's standards.
Luo Cheng first made a call to the steel rolling mill. First, he placed an order and produced it directly. There is no need to consider that the things produced will not work. This is just a combination of a more powerful vehicle and a manual forklift. In Luo Cheng's opinion, it is impossible to produce a forklift that cannot be used after it is built. The other one is asking if it can be exported. He does not need foreign exchange, but he can exchange grain with foreign countries or sell the money to buy grain.
Director Chen over there was also curious, why did Luo Cheng need so much food? Workers have quotas. There are only so many workers in an automobile manufacturing plant, and one ton of grain can give each worker three or four kilograms. What Luo Cheng wants is not just a few tons or dozens of tons, but as much as there is.
What Luo Cheng doesn't know now is that other military factories are already producing manual forklifts for export. The money he gets back is basically food, and he can pay off his debts with foreign exchange.
Luo Cheng's answer was very simple. A ration is a ration. If it is a single person, it will not be enough to eat even if you let go. If there are elderly and children at home, if only one person in the family works. It's about starving to death, but not even reaching the food and clothing line. It doesn't matter how much your salary is after buying rations. You don't have to go to the pigeon market to buy rations at a high price.
His goal is not big and cannot be managed by other factories, but people in the automobile factory must achieve the freedom of rice and rice. The automobile factory now has a small number of workers, so it can't get much food, but within this month there will be over a thousand workers. Two kilograms of grain per one thousand people is equivalent to one ton. Luo Cheng did not give the grain to the workers for free, and asked them to limit their internal purchases. If one person buys one hundred catties, it will cost fifty tons.
One hundred kilograms of rice only costs sixteen or seventeen yuan. If no votes are required, the food quota is added to it. At least the workers in the automobile factory do not need to go to Pigeon Market.
Director Chen asked Luo Cheng to wait. If he wanted a few tons of grain for the automobile factory to meet an emergency, it would be fine. But Luo Cheng wanted it for a long time, and it involved customs, etc., and Director Chen didn't have the power to agree to it.
Luo Cheng waited in the office for almost an hour before Director Chen called back. He agreed to Luo Cheng's request, but not as much as Luo Cheng thought. First of all, even if the forklift production is for export, you must know that his automobile factory belongs to the country, not Luo Cheng personally.
Most of the materials and accessories are purchased, and the profits generated are not used for construction and development. In fact, the profits have to be handed over, and the factory itself retains 3% to 5% as retention money.
What the above means now is that if the cars produced by Luo Cheng can be exported, the factory will not be able to retain any profits generated. It is equivalent to using the retained funds to buy food. Of course, the cost and profit money will still be given to the automobile factory for its own development.
According to the heavy industry retention fund quota, because of the large profits, it is actually set at 3%. But considering that the automobile factory run by Luo Cheng is too messy, he can do whatever he catches. Even the transportation industry is in charge. Therefore, after considering the first extreme, when turning over factory profits, the automobile factory is allowed to keep 4% for itself.
If forklifts can be exported this time, if Luo Cheng wants food, he will buy it with 4%. This means that for a hundred yuan worth of exports, Luo Cheng could only buy four yuan of food.
But there is one thing, and that is the exchange rate issue. The RMB is now worth one U.S. dollar more than the U.S. dollar. But foreign countries are reluctant to ask for RMB, because there is currently nothing good that can be bought in China, only grain and minerals.
In fact, the foreign exchange cost for imported cars is more than 10,000, which is only about 15,000 RMB when converted into RMB. But domestic units purchase cars based on 50,000 to 60,000 yuan.
You must know that after the reform and opening up, ordinary cars exported from Japan to Hong Kong only cost HKD 5,000. Converting the exchange rate of Hong Kong dollars at that time, it was actually about 4,000 yuan. However, no one wants RMB at this exchange rate.
Therefore, if you want to export, the forklift produced by Luo Cheng can be sold for 50,000 to 60,000 yuan in China, but the maximum export price is 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, depending on whether others can take it.
Anyway, if you calculate it this way, Luo Cheng can buy more than 1,000 yuan of grain for exporting a forklift. However, this more than 1,000 yuan of grain is calculated based on foreign exchange. The current US dollar has stronger purchasing power than the RMB. A pound of rice in China costs 16 cents, while abroad it costs 6 to 7 cents.
Overall calculation shows that Luo Cheng actually gets a lot of grain if he sells it successfully. A forklift can get more than 70 tons of grain.
But if the automobile factory becomes a big factory, let alone 10,000 people, it will be like the current textile factory in Ngee Ann, which has thousands of people. Seventy tons is not enough for one person to share fifty kilograms.