Chapter 265 The First Meeting After the New Year

The eighth day of the Lunar New Year is the day when the automobile factory officially starts operations. It is also a happy day for the factory. As for the automobile factory, which is currently considered to be a wealthy company, it is natural that it arranges a meat dish in the cafeteria on the first day of work.

Pork is tight, and the feeding cycle of pigs is long, which makes it more difficult to prepare. But chicken can still be obtained from poultry factories, and automobile factories not only have money, but mainly food. When there is food, everything is easy to say.

On the first day of work, Luo Cheng naturally wanted to organize a meeting. The conference room in the office building on the third floor is used. There is hot water and tea in the conference room. Everyone can have a meeting while drinking tea.

Xu Haitang and Li Xiaotong no longer came to join in the meetings. In previous meetings, many department heads did not have real ranks. For example, some workshop directors are said to be directors, but except for a few extra yuan of subsidies from the factory, they are no different from ordinary workers.

But things are different now. Ngee Ann Automobile Factory has more than 2,000 employees and is already considered a big factory in Ngee Ann. Many factory cadres can no longer be appointed with just one sentence. At least they have to talk to the organization department during the appointment.

The Organization Department has also transferred a team leader from above, and to be honest, with the current scale of the automobile factory, there is no problem in arranging a director. But in view of the internal personnel structure of Ngee Ann Automobile Factory, to be honest, the cadres in the organization department did not want to come to the automobile factory.

The most important point is that there are people from the military factory in the automobile factory. The local organization department is really not qualified to talk to them. If you want to talk, you have to be the political commissar of the military region or the like.

But the automobile factory is already so large that it requires a few people to come over and a team leader to come over. At least it complies with the process.

In addition to the Organization Department, some leaders in many other departments actually have ranks, but most of them are still stock-level cadres. Director Zhang of the Logistics Department belongs to the department level. Du Yongkang, deputy director of the factory, is also at the senior level. Section Chief Liu of the Personnel Department and Section Chief Zhang of the Security Department are at the deputy section level.

Once the level reaches the deputy section level, it is considered a cadre in the official system. Even if he is transferred to a local unit, he can still serve as a small leader. For example, Section Chief Zhang of the Security Department, if he is transferred to another place, he usually goes to the police station as an ex-officio. If you go to a township police station, you should at least be the director. If it's an urban area, it's basically the deputy director level.

As for the medical outpatient department of the automobile factory, an experienced surgeon was also invited to serve as the director. But the medical department is actually semi-detached from the automobile factory. Unless there are special circumstances, there is no need to go to the automobile factory for meetings.

The content of today's meeting is relatively simple. Luo Cheng doesn't care about production now, only the development direction. Production is the matter of the deputy director, but Luo Cheng also wants to give an overview of the production situation of the automobile factory.

First of all, it’s still cube car 1.0. This model is small, but because of its low price, it has great demand for small businesses and units. Cube Car 2.0 is too expensive, and many units simply cannot afford it or use it.

Cube Car 1.0, starting from this year, the engine will be replaced with a new engine produced by the automobile factory. But there is no need to use a four-cylinder engine. If the number of cylinders is improved and there are two less oil ejection pipes, the displacement and fuel consumption will also be reduced. In fact, a single-cylinder engine is easier to operate, but the working performance of a single-cylinder engine is unstable, the exhaust is intermittent, and it is easy to stall.

Generally single-cylinder engines are used on motorcycles, and the Cube 1.0 is also a four-wheeled vehicle. A two-cylinder engine paired with a three-speed transmission is just right.

It would be a waste to use a currently produced engine to install on Cube Car 1.0. If this engine is installed, a new transmission will have to be used. There is also a large-diameter exhaust pipe.

If you don't change anything else but the engine, the effect will be the same as before. It's like a small bucket and a big bucket. If two buckets have the same outlet for water, it's meaningless.

Based on the original engine structure, only the parts have been modified. Luo Cheng believes that this technical skill will not be difficult for Team Leader Jiang and others. But since they're not here now, there's no rush for this work. We'll just leave it here until they come. As for Cube Car 1.0, only ten units will be produced this month.

After the twin-cylinder small-displacement engine is manufactured and produced, that is when the cube car 1.0 increases its production. At that time, the car was naturally started with a key instead of a rocker key.

At most, it should be equipped with a windshield, and the door and window glass on both sides should be ordinary. In this way, engines will not be ordered from Tianhu in the future, and the price of cube cars will naturally rise. I'm not talking about directly doubling it, but Luo Cheng thinks it's reasonable for a car of eight thousand.

As for the engine, producing it yourself, even a four-cylinder one, is actually cheaper than purchasing an engine from Amado. Producing a two-cylinder model actually doesn't save much in cost, but the main thing is to reduce fuel consumption and displacement. What really adds to the cost is an imported windshield. If it's just the front piece, it's not much more expensive, just a few hundred more. But if it is really broken, the replacement glass will have to be sold twice as much.

By then, the car factory will no longer have Cube Car 1.0. Counting the improvement of one major part and the engine method, the Cube Car 1.0 produced in the future should be called Cube Car version 1.15.

If there are more technicians in the factory, or the stamping technology is upgraded, such as the pneumatic and hydraulic stamping machines currently being developed. Hydraulic technology has been around for a long time. Forklifts use hydraulic lifting methods. Hydraulic jacks can actually be produced, but in fact there is not a big market now. They can be used for personal use and are specialized in production. It depends on the car factory having the funds and free time.

As for pneumatic technology, air compressors have already been produced. After Teacher Hu Ping comes, he will switch to the research and development of stamping machines when the trucks are ready. Let’s see how pneumatic power can be used in stamping machines. When Teacher Hu Ping left a year ago, he said that he would try his best to persuade former students to see if they could come here.

As long as the stamping machine can be improved, maybe the body of the cube car 1.0 can be formed in one go in the future, and it will still be slightly shaped. At that time, the version of the cube car can still be improved.

The improvements to Cube Car 1.0 will have to wait until Team Leader Jiang and the others come back, but maybe when they come back, Luo Chengcheng will still be in SH City, so this matter will have to be reported to Deputy Factory Director Du Yongkang.

As for three-wheeled trucks, the demand is really booming, and they seem to have similar performance to tractors. But tractors are now classified as agricultural vehicles, and three-wheel trucks are classified as trucks. The market we face is different. As long as the units need transportation, if they have money, they will want to buy one.

Previously, Luo Cheng was worried that if too many three-wheeled trucks were produced, the three-wheeled trucks driven by his own transportation team would have no work to do at the transportation station in the future. After all, if there are too many corporate units to buy, they will go and deliver the goods themselves.

But vehicles, unless you don't pay attention to them these days, once you pay attention to them. It’s hard to sell just in Ngee Ann. Last month, more than 200 vehicles were produced before the end of the year, but Luo Cheng was gone before he could exchange benefits with local enterprises. Could it be that the secretary over in Changcheng was so blind that he could only see version 2.0 of the cube car? People can't make up their minds about forklifts. You have several rows of three-wheeled trucks in the parking shed, and everyone is not blind.

The people who followed last time were people from the Provincial Agriculture Bureau. Now that the above sentence says agriculture is the foundation of food, local units in Ngee Ann City do not dare to make too much money with them.

The market for three-wheel trucks is no longer limited to Ngee Ann, but covers the entire provincial capital. Let alone more than 200 vehicles per month, even if you expand production ten times, it will still be enough for you.

As for the expansion of three-wheeled trucks, various restrictions began to appear. Take diesel engines, for example. The Wuling Engine Factory in Hongcheng said last time that if you want to buy in large quantities, you have to make a production agreement. You can't invest a lot of money in increasing the production line of the automobile factory, and then suddenly no longer need it after a few months. .

Nowadays, automobile manufacturers order engines for three-wheel trucks from several factories. In comparison, the Japanese-owned Wuzu engine is indeed the best. Other factories are also in the same situation. If you want dozens of units, it’s no problem, but if you want more, they really can’t sell them. If automobile manufacturers want to break through the limitations of diesel engines, they can only find a few more diesel engine factories. After all, there are still many diesel engine factories in the country, unlike gasoline engines, which only have a few.

Another way is to sign an agreement with others and let their factories increase production lines.

But Luo Cheng thought differently. This diesel engine might have to be developed. Because now not only three-wheel trucks use diesel engines, but also forklifts. Even large trucks in the future will still use diesel engines.

Diesel engines are actually better than gasoline engines in terms of economy and practicality, and they are more widely used. Why do cars not use diesel engines? The main reason is that they are noisy, vibrate, and slow to increase speed, making it difficult to achieve high speeds. If the car is small, these shortcomings will be obvious.

But the benefits of diesel engines are more obvious. Diesel will save fuel consumption than gasoline. Diesel engine does not rely on spark plug ignition, but generates high temperature through compressed gas to allow diesel to ignite naturally.

It's a pity that Luo Cheng understands the operating principles of the two engines. However, a few technical school students go to dismantle the engine for repairs. Even apprentices in a car repair shop find that the engine is broken. They basically advise the car owner to replace the engine. Few have the skills to repair it.

Although the two engines have many things in common, such as the oil inlet pipe, cooling method, and power transmission method after operation, they are basically the same. But the light ignition method is different. If you don't understand the principle, it will be like a mountain.

But Luo Cheng has a system, which is completely different. As the director of a state-owned factory, it shouldn't be difficult to actually get a structural drawing of a diesel engine. At that time, compare the assembly structure and just sign in for some parts. Moreover, Luo Cheng's previous drawings of gasoline engines were not in vain, but he was learning every day.

When the time comes to dismantle a diesel engine, you don't need to compare it with a gasoline engine to see the differences. In this way, with targeted parts sign-in, it should not take many days to get the diesel engine out.

Instead of asking other factories to increase production lines and expand their scale, it is better to do it yourself. Mainly by doing it myself, I can at least control the output myself, and the performance is better than that of other factories.

In addition, the matter of manual forklifts and various pallets, and the wooden pallets were left to the cooperative in Longjin Town. Production will be expanded there and processing prices will be reduced. But steel pallets are actually used more in some ports. This pallet is not only used by manual forklifts, but also by motorized forklifts. The new large-scale factory building is already ready for use, and the engine production and assembly line will be put together by then.

By then, parts will be produced on the first floor, assembled on the second floor, and even the parts warehouse will be integrated. Large-scale production plants naturally need to integrate production, assembly and storage. After the scale has increased, it is no longer suitable to share a warehouse with other product components, and even if the workshops are not far away, one assembly has to go to several workshops, which is too time-consuming.

Luo Chengdu even thought that when he came back from SH City, he would renovate the new two-story large factory building. Install a lifting platform inside the factory, and the parts produced downstairs can be directly lifted to the second floor for assembly. Otherwise, they are all metal products and very heavy to carry. Although porters are not valuable, spending thousands of dollars to build a lifting platform by yourself may require workers to work for many years.

But we cannot always consider worker dividends and give up technological development and upgrading in order to provide more workers with jobs. A lift reduces the work of at least two workers, and it takes a long time to recover the cost. There are several workshops in the new factory, so the number of porters alone will be reduced by about ten. Ten jobs, maybe more, were lost because of just one lift.

But Luo Cheng thinks it is necessary. In the future, when more products are exported, more factories can be built. If these jobs are reduced now, more will be added in the future. If the product is not competitive, if it cannot even leave Ngee Ann, then there is really no need to consider mechanized production.

In terms of production, this is what Luo Cheng mainly said at the meeting. Since many people did not come, we will not talk about forklifts and cube trucks 2.0 for now. We will just wait for the people to come in a few days and let them work hard on production.

The other thing to talk about is other aspects of the factory. Let Director Zhang of the Logistics Department arrange for someone to whitewash the old office building. As a nursery room in a factory, the school needs to be built outside the factory, but the nursery room needs to be built inside the factory. The nursery is not a kindergarten, it is a place for children aged 0 to 3 years old.

These days, if a female employee gives birth to a child, she will only have one month off at most, and she will have to come back to work after confinement. As for what to do when a child drinks milk, he has to go to the nursery. Employees with children are entitled to breastfeeding leave. There are regulations on how often children should be fed, regardless of their age.

The nursery room must hire a nursery nurse. This is a matter of the Human Resources Department. It should also be implemented as soon as possible, not only to have a nursery room, but also to have a nursery, which is a kindergarten, where children aged three to five years old stay. Some couples really have no one to take care of their children. These three to five-year-old children are not old enough to go to elementary school. If there is no nursery, they basically ask neighbors to help take care of them.

The construction of the primary school for employees of the automobile factory has also been completed. It is said to be for five grades. But what is being built is a two-story and a three-story teaching building. The floors are low and can be built quickly. And kids, what are you doing with such a tall building? In addition, there is a small teachers' office building and a school cafeteria.

Naturally, the elementary school has a playground and a row of cement table tennis tables. These are all done. What needs to be done now is water and electricity. But as for teachers, Section Chief Liu must be asked to go to the Education Bureau to recruit people immediately. He also asked Director Zhang to go to the Propaganda Department after the meeting and ask broadcaster Xu Haitang to inform everyone that children of employees who are of primary school age can attend the employee primary school of their factory this year.

There is no tuition fee for employee elementary schools and automobile factory employees, but they have to pay textbook fees. No matter what grade you are currently studying, you can transfer here. Nursery rooms and nurseries must be notified.

Nowadays, there is no nine-year compulsory education. Going to school still costs money, but not much. Tuition fee plus textbook fee seems to be about two yuan per semester. But at the primary school for employees of the automobile factory, tuition fees are at least free for employees, but textbook fees are not. As for textbooks, automobile manufacturers have to spend money to buy them from places designated by the Education Bureau.

The staff primary school, like the staff clinic, is also open to the outside world. In the same way, to the outside world, children who are not employees of the automobile factory can also attend the primary school in the factory, but they have to pay tuition. For some people who live near the staff primary school, if they happen to be in first grade and the new semester starts in the second half of the year, many people may come to register with their children.

"Director Luo, this employee elementary school is a system outside the factory. When recruiting teachers, the welfare standards will be the same as those of our automobile factory."

"Well, the school for our factory workers is naturally our own teachers and employees. It is the same as our factory. Except that the salary is in accordance with the regulations of the Education Bureau, and the welfare is ours. However, the welfare of our automobile factory Not bad, Section Chief Liu, you have to try your best to send some excellent teachers over there."

"Director Luo, no problem, I promise to complete the task."

When Luo Cheng mentioned the recruitment of teachers in primary schools at the meeting, Section Chief Liu of the Personnel Department naturally wanted to ask about it. If we look at existing public primary schools, the salary of primary school teachers is generally only twenty-seven and a half yuan. The salary is similar to that of ordinary workers, but it is difficult for teachers to increase their salary by upgrading their level. The main reason is that it is difficult to grade. No matter how good you are, you will never be able to teach elementary school students and transfer to junior high schools.

Therefore, in primary school, although it may appear that it is a graded salary system, it is actually a promotion system in the form of a unit. For example, if everyone has the same ability, if you can become a class teacher, you will receive a higher salary. The school also has a teacher director, who is responsible for arranging school teachers to teach class work. The salary is one level higher than that of the head teacher, and above that are the vice principal and principal.

But these days, if you are an ordinary primary school teacher, no matter how long you work, the school will at most rate you as an outstanding teacher, issue you a paper certificate, and award you a few dollars. But if you want to raise your salary, there is no way.

Therefore, teachers are different from workers. As long as workers are willing to work hard and work for a long time, practice makes perfect. It is not difficult to move up a level. Even if it takes several years to move up a level, at least if you can get a promotion, your salary will increase. But many ordinary teachers remain ordinary teachers throughout their lives. The salary has always been that high.

But even so, teaching is still a job. For many people, it is at least better than having no job. However, teachers’ salaries are allocated from the financial allocation. If it is a school in a township, it is normal for the salary to be delayed, because it is normal for the township to have no money and have to wait for the financial allocation from above.

Schools in urban areas are better, but at most they don't delay wages. The benefits are really hard to describe in words. These days, schools are definitely clean water units, and many parents don’t pay much attention to education these days. If a child is able to read well, he or she will be put down.

Moreover, there are many parents who are in arrears with tuition fees, and teachers have to come to collect payment. It's okay if you encounter someone who is polite, but if you encounter someone who is unreasonable, you may get scolded if you are urged to do so many times. Especially for those who stop reading after halfway, the teacher will come to ask about the situation. They have no money to study, and they will also tell them the truth about the benefits of studying.

Damn it, I can’t even eat, how can I have money to study, and this teacher is always coming to do work. If he gets angry, the teacher will scold him in the same way.

Therefore, the more responsible teachers these days are, the less likely they are to do their jobs. However, many teachers are kind-hearted and look down on poor children. The salary is not much, but there are often kind-hearted teachers who spend money for the sake of their students. As for the benefits, the most is soap and matches, and there is basically no meat.

Now that Luo Cheng opened his mouth, the wages in the automobile factory must be the same as those in other schools. This is the system across the country, and wages cannot be increased or reduced. But if the welfare system were to follow that of the automobile factory, there would be no need for Section Chief Liu to choose it. When the primary school teachers registered within the Education Bureau get the news, they might start to fight for it themselves.

If you are not good at teaching, or if you graduated from a normal school, you will automatically be dismissed if your grades are not good. If a person with poor ability becomes a teacher at a primary school for employees of an automobile factory, someone will definitely report him, and he will definitely use an improper relationship to go through the back door.