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029 Olive Branch from Deere & Company

CNC technology, whether in the United States, Germany, or even any country in Europe, cannot be matched by a small Chinese private enterprise.

Therefore, after a brief visit to the CNC workshop of Qingfeng Machinery, the leader of the inspection team, Smith White, asked Yunfei to take them to visit the general machining workshop of Qingfeng Machinery.

White's attitude discouraged Wang Qingfeng, who had worked hard to get foreigners to recognize his CNC workshop, and Ren Zhiguo of Kamath.

The high-precision parts processing during this period has made both Kamath and Qingfeng Machinery a lot of money. Therefore, they all want to get more high-precision parts processing orders from foreigners and earn more dollars.

, but did not expect that the purpose of White and his team was not high-precision parts processing, but low-precision rough machining.

Yun Fei has a clear understanding of this. Foreigners, if they don't have to, will definitely not produce high-profit jobs in China, a market they don't have a deep understanding of yet.

Yun Fei introduced the situation of the ordinary machine shop to the members of the inspection team while leading them towards the machine shop.

"Our factory currently has fifty-four high-precision ordinary horizontal lathes of various types and two vertical lathes, which can process various rotary parts with a diameter of 0.5mm~5000mm, with a maximum processing length of ten meters. Twenty-two machines

Lift table universal milling machine, three high-precision turret milling machines; eight radial drills, ten high-precision internal and external cylindrical grinders, and eight surface grinders. We are about to set up a second mechanical processing workshop, and various equipment have already signed contracts with manufacturers.

In June this year, these equipment will be installed in our newly established second machine shop..."

Yun Fei's words made Ren Zhiguo of Kamath Company stunned. He had been dealing with Wang Qingfeng every day for the past few months, but he had never heard him say that he had such a plan. Ren Zhiguo knew Wang Qingfeng very well and knew everything he could do.

Without too much purpose, his processing factory was able to develop to such a large extent only because of the young man in front of him who was less than twenty in the past six months.

Wang Qingfeng was even more stunned. Yun Fei had never mentioned this plan to him before. Before today, he had no intention of doing so. However, he did not reveal the secret in front of the foreigners. He buried everything in his heart and waited for these foreigners to leave.

After that, Yunfei explained to himself.

"Mr. Yun, we have learned about the size of your company in detail before coming here. Now can you please introduce your company's technical level and your company's processing costs?" Maxim finally asked what he was thinking.

The lingering question. German technology is among the best in the world. However, their processing costs are also among the best in the world.

"It's like this. Since our ordinary equipment is divided into many processes in the process of processing mechanical parts, if it is a large batch of low- and medium-difficulty parts, our total cost is only three-fifths of the international average level.

Or even less. Among them, the labor cost is only one-third of that in Europe and the United States. Due to our equipment resources, the cost of difficult and high-precision parts processing is only about 20% lower than the international level, and some are even

Higher than international level..."

For these foreigners, Yunfei must not tell them his bottom line. Otherwise, he will have to work hard to bargain with these foreigners. By then, he will be exhausted and will not earn any money from the foreigners.

"Mr. Yun, you are not being honest. As far as we know, the cost of your company's difficult and high-precision parts processing is less than one-third of the international level..." Carlos heard Yun Fei directly say

The production cost was reported to be high, so Yun Fei was interrupted hastily. If the Germans couldn't negotiate, the Americans would have to step in.

"Mr. Carlos, the situation you know has indeed happened. Eight months ago, our costs were indeed like that. But now, our costs have risen a lot. Because of the expansion of the factory, our management team is the same as before.

Several times, other related departments have been established. To be honest, the increase in labor costs is not too large. It is mainly due to the expansion of the factory scale and the increase in management costs. I don’t know if I explain it this way. Can you understand?

"

Yun Fei, who has been born in two generations, may know Carlos's thoughts better than himself. It seems that the other party has the intention to cooperate, but he does not have the slightest understanding of the other party. And the management cost is in his original time and space.

In any country and in any region, it is an unavoidable problem.

In this era where there are no ferrymen, this is a major disadvantage. It is difficult to determine the bottom line of your opponent.

Ren Zhiguo gave Wang Qingfeng a questioning look, but received the same confusion.

Yun Fei silently pondered the identity of this delegation, which was a mixture of Germans and Americans. He was also a little distracted by the introduction to the ordinary machine shop. Logically speaking, it was difficult to meet a delegation in the early 1990s.

There are people from several countries.

Seeing that Qingfeng Machinery had divided most of the products in the entire workshop into countless detailed processes, and even the work steps were divided into extremely details. A group of foreigners could not help but widen their eyes and open their mouths. You know, even if it is an assembly line

Production and work steps are not divided in such detail. With the advent of a large number of CNC machine tools, most processes have begun to be centralized.

The backwardness of mechanical processing in mainland China can be seen from this!

Abroad, because CNC machine tools replace senior operators, assembly line production is more popular. In North America and Europe, two industrially developed regions, although they have begun to pursue humanized management, there are a large number of CNC machine tools replacing high-level operators.

With high-quality technical workers, the production line is even more perfect.

Workers, not robots, especially skilled workers. If they are allowed to repeat the same actions every day, it will easily cause mental fatigue, resulting in reduced accuracy levels and batch scrapping. It is precisely because of this that the entire Europe and America

In both industrially developed regions, wage costs in the machinery manufacturing industry have risen to the point where shareholders will soon be unable to bear it.

Due to the slowdown in economic development throughout Europe, countless companies have turned their attention to the increasingly dynamic mainland China. This is not only because China has a vast market, but also because China has low-cost skilled workers. Of course, at this time

Foreign-funded enterprises are far from being as NB as they were in later generations, and are not as attractive to skilled workers as local enterprises.

After visiting the factory, Wang Qingfeng took the group to the large conference room on the second floor of the office building.

"Boss Wang, Director Yun, please take a look at this contract first." As soon as he sat down in the office, Ren Zhiguo took out two documents from the briefcase held by the secretary next to him and handed them to Wang Qingfeng and Yun Fei.

The two of them. He knew that in this factory, the young man in front of him was completely capable of taking charge of Wang Qingfeng. Of course, Ren Zhiguo also knew that this young man was not as easy to fool as Wang Qingfeng.

Carlos, White and others also stared expectantly at Yun Fei and Wang Qingfeng, the two potential partners they had chosen for a short time.

Wang Qingfeng felt dizzy when he saw the contract, which was written in both Chinese and English. When he saw Yun Fei looking at it with relish, he threw the document in his hand to Yun Fei and asked him to take a closer look. See

Ren Zhiguo was talking quietly in English with Smith White and Carlos, and began to lean on the back of the sofa with his eyes closed to relax.

After seeing the contract, Yun Fei understood the identity of the other party. However, after knowing their identities, he became even more confused.

Ren Zhiguo brought this eight-member foreign inspection team from the world's largest agricultural machinery manufacturer, the American Deere Company. As early as 1958, Deere Company had surpassed the International Combine Harvester Company and became the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in the United States.

Machinery manufacturer. After becoming the world's largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in 1963, its status has never wavered.

In China, Deere has always focused on technology transfer, engineering and technical personnel training, and complete machine exports as its main businesses. Now it has actually begun to build factories in China!

This puzzled him anyway. Deere and Company did not have a presence in China, but it did not occupy a large market share in the Chinese market.

In the original world, although Deere & Company had business dealings with China in 1978 at the beginning of the reform and opening up, it had to wait until 1995 to establish an office in BJ, and established the No. 1 agricultural machinery industry in China with HLJ Jiamusi Combine Harvester Factory.

The joint venture will have to wait until 1997.

The contract given by Ren Zhiguo is very simple. It is a joint venture between Deere, Kamat, and Qingfeng Machinery in the United States to establish an agricultural machinery production company. Kamat is responsible for the market, Qingfeng Machinery is responsible for most parts production, and Deere

, is responsible for overall technology, providing power equipment and after-sales services. The new factory was established in HeN Zhengzhou and is responsible for final assembly.

Deere invested US$5 million and technology, and Deere of the United States accounted for 51% of the new factory's shares. Kamath invested US$6 million and market channels accounted for 42%. Qingfeng Machinery provided all skilled workers in parts processing and assembly with 7

%.

The shares of the new factory will be redistributed after receiving new capital injections. Seeing this, Yun Fei smiled.

In the 1980s and 1990s, many foreign-funded companies played this kind of capital game. Due to the imperfection of China's market mechanism, it was difficult for foreign wholly-owned enterprises to open up the market in China. Therefore, they found joint ventures with excellent local Chinese companies, and then invested heavily in

The joint venture company injected capital and diluted the Chinese equity. Among them, SH FAW was the most famous example. It not only produced most of the skilled workers, but also had a lot of land and market share. Later, with the continuous capital injection of German companies,

SH Volkswagen is just a subsidiary of the German Volkswagen Company, and most of the profits are divided by the German Volkswagen! In the end, not only does it lose its own advantages, but it is also controlled by the Germans.

Many foreign-funded companies use their own technology and financial advantages to find Chinese companies with huge potential to form joint ventures in mainland China, and finally annex them completely.

In this regard, the state-owned enterprises that suffer the most are joint ventures with foreign-funded enterprises. Domestic infrastructure construction requires money everywhere, but due to the shrinking of the foreign market, a large amount of idle funds from foreign-funded enterprises have poured into the Chinese market. The foreign parties to the joint ventures have injected capital, but the Chinese side has

Take the HLJ Jiamusi Combine Harvester Factory as the most obvious example. From the establishment of the factory in 1997, by the end of 2004, this joint venture had become a wholly-owned company of Deere.

After reading the peace contract, Yun Fei became even more confused. Closing the document in his hand, Yun Fei clapped his hands gently. When he saw Ren Zhiguo and the members of the Deere inspection team looking at him, he said seriously:

"Everyone, I'm very sorry for interrupting everyone's communication. I have great doubts about this contract and I don't know who of you can help me."

"Mr. Yunfei, do you have any doubts about this preliminary intention contract?" Carlos asked Yunfei with a smile. He believed that the company they were interested in would completely agree to such generous terms.

"Let's not talk about the content of this contract. My biggest question is that you are a giant in the agricultural machinery industry in the world. In China, there are also many manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Their scale and technology
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