The Spring Festival of 1995 came as promised, and the Yao family once again held a banquet. This time it was larger than any previous banquet.
In Yao Zhenhua's view, it is not the most honorable thing to think about how much money a son makes and how big a boss he is, but when a son becomes a national cadre, that is the real honorable thing.
When worshiping ancestors in the morning, Yao Zhenhua knelt in front of the memorial tablets of his ancestors and talked for more than half an hour. Zhang Guifen even talked about Yao Yuan from his childhood to the present, which made Yao Yuan who accompanied the ancestor worship very helpless. But seeing the faces of his parents
With that proud smile on his face, he was glad that he had made the right choice.
Isn't it just to live another life so that your parents can have a completely different happy life?
Relatives and friends all came here, from my parents’ side, from Yao Yuan’s side, from my sister’s side, as well as Mr. Yao’s local comrades, the cadres he had led before. Finally, Zhou Liang and Yang Sheng came on behalf of the municipal party committee and government
Naturally, county and town leaders also came.
A grand banquet for hundreds of people.
If this were twenty years later, the organization would investigate Yao Yuan's financial problems.
It was a lively morning, and Zhou Liang and Yang Sheng, who stayed until the end, naturally wanted to find an opportunity to chat with Yao Yuan alone. Yao Yuan is the key to the economic development of the Nangang area, there is no doubt about it.
In the tea room on the third floor of Yao's family, Zhou Liang said with emotion, "Mr. Yao, our city's GDP increased by 18% last year, which is a miracle in the history of regional economic development in our country. The second place is Shenzhen City, which is only 12%. This is
It’s all thanks to you.”
Yao Yuan shook his head and waved his hands and said, "Don't say that, this is the result of the joint efforts of the people of the city."
Yang Sheng said, "What Mayor Zhou said is not an exaggeration. Such a large growth rate is mostly contributed by Dongfeng enterprises. The three major bases on the east coast industrial island, the Baojun automobile production base, and the three major industrial bases in Lingang
After the key projects are put into production, it will not be a big problem for our economy to surpass Shenzhen City and return to the second place in the province."
This is very exciting.
Shenzhen City is the benchmark. A small change occurs every day, and a big change occurs every three days. This is the Shenzhen City. The economy of the Nangang area was second in the province for a long time, but after the reform, it was gradually surpassed by the Pearl River Delta region.
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However, it is very difficult to surpass the Shenzhen market.
Yao Yuan remembers that by 2020, the GDP of the Nangang area will be less than 400 billion, while the Shenzhen city has exceeded 3 trillion, which is more than seven times that of the Nangang area.
On the contrary, in the 1990s, the GDP gap between the two places was not too big. As a long-established economic city, the Nangang area had its own strength.
Yao Yuan said matter-of-factly, "Both leaders, you should know that this growth rate is limited, because the main investments of our companies were completed last year, and the economic size of the Nangang area is not large, so last year's GDP
The phenomenon of explosive growth rates.”
"Yes, we have considered it." Zhou Liang was also very calm.
If there is only input but no output, then it is all in vain.
They are about to become colleagues. Although they are not from the same region, Yao Yuan will no longer hide some things. He used to be an entrepreneur and there are some things that he could not say easily, but now he can say them.
Yao Yuan said in a deep voice, "It is inevitable that a large enterprise can drive the economic growth of a region. However, if a region relies solely on one large enterprise to drive it, the industrial structure will be unhealthy. How to build an industrial chain around large enterprises is very critical.
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Zhou Liang and Yang Sheng subconsciously sat upright. What Yao Yuan had to say was all practical.
Yao Yuan said, "For example, Orientation Machinery involves all areas of machinery manufacturing, from ships to motorcycles, from port machinery to screwdrivers. It can be said to be a trust-type machinery group. So, just one Oriental Lingang Industrial Park
Can we fully unleash the impact of this company?”
He paused, "I think it's not enough. Can it be extended upstream and downstream? An industrial chain covering the upstream, middle and downstream can be formed in the region. In this way, it can lead to one area with ten or even one hundred."
Functional."
"There is also an issue of resettlement of laid-off workers. To put it bluntly, it is an issue of employment rate. Due to various reasons, state-owned enterprises have closed down, pushing a large number of employees into the society, and the society's acceptance capacity is limited. As the old saying goes, increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and increase revenue comes second.
In front of that, finding ways to increase jobs is the fundamental way to solve the problem."
"Mayor Zhou and Director Yang, the development zone has proposed introducing advanced production equipment and technology to upgrade production. I have reservations about this proposal."
Zhou Liang was surprised and said in confusion, "Mr. Yao, you value technology, and you are a talented student at NPU. The production technology of some state-owned factories is lagging behind. The introduction of advanced production equipment and technology for upgrading can improve the competitiveness of enterprises.
Improving product quality is a good thing.”
Yang Sheng was equally puzzled, because Yao Yuan is a well-known entrepreneur who values technology, and his Chunfeng Academy of Sciences is almost on par with all research institutions in some European countries.
Yao Yuan shook his head and said, "They are two different things. The development of high-tech industries and the technological upgrading of labor-intensive enterprises do not conflict with each other, nor are they the same thing. It is still a matter of jobs. Let's take the textile factory, which has introduced Japanese equipment and technology, with more than 1,000 employees.
Two-thirds of the employees will be eliminated because the new equipment cannot use so many people."
He spread his hands and said, "What should we do? Keep these people or push them into society? If they stay, technological upgrading will be meaningless. Advanced production equipment will definitely reduce labor costs. There is no doubt that if they are pushed out
Society has increased employment pressure."
"Our advantage lies in labor cost. What a Westerner can do by one person, we can use ten people to do it, and the cost is lower. Yongan Group's main business is clothing, and it has successfully entered the European market. The same products
, we can achieve cabbage prices, but Westerners cannot, and the reason is very simple. We have a labor cost advantage, which is the biggest advantage of our country at present, that is, the demographic dividend. If you want to compete with others for technical cost control, you can't compete.
We can only give full play to the advantages of low-cost labor."
This view is refreshing to Zhou Liang and Yang Sheng!
Yao Yuan said, "Of course, that doesn't mean we won't upgrade technology in order to save jobs. Again, there is no conflict between the two. You can upgrade slowly in a relatively gentle way, taking both factors into consideration comprehensively. But
Product quality must be guaranteed. The textile factory’s approach is too radical, cutting off two-thirds of its employees, which is very detrimental to social stability.”
Zhou Liang paid attention to it and realized that this was a very urgent problem. Because state-owned enterprises continued to go bankrupt and closed down, more and more laid-off workers were laid off. The gate of a county government below was often blocked because of laid-off workers.
Placement issues.
Zhou Liang has learned a profound lesson about how difficult these tasks are.
Yao Yuan's point of view is actually a euphemistic reminder to him that he should look at the matter of technological upgrading dialectically. Dongfeng enterprises will not have this problem, because the scale is large enough. At most, it can open a few more production lines, and no matter how many people there are, it can be arranged, and
Don't worry about selling at all.
This is the self-adjustment ability that an enterprise has when it develops to a certain extent.