Beiyang reactionaries

Or the sincerity of China is very good.

Wu Chaoshu personally came forward, and various preferential terms from China came up, and Ford finally decided to build a factory in China.

On July 1924, 7, Ford announced that the Asian factory of Ford Motor was established in Wuhan, China.Ford Motor will invest 23 million US dollars in China, and the Chinese government will take out the factory land needed by Ford Motor in Wuhan and invest 500 million US dollars.

Let's build this factory together.

Very sensational.

The investment is not too big.

One U.S. dollar can currently be exchanged for about 2.7 French currency.

500 million U.S. dollars, less than 500 million legal currency in exchange for legal currency.Including the investment from the Chinese government, the total investment is less than 2000 million French currency.Compared with those steel plants, the investment is still very small.

Those large iron and steel plants built in China, together with the supporting factories around them, need hundreds of millions of funds.

But the impact is huge.

After all, this is a car factory.

The preferential terms given by China were also disclosed by the media.In addition to asking for 30.00% of the shares, the Chinese government has a lot of preferential treatment in other aspects.

Tariff benefits, tax benefits, and government procurement priorities.

all good.

What is the current situation in the United States?

That is, the industry is developing so fast that it has even reached the point of overcapacity, which cannot be digested by the US market itself.And the U.S. capital developed greatly during the First World War, and it was also looking for investment targets everywhere.

In the 20s, the country with the largest influx of American funds was Germany.After the end of World War I, Germany's entire industry suffered heavy losses.The rapid recovery of German industry later was inseparable from the influx of large sums of money from the United States into Germany.

Now American capital sees a new investment target.

Asia.

Especially after seeing the sincerity of China, American funds began to tentatively contact the Chinese government to see the attitude of the Chinese government towards American capital.

"What do they mean?"

"They also want to open factories in China."

"The Asian market is so big, and the number of cars that can be digested every year is limited. These American auto giants want to invest in China. What do they want to do? Compared with the American market, the Asian market is nothing."

Duan Xun frowned.

The automotive market in Asia is limited.

Because Asia is still poor.Not to mention anything else, there are currently only three sovereign countries in Asia, China, Japan, and Thailand.All other countries are colonies.

The only industrial country here is Japan, but even Japan is at the bottom of the world's industrial countries, and it is a weak country among industrial countries.And economically speaking, Japan has the worst private economy and the poorest ordinary people among the world's industrial countries.It is completely incomparable with the United States, a country that can sell more than 200 million cars a year.

Of course, don't look at Japan as the bottom among industrial countries, but Japan has the largest market among Asian countries, and the country with the most automobile digestion.However, although Japan can absorb tens of thousands of cars every year, Japan is an ambitious country and a country with pursuit.They don't want to continue to import other people's cars, and have already begun to prepare to develop their own cars, hoping to develop their own auto industry.

Under such circumstances, how many cars are sold in a year in Asia as a whole.

It wasn't enough for Ford to come, GM had to come too.It is actually a good thing for these auto giants to come to China, which can greatly develop China's auto industry.

But they are all building factories, can they sell them?

"Prime Minister, you are underestimating the Asian market."

Wang Yongjiang smiled.

Then he said: "In recent years, the auto market in Asia has been developing well. During the European War, these Asian countries, including China, Japan and the Nanyang region, did not have a demand for thousands of cars a year. At that time in our country There are not many cars. But last year, the number of cars imported from Asia has exceeded [-]. Of course, Japan contributed the most, followed by China. The combined population of China and Japan exceeds [-] million, and the population is that of the United States. Five times. Although the economy is far inferior to that of the United States, with such a large population, the future market will be huge. If Southeast Asia is included, more than one-third of the world’s population is in this region. How could American capital give up such a place.”

"Do you think the Asian market will be big?"

"Yes."

Wang Yongjiang nodded.

Then he said: "Prime Minister, this is the statistical report of the statistics department. In the past three years, more than 50 enterprises with a scale of more than 2 yuan and less than 50 yuan have been born in our country. Those with a scale of 200 to 800 million There are more than [-] enterprises. These are basically enterprises developed by the national capital of our country, which shows the degree of prosperity of the people in our country."

"good."

China's economy is active.

There is also a lot of folk wealth in China.Including those rich locals, don't underestimate them, they have a lot of money in their hands.It's just that these wealth have been unable to circulate, and there is no atmosphere for doing business in China, and there is no complete and normal business environment.Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, it has been suppressed by the corporate and bureaucratic capital of the great powers and has been unable to develop.

World War I was a huge opportunity.Because the powers of the great powers left China, most of the capital of the great powers also withdrew from China.Taking advantage of this gap, China's national capital is very active.After the end of World War I, when the great powers began to recover and wanted to return to the Chinese market, they were stopped by Duan Xun again.This has made China's national capital develop rapidly in recent years.

In recent years, China's private economy has been very active.

In the past few years, the government has implemented large-scale tax cuts for small businesses and then supported these small businesses, which has also allowed national capital to develop rapidly.A lot of money is starting to pour into these areas.Countless small companies have sprung up in many domestic cities.

Say nothing else.

At present, there are more than 140 match companies in the whole country, all of which are domestic match factories.Other paper mills, garment factories, textile mills, flour mills, hundreds of companies in each industry.

These are just small businesses.

There are also some relatively large-scale enterprises in China, as well as large heavy industry enterprises invested by the government.

"Prime Minister, the active private economy is constantly accumulating wealth, allowing the rapid expansion of our country's market. The accumulation of wealth will drive a larger market and greater consumption. And more rich people will be born. American cars The company also saw this, and they chose to build factories in Asia."

"kindness."

Duan Xun nodded.

Since Wang Yongjiang agrees, Duan Xun has no objection.

Although Duan Xun is not optimistic about the development of cars in China in a short period of time, it does not mean that other models cannot develop in China.China is so big that transportation requires large trucks, long-distance transportation requires large buses, and even within cities requires large buses.

These needs are real.

The development of the automobile industry is very necessary.

And once these auto factories come to China, China will be able to become the Asian auto manufacturing center.China itself also has access to automotive technology in this regard.

Of course, once the automobile develops, China's steel industry, metallurgy industry, glass industry, tire industry, and even the petroleum industry, coal industry, chemical industry, and natural rubber industry will all have tremendous development.

should develop.

"But not now."

Duan Xun thought for a while and said: "We should have a clear policy on the introduction of foreign capital. Different investment methods and different investment fields should have different policies. We can't negotiate one by one, but should Tell them our policies directly. Those who are willing to invest, we welcome them. Those who are unwilling, everyone’s business will not be benevolent.”