Siheyuan: Returning to 61 to collect waste

In the information age, Ye Chuan has focused on data analysis from the beginning. Because of the existence of Huade Industrial Park and Huajinji Garment Factory, smart residents and some enterprises in Beijing gradually formed an industrial cluster. Huajinji needs a huge amount of raw materials every day, so fabric factories and accessories factories in the south have set up warehouses in Beijing to supply raw materials to Huajinji. Some citizens even became wholesalers of Huajinji, and through secondary wholesale at a higher price, gradually formed an early wholesale market.

Huajinji's goal is to engage in the fashion business and serve all customers. Huawu and Jinke adopt the exclusive store model, opening stores in prosperous areas of various cities, with unified decoration inside the stores, open and transparent pricing, and no bargaining except for their own discounts. This model quickly produced a brand effect and changed consumers' shopping habits.

If you want to bargain, you can choose Huajinji brand; if you are fashionable, you can choose Huawu or Jinke; as for those who are not short of money, you can directly choose Angela. Huajinji Clothing Co., Ltd. covers all grades of clothing.

The current clothing market is still dominated by state-owned enterprises, but they are far behind Huajinji in terms of style design. Many state-owned manufacturers can only follow Huajinji's pace, but they are helpless. The costs of state-owned enterprises are high, and even if they do not make money but just want to expand their influence, their prices are still higher than Huajinji.

Seeing this market opportunity, Ye Chuan boldly expanded his business and spent huge amounts of money to open direct stores in various cities. Although Adidas and Nike are very successful worldwide, their performance in the Chinese market is not satisfactory. In contrast, Jinke, one of the sports brands, has far exceeded the sum of these two. In addition to its price advantage, Huajinji's brand has been deeply rooted in the hearts of consumers and is difficult to shake. Unless Huajinji's own brand performance has problems, foreign brands cannot surpass it.

During the rapid expansion, Ye Chuan also realized the shortcomings of the group. Due to the rapid expansion, there was a lack of sufficient management talents to manage various departments. Therefore, after the establishment of the automobile branch, he conducted a comprehensive assessment within the group. Employees with high scores will be included in the group's talent pool and receive key training. Those who pass the assessment will gradually be assigned to management positions.

China's 1990s were changing every day. This rapid development provided many people with opportunities to get rich, but also caught many businesses off guard. State-owned enterprises were particularly difficult to adapt to this environment. The rigid mindset formed since the 1950s made it difficult for them to survive in the new era. Therefore, after entering the 1990s, many state-owned factories faced a sharp drop in orders and increasingly difficult operations.

Ye Chuan had a clear idea of ​​the future development. He saw that many state-owned factories were already financially stretched and had difficulty maintaining excess staff. Some factory managers were aware of these problems, but were unable to solve them. Many workers were actually "eating free meals", but it was not realistic to fire them, which was a considerable expense. There were three state-owned garment factories in Beijing, and the performance of two of them was getting worse and worse. Ye Chuan was very interested in them and hoped to acquire them.

However, he now faces two problems: first, there is no clear policy to support the sale of the factory to individuals; second, how to place these workers after the acquisition? Skilled workers are easy to deal with, but those who sit in offices are not worth keeping. After all, Huade is a private enterprise and will not support people who get something for nothing. In addition, some facilities in the factory are also a big problem. For example, some workers can get by with newspapers and tea all day, which has become a thorny problem.

A kindergarten attached to a factory has more than ten teachers; the management of a factory-run school is even larger, including many principals and directors, most of whom are relatives of the factory leaders.

Ye Chuan was not very interested in the organizational structure of the textile factory, but he was very curious about the mechanical equipment in the factory. Although these machines were not cutting-edge international products, they were ready to use and had almost no malfunctions after years of practical use.

However, Ye Chuan is most concerned about the technical backbones in the factory. These talents are the most core.

He also tried to invite these technicians to join his team, but even though the salary offered increased several times, there were still only a handful of responses. There is a widespread concern among people that private enterprises are less reliable than stable state-owned enterprises.

Wang Chengguo is an engineer at a large machinery manufacturing plant in Beijing. His monthly income was less than 90 yuan. After entering the s, the factory's operations began to have problems. It was difficult to pay wages on time, not to mention bonuses. Because of this, his wife often blamed him for it.

At that time, Huade Group found Wang Chengguo and asked him to join. However, he was not enthusiastic about this proposal at first - although the income of state-owned factories was not high, it was also stable. He was not sure whether private enterprises like Huade Group would go bankrupt overnight, and then he would have no chance to return to his old unit.

However, staying in the original factory also made him upset. As a mechanical engineering expert, he had little room to develop there, and the factory equipment was aging and inefficient, which made him deeply dissatisfied.

It was not until the Huade Group came to him for the third time and promised a monthly salary of no less than 500 yuan plus an annual bonus that Wang Chengguo began to be tempted.

He and his wife have three children, and the family of five lives in a crowded home in an old residential area. His wife is a housewife, and the family income is always tight. Especially after entering the 90s, inflation rose sharply, and the purchasing power of the monthly salary dropped significantly compared with the 80s.

After careful consideration, Wang Chengguo finally decided to leave his original large-scale machinery manufacturing plant and join the Huade Group.

Company executives initially planned to place him in the newly formed automotive division, but at Ye Chuan's insistence, he eventually became a member of the Huade R&D Center.

On his first day at work, Wang Chengguo first went to the Human Resources Department to report and received his work uniform and meal ticket. The day for his report had already been arranged, and Huade R&D Center specially sent a specialist to receive him.

"Hello, Mr. Wang! I am a researcher from the R&D center. My task is to assist engineers in their research. Please take care of me in the future. You can call me Xiao Su."

This newly hired technical talent originally thought that he would be working alone, but unexpectedly the company even arranged an assistant for him, which made him both surprised and touched.

Xiao Su led Wang Chengguo to the R&D center while introducing the general situation of the department. When Wang Chengguo learned that the number of staff in the R&D center exceeded one thousand, he was surprised.

The entire technical department of the company he worked for previously had only more than a dozen people. He never imagined that the Huade Group would value technical talents so much.

In this team of nearly 1,000 people, there are about 800 engineers and nearly 300 assistants, and Wang Chengguo himself is one of these engineers who is equipped with a personal assistant.

Xiao Su went on to say that any engineer who has an excellent project idea can apply to the company to start the project. If the company determines that the project has potential, it will not only invest special funds, but also form a project team for it, and the initiator of the project will be the person in charge.

Wang Chengguo couldn't believe his ears. This kind of working environment was exactly what he had dreamed of, and it actually became a reality in Huade Group.

"Master Wang, look, the white building over there is our R&D center."

Looking in the direction Xiao Su pointed, Wang Chengguo noticed the modern-style building with more than ten floors. Its appearance was simple yet fashionable.

"Master Wang, you must wear your work badge every time you go to work, otherwise you will not be allowed to enter the building!"

Xiao Su led Wang Chengguo into the R&D building. Sure enough, there were two young security personnel at the entrance, who were rigorously verifying everyone entering and leaving.

These personnel carefully and efficiently use a scanner-like device to check each person's ID card and compare the photo on the card with the cardholder's appearance.

Xiao Su explained: "Master Wang, this is to ensure that everyone's ID card is genuine and matches their identity. Only in this way can they be allowed to enter this R&D building."

Wang Chengguo was somewhat shocked and asked: "Why is the inspection so strict?"

Xiao Su whispered, "Our R&D center gathers all of Huade Group's '930' research results, and President Ye attaches great importance to research and development. He once said at a meeting of the R&D team that even if Huade is gone, as long as he is left with a R&D center, he can rebuild a more powerful group within a year."

As a generation of intellectual elites in China, Wang Chengguo deeply understands the importance of technology research and development to factories. Unfortunately, factories in the past almost ignored this point.

Today, Huade Group attaches great importance to technological research, which makes him excited and secretly happy. He feels that he has found a place where he can truly display his talents.

The two of them walked into the R&D center smoothly. After entering the building, Xiao Su guided Wang Chengguo and introduced the general situation here.

"Master Wang, the first floor has a cafeteria, rest area, conference room, and reception area. The second floor is the R&D management center and data center."

Wang Chengguo was very unfamiliar with the concept of "data center" and this was the first time he had heard of it.

"In the future, the daily sales data of Huade Malls, clothing factories, electrical appliance divisions and other branches across the country will be concentrated in the data center here. After data analysis and processing, a series of business reports will be generated in the form of charts. As for the specific content generated, I am not sure, but it will definitely be closely related to consumer behavior."

This novel statement was refreshing to Wang Chengguo. He had never thought that there could be so much meaning behind the data.