King of Industry

After having lunch at the Montreal City Hall, Mark, director of the Montreal Industrial Bureau, led a delegation to Bombardier to visit and study.

Accompanied by this important person from the Montreal city government, everyone on this trip naturally received extremely high treatment from the other party.

In Bombardier's multimedia conference room, Pierre Ebola, Bombardier's executive chairman, and several senior executives are having friendly and in-depth discussions with Minister Kong Xianchao, Counselor Li Haoping, and the visiting China North American economic and industrial exchange delegation. talks.

Among the accompanying Bombardier executives were Dussel, President of Bombardier Rail Vehicle Design and Manufacturing Group, Calderon, President of Bombardier Aerospace Group, Samuel Carter, President of Bombardier All-Terrain Vehicle Manufacturing Company and other heavyweights.

Pierre Ebola extended a warm welcome to the Chinese delegation.

After Mr. Pierre Ebola's speech, as usual, the head of the delegation made a speech.

After everyone's eyes were on him, Zhao Guoyang began to speak calmly.

First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Pierre Ebola and all senior executives for giving us such an extraordinary courtesy. Thank you very much!

Bombardier's cooperation with China can be traced back to 1954. At that time, your company was the Ministry of Railways of my country, but it provided nearly 3,000 refrigerated vehicles, power vehicles, passenger cars and dining cars, and helped us solve the problems in railway operations. A big problem for us, for which we are always grateful!

After Zhao Guoyang said this, the faces of several Bombardier executives showed a look of relief.

Indeed, Bombardier has always been relatively open and friendly in its strategy towards China, and it has spared no effort in helping China in terms of technology.

Although many technology transfers, China also gave money, but there is no free lunch in the world, Bombardier was able to maintain its own principles in the context of the technology blockade imposed by most Western countries on China , which is very valuable.

At the same time, it is also a place of pride for Bombardier.

This time, Zhao Guoyang and his delegation will inspect the first stop of North American all-terrain vehicle manufacturers, and there are also important reasons for this.

After Zhao Guoyang said these words, Dussel, president of Bombardier Rail Vehicle Design and Manufacturing Group, responded with a smile.

He said with a smile: Zhao is right! As a leader in the field of global railway transportation, Bombardier has been very concerned about and actively participated in the construction of China's urban rail transit for many years.

And promise that in the next few years, we will continue to transfer world-class technology and advanced management methods to your country. It is a great honor that we have not violated our original promise, and our cooperation has been very smooth!

Among Bombardier's four major businesses, the rail vehicle design and manufacture business is its largest.

Including design and manufacture of railway trains, design and manufacture of railway locomotives, design and manufacture of railway control equipment, design and manufacture of urban rail transit vehicles and equipment, and many other important projects.

Dussel, the president of Bombardier Rail Vehicle Design and Manufacturing Group, is also one of Bombardier's shareholders, and his weight is not much less than that of Pierre Ebola.

At this moment, after hearing his explanation, the smile on Zhao Guoyang's face deepened.

Mr. Dussel is right. Your company's technology transfer to our Chinese enterprises has been going on and has never stopped. Moreover, this transfer is a comprehensive and systematic transfer of advanced technology and management systems. Continuous simultaneous transfers, not just product offerings.

This is also an important reason why we feel very cordial to your company!

Listening to Zhao Guoyang's words, several Bombardier executives were also a little surprised while being happy.

They never thought in advance that there would be someone in the Huaxia delegation who knew and was so familiar with the cooperation between Bombardier and Huaxia.

Being able to say such professional words is enough to prove the extraordinaryness of this young man.

Just when the bosses of Bombardier were about to speak, Zhao Guoyang spoke again.

Factually speaking, Bombardier has given us great help in the fields of rail vehicle design and manufacturing, railway control equipment design and manufacturing, urban rail transit vehicle and equipment design and manufacturing.

Our Huaxia has made rapid progress in these fields over the years, and your company has indeed made a contribution that cannot be ignored.

Speaking of this, Zhao Guoyang changed the subject: In the past few decades, your company and our Huaxia have been adopting this kind of cooperation model to carry out friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation. But this way, it seems that it is far away now. Not enough anymore.

Hearing this, the executive chairman Pierre Ebola was taken aback.

However, this big guy's temperament is still very calm. Although he was puzzled, his tone was still calm.

He smiled slightly, looked at Zhao Guoyang calmly and said, Mr. Zhao's point of view is very novel and creative. If possible, please give us a detailed analysis!

Zhao Guoyang nodded slightly, and said slowly: Actually, my point of view is not difficult to understand.

As the pace of our reform and opening up in China gradually increases, the Western countries' strategy of blocking our technology has gradually lost its market.

In recent years, vehicle manufacturing companies, railway trains and related industry design and manufacturing companies in many developed countries, including the United States, Germany, and island countries, have all turned their attention to the huge market of China.

Zhao Guoyang raised his head and looked at Pierre Ebola, and then said: I have a piece of data here. In the past three years, the machinery manufacturing giants from Western developed countries have invested and built factories in China, or established joint ventures. Sixty-seven factories have been built.

As for the companies that can be called the giants of the world's machinery manufacturing industry, there are only a hundred or so in the world, right?

So it is self-evident what the number sixty-seven means? It means that the giants of the world's machinery manufacturing industry have turned their attention to our country, to our vibrant, On a behemoth with unlimited potential!

Listening to Zhao Guoyang's nonsense, the people on the Huaxia inspection team were all secretly speechless.

That's right, in everyone's opinion, China's development speed in recent years has indeed improved significantly.

But isn't it a little exaggerated to say that adjectives such as vigorous and unlimited potential are attached to oneself.

But this Researcher Zhao is fine, he doesn't even blush when he speaks such a big word, which makes people sigh to themselves.

Unlike the members of Huaxia, Pierre Ebola fell into deep thought after hearing Zhao Guoyang's narration.

It can be seen that this boss is really seriously analyzing Zhao Guoyang's remarks. Moreover, attach great importance to it.

At this moment, Samuel Carter, president of Bombardier All-Terrain Vehicle Manufacturing Company, spoke out.

He nodded to Zhao Guoyang, gave a thumbs up and said, Mr. Zhao's understanding of these situations is really amazing.

Indeed, as you said, the giants of the international machinery manufacturing industry are now paying more and more attention to your country. They are also paying more and more attention to such a huge market as your country.

But, with all due respect.

Samuel Carter said with a full face, The basic industrial level of your country is still at a very low level. Even if these international machinery manufacturing giants open branches in China, they will treat your country more as a Cheap processing base.

To put it bluntly, what they value more is economic interests, and they don't sincerely want to have long-term, win-win cooperation with your country!

This is completely different from our Bombardier's China strategy!

After Samuel Carter said these words, Zhao Guoyang secretly agreed.

Indeed, the man at the helm of Bombardier's all-terrain vehicle industry speaks the truth.

Being able to hear such direct and sharp words from his mouth, Zhao Guoyang's evaluation of him has improved a lot.

He smiled and said: Mr. Samuel Carter is right! These manufacturing giants are currently investing more in China. To put it bluntly, there is no escape from the word 'profit'.

However, even these giant companies only want our cheap labor force and huge market in China. But their business in China has expanded after all.

If we follow the current trend and develop for ten or twenty years, our new generation of Chinese people who have grown up may only know manufacturing giants such as 'Volkswagen', 'Boeing', and 'McDonnell Douglas', but not the expensive ones. The name of the company...

Zhao Guoyang's words hit the nail on the head, and several Bombardier executives present nodded their heads.

Indeed, Bombardier can continue to cooperate with Huaxia tepidly as in the past.

However, in an environment where other manufacturing giants are scrambling to expand investment, Bombardier's influence in China will undoubtedly go downhill.

More importantly, Bombardier has many main industries, and its competitors are far from being as simple as three or five.

The world's vehicle manufacturing giants, railway track design and manufacturing giants, and aerospace industry giants are all Bombardier's competitors.

Under such circumstances, if Bombardier does not change their China strategy, the consequences will be obvious.

After a moment of silence in the conference room, Pierre Ebola slowly spoke up.

The nominal leader of Bombardier said to Zhao Guoyang in a tone of asking for advice: Mr. Zhao, we recognize and appreciate the truth you just explained.

What I want to ask is, in Mr. Zhao's view, what kind of strategy should Bombardier adopt to meet the challenges of these competitors?