Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

Xu Huasheng checked into the hotel, and Prince Salman did not bother him too much. After all, it was already late. And Xu Huasheng flew from Shenzhen to Riyadh for eight or nine hours, and he was a little tired. Even if there was something, it would not be too late to talk about it tomorrow.

After checking into the hotel and taking a comfortable bath, Xu Huasheng fell asleep comfortably. Have a good rest, there are important things to do tomorrow.

The next morning, Xu Huasheng had just finished breakfast when Prince Salman came to the hotel, and then the two left the hotel together.

"Xu, now this car factory has been completed and can be started at any time..."

Salman and Xu Huasheng took a private plane to Jeddah, which is the second largest city in Saudi Arabia and the largest port in Saudi Arabia. It is located on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, close to the Red Sea.

Ships depart from here to Europe very close, and this city is also extremely important to Saudi Arabia.

The car factory of the Saudi Royal Automobile Group is built in this city. This car factory was invested and built by the Saudi royal family. It is large in scale and has very complete facilities.

The annual production capacity of this factory is 1.2 million cars. All the equipment used in it comes from China, and most of the equipment is purchased from Huasheng Group. The entire factory has an investment of 2.5 billion US dollars, which is a big investment in this era.

When he came to the workshop and saw the advanced production line in the workshop, Xu Huasheng was very satisfied. This factory is well-equipped. It is not a simple assembly factory, but a complete automobile production factory.

Raw materials will be processed into various parts in this factory and finally assembled into cars, including engine and gearbox production lines. Not only that, the production line of this factory is more advanced than the production line used by Shanhai Automobile itself, and the degree of automation is much higher.

For the same production capacity, the number of workers required by this factory is only about one-third of that of Shanhai Automobile's Huaxia factory.

The reason for such a big gap is that in order to drive more employment, Shanhai Automobile's production line in China has reduced its automation capacity in some links and used manual labor. It is equivalent to giving the money for these equipment to the workers in disguise.

However, the production line in the Saudi Arabian factory is as automated as possible and as advanced as possible. After all, Saudi Arabian labor is very expensive.

However, the quality of products produced by Shanhai Automobile's production line and the production line in Saudi Arabia is the same, and the efficiency is similar. The difference between them is nothing more than one uses fewer people and the other uses more people.

"Your Highness, our Shanhai Automobile Group has finalized several models a year ago. These cars can be authorized to be produced in this factory..."

Xu Huasheng took out a picture album from the bag of his entourage and began to introduce it to Salman.

They are all models of the White Tiger series, White Tiger A8, A6, A4, Q7, Q5, Q3, and this name directly took the naming of the future Audi. And that GL8 model has now been replaced by the White Tiger M8, and the future White Tiger brand MPV model is the M series.

In addition to these seven models, there is also a re-shelled Land Cruiser. In the White Tiger brand, it is the T series. After the Land Cruiser is re-shelled, it is the White Tiger T90, which focuses on luxury attributes and is a top luxury off-road vehicle.

Eight models, plus the Land Cruiser, now this factory can produce a total of nine models. After the future Suzaku brand models are finalized, more models can be produced in this factory.

"So beautiful..."

Salman couldn't help but say after listening to the introduction.

These cars are so beautiful, and Salman is familiar with Luxun and T90. Luxun is now selling very well in the Middle East, and Baihu T90 has its own, and Salman knows best how this car is.

Now the Baihu brand has come up with so many advanced and beautiful cars with good performance, I am really envious. Look at this appearance, look at this design, look at this interior, and compare it with the cars on the market, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Cadillac have to stand aside, and are set off like a country girl.

"Your Highness, after our internal discussion, we have also given our specific cooperation plan. Our Shanhai Automobile Group provides vehicle technology, and Saudi Royal Automobile Company is responsible for production and sales. Shanhai Automobile takes 55% of the comprehensive profit, and Saudi Royal Automobile Company takes 45%. The future production capacity of this factory will be fully utilized, and the main sales targets are not limited to the Middle East. It is relatively close to Europe. In the future, our Shanhai Automobile cars for the European market will also be produced from this factory. As for how much can be sold, it depends on your sales ability. Your country has a good relationship with Europe. If the cars produced by this factory can get some preferential policies, I believe these cars will have very good competitiveness in Europe..."

Xu Huasheng looked at Salman and saidThe specific cooperation method is very simple. Saudi Arabia is responsible for providing money, labor and production, while Shanhai Automobile only provides technology and collects technology licensing fees. Shanhai Automobile takes 55% of the final settlement profit and Saudi Arabia takes 45%. In this way, Saudi Arabia seems to have lost money. After all, it has contributed money and labor, but most of the profits are taken by Shanhai Automobile. But in fact, it is Shanhai Automobile that has suffered a loss. No other automobile company will give Saudi Arabia such conditions except Shanhai Automobile. The market in Saudi Arabia is not big, and there is no capital to exchange technology for the market. If it were other car companies, I could obviously take 100% of the profit, so why should I give out 45%? From another perspective, Saudi Arabia is just a foundry, and it is quite terrifying for a foundry to take 45% of the profit. However, this foundry in Saudi Arabia is different from other foundries. The foundry in Saudi Arabia needs to buy raw materials and sell them by itself. This is the price of not having technology. If Saudi Arabia has technology and develops cars by itself, it can not pay a penny to Shanhai Automobile Group, but it is a pity that Saudi Arabia does not have it. Not to mention that there is no car now, even in another 20 years, it may not be able to develop a car with market competitiveness.

The reason why Xu Huasheng gave Saudi Arabia 45% of the profit is very simple. The interests are tied together. The car concessions can be made back from other aspects. At the same time, the interests between Saudi Arabia and China are tied more closely.

Saudi Arabia is the boss of the Middle East world. Having a good relationship with Saudi Arabia is of great significance to the entire Chinese national strategy.

The United States exports war in the Middle East, and China exports cooperation in the Middle East.

Now the entire Middle East is about to use the Chinese Internet standard. In the future, Xu Huasheng will export some things on the Internet of these countries to form an information cocoon.

At that time, the people in the Middle East trapped in the information cocoon are the best sword in China's hands. By exporting some values ​​through the information cocoon, public opinion can be controlled silently. Under this subtle change, the attitude of the people of this land towards European and American countries will become worse and worse. This is the real situation set by Xu Huasheng.