Rebirth of science and technology to rejuvenate the country

A lot of people went to the United States, Yuanxia's family of three, Yu Zhiwen and his grandson and granddaughter, Yuanqiu's family, Chongyang's family of four, plus Winter Solstice and Qian Chongmao, Yuandong and Yuanchun had to go to work , unable to get away, Yuan Xi is a graduate student and is doing an internship in a hospital.

The first stop in the United States was to visit Qu Yuan in Boston. When Qu Yuan learned that his family was coming to the United States, he arranged a half-month rest time to accompany his family.

Accompanying Qu Yuan to pick up the plane was her boyfriend Yan Jing, a Chinese student from the same school as her. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Peking University and was one year younger than her. The two had just dated for half a year.

This made Yuanqiu and his wife feel very relieved. Qu Yuan is beautiful and has the same personality as Yuanqiu. He is a bit socially fearful and has not been in a relationship for more than 20 years. They are really worried that their eldest daughter is a celibate.

Qu Yuan's boyfriend is not good at communication, but it can be seen that he is trying to integrate into their big family.

Everyone felt a little sympathetic to this young man. After all, the first time I saw my parents was a group of seven aunts and eight aunts. Anyone would feel a lot of pressure.

Yuan Xia and Yu Xingyi followed everyone in the United States for more than a week, and then went to the company's operation center in Memphis.

The two of them rarely come to the United States, and the business here is in charge of the American operation center. In recent years, the company's sales in the United States have been increasing year by year.

Except for the person in charge sent from China in the U.S. operation center, the rest are American employees. They have been proposing to the head office for many years to set up a factory in the U.S., just like setting up a factory in Germany, so that the products can be supplied to the entire American market.

If Yuan Xia hadn’t experienced the pitfalls stepped on in the United States, he would really agree to build a factory in the United States. After all, the prospect of the entire American market is also very broad, but he has been cheated once before, knowing that it is not wise to build a factory in the United States s Choice.

Coupled with the upcoming global epidemic, in the short term, Yuanxia does not plan to set up branch factories abroad. At that time, the global manufacturing industry will have to rely on China, the only top student in the fight against the epidemic.

After arriving in Memphis this time, the topic of building a factory in the United States was naturally brought up again.

The person in charge of the operation center said that now that the Sino-US trade war has begun, the tax on products imported from China has been greatly increased, and after the products of Xingyuan are shipped from China to the United States, profits have been greatly reduced.If the factory can be built in the United States, the tax cost can be reduced, and the Tennessee state government stated that if the factory is built in the United States, the state government will give certain tax relief and subsidy policies.

Yuan Xia knew that it was because the U.S. federal government wanted to guide the return of manufacturing and solve the employment problem in the U.S., so it actively invited Chinese companies to build factories in the U.S.

Although the conditions offered are very attractive, Yuan Xia is still unmoved. The policies of the United States are changing day by day. Not to mention whether the subsidies and benefits promised to foreign capital will be in place, and there are trade unions that kidnap the will of workers. Who knows when it will be possible? profit.

He has seen with his own eyes that many Chinese-funded enterprises have finally fallen into the quagmire after building factories in the United States. He would rather make less money than go into this muddy water.

The American market is indeed not small. Canada and the United States have the same nostrils, so it is not suitable for building factories. The political situation and economy of Central and South American countries are unstable, and it is not suitable for long-term investment. In addition, the epidemic is coming soon, and Yuanxia has no plans in the short term Set up a branch in America.

After leaving Memphis, Yuan Xia and Yu Xingyi went to several operation centers in South America. In fact, the operations here are going smoothly, and there is no need for the two big bosses to go there in person.But now that we have all arrived in the United States, let's stop by to inspect and understand the local market and needs.

By the time they returned home, the rest of the trip hadn't been halfway through yet.

They went to Cuba after their trip to the United States.Winter Solstice has a strong interest in Cuba, the only socialist country in the Americas, and Chongyang also feels that it should contribute some tourism income to the Cuban people.

After leaving Cuba, they were divided into two teams. The older Yu Zhiwen and Yuan Qiu took the children of Mulati and Sonal to Canada, and Chongyang's family of four went to South America with three young men. Chongyang wants to go to Brazil to visit the Amazon rainforest, and Winter Solstice wants to go to Peru to see the ruins of Machu Picchu.

The tropical rainforest is too hot and humid, and it is not very friendly to the elderly and the young. Moreover, many countries in South America have poor security, and they dare not let the elderly and children take risks.

Originally, the travel plan for this year was only the United States and Canada. Later, Winter Solstice proposed that he want to go to South American countries by the way. Yuan Xia hesitated, but agreed.

After Yuan Xia and Yu Xing returned to Yuecheng, Tao Yang sent Yuan Xia the medical enterprise investment projects that Yuan Xia asked him to pay attention to, mainly pharmaceutical companies, and some medical device companies. established an oxygen generator manufacturing company.

This factory is located in Jianning City. It is a small factory with less than 100 employees. It is facing the risk of bankruptcy due to poor management.

Yuan Xia said to Tao Yang: "Come back and accompany me to Jianning to see this factory. If it is suitable, we will invest in this."

Tao Yang didn't expect Yuan Xia to be interested in this company. After all, among all the projects, this company is in the worst operating condition, so he couldn't help asking: "Yuan always thinks that the production of oxygen generators is more promising?"

Yuan Xia said: "Yes, there are more and more elderly people in our country, and the number of elderly people with underlying diseases is also increasing. People's living conditions have improved, and many people are willing to buy household oxygen generators for their elders. I think This is more promising."

Tao Yang nodded: "Mr. Yuan is right. My wife bought one for my mother-in-law, she has asthma."

Two days later, Yuan Xia and Tao Yang arrived at Jianning Kangyi Medical Machinery Production Company. The factory was already in a state of semi-shutdown, because the products were unsalable and the workers' wages were almost out of pay.

After Tao Yang looked at it, he said seriously: "Mr. Yuan, I think this project is not very good. If it is really acquired, we will have to carry out a major rectification."

Yuan Xia said: "The product is not selling well, either because there is a problem with the product, or there is a problem with marketing. Just put more effort into R&D and marketing."

Of course Tao Yang knows this truth. The key is whether it is worth spending money, time and energy. If you want to invest in the medical industry, you should find a better company.

After investigation, Yuanxia finally made a decision and spent 150 million to acquire 80% of the factory's shares. The original factory manager is still responsible for production, and Xingyuan is responsible for product development, marketing and expansion.

After signing the contract, Yuan Xia asked Tao Yang to recruit medical device researchers to develop ventilators and oxygen concentrators. If he wants to be invincible in the competition, the products must first be of excellent quality.

Before that, the design of the oxygen generator of this factory was authorized from other companies.

Yuan Xia doesn't like to be controlled by others, the oxygen generator is not complicated, so he would rather ask someone to develop it by himself.Not only household oxygen concentrators, he is also planning to develop medical ventilators.

With the oxygen concentrator, it is necessary to purchase a manufacturer of masks and protective clothing. Plan ahead, and don’t wait until the outbreak of the epidemic to open up a production line temporarily.

At the company's product research and development meeting in September, Yuanxia put forward a new request to develop a disinfecting vehicle.

Disinfection vehicles are municipal engineering vehicles, not new products, but the market demand is relatively small, and many companies do not produce them.

Xingyuan currently has a complete range of major categories of construction machinery, only some models have not yet been developed, and now the addition of disinfecting vehicles can be regarded as improving the models on the original basis, which is not unexpected.

At the beginning of October, the first shield machine produced by Xingyuan officially rolled off the production line. This shield machine has a diameter of 10 meters and is specially used for subway tunnel excavation.

This shield machine was purchased by China Railway Construction Group and used in the subway construction of Yuecheng.The price is only 2600 million yuan, which is half cheaper than that of Germany and several million cheaper than that of Japan.

It can be seen how profitable it was in the 90s when Germany sold a shield machine to China for 7.2 million yuan. Only when China can develop its own shield machine can this kind of monopolistic behavior of cutting leeks be eliminated.

Yuan Xia, who participated in and witnessed the whole process of reform and opening up, has the deepest understanding of this phenomenon. Only when we in China can conquer the technology of a certain product can we get rid of the fate of being slaughtered.

The history of China's development in the past few decades is a history of Chinese people's efforts to get rid of the technological monopoly and blockade of Western countries.

This year's construction machinery market continued to rise, and the sales volume of Xingyuan also increased significantly. By the end of the year, the overall sales volume increased by 34.6%, and the turnover increased from 633 billion in the previous year to 852 billion.

The sales volume of Xingyuan Machinery once again aspired to the top of China's construction machinery enterprises, surpassing Xugong Machinery.

And returned to the top ten sales of global construction machinery brands, ranking sixth, behind Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hitachi, Volvo and Liebherr.

For Xingyuan, this is a good year. The company has huge profits, employee benefits have skyrocketed, and everyone can have a good year again.

Yuan Xia plans to go abroad for the New Year again, and this is probably the last Spring Festival where she can come and go freely.

Wen Bo wanted to see the aurora, and Yuan Xia planned to take him to Alaska, and when he came back, he would go to Japan to soak in a hot spring, instead of going to Finland to see the aurora, because he had already been to Northern Europe.

Just as they were preparing to go abroad for the New Year, Yuan Xia received a call from Xu Tuanjie, an old friend whom he hadn't contacted for a long time: "Yuan Xia, help!"

Yuan Xia was startled: "What's wrong with you? Are you sick?"

Xu Tuan hurriedly said: "No, no, it's not that I'm sick, it's our company that can't support it any longer. Japan's Kubota contacted me some time ago and wanted to acquire 60% of our company's shares."

Yuan Xia couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "What's going on? Aren't your benefits always good?"

Xu Tuanjie sighed and said: "It was still profitable until the year before last year, and sales have dropped sharply since last year, let alone this year, plus my own investment failed and I lost more than [-] million yuan. You know, our company is small. I am already insolvent after losing so much. But I am not willing to be acquired by Kubota. I thought of you, don’t Kubota and John Deere both produce agricultural machinery and construction machinery? You can also produce agricultural machinery when you travel far.”

Yuan Xia said: "It's not impossible." Now that the major categories of construction machinery are almost developed, he intends to develop in other fields, such as agricultural machinery and machine tools, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

Xu Tuanjie's voice became excited: "Yuanxia, ​​you should just buy our company. We have a ready-made market and workers, and you have the technology and brand. You will definitely be able to make agricultural machinery."

Yuan Xia said: "This is not a trivial matter. I can't give you an answer now. We have to discuss it within the company. But you don't need to consider cooperating with Kubota. By the way, you said that your investment failed, so you won't go into real estate, right?"

Xu Tuanjie smiled bitterly in embarrassment: "Yeah, how did you know?"

Yuan Xia couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "Now is the peak of housing prices, you enter the market now, who are you waiting for to take over the offer?"

Xu Tuanjie sighed: "Don't mention it, I regret it to death."

Yuan Xia said helplessly: "I really don't know what to say about you. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and we are all going to have a holiday. We will discuss your company after the Chinese New Year is over."

Xu Tuanjie said: "Okay, then I will wait for your good news! Be sure to give us a hand."

Yuan Xia hung up the phone and turned around to discuss the matter with Yu Xingyi. Yu Xingyi said, "It's not impossible. There are so many R&D personnel in our company, so we have to find some new projects for them. Now that agriculture is basically mechanized, the market The prospects are still bright.”

Yuan Xia nodded: "I think so too."

Product upgrading and product research and development are not exactly the same concept. Product upgrading is to optimize on the original basis, and research and development is to start from scratch. The manpower required by the two is not the same concept at all.

Now that the research and development of new products of Xingyuan Construction Machinery has decreased, many R&D personnel will be idle, which is also a huge waste, and it is time to open up new fields.

Yu Xingyi said: "Then buy it, and prepare to develop agricultural machinery in the future."

"Well, we'll discuss this matter when we come back after the Chinese New Year."

The Spring Festival travel plan was carried out as scheduled. This time I went to Alaska to watch the aurora. Almost everyone in the family was dispatched, including Mulati and Sonar, and even the Yuanchun couple who had never been able to find time. Yuanxi who was on winter vacation They also went, except Qu Yuan, who was preparing her doctoral dissertation and really couldn't find time.

Yuan Xia knows that this is probably the most lively year that the whole family has spent together. When the epidemic comes, it will be difficult for the whole family to celebrate the New Year together, so we must cherish it.