The Pentium Era - South to North

Mr. Nie asked Zhang Chen, Mr. Zhang, can we visit your factory now?

Although Zhang Chen was reluctant, he still said of course, welcome.

The three people went downstairs, and there was a Nissan van waiting for them at the door downstairs. They got in the car, and the driver arrived at Sanbao's factory under the guidance of Zhang Chen.

The three people got out of the car. Mr. Nie and Secretary Bao saw the construction site they were building and asked Zhang Chen, are you planning to expand the factory here?

Zhang Chen said yes. This side is a four-story factory building, and the one over there is a five-story building. They are all dormitories and office buildings. The sideways side is a two-story building, and the first floor is a distribution center. , the second floor is the design center.

"After your factory is built, how many sewing machines do you plan to have?" asked Mr. Nie.

"More than a thousand." Zhang Chen said. Both Mr. Nie and Secretary Bao were startled and stopped ringing.

As the three people spoke, they walked into the office. Mr. Nie and Secretary Bao looked at the renderings on the wall and saw the future of this land.

Zhang Chen told them: "There is no way. The factory is too busy with production now and cannot stop for a day. We can only move here and there, producing and constructing at the same time. It is a mess."

"Pretty good, pretty good."

Mr. Nie and Secretary Bao both said that they were thinking, what are they afraid of? Only by punching randomly can they kill the master. This factory is full of life at first glance, unlike their own Qunying Garment Factory, which is so alive that it is not just because of them. He was beaten so hard that he almost lost his last breath.

The workers in the factory had already started working. Zhang Chen took Mr. Nie and Secretary Bao to look at each workshop. They walked to the cutting room and saw that there were layers of fabric as thick as an upright brick on the cutting bed. Nie I always asked Zhang Chen, how many pieces of clothes are there?

"This board is four hundred and twenty pieces." Zhao Zhigang said beside him.

"Then how long will it take for your workshop to produce this plate?" Mr. Nie asked, thinking that Zhao Zhigang would answer in one to two months.

Zhao Zhigang told him: "For summer clothes, we have to cut at least three panels a day."

"Have you finished the production?" Mr. Nie asked.

"Of course, our cutting machine is very busy. If the goods are not needed that day, we can't even cut them." Zhao Zhigang said with a blushing face.

Both Mr. Nie and Secretary Bao were shocked, but they both thought that this young man was bragging about not drafting, so no wonder he was blushing.

They then walked to the back workshop and saw a mountain of clothes piled on the table. Two buttonholing machines imported from Japan and three buttoning machines were busy at all times. They wondered, could it be Mr. Zhang? I have already called back to the factory. Are all these clothes piled up on purpose for you to see?

They then went to the sewing workshop. Rows of fluorescent lamps were on in broad daylight, illuminating the entire workshop with almost no shadow. The music played in the speakers hanging in the corner was louder than the sound of the machines. Many of the lights were on. The workers were singing along while working and seemed to be in good spirits.

After seeing one, two, three, and four workshops, both people's faces turned pale. They didn't know how many times they had been to Qunying Garment Factory. They thought they knew the garment factory very well, but they didn't know until they got here. It turns out that a piece of clothing can be made so quickly.

They randomly asked a few workers, and they found that they had to complete more than 20 pieces of short-sleeved shirts in a day, and the most they could complete was 38 pieces. Calculating this, the young man was really not bragging. There were mountains of clothing piled up in the back aisle. , which is completely normal for people.

Zhang Chen saw two people whispering and shaking their heads as they talked. Zhang Chen accidentally heard a few words, "A month is not worth one day, there is no way, it's like the new society" And the old society, one day at a time.

When they walked to the showroom, they were very interested in the work of Zheng Huihong and the others. They were impressed by the imported tagging machine and said that there was no way, it was more advanced than the one in our mall. Mr. Nie even considered that their mall was Isn't it time to get into a machine like this?

They looked at the computers and didn't know what they were, let alone what they were used for. Zhang Chen explained to them that these are computers. Through them, we can count every day and know the latest inventory of each store. .

"When will it be new?" Mr. Nie asked.

"Last night," Zhang Chen said, "Tomorrow morning, I will know the sales and inventory of each store today."

"So fast?"

Secretary Bao was surprised. He was an old financial person in shopping malls. He knew that just a few years ago, they still had to close for a day at the end of every month to conduct inventory. On that day, when the stores were closed, a sign saying "Today" would be hung on the door. Although there is no need to close the store for a day now, the monthly inventory still requires a lot of effort.

"You mean, just by being here, you can know the daily sales and inventory of every store in the country?" Mr. Nie asked.

Zhang Chen nodded and said yes.

"How did you do it?"

Zhang Chen explained to him that each store would fax the report every night and they would input it into the computer.

"With so many stores, such a huge amount of data and workload, just the three of them?" Mr. Nie asked in disbelief.

"If you do it every day, the workload is not heavy. The computer will calculate automatically, no need for manual calculation." Zheng Huihong said loudly. Secretary Bao also discovered that they had neither an abacus nor a calculator in sight. .

Zhang Chen and Zheng Huihong said, show the figures for the entire Suzhou to the two leaders.

Okay, Mr. Zhang.

Mr. Nie and Secretary Bao saw this girl put a red plastic flat square plate into the computer, clicked the button, and a report appeared on the screen, and the row of buttons below clicked one by one. What comes out is a report for each store. All styles, how many pieces are purchased every day, how many pieces are sold, and how many pieces are in stock are all clear at a glance.

You can even call up the numbers for any day at will, and you can also call up the sales and inventory of a style every day from the day it was put on the shelves to the present.

After walking out of the exhibition hall, Mr. Nie and Secretary Bao both sighed and said they had seen something.

Mr. Nie and Zhang Chen said: "Mr. Zhang, we invite you to visit our factory again."

Secretary Bao muttered, taking it as a joke.

Zhang Chen quickly said yes, I will also go to Big Brother's factory to study.

The three of them got on the bus. Mr. Nie told the driver to go to Qunying.

Qunying Garment Factory is on Stadium Road, next to the Hangzhou Oil Refinery. In the 1950s and 1960s, more than a dozen quilt factories in various districts of Hangzhou that made quilt covers and pillowcases found an open space next to the oil refinery and concentrated them there. At the same time, a collectively owned Qunying Garment Factory was established. The word "Qunying" represents the heroes of various clothing factories.

In the 1970s, Qunying Garment Factory was also very popular, not only because of the "Xihu" brand quilt tops and "Baihua" brand silk shirts they produced, which were sold all over the country.

It’s also because they have a women’s basketball team. In the annual Hangzhou factory and mining enterprise basketball friendly competition, even large corporate teams such as Hangzhou Steel, Hangzhou Oxygen and Hangbo have been defeated by them and won the championship repeatedly.

It became a trump card of the Erqing system at that time.

But since the early 1980s, Qunying Garment Factory has been celebrating the Chinese New Year. The reason is that there are more and more varieties of clothing in shopping malls. With the rise of clothing wholesale markets in various places, the clothing on both sides of the road has become worse. Stores are also popping up like mushrooms after a rain. One after another, consumers seem to no longer recognize any old brands. What they pay more attention to is the style and price of clothing.

Qunying Garment Factory has nothing that can compete with others. Gradually, they live by supplying only those middle-aged and elderly shirts, menstrual belts and large floral cotton pants to various large shopping malls that are looked down upon by the wholesale clothing market. .

That was it, and it didn't last long. The market for middle-aged and elderly clothing was also discovered. More and more brands specializing in middle-aged and elderly clothing appeared in shopping malls. Those clothes were colorful and brighter than the clothes of young people.

But now middle-aged women and old ladies seem to like this style more and more. The leaders of Qunying Garment Factory feel like they are getting dizzy.

Their flagship product, the menstrual belt, is no longer used by many people. It seems that fewer and fewer people are wearing those large floral cotton pants. They are the same cotton pants, made by people in Yiwu, and cost three or four yuan a piece. The workers at Qunying Garment Factory felt that the cost was not enough no matter how much they calculated.

There are more than 100 workers in the garment factory who cannot even get paid, not to mention that in addition to the current workers, there are also a large number of retired workers, whose wages and medical expenses are even less secure.

If you don't have a place to live, you come to the company to make trouble, go to the factory to make trouble, and even start fights with the current workers in the factory. The current workers scold you that they can't even get their own wages, so how can they still give money to you old immortals?

The workers in the factory can only receive half of their normal wages. This makes them even more panic-stricken. They think that once they retire, they will have the same fate as them. Who will have the energy to work?

For a while, Mr. Nie also contacted the foreign trade company to see if he could transform into foreign trade. But when someone came to take a look, he said that if he wanted to do foreign trade, first all the machinery and equipment in the factory would have to be replaced. Otherwise, foreigners would come over and take a look. It can't pass either. If you just calculate it, it will cost hundreds of thousands to replace the equipment. Forget it.

The market is active. After various wholesale markets came into being, a variety of shops opened on the streets, and township and village enterprises and private enterprises appeared one after another. The biggest impact was on their second light system. There was almost no factory that was not robbed of its sales. People are not poached and their way of living is not blocked. For example, Qunying Garment Factory has not just one company, but more than thirty companies.

Their Erqing Building has achieved good results in the past few years, but it is an independent accounting unit. The money turned over to the head office is not enough for the head office to subsidize these dozens of troubled units every year. Mr. Nie and Secretary Bao The leaders of their head office are troubled by this problem every day, and the city government also sees their difficulties.

But what's the use of just looking at it? Money is still needed to find a way out for these factories. If you don't have money, you can only find a way out without money. Fortunately, the policies from top to bottom are good. As long as you can solve the problem, Any method can be used.

It’s not that our thoughts need to be more liberated and our pace needs to be faster.

Mr. Nie and Secretary Bao found Zhang Chen's way out of Qunying Garment Factory.

To find a way out is not to throw away the burden, but to find a way for all workers in the factory, including retired workers, to provide them with something to rely on when they grow old. Only in this way can we reduce the pressure on society and the government, and also reduce the pressure on Erqing Corporation itself. pressure.

The car drove past the Provincial Stadium, turned around before reaching the gate of the refinery, and drove in through an inconspicuous iron gate.

Zhang Chen didn't know how many times he had walked through Stadium Road. He never knew there was a Qunying Garment Factory here. Only when he arrived at the door today did he realize that it turned out to be the iron characters on the iron gate. The words "Qunying Garment Factory" had long been rusty. Banban, it’s hard to tell when you walk to the door, let alone ride on the sidewalk outside.