Material Empire

The large meeting room of the State Economic and Trade Commission's Auto Industry Bureau was filled with smoke. The "No Smoking" sign was nailed to the wall, but the chief executives of the major state-owned automobile companies who came to the meeting turned a blind eye and smoked one after another. Even Wu Zhaoyun, the director of the Bureau of Automobile Industry who presided over the meeting, could not Free from vulgarity. He held a cigarette in his hand, and there were cigarettes thrown to him by the leaders of various enterprises in front of him.

"Everyone, just now I informed you of Director Liu's important instructions on changing the management concept of the country's super-large enterprises and adapting to the new competitive environment after China's entry into the WTO. According to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, if everything goes well, the WTO ministerial meeting will be held within this month. China’s application for WTO accession will be approved, and our automobile industry will undoubtedly be the industry that will be hit the hardest. Let’s talk about your own thoughts based on the situation of your company.” Wu Zhaoyun said.

"Thoughts?" Everyone exchanged glances with each other, and they could guess what the other was thinking from their gazes. In fact, long before the meeting, the bosses of each company had already had a brief chat, and all the topics they talked about were the provocation of Daqin Electric Vehicle. Just now Wu Zhaoyun talked a lot about facing the new century, the beginning of the 11th Five-Year Plan, and welcoming the WTO. In the last case, let the country take action to clean up this unruly Daqin Group.

"Let me say a few words." Wang Kaihua is a senior business leader and has some appeal in the industry. At this time, it is natural for him to start the shot:

"Just now Director Wu mentioned that the auto industry will be impacted by the international market after China's accession to the WTO. Our Beidian Group has been prepared for this. We have actively introduced talents, promoted standardized management, and developed five new joint venture models. The car models are also being actively planned. We believe that as long as the domestic auto industry colleagues can work together with one heart and one mind, the impact of foreign auto industries on our country can be completely resolved."

"Well, Mr. Wang's determination is commendable. We just need to have such a spirit to despise the enemy strategically and attach importance to the enemy tactically..." Wu Zhaoyun made a nonsensical comment, which can be regarded as an echo of Wang Kaihua.

"But..." Wang Kaihua changed the subject, "Lenin once said that a fortress is the easiest to breach from within. We are not afraid of foreign competition. But if there is a bad apple in our domestic auto industry, maliciously If we disrupt the market order, use various unfair means to suppress our peers, and fight each other, then we don’t have to wait for foreign manufacturers to come, we have already collapsed ourselves. Lessons like this are not uncommon in these years.”

"Oh, Mr. Wang, can you tell me in detail, which black sheep is it, and what kind of market order has been disrupted?"

A voice sounded from the side, Wang Kaihua looked back, stood up quickly, and greeted with a smile on his face: "It's Director Cui, when did you come..."

It turned out that while Wang Kaihua was making a speech, Cui Hongchun, the new deputy director of the Economic and Trade Commission, had already walked by his side. Others had already seen Cui Hongchun and wanted to say hello, but Cui Hongchun stopped them. It wasn't until Wang Kaihua finished speaking that Cui Hongchun interrupted with a smile and asked questions.

"Mr. Wang, sit down and talk, sit down and talk." Cui Hongchun patted Wang Kaihua on the shoulder, motioning him to sit down. Afterwards, he himself rejected Wu Zhaoyun's invitation to sit on the chief seat, and took advantage of the opportunity to sit next to Wang Kaihua in a seat that was just vacated by others.

"We are engaged in a market economy and emphasize free competition, but we have always been firmly opposed to unscrupulous vicious competition. If the things that Mr. Wang said disrupted the market order are true, the Economic and Trade Commission will definitely take necessary measures to punish them. Stop it and deal with it seriously. Can Mr. Wang explain the specific situation in detail?" Cui Hongchun said with a warm spring breeze on his face.

For Cui Hongchun, all the business executives attending the meeting are not very familiar with him. They just know that he has just been transferred from the Ministry of Agriculture to serve as the deputy director in charge of the electromechanical and automotive fields. After assuming the new position, the deputy director has participated in many conferences in the industry, but rarely expresses his opinions. Most of the time he just listens to other people's narrations, and seems to be a very non-existent person. However, some people have inquired and learned that when Cui Hongchun was in the Ministry of Agriculture, he focused on the construction of the agricultural machinery industry.

"Actually, what I want to say is also an open secret. We have a large-scale private enterprise group in China, which has developed an electric car relying on several patented technologies in its hands. Under the circumstances widely recognized by the industry, this company carried out malicious hype and exaggerated the advantages of electric vehicles, which caused great misleading to consumers. Under such circumstances, the sales of passenger cars of various auto companies across the country have been affected. If this situation continues, I believe that most enterprises will not be able to complete this year's production tasks, and may even suffer serious losses." Wang Kaihua said.

"Is there such a thing?" Cui Hongchun frowned into a pimple, which made people feel that he seemed to be extremely worried about the seriousness of the problem. It's a pity that Qin Hai wasn't there, otherwise he would definitely be impressed by old Cui's genius acting skills.

Cui Hongchun's precious son, Cui Xuezhe, had already become Qin Hai's eldest brother-in-law a few years ago. Cui Hongchun and Qin Hai were both relatives and long-term friends. How could he not know about the grievances and grievances related to electric vehicles? It was expected by Cui Hongchun that Wang Kaihua launched an attack on the Daqin Group at this meeting. He came to the meeting of the Bureau of Automobile Industry to stop Wang Kaihua and his ilk from killing people with the knife of the Economic and Trade Commission.

"Could Mr. Wang tell me which company did this, and what false statements did they release?" Cui Hongchun asked with a serious look, and opened a small notebook to make preparations. The record looks like.

"As for the company, everyone knows that it is Anhe Daqin Industrial Group. As for the cars they produce, they cooperate with Hongyuan Automobile Company. Lao Zhu, you know this situation best, right?" Wang Kaihua said, and asked Hongyuan Automobile Company Vice President Zhu Bingyan pouted.

Among the people in this room, the most embarrassing and proudest is none other than Zhu Bingyan. In his early years, he was the production director of Anshi Automobile Group. Because he felt that he could not perform his duties, he jumped out and joined the newly established Hongyuan Automobile Company. Hongyuan Automobile Company is an enterprise established by Hongyuan Province itself. In the eyes of "regular troops" such as Beidian and Anshi, it is just a role of a district squad or county brigade.

From the very beginning, Hongyuan Automobile Co., Ltd. has taken a road of developing its own brand, which is completely different from Beidian, Anshi and other enterprises relying on joint venture brand development. In the past few years, Hongyuan Automobile was basically struggling to survive in the cracks between established enterprises and national policies. If it hadn't been for the firm support of Hongyuan Province, it would have been shut down a long time ago.

The commissioning of Daqin Automobile is a turning point for Hongyuan Automobile Company. Although the car is branded as Daqin, Hongyuan Automobile Company also has half of the shares in it. Daqin Group only provided key components such as supercapacitors, motors, and control systems in the complete vehicle. The other parts used the mature components of the original Hongyuan Automobile. The final assembly was also completed in Hongyuan Province, providing Hongyuan Province with Great tax and job opportunities.

In previous similar meetings, Zhu Bingyan had always been in a marginalized position, and everyone would only circle around Wang Kaihua and others, and did not give him such a "hillies" attention at all. But since Daqin Electric Vehicle was put into production, more and more people have come to set up porcelain with him. Although various companies have not yet had a clear idea for the development of electric vehicles, they are very clear about the prospects of electric vehicles. Everyone wants to Get acquainted with Zhu Bingyan in advance so that you can get some help from Hongyuan Automobile in the future.

This time Daqin Group started from public opinion and declared war on established car companies such as Beidian and Anshi. Hongyuan Automobile Company adopted an ostrich policy, claiming that this was only a unilateral action of Daqin Group and had nothing to do with Hongyuan Automobile Company. The original car company also did not intend to comment on this. Sitting in the meeting place, Zhu Bingyan felt relieved when he saw the sad or annoyed eyes from everyone.

Although he thought so in his heart, Zhu Bingyan was not arrogant enough to provoke public anger. Hearing Wang Kaihua call his name, he smiled at everyone and said:

"Well, I know a little about this matter... not much, just a little bit. The Daqin electric car is nominally produced by our Hongyuan Automobile and the Daqin Group. In fact, the Daqin Group is the actual controller. We are just an assembly plant, earning some hard money.

This time, Daqin Group has placed some advertisements in the media, mainly to match the sales of electric vehicles. As far as we know, several large foreign car manufacturers have already started trial production of electric vehicles. In order to avoid the impact of foreign brands on us, we need to speed up the promotion of electric vehicles and seize the market.

As for the exaggerated propaganda that Mr. Wang said, I don't know much about it. Can Mr. Wang remind me of the specific exaggerations. After I go back, I will find an opportunity to report it to the Daqin Group. Of course, I can't guarantee whether it will be useful or not. As you all know, the Daqin Group...is not easy to talk to, hehe, hehe. "

Zhu Bingyan's words are very correct, very low-key, very wronged, people can't find any faults. However, all the participants here knew that he was actually hiding a needle in the cotton, and stabbed Wang Kaihua quietly: Didn't you say that we are exaggerating propaganda? Well, you can tell in public which one is exaggerated. Let Director Cui and Director Wu judge it.