Chapter 788: Talented People in Chao County
In a blink of an eye, it was late February 1987.
After the Spring Festival, everything gradually returned to normal and Lin Yuhang became busier at work.
At the end of last year, Lin Yuhang and his team members reported on and discussed the economic work of Chao County, and proposed to vigorously develop an industrial structure with local characteristics based on the actual situation of Chao County, so as to promote economic development, and at the same time establish a local open zone to attract foreign investment.
Lin Yuhang's ideas were recognized by his colleagues in the team, and they supported them to a large extent.
In January, with the approval of the superiors, the Chao County Development Zone project was established. Lin Yuhang personally served as the team leader, and two other comrades in the team served as deputy team leaders. At the same time, elite troops were drawn from various county bureaus to strengthen the team.
Apart from the open areas and other industries, the most important work at hand right now is the leather products project in Chao County.
Before, Lin Yuhang didn’t know much about Chaoxian leather products. After communicating with Song Yuanchao, he returned to Chaoxian for further research. Only then did he discover that Chaoxian leather products were not as without foundation as he had imagined. On the contrary, Chaoxian had been producing leather products as early as 1926.
Chaoxian Tannery was established in 1926. It is the first leather manufacturing factory in the modern industrial sense in China's modern history. Most of its main products are supplied to the Shanghai market, and many are even exported.
The Chaoxian Tannery was quite famous in those days. Many private leather production workshops also appeared in Chaoxian. These industries reached a peak around 1950. In 1956, due to public-private partnership, the Chaoxian Tannery became a state-owned enterprise and merged .
The Chaoxian Tannery has grown to a fairly large scale, with 173 employees and cadres. Although a tannery of this size cannot compare with state-owned enterprises in big cities such as Shanghai and Yanjing, it is very good in Chaoxian.
The key lies in technical strength and leather making technology. Although the tanneries gradually went downhill , these are still retained. Until now, Chaoxian Tannery still has a large number of tanneries with superb skills, which makes Lin Yuhang very happy.
There is joy, but there are also problems.
After the reform and opening up, Chaoxian Tannery did not keep up with the times. In addition, the long-term planned economy led to rigid corporate management and backward thinking. Although Chaoxian Tannery had various foundations, it did not seize the opportunity.
After the market was developed, the overall domestic economy changed with each passing day, and some groups became rich first by relying on their own abilities. These changes caused many employees in Chaoxian Tannery to think about leaving the factory and starting their own business.
Chao County is very close to Shanghai. Compared with inland cities, Chao County has more sources of information about the outside world. In addition, Chao County people are quick-witted, have many ideas, and are bold. They feel that there is no hope in continuing to work in state-owned enterprises. In addition, in recent years the country has had policies allowing private registered companies to set up factories. Naturally, some people with technology, ability, and channels have their own ideas.
At present, several employees of Chaoxian Tannery have gone out on their own on the pretext of unpaid leave or long sick leave, and have set up workshops or small factories, and are doing quite well.
Because of the initiatives taken by these people, the employees of Chaoxian Tannery have become more concerned. In other words, although the Chaoxian Tannery looks well-organized from the outside, in fact, the morale of the employees has been demoralized. Except for some people who are about to retire and are just wasting their time or have no ambition, many people in the factory have the idea of following the methods of the few people who left before and going out to work on their own.
Qiu Jianjun is an old employee of the tannery. He has been working in the tannery since his grandfather's generation. However, he just worked for the boss back then. By the time of his father's generation, the tannery had become a state-owned enterprise and he had a stable job. By the time he entered the factory, it was already the early 1970s.
Qiu Jianjun's leather making skills are inherited from his ancestors. His grandfather was the master chef of the tannery, and his father was the deputy director of the tannery. Now the old man has retired. Qiu Jianjun is now the head of the technical department of the tannery, mainly responsible for the technical work of the factory.
In the entire tannery, except for a few old tanners who are about to retire, Qiu Jianjun has the best tanning skills. It is precisely for this reason that the factory values him very much and promoted him step by step from an ordinary worker to a technician, and later he became the head of the technical department.
In addition, three generations of Qiu Jianjun's family have worked in the tannery. If nothing unexpected happens, it is very likely that Qiu Jianjun will become a factory leader in the future, just like his parents and grandparents.
However, the situation in the factory has changed a lot in the past two years. With the influence of reform and opening up, people's minds have become more and more active. Especially when some old employees left the factory to work on their own and earned the income of ordinary workers in several years or even more than ten years in just half a year with their skills, people's hearts have changed.
Take Qiu Jianjun for example. Although he is the head of the technical department, his monthly salary plus bonus is only more than 70 yuan. Compared with ordinary people, it is not bad, but compared with those old colleagues who make a lot of money, Qiu Jianjun's salary is simply not worth mentioning.
Because Qiu Jianjun's skills were obvious to all, there were naturally many people who wanted to poach him. For example, a small private tannery promised that if Qiu Jianjun was willing to work there, he would be paid 500 yuan a month. This one month's salary was equivalent to Qiu Jianjun's income for most of the year. How could Qiu Jianjun not be tempted?
However, Qiu Jianjun still has deep feelings for the tannery. Besides, he is not an ordinary employee but the technical director of the factory. If he leaves the tannery, not to mention how bad the impact will be, it will also cause great losses to the factory.
After much deliberation, Qiu Jianjun resisted the temptation, rejected the invitation, and stayed. His behavior was incomprehensible to others, and some even laughed at Qiu Jianjun privately, saying that he was stupid and why he stayed in the factory when he had the opportunity to make a lot of money?
Not to mention outsiders, even Qiu Jianjun's wife complained about him in private. Such a good opportunity was something that others would love to have, but he pushed it away instead. It was really hard to understand what was going on in his mind.
On this day, Qiu Jianjun got off work on time. As he was pushing his bicycle out of the factory gate, he heard someone calling his name.
"Haoqiang? Why are you here?" Turning his head, he saw a familiar figure waving at him not far away, and Qiu Jianjun hurriedly pushed the cart over.
"I came here specially to see you." Shao Haoqiang said cheerfully, and asked at the same time: "Are you free after get off work? Let's go! I'll buy you a drink."
"Okay! We haven't had a drink together for a long time. Wait a minute, I'll call home and ask the phone booth to pass on a message. You know your sister-in-law's temper. She went to drink without even saying hello, and she waited for me foolishly until midnight without eating." Qiu Jianjun explained with a smile, then parked the car on the spot and trotted to the factory guard room. After a while, he came back after finishing the call.
"Let's go!" Qiu Jianjun said, holding the cart. Shao Haoqiang agreed, and the two of them pushed the cart and took two quick steps. Then they stepped on the cart with their right foot and rode away.
Half an hour later, the two were sitting in a private tavern in Chao County. Shao Haoqiang ordered several side dishes and a bottle of good wine. Seeing that he was still thinking about what to order, Qiu Jianjun hurriedly stopped him and said that it was too much, and there was no need to prepare such a sumptuous meal for outsiders since they were his brothers. This was enough.
"Okay, then eat it first and add more when it's not enough." Shao Haoqiang agreed with a smile.
"What? Have you made a fortune again?" Qiu Jianjun handed a cigarette to Shao Haoqiang. They were not only classmates and fellow townsmen, but also comrades-in-arms.
The two went to school together, served in the army together, and returned to the local area together. Qiu Jianjun worked in a tannery because of his father's relationship, and finally continued his father's business, while Shao Haoqiang went to work at Chaoxian Wujiaohua Company. The so-called Wujiaohua is a general term for hardware, electrical appliances and chemicals, which is also a state-owned enterprise.
Unlike Qiu Jianjun who usually likes to specialize in technology, Shao Haoqiang has been smart and courageous since he was a child. Not long after working at Wujiaohua Company, he found a way to make extra money. Taking advantage of his own convenience and Chaoxian's proximity to Shanghai, he started buying and reselling labor protection supplies in both places.
To put it simply, this deal is simple. Since there are many large state-owned enterprises in Shanghai, especially Wujiaohua Company where he works, which has business connections with these large state-owned enterprises, Shao Haoqiang often travels to Shanghai on business trips. Taking advantage of the business trips, Shao Haoqiang privately purchases the labor protection supplies that employees usually receive through the relationship with the other party's unit.
These large state-owned enterprises distribute labor protection supplies free of charge, especially consumables such as rubber shoes, sleeves, and gloves. Generally speaking, you can get them from the logistics department by just making an application. Many people are greedy for small profits and will get more each time. This is a very common behavior in many state-owned enterprises.
The extra labor protection supplies would be taken home for their own use, but there were too many of them to use. Some people had similar things piled up at home like a mountain, with gloves in stacks and even rubber shoes packed in sacks.
Shao Haoqiang was very smart. He saw a business opportunity in this. He found someone he knew and privately offered to buy these unnecessary labor protection supplies. The other party thought it was a good idea. It would be a waste to keep too many things anyway. Who wouldn't want to make money? Even if they sold them at a lower price, they wouldn't lose money!
In this way, Shao Haoqiang got labor protection supplies from these people at a very cheap price, then brought the labor protection supplies back to Chaoxian, and then sold them to people in need in Chaoxian at prices lower than the market price.
After all, he made a lot of money in this business. Because he was careful and secretive, he did it secretly for several years without being noticed.
After the reform and opening up, Shao Haoqiang gradually became bolder. When the market trend changed, he plucked up the courage to develop more upstreams in Shanghai. He personally visited several new units and recruited a lot of people. He even got two tricycles and hired people to help him transport goods. He soon became a well-known local millionaire.
