Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
Although the Black Reef Port is small, it is quite busy. The several docks are almost never idle. A large amount of cargo is unloaded from here every day and a large number of products are loaded onto ships and shipped off.
Ninety-five percent of the cargo unloaded from the ship was sent to Jiangwei.
Part of it enters the Wahou market and is distributed to the three northeastern provinces and Neimen Province, while the other part of the raw materials enters various enterprises in the Jiangwei Industrial Zone.
Ninety-eight percent of the products shipped offshore come from Jiangwei, as well as goods shipped from Wahou Market and products shipped from Nanwan Group and its subsidiaries.
There are two roads from the port to Jiangwei, with a distance of more than 30 miles. There are hundreds of trucks running back and forth on this road every day. It can be said that this is the busiest road in the north.
For such a short distance, the annual transportation output value exceeds 100 million yuan.
The doors of the vehicles on this road either have "Qingtao Transport", "Xiaojun Transport", or "Yingqiang Transport" written on them.
Looking at the logos on the car doors, Wan Feng shook his head slightly. These road bullies simply have the final say.
The cars in these convoys belong to Yu Qingtao and Xiao Jun, with some belonging to Zhu Yingqiang in between. In addition to the three of them, there are also cars from various Jiangwei companies.
Almost all companies like Jiangwei have their own vehicles, so of course they won’t let others earn the freight.
The main business of Wan Feng's cousin Zhu Yingqiang is naturally the bus service in Hongya City. Now it has developed to five lines with 300 buses.
His side job is logistics and transportation within Beiliao Province. This is the Juntaoqiang Logistics Company founded by him, Xiao Jun and Yu Qingtao.
This logistics company has been in operation for several years and has multiple routes within the Beiliao Province relying on the Wahou Market.
Of course, conflicts were inevitable, but Wan Feng rarely asked how the three of them resolved these conflicts.
Last year, those cooperative enterprises also achieved very good results. The final sales volume of Guangwan Meirui in 2000 was fixed at 91,600 vehicles.
The profits generated completely paid off all the bank's debts, and the three parties involved will see real profit sharing next year.
Tiannan Auto's sales volume remained at 33,200 units by the end of the year. The overall performance of this car was less than ideal. It even did not sell more than the Chengdu Rainbow, which was launched later than it.
Chengdu Rainbow was launched more than half a month later than Xiali Langtao, but it achieved sales of 36,000 units.
Tianjin Auto still relies on such a large market as Beijing Jing, which can be said to be a failure.
Even though Tianjin Auto has the worst performance among its cooperative enterprises in Nanwan, some people still have opinions about it.
After the cooperation failed, Toyota officially notified Tiannan Automobile this year that the Xiali Langtao was not allowed to use its 8A engine starting from 2001.
The people from Toyota, who always looked at Toyota with glint in their eyes, are much more stubborn this time. If they are not allowed to use it, then they will not use it. Even if the butcher dies, they still won't eat the hairy pig.
Nanwan Group has plenty of engines, and they don’t believe that they don’t have any to use.
This problem is not difficult to solve. Any engine in Nanwan can be used after modification.
The Toyota 8A engine utilizes a 16-valve, dual overhead camshaft design. Its ignition system utilizes a relatively outdated distributor-type ignition mechanism. Due to its mechanical structure, ignition timing is not precisely controlled. Furthermore, the vehicle lacks commonly available technologies such as variable valve timing and electronic throttle.
It can be said that there are no technical highlights, but the most important reason why it has become a classic is that it is tough, durable, has low fuel consumption, and is very easy to repair and maintain, which is what buyers of economy cars value and focus on the most.
When it comes to other technologies, Nanwan may still lag behind, but when it comes to being tough, durable, low in fuel consumption, and easy to repair and maintain, the NW478 engine can perfectly solve these problems, and it doesn't even require electronic fuel injection technology.
The original model and Type A of NW478 do not have any technical highlights, but they are tough, durable, fuel-efficient, and easy to maintain. With a power of 1.6 displacement and fuel consumption of 1.1 displacement, they are very suitable engines in every way.
The reason why Nanwan's engine has a good market in China is because of these reasons. It is precisely because of its market that Nanwan transferred the technology of the first two models to Li Xianrong.
Last year, Hengren Power Company sold more than 50,000 engines and earned considerable economic benefits.
This year, Li Xianrong has been in contact with Nanwan to introduce two modifications, NW478B and C.
The NW478B is equipped with electronic fuel injection technology, while the C type has variable valve timing technology.
The transfer of Type C is more difficult, as there are many problems in assembling it with Hengren Power's technical reserves, but the transfer of Type B is almost a foregone conclusion.
Nanwan equipped the Xiali Langtao with the 478A engine, but because the patents have been transferred to Hengren Power, Tianjin Auto has to negotiate with Hengren Power if it wants to use this engine.
Fortunately, everything is run at home, so it is not a big problem to solve.
As soon as the New Year of 2001 passed, the relocation plan for the Hsiung Feng and Hurricane began to be implemented. The place where the Hsiung Feng and Hurricane production lines were vacated in Nan Da Wan will be completely replaced by the production lines of Dingfeng and Great Wall, and space will be reserved for future new cars.
Last year, another major event that had an impact on the industry was the launch of the Netscape 2000 system.
After this operating system was launched, it perfectly replaced the Netscape 97 operating system, but it also had some aspects that made Westerners uncomfortable.
It is a change in the instruction set.
The elimination of the Weiruan system naturally brought about its original instruction set. The activation of the new instruction set has caused many changes in the industry's dynamics, which is what foreigners complain about.
But once you get used to it, it won't take long.
Huaguang Network continues to thrive. Leveraging the financial and technological strength of the Nanwan Group, Xinlang.com has become the leading portal in China. While Qiansou's dominance in the search engine market has been challenged by emerging search networks, these challenges are no match for Qiansou.
Their stable performance has also brought new economic growth points to Nanwan Group. It is expected that the two websites will start to make profits starting this year.
Compared with Xinlang and Qiansou, which have been burning money in the past two years, Qidian's profits came faster.
Although the profit was only tens of thousands of yuan last year, at least it is making a profit.
Qidian's development momentum is good. Wan Feng suggested that Zhang Xuan hold an annual meeting during the tourist season and invite some famous authors to Nandawan to see the mountains and waters of Hongya.
This makes these authors feel that Qidian is a website with ideas, which adds points to their impression in attracting people.
In response to Wan Feng's suggestion, Zhang Xuan raised five limbs... She didn't have five limbs, so she could only raise four to express her agreement.