As for the Chen family members who work at Qingfeng Pharmaceutical Factory, they are just country bumpkins in front of the Hong Kong workplace elites.
To be honest, these people are okay at home-based workshop management, but in modern pharmaceutical factories, their management capabilities and quality are far behind.
So Chen Xia asked them to follow the Hong Kong people first and learn their advanced management experience. He even invited teachers from Yuezhou Teachers College to tutor them in English.
This group of young people are all in their 20s, and they are all junior high school and high school students, which is rare in this era, so studying is not very difficult for them.
Moreover, they themselves knew that Chen Xia was giving them an opportunity. Whoever could seize this opportunity would be able to make the leap and truly become a manager of a modern pharmaceutical factory.
Working in a foreign-funded enterprise is a rare thing in the capital and Shanghai. People like Chen Qiaogu are definitely at the forefront of the times.
By then, getting promoted and making money will be just a matter of a word.
Yes, Chen Xia has decided to merge the Qingfeng Pharmaceutical Factory into the "Pumpkin Vine Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory" in the urban area.
In the new workshop of Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical.
A group of people accompanied Chen Xia on a slow tour. Ye Shirong, as the "person in charge" of the pharmaceutical factory, kept explaining some production details in a very detailed and professional manner.
Anyway, Chen Xia felt like the author was writing medical knowledge in a novel, leaving the readers confused, but he didn't want to interrupt him.
After all, this Hong Kong elite devoted himself to the construction of the new factory, without any of the arrogance and rudeness of the Hong Kong elites in other novels, which won him the respect of everyone.
Chen Xia was only concerned about whether these smuggled production lines would be discovered by Fengtian. That would cause a diplomatic storm.
Ye Shirong said softly when no one was paying attention:
"Boss, we've removed all the nameplates from the production line and made some changes to the exterior that might not be noticeable at first glance."
Chen Xia thought so too. Every year, how many of Fengtian’s automated production lines are exported and how many are smuggled? They may not know the whereabouts of every machine.
A small city like Yuezhou was quite closed to the outside world in the 1980s. The Japanese would never have dreamed that their stolen production line would be here.
Ye Shirong added, "To be on the safe side, Manager Chen imported a production line through legitimate channels and placed it in Hong Kong. In the future, if there are any important parts missing from the production line in mainland China, they can purchase them in the name of Hong Kong."
Seeing how his sister-in-law was in such a mess, Chen Xia really felt that he was not cut out for business.
At this time, Chen Qiaogu came over and asked, "Xiao Xia, will we continue to produce Sanliu Weitai in the future?"
"Of course we have to produce it. Why do you ask?"
"But now that we're ready to launch an omeprazole production line, is there still a need for Sanliu Weitai to exist?"
Chen Xia gathered everyone together and talked about the future development ideas of the pharmaceutical factory.
"Let me tell you, we have to keep Sanliu Weitai in China because we're already in negotiations overseas to license the omeprazole patent to other pharmaceutical companies. They have regional monopoly power. Do you know how much the patent fee is for each omeprazole pill? One pill!"
Chen Zhen said, "Our current factory price is 3.5 yuan, and the retail price is 5 yuan. So the patent fee should be at least 0.3 yuan per pill, right?"
The others nodded after hearing this. You don't have to do anything, just tell others about this pharmaceutical technology and you can get a "commission". According to the unspoken rules in rural Yuezhou, it is generally "one in ten", which means you get 10%.
For example, if you borrow 10 dou of rice from someone, they will usually give you 9 dou. The missing dou is interest, which is collected in advance. This kind of borrowing has a physical cost, but the patent fee has no cost.
Chen Xia shook his head, smiled, and held up two fingers. "No, I've agreed to a $2 royalty per pill, or 5% of sales."
The managers in Hong Kong are fine. After all, they have seen a lot of ups and downs, and $2 is not an exaggerated number.
But for the country bumpkins in Qingfeng Village, 2 US dollars is a huge sum, which is equivalent to 15 Hong Kong dollars.
Now, a pill of Sanliu Weitai sold to Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Company is only HK$8.7.
Wow, this Comrade Chen Xia is so evil, this is what everyone thinks.
Chen Qiaogu asked a little worriedly, "Brother Xia, will others agree to such an expensive patent fee?"
"They will agree, because the national conditions abroad and at home are different. Our current monthly salary of 100 yuan is considered high, right? But even at the official exchange rate, it's only a few dozen US dollars. Foreigners earn thousands of dollars a month.
The key is that our medical treatment is cheap. For example, in our hospital, a gastroscopy charges only 10 yuan, while a gastroscopy abroad starts at 200 US dollars, which is over a thousand yuan when converted into RMB.
"Tests abroad are expensive, and drug prices are even more staggering. Without insurance or government benefits, the average person can't afford medical treatment out of pocket. So I charge a 2 yuan patent licensing fee, while foreign pharmaceutical companies might charge $10 or even $20. It's these capitalists who are being cheated."
Chen Qun tilted his head and asked, "So what does this have to do with Sanliu Weitai?"
Chen Xia knocked her on the head and said, "Stupid! If it sells for $10 a pill abroad, and if the prices are unified at home and abroad, then Omeprazole will cost dozens of RMB a pill. Who in our country can afford it then?
On the other hand, if the price is low in China and high abroad, and the price difference is several times, then a large amount of domestic omeprazole will definitely be smuggled abroad, and some smart people will make a profit from the price difference.
Doing so will harm the interests of foreign pharmaceutical companies. No one will pay us patent fees, and no one will do business with us in the future. At the same time, we do not have the ability to build factories abroad.
Therefore, Sanliu Weitai still needs to be produced. Foreigners do not trust this kind of Chinese medicine + Western medicine. Anyway, the efficacy is the same, so we Chinese take the cheap Sanliu Weitai, and foreigners take the expensive omeprazole.
Anyway, they are stupid and have a lot of money, so it would be a waste not to make money."
Hahaha, everyone burst into laughter. "Xiao Xia, you're too mean. If foreigners heard this, they would be furious."
"That's right. In the past, our country was always slaughtered by them. Now it's finally our turn to slaughter them. Haha~~~"
Chen Xia actually had good intentions in doing this. China was too backward and its people were too poor. If Chen Xia wanted to set a high price to make money from the Chinese people, he would probably be struck by lightning or scolded to death by his readers.
So he tried every possible way and adopted this workaround method, which allowed him to provide cheap drugs to the domestic market and earn US dollars abroad without affecting the interests of foreign pharmaceutical companies.
Is ZZ correct now?
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