Deputy Commissioner Gu was so impatient that he didn't even have dinner and ran to Secretary Li Bingquan's house to report on his work.
No one knew what the two old men discussed, but the next day Gu Wei took his son-in-law and was about to go to several textile factories for research.
Chen Xia also wanted to find out whether these textile factories were unable to survive because of the decline in orders due to outdated products and high costs, or whether it was because the leaders of the state-owned factories were too corrupt that caused the factories to go bankrupt?
If it is the former, as long as there are orders, several textile factories can resume production immediately, and even just replacing a few key factory cadres will do the job. It is very simple.
However, if the factory leaders are corrupt and the factory is hollowed out, and even the machines are secretly sold to rural township enterprises, then the factory will have great difficulties in resuming production.
At least you need to buy looms, warping machines, beam-winding machines, twisting machines and other equipment, which requires a lot of money.
Although Chen Xia has $100 million in "sponsorship fees", he would of course save the money if he could. He doesn't need too advanced equipment, as long as it's passable.
The first place they arrived at was Yuezhou Second Textile Factory.
The reason we came here first is because the Second Textile Factory is right next to Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical. Now Pumpkin Vine needs a new piece of land to expand. The best strategy is to take over the Second Textile Factory next door.
You have to know that this is a large piece of land along the ring river, and its value in the future is immeasurable. With the increasing emphasis on environmental protection, all factories will sooner or later move out of the main urban area.
After the factory moves away, the land can be converted from industrial land to commercial or residential land, and then the land will be valuable.
Even if Chen Xia did nothing, he could learn from a certain unscrupulous person in Hong Kong who was hoarding land and become the richest man in Qingfeng Village.
Before going to the Second Spinning Mill, Chen Xia was still a little worried. He was afraid that once the workers heard that the factory was going to be restructured, there would be a mass incident and they would beat him and his father-in-law up first.
Who knew that when they arrived at the factory, it was calm and peaceful. The workers just looked at a few cars driving into the factory with curiosity, and had no interest in what the visitors were doing.
In addition to Deputy Commissioner Gu Wei and some regional cadres, those accompanying the inspection included Hong Kong manager Ye Shirong, Finance Department Director Yang Jiameng and several others.
This makes the business component of this survey very strong.
Factory director Fu Guosheng was waiting at the door early to welcome his immediate superior and the guests from Hong Kong.
As they walked, they listened to the factory director's introduction:
The Second Textile Factory currently has 5,000 employees and is a large state-owned textile factory in Yuezhou. The factory is fully equipped, but due to the lack of competitive advantage in product prices, less than one-fifth of its production capacity is currently in operation.
This basically means that we can’t even pay the workers’ wages.
Back then, Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory had only a few hundred workers, which had already worried the leaders of Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Corporation to the point of gray hair. Now, for this factory with several thousand workers, the workers' wages alone are a heavy burden every year.
The government's tax revenue is limited. If the limited funds are invested in "eating", how can we build infrastructure and develop education?
No wonder Gu Wei encountered troubles every day as soon as he took office. Anyone else in this position would be like sitting on the crater of a volcano that could erupt at any time.
Just as a few people were walking and chatting, Qiu Yuxing happened to walk out of the factory wearing a female worker's hat. When she saw Chen Xia, who was wearing a Zhongshan suit and chatting and laughing with the factory director in the crowd, she was obviously stunned.
At this time, Qiu Yuxing was already married. She had wanted to rekindle her relationship with Chen Xia, and even tried to make Chen Xia the third party, but she failed. She could only return to the textile factory and marry the honest man in the Propaganda Department.
If the factory is profitable, the income of two people, one a textile worker and the other a propaganda officer, is actually quite good, and both working people have advantages in sharing housing.
But unfortunately, the factory's performance was getting worse year by year, which was a disaster. The combined monthly salary allowance for the couple was only 50 yuan.
You should know that the salary of a worker at Pumpkin Vine is already 100 yuan.
50 yuan was barely enough to make ends meet. Buying beautiful clothes and jewelry had almost become a dream for Qiu Yuxing. Until now, she even dared not to have children for fear that she could not afford to raise them.
Her honest husband is good at writing materials and articles, but this cannot be exchanged for money. At critical moments, he is even worse than a mechanic. At least there are township enterprises willing to ask for help, so she can earn extra money.
The intellectual's noble character also did not allow him to set up a stall to sell fruits or something like that. As a result, the two of them just spent the whole time in the factory, staring at each other all day long.
On countless nights, when Qiu Yuxing thought about how she had missed a rich husband, she could only hide in her bed and cry secretly.
Now, she suddenly saw her first love standing in front of her, having become the most powerful person. She was obviously stunned, and the spinning yarn in her hand fell to the ground.
Director Fu was unhappy when he saw it. The leader came to visit and inspect, and you, a female worker, came to ruin the place?
"Hey, what's wrong with you, the female worker? Didn't you see that the yarn floss is all over the floor? Don't you have any brains?"
Chen Xia pulled Director Fu's arm and said with a smile:
"It's okay, it's okay. Her name is Qiu Yuxing, and she's my high school classmate. I guess she's just excited to see an old classmate, haha. Qiu Yuxing, it's been a long time since I last saw her."
Qiu Yuxing bit her lip tightly, and quickly squatted down with the other female workers to pick up the yarn, and replied with an awkward smile:
"Xiao...Chen...Dean Chen, long time no see."
Chen Xia and Deputy Commissioner Gu had been listening to the report for half a day and wanted to learn more about the actual situation of the factory. Now they happened to run into a few female workers, so they stopped and continued to ask:
"By the way, I could ask you something. Is your factory operating at full capacity right now? Are all your employees working as usual?"
Qiu Yuxing was a little confused as to why the vice president of the People's Hospital was asking about the textile factory, but her quick mind allowed her to immediately give the correct answer:
"Now we can only work one or two days a week. The workers are all in the factory. If they don't go to work, they won't get the 25 yuan monthly subsidy."
"25 yuan?"
Chen Xia looked at Director Fu and thought, isn't 25 yuan a month too little? This is October 1986, not 1980, when he was reborn, when 28 yuan could support a family.
Fu Guosheng saw Chen Xia's puzzled look and could only smile awkwardly.
"Dean Chen, you don't know that although we are still in production, we can't sell the white cloth because of the high cost. Without sales, how can we earn any income? This 25 yuan is a subsidy from the local government."
Chen Xia smacked her lips, thinking that her old lover was having a really hard time these days.
Deputy Commissioner Gu asked a timely question: "Director Fu is here too. If the district wants to restructure your factory, are you willing?"
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