Chen Xia had never expected that her uncle would be willing to come to the mainland to be the general manager of a textile company.
He owns a small to medium-sized garment factory in Hong Kong, employing two to three hundred workers, and earns several million Hong Kong dollars every year.
This income does not even rank among the wealthy circles in Hong Kong, but it is a real "middle class", not as good as the rich, but better than the poor.
But in recent years, he has clearly felt that the profits of the garment factory are declining and business is becoming increasingly difficult.
Why?
Because Hong Kong's clothing factories mainly produce mid- and low-end clothing, their products are not very competitive, and the bulk of the profits are eaten up by major foreign trade companies.
With the increase in workers' wages and the rise in raw material prices, the original annual revenue of two to three million has now dropped by more than half in profit, and is still continuing to decline.
Smarter Hong Kong people have gradually begun to close down local garment factories and instead invest in the mainland to save costs.
The reform and opening up of the mainland has entered the deep water zone, and the welcome to foreign investment has reached a peak. Land transfer fees, related tax and fee reductions, and migrant workers from all over the country have flocked to Guangdong.
This makes the labor cost in Guangdong, or Shenzhen, very, very low, and this is how profits come about. To put it bluntly, it is the exploitation of the mainland's labor force.
When Chen Xia was planning to invest in Yuezhou in the name of Hong Kong capital, he had encouraged his uncle to go to the mainland with him to open a factory, and even suggested that if the funds were insufficient, he would be willing to lend them interest-free.
But Dai Ning didn't seize such a good opportunity in the end.
The Dai family also came to Hong Kong from the mainland, including some of their relatives. They suffered a lot during certain turbulent times, so they have always been highly skeptical of the mainland's policies.
They are afraid that there will be another campaign to shut down the business and then the Dai family will suffer huge losses in their investments in the mainland. You know, the Dai family is not what it used to be and can't afford any losses.
Even the garment factory nominally belongs to Chen Shufen. It was passed down to his daughter by the old man Chen Defa, and it was not the garment factory founded by Dai Ning.
If the two divorced, Chen Shuqin could easily take over the management of the garment factory and kick Dai Ning out.
Dai Ning was worried, but he lacked the courage to go to the mainland to build a factory and invest to start a new life.
It has to be said that he is an honest man who is good at maintaining the status quo but not good at exploring new things.
This time, Chen Xia is going to open a textile factory in the mainland and needs a general manager. The first suitable candidate that old man Chen Defa thinks of is his eldest son-in-law.
No matter what, he chose this son-in-law himself and is satisfied with his character.
Over the years, Dai Ning has always been filial to the elderly, caring for his wife and children, and has never made any mistakes. He will always lend a helping hand at critical moments.
Others may not know, but Chen Xia would not hide it from his great-grandfather. He had already told him his plan in detail.
The old man naturally understood that no matter how low the offer from Walmart was, it would be hard not to make a lot of money in this business where there was no need to worry about sales and labor costs were so low.
Not to mention any other industries, just the textile and clothing industry, with the support of Walmart supermarket, is enough to make the Chen family the largest textile tycoon in China.
What's more, Chen Xia's textile factory has made a name for itself in the United States. He can gradually build his own brand and move into the mid-to-high-end clothing market. His future development prospects are limitless.
So Chen Defa personally talked to his son-in-law, analyzed the pros and cons to him clearly, and personally promised to give him a 5% dividend every year.
Don't underestimate this 5% dividend. According to the output of several textile factories, the export volume will not be less than US$200 million per year, and the profit will be at least between US$50 million and US$100 million.
A 5% dividend is at least HK$10 million.
It is not known whether it was the future or the huge dividends that impressed him, but Dai Ning and his wife thought about it for a night, and the next day he transferred the clothing factory in Xiangjiang and went to Yuezhou to take up the position of general manager of the new company.
At the same time, he also brought with him the old employees from the garment factory who were willing to follow him to the mainland. In this way, a team with rich production and management experience was formed.
As for the mainland management team, Chen Xia handed it over entirely to Yu Deshui, which was also conducive to establishing his authority.
According to Chen Xia, none of the original management of the four textile factories, except for technical factory leaders, should hold any administrative positions.
It would be unfair to say that all of these textile factory leaders are pigs, but if we say that eight or nine out of ten are pigs, then the proportion is about right.
Each of them was more brainless than the other, with no awareness of proactively exploring the market. Even though they had the most advanced equipment and the most skilled workers in China at that time, they were ultimately defeated by a group of peasant entrepreneurs in township enterprises?
He had a good hand, but ended up playing it badly.
Poor management is fine, but making extra money, cough cough...
Apart from anything else, where did the looms in those private textile mills come from? Did they just fall from the sky?
So Chen Xia’s reply to his father-in-law regarding these management members was that he didn’t want any of them and should arrange for them all to be transferred to other factories.
Some people may ask, if the management of so many factories are fired, how can the factories continue to operate?
It's not a big deal, actually. For example, in a textile factory, there are two people: the stenographer and the factory manager, right? And the deputy stenographers and deputy factory managers combined, there must be at least 10 or so, right?
These more than ten senior executives can be replaced by a Hong Konger as the factory director and a member of the Chen family as the deputy factory director.
As for middle-level cadres at the level of workshop director, it is easier to solve the problem by letting the workers elect them themselves.
Anyway, the workers know each other well and they know who is suitable to be the workshop director.
There is also another advantage to doing this: the leaders elected by the workers themselves often have higher prestige and are more respected.
Unlike some of the previous workshop directors, who were either the brother-in-law of a factory director, the sister-in-law of a leader, or simply flatterers.
The working class was relatively pure in the 1960s and 1970s, but by the 1980s and 1990s, the personnel arrangements of these textile factories had already changed.
The only person Chen Xia wanted to appoint as workshop director was his old lover Qiu Yuxing.
This woman is so amazing. She is definitely a management talent. She knows how to use people's hearts and will work hard to climb up if she gets the chance.
She didn't care about the grievances between her and the previous "Chen Xia", and didn't care about the current affairs of "Chen Xia", so there was no hurdle in her heart that she couldn't get over.
Chen Xia is currently short of tools, and Qiu Yuxing has been working in a textile factory for many years, so his working ability is quite strong.
So Chen Xia decided to have a good talk with her and was willing to give her a chance.
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