The nephew's unintentional words suddenly made Li Long's mind come alive.
The nephew didn’t know much about the current situation of the National Cotton Mill. After all, the kid studied in the UK for two years and flew around the world after returning. In addition, six out of the ten adults in the family used to work at the National Cotton Mill, and every time they came back, they would talk about things in the factory. But now, no one in the family works at the National Cotton Mill, so the nephew’s knowledge of the current situation of the National Cotton Mill was limited to hearsay from other people.
But the nephew didn't know that Li Long was very familiar with the current situation of the National Cotton Mill.
This factory used to be a large state-owned enterprise, established in the late 1950s, and now has a history of 60 years. When it was prosperous, the employees of the National Cotton Mill were the envy of the entire Quzhou City residents, with high wages, good benefits, and housing allocation. But now, the market is obviously much better than more than ten years ago, but the situation of the factory is getting worse and worse.
During its heyday, the factory had nearly 7,000 employees. The equipment in all workshops in the factory was running 24 hours a day, and the workers worked in four shifts and three shifts. The cotton yarn and cloth produced were all national inspection-free products and were in short supply.
But now, there are only less than a thousand employees left in the huge factory who are still barely holding on. No one wants the gauze they produce even if they sell it at a loss, and the factory has now been completely taken over by Hengfeng Textile.
You should know that the current Hengfeng Textile was formerly the Qu No. 2 Cotton Mill, commonly known as "No. 2 Cotton Mill". At that time, it was a younger brother of the National Cotton Mill. More than ten years ago, Hengfeng couldn't even start production.
But it was really a matter of time. The Second Cotton Mill, which couldn't even operate its equipment back then and could only look up to the high-ranking National Cotton Mill, has now become the trustee of the National Cotton Mill. Moreover, many elite personnel of the National Cotton Mill were forced to resign from the National Cotton Mill and then joined the Second Cotton Mill, playing a crucial role in the rapid development of the Second Cotton Mill.
In fact, the National Cotton Mill is not completely hopeless. It is mainly because of the management that the National Cotton Mill has been burdened with heavy debts. Banks no longer lend money to it, so that the equipment cannot be updated, and the gauze produced naturally cannot keep up with the market demand. This has formed a vicious circle and ultimately led to the current dying situation.
Li Long knew very well that the National Cotton Mill still had a very solid foundation. Even though the National Cotton Mill was not doing well now, it still had a huge foundation, which was the skilled workers trained over the past decades.
The most critical technical workers in a cotton textile mill are not spinners or weavers, but the maintenance workers in the workshop. These maintenance workers are the most fundamental technical support for a cotton textile mill.
If a cotton spinning mill has a group of maintenance workers with strong skills and experience, then these maintenance workers can always keep the equipment running in the best condition, which can greatly reduce the probability of defective gauze, improve the working efficiency of spinning and weaving machines, and reduce losses in all aspects.
In other words, if the security of a cotton mill is strong enough, then as long as the leader of the cotton mill is not stupid and does not steal things for himself, it will be difficult for the cotton mill to go bankrupt.
But unfortunately, although Quguo Cotton Mill obviously has a large number of security workers with extremely strong skills and experience, it suddenly encountered such a strange situation and was on the verge of bankruptcy. The situation here is naturally self-evident.
Li Long didn't know anything else, but what he did know was that those leaders who had served as leaders of the National Cotton Mill over the past 20 years all owned a Rao Cotton Textile Mill in their hometowns, and the performance was quite good. Moreover, the children of some former leaders made a fortune by dealing in gauze!
This is something that everyone in Quzhou knows, but these former leaders are now living a carefree and peaceful life...
But this made the workers who grew up in the National Cotton Mill suffer. As a result, many highly skilled security workers in the National Cotton Mill were forced to resign from the National Cotton Mill and go to the south or other cotton mills to find jobs. Even Li Long's eldest brother-in-law, Yang Jing's eldest uncle, had done so.
Back then, Yang Jing's uncle was a well-known master of air-jet loom technology in the entire national cotton mill. What about now? Because he is old, he can no longer do such physical work in the south. He can only rely on the salary he gets from working as a security guard in a bank to barely pay for his pension insurance. If Yang Jing had not made a fortune in the UK and opened a car dealership after returning to China, it is estimated that Yang Jing's uncle would still be working as a security guard in a bank.
There are many people like Yang Jing's uncle in the National Cotton Mill. Several of Li Long's classmates are now working for private cotton textile mills in the south. With their skills, they have become technical masters in those mills. There is even a very good buddy of Li Long who has become the vice president in charge of technology in a private enterprise in the south, and he also has shares!
Some security workers were poached by Ermian, now Hengfeng. As a result, Hengfeng's technical strength was immediately greatly improved, and the competitiveness of its products in the market was greatly enhanced.
Therefore, these skilled and experienced security workers are the foundation of a factory.
Li Long also knew that these old technical workers who went out to work had deep feelings for the National Cotton Mill. Even the buddy who became the deputy technical director in the south would express his emotion every time he came back for a party and drink - If the National Cotton Mill could recover, I promise to come back to work immediately.
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