Wan Feng pointed at the new factory and introduced it to Yin Zhenfei. "The largest and longest three-story buildings at the foot of the south mountain are the automotive department. The two-story buildings across from them are Huaguang Technology. The four-story building in the northwest corner is our group's research building. Which unit do you want to see first?"
"You're still researching cars!? You even have a research building?! I have to see it all."
"Then let's start with the automotive department." They were currently closest to the automotive department's workshop, so of course they would go wherever was more convenient.
Having accompanied Lin Lairong here once two days ago, Wan Feng was no longer confused when he entered this workshop again.
The car workshop is over 100 meters long, almost connecting the west end to the east end of the new factory.
The main building is now divided into two parts. The west part is the small car R&D workshop where Yimen is located, and the east part is the large car R&D workshop.
The first place Wan Feng accompanied Yin Zhenfei into was the small car workshop.
Because it was lunch time, the employees in the workshop gathered in groups of three or four, some chatting, some playing cards, and some taking a nap against the wall.
The workshop is very clean.
Yin Zhenfei was impressed that a machinery-related workshop could achieve such a level of cleanliness.
When you enter this workshop, you can naturally see Yimeng’s monster car.
At this time, this monster car had changed significantly compared to when Lin Lairong saw it three days ago.
Three days ago the car was a skeleton.
It's just a big frame with the engine, gearbox, rear axle and four wheels installed on it, and nothing else.
To call it a car is to flatter it.
But now it looks like a car.
Because Yimeng also installed the outer shell of this car.
The shell was stamped out by Jiangwei Village Stamping Component Factory. For this, Jiangwei Stamping Factory was forced by Wan Feng to upgrade its equipment.
Although the shell is not painted and only has a layer of anti-rust paint, it does look like a car.
It was the first time that Yin Zhenfei saw a car like this.
"What kind of car is this?"
"PICK-UP is a pickup truck, a vehicle between a sedan and a minivan."
"Did you invent this?"
Wan Feng quickly shook his head. "I don't have those skills. I don't know who invented it, but domestic manufacturers have been producing it since 1986. Now there are a few factories producing it in small batches. We are considered latecomers."
In 1986, the former Baoding Automobile Factory was renamed ZTE Automobile, and they produced China's first pickup truck: the Tianye pickup truck.
Subsequently, Great Wall Deere, Yangzi, and FAW Harbin all launched pickup trucks.
While pickup trucks are protected by automobile industry policies, they are not restricted by purchase control policies. They have the comfort of sedans and the carrying capacity of trucks, and can handle more road conditions. Their characteristics of being both a sedan and a truck make them a favorite in the automobile market, fulfilling the car dreams of many Chinese people at that time.
If these pickup trucks are the first generation of pickup trucks in China, then the pickup trucks currently being developed by Nanwan Group can barely be considered the second generation of pickup trucks. Both their appearance and performance have undergone some changes and improvements.
Yin Zhenfei walked around the unfinished pickup truck and felt a sense of emotion.
A young man who is only 23 years old this year has already built a business to such a scale. It is really a formidable young generation.
Next, Wan Feng accompanied Yin Zhenfei from the small car workshop to the large car workshop.
In this workshop they also saw the prototype of a car.
This car is obviously taller, bigger and longer than the pickup truck we just saw.
Because it has no cab or carriage, it is difficult to tell what it looks like.
The chassis integration of this truck has now been completed. Maybe tomorrow I will drive this big frame out for a ride like Yimeng did two days ago.
"This is the truck our company will soon begin testing. It's designed to carry seven tons of cargo and reach a speed of 110 kilometers per hour. All of its core components were designed by us ourselves. This is Wen Guanghua, the head of our truck department."
Wen Guanghua, Yin Zhenfei and Cao Anyi shook hands respectively.
"You designed all the important parts of this truck yourself? Even the engine?"
Of course it's the engine. The people at the Nanwan factory didn't do it in vain when they disassembled and studied the various trucks that Wan Feng brought back from the Soviet Union. Whether it was the engine or the entire chassis system, they digested them and then began to reverse-engineer and improve and innovate.
It can be said that they are the successors and improvers of Soviet trucks.
If Wan Feng was dizzy from drinking, he would dare to say with confidence that the level of Nanwan Truck was no worse than that of FAW and Second FAW.
Of course he wouldn't say that when he's sober.
Wan Feng and Yin Zhenfei didn't stay in the car workshop for long, and these things didn't inspire Yin Zhenfei much. As different fields are like different worlds, he just watched for fun.
After coming out of the automobile department and walking across the playground that is several dozen meters wide, you will arrive at Huaguang Technology across the street.
In order to avoid surprising Yin Zhenfei, Wan Feng first introduced Huaguang Technology before entering the workshop of Huaguang Technology.
"What we saw this morning and just now has nothing to do with your industry, but this is related to your career. They're all related to semiconductors and communications."
Yin Zhenfei perked up: "Really?"
Finally I saw something connected to the switch, and it is responsible for communication. What could it be?
Could it be that they have developed some digital equipment?
Yin Zhenfei's heart was full of fantasies.
Soon Yin Zhenfei saw an electronic product related to communication: a pager.
Yin Zhenfei held the pager and recalled the size of the switch, feeling it was very unreal.
"Is this the product you mentioned that's related to communications?"
"Of course, pagers are used for communication."
"You are such a bad boy. You shattered my fantasy."
Wan Feng laughed out loud: "Boss Yin! Do you have a pager?"
Yin Zhenfei shook his head: "I could barely afford to eat a few days ago, so how could I have the money to buy this?"
Wan Feng waved to the manager of the pager department and asked for two packaged pagers, one for Yin Zhenfei and one for Cao Anyi.
"You need to go back to the paging station in Shenzhen to activate this. It's useless to activate it here."
Yin Zhenfei and Cao Anyi happily took the pager.
Anyway, this thing is worth more than a thousand yuan. As a factory manager, he should have such a thing.
"By the way, Mr. Yin! How's your progress on the switch we're collaborating on? I never asked, have you finished building a physical product?"
Wan Feng didn't expect that Yin Zhenfei not only made the product but also received orders for hundreds of units.
After all, it has not been a month since he handed the drawings to Yin Zhenfei.
When Yin Zhenfei heard Wan Feng ask this question, he smiled proudly.
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