Chapter 532 Branch Factory
Three hundred hectares, to be honest, isn't that big.
A tigress's range is at least 400 square kilometers, which translates to 40,000 hectares.
Needless to say, the male tiger's range is more than twice as large.
It's not exactly small, though.
The Summer Palace in the capital is less than 300 hectares. Building a Siberian tiger park that is larger than the Summer Palace is quite an achievement.
If it's too big, management becomes a problem.
Sheng Xiping previously said he wanted to include the place where the ginseng was stored in the Siberian Tiger Park.
However, experts surveyed the area and concluded that it was not suitable for Siberian tigers to roam, so the designated area did not cover that region, which is a pity.
Fortunately, it was quite secluded, and no one would find it for a while. Sheng Xiping planned to think of another way later.
After the area of the Siberian Tiger Park was delineated, it was reported to the provincial government for approval. Construction could only begin after the provincial government responded.
Huayang Wood Products Factory's various composite boards have won the favor of many foreign customers.
Sheng Xiping stayed with the experts from the province at the forest farm for about half a month. After finally seeing them off, he hurried back to the processing plant to check on the situation.
It's definitely not going to happen this year; construction will probably have to wait until next spring, after the fire season, before it can begin.
When Sheng Xiping returned in July, he discussed with everyone the idea of building a branch factory in Heilongjiang Province, and then he called Zhou Mingyuan.
Recently, customers have been calling every day to urge delivery, and Zheng Hua gets a headache just from hearing the phone call.
Sheng Xiping didn't need to worry about these things; there were dedicated staff members to handle them. All Sheng Xiping had to do was pay for it.
"A branch factory? Oh dear, didn't they just get the permits approved in Heilongjiang Province?"
Even if construction starts immediately, it's impossible to complete and put into operation this year. It would be good if it could be completed and operational by next fall. How am I supposed to move forward like this?
Around that time, Sheng Xiping was busy with the Northeast Tiger Forest Park project, so he arranged for someone to go to Heilongjiang Province to discuss investing in and building a factory.
After the furniture factory expanded and became independent, it hired many more workers and has a lot of orders lined up.
Government procedures are different; there are layers of approvals and approvals. By the time the provincial government approves it, winter will probably be here.
"Can't we think of another way? Even if it's to cooperate with other factories and have them do the initial processing for us?"
We're just too busy. The workers are working three shifts, the machines are running non-stop, and they're practically smoking from exhaustion. This can't go on."
Tengyue Company has strong connections in Heilongjiang Province. As soon as the local government heard that they wanted to invest in and build a factory, they gave it their full support and quickly approved the permits.
Zhou Mingyuan was worried about how to resettle the surplus labor force in the forest area, so when he heard about this, he was naturally overjoyed and readily agreed.
Zheng Hua and the others were also very worried and didn't know what to do.
Sheng Xiping felt that instead of pursuing the woodworking factory, he should try negotiating with the sewing machine table factory; who knows, it might work out.
When Sheng Xiping returned from Heilongjiang Province a while ago, he visited several leaders in the county and heard them say that the factory was still idle.
In any case, the matter of the Siberian Tiger Forest Park has come to a good end, and everyone is quite happy.
That woodworking factory isn't doing well lately; I heard it loses money every year, and the workers' wages have been withheld for several months.
The workshop has now more than doubled in size, and the number of workers has increased from four or five hundred at the beginning to more than a thousand now.
"Mr. Sheng, why don't you talk to the county leaders and we just merge that woodworking factory into our company?"
The contract was signed in November 1980, and workers began entering the factory to start production in April 1981. The first batch of sewing machine tables was produced on September 1, and after technical appraisal, they met the quality standards and were officially put into production.
"Oh? I just remembered something, Mr. Sheng. There's a woodworking factory in Songjianghe that was moved here from the county. It produces particleboard, plywood, folding chairs, furniture, and the like."
Sheng Xiping shook his head after hearing this, saying that merging a private enterprise with a collective enterprise was not so easy.
Who would have thought that less than two years after production began, the Shencheng Sewing Machine Factory unilaterally broke the contract, forcing the tabletop factory to shut down, leaving the workshop idle and the workers with nowhere to go.
“I have a relative who works at that woodworking factory. He said the factory is not doing well and it's hard to make ends meet. He even asked me about working at our factory.”
Meanwhile, the furniture factory received a large number of orders at trade fairs in a different city every month.
As soon as they returned to the factory, Zheng Hua and the others came looking for them.
Even if they were willing to let go, they would probably still rip him off handsomely, and Sheng Xiping didn't want to be that sucker.
This summer, just hosting foreign businesspeople who came to inspect the area and accompanying them to climb Changbai Mountain almost made the staff sick of climbing.
However, after Director Wang's reminder, Sheng Xiping remembered a place: the Fusong Sewing Machine Table Factory.
Sheng Xiping was planning to go and take a look when he had some free time recently, and then pick a day to break ground.
"The woodworking factory? It's a collectively owned enterprise, unlike our private enterprise. It's not something you can just merge with like that."
Director Wang scratched his head and said apologetically.
A workshop foreman surnamed Wang at the furniture factory suddenly remembered this matter and made a suggestion to Sheng Xiping.
"Brother, we've got a lot of orders right now, we're overwhelmed. Do you think we could expedite things at the branch factory?"
In 1980, the county and Shencheng Sewing Machine Factory reached an agreement to establish a sewing machine table factory.
Sheng Xiping's original intention was to find a place for Huahua to retire. Huahua is still in her prime and far from retirement, so Sheng Xiping is not in a hurry.
More than three million yuan was invested in building the factory, but it was unexpected that it would stop production in less than two years, causing serious losses to the county.
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