Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 577 Come invest and build a factory!

Squad leader Niu finally learned to drive a cotton harvester.

Sitting in the cockpit of the cotton harvester, with the endless cotton fields in front of him, Squad Leader Niu felt quite proud.

The cockpit of the cotton harvester is relatively high, and the vision in front of you is much better than sitting in a tank!

Although the size of the tank is not small, the internal space is still very cramped. When driving a tank, you can often leave the cockpit and climb outside to get some air, but most of the time you can only stay inside the tank and pass through the narrow observation port. , to understand the situation outside.

In contrast, the cockpit of the cotton harvester is large enough, and it is surrounded by glass, giving people a feeling of being in an open area.

When the gear is put on, the cotton harvester moves forward slowly. Although the speed is much slower than that of a tank, it feels leisurely and contented. Squad leader Niu can even cross his legs and hum a little tune from his hometown.

This cotton harvester is only the first generation of Fukang Agricultural Machinery, and its performance is not perfect. Compared with other mature agricultural machinery products, the failure rate is higher, so Li Weidong sent technicians over. The first is to repair at any time, and the second is to give feedback on common faults.

At the same time, the noise of this machine is relatively loud when it is running, and the mechanical vibration is relatively strong during operation, which is more violent than using a tractor.

If ordinary people use this thing for a day, even if their hands and feet are not numb from the shock, their minds will be buzzed by the noise.

But these are not a problem for tank soldiers.

No matter how noisy the cotton harvester is, how much bigger tank can it be? The tank started to move, talking inside, and shouting could not be heard clearly, and the conversation was only possible through the radio device.

No matter how powerful the vibration of the cotton machine is, can it be compared with the firing of tanks? When the tank fires, the huge recoil, if there is no protection, can throw people several meters away.

These little noises and vibrations of the cotton harvester are nothing compared to the daily training of tank soldiers. Let the tank soldiers drive the cotton harvester, just like enjoying a vacation.

At this time, Squad Leader Niu really enjoyed this state.

In the past, when harvesting cotton, we carried snakeskin sacks on our shoulders and performed physical labor under the bright sun. It was really sweat dripping down the soil, and the whole arm became numb after a day.

Now sitting in the cotton harvester, fiddle with the gear lever a few times to complete the harvest, without the wind and sun, you can enjoy the scenery, and even make a large tea pot in the cab of the room.

It's so cozy!

Comrades, it's time to eat! The voice sounded from behind, and it was the farmer riding an agricultural tricycle to deliver food to them.

Comrade, let's take a break at noon and have a quick meal, and let the cafeteria make delicious food for you when you go back in the evening. The food delivery person said.

Latiaozi is noodles, which are solid and hungry, and are the first choice for local people for lunch.

Although squad leader Niu drove the cotton harvester all morning, he didn't feel hungry. After all, he just sat there and didn't consume too much energy.

Comrade, let's fill it up again! The aunt who delivered the meal handed a portion of noodles to Squad Leader Niu.

This aunt is in good health and her hands don't shake, so there are quite a few dishes in this noodle.

Squad leader Niu took advantage of the situation to look back, only to find that the endless cotton fields had turned into an endless open space, and the buildings on the farm had disappeared from sight, and even the smoke from the cooking stove could not be seen.

Squad leader Niu was startled, and thought to himself, Have you harvested so much in just one morning? It feels like our ten cotton harvesters have harvested hundreds of acres of land!

So Squad Leader Niu asked, Auntie, how long have you been here to deliver the food?

Is it lumpy? The road is a bit long, so it took a while. I'm sorry! The aunt who delivered the meal continued with a guilty expression: I have water here, and it will be better if I add some water and mix it.

Auntie, it's not a face-to-face matter.

I just want to know how long it took you to come here, so that we can figure out how many acres of cotton we harvested this morning. Squad leader Niu smiled, and then asked; I reckon, there must be hundreds of acres, right?

Hundreds of acres? How can there be so little! The food delivery aunt pointed to the surroundings, and then said, Let me see, you must have harvested four or five hundred acres of cotton this morning!

Four to five hundred mu! Squad leader Niu was taken aback, apparently taken aback by this number.

Then Squad Leader Niu looked back at his cotton harvester and murmured, This thing is so powerful!

At ten o'clock in the evening, squad leader Niu finished his day's work and was going back to rest.

A truck came, and a group of new soldiers came down from it to take over the work of the cattle squad leader, and the cattle squad leader returned to the farm by car.

The people stopped and the machines kept going, a new group of drivers was changed, the searchlights were turned on, and the work continued at night.

Although there will be dew at night, the quality of the harvested cotton may be a little bit worse, but what is needed at this time is the yield. After the harvest is completed one day earlier, this batch of cotton harvesters can rush to the next farm and continue to complete the harvesting task.

Harvesting cotton is a race against time, not to mention the one million cotton harvesting machines that cannot be idle, they have to work continuously for 24 hours.

On the way back to the farm in the car, Squad Leader Niu realized that he had harvested so much cotton in one day.

At the warehouse entrance of the farm, piles of baled cotton are being transported into the warehouse, and the cotton has also been piled up into a hill inside the warehouse.

Squad leader Niu looked at the snow-white cotton, and asked in shock, Are these the ones we harvested today?

Isn't that right? There are still several cars over there that haven't been packed yet! The man from the farm replied.

How many kilograms did you collect today? Squad leader Niu asked subconsciously.

It is estimated that the total amount of the whole day will be close to 200 tons! The man replied.

Two hundred tons? Two hundred tons a day? Then our cotton harvester harvested 20 tons of cotton! Squad leader Niu gasped.

When picking cotton in previous years, if a strong guy like Squad Leader Niu tried his best to pick it, he could pick 200 kilograms of cotton a day, but now he picked 20 tons a day, which is a thousand times more than before!

This cotton harvester is so powerful, it's really a machine with thousands of troops!

On the cotton field, a whole row of cotton harvesters are working, and not far away, more than a dozen second-generation Pajero cars are parked there, out of tune with the surrounding environment.

The second-generation Pajero was introduced into China when it came out in the early 1990s. By the middle of the 1990s, domestic manufacturers had already produced this car through the model of complete parts assembly.

At that time, Pajero was regarded as the most luxurious off-road vehicle in China, and it was more upscale than the Grand Cherokee introduced in the 1980s.

The road conditions in the northwest region are not as good as those in the eastern provinces, and off-road vehicles are widely used, so many enterprises and institutions are equipped with off-road vehicles, but there are not many units that can use more than a dozen Pajero.

A group of people in suits got out of the car, led by Uncle He.

I saw Uncle He pointing to the cotton harvesters that were working, and said to a gray-haired man beside him, President Qian, that is the cotton harvester we newly purchased this year. The 68,000 mu of cotton in this farm is , are harvested using cotton harvesters.

Our Production and Construction Corps has planted an additional one million acres of cotton fields this year, and it is expected to increase the cotton harvest by 150,000 tons. These new cotton fields are basically harvested by machinery, so they will definitely be harvested on time to ensure that the cotton can be harvested in time. supply.

The gray-haired Chairman Qian nodded, and asked, That is to say, is there a stable supply of 150,000 tons of cotton every year?

As long as you don't encounter any natural disasters that affect the production of cotton, there should be no problem with stable supply. Uncle He paused, then continued;

Of course, if necessary, we can also increase the cotton planting area. We don't have anything else here. There is a lot of land. There is a large open space, and cotton can be planted at any time!

After Uncle He's introduction, several other people, including Chairman Qian, also showed expressions of interest.

Chairman Qian is the chairman of the East Zhejiang Textile Association and the chairman of a leading textile leader in China. The people behind him are members of the Textile Association and are also the heads of various textile enterprises.

These few were invited by Uncle He with great difficulty.

Attracting investment has always been an important task at the local level. Uncle He's task this time is to let enterprises from the East Zhejiang Textile Association come to the Northwest to invest and build factories.

What Uncle He can rely on is that the Great Northwest can supply high-quality and cheap cotton.

Cotton is the most important raw material in the textile industry. For enterprises, the closer to the supply base of raw materials, the lower the production cost.

Cotton needs to be spun before it can be woven. From the perspective of transportation costs, it is definitely cheaper to transport finished fabrics than to transport cotton.

Under normal circumstances, one ton of seed cotton can produce about 330 kg to 420 kg of lint cotton. The cotton in the Northwest is of high quality, so it can produce 400 kg of lint cotton.

400 kg of lint can produce 360 ​​kg of ordinary cotton yarn, or 320 kg of fine carded cotton yarn.

The freight for each ton of goods is fixed, that is to say, the freight for one ton of seed cotton and one ton of cotton yarn is the same. But the value of the goods was three times worse.

If these textile mills build factories on the spot where the cotton is produced, they can save two-thirds of the transportation cost by directly transporting cotton yarn to the east.

For a commodity like cotton, saving two-thirds of the transportation cost is still a lot of money. Whether a company can make a profit after a busy year probably depends on two-thirds of the transportation cost.

However, while saving costs, enterprises must also consider stable sources of raw materials.

If a company comes to set up a factory, but the local area cannot provide enough cotton for production, the company will instead purchase cotton from the eastern region and sell it back to the eastern region after production, which will result in a loss.

Manpower has always been the most important factor restricting cotton production in the northwest region. There is a shortage of people in the northwest, but cotton picking needs people. Counting on the cotton picking army that migrates like migratory birds in September and October every year cannot fundamentally solve the problem, nor will it Stablize.

Now with the cotton harvester, the problem of no one picking cotton has been solved, and the cotton planting area can also be expanded.

For example, the 150,000 tons of seed cotton that Uncle He said can produce at least 50,000 tons of cotton yarn, and the profits that 50,000 tons of cotton yarn can bring will be jealous of any textile enterprise.

At that time, China was still in the era of vigorous development of the textile industry, and the country had to earn foreign exchange by exporting clothes, shoes, hats and socks. Naturally, the supply of cotton, the upstream raw material of the textile industry, was in short supply.

Uncle He went on to introduce: Although our cotton production has increased a lot, but because of its good quality and affordable price, it is basically booked. Your member companies of East Zhejiang Textile Association have also ordered a lot.

However, cotton picking requires a process. Even with the help of cotton harvesters, we have to wait until the middle and late October for the entire autonomous region to complete the cotton picking work.

Therefore, when shipping, we also have a priority order. In principle, whoever places the order first and pays the deposit will be given priority to deliver the goods, and those who place the order later will have to wait first.

However, there is an exception. Our local textile enterprises are given priority in supplying goods, and local textile enterprises can also give priority to some high-quality sources of goods. This is some of our care for tax-paying enterprises.

Uncle He made it clear that he was saying, come to us to invest and build a factory!

Chairman Qian certainly understood what Uncle He meant, and he said, I don't come to the Northwest very often, and I don't know much about the situation here. But according to my observations along the way, the infrastructure in the West is still inferior to that in the East. If If we build a factory here, I don’t know if the company’s water and electricity usage will be a problem.”

Don't worry about this, we don't lack water or electricity here!

Uncle He went on to explain; Although the first and second largest deserts in the country are here, enterprises will not be built in deserts!

We have many mountains here, with glaciers on the mountains, underground water, and many amber rivers, so the water resources are still very rich. The per capita water resources here are more than twice that of the eastern cities.

As for electricity, not only is there no shortage of electricity here, but the electricity price is also very cheap. We are originally a large coal-producing province, and coal is an important industry for us. The price of coal is cheap, and the price of electricity is naturally cheap. Therefore, if we build a factory here, the cost of electricity is much lower than that of the eastern provinces.

In addition, we have some preferential policies for companies that come to invest, such as land or taxation. If the investment scale is relatively large, we can also give special preference in infrastructure...

Uncle He began to promote the preferential policies for local investment attraction.

Zhang Jianshe was sitting at the desk correcting official documents.

The secretary knocked on the door and came in, and said, Leader, Deputy Secretary He is here.

Comrade He Rong, please come in. Zhang Jianshe said.

After a while, He Rong walked into the office and sat in front of Zhang Jianshe.

Zhang Jianshe put down his pen and said with a smile; Old He, I was just about to ask you how the inspection team from the Eastern Zhejiang Textile Association is doing. I didn't expect you to come here.

I came here to report this matter to you. He Rong took a deep breath, handed over a folder, and said excitedly:

The negotiation is completed. Thirty-three companies in the East Zhejiang Textile Association have signed investment intention contracts with us, and the investment amount exceeds one billion yuan!

One billion! Okay, that's great! Zhang Jianshe was in a good mood instantly: Although the one billion figure may be a little watery, as long as we can implement half of it, we will be content.

He Rong smiled slightly: Leader, when it comes to funding, I am more confident than you! In the past two years, the domestic textile industry has developed very rapidly, and the demand for cotton has also increased significantly.

As far as I know, the supply of this cotton yarn is almost in short supply. As long as it is produced, there will be people scrambling for it. So as long as we can supply a large amount of high-quality cotton steadily, we don't have to worry about these textile enterprises not coming to us to settle here!

Zhang Jianshe nodded: I have been summarizing the cotton picking situation of various farms recently. With the cotton harvester, the picking efficiency has indeed been greatly improved. I transferred soldiers from a tank battalion and collected more than 100,000 tons of cotton. Cotton. In normal terms, this is the labor of tens of thousands of people.

But this cotton harvester is also expensive enough, one million for one. But it can bring in one billion yuan in investment, and this cotton harvester is not a loss!

It's not just a loss, it must be a profit! In addition to attracting investment, selling cotton is also money! Uncle He said with a smile.

Look at my brain, I'm only thinking about attracting investment, and I forgot about selling cotton! Our cotton can also be sold for a lot of money! Zhang Jianshe patted his forehead and continued;

If the investment of Eastern Zhejiang Textile Association can be implemented, we feel that next year we can continue to expand the cotton planting area and attract more textile enterprises to invest in us.

If the cotton planting area is expanded, this cotton harvester will definitely continue to be bought. For this kind of large-scale planting, manpower alone is unreliable, and machinery and equipment are required.

When we have a meeting next Monday, we will discuss with other comrades, and we will order another 100 cotton harvesters from the manufacturer!

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