1novels Chapter 581 Manufacturing is the answer
Chapter 581 Manufacturing is the answer
Sitting in the car, Kong Zhenlong kept thinking about Li Wei's concept of teaching a man to fish, and then showed a hesitant expression.
Reporter Kong, do you have any questions? Feel free to ask! Li Weidong took the initiative.
Chairman Li, I totally agree with what you said about teaching people how to fish, but when you think about it carefully, this is not a simple matter, at least in terms of cost, it is not a small investment, right?
Kong Zhenlong paused, then continued, It's like driving an excavator. After you finish your studies, you can earn a lot. The tuition fee must not be low, right? I think it's more expensive than learning to drive a car.
There are also majors such as auto repair, pastry cooking, and beauty salons. If you want to learn it, you will also need a certain amount of money. In other words, the teaching a man to fish in your mouth is not free.
Of course. Li Weidong nodded, I'm a businessman, and I open a technical school for profit. We are not a compulsory education institution, so we also charge tuition fees, and the tuition fees are indeed not cheap.
But for many rural families who are not very rich, they probably can't afford the high tuition fees? That is to say, for them, it is very difficult to come to a technical school to learn technology. Even if they want Learning technology also pays so much tuition.”
Kong Zhenlong paused, then continued; When I went to interview cotton pickers, I met a child who had just turned sixteen. His family was not rich, and he went to the Northwest to pick cotton just to be able to Save enough dowry money to marry the girl you like next door.
But on the return train, the money he earned by picking cotton was almost stolen by a pickpocket. Fortunately, the police comrades showed up and caught the pickpocket, so he kept his hard-earned money.
This child is lucky. Although he doesn't know any skills, he can make money and marry a wife with his strength. I imagine hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers, most of whom are in his situation. Without technology, they can only make money by strength.
Chairman Li, you also said before that there are hundreds of millions of farmers in China who lack the skills to earn a living. With such a large population, how can we have so many resources to provide them with vocational and technical training?
This question is very good. Given the current situation and population size of our country, it is completely impossible to popularize vocational and technical education. Li Weidong nodded and continued;
Our country is not yet rich, and it would be great to be able to popularize nine-year compulsory education. There is simply not so much money and resources to provide vocational education to hundreds of millions of people.
Therefore, for a long period of time in the future, vocational education can only exist as a supplementary form. It can help some people find jobs and even become rich, but it cannot solve the problems of most people.
That's why I'm taking you to the next place, where you might get a more complete answer.
Chairman Li, you haven't told me where we are going! Kong Zhenlong asked curiously.
The place we are going to is the Xiaogou Electric Factory. For now, this should be regarded as the largest foundry in East China. In the future, it will become the largest foundry in Asia and even the world! Li Weidong said with a smile .
After the expansion in recent years, the scale of Xiaogou Electric Appliance Factory has become very large, and the entire land of Xiangyang Town has basically been planned for the use of Xiaogou Electric Appliance Factory.
At present, the number of workers in the entire factory area has reached an astonishing 120,000 people. Although this is incomparable with Foxconn's factory area of 200,000 to 300,000 people, but around 2000, it was already one of the top ten domestic factories.
In fact, the entire Xiangyang Town originally had a population of just over 50,000. Now, the 50,000 people in the town basically don't farm land. They either go to work at the Xiaogou Electric Factory, or they are engaged in the logistics support of the Xiaogou Electric Factory. Work.
120,000 people eat and drink,
A lot of supplies are consumed every day, and these have become the source of income for the residents of Xiangyang Town. Those who are capable will go to the factory to contract a canteen or a small shop, and those who are not capable will set up a small door outside the factory and open a Food stalls, or game arcades, billiard halls, barber shops, etc., even if they sell pancakes and fruit meat sandwiches, they can solve their livelihoods, at least earn more than farming.
On the several roads next to the electrical appliance factory, morning markets or night markets spontaneously formed, selling snacks, various daily necessities, as well as various pirated books and tapes.
Workers off the night shift go to the morning market, and workers off the day shift go to the night market. The scale of 120,000 workers is enough to easily support thousands of street vendors.
Kong Zhenlong travels all day long and has been to many big companies, so he is well-informed, but he was still surprised when he saw the scale of Xiaogou Electric Factory.
Are these all dormitory buildings? There are so many buildings, how many people do you have to live in! Kong Zhenlong looked at the rows of four-story dormitory buildings, and said in surprise:
Chairman Li, the scale of your electrical appliance factory is really large. I have interviewed many large state-owned enterprises, and such a large-scale enterprise is not common.
Li Weidong introduced; At present, there are 120,000 employees in our factory area, and there are almost 20,000 people who provide life and logistics support for these employees!
The dormitory buildings in front of you are all eight people in one room, and the conditions are neither good nor bad, basically similar to dormitories in ordinary colleges and universities.
This factory of yours reminds me of those big mines and oil fields back then, and towns and cities could be built by relying on a single enterprise. Kong Zhenlong said.
Most resource-based cities or towns in China are built on the back of a certain large mine or a certain large oil field.
For example, DQ City was originally just a town surrounded by pastures. Since the discovery of oil fields, it has slowly developed into a city.
At this moment, a group of young people appeared in the field of vision. They held the clothes and shoes they had just received, as well as daily necessities such as washbasins and towels, and they were lining up and walking towards one of the dormitory buildings.
This is our newly recruited employee. Each of our employees must pass an examination and physical examination before entering the factory, and after entering the factory, they must also undergo training. Only after passing the training can they take up their posts. Reporter Kong, are you interested in visiting us Let's take a look at the training department? Li Weidong asked.
Dare to disobey! Kong Zhenlong nodded.
Everyone came to the training department, which is also a large workshop, but there is no assembly line. The workers are practicing some basic operations of assembling home appliances here.
Those who are being trained are basically young people. They all look about twenty years old, and there are also some slightly immature faces. They must be minors, and there are very few older ones.
Chairman Li, the workers here are generally relatively young. Kong Zhenlong said subconsciously.
Young people are more capable of learning, and it is easier to pass training. Li Weidong continued to ask: There should be a lot of elderly cotton pickers, right?
Kong Zhenlong nodded: The age of the cotton pickers is relatively average, some are young and some are old, but most of them are young and middle-aged, those who are in their thirties and forties, and there are also many who are over fifty years old. Not many years old.
Teenage children travel far away, and the Northwest is sparsely populated. After all, the family is still worried. But it is the same when they come to the factory. There is a fixed place of work, food and housing are guaranteed, and the children are sent here. Parents are also at ease.
Li Weidong went on to say; To be honest, a few years ago, we recruited a lot of child laborers here. Those thirteen or fourteen-year-old children were all sent over by their families. with salary.
We said we should stop child labor, but they begged us to take them in. Many village cadres even helped to say good things and insisted on sending them here. After all, in those days, in the eyes of farmers, being a worker was a very honorable thing.
In recent years, we have also strengthened the management of recruitment. It is strictly forbidden to recruit child laborers under the age of 16. Those who do not have an ID card and cannot prove their age must either bring their household registration book or a village certificate.
However, there are still many people who take advantage of the loopholes, and let the village issue a certificate even though they are not yet sixteen years old. In this rural area, it is all based on age, and a certificate of sixteen can be issued at the age of fifteen.
And according to the traditions of our country, regardless of the date of birth, after the Lunar New Year, you will be one year older. Some children born at the end of the year, who are obviously fourteen years old, are directly two years old. At work, we are quite helpless.
This kind of situation happens all over the country. Even the rural areas in economically developed areas are inevitably bound by the township contract homestay. Kong Zhenlong nodded.
According to national laws, children under the age of 16 are not allowed to be employed as laborers, but when it comes to implementation, it is more flexible to choose according to the actual situation.
In the era of state-owned enterprises back then, if children were able to take up the jobs of their parents, it was inevitable that they would start working before the age of sixteen.
Li Weidong, for example, took over his father's position and started working at the age of sixteen. Fortunately, Li Weidong's birthday was at the beginning of the year. If he was born later, Li Weidong would have become a child laborer.
Many resumes of those born in the 50s, 60s, and even early 70s will show that they started working at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Don’t be surprised after reading it, because the national conditions at that time were like this.
Fourteen was two years old, so he was sixteen, and there was nothing wrong with working.
Later, the private economy gradually developed and expanded, and jobs gradually increased. However, compared with state-owned enterprises, the employment of private enterprises is far less standardized than that of state-owned enterprises, and there are more cases of employing workers under the age of 16.
And there are more and more people who come out to work to earn money under the age of 16, and these people basically haven't even graduated from junior high school.
Some of them are from poor families and cannot complete their studies, so they can only come out to work.
In fact, there are not many such people. Chinese people have always attached importance to education. Even the poor know the importance of education. Therefore, many poor families, as long as their children can pass the exam, they must provide for their children even if they sell their iron. go to school.
In later generations, there are several self-made successful people who used the power of the whole village to go to college and then became famous.
Therefore, most of those who drop out of school and work part-time are really not good at studying. Since they are not the material for school, it is better not to go to school at all, and come out to work earlier to earn money so that they can support themselves and supplement their families.
But for those who can take the first place in the class, how many drop out of school to work?
To put it another way, the bottom one in the class, how many cheeky people are determined to get a doctorate?
In fact, this kind of age problem has never been a problem. It is common to change the age in the file to make it easier to start working earlier.
The news also often reports some cases where the age of the file does not match the age of the ID card, most of which are to find a job or join the army, and modify the age of the file.
Those who changed their age enjoyed benefits at the time, but when they went to retire, they felt that they were at a disadvantage, and then they went to make changes. It's like a vegetarian meal for the relevant departments.
In fact, it’s all self-inflicted. When changing the age to take advantage of it, why didn’t you go to the reporter, and when you were at a disadvantage, you remembered the reporter?
Li Weidong said and looked at his watch: It's almost time for dinner, Reporter Kong, let's go to the restaurant. I'll take you to see our food here. It's pretty good.
There are more than one restaurant in the factory. Li Weidong took Kong Zhenlong into one of the restaurants. At this time, there were rows of windows, and hot food was ready.
Kong Zhenlong looked at the credit card machine next to the window, and said, Is it credit card when you eat?
Li Weidong explained: In the past, the cafeteria was free, and you could eat as much as you wanted. At that time, the workers hired were really short of stomachs, and they usually couldn't eat enough. There are not a few people who ate seven or eight of these big white steamed buns at a time. .
The workers recruited in recent years basically do not have food and clothing problems, so there has been some food waste, so we have changed to using meal cards.
Workers are given 150 yuan a month as a meal subsidy. They can use this subsidy to top up their meal cards, and they can also go out to eat, eat whatever they want, and buy as much as they can, so as to prevent food waste.
The dining windows in the cafeteria are also contracted by different people. They have a competition mechanism among them. The food is delicious and cheap, which will naturally attract more workers to eat.
In addition, the factory will also provide some subsidies according to the sales volume of each window. The more you sell, the more subsidies. This is also to hope that the price of the canteen will not be too high, so in general, it is more cost-effective to eat in the canteen.”
Kong Zhenlong walked to a window and looked at the dishes. There were cold kelp, fried shredded potatoes, stewed tofu with cabbage, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, potato stew, Kung Pao chicken, and seaweed soup, which was a combination of meat and vegetables, rich in nutrition .
Reporter Kong, do you think the standard of food here is much better than those who went to pick cotton in the Northwest? Li Weidong asked.
It's a lot better. Those workers who pick cotton in the Northwest can eat fried rice or noodles, which is considered good. In most cases, they eat dry food with boiled water. Kong Zhenlong said.
As the bell rang for the end of get off work, workers flocked to the cafeteria. The scene of tens of thousands of people moving looked quite spectacular.
The cafeteria was quickly filled with people, and the people who had worked hard all day soon began to feast.
Our factory area now has 120,000 workers, and it is still growing. Now it will increase by 10,000 to 20,000 people every year. It is estimated that it will expand to 250,000 to 300,000 people in the future!
Li Weidong pointed to the workers who were eating, and then asked: Reporter Kong, why do you think there are so many people willing to work here?
Food, lodging, clothing, and wages are all included. The food is pretty good. If I don't know anything, I'd like to work in your factory! Kong Zhenlong replied with a smile.
Compared to picking cotton in the Northwest, how is the environment here? Li Weidong asked again.
That's naturally much better, without the wind and sun. Although the assembly line is a bit boring, it's not heavy physical labor after all. It should be much easier than picking cotton. Kong Zhenlong replied.
Li Weidong said: My factory has provided employment for 120,000 people, and with logistic support, it has almost solved the livelihood problem for 150,000 people.
If there are four or five factories like this, the livelihood problem of hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers can be solved, right? So what if there are hundreds or thousands of such factories? Can it solve the livelihood problems of hundreds of millions of people?
Kong Zhenlong was taken aback for a moment. There are many zeros in hundreds of millions, and his mind didn't turn around for a while.
Li Weidong continued: Teaching people to fish is part of the answer to the question you raised before, and here is another part of the answer! And the answer here can solve the problems of hundreds of millions of people! This is manufacturing!
Li Weidong said, turned his head, and said solemnly: Compared with vocational technical training, the development of manufacturing industry is really teaching people how to fish. We are such a big country with such a large population. If we want to eat well, wear Well, use well, manufacturing is our answer! 13056/9951306
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