ebookland Chapter 720: Booming Foreign Trade
Chapter 720: Booming Foreign Trade
"Just make a decision after you've considered it. Our own shipyard will definitely be given priority, but it has just been established and needs time to run in, especially when it comes to building large ships. We can just find other shipbuilding companies to place orders with. Shipping companies ultimately rely on the number of ships. If they only have a few ships, they can only be considered a small company. When they have hundreds of 10,000-ton giant ships, they can be considered truly powerful."
"Okay, I'll order three more 80-meter small container ships from Boss Hu, and three 10,000-ton tankers from Germany to transport crude oil."
"Okay, next year's goal is to stabilize the business, expand the business, and find a stable customer base. In addition, our own international trading company has been set up in Liancheng, so we don't have to worry about freight."
Zhao Yong was not really worried. The goods traded by those young masters in the Beijing compound were enough for him to eat. High-quality power coal, high-content iron ore, bauxite, copper ore, etc. Although these things were available in China, they were cheaper abroad and complied with import policies.
To put it bluntly, shipping is logistics, transporting goods for employers, and there is no technical content. There is not much suspense in its development, it is just a matter of time. But we have to take it slowly. We expect 30 cargo ships next year, 60 the year after, and 120 the year after. It is not just a matter of money. Captains, sailors, etc. need to be trained, and there are also management levels, relationships with ports in various places, etc. There are so many things to deal with, and it is not something that can be sorted out in a short time.
That night, Yang was on his way home from get off work when he encountered a wild boar in the parking lot. He was unlucky as his thigh was pierced by the boar's tusks. Although he did not die, his leg tendons were injured and he could hardly walk.
Zhao Yong hired top lawyers Liang Dalu, Yu Dalu and Li Dalu as long-term legal advisers of the company. He gradually got on the right track, and his relationship with the local wealthy families in Hong Kong gradually eased. He figured out the ways and methods of Hong Kong.
In comparison, Liu Xia Lian is more worried about her own toy factory. The newly established toy factory in Pengcheng is called Dahe Toys, which is affiliated to Xuxiong Electric Appliance Factory.
The factory specializes in the production of remote-controlled cars, remote-controlled boats, and remote-controlled airplanes. The factory director, Xu Ziming, is very young, only 25 years old. He used to be an aviation fan at the Children's Palace and was discovered by Xu Xiong, who appointed him as the factory director.
When Liu Xialian came, the toy factory already had more than 150 workers and a dozen people in the R&D team. It was a small semi-manual workshop. But the factory was not small, covering an area of 50 acres of industrial park, and it would take more than 4,000 people to screw together when it was fully staffed.
In the open space outside the factory, the R&D personnel are flying model aircraft, models of fighter jets, made of foam boards, powered by rechargeable batteries, and flying very fast in the sky.
This is a real toy, without any practical use, but it can generate high profits.
The single-rotor helicopter, flying up and down with lights flashing, looks good too.
Liu Xialian drew a sketch of a four-rotor toy plane and gave it to Xu Ziming: "Make a few models based on this and try it out. If foreigners place orders, it will be a big order if it succeeds."
"The flight speed is 10 meters per second, the flight distance is 2,000 meters, and the remote control distance is required to be no less than 5 meters. The batteries alone cost a lot of money, and they have to be the best batteries. If the price is too high, will foreigners be able to accept it?"
"Director Xu, please rest assured to arrange the research and development. The price is not what we consider, but what the customers consider. All we have to do is to meet the customers' requirements."
"Then I will arrange for research and development immediately and build a few prototypes first."
In addition, remote control toy cars and remote control toy boats are also produced and sold in large quantities.
Of course, the toy cars sold on the market are just ordinary ones, which are very small and have poor batteries.
"Director Xu, can we make an off-road toy car or a desert toy car that can adapt to the wild environment and can carry a weight of about five kilograms? The speed doesn't need to be too fast, twenty kilometers per hour will be fine, and it doesn't need to travel too far on a single charge, two kilometers will be fine."
"That's easy. If wireless remote control doesn't work, we can make a spool on the car body and just pull the wire. It's not difficult to move things on the ground."
Xu Ziming does have unique ideas in technology and management, but he is a little timid, fearing that no one will buy his products after they are developed.
Liu Xia Lian didn't know what to say, so she had to arrange for Shanying Entertainment in Gangcheng to pay a 10% deposit first.
Of course, these high-end toys have very few sales. The focus is still on ordinary toys, and the profit of toys is still quite good.
The designers of the toy factory are very creative, making toy trucks, toy excavators, toy tractors, and even electric toy cars and electric toy boats for amusement parks.
In the era of economic growth, making anything makes money. Xu Ziming even proposed to produce sunglasses. Anyway, it only takes making a mold and getting some glass, which is a drop in the bucket for a toy factory.
It is freezing cold in Changbai Mountain, but it is not cold at all in Pengcheng, and all production activities are going on in full swing.
Damei Garment Factory has more than 3,000 female workers and is now producing mid- to high-end clothing at full capacity. It already has its own brand of down jackets, cotton-padded jackets, jackets, shirts, wool sweaters, leather clothes, and suits. Currently, it mainly supplies Damei Garment Factory's own stores, shopping malls, etc. There are also exports. Shimenzhuang's cooperative manufacturers mainly produce high-quality and low-priced T-shirts, hats, and slippers, and their production and sales are very popular. In particular, they have opened up foreign trade for these products, and their low-cost products have quickly occupied the South Asian, Middle Eastern, and African markets.
As for why these high-quality and low-cost clothing, shoes and hats products are placed in Shimenzhuang, the reason is very simple, because there are ten major cotton spinning mills here, employing more than 100,000 people, and the price of raw materials is cheap.
The cost of workers in small factories is very low, and some are even done by whole families, without any salary. The requirements are not high, it is better than farming, and any amount of money earned is enough.
What's more, Li Damei is not a stingy person and she gives enough profit margin to the cooperative manufacturers.
Every now and then, containers are transported to Pengcheng Port by rail and then exported via container ships.
Li Damei is now a female entrepreneur with hundreds of millions of dollars in funds. She is also skilled in martial arts and has an extraordinary demeanor.
When Liu Xialian came over, Li Damei had just finished her inspection of the factory. There were the factory director, workshop director, and other staff from various departments. Li Damei didn't need to worry about trivial matters. Every time she came over, she had to check safety. In addition to the sufficient internal fire escape passages, the three-story workshop also built three steel-wood escape passages from the outside. I hope these passages will never be used, but it can't be used.
Warehouses and dormitories are also inspected every two months. Because the factory has no outstanding debts and has not received any bank loans, as long as there are no safety issues, the factory can operate smoothly.