bookbashuk #305 - A breakthrough in foreign trade and a warning sign for railway development
#305 - A breakthrough in foreign trade and a warning sign for railway development
"Our domestic construction is not only very encouraging, but our foreign trade is also doing well." After Chief of Staff Ye finished discussing the domestic situation with Ren Zhong, he began to talk about foreign trade.
"Our three major foreign trade industries last year, clothing, electronic products, and mechanical product sales are all doing well. Especially our tractors and micro-hydro generators."
Speaking of this, Chief of Staff Ye became a little excited.
Originally, politically, the path of external expansion was as difficult as ever.
Dealing with the First World and the Second World was indeed a roundabout process with little progress.
After all, the new government resolutely abolished all the unequal treaties signed before its establishment, which immediately made the relationship between the new government and the allied powers less harmonious.
For Ren Zhong, this was not difficult to understand.
Like the Great Bear, who was eyeing the territory covetously, the new government resolutely refused to maintain the status quo of Outer Mongolia. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it directly sent the Seventh Route Army to take it back. Naturally, there was no close 'Comrade' relationship between the two sides. This was a greedy Great Bear who never knew satisfaction and had no selfless assistance to offer.
Ren Zhong directly cut off their ambitions in the north, leaving himself a vast strategic depth. This was not only for the safety strategy of the newborn country, but also for the sake of future generations. Not an inch less of these lands since ancient times.
After abolishing the unequal treaties with the Western powers, these rogues who originally sucked blood from the Dragon Clan had their vested interests cut off. Naturally, they were very unhappy. In this way, the difficulties faced by the new government in international relations were only slightly better than in the historical timeline of the main world. This was also thanks to the fact that the big fireworks had been set off, and the powers would not rashly turn their backs.
Without knowing exactly how many big fireworks there were here, no one dared to over-coerce, and normal economic and trade exchanges were still maintained.
But as for establishing diplomatic relations, don't even think about it for the time being.
Through Ren Zhong's painstaking efforts, the domestic market has initially taken shape, and the demand for exchanging products with the powers has become somewhat close. A large number of factory equipment from the powers complements the light industry and electronic products developed by Ren Zhong's support for private capital. This kind of foreign economic and trade exchanges has been maintained because it is beneficial to both sides.
Ren Zhong's long-developed light industry, especially the clothing industry, has now formed a very large scale. After all, the large-scale application of these two new clothing materials, nylon and acrylic fiber, was initiated by Ren Zhong. Thus, the clothing industry has become the largest foreign trade industry, with annual sales reaching an astonishing level of 500 million US dollars, which is the income from selling tens of millions of pieces of clothing.
Compared to cotton, perhaps the comfort of these two new clothing materials is slightly worse, but they can be produced on a large scale using machines, greatly improving labor productivity and reducing costs. In addition, with the advent of numerous styles, the average price of about 20 US dollars is also moderate, which is very attractive to the common people of the powers. With the vigorous promotion of Mr. Chen and his overseas team who connected to overseas markets, a brand effect has begun to form.
Even if it is just an ordinary channel brand.
Next is the electronics industry. The most successful product of the transistor industry promoted by Ren Zhong is the transistor radio. The huge technical advantage compared to the previous radios has completely dominated the radio market. The price reduction, coupled with everyone's desire to obtain information from the outside world after the war, has made the radio one of the essential products.
At this critical point in development, Ren Zhong adopted the sales method of mobile phones in the main world.
The radios are divided into multiple generations of products, constantly updated and iterated to form product differences, and thereby create price ladders, completing the coverage of radio products from 19.9 US dollars to 99.9 US dollars, covering both the high quality and low price and the high-end of this mass product. The low-priced entry-level radio immediately brought down the original low-priced crystal radios.
After all, 19.9 US dollars can buy one, which is really something that foreigners can squeeze out. This price quickly began to become popular in the powers.
The radio has suddenly become the most profitable product under Ren Zhong's command.
In the past year, the export of radios has achieved more than 5 million units sold in a year! This is really a cash cow.
However, these two products are just younger brothers compared to mechanical products.
"Brother Ren, the tractor you made, which is our Red Star agricultural vehicle, sells so well abroad. We have sold more than 100,000 units a year. This is a car that costs 1,000 US dollars per unit. We can support the automobile production department of Jin Province Heavy Industry with this product alone." When Chief of Staff Ye talked about this, he couldn't figure out why this product was so popular. Even the Rogue Eagle imported a lot, and the Great Bear also took thousands of them.
It can be said that this peculiar tractor architecture and car shape, which does not have much technical content, is very popular abroad.
Of course, the micro hydroelectric generator that Ren Chong invented, which could generate electricity when placed in a small stream, also had a wide range of sales applications. Priced at 500 US dollars, hundreds of thousands of units were sold! After all, this thing can generate electricity as long as there is water flow, which can completely realize the freedom of electricity use in stream areas. For the rogue eagles who advocate freedom, several families can share a power generation device. If Ren Chong hadn't registered the patent for this, his loss would have been great. The threshold for realizing this generator is even lower, and it would be too easy to be copied by others.
Therefore, in this aspect, Ren Chong has to thank the patent system, which unexpectedly made his motor equipment company flourish with this product.
Of course, Mr. Chen has made great contributions to this export product. He promoted this product on a large scale in Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia has a lot of rain and streams everywhere, which provides sufficient conditions for using this product. According to the sales methods of Mr. Chen and his team, it is matched with a series of other machinery, such as flour mills, pumping and irrigation stations, and other small factories that need electricity supply.
Cooperating with the painstaking efforts of the Dragon Clan in Southeast Asia, it is as popular as Red Star Motors, turning Southeast Asia into one of the main overseas markets.
"What new products should we develop next to open up overseas markets?" After speaking about the successful things, Staff Officer Ye sincerely asked for advice.
The world is waiting to be rebuilt. In Ren Chong's view, there are market opportunities everywhere, but there will not be too many market opportunities belonging to the Dragon Clan.
In the historical time and space of the main world, the economic take-off of the little devils started from the three major industries of textile, food, and machinery, but the great development was after significant progress was made in the steel, petroleum, and chemical industries, which drove the take-off of the automobile, electronics, and other industries.
There are many accidental factors for the success of this road for the little devils. For example, in the Korean War, the little devils became the main logistics supply force for the entire rogue eagle army, and obtained a large number of benefits from the war. These cannot be used as a reference for the Dragon Kingdom.
The current situation is very delicate. The North and South regimes on the Korean Peninsula do not actually have a trend of living in peace. In this world, war seems inevitable.
In other words, the rise of the little devils seems unstoppable.
But is that really the case?
"If we unexpectedly invent a new type of display screen, we will obtain a new product with a greater market impact than radios. This invention will advance to truly practical application on the basis of the basic principles of the television invented by the British inventor John Logie Baird in 1925. I believe that this product will be a must-have entertainment product for every family in the future, which is a major source of profit for us in the next few decades."
Ren Chong's efforts in the invention of television did not start now, but started very early with the research of display screens, after all, display screens are also a core component of technology products.
Now there has been a breakthrough progress, and products that can display palm-sized images can be produced.
For radar, the current display screens can basically be used.
However, to reach the level of television, it needs to be at least 12 inches or more to be valuable.
"Old Brother Ren, it's still you who can see far." Staff Officer Ye nodded after listening, and was very relieved about Ren Chong.
"The last question, there has been controversy in the railway sector. According to the plan of the Dawn Railway Research Institute, the development of internal combustion engines will replace the current massive steam locomotive train heads, but now the railway mileage is increasing very rapidly. The new internal combustion engine locomotive, which was originally planned to be released in three years, is now somewhat unable to meet the needs of railway traffic mileage."
"In this regard, private capital has a great voice, believing that we should relax the policy on locomotive research and allow private capital to have the opportunity to participate and improve our railway technology level."
Ren Chong's eyes flashed and became a little sharp.
"Private capital also wants to get involved in railways?" Ren Chong asked.
"Indeed, several capitals are very interested in railways. They are not only interested in locomotive heads, but also have a very strong interest in railway operations." Staff Officer Ye said with a wry smile.
Before he came today, several groups of people had taken turns to find him to do work, asking Staff Officer Ye to persuade Ren Chong to open up the railway.
You should know that in the current major industrial planning, Ren Chong is the real soul figure, and his words carry great weight.
These people are also very resourceful and have figured out this information, so they found Staff Officer Ye and wanted to be lobbyists, but Staff Officer Ye did not have this intention.
In the usual handling, Ren Chong would definitely say a few nonsense words to complete the process.
But in today's situation, Ren Chong saw a trace of unusual circumstances.
The construction of railway mileage is in full swing. In the originally harmonious development process, a trace of disharmony suddenly emerged. The debate on the technical routes of steam locomotives and internal combustion locomotives suddenly started in the newspapers!
The second update is here.