The meeting was chaired by the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary Sun Weiben, Governor Hou Jie, Municipal Party Committee and Secretary Li Genshen, Mayor Miyamotoyan and others were all sitting on the stage, and cadres from major departments of the province and city participated.

When everyone spoke enthusiastically about Bush's visit, Lin Johnson Lin made up his mind to listen and not say anything.

Sun Weiben asked after the meeting: "Is Comrade Lin Qiangsheng here?"

The person sitting next to Lin Qiangsheng poked him. The young comrade was in a daze throughout the meeting, and the elder brother next to him had to remind him.

"Here, Secretary Sun!" Lin Qiangsheng came to his senses and quickly stood up and said.

Everyone laughed, and Secretary Sun smiled and said, "Obviously our Chairman Lin is thinking about something big. Okay, please stay and everyone else will leave."

The cadres stood up, and many people looked at Lin Johnson curiously and looked at him secretly. This is the legendary young entrepreneur, he is indeed young!

Lin Johnson followed Miyamoto and others to the small conference room. After everyone sat down, Li Genshen said cordially to Lin Johnson: "Johnson, this time Bush's visit, your reception was very successful, and it was added to the news broadcast of CCTV. People across the country have seen it. Dongxing Group has made an indelible contribution! Your company has added glory to our province, and we must continue to work hard in the future to strive to develop Dongxing Group better and to a higher level!"

When faced with the kind Secretary Li, Lin Johnson said with great respect: "Yes, we will definitely work hard in the future and strive to make Dongxing Group a Fortune 100 company!"

"Oh? I am determined!" Li Genshen nodded. Although he didn't know what the Fortune 100 companies were saying, it might be an amazing ranking. The old man thought that Lin Johnson, the young man, was indeed ambitious, and it was good.

Sun Weiben and Hou Jie and other provincial leaders walked into the conference room. Lin Johnson saw that in addition to them, Wu Zongxiang, the director of the steam turbine factory among the three major factories, and expected that this closed-door meeting would be about these heavy industrial enterprises.

After sitting down, Sun Weiben said to everyone present: "I just said at the meeting that our province has made great progress in emerging fields such as automobile industry, light industry, and electronics industry in recent years, and has achieved excess profit and tax. The province's economy has ranked among the top provinces in the country for two consecutive years. This is a gratifying thing, proving that we have the ability to do our economy without relying on the country, so that the Party and the Central Committee can see our strong determination to develop our economy!"

But his expression became heavier again and said, "Although we have made great progress in these industries in recent years, some of our traditional heavy industry have shown some bad signs!"

Sun Weiben knocked on the table and said, "It should be said that as early as the early 1980s, the heavy industry in the province, especially some industrial units in Bincheng, had such a situation. It did not attract enough attention at that time. Until now, the problems are getting worse and worse. Some enterprises can't even get the blame. They have to rely on loans to pay wages. They have to pay attention, comrades!"

He looked at Wu Zongxiang, the director of the steam turbine factory, and said, "Director Wu, tell me what the situation of the steam turbine factory is like, let everyone know!"

Wu Zongxiang's hair already had some silver threads. When he heard Secretary Sun pointing himself, he said with some pain: "Since the provincial party committee secretary pointed my name, I said, in fact, I have been reporting problems over the past few years, but the city and province have never responded!"

His blunt statement made everyone feel a little uncomfortable. Secretary Sun nodded and said, "Lao Wu, you are here this time, and talk about all the problems in the factory. The steam turbine factory is one of the three major heavy industrial enterprises in Bincheng City and is directly affiliated to the province, and is also representative!"

Wu Zongxiang nodded and said bluntly: "Okay, I'll tell you some of the situations in the steam turbine factory, and the other two companies are similar to ours!"

He said: "Our factory currently has more than 12,000 formal employees, but more than 8,000 informal employees, nearly 5,000 retirees in the enterprise, and the number of employees of various directly affiliated collective enterprises exceeds 40,000. The steam turbine factory has heavy burdens, backward system, outdated equipment technology, serious aging of employees, and a large number of young people in the factory who know nothing, while technical talents are constantly lost, either sick and retired or poached by private enterprises. Some of them work in local enterprises, and some even go to Shenzhen in the south. The low wages and benefits of these technical talents are the main reason for the departure of these technical talents, which is a problem that our company cannot solve. Even if our factory has given a certain improvement, it is still a big difference between the foreign-funded enterprises and the private economy that have developed in the past two years. Continue to raise the treatment standards!"

Everyone looked at Lin Qiangsheng, and saw the young man listening expressionlessly. Several factory directors of the three major factories also secretly settled the accounts on his head, but he was unmoved by these gazes.

Wu Zongxiang continued: "Also, since the reform and opening up, the number of national planned projects has decreased, and the blow to our factory has been even more severe!"

The directors of the motor factory and the boiler factory also agreed with this and supported Director Wu's statement.

He gave an example to everyone and said: "In the past, our factory allocated tasks in the state. Now that the projects have decreased, we have to go out and find projects by ourselves. Now the steam turbine factory has also done all the small businesses that we didn't do before. But even so, it is a drop in the bucket. After all, we are a large enterprise and tens of thousands of people cannot rely on projects to support us! Moreover, under the new economic situation, it is difficult for us to adapt to the market. Often, we finally negotiated a project, but the other party wanted to make the product, saying that we delayed the project date.

Even if the goods are delivered quickly, the other party’s payment of goods may not be settled in time. Our salesmen often have to travel thousands of miles away and travel back and forth between the northeast and the south. Even so, they may not be able to recover the final payment. The other party made up their minds and slowly dragged it down. The business operation was very passive!”

Sun Weiben nodded and said, "These are problems for your steam turbine factory. Who else can speak?"

Everyone, look at me, and I look at you, and I think Lao Wu has said it almost. In fact, this is the problem, and the factory has similar difficulties.

"Our motor factory hopes that the province and the city can allocate funds to support us in renovating old equipment and introducing technology!" Liang Weiyan, deputy director and chief engineer of Bincheng Motor Factory, rushed to say.

Liang Weiyan is an expert in motors. In 1979, he led the Motor Factory Research Institute to solve 10 major scientific research projects and completed more than 10 major technological innovations such as 60mm roller machine, creating favorable conditions for the development of 600m (megawatt) steam turbine generators and the production of large axial flow turbines.

Liang Weiyan said: "Our factory has done some organizational preparations for introducing advanced foreign technologies. Now the motor factory urgently needs funds to renovate old equipment and introduce advanced foreign technologies!"

Unexpectedly, Director Wu also said: "Lao Liang, we have also done some work in this regard. It's not just that your motor factory is short of money. Our steam turbine factory also needs to allocate funds from the mainland!"

At this time, a relatively young voice came out: "Our boiler factory also requested the province to solve the problem of insufficient technical funds for introducing equipment!"

Chi Jianfu, director of the boiler factory, said: "Since our factory participated in the introduction training for the CE subcritical boiler technology in 1981, we have successively carried out a series of 600mw and 300mw subcritical boilers! To manufacture excellent power plant boilers, we not only need talents but also advanced process equipment, material research, and experimental production, all require large investment. Without investment, it is difficult to meet the increasingly improved technical needs of the market!"

He said to Sun Weiben and Hou Jie: "The province should also allocate funds to our boiler factory, and bank loans are fine. We have projects within the customs clearance, so repayment is not a problem!"

Among the several factory directors and chief engineers, Chi Jianfu is young and has low qualifications. If he doesn't speak, he is afraid that his leader will not know the difficulties of the boiler factory.

Lin Qiangsheng smiled and saw that everyone was quarreling together. He specifically observed Chi Jianfu. The factory manager was only in his early forties and became a large factory manager of tens of thousands of people at such a young age. It was indeed extraordinary. He paid great attention to this person.

According to his understanding, at the end of 1984, Chi Jianfu was appointed as the factory director whom he had been honing at the grassroots level for 18 years.

On the surface, Chi Jianfu looked gentle and elegant, often smiling, but when he was powerful, he was completely different. Moreover, the factory manager was extremely serious about people and things, and he was even more incompatible with the punishment of wrong people and things.

Chi Jianfu recognized that he must establish authority in large-scale industrial production. For the sake of scientific management needs and the consideration of avoiding market punishment, he must impose unambiguous punishment on violations of discipline, otherwise he will not be able to build a strict iron army!

Those who don’t know him may think that Chi Jianfu has served as a soldier. In fact, this serious college student majoring in the power machinery department of Tsinghua University. He has rich professional knowledge and profound grassroots experience.

Large old state-owned enterprises have chaotic internal management and unscrupulous leadership. They have accumulated many disadvantages and are difficult to recover. They can be said to have a variety of things, just like closed small societies.

Chi Jianfu started with the management gate, strictly controlled the factory gate, comprehensively rectified labor work discipline, and implemented strict management systems in five aspects: safety, quality, public security, atmosphere and efficiency.

For the Bincheng Boiler Factory, which has long been anarchist and free and casual style, this is like stabbing a hornet's nest. Most people dare not take this risk, but Chi Jianfu insisted on doing this.

Lin Qiang-Cheng-Cheng very much admires Chi Jianfu's work style and his semi-militarized management model. The factory manager started with three major disciplines - labor, work, and technology, and established five veto systems - quality, safety, efficiency, public security, and unhealthy principles. Especially labor discipline, the current Bincheng Boiler Factory has achieved the degree of the moment when the military call sounded, and tens of thousands of people were gone.

Chi Jianfu is not just shouting slogans, he did it himself. In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of all employees in the factory, the factory director took the lead in going to the grassroots level and went to the workshop to lead all employees in the factory to fight. The employees were convinced by such a leader.

Moreover, this factory manager not only focuses on economic benefits, but also focuses on efficiency and spiritual civilization construction. He must be strong when grasping both hands.

In Lin Johnson's opinion, this person is simply superman, surpassing his predecessors and descendants. Even many future managers can't do what Chi Jianfu does!

In today's era when heavy industrial enterprises across the country are losing a large amount of losses and problems are outbreaking, the emergence of such an enterprise management expert is like the sun at noon, almost blinding Lin Johnson's eyes!

Thinking of this, Lin Qiang-Cheng couldn't help but feel a little sorry for Chi Jianfu. This person was in Bincheng. If he were in a coastal city, he would have shined on the historical stage of the new era like Zhang Ruimin of Haier or other famous entrepreneurs who grew up in the 1980s. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!