Another Raw Silk War
Chapter 462:Another Raw Silk War
The global industrial transfer does not happen by anyone's brain, but the inevitable result of economic development.The industrial revolution broke out in Europe, but when the European economy developed to a certain level and labor costs began to rise, the industry moved to the Americas on the other side of the ocean.In order to obtain more cheap labor, the American capitalists even fought a civil war in order to free a large number of slaves bound in the southern plantations and put them into the factory.
After the Americans also began to get rich, the industry began to move to Japan in South America and Asia.From the 1950s to the 1970s, thanks to low labor costs, Japan’s economy developed greatly and created an East Asian miracle.
But the result of economic development is that the original low labor cost advantage no longer exists, the original rely on a rice group plus a few pieces of salted fish can do a whole day of Japanese workers, now also need to drive a car, wear a suit, the best food, the enterprise wants to maintain a meager salary standard is completely impossible.The increase in labor costs is not only reflected in the blue-collar workers, but also the cost of white-collar workers is also worthy of attention.Originally sent a technician to do equipment maintenance abroad, to give a basic living allowance.Now they will ask to stay in a five-star hotel, and they will not work if they pay less.
In this case, even without the Plaza Agreement, Japan's competitiveness will gradually decline, and the signing of the Plaza Accord will only speed up the process.
Kawabata is an old entrepreneur and sees all this very clearly.He knows that no matter what kind of conspiracy the Chinese carry to talk to them about outsourcing, they can only accept it, because the labor costs in Japan have been so large that they have no choice.
"Now welders in our company, all of them were born ten years ago in Showa, and now they are all over the age of 50, and young people are not willing to do this kind of hard work."Once these old people retire, where do we go to find so many welders to complete the manufacture of those large containers?Instead of waiting until there is no way back to work with the Chinese, it is better to establish a cooperative relationship now and let the Chinese become our outsourcers.”He said in a grumbling tone.
“But, given your concerns, can’t we look for foundry in Southeast Asia or India?”And he asked.
Miniononji shook his head: "The workers in Southeast Asia can't use it at all, and the technology can't be compared with the Chinese workers."As for Indians, the technical level is another matter, the key is that they are too lazy.The efficiency of a Chinese worker is worth as much as six Indian workers, and if we go to India to seek OEM work, we can only watch the schedule delay again and again.”
“So we have no choice but to work with the Chinese?”Qiangui Wuzhi.
“No!”Minelong said firmly.
That day, after Feng Xiaochen and Wang Jian visited Minienlong, Minienlongji held an executive meeting in the society to discuss Feng Zhichen's proposal.Executives almost unanimously approved the proposal to work with the Chinese, especially sales director Mori, and threatened that if the Chinese helped, they could reduce the cost by 20%, and he was sure to win the five overseas projects currently under discussion and create hundreds of millions of dollars in output value for the company.
At the meeting, the executives responsible for supply chain management raised a question: If the Qiushi Society subcontracts the supporting business to Chinese companies, what about the Japanese suppliers who are currently engaged in the subcontracting business?
For this problem, the executives who participated in the meeting, after counting the various unbearable performance of the supplier, unanimously said that their own interruption of cooperation with the other party is entirely because the other party is self-inflicted and has nothing to do with their own party.
A word that you did not say is: dead friends do not die poor, suppliers are dead, what is the matter of Guanqiu?
This idea is also the idea of the executives at today's meeting, and everyone is very cleverly not put forward.In fact, those supporting companies are also members of the Chemical Equipment Association, Qiangui Wuzhi did not invite them to participate in the meeting, the intention is also obvious.
"The two Chinese officials, currently in Hiroshima, are waiting to sign with us, everyone think about whether we negotiate with them separately, or in the name of the association?"The sheriff asked a new question.
Uchida replied, “President Qiangui, my opinion is that we should not talk to these two officials, we should talk directly to Chinese companies.”
“That’s why again?”Minionlongji did not understand, "Oita Jun, do you not think that unified negotiations are more convenient?"
“But the price of uniform negotiations is higher.”Ueda said with a smile.
"I understand."Kawaguchi patted him and said, “Oita is a great marketing master, and it is indeed very comprehensive to consider the problem.”The Chinese have come to us to cooperate, and if we accept it directly, they will definitely offer a high price for cooperation.And if we can go and talk to each Chinese company separately, and use the competition between them, we can lower the price.”
"However, China is a state-owned country, and these equipment companies belong to the state, especially at the behest of the re-installation."Even if we talk separately, there is no guarantee that they will not collude to form a price alliance.”Minelongid.
Uchida said, “It takes our skills, and if we can break their alliance, they will price each other.”This has been very successful on the part of the Textile Association, and I think we can learn from them."
"Okay, I'll go and give them an answer, we will organize a delegation next month to China to investigate the production conditions of the cooperative enterprises, and at the same time negotiate the specific matters of cooperation."Qian Guiwuzhi said.
"They want to direct another war."
After receiving a reply from the Japan Chemical Equipment Association, Feng Xiaochen said to Wang Ji with a sneer.
"The division disintegrates, each broken, the little japanese play this trick very much."The king also hated to say.
China is a world-famous silk town, in the mid-to-late 1980s, China's raw silk exports accounted for more than 80% of the global silk international trade.The main exporter of silk in China is Japan, and Japanese manufacturers have used the competition between Chinese provinces to provoke a silk war, and the raw price of raw silk exported by China has been reduced from 344 thousand US dollars per ton in 1980 to 234 thousand US dollars in 1985.If the impact of the depreciation of the dollar is taken into account, the price of raw silk for Chinese exports has almost halved between 1980 and 1985.
The Japanese manufacturers in the silk war in the practice is actually very simple, that is, the use of the provinces eager to complete the export of foreign exchange tasks of the mentality, let out the wind, say which province has the lowest price, the purchase of which province's raw silk.The provinces knew that they were a pit, and they had to jump in, compared with each other to reduce the price, and kept falling to their own to stop.
Corresponding to the price reduction sales in the international market, the provinces in the domestic market round-up prices to buy silkworm cocoons to meet export needs, so this period in addition to the silk war, there is a cocoon war, also played in the dark.
Both buyers and sellers of silkworm cocoon wars are in the country, and it is also meat rotting in the pot.But the silk war is the people competing to reduce the price of things to sell abroad, and this thing is originally urgently needed abroad, not to mention the price reduction, that is, the price increase is not worried about the sale, but the ginseng sold a radishes price, which can not be unscrupulous.
Feng Xiaochen and Wang Jian are engaged in macroeconomic management, and they are naturally very well aware of this public case.The relevant ministries and commissions of the state have also tried to mediate these two wars, but with little success, because after the reform, the country has a large number of decentralization, and has lost its ability to control the local area.The Japanese have always been very sensitive in terms of economic intelligence, and they have seized the loophole of China's economic system change, profiting from it, and making countless dark money.
"We can't repeat the mistakes of the silk, the enterprises must be in the same pace, together with the outside world."This cooperation is not simply that we ask the Japanese, and the Japanese also ask us.It can even be said that we can benefit Japanese companies no less than they give us.”Feng Xiaochen Road.
Wang Jian said with a smile, "You should say, for now."
Feng Xiaochen also laughed and said, “Our teacher said in class, Keynes famously said: In the long run, we are all dead.”The Japanese can only see what is happening now, and who can see things 20 years from now?”
Wang Jian said, “But your little Feng can see it.”From the beginning, you are rushing to squeeze the Japanese to do it, from the last time you introduced technology, to this time to the Japanese OEM, you have not been at ease."
“The Japanese are bullying us for lacking core craftsmanship and feeling that we can always let us work for them.”Feng Xiaochen commented.
Wang Ji said, “But what do they know, you and Lao Wu have already arranged to develop the core process of synthetic ammonia.”Pujiang Jiaotong University that Wang Hongtai's research group, you have recovered the three-phase funds, before and after spent five or six million, now there is some eyebrows?"
Feng Xiaochen raised a finger on his mouth, signaled that the king's foundation should not be opened, and then smiled and said: "He is only a direction on the other side, and several other units have their own direction."However, I told them that they can now publish some marginal content papers without the fire, and the core idea should be kept strictly confidential, and it will not make people realize that we are working in these directions.When the time is right, let's apply for patents in one fell swoop, and then we can have fun with the Japanese."
Wang Ji looked at Feng Xiaochen and shook his head and sighed, “Little Feng, I really can’t understand how you can have such a sinister idea at a young age.”The Japanese let you look at it, it's really bad for eight lifetimes."
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