Zhao Yi also followed the inspection team back to the county guest house to rest. Li Jianguo's mission here had been completed and there was no need to follow the inspection team anymore.
However, during the inspection, Zhao Yi mentioned the offshore farm of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, which made the inspection team, especially the senior minister, very interested and expressed his intention to go there for inspection next.
The inspection of this agricultural cooperation demonstration site has given the inspection team a great shock. In the future, agricultural production will no longer be much different from industrial production, and farmers can work like workers.
Moreover, the management of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is also very humane. The farmers who come to work are also managed according to the workers' work system.
The eight-hour working day is divided into two shifts every day. The labor intensity is not as high as before, but the wages are much higher than before.
Zhao Yi doesn't care what other companies require of their employees. Anyway, in his companies, employees work an eight-hour day, but their wages are much higher than other companies in the country.
This is mainly because most of Zhao Yi's companies are high-tech companies with very high profit margins.
Even in traditional industries, such as textile companies and clothing companies, due to their relatively advanced mechanical equipment and management, the work efficiency of a single person has been greatly improved.
Even without increasing labor hours, you can still get a good profit rate.
This kind of traditional production enterprise still needs large capital investment to obtain higher profit margins.
Small workshops like those cannot afford the high cost of machinery and equipment, so they can only increase production capacity through labor and obtain profits by squeezing labor time.
This is also the reason why Zhao Yi entered the layout early without waiting for the natural expansion of the domestic textile and clothing field, because once it was occupied by those small workshops, it would be untimely for him to enter again and the impact would be greater.
In fact, he is not very concerned about the life and death of those small workshop owners, because in his opinion, this organizational method is too backward and cannot compete in the international market for a long time.
Moreover, this method of labor also relies on squeezing labor to realize surplus value, and has limited effect on improving the wealth of domestic people. Expanding domestic demand in this way takes too long to accumulate.
There is not much leisure time left for the country now. European and American countries have begun to pay attention to the country. However, their struggle with the north is currently at its peak and they have no time to target our country for the time being.
Once the situation changes and the domestic people are still very poor, then the domestic market demand will not be able to expand as expected and will not be able to support the continued development of domestic industrialization. Then it will be really difficult to move forward.
This is why employees of Zhao Yi's companies work less hours but receive much more compensation than other companies. This is Zhao Yi's request for companies to give more benefits to employees so that employees can have more funds to buy products from other companies.
If the products of other companies are sold on a large scale, they will definitely increase employee wages, upgrade production methods, expand business scale, and form a positive cycle.
Again, he just wants to serve as a stirrer for the development of domestic industrialization. However, although the stirrer has played a certain role, it still has not met his expectations.
The main reason is that at present, except for the companies under its subsidiaries, domestic large-scale enterprises are basically state-owned enterprises. Before the reform of state-owned enterprises, their operating vitality was restricted and they were unable to fully adapt to market competition.
Up to now, the domestic dual-track price system has not been completely abolished. Even food stamps still exist. Cloth stamps are no longer needed because Zhao Yi's textile and clothing companies can already provide a large number of products to the society.
Therefore, Zhao Yiyi is very much looking forward to the next reform of state-owned enterprises, hoping to activate a large proportion of state-owned enterprises and let them shoulder a greater burden of domestic economic development.
There was no talking all night, and the next day, the members of the inspection team all got up very early.
Zhao Yi thought he had gotten up very early, but after washing up, he went to the guest house restaurant to eat, and found that other members were already having breakfast early, and some had even finished eating and were chatting with others.
Li Jianguo also came here early. This time he went to Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company to inspect the offshore farm. He still acted as the main explainer. It also allowed him to show his face in front of the leaders. Such opportunities were rare.
After everyone finished breakfast, the group drove directly to Zhengzhou, then took Zhao Yi's special plane and flew to Yingkou, located in the Bohai Bay. Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company's offshore farm experimental site is arranged not far from Yingkou. Inside the Bohai Bay.
This place was chosen mainly because it is located in the inner bay of Bohai Bay, and the wind and waves are much smaller than those outside Dalian. Although Zhao Yi provided a set of technology for offshore ranching, after all, it was the first time to build it, and he had little experience. If you are cautious, there is no risk. wrong.
After Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company gains more experience in this area, it will gradually expand its planting area and gradually expand offshore. In order to share risks, it will even build a new offshore ranch off the coast of Hainan.
When the special plane arrived in Yingkou, it was already noon. After everyone got off the plane, they went to a local guest house for lunch, and then hurried to the beach.
In order to increase the material transportation capacity, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company specially built a simple wharf on the seaside. Now it is mainly used to transport materials for the construction of offshore farms to the sea. When harvest time comes, it will be the main wharf for transporting crops.
When everyone arrived at the pier, the construction plan on the pier was not completely completed. There was still a lot of construction equipment on site, and only three temporary berths were in normal operation.
The inspection team was a little surprised when they saw the scale of construction of this wharf. It seemed that Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company was going to do something big here. If it was just an experimental site, there would be no need to build such a large wharf.
"Your plan is not small." The leader of the National Development and Planning Commission said with a smile.
"No, I'm not interested in trivial things. If you want to do it, you have to do it on a large scale. If you do it, you have to do your best. Otherwise, it won't be interesting. It's better to let others do it." Zhao Yixiao replied.
When everyone heard Zhao Yi's arrogant words, although he was a bit arrogant, he had the arrogant capital. Take the textile and clothing industry as an example. Most people think that it is impossible to monopolize this industry.
Because the textile and clothing industry is so huge, just like restaurants, everyone has different tastes and different needs for clothing, so it is difficult to dominate this industry.
As a result, not to mention Huansha Textile Company, after all, it is in the upper reaches of the textile and clothing field and provides raw materials. It is still possible to have a monopoly.
However, Hualong Clothing Company, with one company, occupies half of the global clothing trade. It can be said that it has a certain monopoly qualification, which no one could have imagined before.
Because if you want to achieve such a large market share, you must maintain a large number of employees. The increase in the number of employees also increases the difficulty of management. This is an inevitable result.
Just like Hualong Clothing Company, it has more than 10 million employees and production plants all over the country. How to maintain such a huge system is unimaginable to outsiders.
But Hualong Clothing Company has done it. Not only has it done it, but it has also done it very well. The company's profitability is quite good, and it is better than the operating conditions of some domestic state-owned clothing companies.
This is Hualong Clothing Company's ability to reduce related costs to a minimum by relying on economies of scale. At the same time, it does not consume too much management costs due to the increase in the number of employees. Even the management cost of a single person is much lower than that of other companies.
This is due to Zhao Yi's early implementation of digital management and data link construction for his companies. The Internet has just begun to be built outside and has not yet been widely popularized, but his company has already begun to deploy the construction of the Internet of Things.
The previous agricultural cooperation demonstration site is an application scenario of the Internet of Things, which realizes the control of the entire industrial chain from the fields to the sales terminals, and can understand the production situation and market sales dynamics at any time.
Hualong Apparel Company, which has tens of millions of employees, assigns production tasks to individuals. Every employee knows what he should do and how much he should do as soon as he comes to work.
These are all completed through a central intelligent dispatching system, which not only allows each employee to know what to do and how to do it, but also can reasonably arrange work tasks according to the employee's work ability.
It allows employees with strong abilities to receive more rewards, so that employees with weak abilities will not be exhausted physically and mentally and cause major production accidents due to unreasonable task arrangements that exceed their capabilities.
"Mr. Zhao's words may sound like bragging to us, but they are fact.
But when will you be able to arrange for us to inspect your Hualong Clothing Company? We are very interested in the way you can make tens of millions of employees operate reasonably. "The counselor said.
"That's no problem. Just let us know when you have time. I guarantee that you will return home satisfied." Zhao Yi agreed immediately.
With Zhao Yi's IQ, he immediately thought of the purpose of the Senior Advisor's inspection of Hualong Clothing Company. This method of operating tens of millions of employees can not only be used in corporate production, but can also be used in government operations.
If the government really gets inspiration from the operation model of Hualong Apparel Company and applies relevant management methods to government operations, it will definitely improve the efficiency of government operations and reduce the cost of government operations.
This is a very beneficial attempt for both the country and the people. At least it will be much more convenient and faster for the people to work in government departments in the future.
While they were talking, everyone had already boarded the ship. This ship was a 10,000-ton marine operation vessel built by Haiyan Shipping Company. It was a special ship specially built for the offshore ranch of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company.
Although Zhao Yi provided a lot of shipbuilding technology to Haiyan Shipbuilding Company, it was a newly established shipbuilding company after all, plus the needs of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company.
Zhao Yi asked him to use these ships to practice his skills from the beginning and help designers and workers gain experience.
Now Haiyan Shipbuilding Company is developing well. It has been able to completely independently produce all low-complexity ships. Its employees have also accumulated certain technical experience and will enter the field of high-complexity shipbuilding in the future.
Zhao Yi has now learned that Haiyan Shipping Company is helping Huaxia International Petrochemical Company to manufacture a 300,000-ton ultra-large ocean tanker. This is the crown jewel in the field of oil tanker manufacturing. The manufacturing is very difficult and it is the first time in our country.
Moreover, Zhao Yi continues to encourage his companies to expand their scale, so Haiyan Shipping Company has also stepped aside and has completed the construction of 10 shipyards across the country. The goal is to build 20 shipyards across the country, or even more.
If this goal is really achieved, the ships launched from Haiyan Shipping Company will be like dumplings, and the output will be greatly increased.
Just like now, Huaxia International Petrochemical Company's first batch of orders includes 20 300,000-ton oil tankers, and Haiyan Shipping Company suddenly used 8 shipyards to help build them.
In fact, the 300,000-ton oil tanker is not the world's largest oil tanker. In 1981, Japan produced a 560,000-ton oil tanker, which was the giant among cruise ships.
It's just that such a huge oil tanker has too high requirements for the port. In Zhao Yi's opinion, it is completely unnecessary. Moreover, the risk of sailing at sea is also very high. It is not as practical as a 300,000-ton oil tanker.
Zhao Yi temporarily assigned these oil tankers of Huaxia International Petrochemical Company to this company. When he found time, he would put Qianfeng Shipping Company into operation and all the transportation ships would be assigned to this company.
At present, Qianfeng Shipping Company is just an empty shell, without even a person in charge, and currently his company does not have many independent ships. It is not urgent for the time being, so it will postpone the time.
The ship slowly left the dock and headed 50 nautical miles away from the dock. More than two hours later, it finally arrived at the offshore ranch experimental area built by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company.
The entire experimental area is actually not large, only 100 square kilometers. If the construction is too large, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is afraid of management problems. After all, it is at sea, and many things still need to be explored.
If the construction is too small and it does not serve as a good demonstration, the experimental effect will be greatly reduced, so Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company built such a medium-sized experimental area.
After the ship approached a fixed platform, everyone came out of the cabin. This fixed offshore platform occupies a large area, with a horizontal area of about 1,000 square meters.
This is the place where employees of the offshore farm work and rest daily. The technological content of this platform is not low. It can withstand Category 14 typhoons. Many of the materials used are original creations of Cornerstone Materials Company.
After everyone entered the fixed platform on the sea, they watched the waves rolling around, but the platform remained motionless, without any shaking feeling at all, just like on land.
In order to reduce the impact of waves, the platform is built according to the changing protruding shape of the sea water, and there are also many internal cross-flow designs, which is one of the reasons why the platform is stable.
After everyone entered the room, the sound of the waves hitting the platform, which was very turbulent before, disappeared in an instant and was inaudible.
This is because high sound-absorbing materials were used during construction, otherwise it would be impossible to have a good rest listening to such big waves.
"Your construction here is pretty good. If you hadn't known that you were on an offshore platform, you would have thought you were on land." The counselor said.
“Offshore operations face great risks, so in order to ensure the safety of employees as much as possible, we have made technological innovations in many aspects.
This kind of platform will be the only safe home for employees at sea in the future, and we have invested in it at all costs. The construction cost of this platform alone is as high as 100 million yuan. "Li Jianguo said.
"It's so expensive. How many such platforms are there in your experimental area?"
"We are building one based on an area of about one square kilometer. Within this 100 square kilometers, there are a total of 100 such platforms." Li Jianguo replied.
"Then the investment scale for this platform alone has reached 10 billion yuan. Why is it built so intensively?"
“First, it allows employees to work nearby without having to travel far by sea, and can provide timely rescue when in danger.
Second, our offshore platforms are connected by mesh ropes. The offshore operating platforms are divided into well field models, which can reduce crop losses in the event of a major typhoon.
Third, our new offshore crops will slowly degrade themselves after they mature naturally.
The degraded substances are very beneficial to the reproduction of fish and shrimp, so we also breed fish and shrimp and other seafood at the bottom of the pasture. Such a dense setting is conducive to these operations. "
"Then the force your platform can withstand is quite large. Can you withstand a huge typhoon?"
"There is no need to worry about the main pole of our platform. Even if there is a severe typhoon, the main pole will not be deformed. However, our platform building may be in danger.
So in order to prevent this from happening, we deliberately designed the building attached to the main pole to be movable.
When encountering a severe typhoon, these buildings will break away from the main poles and float with the waves, which can effectively reduce the bearing capacity of the buildings and ensure the safety of the people inside.
The building separated from the main pole is connected to the main pole by a rope, so that the building will not float too far. In order to ensure the safety of the people in the building, our building is also specially designed and will not roll up and down. Condition.
After the typhoon passes, the building will be close to the main pole again through its own power system and return to its original appearance. "Li Jianguo replied.
After hearing Li Jianguo's narration, the inspection team was immediately very interested in the platform and proposed to show them around. Then Li Jianguo explained the entire platform structure and ancillary facilities inside to the delegation members.
There is nothing much to say about the main pole. It is mainly made of high-strength materials provided by Cornerstone Materials Company. In addition to the height above the seabed, there are more than 100 meters below the seabed that are driven into the soil.
Then there are the buildings. Except for the lobby where everyone stayed just now, the floors below are designed according to cabins, and each cabin is absolutely sealed.
In this way, even if there is a leak in one place, it can be closed at any time to prevent it from spreading to other parts.
Moreover, each sealed cabin has an independent supply system. This system will not be turned on normally. It will only be turned on in times of danger, such as when it is separated from the main pole to avoid wind and waves.
Moreover, every employee must wear a special swimsuit at all times, which provides an independent life-saving system. Even if they fall into the water, they can ensure their 24-hour survival needs and wait for the arrival of rescuers.
Each platform has an independent control center equipped with an intelligent management system. For example, if a building is required to float to avoid danger in the event of a big storm, there is no need for manual operations. The central intelligent system can complete relevant operations by itself.
Moreover, each building is equipped with a small desalination system to meet the daily fresh water needs of the staff above.
It can be said that the living facilities of this offshore platform are not at all inferior to those on land, and safety has been improved to the extreme through various technical means.
After understanding the operation mode of the entire offshore platform and related safety protection facilities, the inspection team already understood the construction cost of 100 million yuan just now.
You get what you pay for, and anyone who wants to spend 1 billion yuan will be able to build it so well. There are many exclusive technologies of Zhao Yi's companies that have never been seen outside.
After inspecting the offshore platform, everyone took the small offshore operation vehicle provided by the platform to the offshore pasture planting area.
Since it was not yet the mature season, when everyone arrived at the planting area, they only saw large expanses of green floating on the sea. Dancing with the turbulent waves, these leaves deliberately carried out photosynthesis and absorbed nutrients from the air.
The leaves of plants under the sea surface are like kelp, absorbing minerals in the sea water to provide nutrients for the plants.
The root system of this kind of sea plant is very developed, and the wind and waves caused by the typhoon do not pose much threat to them at all.
After viewing the situation on the sea, everyone took the submarine operation submarine and went underwater to check the underwater growth environment of this plant.
What is visible below the sea water is the main vine of the plant, which is 20 centimeters thick and is quite strong. Anyone who sees it knows that they must be quite tough.
Surrounding the main vine are kelp-like plant leaves, which are completely different from the leaves on the sea surface. The ones on the sea surface are huge circles, while those below the sea surface are in strips.
The two are not only different in shape, but also have huge differences in their functions. The round leaves on the sea surface have strong photosynthesis capabilities, while the ribbon-shaped leaves in the sea water have a strong ability to absorb nutrients in the sea water.
After everyone inspected the farming area of the farm, the counselor asked: "When will your plants be harvested and what is the yield?"
“Our harvest season is around the end of September and early October. One vine can produce 1,800 kilograms of grain, and a single plant covers an area of 10 square meters.
In other words, if these 100 square kilometers are fully planted, 18 million tons of grain can be obtained.
This is only theoretical. The specific effect will not be confirmed until harvest time. It is estimated that the difference will not be very big. "Li Jianguo said.
"This output is not small. Thousands of square kilometers are enough to feed the people of the country. Such a large output will have a huge impact on our country's grain farmers. Have you considered this issue? ?" asked the counselor.
“We have also made relevant considerations about this. First, we cannot reach maximum production capacity in a short time.
For domestic grain farmers, there is a buffer period, allowing them enough time to engage in cooperative agriculture with Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company and reduce the planting area of staple grains.
Second, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company vigorously develops animal husbandry, and animal husbandry is actually very terrible in terms of food consumption, and can absorb the grain output of a large part of the grain farmers.
The third is to expand the grain processing industry, such as expanding the production scale of alcoholic beverages, expanding industrial consumption of grain raw materials, etc., so that grain farmers will not operate at a loss.
But at that time, the unit price was destined not to be very high. It was very difficult to get rich by growing food, especially the current small-scale farmer operation method, which made even less profit.
In the future, terrestrial grain growing areas should be concentrated in a few large plains, and mechanized and large-scale operations should be used to ensure a certain profit rate. There is no way out for the small-scale farmer economy. " Zhao Yi said.
"Did you also have this consideration in mind when you established the agricultural cooperation demonstration site?" asked the counselor.
"Well, there are considerations in this regard. In the future, with the development of urbanization, it is inevitable that a large amount of cultivated land will be occupied. The cultivated area will decrease, and food security will become a top priority.
That’s why we are studying the construction technology of offshore farms to expand our living space. " Zhao Yi said.
The senior advisor nodded, did not continue speaking, and led the members of the inspection team onto the sea surface operating tools and returned to the offshore platform.
After that, the atmosphere became a bit dull. Everyone seemed to be thinking about their own things and took the boat back to the land.
Of course Zhao Yi understood the reason, but he was unwilling to say more, and it was not something he could say more about. (End of chapter)