After reading all the emails he checked, Zhao Yi continued to invest in the research and development of robots. Now the robot he wants to develop is nearing completion and will take up to a month to complete.
This time the research and development of the robot was not caused by technical bottlenecks that took so much time, but by building a set of supporting equipment, which took a lot of time.
Because the robot he wanted to develop was too high-end, far exceeding the current industrial production capacity, all work had to be started from scratch.
In other words, in the process of developing high-end robots, he needs to constantly update modern technologies and raise production equipment and experimental instruments to a sufficiently high technical level. This process takes the most time.
It is precisely because of such a waste of time that he does not care much about the outside world and concentrates on the laboratory. He only takes time to understand the news and information from the outside world when eating.
Fortunately, the development of his companies has not stagnated because of the few months since he disappeared. All plans are being carried out in an orderly manner, and the important issues discussed at last year's annual meeting are being actively pursued.
He said that among the several issues he is concerned about, the first one is the issue of inflation. It is already November and it is close to the end of this year. Now we can basically see clearly the performance of our country's economy this year.
The economic research department of Shangtong Trading Company, through big data analysis and questionnaire surveys, found that in October, the national average monthly salary officially exceeded 1,000 yuan. By the time it bottoms out this year, the average monthly salary is expected to exceed around 1,200 yuan.
Although it did not reach the 1,500 yuan expected by Zhao Yi, this data is still quite eye-catching. Although the average salary can only reflect the overall situation, it cannot well reflect the social income gap.
Because our country's current economy is mainly determined by two parts, one is the huge state-owned economic and industrial group formed based on state-owned capital, and the other is the private economy established as the main body by Zhao Yi's enterprises.
Among the private economic groups, the scale of enterprises under Zhao Yi occupies an absolute proportion, reaching more than 95%. The remaining less than 5% is occupied by other private economies, which is almost negligible.
As long as these two major entities reach a consensus on salary increases, basically there will not be too obvious a salary gap, and the remaining companies can only passively follow. If they do not follow, it means that they will not be able to find jobs. to the workers.
Today is different from the past. There was still a huge surplus labor force in the country, and there were still many people who were willing to take relatively low wages in order to be employed. After all, having a job is better than not having a job.
Most of these low-wage workers have not joined the various organizations established by Bole Human Resources Company to protect workers' rights. Of course, some of them do not allow their workers to join these organizations.
After all, once they join these organizations, their rights and interests will be supervised by the relevant organizations. If the salary is too low, they will easily be targeted by the relevant organizations and put on the watch list, giving them an extra pair of eyes to watch.
As Chinese housing companies have been aggressively acquiring land this year and investing heavily in urbanization across the country, most of the remaining labor force can find jobs as construction workers nearby.
Although the labor intensity of construction workers is higher than that in factories, and it is also messier, because China Housing Corporation has repeatedly emphasized safety, safety measures are still in place.
As for the salary of construction workers, not only is it not lower than that of workers in factories, but it is on average about 20% higher. Therefore, workers who previously wanted to compete for jobs at low prices are basically gone now.
In the salary statistics for October, the median monthly salary was 900 yuan, and among the survey samples, the minimum monthly salary reached about 700 yuan.
This data can reflect the current salary situation of workers in our country. At least Zhao Yi is quite satisfied with these data.
The difference between the median monthly salary and the average monthly salary is only 100 yuan. This gap is actually quite small. This means that the monthly salary of workers across the country is highly consistent and not so discrete. This means that the difference between the minimum monthly salary and the median monthly salary is only 200 yuan. You can tell.
Of course, the main reason for this result is that the proportion of the two major economic entities in our country's economy is too high. Their combined number of direct and indirect employees account for more than 90% of the country's employed population.
As long as these two major economic entities reach a consensus, they can basically determine many things in our country's economic development. Therefore, in this case, it is normal for the salary gap to be small, and it is abnormal for the gap to be large.
Of course, the substantial increase in wages this year can only be attributed to my country's active monetary expansion this year, which has delivered more money supply to the market.
These extra currencies are basically used in the form of bank loans. After being borrowed by enterprises, they are invested in industrial expansion. However, we know very well that this is just expansion. If people's salaries do not increase, the extra production capacity will not increase. How to digest it.
Therefore, in the process of expanding production capacity, firstly, it can provide more jobs and allow more people to have a stable source of income. This is also an important factor in increasing social consumption capacity.
The second is to increase wages for the entire labor market and allow the employed population to receive more wages, so that they have money to buy more goods, thereby achieving the purpose of expanding consumption power and digesting the increase in production capacity brought about by expansion.
Just a simple increase in salary will naturally increase the company's operating costs, leading to an increase in the company's commodity production costs. There are two main ways to solve this problem.
The first aspect is naturally to improve production efficiency. If the market remains unchanged, simply improving production efficiency may lead to a reduction in employment positions and, in turn, shrink the market.
Therefore, improving production efficiency must be combined with market expansion. Only by combining the two can the negative impact of improving production efficiency be solved, and the improvement of employee salaries be completed while solving the significant increase in overall costs.
During this period, the money supply in the domestic market has increased significantly, and at the same time, the two major economic entities are willing to significantly increase employee salaries, and the market will naturally increase significantly as a result.
Improving production efficiency requires the improvement of the technical level of domestic skilled workers and the improvement of the technical level of industrial machinery and equipment. A lot of work in these two aspects has been done before.
For example, Chinese education companies continue to train vocational and technical workers for the society, and various organizational associations organized by Bole Human Resources Company also play a role in supervising the vocational training of employees in industrial enterprises throughout the society.
Most of the technological improvement of industrial machinery and equipment is still carried out by Tiangong Precision Instrument Company and other domestic industrial machinery and equipment manufacturers.
Zhao Yi is very clear about the technical capabilities of Tiangong Precision Instrument Company. He is not particularly worried that Tiangong Precision Instrument Company cannot complete its tasks, but is worried about the situation of other industrial machinery and equipment companies.
Although Tiangong Precision Instrument Company is very powerful, it is almost impossible to rely on one company to dominate the national industrial machinery and equipment market.
Therefore, Tiangong Precision Instrument Co., Ltd. has authorized a number of external patents since last year to comprehensively enhance the capabilities of other industrial machinery and equipment production and research and development enterprises, thereby overall improving domestic industrial production efficiency.
Moreover, after many technologies are licensed, they can also bring considerable licensing fees to Tiangong Precision Instrument Company. At the same time, because the technologies have certain similarities, it is also conducive to Chinese education companies to provide relatively unified vocational training for workers across the country.
The second aspect is to reduce the cost of production factors, and industrial production factors include industrial raw materials, energy, manpower, and equipment.
Industrial raw materials include agricultural output raw materials, mineral raw materials and industrial processing raw materials. At present, the main domestic agricultural raw material supply company is Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company.
In anticipation of the substantial expansion of domestic industrial industries this year, the demand for agricultural raw materials will be very strong. Last year, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company was notified by Zhao Yi to significantly increase production.
Not to mention other things, the scale of high-quality cotton planting bases built in Xinjiang has reached more than 30 million acres, which is five times larger than before.
Although all domestic agricultural textile materials for Huansha Textile Enterprises were previously supplied by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, the proportion of raw materials from domestic sources was not particularly high, and most of them were purchased from outside.
Hualong Apparel Company itself accounts for a very high proportion of the global apparel market and earns high profits. In order to balance the development of the global economy, raw materials are basically imported, so that there will not be too big an imbalance in international trade.
Only by doing this can Hualong Clothing Company's clothing trade be unimpeded around the world. Otherwise, if there is only entry but no exit, then international trade will be impossible. This is considered a tacit understanding in international trade.
If measures are really taken against Hualong Clothing Company, then Huansha Textile Company will reduce their imports of textile raw materials, and the economies of these countries will also be harmed by then.
Therefore, the cotton industry of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company was not particularly high in the past. It was mainly used for the production of clothing sold domestically by Hualong Garment Company, striving to produce and sell raw materials in the domestic clothing market.
This is the first time that Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has built a large number of cotton planting bases in Xinjiang. It is not that it has not been thought of before, but the transportation is not convenient and the transportation cost is too high, so the matter was abandoned.
After these years of development, the road conditions from the mainland to Xinjiang have been greatly improved, and there is a sufficient highway network to complete basic cargo transportation.
When the high-speed rail also connects to Xinjiang from the mainland, transportation costs will further decrease. By then, more industries can be added to Xinjiang and the local economy can be developed.
In order to reduce unnecessary transportation costs, Hualong Clothing Company and Huansha Textile Company have also built a large number of textile and clothing industries in Xi'an to supply the northwest market nearby.
It is also because it is judged that the scale of the domestic clothing market will be greatly improved in the future, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has invested heavily in building a large-scale cotton planting base in Xinjiang.
By reducing the scale of planting in other domestic cotton growing areas and switching to other crops, we can see the benefits of large enterprises, which is that they can uniformly plan the national industry and allow the economies of various regions to progress relatively smoothly.
Just like when there was a large surplus of labor in rural areas, cotton planting and sericulture were the main economic outputs of rural areas in many areas. Tianji Agricultural Company simply cannot touch the agricultural industry here.
Most of the rural labor force now goes to work, and there is not enough labor force in the countryside to grow cotton. The labor intensity of cotton planting is still quite high, and sericulture also requires a lot of energy.
Therefore, it is time for Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company to develop a high-standard cotton planting base on a large scale in Xinjiang. It can not only use machinery on a large scale to reduce the cost of growing cotton, but also drive local economic development.
In situations like this, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has operations all over the country. The planting scale of various types of crops has been greatly improved, ensuring the stability of the supply of domestic agricultural raw materials and even lowering supply prices.
Of course, in addition to Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, Sinograin has also made a lot of investments in this area. However, compared to Sinograin, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is much better in terms of capital strength and technical strength.
You must know that in previous years, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company was the largest industry under Zhao Yi, and it also turned over the most profits. This year, Zhao Yi deliberately did not ask them to turn over profits, and only needed to turn over the funds for highway construction.
This resulted in the capital scale of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company reaching over one trillion yuan in an instant. With so much money, it was enough for them to expand in the domestic agricultural field.
It can be said that in the domestic agricultural field, the major expansion of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has brought about very great changes. It can even be described as "turning the world upside down", allowing our country's agriculture to enter modernization in a short period of time.
Although Tianji Agricultural Company had capital and technology before, it did not dare to expand excessively for fear of harming the economy of rural areas and causing social instability, so it carried out cautiously.
This year, Chinese housing companies have been expanding and building massively across the country. As a result, rural laborers do not have to worry about finding jobs, and their wage income is much higher than that of the small-scale peasant economy they engage in.
This has led to almost all the labor force in rural areas beginning to move to the city. After the urban construction is almost complete, they will stay in the city to take root and seek development in the city.
At that time, they will move all their families to the city, the population size in rural areas will further decline, and the number of people actually engaged in agricultural labor will also decrease rapidly.
Therefore, many things require overall planning. If you just focus on your own field, it will cause huge social problems and everyone will have a hard time.
This is why Zhao Yi has always insisted on his own development model. If these industries were not owned by him, it would be much more difficult for him to mobilize these resources to cooperate with each other, and no one would even pay attention to him.
This is why many powerful scientific researchers in previous lives had to turn to capital for help in order to develop. However, capital has always been ruthless and short-sighted. There is no way to communicate many things, and the energy spent is too great.
Therefore, Zhao Yi has already thought of a way out from the beginning, which is to occupy the commanding heights of capital and use his own technology to develop the country, modernize the country as soon as possible, and make people's lives richer as soon as possible.
Moreover, this year's domestic economic chess game is not only about the mutual cooperation and overall planning of its industries, but also close communication and coordination with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission in order to proceed more smoothly.
If communication is not strengthened, blind expansion will occur, and industrial surplus will occur. In the end, not only will the expected goals not be achieved, but new economic development problems will arise.
It is precisely because of the relatively complete master plan that can ensure that our country carries out moderate monetary expansion without causing obvious economic development problems, that the country's substantial monetary expansion has occurred this year.
If there is no advance design and planning, there will be no significant monetary expansion. By then, it will not only be detrimental to my country's economic development, but will also cause high-speed inflation and pose certain challenges to social stability.
It can be said that Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has been highly busy since last year. Last year was a little better. After all, most of the work was planning and coordination work to prepare for this year's major expansion.
This year has entered a major construction phase. Not only has the number of employees increased significantly, but it also needs to reduce costs and introduce a large number of new technologies and equipment. The work is complicated and it is definitely the busiest company under his ownership.
There is no way. They are one of the sources of good development of domestic industry. If they fall out of the chain, the scope of the impact will be very large, and it is by no means a matter of their company.
Since most of the labor force in rural areas have gone out to work this year, the small-scale farmer economic development model in rural areas has almost come to an end.
Large enterprises and capital, represented by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, have begun to upgrade the domestic agricultural industry, and agricultural production efficiency has been qualitatively improved. Not only did the prices of agricultural products not rise significantly, but they were much lower than before.
Therefore, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company plays an important role in reducing the cost of industrial production in my country. It is the cornerstone for maintaining relatively stable prices and relatively stable corporate profits when labor costs in my country's industrial field have increased significantly.
In addition to agricultural raw materials, another important cost is energy. This must be mentioned when Xinhui Energy Company builds large-scale photovoltaic power plants in the northwest desert area.
The desert photovoltaic power plant they built adopts a model of generating electricity while building, and adopts intelligent power networking technology, which allows each installed photovoltaic power generation module to be connected to the grid to generate electricity at any time.
In fact, in June, the power supply of Xinhui Energy Company increased significantly, which also led to a significant reduction in the price of photovoltaic power generation, directly falling by half.
A substantial increase in power generation is conducive to the expansion of my country's industrial scale. Without sufficient power support, even if you want to expand industrial production capacity, you will be unable to do so.
The reduction in electricity prices is very conducive to the reduction of domestic industrial production costs. Especially for high-energy-consuming enterprises, the benefits brought by the reduction in electricity costs far exceed the increase in labor costs.
In order to fully shift domestic industrial production energy to electricity, increase the demand for electricity, and find enough electricity consumers for Xinhui Energy Company.
Zhao Yi's companies have tried their best to provide a large number of solutions for replacing traditional energy with electric energy, so that domestic industrial enterprises can better carry out energy substitution transformation.
The most typical one is the steel industry. The steel industry is not only a large consumer of iron ore, but also a large consumer of coal energy. It is the main industrial field of domestic carbon emissions.
In the past, the technology of domestic steel companies was relatively backward, the steelmaking equipment was relatively old, and there was no large amount of funds to invest in environmental protection equipment. It was the main source of air pollution in our country.
Taking advantage of the national currency expansion this time, it is naturally easier for major steel companies as state-owned enterprises to obtain loans. With money, they can naturally replace equipment on a large scale, introduce new technologies, and carry out comprehensive upgrades.
In order to prevent steel companies from still using traditional coal-based steelmaking technology, Tiangong Precision Instrument Company has developed a complete set of all-electric steelmaking equipment. Using all-electric steelmaking not only reduces environmental pollution, but also reduces energy costs by a large amount. cut.
More importantly, the use of all-electric steelmaking equipment can significantly increase power consumption and help Xinhui Energy Company find large power consumers to avoid the situation where the electricity they generate cannot be sold.
Moreover, the use of all-electric steelmaking equipment can more accurately control the proportion of steel components due to fewer sources of impurities. The quality of the steel produced is better and more guaranteed.
Due to the use of intelligent automation, steel companies using this set of all-electric steelmaking equipment will basically not have scrap steel, which further reduces the production costs of steel companies.
Moreover, the use of all-electric steelmaking equipment will greatly reduce the labor intensity of workers in steel companies, which has a very good effect on the health of employees.
This is just a typical example of energy substitution and reducing industrial production costs. Other companies under his umbrella have basically turned to energy alternatives in an all-round way.
For example, the number of mechanical equipment that produces traditional energy power systems for various engineering machinery of Tianshu Machinery Company has been greatly reduced, while the number of mechanical equipment using electric energy power systems has increased significantly.
This further reduces costs in the fields of agriculture, engineering, and industrial production, because the cost of electric energy is much lower than the cost of traditional energy.
Of course, all this requires that the electricity alternatives provided by Zhao Yi's companies have sufficient advantages. In addition to cost advantages, they also need to be easy to use and even surpass traditional energy solutions.
As for mineral raw materials, it is very difficult to reduce them. After all, we need to import most of them, especially iron ore and oil used in the chemical industry. Most of them are now imported.
Even the mining of domestic mineral resources has been reduced. If you can buy it from outside, buy it from outside. On the one hand, it is to protect domestic mineral resources, and on the other hand, it is to balance international trade.
Otherwise, there is no use having so much foreign exchange in our hands. We don’t need so much foreign exchange to purchase industrial equipment from outside to develop domestic industry. It can only be used to purchase raw materials on a large scale. (End of chapter)