He still recognized the innovative ability of Shangtong Trading Company. Not to mention the drones mentioned above, it also did a pretty good job integrating domestic travel and tourism business.
The hotel services, catering services, supermarket services, etc. under Shangtong Trading Company are already quite powerful. After integrating these other domestic resources, they basically constitute the resources of the destination in the tourism elements.
At the same time, his brother company is one of the top domestic and even international aviation giants. In addition, he has many commercial transportation bus routes, which already have integrated travel tool resources.
Moreover, they have conducted many rounds of relevant negotiations with the railway department, and may sign a railway freight business contract operation contract in the near future. They are already quite familiar with the railway department.
It can be said that they are the easiest company in China to integrate travel destination resources and travel tool resources. In fact, they have also been aware of this problem and the relevant work has almost been completed.
He also looked at their internal travel internet software and found it to be very good. As long as users use this internet product to travel, they can basically handle everything.
This Internet product has richer functions and services than Ctrip and others in its previous life. It not only meets the needs of travel, but also can clearly arrange all the links required for various business trips.
Shangtong Trading Company will build a one-stop service for domestic travel around this Internet platform, providing efficient, high-quality, and affordable travel solutions, saving users time and money.
Although this aspect was done well in the previous life, many problems were difficult to explain, such as big data, inconsistent services, etc., and there were countless tourism chaos.
If Shangtong Trading Company does this, such problems will not arise. On the one hand, Zhao Yi has very high requirements for his companies and will never allow any behavior that goes beyond commercial integrity to avoid damaging the domestic business environment.
On the other hand, as domestic super giants, they don't care about such small profits. Compared with such petty profits, they care more about long-term interests. Business reputation has always been the service feature of Shangtong Trading Company.
Although Shangtong Trading Company is already a super monopoly giant in China, it has not made consumers and domestic companies hate them because of this. They are even happy to cooperate with Shangtong Trading Company to achieve a win-win situation.
After a year and a half, domestic travel services will basically be on the right track. When all conditions are mature, the national layout will be launched. This is an inevitable choice for a company committed to internationalization.
As for whether Internet companies in other countries will imitate, because they have imitated many products, neither Shangtong Trading Company nor he cares much about this matter.
Because travel service does not seem difficult, it is just a program software. In fact, the technical content inside is not low. In this era, it is not easy to develop such a system.
The first is big data processing technology, which is still his trump card technology. No matter what kind of Internet application it is, as long as the amount of data increases, this key technology cannot be circumvented, otherwise it will not operate at all.
If you want to do a good job in travel, or provide good travel services, it will inevitably be accompanied by the generation of a large amount of data. Without big data processing technology, not to mention the problem of system crash, even the speed of providing services will be unbearable.
The second is the support of relevant algorithms. It is not an easy task to provide users with optimal travel solutions from many options. Behind this is the need for very advanced algorithm support.
Finally, there is the application of artificial intelligence technology, which includes both the artificial intelligence core developed by Shangtong Trading Company and the artificial intelligence service access of brother companies, thus forming an automatic and convenient service data chain.
These technologies are integrated together to allow users to use them as they please, which is a completely different experience from using traditional Internet applications in previous generations.
However, technology is not the key to the internationalization of travel services. The key is to be able to integrate travel resources from various countries, just like what is done in China. If local service companies do not cooperate, it will be half the result with half the effort.
And even if it is barely integrated, whether it can be as instructive as in China is still a question. If all parties cooperate insufficiently, platform users will have a serious sense of distrust in platform services.
But he doesn't need to worry about these. Although the road to internationalization is bound to be difficult, Shangtong Trading Company is not a vegetarian. There are many ways and sufficient resources to do this business well.
However, from the field of travel services, Zhao Yilian thought of the field of local services. Currently, no other company is doing this, and it is appropriate for Shangtong Trading Company to do this.
However, in terms of timing, the establishment of a local service platform is actually not particularly suitable because the current urbanization construction has just begun and the city is changing at a very rapid rate.
This brings a lot of instability to their services. In addition, there are a lot of circulation personnel and imperfect laws and regulations, which will cause big problems.
However, Zhao Yi still expressed his thoughts because he didn't want the local service platform in the future to be like the 58.com in the previous life. It was so bad that he didn't even want to complain.
Although the time is not right now, we should do the basic work now and make it solid. When we feel that we can provide high-quality services to consumers, it will not be too late to launch it.
Local service platforms like those in the previous life are really just platforms. A mixed bag of information can be accessed by paying money, which has deceived many consumers. In fact, such a platform is completely worthless.
Regarding Star Power Company, Zhao Yi is more concerned about when their freight high-speed railway power system will be released, because it is related to the cooperation between Shangtong Trading Company and the railway department.
Last year, Star Power Company experienced rapid development. Its business growth mainly came from the explosion of the domestic electric vehicle market and the continued activity of the shipbuilding business.
As for their aircraft engine business, although it has increased, it can only be considered stable. It is basically difficult to break out. At least compared to their huge operating income, it is not outstanding.
In fact, in addition to Star Power Company, Tianshu Machinery Company's power system is also very outstanding, but Tianshu Machinery Company's engineering machinery engines are mainly diesel engines.
The two companies actually have relatively deep cooperation in technology, but the main directions of the two companies are different. Star Power's main business scope is passenger car power systems, ship power systems, aerospace power systems, etc.
Among them, the main focus is on high-precision power systems. Automotive power systems are actually a side business for Star Power Company, although this business has brought them a lot of income.
When the passenger car power system business was handed over to Star Power Company, it was mainly to help them develop better and faster, because at that time, other power systems brought them very limited revenue.
You must know that the more sophisticated the power system, the greater the investment in research and development, and the more limited the market size. If there is no large business to supplement revenue, the overall development speed of the company will be greatly restricted.
However, with the rapid development of China's aviation manufacturing industry, aerospace development is also in full swing. In addition, the domestic shipbuilding industry has also achieved good results in the past two or three years, resulting in their high-precision power systems also having good operating income. .
As for the new domestic electric passenger car market, although the volume is much larger than before, the income is actually not too high, because the domestic passenger car market is still dominated by low-end.
As of the end of last year, Shenlong Motors had shipped a total of 4 million new energy vehicles in China, which means that Star Power Systems had shipped 4 million passenger car power systems in China.
It’s not that the domestic demand is that much, but because Shenlong Motors underestimated the domestic demand, resulting in production not keeping up with demand, and the expansion of production cannot be achieved for a while. Next year, it will basically be able to meet the market demand. .
Although there are a lot of them, the money Star Power Systems makes from them is much lower than their traditional passenger car power systems. The average price per unit is 5,000 yuan, and the net profit per unit is only about 1,000 yuan.
Such a huge quantity only brings a net profit of 4 billion yuan to Star Power Company. Even if the national demand reaches 20 million next year, the net profit will only bring them 20 billion yuan.
Although this is still a very scary profit data for other companies, it is not worth mentioning compared with Star Power's existing traditional passenger car engine profits.
According to a report by He Hanlin, president of Star Power Company, the power system of the freight high-speed train has begun to be fully assembled and tested. If it is to be fully mature, it will need to be by the end of this year at the earliest, and by the middle of next year at the latest.
Zhao Yi is quite satisfied with this progress, because the current high-speed rail mileage is still very limited. Although there is demand for freight, it is not yet able to fully play the role of high-speed freight trains.
According to Zhao Yi's proposal, in order to improve my country's high-speed railway network as soon as possible, it is hoped that the railway department will increase the annual construction mileage to 20,000 kilometers. In fact, it is very difficult to achieve this.
On the one hand, there is the issue of funding. Although you can borrow money from banks for construction, banks cannot provide unlimited funding loans. There is always a limit.
If Zhao Yi's opinion is really followed, then the funds that need to be invested in high-speed rail construction every year will be as high as 800 billion yuan. This is impossible. Bank funds have many other uses, and the national finance cannot carry out such a huge project. subsidy.
On the other hand, the construction speed cannot be that fast. Firstly, the scale of the industrial chain is still very limited and cannot meet such a huge scale of construction. Secondly, there are not so many human resources that meet the requirements to carry out the work.
According to the plan of the Ministry of Railways, it is more appropriate for the annual construction process to be about 5,000 kilometers. In this way, the annual investment scale only requires 200 billion yuan, which is still affordable compared with my country's GDP.
At present, in addition to the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway that has been completed in China, construction has begun on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, Guangzhou-Shenzhen high-speed railway, Beijing-West high-speed railway, Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway, Changjiu high-speed railway, etc. It will not take a while to complete them.
The construction of high-speed rail is not entirely funded by the Ministry of Railways. It is jointly constructed by the Ministry of Railways and local governments. And the lines currently under construction are basically lines that the local governments are not very poor in funding.
Originally, the Changjiu High-speed Railway would not be built so quickly, mainly because Zhao Yi's industrial layout in these two cities in the past few years has greatly improved the economic development of these two cities, and the tax revenue has increased significantly.
Of course, there is also the need for the development strategy of urban agglomerations in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River promoted by Zhao Yi. In Hunan and Hubei provinces, there are also intercity high-speed railways under construction, mainly to connect provincial capitals and deputy economic center cities in the provinces.
When the inter-city high-speed rail within the province is completed and opened to traffic, the construction of cross-regional inter-provincial high-speed rail will begin to realize the high-speed rail transportation network of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and achieve closer personnel exchanges.
In fact, other cities also have this plan. For example, in Nanjing, where the headquarters of Shenlong Automobile Company and Cornerstone Materials Company are located, and the expansion of these two industrial chains to surrounding cities, Jiangsu's overall economic performance is very good.
Therefore, they are also working hard to build high-speed railways in the province first, and then connect them with cities such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, etc. to form a Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration and promote the common prosperity and development of the urban agglomeration economy.
In fact, this kind of local high-speed rail network is not friendly to the development of Shangtong Trading Company's high-speed rail freight business, because the distance between the two places is not far, and high-speed rail is basically not needed to transport goods.
Only when the whole country forms a network that can easily transport goods to all parts of the country can it have real advantages in high-speed rail freight transportation. This is very different from personnel transportation.
However, preparations must be made. According to Zhao Yi's plan, after the freight business contract between Shangtong Trading Company and the Ministry of Railways is signed, high-speed rail freight stations will be built in various cities.
In the future, these freight stations will be the "freight terminals" of various cities, which can quickly transport local freight out and at the same time quickly transport outside goods in, thereby realizing the exchange of goods across the country.
By then, the location advantage will not be particularly obvious in domestic trade. At least the coast is not a good choice. On the contrary, cities like Zhengzhou have more inland transportation advantages.
These freight stations are mainly built by commercial trading companies. Local governments only need to grant land. The financial burden on the government is not heavy, and local governments should be willing to provide convenience.
It is not easy for a freight station to operate efficiently. It is not just about building a freight station. The supporting system behind it is the key.
The funds spent on these support systems are likely to be much higher than simply building freight train station buildings, and there are many cities across the country, so the total scale of investment is not low.
Of course, Shangtong Trading Company is also willing to bear this cost, because after these are completed, these will also belong to Shangtong Trading Company's assets. As long as it performs well in subsequent cargo operations, basically this business will always belong to Shangtong Trading Company. Yes.
According to He Hanlin's report, if high-speed freight trains are to run on the railway tracks, they will be available by the end of next year at the latest. Although it is a bit slow, it is still acceptable.
Later, Zhao Yi asked about the power issue of the aircraft carrier. Although the nuclear reactor of the aircraft carrier was jointly developed by Xinhui Energy Company and China National Nuclear Corporation, the power system assembly is still responsible for Star Power Company.
In fact, there are no technical problems now. It mainly depends on the delivery status of Star Power Company. At the same time, Zhao Yi is more concerned about their assembly effect. After all, he hopes that the more power the better, after all.
Later, Zhao Yi held a meeting with Interstellar Express Company to understand the specific situation on their side, mainly the super large passenger aircraft and space shuttle they were developing.
According to Su Miao's report, these two tasks can basically be completed this year, most likely by the middle of this year. This is similar to what he predicted. As for their other businesses, he is not particularly concerned about them.
This is not to say that Zhao Yi does not care about his industries, but his industries are too huge, so huge that even with his intelligence, it is impossible to cover everything, he can only focus on the key points.
This is still at the business level. If you want to extend it to a specific product and the details of the product, the details will be even more mind-numbing.
For example, the aircraft produced by Star Express Company have from more than three million to six to seven million parts. Each part has a different function and the suppliers are also different.
To be honest, he only helped Star Express Company design the aircraft drawings in their early days, and he was familiar with all the components in it. As for whether he would improve it later, he didn't know.
As for the super-large passenger aircraft currently under development, he has basically stopped getting involved. He doesn't know much about the specific details, and he has no interest in understanding them in such detail.
The current annual sales volume of Star Express is about 1,000 aircraft, which has surpassed two other international aviation manufacturing companies in terms of quantity and has become a veritable aviation and aircraft manufacturing giant.
Coupled with the huge number of power systems sold by Star Power Company every year, the two companies together bring hundreds of billions of output value to Sichuan every year, turning Chengdu into an international aviation manufacturing and power R&D and production base.
The two industries he deployed in Chengdu have benefited the whole of Sichuan a lot. Many parts production is scattered in various cities around Chengdu, promoting the economic development of local cities.
This model is actually to lay out one or two core industries in a province, and use the core industries to overall improve the economic development level and industrial manufacturing strength of the province, which is a means to quickly achieve regional economic balance.
For example, the Shenlong Automobile Company and the Cornerstone Materials Company he deployed in Nanjing are the only two large companies. However, this does not mean that apart from Nanjing, other cities in Jiangsu will not benefit.
In fact, most cities in Jiangsu provide supporting production work for these two companies. The industry is spread across more than ten prefecture-level cities in Jiangsu, and the scale of the industry is also very large.
Of course, given the huge scale of these two companies, it is impossible for all the industries to be located in Jiangsu, and many industries will spill over to other provinces and cities. This is both a reason for industrial planning and the result of deliberate arrangements.
There are other industries in Shenzhen. Zhao Yi should have the largest number of industries deployed in Shenzhen. However, given Shenzhen's own area and population, it is impossible to digest such a huge industrial scale alone.
Take Hualong Clothing Company and Huansha Textile Company as examples. The combined industrial scale is as high as about 2 trillion yuan. Not to mention that Shenzhen has a population of less than 10 million. Even with a population of 20 million, it cannot swallow them all by itself.
Most of the industries in Shenzhen are just the headquarters. Production and other links are arranged in surrounding cities or other provinces and cities, the largest of which is Fujian Province.
First, Guangdong and Fujian are neighboring provinces, and second, Fujian is also close to the sea and is suitable for exporting goods directly. The establishment and development of these industries in Fujian has played a huge role in improving Fujian's economy.
In addition, Fujian has a relatively small population, and the relationship with the other side of the Taiwan Strait is not very good. It is a strategically important area, so there are no independent high-tech industries deployed in Fujian. They are just part of the manufacturing bases deployed by other companies in Fujian.
The state also understands this and does not insist that corporate headquarters must be evenly distributed in various provinces for regional balance. However, it has strengthened the construction of the tax management system so that manufacturing base governments can share more tax benefits.
Polaris Company, for example, mainly arranges its production bases in southern Jiangxi, northern Guangdong, southern Hunan and western Guangxi, and these areas are basically mountainous areas.
If it weren't for the construction of domestic highways in recent years, which has greatly improved the transportation construction in these areas, it would be very difficult to plan the layout in these areas.
Now, with the rapid development of the domestic economy, people's income has also increased, and they have very strong consumption power. The internal market has basically formed, and its industries no longer need to establish industrial chains in coastal areas.
Just last year, many of his industries began to seek to deploy production bases in China, mainly to supply internal market demand, while external market demand can still be produced in the original coastal areas.
This has brought many industrial development opportunities to the central and western regions of China, as well as the Yunnan-Guizhou region in the southwest. Last year, the fastest growing economies and the highest salary increases were in the southwest and northwest provinces and central regions such as Henan and Shanxi, which had previously experienced relatively slow economic development. .
The implementation effect of the economic balancing policy is even more outstanding than the development results of previous years. This is also the benefit brought by the development of the domestic demand market. If only the foreign trade economy is developed, the most benefits can only be gained by coastal provinces and cities.
After the Northwest Climate and Environmental Transformation Plan is successfully implemented, provinces and cities further west such as Gansu, Ningxia, and Xinjiang will also usher in a greater economic leap. (End of chapter)