Chapter 324 Investment Attraction
The Haicang County Government built a commercial street in front of the gate of the Haicang Petrochemical Base. On one end is the bank and on the other end is the government service hall.
The service hall includes more than 20 departments including taxation, industry and commerce, safety supervision, health, overseas Chinese office, etc., which is easy to do when going out.
Haicang County completed these tasks a few days ago, and the county also moved some merchants to the market, which not only had food, drink and shopping on the commercial street, but also had a wide variety, reaching the level of an ordinary county town at this time.
Secretary Jin touched his half-light head and said with a smile: "The entry of Dahua Industrial Group has boosted the economy of the region. I was also excited to think that the petrochemical base will have a scale of 50,000 or 60,000 people in the future..."
Su Cheng laughed twice and thought to himself that Dahua's methanol project has been in operation for a year, but I have never seen you say that it will drive the regional economy.
The mayor also smiled and praised: "Investing is to enrich the land. As government officials, we must do our best to provide services, be friendly to business, safeguard business and support business are our main tasks. Whether it is the life of employees or traffic safety, Dahua doesn't have to worry about it."
Secretary Jin hurriedly followed up and said, "Yes, yes, after hearing the news that Dahua Industrial took over the Haicang plan, our county party committee immediately organized a meeting of team members and made specific arrangements for all work. By the way, we are planning to build a police station in the petrochemical base, which is more than 100 square kilometers, and the population exceeds 50,000, which is completely in line with the regulations. In a few days, I will ask a few candidates to meet Director Su. You can also give some suggestions."
Su Cheng was sweating on his head when he heard this. During his time at Shengli Oilfield, he had seen some grassroots work styles. But he had not seen the local grassroots styles of conduct. Secretary Jin invited candidates to see Su Cheng, which clearly asked him to choose the director of the police station. In this way, wouldn't it mean that the police station was opened by the enterprise?
If he was asked to choose a person, if he was dissatisfied in the future, would he be able to change his staff? Su Cheng suddenly thought of the security department in state-owned enterprises. Those big state-owned enterprises were so arrogant that the security department had always been in charge of police stations. Especially in the early 1980s, the police station had to plan to use oil. The state-owned enterprises had abundant resources and exposed a little bit of their fingers. It would be enough for the police station to eat and drink enough. As a result, the police station was so poor that it was better to follow the security department.
Isn’t the current environment for attracting investment the same? Secretary Jin is determined to please Sucheng. He has no time to care about institutions such as police stations.
The county magistrate next to him finally found the topic and said there: "Our county has purchased the latest train and is planning to place one in Dahua Industrial. It is not afraid of ten thousand, but it is afraid of if it is. If Director Su has no taboos, we will make arrangements."
"In Dahua's factory, fire extinguishing devices will be installed uniformly. Of course, if there is excess in the county and arrange it for the petrochemical base, it would be very thankful." Su Cheng knew that fire trucks are a high-priced thing, and the county could not have redundant. However, their kindness is also meaningful. At least experienced firefighters are better recruited than Dahua itself, and they are much more formal. The final result is that Dahua Industrial donated several fire trucks and related equipment in the county and petrochemical base.
Huo Chang listened to them and coughed softly, saying, "There were no 50,000 people in the early stage of the Haicang Petrochemical Base. If it were Dahua employees, there would probably be no 10,000 people."
"How could it be? The document we saw said that the base is estimated to have more than 50,000 people, and it may eventually reach 100,000..." Secretary Jin was so surprised that they still care about the number of people. This is a data that is easy to attract people, although it is not really important.
Huo Chang looked at Sucheng and then explained in a low voice: "The documents you see may be based on Sinopec's Yangtze ethylene engineering analysis. The equipment they used was advanced equipment from the 1960s and was installed too late. The latest product from BASF, Germany, and the ethylene equipment that was finalized three years ago, have reduced manual use, and the corresponding maintenance and supporting requirements have also been reduced."
“From 50,000 to 10,000?”
"From 30,000 to 10,000, the specific number of people needs to be installed after the equipment is installed. There will be different problems after each equipment is installed." Huo Chang then said: "The number of people in supporting factories will probably fluctuate. If they use advanced robots, the number of people will be very low. If all people are used, the number of people will increase a lot."
Secretary Jin opened his eyes wide and asked, "Can you adopt people? I mean, wouldn't it be cheaper to use people?"
Su Cheng and Huo Chang both made me think.
Zhang Chao returned from studying abroad. He worked in Dahua for two years but still has not been completely domesticated. He explained with a smile: "For example, large ethylene equipment must be continuously produced 7*24 hours a day, so that workers can work in three shifts, labor costs will be higher, and the price of medical insurance will also increase. In addition, management costs, it is better to use machines as much as possible."
"Our labor costs are very low. If you think it is expensive, we can help you reduce it. How much does a month's salary do you think is acceptable? Is 150 yuan OK?" The county magistrate was very active.
Due to hyperinflation in the early 1990s, employees' wages have fallen far behind the price level. Even so, the wages of ordinary workers in 1991 were above 150 yuan. The county magistrate proposed the minimum wage standard.
Zhang Chao did not expect that government officials would help workers lower prices. He wanted to say something, but he held back. After all, lowering workers' wages would be beneficial to the company.
Seeing that he didn't speak, the county magistrate gritted his teeth and said, "If 150 yuan is too much, we can find a way to reduce it to 120 yuan. The workers who just entered the factory can be 100 yuan. In this case, can you use a large number of people to operate the machine?"
Secretary Jin looked at the expressions of Dahua and explained: "Our county was an agricultural county in history. It made too little money to serve the land. There were several factories in the county before, but recently they went bankrupt in some years. The laid-off workers almost lost their finances. We have been waiting for the petrochemical base for three or four years. Now, now you are here, we wonder if we can help us solve some workers. Let everyone have classes and get wages. Dahua can also reduce costs and make more money. How wrong is it?"
Their reasons are very different from Su Cheng. He solved the unemployment problem, but reduced the wages of workers. It was equivalent to eating a big pot of rice. In the end, the workers with the minimum wage lost their enthusiasm for learning. They either gave up their factory jobs or just stayed alone and waited to die, making it difficult to burst out their enthusiasm for learning.
For technical jobs, you can eat youthful food at the age of 20 and do general attacks after the age of 30. Not only can you not support your family, but it is also difficult for the body to support it. Whether from a macro or micro perspective, solving employment problems in the form of lowering wage standards is simply putting the cart before the horse.
If it is just for people to have a bite of food, why should the country take measures to lay off state-owned enterprises?
However, Secretary Jin and his friends' reasons are always just one reason, and Su Cheng did not have a stance and righteousness to refute it sternly.
Therefore, after a brief silence, Su Cheng said: "When we are investing in the business, we will specifically explain to the Taiwanese businessmen and ask them to consider hiring more workers instead of purchasing machines."
"That's great." The county magistrate was so happy that he said: "Can Dahua also add some employees? For example, 20,000 people?"
"Dahua's human resources system has different standards." Su Cheng stopped talking and didn't want to say much.
The county magistrate refused to give in and said with a smile: "What are the standards of Mr. Su? We should try our best to achieve them. What do you think? If Dahua can guarantee to hire 10,000 workers from Haicang..."
"Old Lu..." Mayor Tang Anke covered his mouth with his hands and coughed.
The county magistrate seemed to understand and hurriedly said, "Yes, if Dahua can guarantee to hire more than 10,000 people from our Xiamen, we will find a way to reduce your salary to 100 yuan for you. How about this? There are indeed many laid-off workers now, and the surplus labor force in the countryside cannot be ignored..."
"Dahua's current minimum wage standard has exceeded 600 yuan." Su Cheng interrupted the county magistrate's words, so as not to become more outrageous as he speaks.
The county magistrate was surprised and said, "The minimum 600 means that when you enter a factory in Dahua, you will get a salary of 600?"
Zhang Chao couldn't help it anymore and said with a crackling sound: "600 yuan is the salary of our first-level workers. It's 1,000 yuan for the fourth-level workers. The salary during overtime is doubled. There are also various rewards and subsidies. It's not uncommon for an ordinary fourth-level technician to get 2,000 yuan a month."
"That's not higher than railway workers." In 1991, the industry with the highest salary in China was railways. The average annual salary exceeded 3,000 yuan, and almost everyone had the standard of 300 yuan. In comparison, the average annual salary of state organs was only 2,380 yuan, and the average monthly salary was less than 200 yuan. Moreover, in the 1990s, the beginning of the railway's implementation of the efficiency linkage and the "100-content" salary contract, and the effect was excellent. Front-line employees even received salary of more than 4,000 yuan, which was twice the civil service system, and it was a veritable iron rice bowl.
During this period of time, those who sharpen their heads and drill into the railway are investing no matter how much they are.
Now that he heard Dahua's salary standard, even Tang Anke was unable to calm down and said, "A such a high salary must have higher requirements."
Su Cheng smiled slightly and said, "We have high requirements for the skills, attitudes and other aspects of employees. Dahua recruits publicly from the whole society every year. If local laid-off workers have skills and vitality, they can try to apply for Dahua. Our recruitment plan this year will also be tilted towards the local area. However, increasing the number of workers may not be met. Our equipment has been manufactured in Germany, and some equipment has even been loaded and shipped and cannot be changed at will."
The county magistrate was embarrassed to speak anymore, and now he understood that Dahua didn't care about wages, but about the worker's level.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little stiff. Li Lin jumped out and laughed at the right time: "I am Li Lin, the head of Dahua Public Relations Department. Some people may know me. Our department is affiliated to the headquarters of Dahua Group. The salary standards are comparable to the front line. The salary is slightly lower, but there are often opportunities to pay bonuses and they are in the office. If you have relatives and friends at home, please recommend it to our department."
Sure enough, an official asked with concern: "What exactly does the Public Relations Department do?"
Li Lin smiled like a fox and said, "The image of corporate public relations is to establish a good image of Dahua in society. It mainly involves three aspects: establishing good relations with the public, establishing good relations with the media, and establishing good relations with the government. This is my business card."
Everyone suddenly realized that if everyone sent their relatives and friends to the public relations department of Dahua, they would probably be these relatives and friends who came to public relations in the future.
Su Cheng looked at Dahua with a smile. Dahua's public relations department is a top department in Dahua. It has its own culture and special system. The speed of assimilating relatives and friends is much faster than being assimilated by relatives and friends.
Because of the ability to realize personal value, many middle- and large-scale yamen who are tired of playing have joined the Dahua Public Relations Department, and they are working in a serious manner.
Of course, as long as they can achieve the goal of corporate PR, whether they go to work seriously at dinner or go home for dinner and work seriously, Li Lin doesn't care. This is also the way most multinational companies do government PR. If they recruit a young man who just graduated from university and doesn't know anything to do public relations, and want to touch people's hearts with sincerity, it will either be a horror movie or a Japanese TV series, which will never be a reality.
On the contrary, if these yamen are recruited, they can create unimaginable value as long as they are given proper management and induction.
In European and American countries, many rich second-generation officials and eighth-generation officials often choose to start a business in public relations. They have high trust in the target group, wide contacts, and cooperate with the company's resources and strategies, which is a win-win situation. It is not uncommon for corporate public relations to become political public relations and political public relations to become White House aides.
There are also more advanced corporate public relations, which simply hire retired senior government officials with high salaries. For example, the arms company hires generals from the Pentagon as defense consultants, and takes the lead in research on the Pentagon. He hires senior officials from the Japanese Defense Department as special executives, and takes the lead in research on the Defense Department, which is easy to use and safe.
Dahua Industry can only find this way of using the first generation project to do public relations at present in the academic community and state-owned enterprises, and Su Cheng is very cautious about this. Li Lin can only regretfully find a way in the second generation project.
However, compared with the self-righteous money and power transactions of many domestic companies, Dahua's methods are naturally more advanced and cleaner.
With Li Lin's joining, the topic quickly changed, and the county magistrate quietly bowed his head to apologize and stopped talking about recruitment issues.
Mayor Tang said in an educational tone, both to the county magistrate and to others, saying: "The benefactors who come to help us attract investment are benefactors, the merchants who come to invest are relatives, the cadres who can open up the situation of investment are capable people, and the sinners who affect the investment environment are sinners. We must seize the historic opportunity, be neither arrogant nor impatient, and move forward bravely..."
The deafening applause fully demonstrates the number of officials who care about the petrochemical base!
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