PFC Chapter 186 Guiding the Cookware Company
Chapter 186 Guiding the Cookware Company
Xiao Fan quickly transferred 3000 million yuan to the Biyun Township's financial account.
Qi Tongwei instructed Zhang Yang, Han Donghai, and Ji Xianglin to continue the land acquisition and complete the acquisition of the remaining 3000 mu of land as soon as possible.
Once the land acquisition is complete, there won't be any more problems with the land.
Moreover, it can also help to level the land better.
Once the land is leveled, construction of the new town can officially begin.
Qi Tongwei calculated that the first phase of the task Lei Yaohua had given him had been completed.
Lei Yaohua assigned him the task of achieving a GDP of 5670 million in the first phase and 1 million in the second phase, and he had to do it before Gushanling Township.
The first phase of the mission is now complete.
All the work planned by the township has begun, much of it has been completed, and the remaining work is progressing steadily.
This portion of the budget is 2500 million, and it has all been allocated.
They invested 5000 million yuan in the new town, bringing the total to 7000 million yuan.
With the GDP generated by the cement pipe factory and the car dealership, Biyun Township's GDP has reached over 70 million yuan.
There's also the GDP generated by crayfish and fish distributors, as well as subsequent investments in new towns.
In other words, this year's GDP will reach 1 million no matter what, thus fulfilling the task set by Lei Yaohua.
In May, Qi Tongwei did not focus his main energy on the construction of the new town.
According to the plan, the construction of the new town can only begin after the land has been leveled.
Because the drainage system needs to be built first, and the drainage pipes need to be installed before other construction can proceed.
Rainwater and sewage separation must be done at the beginning of construction, otherwise it will be very troublesome to implement rainwater and sewage separation later.
Qi Tongwei urged the cement pipe factory to speed up the process and expedite the production of the required cement pipes.
After leveling the land, the next step is to dig deep trenches, bury cement pipes, and install the drainage pipes.
On this day, Qi Tongwei, Ji Xianglin, and Du Xuejun, the director of the enterprise office, came to the cookware company.
When the plan was formulated at the beginning of the year, it was said that we would guide these enterprises in the township to improve their technology, expand their markets, and increase their output value and sales.
This will increase the GDP they generate.
Although developing the new town will bring Biyun Township's GDP to 1 million, we cannot focus solely on the new town while neglecting other tasks.
The development of Biyun Township must be healthy and stable.
Qi Tongwei had some ideas about cookware, which could allow the cookware company to produce new products, quickly seize the market, and thus make money.
In those days, most people used earthen stoves.
Not only do they take up space, but they also consume a lot of firewood when burning.
If you want to hold a banquet, you can only build a stove with earth and bricks, which is very inconvenient.
Qi Tongwei wanted the cookware factory to produce outdoor wood-burning stoves for future generations.
This type of stove is small in size and light in weight, making it easy to move and clean, and saving firewood.
Outdoor wood-burning stoves are easy to manufacture; they can be cast in one piece or pieced together.
There are even simpler ways to make it.
Cut the oil drum in two, weld three legs onto it, make two openings, one large and one small, in the front, weld a fence in the middle, and make an opening in the back to weld a section of pipe to serve as a chimney.
A lightweight outdoor wood-fired stove was thus created.
In addition to outdoor wood-burning stoves, Qi Tongwei also thought of a dual-fuel (coal and wood) heating stove, which is very suitable for heating in winter.
It can also be used for boiling water and cooking.
Of course, Qi Tongwei wouldn't just hand over the outdoor wood-burning stove and coal-fired dual-use heating stove to the cookware company for nothing.
Qi Tongwei handed over the technology for these two stoves to a trading company, which then authorized the technology to a cookware company.
In this way, the trading company can earn some revenue for every outdoor wood-burning stove and coal/wood-fired heater sold by the cookware company.
The current owner of the cookware company is Huang Cuishan. Upon learning that Qi Tongwei, Ji Xianglin, and Du Xuejun were coming to the cookware company, he greeted them at the factory gate early in the morning.
"Mayor Qi, Deputy Mayor Ji, Director Du, welcome to the cookware company for your inspection!"
As soon as the car came to a stop, Huang Cuishan immediately came to greet him.
"Mr. Huang, you're too kind. We've come here to check on the cookware company's production and to see how these old businesses in the village are doing."
Qi Tongwei said with a smile after getting out of the car.
"Mayor Qi, Deputy Mayor Ji, Director Du, please come in!"
Huang Cuishan gestured for them to enter, and then led Qi Tongwei and the other two into the cookware company.
Qi Tongwei looked around the cookware company's production workshop. The cookware company was producing old-fashioned cookware.
I inquired about the sales situation, and it wasn't very good.
"Mr. Huang, have you ever thought about producing new products?"
I think there are quite a lot of things we need in life.
For example, cooking requires a pot, and a pot requires a stove.
Qi Tongwei asked that he wanted the cookware factory to produce outdoor wood-fired stoves and dual-fuel (firewood and coal) heating stoves, and that he needed to guide Huang Cuishan.
"Mayor Qi, we have also considered producing new products to increase revenue, but we haven't found a good way yet."
As for the stove, we haven't thought about it.
Our customers are all farmers, and every household has a stove. If we produced anything, we simply wouldn't be able to sell it.
Huang Cuishan said that he had never heard of needing to buy a stove in his entire life.
"Mr. Huang, your thinking is wrong!"
Our people don't lack stoves, but that doesn't mean they won't buy them.
We can produce portable stoves that can be used in the yard.
For weddings and funerals, if a banquet is needed, can't we use that?
Even if only a few families in one village buy it, there are still dozens of families buying it across all 16 villages in the township.
Based on this calculation, wouldn't hundreds of families across the county's 13 townships be purchasing this product?
With 10 counties and 1 district in the city, will several thousand families be willing to buy it?
Qi Tongwei looked at Huang Cuishan and said, "We can't just focus on Biyun Township. We need to look at all 13 townships in Yunmeng County and all 10 counties and 1 district in Yantai City."
If we launch an outdoor wood-fired stove, we'll have at least a few thousand units sold, generating hundreds of thousands in revenue.
"Ah, we really never thought about expanding our business to the entire Yunmeng County."
Huang Cuishan said somewhat embarrassedly that their market was only Biyun Township and the neighboring Yungu Township and Weixi Township.
As for more remote towns and counties, they never even considered selling their cookware there.
"The trading company has acquired the technology for a portable stove that can be used in the yard from abroad. If Mr. Huang wants to try it, he can contact the trading company to learn more."
Qi Tongwei did not force Huang Cuishan; whether or not he wanted to do it was up to him.
If Huang Cuishan doesn't do it, he'll let the trading company do it themselves.
The trading company has now expanded its business to all cities and prefectures in Handong, selling outdoor wood-burning stoves and dual-fuel (wood and coal) heating stoves, generating several million to tens of millions of yuan in revenue annually.
These days, a company with revenue of several million or tens of millions is already considered a relatively large company.
The trading company's revenue has already exceeded 100 million, making it a very large enterprise.
Qi Tongwei predicts that, based on the current growth rate of the trading company, its revenue this year will reach more than 3 million yuan.
Within three years, it will become a company with revenue of 10 billion yuan and a well-known company in Handong.