manynovel Chapter 813 Rice Cooker
Chapter 813 Rice Cooker
The Lunar New Year had just passed, and the whole city was filled with the cheerful laughter of children.
Although the car factory workers had no rest time, it did not prevent the children from playing in the yard.
Uncle Nie has talked to Chen Changan several times recently.
They are all issues related to home appliances that were discussed in the previous meeting.
Chen Changan threatened to use 43 billion euros to completely solve the problem of food and clothing for the people across the country, which made his superiors very excited.
But 43 billion Euros is not a small number. It will take many years to earn so much foreign exchange by relying on the few export commodities currently available.
And the leaders above have no idea that so much money can be raised entirely by low-interest loans.
Even if there are countries willing to lend us money, it would be difficult to get such a huge amount.
In the final analysis, you still need to rely on yourself to solve some of the financial problems.
The superior leaders also attached great importance to the issue of home appliance exports and kept asking Chen Changan through Uncle Nie whether he was willing to take on the production and manufacturing of home appliances.
Chen Changan hesitated for a while and finally chose not to take over the production of home appliances.
During this period, the home appliance technology in Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States had become very mature, so it was still somewhat difficult to start from scratch and seize their market.
However, the superiors also had differences of opinion on who would take over the home appliance manufacturing.
Many people have never even seen a home appliance, let alone produced it. If Chen Changan was transferred away, they were afraid that there would be problems with the automobile factory.
After a brief understanding, the superiors also realized that the home appliance industry is highly competitive. If the home appliance industry fails to seize the market and then loses the automobile factory's stable source of foreign exchange, it would be a loss.
Uncle Nie was also extremely anxious. After many discussions with Chen Changan, he came up with a compromise.
That is to open a home appliance workshop in the automobile factory, first produce small home appliances, and test the waters.
Chen Changan will be in charge of it first. If no foreign exchange can be earned, it is not impossible to switch to domestic sales.
If he can earn foreign exchange, Chen Changan will choose what to do next.
If you want to continue staying in the automobile factory, Chen Changan can also recommend candidates for the home appliance department.
Chen Changan also wanted to try his hand at home appliances, so he nodded and agreed.
Li Chenglin and Liu Guangfu quickly received the order and sent people to start cleaning the workshop.
Looking at the makeshift team in front of him, which didn't even have any equipment, Chen Changan was a little troubled.
Of course, producing televisions was the best choice at this time, and the television programs in many developed countries also began to gradually become richer during this period.
As 1972 arrived, the United States and Japan began to show goodwill to my country. At this time, they proposed to introduce a color cathode ray tube production line. Chen Changan felt that it was not a big problem.
Of course, not everything can be imported. There is at least one small household appliance that Chen Changan thinks can still be produced with current technology, and that is the rice cooker.
The production of rice cookers is simple, and the equipment needed is nothing more than a punch press, an injection molding machine, an electric welder, a spraying equipment, and an automated assembly line.
Except for the injection molding machines, these devices are already available in automobile factories and can be used directly after slight modifications.
Afterwards, Chen Changan went directly to Uncle Nie's office with a lot of questions.
Seeing Chen Changan coming, Uncle Nie said with a smile.
"Why are you also going to join the inspection team?"
The 43 Plan proposed by Chen Changan was approved by the superiors.
The first team to go abroad to inspect chemical equipment is being formed.
At one time, many cadres from various departments showed off their talents just to be allocated a place for overseas inspection.
Uncle Nie has been very worried about this matter these days.
The country has to spend more than four billion US dollars in recent years. Under the current circumstances, we should save wherever possible.
There are only a limited number of people who go abroad for inspection, and there are only a few places for Uncle Nie.
Since we are going abroad for inspection, we naturally need someone who is useful, such as someone who understands technology. Otherwise, if we get cheated, the loss will be too great.
Then there are foreign affairs personnel. Every country has different national conditions. Even every ethnic group in our country has different customs, not to mention other countries.
Then there is translation, especially professional translation. If you don’t understand the professional terminology, it will be useless.
But some people think that this opportunity is rare and regard the inspection as traveling abroad, and try every means to follow the inspection team to see the world.
Chen Changan of later generations has seen all kinds of scenes, and he doesn’t know much about chemical engineering issues, so what is he going to do outside?
After the reform and opening up, you can't go out whenever you want, why do you have to join in the fun during this period?
"I'm not an expert in chemical engineering, nor am I a foreign affairs officer, and I don't even have any professional English skills. What can I do?
What’s more, my superiors have entrusted me with the important task of producing home appliances, so I don’t have the time to go abroad.”
Uncle Nie sighed and said.
"Alas, if all leading cadres had your awareness, I wouldn't have to worry about this."
"What's so difficult about it? This is a major matter involving billions of foreign exchange.
As long as you know the technology, you can go. What are you going to do if you don't know the technology?
Once something goes wrong and the country suffers losses, who will bear the responsibility?"
"That's what I said, but I have to give face to some people."
"Want to go abroad and see the world? That's easy. I plan to import a color TV production line from the United States or Taiwan.
It is expected that we will be able to establish diplomatic relations with the United States or China within the year. Taking this opportunity, we propose to introduce equipment, and the other party will most likely agree.
We will still need to go abroad for inspection when the time comes. Can't we just bring a few people who want to see the world with us?"
Uncle Nie was delighted when he heard this.
"What kind of home appliance have you decided to produce? Televisions?"
"Well, I've thought about it. I'm going to grab both the TV and the rice cooker with both hands."
"I know about televisions, but what are rice cookers?"
“A rice cooker is a container that can cook its own food when plugged into electricity.
Rice, porridge, and congee, just plug it in and press a button, and it will be ready when the time is up.
It also has a heat preservation function, so many families don’t even need to use the stove, which is very convenient.”
Uncle Nie frowned and thought about it.
"This thing is indeed very convenient, but will anyone buy it?"
“Of course it can’t be compared with a home appliance like a television, which is needed by every household in the world.
However, most countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia still mainly eat rice.
There is still a certain market for rice cookers in these countries, and the production of rice cookers is not difficult, so we can make some quick money first.”
Uncle Nie still believed in Chen Changan very much, so he nodded and agreed with Chen Changan's idea.