Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

He Yuzhu pointed to the Red Star CBK-01 trucks being produced in the production workshop and introduced: "Director Li, the CBK-01 trucks being produced here are produced by our factory. At present, our factory can complete the production of 50 trucks every day. We have installed our newly developed automatic wipers on the trucks being produced now. The trucks being produced over there are our newly developed CBK-01G trucks with dump function."

"Deputy Director He, I remember the trucks produced by your factory were called CB-01! Why did you suddenly change the name? What does this CBK mean?" Li Fengshi asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"It's like this, Director Li. The trucks produced by our factory were indeed called CB-01 before. But later our R&D staff felt that calling them by the digits CB was too confusing. So we renamed the vehicle models. CB still means the same thing as before, corresponding to Qian Na and Si Jiu Cheng. K is the first letter of the pinyin for truck, so CBK is the truck series, the off-road vehicle series is CBY, and the sedan series is CBQ." He Yuzhu explained patiently.

After listening to He Yuzhu's explanation, Li Fengshi couldn't help but mutter to himself. After a moment, he nodded in agreement and said, "This does sound more formal than the previous name. By the way, I heard from Minister Zhao that your factory is developing car air conditioners and automatic transmissions. How is the progress now?"

"Thanks to Minister Zhao's help, we have now developed a finished product. We are currently conducting performance tests. Once it passes the tests, we can install it on the vehicle for testing."

"Really? From what you said, can't these two new technologies be used in luxury cars?" Li Fengshi asked excitedly.

"Director Li is right. After the automatic transmission was successfully developed, I planned to install it on the CBY-01 off-road vehicle and CBQ-01 sedan for testing. Now that our superiors have asked us to develop a luxury sedan, I will test it directly on the luxury sedan. After passing the test, the off-road vehicles and sedans produced before can also be equipped with car air conditioners."

“Can the cars that have already been delivered be retrofitted?”

"Yes, when developing off-road vehicles and sedans, I told the technicians to reserve some space so that the vehicles can be upgraded in the future. If it is convenient for them to come to our factory, they can drive their cars to us to install the car air conditioner. If the car is not in a certain place and it is not convenient for them to come to our factory to install it, we can arrange for workers to bring the car air conditioner to the local site for installation."

"I didn't expect that you, Deputy Director He, not only think so far ahead, but also so meticulously, even taking into account car users from other places." Li Fengshi said exaggeratedly.

"Director Li, thank you for your praise. This is what we should do. Cars are a means of transportation that can be used for many years. As long as our users are still using the cars produced by our factory, we should be responsible for them. Only in this way can we ensure that users of cars produced by our factory can use them with peace of mind."

"Now I finally understand why the factories and units below often give priority to purchasing trucks from your factory. It turns out that your service is thoughtful. By the way, Deputy Director He, your current production capacity of 50 trucks a day, why don't you find a way to further increase it? There is a serious shortage of trucks in the country right now."

"Director Li, we have been working hard to increase production capacity, from a few cars a day last year to 50 cars a day now. Our factory is now actively expanding production scale while organizing technicians and workers to find ways to transform the existing production line to see if we can increase production capacity."

"Then why don't you just expand your production capacity to the same scale as the First Automobile Works in Northeast China? Are you worried that the Ministry won't support your factory's expansion of production?"

"Director Li, if we want to increase production capacity, it is not enough to have machinery and equipment, but also a large number of workers. The fundamental problem restricting our production capacity now is the lack of skilled workers, not production equipment. According to our plan, we will be able to produce about 150 trucks a day by the end of this year, and our production capacity is expected to exceed 400 trucks a day by the end of next year. Of course, by that time, the 10-ton heavy-duty truck developed by our factory may be put into production."

"Then according to what you said, by the end of the year your factory's production capacity should surpass the First Automobile Works in Northeast China, right?"

He Yuzhu smiled slightly and said modestly: "According to our plan, by the end of the year, our factory should produce about 500 vehicles per day of various types. In terms of overall production capacity, it has surpassed the First Automobile Manufacturing Plant in Northeast China. However, in terms of truck production, we are still a small brother in front of the First Automobile Manufacturing Plant in Northeast China."

"Oh, right! I suddenly remembered that you currently receive a certain number of orders from Hong Kong every month. So how many cars can you export to Hong Kong every month?"

"We receive orders from Hong Kong for about 120 vehicles a month, including trucks, SUVs and sedans. However, whether we can further expand our exports in the future depends on whether my father-in-law in Hong Kong can successfully develop the Southeast Asian market. If he can successfully open up sales channels in several Southeast Asian countries, we expect monthly exports to see another round of growth."