Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

When he stepped into Zhang Zili's office, Lin Qi sat down gently on the chair. He Yuzhu slowly said, "Chief Lin, I have been thinking about this. Do you think we should consider setting up a branch factory in Xiyu Province? It is specially used to produce agricultural machinery for Xiyu Province!"

Hearing this, Lin Qi couldn't help but frowned and asked in confusion, "Director He, what exactly are the agricultural machinery dedicated to the Western Region Province that you are talking about?"

He Yuzhu nodded slightly and explained, "Chief Lin, the Western Region Province is different from our inland areas. The arable land here is vast and boundless! Therefore, if we want to achieve efficient sowing and harvesting operations here, we have to use larger agricultural machinery. Take our current farm for example, it has more than 500,000 mu of arable land!"

"Just talking about the cultivated land area this time, it is much larger than several communes in the mainland combined! However, the population here is relatively small. If there were no professional agricultural machinery developed specifically for the characteristics of cultivated land in the Western Region Province, it would be difficult to complete large-scale farming tasks efficiently!"

"Today's farms are able to successfully complete heavy farming tasks largely due to the large-scale investment in various advanced agricultural machinery. However, although this method has improved production efficiency, it has also brought about the problem of increased labor demand."

"Take the combine harvesters manufactured by our machinery factory as an example. If a commune in the interior purchases 20 to 30 of them, it can basically quickly complete the wheat harvesting work within the commune."

"But you have to know that our farm has 50 acres of wheat! According to the usual wheat harvest period of about 7 days, this means that the farm must harvest all 7 acres of wheat in just 50 days."

"If each combine harvester can only harvest 150 acres a day, then in order to complete this arduous task on time, at least 500 combine harvesters will be needed!"

"If we can successfully develop and manufacture a combine harvester that can harvest up to 500 acres a day, the number of combine harvesters that farms need to purchase will be reduced by nearly two-thirds! Imagine how much money and labor costs this will save the farm!"

He paused, and then continued, "Besides, these agricultural machines are basically only suitable for sparsely populated areas like Western Region Province. As for the communes in the inland provinces, the equipment currently produced by our machinery manufacturing plant can fully meet their needs. In addition, the same is true for cotton pickers. Only the unique climatic conditions in Western Region Province can achieve mechanized cotton picking in the country, so I am considering whether to build a branch factory here."

"Director He, I now completely understand what you mean. The issues you just mentioned are indeed very critical and must be seriously considered! Take the current industrial situation in Western Region Province as an example. It is really difficult to set up an agricultural machinery manufacturing plant here."

"You know, a complete agricultural machinery manufacturing plant does not exist in isolation. It relies on the support of many supporting factories. If all the parts have to be shipped all the way from the inland, how high will the transportation cost be? The production efficiency may be even lower than shipping the finished products directly from the old city!"

"Besides, if you want to build such an agricultural machinery manufacturing plant, the investment required is an astronomical figure, and a large number of professionals are also indispensable. Our existing machinery manufacturing plant alone does not have the strength to handle all of this."

"So in my opinion, instead of going to such great lengths to apply for special funds from the state to build a new factory, it would be better to directly submit a report to apply for funds to expand the scale of the agricultural machinery workshop that already exists within our machinery factory."

"After the products are manufactured in the future, they will be transported to the Western Region Province by rail. Think about it, agricultural machinery is usually only used during specific time periods, and is actually idle most of the year. In this way, we have enough time to slowly organize production. As long as we can ensure timely and sufficient delivery and avoid unnecessary waste of resources, isn't it the best of both worlds?"