Chapter 125: Flowers Lift Flowers

Looking at the light emitted by the lighter, Zhang Xiaocheng thought for a while and said, "Are you saying let the component factory build a lighter manufacturing factory?"

"One?!"

Li Dongling smiled, extinguished the lighter, threw a handful of bait into the water, and then turned his head to say to Zhang Xiaocheng, "If it were just a small workshop, why would I invite Factory Director Zhang over today!"

Zhang Xiaocheng opened his mouth. It is not that there are no people making lighters in the country now. There are quite a few small companies doing it in Qianjiang Province, but most of them are counterfeit Japanese lighters. The best ones are just doing substitute processing for Japanese lighter brands. As for launching their own lighter brands, domestic companies have not done it yet, or dare not.

Speaking of which, Dongling High-Tech is definitely an outlier in the domestic tech industry. It has always been doing its own R&D. Most other companies are following behind foreign manufacturers, or thinking about doing substitute processing for the other party. As for competing with foreign brands, except for Shenzhou, there is no second company!

"If it is substitute processing for Japanese and Korean lighter manufacturers, the component factory's technology may not meet the standards..."

Zhang Xiaocheng said worriedly. Japanese companies' requirements for substitute processing companies are "extraordinarily" strict, famously strict with others and lenient with themselves, beautifully called having the spirit of a craftsman to ensure quality.

But no matter how the quality of products produced by Japanese local companies is, what problems with airbags, seat belts, special steel, etc., the standards for doing substitute processing for Japanese companies now are indeed famously strict in the domestic substitute processing industry.

So much so that it created the myth that Japanese-made toilets are better than those in other places, and also created the myth that the water cleaned by Japanese toilets can be drunk. This myth is completely comparable to the famous sewer myth in Qingdao. In the sewer built by Germany in Qingdao, spare parts wrapped in oil paper were placed, which can be used to repair the sewer. Then, it was a heavy rain that flooded Bavaria, Saxony, and other places in Germany...

But no matter whether these news reports, which are treated as popular science by countless newspapers and magazines, are true or false, a scene of traveling to Japan to buy toilets has been set off for a time.

"Why do substitute processing for Japanese companies?!"

Li Dongling asked back. Zhang Xiaocheng was speechless. His thinking could not keep up with Li Dongling. After a while, he stuttered and asked Li Dongling, "Are you saying, compete with Japanese lighter manufacturers?!"

Li Dongling glanced at him, took out a map of Pingyang city, and drew a circle in the place of Shangguan Town, "If you want to do it, you have to do it toward the position of the industry leader. Even if you can't do it, you have to have this goal!"

When saying this, Zhang Xiaocheng suddenly felt an aura of "if I don't go, who will" appear on Li Dongling, which was almost completely different from the usual Li Dongling.

"How many smokers are there in the world, how many places need to use lighters, and how many lighters are consumed every year?"

After Li Dongling finished asking, he didn't expect Zhang Xiaocheng to answer and said directly, "At least 1 billion smokers. If it is a disposable lighter, then at least 15 billion are needed every year!"

The profit of lighters is not high, but if this industry is done to the extreme, establishing a full industrial chain, controlling costs, and creating an industrial cluster, it can also become a hen that lays golden eggs with stable profits. Others want to snatch it away, but they can't. It's like Coca-Cola. Whoever fights a price war with it can't win. Extreme cost brings extreme benefits. The cake is right there, but no one can snatch it away!

And this industry has two major advantages. The first advantage is, of course, providing a large number of employment positions. At least it can provide 50,000, 80,000, or even more employment positions. In the current domestic employment environment, what does the appearance of such a project mean?!

In addition, under extreme cost control, lighters have the qualification to go to sea and compete with foreign lighter brands. Now Japan and Korea are the main players in lighters. A lighter produced in Japan sells for over 4 US dollars overseas, and when it arrives in Yangcheng, the price exceeds 10 US dollars, and when it arrives in inland cities like Hanxi, the price directly soars to over 300 yuan. If the lighter industry in Pingyang can develop, it can basically roll the lighter industry in Japan and Korea to death.

Such an industry that can provide a large number of employment positions and possibly earn foreign exchange, for the leaders from Pingyang to Hanxi, and then to the Yanjing Economic and Trade Commission and the Foreign Exchange Department, who wouldn't like it?!

Zhang Xiaocheng listened dumbfounded, looking at the circle Li Dongling drew around Shangguan Town, which almost wrapped the entire Shangguan Town in it.

After a long while, Zhang Xiaocheng asked Li Dongling with a numb scalp, "Does Dongling High-Tech really support the component factory entering the lighter industry?!"

"Not just because of the Shangguan Town Component Factory!"

Li Dongling looked back at the calm water surface and said softly.

Humans are gregarious creatures and need to live in society. The same is true for a company. Dongling High-Tech has earned some foreign exchange now, allowing the Pingyang Municipal Government and Hanxi Provincial Government to get a lot of political achievements, but its relationship with departments and units like the Yanjing Economic and Trade Commission, the Machinery Industry Department, and the Foreign Exchange Department is not particularly close.

Dongling High-Tech and these departments are also in a state of meeting by chance. Not to mention letting those departments in Yanjing support Dongling High-Tech, at least they cannot oppose it. When there is a common interest bond like the lighter industrial cluster, those people and units naturally stand on Dongling High-Tech's side!

"Dongling High-Tech hopes to cooperate with the Shangguan Town Component Factory to establish a new 'Torch' company. The Shangguan Town Component Factory will be merged into this new company, and some other investors will be introduced.

Centering on the Torch Group, establish a lighter industrial cluster, and establish the entire industrial chain needed for lighters, such as ignition cores, core sleeves, sponges, electronic devices, fire outlet sealing rings, air valves, printing, packaging materials, electroplating and spray painting, etc., all in Shangguan Town. The components needed for lighters must all be available in Shangguan Town within half an hour. No one can snatch this industry away from Shangguan Town!"

Li Dongling pointed to the map and said to Zhang Xiaocheng. Zhang Xiaocheng listened and also tasted the flavor. Such a large project, the early investment is at least calculated in hundreds of millions. With such a big move, Li Dongling is definitely not just to help his component factory, otherwise, there is no need to spend so much effort.

Driving away all the messy thoughts in his brain, Zhang Xiaocheng knew that no matter what Li Dongling's purpose was, this was the opportunity for the component factory, and it was the only opportunity!

If this matter were not proposed by Li Dongling, but said by Zhang Xiaocheng, it is estimated that no one would believe his words at all. But coming from Li Dongling's mouth, and operated by Dongling High-Tech, the meaning is completely different.

Now, not to mention Pingyang, even some departments in Hanxi Provincial Government and Yanjing will not underestimate the projects proposed by Dongling High-Tech. Who let Dongling High-Tech earn foreign exchange? In this era, companies that can earn foreign exchange and pay taxes are treated as protected animals from Yanjing to the local level!

"No matter how Dongling High-Tech wants to do it, I, Old Zhang, and the component factory absolutely support it!"

Zhang Xiaocheng patted his chest to express his attitude to Li Dongling, with a posture of following Li Dongling's lead. Zhang Xiaocheng had no psychological burden to cooperate with Li Dongling. During the satellite dish time, he had already experienced it. The entire satellite dish was basically operated by Li Dongling. Zhang Xiaocheng didn't need to use his brain, and the component factory made a lot of money.

Other factories want to say they are merging the component factory, Zhang Xiaocheng is definitely not happy. The component factory is not prosperous now, but the huge income earned by the satellite dish before is all lying on the component factory's account. Other factories acquiring the component factory are eyeing the component factory's old capital.

But merging into the newly established Torch Group, Zhang Xiaocheng had no psychological pressure, and even felt that the component factory might have taken advantage. This project, if Li Dongling finds any township enterprise in Hanxi, it is not welcomed with open arms, begging Dongling High-Tech to cooperate.

"I am having people formulate a plan. Tomorrow, departments from Yanjing are coming to inspect. Brother Zhang, go with me to see them!"

Li Dongling said, and Zhang Xiaocheng directly agreed. He had a premonition that he was used as a tool man for this matter, but Zhang Xiaocheng was willing to be used. Others want to be Dongling High-Tech's tool men, but they don't have this opportunity yet.

A large row of motorcades drove into the streets of Changqing Road in Pingyang in a mighty way, led by a license plate from the provincial capital of Hanxi.

In front of the Dongling High-Tech headquarters building, a large group of people also gathered, led by Luo Junwu and Yao Zhengru of the Pingyang Municipal Government, and Li Dongling was also in the crowd.

"This time, the people from Yanjing came too suddenly, and there was no wind at all. The provincial capital also didn't find out any news!"

Yao Zhengru talked to Li Dongling in a low voice. As for the eyes of others, he didn't care. Yao Luoying's affairs at Dongling High-Tech are not hard to find out. Even if he avoids suspicion again, he can't stop various voices from appearing. It's better to show generously that the Yao family and Li Dongling have a deep relationship.

After speaking, Yao Zhengru saw Li Dongling's expression as usual, and suddenly a thought appeared in Yao Zhengru's mind, and he couldn't help but ask Li Dongling, "Did Dongling High-Tech do something?!"

A large part of Dongling High-Tech's business is overseas, dealing with overseas companies. Pingyang can't receive news about these things. Compared to Pingyang, the news in Yanjing about this part of the overseas situation is much more informed.

"Dongling High-Tech has some new business overseas, which is being adjusted!"

Li Dongling just said this to Yao Zhengru and didn't reveal too much, but for people like Yao Zhengru, this sentence is enough.

Yao Zhengru went over and whispered a few words in Luo Junwu's ear. Luo Junwu's face changed, and then he returned to normal, nodding toward Li Dongling's direction.

No matter what Dongling High-Tech did overseas, and what the people from Yanjing came to do, for Luo Junwu and the Pingyang Municipal Government, there is only one road to go, and that is to protect Dongling High-Tech. Expecting the Pingyang Municipal Government to drive away this big taxpayer is basically impossible. Luo Junwu and they can only support Dongling High-Tech!

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