Chapter 2602

This was a vicious cycle. By now, the Shanghai Machinery Factory had completely fallen into difficulty and was hard to break free from.

Speaking of this, Xiao Minggui said with some shame, "The factory has fallen into difficulty, and we, the factory leaders, bear an inescapable responsibility. We have fallen behind in management methods and in technological innovation, which is why we have caused the current situation."

Su Xinghui nodded slightly and said, "Then how do you plan to solve the factory's difficulties now?"

Xiao Minggui said, "Now the factory's orders are insufficient. We are trying every possible way to find more sales channels, striving to fill the factory's production capacity. However, for the time being, this is very difficult because the factory's technology cannot be immediately raised to the international advanced level, and we have no advantage when competing with those strong machinery manufacturing countries."

"Now the factory's capacity utilization rate is not high, many pieces of equipment are idle, which causes a great waste, and most of the workers have nothing to do, which also brings a heavy burden to the factory. Therefore, we plan to lay off some workers."

Speaking of this, the expressions of Xiao Minggui and the other factory leaders were not very good, very solemn, and Su Xinghui's expression also turned solemn.

Laying off workers was not good news for a factory. It indicated that the factory's situation was not good, and this was also the shame of the factory leaders. It showed that they were at their wits' end and could only sacrifice the workers to let the factory walk out of the difficulty.

For Su Xinghui, the word "layoff" also made him very unhappy. Why was it always the ordinary workers who had to be laid off?

These workers had worked for the factory for over ten years or even decades, dedicating their youth and blood to the factory. Yet, when the state-owned enterprise fell into difficulty, they were the first to be sacrificed.

For the enterprise and the country, laid-off workers were just cold numbers, but for the laid-off workers themselves, being laid off meant losing everything.

There was a saying that although layoffs would bring temporary difficulties to some employees, fundamentally speaking, this was a problem in the process of moving forward and would be conducive to economic development and comprehensive social progress.

However, Su Xinghui wanted to say that this was a shameful statement, caused by the incompetence of the leaders. He knew how much pain and disaster the wave of layoffs had brought to how many worker families.

Between 1998 and 2000, 20 million workers in China's state-owned enterprises were laid off. How much social unrest had this caused?

However, Su Xinghui also knew that for these state-owned enterprises, laying off workers was also a helpless thing, and this was not something that could be shifted by human will.

Although Su Xinghui could reduce the number of laid-off workers through his own power, like what he did at the Yanfang Group, 20 million laid-off workers was a number that was simply too huge. Relying on Su Xinghui's own strength, it was impossible to completely eliminate it.

Therefore, Su Xinghui could only accept this result. He asked, "Then you must do a good job in the ideological work of the laid-off workers." ===== CHAPTER 2604 =====