Chapter 73 Export Quotas
"Platoon Leader Gao, has the factory announced this?"

Liang Baoguo asked again, seeming a little worried.

"Not yet. It will probably be announced tomorrow morning, and a red list will be posted on the bulletin board then." Gao Bo said.

"That's good!" Hearing this, Liang Baoguo finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to Gao Bo with a smile on his face: "Thank you for your help, Platoon Leader Gao. If it weren't for your recommendation, I would never have thought of participating in this event..."

"I am just doing my job. We will definitely provide all kinds of help to those good workers who work hard and conscientiously. As for those who are cunning and always want to get rich overnight, they will not be helped even if they have the chance!"

As Gao Bo spoke, his gaze turned to Xu Qiang, who was standing in the back row of the crowd, with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes.

Other people present also subconsciously looked at Xu Qiang, either with disdain or gloating. After all, everyone had seen with their own eyes the quarrel between Xu Qiang and Gao Bo over why he signed up for this event.

As for Xu Qiang at this time, after hearing Gao Bo announce the news, he actually didn't feel too much inside.

Because he also knew that the cost of his technical transformation plan would be very high, including the need to replace a lot of equipment and rearrange some pipelines, which would require hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars of funds to achieve. According to his understanding, most of the technical department of Shengli Machinery Factory are electronics majors, and there are no chemical experts. Even the technicians in the workshop are technical school students. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for them to invest such a large sum of money to carry out workshop transformation without the approval of relevant experts.

But no matter what, as a top chemical expert in his previous life, Xu Qiang has fulfilled his duties. As for what the factory leaders do, it is not something he, a rotation worker, can decide.

"Platoon Leader Gao..." After the squad meeting was over, Liang Baoguo grabbed Gao Bo.

"Lao Liang, what else?"

"Well, I would like to invite you and our Captain Sun to have a meal. Let's go to a restaurant..." Liang Baoguo said to Gao Bo in a low voice when he saw that there was no one around.

"Haha." Gao Bo smiled when he heard that, and then he continued, "It doesn't matter if we eat. My family is looking to buy some furniture recently. If you have time..."

"I'll make you two great sofas!"

"Hahaha, maybe you old comrades have a high level of consciousness and understand things immediately!" Gao Bo laughed and said, "But don't worry, I won't let you work in vain. I'll pay you as much as you need..."

"Hey, we are all friends, why do you want money? When my younger son gets married, I will invite you to the wedding." Liang Baoguo said with a smile.

Liang Baoguo can actually be considered an old hand in the workshop. He got the job in the factory through connections. He likes to cheat and act cunningly on weekdays, but because he always gives gifts and treats his superiors during festivals, he has always had a good relationship with his superiors. As a result, he has not done any heavy work over the years. Now he has become a warehouse keeper and his life is quite easy.

Although he would definitely charge for making sofas normally, he still calculated the account very carefully now. After all, a bonus of 800 yuan is not a small amount. Moreover, if the workshop director or the foreman speaks up for him and recommends him in the future, he might even become a model worker or something by the end of the year. Therefore, two sofas seem insignificant at this time.

"Okay, it's settled. I'll talk to our Captain Sun later. We'll go to a restaurant together after we get our bonuses. You go get busy."

"okay!"

Liang Baoguo heard this and left happily...

…At eight o'clock in the morning, Factory Director Liu Biao appeared in his office on time.

As usual, Liu Biao picked up the thermos and made a cup of tea. Although the water was not hot enough, he still poured a full cup.

"Bang bang bang!"

Half an hour later, with several knocks on the door, Secretary Wang Bo walked in with a freshly written red list in his hand and gently placed it on Liu Biao's desk.

The red list is used by factories to publicize happy events, such as the list of winners of an event, the list of model workers, etc. The corresponding white list is used to announce disciplinary decisions.

"Director Liu, Director Wang from the Propaganda Department has just written the list of winners for this year's military-to-civilian product collection activity. Please take a look. If there are no problems, he will immediately post it on the bulletin boards of each workshop."

"Okay, go to Tieba." After just a quick glance, he signaled Wang Bo that he could take it.

Liu Biao no longer has any interest in the factory's military-to-civilian product collection campaign. What he is thinking about now is how the factory can increase its efficiency.

Since his superiors wanted to reduce military orders and there was no hope for civilian products in the short term, Liu Biao's idea was to rely on the factory's advantages in military products and strive to open up foreign markets.

Although China's military industry lags far behind Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union, it still has a certain share of military exports every year. The export destinations are mainly third world countries, and the products are mainly Type 56 submachine guns, 40 rocket launchers, Type 63 rocket launchers and a large number of high explosives. These weapons are very suitable for the economy and national conditions of third world countries. At the same time, equipment for large-scale combat is also exported in large quantities.

In addition, at the beginning of this year, the Iran-Iraq War broke out between Iran and Iraq. The domestic military industry seized the opportunity and quickly exported cheap equipment to the two countries.

比如六九式坦克解放军一共装备了200辆，改进的七九式坦克也装备了不到500辆。但是向伊拉克出口的69-Ⅱ型坦克就达到了2860辆，坦克抢修车也有286辆。

The Iran-Iraq War earned a large amount of foreign exchange for China and supported many factories on the verge of bankruptcy, so that many third-tier enterprises in the country also wanted to get a piece of the pie.

The main products of Shengli Machinery Factory are Type 69 rocket launchers and various electronic artillery fuses, but if they want to expand into the international arms market, they must first obtain export quotas. The Fifth Industrial Machinery Department of the State is in charge of weapons export quotas. Since there are too many competing companies and the same products are produced by multiple manufacturers, the possibility of obtaining export quotas is very small from the current situation, unless the factory can develop new products that meet the requirements of foreign customers and are also competitive in China. Only in this way can it successfully obtain export quotas for related weapons.

Just as Liu Biao was lost in thought, the phone on the table suddenly rang.

"Old Liu, what are you busy with?"

"It's Deputy Director Gao!" Liu Biao was immediately refreshed when he heard the familiar voice on the other end of the phone, so he quickly said, "I just got to work, what can I do for you?"

The person who called Liu Biao was none other than Gao Zhiguo, deputy director of the Provincial Defense Industry Office, who had visited Shengli Machinery Factory last week.

"I want to congratulate you. A technical transformation plan for your factory's military-to-civilian conversion campaign has been certified as feasible by provincial experts. If you have time in the next two days, you can come to our place and bring the technician named Xu Qiang with you to discuss the implementation of the plan and the project funding..."

(End of this chapter)