Chapter 295 Chess Game
Zhang Yunqi was right.

The day after the report was published in the Xiangnan Daily, Yang Jiarong asked his secretary to inform him to go to the Rongyue Hotel for a banquet at 6 o'clock in the evening, and asked Li Jilin to accompany him.

The huge success of the property rights restructuring of the Longjingyuan Cannery, although Liansheng and Zhang Yunqi were the biggest beneficiaries, no one could deny that this was a political achievement that brought glory to the Yang family.

In fact, ever since he made the decision to let Liansheng acquire Longjingyuan Cannery, he has been under tremendous pressure from all sides. After all, this is the first state-owned enterprise in the city to be privatized, and it is inevitable to be accused of "selling the father's land without feeling any pain". Only then did he feel relieved and let out a sigh of relief.

This young man Zhang Yunqi is very clear-minded.

Not only did he solve the two core issues of property rights reform, namely restructuring the huge legacy debts and relocating redundant staff, but he also separated production and sales, created a professional market operation team and established an interactive two-level dealer network, giving Longjingyuan a completely different vitality.

More importantly, he also used his practical actions to implement a set of overall solutions for the entire industrial chain of specialty agricultural products. The huge plan to build the Longjingyuan Industrial Park and the specialty agricultural products production base in Yunxi Village will revitalize many supporting industries in the city and lead tens of thousands of farmers to increase their income and get rid of poverty.

This also provided Yang Jiarong with a comprehensive and in-depth solution to the long-term loss problem of most state-owned enterprises in Jiangchuan City. He had previously asked Zhang Yunqi to provide a report on the property rights reform of Longjingyuan Cannery for this purpose.

More than two months ago, when Zhang Yunqi's report of more than ten thousand words was placed on Yang Jiarong's desk, he read it three times, pondered over it for an entire afternoon, and before leaving get off work, he solemnly called his old classmate who worked at the Provincial Development and Reform Commission and asked about several viewpoints in Zhang Yunqi's report.

After hanging up the phone, Yang Jiarong's face turned a little red.

He spent half the night personally revising some small details in the article, and wrote a report, which he submitted to the province along with Zhang Yunqi's article. Soon after, the report written by Lin Shiyu was published in the Xiangnan Daily.

All this seemed to be a natural outcome.

On that day, Zhang Yunqi, who had taken a day off, sorted out his thoughts at home before rushing to Rong Yue Hotel with Li Jilin. When they entered the room, Yang Jiarong was already sitting in the box. In addition to him, there were also Huo Jianzhong and Zhao Jianqiang, director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission.

Zhao Jianqiang is Zhao Chengming's biological father, and Zhang Yunqi knows him. To put it bluntly, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission is Yang Jiarong's second office, so it's not surprising that the director appeared at this drinking party.

Seeing Zhang Yunqi coming in, Yang Jiarong stood up and invited the two to sit down. Huo Jianzhong and Zhao Jianqiang did not dare to sit still.

Zhang Yunqi smiled and said, "I'm so sorry for being so late. I'll drink three cups as punishment later."

Yang Jiarong glanced at the time and smiled, "Mr. Zhang is still very punctual. He arrives on time. People who run businesses are all self-disciplined and have a strong sense of time. I just don't know if Mr. Zhang handed in the homework assigned by the teacher on time."

Everyone laughed at this sentence.

Everyone sat down, the waiter served the food, and halfway through the drinking party, the light-hearted topic that was used to lighten the atmosphere turned to the main topic of the day.

Yang Jiarong said: "Today's meal is specially prepared to learn from Mr. Zhang. Although you are young, you still have experience and ideas in revitalizing the factory. District Chief Huo should feel this the most deeply."

Huo Jianzhong forced a smile on his dark face: "That's right. From the time Liansheng took over the canning factory to now, I have personally witnessed how this bankrupt factory has been reborn step by step under the leadership of Mr. Zhang. If we can learn from the Liansheng model, perhaps those poorly managed state-owned enterprises in the city can also be boosted. Come, Mr. Zhang, I'll toast you a glass."

When Zhang Yunqi heard this, he knew that Huo Jianzhong was also blind and had no idea about Yang Jiarong's deeper thoughts. He raised his glass and drank a toast with Huo Jianzhong, then smiled and said, "The key point of the Liansheng model is the separation of production and sales. The sales model is easy to copy with professional talents. The core is the establishment of corporate management system, marketing strategy and distribution system. However, on the production side, our entire set of solutions to reduce product costs and standardize the raw material supply chain is based on the Yunxi Village Joint-Stock Cooperative. Even in the canned food industry, it is difficult to promote it widely because the cost is too high."

Zhao Jianqiang thought for a moment and continued, "There are more than 40 canning factories in the city, large and small. Most of them are poorly managed and have backward production capacity. Now Longjingyuan has emerged. Whether it is product quality, taste, appearance, design, or price and marketing methods, it is far superior to them. This has further compressed their living space. All of them are in a half-dead state. Mr. Zhang, in your opinion, if the Liansheng model cannot be copied mechanically, how can the city revitalize these canning factories?"

Zhang Yunqi said: "My solution is to have Liansheng contract and operate the canneries in the city on a large scale. We will use Longjingyuan's raw material production base and supply chain advantages in Yunxi Village to unify raw material standards and reduce procurement costs. We will then use Liansheng's distribution system to unify sales channels and reduce sales costs. As long as these two points are achieved, I think most canneries can achieve profitability, and then selectively carry out technical transformation and mergers. Of course, even if some canneries fail in operation and go bankrupt, they are all canneries. Liansheng is fully capable of absorbing redundant staff, relocating employees, and avoiding risks."

Zhao Jianqiang couldn't help but exclaim after hearing this: "That's amazing, Mr. Zhang. I don't know how many workers on the verge of being laid off will be saved by your plan."

Yang Jiarong also said: "As long as the Longjingyuan Industrial Park is completed and Liansheng is willing to implement this plan, the city will strongly support it."

After a pause, he continued, "Of course, this is only for the canned food industry. It has been expanded to the entire city's state-owned enterprise property rights reform. In your report, you mentioned that you would reform the state-owned enterprises by setting up a state-owned holding company. I would like to hear your specific ideas."

Zhang Yunqi proposed to reform the state-owned enterprises by setting up state-owned holding companies. This model has been the mainstream reform method of local government state-owned enterprises since 98. Now, very few people adopt this model. Its biggest advantage is to prevent the loss of state-owned assets in advantageous industries and curb the blind development of commercial real estate in local areas.

In a sense, Zhang Yunqi is now considered a capitalist. He certainly knows that seizing land through property rights reform is one of the shortcuts to getting rich, but the problem is that real reform should benefit the vast majority of people, especially the disadvantaged groups in society, rather than allowing a very small number of people to get rich overnight.

However, is this possible?

If we ask ourselves honestly, Zhang Yunqi himself is also a beneficiary of this gluttonous feast. It's just that he disdains to acquire land or adopt the method of purchasing, mortgaging, splitting and reselling to become a billionaire.

It is inevitable to get rich in this life, but if you dirty your feathers, people will poke holes in your spine for the rest of your life.

He did his best to revitalize the cannery, develop industry, create a series of Jiangchuan City specialty products, give generous resettlement allowances to laid-off workers, lead the people of his hometown out of poverty and become rich, and avoid getting himself tarnished on this sensitive issue. But would others do the same?

What bullshit.

Not everyone has the capital and advantages like Zhang Yunqi, and not everyone has a clear understanding of the future.

In the process of property rights reform of state-owned enterprises, the only way to limit the large-scale outflow of state-owned capital as much as possible is through institutional constraints.

Zhang Yunqi told Yang Jiarong: "The state-owned holding company I proposed is actually a company like Liansheng. The property rights will be taken over by the municipal and district enterprises through mixed ownership reform. The principle is to focus on large enterprises and let go of small ones, and to adapt to local conditions. In the specific management and operation of the taken-over enterprises, market-oriented entities can be introduced to operate them according to specific circumstances. Once several enterprises are revitalized, the factory sites can be gradually relocated, and the municipal government will then firmly control the city's high-quality land resources."

Zhang Yunqi continued, "Of course, the purpose of doing this is not only to avoid blind development of commercial real estate, but more importantly, to maximize the value of land while avoiding blind development of commercial real estate. For example, various professional markets can be developed according to local conditions, such as food courts, clothing markets, home furnishing and building materials markets, etc., thereby driving the city's real economy. By then, the assets of state-owned holding companies will grow rapidly. Even if some of the previous subsidiaries fail in operation, the city will be able to turn its guns around and clean up the mess."

"Good." Yang Jiarong slammed the table. In fact, he had learned about this property rights reform model from Zhang Yunqi's report materials, and even analyzed it carefully. But now, listening to this young man talk about it in more detail, he still seemed a little excited.

From the perspective of the entire city, this is undoubtedly a bold, enterprising and huge plan for him.

(End of this chapter)