Wang Jinyu's "wildly imaginative" merger feat should never have been able to succeed, but with Director Chen's support, it had withstood enormous pressure and reached this final critical moment.
During this process, who knew how many people had voiced opposition? Zhuancheng Motor Vehicle Factory was not a loss-making enterprise. Its annual profit was close to a million, making it a fairly decent unit in a small place like Zhuancheng.
Yet no matter how much opposition they encountered, Director Chen and Wang Jinyu would always ask the other side a few questions.
"How are you going to develop and grow stronger? Where does our future lie?"
To develop and grow stronger, they needed technology. If an automobile factory had no innovative technology, it could not survive.
But national resources were limited now, and all kinds of technical support were allocated first to several key backbone enterprises. Who still had the capacity to care about a small unit like Zhuancheng Motor Vehicle Factory?
Wang Jinyu had tried every possible method.
First, he sought out university experts, but they had no time to provide him with technical guidance. Then he went to First Automobile Works and the second automobile works, but they looked down on dirt clods like them even more.
Over the past two years, the factory had finally managed to get two university graduates assigned to it. They had hoped to rely on themselves, but those two boys had no interest in research at all. Instead, they racked their brains trying to get transferred away, wanting to make a break for the "big cities."
After all that fussing about, it was like drawing water with a bamboo basket—empty in the end.
Without prospects for development, the banks did not dare provide loans either, or it would become another bad debt.
So