In the past, whenever Light Vehicle Company hosted visiting leaders, they would basically head straight for First Branch Factory, because only First Branch Factory could make the big shots who came to visit "light up before their eyes."
But now, Ma Zhaoxian brought Wen Guohua and the others to the main factory, because after so many years of catching up, the main factory was now nearly on par with First Branch Factory in every respect.
"Leaders, this is the old factory of our Light Vehicle Company. At its most glorious peak before 1986, it once achieved the remarkable output of twenty thousand vehicles a year. But now, even fifty thousand vehicles a year is nothing worth mentioning.
"After renovating and upgrading the old factory, both our production equipment and production efficiency have reached the top domestic level. Even compared with renowned overseas automobile companies, we are no less capable."
When a man had something in his pocket, even his bragging carried confidence. Ma Zhaoxian's speech was half true and half false, laying on the praise for himself thick and fast.
To say that Light Vehicle Company was now first-rate domestically was not false. But to claim that it was no inferior to famous overseas companies was absolutely untrue.
Yet Wen Guohua and the others were quite interested in Ma Zhaoxian's self-praise. They lingered in the production area for a long time, carefully observing the workers' production processes.
Had this been one of those units that deliberately used "rehearsals" to deal with inspections, they would probably have begun sweating on the spot.
Production had to look like production. You could not possibly appear leisurely and idle, could you? But rehearsed bustle was false in the end. No matter how busy the workers pretended to be, it was still fake busyness, and