With the manpower of the two counties incorporated and a much larger area to work with, once the industrial restructuring was complete, marked progress had been made across the board.
In textile machinery production, two-thirds of the parts were sent to the other two counties for manufacturing, while Jinling handled the final high-difficulty, high-precision, high-requirement components, as well as final assembly. With the production chain expanded this way, output naturally rose dramatically.
In fact, Jinling's textile machinery had always been in short supply. Jingwei, which had been hit the hardest, was practically on fire. It had not paid much attention to Jinling before, but now it was beginning to employ some measures.
There was even less need to mention foreign competitors. By this point, their machinery could no longer compete with Jinling's. The technological gap was not that vast, but the difference in all kinds of performance data was gradually widening. And Jinling's prices were lower—how could foreign manufacturers fight that?
Jinling Machinery's goal was simple: before foreign competitors could start a price war with Jinling, Jinling would use its advantage to slash prices first. Jinling had lower costs and greater profit margins. Foreign manufacturers, however, had high costs and could not match Jinling's output. If they lowered their prices, it would severely damage their profitability and affect R&D investment. Give it three to five years, and they would basically be waiting to die.
Jinling intended to kill off foreign machinery manufacturers first.
Of course, the country was not yet fully open, and there was no true global trade yet. If this had been after the turn of the millennium, foreign textile machinery would have died even faster...
The same went for agricultural machinery production. There was even more need to expand production in this area, because labor needed to