The Fiery Era: Becoming an Industrial Giant

Chapter 89 Instructing the New Deputy Section Chief on How to Get Familiar with the Factory [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

After finishing his meal and returning to the technical department, Lü Yi began packing his things.

I've taken most of what I needed to take before, and this is the final step—completely packing up all my miscellaneous tasks.

After finishing, Lü Yi handed a set of keys to Zhou Zhiqiang and said, "Zhiqiang, this office is yours from now on."

After taking the keys, Zhou Zhiqiang jokingly said with a smile, "Alright, Brother Lü, you're already reminiscing about a small office. If we really asked you to stay, you definitely wouldn't want to."

"you boy"

After hearing this, Lü Yi chuckled to himself. He was indeed eager for Gao Sheng to leave.

After Zhou Zhiqiang moved his own things in, he tidied up the bookshelves and drawers. After doing a rough tidying up, it was almost time for the afternoon meeting to continue.

The two then walked together toward the factory's conference room.

The afternoon discussion revolved around the issues that weren't finished in the morning: the production schedule for the second half of the year.

The factory has now been transformed into Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Equipment Factory, and its production tasks have also changed; from processing mechanical parts to producing core equipment and parts for small tractors.

In August, the factory will recruit its first batch of workers, a total of 800 apprentices.

The second batch will be in May next year, with an estimated 800 people, and a third batch the year after.

In short, the goal is to maximize the factory's production efficiency within three years; new factory buildings and machine tools will also be built and brought into the factory one after another.

In short, the factory will work hard for the next three years, and Director Zhao even publicly declared that the annual production of small tractors in the factory will exceed 10,000 units in three years.

This is a huge challenge. Three years later, the factory will have only three thousand employees, and even including the branch factories, the total will not exceed six thousand. Moreover, many of them will be apprentices who have not completed three years of training.

When Zhou Zhiqiang heard this boast, he felt it sounded a bit like bragging.

However, it's not impossible, but the hope is a bit slim. We need to put more effort into the production process, provide more training, and have people come in overtime every now and then. It might be possible to achieve this in three years.

After discussing the production tasks for the second half of the year and some reforms within the factory, Secretary Yan and Factory Director Zhao adjourned the meeting.

Zhou Zhiqiang sighed inwardly and prepared to get up and return to the technical department, but as soon as he stepped out of the conference room, he heard someone call out to him from behind: "Section Chief Zhou."

Looking back, Zhou Zhiqiang saw that it was Chen Li who had called him. He waited for Chen Li to get closer before speaking, "Deputy Section Chief Chen, let's go back to the Technical Section together? We need to have a small meeting in the Technical Section."

Chen Li said in a flat tone, "That's what I was thinking too, Section Chief Zhou. Before I start working, I want to get to know the people and understand the work of our technical department."

"That's easy. I'll explain it to you in a bit. Let's go back to the technical department first."

Zhou Zhiqiang said with a smile, then stepped forward halfway to lead the way: "Deputy Section Chief Chen looks very young, is he also a university graduate?"

Chen Li nodded and said, "I graduated from Yenching University two years ago. I was previously in the Ministry of Machine Building."

"I graduated from an industrial university, and it's been almost exactly two years now."

Chen Li's situation was similar to what he had imagined. If she wasn't even a college graduate, she wouldn't have been promoted so easily.

The two chatted as they made their way to the technical department, and soon arrived at the technical department office.

Even at such a short distance, Zhou Zhiqiang had enough time to ask many questions.

Chen Li previously worked in the Ministry of Machinery Industry, responsible for reviewing external technology imports, so she had some connection to the technical department. It's hard to say what kind of person she was, but she was definitely aloof and somewhat arrogant at heart.

After entering the technical section, Zhou Zhiqiang clapped twice to attract everyone's attention, and then announced: "Comrades, I have an announcement to make. This lady next to me is Comrade Chen Li. From today onwards, Comrade Chen Li will also be the deputy head of our technical section."

Let's all introduce ourselves first, so that Deputy Section Chief Chen can get to know everyone.

“Section Chief, I’ll go first.” Zhao Jiabao was the first to step forward and said, “Deputy Section Chief Chen, my name is Zhao Jiabao. I am a Level 15 technician in the Technical Section, and I am currently responsible for the operation training and process production guidance of the new machine tools in Workshops 5 to 7.”

"Deputy Section Chief Chen, I am Li Shun, a level 15 technician, currently responsible for process guidance in the assembly workshop."

"Deputy Section Chief Chen, this is Pang Guolong."

The technical department is mostly staffed by young male technicians, with only one female technician. Now that they have finally met a beautiful and aloof female colleague, how could they not be overjoyed?

Although she was a deputy section chief, she was beautiful.

Zhou Zhiqiang noticed the secret smugness among his men, but he didn't intend to interfere.

He doesn't interfere with personal matters as long as they don't affect the technical department's tasks.

After everyone had finished introducing themselves, Zhou Zhiqiang said, "Deputy Section Chief Chen, the maintenance team is also managed by our technical department, but three of them have gone on field missions with Ping Yanchang. I'll take you to meet the maintenance team later."

Our technical department's main tasks are the production of small tractors, the modification and training of new machine tools, and the guidance of assembly processes.

"You should familiarize yourself with the factory first. Once you're done, we can discuss the division of labor, Zhao Jiabao. If you're free, take Deputy Section Chief Chen around the factory to get familiar with the work of the technical department."

Zhou Zhiqiang paused for a moment, then continued, "It seems that Deputy Section Chief Chen hasn't received his meal ticket yet, so please help him out; Deputy Section Chief Chen, come to my office after you've finished your tour."

He still has a lot of things to organize. He spent almost the entire day in meetings today, and he still has to organize things, which is practically equivalent to not doing any work all day.

But Zhou Zhiqiang already had a lot of tasks, and because his wife was pregnant, he rarely worked overtime and left almost immediately, having to complete his work at the factory every day.

If he doesn't work for a day, the backlog of tasks might take him two days to finish. This weekend, Zhou Zhiqiang will be working overtime at home for a while again.

After Chen Li was taken to learn about the work of the factory's technical department, Zhou Zhiqiang returned to his office to organize his things.

In fact, the fact that Dafeng Machinery Factory didn't change its name to Dafeng Tractor Factory is somewhat related to him.

At the time, Sheng, a leader from the Ministry of Machinery Industry, asked about the future name of the factory at the dinner table. Zhou Zhiqiang said that Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Equipment Factory was better, because their factory would definitely develop and produce other agricultural machinery equipment in the future. Calling it Tractor Factory would seem too simplistic.

In the future, their factory will definitely be a comprehensive agricultural machinery equipment manufacturing plant, involving various agricultural machinery and equipment.

After listening, Leader Sheng smiled and praised Zhou Zhiqiang for his ambition, and the name Dafeng Agricultural Machinery Equipment Factory was subsequently finalized.

Zhou Zhiqiang is now also planning the research and development and production of other agricultural machinery and equipment, such as seeders, rice transplanters and boat tillers.

After their factory produces agricultural machinery that meets domestic farming needs, they can also develop agricultural machinery that is needed abroad, thus earning foreign exchange through exports.

Zhou Zhiqiang felt he could do it. With the help of the research and analysis team, there was absolutely no technical difficulty that could stump him, and he could also try his best to overcome the objective production challenges!

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)