Chapter 163

They went to the iron factory together.

The factory is located in the suburb of Taiqing city. It is also a collective enterprise, belonging to a local town.

It is said that it was a capitalist factory before liberation and was nationalized after liberation.

However, because the small products of the factory were single, and Taiqing later gradually became a big industrial city, this small industrial product was gradually ignored by the state and returned to the local town government.

However, after the difficult period of the 1960s and 1970s, this kind of iron had almost no market. It was just kept alive and maintained the wages of several workers. Now even this salary can hardly be maintained.

When they went to the iron factory, they found that the factory was still large, with thousands of square meters. However, the factory was old, but it was a brick house, so it was still solid, and the inside was clean.

It is said that there are more than 30 people, but only a few are seen, basically in the state of shutdown.

There are still two production lines and some sporadic materials in the factory.

They asked the workers and went to the office to find Zou Zhengxing, the current director of the iron factory.

"What can I do for you?" Zou Zhengxing asked.

"Hello, Director Zou!" Guo Xiang walked over and smiled and stretched out his hand. "Well, we want to run a factory. We are looking for a suitable factory. We think it's good. I don't know what's going on in your factory now?"

Zou Zhengxing shook hands with Guo Xiang and Lin Guangrong, "sit down!"

"Our factory is dead." Zou Zhengxing shook his head. "I'm afraid I can't drive."

"So what? Just close it? " Asked Guo Xiang.

"Aren't they all beginning to reform now? Don't you have a factory? " Lin Guangrong asked.

"We want to change it, but no one wants it." Zou Zhengxing looked sad.

"What did the government say?" Asked Guo Xiang.

"Our factory is a collective enterprise. There are two main ways to restructure. One is to convert the enterprise assets into individual shares of employees and reorganize and transform it into a joint-stock cooperative company. The second is to sell them all to individuals and turn them into private enterprises. "

"But no matter which one, it won't work, because no one wants it. Our staff and workers dare not invest. They are afraid that the money will be sold to individuals, and no one will buy it. Now they are neither dead nor alive, and I don't know what to do. " Zou Zhengxing sighed.

Guo Xiang's eyes are bright. He can sell it. That's better. Let alone others. The plant land alone will be worth a lot of money in the future.

"If it is sold, how much does the government intend to sell?" Asked Guo Xiang.

"I really don't know that." Zou Zhengxing shook his head. "Why don't I call the government's Structural Reform Commission? Do you want to buy? "

"If you have this intention, of course, it depends on how much you sell. If the price is not appropriate, we don't want it." Guo Xiang smiled. Of course, he can't show eagerness. It will only make people raise the price.

"OK, I'll call first." Zou Zhengxing said.

On the phone, Guo Xiang only heard Zou Zhengxing's vague hum answer. He didn't seem to say anything specific.

"That's right..." Zou Zhengxing hung up. "The people over there said they wanted to talk to you specifically. Do you have time?"

"OK." Guo Xiang nodded. Enterprise restructuring is not a small matter. Of course, it needs to be discussed.

At the town government's Structural Reform Commission, a comrade named Zhang Hua received the three people.

"I heard that the iron factory is being restructured. I don't know how to sell it to individuals?" Guo Xiang asked directly.

"What do you want? What do you want to do? " Zhang Hua asked.

"We want to set up a small household electrical appliance factory. We can't find a suitable factory. To be honest, your factory can still use the factory. Those old equipment that can't be used are too outdated." Guo Xiang shook his head.

Zhang Hua didn't deny it. Naturally, they were very clear about this situation. At the beginning of the restructuring, they first listed the iron factory, but no one invested in it.

"If you buy, can the workers accept it?" Zhang Hua asked.

In fact, this is their biggest headache. Originally, the factory was closed when it lost money, but there are still dozens of workers who make trouble when they have no food, and they have no place to settle. They have to drag all the time, which has become a big problem.

What did Lin Guangrong just want to say? Guo Xiang gave him a look and said, "if the factory sells it to us, of course we want to recruit workers ourselves, but if the former workers are willing to come to our factory, we are also welcome. After all, we also need to hire people, aren't we?"

"However, the former workers are likely to be mixed. We can't accept them all. We must screen them, so we can't fully agree." Guo Xiang said.

Zhang Hua nodded. He also understood that this factory was originally a collective enterprise, not a state-owned factory. Some of them were affiliated households. They certainly didn't work so actively. If they were sold to individuals, others would not want those who are lazy. He can understand this.

"In this way, there are 32 people in the factory, including the factory director. If you can accept more than 20, the price is easy to discuss." Zhang Hua said.

After all, the factory is no longer working. If it can be sold, it will be more expensive. If the factory is broken again in the future, no one will want it.

"20 people?" Guo Xiang mused that there are only more than 30 people in a factory. It is impossible that more than half of them are bad. This number is acceptable.

"This can be considered. If I accept these 20 people, we will pay their social security in the future, and we won't take care of others." Guo Xiang said.

"That's nature." Zhang Hua nodded, "you wait a minute. I'll discuss it with the leaders."

Then he left the office.

Zou Zhengxing seemed to have some eyebrows and could not help asking, "do you really want to buy it?"

"Look at the price." Guo Xiang said, "but it's true that we want to set up a factory. If the price is too high, we don't buy it. After all, we have to cost to set up a factory. It's not cost-effective if the price is too high."

"If you buy it, can I stay?" Zou Zhengxing asked a little worried.

Guo Xiang and Lin Guangrong looked at each other. If they wanted to accept some workers, of course, it would be better to have an original factory director, but they were worried that if the workers listened too much to the original factory director, it would be difficult to manage if they didn't listen to them at that time.

"Well, Director Zou, when we buy the factory, we'll discuss it together. Of course, I hope you can stay if you can." Guo Xiang said.

After all, he still has experience as a factory director for so many years. There are generally two reasons why he didn't leave. One is that he can't do it originally, and the other is that he can't drill camp.

If you can't drill camp, that's good. It shows that the factory director is honest and can be used.

If he is incompetent, he is not afraid. Just give him a job to take care of the workers. I'm afraid he's the kind of person who likes to abuse power for personal gain and be close to others. Isn't the factory in his hands making trouble for himself?

Zou Zhengxing was happy and nervous when he saw that Guo Xiang didn't say die.

After a while, Zhang Hua came back. The reason why he was so fast was that the factory was originally subordinate to the town government, and there was no need to report it. The leaders made a decision.