4. Japan’s cost advantage is based on five aspects: low labor costs, low tariffs, low export taxes, low shipping costs, and low cotton costs. That is, Japan’s labor costs are low, the tariffs for entering the Chinese market are low, and the export taxes for exporting to foreign countries are almost

Equivalent to nothing, the shipping cost is much lower than that of European and American products, and the price of cotton purchased from North Korea is extremely low. With these five advantages

Compared with other foreign fabrics in the Chinese market, the price of Japanese textiles is too disparate. It gives the impression that the Japanese are dumping. In fact, this is not the case. Mitsui & Co., Ltd. is the largest textile manufacturer in Japan.

The profits from exporting to China are very huge, and its purchase of cotton at low prices in North Korea is forcibly protected by the Japanese government.

5. The overall problems of China's textile industry are small scale, tight working capital, poor technology, too few skilled workers and related machinery maintenance workers, low management level, and homogeneous product competition, mainly based on low-end cotton yarn processing.

Main. For example, the two textile factories acquired by Mitsui & Co., Ltd. in Shanghai, Yujin and Dachun, were due to the shortage of liquidity under the pressure of bank debt problems. As a result, Mitsui & Co., Ltd. only spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to rent out the two textile factories.

Come down and use the profits from the textile factory to buy the business again.

Now Mitsui & Co. has registered Shanghai Textile Co., Ltd. in Hong Kong to control two textile factories, Yujin and Dachun. The total share capital of the two textile factories is exactly 1 million taels of silver. Mitsui & Co.’s actual investment is only 110,000 taels.

It cost 35,000 taels of silver to buy 1/10 of Yujin's equity and lease the production rights, and then spent another 75,000 taels of silver to buy 1/10 of the equity and lease rights.

At present, more than half of the shares of these two textile factories are still in the hands of Chinese businessmen, compradors, and European and American foreign companies who have close ties with Japan. Mitsui & Co. is gradually buying out the shares with the profits of the factories themselves.

6. The total number of spindles in Shanghai's textile industry is now 300,000. Mitsui & Co. accounts for 15%. Zheng Guiting has received a very important news, that is, Japan's largest textile giant Osaka Gaijin Cotton Textile Co., Ltd. is ready to invest and build in Shanghai.

Factory, followed closely by Japan's other six major textile companies with similar plans.

If all these companies come, the eight major systems of Japan's textile industry in China will reappear in history. At that time, it will be really difficult for the Chinese textile industry to turn around... In fact, it is basically equivalent to declaring a reprieve for the Chinese textile industry.

Song Biao read all three textile industry reports in his hand. As soon as he dropped the report on his lap, Zheng Guiting couldn't wait to persuade Song Biao: "Sir, the textile industry in the three eastern provinces can no longer wait. China's textile industry

The industry cannot wait any longer. If Japan’s domestic market shrinks quickly, it will be difficult to recover within three to five years.

Su. Coupled with Mitsui & Co.’s successful investment in the Shanghai textile industry, it is a general trend for major Japanese textile companies to move to invest and set up factories in China. If we don’t make efforts now, major Japanese textile companies will occupy the leading position in the domestic textile industry later.

, it will be really difficult for us to regain the market."

Song Biao was forced to nod in agreement, and sighed with Rong Xingqiao, Zheng Guiting and others: "This year's annual meeting must discuss this matter, and next year's capital flow must also be quickly transferred to the textile industry. To build a steel plant, tens of millions

It's hard to see results even if you spend money on it, but just set up a textile factory

It's another matter. The steel industry needs to be developed, but the priority is still to develop the textile industry. We not only need to develop the textile industry, but also strive to achieve very large-scale results within three to five years, competing with Japanese textile factories.

Competition. What do you think? Let’s talk about it now.”

Pan Sichi said: "I have discussed with Zheng Guiting and President Rong before that if the textile industry in the three northeastern provinces and China is to be truly successful, we must first solve the problem of raw materials. Cotton cultivation must be well promoted; secondly, textile schools

It must be done, and it must be done in large quantities. We must cultivate our own textile industry talents in four aspects: management, technology, sales, and cotton planting.

They must be cultivated; thirdly, the dye industry must start from now on; fourthly, the textile industry must have certain supporting policies, especially local textile enterprises must strengthen support; fifthly, sales work must be grasped. Especially

Regarding the fifth point, the quality of Japanese textile products is not high. But its trademarks are very particular. For example, the best-selling brand in Shandong is currently

Golden dragons, goldfish, double deer, and flowers and butterflies are all specially designed by the Japanese. Their woven flower patterns are also popular among the people: peonies, fortune, longevity, dragons and phoenixes, five blessings, moon palace pictures, Guanyin delivering children, and carp jumping.

Longmen and the like, the quality of their fabrics is worse than that of foreigners, but better than ours, the price is about the same as ours, much lower than that of foreigners, and they have more varieties.

, and are particularly adapted to domestic needs. Neither we nor foreigners can compete with them. Therefore, when I talked about these with Zheng Guiting and General Director Rong, I felt that the gap between our textile industry and Japan is comprehensive, not one place.

The problem is that everything is poor, and everything needs to be caught up. Especially in the weaving, printing and dyeing parts, we must find a way."

Song Biao could only say "Yes".

Regarding these matters, as the governor of the three eastern provinces, there are few solutions he can take, that is, to focus on the local production of cotton. The rest can only be found within the Far East Consortium.

Zheng Guiting continued to tell everyone: "My point of view is this. Even if we set up the textile industry in the three northeastern provinces, because the tariffs on Japanese products are low, the price of our products sold from the three northeastern provinces to the customs is not much cheaper than Japan's.

If we want to comprehensively block Japanese textiles, we still have to find ways in Shanghai and Tianjin at the same time. Especially in Shanghai, companies such as Huigongmao, Ruiji, Hongyuan, and Xinchang

These old textile factories all have problems, and we can buy them and continue to operate them. For example, the Shanghai machine weaving layout has been turned over several times. It originally invested one million taels of silver, but in the end the management was very poor, and it was finally sold to an integrated company. The integrated company is

It's run by a British businessman, but it has a small capital base and can't sustain it, and now it's selling it. I think I can buy it. Our family has a lot of money, so it won't be a problem to sustain it for five or six years."

After he finished speaking, everyone looked at Pan Sichi, because Pan Sichi came from the Shanghai Machinery Weaving Layout and was the last general office of the weaving layout.

Pan Sichi was very embarrassed at this time. He was responsible for selling the Shanghai machine weaving layout to the British Integration Company. This integrated company was owned by Jardine Matheson and another smaller British-owned foreign company. In addition to Jardine Matheson,

It was jointly organized by Chinese businessmen and compradors from other banks, meaning "collected", hence the name Integrated Company, with a registered capital of 700,000 taels of silver and a paid-in capital of more than 500,000 taels.

Because of its small capital scale, Integrated Company managed to survive for several years, but now it cannot survive. Jardine Matheson & Co. has sold off its shares and fled. It is probably unlikely that other Chinese businessmen would like to continue to support the business.

Pan Sichi talked about the integration company called Ai. He also said: "Machine weaving was profitable in the early years, but it was over as soon as the Treaty of Shimonoseki was signed. Ten years ago, the Japanese textile industry was also

No. The real large-scale sales of Japanese textile products in China first started in Shandong, but that was only five or six years ago. However, Britain, France, the United States and other countries have most-favored-nation clauses, and they also sell foreign cloth at low taxes, especially American foreign cloth and

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Duoyang cloth is very cheap. The weaving layout is different from that of a cotton yarn factory, so it is even more difficult to make money. But this factory has a thousand people, many of whom have worked for more than 20 years.

Skilled workers can make a profit when they are bought back. The key issues are: first, the price of dyes must be low and the quality must be decent; second, the original wages of weavers are a bit high, which is higher than that of weavers in Japan.

The salary is much higher. This is a must

Third, the pattern must be renovated. The pattern has been the same for more than ten years and it cannot be sold at all. I estimate that the integration company can sell it if they offer 400,000 taels of silver. If they don’t sell it this year, they will still have to sell it in two years. Those people

The mentality is that the factory can make no money. We can wait for the land price to rise for a few years, and then sell the land to make a profit. It is a good thing for us to buy the factory back, but if we really want to do this well, we really can't do it within three or four years.

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The key is to continue to recruit technicians, train manpower, and weave new patterns every year. It is best for us to set up a textile school directly in Shanghai and develop it together with the three northeastern provinces. Otherwise, don’t bother with it. It won’t really cost you anything.

Well, here we will lose 100,000 yuan a year, and there we will lose 50,000 yuan. At the end of the year, no matter how big our family fortune is, we will not be able to sustain such a loss. There is no problem in losing money, but we have to think clearly about the strategy and when we can make money.

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Song Biao was very anxious after hearing this, but he didn't make a decision.

When the annual meeting is held, everyone comes over to discuss how to run the textile industry, and think clearly about policy strategies and long-term investment principles and steps. At this time, we will decide whether to buy a machine knitting layout.

To put it bluntly, China's textile industry is not easy to develop, and Japan's textile industry has also suffered through such hardships. There is no talk of dumping in China, because they are still making money after all, but they only make small profits but quick turnover.

It doesn't make any sense if you accuse others of dumping, because they have North Korean and cheap Japanese workers to exploit, so what can you do with them?

If it sells cheaper than you, there is always a reason why it is cheaper than you.

Of course, Japan has indeed dumped a lot of things in China. If it produces too much domestically and cannot sell it, it will definitely have to sell it to China at a low price, because China has the lowest tariffs and the largest population, so it cannot dump it here.

Scrap, where do you go?

Are they going to be dumped in the United States?

Whether it is trade and competition in the textile industry between China and Japan, or trade and competition in the economy between China and Japan, this is the overall situation!

It's no fun to frame others, the key is to work hard to develop yourself.

Anyway, Song Biao has now expressed his position. The Far East Consortium's annual meeting this year will definitely discuss the issue of the textile industry. In any case, starting from next year, we must come up with a comprehensive series of various methods to develop the textile industry in the three eastern provinces.

, to develop the textile industry of the Far East Consortium.

No matter how hard it is, we still have to fight against the Japanese.

There is no way around it. The Far East Consortium is now on the same level as consortiums such as Mitsui, Osaka, and Mitsubishi. Those Japanese consortiums have been on the capitalist road for ten years longer than the Far East Consortium. The Far East Consortium only needs to develop forward for four to five years.

, then we must fight to the death with Mitsui and Mitsubishi.

There's really no way.

The Far East Consortium can't build high-level industries, and Mitsui, Osaka, and Mitsubishi can't do it either, so everyone can only work hard on low-level industries. If you die, you'll be counted as one, and if you die, you'll lose a lot of sons.

If one consortium is killed, a bunch of small companies will be killed.

Now we are not talking about patriotism, heavy industry, steel and shipbuilding, or machinery and electrical appliances. Brothers and compatriots, survival comes first!

If you really have a lot of money to squander, why would the Far East Consortium find a German company to jointly build the Hanyeping Steel Plant?

The Far East Consortium now has one idea: Survival comes first, and the steel industry must be developed. It is enough to build a Liaoyang Iron and Steel Plant as a basic life and death guarantee for the bottom line. The rest are just bait. We will save the Liaoyang Iron and Steel Plant first.

As for machine tools, machinery, shipbuilding, electrical... Let's wait until the annual meeting in a few years. Let's start a shelf now. It's a small toss. Don't lose too much money. If you can partner up, do it. If you can bring others to lose, then do it.

Allowing others to suffer together, we should set up a technical secondary school for one industry. We will wait until the school has achieved results and there is no such urgent need for people. Then we can invest.

You said that a technical secondary school has dozens of teachers and hundreds of students graduate every year. That is impossible. The Far East Army Sergeant School you are talking about, Liaoyang Mining School and Liaoyang Metallurgical School each have only a dozen teachers. Every year

At most, forty or fifty people will graduate, which is considered good.

Don't look at the current huge structure of the Far East Consortium. This export is worth tens of millions of pounds. The establishment of the railway requires a large investment of tens of millions of pounds. Things cannot be viewed this way. Exports of tens of millions of pounds will only make a few million pounds in profit.

A million pounds, most of the railway investment was financed by loans, and foreigners were roped in to shoulder the burden. You would carry half, and I would carry half, and we would both die together.

In fact, the Far East Consortium is also a group of calculating owners.

If you don't plan carefully and break a penny in half, who will hold an annual meeting?

In a thousand words, the Far East Consortium is so fussy, and other national enterprises are even more difficult. The Japanese corporate consortium is similar. They work hard and work hard. If they can get 10% of the net income in a year, they will laugh sweeter than anyone else.

Business, that's what it is.

Perhaps the only good news for the Far East Consortium is that there are two banks, and one of them is the central bank of the three northeastern provinces. The Far East Consortium, which controls the Northeast Bank and the Far East Bank, actually has a very evil advantage, which makes the Far East

The consortium is in a relatively unfair competition situation in the three northeastern provinces.

In Shanghai, the Far East Consortium may not be able to defeat the Japanese foreign companies, but if it returns to the three northeastern provinces, it can really destroy the Japanese companies.

There is no way. In the final analysis, the Far East Consortium is the sole proprietorship of the Northeast King. The general directors and general offices can only be regarded as senior professional managers and partners who hold futures stocks. With Song Biao and the Northeast New Army as the backstage, the Far East Consortium is at least in the East.

The three provinces are moving sideways.

Therefore, Xinhua Finance Company, which has a military background, can also occupy various benefits within the Far East Consortium and collect money from its position.
Chapter completed!