Chapter 449: Production is still ongoing

'Boss, this is Chen Dong, the deputy factory manager, who is now in charge of the handover of the factory.' Han Songlin smiled and shook Chen Dong's hand. This person was also specially retained by Xinghai Group.

After evaluating more than a dozen deputy factory managers of the entire Yuzhou Special Steel, Chen Dong should be considered relatively good.

Yuzhou Special Steel is huge, covering more than 5,000 acres and known as the Ten-Mile Steel City!

The name Ten-Mile Steel City is well deserved; the Yuzhou Special Steel factory is almost five kilometres long from north to south.

The entire Yuzhou Special Steel factory looks relatively long and narrow.

It is five kilometres long, and the width of the factory is just over one kilometre, or even less, maybe just a few hundred metres wide.

Yuzhou is not like building a factory in a plain area, where you can just spread it out.

The factory covers such a wide area, and it is easy to imagine how complicated the situation at Yuzhou Special Steel would be.

At its peak, there were more than 20,000 people, and now the entire Yuzhou Special Steel workforce is still over 10,000 people, plus their family members, all living inside Yuzhou Special Steel.

There are schools, hospitals, supermarkets, banks, and cinemas.

Yuzhou Special Steel is a typical state-owned enterprise and a small society.

Trying to take control of Yuzhou Special Steel is not as easy as the previous acquisition of Changxing Machine Tool. You have to leave someone in place who knows Yuzhou Special Steel.

Changxing Machine Tool was a piece of cake, but Yuzhou Special Steel is not something you can completely sort out in six months.

Fortunately, Han Songlin is not trying to sort everything out. As long as he can transfer people to the Xinghai system, the old system will naturally become useless.

'Let's go, let's take a look around the factory!' Han Songlin had also been in Yuzhou before, but he had never actually visited Yuzhou Special Steel.

In the next twenty years, the name Yuzhou Special Steel would disappear into history, and no one would remember its former glory.

Only the former employees of Yuzhou Special Steel would be able to recall the passionate days of their youth when they dreamed of the future.

'Is the factory still producing?'

Chen Dong's face was hesitant: 'Production is still ongoing, it's just...'

Han Songlin said strangely, "Just say what you want to say!'

'Right now, only two furnaces are in production, and the rest have been shut down. The furnaces that are in production now will have to be shut down soon.'

Han Songlin: "Why?'

'One, there is no more raw materials, and two, the factory owes the power company a lot of electricity bills.'

Han Songlin was not concerned about the raw materials, but about the arrears owed to the power company. He looked at Fei Wencheng and asked, 'Has this arrears been included in the external debt of Yuzhou Special Steel?'

"Boss, regarding the raw materials, since we have not officially acquired them yet, we have not bought them. However, we have contacted the iron ore suppliers of Yuzhou Special Steel in advance, and as long as we pay, they will be able to supply. As for the arrears owed to the power company, a total of 12 million yuan, we have already contacted the power company.'

12 million yuan in electricity bills?

The fact that they can owe so much in electricity bills and have not had the power cut off yet shows the status of Yuzhou Special Steel in Yuzhou.

Han Songlin nodded gently, satisfied with Fei Wencheng's handling of the situation.

The workshops in the entire factory area are very tall, there is nothing to say about this, and as for the various equipment and the like in the workshops, they are all large pieces of equipment.

For example, the rolling mill!

Needless to say, the steelmaking furnace is towering into the sky, exaggerating the height to more than ten or twenty metres, and people in front of it feel particularly small.

Han Songlin didn't take the equipment and other things too seriously, even though Chen Dong introduced them as if they were family treasures.

Instead, Han Songlin was carefully observing the workers.

Whether a factory can do a good job or not, the workers are very important.

The history of Yuzhou Special Steel can be traced back to the Republic of China period, and it has contributed its own strength to the victory of the war for the country.

It has also contributed its own strength to the modernization of the country.

'Do you know what the greatest wealth of special steel is?'

Chen Dong looked at Han Songlin in surprise, not knowing what he meant. Could it be that the equipment, which had been accumulated little by little, was not the greatest asset?

The people at Special Steel had thought of countless ways to protect this equipment.

Each piece of equipment could be traced back to its origins.

'It is these skilled workers. Forget the workshops, let's go and see the materials research and development personnel.'

For Han Songlin, a lot of the production equipment in the factory needed to be replaced, as it had already become outdated.

Of course, if they are to be replaced, there is no hurry, and it will have to wait until the situation in the factory has been sorted out.

The most important point is to figure out the future direction of Yuzhou Special Steel's development.

Without a direction, it won't work; you can only spin around in place, so what's the point?

In the materials research and development laboratory, Han Songlin met someone face-to-face for the first time, Jia Yuanliang.

This person caught Han Songlin's attention.

He wore gold-rimmed glasses and looked gentle and refined.

He was wearing a white lab coat that looked a little dirty.

He had an air of a scholar about him.

Jia Yuanliang was going to resign from Yuzhou Special Steel and join Xinghai Group, but because Xinghai Group was going to acquire Yuzhou Special Steel, the matter was naturally delayed.

Han Songlin was also going to say that the Xingchen Materials Research Institute would be set up in Yuzhou.

This materials research institute, for the time being, will mainly conduct research and development on metal materials, especially various types of special steel. Later, it will slowly expand.

The main problem is a lack of talent. Otherwise, Han Songlin would also like to get everything in place at once and research and develop various materials.

Next, Han Songlin will go and talk to Yuzhou University and the universities in Rongcheng to see if a materials department or the like can be set up specifically within the school.

This major will receive support from Xinghai Group.

'Hello Dr. Jia, I have long wanted to meet you, but I have never had the chance, which is a pity.'

Jia Yuanliang shook hands with Han Songlin gently and looked at him carefully, the man who was famous throughout the southwest.

As the number one private enterprise in Shuchuan, or strictly speaking, the number one enterprise in Shuchuan, Xinghai Group's fame has recently caused everyone at Yuzhou Special Steel to discuss it.

Everything about Xinghai Group has been pulled out for discussion.

Everything about Xinghai Group has been discussed.

As someone involved in research and development, I naturally can't avoid the topic.

Everyone is talking about whether their own wages will rise after Xinghai Group acquires Yuzhou Special Steel.

Will they get a year-end bonus?

This issue of a year-end bonus is really on everyone's mind. The truth is that Yuzhou Special Steel is currently suffering some serious losses.

Even if Xinghai Group acquires it, no one knows how long it will take to turn losses into profits.

If it were that easy to turn a loss into a profit, Yuzhou Special Steel would not be in its current situation.

Jia Yuanliang: 'In the future, I will work under you. Whenever the boss wants to come and see me, he can.'

Before Fei Wencheng came, he had already been told by Han Songlin to pay attention to Jia Yuanliang.

After Fei Wencheng looked up Jia Yuanliang's resume, he was amazed.

No wonder the boss valued such a talented person so highly.

The acquisition of Yuzhou Special Steel by Xinghai Group naturally had an impact on the research and development department of Yuzhou Special Steel. At this time, not many people could continue to focus on research and development.