Former Sichuan Automobile Manufacturing Plant
Hello everyone, I'm Lantai.
Today, Lantai will talk to you about the development history of Chinese trucks.
Many people believe that after the founding of New China, the automobile industry was completely independent and autonomous, and believed that at that time, the West blocked us, even if we wanted to introduce technology, it was impossible.
However, this perception is wrong.
Even before the reform and opening up, China's automobile industry was the product of "introduction of technology- digestion technology", and it was really completely digested, and it was not until the 21st century that it could truly produce cars (including trucks and cars) completely independently and autonomously.
Prior to this, the pride of Chinese trucks, the thin steel plates necessary for the cab of the "Jiefang Brand" truck, were imported from a factory in West Germany, and tens of thousands of tons were imported every year. By the way, "FAW" itself is a product of 100% replication of the Stalin Automobile Plant in the USSR.
This matter was mentioned by Mr. Chen Zutao, the first employee of "FAW" and the chief engineer of "Fawc", in an interview with People magazine, and the West German factory was also contacted by Mercedes-Benz.
In addition, according to Xu Rengen, former chairman of China National Heavy Duty Truck Group, until the early 1990s, China's truck level was still relatively backward, importing 3,000 trucks a year from abroad, mainly for military use; because the army often faced special terrain and climate, so the requirements for trucks were higher than civilian trucks, but because the level of domestic automobile manufacturing enterprises at that time was not good, so only trucks could be imported.
The Sichuan Automobile Manufacturing Plant and China National Heavy Duty Truck Group, where he worked, are actually the products of "introduction technology - digestion technology".
Speaking of Xu Rengen, chairman of China National Heavy Duty Truck Group, everyone may not be familiar with it.
But Lan Taiyi said that his daughter, I believe everyone should be familiar with it.
Mr. Xu Rengen's daughter is Ms. Xu Xin, president of Today Capital, and Ms. Xu Xin is known as the "queen of investment", and JD.com and NetEase are her successful "cases".
According to the 2021 Hurun Rich List, Ms. Xu Xin's total net worth in 2021 is US$16 billion, ranking 448th in The List of China's Richest People.
Ms. Xu Xin
After talking about Ms. Xu Xin, let's talk about Mr. Xu Rengen.
Mr. Xu Rengen is one of the pioneers of the automotive industry in the mainland, he is the first batch of automotive college students trained by the Republic, and graduated from the Automotive Department of Jilin University of Technology.
After graduating from university, he was assigned to the Sichuan Automobile Factory, which was one of the mainland's heavy-duty truck production bases in the 1980s.
In the 22nd issue of the "Operator" magazine in 2015, there was an interview with Mr. Xu Rengen, the title of which was "Xu Rengen: A Rare Strongman".
In this interview, Mr. Xu Rengen said that the Sichuan automobile factory he assigned after graduating from university is itself a product of the 1960s, China's introduction of French Bellier company GBU (6×6) heavy-duty off-road vehicle technology.
However, at that time, the policy was more "left", only introducing the French Bellier company GBU (6×6) heavy-duty off-road vehicle technology, but refusing to send experts to the French Bellier company for guidance, only asking the other party to provide a full set of drawings.
This caused a problem, that is, only by relying on the drawings and technical parameters provided by the other party, some parts, the domestic process at that time could not be processed, so it was necessary to modify some processes and drawings, Mr. Xu Rengen did this in the "Sichuan Automobile" chassis factory design department in the 60s.
Because Mr. Xu Rengen performed well and diligently in "Sichuan Automobile", in 1982, the 42-year-old Xu Rengen became the youngest factory director in the history of "Sichuan Automobile".
Red Rock Heavy Truck
It should be known that "Sichuan Automobile" was a state-owned enterprise at the level of the ministry at the level of the main department at that time, and Mr. Xu Rengen became the head of the state-owned enterprise of the main hall level in 1982. According to Mr. Xu Rengen's recollection, when he went to Chongqing and Beijing for meetings, all the leaders were surprised by his youth.
Under the leadership of Xu Rengen, the "Sichuan Automobile" military conversion in the 1980s was very smooth, and the "Sichuan Automobile" fist product of Hongyan CQ19210 was developed under the leadership of Xu Rengen, but at that time, the cab of the Hongyan heavy truck could not be produced by the mainland, and the cab was imported from Romania.
Mr. Xu Rengen
Because of Mr. Xu Rengen's excellent work in "Sichuan Automobile", in June 1990, he was officially transferred to China National Automobile Corporation as the chief engineer (main hall), and in the following year, that is, in 1991, Xu Rengen began to concurrently serve as the general manager and party secretary of China National Heavy Duty Truck Group. According to Mr. Xu's recollection, his work status at that time was basically: every morning to Beijing for a meeting, immediately after the opening, he returned to Jinan, at most 6 days a week, running around every day.
By the way, at this time, Ms. Xu Xin was still working in the sales department of the headquarters of the Bank of China and was serving as the deputy section chief, that is, in 1991, Mr. Xu Rengen was also the general manager and secretary of the party group of China National Heavy Duty Truck Group, and Ms. Xu Xin, who originally graduated from the foreign language major, was sent to Hong Kong by the Bank of China to receive CPA training (there was no training quota in the original business department, it was the leader who won ms. Xu Xin) to receive CPA training, and since then, she has embarked on the road of "investment queen". Of course, LanTai absolutely believes that all this is the result of Ms. Xu Xin's self-struggle and has nothing to do with Mr. Xu Rengen.
In summary, from Mr. Xu Rengen's account, even in the 1960s, we were still introducing advanced western technology, and the West did not blockade us in terms of civilian equipment and technology.
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