"We can't forget about manufacturing, don't say that we have the Internet now, and feel as if it's better than manufacturing. Especially from the manufacturing industry, we must remember that manufacturing is fundamental, and the Internet is like a tiger for us. On April 19, at the sub-forum of "Industrial Internet and Digital Transformation" of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021, Dong Mingzhu, Chairman and President of Gree Electric Appliances, made a speech.
Dong Mingzhu speaks at the sub-forum of "Industrial Internet and Digital Transformation" Source: Boao Forum for Asia
Dong Mingzhu said that don't think that the Internet is stronger than manufacturing, manufacturing is fundamental
At the meeting, Dong Mingzhu also said, "the Internet of manufacturing industry will be all the information accurate, including manpower, research and development, etc., it is not a simple manufacturing, but a huge big data center, the Internet era has completely subverted our past thinking and behavior." Dong Mingzhu said that the Internet era cannot be escaped, but should be bravely faced. In practice, people can recognize the changes brought by the Internet to the manufacturing industry.
Taking live streaming as an example, she said, "As a manufacturing industry, the reason why I do live streaming is that this era has come, and our tradition in the past was to have tens of thousands of stores for sales, but now the sales model has been completely subversive." Under the epidemic, we still want to use the old model anymore, which is why I did more than a dozen live broadcasts last year. ”
Dong Mingzhu believes that innovation is everywhere, and if you don't innovate, you will be eliminated. Innovation is not to think but to do, doing is much better than wanting, as long as you work hard and dare to face it. "We have experienced all kinds of challenges, and difficulties are like a mountain in front of us. I can also take a detour, but we are more determined to move this mountain away, which is the spirit we must adhere to in the Internet age. The Internet era is not an opportunity for speculation, but more of an opportunity for challenge. ”
"Political economy, economy is inseparable from politics, this is what we can't avoid," Dong Mingzhu said, "the current background we can't avoid, Sino-US relations, the complexity of the international situation has been placed in front of us, but I still feel that we should follow this thinking of our Chinese, with kindness to move others, with our own innovation, we must adhere to our own ability to contribute to society, to the world, do not rely on others, this is the biggest challenge for us, China's manufacturing industry bears the mission, we are not only today because of the Internet era, but in this process is a big country, we advocate the world revolution, so we have been pursuing innovation, innovation and innovation, so how to innovate? If there is no talent innovation is zero, the cultivation of talents is very important. ”
Gree is building a 5G unmanned chemical factory
She also mentioned that Gree is now a technology-based manufacturing enterprise, is building a fully unmanned black light factory, with the industrial cloud platform, foreign factories and more than 70 domestic bases can be connected, stronger response ability, stronger quality control ability.
The following is a transcript of Dong Mingzhu's speech:
Dong Mingzhu: I come from the manufacturing industry, which is considered a traditional industry, but we have upgraded to a new level. We feel that in practice, we realize that the Internet has brought changes to our manufacturing industry.
I have a "cleanliness" for quality. In 2005, we proposed a six-year free service, that is, consumers will no longer bear the cost of quality problems caused by Gree air conditioners within six years of using Gree air conditioners, and all will be borne by enterprises. In that era, we relied on "stupid methods", using people to control quality, and using materials and the stupidest methods of full inspection to achieve quality assurance.
However, this year, in accordance with the regulations on the service life of household appliances that the state is about to promote, we have put forward higher requirements for ourselves. We have implemented a ten-year free repair warranty for air conditioners, and within the national service life, all product quality assurance is undertaken by the enterprise, which is a huge challenge. If you don't have good quality control, don't say 1%, even if it's 1/10,000 of your maintenance cost, it is difficult for the company to support. Therefore, we can propose a ten-year free repair warranty, mainly because of the more accurate quality control in our era.
How can I be accurate? This is related to the Internet, especially after the arrival of 5G. In the past, we talked about automatic equipment, such as machine tools, which were just a single action, but today is really an era of the Internet of Things. We at Gree are now building a fully unmanned black light factory, which relies on 5G technology. We've been running a 5G factory since the year before last, and we've had great results. I think that in this era, we should not run away from it, but should face it bravely.
Gree has its own platform, with nearly 70 production bases across the country, and if there is no technology in the past, we all use "stupid methods", so it is inevitable that there will be many loopholes, or some mistakes. At present, with the industrial cloud platform, foreign factories and more than 70 domestic bases can be connected together, with stronger coping ability and stronger quality control ability, and at the same time, we apply this technology to technology research and development, so Gree Electric is now a technology-based manufacturing enterprise.
Because we can't forget about manufacturing, don't say that there is the Internet now, it seems to be stronger than manufacturing, especially from the manufacturing industry, we must remember that manufacturing is fundamental, of course, the Internet is like a tiger to our manufacturing. In this way, you may be stronger. The ten-year free repair I just talked about comes from our quality control and the upgrade of your technology.
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In this regard, some netizens expressed their approval, believing that the manufacturing industry is the foundation of the national economy, and everything else is empty talk without a foundation.
However, some netizens said that the Internet and manufacturing are not contradictory, and the two should be more complementary, and there is no need to distinguish between high and low.
Having said all this, is it possible to raise wages in the manufacturing industry?
In fact, a big reason for the difficulty of recruiting workers in the manufacturing industry is that the Internet industry has higher wages than the traditional manufacturing industry, and the money comes quickly.