1275: Chapter 627 The Problem with the at Processing Factory_3 1275: Chapter 627 The Problem with the at Processing Factory_3 But that’s the reality.
Nowadays, the people at the factory are a mixed bag, and most aren’t faring too well.
Those that used to co out of the steel mill were all full of vigor, but over the years they have gradually lost their forr spirit.
Now, their bellies have beco more and more robust—without food in their stomachs, can they avoid making a fuss?
So, who can put aside their pride, ride tricycles in the streets, sell Griddle Cake and tea eggs, or peddle vegetables.
Others repair bicycles or motorcycles.
At least they can take care of their hunger.
However, there are many more who are unskilled laborers with rough hands and a low level of education.
They have skills related to steelmaking but, when it cos to making money for food, they just don’t have a way.
Besides that, the at Processing Factory, which had been doing okay a couple of years ago, is no longer on a downward slope but instead is in free fall.
It went whoosh—before people could even react, the factory had plumted from the sky to the ground.
What’s becoming increasingly popular now are the private enterprises—a common situation locally.
Old companies with outdated equipnt and bloated personnel are less competitive than so of the newer private enterprises that have overtaken them.
No one has a ready solution for the other struggling factories.
Take the steel mill, for example.
It used to be a major operation with lots of employees and complicated issues, making it almost impossible to find a buyer.
However, for the at Processing Factory, there were suggestions about rescuing it, given that it had fared pretty decently in the past couple of years.
Could it be saved?
How to rescue it?
If there were a viable plan, it would have surfaced earlier; it wouldn’t have co to this point.
So, soone rather blunt suggested that since the at Processing Factory is an old plant and not too big, why not simply package it up for leasing or outright sale?
Many enterprises are doing this: They go from being state-owned to private, and suddenly not only do they survive, but they also thrive, right?
As soon as this suggestion was put forth, everyone fell silent.
Why?
There were two reasons; one being that if soone spoke up now and the leaders of the at Processing Factory found out they supported selling it, they would offend those leaders.
After all, the leaders still held positions of authority, but where would they go if the factory were sold?
This is why everyone thought the person who made the suggestion was a bit naive.
Secondly, everyone knew that there was a cattle farm in the county that playfully started a small beef jerky processing plant.
Unexpectedly, their beef jerky beca quite popular and is now occasionally advertised on TV and newspapers.
If it were just a small beef jerky plant, that wouldn’t be intimidating.
But if behind the small beef jerky plant there stood a gold-digging monster, that rited serious attention.
Given this situation, who would take over the at Processing Factory?
The small beef jerky plant might be tiny, but with strong financial backing and a model of self-production and sales based at the cattle farm, it contrasts sharply with the at Processing Factory, which has to buy cattle and then process and sell the at.
Comparatively, which is stronger and which is weaker in competitiveness is obvious, isn’t it?
In earlier years, the at Processing Factory didn’t mainly produce beef jerky.
Back then, butchers and restaurants ca to the factory to buy beef, and during tis of short supply, those buying at would even need to grease palms to get what they needed.
But as ti went by and people began to have more money, they started slaughtering cattle on their own.
Consequently, the at Processing Factory lost its business in supplying fresh at locally, with most of its clients being from elsewhere.
But over the past two years, even those clients disappeared—the fresh at business was completely gone.
The reason is not hard to guess; the at Processing Factory doesn’t have a stable source of supply.
Buying cattle from farrs is expensive and offers no guarantee of at quality.
It’s just not possible to adapt to the current economic situation.
Sotis the workers at the at Processing Factory would think about another issue: the factory shouldn’t have collapsed so suddenly, but it was after Yan Fei, a big cattle rancher, erged in the county that the factory’s situation worsened—and this made sense.
Now the cattle prices at Sancha River cattle farm influence the beef market of Sancha River, and when those prices go up, other places can’t be too far behind.
The at Processing Factory relies on buying cattle from the market.
With cattle prices constantly rising, their days were getting tougher—but for the cattle farm, the price difference was trivial.
A fattened cow is easily a hundred or so catties heavier than one that’s not, and now many butchers and restaurants don’t bother with their own slaughtering.
If you asked the leaders of the at Processing Factory, they wouldn’t say it’s a matter of the cattle farm in Sancha River Township affecting them.
Instead, they’d argue that the reason the factory is in its current state is all thanks to that cattle farm.
The at Processing Factory had been able to keep on gasping for breath by producing beef jerky, but then the cattle farm, not content with just raising cattle, started to produce beef jerky too.
They poached our technicians, sold their product cheaper than ours, and marketed it as high-end beef in Hong Kong…
effectively cutting off the at Processing Factory’s last lifeline.
This line of thought…
still has so rit.
Tanghe County, as a key breeding area for Wan City yellow cattle, and the at Processing Factory being an established brand, ans the beef jerky still held so fa.
Originally, the factory only operated occasionally, but even so, just this sporadic operation was enough to sustain ‘so people.’
Now, Boss Yan had unwittingly beco the primary cause of cutting off these people’s ‘source of inco’ and ‘livelihood’—though in reality, these were just the apparent reasons.
The state of the factory was well understood by many—they were all pretending to be ignorant, with no one speaking out.
After all is said and done, everyone believes that as long as Boss Yan remains a major player and the Sancha River township cattle farm doesn’t go bankrupt, there’s no hope for the at Processing Factory to co back to life or find a buyer, right?
Of course, it’s not that there’s no one suitable for the role.
Quiet as it may be, everyone has thought of one person—Boss Yan is the best candidate to take over!
If the at Processing Factory were handed to him, he wouldn’t have to bother much.
Maybe he’d upgrade so equipnt, albeit leaking a bit of money through his fingers, and run a few more ads, and wouldn’t the factory co back to life?
Everyone had co to this realization, but no one brought it up—the eting couldn’t proceed.
Everyone knew that Secretary Jiao was particularly interested in that enterprise, but as luck would have it, Secretary Jiao was busy and couldn’t attend the eting.
Whether to ntion that na or not, many were feeling uncertain!
In the end, the eting produced an inconclusive conclusion.
When Secretary Jiao saw it, he noncommittally nodded his head, pondered for a mont, and then asked Xiao Zhao to give Yan Fei a heads-up and inquire about his thoughts…
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