On the other end of the phone, my father was "bitter"; At this end, Zhang Kun's head shook like a rattle, and he put down two words: "Don't return." ”
It was June 2022, and Zhang Kun was about to graduate from college. His father called and persuaded him to return to his hometown and work at the company where he worked.
The company is called Shandong Yongsheng Rubber Group Co., Ltd., located in Guangrao County, Dongying City, Shandong Province. "The workshop is like a big boiler, black, hot, and smelly, and the production work is all carried by hand and shoulder." When he was a child, Zhang Kun went to the company with his father a lot, and "had resistance to the rubber tire industry".
"Now it has been upgraded, and a lot of college students have been recruited, and it has become a 'sweet and sweet'." On the weekend, Zhang Kun went home, and his father dragged him to visit the site.
"The workshop is bright and tidy, and it is full of advanced equipment." The cognition was refreshed, and Zhang Kun changed his mind.
Guangrao County has a history of more than 50 years of rubber tire industry development and is an important rubber tire manufacturing base in China.
Extensive development in the early stage, and it is difficult to continue in the future. "With the increasing environmental protection requirements, the entire industry was once included in the 'two highs' by the province, that is, the list of high energy consumption and high emissions, and the development has stagnated." Chen Weisong, secretary of the Guangrao County Party Committee, said bluntly, "To break the deadlock, we must make drastic reforms." ”
"Dilapidated" - resolutely eliminate backward production capacity and production technology; "Lixin" - support rubber tire enterprises to carry out high-level technological transformation and intelligent transformation.
"The county organized us to go out to study, invited experts to guide, helped matchmaking, and carried out industry-university-research cooperation with colleges and universities to promote the completion and operation of the intelligent manufacturing tire factory." Song Jian, director of the office of Shandong Yongsheng Rubber Group Co., Ltd., witnessed the butterfly change of the enterprise.
The old and new factories are separated by one road.
Zhang Kun is rooted in the front line of the workshop, and his situation is very different from the past: instead of being disgraced and carrying it on his shoulders, he incarnates as a "white-collar worker in the workshop" and controls the robot operation through the computer.
Today, Shandong Yongsheng Rubber Group Co., Ltd. has increased its production and management efficiency by 30%, reduced labor costs by 60%, and saved 3,000 tons of standard coal every year.
At present, the numerical control rate of equipment of key tire enterprises in Guangrao County has reached 90%, and more than 70% of the main equipment has reached the international advanced level. In June 2024, the local rubber tire industry will take off the "two highs" hat and enter the fast lane of development.
"To implement the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference, we are accelerating the promotion of 14 high-end tire projects with a total investment of 10.45 billion yuan, which is expected to add 83 million new production capacity after all are put into operation, and the total production capacity of radial tires in the county will exceed 260 million." Chan is full of confidence.
(Development of county economies with their own characteristics)