Sun Min speak past

 Sun Min is a good comrade
about 5 years ago, the sudden departure left the outside world mystery. Silence the occasion of the past 5 years, the 72-year-old founder of JMC Group to the experience and unique business philosophy
Oral: Sun Min order: Automotive Business Review reporter Ning Ge help
Editor's note:
open the door of that moment, I am still surprised at his share of virtually showing temperament. He younger than I thought. In this sunny morning, the set of Haidian District in Beijing, nearly 200 square meters of housing, he invited me to the living room in that spacious friends to send him of the best tasting tea.
he do not hide their love and enjoyment of life: 9 years ago, he was given his reward from the government took out more than 50,000 yuan in Hong Kong bought a Rolex watch; 3 years ago he earned in the stock market first to buy a BMW 530; he is still keen to play golf every week with friends similar; also like the occasional speeding on the road to enjoy a taste of hh
since June 6, 2003 was suddenly announced his retirement, leaving Jiangling Motors, the outside world talking about him, and he has remained silent, and his favorite daughter in Beijing, lived a carefree life together.
This is a straightforward character of the people, This is one recognized the plight of the JMC and to create a miracle out of people, which is a partner to be known as , was sent to Jiangxi Tractor Plant in the design work, the dry and is 5 years and then was sent to the Taihe County, Jiangxi Province, agricultural machinery plant, worked for 10 years. During this period, designed by his organization to obtain the province's small four-wheel tractor first; designed by his organization endorsed by the National Rice Combine first.
and he later created the miracle of JMC has been widely read today. He not only let the accumulated losses of 56 million yuan in Jiangxi Province, the largest loss-making enterprises out of mud, and beats in the capital markets, single-handedly directed the JMC A, B share market. He was very pleased that when he left the JMC to pay a good class: He profitability is very good, very good condition of the assets, cash flow is very good, very low debt ratio, and has 10 billion cash deposits, so a company left to posterity.
He is the former chairman of Jiangling Motors Corporation,UGGs, General Manager, Chairman of JMC AG Sun Min.
2003 年 6 6, the Government announced my retirement, my heart is calm, because I seek advice in advance, I stand fully agree, but when I passed 67 years of age. just southwest of Friends about my golf. They said: , I went to Beijing.
I first lived in an apartment in the Asian Games Village, Bedroom. I rented the first two months, and later continued for two months. these 4 months, I put the daughter school in Beijing to solve the problem. and then go to the house to buy a house. Now is the time to buy this house down before New Year's Day 2004 when I moved in, now more than 4 years to live.
my own car, I have two cars: one is the chairman of Ford Motor Company's Lincoln Qiaode Man gave me a red eight-cylinder sports car, but it is too great, a little too ostentatious to be stored in the garage.
2005 spring I started at the turn of summer into the stock market was on the card tricks has dropped to historic low of 998 points. When I first made money in the stock market, I bought the BMW 530. The car's active steering system I very much: the steering wheel at low speeds the rudder just played a little more than a half circle, turned around in the garage is very convenient; high sensitivity will drop when it doubled, but still very stable, we say that the BMW 5 Series is designed for motorists , that right.

small wheel to combine my Rat, this year is the year I graduated from this life on .1959 Jilin University of Technology, Department of Auto Design car. graduation, the Department of Agricultural Machinery (eighth Machinery Ministry of Industry) just set up, need people. then in September I was assigned to science and technology department in charge of tractor business, and I learned professional compare similar vehicles.
done a lot of the opinions of .1964 by the end of the state to engage in ; four clean I was sent to Jiangxi Tractor Plant (hereinafter referred to as Jiang drag).
the early Cultural Revolution, I was pulling out. I was the Design Section Leader, the group great, including 36 undergraduates, also called stinking ninth category concentrated. Since I was technically very good, so is the technology core of the chief engineer, chief architect was fighting, I always struggle to stay standing by.
more than a month, I became the backbone of promoting production. because I performed well, the above approval, the I is the second class cadres. cadres are a class of so-called good cadres; second-class cadres, cadres are good; three cadres, there is a serious problem, but does not belong to the enemy contradictions; four cadres gangsters is to be defeated.
In fact, my performance has been good: high school is the squad leader, squad leader both in college, but also a Student Chapter President, I personally no problem, and no sentence of the words of the state social discontent. As for family background, I explained earlier clear. so certain of, but then I fell safe things. regardless of which faction into power, they grasp revolution and promote production, probably from July I started to engage in the design room Programme, the technical design of a river tow backbone. However, during the Cultural Revolution, factory production is still severely affected.
called Cheng Shiqing Revolutionary Committee of Jiangxi Province, he was transferred from the Jiangxi province of Shandong technical staff.
the delegation is 10 years, from 1971 till 1980. For me, the decentralization of'd a good thing, Taihe County Revolutionary Committee is an old agricultural machinery plant worker, he attaches great importance to technology. on our These technicians, who are one by one to understand, to understand clearly later he said: groups and production groups, political groups hold of the revolution, the production group efforts, production. production group was divided into the following technical team and program group, I was appointed as technical team leader.
Initially, Cheng Shiqing let us engage in small four-wheel tractors. He does not listen to reports, engage in on-site contest, than several times a year. Every spring or summer harvest, summer planting Xia Geng, the well a large circle to allow everyone to participate, he stood watching to see who is doing the best live beautiful. I designed a small four-wheel tractors in the province first, so I'm a minor celebrity in Taihe county had to.
Lin Biao incident, Cheng Shiqing also collapsed. small four-wheel tractors because he engaged in, so can no longer do. Later, Shandong, Henan and other places large numbers of these simple little four-wheel tractors, is the imitation of the prototype I designed. Jiangxi does not produce, the drawings have been spread out.
Fortunately, I'm from ministry to go on. I said at that time of the Revolutionary Committee: Chairman Mao had called on us for 20 years the rest of the year of mechanization of agriculture has been small, they lack most is that farmers harvest mechanization. the introduction of northern China from the Soviet Union a large combine harvester, you can receive wheat, rice harvest, or blank the south, the state also hope that a breakthrough.
to the Ministry, I asked: joint Task Force. about 1973, the Cultural Revolution is not over, we established the southern rice combine harvester annihilation of small groups. in accordance with the regulations, the research group must find factories, but also to older workers as team leader. Task Force co-head of the county agricultural machinery plant is too Zhao Mugen Revolutionary Committee, the backbone of agricultural machinery plant's technical staff is Taihe County, Jiangxi Agricultural members from the Institute, Yunnan Agricultural Research Institute, Guangdong Agricultural Machinery Research Institute.
Zhao Mugen clear at the meeting account of the specific things from me. He is the older workers, technical problems do not really understand. but trust me, let me on behalf of his leadership. So I became a real person in charge of the project.
quickly out of the results. We developed the Dongfeng-second type of small rice combine harvester in the country famous. was to organize a year-round agricultural spot, about the time in the summer harvest of summer species. In the scene two national agricultural conference, the models are given first name.
design and research using this model for nearly a year, spent half a year trial. Among the problems that can be more. Although the Japanese have a similar model, but we just be inspired, and there is no prototype, because We are not the same as with the Japanese style. we do is a horizontal cut Taiwan, Japan, Taiwan, the harvest is vertical.
principle similar to the two harvesters: delivery after the harvest, and then emerge from the millet threshing cylinder, discharge pole, re-use from the drum when the wind system structure to get rid of impurities, the corn together.
of our troubles are: the densely populated south, often lack of fire wood, rice straw is their fuel, so they asked rice straw intact. This very different with the North, the North after the wheat to lay the whole into the drum, broken straw discharged into the fields on the end. harvesters so called semi-feeding the South, the North called the full-feeding combine harvester.
Maybe you do not believe, combines a lot more complicated than a car. so to speak, if drawing a diagram of automotive transmission, use an A1 drawing, then the drive system combines at least two A1 to diagram drawn, because it has so much action needs to be done, so nothing has been resolved.
after I finish combine to great fame, but the character is not me, is the root of Zhao wood.
There is always time to get to the root. down, is the Sun Min. So I am honored, in the March 18, 1978 National Science Conference, I sat in the front row, listening to Comrade Xiaoping said: than the concept represented by the treatment of NPC and the party congress to be high, so our food is very good.
end of the meeting took photos, wrote , Vice Chairman Wang received the National Science Congress. are very encouraging, tears almost came off. Intellectuals finally become part of the working class, all of a sudden reaction from the knowledge of more and more knowledge into productivity. that Comrade Deng Xiaoping at the mention of is productivity, related to my family background. sometimes I also think that if a campaign again, I may have to put the people's commune to the next.
I have a feature on the one hand afraid of design errors, on the one hand want to improve the design Therefore, after the design is finished I will talk to the workers with the trial. I have designed two types of tooling to help them. The so-called second-class tooling is done for the trial process equipment, also known as simple tooling, it can ensure that the design quality, but less efficient, can not be used for mass production. So I told the workers of the relations are very good. including drag the river, I was designated as second-class cadres, but also to investigate because of the above, the workers said: ; Sun Min is a good comrade. be the first to enjoy the State Council special allowance of technology cadres.
lost investment opportunities in countries
1980, the Jiangxi Provincial Institute when transferred me to the machinery, director, and I came into contact with cars. At that time, many nominally the national car plant, in fact most did not get national recognition. Against this background, Bin Rao proposed joint reorganization. It now appears that this goal is no problem, but the methods have a problem mm if using administrative means, rather than economic instruments, market-based instruments to solve the problem, certainly not work.
fact, the effect of advance is not very satisfactory. the country has also set up several joint company car, in which there is an associated company of Nanjing Automobile (hereinafter referred to as the Southern Union Company), your interview Jiang Hua, LI Dai Sheng, Li Afu, is the leadership at that time.
Jiangxi Province to the south associated companies are classified as fuzzy, the automotive industry need to re-plan, we must first solve the problem of the availability of national recognition. Deputy Governor in charge of industry under the direct leadership of Jiangxi Province set up a research group responsible for planning car, I headed.
research ago, I first automobile plant in all the province, including all of the auto parts plant looked over and over, but also to a major domestic automobile plant research. On the other hand, I pulled a head of steam to contact the Southern Union, communicate with them. At that time, is Li Gang, general manager of Automobile Corporation, the chief engineer is Chen Zutao, I have more contacts with Chen Zutao.
here I mainly follow Winsor Lie Fu, Zhang Xian by contact. I still have a growth with Zhang Xian origin. Zhang has more than 90 years old, called the car design industry veteran. I graduated from design and Graduation Task Force selected the heavy-duty vehicles, Zhang was a machine motor vehicle car chief of the Institute, and also my graduation project directly to the instructor.
my graduation internship in the NAC was not heavy-duty vehicle base in Nanjing did not decide in which direction the development of competition in the base so I want to strive for the national project and investment. countries need to address heavy vehicle pull mine problem. when 25 tons of used tub, all Soviet GAZ-525 imported, domestic production can not. Sino-Soviet tensions, the Soviet Union do not want to give us, we have no conditions for imports from other countries. So I met Chang Xian increased. Later when he was chief engineer in the Southern Union Company.
1982 by the end of Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi determined to solve the car manufacturers (hereinafter referred to as the JAC) of the problem, end of the year set up a working group .1983 on January 1 of the Working Group stationed in river steam, steam power took over the river. I enter the river as a member of the Working Group on Steam, is responsible for technology.
sent a work team to take over for a reason. JAC, formerly known as the National Government in 1947 Jiangxi Province, under the Department of Transportation when a car repair shop. After the liberation, JAC On the one hand to do car repairs, hand made accessories .1958 in the Great Leap Forward, JAC trial also had three cars, not the later Jinggangshan Car very simple, single-cylinder diesel engine with the launch.
really do the car is in the Cultural Revolution. aforementioned Cheng Shiqing this person, he caught a breakthrough in the industrial front. At that time, is the product to be innovative, to new stuff. way that people do not speak science, is foolhardy, things have clearly not feasible strong dry. such as he thinks too much tractor with rubber. small tire? , Cheng Shiqing auto parts plant will be renamed Jiangxi Jinggangshan car factory. imitation Soviet GAZ car factory, the production car called the Jinggangshan brand car. He did not believe the car needs investment, you need equipment, you need technical support, he thinks as long as motivate employees up, what miracles can be created.
1968 years, the plant made 500 Jinggangshan brand car, the quality was not good enough, full of broken down. Lin Cheng was the backbone of this matter vigorously promote .1969 Journal Chuming Tang also do not come, people engage in is a 500 Cheng Shiqing. on such a car factory, you should focus on support ah. group of people to examine Jiangxi Province. Jiangxi Province, with the leadership they have looked over all the car factory. Jinggangshan automobile factory in Jiangxi Province in addition, there are five key areas are the way to personally named, using the five whistles Jinggangshan such as car manufacturers Yangjie help state, county Paulownia Ridge, New Territories automobile factory, as well as two-horse Stone automobile factory. These plants require state investment vehicle.
Hu light that does not work. After the inspection, They think that relative to the other five cities in terms of car factory, car factory conditions Jinggangshan fairly good, if concentrated in a central should be able to give support and investment. Therefore, they just like the Office of Provincial and Jinggangshan mechanical volume car manufacturers, want to focus on supporting Jinggangshan. then classified Jinggangshan car factory to the mechanical room from the Department of Transportation. but the mechanical room also say in this matter because Cheng Shiqing to be everywhere.
Thus, the study group's views have not had time to communicate with the Cheng Shiqing Jinggangshan person in charge of car factory (far left, follow Cheng Shiqing people) to a secret report to the process: car factory. him, he pounded his desk a large, Hu Liang, who cursed the one-pass:
so lost auto industry in Jiangxi Province, a national investment opportunities. Otherwise, if the country can vote point of time, resources, even if the vote were two to three thousand million, is also a no, Jiangxi Province, the status of the automotive industry may be completely different, at least one more state will focus on auto companies, one with a car plant in Nanjing and Beijing, the auto companies on an equal footing.
out these stories you hear, a lot of people do not know, no one said this thing . I know the whole matter, because the steam into the river, I engaged in more than a year of research.
Jiang steam after the ups and downs all the way. the car before, this plant is not a loss, because only a few hundred less than 1,000 people, and do auto repair and parts can be maintained. the car, the staff expanded to 3,000 people, beating by hand cars, production efficiency is extremely low, even when the output is not up to 1000, ranging from 300 or so.
JAC Jinggangshan cars are licensed to do with the Nanjing Yuejin almost, but not the same face as the face is knocked out. These vehicles are able to sell to? anyway never used the military to Jinggangshan car. that's implemented planned distribution, JAC had better start the day, because everything must be assigned a planned economy can be sub-brand cars are also considered a Jinggangshan good, but later, due to poor quality cars, car companies need to strive for targets in He is fighting for the liberation of the first indicators of cards, the second best indicator to Nanjing Yuejin brand, very few indicators to Jinggangshan cards. So JAC plan has not full, there is no plan to sell cars.
After the reforms, Jiang even more sad days of steam. down, the gradual infiltration of market factors, Jinggangshan not sell more. no way, then down a little price, Yuejin brand sold 1.2 million, Jinggangshan to sell 1.1 million. Even so, or not sell.
cost JAC higher than the same manufacturer, but sold cheaper price, the loss is very serious. JAC the car since 1968, has been entered into the working group in 1983, this is the continued loss in 16 years, a total loss of 56 million yuan, the average annual loss of 400 million, the largest loss of households in Jiangxi Province.
sent a work team in, the most important is to solve the financial problem. not able to plant off, can not be declared bankrupt, the workers must also meet the minimum guarantee, Wages must be paid as usual, how do? only rely on government subsidies. Jiangxi is a poor province, financial subsidies to 400 million each year who bear? Sometimes the money the government points to bank loans, these models are not being paid, so JAC It is actually the assets of insolvent mm only 1,000 million.
plus the impact of the Cultural Revolution, Jiang steam factory factionalism, leadership is not united. In this context, the Jiangxi Provincial Government decided to sent a work team take over the leadership of the exercise of power.
10 dollar bonus
probably more than six months after the dissolution of the working group, re-appointed leadership. Some members of the working group is gone, some members stayed on, I was left to , he served as first deputy director and chief engineer. director is Zheng Minghua, the workers came from. Two years later, I was promoted to director, Zheng Jiang steam plant transferred.
River steam plant must first solve the problem of losses. how to solve ? in the existing conditions, can only be improved existing products. We into the top, and they very, very anxious, steel beds, washing machines do everything, but nothing. so, it might as well do the Jinggangshan car Well, to sell.
technically I am an expert. I'll organize the workers was unreasonable Jinggangshan design, the quality of several major risks to the rectification away. If Jinggangshan prototype using a gasoline engine, gasoline engine's starter motor to 12V, gasoline was hard to sell, use diesel engines, diesel engines, but they chose not very good quality, starting voltage is 24V, they engage in a two battery: a battery starter motor, a battery with other appliances, so this systems were very complicated, failures are also particularly.
I let designers with the fastest speed to find out these issues. I also looked to the then Yangzhou Diesel Engine (hereinafter referred to Yang Chai) than the original choice of steam Jiang much better, I firmly Yangzhou Diesel Engine plant products instead. In fact NAC is also used for wood products, Yang, Jiang steam with NAC, as imitation is GAZ, they cooperate with the Yang Chai, done a lot of adjustments and improved, making the car for diesel engines. I asked the factory procurement charge: phase began to grasp, to bear fruit in 1983, car sales in 1984 increased to 1200 we are dry, Jiang steam into the black. The so-called turnaround is actually a profit. The workers are very excited, because they do not lose out, wages do not rely on a financial subsidy.
to the end of the year seeing to the New Year, I went to consult the director, said: the end of the year award? I find the Industrial and Commercial Bank Governor Zhou. I said: Director. to JMC, go, workers are around me. I told the workers are casual, with their arms around what I would have say, the workers are now dare to speak about what I do, but rather many cadres afraid of me. I Wilson how come? business in an open and transparent in all policies, I do live reports are broadcast live on television factory workers could hear.
1984, we also do several things. One is for JAC status legalized. We have a channel through the South Union to head with the steam, with the central networking. then if I'm going to report the gas companies, Southern Union must first ask them to open a letter of introduction, so only after a formal reception in Beijing. Of course, this was not a familiar after.
one hand, we gotta Southern Union Company to build relationships so that they recognize us as a little brother, is a member, and to report regularly work. On the other hand, we should also strive for better development. This contradiction, of course great, but we have no alternative. when the administrative system, each have their own interests, you say to such integration, called a river steam production small parts, three five hundred people are impossible, how to feed 3,000 people? it Guantingbingzhuan it? so to find a way to find a way.
as local leaders, as business leaders, it must seek survival, development, or to die. But in the box under the jurisdiction of the administrative system, the only give you such a small world, so the sham is inevitable. in a good relationship with the Southern Union, I try to get them to take care of business interests, one does not talk about due to the second talk, the second about three times inappropriate to talk about. classified along with the Southern Union Company's JAC factory, automobile factory in Fuzhou, Wuhan Automobile Plant. JAC is now developing very well, Fuzhou and Wuhan plant plant have died out.
steam, but the direct leadership of Jiang in Jiangxi Province. It went back on the subject of reorganization. the so-called semi-tight joint, is to integrate production and marketing, but others remain with the local property management. not Southern Union said do not work hard, nor that they do not implement the policy, time to prove, with the administrative approach to consolidation and reorganization of enterprises does not work. unless you transfer the funds directly under the central government ordered the local government obedient. but the burden of who to pick? This is a big problem. central to the next command, the River steam plant into the Nanjing Automobile Plant, who all transferred property, but who owns 56 million yuan in debt? who is back to it? So, Bo Yibo and Bin Rao wanted to break open in the automotive industry a way, a good starting point, but not work in practice.
hand, we do also use the Southern Union Company, do not use no, are designated by the State JAC areas of Southern Union Company. Later, the company has been engaged in Sanjiang is Fujian, Jiangxi, Wuhan, the three closely allied. These will, I have attended, but also participated in the discussion, but still no line of communication.
fait accompli
does not work how to do? that when the state Bell's N Series light trucks mm was the latest generation of trucks to the transfer of technology to China.
car was a Beijing Light Automobile Factory. benefit from the transfer of technology is the North two steam units. But after the 1984 Isuzu technology transfer, Beijing is not interested in selling its production BJ130 good, economic good, on the Isuzu N Series technical information not looked down on, take over after the place up.
situation has been very clear: the best of Chinese light vehicles sold in Guangdong, the Guangdong people do not buy BJ130, as long as the Isuzu, he was not afraid of you, to to high quality, no problems. Isuzu a few years no fault, BJ130 all day long to be repaired. Cantonese carefully, to see the market look very standard: the market need of high quality light trucks, poor quality low price no way out cars in the future.
but Beijing has not wake up. that many people can not wake up. I woke up. Through the investigation, I believe that the high-end light trucks are required to develop the so-called high-end is high quality, high reliability, very few failures, and even the failure is even less than the car. So I do everything possible to produce Isuzu. how to do? only by Winsor.
Winsor was also laid down to go along with Nanjing Automobile . Nanjing to begin production GAZ, Yuejin brand, Isuzu, after the older generation products to imitation, which is the first generation N series products. Meanwhile, the JAC is also generic, JAC is also generic, but are not mass production. I to be determined: either not do it, to do it 80 new products.
things so strange that time, Beijing is not interested, we want to have to see, the State Planning Commission, Economic Commission, the steam Corporation, there is no way they can stop.
very difficult to break. we must fight for the support of Southern Union Company, the use of the contradiction between Nanjing and Beijing, they are each other's competitors; also used in the steam head to Beijing terms of dissatisfaction, he quit the national introduction of technology; also thought to obtain legal status, we just place a small plant, not a national team member, we have to rely on this brand of Southern Union Company to obtain legal status.
I think that since 1969, Liang Hu went to the Jiangxi Provincial loss of this great opportunity lost, not in my hands again, this loss out of seeing the opportunities. We should think of ways to Isuzu picking technology, for can develop.
start from the most advanced, frankly speaking, differ greatly from the level of our design and technical level with others far worse. So even get this technology, but also need to find ways to achieve localization steadily . So I found out is: The first technology to take back first, the second phase of localization. no localization to a dead end, but if the 100% start to engage in domestic production, it must also be of poor quality products. This We are destined to pass the digestion and absorption and improve the level, steady development.
now appears that we are supporting parts in raising the level of light trucks also make great contributions. As the development of JMC, lightweight auto parts greatly enhance the level of supporting industries, which led to the rise in the level of light vehicle. Jiangling's contribution, not many people talked about, but today I point out. because this product as long as we do, and get a better economic efficiency, we can not only accumulated, but also for technological transformation, while helping to transform parts factory.
how to help? to raise prices. If this part can only sell 300, I can out of 400, but you must meet high standards , we must invest, must be technological innovation, and must be managed strictly. I have to subsidize the price is actually a disguised investment, I use this approach to improving the quality of parts.
but only to good products, prices can digest. The price can not digest plant parts can not be helped. In Jiangxi Province, I would also like to invest, such as Fuzhou Ganzhou transmission plant and the rear axle factory, JMC has substantial investment.
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