The CEOs present at this meeting met Lu An offline for the first time, and they were secretly surprised.
Because they found that the calmness of this young man's speech and behavior, who was of the same generation as their children, was not pretending at all, and even his aura was not inferior to anyone here.
Actually, Lu An has been very restrained.
The company CEO who was criticized on the spot by Lu An was embarrassed.
After being criticized, he tried to make amends from the macro-narrative level as an entry point: "Haha, Mr. Lu's calculation is just a small account, but it is not the country's big account. The reason why our country's manufacturing industry is globally competitive is that its products are of high quality and low price."
"Significant salary increases for employees by companies will inevitably push up product prices. High wages will greatly weaken the competitiveness of our industry in the global market." In a country with lower labor costs, our country's development momentum will stop. It can be seen that temporary high wages are simply drinking poison to quench thirst, which is extremely harmful to the industry and the country."
Other business executives present also nodded to themselves.
Obviously, the other party's rhetoric is nothing more than trying to stand on a moral high ground, and then label Lu An as weakening the competitiveness of domestic industries.
Wu Hongsheng who was present at the meeting still did not speak, but said in his heart: Stop talking, shut up!
However, Mr. Wang obviously hasn't realized that he has made Wu Hongsheng very unhappy at this moment. If he had this awareness, he would have shut up obediently.
Lu An responded on the spot: "First of all, I don't think it is your turn to settle the country's big account. Secondly, Mr. Wang, what you mean by this is that you think that the country's current grand strategy of promoting industrial upgrading is wrong?"
This As soon as the words came out, Mr. Wang denied it on the spot: "Don't blame me, I didn't say that, nor did I mean it."
Lu An nodded to himself and said, "That's not what I meant, that's extremely short-sighted."
Mr. Wang suddenly turned pale: "You..."
Lu An ignored the other party. He said calmly and unhurriedly: "The country's long-term goal is to upgrade our country from an underdeveloped country to a developed country. We must carry out industrial upgrading. Then we cannot be locked in low-end industries and keep making shirts for others. Instead, we must do high-end manufacturing and high value-added profit industries such as mobile phones, airplanes, automobiles, and chips."
"Mr. Wang's view seems reasonable. But in reality, the idea of making hundreds of millions of shirts in exchange for an old Boeing airplane can become a developed country? "Looking around the world, I haven't seen a single example. "In the past ten years, the labor productivity of our country's workers has doubled, but their wages have not increased much. You can say that this is the role of market forces. There is an oversupply of labor and wages cannot rise."
"But now the situation is slowly changing, and labor shortages are gradually emerging."
"On the one hand, our country's industrial structure needs to be upgraded. The production methods that rely on low wages and resource competition are becoming increasingly uncompetitive and cause great damage to the environment, which will increase the cost of environmental governance in the future. On the other hand, our country's demographic structure has led to a mismatch between supply and demand for industrial supporting facilities."
"It is an objective fact that we are losing the advantage of low-cost labor, but the solution is not to barely maintain low wages. This cannot become a developed country. Can the whole population maintain a low income and be called a developed country? The real solution is industrial upgrading, which is to reduce the use of low-cost labor and rely on smart manufacturing and technological innovation to increase the proportion of added value of enterprises. "
"This is the only way for our country to become a developed country. Now the country emphasizes that one of the main contents of structural adjustment is industrial upgrading, and wage increases just help the realization of this change."
"There are two important things in a country's economy, one is the production of wealth, and the other is the distribution of wealth. The two correspond to efficiency and fairness."
"As long as these two things can be done well, I think there will be no big economic problems."
"In the past, we focused on the production of wealth and focused on making the pie bigger, but ignored distribution. In contemporary times, our country's wealth accumulation is actually relatively scarce. Now that we have entered a new era, it is the opportunity to correct it."
"Worrying that raising wages will make companies lose their competitiveness is a bias that only cares about efficiency and ignores fairness. What's more, raising wages is also beneficial to efficiency, because the increase in the income of low-income people can expand consumption and help balance the macro demand structure."
h said. At this point, Lu An paused for a moment and looked around at the attendees: "The changes that are taking place in Jianing City are the best example. The 12 OEMs that have reached strategic cooperation with our company have come to Jianing City to set up factories. They have recruited a large number of workers and their salaries have increased significantly, which is double the level of their peers."
"Including our subsidiary Metaverse Manufacturing, we have now expanded the recruitment of 20,000 employees, and their wages are much higher than those of 12 foundries."
"With the future expectations of high income, everyone's confidence in the future has greatly increased. People dare to buy houses, cars, and spend money. As a result, the economy of Jianing City has rebounded significantly. The property market has stopped falling and has rebounded. It has not only stopped the economic downward trend, but also ushered in an inflection point. The upward momentum is extremely obvious."
"If Mr. Wang's point of view is That’s right, Jianing City will not be able to usher in the change of the current good situation. "
"The so-called high salary package for corporate employees will weaken the competitiveness of our country's industry is just a fallacy. In fact, at this stage of economic development, the things that need to be done to alleviate economic pressure under the market economy mechanism cannot be eliminated."
"If you pretend that the problem does not exist, looking back, the pressure of the economic situation will still force you to solve these problems. The solution will still be this way, but if the problems accumulate and explode, it will only become more serious."
After a while, Wu Hongsheng felt that he could no longer remain silent.
He looked around at the crowd with a smile and said slowly: "Everyone's speeches are wonderful, and the truth always becomes clearer with each passing day."
"We are working hard to further smoothen the communication channels between government and enterprises, and regularly collect corporate needs. This symposium has face-to-face exchanges, and everyone's debate also impressed me deeply."
Wu Hongsheng turned to look at several cadres attending the meeting and said: "Relevant department heads must carefully sort out the demands of enterprises, study and absorb opinions and suggestions, and translate them into specific measures in a timely manner." Solve it through development. "
"High-quality development is the last word, and enterprises are the mainstay of economic development."
"It is the unshirkable responsibility of the city's relevant departments to ensure the healthy development of enterprises. Departments at all levels in the city must continue to work hard to create a first-class business environment, ensure effective policy implementation, help enterprises grow and develop, improve the quality and efficiency of enterprise-friendly services, and support participation in fair competition. "
“Departments at all levels should take the initiative to solve problems for the enterprise with responsibility and emotion, and truly put the work at the heart of the enterprise.”
As Wu Hongsheng finished his speech, there was applause.
While Lu An was applauding, he was thinking about the core purpose of Wu Hongsheng personally hosting this symposium this time.
It is most likely to be a pavement for the next comprehensive cleanup of the remaining problems in Jianing City, so as to ensure that the impact on the economy is relatively mitigated as much as possible.
But these things Wu Hongsheng did have laid a solid foundation for Jianing City to grow into a new first-tier super metropolis in the future.
Lu An is certainly happy to hear about this.
After the symposium, Wu Hongsheng had a long talk with Lu An alone for a while.
During the conversation, he also indirectly explained that the two people at the meeting were not arranged by him. This judgment was certainly not a problem for Lu An, but Wu Hongsheng was not sure, so he still had to communicate. The two parties also solved this small problem during the conversation.
Subsequently, Wu Hongsheng directly stated to Lu An that he wanted to comprehensively clean up the remaining problems in Jianing City. He only reported this to Lu An alone, and none of the entrepreneurs knew about it.
The meaning is also very obvious. It is hoped that Yuanjie Intelligent Control will drive the city's economy and thus effectively offset the economic shock.
Lu An also made it clear that there is no problem with this. The economic growth contributed by Metaverse Intelligent Control to Jianing City can not only effectively offset it, but is also more than enough to achieve strong absolute net growth.
With Lu An’s clear attitude, Wu Hongsheng no longer has financial worries and can safely deal with the remaining problems in Jianing City.
The two sides talked for half an hour, and Lu An also left.
After arranging these things properly, Lu An left Jianing City. He took a technical team to a military base provided by the military to test and solve some follow-up technical problems of armed humanoid robots.
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