The representatives of the conference would make some suggestions and bring them out for everyone to discuss in order to make progress together.
But the suggestions are the same every year. The smaller manufacturers want the bigger manufacturers to give in to them and give them some technologies for free. The bigger manufacturers want to merge with the smaller manufacturers to expand their scale. Merging with the smaller manufacturers is more cost-effective than building a new factory, and they will have a group of experienced workers.
The factories that produced spare parts wanted more orders and wanted to raise the price of spare parts. But they did not realize that the parts they are working on are the lowest tech, and they are not qualified to negotiate!
This year, Bing City Machinery Manufacturing Group made a new suggestion, and it caught Wang Donghui's attention. Bing City Machinery Manufacturing Group wants to invest a large sum to expand their test labs and call on other manufacturers to join them. They want to set up Hua Xia's NCAP rating system like Europe, the US, Japan, etc.
There are several benefits to this. First, everyone can conduct crash tests in the same lab, and they can save money. Second, everyone can conduct the tests in the same lab, and the evaluation standards will be the same. They can supervise each other, and there will be no possibility of faking the results. Third, it can integrate with the international market faster. This rating system is recognized by the world, and it will help China's automobile manufacturers to enter the international market.
Although all the automobile manufacturers have their own crash testing laboratories, other than Bing City Machinery Manufacturing Group's, the rest are not as advanced. Most of their models are joint ventures with overseas companies and had undergone crash tests overseas. That's why China's testing is simpler.
Some smaller manufacturers' crash tests are also very rough, and many of them use fake data. All they need to do is to fool the higher-ups. The cost of an impact test was not a small amount.
A top-notch dummy will cost more than 1 million RMB, and each crash test will cost at least 100,000 to 200,000 RMB. It will be more expensive if a better car is used.
How much do you think it will cost to test a new car that needs to go through multiple impact tests? Those small domestic manufacturers can't afford it.
Songjiang Motors' sales overseas are not doing well, and it's also because of their low NCAP rating. According to European standards, the best level of the Song Jiang Olympic Games could barely be considered a four-star, and the others were only three-star. Little Elf's rating is only 2 stars.
Cars are one of the main means of transportation in Europe and the US, and the accident rate is higher there. Therefore, the safety of the car was very important. No one wanted to have an accident, right?
On the other hand, Hua Xia did not pay enough attention to these things. In fact, Feng Yu only saw children's seats being sold in the market last year. In the past, when adults drove with their children, the parents would either carry the children on their laps or in their arms, or let the children sit in the back by themselves. They did not even know to fasten a seatbelt.
Just a child seat alone could actually provide a lot of safety protection for children. Feng Yu had asked Bing City Machinery Manufacturing Group to manufacture this children's chair, but the market response is not good. Many people feel it is useless.
If there was a car accident, it wouldn't matter if there was a child seat or not. Those who were going to get hurt would still get hurt. Some people even thought that it was safer to carry the child on their lap or in their arms. If something happened, they could use their own bodies to shield the child from danger.
Although in theory, the human body could also provide a certain amount of protection, Feng Yu still believed that the child safety seat was more effective. It was inevitable that adults would be careless, but the seat would not. And if an accident happened, the adults might not be able to react in time.
If there must be another layer of protection, the adult sitting beside the child will provide more protection for the child.
In Feng Yu's previous life, Hua Xia set up CNCAP in 2005, and it was led by a private company. The person who led the company was Li Dafu. Those state-owned enterprises were still fighting for themselves.
In this life, Hua Xia's cars were exported earlier, and Feng Yu felt they should set up this star rating system earlier to increase Hua Xia's competitiveness.
Other countries had not set up this star rating system very early, and the most influential European rating system was only set up in 1997. That's why the gap between the two countries will not be big if they set it up now. If they wait for a few more years, it will be harder for them to catch up.
If Hua Xia's rating system is recognized by Europe, it will be recognized by the rest of the world. For example, the Chevrolet cars in the US had an average rating of 4 stars and above, but in the European laboratory, the overall rating was only 2 stars.
Volvo, which was acquired by Hua Xia in Feng Yu's previous life, was the car with the highest rating in this category. It was also because of the acquisition of Volvo that Hua Xia's evaluation system was truly recognized internationally.
"Everyone, what do you think about Director Li's proposal?" Wang Donghui asked.
"I don't think that's necessary, right? We all have our own laboratories. Why should we take it to someone else's laboratory to conduct experiments? Old Li, your company is already making a lot of money. There is no need for you to earn money from other companies, right? "FAW President Zhao said sarcastically.
"Since President Zhao asked, I'll explain. Our company has its own laboratories, including the materials laboratory, spare parts laboratory, power laboratory, vehicle laboratory, emission laboratory, noise laboratory, vibration laboratory, durability laboratory, environmental wind tunnel laboratory, measurement center, etc. I would like to ask, which company has a more complete laboratory than ours? "
"For this impact laboratory alone, we are planning to invest 200 million USD. Remember, 200 million USD! The cost of a dummy is more than 1 million RMB, and we still have to buy it from overseas. Our country cannot manufacture such an intricate dummy. Although there are only two kinds of crash tests for a car, the data of the dummy in different positions has to be tested. A new car crash test has to be carried out dozens or even hundreds of times. We can do it now. Which one of you can do it? "
"Without these tests, our cars will not be recognized overseas. Our cars that we export to the US and Europe must be tested there. To all of you, our cars should be safe, right? But our cars are still far from the European and US cars. Also, safety is one of the factors that many families consider when buying cars. "
"Are you all going to stay in China for the rest of your lives? Have you all never thought of exporting cars? You all are only thinking of producing joint ventures and never thought of producing your own brand of cars? You all have been buying other people's technologies for the rest of your lives. Have you all never thought of surpassing others? "
"Our Bing City Machinery Manufacturing Group will invest in this new impact laboratory, and it will be a national level laboratory. Our other laboratories will also be national level. We want to build the biggest automobile engineering laboratory in Asia, and we must let others believe in our standards. If anyone wants to stay in China for the rest of their lives and watch others export cars to China to earn our money, just forget what I said. Our Bing City Machinery Manufacturing Group will do it ourselves! "
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