Is making a mask a big deal? Find out more about Wuling, which has built airplanes, tractors and has been featured in Forbes!

There is a saying in Mr. Jin Yong's "The Swordsman": Where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes. The United States, which is far away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, has also been criticized because a car from China has conquered the US "Forbes". At that time, it introduced it like this: "THE? MOST? IMPORTANT? CAR? ON? EARTH"—— The most important car on the planet.

And this car is the Wuling Light. No wonder there is always a saying among the people: Where there are people, there are Wuling cars. But now it has another hard-core golden saying - Wuling will make whatever the people need!

This is not just a casual talk. Wuling has been creating things that the people need since it made its fortune, but few people know it. I will give you a glimpse of Wuling’s history later. It is really Hardcore, but low-key. After reading what I am going to say next, I think no one will think Wuling is LOW anymore!

Wuling brand masks

On February 19, Wuling Motors officially released a news - SAIC-GM-Wuling became the first automobile company in the country to produce both masks and mask machines. !

Whatever the people need, Wuling will make it. Wuling Motors has been doing this from the beginning, from the earliest days of building airplanes and tractors to building cars, and now it is making masks due to the need of the epidemic.

There will definitely be many people who say that Wuling has done a good job in marketing this time. I have to admit that Wuling's marketing this time is very successful. It has been low-key for so many years and it is time for the last hot search. However, I still see Wuling's greater sense of social responsibility. This essential core reflects the quality of an enterprise.

You must know that cross-border manufacturing of masks by large car companies will involve communication with suppliers, transformation of workshops, debugging of equipment, and obtaining the R&D, production, and sales qualifications for masks, etc. Waiting process. Wuling is now a Sino-foreign joint venture automobile company. Its shareholdings are 50.1% of SAIC, 44% of GM, and 4.9% of Wuling. The internal communication process alone is enough for a while.

After making the decision to produce masks, Wuling changed the original production line of the upstream company into a 2,000-square-meter dust-free workshop and set up 14 mask production lines. It took only 76 hours to complete 10 After days of work, the first Wuling mask machine was built, and 1 million masks were quickly rolled off the production line.

Staff wearing blue protective suits and masks on their faces are working against the clock. Such high-efficiency work has brought us a daily production of 1.7 million masks, all of which use GB19083 medical protective mask level. You may not be able to tell its meaning from just a string of letters. In fact, this is the highest level among medical masks. .

However, Wuling, a low-key company, did not buy hot searches and directly announced on its official Weibo that the first 1 million "Wuling masks" would be offline and handed over to the Liuzhou government for unified deployment to support the front line of epidemic prevention. . This unhesitating courage instantly aroused the enthusiasm of the Chinese people. The hot search should be yours!

Wuling Aircraft

Wuling, it is known as "China's No. 1 Magic Car". Whether it is in the snowy mountains or muddy roads, you can see the fearless performance of Wuling Motors. Wuling has become a "joke maker" because of Wuling's presence everywhere and the constant ridicule on the Internet.

However, it is also powerful, and even luxury cars such as Ferrari and Rolls-Royce do not dare to compete head-on with it. Wuling's ability to have such strength has a lot to do with its history.

In 1928, Li Zongren, the leader of the Guangxi clique, built a Liuzhou Machinery Factory here and began to assemble aircraft and manufacture rifles and grenades. Except for the outbreak of the Guangdong-Guangxi War in 1929 and the subsequent Anti-Japanese War, which forced the production of the machinery factory to be interrupted, the employees here have always regarded rejuvenating the country with machinery as their mission.

In 1933, due to the blockade of Guangxi and the lack of oil, this factory built a charcoal car with a speed of 40 kilometers per hour. It did not burn oil and burned charcoal, and became the main means of transportation on the rear during the war. . At that time, the national defense was weak and there was a lot of waste waiting for improvement. The country needed fighter jets, so Liuzhou Machinery Factory began to build aircraft.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Liuzhou Machinery Factory tinkered with Guangxi's first fighter aircraft, the "Zhu Rongzhang", to participate in the Anti-Japanese War. At the same time, overseas Chinese engineer Zhu Rongzhang successfully designed and manufactured the first single-seat fighter jet - "Zhu Rongzhang". In the following years, Liuzhou Machinery Factory successfully manufactured dozens of aircraft. During the Anti-Japanese War, it became the ninth aircraft repair shop in China.

Wuling Tractor

In early 1958, in response to the central government’s call, Guangxi decided to expand Liuzhou Machinery Factory into the main production base of Guangxi’s power machinery, specializing in the production of large marine diesel engines. In October of the same year, Wuling's predecessor, Liuzhou Power Machinery Factory, began to break ground. (The name was changed several times later, and hereafter collectively referred to as Wuling)

The parent factory continues to produce military products, while the branched-out power machinery factory mainly produces large marine diesel engines. During the difficult economic period of 1959, the country had no need for shipbuilding, and the slogan throughout the country was "Agricultural mechanization by 1980." So Liuzhou Power Machinery Factory did not hesitate to abandon ship production and transform tractors.

Despite the difficult conditions, lack of experience, and lack of technology, Wuling still spent 4 years trial-producing the "Fengshou" tractor. The leaders sent experts to inspect and accept it, and it was included in the national final product. Liuzhou Power Machinery Factory also changed its name. For Liuzhou Tractor Factory.

Under the guidance of the planned economy, Wuling was responsible for producing tractors, and the Agricultural Machinery Bureau was responsible for "directed digestion". At that time, all the people were going to the mountains and countryside to engage in construction. Wuling tractors were very popular. At their peak, The annual output can reach 5,000 units, and it has accidentally become one of the eight largest tractor factories in the country.

Wuling Automobiles

In 1978, the state launched a land contracting policy. Like all products of the planned economy, Wuling tractors that no longer enjoyed underwriting had no sales, and soon there was a backlog of 1,713 No tractors can be sold, and the bulky machines are crowded in the warehouse, and they are losing money every day when they open their eyes.

In the early 1980s, Wuling, which was suffering from painful losses, introduced a business model of "contributing to a variety of businesses to support specialists", using other businesses to support the tractor production line, and successively tried the production of sewing machines and cotton weaving. Opportunities, can only barely maintain no loss or profit. However, it also won the National Science Congress Award.

Before the reform and opening up, my country's automobile industry was in its infancy, and the prices of joint venture cars were out of reach. The people urgently needed an affordable car. So the Central Agricultural Machinery Department introduced a Japanese Mitsubishi minivan and organized automobile manufacturers to research and tackle key problems, but Wuling didn't have anything to do here. At that time, in the automobile manufacturing industry, the three big companies and one small company (FAW, Dongfeng, SAIC, GAC, BAIC and Tianqi) were the key training targets of the country.

But Wuling has a keen sense of smell. It realizes that minivans are scarce and focusing on minivans may open up the market. At that time, Wuling's cash flow was tight, but it still imported a Mitsubishi car from Japan at its own expense. However, unlike the national team, Wuling only imported key technologies such as body molds, chassis and power systems.

Wuling's technical staff spent three months completing the surveying and mapping work of the entire vehicle, and the rest was "making the vehicle behind closed doors." From the appearance of the car to more than 2,500 parts, everything relies on manual measurement and drawing, and then manual hammering and grinding. On January 20, 1982, Wuling finally "reproduced" the first LZ110 minivan, realizing the domestic minivan manufacturing A breakthrough in the field.

In October 1984, the "Wuling" pickup truck produced by Liuzhou Tractor Factory passed national professional testing and was officially put on the market and was widely welcomed by the public. The following year, Liuzhou Tractor Factory officially changed its name to Liuzhou Mini Vehicle Factory. Also in this year, the total industrial output value of Liuzhou Mini Car Factory reached 73.23 million yuan.

In 1996, Liuzhou Machinery Factory and Liuzhou Mini Car Factory merged again after 40 years to form Liuzhou Wuling Automobile Co., Ltd. Many national leaders are very interested in this and visited Wuling Motors' production workshop in person. From the production and sales of 10,000 units in 1991 to 100,000 units in 1998, Wuling Motors has gradually become the number one in the domestic mini-car industry.

You know, in the history of the global automobile industry, there are only two other companies that have experienced the transformation from building tractors to building cars. One is Lamborghini, and the other is Porsche. Wuling Motors is also ranked among the top three.

Written at the end

From charcoal machines, fighter jets, gasoline engines, chain saws, tractors, boating machines, sewing machines, cotton looms and other things that the people need, to where we are today The foundation is automobiles. Wuling has always adhered to the declaration of "Wuling will build whatever the people need."

In addition to making masks, Wuling also organized a team, grabbed time, and focused on research and development to create a new generation of mobile epidemic prevention black technology - an intelligent mobile temperature measurement vehicle, and successfully delivered it at the event site that day, creating " "Epidemic Prevention Liuzhou Model" once again ran out of the "Wuling Acceleration".

In fact, it is not just Wuling. After the outbreak, more than 3,000 companies have added new products such as masks, protective clothing, disinfectants, and thermometers. Behind this is everyone's determination to unite and overcome difficulties.

Written by Sam

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