Chapter 14 Director Zhang"There are so many products on display this time. I spent the whole day looking at them yesterday and my eyes are almost dazzled. I really hope you won't be disappointed." The next day, on the way to the International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, Fran, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was exaggeratingly telling John and Catherine about what he had seen and heard at the exhibition yesterday. Today Victor stayed on the farm, and his wife Lisa and two daughters Yelena and Rebecca still did not come with him. In Lisa's words, she is not very interested in these big things. It would be better to spend her time baking some bread for her family at home. After hearing Fran's introduction, John smiled and said, "Have you visited the Krass booth?" "Of course, their booth is one of the largest in the whole venue, but it was still packed with people. Many visitors were willing to line up to experience driving. But this year their products did not disappoint us. Not only are there many varieties, but the products are also very competitive. They are a great agricultural machinery company, no less than John Deere, Case New Holland and Kubota." "Haha, although Claas acts low-key, it is the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in Europe, and its sales have long been ranked fifth in the world. It's just that their management is too stable, and they don't have much impulse to expand the market, so the sales scale has always been concentrated in Europe. If its strategy was a little more radical, I believe it would have already rushed into the top three in the world." John recounted his understanding of Claas with pride. "Wow, John, although this is just your wishful thinking, it happens to represent my thoughts. In my eyes, Claas is also one of the top three agricultural machinery companies in the world." John and Fran were discussing enthusiastically, with laughter coming from time to time, and the focus of the topic was mostly on the German agricultural machinery company Claas. Compared to the liveliness in the front row, Catherine and Guo Yang who were sitting in the back row were much quieter. Even Guo Yang began to close his eyes and rest.
Seeing this scene, Catherine looked vaguely unhappy. Guo Yang was talking and laughing with her the day before yesterday, how come he became so silent after a day? Thinking of this, Catherine gently touched Guo Yang's arm with her elbow. Seeing Guo Yang open his eyes, she smiled and asked, "Hey, Guo, how did you feel about participating in the agricultural machinery exhibition yesterday? Did you see any companies from your country participating in the exhibition?" Guo Yang was speechless for a moment. After thinking about it yesterday, he had already made up his mind to return home immediately after the agricultural machinery exhibition, and gave up the idea of continuing to seduce Catherine. Besides, the girl could have asked anything else but this question. How should he answer? He carefully experienced a total of 8 agricultural machines yesterday, and felt that they were very boring, tedious and uninteresting. He could not appreciate the diversity of the products at all. And he has seen a lot of technological innovations, including automated operations, drone imaging, hydrogen engines, data integration, electric tractors, etc. As for whether there would be any Chinese agricultural machinery companies participating in the exhibition, he had no idea. At that time, domestic agricultural mechanization research was relatively lagging behind, and the level of agricultural machinery technology was not high. In addition, China only joined the WTO this year, so it was expected that few companies would come to participate in the exhibition. Therefore, it was difficult for him to answer Catherine's question. He could only spread his hands helplessly, smiled, and remained silent. Soon after, we arrived at the exhibition hall. Just like yesterday, Guo Yang separated from the others after entering the exhibition hall. Yesterday he mainly collected information on power agricultural machinery, and today his collection target is mainly livestock machinery. So Guo Yang went straight to the booth of Germany's Koroni Company. Like Fendt and Claas, Germany's Kronen is also a top brand in the global agricultural machinery industry, and can even be said to be a luxury brand. It is recognized as the world's best livestock machinery manufacturer. Not only are its products excellent, but its corporate scale is also large. But it is said that in Germany, Koroni is more famous for commercial vehicles. Colony's booth is located in Hall 16, where the livestock equipment is most concentrated. It is home to many large European and American forage planting and harvesting companies, such as Vemma and McHale. After arriving at the Koroni booth, Guo Yang learned from the booth that Koroni is a company that has fully mechanized forage planting and harvesting, involving machines for many links in forage planting, including mowing, silage and silage harvesting, turning and drying, raking, baling, film wrapping, transportation, and pelleting.
Soon, Guo Yang was once again immersed in the process of collecting information. After yesterday's experience, Guo Yang did not stay on the machine where people gathered, but chose the most practical machine with relatively few people. This way, less time is spent in queues, and one can enter the cockpit for a simulated test drive faster. It also speeds up the seed store's information collection process, and efficiency is naturally improved a lot. And just when Guo Yang was busy collecting various agricultural machinery information. A Chinese visiting group consisting of several people also came to the Colony booth. The leader was a middle-aged man in a neat suit, with clear facial lines and deep, bright eyes. Next to him, a slightly younger man introduced him, "Director Zhang, this Coroni BiGX is currently the largest and most powerful forage harvester in the world. It is equipped with a MAN V12 engine and has a very high harvesting efficiency. It is known as the king of forage harvesters." The group stopped in front of the silage machine that Guo Yang was test-driving. Guo Yang, who was sitting on the silage machine in a daze, happened to hear a familiar language. I couldn't help but look over. I saw the man called Director Zhang looking around the Koroni silage machine and then said, "The gap between our country's agricultural machinery and foreign countries is huge." "The performance of those multinational companies in the Chinese market and Chinese exhibitions is just a superficial appearance, which is far from fully reflecting the real strength of these companies. Moreover, the products exhibited are far behind the products sold in China in terms of richness, advancement and technological content." "These multinational companies have not sold really good products and technologies to China. First, the current domestic consumption level is low and these expensive agricultural machinery cannot be afforded. But more importantly, they are still very wary of us." "After watching the Hannover Fair, I hope that you, the elites representing the domestic agricultural machinery industry, will put aside any contempt you may have for these multinational agricultural machinery companies." "Show your awe and a stronger desire to catch up." Naturally, everyone nodded in agreement, and then began to visit Colony's booth. After such a delay, Guo Yang received a reminder in his mind that the seed store had completed collecting information. He didn't hesitate any longer, got off the silage machine and walked towards this group of elites from the country. If you want to develop in this industry in the future, you will inevitably have interactions with this group of people. In that case, why not take the initiative to make friends. I happened to meet a Chinese person at an agricultural machinery exhibition in a foreign country. I think they would not refuse to meet a young person with potential. Guo Yang walked straight to the leading man. "Hello, Director Zhang." Before this, Zhang Jianjun's eyes had always been on this silage harvester which is said to be the largest in the world. Of course, he also noticed a slender yellow man jumping off the machine. He originally thought it was a Japanese or Korean, but he didn't expect the young man to walk straight towards him and greet him in standard Mandarin. Looking at the young man's outstretched right hand, Zhang Jianjun was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted and shook hands with Guo Yang. A young man with energy and drive. This was the first impression Guo Yang gave him. Please collect, recommend, and read. It's not easy to write part-time, I hope you can understand.
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