On January 10, 2017, Dong Mingzhu was awarded the "2016 Top Ten Economic People of the Year", at the awards site, Dong Mingzhu said, "I became a net red last year, that is, I gave my installers an increase of 100 yuan, for my employees to increase 1,000 yuan per month, at the end of the year, we issued a bonuses averaging 10,000 yuan each, and also gave them a cell phone."
In the afternoon of January 9, 2017, the network circulated Gree Electric Appliances "on the use of Gree cell phone notification" email photos, which reads: according to the spirit of the cadres meeting, after the Spring Festival, all employees need to use Gree cell phone, please grasp the implementation.
The rumors came out, immediately attracted the attention of all parties and interpretation. Some people think that just rose 1000 wages, forcing employees to buy their own cell phones.
"It's not a buy, it's a gift." "You have an opinion, you also give a cell phone to the staff ah." Before the award ceremony, Dong accepted an exclusive interview with China Entrepreneur and also talked about this issue.
"You are Gree employees, Gree products you do not use who use? You don't like yourself, why do you want others to like your products?" Dong Mingzhu believes that Gree employees use their own phones is a must. As an employee, their own products are doing well, why not use it? "Gree cell phone, the first generation, the second generation, I have been using, I think use more, in order to let me more to experience, better to marketing."
Dong Mingzhu said, do cell phone, is hoping to bring more and better products to consumers. "Some people say Gree cell phone is not successful, I think there is no such thing. It is not that I produce a cell phone today, it means that I have to do 10 million today, a hundred million, there is a time precipitation. However, I have to be responsible for the market, consumers. Either not sell, sell must be the best."
In response to some of the black Gree's comments online, Dong Mingzhu said, "We first raised 1,000 dollars in wages, the end of the year to send a year-end bonus, and then send a cell phone, what's not to like? What is there to make a fuss about? You have a problem with it, you can also give a cell phone to your employees."
China's taxes aren't too high, but there are too many fees of all kinds
At the awards ceremony on January 10, 2017, Dong Mingzhu also talked about the Internet and the real economy, saying, "In this era of the Internet, others say that we are a traditional industry, and the Internet doesn't seem to be part of us, but in the midst of this we have precisely found the Internet to be the most suitable for the development of our real economy. We have changed this era with efficiency and effectiveness, we stick to the entity of manufacturing, but we still get a good return.
Our performance in the past year did not decline, but also increased by 10%, and the profit reached 15 billion yuan, so I think in this process it is more important to see is the Internet to bring opportunities to our era, rather than the traditional industry and the Internet against the traditional industry, due to the fact that we have the Internet as a tool to allow us to take off, so that our employees get a very good growth, and also get a got a good return together with the enterprise."
In an exclusive interview with China Entrepreneur, Dong also talked about the heavy tax burden on the real economy as reflected by Cao Dewang, Zong Qinghou and others.
Dong said everyone talks about China's high taxes, without which there is no way to invest in national construction, such as health care, education and national defense, which require huge finances. "Therefore, I think as a business, it is incumbent upon us to pay taxes, which is what I have been adhering to for ten years, I will not be happy because of the reduction of my taxes, but because I can pay more taxes and happy. This is the real economy, the value of real business."
The key is that there are too many fees now, and many of them are not clearly identified, and the Premier has been saying recently that the non-tax burden on business is too heavy. If you compare it to the US, I don't think our taxes are high in any way. The key is that there are too many fees, as well as the intermediate systemic transaction costs are too high, which is really a problem to be solved.
Zong Qinghou said that there are more than 500 kinds of fees to be paid in a year, Dong Mingzhu said, "I have not counted, I am listening to a lot of entrepreneurs complained to me, inexplicably too many fees. Specifically I do not do these jobs, the number I can not speak clearly."
Geli air conditioning does not increase prices, other air conditioning is also difficult to increase prices
In the January 10 awards ceremony, talked about the impact of raw material prices for Gree, Dong Mingzhu said, "Our peers are discussing how to increase the price, but the enterprise still have to take into account the impact of the whole society, we still do not increase prices. Close to 50% of the market share of air conditioning does not increase prices, that other may not be able to increase prices."
In an exclusive interview with China Entrepreneur, Dong Mingzhu also talked about this issue, she said, now the operating costs are really rising, some peers say they want to increase prices, and Gree put forward not to increase prices, why? Because their cost control is not good, taking advantage of the material prices have risen, it is said that the material to increase the price, so the air conditioning also have to increase the price.
But the current material prices, compared with the previous highest material prices, is still far away. Copper, for example, the highest time to 70,000 or 80,000, now 50,000 has not yet reached, and can not talk about the impact on your business profits.
So, even if the material has increased in price, if the per capita efficiency is improved, is also able to come out. Dong Mingzhu said, "I do not agree with the price increase now, which will bring a kind of confusion to society, so we insist on not increasing prices. This is the responsibility of the entrepreneur, but also the responsibility of the enterprise to go."
Difficult to Dong Mingzhu ballpoint pen head, made out
The past two days, "alarmed the Premier, difficult to Dong Mingzhu ballpoint pen head, was made out", the news screen. But Dong Mingzhu really be difficult?
It is understood that at the end of 2015, Dong Mingzhu said with Beifa Group, within a year to cooperate in the research and development of equipment for the production of ballpoint pens, "not a ballpoint pen head."
Dong Mingzhu said that in 2016, we gave Beifa to do a lot of transformation, automation transformation, some equipment process transformation we have done, but also cooperation is very pleasant. But the most important ballpoint pen head that equipment we did not make. "Not made not because I can not do, because they need the material I do not have. If we were in the material business, I would have told you whether I could make that head or not. But I'm not, I don't have the material and I can't produce the material, so I can't make it."
Dong Mingzhu said, now say the pen head made, not before. This also shows that China's manufacturing industry has been progressing.