Comrades:
Good morning everyone! Today, we are holding this mid year work conference with the aim of summarizing the business management work of the first half of the year, deeply analyzing existing problems, accurately grasping the current situation, paving the way for the work of the second half of the year, and jointly discussing the new development pattern of Huali.
Currently, the global economic landscape is constantly changing, with uncertain factors following closely behind. International trade frictions continue to escalate, slowing down the pace of global economic growth. Domestically, although maintaining a steady and progressive trend, the downward pressure on the economy still constantly warns us of the difficulties ahead. In such a macroeconomic environment, the construction industry is also struggling to survive and has suffered huge impacts. The real estate market continues to be sluggish, with few new construction projects and shrinking market demand; The growth rate of infrastructure construction investment has slowed down, and government project funds are tight, making it increasingly difficult to collect payments. At the same time, industry competition is intensifying, and state-owned enterprises, relying on their advantages in capital, technology, and brand, are far behind private enterprises. Private construction enterprises that rely on traditional housing construction services are facing unprecedented pressure to exit. It can be said that we are living in an era where challenges and opportunities coexist, and industry reshuffling has become an irreversible trend.
In fact, similar situations are not unique to China's construction industry, but rather exhibit an economic cyclical pattern. Taking the Japanese construction industry as an example, its development can be divided into four stages:
Prosperity period (1960-1975): With rapid economic growth, the expansion of infrastructure was fully driven, and the demand for residential and transportation facilities exploded. The industry scale grew from less than 1 trillion yuan to 14 trillion yuan.
Peak period (1976-1990): The foam economy pushed up the wave of investment in commercial real estate construction, and the industry scale climbed from 15 trillion to 43 trillion, reaching a historical peak.
Depression period (1991-2010): the foam economy burst, demand suddenly dropped, the real estate market collapsed, a large number of projects were shut down, and the industry scale was halved from 43 trillion to 26 trillion.
Recovery period (2011-2024): With technological upgrades and innovative management models, the industry slowly recovered and rebounded, reaching 40 trillion yuan in 2021.
How did Japan revive the construction industry during the recession through technological upgrades and innovative management models? We can learn from the following measures.
1. Enterprise operation mode, from extensive subcontracting to vertical control. Fully direct operation, abandoning the traditional multi-level subcontracting model, projects are directly managed by the headquarters to avoid quality control and profit reduction caused by multi-level subcontracting.
2. Upgrade technology and management, and drive efficiency and safety. Mechanization and process innovation, promoting prefabricated construction, PC construction method, modular construction, introducing BIM technology, unmanned aerial vehicle inspection, intelligent monitoring system, realizing construction process visualization, and controlling errors within millimeters.
3. Market positioning adjustment, from scale expansion to refined survival, focusing on stock renewal. Specialized segmentation means that enterprises no longer pursue large and comprehensive fields, but instead focus on specialized areas such as seismic reinforcement, green building, and aging renovation, forming differentiated competitiveness.
We are currently in a difficult period of depression and facing numerous challenges. Just now, the heads of various departments and Mr. Zhu's work report comprehensively, meticulously, and deeply summarized and analyzed the overall work of the first half of the year. I agree with this. Looking back at the first half of the year, we must face the reality that all business indicators have not reached the targets set at the beginning of the year, there are many difficulties in market expansion, construction units cannot pay project fees on time, the company's procurement is proceeding step by step, material suppliers and teams have filed many lawsuits, and there is enormous pressure on fund payments. To cope with these difficulties, we have taken a series of measures, such as optimizing organizational structure, streamlining personnel, reducing salaries and positions, etc., in order to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. In the second half of the year, we will continue to promote management mode innovation, strengthen vertical control, reduce intermediate links, optimize the organization, and normalize salary adjustments. At the same time, we actively explore new business areas and business models, vigorously expanding into markets outside the city, province, and overseas. Our external layout has shown initial results, and the next step is to focus on overseas markets. While maintaining our traditional business, we are vigorously expanding and participating in overseas real estate, gas stations, equipment leasing, international trade, and other businesses. As long as we can make money, have cash flow, and controllable risks, we can do any business. We have established construction companies in regions such as Zambia and Kazakhstan, gradually forming dual headquarters; Build investment platforms in China, assemble entrepreneurial teams, mature and incubate one, and fully respond to changes and challenges in the external market. We must soberly realize that we do not have the ability to lead or change changes in the external environment. Only by vigorously optimizing internal management, promoting system construction, and judging heroes based on performance, can we survive in this battle of survival. Building performance in China is guided by dignity. To live is today, to live is to see tomorrow, otherwise it's better to die, so today we call everyone together, unify our thoughts and set off again. Wearing new shoes and following the old path is no longer feasible. We must adopt a different approach in order to emerge from the recession and enter the recovery period, just like Japanese architecture, and have a place.
Here, I would like to share a few viewpoints with you regarding the direction of work for the second half of the year:
1、 We need to strengthen our market management capabilities while firmly grasping the two "lifeline" lines of cost and procurement without relaxing
The competition in the market must be talent competition and cost competition. To increase market share and establish market advantages, it is necessary to seize management talents and cost talents. How can Huali build an excellent market management team and construct a team that significantly reduces construction costs while ensuring quality? These are the core competitiveness of Huali.
Firstly, as marketers, we need to have the ability to promote ourselves, not only with a keen sense of the market, but also with good emotional intelligence and intelligence. Marketers represent Huali externally. If they cannot promote themselves, how can they possibly promote Huali? Without effective communication with customers, trust cannot be established, and the final cooperation transaction cannot be facilitated. Secondly, we need to have the ability to track and review the entire project operation cycle. Our traditional business model is to take on projects for the sake of receiving them, without considering the approval department, funding sources, bidding methods, Huali's strengths and weaknesses, and how to win the bid. If we win the bid, what impact will it have on quality, cost, technology, safety, and final accounts during the construction process, and what favorable and unfavorable factors will it have for Huali? These are all factors that marketing personnel need to think about how to cooperate with other departments. We need to have the thinking of tracking and planning the entire project cycle, and cannot listen to others' words to operate.
And our bidding, no matter how well the front-end management is done, if the bidding cost is not competitive, we cannot win the bid. Based on past bidding inspections, our quotations are often higher than others. Our bidding personnel only prepare bids based on the bill of quantities, without understanding the market and actual prices, as well as whether there are omissions or errors in the bill of quantities. Therefore, they cannot analyze the impact during the bidding and construction period. There have even been cases of selling bids, sitting in the office and selling Huali's bid, which has lost the market, the hard work of the management personnel, the company's performance, and Huali's reputation. This situation needs to be thoroughly resolved. In addition, if we adopt a cooperative model, we need to find the actual project contractor and reject the "secondary vendors". In recent years, we have encountered many second-hand dealers who take away the company's bidding resources by giving small favors to the upper level leaders or lower level managers of Huali, and can sell them for 50000, 100000, or even more. If this project wins the bid, they will subcontract it layer by layer like buying and selling, and in the end, all risks will be covered by the company. The company's reputation and profits will be damaged, and years of operating resources will be wasted. Our fate is in the hands of these people. Such business personnel do not represent the ability and image of Huali's premium enterprises, and must be rectified.
Even the best business requires a cost advantage to win the bid. Building a cost advantage allows us to seize the initiative in bidding on the front-end and create more profits for our project on the back-end. Our engineering costs, in general, mainly consist of "personnel, materials, and machinery". To minimize costs to the greatest extent possible, we need management, project, procurement, and cost positions with professional abilities to be familiar with bidding prices, budget prices, market prices, and on-site prices. We cannot make a single price for bidding, a single price for procurement, or a single price for cost calculation. Doing each job separately will not maximize profits. To achieve the first, second, or even third operation of a project, we must understand market prices. This requires our professionals to have dynamic management skills, communication and coordination skills, team organization and work abilities, and to constantly grasp where materials are cheap and where quality is good, where equipment is cheap and where service is good.
Our procurement management still uses the old method. Once the project proposal is submitted to the procurement department, the bidding process begins, and only a few suppliers are recruited. There is no comparability, and even one supplier can control several suppliers to surround the bidding. Now the participation of the bidding supervision and inspection department is just a formality, just going through the process, turning unreasonable into reasonable, and recruiting for the sake of procurement. Our practitioners have not developed a meticulous management mindset, have not made deep exploration of procurement projects, have not found suppliers with the lowest prices and guaranteed quality, have not looked at the prices of companies like private enterprise Zhu Chuanhu, state-owned enterprise Provincial Construction Engineering, and central enterprise China Construction, and have used 15% of real estate to offset project payments to suppliers. This is the urgent problem we need to solve now.
2、 Build a project centered management system and build a results oriented project management team
Projects are the cornerstone of a company's development, the guarantee of safety, quality, and technology, the cradle of talent cultivation, the window for brand promotion, and the source of survival and profit for the enterprise. Choosing the project leader is crucial, as he will form the project management team and clarify the "responsibilities, powers, and benefits". The entire company must serve the project. We must build a new energy system that is "risk controllable, system managed, process managed, cultural managed, budget conscious, hardworking, and quick decision-making". We must implement comprehensive direct management, abandon the traditional multi-level subcontracting model, achieve direct project control by the headquarters, and eliminate the phenomenon of quality control and profit reduction caused by multi-level subcontracting. Our self operated projects do not need to find labor to subcontract, so as to maximize profits. Our project management personnel should be good at using digital management thinking, firmly grasp the real-time situation of various indicators on the project, and must work together with the construction site to discover problems, use digital and information technology to analyze problems, and help the project solve problems. Only in this way can we effectively control costs and enhance our ability to lead teams.
Our management must serve the operation. Why is it said that the actions of management are determined by the operation? Because in an enterprise, operation is doing the right thing, and management is about doing things right. Without operation, there is no management. The relationship between them is relatively clear. We win bids at low prices in our operations, so we require careful management of cost, procurement, and construction processes to ensure project profits and keep up with business changes. When choosing 'you get what you pay for' in business, management needs to focus on quality and brand changes, because business is a market price behavior, and the project department needs to be meticulous in budgeting. As managers, we must formulate management methods based on business prices to make money, and cannot afford to lose money on projects.
For projects that have not started after winning the bid, Huali must find someone who can maximize the project profit as the project manager and person in charge before starting work. Respect the project manager and let them arrange the project leadership team themselves. Each functional department should also consciously serve the project, and the project must comply with the company's requirements, conscientiously and effectively implement the system. Everyone must consciously accept supervision and inspection. We should take work ability as an important criterion for promotion and appointment, and the result is performance. Performance is dignity. The company does not support idle people, does not harm capable people, does not use mediocre people, and does not leave lazy people. Let those who do practical things take the lead, forming an atmosphere of unity and struggle to overcome difficulties and achieve success.
3、 Supervision and inspection work should be implemented in practice, and a work style of "system management of personnel and process management" should be effectively created
Our supervision and inspection work must be carried out in accordance with the system first. We must be able to discover the shortcomings of the system, supervise the revision of the system, and inspect the implementation of the system, so that the system becomes the standard for Huali people to work in the company, and the process is signed by responsible people. We must make management personnel put their abilities, problems, character, and profits in a clear manner. Supervision is control, inspection is correction, and audit is result. We should use the guidance of looking at people while doing, identifying people while doing, and valuing replacement. Some of our managers only talk about theory without putting it into practice, which is meaningless. Huali's profits come from the front line, and managers must go deep into the front line to personally promote the improvement of enterprise profits and become omniscient experts; To promptly identify and solve problems on the front line; To work hard with employees and help them grow, such people need to be promoted. This is the kind of manager we need. To promote management cadres now, we must have successful practical experience on the front line. From now on, those who have made achievements in China are all doing so step by step.
As the saying goes, the broken pot matches the broken lid. The thinking, pattern, and ability of our managers determine what kind of people we can recruit and cultivate. If managers are not good, they cannot recruit outstanding talents and cultivate excellent employees. So we need a new pot with a new lid, so that managers can constantly improve their mentality, character, pattern, ability, and way of thinking, in order to cultivate excellent talents, find qualified successors, and enable Huali to achieve stability and long-term success.
4、 Culture and human resources should be centered, deep, and practical, enabling employees to have correct values and deeply integrate with Huali culture
The deep integration of corporate culture and employees, as well as corporate management, requires consistency between culture and employee behavior. Therefore, corporate culture and human resource management are inseparable. Without culture, human resources lose their soul, and culture cannot be implemented without the support of human resources.
In the first half of the year, we promoted organizational structure optimization and reduced staff and salaries, achieving certain results. Most of our comrades understood and supported this. If Huali wants to survive today and live better tomorrow, this work must continue to be promoted. Tomorrow's Huali will definitely be a more efficient and powerful Huali. Our employees must stick to Huali, change their thinking, constantly learn, and make progress. Huali needs people with good character, strong ability, and strong responsibility.
In the stage of high-quality development, Huali should establish a result oriented culture based on profit and performance. If everyone's hard work is not converted into profit or performance, then all efforts will lose value and waste time. We need to have the ability to identify and solve problems, which determines your position and salary. The company's problem is an opportunity for improvement, the customer's problem is an opportunity to provide services, the company's problem is an opportunity for growth, the colleague's problem is an opportunity to establish cooperation, the leader's problem is an opportunity to gain trust, and the competitor's problem is an opportunity for you to become stronger. The company wants to promote those who solve problems, make those who create problems give way, and let those who complain about problems leave. In this era of life and death in the industry, your responsibility is your direction, your experience is your capital, and your personality is your destiny. Simplify complex tasks, and you are an expert; Repeating simple tasks makes you an expert; Do the repetitive things with care, and you will be the winner. Beauty belongs to the confident, opportunities belong to the pioneers, miracles belong to the persistent. If you don't want to do it, you will always find excuses; If you want to do it, you will always find a way.
Comrades, as shareholders, we have no choice and no way out. We have put our entire family's lives in the company. Only by working hard, working hard, and finding people who resonate with Huali, working together with those who do not go around when encountering problems, do not turn back when encountering difficulties, and do not avoid risks, can we see tomorrow. When Huali encountered difficulties in its transformation and upgrading, we were fortunate to be able to climb the hill and overcome the obstacles together with everyone. Our board of directors has the confidence, determination, and ability to lead everyone out of difficulties and make Huali Construction and Development better. I hope everyone can unite as one, speak more positive words, and fulfill their duties in their respective positions. There is no shortcut to success, the right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life!
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