(Reporter Xiong Yi, She Hui, Correspondent Liu Jialian) Wang Yongqiang, Ke Dingchen, Ye Ping, and Tu Shengmin were former employees of Anlu Grain Machinery Factory. Now they are the owners of Yongxiang, Bishan, Tianxing, Shunchang and other grain machinery manufacturers. The change of their identities is writing the history of an old state-owned enterprise developing into a private industry group. According to Wang Donghai, deputy director of the Economic and Trade Bureau of the city, introduced on October 12, Anlu's grain processing machinery production and sales have occupied the domestic market.

　　20%% share, the comprehensive industrial strength ranks among the top three counties and cities of the same level in the country. At present, Anlu is increasing investment promotion, expanding the scale of the industry, strengthening the "Anlu Grain Machinery" brand, and fully building the first city of China's Grain Machinery.

　　Anlu Grain Machinery Factory was jointly established by three grain processing machinery factories in Shanghai, Wuhan and other places moved to Anlu in 1966. Until the 1990s, it was still the “leading” of the seven grain machinery enterprises under the Ministry of State, and its products were exported. 55 countries and regions. Since 1998, Anlu Grain Machinery Factory has lost its vitality in market competition and its losses have increased sharply. By August 2001, this state-owned enterprise with 1,500 employees and 80 million yuan in fixed assets had debts of 130 million yuan and was forced to declare bankruptcy.

　　Private enterprises began to develop as early as when Anlu Grain Machinery Factory was in decline. In 1995, technician Wang Yongqiang resigned and worked alone. He used the experience he accumulated during his work in the old factory to find the "first pot of gold". In 1998, he set up Yongxiang Grain Machinery, which attracted more than a dozen technical, management, and marketing backbones from the old grain machinery in the form of a shareholding system, and the company grew rapidly. By last year, Yongxiang's assets exceeded 100 million yuan, with annual sales revenue of 86.47 million yuan, and taxes paid 5.23 million yuan, which far exceeded the performance of Anlu Grain Machinery Factory at its most glorious time.

　　Anlu's private grain machinery enterprises have now grown to 28. Wang Donghai said that old state-owned enterprises have accumulated decades of human resources, technical strength and brand advantages and are fertile ground for industrial development. While absorbing and inheriting the nutrients and traditions of the old state-owned enterprises, private grain machinery enterprises have recruited scientific and technological personnel, cooperated with scientific research institutes, rewarded inventions and innovations, increased scientific research investment, improved scientific and technological innovation capabilities, and strengthened their core competitiveness. An expert from Shunchang Company developed a new type of oil press and won a reward of 50,000 yuan at a time, and in the future, it can also be commissioned according to the proportion of product sales. Yongxiang, Bishan, Tianxing and other companies have more than 120 scientific and technical personnel with the title of engineer or above, and develop more than ten new products on average annually. In 2004 alone, these companies spent 5 million yuan for Technological development of new products.

　　Now, Anlu grain machine products have expanded to more than 100 varieties in six series of rice milling, oil extraction, flour, storage and transportation, puffing, and threshing. The technological content is at the leading domestic level, and the products are exported to more than 20 countries and regions.

　　The private grain machinery industry has received the attention and support of Anlu City Government. The city has established a grain machinery industry office to provide enterprises with a full range of services; the implementation of loan tilt not only provides a large amount of credit funds to key enterprises every year, but also provides loan discounts for high-tech product development projects. Bishan Grain Machinery Company is in When developing the palm oil machine, it received a discounted loan of 6.8 million yuan; in order to expand the grain machine industry chain, Anlu City introduced mechanical and electrical accessories, precision casting, paint chemicals, product packaging, etc. supporting the grain machine from Shanghai and Zhejiang. More than 20 projects have enabled grain machinery products to "get together" in Anlu.

　　According to data provided by the Anlu Economic and Trade Bureau, the city’s grain machinery industry currently has a total asset of nearly 300 million yuan, a production capacity of 500 million yuan, and nearly 3,000 employees. Wang Donghai said that the sales of grain machinery is expected to exceed 400 million yuan this year, accounting for a quarter of the city's industrial product sales in Anlu.

　　Li Bai's second hometown-Anlu

　　Anlu is the birthplace of Chu culture. It has a long history and outstanding people. It not only gave birth to famous writers, historians and politicians such as Song Qi and Song Xu, but also attracted many literati such as Li Bai, Du Mu, Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi. Mo guest. Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, went to the country with a sword and came to Anlu to marry the granddaughter of the late Zaiyang Xu Yushi as his wife. He had one son and one daughter. He lived in Bai Zhaoshan for ten years and kept a hundred poems. Today, Anlu people proudly claim that this is Li Bai's second hometown.

　　Anlu City is located in the beautiful and fertile hinterland of Central Hubei. It is about 60 kilometers wide from east to west, 16 kilometers long from north to south, with a land area of ​​1355 square kilometers, a population of 620,000, and 9 towns, 4 townships and 2 offices under its jurisdiction. Anlu has developed transportation. Handan Railway, Hanshi Expressway, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, 316 National Road run from north to south, Anhua Road and Anwei Railway traverse east and west, and are connected with Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and 107 National Road, north to Xiangfan, and Nan to Wuhan. It extends in all directions. Anlu has 17 mineral resources including iron, vanadium, copper, zinc, lead, and uranium. White cauliflower and Nanxiang radish are popular among consumers. Ginkgo is well-known throughout the country and has the reputation of "Hometown of Ginkgo". At present, Anlu has formed several pillar industries such as grain machinery, textiles, building materials, and medicine.

　　Anlu was awarded the title of "Hometown of Comics" in 1993, and a group of people are engaged in comics creation. In recent years, Anlu began to build the Baizhao Mountain Li Bai Cultural Tourism Zone. Last year, merchants from Shantou, Guangdong came to Anlu to invest in the development of Li Bai’s former residence, reading platform, poetry carving gallery, Baizhao Temple and other tourism resources.

　　(Zhang Danying)