"Who said that state-owned enterprises can't do well? To do well, they must be reformed, and it is not enough to be conservative. If the reform is successful, it can become a modern enterprise." In June 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized this when he inspected Shandong.

Weichai Group, which has already ranked first in the world in terms of engine sales, has always been a sample and model for the reform of state-owned enterprises. However, recently, Tan Xuguang, chairman of Weichai Group, has successively hosted the special democratic life meeting on the improvement of the style of leading cadres, the warning meeting on the style of leading cadres, and the special meeting on rectifying the work style of the functional management department. , and continue to promote the self-revolution of "disabled" and "deficient" enterprises. From the words between the lines of Tan Xuguang's speech, the reporter can see his inward-looking blood and courage, and he can also feel that he is planning for the further in-depth reform of the company.

Passion decline is the worst enemy

Teenagers are full of vigor and enthusiasm! On April 26, Weichai Group's 2021 Annual Science and Technology Incentive Commendation Conference announced a series of scientific and technological achievements in the past two years: the thermal efficiency of the diesel engine body has reached the world's peak twice, becoming an unquestionable global industry benchmark; 10 billion yuan has been invested in research and development to boost The annual production and sales of diesel engines has exceeded one million units, and the layout of a full range of diesel engines has been completed in all fields;

Weichai Group has achieved a leap from China's leading to world-class, but Tan Xuguang is not satisfied with this. On April 18, Tan Xuguang presided over a special democratic life meeting for the group's leading cadres' work style improvement action, and issued the following "diagnosis" to the senior management team: the decline of passion has become the biggest enemy of cadres, the self-inflation has become unbearable, and the ability Leaving behind seriously restricts the realization of Weichai's dream, and the distortion of values pollutes the cadre team.

"Face is bullshit, progress is the last word!" At the meeting, Tan Xuguang, from the perspective of a century-old Weichai Group, conducted a "CT scan" of the cadre team in a comprehensive, systematic and dialectical manner. At the style warning meeting, the cadre team was advised to "always be vigilant, keep the original intention, keep the bottom line, and stick to the right path".

On April 26, Tan Xuguang said to nearly 7,000 employees online and offline: "As a leading enterprise in the industry, we must shoulder the mission of exploring cutting-edge technologies in the industry, create more disruptive technologies, and achieve more from A breakthrough from 0 to 1 is the only way to continue to lead the world.” What Weichai Group needs to do is to innovate and refine the engineering management methodology with Weichai characteristics in practice, so as to improve the core competitiveness and high-quality development of China’s equipment manufacturing industry. Explore new modes, new paths, new methods.

The madman spirit can work miracles

In March 2022, Tan Xuguang's speech during the investigation of Weichai Group's Intelligent Technology and Qingzhi Technology Co., Ltd. was posted on the official website. Many words in it were once hotly discussed, such as "My principle is that as long as you don't touch the red line, don't break the law, Don't take risks, do whatever you want." "I once said that the spirit of a lunatic can create miracles, but a rational person cannot."

Previously, Weichai Power also released the world's first diesel engine with a thermal efficiency of 51.09% in Jinan. This is in September 2020, after Weichai Power released the world's first commercial diesel engine with a thermal efficiency of 50.23%, setting a new record again. The R&D strength behind this major achievement was "built" by Tan Xuguang in the past 20 years. He once recalled: "Ten years ago, I asked the R&D department to spend boldly. At that time, I gave money, but they couldn't spend it because they didn't know how to spend it." But, today is different. In the past ten years, Weichai Power's R&D expenses have accounted for 6% of its annual operating income, of which 30% of the R&D expenses are basic research and cutting-edge research, which is extremely rare among domestic enterprises.

In the future, Tan Xuguang mentioned that the "14th Five-Year Plan" R&D investment will be doubled compared to the "13th Five-Year Plan", and the power system R&D investment will account for 8-10%, of which more than 30% will be used for cutting-edge basic research. Dare to set the world's highest goal in key technology fields, so that Weichai has more scientific and technological achievements that lead the industry and shock the world.

At the Science and Technology Incentive Commendation Conference on April 26, the outside world noticed that Tan Xuguang mentioned in his speech: "Only those who put their lives aside can do earth-shattering great things! Only those who get up from their sleep can truly become scientists! One step at a time, they work hard Only those who climb up can reach the pinnacle of technology!"

It can be said that the passion culture of "not fighting for the first place is mixing" has become the most distinctive feature of Weichai, and has been deeply integrated into the genes and blood of Weichai people; the efficiency culture of "one day is used for two and a half days" makes Weichai has realized the leap from following and running to leading.

Thoroughly clean up the bastards in the team

On April 26, Weichai Group gave incentives and commendations to the breakthrough scientific and technological achievements made in the past two years, with a total reward of 64.41 million yuan, which has attracted widespread attention from the society. At Weichai, "everyone wants to do something, everyone wants to do something, everyone doesn't do it, and everything does something" is a simple methodology.

However, Tan Xuguang also revealed the team's "four major diseases": egalitarianism of "half of meeting", red-eyeism of "envy, jealousy and hatred", scumbagism of "fishing in troubled waters", and "demanding both money and officials" hierarchy.

In the case analysis, Tan Xuguang also answered his own way of running a business. For example, if he targets scumbagism, he is to thoroughly clean up all scumbags who have harmed himself and the team! In addition, Tan Xuguang proposed to normalize the mechanism of "shooting" at executives and "shooting" at functional management departments, in order to eliminate the original thinking, original logic and original lesions that are not suitable for the development of enterprises.

How to predictably find the "second curve" every time the Weichai Group's parabola climbs to a high point is what Tan Xuguang has always thought about, activating the vitality of every cell in the organization, transforming employees from executors to entrepreneurs, Explore the value of each person and become the answer to the era of high-quality development.

On May 9th, Tan Xuguang specifically mentioned that "management is an important means to stimulate the vitality of the organization and employees. We must study how to maximize the vitality of innovation and entrepreneurship of all employees, so that everyone can be full of horses." Pentium works instead of killing everyone. Only by activating all the cells of the enterprise can great vitality be generated!"

For example, regarding scientific and technological talents, Tan Xuguang publicly said to everyone: "I suggest that everyone remove the three words after envy, jealousy and hate, so that all Weichai people envy scientific and technological talents! It is necessary to improve and improve Weichai's strategic scientists, chief scientists, scientists, The talent support system for young scientists is determined to cultivate several strategic scientists with important influence in the industry." The Times will eventually record these respondents.Editor/XingWentao