First of all, remember that tobacco is a very special industry, and no other industry can compare with it. The tobacco industry is based on the tobacco monopoly law. It is completely state-owned, not private or foreign. Tobacco planting, tobacco processing, cigarette production and packaging, related equipment and spare parts, transportation and sales of finished products are all within the scope of the Monopoly Law, and not everyone can do it. For example, BYD now produces cars, and he wants to buy some equipment to expand production. Even he wants to switch to producing mobile phones, as long as he decides internally. But cigarette factories can't. The purchase, maintenance and scrapping of any cigarette machinery and equipment must be reported to the State Bureau for approval. How many kilograms of tobacco leaves a cigarette factory can buy and how many boxes of cigarettes it can produce each year are all decided by the State Bureau, and enterprises have no autonomy.

To put it another way, it is impossible for a cigarette factory to close itself. You have to deal with a lot of problems objectively. For example, how to deal with the original cigarette production plan of the tobacco factory, whether to give it to Shang Yan, Jiangsu or Fujian? No matter whether the annual tax profit of cigarette factories increases or decreases, it is a very important source of income for local governments. Which place is willing to give up? The factory closed down. What should so many employees do? Don't laugh. Other state-owned enterprises can transform production and change brands, but private enterprises and joint ventures are not.

To put it another way, from an international perspective, even if the whole China Tobacco Factory is integrated into one enterprise, the output and product line are still not as good as Marlboro. In this sense, the monopoly law is equivalent to China's local protectionism, which prevents China's tobacco market from being occupied by foreign enterprises, so it is good to maintain a fighting capacity at home.

In recent years, the national efforts to ban Chinese characters have been continuously strengthened, the overall economic situation has declined, and tobacco factories have maintained good profits and taxes. Some factories really can't work objectively, and now they also choose the way of joint processing.