After visiting relatives, the family came to Yanjing again. The Chen family's parents flew back to Hong Kong directly, while Chen Zhiwen stayed in Yanjing.
After a leader of the Ministry of Agriculture heard about Tianjin's cooperation plan, he also sent his secretary named Dong to ask: "Mr. Chen, can the cooperation model in Tianjin be popularized?"
Chen Zhiwen said: "If there are a few more cities, there will be no problem, but if there are more, it will not work. The velvet product market in Europe and the United States is huge, but it does not mean that I can control these markets."
"Isn't it okay if our prices are low? As long as we can earn foreign exchange and give millions of farmers some extra income, can the government reduce taxes?" Secretary Dong said.
At present, there are too few things that can be exported to earn foreign exchange in China. They mainly rely on mineral resources and oil, or some agricultural and industrial products. There is no ability or channels to enter overseas markets. Now I suddenly discovered that the down on poultry can be used to earn foreign exchange. If it can really succeed, it will achieve four goals with one stone: increase foreign exchange, increase employment, increase the income of some farmers, and increase the amount of meat or eggs on the market.
How can the central government give up such a good thing? Although the amount is small and relatively low-end, it is a real benefit and does not require any additional investment.
"The price of velvet products in Europe and the United States is also much more expensive than ordinary clothes. This kind of higher-priced product has a more unique attribute is the brand. Many people will not choose your product just because the price is low. It takes a long time to operate a brand. You can refer to domestic bicycles. Not everyone likes the Phoenix brand or the Forever brand. Even if it is more expensive, they will buy it instead of choosing a cheaper one that they have never heard of, right? ?." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.
Relying on the channels of its own supermarket, it is true that it has a lot of sales, but the supermarket itself is not very suitable for selling clothes, and high-end clothes are even more difficult. Few people will buy high-end clothes in the supermarket, and the supermarket itself is just a shopping mall. Therefore, most supermarkets take the low-end route. Even for velvet products, you can only choose relatively low-end products, but the bedding is slightly better.
"So that's the case, it's a pity." Secretary Dong actually didn't know much about foreign countries, but he understood by looking at bicycles that they wouldn't dare to buy some names they had never heard of, even if they were cheaper.
"With such a large population in the country, it is impossible for any industry to benefit everyone at once. Even the automobile industry can't do it. One dollar per person is close to 200 million U.S. dollars. There is not much of it among the world's top 500 companies. A company can have such high profits." Chen Zhiwen added.
The huge population requires a huge amount of funds just to have basic food and clothing. This is also the reason why later generations of the country will pursue the entire industrial chain, and netizens also urgently need China to have their own core technologies. It will be very difficult to turn such a large country into a semi-developed country, especially when the development of science and technology reaches its end. When global wealth was all in stock, the size of the cake was basically fixed.
"Then, I wonder if Mr. Chen can consider choosing a textile factory in Yanjing City for cooperation, just like the one in Tianjin." Secretary Dong said.
"There shouldn't be many farmers here in Yanjing, right?" Chen Zhiwen asked. Although Tianjin is also a municipality directly under the Central Government, under the siphon of Yanjing's industry, relatively speaking, agriculture is much better, and there are more rivers. , even if there are farmers in the suburbs, the number is not very large.
"The transportation of down is very simple and it will not deteriorate. We can purchase it from nearby provinces and cities." Secretary Dong said.
"Okay. In this way, I will arrange for my colleagues from Hong Kong to come to the mainland for inspection later. If there are textile factories in Yanjing that are willing to form a joint venture, we can cooperate." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said. He also remembered that occasionally someone in the village in his previous life would They came to collect poultry down, even chickens. That was still in the 1990s. This shows that even without my own intervention, this industry will still develop, but I don’t know how big the scale will be.
Today's domestic factories are basically the same as Hong Kong in the 1950s. Industry and residents are together, except for polluting heavy industries.
And these places are all prime locations. In the 1980s, it was impossible to buy these lands, but through a joint venture, you could get 49% of the share. Anyway, these lands will be cheaper for other foreign investors in the future, so it is better to make them cheaper for yourself. , Galaxy Trading will always provide a large number of foreign exchange orders, and it can actually provide a large number of jobs and economic development for the country.
But there is no need for him to visit these textile factories himself. He is not a professional. He has already visited two or three domestic factories. Going further would be a waste of time.
"Okay, thank you Mr. Chen." Secretary Dong said.
After chatting for a while, Secretary Dong stood up and left. In the next few days, under the arrangement of the relevant departments, Chen Zhiwen met with a big leader.
Naturally, the big leaders would not personally ask for any investment or cooperation. The two parties only talked to each other about macro-level things, such as how to develop the domestic economy, how Hong Kong can help the country, Hong Kong's views on the future, etc.
The two-hour meeting went very smoothly and happily.
The next day, several leaders of the State Administration of Foreign Trade and Economics also invited Chen Zhiwen to discuss possible cooperation plans. In the end, Chen Zhiwen chose to invest in two textile factories and two food factories. Locations, they are all in San. within the ring.
Including the textile factory in Tianjin, the production of velvet products is only one of the businesses of the three textile factories this time. For other purposes, they must systematically cooperate with Galaxy Trading in the next few years to ensure that they can gradually produce products that can The simplest textiles accepted by European and American supermarkets are socks, hats, short-sleeves, jeans, etc. The technical requirements are simple, the quantities are large, and they require a lot of labor. Today, after labor costs have doubled in Hong Kong, these lowest-end industries Moving to the mainland is the best option.
As for food factories, they produce various snacks that foreign supermarkets need, such as hundreds of different candies, biscuits, etc. There are too many varieties. Even if Red Bull has a specialized food business department, it still looks down on these small industries, and As long as these two joint venture food factories can make delicious snacks, they will basically have no worries about sales.
The scale of the cooperation is actually not large. The five factories combined are estimated to have an export quota of tens of millions of dollars a year. After all, the current domestic policy on joint ventures is not yet complete, and large investments are prone to many problems. In addition, In terms of domestic talent, priority is still given to state-owned enterprises and government departments. Without enough talent, Chen Zhiwen can only invest in this simplest industry in a short period of time.
I have been staying in the mainland for half a month, and it is already mid-June.
After returning to Hong Kong, the first thing Chen Zhiwen did was to check the price of gold: US$380.
Compared with when he started to go long, it has increased by 80%. This basically guarantees that his investment will make a steady profit without losing money. Even if he sells it all now, deducting transaction taxes and interest, he will at least be able to make a profit. Profits of two to three billion US dollars.
Then, he deposited all the US$250 million originally used to protect risks to go long gold again. At this time, the main investment no longer had any risk, and several major investment banks also agreed to carry out 5 times leverage financing. In the future, The price of gold can almost double again. Just by going long with this US$250 million, you can easily make two or three times the profit.
In Hong Kong, several real estate companies are still developing normally. In the past six months, Hutchison, Galaxy, and Wharf have developed their own land and made a profit of about HK$200 million. Midea's "Pac-Man" arcade has also been developing Profiting from the US market, "Space Invaders" is also running rampant in countries outside the United States. Together, these have almost another 100 million US dollars in funding.
However, this funds are no longer used to buy gold, and are left to their respective companies for normal business development.
For example, Midea has not stopped developing home game consoles and handheld consoles this year.
"Sheng Chen, Mr. Gunpei Yokoi and Mr. Lei Shengli are here." As soon as they arrived in the office, the assistant secretary came to report.
"Let him come in." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.
Although it has the idea of handheld consoles and sufficient funds, Midea's internal staff, including Chen Zhiwen himself, do not understand various details. After all, there are already successful cases in the home game console market. Just follow suit and you can even get a high salary. Hire people from Atari with high salaries, but handheld consoles are not enough. You have to start everything from scratch. So, in order to increase the speed, Chen Zhiwen specially arranged for people to transfer the Game Boy, the handheld console that was originally developed in history, from the Japanese Nintendo Company. Fu Hengjing Junping dug it out.
Although he also knew the status of Midea Electronics Group in the field of electronic games, Gunpei Yokoi, who was brainwashed by Japanese culture and loyal to his company, did not want to come at first. However, after seeing three times the high salary and five years, he obtained a set in Tokyo, Japan. After moving to the apartment, I surrendered. It was really too much.
"Mr. Chen, look, this is our latest handheld console with the game "Magic Cube" on it. Do you have any better ideas?" Gunpei Yokoi, business leader of Midea Group's handheld console department. After learning that the boss had returned to Hong Kong, he immediately came to the boss's office with his portable translator, bowed almost 45 degrees and said.
"Let me take a look." Chen Zhiwen took the milky white handheld phone and looked at it carefully. In fact, he had also seen the previous design drawings, but the actual thing was larger than he originally thought, and it was a bit difficult to hold it with one hand. live.
The entire arcade has a rectangular structure, with a large screen in the middle. On the left is the most common white cross-key button in later generations, which has been patented by Midea around the world. On the right is two different buttons, one blue and one red.
Press the power button on the top of the screen, and the screen will light up, and soon the familiar Magic Cube interface will appear. However, the first impression is that it is very blurry and not as good as the previous arcade machines. This is something that cannot be helped. The current LCD With technology, it’s good to be able to produce large screens, but it’s not yet high-definition.
Chen Zhiwen tried to play for a while, but the up button of the cross key was useless. The left and right controls the left and right movement of the descending figure respectively, and the down button indicates accelerating the descent. The blue button on the right can control the angle of the descending figure to change clockwise.
"Can this handheld device be made smaller? It feels a bit big in my hand." Chen Zhiwen asked.
Yokoi Gunpei replied: "Sheng Chen, we have done tests. If the space is smaller, it will be difficult to dissipate heat from the motherboard, especially in summer. There is a high temperature safety protection in the program. Once the temperature is too high, it will automatically shut down, etc. It can only be opened when the temperature returns to a safe range. If we make it smaller, users may experience frequent shutdowns in the summer."
"Okay, let's do this for now. What's the test result?" Chen Zhiwen nodded and said. Such a small handheld console cannot install an exhaust structure like a home game console or a computer host. Although the game is relatively simple, But playing too much will accumulate a lot of heat. It doesn't matter at ordinary times, but it will be troublesome in summer. For many industrial or civil equipment, the most troublesome problem is the heat in summer.
But fortunately, this is the first-generation handheld console. In addition, it has high-playability games. The larger size is not unacceptable. From a business point of view, there is no need to release the trump card at once. This is completely acceptable. When the first-generation handheld console is almost profitable, the second-generation handheld console will be released.
"The laboratory has arranged fixed test equipment to simulate human control, and the software also ensures that each row of the magic block will be eliminated. It has been tested for half a month. Under different temperature and humidity environments, it is equivalent to each of these buttons being eliminated. It has a lifespan of one million presses. Theoretically speaking, even if a person plays for ten years, it is impossible to press the button one million times. The test result is successful." Yokoi Gunpei replied.
"Lao Lei, do you think it's ready to be put on the market?" Chen Zhiwen asked Lei Shengli who was standing aside.
Lei Shengli said: "I think it's okay. We have tested hundreds of samples. At the same time, tens of thousands of Midea employees have also participated in the test. They just play it on weekdays when they have nothing to do. And the first batch of handheld consoles are also produced by us." , controlled by several Chinese quality engineers we previously hired from Toyota, and the quality is controlled in the same way as core automotive components, there should be no problems.
However, our production capacity is not enough in the early stage. I suggest that we can launch it now in Hong Kong or Bay. After a while, if the feedback is better, then we can launch it in the Japanese, European and American markets. "
"Okay, then the laboratory will continue testing, or continue testing with another batch. Don't worry about the testing cost, and then the factory will be ready for production." Chen Zhiwen nodded in agreement.
Although it may not be fair, the reality is that if quality problems occur in Hong Kong or Bay Area, the losses to the United States will be much smaller and easier to make up for. Therefore, product launches in European, American and Japanese markets need to be more cautious. For example, the inverter air conditioners that have just started to be produced are all first produced in Southeast Asia or the Middle East. These places are used as quality testing sites. If problems arise in these places, they can be easily solved.
"Then our handheld console doesn't have a name yet. Does Chen Sheng have any ideas in this regard?" Lei Shengli asked. The arcade machine does not need to have a name because it is for merchants, but the handheld console is for everyone. You just need a name, otherwise how can you promote it?
"Let's call it Game Boy. Generally, those who play games are young men or male teenagers." Chen Zhiwen said, just use the final name. It's simpler. If you upgrade in the future, you can also call it the second generation, third generation, and N generation.
"What about the price?" Lei Shengli asked again: "Our cost is about US$15. If the production capacity is large enough in the future, it can be reduced a lot."
"Our ex-factory price, in Hong Kong and Wanwan, the terminal price will be controlled at US$35 first, and the dealer price will be determined according to different markets." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.
PS: I’ll update this first in the past two days. I’m really busy at work and often work overtime. In addition, many people around me have started to cheat. I have to prepare some manuscripts. I missed the last wave and I’m still a bitch. This wave It is estimated that the possibility of being tricked is greater, o(╥﹏╥)o is sad.
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