20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3693 Returning to China
With the signing of the contract between North America and ASML for 1nm, the next step is to make payments and fulfill the contract. Zhao Chang'an must return to China to complete this follow-up process.

This time, they returned to China again by chartered plane. For this reason, Zhao Chang'an preferred to have the Boeing 747 passenger plane parked in Los Angeles fly empty to Airport Schiphol International Airport.

Just like the auction for a meal with Buffett, the bidders don't really care what useful insights they might gain from chatting with Buffett during the meal. Any businessman who can afford to spend that much money is inherently a person with a very strong and stubborn will.

To put it bluntly, it's just a marketing tactic, using the advertising effect generated by this gimmick to promote oneself and one's company.

One of the reasons Zhao Chang'an travels by plane, both domestically and internationally, is this.

The clearest scene was in Qiaojiashan Township during the first month of the lunar calendar. At that time, Wu Yudong and his group were curious about the price of Zhao Chang'an's chartered plane. After Zhao Chang'an gave a rough estimate, the leaders of Pengzhou at the table remained silent for a long time. Wu Yudong then sighed and said that if the county had so much money during the Spring Festival, it wouldn't be necessary for those laid-off and re-employed workers to block the doors of these overwhelmed leaders.

Although Zhao Chang'an currently does not want Raimondi to work in China and still needs him to recruit more technical elites from Europe to work in Zhengzhou, once things in Europe stabilize, there is absolutely no need to keep him, the former chief quality control engineer of Ericsson mobile phone manufacturing plant, in the position of deputy director of the office. Instead, he should go to Zhengzhou Pro mobile phone manufacturing plant to make his mark.

So this time, Raimondi and his wife Corrie, along with Ericsson's inspection team, led by Vice President Cordwina, and a visiting team from Siemens' chip manufacturing plant, also traveled together from Stockholm to Amsterdam International Airport on a chartered plane.

RIM's joining the EUV-LLC alliance, 1nm North America's $600 million investment to support ASML's ArFi immersion lithography machine development, and its plans to build a chip manufacturing plant in Zhengzhou with a process technology of 130nm and above—all these major moves made Ericsson realize 1nm's huge ambitions in the domestic mobile phone industry.

When Ericsson and Sony were discussing a joint venture for mobile phone manufacturing, the most important market was China, which had to be included in the deal, leading to heated arguments within the board of directors.

When Zhao Chang'an was discussing cooperation with Ericsson, he made it clear that Pro would be an open enterprise, welcoming excellent companies with cooperation interests to participate. Regardless of the final decision, it would never hurt to take a look, which is why Ericsson arranged for his team to accompany him.

The Siemens chip manufacturing team was invited by Ericsson to accompany Zhao Chang'an.

Ericsson's mobile phone RF chips and baseband chips are both supplied by Siemens. Even after the mobile phone manufacturing was outsourced to Flextronics, this remains the case. If a supply contract for mobile phone chips is reached with Ericsson, these chips will also be manufactured by Siemens.

However, Zhao Chang'an prefers to build a chip factory in China, preferably a joint venture between OneNano Pearl and Siemens.

If this can be achieved, it would mean that the Pro phone uses mobile phone chips from 'One Nano Pearl - Siemens Chip Manufacturing Plant', and these chips are manufactured by 'One Nano Pearl - Siemens Chip Manufacturing Plant' under patent and technical support license from Ericsson.

Of course, this joint venture involves building a factory in China and the participation of domestic enterprises, which requires approval. However, there shouldn't be any problems with the approval process, since it involves introducing advanced foreign manufacturing industries.

This charter flight took the Balkan-Central Asia route, which saved a lot of mileage compared to going around Changsha. The original plan was to land at Zhengzhou Airport. However, before Zhao Chang'an could have the crew contact the airline to apply for a landing at Zhengzhou Airport, Su Bo said that Jiangcheng wanted the charter flight to land at Tianhe Airport, which could also be seen as creating momentum for the research center.

Zhao Chang'an agreed with this, otherwise, although contacting Zhengzhou wouldn't be a problem, it was their initiative to bring it up, and they should at least give them some face. Coincidentally, Zhao Chang'an had donated three million yuan to Qiaojiashan Primary School in his personal capacity, and Duan Fengqing and Wu Yudong both called to hope that a donation ceremony could be held to set an example and encourage entrepreneurs to donate generously to build the new campus.

Zhao Chang'an also wanted to take Ye Yiyi to Shancheng to meet Wen Ye's grandmother.

This can also be seen as a way to pave the way for the two branches of the Ye family from Europe to return to China in March or April and visit Wenye's grandmother.

As a key executive in the OneNano system, Wen Ye's kinship is unavoidable if these two European organizations want to cooperate with OneNano.

Paying a visit is also a necessary courtesy; only after taking this step can we discuss whether or not to proceed with further cooperation.

The last time Ye Pingbai and his group visited relatives in Wenjia Village was a few years ago. Afterwards, Grandma Wenye was quite sad. She said that she had finally found relatives from her maternal family for her grandson, but what kind of relatives were they? They had caused her family to be ruined back then, and now they were still eyeing her family's things.

Regardless of whether Ye Pinghe and Ye Pingshan were among the people waiting to haul goods on the south bank of the Yangtze River between Jinling and Wuhu, it was Ye Pingbai's group that boarded the ship and later blew it up.

Therefore, Zhao Chang'an felt that since Grandma Wenye had been able to put aside her hatred and treat Ye Zi and Ye Ying so well for the sake of her grandson, she should also treat Ye Yiyi well.

The plane took off from Schiphol International Airport at 6 p.m., flying eastward. At the time of takeoff, the entire European continent, except for the Atlantic coastline, was still bathed in the sunset, while the rest of the continent was shrouded in darkness.

Zhao Chang'an did not use his private room this time, as it would be impolite to do so with guests accompanying him. Instead, he gave the room to the oldest guest, Raimondi, while he chatted with Ericsson Vice President Kordevina and Siemens Deputy General Manager of Advanced Packaging Technologies and Services Mills.

By 9 p.m. Western European time, the plane had been flying for three hours. The cabin gradually quieted down, and Zhao Chang'an chose a three-seater seat, asked for a small blanket, and closed his eyes to doze off.

The flight attendants also gave him an eye mask, but Zhao Chang'an found it uncomfortable to wear, so he didn't wear it.

It was 4 a.m. in China. Although he had almost adjusted to the time difference these past few days, flying to China at this time seemed to make him feel sleepy again.

In his sleep, Zhao Chang'an completely seized control of ASML. In the downstream mobile phone industry, he held RIM and its closed-source Blackberry OS on one hand, and Pro and its open-source Android on the other, dominating the global mobile phone industry. He then continued to expand his territory into the fields of intelligent driving and AI, while women adored him, enjoying themselves immensely.

Zhao Chang'an hadn't lowered the sunshade of the window next to him while he was sleeping. He was groggily awakened by the light shining in, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was already daytime outside.