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Chapter 1021 Siphon Effect
Both of the two newspapers that appeared in front of Boss Liu made him feel a little depressed. The good mood he had just seen about the sharp drop in Dongling Hi-Tech's performance also disappeared in an instant.

Now, Dongling Hi-Tech has put the entire domestic technology industry on the fire. Dongling Hi-Tech's performance this year has lost 20% compared to last year.

As a result, in this situation, Dongling Hi-Tech has taken out hundreds of millions of dollars to pay year-end bonuses to its employees and suppliers. Other manufacturers, especially those who want to challenge Dongling Hi-Tech, will they follow Dongling Hi-Tech's operation?

If they don't follow, everyone will see clearly that a manufacturer that challenges Shenzhou Computer all the time, is reluctant to distribute money to its employees and suppliers at the end of the year.

This kind of company, which shouts slogans loudly but is unwilling to spend any money on them, still wants to challenge Dongling Hi-Tech?
Those manufacturers who had previously gloated over Dongling Hi-Tech's sharp drop in performance probably felt more uncomfortable than swallowing a fly when they saw this announcement.

There was even a moment when Boss Liu felt that Dongling Hi-Tech did this on purpose by releasing the news of the sharp drop in performance first, allowing various media to reprint and report it crazily.

When the incident became known to everyone, Dongling Hi-Tech responded with a huge year-end bonus. Now, the outside world is not paying attention to Dongling Hi-Tech's performance, but whether other manufacturers will follow suit and give out year-end bonuses!
Even the people within Lianxiang, including the executives in front of Boss Liu, were looking forward to it. They wondered whether Lianxiang would give out year-end bonuses. After all, who would complain about having too much money?
If it doesn't release it, its status will be lost instantly. In the eyes of outsiders, it will be inferior to the parent company of Shenzhou Computer.

Even by next year, there may be a wave of resignations, and people with skills and abilities will probably flee to Dongling Hi-Tech.

But, can these competitors afford to give out year-end bonuses like Dongling Hi-Tech?

Dongling Hi-Tech's performance has declined, but for manufacturers like Lianxiang, their overseas markets have completely collapsed. Their losses are even much greater than Dongling Hi-Tech's.

In this case, asking these friendly competitors to pay money to their subordinates is just cutting into their flesh. The hard-earned money is just given to their subordinates, especially some production line personnel. For many friendly competitors, it really feels like a waste of money!

The report of Yanjing Business Daily made Boss Liu feel a little uncomfortable. Originally, he was not planning to give Lian Xiang any year-end bonus this year. Instead, he called on everyone to tide over the difficulties together and cut welfare benefits. But can Lian Xiang still do this now?
As for the report in Computer News, it made Boss Liu even more upset.

"This year, domestic computer shipments are expected to exceed 320 million units, of which Shenzhou alone accounts for 94.5 units. Shenzhou Computer accounts for 29.5% of the domestic computer market, with revenue exceeding RMB 75.6 billion!

The second place is Lenovo, with a market share of 14.7%. The third place is Founder Computer, which has been acquired by Dongling Hi-Tech, with a market share of about 5%!

Domestic computers currently account for over 65% of the domestic computer market share. This is the first time in the past decade that the domestic computer market share has exceeded 60%.

Overseas computer brands such as IBM currently dominate the notebook and desktop high-end computer markets.

If the second-generation Shenzhou computers can still maintain their current extreme cost-effectiveness and smooth operating experience next year, the market share of Shenzhou computers may further increase.

The combination of Shenzhou and Founder is likely to occupy half of the mass and mid-to-high-end market in the domestic computer market..."

The domestic computer market has changed!
And in a way that no one expected, Shenzhou computers came out of nowhere and swept the domestic computer market like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

Just last year, the domestic computer industry was still discussing how to resist the attack from overseas computer brands and how domestic computer brands could stand up.

At that time, the domestic computer industry was still lamenting that Lian Xiang was the only domestic computer brand that could carry the banner of domestic computers...

But in just one year, everything changed completely. Shenzhou computers appeared and showed a killing momentum. Both domestic brands and overseas brands were defeated by Shenzhou.

The cost-effectiveness of Shenzhou computers, as well as the smooth operating experience after system and software optimization, have never been seen in the domestic computer market before.

In addition, the price of Shenzhou computer is 7500 yuan, which can only be regarded as the price of mid-range computer. With the experience of high-end computer, it even provides one-stop services of web page and website development for customers who purchase Shenzhou computer. It would be strange if it is not sold out.

Boss Liu looked at the report on the computer newspaper with a depressed look. In the past, this was his favorite newspaper to read because every time, it was full of praise for Lian Xiang.

But since the emergence of Shenzhou computers, Computer News has "betrayed" Lenovo, treating Shenzhou as the representative of domestic computer brands, while Lenovo has become a forgotten existence.

Now we see Shenzhou Computer, which alone occupies nearly 30% of the domestic computer market. If Founder is added to the mix, won’t half of the domestic computer market belong to Dongling Hi-Tech in the future?
For brands like Lianxiang, the current situation is more difficult than before!
In the past, we only had to deal with overseas brands. However, more and more domestic computer users are buying domestic brands because of the price.

But now, domestic users have begun to use Shenzhou computers as a benchmark when buying computers. This has forced domestic computer manufacturers to increase performance, continuously purchase advanced chips from overseas, and start research and development, which has increased costs.

Having to compete with Shenzhou and deal with overseas brands, including Lianxiang, the company is under tremendous pressure and its profits are constantly decreasing.

"Boss Liu, do you want to..."

Boss Liu's disciple Guo Wei asked Boss Liu quietly, obviously asking if Lian wanted to distribute year-end bonuses to stabilize the morale of the troops. "Distribute!"

Boss Liu almost squeezed out this word from between his teeth. Thinking about the low profit this year, if he gave out year-end bonuses, how much money would they, the shareholders, get? This would be taking money out of his pocket.

"Give me one month's salary as a year-end bonus!"

After hearing Boss Liu's decision, Lian Xiang's senior executives were somewhat disappointed. Compared with the half-year salary paid by Dongling Hi-Tech to senior executives as year-end bonus, Lian Xiang felt that this was not enough.

But on second thought, it is better to get the money than not to get it. But for some reason, these Lianxiang executives felt a sense of gratitude to Mr. Li.

They knew that if Dongling Hi-Tech had not distributed the year-end bonus, it would be impossible for them to get the year-end bonus from Boss Liu this year!

After the news of Dongling Hi-Tech distributing year-end bonuses came out, a few other manufacturers including Juhua Factory, Lenovo, Changhong, and Haier also announced the distribution of year-end bonuses.

The rest of the competitors who had been gloating over the decline in Dongling Hi-Tech's performance suddenly became ostriches and made no sound at all, as if they had no idea about it at all.

But their silence does not mean that the things did not happen. The Tianya Forum has almost become a complaining conference, with people complaining about all kinds of companies being stingy, and Dongling Hi-Tech is undoubtedly the most envied one.

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"Dongling Hi-Tech has announced new benefits. In addition to a quarter's salary as a year-end bonus and reimbursement of travel expenses for spring break, they also issued a 300-yuan gift card to the Oriental Times Shopping Mall. Those who don't want the gift card can exchange it for cash!"

"Holy shit, is this true? Can I really say that our company only gave out a box of canned food as the year-end bonus?"

"Be content. Our last month's salary is said to be paid after we start working next year. Isn't it obvious that they are afraid that we will run away?"

On Tianya Forum, posts appeared one after another, and many people were defeated by the benefits offered by Dongling Hi-Tech.

"Is this true? Didn't the news report that Dongling Hi-Tech's performance plummeted this year? How can they still provide such high benefits?"

Zhao Chenglei, who was spamming on the forum, asked a question after seeing the posts flooding the Tianya Forum. He is a programmer at a company in Zhongguancun and now he has some free time, so he also started spamming. He also did not get any year-end bonus this year, and the company was also complaining to them.

As a technical person, he doesn't know much about other industries. In particular, his company complained about poor performance, so it didn't pay out year-end bonuses. However, Dongling Hi-Tech's performance plummeted by several billion dollars compared to last year, but it still paid out year-end bonuses. Zhao Chenglei naturally couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

"What do you mean by a big drop? Do you believe the media's word game?"

"No one would believe the media reports. It's just like you planned to make 10 yuan this year, but the market was bad and you only made 8 yuan. In the end, they said you lost 2 yuan this year!"

"What the above person said is right. Dongling Hi-Tech's profit did not meet expectations. It made less money than last year, but it did not make a loss. A classmate of mine who works at Dongling Hi-Tech said that in the last quarter, Dongling Hi-Tech's production line was almost smoking!"

"Look at the news and see how much money Dongling Hi-Tech made from selling PHS and stargazing recorders this year. Compared to the money Dongling Hi-Tech made in cash, this year-end bonus is nothing!"

"Anyway, I'm going to switch to a Dongling Hi-Tech company next year. Now, Torch Group, Focus Media, Oriental Optoelectronics, Dongxin Semiconductor, Hanxi New Materials and other Dongling Hi-Tech companies have announced the distribution of year-end bonuses!"

Seeing these posts that were flooding the screen, Zhao Chenglei couldn't help but become interested. He had heard before that Dongling High-tech companies paid high salaries, but he didn't expect the gap to be so big.

At this moment, Zhao Chenglei couldn't help but start thinking, should he try his luck at Dongling High-tech Company in Zhongguancun, Tianya Company, Yahoo Mainland and other companies next year?
There are many people who have the same thoughts as Zhao Chenglei. Money is a motivating factor. A year-end bonus may make countless people think and will also make countless affected people make different choices.

If you come a few more times, Dongling Hi-Tech’s talent siphoning effect will begin to emerge!
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"It is expected that the second and third phases of the Pingyang Oriental Garden project will be completed next year, and it is expected that 1200 residential units will be available by then..."

Li Dongling was listening to the report from Gao Peng, the logistics manager, at the last meeting of the year held at the Dongling Hi-Tech headquarters. After this meeting, Dongling Hi-Tech would hold its annual meeting and go on vacation.

(End of this chapter)