Reborn since 1993

Chapter 1231: Get to Long and Watch Shu
The buildings along Changqing Road in Pingyang have been completely occupied by the headquarters departments of Dongling High-Tech, Feiyan Technology, and Pingyang municipal government units.

Even so, it is still not enough, and Dongling High-Tech is expanding at an extremely rapid pace.

Although the new global headquarters of Dongling Hi-Tech is not yet completed, the relocation work has to begin. Some departments and employees will be moved to the newly built headquarters building. The relocation will take place while the headquarters is being built.

This was a last resort. Nobody expected Dongling High-Tech to develop so fast that the speed of building its headquarters couldn't keep up with the speed of expansion. Who can we complain to about this?
Li Dongling glanced at the glass of the conference room. Outside was a familiar scene. Dongling High-Tech's headquarters had been here for so many years that Li, the philanthropist, knew every blade of grass and tree in the place like the back of his hand.

Changqing Road has also witnessed Dongling High-Tech transform from a small workshop into an entity that influences millions of farmers in Pingyang and countless other regions.

As for Changqing Road, I wouldn't say I'm reluctant to leave, but I'm definitely more familiar with it now.

Li Dongling was also aware that Dongling High-Tech's headquarters had reached a point where it had to be relocated; otherwise, many departments and employees would have to move to other places, or even to other regions.

With current communication technology, efficiency is affected even in one place, let alone when people are separated to different locations. There would likely be even more disputes and friction between them.

"Let's begin the relocation!"

Li Dongling said to Ren Yuefeng, "Not only will we be relocating to a new headquarters, but Dongling Hi-Tech will also be starting to use internet-based offices."

The software department is responsible for developing an office communication software for all employees of Dongling Hi-Tech, which can also serve as a platform for internal announcements and notifications.

In the future, the office work and cooperation between departments of Dongling High-Tech should also embrace Internet technology!
In the future, at Dongling High-Tech, emails and software platform communications will serve the same purpose as paper document signatures!

As he said this, Li Dongling looked at Jiang Tao in the corner of the conference room. As the head of the newly established software department of Dongling Hi-Tech, Jiang Tao is currently still a relatively unknown figure among the senior executives of Dongling Hi-Tech.

To improve the efficiency of cooperation and work among the various departments of Dongling High-Tech, it is not enough to simply relocate to the same building; it is also necessary to introduce an internet-based communication and cooperation model.

Li Dongling's insistence that communication via email and software platforms carries the same evidentiary and binding force as signed paper documents is precisely to prevent disputes and blame-shifting.

Li Dashanren (Li Dashanren) doesn't want the kind of situation where senior executives shift blame to their subordinates when problems arise to spread at Dongling Hi-Tech. All the credit goes to the supervisors, while the blame is always placed on the subordinates. If it really comes to that, the entire management system of Dongling Hi-Tech will basically collapse, and the channels for advancement will be completely blocked.

What can you expect from an executive who takes such a high salary but doesn't even dare to take responsibility?
Therefore, Li Dongling requires that records such as emails be accepted as evidence, and that all requirements and tasks issued by Dongling High-Tech executives must also leave a trace, whether it be paper, email, or software platform.

"The software department will get this project approved as soon as possible!" Jiang Tao, sitting in the corner, said.

Li Dashanren shook his head and looked at Jiang Tao, saying, "The software department can form a team to specifically develop this product."

Seeing Jiang Tao's somewhat puzzled expression, Li Dongling said, "If this communication software is developed, it won't just be Dongling Hi-Tech that needs it; other companies might also have a need for it!"

In the international internet industry, there are already social networking software programs, including ICQ, founded by the Hebrews, MSN, owned by Microsoft, and AOL, an American online platform, which also has similar software.

However, social networking software has not yet received enough attention, nor has it become one of the most important avenues in the internet industry.

As for file transfer, online conferencing, entertainment, and leisure functions found in social software, none of them have appeared; they are mostly just simple chat functions.

Dongling Hi-Tech has developed a communication software for internal use, and there may be opportunities to promote it to other companies and markets in the future!

Well, as for whether any internet company would dare to openly copy this product, we'd have to ask if they could get past the legal department of the "Hanxi Pizza Hut" and "Pingyang Invincible" companies.

"Yes!"

Jiang Tao was taken aback. It seemed that Li Dashanren was taking this software more seriously than he had expected, even asking the software department to set up a special team to develop it.

Although he didn't know what Li Dashan was planning, having been at Dongling High-Tech for so long, he knew that the tasks assigned by Li Dongling within Dongling High-Tech were absolutely not to be neglected.

After Ren Yuefeng, the heads of various departments of Dongling High-Tech gave reports one after another, but they were basically just transitional. Now that winter has arrived, the most important thing for each department is still the year-end meeting.

"The finance department has already begun reviewing the revenue and expenditure of each department this year. Starting next month, we will need to prepare for year-end bonuses, profit sharing, and other matters such as employee housing allocation!"

Hu Zixian, the head of the finance department at Dongling Hi-Tech, said that the year-end bonus is basically the most important thing at Dongling Hi-Tech all year round, if not the most important.

Countless people are looking forward to their year-end bonuses. At Dongling Hi-Tech, the year-end bonuses vary depending on the department, with the technical department receiving the heaviest bonus, starting at six months' salary.

As for the Shenzhou Computer R&D team, which is currently the most profitable R&D team at Dongling High-Tech, they are entitled to receive bonuses and profit sharing. It is highly likely that Shenzhou's core technical personnel will receive tens or even hundreds of thousands of yuan in bonuses this year! As for employees in departments such as production, customer service, and after-sales, although the year-end bonuses they receive are not so much, what these employees care about most, besides the bonuses, is employee housing!

Oriental Garden has already built several phases of housing and provided housing to many employees. However, the speed of housing construction is far from keeping up with the growth rate of the number of people applying for housing.

Therefore, the allocation of apartments in Dongfang Jiayuan becomes something that countless people eagerly await every year-end.

"The Budget Management Committee will also begin a comprehensive review of this year's projects and start developing budgets for next year's projects!"

Su Chicheng, Li Dongling's former chief assistant and now the head of Dongling High-Tech's budget committee, also leaked information in this meeting room.

The Budget Management Committee of Dongling High-Tech is definitely a department that is both loved and hated by all departments of Dongling High-Tech.

The budgets of all departments in Dongling High-Tech must go through the Budget Committee. Whether a project in each department can obtain funding depends on the Budget Committee's review.

Therefore, every department has to curry favor with the budget committee, but when faced with projects rejected by the budget committee and the amount of funding cuts, they are filled with resentment but dare not offend them...

As Li Dongling's absolute confidant, Su Chicheng was also walking on thin ice in this position, as he was essentially supervising all of Dongling High-Tech's projects.

If too many projects fail, or if any project's budget is seriously over budget, he will have to cover it up. This inevitably means that the budget committee will have to engage in infighting with various departments. Su Chicheng is indeed a powerful figure, but there is also a large group of people who are watching him closely, trying to oust him from his position.

After the heads of finance, human resources, marketing, and logistics departments had finished reporting, it was time for the technology department to get a report. Li Dongling didn't wait for Chen Tao, the head of the technology department, to report before asking questions directly.

"What stage has the mobile phone project in the technology department reached?"

The mobile phone project is also one of the most important projects for Dongling High-Tech this year, and Li Dashanren has invested a lot of money in it.

To be honest, the funding allocated to the mobile phone project even exceeded the funding allocated to the development of the A1 all-in-one machine.

Chen Tao gathered his thoughts and said, "The baseband chip issue has been basically resolved, and the prototype has been made. We are now conducting final testing and finalization!"

"If the tests pass and the model number is determined, we can begin trial production!"

Chen Tao and the technical department really put in a lot of effort for the Dongling High-Tech mobile phone project. Just the baseband chip issue alone cost the technical department a lot of money.

They have successively cooperated with many companies, research institutes and universities, including ZTE, Huawei, China Telecom, and Harbin Institute of Technology, and purchased patents from companies such as Qualcomm at high prices.

They even went so far as to build a communications technology research institute for Xiong Tianming, the newly appointed president of the Hanxi Joint Laboratory.

The large sums of money invested finally enabled Chen Tao and the technical department to develop a baseband chip according to Li Dongling's requirements.

Let's set aside for now how this baseband performs compared to mobile phone chips from Texas Instruments, the mobile phone chip giant.

Regardless of the level of baseband chips, and how they compare to Qualcomm, at least Dongling High-Tech and Dongxin have managed to develop baseband chips, becoming the second company in the world capable of independently developing integrated baseband chips!

Right now, this thing doesn't seem special, but when the 3G and 4G era arrives, there will be moments when you can buy a baseband chip and get a free chip.

It even forced Texas Instruments to abandon its mobile phone chip business. Apple and other mobile phone manufacturers are constrained by this. Mobile phone manufacturers all over the world will have to pay Qualcomm tax. Only then will we know whether everything that Dongling Hi-Tech is paying now is worth it!
If there's a Qualcomm tax, then why can't there be a... Dongke tax?

"I'll go to the technical department after the meeting!"

Li Dongling nodded. The mobile phone business would be Dongling Hi-Tech's most important business, and the philanthropist Li would definitely want to review it personally.

This is a business that can sustain Dongling Hi-Tech's revenue and position for decades, so it definitely deserves our attention.

In the mobile phone industry, players have come and gone over the decades. Some have risen to the top, while others have been eliminated. But whoever becomes the hegemon of this industry will definitely have a place in the global technology industry!
"The Chitu electric bicycle has already developed a prototype, and if it passes the acceptance test, trial production will begin."

"On the automotive side, we are preparing to start selecting a site for the Dongling High-Tech Automotive Production Base. Once the location is finalized, construction will officially begin!"

Wei Taining also spoke on behalf of the automotive division for the first time at the Dongling High-Tech executive meeting.

(End of this chapter)