Reborn since 1993

Chapter 1372 Planting the flag
As one of the earliest companies to cooperate with Dongling Hi-Tech, and also a local power in Hanxi, Wu Yaoguo can be said to have personally experienced the history of Dongling Hi-Tech.

When Dongling Hi-Tech partnered with Hanxi Guotou, Dongling Hi-Tech was actually smaller than Hanxi Guotou. At that time, Hanxi Guotou had a greater influence in the local area than Dongling Hi-Tech.

Even projects for Torch Group require investment from Hanxi State, which needs to coordinate various resources and connections to help Torch Group get things set up.

But now, Hanxi Guotou's strength has naturally reached a new level. Hanxi Guotou's foundation is in Hanxi Province, including highways, coal, banking, securities, heavy industry, etc. Hanxi Guotou has a stake in all of them, and may even be the real operator in the industry.

The businesses mentioned above are mainly state-owned factories. To put it bluntly, Hanxi State-owned Investment is cooperating with the Hanxi Provincial Government in its investments. It can be said to be the Hanxi Provincial Government's money bag and the god of wealth in the eyes of countless municipal government departments in Hanxi. Whenever they need to invest in a project, the first thing they think of is to bring in Hanxi State-owned Investment so that things can be done.

Besides investing in state-owned factories, Hanxi Guotou's most successful investment in recent years has been its cooperation with Dongling High-Tech.

Starting with Torch Group, then Dongxin Semiconductor, and then Hanxi Software Industrial Park and other projects, Hanxi State-owned Investment Group has invested in them all and has also received huge returns.

To be honest, the returns that Hanxi Guotou received from the Torch Group project far exceeded those from Hanxi Investment's other projects.

Not only are Torch Group's disposable lighters now a cash cow that can earn foreign exchange.

More importantly, Torch Group can create jobs. Currently, within the Torch Industrial Park alone, besides Torch Group, there are dozens of lighter manufacturers of all sizes.

The Torch Industrial Park has formed a complete lighter industry chain, directly creating more than 200,000 jobs!
To be honest, with so many jobs created, revenue and foreign exchange earnings are no longer that important.

With such a stable employment scale, Hanxi Guotou can boast about its investment in Torch Group for a lifetime!

When the State Development & Investment Corporations (SDICs) across the country hold meetings, Wu Yaoguo is always seated in the front row; he is now a benchmark in the SDIC industry.

Furthermore, Zorro metal lighters and Ruyan e-cigarettes, which were incubated by Torch Group, are two highly sought-after products, making Hanxi Guotou extremely wealthy!
It was precisely because he had tasted the benefits that Wu Yaoguo paid such close attention to Dongling High-Tech. He knew that some of Dongling High-Tech's "ordinary" departments might become unattainable entities in the future!
The most direct examples are Focus Media, Chitu Media, and a few other companies, which were unremarkable at the time and no one paid any attention to them.

But now, it has taken off. The Chitu electric bicycle officially went on sale in Hanxi this month, which is another major base for Chitu electric bicycles after Qilu.

For Chitu, Hanxi is like a second home. More importantly, with Dongling High-Tech as a major financial backer, everyone in Hanxi is very supportive of Chitu.

Chitu electric bicycles achieved sales of 13,000 units in just three days after their launch in Hanxi, generating nearly 33.7 million RMB in revenue!

It's a foregone conclusion that electric bicycles will sell like hotcakes in Hanxi. Wu Yaoguo has once again witnessed firsthand how a company affiliated with Dongke Group has become an industry giant!

When Chitu successively invested in Phoenix, Forever, and Flying Pigeon, three giants of the bicycle era, it was already a foregone conclusion that electric bicycles would replace traditional bicycles.

Wu Yaoguo knew that countless organizations were eyeing Chitu Company. If it weren't for the strong backing of Dongling High-Tech, Chitu Company wouldn't be short of money at all.

It's likely that various investment institutions have already been scrambling to give money to them, including Hanxi Guotou, and Wu Yaoguo himself is quite envious of Chitu Company!
However, Chitu is just one of the companies under Dongling Hi-Tech, while Jiang Tao is the head of the software department at Dongling Hi-Tech's headquarters.

Who dares to say that Jiang Tao's software department won't become a new powerful department at Dongke in the future?

By then, it will be too late to try and build a relationship with Jiang Tao!

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When Jiang Tao entered Li Dongling's office, he saw Li Dashan, who had returned from the provincial capital, processing documents. Upon seeing him, Li gestured for him to sit down.

"The software department did a great job!"

After signing his name on a document, Li Dongling looked up at Jiang Tao and said.

Since the establishment of the software department at Dongling High-Tech, its main task has been to optimize various software and games on Hasee computers. The sales of Hasee 2nd generation computers are enough to demonstrate the significance of the software department.

"These are all things the software department should be doing!"

After saying that, Jiang Tao pushed several documents in front of Li Dongling, "These are the business that the software department is currently working on."

We're optimizing the software for the Hasee 3rd generation PC and A2 all-in-one PC, and also adapting the games that will be installed on the PCs.

Li Dongling flipped through the documents. The software department had a huge workload. They needed to optimize mainstream office software, entertainment software, games, audio-visual software, and internet software. The entire department was extremely busy.

"As per your request, Mr. Li, this year, the software department will add the Hasee App Store to all Hasee computers at the factory, allowing users to select and download software from there!"

Jiang Tao said, "In addition, Dongke Software Department will launch two new software programs this year. The first is the Shenzhou IT Community software, which is open to software companies and developers worldwide, allowing global software developers to exchange ideas and learn together."

In addition, some software development tools and code storage functions will be made available to users on the Shenzhou IT Community.

The Shenzhou IT Community is expected to officially open for trial operation early next month.

This Shenzhou IT Community was originally intended by Jiang Tao to be a CSDN-like community for domestic programmers. However, at the suggestion of Li Dashanren, it was transformed into an open-source IT community for programmers worldwide.

This was just a side move; it was originally proposed by Li Dongling in order to keep Jiang Tao.

However, this does not mean that Shenzhou IT Community is really useless. In the early stage, it rents servers and provides free storage and hosting services for individuals and teams to store code.

Later, when cloud computing emerged, all users of the Shenzhou IT Community were potential users of Shenzhou IT Community's cloud computing services.

In addition, and most importantly, we need to make the Shenzhou IT Community a base for Dongling High-Tech to develop software, and use this community to develop a software ecosystem for Dongling High-Tech.

For example, in the future, when Shenzhou develops mobile phone systems or computer systems, individual developers and companies on the Shenzhou IT community platform will have the opportunity to continuously develop various apps and applications for Shenzhou mobile phone and computer system developers!
Other functions include recruiting software experts through the Shenzhou IT Community, which are only the most basic features.

"The second software is the office software that you proposed at last year's year-end meeting, Mr. Li, for internal communication and use within Dongke."

The development is currently about 70% complete, and we expect that you, Mr. Li, will be able to see this software in a little while.

Jiang Tao reported to Li Dongling on the development progress of Dongling High-Tech's instant messaging software.

Upon hearing this, Li Dongling also became somewhat interested.

After its development, this instant messaging service will primarily be used internally by Dongling Hi-Tech in the short term, but it may be promoted to external users in the future.

"In the early stages, this software should focus on practical functions, including basic functions such as sending and receiving messages, files, and pictures in real time."

Additionally, email functionality should be enabled, and group chat functionality should be added so that a group chat can be created at any time for work communication.

Once developed, it will be tested internally at Dongling Hi-Tech. In the future, communication between departments within Dongling Hi-Tech, as well as online communication within the same department, project allocation, and task assignment will all be conducted through this software, and all tasks will leave a record.

This software will be called... Fetion. Both a PC version and a mobile version need to be developed and launched simultaneously, and the mobile and PC versions of Fetion must be interoperable!

Li Dongling thought for a moment and said, "As the number of employees at Dongling High-Tech increases, the efficiency of cooperation between departments is getting slower and slower. It often happens that we can't find the right person to contact, and there are too many disputes between departments."

In this situation, Dongke desperately needs software for internal use, otherwise the efficiency is simply too low.

With this software, all communication between departments and even within the same department will be documented, and we can avoid shifting blame.

Most importantly, it can improve office efficiency, enable real-time communication, and eliminate the need for departments to run back and forth and not be able to find the right person to contact.

Li Dongling had previously required internal communication within Dongke to be documented via email. Now, with the addition of Fetion, the aim is to eliminate the risk of shifting blame and to clearly identify which department is at fault.

As for promoting it to the outside world in the future, that's a matter for later. The war in the instant messaging market is a very long one, and it's not something that can be ended immediately.

With Dongling High-Tech backing it up, Fetion won't fail. In the future, when the competition intensifies, it will be integrated into the systems of the three major telecom operators and equipped with features like Moments. Who dares to say that Fetion won't be able to compete?
The fate of Fetion, a subsidiary of China Mobile, which stubbornly refused to connect with China Unicom and China Telecom users and failed to fix its features and bugs, will not happen with Fetion, a subsidiary of Dongke.

The real turning point in the war of instant messaging came with the advent of smartphones and the full rise of the mobile internet.

At that time, Fetion will integrate electronic payment, and provide life services such as phone bill payment, gas bill payment, hospital registration, and social security payment, in addition to mini-program functionality.

Whether Feiyan can become the leader in the instant messaging industry is unknown, but it definitely has a place. It's like Dongling High-Tech has planted another flag in the internet industry after Tianya Forum, which can bring Dongling High-Tech huge traffic and users!
But that's for the future. Right now, the most important thing for Fetion is to solve the internal communication, exchange, and collaborative office needs of Dongling Hi-Tech.

"I called you here today because there's something else going on that the software department needs to do!"

Li Dongling looked at Jiang Tao and said.

(End of this chapter)