Reborn since 1993

Chapter 415 A single move affects the whole body
There is only a little over a month left before the New Year. Not only in China, but also in the entire region influenced by Han culture, people are preparing for the New Year. This is also the time when China has the highest consumption power.

Not only are New Year-related products selling like hot cakes, but sales of all kinds of electronic appliances and home appliances are also surging.

Countless families have been busy all year long just for the New Year. They only spend their yearly salary on buying New Year's goods at this time.

The Chinese New Year is still very lively now, but after a few years, the scene will be reversed. The Chinese New Year atmosphere in China has gradually faded, but in America, old Europe, the Middle East and other places, various Spring Festival activities are flying, and even churches have begun to post couplets...

Yuhe Leisure Resort is now basically full, especially with the addition of some simple go-karts, carousels, trampolines, spiral slides and other facilities. It is basically at the level of the amusement parks in shopping malls in the previous life, but it is still crowded with people. If Li Dongling goes there now, he probably won't have a place to stay.

Not only people from Hanxi Province, but also people from surrounding provinces and cities close to Hanxi have come here with their families to join in the fun. This is actually due to the relatively scarce entertainment facilities in the country, but it also makes Yuhe leisure and vacation very full.

Dongling Hi-Tech is also very busy now and is constantly preparing for the Spring Festival. In fact, nearly two months into the Spring Festival, the sales of the Xiaolingtong mobile phones, which had originally entered a stable period, have begun to surge in shipments.

Just like in the past, during the Spring Festival every year, the sales of domestic commodities such as real estate and automobiles have skyrocketed, and a considerable portion of them are purchased by people returning home.

Countless people work hard outside for a year and can't go back to their hometowns. They would lose face in front of their relatives and friends in their hometowns, so they have to bring some things back more or less...

Now, real estate and cars have not yet become popular, but it does not mean that this purchasing power has disappeared. Instead, it has turned into mobile phones, computers, large color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, motorcycles and other commodities of this era, and sales have begun to soar!
Among them, Xiaolingtong has become the representative of mobile phones. Its sales in the domestic market have soared, forcing the production department of Dongling Hi-Tech to continue to increase its production capacity.

During the Chinese New Year this year, it is estimated that the production department of Dongling Hi-Tech will have to work overtime. It is hard to say what the attitude of employees of other companies is towards overtime, but the staff of the production department of Dongling Hi-Tech are not averse to overtime. Even many people with tight family conditions look forward to working overtime.

During the Chinese New Year period, all employees of Dongling Hi-Tech who did not have a holiday received double pay for their work, in addition to various allowances, which were almost equivalent to 2.5 times their wages. There was also paid compensatory leave after the Chinese New Year, so the registration for this year's overtime work list was completed quickly at the Production Department of Dongling Hi-Tech.

When Li Dongling came to the technical department, all the project teams in the technical department were still busy. Because of Li Dongling's attention, the technical department became the most important department of Dongling Hi-Tech.

"Mr. Li!"

Seeing Li Dongling's arrival, Chen Tao, Luo Zheng and several other directors of Dongling's high-tech department rushed over.

Li Dongling visited all the major project teams of Dongling High-Tech's technical department. In addition to checking the progress of the technical department's projects, Li Dongling also expressed his importance to the technical department as usual.

Unlike other companies, Dongling Hi-Tech is a company mainly composed of engineers. In fact, the entire Dongling Hi-Tech operates around the technical department, using technology to drive the progress of Dongling Hi-Tech. This is the biggest difference between Dongling Hi-Tech and other companies.

Now Dongling Hi-Tech's technical department is mainly divided into digital cordless phone R&D department, computer peripherals R&D department, communication technology R&D department, mobile phone R&D department and an innovation R&D department.

Digital cordless phones are Dongling Hi-Tech's most stable cash cow, and the R&D department is constantly working on cordless phones.

The computer peripherals department is responsible for the research and development of computer-related equipment such as mouse, keyboard, headset, data cable, router, camera, etc. It has already launched the Silver Sable brand mouse and keyboard, which have received good response.

What Li Dongling came to see today were mainly the remaining three R&D project groups, namely mobile phones, communication technology and the Innovation R&D Department. The electronic dictionary, repeater and future new products of Dongling Hi-Tech will all be developed and managed by the Innovation R&D Department.

"The technical department needs to recruit more people. We don't have enough manpower!"

As soon as he entered the office, Chen Tao couldn't help but complain to Li Dongling. This was because Li Dongling brought his assistant Su Chicheng here today. If Hu Zixian, who was in charge of Dongling Hi-Tech's money bag, was present, Chen Tao probably wouldn't dare to ask for someone so openly.

The total number of engineers in the technical department, whether junior, mid-level or senior, has exceeded 2,100. We are already the company with the largest number of R&D personnel in the domestic technology industry!

If the Hanxi Joint Laboratory is also counted as external staff of Dongling High-Tech's technical department, then the staff size of the technical department will expand significantly.

The junior engineer is the position when one first joins the technical department, with a starting salary of 1,500 yuan. After passing the review and officially joining the company, he or she becomes an intermediate engineer with a starting salary of 4,000 yuan. These are also the main R&D personnel in Dongling High-tech's technical department.

There are much fewer senior engineers, and their salary is more than 10,000 yuan. They are mainly responsible for helping the technical department to overcome difficulties. At critical moments, they are relied upon to solve problems.

Going up to the top, there are some technical experts, mainly academicians recruited by Dongling Hi-Tech. Some of these people were invited by Dongling Hi-Tech itself, and some were introduced by Academicians Ni Guangnan, Huang Lingyi, and Fangzheng Wang. Some of these academicians are just in name only, while some are really employed by Dongling Hi-Tech. They have the right to form their own R&D team and can use the resources and funds of Dongling Hi-Tech's technical department for R&D.

When some of Dongling Hi-Tech's projects encountered difficulties, they relied on the help of these academicians, the research institutes, and technical experts in the industry to help. This cannot be simply measured by technology. Sometimes they can even influence the policy making of certain industries. For Dongling Hi-Tech, the more of these academicians the better.

If I must make an analogy, it is like if you are unlucky enough to buy an unfinished building, and if there is a suite in it that belongs to an academician, then don't worry, the building will definitely be rebuilt, and someone from the local municipal government or even the provincial government will come to express their condolences...

The technical department is now the money-eating beast of Dongling Hi-Tech. Not counting bonuses, subsidies, etc., the monthly salary paid to technical personnel alone adds up to more than the revenue of some small companies in several years.

"The tasks of the major R&D project teams are very heavy. The Communications Technology Department is developing baseband, 2G, and 3G technologies. The mobile phone department has an even heavier task, developing the second generation of PHS phones and 2G mobile phone projects. Add to that the electronic dictionary and repeater projects of the Innovation R&D Department. We really don't have enough manpower!"

Chen Tao complained bitterly that it seemed that there were a lot of people in the technical department, but in fact, when they were dispersed among the various project teams, there were not that many people.

Not to mention, Dongling Hi-Tech's technical department also has to regularly send some technical personnel to Dongling Hi-Tech's production department to upgrade the production lines.

Technical personnel will also be sent to various supplier companies in the Dongling Hi-Tech industrial chain to provide technical guidance and supervision to ensure product quality.

In fact, in the past, big manufacturers such as Nokia, Apple, and Chrysanthemum Factory were also famous for their strict quality control. They sent engineers to various component supplier companies all year round. On the one hand, they provided technical guidance and asked suppliers to provide technical guidance and upgrades, and on the other hand, they also provided supervision.

Automobile manufacturers that cooperate with the Juhua Factory are busy until three in the morning every day when testing products at the parts supplier company. They will go to the site to continue testing at eight o'clock the next day. The plan will be modified within 24 hours and the testing will continue, repeating this cycle over and over again until the plan is passed and the test is qualified.

During Jobs's time, Apple was also very strict with quality control of its supply chain. Even becoming a supplier in the Apple supply chain became a selling point that those companies were proud of and promoted externally. Becoming an Apple supplier and going public was much easier. Every time Apple released a new product, the stock prices of a number of suppliers would skyrocket.

But when Apple started using India's supply chain, things started to become unpredictable. E. coli was detected in the machine at a level ten times higher than the standard. In comparison, other issues such as dust on the lens, screen burn-in, etc. were nothing.

But for Ah San, this thing is really nothing. After all, even the eye drops manufactured for America can contain Pseudomonas aeruginosa...

Major component suppliers are both excited and worried about the orders from Apple and Chrysanthemum Factory. They are excited because as long as these orders are completed, they will never lack orders in the future. But they are worried about whether these orders can be completed.

Dongling Hi-Tech’s product quality control cannot be said to immediately reach the level of Nokia phones blocking bullets in the past, but it cannot be said to be too poor either.

The scale of Dongling Hi-Tech's technical staff seems to be quite large, but compared with the scale of R&D personnel of overseas giants such as Toshiba and IBM, the scale of Dongling Hi-Tech's technical department is a bit "shabby".

For example, IBM, which is currently cooperating with the Shenzhou USB flash drive, has more than 18,000 employees worldwide in its hard drive department alone, not counting IBM's other R&D departments such as computers, semiconductors, and software. One can imagine how large the R&D scale of those overseas technology giants is.

R&D is really achieved by burning money, without exception. When you can no longer burn money, that’s when your technology is surpassed by other companies!
Li Dongling listened to Chen Tao's complaints without hesitation and said directly, "Next year's spring recruitment, the technical department can recruit another group of engineers, not only domestically, but also overseas.

In the future, if the technical department personnel want to study for a master's degree or doctorate, or go abroad for further studies, the technical department can support them and pay for their tuition fees, but after returning from their studies, they need to continue to fulfill the agreement with Dongling Hi-Tech!"

Regarding the investment in the technical department, whether it is R&D technology or the recruitment of technical personnel, Li Dongling has given the technical department sufficient support, and he would even spare no expense to recruit talents.

Studying abroad is very attractive these days. As long as Dongling Hi-Tech can recruit talented people and pay to send them to study and get a doctorate abroad, it can afford it. This move can even attract overseas talents. Studying for a master's or doctorate degree abroad is very expensive. There are many people who are still paying off their student loans more than ten years after graduation.

Texas Instruments, known as the Huangpu Military Academy of Semiconductors, also has a similar talent training system. It can spend a lot of money to cultivate talents. For example, the founders of TSMC and SMIC both studied for their doctorates while working at Texas Instruments, and then returned to Texas Instruments to continue working after completing their doctorates.

After all, if this money is not spent on the technical department, it will have to be used to pay patent fees to other companies, and maybe they won't even be able to buy the product. Comparing the two, you know which one to choose. As I said, some money should either be used as military expenses or as compensation.

"What is the current development stage of baseband technology?" Li Dongling asked Luo Zheng.

(End of this chapter)