Reborn since 1993

Chapter 447: Old Friends
Li Dongling stayed in the port city for quite a while. When he returned to Hanxi, it was already the end of the year. From the provincial capital to Pingyang, all the towns he passed by were decorated with lights and colorful lanterns.

On the second day after Li Dongling came back, there was a heavy snow in Hanxi, but Dongling Hi-Tech was bustling with activity. Today was the day of Dongling Hi-Tech's annual meeting. After today, except for some R&D projects in the technical department, due to R&D time issues, overtime would be needed and rotation rest would be required after the New Year.

The rest of the departments, including Feiyan Technology, Doxin Semiconductor, Oriental Optoelectronics, Shenzhou Storage and other departments under Dongling Hi-Tech, as well as companies closely related to Dongling Hi-Tech such as Torch Group, Focus Media, and Oriental Express, will also start their holidays starting today.

The whole Pingyang was covered with a layer of silver, but road maintenance workers began to clear the snow early in the morning. Pingyang Department Store, Yellow River Clothing Wholesale Market and other famous retail malls in Pingyang had long queues in front of their doors early in the morning.

By this year, if the Oriental Times Shopping Mall can be completed and renovated and can start operation, it is estimated that the retail situation in Pingyang and even Hanxi will be even more prosperous.

In the days leading up to the Chinese New Year, shopping malls across the country are basically crowded with people, but this scene is even more severe in Pingyang, because Pingyang now has sufficient jobs and guaranteed salaries. With money, Pingyang's consumer market has naturally emerged. Pingyang's consumption power is even stronger than that of the provincial capital!

This year, with the continued expansion of Dongling Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Feiyan Technology's recruitment, Torch Group's start of construction, Focus Media's recruitment of sales and customer service personnel, and Oriental Express's logistics and courier personnel.

Including Pingyang Cargo Airport, Pingyang Animal Park, Pingyang Town Roads, Hanxi Software Park, New Oriental Pingyang Campus and other projects that are currently in full swing, the job demand in Pingyang as a whole has been pushed to the extreme!
Now in Pingyang, the question is no longer whether one can find a job, but rather that there are simply not enough people. As a result, you can see job recruitment notices in Pingyang department stores and stores on the streets every few steps.

If you go to the area dominated by Dongling Hi-Tech Industrial Park, even if the Chinese New Year is almost approaching, there are companies setting up stalls with recruitment signs there in the cold weather. A considerable portion of these stalls are set up by Dongling Hi-Tech industrial chain parts companies that settled in Pingyang along with Dongling Hi-Tech, and they also need manpower.

What they are most worried about is a shortage of staff after the Chinese New Year. As long as they sign up, they can go to work directly after the Chinese New Year. If they are willing to sign a contract in advance, they can even get some small gifts. It can be seen how serious the shortage of staff is now.

In fact, just when a number of companies in the Dongling Hi-Tech industrial chain were preparing for the New Year holiday, they received an announcement from the Logistics Department of Dongling Hi-Tech, requiring a number of companies in the industrial chain to reserve sufficient production capacity space next year!
Dongling Hi-Tech, a parts industry chain company, is very familiar with this set of rhetoric. It is obvious that Dongling Hi-Tech may launch new products after the Chinese New Year!

This makes various parts manufacturers both happy and worried. The good news is that they will not lack orders next year. The bad news is that the orders may be exceeded again, and they may not be able to meet Dongling Hi-Tech's orders at all, so they can only expand their manpower as much as possible.

Now, people not only from Hanxi Province but also from surrounding provinces and cities come to Pingyang to work, and even people from outside Shanhaiguan come here to look for work.

"Manager Song!"

"Mr. Song!"

Like previous years, this year's Dongling Hi-Tech Annual Meeting also allows families to attend. Song Yajun also brought his wife and children to the auditorium of Dongling Hi-Tech Industrial Park where the annual meeting was held.

Song Yajun was greeting people he knew and saw in the auditorium that the scale of this year's annual meeting was more than twice as large as last year's. The entire auditorium was even full, which showed how much Dongling Hi-Tech had expanded in the past year.

Song Yajun found the table in the production department. Tao Zhiliang, who was also in the production department, was there with his wife Zhu Jing and two children.

"Lao Tao, my daughter will be going to college next year, which university is she going to?"

After sitting down, Song Yajun started chatting with Tao Zhiliang, and his wife also started talking about family matters with the wives of Zhu Jing and other Dongling Hi-Tech production department managers.

In such occasions, the first topic that comes up is usually children. Tao Zhiliang usually shows off his little cotton-padded jacket the most in front of Song Yajun and others. As for his son who was fiddling with his mobile phone and waiting for dinner, Tao Zhiliang ignored him.

"Pingyang University?"

Hearing Tao Zhiliang's words, Song Yajun was also surprised. When he talked about their children with the managers of Dongling Hi-Tech, most of them said they wanted to be admitted to Hanxi University and become alumni of Li Dongling. It was rare to hear someone directly say they were going to Pingyang University.

"The child is grown up and has his own ideas. You can't force him. Just let it be!"

Tao Zhiliang acted like a girl who was too grown up to be kept, and his little girl rolled her eyes when she heard this. She had talked to Tao Zhiliang and his wife that day about the reason why she chose Pingyang University. They bet that Pingyang University would provide more opportunities for employment and postgraduate study in the future, and the couple agreed to it. But now Comrade Tao said one thing and meant another.

Song Yajun took a look at the Tao family and felt that there seemed to be something fishy. He knew how much Tao Zhiliang had suffered for his family. He was disappointed that his daughter's college admission was not reported. Without getting into this, Song Yajun mentioned another matter and said to Tao Zhiliang, "Lao Tao, I heard that the company plans to implement a new production management next year, and implement modern electronic information management for production and sales, including cooperation with suppliers."

"Yes," Tao Zhiliang was also a little worried, "I also heard that after becoming a supervisor, there will be assessments and upgrades. I don't know what will happen!"

With the emergence of computerized offices and the Internet, in fact, the first things to change were companies, which began to slowly change their original production and sales models.

Dongling Hi-Tech will also begin to implement electronic management after the beginning of the year, gradually connecting production, sales, inventory, as well as suppliers and retailers in the industrial chain, in order to reduce costs and improve efficiency as efficiently as possible.

This aspect has just started in China, but Dongling Hi-Tech’s competitors are not only domestic competitors, but also a number of overseas giants.

Those overseas giant companies are constantly improving their production capacity, quality, and efficiency, converting inventory rates, and continuously improving their control over supply chains and sales channels, working hard to reduce costs and improve product competitiveness.

Originally, Dongling Hi-Tech's brand influence and foundation were not as good as those overseas giants. If its products did not have any advantages, it would almost be doomed to failure.

In its past life, Xiyin, a little-known company in China, was a huge success overseas, with its valuation once exceeding 90 billion U.S. dollars, second only to the unlisted ByteDance, Musk's Speax, and OpenAi, becoming the world's fourth largest unlisted company with the highest valuation.

The reason why Xiyin has been able to defeat a number of fast-moving consumer goods clothing brands such as Zara, Uniqlo, and Amazon overseas is because of its strong control over the supply chain.

Unlike traditional clothing, which requires designers to guide trends, Xiyin first looks for designers based on user big data feedback, and finally places an order with the manufacturer. The samples come out the next day and are then handed over to Xiyin for production. The whole process only takes seven days...

Although Xiyin's designers and suppliers are complaining bitterly, this model is a digital supply chain system that Xiyin has spent a lot of money to transform. Every day, Xiyin and its suppliers can see various data on a large screen.

A new product is launched every seven days, and then one hundred pieces are put on the platform. Additional orders are placed based on sales and user reviews, or the project is canceled. This cycle is repeated over and over again to continuously create popular fast-moving consumer goods clothing products.

This model will of course put enormous pressure on designers and suppliers. Xiyin, which has both good and bad reputations, mainly fights overseas. That is, it uses the money of overseas users to place orders with 5,400 domestic supply chain companies, with annual revenue of 45 billion US dollars. Only time can tell who is right and who is wrong.

Dongling Hi-Tech's control over the supply chain does not seek to reach the level of Xiyin's strictness in the previous life, but it must be improved. The sales and production departments cannot be completely unaware of each other. The control over component suppliers must also be improved, at least to the level of Nokia, Apple, and Dell!
The annual meeting was about to begin, and dishes were brought to the table one by one. Dongling Hi-Tech's annual meeting was the same as the first one. People did not sit around and listen to the chatter of the people on the stage. Instead, they sat at the table with their families and had a big meal.

Of course, a few years ago, the roasted lamb, roasted chicken, and braised pork elbows served at Dongling Hi-Tech’s annual meeting were definitely a feast for those attending the meeting. But now, the salaries of Dongling Hi-Tech’s employees have begun to increase, especially for supervisors like Song Yajun and Tao Zhiliang, eating meat is not a problem at all.

“So, Cyberport will have to spend a lot of money to acquire the controlling stake in Hong Kong City Telecom, right?”

In the auditorium, Li Dongling also sat together with Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian, Chen Tao, Zhang Ao, Gao Peng and other senior executives of Dongling Hi-Tech.

After everyone heard what Li Dongling was doing in Gangcheng, Hu Zixian asked Dongling with a headache.

Although through Li Dongling's operation, Cyberport Company has no direct connection with Dongling Hi-Tech, but to say that the two sides have no connection at all is nonsense and no one will believe it.

"Yanjing's postal and telecommunications departments, telecommunications companies, and Bank of China Hong Kong City Company will all help Cyberport. After acquiring Hong Kong City Telecom, Hong Kong City will become Dongling Hi-Tech's bridgehead overseas!" said Li Dongling.

Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian and others looked at each other and knew that Li Dongling had made up his mind about this matter. There was no turning back once the arrow was shot. It was useless to say anything more at this time. They could only help Li Dongling to proceed with this deal.

"Thank you for your hard work during this period!" Li Dongling said with a smile, "How is Dongling Hi-Tech?"

(End of this chapter)