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Chapter 545 The calm before the storm

When Soros and a bunch of vulture hedge funds come to Southeast Asia and cause the region to collapse, the lipstick effect will probably appear.

Houses, cars, luxury goods, high-end restaurants, etc. are no longer popular. Instead, the demand for products with low consumption has skyrocketed.

As for products like electronic dictionaries and repeaters, they can provide emotional value and entertainment when purchased, which is similar to watching a movie. It is estimated that their sales may even experience an explosion. After all, they are much cheaper than luxury goods.

However, no matter what, Dongling Hi-Tech still needs to launch the electronic dictionary and repeater as soon as possible to avoid any further complications.

When Li Dongling determines the new goal of Dongling Hi-Tech, the entire Dongling Hi-Tech will start to operate rapidly around the two electronic dictionary projects like a sophisticated war machine.

"The technical department will upgrade digital cordless phones, PHS phones, Silver Sable mice and other products, launch a new generation of machines, and develop new products!"

Dongling Hi-Tech's product lines are constantly increasing, and the burden on the technical department is also becoming heavier. They need to continuously upgrade previous products and develop new products. This department is also the fastest growing department in Dongling Hi-Tech.

As the most important department of Dongling Hi-Tech, it also has the highest salary and is the department that reports directly to Li Dongling. Because of Li Dongling, unlike the technical departments of other companies, the technical department of Dongling Hi-Tech has a very high status, and its salary, benefits, and treatment are also the best in the entire Dongling Hi-Tech.

As the saying goes, "Raise your troops for a thousand days and deploy them for a moment". Li Dongling gave the technical department a high enough status and treatment, hoping that it would fight in the front lines for Dongling Hi-Tech. At the critical moment, it must be able to stand up!
Chen Tao nodded vigorously. He understood what Li Dongling meant. Dongling Hi-Tech is now a technology-driven company, very similar to overseas pharmaceutical giants. They all bet heavily on a project and then wait for the project to be successfully developed and bring huge profits to the parent company!
Different from the projects of pharmaceutical giants that rely on luck for survival, Dongling Hi-Tech has never failed in its bets!
This is also what rival companies and institutions researching Dongling Hi-Tech fear and are most surprised about. Pharmaceutical companies invest tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in the development of new drugs, but the researchers dare not guarantee the effectiveness of the drugs, and many of them end up being wasted.

However, Dongling Hi-Tech's new projects have never failed so far, and it seems that it can always find the right path. From electronic pet machines, to digital cordless phones, to Xiaolingtong mobile phones, Shenzhou USB flash drives, Feiyan mini radios, etc., Dongling Hi-Tech has been the "right" one time and time again!
This is quite unreasonable in the scientific research industry, but Dongling Hi-Tech has done it. If the electronic dictionaries and repeaters are popular after they go on sale, then Dongling Hi-Tech's voice in the technology industry will be frighteningly high in the future. It is estimated that a large number of technology companies will follow Dongling Hi-Tech's example.

After all, a scientific research project that cost a lot of time and effort and invested a lot of money ended up with a disastrous sales failure, while a project that copied Dongling Hi-Tech made a lot of money. It would be strange if other technology companies didn't lose their minds.

Even Chen Tao, who is in charge of Dongling's high-tech department, is now extremely famous. Not only in China, but also in overseas media, he is touted as the best technical expert in the technology industry in Asia.

There are countless companies that want to poach Chen Tao, including overseas companies from South Korea, Japan, Singapore, etc. They are willing to offer salary, equity, etc. to poach Chen Tao and have him take charge of their technical departments. Then, like Dongling Hi-Tech, they will continue to launch hot-selling technology product projects.

But family members know their own business. Chen Tao is confident in technology, especially after several years of training. Chen Tao is not only technically proficient, but also has experience in leading and managing large R&D teams. He now truly deserves the title of the best chief technical engineer in Asia!

But apart from technology, Chen Tao knows his own strengths in terms of strategic vision for product development. He knows too well who is the person who truly steers Dongling Hi-Tech's strategy and selects the products for Dongling Hi-Tech!

"Dongling Hi-Tech's various departments and management need to make some personnel adjustments. I propose that Su Chicheng join the Budget Review Committee as deputy director!"

At the end of the meeting, before leaving, Li Dongling suddenly spoke. Everyone in the meeting room first looked at Su Chicheng, and then looked at Hu Zixian.

As Li Dongling's confidant, Su Chicheng was promoted and reused, which was not unexpected by everyone. With Su Chicheng's background, he would definitely become one of the senior executives of Dongling Hi-Tech in the future, because he represented Li Dongling, and this alone was enough.

Joining the Budget Review Committee is a bit tricky. As Dongling Hi-Tech continues to expand and the number of departments and projects continues to increase, the status of the Budget Review Committee becomes more and more important.

But this department was established by Hu Zixian. Whoever controls this department is equivalent to becoming the big boss of all departments. At critical moments, he can influence the internal structure of Dongling Hi-Tech.

With the Finance Department and the Budget Review Committee under his control, Hu Zixian can be said to be one of the two or three most powerful people within Dongling Hi-Tech.

Many people in the conference room were wondering whether Hu Zixian would let go of this powerful department.

But to everyone's surprise, when Hu Zixian heard this proposal, he just nodded towards Su Chicheng and did not express anything else.

Everyone in the conference room, how could Hu Zixian not have thought of what others were thinking of? However, as an old hand who has experienced ups and downs, Hu Zixian's ability to judge the situation is top-notch.

If it were any other company, Hu Zixian might think of making some moves, but in the case of Dongling Hi-Tech, what a joke, since the founder, Li Dongling, is just standing there.

Even though Li Dongling is willing to delegate power to professional managers and veterans like Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian, and Zhang Ao on weekdays, with Li Dongling's current prestige in Dongling Hi-Tech, as long as he doesn't care about the impact, he wants to get rid of anyone in Dongling Hi-Tech. With just one word, everyone in the conference room, no matter how influential or famous they are, will have to get out! Hu Zixian knows too well how much influence a company founder, who has led the company to an undefeated state, has.

Moreover, the Budget Review Committee is powerful, but it is an offensive department. If you work there for a long time, you will have no friends within Dongling Hi-Tech. Hu Zixian still wants to live a few more years, so he is not reluctant to give up.

After the meeting, everyone dispersed, and many supervisors had to rush to the provincial capital airport on business trips.

Li Dongling, Chen Tao and others went to the technical department to see what the prototype of the developed electronic dictionary looked like. Ren Yuefeng and others also accompanied them.

"Boss Li, have you heard any rumors?"

On the way, Ren Yuefeng asked Li Dongling in a low voice. Li Dongling's abnormal behavior in the meeting just now made Ren Yuefeng a little worried.

"If a man does not think about the future, he will have immediate worries. Even if the world is at peace, if he forgets to fight, he will be in danger!"

"When the storm comes, it is actually calm. No one knows what will happen tomorrow, but we still have to make the necessary preparations. Even if we make the preparations, they may not be used, but if we don't make the preparations... we will definitely pay the price!"

Li Dongling looked at Ren Yuefeng and said, having said that, Li Dongling could not say any more, Ren Yuefeng should know what to do.

Now the scale of Dongling High-Tech's technical department is constantly expanding, and now there are several buildings that have become laboratories of the technical department.

Li Dongling came to one of the buildings and after several rounds of security checks, he entered. Chen Tao took Li Dongling into a laboratory.

The staff in this laboratory were all busy with the electronic dictionary project. Chen Tao came to the laboratory table and picked up a silver palm-sized machine.

“This is an electronic dictionary developed by our technical department, with a 2.8-inch STN LCD panel supplied by Oriental Optoelectronics and a motherboard supplied by Eastchip.

The peripheral department of Yindiao supplies the electronic dictionary keyboard. The memory size is 256M memory provided by Shenzhou Storage. In addition, an SD expansion memory card is reserved. It supports the USB standard of Shenzhou Storage and can be connected to a computer to upgrade the software and electronic dictionary on the official website.

The battery is a 700 mAh lithium battery supplied by BYD, the built-in software is jointly developed by Dongling Hi-Tech and Kingsoft, and all the parts of the entire electronic dictionary are supplied by Dongling Hi-Tech's parts industry chain.

Chen Tao said that the electronic dictionary can be said to be a culmination of Dongling Hi-Tech's parts industry chain, and the entire machine is completely domestically produced from the inside out.

“This electronic dictionary has been authorized by the publisher and has built-in Oxford Dictionary, English-Chinese Dictionary, Chinese-English Dictionary and some special words.

It supports three main functions: dictionary query and learning, Chinese-English translation, and calculator. It also has some built-in entertainment software, which can be used for gaming, etc. ”

Li Dongling listened to Chen Tao's words and flipped through the electronic dictionary in his hand, which was just a screen connected to a full-key keyboard. Currently, electronic dictionaries have very few functions, basically only four or five.

Li Dongling tried it out and can't say it's bad, but it's not terrible either. It's basically a mechanical query, and the query and translation speeds are not very fast, but it's just average and usable, but you can't expect it to be very useful. This is the case for most first-generation products.

There are a few built-in games, including the Russian Cube, the pet training of the electronic pet machine, and the Demon Hunting game that Kingsoft is currently completing.

Don’t underestimate these few games. In this era, they are killer games. Just imagine the scene when electronic pet machines came out.

Electronic dictionaries are enough to make thousands of boys and girls crazy about these games. Whoever takes out this thing in the dormitory will become the coolest guy surrounded by the whole class.

(End of this chapter)