Reborn since 1993

Chapter 777: Expert in Civil War, Amateur in Foreign War

The Mainland Internet Cafe Association may collect hundreds of millions of RMB in membership fees in the next year, or even more as a small treasury fund. What does this mean for a department with little money?
This means that from now on, Li Wei will have to speak with more authority in the ministry, which means that the other departments in the cultural department and many of the Yenching departments, which are not very well-off, will have to owe him favors.

It also means that Li Wei's chances of making further progress in his career in the future will be much greater than before.

All these favors came from Lingyun Technology, or to be more precise, Dongling Hi-Tech behind Lingyun Technology. Li Wei had to accept the favor. If he didn't, someone else would.

I've got the favor. From now on, Li Wei and the cultural department must endorse Lingyun Technology and the Mainland Internet Cafe Association.

Otherwise, who would be willing to work for Li Wei and fight for him in his future career?

"In addition to this application for the establishment of the Mainland Internet Cafe Association, there is another company, Hanxi's Xishanju Company, which has also applied to establish the Mainland Game Association and hopes to get the endorsement of our Marketing Department!"

The clerk from the Cultural Market Department standing in front of Li Wei handed another application to Li Wei.

This time, Li Wei did not agree directly, but read the application carefully. Compared with the Mainland Internet Cafe Association and the Mainland Game Association, it was much more conventional and did not directly involve slush funds or the like.

But as someone who has been immersed in official career for many years, how could Li Wei not see the mystery here? Sometimes, what is not written may be the most important thing.

Li Wei feels that the influence of the Mainland Game Association on the game industry in the future will probably be no less than that of the Mainland Internet Cafe Association, especially as it involves the introduction of overseas games, guiding the development of the game industry, etc.

At present, domestic game copyrights have not been taken too seriously. Only last year did the country begin to implement game copyright management, with the Press and Publication Administration being responsible for issuing game copyrights.

But at this moment, the scale of the domestic game market is not large, and the review is not strict. In fact, a large part of the game market is gray industry. It is neither illegal nor has any certificate to represent its legality.

Li Wei shook his head. Just like the application form of the Mainland Internet Cafe Association, the application form of the Mainland Game Association was also written in a grand and vigorous manner. From the very beginning, it pushed domestic games to the level of going abroad and promoting domestic culture overseas. It was impossible to refute it directly.

"As expected of a company that the Economic and Trade Commission values, Dongling Hi-Tech's investment is really big!"

After reading the two association applications, Li Wei couldn't help but sigh, but then he weighed the game association application in his hand.

"In principle, the Cultural Market Department has no objection to the establishment of the Mainland Game Association, but this matter should be mainly decided by the Press and Publication Administration and the Propaganda Committee. As long as the Press and Publication Administration does not object, we will vote in support, but we will make a decision after the Press and Publication Administration votes!"

Li Wei stated that there are many units that can extend their influence to manage the gaming industry, but the most important one is definitely the Press and Publication Administration. The Cultural Market Department cannot take the lead, otherwise if things really get out of hand, everyone will lose face.

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"Due to production capacity reasons, the number of computers supplied by Shenzhou Computer to the Internet cafe market may be reduced!"

"Due to the strong demand for Shenzhou computers in the Internet cafe market, the retail prices of Shenzhou computers in some areas have increased!"

When Feng Miaoyu quickly sent the exclusive interview with Li Dongling back to Yanjing Business Daily, Yanjing Business Daily reported it on the front page the next day.

Almost as soon as the report came out, the prices of Shenzhou computers sold by retailers in Yanjing and other places immediately rose.

In particular, as reported above, due to insufficient production capacity, the orders for machines supplied to the Internet cafe market may be reduced, which means that the scale of Internet cafes this year may be restricted.

After all, if you want to open an Internet cafe, you must have computers. Without computers, how can you open an Internet cafe?

As soon as this news came out, even those who didn't understand the market would understand that it would not be easy for Internet cafe owners to get Shenzhou computers.

Fearing that they would not be able to get the computers in the future, those who were planning to open Internet cafes all started to rush to buy the Shenzhou computers on the market, and the prices started to go up.

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"Shenzhou Computer's greed is a bit too ugly. If they want to raise the price, they should just say so directly. Instead of playing hard to get!"

Today is the day when the Mainland Computer Manufacturers Association gathers. Many computer manufacturers have come, including Lenovo, Solitaire, Great Wall, Founder, Tongfang, 7Up, Star, Donghai, Muze, Xinlan and dozens of other large and small computer manufacturers gathered together.

The person who just spoke was Lu Ning, the general manager of Great Wall Computer. What he just saw was the newspaper of Yanjing Business Daily. Great Wall Computer is also under great pressure now. Of course, for the computer manufacturers present today, who is not under great pressure because of the appearance of Shenzhou Computer?

As the influence and reputation of Shenzhou Computer gradually spread, with the basic market of Internet cafes, more and more orders were received from other aspects, and sales began to rise continuously.
As for computer brands such as Great Wall, computer orders have not decreased, and have even increased slightly. However, according to statistics, domestic computer sales this year have skyrocketed by nearly one-third. As a result, the sales of Great Wall computers have almost stagnated compared to the same period last year.

Not only Great Wall, but also Inspur, Tongfang, Solitaire and other manufacturers are in the same situation. They can't even increase their orders. You know, they are selling computers at a reduced price, but the orders haven't increased much.

Who took the increased computer orders from the mainland market? Need I ask?
Even without investigating, just looking at media reports, a certain computer manufacturer was unable to keep up with the production of so many orders that it began to implement a quota system in the Internet cafe computer market. It would be clear who took the increased orders.

But if we were to say who are the most annoying among these domestic computer manufacturers, it would definitely be Lenovo and Great Wall.

The former, due to price cuts on computers, may have very poor performance this year, and Hong Kong investment institutions have been selling off its shares, causing the stock price to collapse.

As for Great Wall Computer, it is scheduled to be listed on the Pengcheng Stock Exchange in a few days this year, and it happens to be colliding with Shenzhou Computer. After the listing in a few days, it is hard to say whether the stock price of Great Wall Computer can maintain the issue price.

As the saying goes, cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing his parents. Executives of Great Wall Computer, such as Lu Ning, were all allocated Great Wall stocks. If the stock price of Great Wall fell after the listing, their net worth, which had originally made them rich overnight, would also shrink a lot. It would be strange if Lu Ning had a good impression of Shenzhou Computer.

"If Shenzhou can't handle so many orders, we can help it digest some of them!"

After Lu Ning, the general manager of another computer manufacturer also said with some annoyance that it was obvious that more than one company was coveting the orders in the hands of Shenzhou Computer.

"You have to be willing to buy them. Nowadays, Internet cafe companies are not willing to purchase computers from other brands except Shenzhou!"

The general manager of Donghai Computer said somewhat helplessly that, after all, these computer manufacturers have certainly thought about developing the Internet cafe computer market.

But these Internet cafe orders are all from private companies. They are not units or departments and do not need to consider human relationships. What they care about most is making money!
The biggest selling point of Internet cafes nowadays is games. In the current domestic computer industry, which brand provides the best gaming experience? Only Shenzhou Computer. All major Internet cafes need Shenzhou Computer to make money for them!

So even if brands like Donghai set the price of their computers very low, if the computers are not good, they will freeze at any time and they can't play the most popular games like Swordsman Online. So why would Internet cafes need these broken computers? Even at a very low price, those Internet cafes are unwilling to accept them.

"Does the Internet cafe computer market belong to Shenzhou in the future?"

For a while, the scene of the Mainland Computer Manufacturers Association seemed to be turning into a conference to discuss the Shenzhou computer.

Boss Liu, Duan Yongji of Soitong and others who convened this conference were happy to see it happen, although the main purpose of today's conference was to unite domestic computer manufacturers and start supply price negotiations with overseas computer component manufacturers such as Intel and Toshiba.

This was also the main purpose of the establishment of the Mainland Computer Manufacturers Association, which was to allow domestic computer manufacturers to unite and have more confidence when negotiating chip purchase prices with giants such as Intel.

However, the previous Mainland Computer Manufacturers Association was loose and everyone had ulterior motives, and several negotiations ended in vain because everyone wanted to get the latest chips from Intel at a low price, but did not want friendly competitors to take advantage of them.

Think about it, in the past life, China had already become the global leader in electric vehicles, but when negotiating tariffs with old Europe, there were still traitors who slipped up in advance and wanted to sell out friendly competitors and negotiate alone to get tariff preferences.

You can understand the attitude of major domestic computer manufacturers when facing giants such as Intel, Toshiba, Samsung, and Sharp. They have no bottom line at all. If there was any opportunity to sell teammates, they would have sold them long ago!

In this situation, there shouldn't be too many traitors. The Mainland Computer Manufacturers Association has already sold all its cards. As long as Intel takes a slightly tougher stance, domestic computer manufacturers will back off, fearing that Intel will stop supplying them.

There is no other choice but to unite and hold this conference, because the Mainland Computer Manufacturers Association and Shenzhou Computer have a common enemy.

They understood that if they did not unite this time, they would probably be defeated one by one by Shenzhou. Whether they wanted to engage in a price war with Shenzhou Computer or obtain the most advanced chip components from Intel and other manufacturers, this negotiation was necessary.

Therefore, this negotiation had a sense of solidarity and shared hatred for the enemy, and Boss Liu truly had the demeanor of a martial arts leader who could command the heroes.

But I'm afraid no one had expected in advance that what could bring these computer manufacturers together was not their overseas competitors, but Shenzhou, another domestic brand.

It really proves the saying that some people are no good at foreign wars but are experts at civil wars!
"In the future, the Internet cafe computer market may definitely belong to Shenzhou. It won't be long before everyone hears about the establishment of the Mainland Internet Cafe Association!"

The person who spoke was Fang Zhicheng, the general manager of Tongfang Computer. The news he suddenly revealed made the entire scene silent.

(End of this chapter)