Back to the teenage years

Chapter 573 Night Banquet
This weekend is exceptionally short.

They traveled around the city of Yanjing for two days. They saw the red walls of the Forbidden City reflecting the spring sun, squeezed through the bustling Wangfujing, tasted the candied haws by the Shichahai Lake, and climbed the broken walls of the Badaling Great Wall to enjoy the setting sun. Between the ancient charm and new trends of the capital, time passed like quicksand through fingers.

Chu Jian is going to Peking University to attend classes again.

Zhang Yunqi also had more things to do.

Project advancement, meetings and social events are coming in like a tide.

Under the coordination of Wei Nan from the Beijing Office, Zhang Yunqi held two consecutive meetings at the Kempinski Hotel, two sessions a day. The partners were the team of Academician Li Yanda from the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University, the team of Academician Jin Guopan from the Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanics, the team of Academician Zhang Bei from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, and the team of Liao Siming, deputy director of the Institute of Optoelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

This group of people are all top technical experts in the country, and the minimum configuration in the team is a doctoral student. However, after communicating with them, Zhang Yunqi's biggest feeling is that experts are also human beings, and they also eager to make knowledge embrace marketization and embrace the RMB.

The reason is simple. Although these technical giants have a respected status, fixed salary, state-arranged housing, and no worries about food and clothing, it can be said that their living conditions are better than 98% of Chinese people. But to say that they are rich is nonsense. There are only a few national-level projects throughout the year, and they have to work hard to overcome them, but there are no awards. There are too many people and too little porridge, and it is difficult to share the profits. Now is an era of rapid development of the market economy, and the group of businessmen who get rich first by going into business is getting bigger and bigger, and they happen to have more contact with this group.

Compared with these experts who receive a fixed salary of a few hundred yuan per month and a family of several people squeezed into a two-bedroom apartment of dozens of square meters, the businessmen drive luxury cars and live in luxury houses. This naturally creates a kind of psychological imbalance. The popular saying a few years ago, "Those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs," is the most profound irony of this phenomenon.

Based on this deep-seated reason, they fully look forward to cooperating with Aiwa Electronics and are very proactive. Since we are now in an era of market-oriented economy, they naturally want to transform technology into productivity and knowledge into wealth.

In this case, as long as Zhang Yunqi was willing to invest money in scientific research, the cooperation between Aiwa Electronics and several parties would naturally come to fruition, and several agreements were quickly reached.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences will participate in Aiwa Electronics' key project of disassembling and reverse researching Philips movements, focusing on technical research on improving the coating process and increasing the yield rate.

In several departments of Tsinghua University, the first thing is to transfer existing technologies and patents to Aiwa Electronics for priority use for a fee. For example, the team of Academician Li Yanda from the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University transferred the patent of "high-density optical disc error correction method" and pre-research technologies such as servo motor control software to Aiwa Electronics, thereby shortening the R&D cycle and accelerating the independent industrialization development of Aiwa Electronics.

Secondly, a "Tsinghua-Aihua Joint Optical Storage Laboratory" will be established at the Aihua Electronics base. Aihua can select technical backbones to study optical storage courses in the three departments and colleges and train engineers in a targeted manner. Academicians Li Yanda, Jin Guopan and Zhang Bei of Tsinghua University will serve as technical consultants for Aihua Electronics, and Aihua Electronics will provide them with technical consulting fees.

At the same time, three Tsinghua expert teams will provide the joint laboratory of both parties with precision optical testing platforms, chip simulation environments and other equipment, and send doctoral student teams to jointly tackle several major topics and optimize the production line debugging. The main topics include servo control theory algorithm optimization solutions, decoding chip algorithm compression efficiency optimization solutions, as well as Tsinghua University's independently developed laser focusing theoretical model and optical head anti-interference design solution and laser head signal processing solution.

After the deal was settled, it was natural to celebrate. Aiwa Electronics prepared a reception dinner at the Kempinski Hotel, and everyone left the meeting room in a happy mood.

On the way downstairs, Zhang Yunqi said to several experts and professors: "Aiwa Electronics is applying for the National Digital Optical Disc Special Fund. We may need a few professors to help verify and evaluate the technical path of Aiwa Electronics' domestic movement research and development, and clarify the key links that need to be broken through."

Academician Li Yanda and Academician Zhang Bei nodded without hesitation, but Academician Jin Guopan adjusted the frame of his glasses and said hesitantly, "Mr. Zhang, don't worry. With Lao Li and Lao Zhang in charge, this will definitely be a piece of cake."

Zhang Yunqi smiled. Jin Guopan's words made people doubt whether he was a member of the technical review of the digital optical disc special fund. After all, his status and position were there. But if it was true, his scientific research team could also conduct in-depth cooperation with Aiwa Electronics. What did this mean?

Zhang Yun said with a hint of meaning, "Then I will accept Professor Jin's good words. At present, Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer and other powerful world-famous companies have entered the Chinese CVD disc player market in a big way. Domestic manufacturers are fighting each other for market share. The competition in marketing, advertising investment, and the price of the whole machine is very fierce, cruel and bloody. This has greatly compressed the technology research and development investment of domestic manufacturers, resulting in us being controlled by others in core components. In the end, these manufacturers have become VCD assembly plants. But even in such a situation, Aiwa Electronics' investment in technology research and development is still huge. All indicators meet the screening and evaluation standards of the Digital Disc Special Fund, and even rank among the best. The reason is that we want to promote the localization of the core components of VCD disc players. If we can get a few hundred million interest-free loans from the special fund, and have the strong support of several industry experts, I think it will not be far to achieve this goal."

Zhang Yunqi's words were quite obscure, just putting the importance of doing this thing on the table, but these smart people could not fail to understand the core interests behind the scenes. So he also emphasized the words "If we can get a few hundred million interest-free loans from the special fund".

Because experts also need to eat.

A large part of the several hundred million interest-free loans from the Digital Disc Special Fund will be used for the research and development of VCD player technology. This is a hard condition for the special fund! Another additional requirement is that the company's technology research and development must be jointly tackled with scientific research institutions, otherwise the state will not allocate funds!
To put it more bluntly, now the technical R&D team of Jin Guopan and Aiwa Electronics has reached a cooperation, so this special fund is closely related to their interests, and it is mutually beneficial. Once it is obtained, everyone will have a share of the profits, which is completely in line with policy requirements. On the other hand, the Hunan Science and Technology Department has promised that as long as Aiwa Electronics obtains this special fund and lists the funding list, they will subsidize the cooperation project between Aiwa Electronics and Tsinghua University and provide 30% of the R&D expenses.

Jin Guopan said: "We are all veterans who have worked in this industry for decades and we know how difficult this is. Mr. Zhang has chosen a very difficult path, but I believe your persistence will definitely pay off."

Zhang Yunqi smiled.

This is exactly what he wanted.

As they chatted, the group soon arrived at the Kempinski buffet restaurant, which was already brightly lit.

The huge crystal chandelier casts a warm golden light, illuminating the luxurious hall.

In 1996, Kempinski was considered one of the best private hotels in Yanjing City. The overall style of the banquet was relatively high-end, and the dishes were in line with the high-end standards of that era. On the table, huge ice sculptures stood like crystal mountains, with frost-covered salmon sashimi, scallops lying on crushed ice, deep-colored caviar, and exquisite French desserts stacked like a tower at the end of the table. In the corner, a Steinway grand piano was playing soothing jazz music.

Aiwa Electronics invited quite a few people this time, including members of three research teams from Tsinghua University and a team from the Institute of Optoelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. As for the leaders of the Xiangnan Office in Beijing, Aiwa Electronics invited them all. Wei Nan also helped invite several leaders including Sun Xiangyun, director of the Ministry of Industry and Yanjing Municipal Bureau of Culture.

When Zhang Yunqi entered, the guests were basically all present, about forty or fifty people in total, as well as some family members and female companions. Everyone was walking around, and low laughter and the crisp clinking of knives and forks could be heard.

The first person Zhang Yunqi noticed was Li Yufei.

The several young doctoral students next to him could no longer walk and stared at Li Yufei with their eyes wide open.

There's no way around it; this girl is the focus of attention wherever she stands. Standing in the crowd at the age of seventeen, she looks like a newly blossoming gardenia. She's wearing a light lake blue knee-length dress made of tulle, which makes her look slender and tall. Her long, soft, straight hair is draped over her shoulders, and the crystal hairpins on her temples are shining with tiny lights. Her neck has graceful lines, and her collarbone is faintly visible under the tulle. Her skin is so clean that it's almost transparent under the warm golden light, with an indescribable attraction unique to young girls. Her purity forms a strange contrast with the heavy makeup and clinking glasses around her.

Wang Xiaokai stayed with Li Yufei. Zhang Yunqi did not go over. He held a glass of wine and toasted with Wei Nan and other leaders of the Xiangnan Office in Beijing.

At this time, Jin Guopan came over with a glass of wine, and Zhang Yunqi said with a smile: "Professor Jin, do you think we can hold a signing ceremony for the cooperation between Tsinghua University and Aiwa Electronics this week?"

Jin Guopan understood Zhang Yunqi's thoughts and said with a smile: "That's no problem. But Mr. Zhang, as a young and promising private entrepreneur, would you like to give a lecture in our school? Give our students some experience in starting a high-tech enterprise."

Zhang Yunqi gave a bitter smile, this matter really stumped him. If it was in the Department of Economics, he could still brag in front of those gifted people with little experience, but this was one of the top scientific research departments in the country. How could he understand any technology? He better not mislead the young people.

Zhang Yunqi toasted Jin Guopan with a sip of wine and said, "Thank you very much for Professor Jin's invitation. Tsinghua students are all talented people who are picked from thousands of miles away. I'd better not show off the little stuff I have in my stomach for the time being, or I'll make a fool of myself later."

Li Yanda said with a smile, "Mr. Zhang is too modest. You have made your company so successful at such a young age. You are one of the best in the country and you are definitely worthy of the title of young talent. It seems that you are afraid that we, the researchers, will not understand your business philosophy. Then this dinner is a deposit. When you have figured it out, come and explain it to us."

Everyone laughed when they heard this.

At this time, Wang Guibing, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, came over and whispered in Zhang Yunqi's ear: "Boss, I invited Wang Jinghua over."

Zhang Yunqi nodded: "Where is she?"

Now Wang Jinghua is just a small assistant of Chen Daoming and a migrant worker in Beijing, but Chen Daoming had already won the Best Actor Award as early as 1990. He is still quite famous now and it is easy to find a partner.

Wang Guibing had made an appointment with her last weekend as Zhang Yunqi had suggested, and said, "We're just at the hotel entrance. Shall I ask her in?"

Zhang Yunqi nodded.

Wang Guibing turned and left.

Zhang Yunqi greeted everyone, turned around and walked to Li Yufei, saying, "Someone is coming over to discuss something later. Do you want to come along? Maybe this person will be helpful to you in the future."

Li Yufei was stunned for a moment, then smiled slightly and said, "I'm curious when you say that, who is that person?"

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