Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 228: Mobile communications are about to be deployed, and the Cheng brothers are happy to win a big gift package (asking for monthly tickets)

Wang Jiankun and his family had a good reunion in the Hongdu Military Region for two days. During that time, his uncle and his girlfriend came to accompany them for lunch and dinner. After two days of getting along, his uncle's girlfriend became familiar with Wang Jiankun and his family.

Early on the third day, they got on a truck driven by their uncle, left the family building of the Hongdu Military Region, and went to the train station to take a train to Raozhou.

"Dad, Mom, brother and sister-in-law, Jiankun and Xiangxiang, be careful on the road and call me when you get home!" The uncle sent the whole family to the platform and said goodbye to them there.

"Don't worry, the public security has improved a lot now, and there won't be any danger along the way. Go back and ask your partner to arrange a meeting between the two families. Did you hear me?" Grandpa said.

"Don't worry, Dad. I'll make arrangements as soon as possible. The train is about to leave. Let's get on board!"

The distance between Hongdu and Raozhou is not very far, less than 300 kilometers in a straight line, and the train takes about 5 hours to arrive, so the family took hard seats and did not go out of their way to find connections to buy sleeper berths.

When we arrived at Raozhou Station, Cheng Xing, dressed in a suit and with shiny hair, came to pick us up with several other people also in suits.

"Jiankun, long time no see. Come on, let your uncle and aunt, big brother and sister-in-law give the luggage to my people. Let's take the fast lane here so we can get out of the station quickly."

"Cheng Xing, sorry to bother you again, how are you now?"

"Haha~, what trouble? You are our lucky star! It's very nice now. It's too noisy here. Let's get in the car and talk." As he said that, he led the family through the fast lane to the parking lot.

"Come on, Jiankun, you and your uncle and aunt take this car, and Brother Wang and your sister-in-law will take the car at the back. Let my people take the luggage in the truck at the back."

Cheng Xing led Wang Jiankun and his family to two Japanese Crown sedans, one was brand new and the other was a bit old. The truck behind was brand new and had probably not been driven for long.

Wang Jiankun followed Cheng Xing's arrangement and got on the new car with his grandparents.

After getting in the car, Cheng Xing took the initiative to talk about his situation.

In addition to making a lot of money from selling old-style metal lighters in the year before last and last year, they also used Wang Jiankun's connections to get a lot of electronic watches from the Xingyao Electronics Factory to sell.

The initial profit margin of electronic watches was very high, much higher than that of lighters. In addition, the sales volume was also large, and the company made tens of millions in profit in less than half a year.

However, they also kept Wang Jiankun's warning in mind and did not stock up too many goods. So when the electronic watches were not selling well later, they relied on the lighter's network in the southwest region to sell the electronic watches in circulation one after another, and the profit margin was not low.

Low-end electronic watches are now everywhere. Xingyao Electronics’ own factory has long stopped production, but it still retains several low-end chip production lines, and the chips produced are sold to private electronics factories in Guangdong Province and Shenzhen.

These 20-micron low-end production lines are retained because, on the one hand, the equipment is in very good condition and has not yet reached the point of being scrapped; on the other hand, the low-end production lines have a high fault tolerance rate and can be used to train workers.

However, Xingyao Electronics has planned to shut down the last few 20-micron low-end production lines next year and sell them to electronics factories in Guangdong Province.

The electronic watches they produce can be exported to third world countries such as Africa, the Middle East, and South America.

Currently, Star Electronics' most advanced production line is at the 500-nanometer level. It has already put into operation a production line in its wafer factory in Hong Kong to produce the most advanced CPUs and DSPs. It also undertakes the trial production of AI chips.

"So after you stopped selling electronic watches, your profits should have dropped significantly, right?"

"Yeah, but there's nothing we can do about it. It's too difficult to find a hot-selling product with a high profit margin. But it doesn't matter. The sales of lighters are pretty good, and the profit every month is not small."

"That's good. By the way, where did you get this car? It looks like new."

"This is what my brother Cheng Yong got. He has been doing import and export in Guangdong Province. His partners outside gave him a few of these Japanese cars.

Speaking of this car, it was given to us by someone else. After we sent it to the customs, we had to pay a large amount of tax to clear it. My brother said that the tax was almost as much as the price of the car. The customs really makes money. No wonder ZS is so rampant along the coast."

Cheng Xing’s complaint is not without reason, but in order to protect domestic enterprises, the country will charge high tariffs on some imported products, especially products such as automobiles.

In addition, the tariffs on electronic products are also particularly high, because these two industries must be well protected domestically, otherwise the entry of cheap foreign products will instantly destroy the few young industries in the country.

However, the domestic television, refrigerator, air conditioner, microwave oven and other industries are now developing rapidly due to the technology and capital input from Star Group. Black and white televisions have been sold at rock-bottom prices, and the price war has erupted in the black and white television field and is gradually spreading to the color television field.

Xingyao Group also intends to export television production lines to various provinces in the country. Although competition will make the profits of many companies slim, the construction of a large number of factories and production lines will require a large number of workers. During this period of development, a large number of farmers will be freed from the land and come to the factories to participate in industrialized production.

Although they are engaged in low-end production and manufacturing at this time, industrialization always starts from the low end. It is unrealistic to develop high-end manufacturing right away if you want to achieve success overnight.

In addition, the emerging computer industry has been monopolized by Xingyao Group in the domestic market due to its abnormal introduction of new technologies.

Because even Intel's latest 80386 CPU cannot outperform Star Group's X-1005 chip.

In addition, the computers launched by Xingyao Group come with a Chinese system, which displays Chinese and pinyin letters. This greatly lowers the threshold for use. Anyone who has completed primary school education can use it after a little training.

In addition, in order to make computers truly help the development of productivity, the Xingyao computer training class previously hosted by Wang Jiankun has begun to be promoted in many places.

Many of the trained talents were absorbed by Xingyao Group to develop a large number of application software.

Although the nationwide backbone fiber optic network has not yet begun construction, some local area networks have already begun to be established in many cities and counties.

In addition to taking on tasks issued by the Star Group, some students who graduated from the training classes have also started their own businesses, mainly producing computer games and animations.

Of course, because there was no internet access at that time, the games produced were almost all independent games. However, several teams were already making multiplayer shooting games that could be played through a local area network.

Wang Jiankun strongly supported this and provided a large amount of funds through the Star Group.

Because he knows that only by continuously enriching the usage scenarios of computers can the computer industry usher in a big explosion in the future.

At the same time, these software are all produced by the Chinese programming software produced by Xingyao Group, which is naturally suitable for the computers produced by Xingyao Group. This combination of software and hardware will form a solid moat to prevent the computer and software industries of Europe and the United States from spreading to China. China acquiesces to this. Although China now needs the support of the United States to resist the threat of the Soviet Union in the north due to international relations, China will not intervene in the competition between domestic enterprises and American companies through administrative means in order to please the United States.

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"Jiankun, we're here. This is the hotel built by our company. I've already booked four rooms for you. After you put your luggage away, come to the restaurant for dinner. It's almost 4 o'clock now, and you must be hungry."

At this time, the car stopped in front of a 4-story building. Four big characters "Xingwang Hotel" were hung on the gate. There was a very rare glass door at the entrance.

"Okay, wait a moment, we'll come after we put our luggage away. Let's keep the food simple so we don't spend any more money."

Wang Jiankun and his companions took the keys given by Cheng Xing, put down their luggage, and then, under the guidance of the hotel waiter, came to the restaurant in the hotel.

This restaurant is not very big, with only 3 round tables, 6 small square tables, and 2 private rooms.

"Uncle and aunt, please take a seat. Brother Wang, sister-in-law, you two sit here. Jiankun, you sit next to me. Little sister, you sit next to your mother."

After Wang Jiankun and his family sat down as instructed, Cheng Yong opened the Moutai liquor on the table and also opened a few bottles of soda.

"Uncle, Brother Wang, Jiankun, let's drink this bottle. Auntie, how about you three just drink this soda?"

"Okay, Jiankun, why are you still sitting there? Help pour the wine. Don't let Brother Cheng do it alone!" Father said when he saw Wang Jiankun sitting still.

"No, no, I'll do it. The guest should follow the host's wishes. It's a rare occasion for us to get together today, so let me do my part as the host. Brother Wang, please sit still. I'll do it." Cheng Xing must have organized dinner parties frequently in the past two years, so he spoke much more fluently.

At the dinner table, Cheng Xing kept urging people to drink. Wang Jiankun had superpowers, so he also drank happily and drank a lot with them.

After dinner, grandpa and father went back to their room to rest. Although they tried not to get drunk, it was almost time, so after drinking the hot and sour hangover soup, they went back to their room to rest.

Cheng Xing has a good alcohol tolerance and drank the most, but he was still very sober at this time.

Wang Jiankun had asked him at a dinner table whether he planned to do physical business or continue to engage in sales in the future. Cheng Xing still planned to engage in sales which made money quickly, so Wang Jiankun planned to provide them with another product, which was the text machine they had used a long time ago, and which was later changed into a text message machine after it was officially launched in Hong Kong.

At this time, text message machines and mobile phones had been officially on the market in Shenzhen for half a year. When the leaders visited Shenzhen for inspection at the beginning of this year, they gave high praise to these two products.

After learning that these two products had already been produced in a domestic factory, they intended to have Xingyao Group promote this communication technology in cooperation with state-owned enterprises.

Currently, the cooperation negotiations with domestic telecommunications companies are nearing completion, the corresponding radio frequency has been determined, and we are just waiting for approval from our superiors.

The current cooperation mode for the SMS machine project, which is the easiest to implement, is that state-owned enterprises are responsible for the construction and maintenance of communication base stations, master the data of each communication base station, and take a commission from each text message.

The Xingyao Group is responsible for providing base stations and master control equipment, and then makes profits through the production and wholesale of text message machines. Of course, it also gets a certain share of the commission for each text message.

50% of the SMS machines need to be wholesaled to domestic telecommunications systems, which will be responsible for external retail sales. The remaining 50% can be freely sold by Xingyao Group to external parties, either for retail sales itself or for wholesale sales.

The cooperation terms for the mobile phone business are similar, but if the mobile phone business is to be launched, the infrastructure project will be relatively large. Currently, only a few relatively developed cities along the coast have the financial support.

There will be no fiber optic cables laid for text messaging machines, as it is judged in China that the number of people who can afford them will not exceed the capacity of wireless communications, so text messaging machine base stations are connected via wireless networks.

Xingyao Group did not raise any objection to this, because SMS machines are destined to be replaced by mobile phones. However, the fact that they can be deployed in large inland small cities has greatly accelerated the development of the domestic communications industry.

Since there is no need to lay fiber optic connections and only base stations need to be built, the management authority is delegated to the provinces and municipalities, and of course the investors become the provincial and municipal branches.

Therefore, Wang Jiankun planned to give the SMS machines in Jiang Province to Cheng Xing's company for sales. If they knew how to seize the opportunity, it would not be impossible to expand to a few more provinces.

"Jiankun, are you serious? This text messaging machine can be sold publicly in the mainland, and you are planning to hand over the market in Jiang Province to us?" After hearing what Wang Jiankun said, Cheng Xing's face, which was originally only a little red, suddenly turned red with excitement.

"Yes, the radio frequency band has been acquired. Base stations should be put into construction this month. The SMS machine can be sold while it is being built. If you have used it, you should know how popular this product will be in the mainland."

"Of course, you don't know how expensive it is to install a wired telephone. The installation fee alone is 5 yuan, and then you have to pay extra for the purchase of the telephone. There is an additional charge for each meter the line is longer than the interface. All in all, it costs about 7 to 8 yuan. And you still have to wait in line. It usually takes 2 to 3 months to install it.

After the installation, making phone calls is expensive, with short-distance calls costing 5 cents per minute and long-distance calls costing over 1 yuan.

The wholesale price of your text message machine is only 800 yuan, that's giving us money. I'm confident that I can sell it for 2 yuan per unit, and maybe even more in the early stages.

This SMS machine only costs 1 yuan to send a text message within the province, and 1 yuan outside the province. The cost of use is so low. I roughly estimate that we can sell 2 units in our province alone. Even if only half of them are sold to us, that's still 50 million yuan in sales, and a profit of more than 1 million yuan!"

Cheng Xing was so excited that he was incoherent. Such a huge sum of money made him dizzy. Although his current assets were already tens of millions, making him one of the richest people in the province, hundreds of millions of dollars still made him unable to control himself.

"Relax, take a long-term view. The wireless communication industry will be an extremely huge blue ocean. Xingyao Group alone cannot make all this money. We need the strong support of people like you. You should start preparing now. You should find Chen Xingdong as the contact person. I will ask him to give the market in Jiang Province to your company. In addition, you should also contact your brother Cheng Yong. If he has the ability in other provinces, he can also take over a few. I only have one request, build a few base stations, and start using text messaging machines in the coverage area."

"No problem. Thanks, Jiankun. I will definitely do it. So, you don't have to go back today. I will drive you back tomorrow."

"You're busy too, so just send someone to take it down. Your car may break down if you drive it long distances, so let's take a truck back. My dad told me that this stretch of road to Wuyuan has been damaged by many ore-carrying trucks, and it's not as easy to travel as before."

"Yes, I'll deliver it to you in my truck. Don't refuse. I'll just do this little bit. We can never repay you for what you've given us."

"Don't say that. Without your own efforts, you won't be able to do anything even if I give you the things. Our cooperation is a win-win situation. Okay, I'll go back to my room to rest, you go and get busy!"

"Okay, I'll come back before dinner. I have to tell my brother about this and ask him to take over the export business immediately. It's more important to focus on this big project first."

(End of this chapter)