Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 343 [Using the city's resources to help Likang achieve its production capacity targets]

The emergence of the Flowing Star Language lifelike robot, a new technology, will bring about tremendous changes for elderly care institutions.

A traditional nursing home or retirement home that can accommodate 500 elderly people generally needs to be staffed with a total of about 80-90 people.

The specific positions include approximately 10 management personnel, approximately 10 professional and technical personnel, approximately 55 elderly care workers, approximately 10 logistics support personnel, and approximately 5 other personnel.

This staffing configuration can meet the daily operational needs of the nursing home and ensure that the elderly receive comprehensive care and services.

However, if the Flowing Star Language simulation robot is used, a large nursing home or elderly care facility of the same size would only need 20 human staff to meet its daily operational needs, and the elderly would still receive comprehensive care and services.

Moreover, the service quality can be greatly improved. First of all, there will be no scene of the elderly being abused by caregivers. Secondly, the Liuguang Xingyu lifelike robot will be more "patient" and will not get bored like a human, nor will it slack off.

As the saying goes, a rope always breaks at its thinnest point, and misfortune always finds those who are unfortunate. Nowadays, some nursing homes or retirement homes have seen cases of caregivers abusing the elderly, often involving elderly people who have dementia or have lost their ability to take care of themselves.

Especially for disabled elderly people who are unable to take care of themselves, it is very troublesome to take care of them, especially in terms of hygiene, where caregivers are often extremely reluctant to do so.

Let alone caregivers, even one's own children will get tired of taking care of elderly parents who cannot take care of themselves for a long time. That's why there's the old saying, "No filial sons stay by the bedside of a chronically ill parent."

Caring for elderly people who have lost their ability to take care of themselves is a really troublesome thing. Ten days or half a month is not a big deal, but if it is like this for years, it can really drive people crazy. This is why some children send their elderly parents who have lost their ability to take care of themselves to nursing homes. They would rather pay money than take care of them themselves.

If the children of disabled elderly people are like this, what about caregivers who are completely unrelated outsiders?
But humanoid robots are different. They are not only patient, but can also be carefully cared for day after day for ten or even a hundred years without any problems, and will not get impatient because of it.

After all, robots will never experience negative emotions, because robots simply don't have emotions or feelings. The emotions or feelings they exhibit are all digitally simulated.

Undoubtedly, introducing humanoid robots into this field to replace human caregivers will not only bring about a qualitative leap in the overall service quality of nursing homes, but also relieve the elderly from worries about being abused, and put their families at ease.

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After Xiao Yu made the decision, the HP Fund management team, upon receiving the news, quickly launched the project and put it on the agenda.

Following Xiao Yu's instructions, a detailed plan was drafted for a large-scale nursing home with 500 beds. The nursing home that HP Fund was going to build would definitely be very different from traditional nursing homes.

Aside from being completely free for public benefit, the biggest difference is that it will make extensive use of the Flowing Star Language simulation robots in terms of labor.

根据《养老机构岗位设置及人员配备规范(意见稿)》，50位具备自理能力的老人需要3位养老护理员，等于1个护工平均找过16-17个自理老人。

According to the draft guidelines, 50 mildly disabled elderly people require 6 caregivers, meaning one caregiver takes care of about 8 people on average. However, in practice, the ratio is usually controlled at around 1 to 5.

The average ratio of moderately disabled elderly people is 1 to 5. In reality, considering that moderately disabled elderly people need more care and attention, this ratio is usually controlled at around 1 to 3.

For severely disabled elderly people, the draft opinion states that 50 severely disabled elderly people need 16 caregivers. However, severely disabled elderly people often require 24-hour uninterrupted care and attention. In reality, one caregiver takes care of two people, or even just one person.

In general, in the actual operation of traditional nursing homes, it is common for each caregiver to take care of an average of 4-6 elderly people.

The specific situation in actual operation will vary depending on factors such as the elderly person's self-care ability, the caregiver's professional level, and the management level of the elderly care institution. For elderly people with poor self-care ability, one caregiver can take care of fewer people, while for elderly people with strong self-care ability, one caregiver can take care of more people.
A large elderly care facility that can accommodate 500 beds is staffed with 50-60 caregivers.

HP Foundation plans to build a new type of nursing home for 500 people, with staffing reduced to about 20-22 people, and about 130 Flowing Star Language lifelike robots, which is more than twice the number of human caregivers.

Because the robot's battery life is 8 hours, more are definitely needed to ensure that when one robot goes back to charge, another robot can take its place. At the same time, having more robots can also improve the overall service quality of nursing homes.

However, the cost of 130 Flowing Star Language lifelike robots is very low because the cost can be lowered and unnecessary functional accessories can be removed, making them suitable as robotic caregivers in nursing homes.

For example, the intimate interaction mode can be removed, the simulated reproductive system module inside the female simulated body can also be removed, and the 4000 yuan expense of the self-cleaning equipment can be completely saved.

All things considered, the cost of purchasing 130 nursing-type Starry Sky robots is about 150 million yuan. With a five-year lifespan, the cost is spread out to about 30 yuan per year.

If the same number of human caregivers were hired, based on the current monthly salary level of 7000 yuan offered by Linzhou City, the budget for salaries of 130 caregivers over five years would amount to 5460 million yuan.

Although the staffing of each nursing home has been reduced to only 20-22 people, the Huipu Foundation plans to open 640 nursing homes of the same standard in Linzhou City. This move will create 1.28-1.4 jobs in the industry, which means there is a severe shortage of people.

...During the National Day holiday, news of the stock market surge filled the long weekend. An insider from a securities firm revealed that more than 1000 million new accounts were opened during the holiday. This super bull market has attracted tens of millions of new stock investors.

Multiple positive news items were also released during the holiday.

The lifelike dolls featuring the Flowing Star Language series continued to dominate headlines during this holiday season, as more and more were delivered over time.

Currently, due to a severe mismatch between supply and demand for this product, the market is in a state of supply shortage. The ratio of delivered volume to locked orders is too disparate, with the delivered volume not even reaching the level of newly locked orders.

This has led to the price of the "Flowing Star Language" product being inflated to over 6 yuan on secondhand market platforms, which is 5.5 times the official retail price.

On October 5th, Likang Technology's official website announced the number of orders locked for Liuguang Xingyu in the first month.

According to the announcement, from September 1st when the product officially opened for ordering until September 30th, the cumulative number of orders reached 3157.56 million in the first month.

The data released by Likang Technology is basically consistent with the 3155 million predicted by a third-party institution. It's not that the third-party institution is particularly professional or capable, but rather that Liuguang Xingyu adopts a "pre-order, post-delivery" model, and each order has a queue.

In a sense, the sales figures for this product are published almost in real time.

If you want to know the latest efficiency data, just place an order and check the order number. You can cancel the order within 24 hours after checking, which costs almost nothing.

Although the outside world had long suspected something, the official data released by Likang Technology, showing monthly sales of 3157.56 million units, still shocked countless industry insiders.

Many netizens who had placed orders exclaimed that the sky had fallen when they saw this data, saying that their orders would take forever to be delivered.

As a result, they all rushed to Zhou Chengyang's Weibo to urge him to deliver the goods and quickly increase production capacity.

Mr. Zhou also interacted on Weibo: 【Stop urging me, I've already added more!】

Zhou Chengyang is currently preoccupied with increasing and expanding production, and he is busy working on this project. In addition, he also has to coordinate a "good cop/bad cop" drama. President Zhou is so busy that he is numb.

Likang Technology is located in a second-tier city, and even within the second-tier city category, it ranks in the lower middle range.

During the short holiday, a recent official report from the city put forward the slogan "Serving Likang, Acting Immediately".

As instructed by the city leaders, the city's resources should be fully utilized to assist Likang Technology in achieving its production capacity targets.

Anything related to Likang Technology, especially matters involving production capacity, will definitely receive the green light and be given top priority.

If the production capacity target is not met, Likang Technology will move to Linzhou City to build a factory. President Zhou mentioned this when he met with the city leaders, and also revealed that the production capacity requirement must be met. If the target given to him by Xiao Yu cannot be met, the factory must be moved.

When the city leaders learned of this, they knew there was no room for negotiation. If they wanted Likang Technology to stay and not relocate, they had to meet the production capacity targets.

If Likang Technology were to move to Linzhou City, especially since it involves high-end industrial manufacturing, we'd be kicking ourselves.

Slapping your thigh until it's swollen is secondary; if you can't retain Likang Technology, then you can forget about making progress. On the contrary, if you can retain Likang Technology, progress is a sure thing.

Thus came the instruction to "mobilize all the city's resources to assist Likang Technology in achieving its production capacity targets."

The city's resources were insufficient, so the city reported the issue to the province for help. The province took it very seriously and allocated all available resources. For resources that could not be provided, the province worked to find solutions to ensure that the company remained in the province.

Look at that terrifying number of locked orders, 3157.56 million orders were generated in just one month. How much of an economic boost will that bring?

Leaving behind Likang Technology is equivalent to leaving behind a super-large-scale humanoid robot industry chain, which also represents new quality productivity and high-end manufacturing.

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(End of this chapter)