My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 492 The Stay-at-Home Daddy
Wei Dong had already arranged to come to Shanghai before the Spring Festival.

The construction of the entire Apple computer assembly plant in Asia needs to be completed before the Spring Festival, and full production will begin after the holiday.

In fact, the production line was already debugged in September, and it was producing 5,000 units per month from the temporary factory area provided by the vacuum electronics factory.

Once the factory is moved to the new facility, the monthly production capacity will be 30,000 units, and we aim to reach 60,000 units in the future, depending on global sales.

The vacuum electronics factory, which underwent restructuring through the issuance of shares, received technical and financial support from Apple Computer for its new display tube production line, which alone was worth $50 million.

They will also start production in this new factory area.

Including the monitor manufacturer, we aim to achieve an annual production capacity of 800,000 units.

Whenever Wei Dong came to Shanghai, he would conduct a thorough inspection.

This is far more important than the real estate development next door, since the X Computers, which are just starting to expand their production, need monitors from here.

When Bluebird left the city and headed straight for the electronics industrial park, it made a point of passing by the international community area.

Crossing the small bridges between the fields and confirming once again that these small ditches need to be cleared and dredged to a scenic level requires a lot of effort.

But this first step is so important for the city's international positioning.

Rang Weidong only intended to offer advice, never expecting that such a big job would fall into his lap.

Chi Shiming probably didn't fully understand the power of those words.

Wei Dong listened to it countless times online.

As long as it benefits the country, they are willing to sacrifice their own lives and will never shy away from it because they might be harmed.

He believed this to be a noble principle, but the reborn person with the ability to see the heavens still felt that while bringing benefits to the country and its people, one should not sacrifice oneself as a waste.

Showcase this international community and make it available to more overseas residents.

The opening of joint ventures in Shanghai is indeed of great significance.

At this critical juncture, when no one knows how to build it, or when foreign and Hong Kong/Taiwanese real estate developers are not yet trusted.

I will take care of this transition period myself.

The goal is not simply to be obsessed with making money and profit.

Of course, with such a large scale, as long as construction proceeds smoothly, even a little bit of material will fall through the cracks in the fingers.

Slowly traversing these fields, a plot of land spanning nearly two kilometers, it would indeed take several years or even more than a decade to "produce" it.

While it appears to be around a hundred buildings, if broken down over a period of more than ten years, it's only about ten buildings per year.

It doesn't seem like it's entirely unacceptable.

For example, the construction progress of the electronics industrial park is already more than one-twentieth of the total.

Six high-rise buildings have sprung up, standing out prominently in the vast, flat area between Shanghai Airport and the city center, even before the construction is halfway complete.

The Shanghai of today, now filled with skyscrapers, is still quite simple.

The construction of the factory buildings next door is much faster than that of the high-rise buildings.

The electronics factory area covers 60 acres and 40,000 square meters, with three rows of huge, modern factory buildings standing tall.

In fact, about half of the land is reserved for the expansion of high-rise office buildings after the project is successfully put into production.

Wei Dong was instructed to drive the Bluebird into the still somewhat chaotic factory area.

Finally, he tried to make a request: "There is less than a month left until the Spring Festival. Amin, could you talk to a few Hong Kong businessmen and see what they think of my planning ideas, what the valuation is, and whether they are interested in participating? I am just an outsider reporting to an outsider. In the end, it is still up to the experts to make the decision and participate."

Chi Shih-ming readily agreed, wishing he could fly back to Hong Kong immediately.

But I also went to see the computer production line that had just been built and was being relocated and tested.

Inviting Apple to manufacture computers would not only create more jobs for electronics workers, but the profit margins of assembly plants that rely almost entirely on processing supplied materials are not high.

From the motherboard to the casing, everything is basically supplied locally by Citibank.

It's purely about learning from the advanced processes of other electronics factories.

What's more significant right now is the display tube production line next door, which is in cooperation with the vacuum electronics factory.

Although we are still unable to produce the flat-panel CRT that Wei Dong requested, at least mass production of this special CRT has already reduced the production cost of low-end 14-inch monochrome monitors to around $200!

Right now, the cheapest monitor of its kind in Akihabara costs $340, while in Citibank it costs $470.

If we send the picture tubes here to the Jinling factory to use domestically produced components to manufacture monitors for X-ray computers, the unit price can be reduced to just over 600!
In comparison, a domestically produced 14-inch black and white TV costs 700 yuan.

A professional computer monitor with finer resolution and lower flicker, only this price.

It will definitely provide a huge boost to the popularization of domestically produced computers.

It should be noted that none of the computers distributed to various parts of the country came with monitors; the workers had to go back and find a TV screen to connect to them.

Therefore, after the Spring Festival, a large number of monitors bearing the Apple logo will be dumped in neighboring Asian countries at a "low price" of $399. Only after the yield rate is guaranteed and high-end multi-resolution color monitors begin to be produced will they be sold back to Citibank in large quantities.

This was actually an investment made under the guise of Apple, with Wei Dong receiving a commission for helping Steve sell Apple computers.

All the profits will be split between Wei Dong and Apple.

It's now a slush fund of foreign exchange truly controlled by an offshore company.

Therefore, the export of this monitor is no less significant than the export of colorful jeans.

It all depends on how many Apple computers can actually sell by piggybacking on this trend.

The head of the foreign trade company is not only familiar with the quantities of various computer components and monitors that have recently been imported and exported, but he has also heard that the international business war is raging recently:
"Since the US and Japan signed the Plaza Accord three months ago, the yen has been soaring, and the prices of all Dongying Electric have been rising. Color monitors that used to cost seven or eight hundred dollars now sell for a thousand dollars."

Rang Weidong, who was observing the monitor production process with his probe, seemed to hear some key words.

Unfortunately, the old security guard from the prefecture-level city has limited understanding of these kinds of political topics.

He also lacked the sophisticated mindset for foreign exchange operations: "Hmm, if you have the chance, find this Plaza Accord and take a look. I think I heard it was very important for trade with Japan. Let's go, since we're in Shanghai, I definitely want to finalize this part of the computer production work."

So, after sending Chi Shiming back to Hong Kong to coordinate Hong Kong-funded cooperation with the international community, Wei Dong was left to stay in Shanghai, with all parties urging him to expedite the production of X-series computer mainframes.

This is when the benefits of a sales conference become apparent.

The original learning machine alliance, which had observed the entire sales conference, realized that by giving Weidong the top sales capabilities in various regions across the country, they officially joined the X Computer Community and immediately began to organize manpower and adjust production lines upon returning to their respective factories.

Previously, the Jiangzhou version was a small workshop with a monthly output of two to three hundred units, and it was not until after the Spring Festival that it began to expand its production capacity.

The powerful Jinling factory obtained all the blueprints, parts, and even titanium alloy chassis and black bakelite panels that were transported by sea.

It quickly achieved an initial production scale of several hundred units per day.

In addition to the dot matrix printers that Jinling Factory already produced, there were also monitors made in Shanghai and keyboards and mice made in Jiangzhou.

One by one, complete domestically produced X-computers, priced at 3199 yuan for the official version, began to be marketed to universities, enterprises and institutions in the Shanghai area.

Its main function is printing office documents.

Wei Dong even took the initiative to drive around Shanghai to deliver five sets of these products for trial use.

Imagine how unbelievable this scene would seem in later generations. This kind of municipal government office is like a remote, mountainous place like Shangzhou, where you could chat with your old boss just by bringing some braised food and a little wine.

But this still mainly relies on computers as an advanced productive force.

Although Shanghai is where people first and most frequently came into contact with all kinds of computers, there are definitely still many surprises in the city.

Try it out right away.

The programming version priced at 1198 yuan without a printer and the educational version priced at 599 yuan with an external TV connection sold even more rapidly in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai regions.

Anyway, the entire Shanghai branch office, located in an old-style house, was filled with more than twenty X-ray computers, giving it the most advanced and high-end technological feel in China at the time.

This caused the sales staff to bring people over to pick up goods every day.

But amidst this sales boom, Wei Dong was busy taking Xiao Die to hospitals in Shanghai for treatment.

It was his experience from thirty or forty years later that came into play. People these days don't talk much to two or three-year-old children, and they don't bother to diagnose any abnormal psychological conditions.

Mental illnesses and psychological problems among adults are often neglected.

What made Wei Dong feel that Dong Xueying left so suddenly, and that the child was not looking for his mother much, and that he could talk a little when he was a little over one year old, but now he was quiet and taciturn.

Later generations' views were not quite right.

First, I went to a large hospital, then they recommended a transfer to a children's hospital, and then they referred me to a specialist.

In short, after several days of searching, I finally found a scholar at the medical school.

At this time, the field of psychology was still relatively rare, and child psychology experts were even rarer. A simple screening determined that the child did indeed have some autistic tendencies.

As for the reasons, there are many, but the most common one is definitely that something is wrong with the growth environment during the one to two years old stage.

Wei Dong was worried: "Could it be because the child's mother is too busy and hasn't spent enough time with her or had a proper conversation with her?"

The doctor probably guessed the same thing: "The hearing test is fine, but the lack of eye contact makes him a little slow. In short, two to three years old is the period of language explosion. If there is still developmental delay, then there is a big problem."

Wei Dong felt incredibly guilty, as their nearly two years of living together coincided with the peak of their careers.

It seems like someone is taking care of the child, but the level of attention is quite low.

Dong Xueying often focuses on her work all day long, so she has no chance to communicate or talk. Then, several family members take turns taking care of her. The most outrageous thing is that in the last few months, she has become a "highland girl". Is it because they themselves can't speak Mandarin very well?
The doctors were amazed by the young father's self-diagnosis ability; these days, who takes such meticulous care of their child?

In fact, Wei Dong wondered if he and his wife had been too busy with other things during their time together, leaving the child far away and not taking good care of him.

Feeling quite guilty, he decided to take care of the child's recovery and treatment himself.

(End of this chapter)