I, Yan Jiefang, will live to 2025 in this courtyard house.

When company members from the special economic zone called to wish them a Happy New Year, Yan Jiefang asked them to keep an eye out through overseas channels for any new high-end lithography machines from ASML.

In fact, even without his specific instructions, everyone, as senior executives of the chip company, would consciously pay attention to these messages.

They can detect any disturbance very quickly.

In addition, he called Hong Kong and asked them to send someone to Guangzhou to discuss the distribution of cassette tapes in mainland China with local audio-visual publishers.

Making money from this first collaboration is secondary; the main goal is to get the network up and running and prepare for the future.

In addition to his own business ventures, Yan Jiefang also added a small online chat application to the Great Wall Company's system software.

This is a chat software similar to ICQ, which will be released later.

Given the current state of the internet, this software is very basic, offering only functions such as adding friends, displaying avatars, showing whether friends are online, and text chat.

Therefore, it occupies a very small amount of hard drive space.

You can download it from the official website of Great Wall, and it will also be installed when you install your computer later.

Since the server room has not yet been set up, this software cannot be used.

Although this may seem like a very small matter, it will definitely have a far-reaching impact.

Just think about the behemoth that came after that.

For this matter, Yan Jiefang also instructed the special economic zone to begin building a central server room to prepare for what would happen next.

Even in Hong Kong, a central server room is being built simultaneously.

This is something that must be done. Without a server room, these kinds of chat software are just decorations and completely useless.

The emergence of chat software at this time was relatively early, but he insisted on being one step ahead and being at the forefront.

This product isn't going to be launched immediately after it's made. We can release some information first to attract a group of fans and increase user anticipation before launching it.

He doesn't need to do these things personally.

There are people familiar with the relevant work handling it; he just needs to stand by and watch.

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In case of unforeseen circumstances, it would be the right thing to do for him to handle the aftermath, which would free him from a lot of work.

In late March, Yan Jiefang, who had nothing to do, accepted an invitation from the Chinese Chess Association to go to the **Friendship Go Hall to watch the 3th China-Japan Go Tournament.

On the 22nd, Zheng Hong 6-dan (Black) defeated Komatsu Hideki 7-dan in the middle game.

On the 24th, Zheng Hong, 6th dan (white), defeated Koga Masaki, 7th dan, by half a point.

At this time, Yan Xueqian was still a first-dan player, and no matter how strong his skills were, he was not qualified to participate in this competition.

He could only sit in the audience with his father and watch from the sidelines.

Since September of last year, there have been no national ranking tournaments in China, so his professional ranking has remained unchanged.

According to the information he received, he could only start accumulating points for promotion when he participated in the National Go Team Championship next month.

However, team competitions only accumulate match points and do not issue second-dan certificates.

Even if he achieved an extremely high winning rate in the team competition and accumulated a number of games of responsibility, he would still have to wait until the end of the national dan ranking tournament that year, when the National Chess Academy would uniformly calculate all valid games before he would be officially awarded the second dan rank.

Moreover, at this time, promotion is done in a step-by-step manner.

First stage achieved → Advance to second stage.

To advance to the third rank, you must first obtain the second rank and then accumulate a new set of points for the second-rank to third-rank promotion.

Even if you complete both the beginner to second and second to third standard matches in the same rank tournament, the rules at that time would only allow you to advance one rank (second rank).

The remaining points will be accumulated for use in the next ranking competition and will not be reset.

According to this rule, Yan Xueqian can only climb up step by step.

Unlike in the late 70s and early 80s, when a player's skill level was high enough, it was no longer possible to skip ranks.

In mid-April, Yan Jiefang was invited by his second and third brothers to watch a football match between the Beijing Shenzhou team and the Liaoning team at the Workers' Stadium.

These two guys were on fire on the court, each scoring a hat trick in the first half, almost stunning the Liaoning team.

Yan Jiefang sat in the audience and shook his head:

"Young people are so hot-blooded, they don't give the older Northeasterners any face at all."

Fortunately, they stopped exerting themselves after scoring six goals, and after a halftime break, they didn't play again in the second half.

Without those two formidable players, the second half of the game returned to normal, with both sides trading blows.

Although the Yan brothers had only a short time on the field after the match, they still attracted the attention of many fans.

After all, this is the first time that football players of their caliber have appeared in China.

Moreover, thanks to last year's Asian Games, many people quickly recognized them as Asian Games champions, having won the 110m hurdles, 200m and 4x100m relay titles respectively, and breaking Asian Games records.

More importantly, they are all sons of former Olympic champion Yan Jiefang!

Who would have thought their football was so amazing!

This family is practically a sports dynasty!

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At this time, Yishi's cassette tapes, through Yangcheng Audio-Visual Publishing House, had officially begun to be distributed domestically.

Despite good sales, piracy has become even more rampant.

In particular, in some southern regions, there are many illegal factories producing related cartridges on a large scale.

These pirated cartridges spread rapidly from south to north, and there was no way to stop them.

After all, the songs in it are so enjoyable.

Even Yan Jiefang could hear his own songs playing on repeat whenever he walked the streets of Beijing.

Make people dumbfounded.

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In May, news came from the Special Administrative Region that the advanced ASMLPAS-5500 lithography machine had begun to be sold and delivered to IBM's Fishkill factory.

Upon receiving this news, Yan Jiefang's mind began to work.

However, he won't take action for now, since it's only just begun and production there is definitely very limited.

According to reliable sources, only one machine has been delivered so far.

Moreover, this machine is an engineering verification prototype, not a mass-produced model.

It is mainly used by IBM for process evaluation and reliability testing, and is not directly used on mass production lines.

There's absolutely no need to make a trip abroad for this.

The PAS-2500 is still the main model in the company, and it's perfectly adequate.

It's not too late to bring some back after they've shipped out more.

However, the company's new factory should also be ready.

He immediately called and asked Lao Zhao to start building the new factory.

This time, we'll use all the remaining several thousand square meters of land to build factory buildings.

His requirement was that the construction period could be extended, but the quality must be guaranteed and it should be even higher than that of the first phase of the factory.

While Yan Jiefang was eyeing foreign lithography machines, the Ministry of Electronics Industry was already trying to manufacture domestically produced lithography machines.

He was overjoyed when he heard the news, so he sent the remaining three lithography machines in the space to Factory 774.

The other sets were installed at our own company during spare time to increase production capacity.