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

From late June to late July, Yan Jiefang stayed in Europe and America.

After all, the $10 billion fundraising mission for this year is not yet complete.

He had already made up his mind: he would suspend this business as soon as foreign exchange reserves exceeded 100 billion (US dollars).

$1000 billion in bank reserves is basically enough; any more would just be numbers.

As long as the stock market is still active, he can come and withdraw money anytime; this is his piggy bank.

Besides, he was too lazy to travel back and forth again, since it takes more than ten hours to fly from China to Europe and America!

Sitting on a plane for such a long time without being able to do anything, isn't that just a complete waste of time?

He has so many businesses under his control, and apart from the car factory and the logistics company that is still under construction, the rest are basically cash cows, so he doesn't need to worry about money at all.

He had already used his accounting skills to compile statistics on all the companies under his name.

The three wafer fabs (memory + processor + graphics card) together produce 12 to 18 top-tier chips per month, and roughly the same number of mid-range chips.

With their years of experience and world-leading technology and management, these three wafer fabs generate an average monthly net income of around $1200 million, excluding all expenses including salaries and bonuses!

In other words, these three wafer fabs alone can bring him a net profit of $3600 million per month, which is about 2.98 million yuan!

Another big money-making project is Jiangcheng's Baisui Pharmaceutical Company.

Yan Jiefang didn't really care much about this company; he just needed to deliver the prescribed amount of drug essence on time.

The company's management is handled by its professional managers.

However, the company's two flagship products, Bai Sui Eye Drops and Chang Qing Liquid, have sold out and have been in short supply for a long time.

Changqing Liquid, in particular, is a major exporter.

Foreigners who have used this thing all say "it's a dog-selling scam."

Even though the price kept rising, it was still easily snapped up by foreigners from all over the world. Their desire to have a head of beautiful hair was far beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

Many foreigners even come to China specifically to buy medicines when they are released each month, and then bring them back to their own countries to sell at high prices.

Because it was a sure-fire way to make money, the information still got out despite the pioneers' best efforts to suppress its spread.

Naturally, more foreigners flocked to the area, becoming middlemen, which is what we now call personal shoppers.

In this situation, Bai Sui Pharmaceuticals naturally made a fortune, with monthly net profits even exceeding those of a single wafer fab.

It has reached over 2000 million US dollars!

Other electronics factories, polysilicon factories, E-Vision Records, ICQ, mainframe assembly plants, game companies, hard drive manufacturers, etc., can also make money, but they are naturally not on the same level as the ones mentioned above.

Of course, the most profitable companies are not the industrial companies mentioned above, but the investment companies in Hong Kong that have banks to rely on.

With Yan Jiefang's forward-thinking vision, apart from some of his own family businesses, he has been able to make a steady profit from any other companies that his investment company has partnered with.

Most of the major domestic companies that have become famous in later generations are their investment targets.

Now is the time when these companies are making great strides. With the support of investment companies' funds and connections, their expansion is even faster and stronger than in the previous life, and they are making more money.

Correspondingly, investment companies also make a fortune, earning hundreds of millions of dollars each year when they close their books.

They earned nearly $3 million last year, and have already approached that figure in the first half of this year.

He expects his revenue this year to exceed $5 million.

Yan Jiefang calculated his assets and found that, excluding the more than 500 billion US dollars in Hong Kong banks and his company, the actual value of his other mainland assets was more than 150 billion US dollars!

These assets can bring him a net profit of about 6 million yuan every month!

This is the current situation.

Barring any major mishaps, these assets will only continue to grow.

Of course, the competition we're facing will still occur.

At the end of last year, the country officially joined the World Trade Organization, and foreign investment began to pour in in large quantities.

As local enterprises emerge from the protective shell left by the planned economy, they face fierce competition from various industries.

The first to feel the pressure are the grain and oil crushing industry, namely the soybean industry.

The next most popular sectors are daily chemicals, consumer electronics, large retail supermarkets, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, and banking.

The public's deepest feeling is that various shampoos, toothpastes, cold medicines, supermarkets, etc., have suddenly entered their lives.

In the 8s and 90s, ordinary people used soap, shampoo, or even laundry detergent to wash their hair.

After 2000, brands like Rejoice and Head & Shoulders appeared on a large scale and were practically everywhere.

The same situation applies to daily necessities such as toothpaste.

In the supermarket sector, giants like Carrefour and Walmart are busy expanding their presence in the most developed cities.

Yan Jiefang's businesses are mostly related to high-end microelectronics, so he hasn't felt much of the impact yet.

After all, these wafer fabs are typical capital-intensive industries, and one of the most capital-intensive links in the semiconductor industry chain.

It is not only a capital-intensive industry, but also a capital-intensive, technology-intensive, and highly cyclical industry.

The investment threshold for this industry is quite high. It is difficult for ordinary financial investors to participate directly without a strong industry background and a long investment cycle.

However, with the entry of foreign capital into China, some joint venture wafer fabs are now preparing to purchase or upgrade equipment.

Due to restrictions imposed by the multilateral export control mechanism centered on the Wassenaar Arrangement, although foreign high-end semiconductor equipment cannot enter the country, they can still purchase the most advanced 130-nanometer lithography machines from lithography machine companies in Jiangcheng.

If this continues, the Wassenaar Arrangement will most likely relax regulations on high-end semiconductor equipment.

This could allow foreign products to impact domestic lithography machine manufacturing and disrupt domestic development in this area.

There are precedents for these things.

It was foreseeable that Yan Jiefang's industries would be impacted.

Of course, it won't have much of a impact in the short term, but we still have to be wary of it.

Remembering Chief Engineer Liu's reminder from the first half of the year, he felt he needed to make preparations in advance.

The lithography machine is one of the most critical pieces of equipment in a wafer fab. If something goes wrong with it, the microelectronics industry under its control will definitely be significantly affected.

It is better to rely on oneself than to rely on others.

Yan Jiefang picked up his phone and dialed his eldest son's number:

"Xueqian, go to Dongguan and get approval from the local municipal government for 600 acres of land to build a new lithography machine factory and research center."

Yan Xueqian, who was drinking tea in his office, paused slightly upon hearing his father's instructions, but immediately agreed:

"Received, I'll take care of it this afternoon."

Yan Jiefang nodded, "My sons are quite reliable."

"You know our procedures, just follow them."

"OK."

"Oh, and don't forget about the employees' residential area. We'll apply for the land for that too, and start construction on both sites at the same time."

"OK."

"Okay, that's settled then, bye."

Goodbye, Dad.