Seeing that Fang Chen's expression suddenly became a little weird, Zhong Daolong thought that Fang Chen didn't believe that he was willing to hand over the technology of the repeater to him so easily, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Fang, if you don't believe it, we can sign a contract now, and we can be famous in the contract, and the repeater technology will be permanently authorized to Mr. Fang for free to use." ”

The reason why he developed the repeater machine is not to make a name for himself, let alone how much money he makes, but to let students have a weapon to learn English, so that students can learn English better.

But this involves a question, he has already researched the repeater, who will produce it, and then promote it to all parts of the country, so that as many students as possible can use the repeater?

Now that Fang Chen has found him and is willing to talk to him about the repeater, he is simply sleepy and has a pillow, which is in the middle of his arms.

After all, the country's largest electronic product company is Xiaobawang, there is Xiaobawang to escort the production and sales of repeaters, it is really good, and even he has searched all over the world, I am afraid there is no more suitable company than Xiaobawang.

But who knows, Fang Chen waved his hand again and again: "Dean Zhong, I naturally believe what you said, but it is not necessarily a good thing for a public and selfless person like you to arbitrarily license the repeater technology to a company." ”

Hearing this, Zhong Daolong's pupils couldn't help but dilate, he was stunned, and even vaguely felt uncomfortable, he gave the technology to Fang Chen for free, how did it get into Fang Chen's mouth, but it didn't necessarily become a good thing?

Fang Chen smiled helplessly, there are countless people who know about the death of VCD, but not many people know about the hatred of the repeater.

In his opinion, VCDs and repeaters are extremely similar, and even so similar that they are like twin brothers.

VCD and repeater, are the first electronic products of the Chinese people, but also because the developer does not pay attention to the patent, resulting in a chaotic market, so that the enterprise is not bigger and stronger, but early into the tragic fight, and finally lost the golden age of the product, soon to lonely, but let some foreign companies earn a lot of money.

And although both of them are indeed unable to register patents all over the world, the main reason why Wan Yan's Jiang Wanmeng does not register patents is because he does not pay attention to them, or he and Sun Yansheng can put together nearly 20 million US dollars in research and development funds, and take a fraction of them out, which is enough to register a patent.

Even Jiang Wanmeng didn't even register the VCD patent in China, otherwise Wan Yan would not have died so miserably.

Zhong Daolong registered a patent in China, but it is just in a public heart, and it can even be said that out of the great love of educators and scientific research experts, in order to enable enterprises to produce repeaters for students faster, and unwilling to increase the cost of enterprises, he took the initiative to give up the patent rights of repeaters.

In his previous life, he once said in CCTV's "Tell the Truth" program: "If you don't give up, the repeater can't be transformed into productivity as soon as possible." ”

Its heart of planting peaches and plums is overflowing, and the high wind and bright festival are really commendable.

But the problem is that Zhong Daolong's kindness has not been fully utilized by domestic enterprises, but has been beaten to the head and bloody.

In the previous life, the repeater was discovered and put into production by some companies in 1998, and 500,000 repeaters were produced that year, which were quickly sold out.

And in the second year, a gust of policy spring breeze helped the repeater quickly open up the market, which can be described as a good wind with its strength, sending me to the clouds.

Since 1999, when the State Education Commission officially announced that in the future, the foreign language teaching and examination of primary and secondary school students in China will focus on the comprehensive level of students' oral and listening skills, and the repeater market has been rapidly incubated by the national policy into a mature market with a capacity of tens of millions of units.

Therefore, the sales of repeaters soon increased from 500,000 units in 1998 to 3 million units in 1999, and in the three years of the millennium, 2001 and 2002, they reached 8 million, 10 million and 12 million sales respectively, and it is expected to increase to 15 million units by 2003.

But the forecast of 15 million units is just a dream in the end, the idea is very beautiful, the reality is very skinny, the sales of repeaters did not reach it, but in 2003 there was a sharp decline in sales.

In 2002, the sudden rise of the repeater industry led to many large home appliance enterprises and IT companies such as Jinzheng Xinke, Tsinghua Unisplendour, BBK, Jinzheng and Wanxin to enter the repeater industry.

And in July 2002, before the arrival of the repeater sales season, BBK, Jinzheng, Wanxin and other manufacturers in order to compete with other repeater manufacturers to maximize the competition for the repeater machine market, took the lead in the price of diving, the price reduction of more than 30 percent, and at the same time invested a huge amount of money, launched advertising wars and gift wars, trying to carry out a big cleaning of the repeater industry, squeezing the weaker competitors.

However, the most important thing is that because the technical content of ordinary repeaters is too low, and Zhong Daolong has given up the control of the patent rights of repeaters, many miscellaneous manufacturers have also poured into the repeater industry, making market competition more chaotic and disorderly.

Miscellaneous factories because there is no huge amount of advertising investment, and the use of low-cost and inferior components, so the price is very lethal, and finally the miscellaneous machine actually occupies half of the repeater market, so that some repeater brand manufacturers in 2002 have a loss.

Incomplete statistics, there are more than 200 manufacturers in the national market to produce nearly 100 brands of repeaters, only in mid-to-late June 200, more than 10 new repeater brands emerged.

Most of these workshops and factories adopt low-price competition to cut into the market, blindly reduce costs, and bring many hidden dangers to the market.

The results of the spot check in Jiangnan Province in June showed that only 6 batches of 25 batches of products were qualified, and only 30% of the repeater products were qualified in the spot check of the Sanjin Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau.

Driven by profits, unscrupulous manufacturers choose low-quality and low-cost movements, magnetic heads and parts to assemble inferior repeaters, which have short recording repetition time, distorted speech, poor repeatability, and cannot achieve the desired learning effect.

Miscellaneous machines are rampant, shoddy products, competition is too chaotic and disorderly, and manufacturers are uneven, these phenomena have formed a "distrust" psychology in the hearts of consumers on the one hand, and on the other hand, they have also led to a sharp decline in the profit margin of each product.

It can be said that the fierce competition, the emergence of miscellaneous machines has forced the price of repeaters to fall, making repeaters become only marginal or unprofitable products, and prematurely entered a period of product recession.

At this time, Sony, Panasonic and other Dongwei enterprises not only made a lot of money on the repeater, but also entered the Chinese repeater market in a big way, with high prices, high quality quickly occupied a quarter of the Huaxia repeater market, and the profit margin was even more crushing the domestic repeater enterprises.

Dongwei enterprises occupy 80% of the profits of the domestic repeater market, and Huaxia repeater companies share the remaining 20%.

As for the sales of repeaters, they hovered around 10 million units all year round, and with the advent of learning products such as computers, electronic dictionaries, and point readers, it is getting farther and farther away from the target of 15 million units set in 2003.

This phenomenon is something Fang Chen never wants to see, he is extremely unwilling to see the repeater that could have benefited Huaxia and even rushed into the international arena end up like this, and he is not willing to let Xiaobawang fight hard with other small and medium-sized enterprises in the red sea of repeaters!

In order to do this, in addition to increasing the technical level of the repeater, adding new functions, such as adding a screen to the repeater, turning it into a visual repeater that organically combines language skills training such as listening, speaking, reading, translation, and vocabulary, or adding functions such as English-Chinese translation and electronic dictionaries, the most important thing is to block the possibility of the random spread of repeater technology from the source of Zhong Daolong.

That is, Zhong Daolong is not allowed to give up the right to manage the patent of the repeater.

This is the reason why Fang Chen personally interviewed Zhong Daolong, if it was just for the production of repeaters, according to Zhong Daolong's generous character, he asked Duan Yongping and even Jin Zhijiang to talk to Zhong Daolong.

"Mr. Fang, I don't quite understand what you mean? But if you plan to buy out the patent ownership of the repeater, then I advise you not to open this respectful mouth, I don't love money very much, and I am about to retire, the retirement salary paid to me by the state, plus some manuscript fees, is enough for me to live. Zhong Daolong suddenly said seriously.

There is a kind of inviolable and incorrosive majesty in the words.

Is Fang Chen powerful, is he powerful?

It's really powerful, and it's powerful enough.

But it has nothing to do with him!

He is an old man who is about to retire, he does not steal or rob in this life, and works diligently to do good things for the country, the army, and the people, even if he disagrees with Fang Chen's meaning, what does it do?

Even if Fang Chen has the ability again, it is nothing more than to let him retire two years early, what can the rest do with him?

Therefore, he didn't care, he really didn't care about Fang Chen.

The reason why he was willing to accept Fang Chen's invitation, and even before he announced that the 04 machine had passed the verification and needed to avoid suspicion, he was willing to meet with Fang Chen, which was nothing more than that he felt that Fang Chen was doing well in the high-tech industry and could do some good things for the country and the people.

And Fang Chen's deafening speech at the meeting today once again gave him a good impression of Fang Chen.

Anyway, it wasn't because he succumbed to Fang Chen's power, or because he wanted to get some benefits from Fang Chen.

And no matter what Fang Chen will say, he is already determined, and it is impossible for him to hand over the patent rights of the repeater to a single company.

Seeing Zhong Daolong's inviolable appearance, Fang Chen smiled helplessly, "Dean Zhong, you misunderstood what I meant, I never said that I wanted to monopolize the repeater market. ”

"What did you mean by that just now, Mr. Fang?" Zhong Daolong asked in a deep voice.

Fang Chen Zhengse said: "Xiaobawang does not monopolize the patented technology of the repeater, and it is not a good thing to follow the intention to license the repeater technology to the enterprise, and there is no conflict. ”

Zhong Daolong felt a little confused, he really couldn't figure out what Fang Chen was trying to express now, since Fang Chen didn't plan to let Xiaobawang monopolize the repeater technology, why did he stop him from spreading the repeater technology?

"I believe you also know that the general situation of domestic electronic production enterprises is basically a small workshop that produces products with counterfeiting, plagiarism, shoddy, and inferior components, otherwise, you would have given the repeater technology to these small and medium-sized electronics enterprises. ”

"That's why I say no, and you see that you don't have the rippling of repeater technology yourself. Fang Chen said with a smile.

Zhong Daolong nodded silently, he admitted that what Fang Chen said made sense, the domestic production of electronic products is still in a Hongmeng, and there are only a few powerful ones, such as Xiaobawang, Sitong, Lenovo, etc., and he doesn't look down on the others.

And these companies, each with their own main business, he found it difficult to bother to let these companies produce repeaters, and as an educator and communication expert, he didn't know what the market was, let alone how promising the market was, or how much money the market for repeaters was.

But as soon as the thought moved, he subconsciously glanced at Fang Chen, and suddenly felt a little like laughing, thinking that Fang Chen, the king of plagiarism and counterfeiting, actually said plagiarism and counterfeiting in front of him, he always felt a little ridiculous.

However, he has to admit that Xiaobawang's products are really good, and even have reached the point where they are better than blue, and they look more full of science and technology than the red and white machine, no wonder they are so popular in China, and he also thinks some small learning software written on the learning machine.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have sold a Xiaobawang learning machine to my grandson last year.

Seeing Zhong Daolong nodded, Fang Chen struck while the iron was hot and pursued after the victory: "Once the repeater technology falls into the hands of these small workshops, it will inevitably produce a large number of inferior repeaters to impact the market, I believe you don't want to see students buy inferior products, right?"

"And these inferior products will also impact a large number of brand repeaters produced by normal enterprises, so that ordinary enterprises can not operate normally, so as to retreat from the repeater market, when the whole country is full of this inferior repeater, that is, the so-called bad money in economics drives out good money, I believe this situation is also what you don't want to see, right?"

Hearing Fang Chen's alarmist words, Zhong Daolong's face couldn't help but change slightly, and his heart sank instantly, he naturally knew how harmful inferior products were, and he also knew how attractive cheap products were for the Chinese people who were not rich for the time being.

Seeing that Zhong Daolong had already entered the trap, Fang Chen smiled secretly in his heart.

However, what he said is also true, inferior repeaters do occupy a large number of markets and profits of those honestly produced products and ordinary enterprises, and greatly hurt students, and even caused some irreversible personal damage.

It's just a little bit of an exaggeration.

Even Fang Chen guessed that it was precisely because of the chaos of the repeater machine that China launched the famous 3C certification in 2003.

3C certification standardizes household appliances, cleans up miscellaneous manufacturers in the market, eliminates the hidden quality hazards of some household appliances, and plays a positive role in ensuring the safety and reliability of household appliances, safeguarding national economic interests and economic security, and protecting the health of users.

At the same time, it can promote the healthy development of various industries, eliminate market barriers, and provide a good competitive environment for enterprises.

The introduction of "3C" certification is really a huge blessing for the domestic repeater market where good and bad products are rampant, because the implementation of "3C" certification is the final "expulsion order" for those who only pursue commercial profits and use inferior materials without quality assurance for miscellaneous products.