Chapter 995 - Buying Motorola?
Dong Yunxuan and others also attached great importance to Yang Jie's opinions, and then negotiated with Yang Jie for several hours, and finally reached an internal agreement.
The Hong Kong government will start the construction of coastal roads, undersea tunnels and railways at a later stage when Huaxing Group Company completes the construction of artificial islands, so as to connect the artificial islands with Lantau Island and other XG islands.
Dong Yunxuan also said that he would do his best to include the reclamation plan in the bill through the review of the National Standing Committee and the Legislative Council.
Of course, the content of the conversation between Yang Jie and Dong Yunxuan here will not become a clause, if this matter is known to the outside world, it is easy to be attacked by XG's media, and some things can only be done but not said.
Dong Yunxuan also promised that in a few weeks, he would formally auction off the right to use several uninhabited islands and sea areas in Jiaoyizhou and Xilingzhou, and would guarantee that Tianhong Real Estate Group Company would get the right to use these uninhabited islands and sea areas.
This meeting made Dong Yunxuan and others quite satisfied, Yang Jie helped the Hong Kong government solve a big problem at once, and this magnanimity and open-mindedness also made them admire.
The next day, Yang Jie also had a meeting with Dong Yunxuan and Xue Yuedong on this matter.
"You kid still has a way!"
Xue Yuedong said to Yang Jie with a smile, and he also greatly appreciated this matter.
"XG is part of the motherland, and it is an honor to be able to solve XG's current predicament. ”
Yang Jie said with a smile.
Xue Yuedong then turned his face to Dong Yunxuan and said: "You XG must handle this matter well, this is related to the well-being of millions of people in XG, and the central government will stand firmly behind you to support you." ”
"Yes, we will definitely do this well and live up to the expectations of the chief. ”
Dong Yunxuan nodded and said.
After Yang Jie returned to Tanzhou City, he convened a high-level meeting of the group company to start the deployment work as soon as possible on the reclamation of the uninhabited islands near Lantau Island.
The senior management was quite surprised by Yang Jie's decision, but the big boss decided to do this, so it naturally made sense, so the legal department of the secretariat, the financial department and other expert groups soon began to make preparations around this project with the cooperation of its many subsidiaries.
After entering July, the Eagle Sauce Council finally revoked the ban on Huaxing Group Company, and Yang Jie also frequently received visits from a number of domestic companies in Eagle Sauce.
Huaxing Group has not fallen because of the domestic strangulation of Eagle Sauce for more than a year, and has increased the purchase of chips in Europe and neon countries, and some chip manufacturers who have provided chips to Huaxing Group have also suffered a lot of losses.
Many chip manufacturers do not have the ability to circumvent the ban and continue to provide chips and cooperate with Huaxing Group companies like Intel and International Business Machines.
Moreover, some chip Huaxing group companies have long begun to lay out, and can produce or purchase from some chip manufacturers in Europe, such as Infineon and NXP and STMicroelectronics.
Huaxing Group's mobile phone business has been selling well since the launch of smartphones equipped with fingerprint recognition systems last year, and this year it has successfully pulled down Nokia to become the world's No. 1 mobile phone manufacturer, with sales of an astonishing more than 250 million mobile phones!
Nokia's sales fell to less than 200 million units, just a few million more than the Samsung behind it.
Infineon Group Corporation, which mainly supplies Huaxing Group of Companies, has been smiling crookedly for more than a year, and in the first half of this year, it earned more than 6 billion euros from Huaxing Group alone!
Siemens' sales of Huaxing Group's mobile phone business and brand usage fees are also making a lot of money, who wants to lose such a big customer!
Huaxing Group has become a giant in the field of communications, and how many chip companies want to sell their chips to Huaxing Group.
Therefore, after the ban was lifted, a number of chip giant companies rushed to promote their chips, and many telecom operators wanted to put the mobile phones of Huaxing Group Company on the shelves for sale as soon as possible.
In the past year, a series of mobile phones of Huaxing Group have been sold in Europe and Asia, but domestic consumers in Eagle Sauce cannot buy such mobile phones.
Seeing that telecom operators and channel providers in other countries make money by selling the mobile phones of Huaxing Group Company, these telecom operators in Eagle Sauce can only watch, and these people have already scolded these parliamentary masters and federal officials thousands of times in their hearts.
Of course, Yang Jie also selectively met with representatives of several companies, and he didn't have much time.
To Yang Jie's surprise, Carl Icahn, an investor from Wall Street, who has a reputation as a "speculator" and "corporate predator", brought Greg Brown, the new president of Motorola, with his team.
Cal Icahn has gradually increased his stake in Motorola over the years and nominated several people to the board of directors, where he aims to get the board to agree to split the company into parts to maximize the value of shareholders' shares, while also firing former president Sander.
The previous board of directors recommended this Shande is a person who can speak well and is not capable of himself, especially the domestic mobile phone market is very contemptuous, and he leaves the relevant matters to the department head and the manager in charge of domestic business.
When the country upgraded to the WLAN+ network, Motorola was still selling old 2G mobile phones, and in order to maintain market share, it was also crazy about discounts.
As the president, Shande knew nothing about all these things, and two years ago, Motorola's domestic mobile phone business completely collapsed, and Shande was stunned at the time.
Now that domestic mobile phone brands are rising, Motorola can never go back.
After Carl Icahn joined the board of directors of Motorola, he immediately fired Shande, replaced him with Greg Brown, who he valued, and spun off the mobile phone business from the public safety and corporate business.
"Mr. Yang, I wonder if you are interested in the main business of home business and wireless network infrastructure assets under the Motorola Group of Companies?"
The gray-haired Cal Icahn looked at Yang Jie and asked.
"Actually, I'm more interested in the mobile phone business of the Motorola group of companies. ”
Yang Jie said with a smile.
Carl Icahn and Greg Brown next to him were stunned.
"No, I'm not going to sell the cell phone business. ”
Cal Icahn shook his head.
Yang Jie shrugged his shoulders and said it didn't matter.
In fact, Huaxing Group has been keeping a close eye on the internal affairs of Motorola Group in recent years, and this Carl Icahn still has hope for Motorola's mobile phone business, and he also found the former president of Qualcomm to assist Brown, the co-president has a deep understanding of the hardware and software of telecommunications, and after taking office, he also drastically cut more than 4,000 positions, and the number of engineers has been sharply reduced.
Many engineers joined the R&D center set up by Huaxing Group in Austin, Texas, and many engineers joined Huaxing Group's R&D center after Motorola closed its European laboratory and laid off employees.
Huaxing Group is waiting for giant companies like Motorola to go bankrupt and recruit some rich engineers to enter the R&D center!
Yang Jie knew that Motorola's mobile phone department was preparing to develop a smartphone similar to his company, and he also knew the purpose of this Carl Icahn's visit this time - to transfuse blood for the mobile phone department by selling some non-core businesses!
In fact, over the years, Huaxing Group has successively dug up a lot of technicians from different business departments of Motorola to develop TV set-top boxes and other related equipment, and has also acquired a lot of patented technologies.
Therefore, Yang Jie is really not interested in Cal Icahn coming to the door to sell these non-core businesses this time.
Now Huaxing Group has enough patented technology in its hands, and it has also recruited a number of top Motorola engineers.
With the continuous layoffs of Motorola Group of Companies and the stagnation of company innovation, Motorola has always been one of the top 10 companies in terms of patent registration, but now it has fallen to more than 40 places, while the number of patent registrations of Huaxing Group has reached a very staggering number.
In the field of communications alone, there were more than 5,000 technology patents last year, and if you add the number of patents in other fields, it is a very terrifying number, and the technical content of independent innovation is also very high.
Now Huaxing Group is no longer afraid of any company to fight a patent war with itself, and now it has begun to collect patent fees from many foreign companies.
Although Motorola still has 17,000 patents in the field of mobile phone communications, and thousands of patents are still being applied, this is of little significance to Huaxing Group.