Chapter 055: Lenovo's Mission
After talking about money, let's talk about doing (walking) dead (private) things.
At the beginning of the reform and opening up, Pengcheng was originally just a small town under Baoping County, formerly known as Shenzhen Market, named after a ditch on the west side of the market town, a real wild place. The above wants to build a special zone, but only the policy is given and no money is given, so where will the massive funds for the construction of the special zone come from?
In 1982, the 20-storey Pengcheng Electronics Building was completed, which quickly became a distribution center for smuggling electronic devices from Xiangjiang to the mainland of the Republic. At that time, there were mixed traders who smuggled and sold electronic components, including dealers who resold clothes, businessmen who opened restaurants, and even some employees of state-owned factories who "dared to break in". In the end, it has formed the world's largest electronic device distribution center - Pengcheng Huaqiangbei.
At that time, the Republic of China adopted an "import license system", but dozens of small electronics factories engaged in export assembly were gathered in the Shangbu Industrial Zone on the west side of Luohu in Pengcheng, and they could not obtain formal approvals, so they smuggled devices from Xiangjiang for production. Driven by market demand, Pengcheng's electronic smuggling has become more rampant, making huge profits. The Pengcheng regulatory authorities will not be unaware of the origin of the components. But the basic attitude of "turning a blind eye" is basically adopted - this is the local interest.
In 1985 alone, the export of TV sets to the Republic was as high as 6.48 million units, which greatly promoted the rise of the home appliance industry.
The local electronics enterprises of the Republic are on the verge of bankruptcy under heavy blows. The reason is very simple: The enterprises of the Republic invest several million yuan to update their equipment, and the electronic components developed may cost dozens of yuan, but in Huaqiangbei, Pengcheng, they can be bought for only a few yuan, and their performance is better than yours.
The rapid escalation of the Moore cycle of the electronics industry will lead to the laggards being thrown farther and farther away, and it is difficult to catch up. At the same time, the collapse of the U.S. electronics industry also relied on massive cheap dumping, so that American companies could not recover their costs and profits after huge investments, resulting in Intel almost going bankrupt in 1985.
The past of history cannot be studied in detail, and right and wrong cannot be clearly explained in a single sentence, but only the resentment of the past life, so what should we do?
In the later generations of 9102, because the gap between the civil electronic technology of the Republic and the international advanced level is too large, the industrial patent barriers formed by the United States are extremely high, and it is difficult to catch up.
Some institutions even predict that if the Republic wants to catch up with the technological development of the international integrated circuit industry, it will be possible to make up for the arrears of the past 40 years unless it has the courage to come up with two bombs and one satellite, and has the courage to come up with $1 trillion to build another set of electronic industry ecological chains outside the United States, with an annual investment intensity of $100 billion, for 10 consecutive years.
Of course, this is just a beautiful hypothesis......
By June next year, with the outbreak of the largest electronic smuggling case in the Republic of China, the Information and Communications Corporation will be closed down, closed down and bankrupt, and the Republic's electronics industry will enter a situation of complete defeat and extinction, and the survivors will be even rarer.
In 9102, Hua Wei, which had grown into a banner of the Republic's science and technology enterprises, was also struggling to survive at this time.
Yu Zixian still clearly remembers a classic shot of the media reporting on Hua Wei in later generations:
"At the beginning of 1993, in a small hall in Shekou, Pengcheng, Huawei held the 1992 year-end summary meeting, all employees participated, after the meeting began, I saw Ren Zhengfei walk on the simple splicing rostrum, the first sentence of the speech was 'we survived', and I burst into tears and couldn't say it ......anymore."
At this time, it was September 1990, and with the abolition of the electronic product import license system, the last layer of protection for the electronic industry of the Republic would also disappear, and it had to face the market competition of international electronics giants.
Although Yu Zixian really wants to do something, he is now a little ant, and in the face of this rolling historical trend, he doesn't even have a chance to raise his sword!
However, if there is no opportunity today, it does not mean that there will be no opportunity in five years, ten years, twenty years, and there will be opportunities!
After breakfast, Yu Zixian and the three of them came to the Zhongguancun High-tech Industrial Development Pilot Zone in Yanjing City early, which was later known as the Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park.
Sihai electronics market.
Yu Zixian looked at the "Changcheng 386" computer in his hand, and couldn't help but think of the "Changcheng 0520CH", the first industrially produced microcomputer in the Republic, and a lot of information came to his mind.
However, when I thought of what happened to the Changcheng computer, I instantly felt that the "Changcheng 386" computer in my hand was boring. Although there are other electronic markets next to it, and there are also many domestic brands and computers of international brands, Yu Zixian has no interest in continuing to shop, he just wants to go back quickly.
His pace must be accelerated, make money, make a lot of money, and then set up his own talent team, fist products, and then find opportunities to build his own chip production base, even if it is a little behind, he must first build the framework.
Of course, this will require a lot of stalls and a lot of money, but he hopes that he can shout like Hua Wei's Ren Zhengfei in 3 years: "We survived, and we are alive and well!"
Yu Zixian took Hao Meng and Fu Zan to walk on Baiyi Road, which was only ten meters wide, looking at the old small buildings on both sides, and didn't want to buy a place to come down. He has to wait for an opportunity until the middle of next year, when the largest electronic smuggling case in the Republic of China breaks out in one of the four seas, and from then on the road to bankruptcy and bankruptcy, and Zhongguancun is almost snuffed out, and then it is a good time for him to make a move.
Well, don't blow it, let's be honest, the key is that you don't have money in your pocket!
The total amount of money knocked out from Nintendo is more than 600,000 US dollars, and now it is estimated that more than 500,000 US dollars will be spent, and there is about 100,000 US dollars left, and according to the current 100,000 US dollars, it is equivalent to 50-700,000 people (because of foreign exchange control, the exchange channels are different in black and white, and the exchange price is completely different).
What can you do with such a small amount of money?
In the evening, Yu Zixian found a temporary nest on the small fourth floor next to the Sihai Electronics Market. It is a one-courtyard and two-story layout, with one building being a dormitory and the other being converted into an office building. Although it is not a professional office building, Yu Zixian is already very satisfied, including Hao Meng and Fu Zan. Because there is a special property management here, at least the safety of the company is guaranteed.
Although, at this time, the price of rental housing in the flat ^O^ room area is a little farther behind, but it is not very safe, listen to the landlord here, there are occasional petty thefts or something, and some time ago there was a janitor who was stabbed by a thief.
The place was settled, and the equipment was waiting to be transported from Pengcheng. Originally, Yu Zixian wanted to buy a few computers, but the price of the desktop Deskpro 386 here reached 40,000, Yu Zixian had to give up, and finally only bought one for temporary use, and the remaining few will be purchased directly by the Rubik's Cube Wisdom in Pengcheng in Xiangjiang, and then brought over with the equipment.
The Deskpro 386 computer was a reinforced desktop computer powered by Intel's 80386 chip launched by Compaq in September 1986, which ran several times faster than the most powerful IBM PC machine at the time. Naturally, the price is also expensive. But at this time, the Deskpro 386 with a 32-bit processor and a 16MHz clock frequency 80386 chip still performs well.
Looking at the configuration, Yu Zixian looked at the selling price again, it is really expensive! But to make money, selling one is a few thousand dollars to make! Or do you want to set up a computer assembly company yourself?
Alas, forget it, it is enough for the republic to have an association!
Since 1984, a group of scientific researchers who do not understand the market at all, in the face of the large-scale attack of a large number of foreign enterprises in the face of the fact that the Republic has no computer industry of its own, Lenovo has started the entrepreneurial road of domestic PC brands with difficulty like a small sampan. Compete with these behemoths, use the money earned from acting as an agent for foreign products, stick in to adhere to the research and development of domestic computers, and finally gain a foothold in the whole machine market.
Ten years later, the "Liu Ni Controversy" broke out, which made Lenovo criticized. Academician Ni Guangnan, who advocated the technology, industry and trade route, was out, and Lenovo's chip R&D project was cut, which became a pain for many Chinese people!
If it is said that for the initial association, survival is the first, and it is understandable to choose trade, industry and technology to survive first, but the mistake of association is that after having the foundation of life, it still does not make technical reserves, which is wrong!
Because of the lack of his own core technology, he had to rely on others, and even in order to curry favor with Wintel of the United States, he was a little unclear in standing in line, and in the end he was called the "conscience of American imperialism", not wronged!
As a high-tech enterprise, in the face of sanctions, it is not necessary to think about how to have its own core technology to enhance its competitiveness, but to survive by relying on currying favor with others, which is not the spirit that a technology company should have. Lenovo has lost its mission, and perhaps this is his greatest original sin.
And Yu Zixian's mission is to dream that one day, we can build our own "Wintel Alliance", or build a world-leading electronics industry, so that we will no longer lack cores and screens!