"Comrades, according to the data just released by the ministry, in the past 1987, the total output of CRT TVs in China exceeded 25 million units for the first time, ranking first in the world, nearly 6 million more than Japan, which ranked second!

However, China's television industry is in an embarrassing situation of being big but not strong. For example, the domestic high-end color TV market of more than 24 inches is almost completely monopolized by foreign brands. With the development of the country's economy and the improvement of people's living standards, the domestic TV market has entered the heyday of sales since last year!

According to the information provided by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, the price of a purchase coupon for an imported color TV has been speculated to 800 yuan on the black market in the capital, which is equivalent to the price of half a domestically produced 18-inch color TV! However, it is in this situation where the contradiction between supply and demand is so prominent that there are still many TV factories in China whose products are unsalable!

Some of these enterprises have production lines that have only been introduced from abroad for less than two years. However, the small-size black-and-white TVs they produce have gradually failed to meet the requirements of the Chinese people for the performance of TVs......"

This is a seminar on the development of the television industry jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry and the Government of the Deep Sea Special Administrative Region, and an expert from the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry is talking at the venue.

"Mr. Liu, the young man in the center of the rostrum wearing a blue slim suit is my former big boss 'God of Wealth Li'! At least a quarter of the 25 million television sets produced by China last year were completed by enterprises within the Eastern Bloc system.

Among them, RCA, a subsidiary of the group, has built a TV industry base in the deep-sea special zone, with an annual output of 10 million color picture tubes. More than 4 million TVs are directly exported to the United States every year, and it has become the most brilliant pearl in the industrial system of the Special Economic Zone!

This time, under the mediation of the Ministry of Electronics Industry. The Oriental Group will sign a series of technology transfer agreements with a number of domestic television factories! Li Sheng was warmly invited by the SAR government. I came from Hong Kong to attend the final signing ceremony in person!" Liu Chang stretched out his hand and pointed to the rostrum not far away, and explained softly to Liu Chuanzhi beside him.

This is a seminar on the TV industry, but it doesn't have much to do with Liu Chang and Liu Chuanzhi. But Liu Chang heard that Li Xuan would attend in person, so he specially took Liu Chuanzhi to see the true face of the richest man in the world.

Although Liu Chang has resigned from the Eastern Group, he, like many other employees in the company, regards Li Xuan as his idol in life. This kind of worship that can almost be called spiritual belief is completely comparable to the brain-dead fans of those stars in later generations!

In order to be able to take a look at his idol from a distance, Liu Chang spent a lot of effort to get two invitations to the seminar. And Liu Chuanzhi is also full of curiosity about the "God of Wealth Li", the world's richest man in the myth. So at the instigation of Liu Chang, they also came over. The two of them, who have nothing to do with the TV industry, have been sitting here boringly listening to nonsense for more than an hour.

After the previous expert made a long speech, the host's eyes quickly focused on Li Xuan, hoping that he could express some opinions. Li Xuan didn't postpone either, and reached out to adjust the height of the microphone on the table in front of him.

His clear voice soon came from the venue: "Leaders from the Ministry of Electronics Industry and the Deep Sea Special Economic Zone, as well as all the elites of the TV industry here, I am honored to represent the Oriental Group to participate in this grand event!"

I very much agree with Mr. Cai's overview of the mainland's TV industry as 'big but not strong'. For example, take the development of picture tube technology as an example, the color TV market in Europe and the United States. It has already fully entered the era of plane right-angle tubes. And more than half of the domestic TVs are still using spherical picture tubes!

The reason why the Oriental Group wants to cooperate with mainland enterprises this time is that it hopes to help the mainland improve the overall level of the television industry, especially the picture tube manufacturing industry! The Eastern Group has built a special zone in the deep sea, with an annual output of 10 million picture tubes, the world's largest production base for televisions and displays!

It's just that the Eastern Bloc has previously invested heavily in the Deep Sea Special Zone. However, the products produced are mainly exported, and there is a lack of close ties and cooperation with domestic manufacturers! Serve the progress of China's television industry!"

Li Xuan came up and said something first, and then continued after a pause. "Before the seminar, Minister Wei asked me to give some advice to entrepreneurs in China. I don't dare to say that the experience of the Eastern Bloc will be suitable for everyone, but I hope that it will at least bring some interesting inspiration!

At the internal meetings of the Oriental Group, I have repeatedly emphasized the concept of the Oriental Group's own positioning, that is, to be a research-oriented enterprise! What is a research-oriented enterprise? I think that a research-oriented enterprise is relative to a manufacturing enterprise!

In the 80s, China lacked television sets, so a large number of electronics factories, including all of you present, imported dozens of television production lines from abroad in the past seven or eight years! With the joint efforts of everyone, China's television production quickly jumped to the first place in the world in less than 10 years!

When we first acquired RCA in 1984, its annual sales of televisions were less than 5 million units!

However, behind the continuous growth of TV sales, the number of TVs produced by RCA has dropped to only 2 million units, and the remaining 5 million units are handed over to other partners for OEM production!

In the plan drawn up at the beginning of the year, RCA will also close one TV factory in Mexico and one in Taiwan this year, further reducing the number of self-produced TVs to less than 1 million units!

And by the end of next year, we will completely shut down all of our TV factories! So if you're interested, I'm very welcome to compete for 2 million TVs a year!"

Li Xuan's words caused a burst of exclamation at the scene, if you exclude the data contributed by the Eastern Group, China's TV production last year was only 19.5 million units. In other words, Li Xuan threw out this order. This is equivalent to one-tenth of the national production.

This naturally made the CEOs present smack, and many of them had begun to flash a light in their eyes. You must know that the orders of the Eastern Bloc are all export orders. Earn foreign exchange!

Li Xuan didn't care about everyone's reactions, and continued calmly: "Everyone may be strange. If our TVs are selling well, why should we give orders to others and make you a lot of money for nothing!

This is the biggest difference between research-oriented enterprises and ordinary manufacturing enterprises! To put it a little arrogantly, we can no longer look down on this part of the profits in the production process!

So where does our core profit come from? That's right, it's technology! For example, we have paid a huge price for the technology transfer to many domestic enterprises! And when you are still introducing the technology of right-angle plane picture tube from us today, the Oriental Research Institute has already been carrying out the research and development of the next generation of pure flat picture tube!

You might as well think about it. In three to five years' time, when China has just begun to popularize right-angle flat tubes, European and American countries have begun to popularize more advanced flat-screen color televisions! Will everyone here be the same at that time? Spending a huge amount of money again to bring the next generation of flat technology from us?

What's more, the progress of technology is endless,After the pure flat color TV,There will be an ultra-flat color TV!This is only a small technical upgrade inside the CRT picture tube,But in fact, the era of the entire CRT color TV has come to an end,The international color TV giants are in full swing in the research and development of alternative products。

Take our Oriental Research Institute as an example, rear projection, plasma, and liquid crystal, these technologies may become the development direction of TV in the future. We're all following up on R&D. These R&D efforts require a lot of financial and material resources. That's why we don't want to waste our limited funds on low-value links such as building factory production lines!

However, if China's television industry wants to become truly bigger and stronger, it will never succeed just by following other people's butts to introduce technology! It means that you will be choked at any time, and you can only act by looking at people's faces!"

Li Xuan's words can be described as deafening, and the scene seems to fall into silence all of a sudden. It seemed that they were all silently chewing on the deep meaning of what he had just said! The host at the scene naturally could not let this embarrassing atmosphere continue, but he found that everyone was thoughtful. There was no appetite for speaking at all.

So the host had no choice but to continue to look at Li Xuan: "Mr. Li, how do you think domestic companies should catch up?"

Hear the moderator ask. Many people suddenly regained their spirits and waited for Li Xuan to give an answer himself!

"Technological research and development cannot tolerate fraud, and it is necessary to rely on real capital investment to produce results! Some people may say that we do not have as much scientific research funds as the Eastern Group, nor do we have such strong technical strength as the Eastern Group, so where should we start?

Scientific research is always about how much you have the ability to do as much as you can, and if you have less money and weak technology, you should choose those projects that are less difficult! If you don't have the ability to develop CRT technology for the time being, you might as well start with other parts and components on the TV.

For example, if the printed circuit board of some enterprises is imported, will it save a lot of foreign exchange by localizing it themselves? And if the printed circuit board has been localized, can it save more production costs if its design continues to be improved?

Technological progress is accumulated from such little by little! I can give you another example, this year the Oriental Research Institute launched an alternative to the video recorder, which we call VCD player!

From the advent of the prototype of the first VCD player to the beginning of mass production, the Oriental Research Institute has made 62 technical improvements! These improvements have not subverted the basic structure of VCD, but greatly improved its performance!

From the launch of the VCD to the present, Toyo Research Institute has completed the improvement of 23 new technologies, so that our VCD can become more and more advanced and firmly maintain its advantage in the market competition!

There was a debate in China about whether the salary level of the Oriental Research Institute is reasonable! The significance of the Oriental Research Institute to the entire Eastern Group is like the engine in a car!

Without the continuous technical support of the Oriental Research Institute, it would be impossible for the Oriental Group to grow from a small company with an unknown name to the pursuit of the most well-known high-tech company in just ten years!

The Oriental Institute has established several R&D centers in Europe, Asia and North America. The average salary of the technical research and development personnel of the deep-sea scientific research center is 3,188 yuan, which is said to be 13 times the average salary of the deep-sea special zone!

As a result, some people say that our Oriental Research Institute does not pay attention to the overall situation and undermines the stability of the entire wage system in China! But in fact, the average salary of the deep-sea R&D center is far lower than the average of other R&D centers of the Oriental Research Institute. For example, the R&D center in Hong Kong is three times that of him, and the R&D center in Silicon Valley in the United States is five times that of him! The actual contribution of scientific research talents in the mainland far exceeds the salary we offer them!

In the era of China's planned economy, the system of equal pay for equal work was adopted for a long time, and this actually seriously distorted the value of technology! If the value of a university's life is the same as that of an ordinary worker, then what is the significance of the state investing huge sums of money every year to train college students!

With Li Xuan's slightly sharp words, the atmosphere on the scene seemed to be a little more dignified. Mr. D's assertion that "science and technology are the primary productive forces" will not be put forward until a few months later. Many of Li Xuan's views today seem to many to be a little overdone.

Fortunately, Li Xuan did not lose his sense of proportion, and when he said this, he stopped at the point, and ended his speech with a smile. As a compatriot in Hong Kong, he has the halo of the richest man in the world, and many views can be a little more unscrupulous than others!

And the same viewpoint that comes out of his mouth is completely different from the degree of attention that has been given by other people! Li Xuan also hopes that his remarks today will trigger some touches.

However, in the ensuing discussion, the moderator obviously deliberately avoided Li Xuan and did not specify that he would be invited to speak. He was also happy to relax, and when the seminar was over, he got up and prepared to leave through the side door.

Many people originally wanted to come forward to Li Xuan for further communication, but in the end they all hesitated, perhaps because his last remarks just now made these people a little scrupled. Li Xuan didn't care, he left without taking care of himself!

Liu Chang had no worries about this at all, seeing that his idol was about to leave under the escort of his bodyguards, he immediately trotted up to greet him in three steps and two steps. Although Li Xuan is usually reluctant to be interviewed by the public media, he is actually not a difficult person to speak. Liu Chang's abnormal behavior attracted the attention of the bodyguards at the beginning, but Li Xuan signaled that they didn't need to be nervous. (To be continued.) )