Chapter 368: Computer Street

After coming to the capital, Lin Qi had handed over Zhao Kai's posthumous works to the chiefs, and obtained permission to publish them in China.

At present, although New Venture Publishing Group (Beijing) Co., Ltd. has the qualification to publish and distribute books in China, it is limited to comics. Other professional books, as well as books related to ideology or political propaganda, are published in cooperation with domestic publishers.

The same is true for this book, which is jointly published and distributed by New Venture Publishing Group (Beijing) Co., Ltd. and the Commercial Press. Because, although most of the books like "The Great Pattern and the Great Prophecy" talk about the evolution of the international pattern, it will inevitably involve a little sensitive topic.

For example, the collapse of the Soviet Union...... This prophecy, in this era, is too presumptuous.

Even the current Sino-Soviet relations are not as friendly as they were in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. But, after all, the Soviet Union was the first socialist country, and it was the second most powerful country after the United States, and predicting the collapse of the Soviet Union might put some people on the line in the 80s.

Of course, although the book was published, it was not advertised with much fanfare, and was only published as an ordinary book.

Even if it is very low-key, but some people who are small in the heart know this book very quickly. Before it was officially released in China, someone had already asked someone to buy the traditional version in Hong Kong.

As a result, the Hong Kong version of "The Great Pattern and the Great Prophecy", because of the demand of domestic readers, the first printing of 5,000 copies was quickly sold out. And, a few years later, after the content of its prophecy was partially fulfilled, its sales soared again.

Because Zhao Kai has passed away, the publication remuneration of this book is decided by Lin Qi, who paid 1 million yuan in advance, and established a "Zhao Kai Foundation" in the name of Zhao Kai, through investment in some blue chips, bonds, and real estate to achieve sustainable management, and the income from the accumulation of manuscript fees and investment profits is used to award the "Zhao Kai Economics Award", which is awarded every four years, and the scale of each issue of the prize is 5% of the total assets of the Zhao Kai Foundation!

In the beginning, few economists and writers bought this copycat award. However, as the asset size of this foundation snowballed, the scale of the prize money that could be awarded became more and more, and after that, economists at home and abroad paid more and more attention to this award. In order to cater to this award, many economists have also opened a chapter in their books for prediction. Although this has caused many economists to be slapped in the face by reality, it still makes many economists happy.

Because, the winning criteria of the "Zhao Kai Economics Award" are very strange, and it does not prove the theoretical research level of economists. The conditions for winning the award are only to have published a book related to economics, and it does not matter whether it is professional or not, there are predictions of major economic events in the book. According to the proximity of the prediction text description to reality, the gods will be awarded.

This award, which later became the famous "God Stick Award", basically has little meaning for reality, and it is more entertaining than professional. However, due to the later media hype, its influence once surpassed that of the Nobel Prize in Economics. After all, the theories of many Nobel laureates are too esoteric and professional for the media to entertain them. However, the "Divine Stick Award" is different, it is an entertainment award throughout. Later, its influence became more and more large, also because the scale of its prize money gradually increased from tens of thousands to tens of millions.

The reason for the establishment of such an award is that Meng Xin suggested that the waters be muddyed, and the shocking warning of the book could be downplayed into an ordinary economist.

After discussing these cooperation matters, Lin Qi visited Zhongguancun with great interest.

Of course, after a few years, Zhongguancun's electronic watches, calculators and other small electronic products have basically disappeared. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, there was a market for those products, but they were scarce and expensive.

These small products are not only not lacking in China, but also bulk products that earn foreign exchange through exports. Now the retail price of electronic watches in China has even been hit to 1 yuan. A scientific calculator or something is only 10 yuan.

However, Japanese manufacturers, which used to monopolize electronic watches and calculators, no longer have a price advantage due to the continuous appreciation of the yen. As a result, Japanese manufacturers have basically abandoned this market.

"Mr. Lin, Zhongguancun now is not like a few years ago, full of low-end products and second-hand e-waste smuggled in from abroad. The tour guide who accompanied Lin Qi said, "Now this is basically a computer street, and it is also the largest home appliance wholesale market in the country." The Pangu computer of the new venture electronics company currently accounts for 85% of the market share in China, and it is the PC of IBM in time, because the cost performance is too low, and it cannot be sold in the domestic market at all!"

Lin Qi nodded and said, "How much does Zhongguancun have a year's computer sales now?"

"Last year, it exceeded 1 billion, and this year it is growing rapidly, and it is estimated that the sales will be more than 2 billion!" said the tour guide excitedly.

"So many?" Lin Qi was stunned.

"Of course, more than 70% of the computers in China are now wholesaled from Zhongguancun!" said the tour guide, "In addition, 30% of Lenovo sells directly to other provinces through its own channels!"

At present, less than 5% of the computer sales share of the new venture electronics company is shipped in the domestic market, and most of it is sold by Lenovo's general agent. I have to say that Lenovo has done a good job in recent years, and the popularity rate of computers far exceeds that in history!

At least, so that the PC has no place in China, Lin Qi has to praise Liu Lenovo a few words. Perhaps, it is too difficult for Lenovo to engage in scientific research. However, from an agent's point of view, Lenovo now has a top-notch sales team.

Of course, in addition to Lenovo is a factor, the more important thing is the cost performance of Pangu computers.

Just imagine, even if it is a PC with an 8088 chip, the hard disk is less than 20MB, and the price is as high as 10,000 yuan when imported into the domestic market, and how many people in China can afford such an expensive thing in the 80s?

And now you can spend 2,000 yuan to buy a Pangu computer, and in addition, you can find a black and white TV to make do with a monitor. Its configuration and performance are by no means comparable to that of the 286!

The price and price are better than the PC, and the Pangu series of computers are naturally winning in China!

Of course, the reason why the market share of Pangu computers is not close to 100% is because there are still a large number of low-end learning computers with X8 chips on the market.

The internal structure of this low-end learning machine is very close to that of Xiaobawang, and most of the versions without hard disks can be called compatible machines of Xiaobawang. However, some X8 learning machines are equipped with 10~20MB hard disks, and this learning machine can also install an 8-bit version of the Pangu operating system.

Well, in fact, the new venture electronics company has not officially launched an 8-bit version of the Pangu operating system, this 8-bit version is purely a domestic copycat manufacturer's magic change, so that the 16-bit system can run on the 8-bit host. Of course, compatibility and performance, are miserable.

The system, which was originally very smooth on 16-bit and 32-bit machines, was barely transplanted to an 8-bit host, and the card made people want to smash the computer. Moreover, the screen refresh rate can only be 30 frames, and the resolution is only 320P!

However, the price of this kind of learning machine with hard disk is only 300~500 yuan, which is suitable for some beginners whose wallets are not too abundant.

In fact, if you really have the heart to learn technology, even if you use a Xiaobawang, you can also learn a lot of skills. If you don't have the heart to study, no matter how good the hardware configuration is, you will not achieve anything.