Dongfang Electronics' game development department has also undergone a lot of changes, with some new talents being recruited and some of the original staff leaving, and not everyone is suitable for game development.

In Li Xuan's view, those who are qualified to stay should at least be interested in game development, and if you are repulsed by this work, then joining the R&D team will only hold everyone back. Secondly, you have to have some ideas of your own, the game industry will always be a place where creativity is king, if you will always only do some things that others tell you to do well, then you will only be a dispensable role at the bottom for the rest of your life.

After some adjustments, Li Xuan established a game development department on the basis of the original software development department. The new game development department is temporarily divided into two groups, the first group continues to be responsible for the follow-up development of Hong Kong Block and Tank Wars, and the second group is independent by Li Xuan and officially starts the development of "Mario Bros."

The original hardware development department has also experienced recruitment, and the number of people has exceeded 20. In addition to continuing to improve the performance of the T-1 general-purpose arcade board, Li Xuan also assigned a new task.

The T-1 arcade board was previously developed for Tank Wars and Hong Kong Cube, using the MOS6502 processor as the CPU. Li Xuan took the first letter of the English word "tank" for the tank.

After the project planning meeting for the new game "Mario", Li Xuan returned to his office. In the past few days, he has not been idle for a moment, and there are countless things waiting for him every day.

Li Xuan sat for a while, rested for a while, and then picked up another Wen Jiàn folder on the table, which contained the information just sent by the headhunting company, and they had already found several suitable candidates for the helm of Dongfang Electronics.

Li Xuan had already looked at it carefully, and the one he picked out and put on the top was Han Peng, who had just met last night. Since the information of these people was sent to Li Xuan's desk by the headhunting company for him to choose, they are all people who have a certain intention and can be asked to talk about it slowly and slowly. Li Xuan finally understood why Han Peng came up to know him last night.

He smiled lightly and recalled the scene when the two first met last night, and the impression left by the other party was not bad.

"Hey, is it Senior Han, I'm Li Xuan from Dongfang Electronics, I don't know if you have time, I want to invite you to afternoon tea." Okay, three o'clock in the afternoon, the Peninsula thelobby, we'll see you there!"

The two sides tacitly finished talking on the phone.

As the party who invited him, Li Xuan came to the Peninsula Hotel a quarter of an hour early, and he had already booked his place in advance. The Peninsula Lobby is one of Hong Kong's most famous places for afternoon tea, and has been known as the "Filmmaker's Lounge" since the 50s, with many movie stars being frequent here.

"Li Shao, I didn't expect us to meet again so soon!" Han Peng no longer called him a junior like he did last night.

"Senior, you can just call me vincent!" Li Xuan smiled, and then he didn't detour too much, and said straight to the point, "I founded Dongfang Electronic Technology Company more than three months ago. A month ago, two arcade games developed by the company were a huge success in the American market. Dongfang Electronics has rapidly expanded from a small R&D company with less than 20 employees to a medium-sized electronics company with nearly 500 employees.

I've never had any experience managing a large company, and I could barely handle it when I first managed about 20 people, but I couldn't manage 100 people. I urgently need to invite a person with relevant experience to take the helm for me, and the headhunter recommended you as a senior!"

Han Peng looked at the young junior sitting across from him, and suddenly showed a smile, "Vincent, what do you think of Hong Kong's electronics manufacturing industry?"

Although there are hundreds of electronics factories in Hong Kong, there are very few with more than 100 employees, and most of them are engaged in the assembly and production of radios, flashlights, electronic watches, and calculators, and the core components are all imported!" Li Xuan was not unprepared, and said eloquently.

"Vincent, you're right, the largest and most technologically powerful in Hong Kong is probably Ampere Fanduite, which I work for now, and its factory in Hong Kong mainly produces tapes. Among the Chinese-funded electronics factories, there are still some technical contents, including Wang's, Lu's, Yili, VTech and Dechang.

Among them, Wang's and Yili mainly produce circuit boards, Lu's produces televisions, VTech manufactures electronic toys and learning machines, and Johnson manufactures electric motors. Han Peng nodded and said, "Now most of the electronics factories in Hong Kong have only a few dozen people, relying on low labor costs, doing OEM for European, American and Japanese manufacturers, and earning a little hard-earned money." Their principle is that the boat is small and good to turn around, what to make money and do what, but it is impossible to become bigger and stronger. ”

"In fact, Dongfang Electronics has the ambition to become bigger and stronger, but one of the problems encountered now is the lack of technical talents!" Li Xuan said with a sigh.

"HKU has only been recruiting electronics students for 15 years, initially only 20 students a year, but now it has expanded to about 80 students. CUHK has only been established for 10 years since the establishment of the Department of Electronics, and there are also some higher diploma programmes in electronics offered by tertiary colleges! Hong Kong's talent pool is very insufficient, and most of the school's curriculum is biased towards theory, and practical technical talents are even rarer!" Han Peng explained.

"Although Hong Kong's electronics industry has developed rapidly in recent years, it has become the second largest economic pillar in Hong Kong after the textile industry. However, compared with textile, garment and plastic flowers, the electronics industry has a higher technical threshold, and enterprises need supporting support from the government in terms of policies and education in addition to their own development.

Unfortunately, the Hong Kong authorities have been pursuing a policy of active non-intervention, distancing themselves from industry and not seeing a timely policy of support**. Although there are industrial support agencies such as the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the Productivity Council under the Hong Kong Government.

However, the former mainly supports the textile industry and focuses on macro policies such as international trade quota negotiations. As for the Productivity Council, although it has an electronics industry research department, the series of policies implemented by the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) are mere formalities and have little practical effect for electronics manufacturers.

In contrast, governments in other regions have spared no effort in supporting the electronics industry. Recently, I heard that the Singapore government is negotiating with IBM to provide tax incentives for IBM to open a new factory in Singapore, so as to promote the transfer of electronic technology. ”

Han Peng took a sip of fragrant coffee before continuing: "Actually, I admire you very much, you have the courage to innovate and develop your own video game console. It can become an instant hit in just three months, which is a very inspirational and legendary business story!

When I was the same age as you, I was still thinking about how to chase beautiful girls, and I didn't think about starting my own business at all. Even though I have passed the age of my establishment, I only think about one day I can become the CEO of the company, and I never think of going out on my own!"