However, Li Xuan's pace of investment in the mainland is very cautious, and so far there is no actual move except for the investment in the nature of playing tickets, and the real estate company of his roommate Lin Yuhao.

He had many worries in his heart. On the one hand, Dongfang Electronics' main market is in the United States, don't look at the Sino-US relations have begun to thaw, and the two sides have officially established diplomatic relations, but the mutual estrangement is actually very deep. If Dongfang Electronics is too active, it is likely to be labeled as "pro-communist", which will have a fatal impact on the company's development of the US market.

On the other hand, the tone of reform and opening up in the hinterland has not yet been truly clear, and the development of the SEZs is very fast, but the controversy has also been very great, and conservatives have denounced the SEZs as "new leases."

Dongfang Electronics invests at this time, and it is easy to fall into the whirlpool of domestic reform and conservatism, the struggle between the two forces. In his previous life, he was just a technician, but he was not as well-connected as old businessmen such as Li Jiacheng and Huo Yingdong, and he was good at dancing with long sleeves.

So Li Xuan has been waiting, but this cocktail party made Li Xuan see the opportunity to cooperate. Compared with large-scale industrial investment, academic research cooperation is of greater significance to DFE. Dongfang Electronics' own limited strength and the attributes of foreign enterprises make it impossible for it to compete calmly with those local electronics giants in American universities.

But in the hinterland, it is different, this is an uncultivated ** land. The Chinese are by no means worse than the Westerners. It is only because of special historical reasons that Chinese universities have been out of touch with the latest scientific research directions in the past ten years.

In addition, the domestic economy is relatively backward, and the government's investment in scientific research is stretched. This makes Chinese universities, even if they have the heart to catch up, but they are suffering from the lack of financial and equipment support, and can only sigh with admiration.

Li Xuan suddenly had an idea that through the two semi-academic and semi-commercial platforms of Dongfang Electronics and Dongfang Semiconductor, Dongfang Electronics would provide financial support and build a bridge of cooperation and exchange with mainland universities in the name of the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

After putting on the cloak of international academic exchanges, Dongfang Electronics will be much less constrained by the system when it cooperates with domestic universities. Otherwise, if we cooperate on a project, we will argue about the issue of surname capital or surname, and scientific research work will not be carried out at all.

Wang Jiagang conveyed Li Xuan's invitation at the reception to the leaders of the delegation, who was led by a vice minister of the Ministry of Education surnamed Wang. Minister Wang readily agreed, and the next day he sent someone to call Dongfang Electronics Company to discuss matters related to the visit.

"Minister Wang, principals, please look here! Before you visited our company's production department, now we have entered the R&D department of Dongfang Electronics!" Li Xuan pointed to an arcade machine that had already been placed in the display area and said, "We Dongfang Electronics started with arcade games, and this arcade machine is a new game we are developing now!"

As soon as Li Xuan finished speaking, a technician next to him immediately walked to the arcade machine and began to demonstrate how to operate the game console. This is a half-finished arcade machine from Mario Bros., and the background framework of the game has been formed, but when the technician controls the protagonist to do a series of actions such as jumping, forward, and backward, there will be some subtle stutters from time to time.

"The cartoon background screen on the display screen is actually the display result of the CPU in the game console, after a large number of jù calculations. As you can see, there will be stuttering from time to time on the screen just now, which affects the smoothness of the game. This requires our technicians to continue to make further improvements to the game's algorithm!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

This is the first time that Mario Bros. has been shown to people outside the company. Li Xuan believed that these people in the principal's delegation had no idea what creative plagiarism was, and if colleagues from game companies came to visit, these things would definitely be guarded as company secrets.

"Is there really a market for this kind of game console, and at what price can it be sold?" asked one of the visitors, saying that the game console is still a very new and unfamiliar thing to these principals in the mainland.

Among the mainland delegation, people like President Wang Jiagang, who studied in Guangdong in his early years and can speak fluent Cantonese, are only a small number after all, and most of the others cannot understand Cantonese. Among the executives of Dongfang Electronics, only Li Xuan and He Guoyuan, who are studying in Taiwan, can speak fluent Mandarin, so they are responsible for accompanying and explaining the entire reception process.

Li Xuan nodded at He Guoyuan next to him, so He Guoyuan took over the words: "You also saw it when you visited our arcade factory before, and all the workers are very busy. Although our factory has exploded its production capacity to the maximum, it is still too late to meet the demand for a large number of orders, and even has to outsource some orders to other factories for production! Now our company sells about 20,000 game consoles every month, and the monthly sales revenue is more than 30 million US dollars!"

The number quoted by He Guoyuan made everyone gasp, and the sales revenue of 100 million yuan per month was 100 million yuan! The eyes of everyone looking at this arcade machine were suddenly different. It's as if the frame of this console is not made of plastic sheets, but inlaid with gold.

He Guoyuan took a gameboy handheld game console handed over by the assistant and began to introduce: "This is another game console developed by our company, which is small and suitable for carrying, we call him a handheld game machine gameboy!"

This game console has been released in Japan and Hong Kong not long ago, and the price in Japan is 5,000 yen, and the price in Hong Kong is 100 Hong Kong dollars, and the sales momentum is also very good, and more than 10,000 units can be sold every day in Japan alone!"

The small gifts prepared by Dongfang Electronics Company for the principals who came to visit were a beautifully packaged Gameboy game console and a full set of game cards for each person.

After that, Li Xuan guided everyone to visit other R&D departments.

"The future development of our company cannot be limited to the development of the game industry! Look at this computer, this is a workstation computer that our company has just developed for internal use!"

Li Xuan pointed to a computer in a position in the office and said, "This computer is more powerful than ordinary personal computers, and it uses Motorola's latest 6 megahertz MC68000 processor! This computer is also equipped with the company's self-designed CAD development software to assist engineers in circuit design and other work!"

In fact, this workstation computer developed by Dongfang Electronics is still very immature in design, the computing performance is not ideal, the cost is high, and the Unix operating system developed by the supporting system is not running smoothly, and it is far from reaching the standard that can be introduced to the market. As a result, Dongfang Electronics still needs to purchase a large number of DEC company's VAX series minicomputers for technical development tools.

But Li Xuan is not discouraged, at least Dongfang Electronics has taken the first step in independent research and development, with continuous capital investment, one by one difficulties to overcome, new products will always have a mature technology one day.

The whole visit process was very smooth, since learning that this is a company with monthly sales of more than 100 million yuan, the whole delegation's view of Dongfang Electronics has changed all of a sudden. In the past, everyone thought that game consoles were just toys for children to play with, and they were not a big industry, but now no one dares to take them lightly.

There are several electronics enterprises in China that can be compared with Dongfang Electronics in terms of output value? Not to mention that they earn a lot of real money from Western countries.