Chapter 343: Mostek
Looking at the beauties in the distance, Li Xuan did not rush to get up and entangle, which would only deepen the vigilance of others. He is ready to directly ask Asia Pictures to send He Qing an audition invitation, as long as he can attract people to Hong Kong, there will naturally be opportunities to slowly approach.
I don't know if this chance encounter will bear fruit in the future, but at least it made Li Xuan reap a good mood for an afternoon!
Back at the hotel, Li Xuan began to think about meeting with Deng Lao tomorrow! On his last trip to Beijing, he had already met Deng Lao. But that time he was received by a group with other members of the Hong Kong delegation, when he was still a fledgling and had not been able to say a few words to Mr. Deng.
But now Li Xuan is the richest man in the world, and he has a series of new titles such as a non-official member of the Hong Kong Executive Council and the chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. Whether in Hong Kong or around the world, his influence is not the same as it was a year and a half ago.
If the last time we met, Li Xuan was just a junior, but his current status is already qualified to talk to characters like Deng Lao on an equal footing. This is something that Li Xuan never dared to imagine in his previous life.
It was Deng Lao who first proposed the establishment of the Shenhai Special Economic Zone, and the newborn son of the Special Economic Zone placed a lot of ardent expectations on him, so he wanted to come and take a look in person. After arriving in Shenhai City at noon, he only took a short break and began to listen to the work reports of the Shenhai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, in the conference room on the second floor of the welcome hall of the Municipal Party Committee, the soft sunlight of early spring shone into the room with white gauze, but the atmosphere in the venue was very warm. Liang Xiang, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, introduced the members of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee sitting in the front row to Deng Lao one by one. Deng Lao took the list and sat down one by one, and kindly asked them where they were from. Where did you work.
Deng Lao's amiability suddenly narrowed the distance between him and the vast number of cadres in Shenhai City. For the last year. The debate revolves around whether or not to run a special zone, and whether it is right or wrong to run a special zone. The struggle is intensifying from the central to the local level. How is the SEZ doing? Deng Lao decided to go south to take a look at it himself.
In the face of the fierce collision of public opinion within the party, the SAR government and cadres are also under tremendous mental pressure. But today, everyone finally has the opportunity to unload their burdens and speak their minds freely! Liang Xiang is already an old man in his 60s, but he is still in good spirits and full of passion for his work.
He briefed Deng Lao in detail on the current development of the Shenhai Special Zone and the practical difficulties it is facing. The total industrial and agricultural output value of Shenhai City in 1983, which has just been summed up, doubled compared with 1982. This is a tenfold increase from 1979, before the establishment of the Special Economic Zone. A series of vivid and concrete figures showed the participants the strong vitality of this newly rising city in the past three or four years!
The presentation was originally planned to last for one hour, but unconsciously extended to an hour and a half as everyone spoke freely. Because at 4:50 p.m., Deng Lao had to attend the next trip, and the meeting came to an end.
After that, Deng Lao, accompanied by the main person in charge of the Shenhai Municipal Party Committee, went to the newly planned Electronics Industry Development Zone in Luohu District. Back a year ago. When the Ministry of Electronics Industry held a seminar on semiconductor industry planning, the then Minister of Electronics proposed to the representatives of Dongfang Electronics, who had come to the meeting, that they hoped to build the first digital semiconductor wafer factory in China with the help of the Eastern Group.
Li Xuan took advantage of the previous merger and acquisition of RCA. And the opportunity to spend dollars in Washington was also put together for public relations on the construction of a digital chip fab for Chinese mainland.
Dongfang Electronics has made a series of political obstacles in the United States clear in advance. And a week ago. The current prime minister happened to accept the invitation of US President Donald Reagan to pay an official visit to the United States. Premier Zhao also became the first prime minister to visit the United States since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Premier Zhou has visited New York several times before. But that was to attend various United Nations meetings, and there was no official visit to the United States. Taking advantage of the US government's efforts to welcome the first executive head of New China to visit the United States. And try to create a friendly atmosphere between China and the United States.
In his meeting with President Reagan, Premier Cho formally expressed the hope that the United States would ease restrictions on technology exports to China, citing semiconductor technology as an example. As a result, the matter led by the Eastern Bloc to assist China in building a digital chip factory was officially approved by the US government.
Of course, although Dongfang Electronics took the lead in this matter, Li Xuan also invited a powerful ally, the Mostek Company, when lobbying the US government. It was the largest memory chip manufacturing company in the United States in the late seventies, and at its peak, it once held 85% of the world's DRAM chip market share.
However, with the price strangulation war launched by Japanese semiconductor companies in the field of memory chips in recent years, the U.S. semiconductor industry is full of mourning, and the most severely affected is Mostek Company. In the last two years, Mostek has been forced to close three of its fabs in the face of declining sales.
At this time, Dongfang Electronics suddenly told it that it had an excellent opportunity to make extra money, as long as it helped the Chinese government to build a digital semiconductor project, and slightly raised the price on the quotation, it could easily make tens of millions of dollars in profits.
Mostek, which was in the midst of continuous losses, immediately moved and began to lobby the US government together with the Eastern Bloc. And after Mostek took over the banner, the Eastern Bloc began to retreat into the background.
It is Mostek that is responsible for providing technical support to China, and the Eastern Bloc is ostensibly not involved. It's just that this wafer factory, which was finally located in the deep-sea special zone, all the production equipment was purchased by a company called LamResearch.
And today is the day when the foundation stone of the factory of Deep-Sea Microelectronics is laid. In order to show his support for high-tech industrial technology, he personally attended the groundbreaking ceremony of the plant of Shenhai Microelectronics. Deep-sea microelectronics adopts 3-inch wafer and 5-micron process technology. Although this is already a technology that is being phased out in the world, it is still an unprecedented technological breakthrough for the relevant mainland authorities.
Among the people involved in shoveling the foundation stone for the factory were Lin Jieping, CEO of LamResearch, and the founder and CEO of Mostek. This also shows from the side how bad Mostek's current situation is.
In his previous life, Li Xuan was not familiar with this Mostek company, so it can be predicted that this company will eventually be in the fierce industrial competition. In fact, similar to Mostek, Intel has been having a hard time lately.
However, Intel is Li Xuan's competitor, and Li Xuan is obviously not ready to let Intel make this money, and that is an act of capital rivalry! Intel's first reduced instruction set, the RISC-1 processor, will be on the market in a few months, and it is very likely that there will be a dragon and tiger battle with the products of the Oriental Research Institute in the future! (To be continued......