In mid-June, after Lin Qi got off the train at the station in Dongguan, he took a low-key ride in the vehicle arranged by Aika Electronics Company and arrived at the rest place. Of course, just an ordinary hotel without any special services.

Dongguan City, later generations have a variety of peach-colored legends, but in fact, Dongguan's main economy is still manufacturing.

The geographical location here is actually similar to that of Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other big cities, but compared to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it developed relatively late. Therefore, after the housing prices and wages in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places have risen, some low-end production capacity has been transferred to the nearest area with lower cost, and Dongguan has become one of the important targets for industrial transfer in Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

This is similar to the early days of reform and opening up, many low-end processing industries in Hong Kong have become unprofitable in Hong Kong, so they have been transferred to Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Because, Guangzhou is a relatively developed city in modern history, before the reform and opening up, it has also been holding the Canton Fair, decades of Canton Fair, so that businessmen, including Hong Kong businessmen, have a better understanding of Guangzhou, so many Hong Kong businessmen invested in the early days, and the first choice was not Shenzhen, but Guangzhou.

Shenzhen is across the river, many Hong Kong businessmen who have the conditions to Shenzhen to understand the situation, and gradually began to try to transfer production capacity to Shenzhen little by little, cheap rent, energy and labor costs, so that many Hong Kong businessmen advocate sweetness, Shenzhen has gradually become the largest export area of Hong Kong's industrial transfer, which is also the biggest engine for the development of Shenzhen in the early days.

Batteries, a product that is much more polluting than semiconductors, Lin Qi still refused to include it in the new entrepreneurial industrial park, but suggested that Aika Electronics Co., Ltd. set up a battery factory in Dongguan, which is not far from Shenzhen.

The project of up to 250 million Hong Kong dollars in the nickel-metal hydride rechargeable battery industry chain was thrown to Dongguan, and the local government was so excited that it almost fainted. Not to mention nickel-metal hydride batteries, it is acid and lead batteries, and Dongguan is also welcome.

Although Dongguan is not a special zone, it does not mean that it cannot be invested if it is not a special zone. Many coastal areas are not special zones, but they have also brought in a lot of capital. It's just that the policy conditions of the special zone are better and more attractive.

Aika smashed more than 200 million yuan in Dongguan, and the local government directly sent more than 6,000 acres of land for free, not to mention building a factory with more than 200 million yuan, that is, a factory with an output value of 20 billion yuan, such a large area is enough. This is the beginning of the reform and opening up, there is nothing in the country, only cheap to free industrial land, plus labor cost advantages to attract investment. In this way, most of the attracted are crooked melons and cracked dates.

For a poor city like Dongguan, the investment in the rechargeable battery industry with a certain technical content is like a surprise for a poor boy who won the lottery.

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There was a light rain in the sky.

Lin Qi and Rong Jian, under the leadership of the leaders of the local factory, stepped on the muddy water and walked into the factory with very poor conditions.

The project is located on the outskirts of the city, after all, the battery factory needs to emit a lot of pollution, and naturally it cannot be a densely populated city. However, with the settlement of the factory, the infrastructure gradually keeps up, it is expected that in another two or three years, there will not be much difference between here and the city, the future here is the city center, after all, the income of the battery factory, far more than the local people three times the salary level, high-income people gather, the future consumption level here will naturally develop rapidly, there are in various cities, so there will be, and it will be better. In this way, after a few years, what is not a city here?

At present, the battery factory of Aika Electronics in Dongguan has only completed the first phase of the project, which can create an annual output value of 1 billion yuan. The remaining two phases of the project will have an output value of 5 billion. In the third phase of the plant, the output value will be expanded to 10 billion yuan.

This production capacity scale, not to mention the current domestic one, is definitely a giant in the battery industry. Even in the international market, you can't find such a huge opponent.

You must know that although the invention of batteries has a history of more than 100 years, the scale of this market is not very large.

The mainstream battery output value is still disposable dry batteries and acid lead batteries. The technology of these two batteries, and the technology of the World War II period, although it cannot be said that there is no progress at all, but the progress is also extremely limited. Not only that, but the application of batteries is not as popular as in later generations, and is regarded as an indispensable and important technology.

Rechargeable batteries really gained a high level of capital attention, and it was after laptops began to gain popularity. The emergence of the smartphone market has consolidated the expectations of capital. But...... Breaking the expectations of capital is because of the sudden rise of electric vehicles!

Electric vehicles are not new, Edison's General Motors developed electric vehicles with rechargeable battery technology, but because of the slow, bulky and endurance problems of electric vehicles, they were quickly defeated by the convenient and fast Ford cars.

Later, General Motors, which was spun off from the GM department, merged a bunch of traditional car brands and also produced fuel vehicles instead of electric vehicles. But later BYD, Tesla and other companies rejuvenated electric vehicles. This is mainly due to the fact that lithium batteries have a larger capacity and, moreover, are faster. It can make the range of electric vehicles close to that of gasoline vehicles.

You must know that rechargeable batteries are by no means cheap, and the battery price of smartphones in the future market is also between tens of yuan and hundreds of yuan. Laptop and mobile phone batteries alone are worth more than 100 billion yuan a year.

The battery capacity required for a pure electric vehicle is equivalent to the battery capacity of tens of thousands of mobile phones. So, the sales of one million electric vehicles alone will be enough to match the smartphone battery market with an astonishing penetration rate.

The annual market sales of automobiles are nearly 100 million units, not to mention all the replacement of electric vehicles, even if only 10% are replaced by electric vehicles, at that time, the battery market will likely reach a scale of more than one trillion.

Lin Qi chose to let Aika Company do the battery industry, which is obviously to give high hopes. In this market, almost all of the high-end cakes in history have been occupied by Japanese and Korean manufacturers.

Although China's battery factories are also more competitive, for example, BYD not only makes batteries, because its battery production capacity has reached the world's first, although it is only cost-effective, and the market is obtained, but it is still favored by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

Of course, Berkshire only invested in BYD because of the lithium battery itself, and when BYD decided to make a car, Berkshire also felt that it was too bad luck to invest in such a non-serious company. But...... Soon BYD began to prove that this investment was the right one, because the purpose of its acquisition of the car company was to make electric vehicles.

BYD is still too late to make electric cars. Therefore, Lin Qi is ready to complete the layout of BYD many years in advance. Not only to make lithium batteries, but also to make electric vehicles in the future!

Because, in the market of fuel vehicles, China will have a painful future, and it will become an ATM for car giants in Japan, the United States and Europe. In particular, European automakers have made more profits in the Chinese market than in the rest of the world combined.

In the trillion-scale market, most of them are joint venture brands with an absolute advantage, and local independent brands cannot do it at all.

However, the later electric vehicle market, there has been some turnaround, China is not only the largest market for electric vehicles, BYD pure electric vehicle sales for many years in the world's first, and SAIC, JAC, BAIC and other companies of electric vehicle sales are also close to BYD.

China can find at least five electric car companies with such large sales as Tesla.

This also gave Lin Qi a little inspiration -- why do we want to make traditional fuel vehicles, why do we want to introduce traditional automobile companies? Shouldn't we call for subversion and clamor for traditional cars to withdraw from the stage of history?

"Battery production is very polluting, and we must pay attention to environmental protection. Lin Qi said to Rong Jian, "A gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way." Environmental pollution that can be avoided must be of the highest standard. Otherwise, if you want to deal with pollution in the future, the cost of environmental protection will be very high, and it will also bring a huge negative reputation to the company in the future. ”

"I'll take notice. Rong Jian nodded and said, "In terms of environmental protection, our major companies implement the highest standards, not only higher than domestic enterprises, but also the highest standards in the international market, but unless we do not engage in industrial production, no matter how high the standard is, it is also polluting." ”

On the one hand, it is the price of pollution, but the standard of living has improved, the per capita living standard has increased by a hundredfold, and the life expectancy has also increased. On the one hand, there is no industrialization, because the life expectancy is very low because of poverty, and the pollution is indeed gone, but the quality of life is lower and poorer.

On the one hand, he is clamoring for environmental protection, but he himself has never used more environmentally friendly walking, cycling, subway, bus and other ways to travel, most of which are high-horsepower sports cars. These people not only demand the elimination of polluting power generation methods, but also demand that the power supply be stable and not allow price increases. People who are not willing to bear the cost of environmental protection and want environmental protection are really in arrears of IQ.

Of course, just because there are many mentally retarded people in the environmental protection camp, we can't shout against environmental protection, because the more polluted, the more honorable.

In fact, some environmental protection is also for the sake of the future living environment of human beings, not only to produce and employment, to create better living conditions for the present, but also to take into account the future and sustainable development. In the production process, strict environmental protection standards can be implemented, even if the cost is a little more, as long as it can still create benefits, it can be implemented.