Chapter 533: Quantity, Not Quality
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After understanding that outsourcing was a trouble, Li Mingbao found a new trouble. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThat is, if the purchase of these equipment is really to use domestic equipment, then the previous idea will not become a reality at all. After all, the prices of China's industrial products in these days and months are completely different from those of foreign countries.
Although in fact, China's production cost of these things, and foreign good goods are not much different, although the labor cost is low, but the price of industrial products, is still relatively expensive, because China's current production resources, especially the price of industrial resources, is actually much more expensive than foreign countries, in this way, it directly offsets the advantage of labor costs, so that China's industrial products, in terms of price, are not more advantageous than foreign ones, and in terms of quality, it will be much worse. This is where primary industrial societies are most troublesome.
In those days, China's exports of industrial products seem to be cheaper than those of foreign products, although the quality is a little worse, but fortunately, they are cheap enough, and some people buy some of them. And this cheap price, in fact, is to make the state subsidy, export tax rebates, plus the value of the currency is lower than the dollar, this can have a little advantage.
But Li Mingbao may not be able to enjoy such an advantage in the cinema project, because a project like his cannot, for those products, not be exported, so Li Mingbao can't enjoy the tax rebate subsidy or something, and Li Mingbao can't enjoy the difference in exchange rate.
This is not Li Mingbao's conjecture, but a practical problem, anyway, this meat is rotten in the country, the country will naturally not have a cheap and not take advantage, and it is not easy to get such an order with a little content, then those domestic state-owned enterprises will definitely not reduce the price, otherwise how can they make money, if Li Mingbao pays dollars, it is okay, but the problem is that Li Mingbao's investment is planned for the country, that is to say, the implementation of this money is in the bank, not in every production plant, they can get, That is, the renminbi will definitely not be the US dollar, and the US dollar will not reach them at all, although in fact Li Mingbao pays the country US dollars, but you will not be able to negotiate terms with the mainland at all.
It stands to reason that such a thing would not have caused Li Mingbao trouble. However, although the price of domestic equipment is about the same as that of foreign countries, the equipment produced in China is just about the same as the price of the lowest foreign products.
In this way, the problem arises. Previously, Li Mingbao wanted to buy products from top brands, which are not only durable, maintain and warranty, but also top in price. And if this purchase order is put in China, although the actual price of the product is about the same as that of foreign countries, Li Mingbao will lose a little bit in this regard. But can Li Mingbao buy top-of-the-line equipment in China? This is obviously unrealistic, because there are simply no such conditions in the country for the production of top-of-the-line equipment. Their prices are the same as those of foreign countries, and they can only ensure the same price of low-level products, while intermediate and high-grade products are absolutely not produced in China, otherwise it is impossible for a department like CCTV not to use domestic products.
Since there are no mid-level products and high-end, even if Li Mingbao wants to spend money on equipment, he can't spend it. For equipment like sound and projection, the price gap between one level and the other, is actually huge. The price of two sets of low-level products may not be able to buy one set of medium-level products, and the price of three sets or even more of medium-level products cannot buy top-level products. The gap between them is quite large.
Originally, if it was to purchase foreign products, a set of top-level equipment might cost six or seven hundred thousand dollars. In this way, the equipment used in the 300 movie theaters occupies just the right amount of money. But it is mandatory to buy domestic equipment, such a set of equipment down, may not be able to spend 300,000 yuan, this is still the top product in China, absolutely one-stop treatment, which factory can eat such a set of equipment, they will have at least tens of thousands of profits.
It doesn't matter if the equipment is cheap, the key is that if all such equipment is used, it will cause a result, that is, Li Mingbao's money, just to build 300 movie theaters, it will not be exhausted. If you want to spend $300 million, there is only one way, and that is to build more movie theaters.
Li Mingbao wants to build more movie theaters, and even make the mainland like Hong Kong, where the United Cinema chain dominates the market, and there is no effort to make other cinema chains breathe. But Li Mingbao himself also understands that he doesn't have that ability, and he will dominate the entire movie theater market in China, and the consequence can only be to support himself to death, so what money will he make? All of them had to be lost, and Li Mingbao shuddered a little when he thought of such consequences.
"Lao Wang, if all domestic equipment is purchased, there will be a problem. My previous plan was to build 300 movie theaters, and if I purchased foreign equipment, I would have just spent the money. But if you purchase domestic equipment, just 300 movie theaters, it will not be enough to see it at all, and it is impossible to spend all the money no matter how you spend it. This is a difficult problem. Li Mingbao was worried that he would occupy more share of the cinema chain and would encounter a lot of trouble in the future, so he didn't want to get more cinemas out at all, but if this problem was not solved, then his money would not be spent at all, so he had to ask Lao Wang for help and ask Lao Wang to think of a way for him.
But Li Mingbao's thoughts, where can Lao Wang understand, after hearing that Li Mingbao is not a problem, Lao Wang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "The money can't be spent?" How can it be. I said, Boss Li, why do you think you have to build only 300 movie theaters? Can't you just get a little more movie out? With such a big investment as yours, you can get more movie theaters out, and it can also solve the dilemma of the small number of movie theaters in my country.
What our country needs now is not a cinema with top-notch effects, but a cinema that needs to satisfy the entertainment life of the broad masses of the people. According to me, an investment like yours to build a movie theater in China is not only suitable for a thousand movie theaters. If you're on a budget, it's not a problem to build 2,000 movie theaters. Isn't that much better than getting 300 movie theaters out of the theater? What we want now is quantity, where can we control so much quality, it's good to have movies to watch, compared to watching movies in the open air, being able to watch movies in the cinema is already a matter of enjoyment, not so much exquisite. ”
"How much? Two thousand, Lao Wang, are you kidding? If I get 2,000 movie theaters out, I won't have enough money to buy equipment, so where will I have the money to build a movie theater? I know that prices on the mainland are not high, but they are not so low, right? If there are 2,000 movie theaters, isn't it the cost of each movie theater to be 300,000 yuan? How can a movie theater be so cheap. Li Mingbao was really speechless for the data that Lao Wang said.
Hearing Li Mingbao's words, Lao Wang said very seriously: "Do you think 300,000 yuan is less? Maybe in the eyes of Boss Li, this money is very small, but in our country, 300,000 is not a small amount, let alone building a small movie theater, even if it is to build a building, 300,000 is absolutely enough. So Boss Li, don't underestimate the purchasing power of 300,000 yuan. ”
"I didn't underestimate the purchasing power of the RMB, mainly 300,000 RMB, in my opinion, it is just to be able to buy a set of equipment, and build a cinema, where is the money. You know, the cinema I want to build is not an old-fashioned cinema, but a new type of cinema like Hong Kong, a cinema will have at least two screening halls, plus the construction of the cinema, 1 million yuan can make a cinema, I am already very satisfied, at most I can expand to 600 cinemas, no more, the money is not enough. Li Mingbao said.
"Who told you that 300,000 yuan can buy a set of equipment? I've never seen such expensive projection equipment. Is it that you use such expensive projection equipment in Hong Kong? Lao Wang was shocked when he heard the price Li Mingbao said.
"Of course, we don't use 300,000 yuan of equipment in Hong Kong, we use 600,000 US dollars of equipment, that equipment is absolutely top-notch, in this cost, even if it is a joint cinema line, only the leading cinema chain will be equipped, and the general cinema basically uses 300,000 US dollars of equipment. That's why I said before that the price of the equipment is the big one, is the equipment in the mainland very cheap? At this time, Li Mingbao asked rhetorically.
If Lao Wang knew that there was a term called Tuhao in later generations, then now Lao Wang would definitely not mind putting such a title on Li Mingbao's head. With a huge sum of 600,000 US dollars, Li Mingbao and his bosses just wanted to buy a projection equipment, which is the style of a local tyrant.
But Lao Wang is now powerless to complain: "Boss Li, the equipment in China really doesn't need so much money, let alone 300,000 yuan, even if it is 30,000 yuan, it may not be able to use it." The most expensive projector doesn't cost 10,000 yuan, and the audio equipment, plus other equipment, doesn't cost 20,000 yuan in total. The equipment made of 30,000 yuan is definitely enough to show movies, and this is still a relatively good equipment commonly used in domestic movie theaters, no matter how good the equipment is, it is basically very little, and it will not be used in ordinary movie theaters, so even if it is four screening halls, the cost of equipment is only 120,000 yuan. To build a movie theater, carefully calculated, 180,000 yuan is definitely enough, this is still a two-story building, and it must be very large, like ordinary people to build a bungalow, it will cost more than 1,000 yuan. ”
Hearing Lao Wang's words, Li Mingbao immediately understood that he was making a joke. He really didn't know about the equipment situation in the mainland in those years, and originally thought that the equipment produced in the mainland must be the lowest level of equipment. But after hearing Lao Wang's words, Li Mingbao understood that his so-called low-level equipment, compared with the equipment on the mainland, was high-end.
For Li Mingbao, the equipment that can be produced on the mainland is actually a toy, and its grade may be equivalent to a roadside toy, and the big horn in later generations is basically a concept. 30,000 yuan of equipment, where is this professional equipment, this is clearly general equipment. Using such equipment to screen movies and install them in movie theaters, that effect, Li Mingbao really wanted to vomit blood.
At this time, Li Mingbao also completely understood what Lao Wang meant by the so-called quantity rather than quality. This cliff is not a movie theater market, the kind of movie theater that Lao Wang said, and the movie theater he said, are not in the same dimension at all. The movie theater that Lao Wang understands is simply to change the open-air projection team to a house with seats, and the seats will definitely not be high-end sofas, but rows of wooden benches, and they are also the kind of stools that can be carried by many people.
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