The people who are going to leave have been sent away, and the people who should have been dotted have also been dotted. Even Jia Houwei, director of the Department of Commerce, who was interested in Intel, was arranged by Zhou Shuo to have an interview with Steve.

As for what they can talk about, it depends on Jia Houwei's ability. It is impossible for Intel to build a front-end production line for chips now, but it still has the intention of building a back-end packaging line.

Since 1996, the domestic home computer market has also become larger and larger. In particular, the Windows operating system has been launched, and the ease of use of computers has been greatly improved. The mainland market is developing rapidly, and Intel must also pay attention to it.

In later generations, Intel was able to build a 65nm front-end production line in Dagang, which in itself shows that the conditions in Bohai Province are not bad. In this life, we started with the back-end packaging line, and it didn't take 2007, Zhou Shuo thought that if Intel didn't come around 2000, he would also build a top wafer factory in Bohai Province.

After all, Huajing is too far away from Xiucheng and too far away from Fanhan Group.

The monocrystalline silicon ingots produced by the Panhan monocrystalline silicon plant are transported from Xiucheng on the shore of Bohai Bay in Northeast China to Wuxi, and then transported back to Xiucheng after processing. This back and forth is that China has made a round trip from north to south, and the freight has increased! Therefore, this fab is to be built after all.

Of course, this is a later story, the leaders are gone, the business people are gone, and the reporters are also leaving with the "materials" issued by the Panhan Group.

But Hu Lao stayed.

not only stayed, but also asked Zhou Shuo to accompany him around the factory area of Panhan Optical Manufacturing Company.

Is the time of the Minister of Electronics Industry such a waste? Is it really idle when people are very idle?

Therefore, Zhou Shuo's praise of Hu Lao did not look proud at all. Instead, he said cautiously: "Hu Lao also knows." Our country's industrial system is backward. Although we at Panhan Group got a Nikon production line, we are now ahead of the curve. But the potential for subsequent development. But it is far less powerful than the United States, Japan and Europe! ”

"Hehe, you!"

What kind of person is Hu Lao. I have been in the officialdom for a few times all my life, and I don't know Zhou Shuo's careful thoughts. smiled and said disapprerovingly: "The country also knows that it is not easy for Fanhan Group to maintain this leading momentum, so it will not leave you alone." ”

"Oh!" Zhou Shuo's eyes lit up, and he nodded: "With the support of the state, we have the confidence to compete with foreign large enterprises!" I just don't know, is there any policy support? ”

"Well, I'll start with something."

Hu Lao did not directly uncover the mystery, but said another thing: "I heard. Sharp has been in contact with you and hopes to build a 4.5 generation LCD panel production line in a joint venture? ”

Zhou Shuo did not hesitate, and simply nodded: "That's right, it was Yuan Pingsuke, the head of Sharp's LCD Division, who came to talk about it personally." But I didn't agree, little Japan harbored evil intentions. ”

"Can you elaborate on that?" Hu Lao seemed to be very interested, and asked seriously: "Sharp is currently the world's highest LCD technology company, what can we have to let them deceive?" ”

Zhou Shuo said: "Of course there is, and it is very important." That's opportunity and hope! ”

"Opportunity, and hope?" Hu Lao was stunned. How to deceive this thing, how to lose it? Even if there is any practical value in such a retreat as opportunity and hope?

The Chinese have always advocated that hearing is false and seeing is believing. If you don't really get the resources in your own hands, you won't be your own. Down-to-earth and down-to-earth development is true. The so-called opportunities and hopes are in Hu Lao's mind. It's basically about taking shortcuts and being ambitious.

"Sharp means that we will license the liquid crystal patents we have accumulated to joint ventures, but we will be required to patent our own driver ICs and IPS. The entire transfer to the joint venture. ”

Although Hu Lao didn't agree with Zhou Shuo's somewhat ethereal statement before, he listened to the voice at this time. Naturally, you know what kind of calculation Sharp is playing.

"Sharp wants to get these two patents in his hands, cutting off the possibility that other manufacturers can also obtain these two patents." In Hu Lao's words, he pointed out Sharp's purpose.

But even so, the joint venture has been granted a patent for the production of liquid crystal technology. With the support of Sharp, it is not too much of a loss to go directly to a 4.5 generation production line. ”

"Loss." Zhou Shuo did not bend to flatter because of Hu Lao's identity, but said bluntly: "Don't look at the fact that I only have two patents on my side, but they have solved the key obstacles to the promotion of liquid crystal displays, and most of Sharp's patents are outdated or unimportant." Liquid crystal technology has a history of more than half a century, and many basic patents have passed the protection period. Otherwise, Panasonic, Toshiba, NEC, ...... It all depends on Sharp's face. ”

The scholar in Hu Lao's body became angry, and debated with Zhou Shuo: "But after all, there is a complete set of techniques, which is easier and safer than us studying it from scratch." At most, the introduction of technology will lose some of the market, and when the technology develops, we can still fight for it back. ”

What Hu Lao said is the famous idea of changing the market for technology, the market first let foreign companies take over, but the introduction of technology to compete with foreigners, relying on local advantages and then defeat them. Even if it doesn't defeat foreign capital, after all, foreign capital is setting up factories on Chinese soil and employing Chinese workers, which is actually no different from Chinese enterprises.

To say that this idea was quite marketable at the time. In addition to making up for the lack of domestic capital, China is so keen to introduce foreign capital, but also wants to make up for the reality of domestic technological backwardness.

But within ten years, this idea went bankrupt. It turns out that the market for technology is wishful thinking. The end result is that most of the market is lost, but the technology is not learned. Foreign capital is not stupid, who will train competitors for themselves? Even if people transfer technology to you, it is not to cultivate your technical strength, but to stifle your scientific research ability.

"What Hu Lao said is right, and I am confident that I will eventually regain the market from Sharp." Of course, Zhou Shuo would not discuss this topic with Hu Lao, and it was irrational to try to challenge the mainstream view at the time. Only facts are the best footnotes, and it's best not to try to overturn someone else's ingrained beliefs before they happen.

"But Sharp will not help us build an industrial chain of liquid crystals, but will treat the joint venture as a production and integration site. Think about it, even if we have mastered the production technology of LCD panels, but what about ITO conductive glass? What about substrate glass? What about backlit panels? What about LED light sources? What about liquid crystal materials? What about filters and astigmatism? ”

Zhou Shuo spread his hands, looked at Hu Lao helplessly and said: "The Japanese will not help us establish these parts system, and when the supply power is in the hands of the Japanese, don't you still have to look at people's faces?" ”

"This ......" Hu Lao was speechless for a while, thinking that there was really such a possibility. At present, many similar projects in China have actually become the assembly workshop of the joint venture object. Foreign capital puts the most unskilled and highest-demand manpower jobs in China, and then transports semi-finished products to assemble them, and directly occupies the Chinese market.

For such "joint venture" products, the state will also lose a large amount of import tariffs, as well as various policies and tax exemptions.

Hu Lao would not avoid this question, so he had to nod in agreement.

Zhou Shuo saw that Hu Lao nodded, and his heart was encouraged, and he made persistent efforts: "What's more, I also suspect that Sharp has no sincerity in the joint venture at all, and just hopes to take away the patents in our hands." ”

Hu Lao was stunned and said in surprise: "How is this possible?" ”

"Of course it is!" Zhou Shuo said seriously: "The emergence of new technologies will inevitably lead to market turmoil, Sharp just invested in a 4th generation line last year, with a total investment of 500 million US dollars!" Is it possible to turn around and want to invest in a more advanced 4.5 generation line in China? ”

"And please pay attention to Mr. Hu, Sharp's current 4th generation line is an old-fashioned production line. In order to survive the LCD panels of IPS technology, one-third of the production equipment must be replaced. ”

Zhou Shuo only said this, and Hu Lao was immediately shocked.

The drum doesn't need a heavy hammer, it's still the same sentence, Hu Lao doesn't look old, but he is by no means a stupid bureaucrat. I didn't expect it before, but it can only be said that it is a limitation of history, not a lack of IQ. As soon as Zhou Shuo said this, he immediately understood what Sharp was thinking.

The investment in the 4th generation line has not been earned, and you will scrap one-third of the equipment for your two technologies.

No, this is Sharp's delaying tactic. One, it may be to get through guò investment and delay the progress of the Jinglong plan. Second, a more insidious point is to buy time for its own development of similar technologies.

And when considering the greedy habits of the capitalists, all the examples of the past prove that things should be developed in the worst way possible.

This Sharp, it must be a bad person!

"I see!" Hu Lao was also a little angry, and then said with some concern: "But now Sharp has found the Shimen Glass Shell Factory in Shimen City, the capital of Zhili Province, and has also put forward a joint venture request. The Shimen glass shell factory itself has the ability to produce low-end TN LCD screen glass......"

Thinking of this, Hu Lao didn't care about talking to Zhou Shuo anymore, frowned and turned around: "No, I want to hurry up and stop this joint venture request!" ”

"Hu Lao!"

Zhou Shuo hurriedly stopped him, hesitated for a moment and said, "I have a mention, can you think about it?" ”

Hu Lao stopped his hurried footsteps, but he was still a little anxious and said: "If you have anything to say, just say it, the application for the joint venture was on my desk before it came, and I have to go back quickly." ”

"I mean, can you not stop Sharp's joint venture request?" (To be continued......)