Chairman Liu Siwei took the time just right, and just after signing the contract with the new team members headed by Wu Jinhua under the witness of the group's chief legal counsel and Rong Hanzhong's royal barrister, he took his eldest sister Zhang Hui and Xiao Jiahui back from Australia, the last stop of the trip.

At the same time, Ding Wenming, who is about to become a father, also resigned from the position of general manager of NB Electronics, and on behalf of Zhang Bing, Wu Xiaozhu, Wu Xiaojun, Wu Xiaolian, Li Xiaoshan and other major shareholders of NB Electrician, he came to the Hong Kong headquarters to serve as the director and vice president of NB Electric Group, and as the agent of the articles of association, he is fully responsible for the group's investment department and handles all domestic and foreign business related to financial speculation.

"This room is yours, but it doesn't look like you have much chance to live in."

The third floor was lively all of a sudden, and Zhang Hui just put aside a few boxes that had to be checked by air because of overweight, and he was busy arranging Ding Wenming's accommodation.

My wife is still two and a half months away, and I really can't stay outside every day, Ding Wenming put down his luggage and laughed self-deprecatingly: "My belly is big, and my temper is also big, it's really not good if I don't go back." ”

Zhang Hui glanced back at him and said angrily: "Dizziness and fatigue, loss of appetite, vomiting in the morning, seeing greasy and nauseous, is it easy to conceive in October?" has a big belly every day, it's really the most uncomfortable time, and you still talk cool things, how can you be a husband like this? ”

Xia Yao came out of the kitchen with breakfast, Ding Wenming didn't want to arouse the public anger of the two female compatriots, and hurriedly explained: "Pregnancy reaction, I understand, so let her do everything, how dare you make her angry." ”

"That's pretty much it."

You have to be careful at home, and you have to be re-educated when you come to Hong Kong. Liu Siwei can understand his feelings. Pulled out a chair and said, "It's time to eat." They all eat, and after eating, they all go to work. ”

The adults are fine, Xiao Jiahui often hasn't turned upside down, and is sleeping in the room, Xia Yao hurriedly took the door with him, for fear that the little guy would be woken up.

The charter picked up the rice bowl and said casually: "Sister, Director Liang helped me make an appointment with a real estate agent. Later, you and Xia Yao will go to have a look. ”

Zhang Hui was stunned and asked, "You two want to buy a house in Hong Kong?" ”

"It's for you," he said, taking a sip of porridge and smiling, "It's a dowry for you, maybe it's a little late, and you won't be angry." ”

"You take it seriously," Zhang Hui couldn't help but laugh: "Besides, my brother-in-law and I are going to travel next year, and no one will live if we buy it." ”

The charter looked straight and said matter-of-factly: "You can travel for a lifetime, and it's not that you won't come back." What's more, you can't stay here for a few days. If you don't buy it when the time comes, you have to buy it. ”

"Make room for your colleagues below?"

The charter nodded slightly, and patiently explained: "Company adjustment, personnel adjustment. The office area should also be adjusted, and it can't always be as scattered as it is now. ”

Zhang Hui looked sideways at Xia Yao and asked, "What about the two of you?" ”

"Our situation is different, and when the adjustment is completed, we have to run back and forth in several laboratories, and when we buy it, it is really uninhabited."

This time, I went out and took a turn, and I knew how strong the group was, especially the oil field fire fighting business in Kuwait, where one oil well was several million dollars, and more than ten or twenty were extinguished every day, which was like printing money.

No one knows her brother better than her sister, and Zhang Hui is not hypocritical, she said with a smile: "Then I won't be polite to you, I will pick a big one and see the sea." ”

"No problem, as long as you're happy, you can buy as much as you want."

The charter smiled, turned around and continued: "Brother Wenming, you know the schedule, wait for a good introduction to the situation of NB Electronics to Mr. Lin, and then accompany him to the factory after the board of directors, and officially introduce him to the colleagues who are training." In short, when will he get started, and when will you officially take office. ”

Ding Wenming, who worked in a bank before and then worked in stocks for a while, liked this position too much, and immediately smiled: "Don't worry, I'll help him on the horse and give him another ride until he is handy." ”

Liu Siwei no longer expressed his position on major issues, chewing his food slowly as if he hadn't heard anything.

After breakfast, I walked downstairs, it was work time, and group executives such as Wu Jinhua, Guan Hao, and Xu Sangcheng drove their respective cars one after another. After a pleasantry in the hall, they were introduced to Ruan Shaojing and other colleagues from the Asia-Pacific region, applauded, said hello, and the welcome ceremony couldn't have been simpler, and they were sent to their respective offices according to the schedule.

It is really a pragmatic arrangement to hold a board meeting after understanding the situation.

The office environment is also impeccable, the windows are bright and clean, and the office facilities are readily available, Wu Jinhua looked around, and was about to turn back to express his gratitude, Cao Xuyang, the manager of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced with a smile: "Mr. Wu, this is Wu Yingzhe, the deputy manager of the Ministry of Commerce, and this is Miss Huang Yuting, a clerk of the Ministry of Commerce, from now on they will serve as your assistant and secretary respectively." ”

"Mr. Wu is good."

On the morning of the second day after accepting the invitation, Xu Shan, the director of human resources, sent him a copy of the information of the deputy director level of the headquarters, in order to better carry out the work, Wu Jinhua did some homework, and he was not ignorant of the young man in front of him, and immediately stretched out his right hand: "Manager Wu, just came back from the United States?" ”

"I came back the day before yesterday, but I didn't expect you to know about our trip to the United States, Mr. Wu."

"The acquisition was successful?"

"Successfully acquired three," Wu Yingzhe said with emotion when referring to the just-concluded acquisition negotiations: "Although it is a few small companies, the due diligence is all in accordance with the process, and it is very beneficial to be able to cooperate with American counterparts." ”

"Sit, please."

Wu Jinhua pointed to the chair in front of the desk, and said in a tone from his boss: "Manager Cao, Assistant Wu, in order not to delay the normal operation of the group, let's hurry up and officially start." Miss Huang, please find something to drink, tea or coffee, if not, mineral water is fine. ”

The Ministry of Commerce had already inquired about the preferences of the presidents and had also made arrangements in this regard, Huang Yuting smiled slightly: "Okay, you wait a minute." Coffee came right away. ”

Cao Xuyang figured out his thoughts. "For now. We are mainly engaged in the production, sales and transmission and distribution of power equipment, which is also our core business. The power equipment is mainly composed of high and low voltage electrical appliances, high and low voltage complete sets and power transformers.

With the opening of the Middle East market, especially participating in the reconstruction of Kuwait, NB Electric has achieved a blowout development. In the first half of the year, the output value of HK $368 million was completed, and the net profit was more than 70 million; As high value-added products such as high-voltage circuit breakers, high-voltage transformers, reactors and reactive capacitor compensation devices are produced in the mainland, three-quarters of the sales come from the Heung Kong factory, while the Vietnam factory accounts for only a quarter. ”

Half of the raw materials need to be imported from abroad, and the profits are kept in Hong Kong as much as possible. So much so that in terms of the output value of Chinese companies, it is impossible to see how big the business is.

In the first half of the year, more than 300 million industrial electrical appliances were made, which surprised Wu Jinhua, and while making records, he asked lightly: "In addition to the Middle East market, which markets are doing better?" ”

"Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand."

Developed countries such as Europe and the United States are not easy to do, and it is expected Wu Jinhua nodded, put down his pen and motioned for him to continue.

"The situation of high and low voltage sets is special, due to the high cost of transportation. It is also prone to problems, and is basically dominated by the local market. As Saudi Arabia does not have a foreign investment law. We had to work privately to build a factory in Riyadh with Prince Meteb.

With the efforts of colleagues in the Middle East branch, the factory is the main source of profit for this year's high and low voltage complete set of business, as of the end of last month, the output value has been completed more than 780 million Hong Kong dollars, with the start of the Kuwait user project, it is expected to double in the second half of the year. ”

Wu Jinhua was taken aback, and asked suspiciously: "Saudi prince?" ”

Cao Xuming proudly confirmed: "He is Zhang Gong's most loyal partner, in addition, he also has a stake in NB Airlines, and even expressed great interest in NB Bank." ”

Wu Yingzhe lost no time in adding: "He is also the largest agent of NB Appliances and NB Transformers in the Middle East. ”

"This news is amazing!"

"Although it is an open secret that the prince is doing business in Saudi Arabia, in order not to cause criticism, only a few managers know about it."

Wu Jinhua smiled and said meaningfully: "Well, it should be kept secret. ”

"Due to some uncertainties such as market and politics, there is only one factory in Vietnam at this stage, but we have enough personnel reserves, and according to the plan formulated by the chairman and Zhang Gong, we will invest or acquire two transformer factories in the mainland next year. One is a conventional power transformer, and the other is a special transformer for rectifiers, electric furnaces and isolations. ”

"Where's the money?"

Cao Xuming and Wu Yingzhe glanced at each other, and said with an excited smile: "Mr. Wu, you may not know that Zhang Gong received an invitation from the Kuwaiti Consulate in Hong Kong yesterday morning, inviting him to Kuwait to participate in the oil well fire extinguishing ceremony next Friday. In other words, the sixth and final instalment of the fire extinguishing payment will be fully received. ”

The news was more and more shocking, and Wu Jinhua asked incredulously: "It's been less than four months?" ”

"We accomplished an almost impossible task, and the fire, which the world thought would take at least two to three years to extinguish, was extinguished in just over a hundred days. It not only avoided the global air pollution that the fire might bring, but also helped Kuwait recover nearly 100 billion US dollars in economic losses. ”

It is conceivable that how the Kuwaiti government will treat NB Electric, as soon as he took office, he encountered such a good thing, Wu Jinhua was overjoyed and couldn't help asking: "What about the benefits, how much is the total benefit from extinguishing fires?" ”

Cao Xuming did not answer this question directly, but grabbed a pen and wrote a series of numbers on the note, looking at the dollar sign behind so many zeros and zeros, Wu Jinhua was stunned.

"So funding is not an issue."

Cao Xuming paused, and then said: "In order to allow NB Medical's large-scale imaging diagnostic equipment, NB Electronics' color TVs and computer monitors, and NB Computer's computers, to quickly open up the Americas, Europe and Australia markets. The chairman and Zhang Gong also plan to set up several branches in the United States, Germany and Australia......"

As Group CEO, you have to be well-informed.

Hui Sang-shing, the newly appointed director and vice president of the group and former chief executive of the Hong Kong Vocational Training Council, paid more attention to human resources and vocational training.

Xu Shan, the current director of human resources of the group, is about to become vice president of Africa, which is not so much a briefing as a handover. Same as CEO Wu Jinhua. The charter also assigned him an assistant - Zou Xiaopeng, the head of human resources who had just been transferred from a Chinese company.

“…… After the formation of the four major sub-division companies. We only develop personnel management systems, talent recruitment and talent reserve plans. The relevant training is carried out by the sub-regional company, the Ministry of Commerce, the factory and the laboratory. It is worth mentioning that the reserve talents just recruited by the laboratory must first undergo one-year vocational skills training in NB electrical appliances, NB electrical complete sets or NB transformers. ”

Five hundred years ago, it was a family, and as soon as Xu Shan's voice fell, Xu Sangcheng asked lightly: "Paid training?" ”

"Yes, there are positions for reserve talents, including laboratories, who are deputy to the team leader for the first three months, and deputy technical supervisor of the workshop after three months. After six months, we will convene the R&D personnel of the experimental workshop, the engineers of the training unit, the workshop director and deputy supervisor and the team leader to evaluate it.

If it is confirmed that it has potential in research and development. Then he will enter the experimental workshop as an engineer assistant and receive another six months of training; If he doesn't have that potential and is very dedicated, he will be trained as an assistant sales engineer. If there is potential in management, he will be promoted to assistant workshop supervisor. ”

Because of the application, Xu Sangcheng secretly praised one, and then asked: "What about the front-line workers, do they want to receive vocational skills training?" ”

"Of course," Zou Xiaopeng had the most say on this issue, and said, "We have a training department. It is trained with teaching materials prepared by the R&D personnel of the experimental workshop. From the earliest maintenance electricians, to the present machining, injection molding, tooling and winding. There are a total of 5 majors and 6 levels. And linked to salary, technology is upgraded by one level, and wages are raised by one level.

In addition, the level of professional skill is also an important criterion for whether you can participate in after-sales service and stay abroad. Due to the large gap between domestic wages and foreign wage levels, the enthusiasm of front-line workers is very high, and so far three people have passed the 6th level exam and become the first batch of non-college engineers of NB Electric. ”

At the same time, the Charters is accompanying Professor Chan Run, Independent Non-Executive Director and Vice-Chancellor of HKU, on a visit to the Basic Research Laboratory.

The system engineering laboratory and the technology application laboratory have been immersed in the past five years, which can be described as fruitful results. By contrast, basic research labs that earn fame and bring little economic effect are much more low-key.

For Guo Junru and others, even composite insulation materials are nothing. First, it is only half done, and whether it can bring economic effects depends on the help of colleagues in the application of technology; Second, they are university scholars, and they like to engage in theoretical, groundbreaking research that can benefit all mankind, and they are not interested in such small materials at all.

This doesn't mean that they are not important, NB Electric still has to rely on them to make a name for themselves, not only with a lot of funds, but also like a grandfather. And a few years ago, the charter also proposed several research directions for them.

As a partner, as a member of the UGC, Professor Chen Run is no stranger to this place and comes here once or twice a year. I don't know if it's because I haven't researched anything valuable, or because of secrecy, I can't see anything every time I come.

Of course, there are papers in international academic journals. After all, it is a professional research institution, and in terms of quantity and quality, it far exceeds the research institutes of HKU, CUHK and PolyU.

Today, however, what he sees and hears, it is impossible to describe in words how excited, excited, and happy he was.

“…… Each carbon atom on the tube is hybridized with sp2 and combined with carbon-carbon σ bonds to form a honeycomb structure composed of hexagons as the backbone of carbon nanotubes. A pair of p-electrons on each carbon atom that are not involved in hybridization form a cloud of conjugated electrons across π carbon nanotubes across each other. According to the number of layers of the tube, it is divided into single-walled carbon nanotubes and multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The radius of the tube is very thin, only at the nanoscale, and tens of thousands of carbon nanotubes are only a hair's width when combined. ”

Researcher Cai Yangzhi couldn't hide his excitement, and said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Its hardness is comparable to that of diamond, but it has good flexibility and can be stretched. Among the reinforced fibers currently commonly used in industry, a key factor in determining strength is the length-to-diameter ratio, which is the ratio of length to diameter. Materials engineers want to get an aspect ratio of at least 20:1, and the carbon nanotubes we have found are generally more than 1000:1, which is the ideal high-strength fiber material! ”

Chen Run looked at the carbon nanotube fibers that floated into the air as soon as he blew them, and said incoherently: "It's too ...... Too...... It's amazing, it's ...... It's amazing. Mr. Zhang, Dr. Cai, this is perhaps the greatest discovery of the end of the century, there is no one. ”

"Judging from the current experimental progress, carbon nanotubes are very practical."

Although the charter clearly understands that this "great discovery" can only be short-lived due to a series of reasons such as the inability to mass produce in the end, it still says in a matter: "Its interior can be filled with metals, oxides and other substances, filled with carbon nanotubes with metals and other substances, and then corroded off the carbon layer, the thinnest nanoscale wires can be prepared, or a new one-dimensional material, which can be applied in future molecular electronic devices or nanoelectronic devices."

Dr. Cai and his team have even discovered that some carbon nanotubes can be used as nanoscale wires in their own right, and can be used to produce more complex circuits if the fabricated microwires are placed on silicon chips. At the same time, many composite materials with excellent properties can be produced, such as using it to enhance the mechanical properties, electrical conductivity, corrosion resistance and shielding properties of plastics. ”

This is a "Nobel Prize-level" discovery, Chen Run's voice became a little trembling when he spoke, and he grabbed his arm and asked, "What else can it be applied to?" ”

Researcher Cai Yangzhi took out a stack of materials from the table and said: "We have done some experiments, using cement as a matrix, adding carbon nanotube fibers to become a new type of composite material, with good impact resistance, anti-static, wear resistance, high stability, and not easy to affect the environment."

As for other aspects, due to its five-membered ring defects, it enhances the reactivity, and is easy to open at the end face under the conditions of high temperature and the presence of other substances, forming a tube, which is easily infiltrated by metal, and forms metal matrix composites with metal. It is conceivable how good the strength, modulus, high temperature resistance, coefficient of thermal expansion, and resistance to thermal change of this material will be. (To be continued......)