270 The birth of the handheld Gameboy
After visiting relatives, the family came to Yanjing again, and the Chen family's parents flew directly back to Hong Kong, while Chen Zhiwen stayed in Yanjing.
When a leader of the Ministry of Agriculture heard about Tianjin's cooperation plan, he also sent a secretary of his own surnamed Dong to ask: "Mr. Chen, can the cooperation model in Tianjin be popularized?" ”
Chen Zhiwen said: "If there are a few more cities, there is no problem, but if there are more, it will not work, the velvet market in Europe and the United States is very large, but it does not mean that I can control these markets." ”
"Isn't it okay if our prices are low? As long as it can earn foreign exchange and give millions of farmers some extra income, can the government implement tax cuts? Secretary Dong said.
At present, there are too few things that can be exported to earn foreign exchange, mainly relying on mineral resources and oil, or some agricultural and industrial products, and there is no ability to enter overseas markets and no channels. Now I suddenly found that the fluff on the poultry can be used to earn foreign exchange, and if it can really succeed, it will kill four birds with one stone: increase foreign exchange, increase employment, increase the income of some farmers, and increase the meat or eggs in the market.
How can the central government give up such a good thing, although the amount is not much, and it is relatively low-end, but it is a real benefit, and it does not require any additional investment.
"The price of velvet products in Europe and the United States is also a lot more expensive than ordinary clothes, this kind of high-priced goods, more characteristics are brands, many people will not choose you because of the low price of your goods, it takes a long time to operate a brand, you can refer to domestic bicycles, everyone does not like the Phoenix brand or permanent brand, even if it is a little more expensive will buy, rather than choose a haven't heard of but a little cheaper, right?." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.
Relying on the channels of their own supermarkets, it does have a lot of sales, but the supermarket itself is not very suitable for selling clothes, and it is even more difficult to be high-end, few people will buy high-end clothing in the supermarket, and the supermarket itself is the volume, and it will not spend energy to promote high-end clothing brands, therefore, the general supermarket is a low-end route, even if it is a velvet product, you can only choose a relatively low-end one, but the bedding is slightly better.
"I see, it's a pity." Secretary Dong doesn't know much about foreign countries, but he understands by referring to bicycles, some names they haven't heard of, even if they are cheaper, they don't dare to buy them.
"With such a large number of people in China, it is impossible for any industry to benefit everyone at one time, and the automobile industry can't do it, one dollar per person, that is close to 200 million US dollars, and there are not many companies in the world's top 500 companies that can have such high profits." Chen Zhiwen said again.
The huge population, even if you want to achieve basic food and clothing, needs a large amount of money. This is also why the future generations of domestic to pursue the whole industry chain, netizens also urgently need China to have their own core technology, want to make such a large country, become a semi-developed country, it will be very difficult, especially when the development of science and technology to the end, the global wealth is the stock era, the size of the cake is basically fixed.
"Then, I don't know if Mr. Chen can consider choosing a textile factory in Yanjing City to cooperate, just like Tianjin." Secretary Dong said.
"Here in Yanjing, there shouldn't be many farmers, right?" Chen Zhiwen asked rhetorically, although Tianjin is also a municipality directly under the central government, under the siphon of Yanjing industry, relatively speaking, agriculture is much better, plus there are more rivers, and Yanjing, even if there are farmers in the suburbs, the number is not very large.
"The fluff is easy to transport and does not deteriorate, and we can buy it from nearby provinces and cities." Secretary Dong said.
"That's fine. In this way, I will arrange for colleagues from Hong Kong to come to the mainland for inspection, and if there is a textile factory in Yanjing that is willing to make a joint venture, then we can cooperate. Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, he also remembered that in the previous life, people in the village would occasionally come to collect poultry fluff, even chickens, it was still the 90s, which shows that even if there is no interference, this industry will still develop, but I don't know how big the scale can be.
These domestic factories are basically the same as Hong Kong in the 50s, where the industry and the people are together, except for the polluting heavy industry.
And these places, but they are all prime locations, in the 80s, it is not possible to buy these land, but through joint ventures, you can get a 49% share, anyway, these lands will be cheaper in the future Other foreign capital, it is better to be cheaper yourself, Galaxy Trade will always provide a large number of foreign exchange orders, but also can really provide a lot of employment and economic development for the country.
However, there is no need for him to visit these textile factories himself, he is not a professional, he has already been to two or three domestic factories, and it would be a waste of time to go again.
"Okay, thank you, Mr. Chen." Secretary Dong said.
After a while, Secretary Dong got up to say goodbye, and a few days later, under the arrangement of relevant departments, Chen Zhiwen met with a big leader.
Naturally, the big leaders did not ask for any investment or cooperation in person, and the two sides only chatted with each other about macro things, such as how the domestic economy should develop, how Hong Kong can help the country, Hong Kong's views on the future, and so on.
The two-hour meeting went very smoothly and happily.
The next day, several leaders of the State Administration of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation also invited Chen Zhiwen to discuss possible cooperation plans, and in the end, Chen Zhiwen chose to invest in two textile factories and two food factories, both within the third ring road.
Including the textile factory in Tianjin, the three textile factories, making velvet products is only one of the businesses, other purposes, or in the next few years, with Galaxy Trade for systematic cooperation, in order to ensure that it can gradually produce textiles that can be accepted by European and American supermarkets, the simplest of which is socks, hats, short sleeves, jeans, etc., the technical requirements are simple, large quantities, and require a lot of labor.
The food factory is to produce a variety of snacks needed by foreign supermarkets, such as hundreds of different candies, biscuits, etc., these varieties are too many, even if Red Bull has a special food business department, but it also looks down on these small industries, and as long as these two joint venture food factories can make delicious snacks, basically not worrying about sales.
The scale of cooperation is actually not large, 5 factories combined, it is estimated that the export quota of 10 million US dollars a year, after all, the current domestic policy for joint ventures is not perfect, large investment is prone to many problems, plus the domestic talent is still the main priority supply of state-owned enterprises and government departments, there are not enough talents, that short time, Chen Zhiwen can only invest in this simplest industry.
I stayed in the mainland for half a month, and the time had already entered mid-June.
After returning to Hong Kong, the first thing Chen Zhiwen did was to check the price of gold: $380.
Compared with when he started to go long before, it has risen by 80%, which basically guarantees that his investment this time is already a sure profit, even if he sells it all now, after deducting transaction taxes and interest, he can make a profit of at least two or three billion US dollars.
Subsequently, he put all the $250 million he used to protect the risk into the long gold again, at this time the main investment has no risk, several major investment banks have also agreed to carry out 5 times the leverage of financing, the future gold price can rise almost 1 times, just the 250 million US dollars long, can easily make a profit of two or three times.
In Hong Kong, several real estate companies are still developing normally, and in the past six months, Hutchison, Galaxy, and Wharf have developed their own land together, and have made a profit of about 200 million Hong Kong dollars, and Midea's "Pac-Man" arcade has also been making profits in the American market, and "Space Invaders" is also rampant in countries outside the United States, which adds up to almost another $100 million in funds.
However, this money is not used to make more gold, and it is left to their respective companies for normal business development.
For example, the research and development of home game consoles and handheld consoles has not stopped this year.
"Mr. Chen, Mr. Junhei Yokoi and Mr. Lei Shengli are here." As soon as I arrived at the office, the assistant secretary came to report.
"Let him in." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.
Although he has the creativity of a handheld computer and sufficient funds, but the internal part of the United States, including Chen Zhiwen, does not understand all kinds of details, after all, there are already successful cases in the home game console market, just follow the imitation, and you can even poach people directly from Atari with a high salary, but the handheld is not good, everything has to start from scratch, so, in order to improve the speed, Chen Zhiwen specially arranged people from Nintendo of Japan, and dug up the Game boy who developed the handheld in the original history only by Yokoi Junpei.
Although I also knew the position of Midea Electronics Group in the field of video games, as a brainwashed by Japanese culture and loyal to his company, Yokoi Junhei didn't want to come at first, but after seeing the triple salary and after getting an apartment in Tokyo, Japan for five years, he surrendered, which is really too much.
"Mr. Chen, look, this is our latest handheld design, with the game of "Magic Cube" on it, do you have any better ideas?" After learning that the boss had returned to Hong Kong, Gunhei Yokoi, head of the business of Midea Group's handheld department, immediately came to the boss's office with his personal translator and bowed almost 45 degrees.
"I'll see." Chen Zhiwen took the milky white handheld and carefully looked at the things in his hand, in fact, he had also seen the previous design drawings, but the real thing was bigger than he originally imagined, and he could barely hold it in one hand.
The whole arcade machine is a rectangular structure, with a large screen in the middle, the left side is the most common white D-pad button in later generations, which has been registered by Midea in the world, and the right side is two different buttons, one blue and one red.
The power button at the top of the screen,The screen lights up,Soon the familiar magic square interface will come out,But the first feeling is very blurry,It's not as good as the arcade machine that used to be,This is also a helpless thing,The current LCD technology,It's good to be able to produce a large screen,It's not good yet。
Chen Zhiwen tried to play for a while, the upper button of the D-pad is useless, the left and right control the left and right movement of the descending graph, the lower indicates the accelerated descent, and the blue button on the right can control the descending graphic to change the angle in a clockwise manner.
"Can this handheld shrink a little more? It feels a bit big to hold in your hand. Chen Zhiwen asked.
Yokoi Junhei replied: "Chen Sheng, we have done a test, if the space is a little smaller, then the heat dissipation of the motherboard will be difficult, especially in summer, there is a high temperature safety protection in the program, once the temperature is too high, it will automatically shut down, and the temperature can be turned on when the temperature returns to the safe range, if we make it a little smaller, then the user may often have downtime in summer." ”
"Okay, let's do it first, what about the test results?" Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, such a small handheld, there is no way to install an exhaust structure like a home game console or computer host, although the game is relatively simple, but it will accumulate a lot of heat if you play more, it usually doesn't matter, it will be troublesome in summer, a lot of industrial or civil equipment, the most headache is the problem of hot weather in summer.
But fortunately, this is the first generation of handhelds, plus it has a high playability game, a little larger in size, but it's not unacceptable, from a commercial point of view, there is no need to put the ace at one time, it is completely possible to put the second generation of handheld when the current generation of handheld money is about the same.
"The laboratory has arranged fixed test equipment to simulate manual control, and the software also ensures that every line of the magic cube will be eliminated, and it has been tested for half a month, in different temperature and humidity environments, it is equivalent to each of these buttons has been pressed millions of times, theoretically speaking, even if one plays for ten years, it is impossible to press the button millions of times, and the test results are successful." Gunhei Yokoi replied.
"Lao Lei, do you think it's time to put it on the market?" Chen Zhiwen asked Lei Shengli on the side again.
Lei Shengli said: "I think it's okay, we have tested hundreds of samples, and at the same time, tens of thousands of employees of Midea have also participated in the test, and they have fun on weekdays, and this first batch of handheld computers is also produced by ourselves, which is controlled by several Chinese quality engineers who we dug from Toyota before, and control the quality of the core parts of the car, there should be no problem."
However, our production capacity is not enough in the initial stage, I suggest that we can put it in Hong Kong or Wanwan now, and after a while, if the feedback is better, then we will put it in Japan, Europe and the United States. ”
"Okay, then the laboratory will continue to test, or change the batch to continue testing, don't care about the cost of testing, and then the factory will be ready for production." Chen Zhiwen nodded in agreement.
Although it may not be fair, but the reality is that if there is a quality problem, in Hong Kong or Wanwan, the loss to the United States will be much smaller, and it is easy to make up, therefore, the products in the markets of Europe, the United States and Japan need to be cautious, for example, the inverter air conditioner that has just begun to be produced is the first to be produced in Southeast Asia or the Middle East, that is, these places are used as quality testing sites, and after problems arise in these places, it is easy to solve.
"Then our handheld doesn't have a name yet, does Chen Sheng have any ideas in this regard?" Lei Shengli asked, the arcade machine can not have a name, because it is for the merchants, but the handheld machine is for everyone, so it needs to have a name, otherwise how to publicize?
"It's called a game boy, and the people who play games are usually young men or male teenagers." Chen Zhiwen said, just use the final name, be simple, and upgrade it later, it can also be called the second and third generations of N generations.
"What about the price?" Lei Shengli asked again: "Our cost is about 15 US dollars, and if the production capacity is large enough in the future, it can be reduced a lot." ”
"Our ex-factory price, Hong Kong and Wanwan, the terminal price is controlled at $35 first, and the dealer price is determined according to different markets." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.
PS: In the past two days, I have been changing, I am really busy at work, I often work overtime, and many people around me have begun to sheep, I have to prepare a little manuscript, I didn't hit the last wave, and I am still a small yin person, this wave is estimated to be more likely, o(╥_╥)o sad.
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