"Do you want Midea to put the production of game console products in Shekou?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Yes, I have already done a survey, first, although Hong Kong's economy is not very good now, there is a crisis, but the labor cost of the whole Hong Kong has not decreased, it is still about the same as the previous two years, compared with Shekou, more than ten times higher. Second, I also found that the current production capacity in Hong Kong has been far from keeping up with the order demand of Midea Electronics, this year, a large number of Midea orders have been handed over to Wanwan's electronics factory, although the cost of Wanwan is a little lower, but it is still not comparable to my Shekou. Yuan Geng analyzed and said that since he wanted a large order from others, he had naturally prepared for it a long time ago, and he had checked a lot of information.

"But Wanwan, the most important thing is not labor costs, but has a mature industrial chain, a large number of high-quality workers and engineers in the electronics industry, as early as the 60s, Wanwan began to cultivate the electronics industry, and even several universities have related majors, which is the reason why I give preference to production in Wanwan. Chen Zhiwen asked rhetorically.

Hong Kong's production capacity, although Chen Zhiwen has long been prepared, but still can't keep up with the demand of the European, American and Japanese markets, this is actually normal, in the original history, after Nintendo's Gameboy became popular, it was not enough to find foundry in the whole of Japan, and finally relied on Wanwan to ensure production capacity, and now the United States, just the results of the handheld market, is not worse than Nintendo in the original history, but also add home game consoles, game cartridges, some arcades, etc., the number of the first two is often in millions, Hong Kong is a city that is naturally insufficient.

The choice of Wanwan, in addition to the language and culture is similar, there is also its electronic foundation.

Even if TSMC can succeed, it is inseparable from the Wanwan government's support for the electronics industry for more than ten years and the creation of a large number of talents.

"We are indeed deficient in this area, but we can attract talents from other cities, Mr. Chen may not know that at present, many talents in China are also willing to come to Shenhai City, and the attraction of Shekou is even stronger!" Yuan Geng said.

"Mayor Yuan, if you want Midea to transfer a little more production capacity, this is actually not a big problem, Hong Kong has actually always had this plan, but the core industries related to games are not good for the time being, at least not in the last two or three years." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said: "Besides, when we go to a place to invest, we are also optimistic that this place has all kinds of infrastructure, talent reserves, transportation environment, etc., rather than the other way around, we invest first, and then the local area will slowly improve to meet our needs, in this case, it is impossible for any company in the world to do this kind of thing."

Unless it is a very low-end industry, it only needs someone to have a little electricity to make a personnel-intensive industry, in which case you can invest as long as it is almost there. ”

Electric fans, radios and this kind of actually belong to this kind, when the labor cost of Hong Kong increased a few years ago, the cost of factory rent increased, it was necessary to transfer outward, at that time to Wanwan is actually possible, but Chen Zhiwen knows that the labor cost of Wanwan will be higher and higher after a few years, and the mainland is just opened, and Shekou Industrial Zone can be sole proprietorship, and at the same time, due to the large scale of their own industry, so they helped Shekou Industrial Zone by the way, but it is not free, just to provide loan assistance!

"Let's move a little bit over first, how about we try to do it? If the results are good, let's discuss the next step? How is it? When it comes to taxes, we can give even more concessions. Yuan Geng thought about it and said, he also knew that it was a bit difficult to transfer the core industry of the people.

"In fact, even if the production of game consoles is placed in Shekou, you can only assemble it, and the core PCB board production is a high-tech process, and we only have a small part in Hong Kong, most of which are outsourced, and as for the chips, Hong Kong can't make them." Chen Zhiwen said.

"It doesn't matter, let's do the assembly first, I don't want to do those high-tech electronic products, and when the assembly is done, we can also do the most basic shell plastic parts, internal wires, Shekou actually already has these factories, that is, they used to supply fans, and the requirements are not high." Yuan Geng said with a smile.

"I can arrange some handheld machines to be produced in Shekou, but can I sell them in China?" Chen Zhiwen asked after thinking for a moment.

Originally, their own handheld home game consoles, are only prepared for Europe, America, Japan and some Southeast Asian markets, the domestic side, but I don't care much, mainly game products, not necessities, theoretically speaking, the central government will definitely not agree to this kind of thing into the domestic market, although there are various other ways to still enter the domestic market, but can not be sold openly, then the market will not be very large.

But since the country wants its own production capacity, it naturally proposes to need the domestic market, so that everyone can make money.

"This can be a bit difficult!" Yuan Geng said with a frown.

"Isn't it okay to keep the foreign exchange balance?" Chen Zhiwen said.

"It's mainly games and other goods, which can be a bit troublesome in China." Yuan Geng said with some embarrassment: "And I know the price of Midea's game console, even if it is an ordinary handheld console, it may be worth a month's salary for many people in China." ”

"In China, there is no shortage of rich people." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile. The average domestic economy is indeed not good, but the high-end consumption capacity is still not bad, such as air conditioning, in the mid-80s, the price of an air conditioner in the country needs several thousand, because of the current lack of electricity in the country, the installation of large electrical appliances also needs to be charged additional fees, air conditioning according to the power consumption generally need to charge 1000-3000 yuan, but even so the annual sales of air conditioners can reach 5-100,000 units.

"Okay, I'll inquire about this matter, and if it can be sold in China, I'll send someone to inform Mr. Chen." Yuan Geng said.

"Okay, if I can, I'll definitely build a game console assembly factory in Shekou." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Although the United States is a non-listed company, but the relevant personnel can roughly know the cost of dismantling the equipment of the United States, and then combined with the selling price of the terminal, you can know the huge profits, although many people in the mainland have missed the development of the electronic age, but such a large population base, there will always be people with this ability.

The domestic demand for foreign exchange in the 80s can be said to be endless, it is said that these two years are selling gold to balance the foreign exchange deficit, too much equipment needs to be imported, especially the domestic leadership has a far-sighted vision, knowing that heavy industry is the foundation of economic development in the next few decades, therefore, even if it is difficult now, it is necessary to introduce a variety of steel, chemical, petroleum, fertilizer and other equipment, these equipment production lines, often hundreds of millions of dollars, the pressure on domestic foreign exchange is indescribable.

But the development of later generations proves that it is precisely because of the huge heavy industry base, the domestic economy in the 21st century, courageously forward, almost no pause, this is a very rare case, to know that than the domestic reform to attract foreign investment in Southeast Asian countries, Mexico, South American countries, Eastern European countries, etc., born with a variety of geographical advantages, but after a certain degree of development stagnation, the fundamental reason is that there is no heavy industry, in the history of the world, in addition to the mainland, Japan and South Korea out of the same route.

At present, when the foreign exchange reserves are almost down to zero, all parties in the country naturally want to earn more foreign exchange, and the same is true for Shekou Industrial Zone, which is the vanguard of the reopening, and all parts of the country are paying attention to it.

Chen Zhiwen doesn't mind relocating some of his production capacity to China, which can not only create foreign exchange, employment and reduce his own costs for the country, but he still needs his own products to enter the domestic market.

In fact, even if you don't enter the country by yourself, there will be domestic imitators in a few years, and the market demand for games is inevitable, so it's better to let yourself get it, which should have been your own.

"Mr. Chen, there is one more thing, the port in Shekou is about to prepare for the second phase, if you need to continue the joint venture, you need to send relevant personnel over." Yuan Geng continued.

"Oh, Shekou's export volume is developing so fast?" Chen Zhiwen said in surprise, you know, the export volume of the first phase of Shekou Port he invested in was 30 times that of the goods in Shekou Industrial Park at that time, and it has only been two years, so it can increase so much?

"Shekou alone is naturally impossible, no matter how good the economy of Shekou Industrial Zone is, it is such a big place, mainly because of Shenhai City, a large number of goods have begun to go to Shekou for export, which is thanks to Mr. Chen The port built by Mr. Chen is semi-automated equipment and extremely efficient, and the price is much cheaper than going to Hong Kong in terms of export, and most importantly, it costs less foreign exchange." Yuan Geng said.

"In the past, okay, I'll let Hehuang send someone over." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

In the original history, the total area of Shekou was only 2 square kilometers, and it was a messy light industry, the export volume was very low, and naturally the port at that time was also very general, and basically all of them were Hong Kong-funded factories, and the role of Shekou port was actually to pack the goods and transport them to the port of Hong Kong by sea and then export to other parts of the world.

But now it is different, the suppliers of Midea and Galaxy Trade have built factories on a large scale in Shekou, and the export volume of goods has increased dozens of times, and the port invested by Hutchison is naturally very international, and at the same time, some international freighters have been directly attracted through the ship king Bao Yugang, opening up a complete closed loop.

At the same time, because the economy is better, the transportation from Shekou to Shenhai City is not bad, which naturally leads to more deep-sea factories being exported from Shekou instead of spending more foreign exchange on the Hong Kong route.

"This time, we are also preparing to expand the port a little bigger, which is actually the meaning of Shenhai City, the Yantian Port of Shenhai City, it is estimated that it will take a few years to build, but the export of Shenhai City can no longer wait." Yuan Geng said.

"Yantian Port?" Chen Zhiwen's face was slightly moved, and he asked, "Yantian Port is ready to be built?" ”

Although the port is an important business of Hutchison, Chen Zhiwen does not care too much about this matter, and now when he hears this name, he remembers that Yantian Port is one of the major ports in China in the future.

"The planned project is very small, and the first phase of investment is only 900,000 yuan." Yuan Geng asked a little strangely, he felt that Chen Zhiwen seemed to be a little interested in this, but it was only a 900,000 project? Probably not, right?

(End of chapter)