Chapter 992 Ready to Go!

As early as the end of September, the news that Yin Jun wanted to purchase the record rights and sell them to the mainland had already spread in the music circles of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Baodao still has to be a little more coy and clear the relationship with the boss before they can sell it to Yin Jun Records.

Xiangjiang is much more active. Several record companies, especially Shao Yifu's Huaxing Records, have directly bought hundreds of albums released in recent years for Yin Jun to choose at will.

Although 200,000 yuan per piece is not enough, it is still money after all. They are all at the bottom of the box anyway. There is no market in the mainland at all. If you sell dozens more and earn millions, wouldn’t it be considered free money? Money?

Besides, who knows whether the mainland will develop in a few years or more than ten years? If their economy develops, won't the singers' records they are promoting now be of great use in the future?

Qilin Records is indeed very generous. A group of songwriters and songwriters from the company helped select the albums. As long as they were good, they all wanted them. They changed hands and picked more than 20 albums.

The number of selections is really surprising and envious.

But when PolyGram Hong Kong and PolyGram Baodao came over with record titles, everyone realized what exaggeration was.

Because Kirin Records has selected more than 100 records in total, from 1960 to 1981, covering various styles.

As a result, record companies, big and small, all brought their own records.

In the end, they selected a total of 400 pictures and spent a total of 8 million Hong Kong dollars.

Especially this guy Huang Zhan, he selected all the lyrics and music albums he and Gu Jiahui made, euphemistically saying that "the wise should not avoid relatives".

When Yin Jun heard Huang Bogao talk about the news, he couldn't laugh or cry.

The money was not spent much, but the amount was a bit too much.

These guys don't know how big the mainland is, right?

Now in this era of reform and opening up, everything is booming, and people's hearts are full of desire for all new things.

So whenever they encounter something overseas, people from the mainland are very interested.

Not to mention the pop music of Xiangjiang and Baodao, which are originally in the same language, there is no problem in accepting them.

It's not Yin Jun's fault. As long as they all have money, it's easy to just release an album and sell 1 million or 2 million cassettes.

If it were replaced by the albums of superstars such as Teresa Teng, Xu Guanjie, Luo Wen, Zhen Ni, Xu Xiaofeng, Liu Wenzheng, Leslie Cheung, Tan Yonglin, Chen Baiqiang, and Fei Xiang, it would be normal to have 10 million music tapes.

Especially Teresa Teng, her soft and sweet voice, coupled with the Qingping tunes almost all of which are Mandarin songs, can warm people's hearts the most.

This is also the most important reason why Teresa Teng dominated the mainland music scene from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

Now that Yin Jun has such a large number of 400 records in his hands, he cannot put them on the market all at once, otherwise not only will pirated copies fly everywhere, but it will also not be suitable for him to cultivate the mainland's love for Hong Kong and Taiwan singers.

Fortunately, the mainland does not allow entertainment companies from Hong Kong and Taiwan to enter in a big way. Yin Jun's business is his own, and he is not afraid of competition from others.

It is enough to release 20 albums a month and release them in the order of the original release time. If one album reaches 2-3 million tapes, it is enough.

It’s not that Yin Jun doesn’t want to sell more copies, but that everyone’s purchasing power is now limited, and mainland China has never had the concept of buying genuine copies. If 1 to 2 million copies can be sold, the price must be lower.

For the rest, some record companies either pirated the copies and sold them, or they used blank tapes to record them themselves. They are not afraid of poor sound effects, as long as they can be listened to, it doesn't matter.

Yin Jun naturally doesn't like such things, but in the mainland of this era, you can't help but accept this fact.

In fact, Yin Jun didn't even dare to expect to make any money from the sales of these 400 records and tapes. He just wanted to cover the cost of the production line and the workers, and he was already content.

The tape and polyester film base tape production lines that Huo Jianning went to Europe to negotiate were a bit ridiculously expensive, with each set costing around US$1 million on average.

So after some comparisons, he finally negotiated with Panasonic at Sony in Japan. They had 50 tape recording production lines and 10 polyester film base tape production lines. The total cost was 40 million U.S. dollars, which was one-third cheaper than in Europe. First, the effect and quality are almost the same. Maintenance is even easier.

This also fully shows that after 30 years of hard work and hard work, Japan's modern electronic technology, like their industrial capabilities, has gradually caught up with the advanced levels of Europe and the United States.

In the next 20 years, their products will be rampant all over the world and they will be sold without any competitors.

Only after cheaper products produced in China come out will they replace Japan and become another new price killer, causing European and American companies and factories to go bankrupt repeatedly.

And the Japanese have a very good attitude.

Not to mention the high prices in Europe, the delivery date is not until the end of 1982, while Japan guarantees delivery by February next year at the latest and complete debugging by March, so that it can enter trial production operations.

It’s not that Japan doesn’t have many orders, but that they work overtime in order to grab orders so that they can deliver products to customers as soon as possible.

The Chinese factories of the future will defeat their opponents in the same way.

The reason why Japan was overtaken by China was entirely because their labor costs were much higher than those of the Chinese, and they also voluntarily gave up those labor-intensive industries.

The only countries in Southeast Asia that can compare labor costs with the Chinese are some countries in Southeast Asia.

But the problem is that through a large-scale expansion of college students and a large number of nine-year education, China has accumulated a large number of workers with a basic knowledge base, who can handle many jobs very comfortably.

But workers in Southeast Asia basically can’t even read. What kind of work can you expect them to do?

I don’t even know the machine, I can’t even remember the various processes, so what if the labor is cheap?

There is a more critical point. Chinese workers are as hard-working as the Japanese and have very good discipline. However, those workers in Southeast Asia have no idea what discipline is.

Generally, once they have earned enough money for food and drinks, they can stop coming to work in the factory the next day and wait until the money is gone before looking for a job.

In fact, when they were at work, they were not serious at all and were perfunctory. They did not know how many mistakes they made and how much losses the factory suffered.

The above connected points are the most important reason why most foreign processing factories still stay in China when wages in China continue to rise.

The topic has gone too far.

Today's China is far from establishing a name for itself through the presence of a large number of foreign factories, allowing them to make a lot of money and sell their products around the world.

As far as 1981 is concerned, except for many Japanese clubs who came to China because of the atonement and the relationship between China and Japan, very few companies from Europe and the United States came, and many people were still demonizing China.

Therefore, Yin Jun's large-scale electronics factory in Lin'an is definitely unique among all foreign-funded (Hong Kong-funded) enterprises.

It was for this reason that Mr. Xiao and Mr. Yun took such good care of Yin Jun, and that they were so careful and in a consultative tone when mentioning the outflow of funds and foreign exchange.

10,000 workers are simply not needed for the Kirin tape recorder. About 2,500 of them are prepared for the next "Kirin Tape Factory".

The current 50 tape production lines, at full capacity, can record 300,000 music tapes a day, which is 9 million boxes in a month.

Considering the current capacity of the tape market in China, an average of 400,000 tapes per record is actually enough. After all, the price is not very cheap, and not many people can afford it.

Tapes and tape recorders are two different things.

After buying a cassette recorder, it can be used for many years, so you can buy it with a few hundred yuan.

But everyone knows that tapes are consumables. If you buy them without restraint, then it will cost you dozens of yuan a month, or dozens of yuan a month, which is really amazing.

So instead they will save on tape.

According to Huo Jianning's information, they usually buy tapes and listen to them interchangeably, or they buy blank tapes to record, which is much cheaper.

There are 400,000 tapes for each of Yin Jun's 20 records, totaling 8 million music tapes. The remaining 1 million tapes from the 9 million production volume are sold as blank tapes.

Huo Jianning attaches great importance to market research.

He ordered people to buy music tapes from five or six record companies to listen to. He found that most of these music tapes were made in China, and the playback effect was much worse than those in Xiangjiang Baodao. ——The tapes in Xiangjiang Baodao are not bad. They are all made from Japanese factories and then shipped to these places for sale!

Listening to music tapes from Xiangjiang and Baodao can improve the effect by at least one-third.

Even if you use a blank tape from Xiangjiang Baodao to record, the effect is much better than a domestic blank tape.

There is only one advantage of domestic music tapes, and that is price.

They basically sell a tape for 3 yuan, and the more elaborate ones sell for 5 yuan a tape. However, in Xiangjiang and Baodao, the price is two or three times higher, basically 15-20 yuan a tape.

Of course, the consumption level and spending power in Xiangjiang Island and the Mainland are also different, so the 5 yuan tape sold in the Mainland is more expensive.

If you record music tapes directly from Xiangjiang and Baodao and sell them, you will definitely lose money.

But if the factory is located in the mainland, the workers used are all from the mainland, and the cost of the records themselves is also very low, so it is not impossible for Yin Jun to make money.

As long as they can spend a few years cultivating their familiarity and love for the singers and idols in Hong Kong and Baodao, Yin Jun's Chinese entertainment plan will be able to include the mainland as soon as possible!