Chapter 1749 Tunnel and Computer

The Hong Kong government has also been taking very frequent actions recently.

Just a few days after Yin Jun returned, the Chief Secretary announced another planning plan.

Because the Hongkan cross-sea tunnel in Xiangjiang is too heavy and there are more and more vehicles in Xiangjiang, the Xiangjiang government agreed to the plan proposed by Qilin Group to build a second undersea tunnel.

The Kirin Group's plan was proposed at the beginning of the year, and there was actually a lot of noise about this matter before.

The undersea tunnel must be repaired, but what the scale will be, which plan has been set by the Kirin Group, and whether the Kirin Group should be used to repair it are all issues discussed by the government.

Fortunately, there are no variables in this matter.

Nowadays, in the whole of Hong Kong, except for the Kirin Group, which has such a large amount of funds, no other group can afford the construction expenditure of such a new undersea tunnel.

Jardine Matheson is busy with the transfer of its registered place, and is really powerless for this project, which is estimated to cost more than 5 billion Hong Kong dollars.

After it was announced, people discovered that the budget cost given by Kirin Group was higher.

The 4-kilometer Eastern Harbor Tunnel project will cost a total of HK$7 billion. The construction time is expected to be two years, and the traffic load will be 160,000 vehicles per day.

As for the Eastern Harbor Crossing plan, the "Ngau Tau Kok-Quarry Bay" plan was chosen, which is slightly longer but more convenient for both places.

Just 4 kilometers, it will cost 7 billion Hong Kong dollars. This tunnel is simply made of gold.

For this Eastern District Undersea Tunnel project, after being approved by the government, Kirin Group temporarily recruited more than a dozen top construction engineers from mainland China to let them set up more specific construction plans.

The construction of such a long-distance tunnel can definitely only be constructed using the caisson method. However, considering that the water area of ​​this section and the conditions of the first undersea tunnel are unknown, it still needs to be considered very carefully.

Those pipes that require caissons need to be specially customized in the mainland, and then transported to Xiangjiang to be caissoned and welded together.

When this group of bridge and tunnel experts from the Mainland arrived in Xiangjiang as soon as possible after a long journey, Yin Jun specially treated them to a meal.

However, they had no interest in delicacies, so they began to ask about the specific construction status and links at the table. It seemed that they were eager to get into work right away.

"When we came here, Mr. Yun told us that this is an extremely difficult but extremely glorious task. We will definitely do our best to complete it! As for everything else, it doesn't matter, as long as we give us the best The work environment and support are enough.”

What the leader, the white-haired old man said, made Yin Jun deeply moved.

He thought of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge that opened in 2018, but it was also completed under such conditions.

Without the hard work and struggle of these pure old people, there would definitely be no miracle.

Facing them, Yin Jun said anything else was redundant.

He could only instruct the project leaders to create the best conditions for these experts, both at work and in life.

Many people who defected to Britain expressed strong doubts about Yin Jun's high-profile and reliance on the mainland to build undersea tunnels.

They clamored in the newspapers that everything in the mainland was backward, that there was no advanced undersea tunnel construction concept at all, and that everything was done by rubes.

Let this group of mainlanders design and supervise the manufacturing. Not only may HK$7 billion be wasted, but more importantly, there may be safety hazards.

Yin Jun was dismissive of this.

In the 1950s, a large number of water conservancy facilities were built in the mainland. These water conservancy facilities are still playing an important role in 2020.

Many of the experts who have come here have presided over the construction of water conservancy facilities twenty or thirty years ago.

Among them are many experts in tunneling, aerodynamics, and physics who have studied in Europe and the United States.

Yin Jun even knew that there were several people who had their bodies covered with national flags after their deaths.

It cannot be said that it is easy for such a super expert to build a 4-kilometer undersea tunnel for you, but it is definitely more than enough.

For Yin Jun, this is also a time to showcase the mainland's superb technological capabilities to the people in Hong Kong, letting them know that in many aspects, the mainland is much more advanced than Hong Kong.

The mainland is now only economically poor, but in terms of science and technology, it has never stopped its efforts to develop.

In the past two or three decades, even if we tighten our belts, there has been no shortage of research funding in this area.

Mr. Yun and Mr. Xiao also know this truth.

As long as this group of engineers and experts make beautiful achievements, it will be a huge plus in the hearts of Xiangjiang people, making them more confident in the mainland.

At the same time, this is also a good opportunity to integrate into Hong Kong’s economy and society.

Through this successful cooperation, if there are similar opportunities in the future, wouldn't it be possible to make a few more big deals?

A business worth several billion is rare in the mainland today!

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Working people don’t have summer vacation, but students do.

Although it is now the end of September and the new semester has begun, Kirin Computer's sales around the world are still catching the tail end of the wave and continue to sell large quantities of computers strongly.

A marketing genius once said that the best-selling things in the world are those sold to women and children.

Children are divided into children or students.

For children, toys and clothes are naturally more important, but for students, everything that helps them grow up is easy to sell.

Countless parents, even if they are eating sauerkraut and steamed buns, still sign up for high-priced tutoring classes for their own students without batting an eye.

For various learning things, buy them if you can. If you can’t, you usually have to borrow money to buy them.

Of course, this also requires a prerequisite, that is, the parents can earn a good salary, at least above the food and clothing line.

If it were the current mainland parents, it would be considered good if one out of a hundred could provide these conditions.

Everyone has just eaten, so how can we have so much free time to think about this?

But parents in Xiangjiang are different.

The money they earn has already met their daily needs, so they are willing to invest in their children's education.

The most popular product in Xiangjiang this summer is undoubtedly the Kirin computer.

This latest smart computer launched by Kirin Group is much better than the previous typewriter type computers.

With Microsoft's Windows system, the computer has become a new type of tool on which many different knowledges can be learned, and it has also opened a new door for students.

Computers have already become popular in the United States, but their arrival in Hong Kong has been delayed for several years.

The main reason is actually because the price is too expensive.

The quantity required here in Xiangjiang is small, and importers cannot spread costs and have to maintain stores, so it is about 30%-50% more expensive than the one in the United States, or even higher.

Such a threshold means that there are very few private individuals in Xiangjiang who buy computers. Most of them are used by public offices and large companies and consortiums.

Even with the advent of Microsoft systems and the rapid development of computer functions, ordinary residents in Xiangjiang did not buy many.

But Kirin Computer is produced in Xiangjiang, and Yin Jun has always taken care of his own people. When the price is 20% cheaper than in the United States, of course the people in Xiangjiang are willing to let their children have more access to computers!

There is no doubt that in this era, computer games have basically not appeared yet. Almost everyone buys computers for learning.

Computers are cheap in Xiangjiang, and the same is true in Baodao.

After all, we are all one family. The computers that Kirin Computer dumped in Baodao were sold for HKD 20,000 each.

The population of Baodao area is five times that of Xiangjiang, but the level of economic development is about the same.

When the authorities did not dare to interfere with the sales of this American computer company, Yin Jun still adopted the dealer system and gave the Kirin computer package to a Baodao electronics company for sale. This also gave Baodao a little face. , so as not to slap you in the face anytime and anywhere.

If we give discounts to our own people, such as Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, the prices will be the same as those in the United States.

On the one hand, it is also because their taxes are very high. The profits that can be earned from a unit of 2,999 US dollars are sometimes not as good as those made in Baodao and Xiangjiang.

However, in order to promote the popularity of computers as quickly as possible and allow more people to use computers, thereby promoting the advancement of various computer hardware and software, Yin Jun did not care about this small profit.

You know, even if Yin Jun doesn't make a penny on Kirin computers, he can still make a lot of money on subsequent repairs and parts replacement.

Then there is Microsoft's Windows system. Yin Jun holds 50% of the shares. How much does he earn for every copy of the Windows system sold?

These two months in the summer are exactly when the children are at home on vacation and have a lot of time.

Parents thought that instead of letting them play crazy games, it would be better to buy them a computer to study. So overall, based on the purchases of students alone, the sales volume has increased significantly compared to the previous months. rise.

Adding August and September together, including Baodao and Xiangjiang Omen Asia, the total sales exceeded 100,000 units in one breath.

Total sales in more than 20 European countries also exceeded 160,000 units.

North America and South America combined are another 200,000 units.

Such a good sales situation has caused the Los Angeles factory to raise its production expectations for an unknown number of times this year.

Xiangjiang increased its production capacity even more significantly under Yin Jun's instructions.

So far, the annual production capacity has reached 1.5 million units.

The Kirin Computer Factory with 20,000 employees originally had a huge waste of labor resources, but now it has an employee utilization rate of 70%, which surprised Yin Jun.

It seems that maybe the factory will have to expand its recruitment of workers again in the year after next!

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