Chapter 1007: Crazy Cell Phone License
The decision of the production department to let go of the mouth this time, the mobile phone companies under Lianxin, Lianxun, and Dongxing are under the greatest pressure, but as members of the system, they are not qualified and have no strength to resist. They are looking forward to What can Kumho do.
As far as Xiao Ruimin is concerned, he hopes to have an interview with Zhang Tuo.
Zhang Ke knew that the conflict between Xiao Ruimin and Ge Jiande was getting deeper, and he might not win Geng Chongyang's favor anymore. After thinking about it again and again, he couldn't make any promises to Xiao Ruimin, so he didn't meet him. For Xiao Ruimin's wish to strengthen the technical cooperation of Lianxin, Zhang Ting gave an affirmative response. At the beginning, he provided the whole set of digital mobile phone manufacturing technology for free, which prompted the Digital Mobile Technology Promotion Association, and later continued to incorporate some technologies into the promotion of digital mobile phone technology. Within the framework of the association, it is necessary to establish a technical alliance for the domestic mobile phone industry-only in this way can manufacturers be qualified to compete with foreign-funded manufacturers. Novel chapters are updated the fastest
The Ministry of Information Industry also seems to be worried that Kumho will play tricks behind the scenes. In addition, companies applying for licenses for mobile phone production and sales are queuing up in front of the Information Industry Department. The actual qualification inspection work has been going on since the middle of last year. , The formal examination and approval work has been carried out since the middle of the year.
Multiple factors prompted the Ministry of Information Industry to decide to open the door to enter the mobile phone industry this year, but it still agreed to invite the Digital Mobile Technology Promotion Association to participate in the technology application of applicant companies. "Fiction" novel chapters are updated the fastest
The result of the multi-party game is that the member companies of the Digital Mobile Technology Promotion Association are regarded as one of the thresholds for approval, and the Digital Mobile Phone Promotion Association allows the registration of member companies and investment locations to be geographically limited.
The Digital Mobile Phone Promotion Association also has requirements for membership applications. Companies that are not members of the Digital Mobile Phone Promotion Association this year basically have no hope of participating in the final review of mobile phone licenses. Enterprises that have obtained mobile phone licenses this year may have already invested in construction or production in Haizhou. Base, or only invest in the establishment of a local research center, this is also to ensure the local interests of the construction and Haizhou. From a practical point of view, it will not strictly require every domestic mobile phone company to build a production base and research base in the construction or Haizhou.
It is also Kumho's strategy of only seeking power and not seeking control, which makes the semi-official nature of the Digital Mobile Technology Promotion Association officially recognized by the Ministry of Information Industry.
The speed of approval was very fast. In late March, the list of the second batch of selected enterprises was announced, with a total of eleven companies. Already possessing actual production experience, technical research foundation, registered capital of 200 million, and a member company of the Digital Mobile Technology Promotion Association, Kewang Hi-Tech is of course one of them. The joint approval document, Lenovo, Changhong, Haier and other well-known domestic electronics and home appliance companies are also listed, as Zhang Ke expected. Except for Kewang Hi-Tech, the other ten companies are all subordinate or local state-owned enterprises.
Unlike the other ten companies that have obtained mobile phone licenses, Kewang Hi-Tech actually already has a mobile phone production base, research center, and sales network. In fact,
Kewang Hi-Tech also actually owns mobile phone products.
From the second half of 1997 to March 1999. Kewang Hi-Tech produced four mobile phones in total for Lianxin OEM. Although it signed a supplementary agreement with Lianxin before. Before these four phones were naturally eliminated from the market. It is also produced and sold by Kewang Hi-Tech OEM. But Kewang Gaoke received the approval the next day. Just put their two mobile phones into the nearest East China market-just take out the most successful two of the four OEM mobile phones and make slight improvements. Although Lianxin has opinions. But can't bring it up.
The other ten companies that have obtained mobile phone licenses are either under construction or have established spare parts production bases in Haizhou. Or set up a ground research center. Because Kumho, Lianxin, Lianxun, and Dongxing jointly restricted OEM behavior. These ten companies have no experience in OEM mobile phone production. After getting the approval. The most important thing is to build the production base first.
Thanks to Kumho's efforts. In practice, it has become the research and development center of digital mobile phone technology in China. Haizhou is currently the largest industrial base for digital mobile phones in China. In 1998, 60% of domestic mobile phones flowed to the market from Haizhou.
Ten companies that have obtained licenses. In addition to Lenovo's decision to move the research center back to Beijing and Haier's decision to move the research center back to Qingdao. Kejian and other eight companies have decided to expand their investment in research centers under construction. Make the building truly develop into the center of digital mobile phone technology.
From late March to early April. A total of three companies decided to build, and two companies decided to invest in the construction of production bases in Haizhou. The other five licensed companies decided to build production bases in Beijing, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Tianjin and other places.
It's no wonder that these companies started production lines on the spot after getting the approval. The list of the top 100 electronics companies in 1999 came out in mid-March. Listed with annual sales of 204. Huaxia Electronics
The mobile phone business of Electronics contributed to its sales, the mobile phone business of Lianxun Electronics contributed 3.2 billion in sales and 3.2 billion in net profit to it, and the mobile phone business of Dongxing Communications contributed 2.8 billion in sales and 2.9 billion in net profit. , You must know that the total investment of these three companies in the mobile phone business is not even 600 million.
Aida Group ranks third in the top 100 list with annual sales of 100 million, and the mobile phone business contributed 9 billion in sales. None of them merged the DVD player business. In addition, although the top 100 list does not announce profits, it is not difficult for the industry to know that Aida Group obtained a net profit of 1.8 billion in mobile phone business in 1998. The data has been shrunk, but apart from investment in technology introduction and technology research, Aida Group's total investment in other mobile phone projects is only about 600 million. In 1998, the mobile phone market could be said to be truly profitable, and the capital-earnings ratio even reached 200%.
The second batch of companies that have obtained mobile phone licenses have no weak confidence in the domestic mobile phone market. A slightly bolder market analysis report believes that the total sales volume of the domestic mobile phone market in 1999 will definitely reach 32 million units, and by 2000, it will exceed 65 million units. By then, the domestic mobile phone market share should be between Hesitation, compared with the 3.8 million domestic mobile phone production in 1998, within two years, domestic mobile phone manufacturers will gain a market growth space of 70 billion to 85 billion.
With such a high profit ratio and such a broad market growth space, the enterprises that have obtained the license even think that delaying the establishment of the factory by one day is equivalent to losing millions of profits. Why not act urgently? In particular, the same batch of Kewang Hi-Tech that obtained the license launched their mobile phone products almost at the same time they got the approval.
The second batch of 11 licenses is far from enough. Some companies that did not obtain mobile phone licenses even sued the deputy prime minister and state councilor in charge.
In addition to building factories and introducing production lines, recruiting experienced production management personnel and employees is also the most urgent thing for these enterprises at present.
Compared with Lenovo and Lianxun in Beijing, and Dongxing in Zhedong Wenzhou, Kumho has cultivated the first batch of professionals in the field of digital mobile phone technology research and production management in the true sense for China in two years, and Kumho's personnel department We have been preparing for the expansion of production, and we have been continuously recruiting and training employees.
Inevitably, after mid-March, a large number of professionals in Kumho's mobile phone department began to leave Kumho.
It is hateful that a number of companies that have obtained mobile phone licenses rented offices in Haizhou New Industrial Zone, across the street from the Kumho Mobile Phone Factory, and set up special recruitment agencies. in front of the door.
During the special period, Lu Qingsheng had to personally handle the personnel work of the business department, but Lu Qingsheng, who received more than ten or twenty resignation reports every day, was eager to mess with the guy.
People go to high places, and water flows to the bottom. Other companies can provide double or triple the salary. to more critical positions.
Although Kumho’s salaries for ordinary employees are relatively high in Haizhou, they are still a bit lower than those in Beijing, Shenzhen and other regions. Especially these companies are extremely eager for professional talents. In addition to high wages, Kumho It is very tempting that an ordinary employee can almost go to a management position in the past.
In response to this phenomenon, Zhang Ke also specially convened a meeting of senior management personnel of Aida Group to discuss, and asked Lu Qingsheng and the personnel department of the group to actively and patiently do ideological work for employees, and do not set additional settings for those employees who are determined to resign. What obstacles, if you talk about your tolerance and style at this time, you can still maintain long-term interests.
From mid-March to late April, the employee turnover rate of Kumho's mobile phone factory in Haizhou exceeded 20%. The only consolation is that although key employees are also lost, they are much lower. After all, Kumho provides relatively generous salaries and benefits to these key employees. be more clear. The attrition rate of middle-level management who can receive equity incentives is even lower. Only five people submitted their resignations within a month, and two of them were admitted by Kumho to join Kewang Hi-Tech. There is no way to resign, but still retain the previous incentive equity. The other three middle-level managers can go to other companies to serve as the deputy general managers of the business department if they leave Kumho.
For this reason, Kumho's personnel department had to temporarily increase the recruitment plan of 300 people.