Chapter 639 Business Division
As the financial crisis eases in November, the raging giant crocodiles are looking for other plump targets while digesting the food in their stomachs.
Yang Dongxu, who stayed in Hong Kong for almost a whole year in 1997, took a flight and temporarily flew back to the magical city. With the collapse of Hong Kong's real estate, a lot of rumors have spread in the mainland. After all, he is the person who has taken over the most real estate deals in Hong Kong. Even if he wants to keep a low profile, he has to stand at the forefront.
However, although the outside world is turbulent, the company is still very stable internally. Especially after feasting on the international market, Yang Dongxu secretly returned the funds previously withdrawn from various companies to the company's accounts in batches.
Seeing so much money lying around in the company's accounts, naturally none of the company's senior executives panicked. The company cadres under them have also stabilized, and although the ordinary employees below have occasional discussions, there are basically no major issues.
This time he came back mainly to deal with China Telecom matters. After more than a month of negotiations, he finally packaged up Jinshan Company and became the largest shareholder with 90% of the shares.
This acquisition was completed when he was still staring at the financial crisis in Hong Kong. However, Kingsoft was originally a software company, and it could only be said to be peripheral to the telecommunications industry, and there was not much overlap.
Therefore, it was inevitable to break through the reorganization after the acquisition of Kingsoft. The anti-virus software department was originally retained, and then the communications department and game department were expanded, and extended to Dongxu Technology mobile phones and computer systems.
Needless to say, the telecommunications sector definitely needs sophisticated technical talents. In addition to cooperating with the government to build base stations, it also started building its own database and servers at the request of Yang Dongxu.
The game department is a brand new department. At present, domestic online games can only be said to have just started. There are no large-scale online games and no big game companies. So I haven't found any talents yet. If I want to enrich myself, I can only go to the international community to see if I can find people.
The anti-virus software was naturally handled by the same people from the company, but it was not handed over to Lei Jun for management. Instead, a former manager from Jinshan Company took over temporarily. Lei Jun's main job now is to familiarize himself with the entire company after the expansion, and his main goal is to focus on mobile phones and computer hardware.
Mobile phones are okay, after all, now there are several big foreign brands that dominate the market. Dongxu Technology only gets OEMs. The technology it researches is not yet mature, so it needs to continue to be convinced.
Computer hardware is relatively more complicated. Although Tunghsu Technology's hard drive production technology is currently absolutely leading in the world, it has made breakthroughs in independent graphics cards, and it can barely keep up with memory technology.
At the same time, the motherboard technology is also good, except that the CPU cannot compete with Intel. Hard disk technology leads the world, and other technologies are in the middle and upper reaches. So there is no problem at all in building a fully owned computer brand.
However, although the current domestic network is not very developed, computer manufacturers have already appeared. Especially after Lenovo’s beautiful operations last year, it directly dominated the PC market. Having become the undisputed leader in the country, Dongxu Technology has to consider this strong obstacle if it wants to enter this field.
"Why don't we postpone the launch of the all-in-one machine, and let's focus on computer hardware first?" In Lei Jun's new office in the magic city, looking at the young and excessive boss in front of him, he pondered and said.
"Tell me what you think." Yang Dongxu nodded and signaled him to continue.
"The domestic market is currently so big, and Lenovo has already taken the lead. If we force a confrontation, the chances of winning, regardless of cost, are not very high. So instead of tit-for-tat, we might as well take a step back and specialize in what we are good at." In terms of hardware, as for the brand of the all-in-one machine, I will wait and see for a while before considering how to operate it.”
"Change from competition to cooperation?" Yang Dongxu rubbed his chin in thought.
I have to say that this is a good approach, after all, even though Dongxu Technology has certain technical advantages. But after all, Lenovo has completed the layout and secured its position as the domestic leader. It would be too difficult to directly rush in and get benefits in a short period of time. Even if it wins in the end, it will be a miserable victory.
But if we change our thinking and turn competitors into partners, this matter will be much easier to operate. After all, with the current technology of Dongxu Technology's computer hardware, Lenovo has no reason to buy foreign hardware at high prices instead of domestic hardware that is both cheap and easy to use.
"You will discuss this matter with Manager Ye later and leave the specific matters to him. What I want to talk to you about today is about turning off the phone. After such a long period of familiarity, do you think we can get started on our own? mobile phone brand?”
This is undoubtedly the main reason why Yang Dongxu insisted on poaching Lei Jun and acquired a soft armor company for him. At present, Dongxu Technology has been OEMing for Nokia for some time.
Although the technical reserves of mobile phones are compared to Nokia. Motorola or something is definitely a few grades behind. But if we don’t produce cutting-edge mobile phones, we still have the technology to produce ordinary mobile phones.
"If we simply plagiarize, it is indeed no problem given our technical reserves, but if we want to do better, it will be a big problem. We do not have our own mature mobile phone chip technology, nor a mature mobile phone system. Even the most basic mobile phone circuit board technology There is no way to compare with others, so it is difficult to make a mobile phone of your own brand,” Lei Jun said bluntly.
And he looked at Yang Dongxu with some doubts in his eyes. When he was hired before, the job he was given was in IT. And the initial arrangement was with China Telecom. Who knew that what he did for several months after arriving was to go to another company to learn about computer and mobile phone technology, which made him a little confused.
"Copycat?" Yang Dongxu pinched the beard that had been hung up on his chin.
If you want to quickly occupy the market, copycats are indeed the fastest and most effective method. After all, you have no R&D costs at all, so you can just copy them. And in this domestic environment, you are not afraid of lawsuits just to sell one and make a profit.
But if you want to build your own brand for a long time, copycats are undoubtedly a road to death. How many mobile phone brands suddenly popped up in China after 2000?
There are so many types of copycat phones on the market, and they even have more powerful functions than the original phones. But what about ten years from now? As mobile phones continue to innovate and the technical threshold continues to increase, none of the copycat phones that were once booming have survived. Even if it transforms in time, it will end up half-dead and beaten by several other brands.
"Forget it, let's make technical reserves first. If it doesn't work, just like computers, let's go through hardware cooperation channels first, and then slowly develop our own mobile phone brand.
Let you manage Huaxia Telecom, but let you understand Dongxu Technology's mobile phone and computer industry. It's because both of them are related to IT, especially mobile phones. In the future, we will do mobile communications.
There are two key points in our work now. The first is to sort out Huaxia Telecom. Don't worry about the game department and anti-virus software for now. Mainly focusing on two areas, Internet broadband and mobile communications.
Secondly, there are two points on the mobile phone side, one is the mobile phone system and the other is the mobile phone chip. Dongxu Technology can be responsible for mobile phone chips, but mobile phone systems are not their strong point.
After all, the main business there is still research and development of various hardware, and there are not many technical talents in software. So you have to take responsibility for this, because in the future, the mobile phone software system part will be separated from Dongxu Technology and merged into Huaxia Telecom. "
Huaxia Telecom is Huaxia Telecom, and Dongxu Technology is Dongxu Technology. It was a little confusing before because there were not enough people, but it will definitely be completely divided later.
According to Yang Dongxu's current plan, Huaxia Telecom's base station and server construction will be transferred to Dongxu Technology in the future, and all parts of Dongxu Technology's soft armor will be transferred to Huaxia Telecom.
In short, Huaxia Telecom focuses on broadband and mobile phone systems, while Dongxu Technology focuses on hardware. The two companies work closely with each other to improve technology in their own fields.
"Okay, no problem. But I have never been exposed to this mobile phone system before." Lei Jun nodded and said.
This division also made him feel much clearer, unlike before when he couldn't figure out which company he belonged to.
"No one is born with anything and can learn it slowly. I am not in a hurry. Tell me what kind of talents you need and I will help you find them. If necessary, I will buy some from Nokia that they allow. The technology will come back for you to digest. You can also use Nokia’s system for comparison to help you learn and progress faster.”
In fact, the current mobile phone system is not as complicated as later generations of smartphones. Even if Nokia, Motorola, or Ericsson have unparalleled technical reserves in this regard, they are still in the process of groping forward.
So if you join the research and development in this area now, even if you can't catch up in a short time, you can at least follow them and not fall behind and slowly accumulate strength and foundation.
Yang Dongxu gave an overview of the split and merger of the company, leaving Lei Jun and Ye Rongrong to handle the specific matters themselves.
After leaving Huaxia Telecom, he went to Hurricane Construction non-stop. The signing of the Century Park site has been completed and land grading has been underway for several months.
The issue of external expropriation of building and park design plans was also completed when he was in Hong Kong. In the end, the design drawings of the company building were made from drawings from a foreign design school, while the design drawings for the park renovation were made from domestic garden design drawings.
Hurricane Construction financed 70% of the company building and took a 30% loan from the bank. The park construction hurricane building invested 80%, and the government took the land as a stake and invested 20%.
After the construction started, everything went smoothly, but as the Hong Kong real estate decline incident unfolded. Although the hurricane building is generally stable, the rumors outside have never stopped.
Especially before the financial crisis, Yang Dongxu suddenly increased the debt ratio of Hurricane Construction significantly. This has caused many people to fan the flames and say that Hurricane Construction is now out of debt and is about to break its capital chain and go bankrupt.
This caused many banks that originally provided loans to come to collect debts, and even the city government asked several times about the specific situation. This forced him to come back early to take charge of the Magic City.