Chapter 761 Unexpected Gains

Because he was deeply dissatisfied with many foreign-funded papermaking companies such as Jinguang App, and this time Fan Investment Group took the lead in announcing the attempt of paperless office in China, Fan Henry used his status as executive vice premier to advocate to the State Council that the government should vigorously promote the process of paperless office.

After Mr. Zhu's approval, the State Council issued the document "Decision on Gradually Promoting Paperless Office in Government Agencies, Enterprises and Institutions" in the form of a formal document, and officially began to promote paperless office in the whole society.

Of course, due to time issues and various factors in reality, paperless office is still basically on paper, but the State Council's decision in the form of a red-headed document has a great impact on the entire papermaking industry. At least the stocks of several listed papermaking companies in China have been in a state of limit down for several consecutive days.

And foreign-funded papermaking companies such as Jinshan App, which occupy a considerable share of the office paper market in China, have also been greatly affected. The senior executives of various companies have discussed countermeasures and hope to come up with a charter to solve this matter.

As we all know, government procurement has always been a very lucrative part. Although major papermaking companies do not necessarily deal directly with government departments, their distributors are basically masters of public relations, and the companies have also given great support in this regard. For example, the government departments purchase a large amount of paper at a high price, but the time to pay back is relatively long. As wealthy foreign-funded papermaking companies, they generally help distributors advance the money for this part of the investment and wait until the end of the year to settle.

It is precisely because of this that the price of office paper purchased by the government can reach several times the market price. Of course, there are still some kickbacks in the middle, but it is insignificant. After all, this situation exists in many industries.

Thousands of miles to be an official only for money, things without interests are obviously not attractive. Whenever there is a recruitment of civil servants, there are always crowds of people scrambling for it. It is not that everyone is so conscious and wants to serve the people. In fact, most people come to serve the RMB.

But after discussing it, we still couldn't figure it out, because the government issued this document too suddenly. There was no news before, which caught them off guard and they didn't have much time to operate. It seems that at least this year's shipments will be greatly affected.

As for local governments, it also feels a bit sudden. Many people know the meaning of paperless office, but we haven't seen any local government or enterprise truly implement paperless office.

In fact, in China, paperless office has been tried for a period of time, but the most common question people raise in this process is that the means for enterprises to implement paperless office is to install a set of office automation software, but after implementation, paper has not been reduced, but more paper has been used.

There are many reasons for this situation.

Some leaders of enterprises or government departments have limited computer application level and are unwilling to use computers to handle some work. They are happy to use paper, which feels more reliable. There is even a phenomenon of comparison between departments, to see who prints clearly and beautifully. You use a dot matrix printer, I use a laser printer, you use black and white, I use color, so sometimes some leaders' preferences lead to a lot of paper waste.

The development of office automation has provided the possibility of saving paper and even paperless office. For example, e-mail and the Internet can easily provide relevant information to the parties in need, and of course it can also be saved without using paper as a carrier. But good wishes are not equal to reality. The reality is that global office paper consumption is still growing at a rate of about 7% per year. At this rate, global office paper consumption will double in another ten years.

Some people also think that the increase in paper consumption in paperless office is temporary, just like punching, the hand must be retracted before punching, and then the punch can be more powerful. The current large amount of paper is for the future paperless. This sounds reasonable, but after careful consideration, it feels that people's understanding of paperless is still so limited.

In fact, whether it is a government department or an enterprise, everyone spends money to build a local area network and connect to the Internet, not just to save some paper. Of course, office expenses can be continuously reduced by establishing an office automation system, but the starting point of establishing a system should be to improve the level of office management.

It's just that the standards for office automation are still being formed, and the content contained in the products of many manufacturers is also very different. Generally speaking, the ideal system in the minds of users should include document processing, e-mail, meeting management, file management, information distribution, electronic forums, work management and other contents.

After more than ten years of development from the late 1980s to the present, the domestic office automation system has evolved from initially providing auxiliary office services for single machines to today's large-scale collaborative work management for enterprise-level applications. The first generation of domestic office automation systems, which started in the mid-1980s, was mainly marked by personal computers and office suites, realizing the electronicization of data statistics and document writing, and completing the leap from the original paper medium to the electronic bit medium of office information carriers.

Since the mid-1990s, with the emergence of workflow groupware technology represented by TES and the rapid development of network communication technology, office automation systems have undergone the first revolutionary evolution. The second-generation office automation system is characterized by network technology and collaborative work technology, which realizes workflow automation and the leap from traditional manual document collection to workflow automation.

With the advent of the knowledge economy era, knowledge has become a key resource for economic growth, social development and corporate growth. The maximum mastery and utilization of knowledge has become the core of the information construction of enterprises and institutions.

Although Fan Wubing came up with such a gimmick of paperless office in order to cover up his sneak entry into the papermaking market and save the huge office expenses spent on foreign-funded enterprises such as Jinguan App, this proposal has obviously been approved by most experts and scholars in society.

It's not that Fan's Investment Group is so popular, but recently due to the hot Internet market, any idea related to e-commerce or e-government will always be sought after by the most people. The government departments and enterprises and institutions vigorously promote the process of paperless office, which is obviously an important process for the whole country to enter the Internet age, and it is also a good opportunity for many people from all walks of life who are eager to ride the tide of the Internet to make money.

At least computer manufacturers are very supportive of this matter, and major websites have also expressed great enthusiasm. After all, the first step in promoting paperless office is to increase the number of computers that can access the Internet, which also means a large increase in customers for them, and the increase in customers brings real money.

The hot discussion about paperless office for several consecutive days has brought the first huge benefit to Fan's Investment Group, that is, the order volume of the new version of the software package developed by the software development department has skyrocketed within three days, setting a new record of 1.6 million sets, which really makes Fan Wubing feel a little dumbfounded.

When Fan Wubing's brother-in-law Han Chu called to inform him of the good news, Fan Wubing really thought that there was something wrong with his ears. It was not until Han Chu repeated it twice that he dared to be sure that the news was true, which was enough to show the shock of the news.

"If I had known this earlier, ah——" Fan Wubing wanted to say that if he had known this earlier, he would have announced the news as early as when it was launched.

However, this is just wishful thinking. After all, the popularity of the Internet mainly started this year, and the most noteworthy thing this time is that the government, under the influence of his father Fan Heng, issued a red-headed document to promote paperless office. Under the two-phase effect, the market for paperless office systems was finally opened.

Although many government departments or enterprises and institutions have not yet met the requirements of paperless office, purchasing a set of genuine office software does not cost much, but it can reflect the full attention of their departments to the opinions of the State Council. This behavior can be regarded as the traditional Chinese official culture.

For every document issued, you may be unable to follow it, or you may not want to follow it, but there is one thing you must pay attention to, that is, you must respond in a more correct manner, and you must not ignore the requirements of your superiors.

If you can't do it, it's a problem of ability, but if you don't do it, it's a problem of position.

Every dedicated official will not make such a stupid mistake, but if you want to invest in paperless office, the cost will be very large, and the investment in hardware equipment is not a small amount, but in the short term, the most effective thing is to purchase software products, especially to purchase a cheap software product that can be called national software, which is undoubtedly the best choice.

"Damn, the officialdom is really a training for people!" Fan Wubing thought of this and couldn't help cursing inwardly.

In any case, his trick of making a feint to the east and attacking the west has worked. Although he hasn't seen any output from his papermaking industry, the first benefit should be in the software product, which is also a very good start.

However, if such things happen more times every day, it will be more perfect.