Chapter 265: The Confidence Plan of Three Cobblers
Pan Zhanlong thought for a while and said: "Boss, if the Small and Medium Enterprises Association of Singapore has this basic database of member companies, there will be no problem at all in setting up a Yahoo Singapore site as you mentioned. If you want to do this, the biggest workload in the future will be Put these massive six The information of tens of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises is entered into the back-end database of the Yahoo! Singapore site. I estimate that this is a lot of work and the labor cost is quite high. It would be great if we could guide these small and medium-sized enterprises to spend the most money to create paid web pages. Make money by helping them create web pages..."
Li Xiaofan answered: "Old Pan, what you said about helping small and medium-sized enterprises to build web pages reminded me. Last May, I accompanied Mr. Tang and others to Hangzhou, and I met someone working on the China Yellow Pages project by the West Lake. Mr. Ma. Their main business of China Yellow Pages is to help domestic companies build web pages. I heard from Mr. Ma that they had a hard time promoting and attracting business because there were very few people in China who had access to the Internet at that time, and many people did not understand what the Internet was. Dongdong..."
Li Xiaofan continued: "The current environment in Singapore is much better than that in China. First, if we want to do something, we will have the huge traffic support of Yahoo in the United States. The Yahoo brand is also very influential among Singaporean netizens. Especially the recent English version After the release of the WIN95 window system, a wave of Internet craze is taking shape. The second is from the Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises Association yesterday. The information I got from the meeting is that the Singapore government attaches great importance to and supports the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore. It believes that the vast number of local small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore are the foundation of the national economy. If we decide to do this, things will be easier. Finally, I went to talk to the Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises Association and asked them to come forward to ask for resources and support from the Singapore government!”
"Boss, what kind of support do you plan to get through the Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises Association?" Gu Qijun interjected.
“First, we need to let the Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises Association and relevant government departments in Singapore know that one of the purposes of our Yahoo Singapore site is to help the vast number of local small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore to get online, to show the style of Singaporean small and medium-sized enterprises to the world, and to facilitate global merchants. Searching for them quickly through the Yahoo platform will help these small and medium-sized enterprises expand their business globally. Therefore, we must obtain funding from the Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises Association and relevant government departments to build this Yahoo Singapore site.”
"In addition, yesterday I heard from the Secretary-General of the Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises Association that the Singaporean government allocates a large amount of funds in the annual fiscal budget, and establishes various preferential policies through the National Productivity Bureau (NPB) and other departments to support the development of Singapore's small and medium-sized enterprises. There are various entrepreneurial subsidies, Loan interest discounts, etc., and even the 'overseas' assistance plan policy to support small and medium-sized enterprises to develop overseas. My idea is that since the Singapore government has arranged so much financial assistance. If Singapore's small and medium-sized enterprises develop overseas, isn't our establishment of the Yahoo Singapore site the best "overseas" support plan for Singapore's small and medium-sized enterprises? My idea is to get a subsidy through the Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises Association! I estimate that a large number of local small and medium-sized enterprises in Singapore are unwilling to spend money to build web pages, so this money can be funded or subsidized by the Singapore government to increase the enthusiasm of local small and medium-sized enterprises to go online and open web pages!”
Hearing this, Pan Zhanlong, who had been listening carefully, gave a thumbs up: "Boss, what you said makes sense. I personally feel that the possibility of applying for a Singapore government subsidy for this project is very high! A professor who taught me before He worked at NCS, Singapore. According to him, since 1980, the Singapore government has spent huge sums of money to vigorously promote national informatization construction, and has been particularly successful for this purpose. The National Computer Service of Singapore (NCS) was established and has successively proposed a series of plans such as the Singapore National Computerization Plan, the National IT Plan, and the IT2000 Smart Island. The National Computer Service of Singapore (NCS) has been committed to guiding the promotion in Singapore's government, enterprises, businesses, and factories. Adoption of computerized applications. After more than a decade of national computer planning, almost all institutions in Singapore are now computerized.”
Pan Zhanlong continued: "Recently, Lim Swee Say, who has been the chairman of the National Computer Board of Singapore for a long time and is currently the Minister of State for Transport and Information Technology of Singapore, came to our school to give a speech recently and raised a new topic. He said: A computer in a building Computerization is called a smart building; a factory is computerized and is called a smart factory; but will one day Singapore have many independent Intelligent individuals, every computer system is incompatible? Therefore, the Singapore government recently formulated a second ten-year information strategy called the "National Science and Technology Plan", which plans to solve the problems of various government departments at the administrative and technical levels by the year 2000. issues of information interconnection and data sharing between cities and within cities, extending information sharing from the government to the whole society, and eliminating the phenomenon of 'information islands'!"
Hearing Pan Zhanlong talk about this topic, Li Xiaofan had to admire the forward-looking vision of some Singaporean government elites. In the early 1990s, we realized the importance of eliminating information islands and opening up information interconnection and data sharing issues. It may take twenty years for mainland China to realize the importance of this issue. Before Li Xiaofan was reborn, various provinces and cities established big data bureaus one after another...
Minister Lim Swee Say mentioned by Pan Zhanlong has made significant contributions to the development of informatization across Singapore. Lim Swee Say is a typical elite talent in Singapore. In the 1970s, he won the Singapore Armed Forces Scholarship to study at Loughborough University in the UK. His master's degree student is a Stanford University alumnus of Jerry Yang.
From the 1980s to the 1990s, Lim Swee Say served as the CEO and Chairman of the Singapore National Computer Board, committed to developing Singapore's cutting-edge information technology. Later, he served as the CEO of the Singapore Economic Development Board, Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts, Minister of the Environment, Minister of the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for National Development, Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress of Singapore and Minister of Manpower of Singapore, and a series of important positions in the Singapore government.
"Boss, Minister Lim Swee Say was just invited to give a speech at our school last week. Judging from the importance he attached to IT informatization in his speech, I think it is quite possible to apply for a subsidy for our project through the Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises Association!" Pan Zhanlong seemed very confident.
After listening to Pan Zhanlong's words, Li Xiaofan said happily, "That's great, Lao Pan. After hearing what you said, I have more confidence in doing this project! Then the three of us will get together and draft a preliminary business plan. After Jerry Yang wakes up in the United States tonight, I will call him to communicate. Then, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, we will find some time to talk to the leaders of the Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises Association about this project."