"Luckily I hung up quickly. Telephone fraud is rampant these days, so it's better to be cautious."
Li Zehua wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, still feeling frightened.
Don't blame him, just blame them for underestimating the market's enthusiastic feedback. Roewe mobile phones are in serious shortage. Not to mention 3 million units, they can't even produce 1 million. The delivery deadline to the Southeast Asian market has been postponed again and again.
October and November 2010.
It was launched two years earlier than the 798 of the Coarse Grain Factory. Although it uses a high-speed timing chip, it is an optimized Android system and a full touch screen 3G smartphone.
It instantly ignited the entire industry. Before that, even domestic copycat phones assembled from unknown brand parts would cost more than a thousand yuan, and even traditional keypad function phones would cost six or seven hundred yuan.
Roewe mobile phones focus on high cost-performance, beautiful appearance and exquisite design. Although the main frequency is a bit low, it can definitely meet the needs of most consumers.
Once launched, it has been especially popular among students, workers, and business people, as well as merchants, self-employed individuals, and individuals who need to use smartphones to participate in production and life.
As usual, we prioritize the internal needs of the QingCloud system and use convenient communication tools to improve work efficiency. Friendly competitors have also seen the advantages of smartphones, enterprise WeChat, and mobile office.
Under the influence of the accelerated investment share of industrial funds, people placed orders reluctantly, and after the first batch of products arrived, those who had used them could not escape the law of true fragrance.
Subsequently, some large companies placed additional orders and asked Qingyun Group to help customize various internal office software, making the supply chain of Roewe mobile phones increasingly tense.
The total size of its pre-orders once exceeded 400 million units...
"Good morning, Mr. Wang. I missed you so much since we last met in Pengcheng. Now that we meet in Chengdu, please give me some face. I'll treat you to a drink tonight."
At the Chengdu Airport, Li Zehua had a smug look on his face as he extended his hand to his partner who had just got off the plane.
Wang Chuanfu of BYD was speechless and shook his hand, "Mr. Li, they say you are a Pixiu, you will not spit out what you eat, but it is very risky to do things so radically.
The site selection for the first few branches has just been completed, the ordered equipment has not yet been installed, and the employee training program has just begun, and you brought me to Chengdu to build a factory. What if the market conditions change in the future?
Wouldn’t it be a waste of so much investment?”
If it were an ordinary cooperative relationship, Wang Chuanfu would not say this, but Qingyun is the largest single shareholder of both BYD Electronics and BYD Group.
Qingyun Investment has now acquired more than 30% of BYD shares through public purchases in the secondary market and purchases from Hong Kong investors and the stock god Buffett.
To put it bluntly, if it weren't for the agreement on joint actors, BYD Group would now be named Li.
"risky?"
Li Zehua looked surprised and nodded, saying, "There is indeed a risk, and it is very big."
Wang Chuanfu nodded in satisfaction. "It's great that you listened to my advice. Electronics factories often affect the employment of tens of thousands of people. We can't just rush for quick results. It's better to be steady."
Unfortunately, he and Li Zehua were not on the same page at all. Li Zehua looked worried and said, "If we delay any further, I'm afraid that foreign business partners and consumers will come to our door with knives to collect the debts. We might even lose our lives.
There are not enough to sell, not enough at all!"
Wang Chuanfu's waist was dodged, and he almost vomited blood. "What?"
He did not catch up with the first round of wealth feast of Qingyun Investment. He was attending a meeting in Shanghai some time ago, so he sent someone to buy 10 million US dollars as a token of his appreciation. Naturally, he had no idea how popular the scene was.
Qingyun did not publicize it on a large scale, but just kept urging the OEM factory to work in three shifts to maximize production capacity.
"Mr. Wang, don't you know? Consumers in Southeast Asia are eagerly waiting for the product. Even the American branch has received an order for 40 units in advance for trial use. The CEOs of China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom call us every day.
My hair has turned grey with worry, because I just can’t sell enough products! Just now, Li Yilong, chairman of Lijiapo, called and urged us to ship the second batch of 300 million mobile phones as soon as possible.
All in all, including miscellaneous orders from other countries overseas, the number of Roewe vehicles to be shipped is close to 10 million.
It’s not just mobile phones. We have hundreds of millions of orders for power banks, mobile phone accessories and other electronic products. These days, many big companies have been coming to us to ask for OEM production. I’m really worried~”
Wang Chuanfu, who didn't know what high-end Versailles was, was confused.
He wanted to strangle the person in front of him. What does the pre-order for 10 million smartphones mean?
This is nearly six times the current monthly production capacity of BYD Electronics and Zhaoxu Electronics. Even if all branches are put into production immediately, it will take three months of overtime work to complete the production task.
But what Li Zehua said next made him completely lose his brain.
"It's not a big deal if it's just 10 million mobile phones. After a quarter, orders from Shenzhou Electronics and Lianxiang Electronics will also be transferred to us, not to mention Qingyun Big Data has put six data centers into operation across the country.
There is a huge demand for new production capacity. The gap in customized mining machines for regional chain currencies is more than 100,000 units. Oh, I won’t go into details since you don’t know much about this.
In short, the home appliance industry also needs to start trial production of smart homes. A few days ago, Qingyun signed OEM contracts with twelve first-tier home appliance manufacturers at one go, mainly selling through electricity supplier channels.
Mr. Wang would not give these orders to outsiders, right?
Flextronics got the order, but suddenly cancelled the contract for some reason. This really made me worried because there were too many orders and we couldn't produce enough of them!
Mr. Wang, you must help me. Losing orders is a small matter. If we don’t take advantage of this golden opportunity to quickly seize market share and give our competitors time to recover, I don’t know how much trouble we will have to deal with…”
Wang Chuanfu automatically ignored the following words. He now looked like BYD when it rose in later generations and its sales in one month equaled that of a whole year. He was completely numb to the data.
It was not until a long time later, seeing Li Zehua standing there without moving, that he curiously asked, "With so much information, Mr. Li is worried that I can't digest it all, so he waited for me?"
"No, Mr. Fu from Chaoxu Electronics is coming here today, and Huaixu Electronics has also sent a director to wait for them."
Li Zehua casually explained, "BOE is preparing to open another new 6.5-generation line in Chengdu, which is dedicated to the production of flexible screens for smartphones, in addition to the new Chengdu plant invested by SMIC.
This place will become a new production base for smartphone screens and chips in the future, so we specially invited Mr. Wang and Mr. Fu to come and inspect it. If it is feasible, we will decide on the factory site, which will be near the original site of Chaoxu.
If we expand the scale a bit, it may be possible to accommodate 300,000 to 500,000 people in the future. "
"If the order volume is sufficient, Pengcheng, Dongguan and Yangcheng will do foreign trade to supply Southeast Asia and Africa, and Shanghai, Suzhou and Ningbo will do trade to Europe and America. There should be no problem for inland factories to supply domestic demand."
After Wang Chuanfu roughly estimated the market demand, his resistance faded, and he asked about the details of Qingyun's channel construction in economically underdeveloped regions such as Africa. He heard that Qingyun had added 6,000 market development specialist positions in one go.
He took a deep breath and said, "I often hear people say that Qingyun is rich and powerful. Today I see that the reputation is well-deserved, but the African market is fragmented. When can the cost of the large investment be recovered?"
Li Zehua said: "Don't look at the future now. Africa has a population of more than one billion. No matter how bad the future is, it will be a new Southeast Asian market. Moreover, there are many wealthy people and it contains extremely rich natural resources.
As long as you are willing to work hard, one day you will reap rewards beyond your expectations. Not to mention the long run, the traffic and advertising revenue brought by the user scale alone will be an astronomical figure. "
As he spoke, he repeated the details of product design and channel construction for underdeveloped areas in Africa, causing Wang Chuanfu to nod frequently.
“That’s right. Roewe’s mobile phone market positioning is at the lower end. It has absorbed the experience of promoting keypad phones in Africa, made the handset bigger, and improved the beauty and whitening functions.
The battery capacity is increased, and a removable battery is provided, so a mobile phone can be equipped with several batteries. Most importantly, it can also get global satellite positioning support from Beidou navigation.
In addition to a series of advantages, there are also relatively low prices and a sound after-sales maintenance system. I believe that Roewe Electronics will definitely gain momentum in the third world in the future..."
"This also involves the special purpose of cultivating domestic mobile phone operating systems and a complete domestic smartphone industry chain. In short, it is not easy to explain in just a few words."
Li Zehua said casually, and took over the newly arrived director of Huaixu Electronics, and continued: "Don't worry about the operating system. After the New Year, domestic products will be given priority. After domestic substitutes are found for core components such as chips, flash memory, and memory, products sold outside Europe and the United States will be updated..."
The plan had been made long ago, and Qingyun could not possibly pin its hopes for hundreds of millions of smart terminal devices in the future on Western capital.
"What we lack now is technology and time. If possible, I don't want to use Android and Qualcomm products. Fortunately, there is still enough time. The market is currently in chaos.
Nokia, Motorola, BlackBerry, Sony, Intel, Apple, Samsung and other manufacturers each have their own technological advantages. It will be difficult for Android and Qualcomm to become a universal standard within a few years.
I have sent people to discuss communication patent licensing with Nokia and Huaban. There may be a chance that we can take over Nokia's mobile phone division in the future.
I believe that as long as Nokia exists, it will be difficult for Qualcomm to completely monopolize the smart communications market patents.”
Li Zehua is very ambitious and he will take over ZTE sooner or later. Huaban Factory is still tinkering with its own HiSilicon standards, but there are very few responders and a lack of practical implementation.
In addition, its employee-owned organizational structure makes it difficult for outsiders to establish influence. After much deliberation, only Nokia is the most suitable to establish a connection. Microsoft and Nokia have cooperated in the past.
Rather than saying that the two giants joined forces to try to change fate, it is better to say that Nokia gambled on its future, ran into a scumbag, and Microsoft made a feint and successfully sent Nokia's mobile phone business to hell.
Microsoft continued its arrogance as the absolute overlord in the PC era. The incompatibility of WP version updates and iterations killed Nokia, and then Microsoft started its own mobile device era.
Well, it's more thunder than rain. Regardless of whether it was intentional or not, judging from the results, Microsoft is aiming to put the nail in Nokia's coffin.
The acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business means that Nokia's outstanding communication technology can be perfectly inherited, and most importantly, it can help Europe stabilize the overall economic environment.
Delay the time for Tai capital to infiltrate and control the European economy and provide a better external environment for the rise of the University of East Asia.
“Those are too far away, but setting up a large-scale foundry industry cluster in Chengdu is still something we can consider.”
Fu Yujie arrived late, and after listening to Li Zehua's explanation of the layout of the overseas industrial chain, she took over the topic and said, "Mr. Wang will not refuse, Pengcheng BYD Electronics is already in full production.
However, the production capacity in October was less than 80% of the expected number. Of the 85 mobile phones originally scheduled to be delivered this month, only 15 have been completed so far. It seems that the production capacity will not exceed 60 this month.
Wang Chuanfu glared at the senior assistant next to him. Since when would Zhaoxu Electronics, a rising star in the foundry business, be able to show off in front of BYD?
However, due to insufficient estimation of new production capacity, BYD Electronics lagged slightly behind in the speed of updating equipment. It was only thanks to Zhaoxu Electronics' willingness to share technology patent authorization that it was able to barely keep up with the progress.
"Let's not talk about this anymore. We can catch up with the progress after the new production capacity is added."
Li Zehua smiled and asked everyone to get in the car. At the same time, he did not forget to greet Fu Yujie privately, "Don't mention the conflict between you and BYD Electronics in front of President Wang.
The main business of their group is new energy vehicles, and they will not invest major resources in the OEM business. Besides, after they received the capital injection from the group, didn’t they update their equipment and technology as soon as possible?
Please be more tolerant. We also have to give them enough time and space to develop, right?"
Fu Yujie takes her work very seriously. Upon hearing this, she frowned slightly and said, "We have enough orders and enough gross profit, but the progress of investing in building factories and recruiting personnel is far behind the development needs.
After several communications, the management kept shirking responsibility by saying that the parent company had no corresponding plans. If we had known earlier, we would have invested the money in Chaoxu. In that time, three new factories would have been built.
If we give incentives and extra rewards to all employees, even if we spend money, we won’t reach less than 90% of the maximum estimated production capacity every month.”
As the largest single external shareholder, Li Zehua is aware of many things. BYD Group will temporarily divert the funds originally invested in BYD Electronics to fill the gaps in the new energy field.
This was also agreed by him. Although the electronic OEM business is important, it is not as important as perfecting the second-generation new energy extended-range technology. This is the disadvantage of cross-regional multi-purpose investment.
Everything should serve the main goal, even if it delays other undertakings.
But from Fu Yujie's point of view, Chaoxu's interests in the foundry field have been damaged, so naturally she doesn't have a good attitude towards BYD Electronics, and she can't help but bring her personal emotions into her daily work.
"Everyone always said I was impatient before, but now it seems that you are more impatient than me, and there are even signs that your normal work is being affected."
After getting in the car, Li Zehua shook his head and said to Wang Fei: "Give Liu Zijie a heads-up and ask the Compliance and Supervision Department to pay more attention to the wind direction below. I am anxious because I have a good grasp of the overall situation.
Many fleeting opportunities will be lost if you don't seize the opportunity to catch up, and you are responsible for the specific implementation. Problems will arise if you are anxious.
Either the funds are seriously wasted, or there is a blind and one-sided pursuit of economic benefits. If there is no timely supervision, there will be big problems in the future. "
He would not be so direct with others. He had to consider the face of the head of the subsidiary anyway.
However, since some time ago, the subsidiaries of the group have started a trend of competing with each other to complete the assigned tasks. They always say that the company has sufficient funds and it doesn’t matter if they spend more money to pursue progress.
As for Fu Yujie's relationship with him, it is inevitable that she is casual, "It's not targeting you, but this bad trend must be curbed in time, and the company's money doesn't fall from the sky.
How can we withstand everyone's combined efforts to take advantage of the situation? At the last meeting, I wanted to say that we currently have more than one million full-time employees, and every month they only have salary commissions, five insurances and one fund, various reimbursements and office costs.
It will cost more than 70 billion yuan, not including technology research and development, technology licensing and the purchase of various large-scale equipment and fixed assets. No matter how rich you are, you can't spend like this.
Especially at Zhaoxu, the staff growth rate is the fastest, and it is almost catching up with the scale of Pinxixi and Fengniao Group. You need to control it appropriately and don’t spend tens of millions of dollars every time to increase production capacity.”
Fu Yujie pursed her lips and said dissatisfiedly: "You can't blame me entirely. I have proposed reducing the average salary of employees several times in company meetings.
Based on Dongguan's current median average salary of 90, Chaoxu Electronics is almost over % over that. Even if one person reduces their salary by yuan, more than people can save million yuan.
The gross profit margin of the OEM industry is low. If it weren’t for the OEM production of the main business, the annual net profit would not be enough to pay the wages. "
About 4% is the average profit of the foundry industry. However, Qingyun Electronics and Chaoxu Electronics are part of the same company. When the group assigns tasks and sets up sprint completion rewards, it is inevitable to involve Chaoxu.
In addition, with the recent deepening of cooperation with home appliance companies and the receipt of new OEM business, gross profit has further increased. It is no exaggeration to say that Chaoxu's gross profit margin is higher than that of the old king, Foxconn.
It's not just a little bit higher, it's doubled. With Chaoxu's current development speed, it is estimated that within two years, its revenue scale will surpass Foxconn and become a leading company in the foundry field.
"People are the foundation of quality and quantity. Before machines completely replace human labor, giving them adequate labor protection is a rule that companies must abide by."
Li Zehua did not give a big talk, but gave the simplest reason, "Besides, if you give them high wages, it's not like they can't get it back. These people will spend money when they have it.
I asked you to use the Pinxixi coupons to offset part of your bonus in order to retain consumption. The data submitted by Sun Tongyu is enough to prove that the policy has a good effect.
In the long run, food, clothing, housing and transportation are all included. Whether they want to return to their hometown in the city or start a family in a big city in the future, they will inevitably deal with real estate.
According to the current progress of infrastructure construction, housing prices will soar to the sky within three years. Even I don’t know how many high-quality properties Qingyun Real Estate has.
Then I can sell it to them at an internal preferential price, completing the closed loop, and gaining a good reputation. I can use high salaries to attract current talents. There are too many benefits. "
Fu Yujie was so shocked by his business logic that she could only remain silent.
"In short, money should be spent wisely. Unbridled waste is absolutely shameful."
Li Zehua changed the subject and said, "The reason why I asked you to come here is to work with the Chengdu government to build an industrial cluster in Chengdu that can accommodate at least 300,000 people.
As for how to do it specifically, you and Mr. Wang will decide. After reaching a cooperation framework, you can go to Chang'an again to take care of the remaining issues in the northwest.
The promises made before have not been fulfilled yet. Several provinces in the northwest have urged us several times. It will be convenient for the next plan if we fulfill them as soon as possible..."
Fu Yujie listened blankly, but another thought came to her mind: In fact, the main reason I came this time was to complete the unfinished business with you last time, that is, to have a baby... (End of this chapter)