I want to be a giant of Hong Kong Island

Chapter 542 [Hong Kong Cube]

Kwun Tong.

Wu Guangyao and Sheng Tianzhao attended the opening ceremony of the arcade machine and game console production factory invested by Sony in Hong Kong Island.

This is the third large-scale factory invested by Lenovo Group in Hong Kong. These three large-scale factories produce color TVs, walkmans and game consoles respectively.

These three large factories alone need to employ tens of thousands of workers;

Lenovo has also invested in a dozen small factories to make some components.

At this time in Hong Kong, the total number of workers employed by electronics factories has reached 5.

In 1959, Lianlian Group opened its first radio factory in Hong Kong, specializing in the production of transistor radios (locally known as atomic radios).

The factory was the first step for Wu Guangyao to lay out Hong Kong Island. At that time, the radio factory was producing 4000 radios per month;

Apart from supplying the local market in Hong Kong, most of the radios are exported overseas.

The budding of Hong Kong's electronics industry started here.

香港收音机的生产开始在此地蔓开，1960年香港有4家收音机工厂，1961年增至13家，到了1962年5月更增至14家。

This booming manufacturing industry, which was mainly carried out in small residential units at the time, required only a few workers to assemble hundreds of radios every day.

Beginning in the 60s, Lenovo Group successively invested in a large number of electronic factories in Hong Kong, which also led Japan's Panasonic and Hewlett-Packard to invest in Hong Kong.

In addition, in the early 60s, several well-known American electronics companies set up factories in Hong Kong to assemble discrete components, such as magnetic core storage components, diodes, transistors and capacitors, etc., which also promoted the rapid development of Hong Kong's electronics industry.

数据来看，1960年香港电子厂仅6家，1972年这数字就已经变成了260家，雇佣工人人数也从183人增至5万人。

During this period, the Hong Kong Electronics Factory produced some defense electronic products for the United States, assembled wired and wireless dual-purpose TV sets, rocket launch parts and radar devices, etc.

It can be said that Hong Kong's electronics industry at this time ranks ahead of South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

The reason why Hong Kong's electronics industry has developed rapidly during this period is entirely due to its own characteristics and "character":
1. Hong Kong is a free port, there is no tax on import and export, and preferential treatment;
2. Hong Kong has many channels and well-informed;
3. There are many small factories, and the big factories are all foreign-funded.

This is very flexible. The manufacturing time of a new electronic product takes 8 months in the United States, 5 months in Japan, and less than 3 months in Hong Kong on average;

Flexibility, gain an advantage in the fierce international competition!
Of course, it would be inseparable from the support of Wu Guangyao!
Although Hong Kong's electronics were well developed at this time, Wu Guangyao knew that these were superficial phenomena;
Because the electronics factories in Hong Kong are basically processing factories without any technical content.

When he came to the office, Wu Guangyao called Akio Morita to sit down.

"Is the progress of the game console going well?"

Akio Morita said respectfully: "It's going well! At present, we have developed 5 ball games and applied them to TV game consoles; last month alone, we sold 15 sets of game consoles. Sony's games The monthly revenue of the industry is as high as 2500 million US dollars."

Very good results, after all, they are just some games for the mentally handicapped, only people will play them in this era of lack of entertainment!

Moreover, if anyone develops a game like Mario in this era, it may be overturned;

As one American said, whoever boldly underestimates the intelligence of Americans will make money, and video games must be a kind of "not too nerve-wracking" stuff.

Only after everyone has played the simple game badly, will they want to play a more complicated game!

The so-called ball games are games in which only dots and lines move (table tennis, tennis, etc.), and they are black and white;
It is obvious how boring people are in this era.

"How's the shooter going?"

"The arcade version of "Shooting Bees" was launched this month, and the home console is expected to be launched on Christmas!"

Wu Guangyao nodded, took out an envelope, and motioned for Akio Morita to come over.

When I poured out the contents of the envelope, I saw several things of different shapes falling out.

While fiddling with it, Wu Guangyao said, "This is a game. Let me explain it to you. You arrange the project team to develop it into arcade machines and game consoles."

It turned out that these shapes were paper shapes cut by Wu Guangyao based on the Tetris game in his previous life.

After some explanations, Akio Morita said with sincere admiration: "If this game is developed, it will definitely become popular all over the world!"

Wu Guangyao nodded. It has been popular all over the world from the beginning to the end, and it has been popular for decades!
"To be honest, the quality of the games we develop is very low. I am worried that after ten years of Sony's dominance, one day, a group of latecomers will come up with high-quality games, and then we will collapse! Therefore, we are developing hardware technology At the same time, these software games must also achieve the word 'high quality'!"

Akio Morita was shocked in his heart, if he said this from someone else, he would definitely sneer;

As the ancestor of video games, Sony's strength in the field of games is unparalleled!

But it is the chairman who said this, his vision is very sharp and long-term, I must pay attention to it!
"I will keep the president's words in mind!" Akio Morita said seriously.

The collapse of Atari in the previous life is a lesson for the past. Atari did not develop high-quality games in the early 80s, resulting in the market being full of inferior Atari games, which turned over overnight!

Atari fell, and Nintendo regained its dominance in games with its red and white machines!

After much deliberation, Wu Guangyao still decided to advance some things;
"President Morita, I suddenly thought of another thing, you set up a project team!"

"President, what do you say?"

Wu Guangyao demonstrated the handheld game console to Akio Morita, which immediately aroused the interest of Akio Morita.

"President, don't worry, although this requires some technology, with our R&D strength, we should be able to develop it and put it on the market within three years." Akio Morita said confidently.

Sony has a large number of R & D personnel in Japan and the United States, coupled with the president's vision, it is like adding wings to a tiger!

Wu Guangyao nodded in relief, and said, "You don't have to do everything yourself. After all, Lenovo Group's game industry is important, but our semiconductor industry and electrical appliance industry are fundamental. By the way, Motorola invented the mobile phone this year." , you also need to pay attention; there are also personal computers, which are also the future trend. We can all set up project teams first, but we don’t need to invest too much money. When the time is right, we can naturally 'free ride'."

Compared with management, I am not as good as Akio Morita;

Compared with technology, I am not as deep as a well;
But compared to his eyesight, he dumped them a few streets!

It is precisely because of this that Lenovo Group has decided to obey Wu Guangyao, and Wu Guangyao's control over Lenovo Group is also quite strong.

Coupled with these years, Wu Guangyao has formulated strategies such as conducting research and development in Japan and the United States at the same time, and transferring production to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, making Lenovo Group gradually become a multinational company.

After chatting about the business, Wu Guangyao personally took Akio Morita for a half-day tour in Hong Kong, and introduced some of his own industries.

Akio Morita finally sighed: "What the president brings to Hong Kong is far beyond measure!"

Wu Guangyao said modestly: "I also rely on Hong Kong to succeed step by step, let's complement each other!"

(End of this chapter)