Reborn Tycoon Rise

The LCD project is different from chip manufacturing. In the face of global competition, the political impact is much lower than that of the chip industry.

The Korean electronics and liquid crystal giants of later generations loved to gain a leading share in the global market through years of counter-cyclical price wars.

However, not everyone can handle the huge investment in counter-cyclical price wars. Hyundai Electronics took the lead and had to sell its panel production lines to survive.

Later, Mainland China's BOE successfully acquired Hyundai's STD-LCD business.

If this was an advanced production line that produced chips, the deal would never be completed, but the LCD production line can.

This is also the reason why Xu Zhi plans to place the LCD production line in Xiangjiang, so that it will not be subject to too much political interference. Of course, the LCD technology in this era is still the traditional TN-LCD liquid crystal technology, which is the one on the traditional calculator. LCD screen, if you look at it from an angle, you will find rows of 88888... on it.

TN-LCD liquid crystal technology is not suitable for future generations of notebook computers, but it can be placed on calculators, industrial monitors, watches, alarm clocks, radios, tape recorders and other products. The current market size is not big or small, even in Hong Kong. There is a demand for tens of millions of pieces because Xiangjiang is the world's largest electronic watch production base.

These orders were previously won by several LCD companies in Japan, but Midea has already reached cooperation with many Xiangjiang factories. Once the production lines of the new LCD factory are started, it will be enough to regain part of the market.

Ma Shimin said: "Chairman, if we want to maintain an economic system with hundreds of thousands of people, it is not enough to rely on the employment created by a few of our own companies. We must attract other companies to invest, not just industry, Xiangjiang The largest ones are various financial institutions and trading companies. If we can attract these people in large numbers, we can also create a lot of jobs."

"Then what good ideas do you have?" Xu Zhi asked. He also agreed with this view. It would be great to be able to directly and indirectly maintain the employment of tens of thousands of people with Jinniu Beverage and LCD factories, not to mention that it would take many years. The operation must achieve the goals expected by Xu Zhi. If it cannot be achieved, the number of jobs will be further reduced.

If you want to support a town with hundreds of thousands of people, apart from super oil fields like Daqing, the only non-heavy industry is a large electronics production base like Foxconn in later generations. This kind of base can actually be provided in the future according to the development of Midea. But the key problem is that after entering the 1990s, housing prices in Xiangjiang skyrocketed, and labor costs also rose. Labor-intensive industries such as the electronics industry no longer have any chance to survive here, and even ordinary manufacturing industries have moved to the mainland.

Ma Shimin said: "House prices in Xiangjiang are already too high. Even if according to the chairman's estimation, a real estate crisis will break out in the future, the decline will be limited and it will be difficult to return to the level of the early 1970s.

For many trading companies, rent has become an extremely serious burden. Many such companies have moved from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon, and from Kowloon to the Yuen Long area.

If we build a batch of commercial office buildings on the land in Tin Shui Wai, since the land price is basically zero, the rent can be reduced to an extremely low level. As long as the surrounding supporting facilities are complete, we can definitely attract many companies.

And once the company comes, it can create jobs, we can also sell houses for profit, and it can also stimulate business development, which is a multi-purpose solution for everyone.

The same approach can be used for industrial office buildings to attract small factories. "

"Yes, a good method, but let's forget about industrial office buildings." Xu Zhi smiled and nodded. Ma Shimin is indeed powerful. This method is at least theoretically feasible, but he doesn't know what level Xiangjiang's labor force will reach in the future. Xiangjiang's tradition Industry will disappear by the end of the 1980s, and industrial office buildings will naturally disappear with it.

Xu Zhi continued: "The Tianshuiwei town building plan is the most important project in the next few years. It requires the cooperation of several of your major companies. That's the end of today's meeting. Please go back and think about any other good ways to help. Tin Shui Wai develops the economy and attracts business opportunities. In addition, this project is currently top secret. Once leaked, it will affect the entire Xiangjiang real estate market."

"I understand." Everyone nodded.

Xu Zhidao: "The meeting was dissolved and He Guoyuan stayed."

After the others left, He Guoyuan opened the document bag, handed Xu Zhi a document, and said, "Chairman, this is the sales data of the entire Midea company in the first half of the year."

Xu Zhi took it and looked at it carefully:

Midea's current main products are divided into games, computers and software, and home appliances.

In the first half of the year, global arcade sales were 107,000 units, with net profits as high as US$120 million.

Home game console sales were 1.88 million units, 4.2 million cartridges, and net profit was US$160 million.

The handheld Gameboy sold 7 million units and had a net profit of $15 million.

Honor 1 series computers sold 54,000 units, with a net profit of US$25 million. Commodity C64 sold 900,000 units, but it followed the route of small profits but quick turnover, with a profit of only US$16 million.

The main business among household appliances is color TVs, with sales of 2.2 million units in the first half of the year and a loss of US$35 million.

There are others, but the scale is too small, and the total proportion cannot be counted as even one percentage point.

After reading it, Xu Zhi said: "How are the negotiations with Samsung regarding the TV production business going?"

He Guoyuan said: "Li Bingze of Samsung Group rejected our request to invest in Samsung Electronics. No matter how much I offered, they refused to accept it. He only agreed that when Samsung Electronics needs to introduce shareholders or go public in the future, we can give priority to Midea as a shareholder." .”

"It's interesting that this guy is so tough." Xu Zhi said with a frown. The scale of Samsung Electronics in this era was far inferior to that of Midea, and it still refused to sell shares even with huge orders. It seems that Li Bingze was also very optimistic about his own Samsung Electronics.

But having said that, you are right. Without foresight, it is impossible to hand over Samsung to Li Jianxi. You must know that Korean chaebols have the principle of passing on the elders rather than the younger ones. Li Bingze is the first Korean conglomerate leader to break this rule. people.

Xu Zhi continued: "If you don't agree, forget it. You mobilize some funds to enter South Korea, and then buy Samsung Group's shares directly on the stock market."

He Guoyuan asked: "Is the chairman so optimistic about Samsung Group?"

"That's right, and now South Korea's economy is developing rapidly and it is already one of the Four Little Dragons in Asia. Samsung is one of its top consortiums. You will not lose money if you invest." Xu Zhi smiled and asked: "What about Samsung? How is the situation with electronics and our TV OEM?"

"Samsung Electronics has submitted the price, which I think is good, but Li Jianxi still hopes that their Samsung Semiconductor memory chips can also get orders from Midea." He Guoyuan said: "I have not agreed to this matter."

"Then let them send samples first. If the quality and price are acceptable, then give some orders appropriately! But don't give too much." Xu Zhi nodded in agreement.

The rise of Samsung Electronics will not be determined by one of its own orders, not to mention that the most powerful semiconductor company now is Japan. It is also a good choice for Samsung to attract firepower from the front.