The goods can no longer be shipped south.
Lai Changqing's team was plagued by internal strife and suspicion, resulting in the departure of several members from his team of over a dozen people, leaving only seven close-knit members.
They dare not ship goods from the South China Sea, so they can only ship from inland areas. The risk is higher, but the profit is sufficient.
A regular 21-inch color TV can sell for over two thousand yuan, while imported TVs can cost around three thousand yuan.
However, rice TVs that were originally intended for export but are now sold domestically cost over 5,000 yuan. Of course, these 5,000 yuan rice TVs are LCD TVs and come with many features.
Their product was outdated to begin with; it didn't even come with a remote control initially, which was added later.
For machines like these, the wholesale price is 3,000, and they make a pure profit of 1,200 per unit.
The cost price is only around 1,800 yuan. Seeing the huge profits from these appliances, I can't afford to stop selling them.
I just invited a customer from Hainan to the mainland, but they said that all the products were fake. They even published a detailed explanation in the newspaper about the after-sales service for the rice.
If you see the IDM logo, it means the product is counterfeit or substandard.
It further explained that DaMi's color TV is the only one in the country to use an ultra-thin LCD screen.
Furthermore, the TV has no antenna on the back.
Wow, this statement is like an advertisement. Many people didn't know about Dami TVs, but after reading the statement, they realized that our domestic TVs are so advanced.
Your TVs don't have antennas, so how are we supposed to watch anything?
The customer doesn't want the goods, and the products are stuck in stock.
Without labeling the rice, profits are significantly reduced.
Seeing money right in front of you, yet unable to earn it, is like a bleeding heart.
The rice can no longer be used. The rice company said that all TVs with large CRT screens are counterfeit products.
Lai Changqing also consulted with technicians at the Maoshi TV Factory to see if they could produce LCD screens.
The technician shook his head, saying that their technology was outdated, not to mention LCDs, even for fluorescent screens.
LCD screens are made using a different process. Putting aside how they are produced, the cutting equipment alone is more valuable than the TV factory.
There are only a few companies in China that can produce LCD screens. Changhong, in particular, is said to use Changhong panels in rice.
When Lai Changqing inquired about Changhong, he learned that they also had large-screen TVs, and that it was currently the best-selling brand in China.
“Remove the three letters IDM from my phone and replace it with Changhong.”
If we consider the color TVs produced by Maoshi TV Factory as first-generation color TVs, then Changhong is currently using third-generation color TV technology.
The difference lies in the color and clarity. And there are many sizes available, not just 21 inches, but also 23 inches, 25 inches, and so on.
Komo City can only produce sizes smaller than 21 inches.
Putting quality aside, the style and size alone are already far superior. The reason why so many TV brands have disappeared into history is because their production lines could not be upgraded and could not keep up with the market.
Another issue is that production costs are too high, so lowering prices would mean losing money.
Meanwhile, the upgraded products not only saw increased production volume but also reduced costs, which led to a decrease in market prices.
How can we compete?
After two weeks, Lai Changqing and his team finally managed to change the IDM brand to the Changhong logo.
They called back the individual customers from before, but none of them wanted it because the price was too high. At the prices offered by the individual customers, they would have to lose two or three hundred yuan on each unit to sell it.
This is due to insufficient business acumen and experience.
Fortunately, among the retail investors, there were friends who frequently bought and sold shares, and they gave me some pointers.
In the South China Sea, it's all about concentrating overseas goods.
Leizhou County is so close, yet they're using domestically produced goods; their thinking is regressing beyond belief.
The best-selling overseas TV brands on the market right now are Philips, Toshiba, Sharp, Sanyo, and Siemens.
Although prices can't go up, we can still ship goods, and with large volumes, we can still make a profit.
After receiving expert advice, we removed the Changhong brand and replaced it with an Japanese brand TV.
Changing the brand means changing the packaging, and changing the packaging means changing the printing template, which alone costs over 800 yuan.
There was nothing we could do; we had to take the shortcut.
We must take on any risks, no matter what.
Xing Baohua visited the temporary laboratory again and chatted with Zhang Dongshuo about his work progress.
The materials have undergone rigorous screening based on theoretical data. The selected material is sapphire, provided by a neighboring city, which serves as the base material for superconductivity.
In superconducting quantum materials, sapphire is a better substrate than silicon.
Everyone knows sapphires are expensive, but the boss has plenty of money! Plus, the source is in the next city, so there's no problem with supply. He buys in bulk and gets a cheaper price.
Therefore, Zhang Dongshuo's team focused on sapphire for basic experiments. They discovered that quantum materials based on sapphire superconductivity consist of several thin film materials deposited on top of a silicon substrate.
This is a discovery in the microscopic world, and this discovery represents a substantial improvement for their team, giving them the confidence to create a truly superconducting quantum chip.
Furthermore, experience is continuously accumulated through ongoing experiments. The lifespan of sapphire as a fundamental superconducting material is also being tested.
Research has revealed a gap between the findings and their actual theoretical verification, which is being gradually improved through experiments, especially with the development of new computational methods in quantum mechanics.
Another major problem is that processing and storing information in qubits is challenging; even minor environmental disturbances or defects in the qubit material can corrupt the information.
The best environment is one that is dust-free, in a vacuum, and at the same time maintains an ultra-low temperature.
The above factors not only affect performance, but also lifespan.
Xing Baohua listened attentively to Zhang Dongshuo's report, but found that he understood less and less, mainly because there were too many technical terms. At first, when they were conducting the argumentation, he could still chime in a few words.
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