Wan Feng described to Wang Desheng a world that he could never reach in his dreams.
"In the future, mobile phone screens will become full screens. You in Beijing and I here holding our phones will be able to see each other and have instant conversations."
Wang Desheng's eyes barely moved: "Will there ever be such a day?"
Wan Feng remembered that in his previous life, around 2000, he watched an American science fiction film in which people were talking to each other while holding brick-sized cell phones. He thought it was really science fiction at the time.
Who would have thought that more than ten years later, what I saw in the movie would actually come true in real life.
I guess the mental activities he saw at that time were similar to what Wang Desheng is experiencing now.
"The speed of social development is astonishing. You never know what you'll discover in the future. Take monitors, for example. The monitors we use now are all CRTs, which use cathode ray tubes. Next up will be LEDs, LCDs, and OLEDs. This path will be long enough for you to follow for decades. Don't hesitate. From now on, you will specialize in monitors and panels. Keep working on each one, one by one. The road ahead is endless."
Wang Desheng had never heard of the LED and LCD that Wan Feng mentioned. They sounded very high-end.
"The next generation of displays will be LCDs, the digital displays we see on pagers today. This is the direction of future television and computer monitor development. Once you've developed your displays, research and develop in that direction. The future is bright."
Huaguang made its own digital display screen for its pagers. Wan Feng didn't really notice where the technology came from. He thought it was probably a copy of Panasonic's pager technology.
Anyway, I have a lot of talented people under my command, so it’s not surprising what they can do now.
The earliest LCD display appeared in the laptop computer field, which can be traced back to 1996, but it took several years for it to become popular.
"Okay, Mr. Wan! I'll listen to you. We'll make displays and panels from now on."
At noon, Wan Feng took Wang Desheng and others to have a meal at Hongying Hotel.
After the meal, Wang Desheng hurriedly took his men back to Beijing. He was anxious to give an explanation to all the workers in the factory.
"My lawyer will return to Beijing tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. The money will be transferred to your account after the contract is signed and takes effect. If we can get the equipment, we will try to deliver it to your factory within three months."
Before leaving, Wan Feng gave each person a Chinese pager to facilitate future communication.
Originally, Wan Feng wanted to give the other party a mobile phone, but when he thought that the other party might not be able to afford the call, he changed it to giving a pager.
Jingdongfang entered this field three years earlier than in its previous life.
In his previous life, it was 1995. At that time, Jingdongfang was still doing business as a joint venture with a Japanese company. When he visited Japan to study, the other party gave each member of their delegation a color LCD alarm clock as a small gift. It was this small alarm clock that made Wang Desheng feel that LCD displays might be the next generation product of the electronics industry.
After returning, they set up a research team to start studying LCDs.
Now Wan Feng has allowed them to enter this field three years earlier and provided them with a higher starting point than before. I believe they will achieve results in this field faster than in their previous life.
After seeing off Wang Desheng, Wan Feng returned to the mobile phone production department of Huaguang Technology.
Mobile phones are now the new high-profit growth project for the Nanwan Group.
During the more than one month from Wanfeng to Heihe, under the guidance and suggestions of Gu Hongzhong and Qin Guanghui, the Guanhai department once again upgraded and optimized the production line, replacing the first purely manual assembly line and the second assembly line with a low degree of automation.
Now the two mobile phone assembly lines are truly semi-automated, and these two lines can reach a production capacity of 1,600 units a day.
The net profit of one phone is 5,000 yuan. If we can make 1,600 phones a day, that's 8 million yuan. So, in a year...
Wan Feng felt a little scared.
Their collective profit for the entire group last year was only 3 billion. Can mobile phones generate so much profit on their own in the future?
It took Gu Hongzhong three years to develop mobile phones from the time the project was launched. Of course, he also developed other things during this period and did not focus on this research.
Even without a single-minded focus, this project took more than three years and cost over 30 million in research and development.
This R&D cost has been earned back since the day the mobile phone was produced.
Now the profit generated from every phone sold is real profit.
Huaguang will soon launch another production line, which Gu Hongzhong said will produce a smaller and more colorful mobile phone specifically for women.
He also showed the prototype to Wan Feng.
This is a phone that is slightly smaller and thinner than Huaguang 101. The current colors are white, dark red, dark green and pink.
Gu Hongzhong also told Wan Feng very solemnly that this mobile phone was produced by Yu Zhengdong by redesigning and optimizing the design based on Huaguang 101.
Not only has the size been reduced and the functions increased, but the cost has also been reduced by nearly a thousand yuan.
Wan Feng began to recall when Yu Zhengdong came.
In March, he went to Shanghai and then to Beijing Jing, and then brought Yu Zhengdong back.
That is to say, Yu Zhengdong came to Nanwan in late March.
End of April, end of May, end of June, end of July.
It's only two days until August now, which means it has been four months since Yu Zhengdong came to Nanwan to assist Gu Hongzhong.
"Mr. Gu! Are you saying that Mr. Yu is now capable of taking on the responsibility of mobile phones?"
Gu Hongzhong nodded. "He's very smart and hardworking. With him here, I can let go of the mobile phone business. You can contact him directly for anything related to mobile phones in the future."
"What about you?"
"I'm going to take it easy for a few days and then research something else. I recently discovered a very interesting gadget and I'm going to find some college students to study it."
"Tell me something, what's so fun?"
"I won't tell you."
"Haha! Engineer Gu! I think your choice of the person to hide this from is not smart. You can hide it from anyone but not from me. If I don't approve the money, how will you do your research?"
Gu Hongzhong scratched his head, it seemed to be right.
"During the past two years of researching mobile phones and pagers, I found the small LCD display quite interesting. It's energy-efficient, radiation-free, and compact. I wondered if I could enlarge it to be used as a television."
With a bang, a certain boss fell to the ground.
Is this a coincidence? He had just finished instructing Wang Desheng to research displays, and here Gu Hongzhong is actually going to research LCDs.
Gu Hongzhong was startled and frantically pulled Wan Feng up: "Mr. Wan! What's wrong? I'm just talking about an LCD monitor. There's no need to get so excited."
Why am I excited!
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