Gu Hongzhong left without any worries, but Wan Feng's matter was still a big deal.
Two days later, on March 1st, the Qingfeng team embarked on a testing journey again.
Now Nanwan Group has formed its own set of vehicle testing systems. After undergoing extreme stage tests in various environments, a long-distance test of 100,000 kilometers is carried out before the entire test is considered successfully completed.
All stages of Qingfeng testing have been completed, and now it is time to conduct this final endurance test.
It is expected to be completed within three months. Once this process is completed, the Qingfeng sedan is expected to be launched in the domestic market by the end of the year as long as the production license is obtained.
The equipment production department has begun designing Qingfeng's assembly line.
This spring, the most popular product sold by Nanwan Group was not sedans or minivans, nor mobile phones or pagers, but VCDs.
In the second half of last year, more than 30 manufacturers in China, especially in the southern coastal areas, introduced equipment for mass pressing CD discs, and there are at least eight manufacturers that can manufacture STAMPER laminating equipment.
The production technology of VCD is almost the same as that of CD. At the same time, there are more than 40 LD black lines in Guangdong that use the same technology to turn to pirated VCDs.
Therefore, in the second half of last year, pirated CDs flooded the market. By August, at least six or seven hundred varieties of programs had appeared in economically developed areas such as Beijing and Guangzhou.
At that time, the cost of pirated CDs was around 13 or 14 yuan, and the retail price on the market was usually 30 yuan per disc in the south and 50 or 60 yuan per disc in the north.
In addition, Huaguang occasionally broadcast advertisements on CCTV. By the end of 1995, the proportion of the population in the country who knew about VCDs had exceeded 15%.
In this way, the market seemed to open up suddenly overnight.
Throughout 1996, the sales volume of VCD players in the market reached 6 million units. Therefore, after the Chinese New Year, VCD players were the most popular product.
Huaguang Technology's daily production of 5,000 units is still not enough for dealers to pick up the goods.
Of course, this market is not Huaguang’s own. Some DVD player manufacturers in Shenzhen and Guangzhou are also very busy.
Of course, these manufacturers have signed agreements with Huaguang and have obtained authorization.
Of course, the lawsuits were not limited to domestic manufacturers. Foreign manufacturers also kept Chen Wenxin busy. At the end of 1995, there were more than a dozen foreign manufacturers pouring into China, including Goldstar, Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Davis, etc.
But whether it is Panasonic, Sansheng or Philips, they almost all received Huaguang’s lawyer’s letter.
For domestic manufacturers, Wanfeng's licensing fee is only symbolic, but for foreign manufacturers, Huaguang is very ruthless.
The licensing fee of 50,000 yuan for domestic manufacturers is equivalent to nothing, but the licensing fee for foreign manufacturers has increased tenfold, and it is still in US dollars.
Domestic manufacturers take a commission of 50 yuan for each unit sold, while foreign manufacturers take a commission of 200 yuan.
If you can do it, do it. If you can't, get out. There is no room for negotiation.
Even so, these foreign manufacturers still flocked in.
After the year, the sales of VCDs in large shopping malls showed a crazy upward trend. In the first quarter alone, the sales volume of VCDs increased by 105% compared with the same period last year.
In the same period of the previous life, the Chinese VCD market was basically occupied by foreign manufacturers, with the combined market share of the three major brands, Pioneer, Sony and Samsung, reaching 75.5%.
Moreover, the price of these bastards is ridiculously high, always staying at around 4,000 to 5,000 yuan.
But in this life, Huaguang itself holds 40% of the market share, because of the patent barriers and the establishment of a profit-sharing system, foreign manufacturers are unable to occupy a dominant position.
Following closely behind Huaguang are Xinke, Aido, Wanlida and Xianhua, and then the foreign manufacturers.
The price is currently suppressed at around 2,400 yuan, and by the end of the year the price will be close to 2,000 yuan.
In the home appliance market at that time, no other home appliance had such a large proportion of domestic production.
The VCD market was not truly opened up until this year. In 1996, 1997, 1998, the VCD market had sales of about 30 million units. During this period, SVCD and CVD also appeared.
Then VCD entered the era of machines priced below 1,000 yuan.
By that time, Hua Guang might have left this field.
Because no matter what D comes next, it will be defeated by computers and MP3 and MP4, and with the emergence of cable TV, this market no longer has much room for development.
VCD is a device for watching movies while singing. Since its appearance, singing can be found everywhere not only in cities but also in rural areas.
It’s hard to say about other places, but in Xiaoshutun, many families have this thing.
The time has not come yet. When the windows are opened in the summer, maybe beautiful singing will come out of someone's window. As to whether their chickens and ducks will be frightened and stop laying eggs, it remains to be seen.
Hotels in Wankou also have karaoke bars, and it is standard for drunken guests to sing a song.
Wan Feng discovered that the more drunk people were, the more they wanted to perform when singing, and these people usually dominated the microphone.
But there are also people who don’t drink alcohol but still enjoy the music, such as Luan Feng.
Of course Wan Feng also has one at home, and it’s a pretty high-end audio system.
Luan Feng and Zhang Xuan are two interesting people who love to hum songs, so Wan Feng specially brought back a set of professional audio equipment from Xianggang, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on it.
There's no room in the building big enough to accommodate this set of speakers.
It's not that this speaker is big, but that it's loud.
If the room is too small, its superior performance cannot be demonstrated at all.
Therefore, the left wing with an area of about 120 square meters was demolished. Wan Feng hired people to clean up the left wing, laid floor heating, installed sound insulation panels, built a small stage, and bought a huge projector.
He did this throughout the entire twelfth lunar month.
After this concert room specially designed for Luan Feng and Zhang Xuan to hold concerts was built, the two women would come here to yell whenever they had nothing to do.
It would be fine if the two of them just roared, but Wan Feng had to be an audience member and he had to applaud.
Who can stand this happening every night?
Wan Feng was deeply impressed by Luan Feng's voice, not because she sang well but because it was strong.
As a microphone master, this guy sang for two hours without even taking a sip of water.
Wan Feng suspected that her voice was made of metal. It was a good idea to train her to be a singer. There was no need for lip-syncing at all.
Zhang Xuan is not as good as her. Her voice becomes hoarse after singing more than a few songs, so she usually only sings three or four songs a night.
Fortunately, the audience now has grown to include more than just Wan Feng himself. When his parents have nothing to do in the evening, they also come to sing songs like "The Waves of Honghu Lake". Wan Chongyang sometimes also pretends to go on stage and sing a love song that he can't understand at all.
On the contrary, the best singer in their family didn't touch the microphone twice in one night.
Luan Feng was therefore given the title: Jiangwei’s No. 1 Microphone Master.
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