Mi Guangnan and Wan Shouwu kept their word. More than ten days after they returned from Jiangwei, a group of eight people came to Jiangwei.
Three of them were from Mi Guangnan's team, and the other five were from Wan Shouwu's unit.
After Qin Guanghui and Gu Hongzhong had a conversation with these eight people, Gu Hongzhong showed an excited look on his face.
Especially the three people from Mi Guangnan's team, each has their own strengths and unique skills, including circuit design, language assembly, and metal packaging.
These three people obviously didn't expect that this small factory in the mountain valley would have many things that were beyond their expectations.
They originally came here to follow Mi Guangnan's advice, but everything here was beyond their expectations.
Both the working environment and scientific research conditions exceeded their expectations.
They were especially excited when they saw the Z80 chip imitated by Huaguang.
They are very familiar with this chip. It was the chip they used most when the contact-type Chinese card was first developed, and that was only three years ago.
But it was actually copied here!
But after learning about the size of Huaguang Technology's workforce, the middle-aged Cheng Gong shook his head and said, "You still don't have enough people. Developing and manufacturing chips requires dozens to hundreds of steps. Your talent pool isn't good enough."
The chip design and production in the 1980s were far less complicated than they were more than a decade later, and they could be produced through hundreds of processes.
In later generations, a chip required thousands of processes, and a chip research unit would involve tens of thousands of people. It was impossible for a few dozen people to do it now.
But even so, Huaguang is still short of talent.
"We are always recruiting talents, but we are a private enterprise and have no advantages in recruitment. Those science and engineering students are unwilling to choose us, even if we offer a salary several times higher than the market rate." Wan Feng also sighed.
The only college graduates in his company were Qin Guanghui and a few people he had tricked into joining.
Not even double digits.
There are thousands of scientific researchers in Nanwan Factory, but only about a hundred of them are in the field of electronics, and most of them are low-end talents.
"I know a place with a large number of talents now. Why don't you go there to recruit?" Cheng Gong suddenly said this to Wan Feng's surprise.
"Where?"
Are there other places with a lot of talent?
"Shanghai! Shanghai has a strong foundation in the electronics industry, especially Shanghai Component Factory No. 5 and Shanghai Radio Factory No. 14. They jointly copied Intel's 8080 eight-bit processor in 1979, a year before Germany copied the chip. The ion implanter developed by the Shanghai Metallurgical Research Institute was even exported to Japan."
This news was like a fairy tale to Wan Feng, who was not an insider in the industry. How could he know such news?
"People in Shanghai are even more arrogant than people in Beijing. Not to mention our small place, they even look down on you people in Beijing. They will never come to our small place." Wan Feng shook his head. They are living well, why should they come to your small mountain valley to suffer.
"That was when they were living a comfortable life. If they can't even afford to eat, why would they still be so arrogant?"
What he said does make absolute sense. How can you be so arrogant when you can't even afford to eat?
"Engineer Cheng, do you mean they are not living well now?"
Cheng Gong sighed, "Ever since the grants were changed to loans, the electronics industry has been declining significantly in recent years. The government isn't investing in this area, but is instead draining money from businesses. It's a wonder the industry is booming."
Wan Feng was not very clear about the grant-to-loan conversion. In his previous life, apart from repairing home appliances, he had some contact with the electronics industry, but he knew nothing else. How could he know what the grant-to-loan conversion was?
Cheng Gong gave Wan Feng a brief explanation.
Wan Feng understood.
In the past, state-owned enterprises received government funding for factory working capital or technological upgrades. Once profitable, these enterprises would remit their profits to the state, creating a virtuous cycle.
The grant-to-loan policy converts government financial grants into bank loans for enterprises, which also require them to pay high interest.
The profits of enterprises still have to be handed over to the treasury. In this way, the government not only does not invest a penny, but instead, as before, it takes away most of the income of enterprises, causing the enterprises to quickly fall into losses.
For example, the largest semiconductor company in China at the time was the Shanghai Component Factory No. 5, which Cheng Gong just mentioned. Its profits reached 20.7 million yuan in 1980, but by 1985, it had begun to decline. However, its output value still reached 67 million yuan, with profits of 12 million yuan. However, as of this year, its output value has fallen to less than 10 million yuan, and its 1,500 employees are practically destitute.
"It's safe to say that without state support, this factory wouldn't have survived for many years."
"Is this true?" Wan Feng asked doubtfully.
He knew that China was not far behind the rest of the world in semiconductors in the 1980s, but it suddenly started to fall behind in the 1990s. He was not very clear about the reason.
"I came from that factory. There are some people at Mr. Mi's place who also came from there, some of whom left last year. They just feel there's no future. It's not just Factory 5 that has no future; the same is true for Shanghai and all companies related to electronic semiconductors."
In the early days of reform and opening up, the country had 1,200,000 people and could only give up some industries to use the limited funds in areas that could produce immediate benefits.
The semiconductor industry has large investments but slow returns, so it was naturally abandoned.
This is unfortunate for the semiconductor industry.
This is misfortune for the semiconductor industry, but it is good news for Wanfeng.
With such a thing happening, why would he worry about talents? Wouldn't it be better to just bring the pot?
But after calming down and thinking about it, Wan Feng immediately gave up the idea.
He is a private enterprise, and he wants to acquire a state-owned enterprise?
Now is not the right time. Even if I have this idea, it will take a few years before I dare to realize it.
Moreover, even if he wanted to recruit talents, he didn't dare to do it openly. He didn't want to be accused of digging into the corners of ideologies.
Although they are barely surviving, at least they are still alive. If I get rid of the top talents and they fall, it would be strange if they don't blame him.
This crime is not a light one.
Oh, what should I do?
There are a lot of talents that are idle and cannot be utilized.
Wan Feng expressed his thoughts and doubts, and Cheng Gong didn't know what to do. He was just a scientific research talent and he could do nothing about these things in society.
Wan Feng felt that he needed to go to the capital to seek advice from Mi Guangnan and Wan Shouwu.
Maybe they can give him a satisfactory solution.
Aren’t they going to Bulusell as a group to attend the expo next month?
Let's bring this issue up when the time comes.
Maybe it can be solved satisfactorily.
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