Everyone present could sense that this person was about to cause trouble and this time it seemed to be more than just a simple matter.
"If there's no market, create one? How much money would that cost? Besides, markets aren't created out of thin air." Zhu Lidong tried to explain to Lu Feng what a market was. A complete market, from the production end to various supporting enterprises and then to the consumer market, is far more complex than an industrial chain.
“We don’t need to pay for it; let the country pay for it. Our country advocates the ‘three connections’: water, electricity, and roads. Last year, many provinces started working on building highways, such as the Taiyuan-Jiuguan Expressway in Shanxi, which I heard will open to traffic next year. I think the three connections are a relatively traditional development path. Let’s speed it up and add communications to achieve the four connections,” Lu Feng said to the crowd.
"The installation of landline phones is now progressing rapidly, and the number of phone booths and public phones in convenience stores in the city is gradually increasing," Zhu Lidong reminded. "These are already very convenient, and achieving mobile phone signal coverage will require a lot of investment in infrastructure construction."
“There seem to be only a hundred or so base stations in the city right now, and they’re expensive. They’re all imported. We don’t have 2G technology. As for domestic switch manufacturers, there seems to be only one small company called Huawei. And the various communication standards are all over the place.” Liu Cheng was also rejecting Lu Feng’s idea from a technical point of view.
Lu Feng knew that Huawei was developing its own switches and had already achieved results. As for signal towers, so be it. As long as there was signal in the city and efficient mobile phone calls could be made, the market would be substantial.
"Let's not worry about that for now. How do we build the market? It's impossible for one company to drive the country to invest heavily in communications infrastructure. But we can cooperate with some wealthy provinces, use some first-tier cities as pilot sites, and work with the local post and telecommunications bureaus to build some signal towers to achieve signal coverage in urban areas. Then we can sell mobile phones!"
"A single mobile phone manufacturer can never create a chip market. Once our mobile phones have achieved a certain market position, we need to open up our technology and distribute all our products to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), allowing others to pirate our products like crazy. As long as a large number of SMEs can produce screens and motherboards, the market will be highly competitive. Intense market competition will inevitably lead to lower prices, which will mean a sharp drop in mobile phone prices, making mobile phones affordable for ordinary people. When the country sees that the mobile communication market is small, with only tens of millions of users, then the national communication infrastructure will be activated!"
"At that time, everything will develop in a positive direction, and we will be able to sell the chips."
Everyone present was stunned by the plan. After going through all this trouble, it was all just to sell a chip? Just how obsessed is Mr. Lu with chips?
“Mr. Lu, we actually make a lot of money selling mobile phones, there’s no need for all those extra steps,” Zhu Lidong reminded him.
"What do you know? Of course, it's good to make monopoly profits, but we shouldn't be making money in the short term. We need to find a way to regulate the market. Only when the country is doing well and the family is doing well can the market be doing well. Draining the pond to catch all the fish is not advisable. There are still five months until the New Year. These five months are for doing this." Lu Feng said in a deep voice.
Five months?
Everyone instantly felt immense pressure, and many didn't understand why he was doing all this. It was entirely selfless and altruistic, all for the sake of those small and medium-sized enterprises that pirated his products.
“President Lu, there’s another problem. The provincial government might not cooperate with us. This is a huge undertaking that requires integrating information from multiple parties,” Wei Yandan suggested. “Just integrating partners from the provincial government and the post office will take more than five months.”
"It's alright, I'll handle this. If they're not willing in Guangzhou, they are in other places. Don't worry, I know people!" Lu Feng said confidently.
Du Guoying, sitting to the side, was stunned by President Lu's imposing manner. Not only did he have connections in Beijing, but he also had relationships overseas and had influence in every province. He was truly all-powerful.
"President Lu's connections are incredible! He's so certain that we're definitely best buddies!" Du Guoying couldn't help but exclaim.
"Bullshit! He... never mind." Zhu Lidong didn't want to say anything more, secretly sweating for Huang Youwei, who knew what kind of trouble he would cause him this time.
Everyone was determined to do it, and there was no way to stop them. The board of directors could indeed limit Lu Feng's power, but the question was, who would dare to do it?
Those who had followed Lu Feng for many years knew that as long as he wasn't allowed to do it, it wouldn't be long before Lu Feng could rebuild another company, and he would probably beat Jia Feng up first.
"What about the motherboard, the core component of the phone? And what about the 2G signal receiver and such?" Liu Cheng asked the crucial question: "These are all imported from overseas. We can't buy a single thing from overseas right now."
“If we can’t buy them abroad, can’t we buy them domestically? Leave it to me, Mr. Zhu. This time you come with me, we’ll get a few fake passports and go to the other side of the strait. They have strong production capacity there, and they don’t sell to the mainland. We’ll become Thai citizens. We happen to have connections in Thailand, so this shouldn’t be a problem.” Lu Feng seemed to have already thought everything through.
Zhu Lidong felt his face scrunch up. It was still the same old story. He hurriedly said, "President Lu, I've been in the public eye a lot over the years and have appeared in the media quite often. Maybe the people over there recognize me."
"It's alright, just disguise yourself and put on some makeup. Besides, the photos you submitted were all staged. I saw them a few days ago, and wow, even your mother might not recognize you," Lu Feng joked.
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