Huang Youwei frowned slightly upon hearing this. Clearly, President Zhou's words were directed at him. He cleared his throat and said, "Regardless of who is in charge, the main thing is to look at the issue from a developmental perspective. As long as it is beneficial and correct, we will do it. If President Zhou is afraid of taking responsibility, or is not clear about the global trends in communications development, I can report to the Ministry of Information Industry at that time."
President Zhou didn't like hearing this and looked at Huang Youwei, saying, "Secretary Huang, you're not under the Ministry of Information Industry, so why are you saying all this? Communications are very important. I'm not in this position to serve any leader; I'm here to serve the people. Developing the mobile communications industry now is too fast for us. Achieving over 70% landline coverage in urban households by 2000 would be a great victory."
Clearly, President Zhou doesn't care about Huang Youwei at all; the fact that he even came to this meeting is already a big favor to him.
President Zhou's words were subtly criticizing Huang Youwei. Lu Feng sat there watching the situation unfold. The local relationships were more complicated than he had imagined. This wasn't a prefecture-level city where leaders could simply decide to do something and it would be approved the next day. Large state-owned enterprises, provincial authorities, and municipal authorities were all entangled and checking each other.
"Mr. Zhou, regarding the matter I mentioned earlier about multiple companies jointly funding the construction of the signal tower, we can compromise and have them contribute 50%." Lu Feng silently calculated the costs in his mind and said, "The rest can be divided among you companies, how about that?"
Seeing that Lu Feng had conceded, Huang Youwei said, "President Zhou, President Lu has also conceded. If everyone makes concessions, the implementation of this matter will have a very substantial impact on the economic development of the entire province, and it will also be very beneficial for your independent exploration."
"There are two options: either you pay a ten million yuan network access fee, or you cover the construction cost of the signal tower, and we will manage it after it is built." General Manager Zhou said to Lu Feng, "Of course, if General Manager Lu is so powerful, you can go and talk to the Ministry of Information Industry. As long as he issues a document to the group headquarters and then issues it down, I will definitely comply. I have another meeting, sorry, I'll take my leave first."
After finishing his speech, Mr. Zhou stood up and left.
Huang Youwei watched him leave, his face grim. The atmosphere was quite oppressive. It was clear that the city had absolutely no control over the Post and Telecommunications Group. They wanted ten million, but Huang Youwei couldn't even get a penny off.
As Mr. Shen watched Mr. Zhou leave, he felt quite helpless. When would he ever be able to be so powerful? Theoretically speaking, large state-owned enterprises like this have dual leadership: the vertical leadership is the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, but they also have to consider the provincial level, similar to the municipal public security bureau.
Seeing that no one was speaking, President Shen turned to Lu Feng and said, "President Lu, we actually received a considerable budget this year. If the province and Jiafeng can contribute some funds, the construction of the signal tower will be completed quickly. We will build wherever we are needed, stand with the people there, and faithfully provide services."
It's obvious to everyone that General Manager Zhou doesn't care about the provincial government at all, while General Manager Shen is the complete opposite. They can't compete with the Post and Telecommunications Group in the landline telephone business, so they want to go into mobile communications. They'll do anything as long as there's money to be made.
Lu Feng looked at President Shen with a troubled expression and said, "Your coverage area in the whole province is too small, and you can't connect to the postal and telecommunications network. This is too troublesome."
“It will be built very quickly. Now BTS base stations can also be produced domestically, and the price is cheaper. With a little speed, it’s easy to set up a thousand base stations within a year.” President Shen said to Huang Youwei with great confidence, “Secretary Huang, don’t worry, we will definitely recruit more workers and work overtime.”
The general manager of the telecommunications business next to him snorted twice upon hearing this. He had never been this humble when he was in the post and telecommunications group. Now he was begging for a living all over the world.
"This matter still depends on President Lu." Huang Youwei pushed the matter to Lu Feng's side. He knew that Lu Feng would never choose China Unicom. He could only accept the existing solution now, as construction was too slow.
"We'll talk about this later," Lu Feng said with a smile.
The meeting ended rather abruptly. A dozen minutes later, the group walked out of the office. President Shen was still talking to Lu Feng about building signal towers. Domestic BTS base stations only cost half the price of foreign ones, at most 250,000 yuan. Based on a quantity of 1,000, that would cost 250 million yuan, and China Unicom was willing to pay half of that.
Lu Feng glanced at President Shen. As far as he knew, when China Unicom was spun off, it was dirt poor. Otherwise, its development in recent years would not have been so mediocre. How could a branch in one province come up with more than 100 million?
"You have so much cash?" Lu Feng asked, puzzled.
“I’ll go to the Ministry of Information Industry and plead poverty. I still have some landline business, which should be enough.” President Shen seemed to have made a great decision. He said in a deep voice, “China Unicom needs an opportunity. We can’t get ahead in the landline business. We have to find a way to overtake the competition.”
Lu Feng understood President Shen's feelings very well, but he really didn't have much time to accompany a company's development now, so he just smiled and didn't say anything.
Inside a spacious villa in the provincial government building, Secretary Li stepped out of the room, glanced outside, and said, "The weather is nice, Secretary Zhao. Why don't you come for a walk with me?"
As Secretary Li stretched along the flower-lined path, discussing the recent situation in the province, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, what's the relationship between Lu Feng and Huang Youwei?"
"Oh, I was just about to report that to you. It's a very normal relationship, but this Lu Feng is quite interesting. The two of them have known each other for six or seven years, and both of them have developed quite well during these six or seven years, especially Lu Feng. His company's development speed is like a rocket. Back in Suzhou, many people said that Lu Feng was the reincarnation of Huang Youwei," Secretary Zhao said with a smile.
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