"Is the progress going smoothly?" Su Yourong asked. "With such a large investment, you should be careful. This isn't a traditional industry. A few days ago, some shareholders from United Capital got together for dinner and talked about this matter. I could tell they were having some regrets."
"Regret? Too late. Once the money's in my pocket, no one can take it out." Lu Feng leaned back, finding a comfortable position, and said, "So far, things are going smoothly. If nothing goes wrong, I'll be back in early January."
“Then you can come back for the New Year. I plan to go home for the New Year this year. Do you want to come back with me?” Su Yourong was afraid that Lu Feng would overthink things, so she said, “I just feel sorry for you, since you just got divorced this year and you’re going back for the New Year alone. I haven’t been back for several years, and my family thinks I’ve disappeared.”
"No need, no need!" Lu Feng refused.
Su Yourong sounded somewhat disappointed on the other end of the phone, but didn't say much. She just talked about the concerns of the shareholders of United Capital and hoped that Lu Feng would be more stable in the future.
Their concerns are understandable. Previously, although foreign technology was advanced in the home appliance sector, it had little influence on inland areas. International home appliance manufacturers mainly supplied developed countries.
In recent years, the domestic market has grown rapidly, and coupled with a series of protective measures such as tariffs, it has made it impossible for them to enter the mainland market and compete with these companies.
A country's tariff barriers are a protective shield for enterprises, but what Lu Feng is doing now is breaking through this security barrier, going out to fight with others, and even making moves in high-tech fields like communications. It would be a lie to say he's not worried.
Jiafeng Electronics is considered a big fish in the domestic market, but what Lu Feng is doing now is trying to venture from the river into the sea. It wouldn't be surprising if he got crushed.
After preparing the relevant materials, Liu Cheng and his group called the secretary's office of Hirata Ichiro, the vice president of Rohm Semiconductor Group.
The two parties agreed to speak one hour later.
At the ROHM Group headquarters, in the conference room, during the second meeting of senior executives to discuss current global market competition, Ichiro Hirata flipped through the folder in front of him.
The overseas market department faces significant competitive pressure in foreign markets, and the competition within the domestic market is unprecedented. Expanding market cooperation in some countries is now imperative.
"We still believe that the Four Asian Tigers are our top choice, and we will continue to deepen our cooperation with local businesses and forge strong partnerships!" A vice president in his fifties or sixties said firmly, "I believe that the development prospects of the Four Asian Tigers have not yet been fully realized, and their economic development can last for decades."
Everyone present agreed that from the mid-1980s to the present, with a decade of high growth, these four places seem to have inexhaustible economic potential. They have become the four largest factories in Asia, operating day and night to produce all kinds of products for sale all over the world.
Hirata Ichiro, however, had a different idea and said, "I think we should pay attention to the Chinese mainland region. As far as I know, Motorola pagers sell very well there, and the GDP growth there has been quite rapid in recent years."
The chairman looked at him, and everyone else also turned to look in this direction, their faces showing a hint of mockery. Mainland China?
“Hirata-kun, haven’t you seen the recently released GDP per capita data?” Another vice president looked at him and said, “China’s GDP per capita in 1993 was $377. The country ahead of it is Zambia in Africa.”
Everyone present couldn't help but laugh. The current GDP per capita in mainland China is far behind that of most African countries, and the per capita consumption capacity is very low!
The chairman seemed to remember something and looked at Hirata Ichiro, asking, "Didn't you tell me a while ago that a Chinese company wanted to acquire our laboratory?"
“Yes!” Hirata Ichiro nodded and said, “We are currently in contact with an electronics group company from mainland China, and they are very sincere.”
“The Ruixin Laboratory has been abandoned for several years, and related research and development has long since stopped. Those technologies are of little use to us. If the price is right, we can sell them!” After thinking for a moment, the chairman asked everyone, “What do you all think?”
“I disagree!” a tall, slightly thin man said. “These technologies may not be of much use to us, but they are advanced technologies to them. According to international practice, they cannot be sold to China.”
The so-called international practice is actually an international high-end technology blockade led by the United States, which includes a series of regulations prohibiting the sale of precision machine tools, large gantry cranes, tunnel boring machines, military technology, chemical technology and other technologies to foreign countries.
Beneath these lies a series of unwritten international rules: any technology patent that can promote production must not be transferred, especially precision machine tool technology, which is known as the mother of industry.
Hirata Ichiro hesitated for a moment, but still said, "These are just some early semiconductor technologies, and they don't contain much. I don't think they involve any so-called sales bans. Even if they get these technologies, what can they do? At most, they can make a pager, just like our pagers from more than ten years ago."
“It will be very difficult to find suitable buyers globally. If left for another ten years, these technology patents will be outdated and worthless. At this critical moment, being able to recover some funds is a very good thing for the group. Besides, what era are we living in? This is 1994, not 1972!”
The debate at the scene was quite heated. After pondering for a while, the chairman closed the folder in front of him and said, "Let's end the meeting here for today. I'll leave the matter of Ruixin Laboratory to Hirata-kun."
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