It is said that 2001 was a lucky year for China because too many joyous events took place, such as China's recognition of its market economy status by the international community and the successful joining of China into the WTO at the end of the year after much negotiations on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Joining the WTO is accompanied by the rise of domestic and foreign trade. As a late industrial country, we all have to use a large number of cheap light industrial products to obtain some second- and third-rate technologies. The country has developed and accumulated little by little in this way.
The domestic university education system also began to expand enrollment in 1999. This also indirectly shows that the economic development in China since the reform and opening up in 1978 and the establishment of the market economy and the opening of the private economy in 1992 has driven the education sector to expand enrollment.
In mid-March 2002, news came from Europe that the European Union Trade Commission had issued its first anti-dumping fine. Fortunately, it was not based on the "anti-intellectual" reason of national security. That was a reason that would have made the EU angry and embarrassed for more than a decade.
Huaguang Semiconductor immediately held a press conference to express regret to the European Trade Commission, and then stated that Huaguang Semiconductor's global luxury legal team would actively respond to the lawsuit, would not succumb to unreasonable reasons and unreasonable fines, and refused to pay the fine.
Xiao Zhengtang still wanted to resolve the semiconductor fine issue in a civilized manner, using courtesy first and then force. After this incident came out, the father and son discussed a countermeasure.
ASML, which Xiao Zhen bought, has now withdrawn all its technology and scientific research personnel from Europe and the United States, and now only an empty shell of a sales team remains there.
The top three chip processing centers in the world are all owned by Xiao, and these European and American guys don’t know what they have offended.
Huaguang Semiconductor has its own complete semiconductor industry chain with full intellectual property rights, and has now evolved to EUV immersion lithography machines. In fact, Europe and the United States have artificially led the so-called jewel in the industrial crown onto another path, and now that it is blocked, they have nothing to do with it if they don't issue fines or do these things.
On the surface, Micron Technology can still compete, but Micron is the industry of Xiao Zhen, the eldest son of Xiao Zhengtang. Moreover, since the acquisition of ASML, the three-party cross-licensing and patent pool have left the last three pursuers such as Canon and Panasonic in despair.
Xiao Zhengtang's international luxury legal team actively responded to the lawsuit after arriving in Europe. The result is predictable: the matter was absurd and the EU lost the case.
The next day, Huaguang Semiconductor, Micron Technology, and ASML Technologies all announced a 35% price increase for their chip processing centers.
The global semiconductor-related industry fell silent, and the world became quiet. Subsequently, the three companies released export control whitelists, which made people even more breathless.
Anyway, the Ministry of Commerce has been very busy recently. All the high-end chip manufacturers in the world have to line up obediently. In fact, the relationship has not been completely broken off yet. If a comprehensive embargo and export control are imposed, it would be despairing.
But it was enough to make these European old money people suffer. The first time the EU imposed trade sanctions ended up in nothing.
It can be said that most of Xiao Zhengtang's money from finance and arms sales was invested in the research and development of the semiconductor and communications industries. The world's top R&D team of 58,000 people cannot be supported by a small amount of money.
Similarly, after returning from the army, Xiao Zhen also strengthened the R&D team building of Micron and ASML, which required high investment regardless of cost for more than ten years.
Xiao Zhen was invited to attend the event in early April 2002. This time, Xiao Zhen brought Ivanka with him. This was a formal business invitation letter sent by the Hungarian side through the business department. The main purpose was to attend the completion and commissioning ceremony of the first phase of the Eastern European R&D and production base in Budapest.
The Eastern European R&D and production base is the first production base of Pan American ASML after its acquisition, mainly producing secondary chips.
Pan American ASML's second and third packaging R&D bases in Xiaozhen have been confirmed to be located in Shanghai and Yuzhou. The packaging R&D base in Shanghai will produce secondary chips on a large scale like the packaging plant in Budapest, because these chip factories have high demand and are not yet saturated.
Mainstream packaging factories are competing frantically to expand their production capacity. Xiao Zhengtang's Huaguang Semiconductor, Xiao Zhen's Micron Technology, and Pan American ASML are also undergoing large-scale transformation of their production lines and building a batch of new packaging factories.
Huaguang Semiconductor has the fastest factory construction speed. This is the main job of Lao Zhang when he was transferred to Huaguang Semiconductor as president, which is to expand production capacity madly.
This thing itself is very expensive. The price of one package has now reached 12 billion US dollars, not to mention the expensive labor and technical development team. This is not something that ordinary people can handle.
After Xiao Zhen and his wife's private plane arrived at Budapest International Airport, the ambassador and Hungarian officials sent ministerial-level officials to the airport to greet them. Xiao Zhen's car was still a Romeo 01 bulletproof executive car that he had checked in from his own plane.
After arriving at the arranged hotel, the groups exchanged brief greetings before returning home to visit their mothers.
Xiao Zhen and Ivanka went to bed after washing up. Xiao Zhen was not physically tired, but he was a little nervous dealing with these guys.
"My husband is so tired!" Ivanka said while lying in bed
"I'm a little bit worried too. It's too troublesome to deal with these guys. Never mind, let's get some sleep first!" Xiao Zhen said and hugged Ivanka in his arms.
Ivanka was just about to discuss where to go for fun tomorrow, but this guy fell asleep the moment he lay down.
After waking up in the afternoon, the couple sat in the hotel cafe, one drinking coffee and the other drinking the mineral water they brought with them.
After a while, Xiao Zhen's assistant came to tell Xiao Zhen that he would attend the local official dinner at 18:00 local time that evening.
Xiao Zhen looked at the time and saw that it was already 4:30 pm, so he took Ivanka upstairs to change clothes. It was only after they got married that Xiao Zhen realized how troublesome it was for this woman to go out.
At 17:30, Xiao Zhen took a motorcade led by Fan Dabao and was led to the state banquet hall by a local official police car.
Xiao Zhen brought Ivanka and the board members of ASML to the scene and received a warm welcome.
This kind of official state banquet is a programmed event. First, the Hungarian leader gave a speech, then Xiao Zhen gave a thank-you speech, and finally the state banquet. After the state banquet, there was a cocktail party. Because Xiao Zhen is an athlete, he only drank the mineral water he brought with him. Ivanka, on the other hand, drank all night and her face was red.
The next morning at 10:00, Mr. and Mrs. Xiao Zhen, the Chinese ambassador and his wife, and Lao Liang, the president of Pan American ASML, attended the groundbreaking ceremony together.
Lao Liang is both a manager and a scientist, so today he took people from both sides to visit the entire production and R&D base.
The lunch was a buffet lunch hosted by Pan American ASML at the hotel where the company was staying in Xiao Town.
After lunch, Xiao Zhen accepted a group interview from a large group of European media.
During the interview, Xiao Zhen also revealed that his Huasheng Investment will further increase its investment in Europe. Xiao Zhen said: "We accept and abide by all international fair trade principles, and are willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with all parties around the world.
ASML Eastern Europe's production and R&D base is based on cooperation based on mutual respect. Today we see hope for sustainable development.
Even teeth and tongues can be injured, not to mention the complexities of international trade."
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