Chapter 91 Painful Lessons

Everyone can only see the present and not the future development. Everyone only knows that Huaguang Technology Company is thriving, its mobile phones are out of stock, and the company is making a lot of money.

As long as the company is profitable, they don’t need to worry about their benefits being reduced, or about the company laying off employees, or even about the company cutting salaries.

So everyone is in a very happy mood and works very hard. No matter what, everyone understands that only when the company is doing well can they be well.

As housing prices continued to rise, everyone's enthusiasm for buying houses became unprecedentedly high. Some people who had already sold their houses couldn't help but slap their thighs in regret after seeing the skyrocketing housing prices.

In order to reduce losses, some people who were unwilling to give up borrowed money again to make a down payment and bought another house. Some people became timid and dared not touch real estate again, fearing that housing prices would rise so fast and eventually fall, and they would suffer huge losses.

The bold will die of overeating, and the timid will die of starvation. Those who don’t seize this opportunity to buy a house this time will never have the chance to buy a house cheaper than the current price.

So they regretted it this time, and they will regret it for the rest of their lives. Now they think it’s expensive at more than 1 yuan, but in the future it will cost 5, 6, or even more than 10 yuan per square meter.

If you buy a house in Linhai City now, you can easily earn millions even if you do nothing in 10 years, which is much more than working hard.

But how many people can see so far into this matter?

Only Yang Hai knew the situation. Although the price of land has risen this year, his Huarong Real Estate Development Company has not stopped acquiring land everywhere.

Although housing prices are constantly rising, Huarong Real Estate Development Company is still not in a hurry to sell the properties it develops and is still renting out the fully-decorated houses at low prices.

Moreover, multiple real estate construction sites started construction at the same time, and even the pace of development and building did not stop.

Not only are the houses in no hurry to sell, but even the shops in the commercial center are not in a hurry to sell. Instead, they are handed over to their own property management company for rent.

Not only that, Yang Hai also took advantage of his own advantages and opened a Huarong Supermarket chain, Huarong Cinema, and Huarong City Commercial Center. Due to the excellent geographical location, Huarong Supermarket, Huarong Cinema, and Huarong City Commercial Center have a large flow of people and business is also very good.

Now is the most popular period for supermarket business. Online shopping has not yet become popular. People are still accustomed to shopping in physical stores and eating out in offline restaurants. All major supermarkets and restaurants are crowded, and the checkout counters in each supermarket are full of customers waiting to pay.

During peak holiday seasons, even if a supermarket has dozens or even hundreds of cashiers, you may still have to queue for more than 20 minutes or even half an hour before you can successfully pay and leave the supermarket.

Yang Hai has sufficient cash flow, so he is naturally not in a hurry to sell the house, because he knows that the house will appreciate in value over time.

Besides, if he really needs money, with his current financial situation, it would be no problem for him to borrow money from the bank. The bank can lend him a large sum of money at any time.

Moreover, the bank has taken the initiative to visit Yang Hai many times, hoping that the company under Yang Hai's name will apply for a loan from the bank, but Yang Hai does not need it for the time being.

However, as Huarong Real Estate Development Company further accelerates its development, it is only a matter of time before it seeks a bank loan.

After all, large-scale real estate development requires a lot of money, especially for people like him who are not in a hurry to sell houses. Even if he has more money, it will not be enough.

After all, in addition to investing in real estate, he also invested in many other areas, especially in technological research and development, which is a bottomless pit.

He has invested in the research and development of semiconductor chips, artificial intelligence, automation equipment, and robots. He doesn't know what the results will be, but he has to give it a try anyway.

Even in the field of lithography machines, Yang Hai wants to invest in research and development and acquire the related industrial chain.

Even if we cannot produce the most advanced lithography machines, we can first do some research and produce mid- and low-end lithography machines, and recruit some senior technical R&D personnel from related companies in Europe and the United States.

Although China cannot produce the most advanced lithography machines for the time being, it does not mean that it does not have talent in this area. It’s just that most of them work for large companies in Europe and the United States, conducting technological research and development for European and American countries.

Many of these people have no choice. There is no suitable working environment for them in the country, or the salary offered in the country is not as high as that offered abroad.

Although many people have a sense of patriotism, they work in large foreign companies and conduct technological research and development for other countries, but it does not mean that they are unpatriotic or that they do not want to contribute to the country.

The prerequisite for contributing to the country is that they need a better technology research and development environment. In addition, they also need better salary and benefits. They not only want to live a better life for themselves, but also want their families to live a better life.

There is no environment suitable for them to engage in technological research and development in China, because technological research and development requires sufficient financial support.

There are not enough salaries and benefits, which is the main reason why many people are unwilling to return to China for development.

Yang Hai tried to find ways to meet their requirements, provide them with a good enough technical research and development environment, sufficient research and development funds, and adequate salary and benefits.

In this way, we can naturally persuade many technical R&D talents to return to China for development. They have rich R&D experience and technology, and are very familiar with the technology of large companies in various countries.

Therefore, as long as they bypass the other party's patented technology, they can develop their own patented technology and achieve their goals.

In fact, many technologies are not impossible to research in China, but the patents of these technologies have been registered by some large foreign companies. If you want to develop your own products, the most important thing is to bypass the other party’s patented technology, otherwise it will involve infringement issues.

However, researching a new patented technology and bypassing the other party's patent is the most difficult thing.

In this regard, Li Ying and Lu Manman helped Yang Hai a lot, and Shen Ruobing also made a lot of efforts. The three of them are very familiar with the United States and know many Chinese students studying in the United States. Through the introductions of these students, they have mastered a lot of information. After finding the target, it is naturally easier to persuade the other party to return to China for development.

At this time, Yang Hai and Shen Ruobing did not know that Li Ying and Shen Manman were also pregnant. They were helping Yang Hai with their big bellies, contacting Chinese students in the United States and even in other countries.

Not only domestic students, but also students from other places, such as Hong Kong, Macao, and Formosa, some of them are overseas Chinese and Chinese, and even Chinese from Southeast Asian countries studying in Europe and the United States. With their hard lobbying, a large number of technical talents returned from abroad to develop in China and were taken in by several companies under Yang Hai's name.

In order to accommodate these technical R&D talents who returned to China, Yang Haixin established a Huaqiang Microelectronics Equipment Company, which is aimed directly at the R&D and manufacturing of lithography machines, as well as other microelectronic packaging equipment such as etching machines.

Yaohai didn’t know whether he would be able to succeed in developing and manufacturing the most advanced lithography machine, but he had no problem developing and producing mid- and low-end lithography machines and etching machines, as well as some other electronic packaging equipment.

With the production and sales of these products, the production needs of most smart chips can actually be met. Moreover, the market for these mid- and low-end smart chips will be huge in the future. As long as we occupy the domestic market and the markets in some Southeast Asian countries, it will not be difficult to make money.

At least they have invested a huge amount of money to develop and produce the most advanced lithography machines, and with these incomes to make up for it, the loss will not be too great.

But what if the research and development is successful? Then China can completely get rid of the technological blockade of Europe and the United States against China.

It is difficult for others to understand Yang Hai's approach, because the technological blockade of China by European and American countries is not very strict, and the relationship between China and the United States is still very good.

Many domestic companies feel that instead of investing huge sums of money in research and development, it is better to directly buy other people's products. This is the difference between technology, industry and trade and trade, industry and technology.

For example, a certain company completely gave up on developing its own technology and directly imported parts from abroad to start assembling and producing computers. Their business was booming and they made a lot of money.

So they think, why should I spend so much time and effort and invest huge amounts of money to develop my own technology? Wouldn't it be better to just buy it?
They can't see the future, but Yang Hai is different! He has personally experienced the consequences of domestic high-tech companies being sanctioned by foreign countries.

All companies are afraid of sanctions from European and American companies, so they dare not produce smart chips for this domestic high-tech company. This includes Taiwan's semiconductor chip foundry companies. Even domestic semiconductor chip foundry companies have been ordered by European and American countries not to produce smart chips for them.

The company, which was originally developing smoothly, was sanctioned by European and American countries and no longer had smart chips for 5G mobile phones, so it could only continue to produce 4G mobile phones. It originally occupied the vast majority of the European and American market share, but finally had to lose the European and American markets.

This is a painful lesson, a bloody lesson. Yang Hai certainly does not want his Huaguang Technology Company to repeat the same mistake and be sanctioned by European and American countries and have its technology blocked.

So everything he is doing now is to plan ahead and prepare for the future.

Although Shen Ruobing didn't quite understand Yang Hai's thoughts, she still supported him. She believed that Yang Hai must have his reasons for doing so.

Just like why she returned to China and founded Lean Technology Company, she could have avoided such hard work and directly joined the Shenshi Group and taken over the Shen Group from her father.

At that time, no one understood her, including her parents, but Shen Ruobing still insisted on her ideas and founded Lean Technology Company.

Facts have also proved that her idea was not wrong. Even without Huaguang Technology Company founded by Yang Hai, her Lean Technology Company would still be able to survive. The annual profits were also good, enough to support her to continue to make the company bigger and stronger.

Now with the OEM order from Huaguang Technology Company, Lean Technology Company has become even more powerful and the company has grown once again.

August 8th is the day when Samsung's latest smartphone, the Samsung I8, was launched in China.

It is also the day when the Huaguang 1S smartphone was launched.

And everyone’s terminal retail price is 4999 yuan.

Although Samsung launched several smartphones in succession in 2009, it launched one for almost every operating system.

But this time it’s a little different. It’s obviously targeting Huaguang smartphones, and the purpose is to seize the market share of Huaguang smartphones.

Compared with Samsung, Huaguang Technology has only launched its second mobile phone so far, which is completely different from the full-scale explosion of various mobile phones from Samsung.

The Huaguang 1S mobile phone will still be sold first on major Internet platforms, starting at midnight.

Samsung mobile phones were originally sold offline, with shipments mainly through major channel dealers.

But Samsung is a company that is very good at learning. This time they also began to learn the sales method of Huaguang mobile phones and started selling them on major online shopping platforms.

At midnight on August 8, almost all netizens and media were paying attention to the face-to-face competition between Samsung smartphones and Huaguang smartphones.

Yang Hai was no exception. He personally sat in the data center of Huaguang Technology Company and watched the sales data of Huaguang smartphones rise rapidly from zero.

This time, the Huaguang 1s phone is more than 1 yuan more expensive than the previous Huaguang 1000 phone. Although some improvements have been made in terms of functions and technology, such as the camera pixel has been significantly improved, the rear camera has reached 1200 million pixels, and the front camera has reached 800 million pixels.

But even Yang Hai was unsure whether consumers would be able to accept a retail price that was 1000 yuan higher.

However, we have promised before that the retail price of the Huaguang 1 mobile phone will not be reduced within one year.

So if the price of the new Huaguang 1S mobile phone is not increased, how can the Huaguang 1 mobile phone be sold?
For the same price, even a fool knows that if you choose to buy the Huaguang 1S phone, no one will think of buying the Huaguang 1 phone.

Therefore, in order to widen the gap between the two mobile phones, it is inevitable to increase the price of the Huaguang 1S mobile phone.

In just half a year since the launch of the Huaguang 1 mobile phone, 800 million units have been sold in China, which can be said to have created a miracle.

The shipment volume of Huaguang 1 mobile phones has reached 1200 million units, of which 400 million units were sold in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries. Currently, this sales data is still expanding rapidly.

(End of this chapter)