Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1120 Export Rewards
In the early morning of the second day, Duan Yun took the bus to the city hall.

"Come in." Seeing Duan Yun appearing at the door of his office, Li Hao greeted with a smile.

"Mayor Li, what are you busy with?" Seeing that Li Hao's desk was full of various documents, Duan Yun asked with a smile on his face.

"Did you gain anything from going to America this time?" Li Hao asked.

Among the entrepreneurs in Shenzhen, it is very common to go abroad, but most of them go to Hong Kong or Japan for inspection, and few go to the United States on the other side of the ocean, and they are currently experiencing the national tape recorder war in Tianyin Electronics Factory. Now, Duan Yun is still in the mood to go to the United States for investigation, which somewhat makes Li Hao feel a little unbelievable.

"I went to the United States this time to participate in the SEC World Electronics Exhibition. I mainly wanted to know about the development of the world's electronics peers and provide a reference for our company's next plan." Duan Yun said.

"It's good to go out and get a lot of insight!" Li Hao nodded, and then said: "However, you must also handle your company's affairs well. I learned from the tax department last month that your factory's tax payment last month It has decreased by more than 3/4 compared with that at the beginning of the year, and the company's profit has dropped so fast, which is very rare among our Shenzhen companies..."

Obviously, Li Hao has always attached great importance to the development of Duan Yun Tianyin Electronics Factory. The reason is also very simple. Since last year, Duan Yun’s Tianyin Electronics Factory can be said to be thriving among private enterprises in Shenzhen, and it can be called Shenzhen Private Electronics Factory. An example and leader of the enterprise, on the other hand, Duan Yun is willing to invest a lot of money to support municipal construction. It is precisely because of these two aspects that Li Hao has always maintained a high degree of attention to Tianyin Electronics Factory.

And this nationwide tape recorder war has also greatly affected Shenzhen enterprises. Duan Yun's Tianyin Electronics Factory is one of the initiators of the price war, and the SZ municipal government has been paying attention to this matter, because whether it is Tianyin Electronics Factory is also Shenzhen Electronics Group, which occupies a pivotal position in the local electronics industry in Shenzhen. If the two powers compete, one must be injured. Judging from the tax payment situation last month, Tianyin Electronics Factory is obviously in a very difficult position. An obvious disadvantage, the total tax payment of Chunmei Electronics Factory in March exceeded that of Tianyin Electronics Factory for the first time, and it was fully 3 times that of Tianyin Electronics Factory.

At this moment, all the leaders of the SZ city government believed that Tianyin Electronics Factory had completely lost in this price war, and its operation must have encountered difficulties. Because of this, Li Hao called Duan Yun before and offered to let them Suspend funding for the construction of municipal facilities to reduce the current corporate pressure on Tianyin Electronics Factory.

After all, Li Hao himself still attaches great importance to the development of Tianyin Electronics Factory. He does not want to see this leader of private enterprises in Shenzhen fall into operational difficulties and never recover from it.

"Thank you Mayor Li for your concern and care for our Tianyin Electronics Factory." Duan Yun said gratefully, and then said: "Our factory is indeed facing certain difficulties at present, but I believe we will definitely overcome the difficulties. As for My factory promised to donate to municipal projects before, I personally think it should continue, after all, we had a promise before..."

Duan Yun will not tell the mayor about his electronics factory's transition to produce Walkmans right now. Since the city government expressed "sympathy" for him, Duan Yun needs to use their sympathy to talk about something.

"Being a person and doing things must be done according to one's ability, and we are doing this for the benefit of your company." Li Hao said.

"Mayor Li, in fact, I came here today mainly because I have a small request..."

"If you have anything to say, don't be embarrassed."

"It's like this. This visit to the United States has touched me a lot. I always believe that Chinese companies must go out if they want to develop, and they can't just focus on the one-acre three-point land in the domestic market." Duan Yun paused Dun, then said: "Some of the difficulties faced by our enterprises now are the lack of opportunities to communicate with foreign manufacturers. Another very important point is that there is not enough foreign exchange. When we see some technologies and equipment that are very commercially valuable, we cannot afford them. I can only helplessly lose business opportunities..."

"You said so much, you just want foreign exchange?" Hearing this, Li Hao smiled, and then said: "However, we have nothing to do about this matter. The annual financial expenditure is huge, and the demand for foreign exchange is even greater. Big, our city government can't exchange foreign currency for your company..."

Li Hao put on a posture that the landlord's family has no surplus food. In fact, the financial situation of the SZ city government is indeed difficult. Otherwise, he would not seek local enterprises for "sponsorship" because of urban construction issues.

"Mayor Li, I don't want to ask our city government for foreign exchange, but I just hope that our SZ city government can give our company a little discount. Last year, we earned more than 500 million US dollars for SZ city's exports. A part of the foreign exchange is reserved for us as a reward, in this way, we will be more motivated to earn foreign exchange for the country’s exports, and at the same time, we can also obtain foreign exchange funds for our enterprises to purchase advanced technology and equipment.”

After Duan Yun talked about it, the ultimate goal is to retain foreign exchange.

At present, Duan Yun has 300 million US dollars in foreign exchange reserves, but the money is probably not enough to buy a video recorder production line. He also asked Japanese manufacturers at the CES exhibition before, and the answer he got was the cheapest second-hand video recorder. The price of the production line is also around 800 million to 1 million US dollars. As the saying goes, you get what you pay for, and Duan Yun can only buy some production lines that are on the verge of being scrapped. The technology has been seriously backward, and the video recorders produced The performance is poor, and it is very bulky. It is actually difficult for Duan Yun to make money in China with such a product.

In fact, Duan Yun thought that if he negotiated seriously with the Japanese side, he would be able to buy a second-hand video recorder production line for $700 million. Even so, Duan Yun’s foreign exchange funding gap was still more than 300 million, and he still couldn’t achieve his goal.

In addition, at this CES exhibition, Duan Yun has already expressed to Toshiba that they want to buy Flash flash memory chips in batches. In other words, each chip is estimated to be as high as 20-8 US dollars, and if Duan Yun imports 10 million pieces a year, it will be 100-800 million US dollars. This is definitely an astronomical figure, and it is precisely because of this, Duan Yuncai is more urgent than ever and needs a large amount of foreign exchange reserves.

(End of this chapter)