Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1282 Desperate

Marx once said: "If capital has a 50% profit, it will take risks; if it has a 100% profit, it will dare to trample on all laws in the world; if it has a 300% profit, it will dare to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged."

Smuggling between Shenzhen and Hong Kong has always been rampant. Although the mainland and Hong Kong governments have continued to increase smuggling efforts over the years, lured by huge profits, this smuggling behavior has not weakened at all.

The main reason is that Hong Kong and Shenzhen are too close.

It is generally difficult to get out of goods from land ports, so the smuggling of goods from Hong Kong to the main road basically relies on a modified speedboat, which is called "Dafei" in slang.

Dafei is a speedboat modified by the people. Its transformation is very simple and crude, that is, many high-horsepower engines are added online.

The speed of Dafei is extremely fast, and it can reach more than 90 kilometers per hour when driving on the sea. This speed was absolutely impossible to catch up with the coast guard ships at that time. It is hardly used by anyone other than smugglers.

Then improve step by step, first.Anti-collision steel plates were added to the front of the ship, and later directly became the so-called "Iron Armored Dafei" wrapped in steel plates. At that time, the most popular destination for smuggling electrical appliances was the Hong Kong-Shenzhen line, and it only took 7 minutes for Dafei to make a round trip.

It takes only 7 minutes to make three times or more profits. Compared with other industries, this is definitely a profitable business. It is precisely because of this that there are people who continue to engage in This gray industry.

So in fact, as long as Duan Yun pays, there are a lot of people in Hong Kong who are willing to take risks, and the lithography machines of this era are not as large and complicated as those of later generations. Packed in batches and shipped to Mainland China.

In addition, there is another problem, that is, how to assemble and debug these parts after they are shipped to the mainland is also a big problem.

And this needs to be coordinated between Wang Shi and Hong Kong. Duan Yun means to use 10 US dollars from this commission to bribe a technician from ASML to enter the mainland for assembly. will refuse.

In general, Duan Yun's plan is extremely risky, and the money spent is quite high, at least four to five million US dollars. However, this is also Duan Yun's helpless move, because he wants to produce it at a higher price in the next step. For advanced NAND flash memory chips, it is necessary to make its own chip production line reach the one-micron process technology of international counterparts as soon as possible.

After discussing the details of this matter with Wang Shi in the office, Duan Yun left Vanke.

After returning to his company, Duan Yun went directly to the R&D center of the electronics factory.

At present, workers from other places have begun to return to the factory one after another, and workers who are far away from home will basically return to the factory to report before the eighth day of the lunar new year. The factory has begun to resume the usual production order.

Compared with the management of the factory, Duan Yun is most concerned about the project progress of the R&D center during this period.

"Manager Duan, this is a sample of the foreign trade version of the repeater machine we made on the third day of the Lunar New Year. Let's see how it goes."

As soon as he entered the R&D center, Zhao Xuewu walked over and led Duan Yun to the laboratory.

I saw that on the laboratory platform at this time, there were neatly placed the repeater samples just made by the bar. Compared with the domestic repeaters, these repeaters were slightly fancy in appearance. The version uses a hardened plastic case, in order to keep production costs down.

In fact, Duan Yun did not do this because of the consumption power of Southeast Asian countries. In fact, in the early 80s, including Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, the per capita GDP was higher than that of China. It stands to reason that quality should be the focus of these markets. Better quality product at a higher price.

However, this is not the case. Although the per capita GDP of Southeast Asian countries is higher than that of China, the gap between the rich and the poor is quite wide. 5% of the people can account for more than 60% of the country’s wealth, and most of the remaining people belong to a low-income group. There are even a large number of people living in slums, which is indeed not as good as inland China, which is still under the planned economic system.

And the distributors over there value profits more. The cheaper the product, the bigger the profit margin the better. Rich people buy imported goods from Europe, America and Japan, while those who have no money can only buy domestic or Chinese-made products. It is so realistic, and it is precisely because of this that Duan Yun compresses the cost of products exported to Southeast Asia to the extreme. In order to ensure durability, he can only ensure a simple and reliable structure by reducing functions.

"The appearance is good..." Duan Yun picked up a repeater sample and looked at it, then said to Zhao Xuewu: "How about the cost?"

"We have simplified the circuit part of this repeater, and the power consumption will be slightly larger. Other functions are similar to domestic products. Our domestic version of the repeater costs about 380 yuan per unit. This foreign trade version The cost of the repeater can be controlled to 320 yuan, which is 60 yuan cheaper than in our country." Zhao Xuewu said.

"Very good." Duan Yun nodded in satisfaction, then turned his head and said to Zhao Xuewu: "Just according to this specification, you arrange for the workshop to make a few more sets of samples, at least 20 sets."

"More than 20 sets of samples can be completed in one morning, and I will make arrangements later." Zhao Xuewu replied.

"Very good, after this matter is done, you can take a short rest for two days, and I will arrange new tasks for you later." Duan Yun settled down.

"Well, okay." Zhao Xuewu responded, and then said to Duan Yun: "I'm just worried whether foreigners will like this product? Are foreigners really so keen on learning foreign languages?"

"Every country has an official language and a second language, especially in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asian countries, where English is the second language, but their college entrance examinations are not as strict as ours, and many foreign universities are liberal and strict. But even so, foreign language is also a very important course." Duan Yun paused, and then said: "As a new product, the repeater is not like a TV, refrigerator, or Walkman. awareness, the market needs to be redeveloped, but there is definitely a market for this kind of functional electronic products. If they have a lot of money, they have to promote their products by themselves. We don’t need to invest too much in publicity costs. It’s better to have orders, and there is no loss if there are no orders...”

(End of this chapter)