Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1285 Light of European Technology
For a long time, reference books translated from foreign languages ​​published in China are far from meeting the needs of domestic scholars, and due to the long translation cycle of domestic publishing houses, it often takes 2 to 3 years for foreign language books to be translated into Chinese, and when they are finally published, It has been 3 to 4 years behind the most advanced foreign theories, which also prevents many domestic scholars from keeping up with the trend of the times and learning and exploring more foreign new technologies.

So Duan Yun plans to buy more reference books on electronic chips and software this time. After bringing them back to China, he will set up a translation department to translate these books full-time for the reference of the staff of the research institute.

This is obviously a relatively large project, and Chen Tiesheng and Li Yun alone must be too busy. After returning to Shenzhen, the next step is to transfer to another school and plan to recruit a few more full-time translators to do the work of translating foreign reference books all year round.

"Okay." Hearing what Duan Yun said, Chen Tiesheng responded.

In fact, Chen Tiesheng also likes this kind of work very much. After all, he likes to do some academic work quietly. Because he is not good at words and has no keen business acumen, so since he went to sea the year before last, he has been doing nothing in Shenzhen. Unsatisfactory, since Duan Yun is willing to give him such a high salary, and he only needs to sit quietly in the office to translate books, such a good job, there is no other good job in Shenzhen.

After chatting for a while that day, the two went to bed early. Adjusting the time difference is a very troublesome thing, and the two must adapt to life here as soon as possible.

On the second day after arriving in Germany, Duan Yun and his party came to a bookstore in Berlin and began to look for information books on electronic software and chips.

German locals always pick and choose when buying books, and they can’t choose a book in half a day. However, Li Yun, Chen Tiesheng and Duan Fang are completely like shopping in a supermarket. They only buy books related to electronic software chips. In less than half an hour, the three of them selected nearly 40 books, so that the staff of the bookstore were dumbfounded when they saw it.

Duan Yun, on the other hand, went to the English-language area alone to pick up books. Almost all bookstores in Berlin in the 80s had an area dedicated to publishing English books. A few years ago, Duan Yun came to Germany for the first time and bought some reference books here.

However, when the bill was finally settled, these books cost a total of more than 7000 German marks, which was equivalent to more than 2000 US dollars according to the exchange rate at the time.

But this little money is not worth mentioning to Duan Yun. He is going to ask Chen Tiesheng to bring all these books back to China to enrich his company database.

In the afternoon, the few of them walked around the commercial center of Berlin again and bought some gifts and clothes.

Compared with the first time Duan Yun came to Germany a few years ago, he is still in a very relaxed state of mind. In fact, this kind of overseas inspection still comes with some elements of tourism. The most important thing is to let his sister Duan Fang see him. See the world, because if you want to cultivate it into a technical backbone, you can't let him become a frog in a well all the time.

Is the so-called poor family rich road.

Duan Yun was also very generous and bought a Swiss lady watch for his sister and Li Yun. Even Chen Tiesheng, who had just joined the group, Duan Yun also gave him a tall suit. He was very moved and thanked him repeatedly along the way.

On this day, the four of them went to bed early again, and on the second day, several of them got up very early, took a taxi downstairs in the hotel, and went to the IFA exhibition site in the suburbs of Berlin.

Compared with the world's most influential American CES exhibition, IFA's influence is slightly inferior, but judging from the layout of the exhibition hall, it is not inferior at all.

Moreover, the site of the IFA exhibition is very distinctive. On a lawn at the entrance, a stage with a height of more than 10 meters was built. Singers and rock stars from all over Europe gathered here, and there were stalls selling beer sausages everywhere. The atmosphere seemed very lively.

After entering the exhibition hall, Duan Yun and his party were immediately shocked by the huge and spectacular scene inside.

By 1988, optoelectronic new media technology had developed to a stage. In addition to using traditional light boxes to decorate booths, many booths also appeared with a large number of display projectors and various robotic equipment, which made the place a bit more The high-tech colors are like some scenes from Star Wars in early movies.

At that time, there were many world-renowned multinational technology companies in Europe, such as Siemens in Germany, Alphat in France, Philips in the Netherlands, etc. These companies are also the most advanced and creative high-tech companies in the world. Many of them The products have strong sales and influence in the world, and in terms of overall strength, they are not inferior to the United States and Japan.

And in fact, the IFA exhibition can be said to be the most important electronic technology exhibition in Europe. With 1986 visitors, the total number of orders reached in the venue alone has reached 800 million U.S. dollars. This transaction volume even surpassed the CES conference held in Las Vegas, USA during the same period.

In fact, the IFA exhibition is not only an important market for buyers of European consumer electronics products, wholesalers and retailers to understand and purchase products in this field, but also an important platform for large enterprises in the United States, Japan and other countries to seek cooperation and invest.

Since the entire exhibition area is very large and there are many exhibitors, according to Duan Yun’s previous arrangement, the four of them will be divided into three groups. Li Yun and Duan Fang will go to the Japanese exhibition hall, Chen Tiesheng will go to the American exhibition hall, and Duan Yun went to the European exhibition hall alone.

In fact, Duan Yun has always been concerned about the technological development of the United States and Japan, but he does not know much about European high-tech companies. The main reason is that in the current domestic market, the products of the United States and Japan account for the vast majority, especially Japanese home appliances have almost occupied the entire high-end market of domestic electrical appliances.

The most eye-catching products at this year's IFA show are mainly car audio, wireless phones, VCL technology and computer products.

Computer products are still the largest in the United States. The booths of Intel and IBM are the largest in the entire industry, followed by the booth of Nintendo. This year, Nintendo launched the FC disk drive system. At that time, the FC cassette had a capacity of only 64K. , which greatly limited the development of game content, so Nintendo developed a brand new FC disk game console, and the first corresponding software was the very famous "Legend of Zelda".

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