Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1387 Company Site Selection
Whenever Duan Yun has a new idea, he will quickly put it into action, hoping that his idea will become a reality.

It is actually not difficult to start a company independently in Hong Kong. You only need to register there and pass the approval. However, without knowing the situation in Hong Kong, few mainland companies make money in Hong Kong. .

Even for Lenovo Group, he did not independently set up a company in Hong Kong, but through a three-party joint venture, with an investment of 30 Hong Kong dollars, to jointly start a company, which can avoid many risks and avoid some pitfalls and detours.

So this is Tianyin Group opening a company in Hong Kong, and Duan Yun also needs to find someone to help, and among the people Duan Yun knows, Wang Shi is undoubtedly the best candidate.

Wang Shi, who is now the chairman and general manager of Vanke Co., Ltd., can be described as high-spirited. He just participated in the land auction of the Vuitton villa plot in Shenzhen last month. Vanke Group is about to complete the shareholding restructuring and enter the real estate industry in an all-round way. .

During this period, Tianyin Group gave Wang Shi a lot of help. A few years ago, Wang Shi and Duan Yun maintained a relatively close relationship with the Ministry of Commerce. At present, all the office supplies and precision instruments used by Tianyin Group, Most of them were purchased from Vanke, and by acting as a middleman for Duan Yun's smuggling of lithography machines last time, Wang Shi also earned a remuneration of 50 US dollars. In addition, at the beginning of this year, Cheng Qingyan also began to invest in Vanke in order to obtain real estate development qualifications , Privately signed a shareholding agreement with Wang Shi, accounting for about 20%.

So no matter from which point of view, as long as Duan Yun makes a request, Wang Shi will definitely agree to what he can do, and even if he can't, he will do his best. After all, the relationship between the two is extraordinary now. From customers to business partners, and now they have become bosom friends, interests and friendship firmly bind the two together.

"This matter is easy to talk about. I can ask the foreign trade company in Hong Kong to help you register a company there, and help you find a good office location..." After Wang Shi learned of Duan Yun's plan to set up a company in Hong Kong , He agreed very simply, and only heard him continue: "Considering that you want to establish a research and development center in Hong Kong, I think the company should be established in Hung Hom Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, where the Hong Kong Government Advanced Technical Institute is located. In this way, whether it is recruiting talents or cooperating with universities, it will be very convenient.”

"This suggestion is very good." Duan Yun nodded and said with satisfaction.

The Hong Kong Government Advanced Technical Institute is a public applied research university located in Hung Hom Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1937. This school is the predecessor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. It is a statutory public university funded by the eight University Education Grants Committee. one.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University focuses on interdisciplinary research, creating knowledge and developing influential new inventions. In its previous life, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University was the only institution of higher learning in Hong Kong with practical experience in international space missions. It once contributed to the country's Chang'e lunar exploration program. He has made great contributions, and also actively participated in the research work of the country's first Mars exploration mission, Tianwen-1.

Duan Yun established a research and development center in Hong Kong, on the one hand, to attract international high-level talents, and on the other hand, to cooperate with local universities.

Different from mainland China, Hong Kong's industry-university-research institutes are doing very well. All universities have laboratories jointly established with enterprises, including many well-known multinational enterprise groups.

In fact, there is still a certain gap between Hong Kong's production, education, research, Britain, the United States, Japan and other developed countries. This is not because the school does not pay attention to or does not have this concept, but because it is powerless. Hong Kong, a big market, has always been based on finance and tourism. Since she started out in the industry, there is no manufacturing industry, so her university can’t do it even if it wants to cooperate with local manufacturing enterprises. Industry-university-research is much stronger than that of the mainland.

"Universities in Hong Kong also pay attention to an economic benefit. If you are willing to donate some money to their school, they will also open a special laboratory for you in the school. All in all, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can see the results. .” Wang Shi said.

"Old Wang, it seems that you are very familiar with the situation of universities in Hong Kong." Duan Yun said with a smile.

"I used to go to Hong Kong often, and I have a better understanding of the situation there. It's a capitalist system, and money is easy to use." Wang Shi smiled slightly, and then said: "The universities there are very open, and there are often some international academics. Exchanges are much stronger than our academic circles in the Mainland, but outstanding young people in Hong Kong are more enthusiastic about finance and real estate, mainly to facilitate future employment, but science and engineering universities are much better than ours in China, and many well-known universities in the UK After the university professors retired, they returned to the University of Hong Kong to continue teaching. Schools of science and technology pay more attention to students' hands-on ability, which is different from the teaching methods in mainland China that only focus on theoretical examinations..."

"Now our domestic students really lack hands-on ability. If you assign them a task, they will work hard to do it, but more or less lack of creativity..." Duan Yun pondered for a while, and then said: "Before I We have established an industry-university-research cooperation relationship with Jinan University, and they also provide many college students to come to us for internships. They perform very well and work very hard, but there are very few students with strong original ability. You have to give them some ideas and plans, there is no ability to stand alone..."

"In fact, not many students in Hong Kong are really outstanding. If you say that they are smarter than mainland students, it is actually the opposite. It is just because of advanced teaching materials and educational concepts that they are better able to adapt to work and society after graduation." Wang Shi After a pause, he continued, "However, as far as I know, all the polytechnic universities in Hong Kong are home to well-known experts, including some Nobel Prize winners. Establishing doctoral-level research laboratories, their abilities are far from those of the students at school."

"I plan to invest 50 US dollars in the early stage to establish the company and recruit personnel, and then invest another 100 million US dollars per year to set up special laboratories with these universities. Do you think this money is enough?" Duan Yun asked.

"US$150 million a year is quite a lot, and it should be able to attract many well-known experts to join us." Wang Shi nodded, and then said: "As far as I know, many internationally renowned companies have set up R&D centers in Hong Kong. The investment is only 200 million US dollars, most of which are office rent and staff salaries. The monthly salary of ordinary graduates of the University of Hong Kong is 8000 Hong Kong dollars, the monthly salary of teaching assistants is 2 to 3 Hong Kong dollars, and the monthly salary of full-time professors is 6 to 8 Hong Kong dollars. The Hong Kong dollar exchange rate is 1:7.8, which means that with 150 million US dollars, you can hire a dozen university professors!"

(End of this chapter)