Hong Kong's new giants

That night, Lin Zuhui came to Pok Fu Lam's 'Cyberport' on a whim.

When he got out of the car and held a building in Cyberport, he saw the bright lights, and he couldn't help showing a smile.

The lights are brightly lit at night, which shows a problem. Cyberport is an extremely successful project, and it also symbolizes the development of Hong Kong's technology industry.

Xiaomi Technology is a technology giant in Hong Kong and a world technology giant. Although its R&D headquarters is in Pengcheng, it also has nearly [-] employees in Hong Kong Cyberport.

In the game industry in Hong Kong, there are about 3000 employees, almost all of whom work in Cyberport. The ninth city alone has more than 1600 employees.

The IT company in Cyberport employs nearly 5000 people, representing companies such as Sina.com, ICQ branch, SUNeVision, TOM.com, priceline (Asia), YAHOO (Hong Kong) and so on; Sina.com alone employs more than 2000 people. People, after all, it also has other businesses such as web comics and online DVD rental (follow-up video sites).

There is also the telecommunications industry, and several companies choose to work in Cyberport, after all, the rent is cheap.

The entire Cyberport can accommodate 1.5 people for employment, and currently it is probably in the early 1s.

Because the rent of Cyberport is less than half of that of Wan Chai, many companies want to settle in. Unfortunately, Cyberport has strict requirements, that is, it must be a technology company.

At the same time, Jingwei Capital and Heung Kong Telecom have set up a "venture capital fund" in Cyberport to support the technology companies settled here.

Citizens of Hong Kong describe 'Cyberport' as the cradle of Hong Kong's technology and the future of Hong Kong's technology. If someone works here, it is a very proud thing.

In this lifetime, Cyberport has been a great success.

Lin Zuhui walked into an office building and walked towards the Ninth City Company.

The office buildings in the entire Cyberport are not built very high, but they are almost all connected together, forming a 'giant dragon'.

"boss"

When Lin Zuhui pushed into an office, the employees shouted unexpectedly.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said, "Still working overtime?"

Zhang Zhiteng, the person in charge of the development of 'Adventure Island', quickly came to Lin Zuhui's side and said, "Well, the inner side of Adventure Island is coming soon, and the work is a bit tight."

Lin Zuhui nodded. In fact, he knew that when the projects of 'Adventure Island', 'BNB', 'Martin Car' and 'Audition' were established in 2000, these four R&D teams had been working overtime.

After all, it is normal for large-scale online game development to take 3 to 5 years. Of course, if other reasons are considered, it is naturally unnecessary.

For example, Lin Zuhui knows that there are about 100 technicians in the development of "Adventure Island", which naturally saves time compared with a team of 30-50 people.

At the same time, having Lin Zuhui as an 'original' game player can also reduce the time for research and development.

"Well, can you let me test it!"

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"

Zhang Zhiteng arranged it happily, but he knew that this boss was very creative, and every time he played 'Adventure Island', he would always give some good suggestions.

In fact, Lin Zuhui is not really playing, but experiencing it. Every map must be experienced, and the R&D personnel must introduce the gameplay.

In a testing room, Lin Zuhui was discussing with core R&D personnel.

Q's cute painting style and relaxed gameplay are the advantages of "Adventure Island"; the horizontal scroll mode does not need to run too much on the map.

'Adventure Island' is a free model, which relies on props to charge for profit, which will be a new innovation.

"This game will definitely be a great success!" This is Lin Zuhui's evaluation after two hours.

He also tried it in the early stage, but today is his first official review.

Zhang Zhiteng said excitedly: "It will be officially released in May, we will definitely live up to the company's expectations and come up with the most perfect work."

The success of R&D is high. The whole team has nearly 25 people. Based on the average salary of 2500 a year, it is almost [-] million R&D expenses, and this is not counting other R&D costs.

Of course, the pressure on Zhang Zhiteng's team is not particularly high, because the outline of this game is arranged by the company.

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "Very good, we must show our strength! Our Xiangjiang will become an important city in the world's game development, and we will rely on excellent works that have entered dozens of overseas countries, or even hundreds of countries. .”

"Yes" everyone was excited.

They just want to make this work perfect, but the boss is thinking about the development of the entire game industry in Hong Kong. No wonder the boss will occasionally test it himself.

When Lin Zuhui left Cyberport, he was in a very good mood.

The Ninth City has developed many world-class classic games, from console games to PC games, to online games, and has made most of its contributions to the Xiangjiang game industry.

He believes that Hong Kong's game industry will reach a level that makes the world tremble in another ten years.

Take the "Adventure Island" just now as an example. Within ten years, it can be operated in at least 50 countries. It can be said that a classic game IP is worth tens of billions.

In the previous life, the game developer of Bangzi in South Korea only had 2-3 boutiques, and the boss’s net worth could be ranked in the top ten of the South Korean wealth list, with a net worth of billions of dollars; and among the top ten wealth in South Korea, there are 3 people’s wealth is from the game.

You know, South Korea has a population of less than 5000 million, and the game market is not big. The reason for this is that their games have servers all over the world.

Of course, to be so powerful, you must have a super strong operation team, which is what The Ninth City has been doing.

A week later.

Lin Zuhui came to Ninth City again, called several core executives including the president Gao Kelin, and showed everyone two documents.

"This is the outline of the development of the two games. You are ready to establish a project. This time, I will give you two years."

It was not a matter of time for everyone to show excited expressions, but the creative outline given by the boss, which was an excellent game plan.

Gao Kelin said: "With these materials, at least one year can be saved, and the direction has been determined. In the first half of this year, we plan to internally test 'Adventure Island' and 'Bubble Hall', and in the second half of the year to internally test 'Martin Car' ' and 'Audition', time is fine. Now that we have two more projects, we just need to recruit some more people, and we can form a team soon."

Lin Zuhui said: "The Ninth City has no problem recruiting 2000 people (the R&D department). The game industry is getting more and more developed, and we are not afraid to support idlers."

"Ok"

If other studios can recruit 30 people, they can already develop a game, but in The Ninth City, the emphasis is on speed and quality, so an online game usually requires 60 to 100 people.Anyway, Lin Zuhui is not worried about the failure of the project. After all, he contributed games that were very popular in the market in his previous life.

In addition to the 7 online games that Lin Zuhui has contributed, The Ninth City also has other online game projects, as well as PC games and other departments.

The game planning outline that Lin Zuhui handed over to The Ninth City this time is "Cross Fire" and "Dungeon and Warriors" developed in Korea's previous life.

"Boss, this "Cross Fire" is somewhat similar to "Counter-Strike." A technical executive said.

Lin Zuhui responded with a smile: "I don't know either. But "Counter-Strike" is also similar to my company. It doesn't matter if it is slightly similar, but you must have your own creativity."

The technical executive nodded and said: "It must not be the same, I can only say that the subject matter is similar. There is a note on it, "Cross Fire" is a free game, an online game that relies on props to charge, so it is different from "Counter-Strike" Yes, "Counter-Strike" is relatively balanced in strength, but if "Cross Fire" relies on props, it will definitely not be fair in strength."

Gao Kelin looked at the information and said: "This is normal. After all, one is a PC game and the other is an online game. There are also notes here. "Cross Fire" should be easy to use."

Everyone had a brief discussion, and Lin Zuhui also took the information to read, assuming it was submitted to him by someone else.

""Dungeon and Warriors" is another horizontal 2D online game. Is it better for this company to continue developing 3D online games." A technical executive said.

Gao Kelin understood Lin Zuhui, so he immediately said: "Not necessarily, I think this "Dungeon and Warriors" is very creative, and there are more ways to play. If it is seriously developed, it will definitely be a masterpiece."

Nonsense, this was one of the most profitable games in the previous life, and Tencent made tens of billions by acting as his agent.

Lin Zuhui said: "I am very optimistic about "Dungeon and Warriors". You must pay enough attention to it, and strive for internal testing and public testing in 2003."

Nexon company is so angry that it will be tested in Hong Kong in 2003, and NEXON company has probably established a project for research and development for a while, so they have been busy for a while.

After taking out two games this time, Lin Zuhui almost squeezed out his memory. After all, he was older in his previous life and played enough games, so he didn't play many games later.

As a post-[-]s generation in his previous life, the nine online games he gave to Ninth City are his online game memories.

There are also some domestically developed games, he thinks there is no need to grab them, after all, they may not be popular abroad.

Just when Lin Zuhui felt that his online game memory was exhausted, he suddenly thought of a small game.

"Wait, you develop another game. I heard from friends that it seems to be pretty good."

A few people were taken aback, and then quickly took the paper and pen.

Gao Kelin nodded and said, "Boss, tell me!"

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "There is no specific plan, he just told me that he is developing an online game version of the 'street basketball' game, the style of painting is of course the style of American street basketball, the characters are cartoon, there are 1v1, 3v3 modes, guards , Forward, Center. That's about it."

Gao Kelin said: "No problem, we have mature experience in developing casual games!"

Lin Zuhui nodded, and said: "Then try to spend one year on the inner side, anyway, the development is not very difficult."

"no problem!"

Lin Zuhui is also very happy to make up 10 games.

To put it bluntly, maybe the game he planned has an incomplete memory, but as long as he plays it for a while, more memories will emerge.

Then again, the street basketball that I just remembered today, he was the kind of person (often called T) that no one else wanted to form a team, and he didn't have the talent for competitive games.

As for the development strength of the Ninth City, Lin Zuhui is not worried. As early as 1993, the Ninth City was established.The entire company has formed a strong research and development strength, and even drove the entire game industry in Hong Kong.

The development of a game not only tests planning, programmers, but also art; and Xiangjiang's comics industry is undoubtedly very developed, and it has the world's top development capabilities.

The 10 online games of The Ninth City will establish the status of the world's game giants in one fell swoop, and even drive the entire Xiangjiang game industry.

Assuming that he has no new ideas in the future, I believe that the Hong Kong game industry will also flourish and produce new best-selling games, and there will be a lot of them, after all, the foundation is so strong.

Having said that, in the previous life, Singapore had game tycoons, but Hong Kong did not; other people's territory is only two-thirds of Hong Kong's, and the population is also about two-thirds, but there are technology tycoons.

Xiang Jiang, what a fool!
Fortunately, Lin Zuhui was supported by Sima Yi and Zhuge Kongming.

Help, you have to keep helping!
Pengcheng, Xiaomi Technology Park.

Lin Zuhui came to Zou Kaixuan's office in a low-key manner. She was the chairman of Xiaomi Technology very early, not the president; in this way, she actually acted as Lin Zuhui's position in the company under her company, just focus on the general direction, the president is the direct person in charge of the company.

Because of this, Zou Kaixuan still has time to give birth to two sons for him, and he may be expected to take over Xiaomi Technology in the future.

"The number of PHS users in China has exceeded 500 million, and the number of PHS users in Taiwan, Southeast Asia, South Korea, and Japan has also exceeded 500 million. It is expected that PAS wireless local calls will grow faster this year." Zou Kaixuan reported the good news.

Lin Zuhui nodded, and said directly: "Within five years, there will be at least [-] million PHS global users!"

The mainland accounts for half, and overseas accounts for half. The technology that was unremarkable back then has now become the core business of Xiaomi Technology.

For Xiaomi Technology, although Lin Zuhui has little control, Xiaomi Technology has still become a technology giant with a market value of 1500 billion Hong Kong dollars. This is still the case when the Hong Kong stock market is sluggish.

Xiaomi Technology can be said to support the development of Hong Kong's technology industry, although the R&D headquarters is in Pengcheng.

Zou Kaixuan had no doubts about Lin Zuhui's words, and with a look of admiration on his face, he said: "Well, our mobile phone business is also growing very fast. Last year, sales exceeded 1000 million units, and overseas sales accounted for half."

This data is definitely far worse than that of Nokia and Samsung, but compared with domestic Bird and ZTE, the sales volume is probably several times higher.

The important thing is that Xiaomi Technology's mobile phones have their own core patents and technologies, they are not counterfeit phones, and their profitability is much higher than that of domestic mobile phones.

Of course, this is also due to the fact that Xiaomi Technology entered this field early and was willing to develop technology.

"How is the progress of 3G phone?" Lin Zuhui asked.

Before the advent of smart phones, 3G videophones were the highest technological level.

Lin Zuhui is in telecommunications, how can he not know, so he asked Xiaomi Technology to conduct research and development early.

"Strive to launch it in the first half of next year!"

"It's a bit slow, but considering the immaturity of 3G technology, it's acceptable."

Hutchison Telecom will launch 3G phones in Europe in the middle of this year, while Vodafone has delayed plans to offer 3G services in Europe due to lack of sufficiently mature 3G handsets.

Everyone is fighting for the launch of 3G mobile phones. That's because it costs a lot of money to obtain 3G licenses and needs to earn back from the business, so telecom operators have been advocating 3G.

In fact, the technology is not yet mature!
And Lin Zuhui's Hong Kong Telecom and Australia Oputs Telecom have won the 3G licenses of Xiangjiang and Australia, so naturally they hope to promote Xiaomi's 3G mobile phones.

To be honest, when he bought two telecommunications companies, he had plans for Xiaomi Technology's mobile phones to go overseas.

You must know that in overseas regions and countries including Xiangjiang, mobile phone users can almost only buy mobile phones from telecom operators.Therefore, telecom operators and mobile phone operators in this era are in a situation of monopoly cooperation.

Then, Zou Kaixuan reported one by one: communication solution business (wireless, PPTV), liquid crystal display business, semiconductor business, lithium battery business, storage, electronic equipment, some products and business situations.

Unknowingly, Xiaomi Technology has become a technology giant with tens of thousands of R&D personnel, and a comprehensive electronics company similar to South Korea's Samsung.

Lin Zuhui is absolutely responsible for such a success. He set the business direction for Xiaomi Technology and prepared sufficient funds for Xiaomi Technology. This has made Xiaomi Technology what it is today.

"Is there a shortage of research and development funds?" Lin Zuhui always asks this question.

Semiconductors and LCD screens are all produced by spending money, while Xiaomi Technology uses product profits for research and development and expansion. To achieve this, Xiaomi has many best-selling electronic products, including VCD and DVD at the beginning, and now there are A series of products such as mobile phones, storage devices, telephones, MP3 players, and repeaters sell well, with an annual profit of about 35 billion.

"The research costs of liquid crystal business and semiconductor business are relatively high, especially if the liquid crystal business wants to make a breakthrough, we can only spend money." Zou Kaixuan said seriously.

She knew that Lin Zuhui was looking at long-term goals, so in these years, Xiaomi Technology has become the champion of global technology companies in terms of the proportion of research and development expenses.

Some people ridiculed Xiaomi Technology for being overwhelmed and stretched too far, but she never wavered.

Lin Zuhui nodded, and said: "In another one or two years, it will be easy for Xiaomi Technology's market value to break through 2000 billion. After all, we have the support of PHS business and network solution business, and investors will definitely be extremely optimistic about it."

PHS is about to explode, just imagine how much market value an Asian market with hundreds of millions of users can support; moreover, when Xiaomi Technology decided to use PHS, it took advantage of the trend to enter wireless network solutions, PPTV solutions (combination of telecommunications and TV) ).

Zou Kaixuan understood instantly, and said, "You mean to raise funds from the stock market to support the increased research and development of liquid crystal and semiconductor businesses."

Lin Zuhui nodded and said: "Not only to increase research and development, but also to increase efforts to acquire some semiconductor companies at home and abroad. Now that Huaxia has entered the WTO, it is really a good opportunity. You can issue bonds of 50 billion Hong Kong dollars first, anyway, some people will subscribe. "

Zou Kaixuan understands that the companies under Lin Zuhui can cover the bottom line.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"

It is Lin Zuhui's idea to spend money to develop technology in Hong Kong or the mainland.

Of course, it can only be said to be icing on the cake, not to change Huaxia Technology. Xiaomi Technology does not have that strength.

Lin Zuhui thought for a while and said, "You pay attention to the microelectronics industry in the Mainland. If there are companies supported and established by the state, you must tell me."

Zou Kaixuan thought for a moment and said, "I wish I had read the report. The Ministry of Science and Technology is determined to make lithography machines the primary research project of microelectronics equipment during the "Tenth Five-Year Plan" period."

Lin Zuhui immediately said: "Then pay attention, if there is a team forming a company, you tell me. I plan to ask you to donate to them, and let Xiaomi Technology form an alliance with them."

What he was thinking of was Modu Microelectronics, the only lithography machine company in the mainland.At present, microelectronics is an industry that is highly blocked from China by foreign countries, and can only be developed by itself.

It is said that Modu Microelectronics had only a few hundred million yuan in research and development funds at the beginning, lacking funds, talents, and cooperation with related companies.

Undoubtedly, if it becomes Modu Microelectronics this year, Lin Zuhui will donate research and development funds through Zou Kaixuan personally; and let Xiaomi Technology and Modu Microelectronics reach an alliance agreement, of course, it is best to form an alliance secretly.

To be honest, Xiaomi Technology will definitely be blocked by Europe and the United States in the future, because it is a high-tech company, not an assembly company in the previous life.

Therefore, it is inevitable for Xiaomi Technology to go firmly with the country.

When Lin Zuhui was listed on Xiaomi Technology, he had already removed his relationship. He was neither the boss nor a director, and his shareholding was also transferred to an overseas offshore company.

In order to be safe, Lin Zuhui also plans to 'empty' the stock in the future.

"Well, I see." Zou Kaixuan would not ask so many questions.She knew that her man was making arrangements, but she didn't want to affect the Lin family, so she acted so secretly.

She now completely regards herself as a Chinese, and Xiaomi Technology will also rely on Huaxia to grow into a technology giant.