Hong Kong Island's New Rich Era

Chapter 86 Technology Layout
The decline of Hong Kong's electronics companies may be related to the lack of a leading electronics company. Now Orange Technology must stand up.

"Haiqing, let Liu Changhai take care of the industrial park. You should return to your old job and work with me on scientific and technological research."

At a cluster meeting of his subsidiaries, Liu Zhicheng said to Huo Haiqing: "In the future, Changhai will be responsible for the production of the entire industrial park."

Huo Haiqing and Liu Changhai nodded to show that they understood.

Liu Zhicheng continued, "We at Juzi Technology must set up a circuit board design team. Although there is a shortage of design talent in Hong Kong, we can go out and bring in some."

"We are now setting up our R&D center in the United States. Although it is to develop digital technology, we can also set up a circuit board R&D team and send our young researchers to learn."

"We can also invite outside technicians to come to Hong Kong for training, first digest the circuit boards we are using, start with imitation, and then launch our own printed circuit boards."

Huo Haiqing nodded and said, "Yes, we lack the basics in the field of electronic products."

Liu Zhicheng ignored Huo Haiqing's words and continued to instruct: "You must take action immediately on this. Also, we need to set up our own printed circuit board factory. Whether it is in RB or the United States, the production line must be brought back to me."

In fact, one benefit of introducing a printed circuit board production line is that it can make electronic products smaller and achieve higher precision in circuit control.

For example, in a digital watch, only a printed circuit board can control the time accurately in such a small space. We can make the Walkman even smaller, and the future home game console even smaller.

The control circuit boards inside Xiangjiang electronic watches are all imported from overseas, mainly RB, and the same goes for the LCD panels.

In order to better plan the future game console market, Liu Zhicheng is also considering the future handheld game console market, which will definitely require a large number of LCD panels.

Now that the Hong Kong market is in need of a large number of integrated circuit boards and liquid crystal panels, it is a good opportunity to develop our own industrial chain.

Thinking of this, Liu Zhicheng continued: "We also need a LCD production line to make our own LCD panels."

"Liquid crystal? We also want to make liquid crystal?" Huo Haiqing asked hurriedly.

"While the European and American governments have not yet imposed any restrictions on this thing, just buy the equipment. You can arrange for someone to go to the United States to buy a set of equipment, plus some technical patents." Liu Zhicheng said.

Liquid crystal and printed circuit boards are one of the most important hardware in the electronics industry. They are now in the initial stages and the cost of participating is very low.

These two issues are not big, but the main thing is the chip, Liu Zhicheng still has to consider it, and he must consider this issue carefully.

After making enough profit from the arcade, it was natural to enter these fields and solve the problems of LCD and printed circuit boards in the early stage.

Even if others offer exorbitant prices for these two production lines, he must bring them back at all costs, as this is related to Liu Zhicheng's future industrial layout.

"As far as I know, the LCD production line has a huge demand for fresh water. Hong Kong has always been short of water. Will there be any problem in this regard?" Huo Haiqing said worriedly.

"At the beginning, the production capacity will not be very large, so we can just buy water. But for sewage treatment, we may need to invest some money." Liu Zhicheng shook his head and said.

Hong Kong has experienced several fresh water crises. In the 60s, even taking a bath was difficult. In order to store water, citizens bought a large number of plastic buckets and basins.

Li Chaoren seized the opportunity that year and produced a large number of plastic buckets and plastic basins, which he sold to citizens for water storage and made his first pot of gold in life.

Later, the Hong Kong government built a large reservoir in the New Territories and negotiated with the mainland government to buy water, and then it recovered. This is also the origin of the "Type B Official Letter Land Exchange Permit" in the hands of New Territories citizens. Currently, Swire Group has built a Coca-Cola production plant in Hong Kong, specializing in the production of beverages sold in the South Asian market. This is a large water user, and it is also doing well.

Therefore, with the water supply from the mainland, Hong Kong has basically solved the water problem. Unless the LCD factory is very large, there may be a water shortage problem.

At present, we are only focusing on mastering the technology and only doing small-scale production. If large-scale production is needed in the future, we will talk about it later.

"That's good." Huo Haiqing said.

"For LCD and printed circuit boards, it is not just about mastering the technology. We need to continue to conduct in-depth research and transform it into productivity in stages to obtain our R&D funds in the market."

Hong Kong is a major consumer of printed circuit boards and liquid crystals. Take an electronic watch for example, it is also a huge gold mine.

Arcade machines, future home game consoles, computers, handheld game consoles, home appliances, etc. all require integrated circuit boards, and some also require liquid crystals.

With a stable source of customers, these industries can develop step by step and their success is guaranteed.

"Understood. I will immediately form a relevant team to tackle the problem and arrange for people to purchase relevant production lines and patents."

Huo Haiqing nodded and said, a long time ago, Liu Zhicheng said that science and technology are the primary productive forces, and the future of Orange Technology must develop its own core technology.

Liu Zhicheng is a prophet who knows that future technology companies must have core competitiveness, and LCD and integrated circuits are the core technologies of a technology company. Of course, there are also chips.

"Remember to visit RCA, the founding company of LCD. They should still have some underlying patents, and their LCD production line should also have them," said Liu Zhicheng.

The United States is very strong in many current technologies, but many technologies developed in its laboratories are not fully utilized.

In the past, the chip industry developed very well in the United States in its early days, and giant companies such as Intel, Texas Instruments, and IBM monopolized the global market.

However, due to its low yield rate, it was later beaten by the RB South Korean country. In order to defend its own moat, the United States launched financial means to regain control of the industry.

"Okay, I understand." Huo Haiqing agreed.

As for the production of chips, Liu Zhicheng still did not decide on the spot whether to build it, but he planned to ask his friends in the United States first.

Think twice before you act, this is the only way for Liu Zhicheng to keep his wealth. In his previous life, he had seen too many people and things.

In fact, Liu Zhicheng just asked Lyon for help to find out whether he could introduce a chip production line.

The most advanced one is certainly impossible, but Liu Zhicheng is not prepared to produce the most advanced chips. He must first solve the problem of whether he has them or not.

Looking to the north, it would take another three years for the reform and opening up to take place, and Liu Zhicheng would definitely move the fan and toy industries there as soon as possible.

Then, industries with a certain amount of technological content will be moved there. Industrial transfer can only be carried out step by step.

(End of this chapter)