Rebirth 2004: I can make money by writing

March and April of each year are the peak periods for the government to award policy-related corporate honors.

Future Technology Group has won many awards, including “Advanced Taxpayer in Guangdong City”, “National High-tech Enterprise”, “Famous Trademark in Guangdong Province” and “Municipal Enterprise Technology Center” and other important government honors.

Among them, the recognition standards for some honors are particularly strict.

For example, for “National High-tech Enterprise”, for enterprises with annual sales revenue exceeding 200 million yuan, the proportion of R&D expenses must be no less than 3%.

In addition, the proportion of scientific and technological personnel must reach more than 10% of the total number of employees in the year.

In addition, there are many other strict application conditions.

Renjian Fireworks Catering Company does not meet the application conditions due to the nature of its industry, while Future Motorcycle Company and Galaxy New Energy Company both meet the application requirements.

Enterprises that obtain this certification can enjoy a preferential tax rate of 15% for corporate income tax.

However, when these two companies negotiated investment with the government, they first obtained the three exemptions and three reductions policy, which means that corporate income tax will be exempted in the first three years.

Of course, other taxes such as value-added tax still need to be paid according to national unified regulations, and local governments have no right to reduce or exempt.

Two years after obtaining the “Municipal Enterprise Technology Center” certification, the company plans to apply for the “Provincial Enterprise Technology Center” and then strive for the “National Enterprise Technology Center” certification.

With the group’s current R&D investment and talent reserves, it is not difficult to meet the standards of the “National Enterprise Technology Center”, but it needs to be applied step by step, and this process may take some time.

At present, the company has obtained three system certifications such as ISO 9001 quality management system, provincial quality awards and other honors.

It is worth mentioning that many companies’ three system certifications cost money. For small companies, the cost of ISO 9001 quality management system certification is less than 10,000 yuan.

However, Hao Qiang does not like to do that and let employees really do quality certification.

But it is also very troublesome to do it, and the most difficult thing is to implement it.

If you can use the quality system and all employees participate, it will help improve the quality of the company’s products. This is the same as 5S management.

Hao Qiang copied the “Quality Management System” and “Quality Manual” three times, and was very familiar with the ISO 9001 quality management system, and was able to apply it easily.

In addition, the company also had to apply for national science and technology awards, which were due by the end of April this year and would not be announced until the beginning of the next year.

This was the first time the company applied for such awards. The technical level of Future Motorcycle Company was too low-end, and it was not sure to win the National Technological Invention Award and the National Science and Technology Progress Award.

“A New Type of Ternary Lithium Battery Technology” and “A New Type of Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery Technology” were used to apply for the National Technological Invention Award, and “Ternary Lithium Battery Production Line” was applied for the National Science and Technology Progress Award.

Hao Qiang attached great importance to the company’s honors. Honors and certifications not only demonstrated the technical strength and innovation capabilities of Future Technology Group, but also brought considerable tax benefits to the company.

For Hao Qiang personally, these achievements are a reflection of his self-worth.

If he could win the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award, Hao Qiang’s joy would probably exceed earning hundreds of millions of yuan in profits.

As for the first prize of the National Technological Invention Award, its difficulty was daunting.

The selection of this award is closely related to technology development, industrial application and economic benefits.

Assuming that Future Technology Group successfully develops super lithium batteries and realizes large-scale production, making its technology level among the top international ranks and promoting the development of the entire industry, then it is not a problem to be selected as a candidate for the first prize of the National Technological Invention Award.

However, even so, winning or not still requires a certain amount of luck.

When competing for such awards in China, there are often other influencing factors.

Even if all conditions are met, under the same conditions, the evaluation results may still be affected by some external factors.

A few days later, in the early morning of March 9, Hao Qiang sat leisurely in the office, sipping tea and browsing domestic business news.

Yesterday was just after Women’s Day, and he spent a good time with Qiu Yuqing and Han Qingying respectively.

It was too difficult to deal with two women at the same time, but fortunately Qiu Yuqing understood him.

Although it was Friday today, he decided not to go to school and relax in the office for a day, putting aside work for the time being, and not wanting to type, and concentrate on enjoying this rare leisure time.

Recently, Hao Qiang’s focus in the news has been on the development of the e-commerce industry.

Future Motorcycle Company has opened nearly ten online stores on the Taobao platform, with an average daily sales of more than ten electric motorcycles, a result that makes him quite satisfied.

Since Taobao squeezed eBay out of the domestic market in 2005, it has monopolized 70% of the domestic e-commerce market.

In contrast, the up-and-coming Jingdong is still in its infancy, and its biggest bottleneck is insufficient capital turnover.

As for the later “infamous” Pinduoduo, it had not yet come out at this time.

Hao Qiang had a grudge against this platform. He wanted to take advantage of it, but he didn’t expect to be taken advantage of by it.

So, he registered the website domain name of Pinduoduo first to get his revenge.

He thought to himself that if Mr. Huang found out about this in the future, he would probably have to spend a lot of money to buy this domain name.

Although Hao Qiang admitted that this platform had great potential, he did not intend to really get involved in it, which was too bad for his character.

More than ten minutes after Hao Qiang read the newspaper, Li Xin, the front desk clerk, called. He picked up the phone and Li Xin said:

“Chairman, Jingdong Century Trading Co., Ltd., that is, Mr. Liu Qiangdong of Jingdong Multimedia Network, wants to visit you.

Do you need to connect or agree to arrange an appointment?”

Usually, if the visitor is not an important person, the front desk will politely decline, but will still record the visit information.

Hao Qiang would also check these records in his spare time to prevent important matters from being missed.

Li Xin worked at the front desk for many years and was responsible for answering external calls.

To ensure that the chairman understood the situation, she asked the other party a few more questions.

Hao Qiang was slightly surprised. Jingdong Multimedia Network is the Jingdong Mall in the future, but the name has not been changed yet.

Why did you come to the door?

According to the historical development trajectory, at the end of 2006, Liu Qiangdong met with Xu Xiaoxin of Today Capital in the hotel to seek a US$2 million investment.

Xu Xiaoxin promised to invest US$10 million in the A round of financing to obtain a larger stake.

At that time, Liu Qiangdong was not familiar with the concepts of valuation and venture capital, otherwise he would not have given up 40% of the shares in the A round of financing.

Usually, the share ratio of the A round of financing is between 10% and 25%.

Fortunately, Liu Qiangdong signed a five-year bet agreement and achieved performance targets within two years, winning back 18% of the shares.

As the company continues to develop and subsequently raise funds, Capital Today’s 22% stake has been gradually diluted.

Although the two parties have reached a financing intention, the company’s valuation still needs to be carefully evaluated.

In fact, the financing transaction was not finally completed until August 2007.

Last year, Jingdong’s sales were only more than 10 million yuan, and its employees were less than 50 people, which is why many investment institutions lack interest in it.

However, in 2007, the company began to grow rapidly, with sales reaching 360 million yuan that year.

There is no doubt that this is closely related to the funds obtained after financing.

It can also be speculated that Liu Qiangdong himself also believes that the current valuation of Jingdong Multimedia Network is not high.

Now that Liu Qiangdong has taken the initiative to come to the door, has the historical trajectory of financing changed?

Hao Qiang didn’t understand the reason, but he knew it when they met.