Reborn Tycoon Rise

"Okay, then I will arrange for someone to contact Samsung Electronics later." He Guoyuan said.

"Samsung Electronics is a company I am quite optimistic about. You should always pay attention to this company's investment trends and technology research and development directions." Xu Zhi said cautiously.

The success of Samsung Electronics in later generations has a lot to do with the help of the Korean government and American capital. However, to be selected by American capital as its spokesperson in the semiconductor industry, its own capabilities and management methods are naturally very complicated.

Samsung Semiconductor's first factory was established in 1978. At that time, the memory chips produced by its semiconductor factory were not even willing to be used in its own products. However, in this case, by lowering its profile and visiting American and Japanese semiconductor companies, and offering high-paying invitations Japanese semiconductor talents have successfully developed their own technology.

In 1983, Samsung Semiconductor successfully manufactured a 64kb memory chip, becoming the third electronics company in the world to possess this technology. With this technology, Samsung has become one of the top semiconductor companies.

"I will pay attention to this aspect." He Guoyuan nodded and agreed.

Xu Zhi asked: "How is the construction of the TV factory over there in Shenhai City going?"

He Guoyuan said: "The basic main building has been completed, and various pipelines and other facilities are still being installed. Our equipment has also arrived, and is being installed and debugged at the same time. It is estimated that we should be able to produce it ourselves before the end of the year."

"This is quite fast." Xu Zhi said with a smile.

He Guoyuan nodded and said: "It is indeed very fast. I heard that in order to complete this project quickly, Shenhai City arranged 6,000 construction workers, who stopped working 24 hours a day, and all the infrastructure projects were built within half a year."

The construction of a large factory is by no means as simple as the factory itself. Multiple supporting facilities are also very important. Unlike the industrial zones that have been planned in later generations, Midea's entire factory in Shenhai City was just a piece of farmland before the investment, with only one river nearby that could provide In addition to water sources, all other aspects must be constructed one by one.

The most basic facilities are roads, one leading to Shenhai City and the other to the port, both of which are under the responsibility of Shenhai Municipal Government. At the same time, in order to ensure stable power supply, a small power station has been built to mainly supply the entire factory. Any excess electricity will be sent to other places in Shenhai City.

"Okay, you should pay more attention to this project. This factory is a model for our other bases in the future. Only if it succeeds can we copy it in other places." Xu Zhi said with a smile.

At present, all the equipment in the Shenhai City factory comes from the Wanwan Taoyuan factory, and the Taoyuan factory was only a production base of RCA TV. Now it has been moved directly to Shenhai City. Naturally, it cannot meet the current needs of the entire Midea company's TV business. According to the plan , by 1986, other places in the country can also have sole proprietorship of production, then naturally new production bases will be built.

This is also the reason why Xu Zhi still plans to have long-term cooperation with Samsung. Midea's current TV business cannot be produced by itself. Although there are many TV OEMs in Wanwan and even Xiangjiang, they are all smaller companies that produce They are all low-tech products, which are far different from Midea's requirements.

Cooperating with these companies requires a lot of time and energy to determine their capabilities. Samsung Electronics best meets Midea's requirements. After all, they have been cooperating for a year and there have been no major quality problems.

"This project is mainly handled by Chairman Huo Jianning, your former assistant. His ability is very outstanding, and all the details are handled by him in an orderly manner." He Guoyuan said with praise.

"Okay, I feel more at ease with him." Xu Zhi nodded and smiled. Huo Jianning has been his assistant for more than a year and has been responsible for Midea's business.

The Deep Sea TV factory was about to be established and needed a person in charge, so Huo Jianning was sent there. This was actually a great opportunity to train people. Such a large-scale project involves too many aspects, including various supplier selections, factory bidding, Government conversations, etc., everything is extremely training.

Huo Jianning was able to earn hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars for Li Jiacheng in later history because he received enough training at Cheung Kong Industries when he was young.

Now he is sent to the deep sea just to exercise his abilities.

Xu Zhi continued: "How are the negotiations with General Electric going?"

"General Electric has promised to transfer more than 200 of our patented technologies in refrigeration, but they hope that our products using these technologies will not enter the US market in the future." He Guoyuan replied.

"Ignore them. Now they hope to join a joint venture with us to invest in the mainland. Since they want to take advantage of my strength, they have to show sincerity." Xu Zhi said nonchalantly: "And GE's home appliances have always been in the The high-end route is different from our Midea positioning, so there won’t be much competition.”

The cooperation with General Electric means jointly investing in a large-scale refrigerator and air-conditioning production factory in the mainland to serve as General Electric's main OEM. This was the agreement reached with Welch when Xu Zhi arranged for Hutchison to take a stake in General Electric.

However, for such a large cooperation, Xu Zhi and Welch only made this plan, and the specific details need to be renegotiated by the two companies.

GE's negotiators were forced to hand over a lot of technology due to pressure from the chairman. Therefore, during the negotiation process, they intended to limit Midea's future market.

But in fact, Midea Electronics' home appliance business is in the middle, which is an ordinary brand in an economically developed market like the United States.

Although it doesn't feel as high-end as high-end brands, in fact this segment of the market is the largest. Just like the car market in mainland China in later generations, BBA is high-end, while Volkswagen, Toyota, GM, Ford, Honda, etc. are all mid-range. In terms of market size, the latter ones are much larger.

General Electric's home appliances are high-end brands, so they can survive gracefully while Japanese appliances are aggressively invading the U.S. market.

Unfortunately, they could defeat Japan, but they could not defeat the union. Several strikes made GE's executives decide to move factories overseas. With Welch's efforts, the mainland was one of them.

"OK, I will notify my colleagues in the United States." He Guoyuan also nodded.

Xu Zhi continued: "After this matter is settled, the factory will be placed in the deep sea, and the specific matters can be left to Huo Jianning. By then, the TV factory should be almost done."

"I can rest assured if you leave it to Huo Jianning." He Guoyuan nodded and smiled.