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Chen Zhiming was an ordinary foreman in Hong Kong. In his early forties, he had been doing quite well in recent years due to the booming real estate industry in Hong Kong, and his net worth had long exceeded one million.

However, as a foreman, he was often away from home, and people often couldn't reach him because he was constantly on construction sites supervising the progress of the projects.

This often led him to miss out on some suitable projects; otherwise, he might have been able to develop his small construction company even further.

Chen Zhiming had been in Hong Kong for so long that he naturally had a wide network of contacts.

Those in the construction business often helped each other by recommending projects.

For example, Chen Zhiming specialized in interior decoration, and most of his jobs came from introductions by old friends or regular customers.

However, Chen Zhiming was frequently on construction sites, sometimes at one site, sometimes at another, and he couldn't have a fixed phone number, so he could only provide his friends with his home phone number.

But he usually didn't get home until very late every day.

However, when Chen Zhiming learned about the newly released mobile phone, he secretly decided that no matter how expensive the mobile phone from Hutchison Telecom was, he would buy one.

Last night, he specifically watched the entire launch event of the Yun Sheng S1 mobile phone, and when he saw the pricing, he breathed a sigh of relief.

More than 20,000 Hong Kong dollars was an acceptable price for him.

Therefore, he decided to go to the service center the next day to buy one.

As long as he had a mobile phone, he would be able to answer calls at any time, so he wouldn't miss any business opportunities.

Early in the morning, Chen Zhiming arrived at the Hutchison Telecom service center in Wan Chai because the construction site he was currently responsible for was in Wan Chai.

To his surprise, even though he arrived at 7:30 in the morning, the entrance of the Wan Chai service center was already crowded with people.

After inquiring, Chen Zhiming discovered that they were all there to buy mobile phones.

Finally, at eight o'clock in the morning, the service center opened its doors, and by this time, hundreds of people had gathered at the entrance.

The staff had no choice but to maintain order on the scene first, asking customers to line up before officially starting work.

Otherwise, with such a chaotic scene, it would be impossible to carry out normal work.

It wasn't until after ten o'clock in the morning that it was finally Chen Zhiming's turn.

Of course, the first batch of buyers had stock.

Therefore, when Chen Zhiming walked out of the service center, he was beaming, holding a Yun Sheng S1 mobile phone in his hand.

Once outside, Chen Zhiming couldn't wait to make a call to an old friend.

"Beep beep beep ~"

A few seconds later, the call was successfully connected.

"Old Yang, guess where I'm calling you from?" Chen Zhiming said to his old friend triumphantly.

"Old Chen, you're trying to show off to me, you bought a mobile phone, right?" Old Yang immediately guessed his intention.

"Not bad, Old Yang, how did you become so smart? I haven't seen you this clever before?" Chen Zhiming said in surprise.

"Get out of here, aren't you just saying I'm stupid? To tell you the truth, I also bought a mobile phone, and I bought it at nine o'clock this morning. Like you, I called your house right after buying it, but your wife said you were out. I didn't expect you to want to show off to me. Old Chen, Old Chen, you're killing me with laughter!" Old Yang laughed heartily.

"We really have a tacit understanding. No wonder we've been good friends for decades!" Chen Zhiming said with great emotion, then hurriedly hung up the phone.

He was also eager to go back and call his relatives, friends, or business acquaintances to give them his new mobile phone number so that those people could contact him in time in the future.

He originally wanted to show off to Old Yang, but it turned out that the other party had bought it even earlier, which was a bit embarrassing.

People like Chen Zhiming and Old Yang were common in Hong Kong.

At Hutchison Telecom headquarters, many people in the company had the day off today, but the senior management had not.

They were all waiting for the final sales data of the Yun Sheng S1 mobile phone today.

Even Mr. Li, the president of Hutchison Whampoa Group, couldn't contain his excitement and came over early in the morning.

The 16 service centers reported sales figures to Hutchison Telecom every hour.

After nine o'clock, as the statistics personnel from each service center reported the data to the company's statisticians, a very accurate sales figure was quickly obtained: a total of 325 Yun Sheng S1 mobile phones were sold between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM.

Perhaps it was because the sales staff were not familiar with the business in the first hour, which led to the sales data not being very high.

However, as the sales staff's business processing capabilities became stronger and stronger, sales began to gradually increase.

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A total of 486 Yun Sheng S1 mobile phones were sold between 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM.

A total of 536 Yun Sheng S1 mobile phones were sold between 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM.

A total of 579 Yun Sheng S1 mobile phones were sold between 11:00 AM and 12:00 PM.

A total of 634 Yun Sheng S1 mobile phones were sold between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM.

A total of 699 Yun Sheng S1 mobile phones were sold between 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM.

… …

When the time came to five o'clock in the afternoon, the service centers closed for business.

At this time, there were still some people queuing at each service center, but the working hours were over, and they had no choice but to come back tomorrow.

In fact, the usual business hours of the service centers were from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, but today, because it was the first day of the launch, the business hours were specially extended by one hour.

Tonight was New Year's Eve, and although the staff also worked today, they couldn't not go home to accompany their families even on New Year's Eve.

The customers were very understanding about this.

What's more, the service centers also posted a notice stating that staff would be scheduled to take turns during the Spring Festival and would be open for business as usual.

In this era, there was still a lot of labor in Hong Kong, and a large number of illegal immigrants were smuggled in from the sea or land every day.

As long as these illegal immigrants successfully reached the city center of Hong Kong, Hong Kong would issue them Hong Kong ID cards, allowing them to stay legally.

This policy was not officially abolished until January 1981.

Therefore, there was never a shortage of low-end labor in Hong Kong.

And the work at Hutchison Telecom service centers was simple, easy, and had good benefits.

So even if they needed to work overtime during the New Year, these employees would do so.

Because they didn't want to lose such a good job.

If anyone didn't want to do it, a lot of people would be eager to get in! (End of this chapter)