At the meeting, Zhao Yi gave a detailed description of the specific model and operating rules of Internet e-commerce to Jia Siqi, the president of Shangtong Trading Company. He also discussed with Jia Siqi some things that trading companies need to prepare for global e-commerce.
The reason why Zhao Yi made the matter so clear was mainly because he was afraid that Shangtong Trading Company would think that the e-commerce platform would cause a serious blow to their current sales system.
If they have this understanding, even if they also realize the huge potential of the e-commerce platform, the effect of their self-built e-commerce platform may be seriously affected due to the constant sacrifice of interests.
In other words, in order not to affect their own offline sales system, they must also develop their own online sales platform, which will cause a feeling of being tied up and may provide opportunities for latecomers to catch up.
Now that the Internet has just developed, many people have not realized that it is possible to establish an online sales platform. If Shangtong Trading Company really establishes an Internet sales platform, then capital will definitely realize the huge potential in it.
If he still looks forward and backward at this time, he may end up being able to take advantage of others. Therefore, Zhao Yi must analyze the things inside clearly. To do this, he must go all out and use the existing advantages to pull his own platform and competitors away. open.
At the same time, some deficiencies, such as overseas logistics systems and relationships with existing partners, must be resolved before the platform is launched. Don't waste time by taking three steps and two steps back during operation.
In fact, Jia Siqi had not realized that she could buy things on the Internet before. After all, it was not easy to be discovered by others for things that had never happened before.
So when she heard Zhao Yi's idea, she suddenly understood. Compared with the traditional sales system, the Internet sales platform naturally has higher monopoly attributes, and the market margin and benefit margin are also larger.
After a discussion between Jia Siqi and Zhao Yi, they felt that they could start recruiting people immediately and develop platforms for all three models: B2B, B2C and C2C.
At the same time, when arranging offline sales channels, they can also discuss online sales with various manufacturers and merchants. At that time, Shangtong Trading Company can use both arrows to completely establish its position as the overlord of commodity trade.
In fact, compared to continuing to invest in international physical sales channels, building an Internet sales platform costs less money and has broader prospects. It is equivalent to opening up a second battlefield in the field of commodity sales.
In a subsequent report from China Telecom, Zhao Yi emphasized that they would build transnational cables to various countries as soon as possible and strive to open up global Internet barriers as soon as possible.
In fact, China Telecom has already started building transnational optical cables between China and Japan and between China and the United States. It is expected that all of them will be completed before the end of 1986. Now with Zhao Yi's special instructions, the speed may be faster.
Not only that, in the reports of Hengtong Communications Company and Huawei Technologies Company, Zhao Yi emphasized that they should closely cooperate with Hong Kong Telecom Company to vigorously build Internet infrastructure in various countries.
We strive to achieve that within one to two years, the global Internet can cover the vast majority of countries, completely setting off the Internet wave in the world, becoming a new driving force for global economic development, and a new driving force for my country's economic development.
In the report, Huawei Technologies President Ren Zhengfei told Zhao Yi that recently, mobile operators in European and American countries have begun to contact them and want to use CDMA technology to build their mobile communication networks.
Hearing this situation, Zhao Yi was speechless for a while. Since these countries have been waiting for so long and are not short of time, why don't they use the G** system.
You must know that although the development level of CDMA technology is very mature, there is still no formal operating network after all, and the technology maturity has not yet been truly tested.
The G** technology system is different. Whether it is in Hong Kong or Southeast Asia, it has been networked and operated on a large scale, which shows that the technology is quite mature.
Since they abandoned the more mature G** and used the unproven CDMA technology, Zhao Yi had no choice. Anyway, the order for this equipment would go into his pocket.
At the same time, Zhao Yi was also at the meeting, asking Huawei Technologies to actively participate in the competition for Internet equipment and not to let Hengtong Communications monopolize this piece of cake.
What Zhao Yi means by saying this is that he hopes that the competition between Huawei Technology Company and Hengtong Communications Company will become more intense. They need to look like mortal enemies to the outside world and reduce global concerns about Hengtong Communications Company.
It is estimated that the reason why European and American countries chose CDMA technology developed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. is to avoid the dominance of Hengtong Communications Company. When the time comes to upgrade their mobile networks, they will not have much bargaining power.
Similar to them, there are Tianxing Semiconductor Company and Qingtian Semiconductor Company, a pair of sister companies established to avoid antitrust investigations.
According to a report from Optimus Semiconductor, in 1985, their personal computer chips accounted for 10% of the market share, which is already a quite remarkable achievement.
The manufacturers that purchase PC chips from Optimus Semiconductor are currently mainly small manufacturers. They are not worried about monopoly issues. The main reason is that Optimus Semiconductor's chips are cheaper.
Although the two companies have signed an instruction architecture sharing agreement on personal chips, there are still some gaps between Optian Semiconductor's personal computer chips and Tianxing Semiconductor's.
This is also the reason why their chips are cheaper. Of course, in addition to the chip gap, there is also the best way to seize the market and fight a price war.
Fortunately, Tianxing Semiconductor Company did not continue the price war with them, otherwise, they might not be able to capture so much market share.
Because Tianxing Semiconductor Company knows that if it does not give up some market, it will not be beneficial to both parties. If it continues to fight a price war, it will only make others cheaper.
Therefore, the two are now in low-intensity competition. Qingtian Semiconductor relies on its price advantage to occupy a certain market share in the personal computer market.
When their share reaches about 20% to 30%, the two companies are expected to maintain this tacit understanding, and Qingtian Semiconductor will not continue to seek more market size.
Not only do they plan to do this in the field of personal computer logic chips, but they also plan to compete in this way in other chip fields such as GPUs. In the final analysis, the two companies are actually one, and there is no need to fight to the death.
Moreover, the main business of Qingtian Semiconductor is not the sales of these chip brands, but the chip foundry business. They are developing very fast in this area.
Currently, quite a few companies under Zhao Yi have handed over most of their orders to Qingtian Semiconductor Company, which has affected Tianxing Semiconductor Company's business to a certain extent.
It was Qingtian Semiconductor Company that came out to disrupt the situation, causing Tianxing Semiconductor Company's operating income growth rate to suddenly slow down.
Although the interests of Tianxing Semiconductor Company have been greatly damaged, major countries around the world have become less wary of Tianxing Semiconductor Company, and there have been much less attacks on them.
This is what Zhao Yi hopes to see. No matter whether the two companies are fighting to the death in front of the world, as the big boss behind them, they will never suffer.
In the past year, the business expansion of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company was pretty good. They signed an environmental transformation plan worth 50 billion yuan with the government, mainly to control the grassland desertification problem in Inner Mongolia.
Of course, the unit price is not as high as Zhao Yi thought before. Although the treatment price is claimed to be 5 million yuan per square kilometer, the actual price is only 1 million yuan per square kilometer.
In other words, they need to treat 50,000 square kilometers of desertification area for the government. Fortunately, the difficulty of governance in these areas is relatively low, and profit margins can still be well guaranteed.
The reason why the externally announced governance costs are so high is mainly to confirm a standard for foreign governments. If they want to seek help from Yaoguang Environmental Management Company to manage the land, then the costs will be based on this standard.
Unexpectedly, Saudi Arabia, which has a lot of money, actually sent an inspection team to inspect the land management effect of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company.
When they saw the endless grassland of Mu Us Ranch, they were really jealous. Looking back on their own country, except for the large amount of oil resources, everything else was like the sky and the earth.
Saudi Arabia has a land area of 2.25 million square kilometers, and its desert area reaches 860,000 square kilometers, ranking second in the world after Australia.
Moreover, their country's food self-sufficiency rate is relatively low, and it needs to rely on a large amount of imports. If it were not for its large amount of oil resources, that place would really not have much competitiveness.
To be honest, Saudi Arabia is located on the Arabian Peninsula and is controlled by subtropical high pressure belts and trade wind belts all year round, forming a tropical desert climate.
Even if effective management is carried out according to the method here, it is actually very difficult to maintain. In a few years, it will slowly evolve into a desert. This is determined by their overall climate environment.
If we want to maintain large-scale transformation effects in the long term, we can only continuously provide these lands with fresh water resources and use manpower to fight against the weather, but the cost is very high.
After multiple rounds of negotiations between the two parties, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company and the Saudi government signed a 50 billion yuan land transformation order to transform 10,000 square meters of land for Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia also knows that it is impossible to transform its entire country. Not only will it consume huge amounts of money, but it will also be difficult to maintain the effects of the transformation.
Therefore, their renovation location this time is mainly around the oasis, hoping to expand the area of the oasis and provide more livable living space.
In addition to the land transformation project, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company also recommended a seawater desalination project to the Saudi delegation. For this reason, they built a seawater desalination plant in Tianjin a long time ago.
First, it can provide Tianjin with fresh water resources nearby, and second, it can demonstrate the technical level of their seawater desalination projects to foreign countries.
If you just rely on words, no one will believe that they have superb seawater desalination technology.
The two parties happened to have signed a land transformation contract of 10,000 square kilometers. If they want to continue to maintain the transformed land, they must provide enough fresh water to maintain it.
In addition, Saudi Arabia itself has a serious shortage of fresh water resources. Therefore, after visiting the seawater desalination plant of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company in Tianjin, the two parties signed five seawater desalination plant projects on the spot.
According to the contract, the construction costs of these desalination plants are fully borne by the Saudi government. After completion, the profit rights of the plants will be divided equally between Yaoguang Environmental Management Company and the Saudi government.
In other words, the Fluolight Environmental Management Company, relying on its technology, has obtained half of the equity income of the new seawater desalination plant, and at the same time, it can also earn a construction fee for the construction of the plant.
According to the contract, each seawater desalination plant can produce 1 million cubic meters of fresh water per day. After completion, the cost of fresh water per cubic meter will be 0.8 yuan, and the ex-factory price will be 1 yuan per cubic meter.
As for the subsequent pipeline costs, it is beyond the control of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, but it is expected that the price of fresh water delivered to the home will not exceed 1.2 yuan. In this era, this price is unparalleledly competitive.
In addition, regarding the by-products of the seawater desalination process, the Fluolight Environmental Management Company has the right to obtain them free of charge, which means that the environmental management company can obtain the minerals extracted from seawater free of charge.
It is said that the cost of desalination per cubic meter is 0.8 yuan. In fact, this money is basically earned by environmental management companies, because the cost of their seawater biological filtration membranes is extremely low, but the price of selling it to seawater desalination plants is indeed very high.
Through this contract, the environmental management company can earn 0.9 yuan in profit for every cubic meter of fresh water. If all five factories are completed and put into operation, it will earn 4.5 million yuan per day and 1.65 billion yuan annually.
In fact, the money earned from seawater desalination is not very profitable in Zhao Yi's opinion, at least it is not a huge profit industry. He is more concerned about the other rare elements separated.
Magnesium, bromine, and iodine are elements with relatively high content in seawater, and the price is still affordable. For example, the content of gold and silver in seawater is too low. Although the price is much more expensive, the content is negligible.
What worries Zhao Yi most is that heavy water can be separated from seawater using special biofilms, which is very expensive.
Although the content of deuterium in seawater is very large, 147 mg/L, which means that the content of this element in one ton of seawater is about 0.147 kg.
At present, there is no good technology to separate it from seawater. Even if it is separated, the cost will be very high. This has caused the price of deuterium on the market to be extremely high, and the price of their stable compound heavy water has also remained high.
However, it is indeed very simple and cheap to extract deuterium through special biological membranes, and the cost is almost negligible. If this element is separated in a seawater desalination project, 5 million tons of seawater can be desalinated in one day, and 735 tons can be separated in one day.
At present, the price of heavy water on the market is sold based on milligrams or milliliters. You can think about how huge profits there are. Even if the price is greatly reduced, it is still very profitable.
This element is not only used to make hydrogen bombs, it also has a wide range of industrial applications, and it is even needed in the water we drink.
In addition to these more expensive elements, there are also a large number of commonly used industrial raw materials, such as sodium salt. Although these are not expensive, the quantities are indeed very large.
In other words, by building these desalination plants, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company not only makes money by selling water, but can also use other people's costs to extract these elemental substances for itself.
These extracts alone will bring at least tens of billions of yuan in revenue to Fluclight Environmental Management Company every year. This is because the market size is so large that it cannot fully extract deuterium elements.
Saudi Arabia is also very happy with the signing of the contract. After the construction of these five factories is completed, it will be able to solve Saudi Arabia's water shortage problem in one fell swoop.
However, the fresh water produced by these desalination plants can only meet the daily consumption of the Saudi people. If you want to maintain the transformed land, it is insufficient.
Therefore, Saudi Arabia may continue to cooperate with environmental management companies to build more desalination plants in the future.
In the Middle East, it is not just Saudi Arabia that is short of water. Many Middle Eastern countries are facing a shortage of fresh water resources, so Yaoguang Environmental Management Company is also very concerned about this business.
It is hoped that through cooperation with Saudi Arabia, the seawater desalination market in the Middle East can be opened. If all countries in the Middle East choose to cooperate with them, it will be very easy to build ten times the number of factories.
By then, the environmental management company will earn more than 17 billion yuan in annual revenue from this business alone, and it will be very easy to earn this money without having to work hard on your own. Compared with the land transformation business, it is the most worry-free business. .
In addition to preliminary results in land management business and seawater desalination business, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company has also begun to expand sewage treatment and garbage treatment business.
This is a project that Zhao started to ask Yaoguang Environmental Management Company to start researching when he planned to carry out large-scale urbanization. Although large-scale urbanization brings many benefits, it also brings many problems accordingly.
Among them are urban garbage and sewage treatment, which are serious problems that we have to face. In addition, there is the problem of air pollution.
In fact, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company already has mature technologies for sewage treatment technology and waste gas treatment technology, but it has not carried out business on a large scale before and only cooperated with Zhao Yi's production factories.
Zhao Yi's corporate production plants use their sewage treatment technology and waste gas treatment technology to basically achieve zero pollution emissions, but the cost is still relatively high.
This is actually relative to the domestic economic level. Zhao Yi knew that it was basically impossible for other companies to launch these technical equipment, so he did not spend a lot of effort to promote it.
But with the current large-scale urbanization, it is hard to say what else is going on. At least in the new city built by Zhao Yi himself, the sewage, tap water and garbage treatment supporting facilities must be built and operated by Yaoguang Environmental Management Company.
They can not only effectively deal with urban garbage pollution, but also turn waste into treasure, realize resource recycling, and provide cleaner tap water supply to urban residents.
The tap water supplied by the Lucky Light Environmental Management Company's tap water treatment technology can be drunk directly, reaching the level of bottled water in the previous life.
If this is the case, many companies that made their fortune by buying water in the past life will probably have a hard time surviving in this life. However, this requires solving the problem of water pollution from tap water pipes.
Since Yaoguang Environmental Management Company plans to enter the fields of municipal garbage, sewage treatment and tap water supply, it will definitely not just develop its brothers' business.
It coincides with the reform of state-owned enterprises in full swing across the country, and urban garbage, sewage treatment and tap water supply are not very profitable industries, but these are necessary supporting facilities for the city.
The Fluolight Environmental Management Company has obvious technical advantages in these aspects. It can not only provide safe drinking water supply to urban residents, but also has an effect on urban garbage and sewage treatment that is unmatched by ordinary enterprises.
Therefore, within this year, Yaoguang Environmental Management Company began to carry out large-scale acquisitions of urban water supply companies, garbage treatment companies, and sewage treatment companies.
However, local governments have not set up many obstacles to the acquisition of Yaoguang Environmental Management Company, and even some city governments are supportive of their acquisition.
If other companies acquire basic livelihood enterprises on such a large scale, the government will still need to worry about many problems caused by monopoly. No matter how advanced the technology is, they will still have many concerns.
But the owner of the Fluolight Environmental Management Company is Zhao Yi, a super rich man who is extremely wealthy. I believe that he is definitely not a short-sighted person. In addition, he has always done things in a measured way and will not do anything unpleasant. .
Of course, government departments have also begun to formulate relevant legal provisions to regulate the behavior of urban infrastructure suppliers.
In fact, Zhao Yiyi supports this kind of behavior of the government. First, there should be relevant legal provisions, which can protect the interests of both suppliers and consumers.
Second, while regulating itself, it also regulates its competitors, and its own technical advantages are very obvious, and its profitability is obviously stronger than that of its competitors.
To be honest, Zhao Yi also hopes to formulate stricter legal provisions to directly make competitors unprofitable, so that Yaoguang Environmental Management Company can completely occupy these domestic markets.
Although the unit price profit is low, the capacity is very large. Not only can it receive subsidies from urban residents and the city government, but it can also extract minerals from garbage treatment and sewage treatment to make secondary profits.
Because the waste treatment of Fluolight Environmental Management Company is different from other waste treatment companies, it does not simply bury the waste, but uses many advanced technologies to separate the waste and recycle the materials in the waste.
It is precisely because of this that Yaoguang Environmental Management Company has been welcomed and cooperated by so many governments when it carries out acquisitions across the country. In fact, their technology is not at the same level as other companies.
Not to mention that their garbage disposal prices are the same, even if the garbage disposal prices of environmental management companies are higher, they also welcome it. After all, it can reduce land pollution problems, and landfill can be said to be the lowest treatment method.
The garbage processed by environmental management companies will basically extract useful substances into high-purity elements and then enter the industrial production process again.
Although it is not said to be zero waste output, it has greatly reduced the amount of waste, especially metal substances and harmful substances, and basically achieved zero emissions.
At the same time, garbage re-enters the industrial production cycle chain, which can reduce the country’s industrial production consumption of external resources and reduce the country’s dependence on external resources.
In the future, the more developed the economy and the more advanced industrial production will be, the higher the requirements will be for this aspect, and more emphasis will be placed on resource reuse, which is also one of the important manifestations of a country's industrial development.
In addition to being able to obtain profits, this is also one of the important reasons why Zhao Yi is particularly concerned about these industries. We cannot always obtain resources by buying and buying. After all, the earth's resources are limited. (End of chapter)