Hengtong Communications Company has maintained rapid growth in the past 1985. After handing over the task of laying out the domestic high-speed information network to China Telecom Company, it allowed them to focus on their main business.
Due to the continuous rapid development of the construction of Internet backbone networks in China in the past 1985, Hengtong Communications Company's network equipment shipments have increased significantly.
In the past, these businesses were just their own businesses. Not only did these constructions not bring them operating income, but they also made them invest a lot of money.
Now that they have handed over this business to China Telecom, they have received a large amount of funds from China Telecom, which has greatly increased their operating income.
If the domestic Internet equipment business is removed, the international business development speed will slow down a lot, mainly because after the rapid development of enterprise information construction in the past two years, the speed this year has slowed down a lot.
However, as the international Internet will enter a period of rapid development this year, their international business will still have great room for development in the future, and their turnover may be higher than in previous years.
In addition, many residents are now beginning to access the Internet one after another, and their sales of Internet terminal equipment have also achieved certain development. Although it is inconspicuous, it is a very gratifying result.
What makes them most gratified is that as more and more countries build 2G mobile communication networks overseas, the number of orders for their mobile communication base stations has also grown explosively. The turnover in this area alone has reached more than 100 billion yuan.
Sales of handheld terminals have also reached 50 million units, which has increased several times compared to the previous year. Operating income has also reached 100 billion yuan. The performance is quite impressive.
As the country begins to build 2G mobile communication networks, and more and more countries internationally begin to build 2G mobile communication networks, there is still great potential for business development in this area.
Although both Internet equipment and mobile communications are facing competition from Huawei, the two are not yet on the same level and cannot threaten Hengtong Communications' business for the time being.
Moreover, Huawei's technology is also licensed from Hengtong Communications Company. Even if Huawei achieves rapid development, they will still need to pay a large amount of patent fees to Hengtong Communications Company.
This makes it difficult for the two to reach the same level now or even for a long time. Even if Huawei catches up, it will take a long time to complete.
Moreover, Hengtong Communications Company is not standing still. Their technical strength is much deeper than that of Huawei, and Zhao Yi does not intend to continue to interfere in their competition. It is good that one is strong and the other is weak.
In 1985, Hengtong Communications Company achieved an income of more than 600 billion yuan, of which 300 billion yuan of operating income was contributed by the domestic market, while the operating income contributed by foreign countries was only more than 300 billion yuan.
Since it is basically an exclusive operation, the net profit margin is still around 30%, with a net profit of 180 billion yuan. However, their competitor Huawei only had a revenue of 5 billion yuan in 1985.
The gap between the two is still very huge, and it is impossible to see such a change in the short term. However, because Huawei is a start-up, it also needs to integrate acquired companies, which consumes a lot of energy on their part.
However, as developed countries in Europe and the United States begin to favor Huawei's CDMA network communication technology, they are currently in close contact. If relevant cooperation agreements are reached, operating income will usher in a surge.
Speaking of the communications industry, Zhao Yi also realized that he did not care enough about China Telecom, China Tower and China Unicom.
At present, these three companies are big spenders. China Telecom took over the domestic information high-speed network construction and operation business from Hengtong Communications Company and paid a one-time payment of 100 billion yuan to Hengtong Communications Company.
As the optical fiber network continued to be laid, 50 billion yuan of network equipment was subsequently purchased from Hengtong Communications Company. This was also the main reason for the surge in operating income of Hengtong Communications Company this year.
Then there is China Tower Corporation, which is owned by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. It was established to avoid duplicating the construction of base station towers at China Communications Corporation and China Unicom and avoid waste of resources.
Since its establishment, this company has been working hard to build base station towers in China. In less than half a year, it has built 200,000 new towers, which is quite an astonishing number.
Since the coverage of 2G signals is relatively large, so many towers have basically covered the main economically developed areas of our country. Next, their task is to build towers to the central and western regions, as well as remote areas.
Due to the outstanding performance of China Tower Company and China Unicom, which is not short of money, their signal base stations basically follow the footsteps of China Tower Company.
In other words, China Unicom has built at least more than 200,000 base stations. Due to the larger urban population, more than one signal base station may be installed on a tower, and the number is larger than the number of towers.
Compared with China Unicom, China Communications Corporation under the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission is much slower. In the final analysis, it is all about money. You know, China Unicom has spent more than 100 billion yuan.
This amount of money is fine for Zhao Yi, but for China Communications Company, it is very huge. Although Zhao Yi provided a sum of funds when he joined the company, it was still stretched.
Although China Unicom has achieved great results in such a short period of time, just consuming it is not the answer. In addition, the income of domestic people has also increased very fast, and they already have a certain consumption power.
However, according to the mobile phone prices previously released by Hengtong Communications Company, they are still too expensive for domestic people. The lowest price is 1,000 yuan, which is equivalent to the average domestic salary for half a year.
Therefore, in order to lower the threshold for domestic people to access the Internet, Hengtong Communications Company responded to their request and recently began to launch a mobile phone product priced at only 150 yuan. Hengtong Communications Company only earns 20 yuan per machine.
If it weren't for the business development of its brother company, Hengtong Communications Company would never launch such a cheap mobile phone. There is basically no profit to be earned, and their business income is basically negligible.
At such a low price, most people in China can still afford it. It only takes one month's salary to take this phone home.
Not only that, China Unicom still dislikes the high price of this mobile phone. In order to further reduce the threshold for people to access the Internet, they launched a contract phone contract.
As long as they stay online for five consecutive years and pre-deposit one year's worth of communication packages, users don't have to spend money to buy this phone.
You know, this effort is actually not small. Considering the income level of domestic people, the prices of packages launched by China Unicom are not very expensive.
According to estimates by China Unicom, domestic people only need to spend an average of 10 yuan per month to meet their daily communication needs. In other words, China Unicom will basically not earn user communication fees in the first year.
Calculated based on investment and income, it will take more than ten years for China Unicom to recover its investment. Even if people become rich in the future and are willing to spend more money on communications, it will still take about five years to recover their investment.
Therefore, in order to reduce investment, China Unicom and China Communications Corporation have reached an interesting agreement to compete in the market in economically developed regions based entirely on their respective strengths.
There are still vast remote areas in our country. According to the government's plan, we can't just grab the market in economically developed areas. We also need to take care of economically underdeveloped areas and remote areas to achieve nationwide coverage of mobile communications.
If they duplicate construction in these places with very little economic benefit, both companies will face huge losses, so the two parties reached a network interoperability cooperation agreement in economically underdeveloped areas.
The two companies have divided the underdeveloped areas in the country, and each is responsible for part of the construction tasks. However, in these areas, no matter which user is connected to the network, they can access the other party's network in these areas without any barriers.
In this way, we no longer need to duplicate construction in these economically underdeveloped areas, and users in these places do not need to consider whose network they are joining. Both parties can save money and complete the tasks required by relevant departments.
Speaking of Tianwen Book Club, the first thought that came to Zhao Yi's mind was that of money-burning goods. Although the money was burned willingly, if there is no stable profit model in the future, it will be difficult to continue for a long time.
As a result, at the meeting, according to Du Jiachun's report, Tianwen Publishing House had built more than 1,000 libraries across the country. Although only one-fifth of the target plan was completed, the results were still very gratifying.
In less than a year, they were able to build so many libraries, which shows that they are very serious about this plan, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are going all out.
According to Du Jiachun, in the next year, they will complete the construction of another 3,000 libraries, covering most cities and counties in relatively economically developed areas.
The reason why construction is given priority in large cities with relatively developed economies is mainly due to economic considerations, although the borrowing prices of libraries are very low, and the purchase prices of books are also very low.
However, compared to people in economically underdeveloped areas, they are still unwilling to bear this cost. The most important thing is that the areas are remote and the literacy rate in economically underdeveloped areas is relatively low. This is the most fatal.
In addition to overfulfilling the construction of the library, Tianwen Bookstore also pleased Zhao Yi that the operating efficiency of the already built library was very good, with very large daily traffic, and it did not completely lose money as Zhao Yi imagined. Make money and shout.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that most of the first batch of libraries were built in big cities. The people in these areas not only have a much higher cultural level, but also have relatively abundant spare money.
According to Du Jiachun's report, the daily traffic of the first batch of Tianwen Library reached 5,000 people, with an average daily borrowing volume of 10,000 books and sales of more than 10,000 books.
Although this number does not look like much, their growth rate is very gratifying, with a monthly growth rate of about 20%. If they continue to grow at this rate, they will grow 25 times by the end of this year.
Of course, this is only an ideal situation. In reality, it is impossible to maintain this growth rate forever, but even if it increases by 5 times, the results are quite gratifying, and the annual turnover can reach almost 1 million yuan.
It is impossible to recover the cost of this operating income in a short time, but it can continue to operate, at least in this regard without Zhao Yixiang's internal subsidies.
At present, the income of domestic residents is still a bit low. As residents become richer in the future, more people may be willing to invest in books, and future income is still guaranteed.
However, in the Internet era, more and more ordinary people may become accustomed to reading e-books, so Zhao Yi also emphasized this point at the meeting and asked Tianwen Book Club to prepare early.
Let them start now and prepare to digitize all the books they own, and when the time is right, they can launch their own e-reading devices.
Since they have acquired and invested in many publishing houses and hold the copyrights of a large number of books, newspapers and magazines, they naturally have significant advantages in doing this work.
However, Zhao Yi gave Du Jiachun a tip at the meeting, which was to adopt a related business model and a business model that supports services. For example, cultural-related products can be sold in specific areas of the library.
You can also sell other products in specific areas, such as stationery, pens, ink, paper, inkstones, etc.
In this way, their income can be further increased, but he also emphasized that they should not bring in all the mess, as that would change the taste.
After the meeting, Zhao Yi expressed great curiosity as to why the Tianwen Library attracted so many customers in the first batch.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the result of the luxurious decoration. Tianwen Book Club believed from the beginning that in order to obtain a stable flow of customers, their library must have eye-catching features.
So when designing the library, they spent too much thought and invited many famous designers in the world to design, striving to make these libraries landmark buildings in the local area.
Only in this way, the library will not be forgotten by the local people after the gust of wind passes. According to the previous life, we strive to make the library a place for Internet celebrities to check in and become a good place for local people to relax.
Although Tianwen Bookstore invited many architectural designers to design, they did not choose one of them to win the bid, but hoped that each Tianwen Library would have a different architectural style.
In other words, each of the first batch of Tianwen libraries to be built has a unique style. Although the cost of construction is definitely very high, it is indeed much more meaningful than the same style.
It’s just that the cost is indeed too high. According to Zhao Yi’s budget for Tianwen Bookstore, the average cost of each library is 10 million yuan, which is not low. It is a budget made based on the possibility of recovering the cost in the future.
However, the average construction cost of Tianwen Bookstore's first batch of libraries has reached more than 20 million yuan, a large part of which is the design fee, and other costs are not that high.
As soon as Zhao heard this, he quickly asked Du Jiachun to suspend the external bidding for architectural design. It was too expensive. If he continued in this style, it would exceed the original budget by at least twice.
It's not that Zhao Yi can't afford the money, but it's completely unnecessary. After all, Tianwen Library is also a commercial project. Since it is a commercial project, the return on investment must be considered.
There was no problem with their current business ideas at that time. Only by becoming a local landmark can it have a long-lasting topic and be known to all local people. Whenever it is mentioned or thought of reading, Tianwen Library will be thought of.
Fortunately, Zhao Yi has developed an intelligent building design system and delivered it to an architectural design company for use. From now on, Tianwen Book Club will only need to ask the architectural design company to help with the design.
In this case, Tianwen Book Club will not need to spend too much money on architectural design, and it will also be able to come up with design plans faster and speed up the construction of Tianwen Library.
In addition to the affairs of Tianwen Library, there is their translation and publishing business. Thanks to the existence of intelligent translation experts, Tianwen Bookstore has translated and published more than 10,000 foreign books in the past year.
More than 5,000 of them are scientific books, and the remaining 5,000 are books on various humanities, history, geography, etc.
It is difficult to make money just by publishing scientific books. After all, people with professional knowledge only occupy a minority, and most people can only read a few words. We cannot expect them to read such advanced books.
Therefore, in order to maintain their publishing business and to have enough books for consumers to enjoy in Tianwen Library, it is necessary to increase the translation work of books on humanities, geography, history and the like.
At the end of the meeting, Zhao Yi asked Tianwen Publishing House to increase support for domestic authors, including writers and scientific workers.
Although translation work is currently the main business of Tianwen Publishing House, Zhao Yi still hopes that in the future, local works they publish will account for a higher proportion.
It's just that this task has a long way to go. It's not that there is no high-tech technology in the country, but these leading technologies are concentrated in Zhao Yi's companies.
Even if these advanced concepts and technologies are exposed, they are of great significance to the academic community. It stands to reason that doing so will be of great benefit to the country. Why doesn't Zhao Yi do this
The main reason is that there are currently too few domestic technology practitioners, and most of them are still under Zhao Yi's own banner. In this case, too much technology is revealed to the outside world, and it is the developed countries in Europe and the United States that benefit.
Therefore, this process must be a step-by-step process. The top academic journals of Tianwen Publishing House are used to do this work. The scientific papers published in them are consistent with the scientific level of our country.
Zhao Yi will not publish very important scientific research results just because he wants to compete for academic rights as soon as possible. It is completely unnecessary. The most solid thing is to work hard to develop the domestic scientific foundation.
Only when the foundation is solid, the number of scientific practitioners is huge, and the intellectual foundation does not have obvious disadvantages compared to foreign countries, can he confidently and boldly publish the latest research results.
Again, at this time, major scientific research results can only be published by European and American developed countries with obvious advantages in cheap intellectual base, while other countries will receive very little benefit.
This is why developed countries in Europe and the United States desperately advocate science without borders. Although this sentence is logically correct, scientists do have nationalities.
Human beings will not stop fighting because of the selfless dedication of scientists. This is determined by human nature. Therefore, scientists first need to ensure the safety and progress of their own species before they can consider making contributions to the world.
Don't show up. You have made contributions to all mankind, only to have your own ethnic group and country be attacked and destroyed by others using your own research results. This kind of behavior is extremely stupid.
Therefore, when Zhao Yi formulated the plan to fight for the right to speak in science, he made it clear that this is a long-term work, and the purpose is not just to let the voice of our country’s scientific community be heard around the world.
The fundamental purpose of this plan is to make global intelligence available to me. This is the fundamental core of this plan. If this core cannot be achieved, then it can only be pursued slowly. (End of chapter)