Zhao Yi only learned about the big commotion caused by the China Housing Company through the daily news report of the smart housekeeper Xiaoling. He did not expect Qin Hongqi to act so resolutely and settle the land issue in just over a month.
Although a huge amount of money was spent this time, the result still made him very satisfied. At least the second stage of urbanization construction had begun, and he had strong expectations for the earth-shaking changes that would take place in this land in the future.
It’s just that such a plan will last for more than 10 years, or even more than 20 years, because even after the construction of about 150 key cities is completed, there will be other cities that need to be built, and even these construction cycles still overlap.
In the process of urbanization, it is not just the construction of buildings, but also many supporting industries and facilities. If these cannot keep up, it will seriously slow down the pace of urbanization. Zhao Yi is not willing to see a large number of empty cities. Arrived.
Therefore, although fixed investment in urbanization consumes a huge amount of funds, if you want to run these cities well, you not only need to spend a lot of money, but also need to spend a lot of effort to deal with it.
Fortunately, he is not the one to fight these things. The country has established the National Urbanization Industry Committee. Its main responsibility is to rationally allocate and mobilize industrial resources, combine local economic advantage industries, and provide suggestions for the industrial development of various cities.
It has gathered a large number of social science professionals, as well as heads of named economic entities across the country, with the purpose of doing a good job in the later stages of urbanization construction.
After learning about what China Housing Corporation had done recently, Zhao Yi put the matter aside. Urbanization construction is a huge project, and even he plays a very limited role in it. He can only try to ensure that they financial security.
During this time, he stayed in the laboratory when he was free, busy developing robots. In fact, these robot technologies can be easily obtained from Zhou Ling, and it is not technically difficult.
But if you want to transform technology into entities, there is a lot of work that needs to be done, not only the development of various special-purpose machines and equipment, such as the 3D printer mentioned earlier.
At the same time, physical research and development of each component is also required, which consumes a lot of time. If it were not for the development of humanoid robots that look just like humans in appearance, he would not want to do these things himself.
Because this is a waste of time in his opinion. Humanoid robots that perform the same as humans not only have a very high technical level, but these high-level humanoid robots are of great use to him and are kept in absolute confidentiality.
After a batch of high-level humanoid robots are developed and produced, the daily work in the laboratory can be completely handed over to these robots, and he will be completely freed from such complicated daily experimental tasks.
Robots that are the same as humans will definitely not appear in front of the public, but low-level robots can still be treated as an industry and set up special companies to operate them.
It’s just that the current domestic focus is still on digesting labor and solving labor employment problems, so even if robots are put on the market, they will not be widely used in industrial production.
Not only is the field of industrial production not suitable for large-scale use of robots, but also the service industry is currently not suitable, because the number of employees in the service industry is larger, and our country has no shortage of population, so there is no need to do so.
But there is one field that Zhao Yi thinks is very suitable for using robots to replace human labor, and that is the field of housekeeping. At present, most families are dual-income families, but housework takes up a lot of their time, and it can even cause family conflicts.
With the help of domestic robots, they can not only help them with housework, but also help them cook meals and take care of their children, completely freeing the couple from housework.
In fact, the functions of such robots are sufficient for many positions. When the time comes, Zhao Yi will put some restrictions on the robots to avoid being used in the commercial field.
During this period, Zhao Yi also paid attention to Ge Qiuyang's situation and asked him about the current operations of Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company. As for his work handover, he had already completed it because the business was too single. Naturally, it is very fast.
The reason why he pays close attention to the preparations for the establishment of Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company is mainly because their first business is to manufacture smartphones, and they must have sufficient production capacity by then.
Zhao Yiyi is very optimistic about the sales of smartphones. Not only do smartphones have much higher technological content than traditional mobile phones, but the price will also be relatively close to the people, making them affordable to most working-class people.
According to the plan, by June, the research and development of smartphones from his three companies will be completed and they will begin to enter the mass production stage. The stocking period is only one month.
Therefore, the Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company led by Ge Qiuyang is faced with a tight schedule and heavy tasks. It not only needs to recruit a large number of staff and provide relevant training for them, but also needs to produce enough machines.
Fortunately, the production line business of Tiangong Precision Instrument Company has been transferred to them, and it has a very high degree of autonomy. However, expanding production capacity is not easy. It must be reasonably coordinated and the workload is not large.
According to Zhao Yi's estimate, even if there are not many months left this year, global smartphone sales may reach around 100 million units. So even if they are in trial production in the first month, their monthly output needs to reach 10 million units. about.
Then, after the workers become more skilled and the supply of various raw materials becomes more abundant, the production capacity will be slowly expanded to a monthly output of more than 20 million units.
The headquarters of Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company is located in Zhengzhou. Henan has always been the most populous province in my country, and there are many jobs in the OEM manufacturing industry, so it is very suitable to be located in Henan.
Moreover, the scale of the industries that Zhao Yi arranged for Henan before was not large. This time, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company was arranged in Henan, which will provide many jobs and economic development impetus for the local area.
Because Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company's business is not just about manufacturing smartphones. This is only their initial business. As their manufacturing capabilities become stronger and stronger, the industrial workers become more and more professional.
In the future, other companies under his umbrella will gradually transfer their production tasks to this company, and they will only retain part of their production capacity. In this way, they will lose weight and their management difficulty will be greatly reduced.
For example, the home appliance industry, computer industry and tablet computers owned by Polaris Company can all be produced by this company. Polaris Company's main business is design and research and development, and its business is more focused.
Before the smartphone interview, the current 2G network needs to be upgraded. If this work is not completed, it will seriously affect the sales of smartphones.
Therefore, Zhao Yi also asked Hengtong Communications Company and Huawei Technologies Company to learn about the upgrade status of global mobile network operators, and urged them to speed up the progress and strive for more operators to upgrade their networks before June.
Because the more operators that upgrade, the higher the sales of smartphones will be, especially in developed countries. They had not had a good relationship with these two companies in the communications field before, but they were forced to cooperate with them. .
In Zhao Yi's inherent thinking, operators in these countries should be unwilling to cooperate with these two companies in upgrading mobile networks because it will cost more money. They will definitely not be willing to do so before seeing actual benefits.
The result was beyond Zhao Yi's expectation. The two communication companies persuaded operators in these developed countries to willingly upgrade their mobile networks without actually producing actual smartphones.
Zhao Yi's thinking is actually a personal stance replacing a business stance. Although from a personal perspective, these operators are naturally unhappy with the two monopoly communications companies, but when it comes to their own practical interests, no one will compromise with money. make life difficult for.
How much money can you make just by relying on phone calls? Compared with phone calls, the consumption power brought by data traffic is higher. As long as a businessman with a normal mind can understand the interest relationship.
Judging from the information obtained by the two companies, even if they do not upgrade the 2G network around the world before June, they will complete the work before October this year.
Although there is still a gap from what he expected, the impact will not be too great, because the production capacity of smartphones in the early stage will not be very high, and the domestic market alone may be able to absorb this part of the production capacity.
Only after foreign mobile networks meet the requirements will smartphones have enough production capacity to be exported, so overall it will not affect the progress of the entire plan.
With a smartphone, you naturally need a large number of applications. Without these rich and colorful smartphone applications, a smartphone would not be much different from an ordinary mobile phone.
So he also learned about his major software companies and Internet companies, and the development work for smartphone applications, and the results were not optimistic.
Because if you want to develop these applications, you must first have a smartphone operating system. Since the time is too short, Polaris needs to adapt the previous tablet operating system to a smartphone operating system, which is not a matter of a few sentences.
What's more, Fanxing Software Company didn't have such a system before. The gap between computer operating systems and smartphone operating systems is even greater, and it's almost not much different from developing an operating system from scratch.
Moreover, in the specification document for the smartphone operating system provided by him, the requirements for the smartphone operating system are very high, and it is not enough to just take out an operating system and modify it.
Therefore, these companies that want to develop smartphone applications can only stare blankly. At present, they are only completing the design work of smartphone applications for major applications, and the rest is waiting.
Seeing this situation, Zhao Yi couldn't bear it anymore and called Polaris Company and Fanxing Software Company directly, asking them to send him the semi-finished products they had completed so far, and he would help them complete the rest of the work.
The operating system is not only technically difficult, but also requires a lot of work. For these two companies, it will naturally take time to slowly improve it.
But for Zhao Yi, there was no difficulty at all. After they sent over their semi-finished smartphone operating system, Zhao Yi, with the help of junior artificial intelligence, only spent two days to complete two very A mature smartphone operating system.
And he went a step further and changed the previous handheld terminal operating system of Polaris Company into a microkernel, distributed, and scalable operating system, and also added many Internet of Things-related components.
The smartphone operating system of Fanxing Software Company is more like a re-build. The gap from the original is even greater, and many security components have been added.
Because Polaris Company plans to develop a closed operating system, many things are independently controllable. However, Fanxing Software Company is building an open mobile operating system, and many things are uncontrollable. Naturally, it has higher security requirements.
Even though the two operating systems look similar on the surface, both in terms of operation methods and basic component composition, there are still big differences inside, which are caused by the different operating modes of the two.
Although Zhao Yi added many IoT-related modules to them, these modules are not necessary basic modules. In the early stage, these modules did not need to be added at all.
Because the development speed of the Internet of Things is very slow, it is only used lightly by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company. Moreover, the current smart phone hardware is not that advanced, the computing power is not enough, and the operating system is too large, which is a burden.
In this case, the reason why he added so many IoT components was mainly to provide a sample for these two companies, let them know what the IoT operating system should be like, and lay the foundation for their subsequent research.
After sending the two completed smartphone operating systems to the two companies, although it aroused the exclamation of many R&D personnel, it was still within the controllable range. After all, this kind of thing does not happen once or twice.
After having the operating system, the two companies sent operating system simulators to all brother companies, and also provided tools for program conversion between the two operating systems.
Because Zhao Yi felt that his company had to write two sets of applications at the same time, which was a waste of human resources. Not only was it inefficient, but the cost would also increase a lot, so he simply developed a conversion tool.
And this conversion tool is integrated with the application development tool SDK of the smartphone operating system, allowing developers to know the real-time performance of the application on the two mobile operating systems at any time.
Moreover, these tool frameworks have been established. In the future, Polaris Company and Fanxing Software Company will also be able to carry out very friendly expansion and transformation under this framework, without the need for Zhao Yi to do it himself.
Major companies that received the smartphone operating system SDK naturally arranged personnel to develop related applications as soon as possible. Since they had been designed before and the programming tools were powerful enough, the progress was naturally very fast.
Their first task is to compile the current application software and system into a smartphone application. This task is relatively simple and can be done by just following the picture.
If you just want users to be able to put it down after using it, you need to spend a lot of energy to improve it. It is not just a simple copy and conversion. There is still a big gap in usage habits between the two.
However, these tasks can be slowly improved and updated in subsequent iterative development. There is no need to launch a perfect product at once, and there will not be a perfect product. They all develop slowly in iterations.
After the existing programs are converted into mobile applications, they will face a difficult nut to crack, which is to launch special applications for mobile applications.
For example, Zhao Yi mentioned taxi-hailing software, group buying software, etc. at the annual meeting. This is what Zhao Yi mentioned. There will only be more application scenarios that were not mentioned, not less.
If they just develop mobile phone programs related to the application scenarios mentioned by the boss, it is not a big deal. If they want to get the boss's approval, they must be innovative.
Especially when the enterprise joint management committee is about to be established, if there is no sense of urgency, then none of them, the leaders of Internet companies, will definitely enter that organization.
Although their current qualifications are still young and their achievements are not too many, they must always have ideals, otherwise they are no different from salted fish. Even if they are not among the first batch to enter, they must strive to be able to enter in the future. Qualifications inside.
In fact, it is not just these Internet companies that are busy around this smartphone. Basically, all his companies are busy because they also need to expand their business scope online.
Even Hualong Clothing Company needs to develop a special mobile application and promote it to all their offline dealers, so that dealers can understand their goods dynamics and supply status at any time.
Not to mention the e-commerce subsidiary of Shangtong Trading Company, they not only simply moved the web version of the e-commerce application to the mobile phone, but also launched new expanded applications around the mobile phone.
We all know that when buying clothes online, it is easy to buy clothes that do not fit. Although it is convenient to return and exchange, it always brings a lot of trouble to consumers.
Therefore, in response to this pain point, Shangtong Trading Company wants to develop a 3D scanning function that can 3D scan itself and build 3D models for consumers.
And this is not just about building 3D models for consumers, merchants can also use the 3D model building function to scan the actual condition of their products into the mall.
In this way, consumers can directly try on clothes online, which is very convenient. Not only can they buy clothes that fit their own size, but they can also customize their image online to stimulate their desire to consume.
Moreover, after the product is 3D scanned, it is less likely to have poor product information, consumers can feel more confident when purchasing the product, and the platform is easy to supervise. At least the wrong goods will rarely happen.
It's just that it's very difficult to realize this idea. It can't be accomplished solely by relying on a smartphone, because a specialized 3D scanner is also needed.
There is currently no such product in the world, and even if there is such a product, the price is still high. Even a 3D scanner in the previous life cost more than 50,000, which is still the lowest end.
So their idea is very good, but it is very troublesome to implement. When the matter was reported to Jia Siqi, she also had difficulties. If it could be realized, it would be of great significance to online sales. The problem is that it is too difficult.
If you want to promote this function, it is not only a matter of function implementation, but also a matter of reducing the cost of use to the minimum. Otherwise, it will be a function that is not useful but looks good.
There was no way, so Jia Siqi left the problem in the hands of the omnipotent boss. After Zhao Yi got Zhao Siqi's question, he felt a little interesting. This idea was indeed a genius, especially in this era.
He even felt that Jia Siqi had simply found another business for Tianxing Precision Instrument Company, 3D scanning, 3D engraving, and 3D printing. This was to put himself on par with 3D.
However, in response to Jia Siqi's problem, Zhao Yi does not plan to develop a hardware product specifically, but to implement this function on smartphones, so that the cost of use for consumers will be very low.
However, the smartphone needs to have a reflective sensing device, but these are not problems. Just add this module component at the camera position, and the cost is not high.
With this reflection sensing device, users only need to turn on the flashlight of their mobile phones and scan their entire bodies. Based on the reflection of light and the image analysis of the camera, the mobile phone can build a model through algorithms.
This is the lowest-cost solution that Zhao Yi has thought of. At least the hardware cost is almost negligible, and the software cost is also negligible for Zhao Yi. He can figure out the relevant algorithms on the spot.
After he designed the algorithm, he sent it directly to Jia Siqi, and asked the e-commerce company of Shangtong Trading Company to complete the programming of the modeling function based on these algorithms, and then asked three smartphone R&D companies to add light reflection sensing devices to the camera part.
As for the light reflection device, his subsidiary Tiangong Precision Instrument Company has one. They have specialized sensors, and they don’t even need to use such high-end sensors. Of course, the cheaper the better.
In fact, the accuracy of 3D scanning completed in this way is not high. It can only be used to build 3D scanning models of daily necessities, which is completely unacceptable in industry.
This is not only an accuracy error caused by the hardware, but also something Zhao Yi deliberately added in the algorithm, because he also needs Tiangong Precision Instrument Company to develop a professional industrial-grade 3D scanner.
Subsequently, Zhao Yi handed over the relevant technical information on 3D scanning, 3D engraving, and 3D printing to Tiangong Precision Instrument Company and asked them to develop these three machines.
Of course, the technical information he gave is not at the same level as what he made in the laboratory, but it is enough to meet the current use in the industrial field. (End of chapter)