What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 332 (Targeting 6800 monthly votes in April)

In fact, Shanghai's chip industry involves far more than just those few factories.

Tang Wen immediately looked up their development history and found that although foreign chips impacted the industry in the 80s, Shanghai's chip industry not only withstood the challenge but also fought back, and many of its technologies were still leading.

90 was a turning point, because all domestic companies chose to import goods, which caused their profits and losses to turn around drastically within two years. Now, the losses have reached a point where the local area can no longer bear it.

Even so, several integrated circuit manufacturers in Shanghai are still spending their own money to try to catch up with foreign companies.

In 1997, following the takeoff of the internet, the gap between domestic and foreign chip industries widened dramatically due to the volume of orders, causing domestic and foreign chip manufacturers to fall far behind in just about three years.

Currently, the only weakness is in design capabilities; the manufacturing process is almost on par.

Tang Wen contacted Zhao Hande and directly explained the importance of saving those integrated circuit factories.

The latter remained silent for a moment before speaking:
"Purchasing foreign chips involves a lot of money, and it's impossible to suddenly transfer them to Shanghai."

Tang Wen: "What if I buy it? I won't move it; I'll just leave it in Shanghai."

Unlike manufacturing plants, chip factories take too long to relocate and involve too wide an area, so Tang Wen didn't plan to bring them to the coast.

Zhao Hande didn't answer; he hung up first, asked around, and then called back.
"Shanghai is pushing for joint ventures. Although chips are a key area in China, Beijing in the north also has an integrated circuit industry. Shougang is also cooperating with NEC across industries. It is relatively easy to allow private companies to join, but it is very difficult to buy them."

If Gaikin wants to get involved, the maximum he can inject is 50% of the capital.

"At least 67%, I need to have the power to make decisions and replace many people."

How much money are you willing to pay?

"Let's aim for 500 million this year. Any more than that and they probably won't be able to handle it."

To what extent are you confident you can achieve this?

Tang Wen: "We will not fall behind within three years, and we will start to surpass them after three years."

After a long time, Zhao Hande finally spoke:
"Okay, if the proportion of state-owned assets is guaranteed, I support it."

Old Zhao is also of a high rank, and if he puts in the effort, his chances of winning are quite good.

Furthermore, as long as the factory and people are not moved, the city of Shanghai would definitely be willing for a wealthy person to take over this sinkhole, and would even welcome it.

……

Entering April, Tang Wen continued his shopping spree, only this time his purchases shifted from overseas to domestic markets.

On April Fool's Day, April 1st, 19 engineers and 22 technicians from the Shanghai Aircraft Research Institute left to start their own businesses, and Ren Chunqiu publicly welcomed them off.

It was a genuine farewell. The aircraft factory's situation was deteriorating, but if they were unwilling to release people, they still wielded considerable influence in this era.

Tang Wen's conditions were to include the Shanghai aircraft in the MD11 parts supply chain and pay a severance package of 200 million yuan, so Ren Chunqiu quickly raised his hands.

Two million is a real sum of money, which means each person spent 200 yuan.

At the same time, Huang Hao was also recruited, taking five experts who were close to the level of chief engineer with him. Then, each of them quickly wrote letters to their apprentices and grand-apprentices.

The local newspaper quickly reported this astonishing news, which shocked the technical staff of state-owned enterprises across the country, who had never known they were worth so much money.

After this action, the voices predicting the MD11 project would suddenly disappear, and the number of people who doubted that Tang Wen was a fraudster would decrease significantly.

Following this, Gaijin released news that he planned to use 500 million yuan to acquire controlling stakes in Shanghai Radio Factory No. 7, Factory No. 14, Component Factory No. 5, and Electron Tube Factory, claiming it was in preparation for the domestic production of the MD11's avionics system.

The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Transportation confirmed the news and stated that it is discussing the feasibility and plans. On April 5, Gekin Aviation Industry Co., Ltd. announced its establishment in Guangzhou, and McDonnell Douglas (domestic) officially announced that it will build a final assembly plant with Gekin Aviation Industry Co., Ltd. in Nansha District, Guangzhou, and will assemble two passenger aircraft by importing all components within the year.

Qiongzhou Airlines announced the purchase of two upgraded MD11 aircraft and has begun construction of dedicated parking spaces.

Several other domestic airlines followed suit, placing a total of 25 orders in advance. Tang Wen was also invited to Beijing for a group photo and to sign the reservation ceremony.

On the same day, the first business delegation to the United States also brought good news: more than 40 Chinese companies visited the US again and reached nearly $20 billion in economic cooperation agreements, and decided to further open up the market and welcome foreign investment into the domestic market.

In an inconspicuous corner, there was also a line:
The next round of negotiations for Tokyo University's accession to the WTO is about to take place.

……

United Nations.

Hastings dropped another bombshell at the day's meeting:

"The Federation has called for a thorough global search for all traces of the Second Fleet on the high seas!"
Federal intelligence has confirmed that they are carrying out targeted sabotage activities in multiple regions, and a comprehensive crackdown must be launched as soon as possible!

After he finished speaking, he announced a series of "misdeeds" committed by the Second Fleet:
The IAA has discovered a vast number of submarine sightings in more than 40 regions!

The Imperial Navy launched a frenzied anti-submarine campaign starting in late March, sending agents to conduct reconnaissance and interference, and quickly located the trails of more than a dozen submarines.

And then what? This was almost useless against the vast coastline, and in the end only five submarines were intercepted, all of which were sunk.

As a result, their numbers did not decrease; on the contrary, their activity frequency increased!
The IAA discovered that these submarines were taking huge risks just to do smuggling and smuggling, and they couldn't even earn enough to cover fuel costs, not to mention that the losses from each submarine were often enormous, involving huge sums of money and dozens of lives.

However, if the number becomes too large, it will also cause problems. It is likely that only by bringing back most of the world's warships can anti-submarine warfare be effective.

Those seemingly insignificant industrial wastes are greatly hindering the power of the Imperial Navy.

Left with no other option, Hastings had to announce the news, demanding that all regions around the world strictly control the movement of submarines and not give them any chance.

However, this was destined to be futile. Many of the areas where the border crossings were frequent were poor and underdeveloped. The authorities could only control the cities at most, so how could they have the ability to restrain the border?

Even though all the representatives present nodded in agreement and the vote was unanimously passed, indicating that the matter would be dealt with strictly, Hastings was still uneasy and brought up a second point:
"We hope to thoroughly investigate the Han Chinese Navy, while the European Union assists in a short-term blockade of the Han Chinese border, strictly controls the outflow of citizens, and dispatches a fleet to strictly inspect every ship that leaves Han Chinese territory."

Hans representative: !
Not only him, but the entire venue erupted in uproar.

Although that mysterious fleet is operating under the name of the Hans, it was one thing for Old Mi to restart the secret investigation of the Hans during World War II, but now he is openly trying to control its borders.
"Oppose! Oppose! This will completely restrict our freedom and normal foreign trade!"

Hans protested vehemently without hesitation, and many other delegates also disagreed with Hastings's demands.

But Hastings had his reasons. He released the wreckage salvaged from eight previously secret submarines, confirming that the crew members were mostly Hans.

Considering that they lost nearly 10,000 sailors last time, there must be Hans constantly leaving, and we must strongly stop them from replenishing their manpower.

This almost implies that the Hans authorities were closely connected with the Second Fleet and were always secretly providing manpower and resources.

The Hans representative, of course, denied it, and then backed down by saying that he would conduct a large-scale internal investigation and crack down on illegal border crossings, but would never accept closing the border.

Even when Mao was alive, things were never this strict. If they're going to be even stricter after he's gone, then Mao's death was for nothing.

The second proposal was abandoned amid fierce opposition from some representatives, but the news that the Second Fleet of the High Seas had dispatched a large number of submarines to conduct route planning was also made public, which aroused a wave of anti-submarine enthusiasm around the world and began to build more anti-submarine frigates.

The Second Fleet in the High Seas continues to exert its presence by shifting from surface to underwater operations.

(End of this chapter)