Chapter 1122 DJI in its infancy
After Sun Zhenping left, Xu Liang dialed Jiang Xiaoyang's phone number.
"Why are you suddenly willing to call me?"
"Miss you!"
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, and Xu Liang seemed to see her rolling her eyes.
"Glib."
"The conscience of heaven and earth, I speak the truth."
"A man's mouth is a liar. My mother is absolutely right."
"My mother-in-law still knows this..."
After the two chatted casually for a few words.
Jiang Xiaoyang: "Come on, what's the matter?"
"I heard that China Investment Corporation has been established and is preparing to invest abroad?"
"Yeah. But CIC has just been established, and its foreign investment is expected to start in the second half of the year."
"Does Hanhua have a chance?"
"With Hanhua's achievements, if we can't do it, other institutions can't do it either." Jiang Xiaoyang's tone was full of certainty and pride.
Xu Liang smiled and said, "Based on the results, we are definitely fine, but we are afraid that it will be affected by unplanned things."
The background of the Jiang family can protect Hanhua's development.
But sometimes there are negative effects.
Such as those political opponents who are not dealt with.
"Don't worry, it'll be fine."
Seeing that she was confident, Xu Liang stopped worrying about this issue.
“What is the size of CIC?”
"The country's current foreign exchange reserves are as high as 1.2 trillion U.S. dollars, and it is preparing to spend about 200 billion U.S. dollars to issue 1.55 trillion yuan of special treasury bonds." Jiang Xiaoyang said with excitement in his tone.
This is an unprecedented move!
It is also a major opportunity for Hanhua.
“As the country develops, government agencies, whether at the top or at the local level, are getting richer and richer.
Some time ago, I talked with local officials in Yuzhou and found that they were very interested in setting up RMB funds and wanted to cooperate with us.
I think this can become another growth point for Hanhua. "Jiang Xiaoyang continued.
Xu Liang: "Don't be too happy too early. The establishment of local industrial guidance funds is also to develop industries and solve tax problems, employment, etc. It is not a pie in the sky.
Moreover, it is still early for this matter. If the exit channel is not opened and the policies are not implemented, many things can only be left on paper. ”
"Of course I know this. But we can talk to each other first and make preliminary preparations."
Xu Liang did not refute.
There are state-owned venture capital companies in China at this time, such as Shenzhen Venture Capital and Su Venture Capital, but they are all general enterprise systems, not partnerships.
Why Shenzhen Venture Capital is the most famous and has the best performance is because Pengcheng is at the forefront of reform, has a relatively open mind, and is market-oriented.
The fact that "8% of the company's total profits are allocated to motivate employees" is clear evidence that many state-owned enterprises cannot do this and do not dare to do so.
Xu Liangdao: "You can figure this out. Send me an email when you have the result."
"Yeah."
"One more thing, Sun Zhenping plans to set up a real estate opportunity fund in the Xiangjiang office, and I agree."
Jiang Xiaoyang said in surprise: "Don't you want to be a real estate fund?"
"This time, that time.
Previously, Hanhua had a headquarters-responsibility system and had too many businesses to manage.
Now Hanhua is under the supervision of the headquarters and the responsibility of the subsidiaries.
The Xiangjiang office wants to do big business, which is also a good thing for Hanhua.
I have no reason to hinder employees' ambition. ”
"What if other offices also established real estate opportunity funds...?"
"Promise them."
Jiang Xiaoyang agreed.
After the implementation of the headquarters platform system, a large number of management responsibilities that originally belonged to the headquarters were delegated to the headquarters. She only focused on internal supervision and some large investments.
Work is much easier.
We are not opposed to the expansion of business in major offices.
After chatting for a while, Xu Liang hung up the phone, and the matter of CIC came to mind again.
The HuaXia Coin Fund is already showing some signs of development, but it will take another year or two to really take off until the GEM opens.
There are currently not many LPs who can compete with Qiu Feng, and CIC is definitely the fattest one.
He remembered that CIC also invested US$5 billion in Morgan Stanley and obtained 10% of the shares of this investment bank.
Of course, the return on this investment is also head-turning.
This is also because when CIC was first established, it didn’t know anything. It even had to ask employees from invested companies such as Blackstone and Morgan Stanley to help with training. It is estimated that these foreign-funded institutions deceived the father of the funder.
As the only domestic investment institution that has opened a store on Wall Street, Hanhua should be considered the hope of Tucun.
As long as the people above are not stupid, they will definitely invite Hanhua.
Even if it is an equity investment in Hanhua, if CIC is willing to invest, he will not accept it.
Like other fund shares, he would not refuse to help provide training for CIC employees.
If Hanhua helps CIC complete its preparations and even become professional, it should be able to make some money.
Foreign investors such as Blackstone and Morgan Stanley have given us US$30 to US$5 billion, so there is no reason to be stingy with our own people?
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After staying in Xiangjiang for a few days, Xu Liang came to Pengcheng across the river.
The first stop was not Penguin and Beatty, but Chegong Temple.
Xu Liang got out of the car and looked up at the dozens-of-storey building in front of him. "Sunshine Golf Building" was written in large red letters on the outer wall.
After confirming that the address was correct, Xu Liang strode into the building.
Li Jinling glanced around a few times and quickly followed, feeling a little curious.
There are not many companies worthy of the big boss' personal intervention.
After entering the building, Xu Liangcai discovered that the building was called a building, but it was actually a commercial and residential building.
There were old men and women coming back from shopping carrying large and small bags, as well as smartly dressed white-collar workers in suits and leather shoes, who looked a little messy.
The two of them took the elevator to the 20th floor. As soon as they stepped out of the elevator, they saw the front desk of a company with a certain magazine written on the cultural wall.
As soon as Xu Liang and Li Jinling stepped through the door, the girl at the front desk of the magazine stood up and stopped them.
"Hello, who are you looking for?"
The girl at the front desk spoke very gently, but her eyes kept looking at Xu Liang and Li Jinling.
Li Jinling was immediately stunned.
In the past two years, she and the big boss have been greeted with grand ceremony wherever they go.
This was the first time I was stopped by the front desk.
"We are..."
Xu Liang stopped her and smiled.
"Is DJI Innovations here? We have made an appointment with Mr. Wang Tao to meet here."
"So you are looking for Xiao Wang. He is probably still playing with his pile of toys in the warehouse right now. I will take you there."
The girl at the front desk enthusiastically led the way, leading Xu Liang and the two of them into the company.
In fact, the girl at the front desk really doesn't know Xu Liang. She doesn't have enough time to watch TV dramas at work every day. She has no time to care about who the richest man is who changes every year.
In addition, Xu Liang rarely accepts media interviews, so many people only know his name but not his person.
The magazine office is not big. There are more than a dozen desks scattered in the open office area, and everyone is engrossed in writing and drawing.
Someone looked up and saw Xu Liang, his mouth wide open.
Then he wiped his eyes, only to find that Xu Liang had already walked away.
He immediately took pictures of his colleagues around him. "Hey, did you see that person just now? Is that Xu Liang?"
"Who is Xu Liang?"
"I'll go, Xu Liang, you don't even know, Mr. Richest Man!"
"No way, you must have mistaken the person, right? Will Xu Liang come to our place?"
"They went to the warehouse."
……
After passing through the magazine's office area, the front desk took Xu Liang to a warehouse in the corner.
The door to the warehouse was closed. The girl at the front desk knocked on the door and shouted in Cantonese very familiarly.
"Wang Sheng, Wang Tao, someone has found someone."
After a while, a sleepy young man opened the door.
Xu Liang looked at the slovenly young man in his twenties in front of him. He was completely different from the man who more than ten years later would be called "the man who rules the world at altitudes below 500 meters."
Wearing a wrinkled Hongxing Erke sportswear, with shiny locks of hair sticking to his forehead, and a pair of round-framed glasses on his nose, he looks like an otaku.
"Wang Sheng, this gentleman said he made an appointment with you and came to see you." The front desk said.
Wang Tao looked at Xu Liang, who was wearing a sweater jacket.
"Sir, do we have an appointment?"
He remembered that he had not made an appointment to meet anyone.
"Can I go in and talk?"
Seeing that they didn't look like bad people in their attire, Wang Tao nodded.
"Come in."
"Thank you."
Although the girl at the front desk was a little curious, she didn't ask any more questions.
Bang, the door closes.
A group of magazine employees who came to explore the authenticity arrived late.
The light in the room was a little dark, and Xu Liang looked around.
There was no window that could let in any light, so the whole room was illuminated by the incandescent lamp above my head.
The room area is also very small, probably less than 20 square meters.
There are several simple work tables placed in the room, with computers, model airplanes and various parts placed on them. There are also two bunk beds in the corner.
Seeing someone coming in, the three people lying on the bed immediately started to put on their coats in a hurry.
Li Jinling couldn't help but frown.
The smell of smelly socks, the smell of instant noodles, and the smell of man's putty all mixed together, it was simply unbearable.
She also found it hard to believe that such a company had any investment value.
"You...you are Xu Liang?!"
A young man wearing black-rimmed glasses became excited instantly.
"You know me?" Xu Liang smiled.
The other party quickly stretched out his hands.
"Hello, Mr. Xu, you are my idol!"
Xu Liang smiled and said: "You haven't told me your name yet."
"My name is Lu Zhihui. I am very, very honored to meet you!"
Xu Liang nodded with a smile and shook hands with Wang Tao and others.
Lu Zhihui quickly took a few benches.
"Mr. Xu, our conditions here are poor. How about we change places?"
"It doesn't matter, it's just fine here."
"I heard from my friends that you make drones. Can you show me your products?" Xu Liang continued.
"Of course no problem."
Lu Zhihui quickly picked up a model helicopter from the workbench and handed it over.
Xu Liang held the helicopter in his hands and played with it, raising it high from time to time to observe the welding between various parts through the light.
"Have you dismantled this plane countless times?"
Lu Zhihui: "You have good eyesight. Our current tools are relatively rough and cannot be accurate to the specific strength. We can only feel it with our hands."
Xu Liang nodded and continued to observe. After a while:
“I also used screw glue.”
"Screws sometimes become loose, so you need to add screw glue to prevent them from loosening. However, there is a problem. If you want to remove it, the screw will get stuck in and cannot be unscrewed.
So Lao Wang went to Hong Kong and bought a bunch of screw glue and came back with several different strengths: weak, medium and strong.
The screws are screwed with different strengths of screw glue according to the frequency of removal. The hundreds of screws on the aircraft are screwed on one by one according to different requirements..."
Lu Zhihui is very talkative. Following the topic of screw glue, he quickly explained the current status of their company and some of the R&D problems they encountered.
"Wang Tao, your company has just been established, right?"
Xu Liang asked instead.
"Just established a month ago."
DJI, which has just been established for a month, is just a manual workshop and laboratory.
Nothing came of it.
And among the four people in the team now, only Wang Tao understands drones, and the other three are laymen.
"What are your plans next? Have you been doing research and development in this warehouse?" Xu Liang asked.
"That's the case for the time being. There are still many technologies that we haven't fully understood yet. We mainly focus on experiments and do not sell products to the outside world."
Wang Tao, who has just left school, is still an honest boy, although he wants to win investment from Hanhua.
But I won't lie yet.
"Then how does your company survive?"
"This warehouse belongs to my uncle, and he also runs the magazine outside. The rent is free."
"What about employee salaries? Do you have to spend money to buy experimental equipment?"
Wang Tao said nonchalantly: "My mother invested 2 million Hong Kong dollars in me, which should last until we can make the product."
Xu Liang was not too surprised. In fact, Wang Tao's family situation was very good. His father was an engineer, his mother used to be a teacher and later became a small business owner, and his uncle was the owner of a magazine.
In the first few years, DJI was engaged in research and development. When there was no income, it relied solely on family support to survive.
Xu Liang smiled and said, "Have you ever thought about employees' expectations of the company?"
Wang Tao said calmly: "If they think the company is not good, just leave."
Seeing the dissatisfaction in the eyes of Lu Zhihui and the others, Xu Liang smiled.
He had never dealt with Wang Tao in his previous life, but he had also heard that this man did not understand the world, had a clear distinction between love and hate, and often made outrageous remarks in public.
Just like now, if you say that others are worthless in front of outsiders, who will work for you?
However, although Lao Wang is not a qualified CEO, he definitely has nothing to say about technology.
When preparing for his graduation project at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Wang Tao decided to study the flight control system of a remote-controlled helicopter.
In fact, few undergraduates can decide the direction of their graduation projects themselves, and most of them are assigned by their tutors.
But Wang Tao was determined and found two classmates to persuade the teacher to agree with their research direction.
After some hard work from him and his classmates, the instructor finally agreed.
To this end, Wang Tao applied for 18,000 Hong Kong dollars in funding from the school. During this period, he did not hesitate to skip classes and stay up until 5 a.m. every day. This state lasted for 5 months and finally completed his graduation project.
However, during the demonstration, the plane still fell from mid-air, and Wang Tao barely got a C in his graduation project.
However, it was a blessing in disguise that he gained the appreciation of Li Zexiang, a professor of robotics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, who recommended him to study as a graduate student.
(End of chapter)