Chapter 158: Preparing for a Rainy Day

After the news came back from America that Shenzhou was selling wildly in North America, the orders for the host of manufacturers supplying components to Dongling High-Tech began to go off the charts.

It wasn't just orders from Shenzhou; many other companies in other industries also placed orders with Dongling High-Tech component suppliers led by BYD!

Because a large part of Shenzhou's machines now were sold to markets in Southeast Asia, America, Europe, and so on, companies like BYD that supplied components to Dongling High-Tech could also be considered foreign trade companies.

Now and for the next few decades, the standard for domestic products was that foreign trade standards were higher than domestic products. Being able to supply foreign trade meant that the product quality was absolutely no problem, and was even at an international first-class level!

Now that Shenzhou Phone had actually hammered Siemens and completely reached the position of the global leader in the digital cordless phone industry, component suppliers like BYD were naturally following along to ascend to heaven.

The Dongling High-Tech industry chain system had been established for too short a time. Among the host of component suppliers, there were no listed companies yet. Otherwise, just by virtue of Shenzhou's heroic performance in North America, the stock prices of the host of listed suppliers of Dongling High-Tech would have gone crazy.

But even if they weren't listed yet, component suppliers like BYD also received a huge wave of orders. Big Brother phone, landline, and mobile phone manufacturers, and even notebook computer manufacturers like Dell and HP, also began to send cooperation orders to BYD, wanting BYD to develop and supply batteries for notebook computers.

BYD immediately announced that the first quarter of this year hadn't even finished, and BYD's battery shipment volume had already exceeded 17.5 million units, ranking sixth in the world in battery shipment volume!

This was still based on the situation where there were over 20 million battery orders unfinished. Otherwise, BYD could have run to the position of the top three battery manufacturers in the world!

This answer sheet from BYD shocked all domestic manufacturers. A company that was just a startup last year, like a grassroots team, had actually ranked among the top six battery manufacturers in the world this year.

Moreover, compared to battery giants like Sanyo and Panasonic, BYD's equipment was completely "millet plus rifles," using human-sea tactics to defeat the equipment automation of companies like Sanyo.

BYD and Boss Wang became famous overnight. Last year, the outside world still viewed Boss Wang as a lucky person. This year, once this announcement from BYD came out, the title of "Battery King" appeared on Boss Wang's head.

Boss Wang instantly also became another inspirational history in the domestic startup industry. The matter of leading the team to hand-rub nickel battery production lines began to be reported by major media outlets.

However, Boss Wang and those dozens of technical personnel were indeed desperate people, and their technology was excellent, but what made countless domestic tech companies even more envious was that BYD had hugged a big golden leg!

If there were no Dongling High-Tech, BYD would also become famous, but it would never be so fast and so smooth. In just less than a year, it had jumped to the sixth largest battery manufacturer in the world, creating over 300 million RMB in revenue in a single quarter!

BYD's performance of soaring into the sky and gaining both fame and fortune stimulated countless domestic manufacturers to howl. The name of the Dongling High-Tech industry chain also resounded throughout the domestic manufacturing industry. Don't know how many factories wanted to squeeze into the Dongling High-Tech industry chain to become one of the suppliers.

Not just BYD, the host of suppliers in the Dongling High-Tech industry chain received orders until their hands were soft. The brand of Dongling High-Tech supplier was even more of a golden signboard than they had imagined. Orders were all received until their hands were soft!

And another company in the Dongling High-Tech industry chain, Hanxi New Materials Company, was both excited and somewhat worried at the moment. Formerly known as Hanxi First Plastic Factory, it changed its name to Hanxi New Materials a few years ago, claiming to the outside world to be a new type of tech company because there were subsidies and it could get more loans from banks. The original plastic factory was truly unloved by the grandmother and unloved by the uncle...

As an old state-owned enterprise, Hanxi New Materials used to produce various types of plastic, cable insulation layers, electrical molding plastics, etc., and its strength could be considered solid, if this were ten years ago.

Starting a few years ago, a large number of private plastic factories appeared domestically. Regardless of how the quality of these plastic factories was, anyway, it was two words: cheap, cheap in a "quantity is large and fills the belly" style!

In less than three to five years, Hanxi First Plastic Factory was internally rolled by a host of private plastic factories until it began to appear in losses. Orders were snatched away. After changing several factory directors in succession, it was of no avail, so it began to rot.

Until the latest one, factory director Cao Xueming, who was a scholar, took office and began to transform Hanxi First Plastic Factory with great vigor, establishing the transformation to high-value-added plastic deep-processing products, rather than continuing to roll in the ordinary plastic industry.

Cao Xueming withstood the pressure, changed the name of Hanxi First Plastic Factory, went to the bank for loans, established a laboratory, recruited a batch of technical personnel, and began to develop new products.

These actions, for the factory staff who were waiting to be fed and waiting for wages to be issued, Cao Xueming doing these things was simply not doing human things. Having money but not issuing wages, just doing broken things. What was the use of establishing a laboratory and hiring R&D and technicians at high prices...

But just when Cao Xueming was making a huge uproar at Hanxi New Materials after the name change, Dongling High-Tech appeared. Hanxi New Materials first received the first batch of trial production orders, producing mouse materials for Silver Mink mice.

It wasn't that there weren't factories with lower quotes than Hanxi New Materials, but in terms of price, it was only a part of what Dongling High-Tech paid attention to. The key was product quality.

As an old state-owned factory, it could be said that state-owned factories had ten thousand things wrong, but in terms of quality, they were absolutely able to be taken out!

After the first batch of trial production was qualified, follow-up orders began to arrive one after another. This allowed Cao Xueming to breathe a huge sigh of relief. And the real change was the appearance of electronic pets. Hanxi New Materials began to receive orders until their hands were soft.

Subsequently, relying on the established laboratory and R&D personnel, Hanxi New Materials defeated a host of opponents and obtained the order to produce digital cordless phone shells for Shenzhou Phone!

When Shenzhou Phone sold wildly in Europe and reached the number one sales position in America, it was the time when Hanxi New Materials' production lines were off the charts and couldn't produce enough. From last year to this year, Hanxi New Materials' revenue was almost several times more than the previous few years.

Cao Xueming issued the wages of the old employees who remained at Hanxi New Materials for the past few years and also issued bonuses. This made those employees who had left Hanxi New Materials before have their intestines turn green with regret, and there were not a few people arguing to come back to work...

However, at this time when the Dongling High-Tech industry chain companies were having a carnival, although Hanxi New Materials was also having a carnival, the conference room at this time was somewhat arguing until it was inseparable.

"Still need to upgrade the materials, need to be wear-resistant, and also environmentally friendly?"

"Yeah, our materials were newly developed, and a huge sum of money was spent on upgrading the production line. Now need to upgrade again?!"

"Dongling High-Tech is also too overbearing. The little money we earn isn't enough for R&D and buying new equipment. If we upgrade the production line again, we have to buy production lines from Japan and Germany. Our matter of building employee welfare housing will go down the drain again!"

The conference room of Hanxi New Materials was arguing endlessly. Even though the windows were wide open, it was still filled with smoke. Cao Xueming didn't smoke, but he didn't oppose the people below smoking. Having a scholarly background, his actions weren't overbearing, and could even be considered tolerant. As long as his bottom line wasn't touched, he generally rarely got angry.

But at this moment, Cao Xueming, sitting in the main seat of the conference room, frowned, looking at the new order requirements sent over from Dongling High-Tech, which also made him somewhat worried.

Feeling annoyed and restless, and choked by the smoke again, Cao Xueming shouted at the conference room, "Extinguish the smoke!"

Hearing Cao Xueming's words, the cigarette butts in the conference room were extinguished instantly. Some people even brought a fan to blow away the smell of smoke in the conference room.

Cao Xueming didn't care much on weekdays, which didn't mean he didn't have means. People in the academic industry who studied conspiracies and tricks could play people to death without seeing blood. Being able to sit firmly in the position of Hanxi New Materials factory director, how could Cao Xueming not have some means.

"Is this the requirement from Dongling High-Tech's procurement department?!" Cao Xueming held the contract in his hand and asked the manager of Hanxi New Materials' sales department.

"Yes!"

This sales manager of Hanxi New Materials hurriedly stood up, "It was personally handed to me by Gao Peng, the General Manager of the Logistics Department in charge of procurement at Dongling High-Tech. He told us to develop new environmentally friendly materials and also said that this was a requirement personally explained by Li Dongling, the chairman of Dongling High-Tech, and it must be completed!"

Hearing that it was Li Dongling who required Hanxi New Materials to develop new materials, the group of people who were just shouting were instantly speechless.

Cao Xueming also took a deep breath. Not smoking, he wanted to have a cigarette to relieve his mood at this time.

Cao Xueming didn't know why Li Dongling wanted to develop environmentally friendly materials. He hadn't even heard of this stuff domestically before, but Li Dongling specifically brought it up, clearly having his intentions.

In reality, Li Dongling was also preparing for a rainy day. The Shenzhou series brand had now officially reached the position of the world's largest digital cordless phone manufacturer, but this didn't mean that he could sit back and relax next.

On the contrary, next was the time when Shenzhou Phone was truly tested. Whether it was manufacturers in Europe, America, or Japan, when they couldn't beat Shenzhou Phone head-on, they would use all kinds of overt and covert means. Using environmental protection, malicious dumping, anti-monopoly investigations, and other means to deal with Shenzhou Phone, Li Dongling had to guard against it!

Still that sentence: some things, when you don't have them, the other party will take them to make a fuss. When you have them and exceed the other party, the other party will pretend not to know.

"However, Shenzhou Phone claims that the Dongling High-Tech Technology Department can cooperate with the Hanxi Joint Laboratory to jointly develop new environmentally friendly materials with our factory, and is willing to invest 20 million yuan for R&D. It's just that the patents, technology, etc., generated by R&D belong exclusively to Dongling High-Tech."

"If Hanxi New Materials wants to sell the new materials developed to other manufacturers, it needs to be agreed upon by Dongling High-Tech!"

That sales manager continued to say. Cao Xueming understood Dongling High-Tech's determination for this matter. In other words, if Hanxi New Materials didn't cooperate with Dongling High-Tech and wasn't willing to develop new or environmentally friendly materials, then Dongling High-Tech would look for other partners.

"You tell Dongling High-Tech's procurement department that Hanxi New Materials will develop new materials!"

Cao Xueming gritted his teeth and said. Between building welfare housing for the factory and Dongling High-Tech's orders, Cao Xueming knew which one to choose. There was still a difference between being full for one meal and being full for every meal.

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