Chapter 159: If You Don't Want to Do It, You Don't Have to Do It; Others Can Take Your Place!

Different choices would have completely different results. Cao Xueming didn't know what significance developing new plastic and environmentally friendly materials would have in the future or how big the market would be, but he knew that he had to hug Dongling High-Tech's thigh now.

In the current domestic tech industry, Cao Xueming really couldn't think of any other thigh that was thicker than Dongling High-Tech's.

Cooperating with Dongling High-Tech to develop new materials required Hanxi New Materials to invest a large amount of money. The 20 million given by Dongling High-Tech was for R&D, but the subsequent upgrading of production lines and purchasing of new equipment had to be invested by Hanxi New Materials itself!

Cao Xueming submitted this letter of intent, and from now on, Hanxi New Materials would hug Dongling High-Tech's thigh. No matter how many people inside Hanxi New Materials were dissatisfied, facing Dongling High-Tech, the number one major client, and the matter jointly decided by Cao Xueming, they didn't dare to oppose it.

And Li Dongling and Dongling High-Tech had always supported their "own people." The most direct impact of Cao Xueming's decision was that Dongling High-Tech would give it more orders in the future!

Not just orders for Silver Mink mice and Shenzhou phones, but also orders for products like Flying Goose radio shells, Little PHS mobile phone shells, and so on in the future. Hanxi New Materials fundamentally wasn't afraid of not being able to eat meat. As long as it wasn't afraid of choking to death, Dongling High-Tech had plenty of meat to give it to eat!

For BYD, Dongling High-Tech set up a typical example. Why wasn't Hanxi New Materials the same? Through Hanxi New Materials, it told those component suppliers of Dongling High-Tech and companies wanting to enter the industry chain that as long as they followed Dongling High-Tech's footsteps and developed new products according to Dongling High-Tech's requirements, Dongling High-Tech wouldn't treat them badly, and they would all have meat to eat!

Just when Cao Xueming announced to Hanxi New Materials that they would jointly develop new materials with Dongling High-Tech and upgrade production lines again, temporarily canceling the construction of employee welfare housing for Hanxi New Materials, which caused complaints from Hanxi New Materials...

Suddenly, news spread again that Dongling High-Tech had added a new order worth 170 million yuan to Hanxi New Materials, which made the entire domestic plastic industry product companies instantly red-eyed.

But this wasn't over yet. Not long after Dongling High-Tech placed the order, a company that was still unknown domestically, Flying Goose Technology, also placed a new order worth 80 million yuan with Hanxi New Materials!

And those who were interested checked and knew the relationship between Flying Goose Technology and Dongling High-Tech. Although Flying Goose Technology didn't reveal to the outside world what products the materials ordered from Hanxi New Materials were used for, this kind of big move still made countless people secretly surprised.

In the blink of an eye, it had received new orders worth over 250 million yuan. Hanxi New Materials' orders were already lined up until the second half of the year. One could imagine that this year's wages and bonuses would absolutely not be lacking. Those Hanxi New Materials employees who were shouting before all immediately shut their mouths.

They were clear about the situation of factories in the country now. There were countless employees of major state-owned enterprises who were forced to handle internal retirement or layoffs. Like Hanxi New Materials, a state-owned enterprise that could issue wages on time and had welfare prizes and bonuses during festivals, it wasn't much to see not only in Hanxi but even domestically!

Don't know how many employees of other state-owned factories who were forced to go home wanted to enter Hanxi New Materials to work. If they dared to mention leaving today, not to mention tomorrow, in less than half an hour, someone would come to take their shift, and some were even willing to be temporary workers.

There were countless other plastic product companies in the country that envied Hanxi New Materials. Many companies successively called Dongling High-Tech, indicating that what Hanxi New Materials could do, they could also do, and they were even willing to pay out of their own pockets to do R&D, as long as Dongling High-Tech could include them in the component procurement list!

In Yanjing's BOE, Wang Dongsheng also saw the news in the media about Shenzhou Phone reversing the situation against Siemens in America. The R&D of the Sirius chip, as well as the pursuit of companies like BYD and Hanxi New Materials, to be honest, Wang Dongsheng was really somewhat envious.

A host of manufacturers supplying Dongling High-Tech, including BYD and Hanxi New Materials, were all borrowing this east wind to develop crazily. Some suppliers that played wildly even began to release wind that they wanted to impact the A-share market!

BOE could be considered a genuine Dongling High-Tech concept stock. It was the first batch of companies to establish a cooperative relationship with Dongling High-Tech together with BYD, and it also jointly established Oriental Optoelectronics, the first and currently only company in the country developing LCD panels.

But now, seeing BYD and Hanxi New Materials starting to take off, while BOE was ignored, Wang Dongsheng was also somewhat helpless.

The investment in Oriental Optoelectronics was actually not small. Wang Dongsheng sent quite a few technical backbones from BOE to join Oriental Optoelectronics to do R&D. Oriental Optoelectronics also established an R&D center in Japan and spent huge sums of money to dig engineers from companies like Sharp.

But R&D wasn't a matter of one morning or one evening, especially R&D from scratch. Oriental Optoelectronics still had a long way to go before successfully developing the first domestic LCD panel production line.

However, seeing that a host of Dongling High-Tech concept stocks were all hot, Wang Dongsheng also strengthened his determination to invest in LCD panels. Just like BYD and Hanxi New Materials, having Dongling High-Tech's thigh, at least he didn't need to worry about not having orders. As long as he could develop products, with Dongling High-Tech covering the bottom, he wouldn't be afraid of starving to death!

This was the most direct change brought by Dongling High-Tech to a host of companies like BOE, BYD, and Hanxi New Materials that were willing to invest in R&D. At least they invested in R&D and didn't need to worry about not having orders and being unable to survive.

Under the overwhelming reports of domestic media, the reports touting Shenzhou Phone and Sirius were endless, which was almost a world of difference from the news commenting on Shenzhou before.

And seeing these news, naturally, some were happy and some were worried. For example, Yan Lixiang, the media commentator who had just analyzed Shenzhou's inevitable defeat in America from various angles in a long-winded way.

At this moment, looking at the reports in the newspaper, Yan Lixiang's face was livid. Just a moment ago, several newspapers and magazines that had been cooperating with him and even opened media columns for him all notified Yan Lixiang that they would no longer cooperate with him in the future!

Other media outlets that hadn't completely cleared their relationship with Yan Lixiang also indicated that future commentary articles published by Yan Lixiang would need to be reviewed.

Media needed gimmicks and topics. If it was just blind touting, then aesthetic fatigue would soon set in. The reason why media outlets were willing to report repeatedly on Yan Lixiang, who published articles and commentaries criticizing Dongling High-Tech, was to attract eyeballs. Only with controversy would there be topics. Only by arguing would newspapers and magazines have sales...

Of course, certainly, there were also some media outlets that had indeed received public relations fees and were willing to publish Yan Lixiang's articles. This trick of attacking opponents through the media had never stopped at any time and would continue to appear in the future.

In the future, there would still be media outlets willing to publish Yan Lixiang's commentary articles, but after repeated mistakes, the name Yan Lixiang had already become somewhat smelly in the media industry. It was impossible to be as authoritative as before and be unconditionally trusted by countless readers.

Thinking of this, Yan Lixiang's face became even uglier. How did the influence of a media commentator come about? It was by relying on the pen in his hand. The articles written were believed by countless readers. Three people make a tiger. When one thousand, ten thousand, or even more readers believed what Yan Lixiang wrote, he could possess huge social public opinion power and the right to speak, and could even influence the decisions of certain unit departments.

In the past, Yan Lixiang criticizing certain things or which company was always successful. But encountering Dongling High-Tech, Yan Lixiang hadn't won a single time. Now even his authority in the media industry had been affected. Losing authority, his manuscript fee income, social influence, and influence in the media industry would all slide. Even his "friends" in Japan would be disappointed in him. How could he not hate Dongling High-Tech until his teeth itched.

But now, Yan Lixiang couldn't target Dongling High-Tech anymore, and even if he wanted to continue mixing in the media industry, he estimated he would have to change his name!

"Li Zong, news came from Toshiba Semiconductor claiming that they are willing to lower prices and continue to supply us with phone chips, and production capacity can also be supplied!"

At the Dongling High-Tech headquarters, in Li Dongling's office, Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian, Zhang Ao, and Gao Peng were all there. Everyone had smiles on their faces, clearly in a very good mood.

Hearing what Gao Peng said to Li Dongling, whether it was Ren Yuefeng or Hu Zixian and the others, they couldn't help but curse Toshiba, saying it was truly shameless.

After confirming that the Sirius chip had truly been successfully developed, Toshiba immediately notified Dongling High-Tech that it would no longer raise prices for phone chips, and could even lower prices. As long as Dongling High-Tech continued to purchase, that production line Toshiba had been building but hadn't finished could be put into production immediately, claiming that it would absolutely not affect Shenzhou Phone's production capacity.

"On behalf of Dongling High-Tech, thank President Kawanishi Tsuyoshi of Toshiba Semiconductor for his kindness. Tell Kawanishi that Dongling High-Tech and Dongxin Semiconductor will definitely have great thanks in the future!"

Li Dongling said to Gao Peng. On the side of Toshiba Semiconductor, relying on phone chips, it had slaughtered Shenzhou Phone with who knew how many knives. A phone chip Toshiba sold to Shenzhou had risen from the initial $11 to a hard $26.

This couldn't be called a price increase anymore; it was simply catching Dongling High-Tech and bleeding it. If it weren't for Dongxin Semiconductor developing Sirius, Toshiba's phone chip price would probably have risen to over $30, and Shenzhou Phone would have had to work for free for Toshiba.

It would have been fine if it was just a price increase, but Toshiba also occasionally played dirty tricks, cutting off chip supply to Shenzhou Phone, making Shenzhou Phone lose quite a lot of sales when it was selling the hottest.

"Wait until Toshiba Semiconductor produces the export version of the 'Sirius' chip, then sell it to manufacturers in the entire phone industry. Dongxin Semiconductor wants to drive Toshiba out of the entire phone chip industry in the future!"

"The enemy can go, and I can go too." Before, Toshiba Semiconductor was slaughtering fat sheep. Now, Li Dongling definitely had to let Dongling High-Tech pay it back.

Didn't Toshiba keep promoting that the production line wasn't enough and the phone chip production capacity wasn't enough? Then it didn't need to produce anymore. Dongxin Semiconductor would take the orders for it. In the future, Toshiba Semiconductor wouldn't need to mix in the landline phone chip industry anymore!

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