Chapter 227: Borrowing a Chicken to Lay Eggs

Hearing Yao Zhengru agree, Li Dongshan couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief. As long as Yao Zhengru agreed, the Pingyang city government would support this project.

Li Dongling glanced at Li Dongshan. The Oriental Times project didn't have much impact on the Li family and Dongling High-Tech, but for Li Dongshan, the significance was different.

This was the first project Li Dongshan operated. Li Dongling still hoped to get the Oriental Times project up and running, not letting this project become Li Dongshan's Waterloo and get him into trouble.

Yao Zhengru, on the other hand, was in "trouble" on the side, but this kind of trouble, how many cities in Hanxi and even the country would want to experience it but didn't have the chance.

Other cities were troubled by not having big projects, while for Yao Zhengru, it was that big projects were suddenly appearing densely in Pingyang.

Hanxi Torch Group was in the intense production stage, plus big projects like Pingyang Cargo Airport and Oriental Times. Next, the foreseeable changes in the entire Pingyang would be earth-shaking, but for Yao Zhengru and the Pingyang city government, it was also a huge test.

As long as these projects were completed smoothly, for the Pingyang city government, it was a great merit that could be obtained easily. But if it was played off, it would become a mess and an unfinished project, and they would all have to eat and walk around.

Over the next five years, Yao Zhengru would probably be in the busiest time, and he couldn't stop his steps. Of course, for someone like him who was in the officialdom, what Yao Zhengru had to experience was also what countless people in the officialdom dreamed of experiencing!

After talking with Li Dongling, Yao Zhengru saw Ren Yuefeng, Yang Bohua, Song Luancheng, Hou Weigui, and others waiting on the side. Knowing that they wanted to talk to Li Dongling about Little Smart and PHS business, he got up and went to the tennis court of the Yuhe Leisure Resort to exercise, leaving the place to Song Luancheng and others.

"It seems that Mr. Li and Mayor Yao have another big project!"

After Yao Zhengru left, Yang Bohua, Song Luancheng, Hou Weigui, and others all pulled chairs and sat down. Yang Bohua, who was in charge of Hanxi Posts and Telecommunications, said with a smile to Li Dongling. Although they didn't hear what Li Dongling and Yao Zhengru talked about just now, they knew that things that could make Yao Zhengru lose his composure would definitely not be simple.

Li Dongling just shook his head with a smile, but didn't deny it. Like big projects such as Pingyang Cargo Airport and Oriental Times, as long as they started, it was impossible to hide them completely. There would be rumors, and Yang Bohua, Song Luancheng, and the others would definitely hear the rumors sooner or later.

Li Dongling raised his head and looked at Yang Bohua, Song Luancheng, Hou Weigui, and others. Compared to when they went to see him, their expressions were quite good.

Little Smart, for Dongling High-Tech, was an extra money-making tool, making Dongling High-Tech's revenue soar.

But for Yang Bohua, Song Luancheng, Hou Weigui, and others, it was almost as if their official career and company future had been completely changed.

This time, overseas telecommunications teams came to the country to inspect the introduction of Little Smart business. Yang Bohua was also the most active. He was the first person in the posts and telecommunications system to advocate the promotion of PHS business. Now that PHS was in full swing, naturally, he had a share of the credit.

And if the localized PHS base stations could be sold overseas, then for Yang Bohua, it would definitely become a leader within the posts and telecommunications system.

Promoting the sale of domestic PHS base stations was almost equivalent to the posts and telecommunications department releasing a big satellite. In the past, the country introduced foreign telecommunications technology, and had to spend money to buy GSM and CDMA technology and base stations. Now, it could actually be exported. If this wasn't a great achievement, what was?!

Promoting PHS technology, regardless of whether this technology was advanced or backward, at least allowed the country to enter the 2G communication era.

If they could sell PHS base stations overseas, it could almost be said that it changed the status of domestic telecommunications in the global telecommunications industry. In the future, Yang Bohua would definitely rise steadily within the posts and telecommunications department, and there were even rumors that as long as this foreign trade order was completed, Yang Bohua might be directly transferred to Beijing Posts and Telecommunications!

For Yang Bohua, Little Smart and PHS base stations were related to his official career, and the same was true for Song Luancheng.

As the first person to eat crab in the telecommunications company, Song Luancheng's Hanxi Telecommunications Company, with the hot sales of Little Smart, could be considered to have shown off in the provincial telecommunications companies.

The money Little Smart earned for telecommunications wasn't the key. The most important thing was the rapidly increasing million-level mobile phone users. These were what telecommunications cared about most. As long as there were users, telecommunications had the confidence to earn revenue!

As for ZTE, how much money they earned from Little Smart, looking at the always calm Hou Weigui, who had been wearing a smile since arriving at the Yuhe Leisure Resort, one could understand that ZTE's domestic PHS base stations had almost received orders until their hands were soft.

"At the latest next week, the overseas telecommunications inspection delegation will arrive in Hanxi. Posts and telecommunications hope to take down the PHS orders in Malaysia and Siam and sell domestic PHS base stations and Little Smart mobile phones to overseas markets!"

Yang Bohua looked at Li Dongling with burning eyes. Clearly, before coming, he had already talked to the leaders of the posts and telecommunications system on the phone.

Song Luancheng drank tea. He had a good mindset. Now, telecommunications' main focus was still on opening PHS business in more cities in the country.

As for the telecommunications market, the instruction given to Song Luancheng by the telecommunications headquarters this time was to take a bite if there was an opportunity, and forget it if there wasn't. Expecting to be like those international telecommunications giants and acquire everywhere overseas was a bit difficult for telecommunications.

After all, now the companies in the domestic communication industry, whether it was telecommunications or China Unicom, who didn't have the ambition to become a communication hegemon, and didn't think about being able to be like overseas telecommunications giants and acquire telecommunications companies around the world!

In the previous life, after a few more years, domestic telecommunications operators were not only fighting fiercely in the country, but also trying to acquire overseas, and obtained partial equity of local telecommunications companies in Pakistan, Nigeria, Spain, Siam, Malaysia, etc.

But similarly, domestic telecommunications companies going overseas was already too late. The global telecommunications industry had already been eaten up by telecommunications giants in America and Europe. The remaining scraps were all hard bones that were not easy to chew.

But now, Li Dongling felt that taking the opportunity of PHS going overseas, maybe telecommunications and China Unicom would have a chance to plant a flag in the overseas telecommunications market. But, they also needed an opportunity.

Li Dongling listened to Yang Bohua's words and looked at Song Luancheng and Hou Weigui. They came here basically because each had their own needs and wanted to achieve their goals.

"According to the agreement reached between Dongling High-Tech and Japan Telephone and Telegraph, the PHS market in the mainland, including patents, technology, etc., belongs to Dongling High-Tech within ten years. This is also the reason why Japan Telephone and Telegraph cannot intervene in the domestic PHS market!"

"However, the PHS market outside the mainland and Japan is not exclusively owned by Dongling High-Tech. Although Dongling High-Tech has the right to license PHS technology to overseas telecommunications companies, the revenue obtained from PHS patents overseas must also be shared with Japan Telephone and Telegraph."

"Similarly, domestic PHS base stations are not more advanced than Japan Telephone and Telegraph in technology, and patents cannot completely bypass Japan Telephone and Telegraph!"

Li Dongling said in a deep voice. The PHS technology in the country completely belonged to Dongling High-Tech within ten years, so no matter how they wanted to play, as long as Dongling High-Tech didn't care, it would be fine.

But in the overseas market, it couldn't completely bypass Japan Telephone and Telegraph. Hearing this, Yang Bohua and Hou Weigui couldn't help but sink in their hearts.

Wanting to sell PHS base stations to the overseas market, obviously, they couldn't bypass Japan Telephone and Telegraph. But would that side watch the domestic communication and equipment companies earn the overseas PHS money and remain indifferent?!

"However, on the domestic side, facing Japan Telephone and Telegraph, it is not without advantages. ZTE's localized PHS base stations are less than three-fifths the price of Japan Telephone and Telegraph. This is the advantage of domestic PHS base stations!"

"In addition, the key patents for PHS mobile phones are in the hands of Little Smart. As long as Little Smart doesn't cooperate, Japan Telephone and Telegraph's base stations don't even think about being sold overseas!"

It still returned to that end point. Dongling High-Tech and Japan Telephone and Telegraph both had advantages, and neither could do anything to the other, at least for a short time.

Why did the telecommunications inspection delegation from Malaysia and Siam run to the country after running through Japan? It wasn't because they couldn't be sure. If they really accepted Japan Telephone and Telegraph's base stations, at that time, if Dongling High-Tech didn't sell Little Smart over, wouldn't they be busy in vain? They invested a lot of money, but couldn't support PHS mobile phones, so they wouldn't earn a penny!

Hearing that they had to pull skin with Japan Telephone and Telegraph, Yang Bohua stood up irritably and turned around a few times.

"That is to say, no matter how you say it, if domestic PHS technology and base stations want to go overseas, they must first fix Japan Telephone and Telegraph?!" Yang Bohua stopped and said to Li Dongling.

"Similarly, if Japan Telephone and Telegraph wants to get overseas orders, it must pass Dongling High-Tech's pass!" Li Dongling said lightly.

"However, I have always believed that crisis is also an opportunity!"

Seeing the gazes cast by Yang Bohua, Song Luancheng, and Hou Weigui, Li Dongling said, "Japan Telephone and Telegraph is stronger than domestic communication companies, regardless of technology or revenue."

"However, if it can be used as an introduction to PHS, and with the help of Japan Telephone and Telegraph, let domestic telecommunications and communication equipment companies complete their first overseas trip!"

"You mean, borrowing a chicken to lay eggs?" Yang Bohua sat down again. He understood the meaning in Li Dongling's words.

Japanese companies are now still in a strong period, and their experience in overseas exports and acquisitions is much richer than domestic ones. If they can borrow this chicken of Japan Telephone and Telegraph to let domestic telecommunications companies and communication equipment manufacturers complete their overseas trip, it is definitely beneficial.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 228 =====