Chapter 419: A Single Hair Pulls the Whole Body

There was still more than a month until the New Year. Not only the inland but the entire region influenced by Han culture was preparing for the New Year. This was also the time when the inland had the most purchasing power.

Not only were products related to New Year goods selling like crazy, but even various electronic appliances and home appliances were also seeing a surge in sales.

Countless families were busy for a whole year, just for this big year. They earned a year's salary, and it was only at this time that they were willing to take it out to set up New Year goods.

Now the New Year is still very lively, but after a few more years, there will be a scene of reversing the heaven and earth. The domestic New Year atmosphere will gradually fade, but in America, old Europe, the Middle East, and other places, all kinds of Spring Festival activities will be held like crazy, and even churches will start pasting couplets...

The Yuhe Leisure Resort is now basically in a state of being packed, especially after adding some simple go-karts, merry-go-rounds, trampolines, spiral slides, and other facilities. It is basically the level of a playground in a shopping mall in his past life, but it is still squeezed by the people who come. Li Dongling is probably not even having a place to stand if he goes now.

It is not just in Hanxi Province. Many people from surrounding provinces and cities near Hanxi have brought their whole families to join in the fun. This is actually because domestic entertainment facilities are still relatively scarce, but it also makes the Yuhe Leisure Resort in a state of being packed.

Dongling High-Tech is also busy now, constantly preparing goods for the Spring Festival. In fact, starting two months before the Spring Festival, the shipment volume of Little Smart mobile phones, which had entered a stable period, began to increase sharply again.

It is just like his past life, every Spring Festival, domestic real estate, automobiles, and other bulk commodities are seeing a surge in sales. A considerable part of them are bought by people returning home.

Countless people have been working hard as cattle and horses outside for a year. They can't return to their hometowns and still lose face in front of relatives and friends in their hometowns. They have to bring something back more or less...

And now, real estate and automobiles haven't risen, but it doesn't mean that this kind of purchasing power has disappeared, but has become mobile phones, computers, large color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, motorcycles, and other bulk commodities of this era. Sales have begun to surge!

Among them, Little Smart has become the representative of mobile phones. Sales in the country are soaring, forcing Dongling High-Tech's production department to continue to increase production capacity.

During the New Year this year, it is estimated that Dongling High-Tech's production department will have to work overtime to produce. Whether the staff of other companies have an attitude toward working overtime is hard to say, but the staff of Dongling High-Tech's production department are not resistant to working overtime, and even many staff members with tight family finances are looking forward to working overtime.

During the New Year, Dongling High-Tech staff who don't have a holiday get double wages for working, and there are various allowances, which is almost equivalent to 2.5 times the wages. There are also paid make-up holidays after the year. So, the list of people signing up for overtime this year was quickly completed in Dongling High-Tech's production department.

Li Dongling came to the technical department. The project teams of the technical department were all still busy. Because of Li Dongling's emphasis, the technical department became the most important department of Dongling High-Tech.

"Chairman Li!"

Seeing Li Dongling arrive, Chen Tao, Luo Zheng, and several other supervisors of Dongling High-Tech's Technical Department rushed over.

Li Dongling went around all the major project teams of Dongling High-Tech's Technical Department. Li Dongling came this time, besides checking the progress of the technical department's projects, also to express his emphasis on the technical department according to the convention.

Unlike other companies, Dongling High-Tech is a company dominated by engineers. In fact, the entire Dongling High-Tech revolves around the technical department, using technology to promote Dongling High-Tech's progress. This is the biggest difference between Dongling High-Tech and other companies.

Now Dongling High-Tech's technical department is mainly divided into the Digital Cordless Phone R&D Department, Computer Peripheral R&D Department, Communication Technology R&D Department, Mobile Phone R&D Department, and an Innovation R&D Department.

Digital cordless phone is Dongling High-Tech's most stable cash cow. The R&D department is constantly working on cordless phones.

The Computer Peripheral Department is researching mice, keyboards, headphones, data cables, routers, cameras, and other equipment related to computers. It has currently launched mice and keyboards with the Silver Sable brand, and the response is quite good.

The projects Li Dongling came to see today are mainly the remaining three R&D project teams: mobile phones, communication technology, and the innovation R&D department. Electronic dictionaries, repeaters, and new products of Dongling High-Tech in the future will all be operated and researched by the innovation R&D department.

"The technical department needs to recruit another batch of personnel. The technical department really doesn't have enough manpower!"

As soon as he entered the office, Chen Tao couldn't help but complain to Li Dongling. This was because Li Dongling only brought his assistant Su Chicheng today. If Hu Zixian, who was in charge of Dongling High-Tech's money bag, was present, Chen Tao probably wouldn't dare to ask for people so brightly.

Now the engineers in the technical department, whether junior, intermediate, or senior engineers, add up to more than 2,100 people. It is already the company with the largest R&D personnel scale in the domestic technology industry!

If the Hanxi Joint Laboratory is also counted as external personnel of Dongling High-Tech's technical department, then the personnel scale of the technical department will have to expand by a large margin.

And junior engineer is the position when just entering the technical department, with a salary starting at 1,500 yuan. After passing the audit and officially joining the job, they become intermediate engineers, with a salary starting at 4,000 yuan. This is also the main R&D personnel of Dongling High-Tech's technical department at present.

The number of senior engineers is much smaller, with a salary of over 10,000 yuan. They are mainly responsible for helping the technical department overcome difficulties. At critical moments, they have to rely on them to solve troubles.

Going up further, there are some technical big shots, mainly academicians recruited by Dongling High-Tech. Some of these people are invited by Dongling High-Tech itself, while others are introduced by Ni Guangnan, Huang Lingyi, and Founder Wang Academician.

Some of these academicians only hang a false name, while some have truly joined Dongling High-Tech. They have the right to establish their own R&D teams and can use the resources and funds of Dongling High-Tech's technical department for R&D.

When some projects of Dongling High-Tech encounter difficulties, they all rely on these academicians to pull over research institutes to help, as well as industry technical big shots, etc. This is not something that can be measured by technology alone. Sometimes they can even influence the policy formulation of certain industries. For Dongling High-Tech, these academicians are naturally the more the better.

If you have to make an analogy, it is equivalent to, if you are unlucky enough to buy an unfinished building, and among them, if there is a suite that belongs to an academician, then don't worry, this building will definitely be able to resume construction and be rebuilt. Even the local municipal government or even the provincial government will have people come over to express condolences...

Now the technical department is Dongling High-Tech's money-swallowing beast. Excluding bonuses, allowances, etc., the monthly salary paid to technical personnel alone is much more than the revenue of some small companies for several years.

"Now several major R&D project teams have very heavy tasks. The communication technology department is researching basebands, 2G, 3G technology, the mobile phone department's tasks are even heavier, needing to research second-generation Little Smart mobile phones, and also needing to research 2G mobile phone projects, plus the electronic dictionary and repeater projects of the innovation R&D department, the manpower is really not enough!"

Chen Tao complained bitterly. It seems that there are quite a few personnel in the technical department, but in fact, distributed to various project teams, the personnel are really not many.

Not to mention, Dongling High-Tech's technical department also needs to regularly send a portion of technical personnel to Dongling High-Tech's production department to upgrade production lines.

They also need to send technical personnel to be stationed in various supplier companies of Dongling High-Tech's industrial chain to provide technical guidance and supervise work to ensure product quality.

In fact, big factories like Nokia, Apple, Chrysanthemum Factory, etc., in his past life were also famous for their strict quality control, and they often sent engineers to be stationed in various parts supplier companies, on the one hand to provide technical guidance and let suppliers carry out technical guidance and upgrades, and on the other hand, to supervise.

Like the car manufacturers that the Chrysanthemum Factory cooperates with, when testing products at parts supplier companies, they are busy until three o'clock in the morning, and continue testing at the scene at eight o'clock the next day. The plan is modified in twenty-four hours, and they continue to test, repeating the cycle until the plan passes and the test is qualified before it can end.

Apple during the Jobs era was also very strict about the quality control of the supply chain, and even being able to become a fruit chain supplier became a selling point for those companies to promote to the outside world. Becoming an Apple supplier made it much easier to go public. Every time Apple launched a new product, the stock prices of a group of suppliers soared.

But when Apple began to use India's supply chain, things began to become unpredictable. The machine could even measure E. coli exceeding the standard by ten times. Compared with this, the rest like dust on the lens, screen burning, etc., couldn't be considered anything.

But for India, this thing really doesn't count as anything. After all, the eye drops processed for America could also appear with Pseudomonas aeruginosa...

Major parts suppliers are both excited and worried about orders from Apple and the Chrysanthemum Factory. What they are excited about is that as long as these orders are done, they won't lack orders in the future. But what they are worried about is whether this order can be completed.

Dongling High-Tech's product quality control, not to mention that it can immediately reach the level of Nokia mobile phones blocking bullets in his past life, but it can't be said that it is too lagging behind.

Dongling High-Tech's technical personnel scale, it seems that there are quite a few, but compared to the R&D personnel scale of overseas giants like Toshiba, IBM, etc., Dongling High-Tech's technical department scale is a bit "shabby."

Like IBM, which is cooperating with Shenzhou U-disk, excluding IBM computers, semiconductors, software, and other R&D departments, just one IBM hard drive department has more than 18,000 personnel globally. How large the R&D scale of those overseas technology giants is can be imagined.

R&D is really burned out by money, without exception. When you can't burn money, it is when technology is surpassed by other companies!

Li Dongling listened to Chen Tao's bitter complaint and didn't hesitate too much, saying directly, "Next year's spring recruitment, the technical department can recruit another batch of engineers. Not only domestically, but overseas can also be recruited.