Chapter 4100: Filming a TV Series

Over the years, Hanhai Technology had done a lot of work and made great contributions in attracting Chinese scientists to return. Now, at least half of the thousands of scientists and research personnel at the Hanhai Technology Research Institute were Chinese attracted back by Hanhai Technology from abroad.

Although these foreign Chinese still held foreign citizenship, they were now working for the Hanhai Research Institute, and the scientific research achievements they made here naturally belonged to China, which was equivalent to strengthening China's scientific and technical strength.

In addition, the Hanhai Research Institute had also introduced many foreign experts who settled in China and worked for Hanhai Technology. Although they had not acquired Chinese citizenship, in reality, the scientific research achievements they made also belonged to China.

These Chinese scientists and foreign experts were willing to come to Hanhai Technology to work, of course, because Hanhai Technology's research environment was quite good. Hanhai Technology was willing to invest, and they had the best experimental equipment in China, and the funding was sufficient.

In scientific research work, funding investment was very important. For example, a most basic material technology was quite money-burning. Sometimes, to develop a special material, it might require tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of experiments, and these materials were of great value. How much funding would these tens of thousands of experiments require?

Therefore, funding investment was important, and one had to be willing to invest. Hou Wenchang was willing to invest; he seemed to have a spirit of not treating money as money. As long as it was for a scientific research achievement, no matter how much was invested, he would not hesitate.

However, Hou Wenchang also had such capital. His Hanhai Technology's revenue in the past few years had never fallen out of the top three among technology companies in the world, and their profit margin was also extremely high, especially for digital products like Hanhai mobile phones, where the profit margin was shockingly high. Therefore, Hanhai Technology had sufficient capital to invest in scientific research work.

Precisely because of this, Hanhai Technology could attract numerous Chinese scientists and foreign experts to work at their research institute and had created many scientific research achievements here.

This Hanhai Technology Award had an obvious attraction to Chinese scientists worldwide. It could be foreseen that in the next few years, those Chinese scientists would continue to return to the country and make contributions to China's rise.

Therefore, upon hearing this news, Su Xinghui called Hou Wenchang. He said to Hou Wenchang, "Wenchang, this is truly a grand gesture of yours!"

Hou Wenchang's gesture was indeed grand. There were six Hanhai Technology Awards, each with a prize of 10 million per year. This meant that Hanhai Technology had to spend at least 60 million per year for this, and if there were tied winners, the prize money would be even more, perhaps reaching over 100 million.

Although Hanhai Technology had money, there were many wealthy enterprises, but they had never been seen taking out so much money to set up awards to encourage scientific research. The Hanhai Technology Award was one of the science awards with the highest prize money for a single category in the world at present, so Hou Wenchang's move could completely be called a grand gesture.

Hou Wenchang laughed and said, "Xinghui, this is nothing. At most, it's a little over 100 million a year. Selling a few tens of thousands of Hanhai mobile phones would earn it back. But if it could attract a few more Chinese scientists back, then it would be worth it."

Su Xinghui sighed and said, "Yes, if this goal could be achieved, then it would truly be worth it. How I wish to see outstanding Chinese people from all over the world return to the motherland to participate in the motherland's construction, just like your Hou family."

Speaking of the Hou family, Hou Guangbi's branch had lived overseas for so many years, yet they had never acquired French citizenship. They still retained Chinese citizenship and were considered overseas Chinese. Of course, there were people in the Hou family who had acquired French citizenship, but Hou Guangbi never allowed his direct descendants to acquire French citizenship. Even if it was inconvenient in many aspects, he would not hesitate.

This kind of patriotic heart also made Su Xinghui admire him, and Hou Guangbi's decades of persistence finally led their branch back to China, becoming upright Chinese people.

After the Hou Group returned to China, it also took advantage of the spring breeze of China's reform and opening up and had made significant development. Over the past ten years or so, the Hou family's industries, including Ernest Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and Hanhai Technology, had reached an astronomical figure, almost qualifying as China's largest private enterprise, and they had also made huge contributions to China's economic development.

How Su Xinghui hoped that overseas children like the Hou family could all return to the motherland to participate in the motherland's construction. Unfortunately, there were still many people who could not return to the motherland for one reason or another.

Now, Hou Wenchang could be considered to have paved a way for overseas Chinese scientists to return to the motherland. This was a good start, and Su Xinghui also hoped for a good result.

Hou Wenchang said, "I believe it will definitely happen. As far as I know, many overseas Chinese still harbor a heart to serve the country. Unfortunately, they don't know enough about China, or for one reason or another, they cannot return to the motherland. But as time passes, conditions will become more and more mature, and they will definitely return to serve the motherland."

Su Xinghui said, "Wenchang, you have done too many things. I have to thank you!"

Hou Wenchang said, "What are you thanking me for? Speaking of which, our Hou family should thank you. If it weren't for you, how could the Hou family be where it is today? Take Hanhai Technology, for example; if it weren't for you, it would be impossible for it to exist now. At the beginning, Hanhai Technology was just a small company with a registered capital of only 1 million. Who could have imagined that in just over ten years, it would have reached its current scale?"

Speaking of this, Su Xinghui was filled with emotion. Yes, more than ten years ago, when Hou Wenchang registered Hanhai Technology Co., Ltd., the registered capital was only 1 million RMB, and this 1 million RMB was borrowed from Hou Guangbi. Even back then, this registered capital was not considered much.

But who could have imagined that more than ten years later, Hanhai Technology had developed into such a behemoth today? Today, Hanhai Technology's assets were I don't know how many times the 1 million RMB capital of that year. Now, Hanhai Technology's revenue in one minute might be more than 1 million RMB. ===== CHAPTER 4102 =====