Chapter 1056 Start early and take the lead
In the living room of Qingniao Technology No. 1, Liu Qingshan was listening to a report from the management team led by He Wanqing.
Bluebird Technology's current main business is Bluebird mobile phones. Since the advent of Bluebird's second-generation clamshell phone, global sales have exceeded 3 million units.
This undoubtedly brought huge profits to the company, with billions of gross profits, making Bluebird Mobile a gold-snatching beast.
The dozens of upstream and downstream factories and tens of thousands of employees have been driven, and a huge group has been formed.
Many young people have taken up leadership positions in the company or become technical backbone, which is definitely the youngest and most energetic team.
Some of these people are returning students, and some are domestic university graduates. They all devote themselves to the Blue Bird without hesitation.
In this era, it really takes courage to give up the iron job.
The Blue Bird did not disappoint them, both in terms of salary and benefits, and in various benefits, they are at the top level in China.
In these aspects, Liu Qingshan is never stingy.
"Qingshan, the company has started to make profits. As of the second quarter of this year, the profit amount has exceeded one billion, and this year's net profit has reached 3 billion." He Wanqing said excitedly.
There was too much investment in the early stage, mainly those supporting factories, which invested a lot of money.
Now it has stabilized and entered a period of rapid growth in efficiency.
"Sister, how do you plan to use so much money?" Liu Qingshan asked happily, and he also had the intention to consider He Wanqing.
He Wanqing had a confident smile on her face: "According to the company's plan, about 15% will be used for research and development."
Liu Qingshan nodded with a smile. Of course, high-tech companies should be willing to invest in R&D, so that they can continue to innovate and always maintain their leading position.
Just like some foreign high-tech companies, the R&D costs are even more than 20%.
He Wanqing continued: "Because the Bluebird computer project is launched, the research and development needs to be strengthened. This year, the funding in this area may reach 20%.
Even so, the profits are still considerable. He Wanqing proposed some reward measures for employees, but it didn't cost much.
"Qingshan, I really can't think of how to use the remaining money. I have such a large investment in the early stage. I suggest that I still pay dividends to shareholders, right?"
He Wanqing knew that it was time for Liu Qingshan to repay the money he invested in this company.
In addition to Liu Qingshan, the largest shareholder, Qingniao Company also has some shares in the Beijing University of Technology, including some of the main creative staff, such as Hu Wanqing and Lu Zhi.
Although they don’t hold much shares, they can’t stand the base, and each person can still achieve it by sharing hundreds of thousands.
"Don't rush to pay dividends." Liu Qingshan smiled and waved his hand, "From the economic perspective, only by investing in reproduction can we maximize benefits."
He Wanqing blinked: "But, the projects we should invest in now are basically ready. If we expand blindly, we are afraid that we will..."
Liu Qingshan waved his hand: "It is not to expand production, but to invest in the upstream raw material industry."
"Are you talking about lithium ore?" He Wanqing was inspired and thought of this first.
Liu Qingshan nodded: "That's right, now we are producing lithium mobile phone batteries, and we don't need much raw materials."
"But we will develop more power lithium batteries in the future and apply them to electric vehicles and even automobiles. By that time, the raw materials needed will increase by thousands of times."
Can cars also use batteries, aren’t they all drink oil?
Others were a little unable to keep up with Liu Qingshan's ideas, but they were still excited enough to think about it because Liu Qingshan opened up the future direction for them.
Facts have proved that Mr. Liu's vision has never disappointed them.
He Wanqing thought for a while: "Qingshan, the company's board of directors will definitely give priority to your proposal, but for minerals, is it now allowed to private mining?"
"The matter is done by man." Liu Qingshan knew that at this stage, the management of minerals is still relatively chaotic. As long as you have the ability to apply for a mining certificate, there is no problem.
However, they can only have the right to mine minerals, and the ownership is still state-owned.
Therefore, this matter must have a state-owned background and cooperate with both parties in order to be long-term.
There is no hurry to do this. Liu Qingshan first asked Ma Laosan and the others to contact him. After he had a good look, he asked He Wanqing to come forward for specific negotiations.
The lithium mines in China are mainly in Sichuan Province and further west, especially in the salt lakes, which are very rich in lithium extraction resources.
In this period, lithium mineral resources have not been valued at all and are not worth much, and no one regards this as a good thing.
Just take advantage of the cheap price and buy it early to take advantage of the opportunity.
Since it was Liu Qingshan's proposal, this matter will of course be included in the company's development plan.
Everyone is not only impressed by Liu Qingshan’s strategic vision.
I thought it would be over here, but Liu Qingshan didn't expect it to be over, so he continued:
"Lithium mines will definitely be strategic resources in the future, so we will not only acquire related minerals in China, but also abroad."
Everyone looked at each other and felt the gap: when their eyes were still gathering in China, Mr. Liu had already begun to look at the world.
"In addition to our country, the lithium mineral resources are also rich in South America, and there is another region, that is Australia."
Liu Qingshan drew a big circle on the map, which was exactly where Australia is located.
Foreign mineral resources are different from those in China. After private purchase, they really belong to individuals.
Decades later, Australia's lithium carbonate exports have always been the first.
This is a big piece of fat meat, no one has paid attention to it yet, and it is a bargain price.
If you can buy it, even if you don’t mine it yourself and put it in for twenty or thirty years, the value will be hundreds of times higher.
Even Liu Qingshan was jealous of this kind of temptation.
He Wanqing understood and said with a smile: "Qingshan, you are planning to spend the money in the company in a way."
Everyone couldn't help laughing, and Liu Qingshan also said with a smile: "Saving money is the most unprofitable. Money will continue to depreciate. If you have a mine at home, that is the real wealth."
After saying that, he looked at everyone: "This is also my personal investment advice for you. Everyone has money, don't deposit it in the bank. That's just a string of numbers, it's meaningless."
"Okay, I'll listen to you. We can invest in real estate." Xiao Wu and others said angrily.
In the past two years, under the influence of Liu Qingshan, they have really invested in a lot of real estate, at least each person has at least two courtyard houses.
The housing prices are cheap at this time, and you can buy a small courtyard house for tens of thousands of yuan.
Everyone joked for a while and then got back to the point, mainly discussing the matter of buying a mine in Australia.
Liu Qingshan thinks that it is better to operate this matter through the company in Lilan.
A big tree attracts wind. Facts have proved that Liu Qingshan’s investment vision has always been very accurate.
If he or his subordinate company makes a comeback, it will definitely arouse the other party's alertness, and maybe he will even make a price.
Anyway, most of the funds for Bluebird mobile phone sales are US dollars, which is convenient to use.
In Australia, most mining tycoons around the world gather in the country that claims to be sitting on the mine cart.
However, no one pays attention to lithium mines now, so Liu Qingshan still has the opportunity to buy them.
Now investing hundreds of millions of dollars, in the future, will be a return of tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars. Liu Qingshan was a little excited when he thought about it.
As for the lithium mines in South America, the distance is really far, and there is a bit messy there, so it is easier in Australia.
The most important thing is that in the next few decades, Australia, as the younger brother of the United States, has done a lot of bullshit things.
Liu Qingshan cut his losses from this country without any psychological pressure.
After deploying the company's development strategy, He Wanqing invited Liu Qingshan and his group to the laboratory to observe the assembly of the first Blue Bird computer.
In the laboratory, dozens of backbone of the Blue Bird computer project are undergoing final testing and debugging.
There are Lavaz, who is in charge of software and the heads of various project teams. They all look solemn, waiting for the arrival of this solemn moment.
Liu Qingshan and the others changed their work clothes and entered the laboratory. They saw a few boxes and various spare parts placed on the test bench.
Liu Qingshan did not politely with everyone, but waved his hand straightforwardly: "You can start."
The technicians immediately surrounded the chassis and became busy. Other preparations had been completed long ago, and now there is only assembly left.
Liu Qingshan also looked at the blue-black chassis and felt that the appearance was well designed, with the blue bird's trademark printed in the middle: the three-legged blue bird with spreading its wings and flying.
The project general manager is Yu Hai, a computer genius, who is the best among the students returning to China this time. He has five years of experience in WANG Computer Company.
Yu Hai introduced to Liu Qingshan: "Mr. Liu, in terms of hardware, our Bluebird computers, in addition to the operators and memory, uses the CPU and hard disk provided by WANG Computer Company."
"The rest of the parts, including motherboards, input devices and output devices, are independently developed and produced by us."
Liu Qingshan also smiled and nodded: It is already quite good to be able to reach this level from the beginning.
It's better than just assembling a computer with all imported parts.
Such a company is actually a computer assembly company with no technological content.
Liu Qingshan’s plan is to make all domestic products within three years, including the two most important components: CPU and hard disk.
Without WANG computers providing continuous technical support, Liu Qingshan would never dare to think about it.
This is also the main reason why he valued WANG Computer Company at the beginning, which is equivalent to having a higher platform.
After the technicians skillfully installed the parts on the motherboard and connected this wire group, Yu Hai sent an invitation to Liu Qingshan: "Mr. Liu, are you here to complete the first startup of our Qingniao computer?"
Liu Qingshan smiled and waved his hand to give in modesty: "This computer is the crystallization of your hard work. Everyone here is more qualified than me."
"No, without the efforts and support made by Mr. Liu behind the scenes, there would be no Bluebird Computer." Yu Hai's words represented the voice of everyone present.
"Okay, then let's witness this moment together."
Liu Qingshan stopped refusing and reached out and gently pressed the power switch.
Buzz, the machine is running and buzzing, which is the most beautiful piece of music to everyone.
Chapter completed!