Chapter 37 Portable Radio

This society is indeed realistic. In the eyes of some big bosses, if a technical person like Chen Can is of little use to him, the distance between the two will widen in an instant.

After the meal, Vice Mayor Chen's figure completely disappeared from Chen Can's sight.

Even Huang Jiang never mentioned that person again in front of him.

Although Huang Jiang's attitude towards Chen Can seems to have not changed, he still delegates full power.

But Chen Can always feels that the other party no longer trusts him as much as before.

For example, in the two project teams run by Chen Can, Huang Jiang personally appointed two deputy team leaders.

Huang Jiangdao explained very politely that Chen Can was usually too busy on his own and these two were here to assist him. Chen Can still made the other major decisions.

Chen Can didn't say anything, but he always felt a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, at this time, Wireless Factory No. 2 was thriving, all the workers were positive, and there was no turmoil in the factory fighting for power and profit.

At least Chen Can hasn't noticed it yet.

Of course, even if that day comes, he doesn't have to worry.

With the help of the two deputy team leaders, he felt a lot less worried. Basically, all the project team matters were left to those two.

Chen Can only needs to check on the progress of the portable radio project every two or three days. During the rest of the time, he lives a leisurely life as a newlywed, so happy!

Indeed, this kind of day is quite good.

At this time, some places in the south were already restless, and the buds of reform and opening up were reviving.

But in the Northeast, it has been the same for ten years. Everyone goes to work, gets off work, drinks and kicks, but nothing has changed.

The only thing that has changed is that the performance of many factories has begun to deteriorate this year, and there are more people walking around on the streets.

But these have nothing to do with Chen Can. His little life was beautiful.

Zheng Juan's belly is also growing day by day. He works in the wireless factory in the morning and walks home in the afternoon to do some side work. His life is ordinary and warm.

Several children in the family are also obedient, especially Guangming. Although this little guy is a bit older, he has been studying since the first grade.

But his understanding is very high, and he has already reviewed the knowledge to the fourth grade of elementary school.

Last semester, he was firmly ranked first in age. Chen Can has already made plans to go to school next year and tell the principal that Guangming will skip a grade and go to school with his peers.

As for his side business of electrical appliance repair, his reputation has already been established, and he doesn't have to worry about business at all.

In the past, Xiao Guoqing was running the business and was busy every day. Now Cao Debao and Sun Qianchao have joined in. This small group has basically taken shape now.

Chen Can also had some surprise training with a few people. In fact, the three of them are not very old. They are twenty-four or five years old. It is not difficult to learn things at this age.

But some people are born to do hard work, such as Xiao Guoqing and Sun Qunchao.

These two people were simple-minded and just had a simple radio. Chen Can taught them for half a month, but they just couldn't understand the operating principle.

Fortunately, Cao Debao, although only a little smart, is indeed much more talented than the two of them.

Cao Debao has learned well. After half a month of surprise training, he is now very good at repairing some simple radios.

Therefore, Chen Can handed over some simple maintenance work to Cao Debao, and if it was a little difficult, he would do it himself.

As for Xiao Guoqing and Sun Qian, they can only do odd jobs and run errands.

Chen Can gave each of the three of them a guaranteed salary of fifty fifty per month. As for other food and drinks, Chen Can didn't make any detailed calculations.

This salary is definitely much higher than their salary in the soy sauce factory, not to mention this is just a side job, so they are naturally satisfied with their current income.

The soy sauce factory is now worse than the previous month. The soy sauce is piled up like a mountain in the warehouse, and the efficiency is not as good as the previous month. Cao Debao and the others go to work every day just to make soy sauce.

But it is impossible for them to give up their identity as workers in state-owned factories. The identity of workers in this era still retains the last bit of aura, but if they are asked to jump out of that circle, few people have the courage.

Even Chen Can at this time didn't have the courage to break out of that circle and go it alone.

Chen Can didn't bother to take care of it. Factories like the soy sauce factory, which were getting worse and worse, had only eight hundred in Jichun City if they didn't have one thousand.

Chen Can originally planned to set up an electrical maintenance training class. Recently, many people, including relatives and friends who he knew before, came to Chen Can's home because of the poor performance of the factory.

Their purpose is very simple, just let Chen Can lead them.

But after Chen Can thought deeply, he finally chose to continue, and the electrical repair business maintained its status quo.

The wireless factory's business is now booming, and the twenty-six salespeople Chen Can has spread the word have begun to give feedback one after another.

All kinds of telegrams and phone calls were collected at Infinity Factory No. 2. In just one month, more than 2,000 super antennas were sent to other places.

Although this sales volume is just drizzle in Chen Can's opinion, it can be said to be a great boost to the morale of the entire second wireless factory.

The portable radio project, after nearly a month of design and debugging, the first finished product was finally released.

This portable radio is compact in appearance, with a body size of approximately 26*13*5 cm and a weight of approximately 1.2KG.

The overall shell of the fuselage, only the front is made of aluminum, and the other shells are all made of cheap hard plastic shells.

This radio, in your hand, looks like a square brick. Overall, it looks cheap.

There was no other way. In order to control costs, Chen Can saved all parts of the province.

Don’t worry about cheapness, as long as the price is cheap, people will buy it.

The material cost of this radio is already the lowest cost price that the second wireless factory can control.

Including labor and a series of costs, Chen Can set the ex-factory price of this radio at 21 yuan.

The market retail price is 26 yuan. The ex-factory price certainly does not represent the cost. The cost of this radio is 11 yuan. The profit of the second wireless factory can ensure that one radio is controlled at around 10 yuan.

Compared with radios of this era, this price is very competitive!

Most radios on the market currently cost over fifty yuan.

Of course, the material of their casing is all aluminum, and the wiring is all copper. Their electronic components are full of quality, and even the solder joints are densely packed.

In order to save costs, Chen Can can be said to have saved everything he could.

He redesigned the layout of the electronic components on the circuit board. This radio has more than one-third fewer electronic components than radio components on the market.

Even with such savings, Chen Can is still very dissatisfied with this first-generation product.

The appearance is ugly and ugly, and it feels full of plastic. When you hold it in your hand, it feels cheap.

But its advantages are also obvious!

Cheap!

Yes, it is cheap. Chen Can believes that no domestic manufacturer can produce a radio with a cost price of only ten yuan.

Of course, in two years' time, with the reform and opening up and the impact of many foreign electrical appliances, the prices of many domestic old-fashioned electronic and electrical products will plummet. By then, radios worth twenty yuan will also appear on the market.

However, by that time, the second wireless factory had already harvested several waves, so there was no need to worry at all.

Portable radios, in Chen Can's positioning, are a transitional product.

Relying on this wave of harvest, the assets of Wireless Factory No. 2 can be increased at least ten times.

Although Chen Can didn't like this radio, he was still confident in it and even asked the factory to increase its efforts and start working overtime for production.

Everything is ready, the portable radio is on sale.

The first place for sales must be Jichun City.

Because of the good relationship with Super Antenna before, the products of Wireless Factory No. 2 are now successfully sold in major shopping malls, supply and marketing cooperatives and other places.

This day happens to be October 1st, and everyone is celebrating. The day was chosen very well!

There were very few holidays in this era, not even the Spring Festival, and only one day off during the National Day.

In order to make this radio an instant hit, Chen Can printed dozens of small posters at one time.

Chen Can asked Huang Jiang to send people to go to the electrical appliance counters in every shopping mall and put up a poster like this.

The poster is very simple, still black and white, with pictures of a few radios on the top, and the words portable radio with a retail price of 26 yuan below.

On this day, major shopping malls were crowded with people, and the electronic counters were even more crowded.

In fact, this kind of traffic does not require any promotion at all, but with this poster, it can be said to really add fuel to the fire.

This price is enough to make all young people excited.

If time hadn't allowed it, Chen Can would have even wanted to write such a slogan on the poster.

"The king of cost-effectiveness, we only make the first radio for young people!"

This morning, Xu Zhijun, who was dressed up carefully, took his sister, who had just entered junior high school, to a department store in Jichun City.

Xu Zhijun is from a rural area. Last year, he used his uncle's relationship to find a temporary job in a machinery factory. His current salary is 20 yuan per month.

Of these twenty yuan, he sends fifteen yuan back to his hometown every month, and the remaining five yuan is for pocket money. Because he usually spends all his food, clothing, housing and transportation in the factory, even if he only has five yuan a month, he can save a lot.

He also has a younger sister who just entered the third grade of junior high school this year. During the National Day, the school organized a parade and it was a rare trip to the city.

As soon as the school activities were over, he took his sister to the department store during the lunch break to buy her a pair of shoes.

Over the past year, even if he only had five yuan as pocket money every month, he had saved forty-three yuan.

In fact, Xu Zhijun has been working in Jichun for a year and a half and has only been to the department store twice.
To be continued...