Chapter 148 Collaborative Research and Development
But now it has deviated from the original history. Originally, HSBC wanted to use Chinese capital to deal with Jardine Matheson which was challenging them.

Now Chinese capital has launched multiple takeovers of British financial groups. Not only HSBC but even the Hong Kong government is not happy to see this situation.

"Mr. Bao, if you want to acquire a British company in the future, try to find an American institution to do it, so as to ensure success." Liu Zhicheng said slowly.

The charter king looked at Liu Zhicheng, thought for a moment, nodded, and said, "Okay, thank you Mr. Liu for your advice."

"Actually, I have another idea. If Bao Sheng wants to get a stable income after landing in Hong Kong, I think Hong Kong Electric is a good choice." Liu Zhicheng paused and said, "It's a pity that I am not interested in this."

In fact, the intention is not here, but the law in Hong Kong does not allow holding controlling stakes in two power companies at the same time.

Because Liu Zhicheng was determined to take control of China Power and to avenge the previous attack.

After listening to this, the charter boat king was somewhat moved, but he did not show it on his face and his expression was very calm. However, the calmer he was, the more moved he was.

After Liu Zhicheng finished speaking, he drank his tea calmly. However, Yang Minli, who had been silent, was startled.

But in the current situation, she didn't want to interrupt and just poured tea for them silently.

"Hahaha," after a moment, the charter boat king smiled and said, "Come, Mr. Liu, have some tea."

As to whether it was an acquisition or not, the charter king did not make any further statement, and Liu Zhicheng did not ask any further questions. Since everyone knew the truth, there was no need to dig deeper.

.........

The next day, Director Chen came to visit again, this time with two guests.

"Mr. Liu, this is Academician Wu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who is in charge of electronic technology, and this is Academician Wu. Academician Wu, Academician Wu, and this is Mr. Liu Zhicheng, a Hong Kong businessman." Director Chen introduced enthusiastically.

"Hello, Mr. Liu." Academicians Wu and Academician Wu greeted him first.

"Academician Wu, Academician Wu, hello! Please take a seat." Liu Zhicheng said and asked the three of them to take a seat.

Director Chen, who acted as the middleman, smiled and said, "Academicians Wu and Wu came here today. Do you want to hear about the R&D cooperation issue that Mr. Liu talked about last time?"

After listening to this, Liu Zhicheng nodded, smiled and said, "I wonder what the two academicians think of my proposal for cooperation in researching new technologies?"

It was obvious that Academician Wu was the leader of this research. He asked, "What does Mr. Liu want to study?"

"Academician Wu, I won't hide anything. I would like to entrust you to research programmable telephone switches and pagers." Liu Zhicheng said directly.

Academician Wu nodded and said, "As long as the R&D equipment is in place, there will be no problem in researching this kind of civilian equipment. It's just that Mr. Liu mentioned earlier that he wanted to set up a R&D center, so it's difficult for us to send people."

"Yeah, I understand too." Liu Zhicheng nodded without thinking.

At that time, electronic technology talents all had stable jobs, and they were all owned by G company, so it was indeed difficult to send people.

"Since it is difficult, why don't we try another method?" Liu Zhicheng continued after a moment.

"Mr. Liu, please speak."

"What I mean is that I will provide the research funds, and it can be paid in US dollars. In addition, I can also invite some experts in related fields from abroad to provide guidance." Liu Zhicheng said slowly.

"Mr. Liu provides funds? How do we cooperate?" Academician Wu asked with great interest. As long as we can earn foreign exchange, it's a good thing.

"Director Chen should know about the "three-in-one" cooperation program proposed by Pengcheng for Hong Kong-funded factories. I wonder if the two academicians have heard about it?" Liu Zhicheng asked.

"I've heard of it." Director Chen nodded and said, "Some of Pengcheng's ideas are very groundbreaking. All investments are made by Hong Kong capital, and they are only responsible for processing. This does save a lot of controversial troubles."

"My suggestion is the same. I will provide funds, test equipment, site investment or other necessary things, and then the mainland will send people, such as some university professors and the like, to work together to overcome the relevant technologies. After the research and development results are achieved, all the patents will belong to me." Liu Zhicheng finished his thoughts in one breath.

Although many scientific research talents in the mainland are limited by their vision and knowledge, due to the large base of talents, outstanding talents emerge in an endless stream.

With the support of R&D funds, the introduction of cutting-edge equipment, and a little bit of improvement, unexpected chemical reactions will definitely occur.

These people are all national treasures. At the moment, I certainly can't dig them up openly tomorrow, which will definitely cause bad effects.

Therefore, it would be better to simply establish a first-class R&D center in China and carry out R&D outsourcing in a similar way to the "three-in-one" model of Pengcheng's manufacturing industry.

They get foreign exchange and patent technology. However, the patent law in the mainland has not been perfected yet, so the cooperation agreement needs to be signed separately. "If the patent belongs to Mr. Liu, then domestic production also needs a joint venture?" Director Chen asked. He is in charge of economics and thinks about problems from a different perspective.

"Yes, but these are two different things. We must have research results first, then we can have a joint venture to build a factory."

"However, since I invested in the research in advance, once there are research results and the products produced after the joint venture factory is established, the mainland telecommunications department should give priority to purchasing our products."

"At the same time, in order to protect my interests, I will not allow other overseas brands to come in and jointly build factories to produce related equipment before my investment costs are recovered," said Liu Zhicheng.

Although we are now ten years ahead of Huawei in the past, there is no reason why we cannot figure it out with the support of our own funds.

It’s just that one of the tricks that Western technology companies like to play the most is to sell a product at a high price when you don’t have the technology to produce it.

And once you have mastered the technology, you immediately slash the price in an attempt to destroy your competitor.

If it doesn't work, they will try to "isolate" you and let them monopolize the market.

In the 80s and 90s, many mainland manufacturers were killed in this way, and the daily chemical products left the deepest impression.

Therefore, Liu Zhicheng's request to recover costs is very fair. As for the future, multiple parties can only compete together to see who has stronger capabilities.

"This kind of cooperation in entrusted scientific and technological research and development has not yet appeared in China. We need to discuss it with other departments. We are here today to listen to Mr. Liu's opinions."

Academician Wu thought for a while and continued, "How about this, Mr. Liu, I will immediately invite all departments to discuss the matter in the next few days. If there is any result, I will inform you immediately."

"Okay, then I'll wait for good news from you." Liu Zhicheng nodded and said.

What Liu Zhicheng did not expect was that the cooperation plan he proposed this time would cause a major collision in the scientific community.

Liu Zhicheng is preparing to develop CDA software and enter the chip development industry later.

First, through cooperation, we can handle the relationship well, and then develop the 'Sunday Engineer'.

They are scientific research engineers who use their spare time to provide services to other units, especially to some township enterprises and individual enterprises.

In the 80s, there were quite a few such engineers, and they were called "Sunday Engineers".

Similarly, through commissioned research and development of these two technologies, you can get to know many engineers and develop them into 'Sunday Engineers' to conduct research and development for your new projects.

In this era, talented people with some technical skills in the mainland are concentrated in state-owned research institutes and industrial and mining enterprises. It is impossible for township enterprises and private enterprises to have such talents.

Township and village enterprises and private enterprises need technology and can offer considerable salaries to hire technical personnel.

However, technical personnel in many state-owned units are not well paid and are overstaffed. They also have the time and desire to do some private work in township enterprises and earn some extra money.

This kind of thing is something that the people will not report and the officials will not investigate, and no leader of any unit will interfere.

...............

In a large courtyard in Yanjing City, more than ten middle-aged people around 50 years old were sitting around a conference table for a meeting. The room was filled with smoke and it seemed that the discussion was intense.

"Everyone, the Ministry of Transportation has agreed in principle to cooperate with Hong Kong entrepreneur Liu Zhicheng to build the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Expressway and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway. These are the largest foreign-funded projects since our reform and opening up."

"From this incident, we can see that the higher-ups have attached great importance to the cooperation with Mr. Liu Zhicheng. Now we are waiting for the decision of the education department and scientific research institutes. Mr. Liu Zhicheng will provide the funds, and then we will organize scientific researchers in our country to carry out technical research and development according to his requirements."

Director Chen stood at the front and said loudly: "This first technology not only has the telephone program-controlled exchange that our country urgently needs, but also everyone can earn foreign exchange for the country."

"However, we need a large number of scientific researchers to devote several years of time and tremendous energy. If it is our own technological breakthrough, then we should invest more. But the results of our research and development belong to others, and we cannot use them. This is too unreasonable." said a white-haired man with a scholarly demeanor.

At this time, Academician Wu explained: "Director Zhao, you can't say that. We provide talents, but the other party also needs to provide a large amount of foreign exchange funds, which is also what we urgently need. With foreign exchange, we can buy urgently needed scientific research equipment."

"Yes, the current investment in scientific research is too huge, and the national scientific research funding is tight. Now that we have reformed and opened up, scientific research units must be self-reliant, and we should encourage them. Although foreign capital wants to take away the research and development results, we get precious foreign exchange and usable scientific research equipment." Academician Wu also said loudly.

Director Zhao nodded, still unwillingly saying, "I know that other people's investment is not charity, but we should at least have a share of the results, right?"

Director Chen shook his head and said, "The investor will definitely not agree to this. Director Zhao can go and find out. Overseas, this kind of entrustment is very normal. The results belong to the investors, and the researchers who do the research and development get the reputation and rewards."

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