Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

   Chapter 809 Business Office Phone

   After inspecting the Lamma Island Power Plant, Yang Chen didn't rush to the Hong Kong Telephone Company. Compared with the Heung Kong Electric Lighting Company, it was more troublesome for the telephone company to deal with.

   If it is just to receive the telephone company, naturally it does not need to spend much thought, but knowing the future development of communication, Yang Chen does not dare to be careless in this regard.

  Like Heung Kong Electric, the telephone company can also find Siemens to cooperate first. It should be known that Siemens started by relying on the telegraph at the earliest.

  The early telegraph is the telephone of today, the smartphone of the future.

  In 1848, Siemens built the first long-distance telegraph line in Europe, spanning about 500 kilometers from Berlin to Frankfurt, which was very powerful at the time.

   In the 1850s, Siemens also participated in the construction of the Russian long-distance telegraph network, and the business expanded very rapidly.

   Afterwards, perhaps because of the accumulation of information, Siemens began to get involved in the electric train and light bulb industry.

   During the 1920s and 1930s, Siemens entered the home appliance industry again, producing home appliances such as radios, televisions, and electron microscopes.

   In the 1950s, Siemens directly began to produce high-end electronic equipment such as computers and semiconductors.

  In the electrical and electronic industry, Siemens has been constantly innovating, the company is getting bigger and bigger, and its products are becoming more and more diversified.

  Although telephone communication is no longer the most important in many businesses of Siemens, Siemens' research on it has never fallen behind.

   In 1980, Siemens' first digital telephone exchange went offline, which made Siemens still occupy a high share in the telephone field.

  Digital telephone exchange is a new generation of digital group telephone system integrating program-controlled communication and intelligent management of business office.

   With more than 100 kinds of business office management functions that can realize real-time computer monitoring, it is suitable for hotels, office buildings, enterprise units and advanced workplaces.

  Its low cost and high efficiency can greatly improve the work efficiency of employees.

   This is what every big company needs for an international metropolis like Heung Kong.

   With Heung Kong Telephone Company, if he cooperates with Siemens next, he will be able to win the business office phone.

   In recent years, despite the good economic development of Xiangjiang, there are not many families who can use the big brother, and the families with a little more money will install a home phone at most.

   Therefore, the commercial office phone is the big one, and any boss who can start a company will not be short of this money.

  For work efficiency, the bosses of Heungkong in this period still attached great importance to it. After all, as an international metropolis, Heungkong Company is faced with very intense competition pressure.

   With the two business cooperation of Heung Kong Electric Lighting and Telephone, it will be much easier for him to enter the household appliance industry when he wants to.

   Household appliances will be a very profitable industry in the future. The later generations of Gome, Gree and Suning, a series of household appliance giants, directly reflect the development of the inland appliance market.

  Although the inland economy has not yet developed during this period and the market is not mature enough, Southeast Asia at this time is a huge market. With the rapid economic development, the per capita income level in Southeast Asia is also rising year by year.

   Southeast Asia in the 1980s and 1990s. Its development speed is absolutely comparable to that of the inland country entering the 21st century. If it were not for the sudden Asian financial crisis that knocked down the development momentum of Asian countries all of a sudden, there would be more room for improvement in Southeast Asia.

   Therefore, the cooperation with Siemens is urgent and must be started immediately.

   Once he cooperates with Siemens, he can get too many benefits from the other party's position in the electrical and electronic field.

   As for whether the other party is willing to cooperate with him, as long as the Siemens family does not strongly object, he believes that Siemens will be very willing to cooperate with him.

  No matter how powerful Siemens is, it always has to follow a rule, that is, strong dragons do not overwhelm local snakes.

  Xiangjiang, as an Asian financial center, has no doubts about its influence in the Asian region, which is not difficult to see from the rapid establishment of Yang Chen's Carrefour supermarket in Southeast Asia.

  Xiangjiang is a touchstone in Asia. Anyone who can make a name for himself here can quickly enter the surrounding markets.

   And companies in the surrounding areas of Hong Kong, if they want to further expand their market and improve their reputation, they must go to Hong Kong to gild.

Now Yang Chen is the richest man in China, and there are even good media that directly put the title of Asia's richest man on his head. No matter how true or false this richest man is, just based on the popularity and influence of Boss Yang in Asia now, It is enough for Siemens to cooperate deeply with it.

   In addition to Yang Chen himself, don't forget that behind him there are two note-issuing banks, HSBC Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. The cooperation between the three, in the eyes of outsiders, will not cause any problems in a short period of time.

   As two major banking institutions with strong influence in Hong Kong and even in Asia, the two are united through the line of Yang Chen, and the power they exert is not as simple as 1+1+1.

   In order to deepen the relationship with HSBC and Standard Chartered, Yang Chen has asked He Hongtao to acquire shares of many two banks in the market, and he is ready to continue on two boats.

   As for the capsize problem, he is not worried.

   At least, there is no problem with his cooperation with HSBC and Standard Chartered. In front of interests, everyone can turn a blind eye.

   What's more, since Yang Chen has successfully developed the Asian economy, it will be brought to light on the entry of European and American capital, especially the entry of American capital, the relationship between HSBC and Standard Chartered is not as tense as before.

   After all, both are British-owned banks. If British capital or European capital comes in, the two banks may not have much response, but if it is American capital, it will be different.

   Don’t look at the fact that the United States, Britain, France and other countries can wear a pair of trousers, but their family knows their own affairs. If it weren’t for the pressure brought by the big guy in the Soviet Union, Europe would not be able to obey the United States.

   This point can be seen from the fall of the Soviet Union. Although Europe will generally obey the words of the United States, small actions in private are constantly being staged.

   At the very least, the major powers in Europe, Britain, France and Germany are not very obedient to the United States.

  Especially after the fall of the Soviet Union, Western countries led by France and Germany were eager to get rid of the influence and control of the United States, and then the emergence of the euro and confrontation with the dollar all represented the resistance of European capital to American capital.

  Although the United States is one of the two superpowers in the world, as European capital that once dominated the world economy, they both envy and despise American capital from their hearts.

   So both HSBC and Standard Chartered made concessions and compromises to a certain extent.

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