Finally, It's My Turn to Play

"MLGBZ, you want it cheap and high brightness? How is that possible? Why not just give it to you for free? Do you really think the current labor and material costs are very low? MD, this job is getting harder and harder. You need a low cost percentage and you need to get into the Zhongzheng phone customer base. How can that be done?

The project hasn't even started, and the price has already been reviewed 5 times. Reviewing costs every day, damn, this is not a job for humans.

The market is so bad, and performance is tied to profit. NND, isn't this using my money to do this project? It's really damn frustrating..."

In Peng City, Qianhai, within the luxurious office building of Hua Long Technology Company, Project Manager Wang Wei had just finished a cost cloud meeting with suppliers. He leaned back heavily in his chair and immediately launched into a string of complaints, mixed with national curses.

Wang Wei is from Su Province. He is only thirty years old this year. With a master's degree from a key university, he has become a project manager at Hua Long Technology Company in just five years, with an annual salary of 400,000 yuan. He can be considered a young talent.

Hua Long Technology is the number one mobile phone ODM manufacturer in China. Its annual mobile phone shipments are calculated in the hundreds of millions, all supplied to famous domestic mobile phone brands such as Zhongzheng, Oupai, Weiwo, and Xiaomai. Hua Long Technology has over 10,000 employees and a market value exceeding 500 billion yuan. Compared to the second-ranked Zhongwei Technology Company, it is nearly 400 billion yuan higher!

Therefore, in a place like Qianhai, Peng City, where every inch of land is precious and a square meter costs three to four hundred thousand yuan, Hua Long Technology has built its own office park and luxurious office building.

Within the office building, welfare facilities are all-inclusive.

Fitness, rest, and dining are commonplace, and game rooms and mother-and-child rooms are standard.

At Hua Long Technology, every project manager must be an elite who can handle things independently, especially project managers corresponding to well-known mobile phone brands such as Zhongzheng, Oupai, Weiwo, and Xiaomai. Among them, the Zhongzheng mobile phone customer is the most important.

A project manager must not only serve the customer well but also bring value to the company and the customer. This is reflected in the work: for every mobile phone project developed, the project is a win-win situation, with both the company and the customer having high profits. Among these, material cost is the largest part.

After graduating with a master's degree, Wang Wei entered Hua Long Technology through campus recruitment. After five years of hard work, he became a project manager, with an annual salary of 400,000 yuan after tax, not to mention the project bonuses and company profit bonuses from each project.

This is still because Wang Wei is relatively upright and unwilling to engage in crooked ways.

Otherwise, with Wang Wei's position as a project manager at Hua Long Technology, hundreds of suppliers below him rely on him for meat and soup, and he could easily make a lot of money.

Of course, with more money and greater power comes greater responsibility.

After finally winning a bid for a new mobile phone project, Wang Wei was appointed by the project leader to be the development leader for the screen of this mobile phone project. He immediately entered round after round of cost reviews. Including the cost review at today's cloud meeting, Wang Wei counted clearly, this is the fifth round.

Looking up at the white ceiling, Wang Wei's mind went blank. He only felt a deep sense of fatigue welling up in his heart.

What 996? That is indeed a blessing, because he is 007. As long as this developed mobile phone is not discontinued, he has to be online at any time to respond to customers.

Currently, the project Wang Wei is responsible for is stuck on materials.

Don't look at how small a mobile phone is, but in fact, the components inside are frighteningly numerous, so every mobile phone brand has thousands of suppliers serving it.

Among them, the screen is one of the important components of a mobile phone, and even due to technical development issues, it is the second largest core technology that has not yet been mastered, second only to chips.

It is well known that chip development is difficult, but screen development is also difficult.

A mobile phone screen is not just a piece of glass; it also integrates various components, and there are many materials within the components.

The widely publicized OLED screen, which is well known to the public, is extremely difficult. Fortunately, there are a few domestic glass manufacturers that can make OLED screens, and they can now say that they are doing pretty well.

For the gradually low-end and marginalized LCD screen, the glass technology is very mature, but for the glass to display, it needs a chip that can drive this piece of glass.

Unfortunately, these chips and the CPU chips of mobile phones are the same thing, cut from wafers, and the high-quality ones are basically from abroad.

In addition to glass chips, because LCD screens cannot emit light themselves, they need a component to provide a light source, which involves optical materials.

The higher the quality of the optical material, the more light source it provides, which is reflected visually as a brighter screen.

The core parts of domestic optical materials are imported from abroad, especially from places where life is relatively good, and they are relatively low-end. As for high-quality, high-end optical materials, sorry, they are also from abroad.

The project Wang Wei is currently responsible for is stuck here. Cheap optical materials have insufficient utilization of light, resulting in low screen brightness; high-quality optical materials can make the screen brightness meet the requirements of Zhongzheng mobile phone customers, but they are expensive and from abroad, so the materials cannot be used.

If you want to use cheaper optical materials, you can find other ways, which involves glass selection. But that's even more impossible, because glass resources are scarcer. The glass for this project was only obtained through the Zhongzheng mobile phone customer's intervention; otherwise, this glass factory wouldn't even supply Hua Long.

"The dark night gave me black eyes,

But I use them to search for light,

Sweat condenses into a time capsule

..."

Suddenly, the phone rang, startling Wang Wei, whose mind had been wandering.

"Huh, Zhou Feiyu?"

Wang Wei picked up his phone and saw that it was his high school classmate. He couldn't help but frown.

Zhou Feiyu worked at a materials company in Nanjiang Province in the interior, doing research and development for low-end materials. After learning that Wang Wei worked at Hua Long Company, he would occasionally joke during chats, asking Wang Wei to help him out.

Wang Wei was afraid of trouble, so he wasn't very keen on chatting with Zhou Feiyu.

However, they had been classmates for three years, and it wouldn't be good not to answer. So, he made up his mind that as long as Zhou Feiyu asked for help, he would refuse, and then he answered the call.

"What wind blew my old classmate to call me personally?"

Wang Wei teased.

Responding to him was a hearty laugh: "Of course it's the spring breeze, the triumphant spring breeze! I'm calling an old classmate to share good news."

Wang Wei was taken aback and asked with a smile, "What good news?"

On the other end, Zhou Feiyu's voice quickly came through: "Didn't you complain to me a while ago about the poor domestic optical film materials? Saying that the domestic basic materials have serious shortcomings and are still twenty or thirty years behind foreign countries? I can tell you responsibly that this history is gone forever, because I have developed a material that is even better than the foreign King Optical Film material, and I've also brought the price down!"

"What?"

Wang Wei suspected there was something wrong with his ears and subconsciously asked, "Zhou Feiyu, do you know what you're saying?"

Zhou Feiyu said, "One should look at a scholar with new eyes after three days! Wang Wei, I'll be in Peng City tonight. You'll know when you see the material."

Before Wang Wei could say anything more, the "beep, beep, beep" of the dial tone came from the phone.

"Damn, is he serious?"

Wang Wei had a look of disbelief.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Zhou Feiyu, far away in Nanjiang Province in the interior, had just boarded the high-speed train to Peng City.

Zhou Feiyu, who had no more than five hundred yuan on him and an ordinary appearance, was completely unremarkable in the crowd. He carried a backpack, and it was clear at a glance that he was a business traveler.

"Thirty years, it's finally my turn to take the stage!"

Finding his seat, Zhou Feiyu sat down with his backpack.

Looking out the window, a faint smile appeared on his face, and a burning flame ignited in his eyes.

No one knew that his trip would bring earth-shattering changes to the entire world!