Regarding Chen Lidong's question, Liu Cheng thought about it for a full two minutes, and finally said with a wry smile: "Director Chen, I don't dare to express my opinion casually. I need to ask the old man for instructions."

Chen Lidong also smiled, then straightened his face and said: "Our company does not have communications business, but the two of us can cooperate.

Since vtc doesn't work, then we will do it ourselves.

Donghua does not have this business and lacks talent and experience. It is better for us to invest and let Warwick be responsible for the operation.

To put it simply, I am responsible for the assets and equipment, and you are responsible for the technology and management. If you do not take a shareholding, we can also invest in purchasing your services.

You will report this to the old man tomorrow, but you must hurry up. The network construction design here depends on our group's strategy, and we don't have extra time to wait.

Oh, there's more.

We have an electronic components factory in Yanjing and are upgrading our patch equipment. We hope we can have closer cooperation in the manufacturing field.

Using our component factory as your company's foundry can be considered one of the conditions for cooperation."

Liu Cheng suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

When he came this time, he originally wanted to promote products and contract business.

Now I suddenly fall into the operational level and touch on the company's strategic issues.

It was just trade before, but now it's about investment, and he really can't be a homeowner.

When Liu Cheng was hesitating in the Far East, Mr. Ye from Warwick was also at a loss.

This year is the "year of external expansion" led by the old man himself. He is very ambitious. In the past two years, Warwick has accumulated certain experience and strength in expanding in Asia, Africa and Latin America, but these are only marginal markets.

The area where the communications industry is really strong is the European market. It is a huge cake, very tempting, but it is also full of strong players, full of smoke, and the competitive pressure is beyond imagination. If Warwick enters rashly, it will only be easily defeated by its opponents.

However, the pace of the battle cannot stop. It has never been Warwick's character to be afraid. After careful consideration, the old man chose Yugoslavia for the first battle. This is also Warwick's consistent "Go thinking". As long as it captures a relatively weak marginal market, it can slowly expand its borders.

The influence radiates throughout Europe.

The ideal is very fulfilling, but the reality is always unsatisfactory.

Warwick had its first negotiation with the Yugoslav Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and the other party made it clear that they wanted to know the price.

In order to promote business as soon as possible, Warwick informed the other party of its base price, but such a base price did not promote cooperation.

The Yugoslav Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications believes that the price provided by Warwick is so low that it is undoubtedly a business trap, or that Warwick's technology and products are not competitive.

Therefore, the other party directly chose Alcatel, whose price was much higher than Huawei's.

Ye Xianghua reflected on the fact that it is indeed very difficult to enter the European market, and Warwick's chances of winning are also very slim, but if it quits right now, all its previous efforts will be in vain.

Liu Cheng's call awakened the old man from his deep thoughts.

After listening to Liu Cheng's report, Ye Xianghua had a smile on his face. He instructed Liu Cheng: "You just follow the chairman's arrangement, and he can do whatever he wants. We have equipment, technology, and talents.

All can be provided.

I have already been to the Yanjing company he mentioned, and once they upgrade their equipment, it will be no problem to entrust them with OEM work."

That night, Liu Cheng told Chen Lidong, who had returned from the island, the old man's opinion at the dinner table.

Chen Lidong asked: "What does he mean?"

Liu Cheng said helplessly: "He said, 'That's what he means.' Warwick will fully cooperate with your arrangements."

"Oh, okay then.

Then we will divide the work. I will arrange for people to prepare the company and apply for the communications business license.

You are responsible for contacting the country to determine the implementation plan. My plan is to connect the line from the country to Vladivostok.

Hmm...are we using cables or optical cables now?”

"Optical cables have long been used for long-distance communications." Liu Cheng replied.

"The optical cable is good and the transmission efficiency is high. The laying of the line can be done along with the railway. It also needs to be connected to Bear Island, which may be a little more troublesome.

Some equipment such as switches use your most advanced products, and the capacity does not need to be too large. There is really not a big market here in Vladivostok."

One day later, Chen Lidong met Liu Cheng and asked, "You haven't returned to China?"

"No. My domestic colleagues are already in Longjiang Province. They told me in the afternoon: The Longjiang General Post and Telecommunications Bureau made a plan with the Primorsky Telecommunications Company the year before last. They are negotiating with the Longjiang General Post and Telecommunications Bureau to adjust this plan.

Organization and implementation.”

Chen Lidong said in confusion: "Have you ever had a plan? I haven't heard of it."

"Communication with the Far East was agreed upon by the top leaders of the two countries. Two plans were initially made, one was the northern route, which ran from Fuyuan to Khabarovsk.

The other is the eastern route, which leads from Suicheng to Nakhodka.

The eastern route had too long mileage and too much investment, so it was eliminated." Liu Cheng only learned about the situation in the afternoon and explained that he is now learning and selling land.

"How is the northern line connected to Khabarovsk? How is it being built?" Chen Lidong asked.

"It was repaired at the end of January, and it should be usable now," Liu Cheng added.

"Boli has already done it, great! Then there's no need to think about that.

The distance from Suicheng to Vladivostok is about 200 kilometers, how much do you estimate the construction cost?"

"The cost of the optical cable will not exceed 150,000, and the construction cost may be higher than the material cost."

"Really? I will arrange the construction team, and you will be responsible for the technical guidance. What about the cross-sea optical cable?"

"From the information sent to me, it appears that the construction ship of the Jiangcheng Waterway Bureau was used for the optical cable of the northern line across the river.

There is a deep burrower on the ship. The ship walks in front. The deep burrower digs a trench at the bottom of the river. Then the optical cable is laid in it and then backfilled with sand.

Whether this ship can operate at sea here in Vladivostok remains to be determined after measurements."

Chen Lidong thought for a while and said: "There is no need to find them. It's better for us to do it. I will just arrange for people to dive for construction."

Even if the Jiangcheng construction ship is still in Fuyuan, it will not be easy to transport it to Vladivostok. The cross-sea optical cable from Vladivostok to Bear Island is only two kilometers long, and the water depth cannot exceed 30 meters. The mechanical servants can do the job in one trip.

Calculating it this way, including the construction of wiring and the purchase of equipment, the network speed increase in Vladivostok can be completed with 2 million.

There was another problem, that is, business license approval. Chen Lidong took out his phone and dialed Gennady.

Gennady was on an inspection trip to China at this time, and his current position is the director of the Economic Development and Trade Bureau of the Vladivostok Municipal Government.

This time, he and the mayor of Shuangcheng City, Veternikov, were invited to Xuecheng, Longjiang Province for a goodwill visit. The next step is to go to Harbin and visit the University for sightseeing.

Xuecheng and Shuangchengzi are sister cities to each other.

The leading industries of Shuangchengzi are food processing, clothing and furniture, wood processing and automobile repair. They are very similar to the industries of Syracuse, but they also have complementary aspects.

For example, Shuangcheng has fewer people and more land, so it is necessary for Xuecheng to export labor services.

Syracuse needs timber from Shuangchengzi to meet the needs of the construction and paper industries.

After this period of inspection and consultation, the two sides agreed on a number of matters, including: speeding up the application for the mutual market trade zone in Suicheng and seeking more preferential policies from the country; Xuecheng vigorously exported agricultural technology and labor personnel to Shuangchengzi, contracted farms, and promoted

Local agricultural development; the two parties take joint actions to strictly inspect the quality of imported and exported goods and resolutely eliminate counterfeit and shoddy products; promote Syracuse production companies to enter the Far East market, use idle equipment and surplus labor to graft with other companies, and achieve complementary economic and technological cooperation

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After receiving the call from Chen Lidong, Gennady immediately contacted the commercial department of Vladivostok and told Chen Lidong:

According to regulations, foreign companies that want to carry out basic communications services in Maoxiong need to register a joint venture, and the shareholding ratio of Maoxiong cannot be less than 50%.

Primorsky Territory’s telecommunications franchise operating license is easy to obtain. If you want to become a national telecommunications operator, you need to have corresponding financial strength, equipment hardware and operating capabilities. You must pass the review and certification of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Maoxiong to obtain it.

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Chen Lidong then asked Gennady to communicate with the leaders of the Syracuse City government and arrange for the telecommunications department to quickly complete the "Eastern Route Plan."

Chen Lidong looked at Edmund beside him and said: "Your identity is Mao Xiong, so we will set up a telecommunications company in your name, and borrow funds and personnel from Donghua Trading."

Then he said to Liu Cheng: "Hurry up and make arrangements. Once the plan is finalized, we will arrange to set up the lines as soon as possible. It is estimated that the lines will be brought over and the approval of the telecommunications company here will be completed."

Then the company here and the Syracuse Telecommunications Department apply. I estimate that it can be done in two months at most.

You can talk to Mr. Ye again and try to win the support of the leaders of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications by ‘solving the problem of communication difficulties between Chinese enterprises in the Far East and the country’, and do something special, no problem.”

Liu Cheng looked at Chen Lidong's actions and said to himself: I'm sorry that this person in the Far East really has some energy, so he had to say: "We will definitely try our best."

Although the Far East network construction is urgent, it cannot be accomplished overnight.

Next, Chen Lidong went to the pit to collect materials and earn gold coins, and Liu Cheng served as the general commander of the construction of the Suicheng-Vladovician international optical cable line system.

The optical cables purchased with the help of Warwick were transported to Suicheng. After the export procedures were completed, they were immediately shipped out of the country and laid along the railway line.

This optical cable is laid underground with a burial depth of 1.5 meters. The construction machinery transported from Vladivostok is already in place.

Chen Lidong arranged for 10 mechanical servants of the Xuan generation to personally lead the team, and also transferred a group of capable officers from Donghua Construction.

Liu Cheng heard from colleagues who came from China that the northern line project was originally planned to be 60 kilometers, but later it involved border demarcation issues and the length was more than 200 kilometers. The construction took one year to complete.

Liu Cheng calculated that the distance on the eastern front was close to 250 kilometers, and Chen Lidong's plan to complete it in two months must be nonsense.

But once he started working, he discovered that the construction speed was truly miraculous.

First of all, this team has a high level of equipment. Large machinery includes excavators, cranes, bulldozers, generators, welders, and cutting machines. Small equipment includes rangefinders, levels, and a total station.

Even later, air compressors and air cannons were shipped to quickly install bolts and drill holes.

After getting acquainted with each other, Liu Cheng learned that these employees were not migrant workers at all, but skilled workers who had received professional training and obtained professional qualifications from Donghua Vocational High School.

Sure enough, as June entered, the overall project was nearing completion, including the overhead lines in the field, the deeply buried pipelines after entering the city, and the laying of submarine optical cables.

Laying the submarine optical cable was originally the most difficult part of the entire project, but when it came to this point, after laying down the optical cable according to the planned route, the construction team found a small cargo ship, carried several divers into the sea, and lowered one at every other section.

In half a day, all the submarine optical cables were buried, and after testing, there were no problems at all.

Under Ye Xianghua's promotion, the Suicheng-Vladivostok international communication infrastructure project was quickly approved.

In fact, it didn't take much trouble. A feasibility study was done for the eastern route project. Now that all the projects, including the equipment, are completed by foreign parties, there is no problem.

At the same time, various Donghua Group affiliated companies and offices in Yanjing, Jishi, and Lanshi are implementing networking projects, and are requesting fiber-to-home access from the local communications department. We will pay for the increased costs!

On June 18, the opening ceremony of the international communication line from Syracuse to Vladivostok was held in both places at the same time. In a hotel in Syracuse, Gu Enhua, the main leader of the city government, attended the ceremony in person. On the Vladivostok side, Gennady presided over it, and people on both sides

A large-screen TV was placed at the venue, and both parties delivered speeches to congratulate the successful cooperation between the two parties via remote video.

So, what is Chen Lidong doing?
Chapter completed!