The net profit of 5 billion USD looked very awesome. It was simply awesome to the extreme. However, Boss Jia smiled bitterly because he didn't have a single cent left of the 5 billion USD in his hands.
That's right. The funds that Boss Jia spent in 1995 were equivalent to the total profits of 1995. This did not include the forty-five billion USD that he used to buy the house.
So where did the 5 billion USD go?
About ten million USD was spent by Boss Jia himself. But it was a small amount that could be ignored.
Another four hundred million USD was spent by Boss Jia to buy other companies. The remaining 4.6 billion USD was spent on the Daqian Electronics Research Center.
The 4.6 billion USD was not enough. Boss Jia took two hundred million USD out of the ten billion USD from the Daqian VCD and gave it to the Daqian Electronics Research Center. This meant that in 1995, the total research funding of the Daqian Electronics Research Center was as high as 4.8 billion USD.
If this data was released, the entrepreneurs who had just been scared to death by the total profits of Da Qian would probably be scared back to life in an instant.
In fact, for these entrepreneurs, 4.8 billion USD of research funding was much more shocking than the five billion USD of total profits.
That was 4.8 billion USD of research funding. The entire Hua Xia Electronics Research Fund in 1995 was only about twelve billion USD, and all of that was converted into RMB. The Daqian Electronics Research Fund was equivalent to thirteen Hua Xia Electronics Research Fund. What a terrifying concept!!
At that time, Hua Xia companies, whether they were public or private, did not have any research awareness. Their companies were in a state of barbaric growth. Their only goal was to make money. They would use the money they earned to buy more equipment, expand their factories, and make more money.
In the eyes of Hua Xia's entrepreneurs, research was the country's business. Making money and production were the companies' business. If they encountered a problem that they could not solve with technology, the most cost-effective way was to fake it or buy it directly. They did not want to do research.
Not to mention the time, effort, and money spent, there might not even be a result. This was something that only a fool would do.
Basically, no entrepreneur would treat scientific research as the main task of the company. For these companies, scientific research funding accounted for about 5% of the company's total revenue, which was already a huge investment.
It was impossible for them to invest more than 50% of their total salary into scientific research, not to mention that the Daqian invested almost 96% of their net profit into scientific research.
The research funding for 1995 was also a record high for the research center.
The reason why the budget was so high was because of the continuous recruitment of researchers. Especially after the research center was divided into six departments, the total number of researchers in the research center had exceeded 1500 people.
These people were all graduates from top universities in the country and abroad, and they were all smart people. They couldn't be underpaid. Now, the industrial salary of these researchers was starting from 20,000 yuan. If other research departments in the country received this kind of income, they would be so jealous that they would vomit.
It should be known that other researchers in the country received a basic salary of 300 yuan. Even with some subsidies, it was at most a little over 500 yuan.
Moreover, this amount of money was not guaranteed. Many research departments in the country had reached the point where they were running out of money. These research departments didn't have the ability to create new research on their own, so they could only rely on the financial subsidies of the country.
The problem was that the country was also in a difficult situation, so they could only temporarily give up some things.
This decision wasn't the right one, but under the circumstances and conditions at the time, it was the best choice that could be made. Fortunately, the Daqian Group had appeared in this era. It was a good thing that they were able to absorb all the outstanding talents and experts in the field of electronics and computing into their own system.
But then again, the salary of the researchers was actually a small amount. The average annual salary of each researcher was 300,000 yuan. 1500 people would only be 450 million yuan, which was less than 100 million USD. For the total cost of 4.8 billion USD, it was only 2%. It was really not a big deal.
The real bulk of the expenditure this time was actually the purchase of various kinds of top-notch equipment. At first, in the first half of 1995, because Boss Jia wanted to start the research of LED and OLED screens, the purchase of equipment in this area directly cost 1 billion USD.
In the second half of 1995, when Lin Benjian joined the research center, the research center began to make breakthroughs in infiltration imaging, and this amount of money was gone.
Because this was a research project that the Daqian Group had never been involved in, everything had to be started from scratch, including the recruitment of personnel, the purchase of research equipment, and so on. In particular, the infiltration method was completely different from traditional lithography machines, so all the equipment had to be updated.
What was worse was that with the arrival of 1996, the benefits of the disbandment of Batumi were gradually coming to an end. According to Boss Jia's intelligence, the United States had already usurped some countries and planned to establish a new agreement specifically to restrict Hua Xia. This agreement was the future Wassenaar Agreement.
Once this agreement was signed, Hua Xia would not be able to buy any high-end research equipment from the signatory countries through official channels.
Therefore, Ni Guangnan and Lin Benjian worked together for half a month to get a purchase list for Boss Jia. The list was full of equipment needed for the future research of the infiltration method.
Not only that, but the top-notch equipment needed by other departments and research was also on this list. Ni Guangnan's intention was to take advantage of the last half-year window to buy all the high-tech equipment that could be bought, in case they couldn't buy it after the agreement was signed.
Moreover, they had to be fast. Otherwise, they might be intercepted on the way to the sea. That would be too tragic.
Therefore, the purchase of scientific research equipment for the next few years was all concentrated in 1995. It was easy to imagine how huge the expenditure was.
When Boss Jia saw this list for the first time, his whole body collapsed. He almost wanted to refuse directly, but in the end, Boss Jia gritted his teeth and agreed.
Ni Guangnan was right. This was the last window. If he couldn't seize this opportunity, he could only cry in the future.
Therefore, don't think that it was easy for Boss Jia to make money. The Daqian Group's blood and tears were involved in this!
With the purchase of this batch of equipment, the Daqian Electronic Technology Research and Development Center also became the world's top computer and electronic technology research and development center.
Even though this research center had yet to produce any shocking results, and other than the thousands of people in the world, no one in the world knew that the top computer research and development center in the world had already been replaced by someone else, it was still a mystery.
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