After the Divorce, I Could Hear the Voice of the Future-Chapter 281 - 280: Ideology, Business

"At age 31, a key industry player and a board member of a world-class conference—what does that even mean?"

"People who don’t understand can look to the World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, where even Double Ma is just a board member."

"No way, is that for real? Liangzi’s position in the automotive industry is equivalent to Double Ma in the internet industry?"

"To be precise, it’s the new energy automotive industry, and it isn’t that far-fetched for Liangzi to serve as a board member."

"After all, over these past few years, besides the government, who else has contributed more to the new energy industry than Liangzi?"

"I mean, I only bought a Mao Dou 3 because Liangzi took a stake in Tesla."

"Speaking of which, when will the domestic Mao Dou 3 actually go into production?"

"I heard they already finished trial production, and the first batch should be delivered before the Spring Festival."

Lu Liang becoming a board member of the World New Energy Conference wasn’t as unacceptable as one might imagine.

Although his young age was a bit of a sore point, he had spared no effort over the past year to push the development of the new energy industry.

His contributions were clear for everyone to see.

So, like BYD Wang and Ningde Era Old Zeng, being board members of the World New Energy Automotive Conference seemed to happen quite naturally.

At the same time, he was also nominated out of the ordinary by the Modu City Government for the People’s Congress.

Upon hearing this, a host of fund companies fell silent, quietly withdrawing their complaints against the Tianxing Mixed Fund.

It was like a soccer match where the players, referees, and spectators were all on the opposing side, and you were far from their equal in strength—what chance did you have to compete?

"It seems that the higher-ups are really determined to promote the new energy industry."

Lu Liang smiled at the corners of his mouth; he had already received news last month about being appointed as a board member, so he wasn’t surprised.

What did surprise him, however, was the official stance.

The establishment of the New Energy Automotive Conference was only the main content announced today, but there were three other secondary points that would also have a profound impact on the entire new energy industry.

Firstly, the aim was to achieve carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.

You need principles before you can do business.

You must have this determination to host and lead the development of the world’s new energy automotive industry.

The implication was also clear: even if you don’t have a single qualified student in the class, the new energy dual credit policy must be resolutely carried out and implemented.

In the new year, vehicle manufacturers with negative points had only two choices: either reduce production or buy points from others to offset them—there was no third option.

Once the news was released, the price of new energy credits shot up, each at 5,000 US Dollars, and they were in short supply.

If it weren’t for the cap at 5,000, the price might have risen even higher.

Secondly, there was a push for healthy development and the standardization of industry standards, adopting the suggestions put forward by Lu Liang and the Boatman.

New vehicles must pass various safety tests and at least a minimum of 150,000 kilometers of durability testing.

Due to Lu Liang’s efforts, the development of the new energy industry accelerated much faster than expected; in order not to let a single bad element spoil the whole batch, it was time to slow things down.

Thirdly, there would be an increase in the industry threshold, tightening the issuance of production permits for car manufacturing.

The easy days, when just about anyone with a bit of money could obtain production qualifications, were over.

LeEco’s stock price hit the limit down, falling below 80 billion, handing over the top spot on the Growth Enterprise Market.

Old Jia felt as if the sky had fallen; the second and third points were clearly aimed at LeTV Car.

Originally planning to secure a good sum of money under the guise of establishing new production bases, and then to pursue the dream in the United States, this now likely needed to be pushed up the agenda.

Because there was an additional clause to the third point—not only did previous qualifications count, but starting from this year, car production qualifications also required a financial security deposit ranging from tens of millions to several hundred million.

The main aim was to prevent just anyone from scamming subsidies.

If we look at the long term, it’s a positive for the entire industry, but in the short term, it’s bearish news for the market.

On the day of the announcement, the A-share market’s new energy sector, except for BYD and Dizi core members, took a major dive, entering a de-bubbling phase.

Even SAIC Group, which was firmly at the top of the new energy positive points list, couldn’t avoid a small fall of -2.55%.

SAIC Group is huge; even selling all 200,000 new energy points would only fetch 1 billion, which is a drop in the bucket.

"Really nice."

Liangzi grinned happily as he gazed at the spot of red among the sea of green in the new energy sector.

He had been somewhat worried before, fearing that storming into the new energy industry next year with 300 billion, and setting up the whole industry chain, might make the already overhyped market even more inflated.

Now, it seemed he had been overly anxious; the state had realized the market’s overvaluation and bubble status, and had decisively made a cut, slashing prices themselves.

This undeniably made his plans for the new year, proceed even more smoothly~

Approaching noon, Tang Caide knocked on the door and entered, informing him of the results of the conversation with Yang Weifeng.

Yang Weifeng was the property manager of New International Building, and also the landlord for the three Tianxing companies.

Mutual funds were different from private equity, especially when it came to matters like hostile takeovers, which required even more staff.

Recently, the company had recruited nearly a hundred new employees—more than a thousand square meters of office space was clearly insufficient.

They didn’t feel like moving, so they had asked Tang Caide to talk to the landlord, offering some extra money to have the neighboring tenants move and take over an entire floor of 7800 square meters.

Tang Caide handed over the lease contract: "The daily rent is 8 yuan, and the property management charges a monthly rent of 20 yuan. Mr. Yang gave us a discount of 7.8%."

Liangzi couldn’t help but chuckle, "Indeed, being reputable and wealthy increases the chance of encountering kind people."

Tang Caide smiled, clearly catching Liangzi’s jest, and pulled out the plan for the annual meeting and the financial approval.

Last year, there were 85 employees on the job, with a total of 2.3 million allocated for activity expenses, averaging 27,000 per person.

This year the number of employees had risen to 328, and she planned to follow last year’s example, setting the activity budget at 9 million.

"After all, it’s for the whole year—9 million is a bit meager, let’s add a bit more."

Liangzi glanced at the figure and added a number, causing Tang Caide to laugh and cry: "This way, you’ll spoil them easily."

The ’bit’ Liangzi referred to was not added at the end, but at the beginning—9 million became 19 million.

The per capita award standard of 27,000 turned into 57,000, not including the year-end bonus, which was merely the expense for the evening of the annual meeting.

The year-end bonus was calculated separately, with full-year employees getting six months of salary.

Those with less than a year of service would be awarded one to three months of salary based on the job level coefficient, even interns received one month’s salary.

"It’s not exactly spoiling them, besides, the company’s tax deduction limit next year is at least 800 million."

Liangzi smiled. They had finalized the second phase last month, and with the third phase’s dividends totaling 900 million US Dollars, they expected to pay 225 million US Dollars in taxes.

Of that, 108 million US Dollars were unavoidable expenses, but 117 million US Dollars could still be offset by spending.

Rather than contributing it to the treasury, it was better to bless the employees; they would at least earn a good reputation. If he wasn’t worried about possibly causing public indignation due to excessive generosity, Liangzi would have liked to hand out even more bonuses and prizes.

"By the way, send this standard to Liu Pei."

Liangzi thought of Tianxing Technology; although it was currently only incurring expenses with profit still far in the future,

as a member of the Tianxing System, they couldn’t favor one over another. After all, Old Zhu from Golden Sand River was helping to shoulder 10% of the burden.

"Okay, Mr. Lu," said Tang Caide, not adding anything further. She was about to leave when Liangzi called her back.

"Also, Shiyu... Never mind, forget it."

Liangzi then thought of his cousin, but it was too much trouble to go through company accounts; it was better to just transfer the money himself.

Directly awarding him 1 million personally, he had said it would only take a year to build a new house back in his hometown, and it would be just one year.

Having delegated the trivial year-end company affairs, Liangzi now had time to focus on the new car shell.

Following his last visit, Hu Weiwei had heeded Liangzi’s instructions and hired many new graduates from automotive design schools.

The ideas of these young people were always boundless, especially when they were tasked solely with the design, not yet considering aerodynamics and structural mechanics. freёnovelkiss.com

All kinds of odd and unusual car model sketches filled his inbox, including but not limited to supercars, coupes, and SUVs.

"Focus on sedans first, followed by SUVs."

After much consideration, Liangzi settled on the sedan as the first model to be produced.

Although he personally preferred SUVs, market research results showed that sedans were more popular.

With the target set, the entire design department of 28 people began to select the appropriate designs from the sketches.

They decided to use 3D printing technology to first create a series of miniature model cars for Liangzi to review, before moving on to the next step.