Chapter 358: Operation "China Chip" To Save Academician Ni

After hearing this, Li Xiaofan was surprised. The leaders of the two major groups, Singapore Far East Organization and Singapore United Overseas Bank, are both big bosses in the top ten richest list in Singapore.

The leaders of Singapore Far East Organization, brothers Huang Zhixiang and Huang Zhida, are real estate tycoons in Singapore. The two brothers have a slight division of labor. The eldest brother Huang Zhixiang is responsible for Hong Kong affairs and is the head of Hong Kong Sino Group. The younger brother Huang Zhida focuses on running Singapore Far East Organization.

In the previous life, the brothers Huang Zhixiang and Huang Zhida had been firmly at the top of the Singapore Rich List for several years.

Another boss of Singapore United Overseas Bank Group is Huang Zuyao, whose ancestors once lived in Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia.

In 1970, United Overseas Bank was officially listed and became the first publicly listed bank in Singapore. Later, under the leadership of Huang Zuyao, United Overseas Bank developed into one of the four major banks in Singapore, an international large banking group, with total assets of more than 3 billion US dollars. He is a rich man in the financial industry of Chinese Singapore after Guo Fangfeng and Li Chengwei.

Why did these two wealthy people, one is a local real estate tycoon, and the other is a local financial giant, come to see me?

Li Xiaofan felt a little strange.

"Benny, here's how, you reply to the secretaries of the bosses of the two companies, and I'll go to visit their bosses! They are both my predecessors, highly respected in Singapore, and have a huge influence..."

The next day, Li Xiaofan visited Huang Zhida, president of Singapore Far East Organization, and Huang Zuyao, chairman of Singapore United Overseas Bank Group.

The two Singaporean tycoons had the same purpose in looking for Li Xiaofan: they wanted to know about the situation of the Singapore Yifan Venture Capital Fund initiated by Li Xiaofan.

After recent publicity reports from global and local financial media, and word-of-mouth communication among local entrepreneurs in Singapore, Li Xiaofan has become a god of wealth in Singapore.

Whether they were in the banking and financial industry or real estate development, they had never made a 40-fold profit in a year!

Li Xiaofan's story is a legend!

The Kiasu spirit of Singaporeans will also be contagious to big bosses.

When they heard that the top Nanyang consortiums such as Singapore Hong Leong Group and Genting Group had invested in Li Xiaofan's No. 1 Singapore Yifan Venture Capital Fund, they also began to worry.

We can't fall behind!

So, they hurried to contact Li Xiaofan to learn more about the Singapore Yifan Venture Capital Fund initiated by Li Xiaofan.

Li Xiaofan had to go to the door and patiently explain the relevant information of his Singapore Yifan Venture Capital Fund to these two big guys...

The investment enthusiasm of Singapore's local tycoons far exceeded Li Xiaofan's expectations!

He couldn't help but think of what the great Mr. Karl pointed out in "Das Kapital":

Capitalists are afraid of no profit or too little profit, just like nature is afraid of a vacuum. Once there is a proper profit, capital becomes bold.

If there is a 10% profit, capital is guaranteed to be used everywhere; if there is a 20% profit, capital will be active; if there is a 50% profit, capital will take risks; for 100% profit, capital will dare to trample on all human laws; if there is a 300% profit, capital will dare to commit any crime, even at the risk of being hanged. If unrest and disputes can bring profits, they will encourage unrest and disputes, and smuggling and slave trade are clear evidence...

The great Mr. Carl never expected that more than a hundred years later, there would be a huge profit business that could make people rich dozens of times a year!

Therefore, it is a very special thing that Li Xiaofan, who is full of the aura of "God of Wealth" and comes back from Wall Street, is treated as a guest of honor by local tycoons in Singapore.

When Li Xiaofan visited the two major groups of Singapore Far East Organization and Singapore United Overseas Bank, he thought on the way that he should hurry up to invest the first phase of the Yifan Venture Capital Fund of 100 million US dollars!

After returning to the office, he assigned the task to Wang Danrong and the two newly recruited investment managers.

Afterwards, Li Xiaofan asked Liang Beni to call Dr. Pan Zhanlong to his office.

"Zhanlong, you studied at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences before. Do you know Academician Ni Guangnan?" Li Xiaofan asked.

"Mr. Li, I know Academician Ni, but unfortunately he doesn't know me!" Pan Zhanlong smiled, "When I was a graduate student at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, our college invited Academician Ni to give us an open class. Academician Ni's knowledge and style impressed me deeply!"

Pan Zhanlong raised his glasses and asked, "Mr. Li, do you have something to do with Academician Ni? I saw a report that in June last year, the Lenovo board of directors had removed Academician Ni from his position as chief engineer..."

"Well, it is precisely because Academician Ni left Lenovo that I want to go back to China to talk to Mr. Ni about the 'China Core' project. "Something!"

"Mr. Li, when I was studying at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, there was a senior and fellow villager named Wang Shuqiang. After graduating with a doctorate, he was assigned to work at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and had participated in the Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center project of Academician Ni. Wang Shuqiang should be familiar with Academician Ni..."

When Academician Ni worked at Lenovo, he led a team to engage in chip research and development and developed five ASIC chips. Unfortunately, Lenovo later abandoned the "technology, industry and trade" route, and the chip research and development center created by Academician Ni was revoked and the research and development team dispersed.

Two years ago in April 1994, thanks to the efforts of Academician Ni, Lenovo signed a letter of intent for cooperation on the "Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center" with Fudan University and the Yangtze River Group.

The National Key Laboratory of ASICs and Systems at Fudan University was the only national key laboratory in China that specialized in integrated circuit design research at that time.

However, even though it was a national key laboratory, due to limited financial resources at that time, the investment that year was only 1.8 million US dollars. The laboratories in universities in Western countries such as the United States at that time often invested tens of millions of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars. Compared with them, it was really a small matter!

Unfortunately, in the previous life, the "Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center" planned by Academician Ni failed to get support from Lenovo's senior management and other reasons, and Chinese companies lost a potential force in mastering core technologies.

Not long after, on June 30, 1995, Ni Guangnan was dismissed from his position as Lenovo's chief engineer. This "Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center" project also came to nothing...

"Really? That's great. Zhanlong, get ready. Come with me to Beijing next week. We'll go find your senior and fellow villager Wang Shuqiang. Contact him in advance to see if you can make an appointment with Academician Ni. Let's go visit Academician Ni!"

Li Xiaofan couldn't help getting excited when he heard that Pan Zhanlong's fellow villager Wang Shuqiang had participated in Academician Ni's Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center project.

Pan Zhanlong asked curiously: "Mr. Li, are you interested in this Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center project?"

"Well, I want to save Academician Ni's Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center project!"