Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 1426: Chapter 676: Negotiating the Lunar Base Plan

This is like a large cruise ship, not manufactured by a tourism company, but by a large shipyard; the tourism company is merely the operator.

Tourist boats are similar to large cruise ships, the difference being a higher level of technology, but in the future this will definitely also be a necessity.

Space tourism is an entirely new market, which is bound to be very popular after its launch.

On the Yixing Company’s side, they definitely hope to sell tourist spaceships, but the prerequisite is to pass the domestic export audit.

The export audit mainly focuses on two points: one is technical issues, to ensure that related technologies do not leak. Another technical concern is that the performance parameters of the ship’s body must be adjusted to ensure it cannot be used for purposes other than tourism.

For instance, some organizations may retrofit a tourist spaceship as a satellite launcher, or perhaps even use it for military purposes.

This is definitely not acceptable.

In summary, for a tourist spaceship to pass the export audit, it must be technologically restricted.

Zhao Yi is quite knowledgeable about these matters; he had contemplated the issues surrounding the export of small space vessels long ago. For Yixing Company, exporting is certainly desirable, mainly because of profit considerations.

Even though space tourism is a brand-new market, even in the beginning, it would take at least a few months to a year of operation to recoup the cost of one tourist spaceship.

And this assumes high ticket prices and guaranteed full occupancy.

If the tourist spaceship were sold abroad, there would be no need to worry about operational issues. A spaceship with production costs of over twenty billion could easily sell for more than one hundred billion.

This price is not at all exaggerated.

It’s worth noting that some of the top luxury cruise ships cost more than one billion U.S. dollars to produce. So a sale price of one hundred billion is, in effect, just equivalent to a luxury cruise ship; but for Yixing Company, it would mean earning several times the profit in the short term.

Indeed, having profit margins in the hundreds of percent is very appealing.

In fact, selling tourist spaceships abroad aligns with Yixing’s positioning. The company is intended to be primarily a manufacturer of small space vessels, not to manufacture them to run tourism and transportation industries – that would be putting the cart before the horse.

When other organizations’ representatives inquired, Yixing’s response was always, "Regarding the sale of spaceships, we will conduct subsequent discussions."

They did not provide a definite answer.

After completing the second test of the sightseeing tour, Yixing was also discussing another major move: establishing a branch in the capital, to serve as the future headquarters.

Yixing planned to conduct all software development in the capital, separating research and development of software and hardware.

Software and hardware are directly related, but the development processes are not associated; they can be completely separated. Placing the software department in a major city can also help the department become independent, focusing not exclusively on providing software support for spaceships and automobiles.

For example, the vehicle software for Unlimited Power Automobiles could be taken out and, combined with the automatic driving technology developed by the Yutu robots, provided to other automobile manufacturers as vehicle software, thus expanding the software’s market coverage.

The practice of separating software and hardware development is conducive to improving the efficiency of research and development.

Establishing a software center in a big city has its benefits. When it comes to hiring talent, the advantages of a big city are too obvious. Unlike in Zhengyang, where the top talent recruited almost all come from other cities, it is very difficult for local universities to produce top talent. freēwēbnovel.com

And so on.

In conclusion, Yixing Company has decided to separate the research and development of software and hardware and has also decided to purchase a building to serve as the office location for the software department.

This building can also serve as the future headquarters’ ’backup building’.

Ultimately, Yixing selected a building in the technological park near the Fifth Ring and spent twenty-three billion to buy it outright.

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Zhao Yi was monitoring the development of Yixing Company while also paying attention to the progress of other companies. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

For example, the Chinese Computer Technology Company.

This company was established jointly by Yixing and Yutu with the goal of developing compilation software for the Chinese language system and constructing an operating system based on the Chinese architecture.

Now, there’s still a long way to go to complete the compilation software, but there have been significant accomplishments, such as compiling thousands of Chinese characters in code and currently working on creating Chinese commands.

Once all Chinese commands are compiled, the next step of developing the compilation software for Chinese commands can begin.

This development is advancing rapidly, primarily thanks to Zhao Yi’s overall control of the development. He can be considered the top systems architect; once he constructs the entire framework, everyone else’s job is to fill in the details.

Zhao Yi still has high hopes for the Chinese Computer Technology Company; he wishes in the future all software could be developed in Chinese, which would greatly increase the efficiency of software development and execution, while also lowering the barrier to entry for software development work.

As hardware continues to evolve, software must keep pace as well.

Domestically speaking, software infrastructure technology is a weakness, and the evolution of the latest science and technology must be paired with the development of sufficiently advanced software technologies.

That day, there was another meeting.

Being in the capital meant Zhao Yi was always attending meetings, as many of the latest technology-related conferences required his presence, along with his opinions and suggestions.

The current meeting was related to Yixing Company, almost amounting to negotiations, as the Aerospace Bureau was hoping to establish some form of partnership with Yixing Company in the "Lunar Base Project."