Chapter 53 The outside world is not optimistic about it
[Chaoqun Group] suddenly announced that it will invest 500 billion yuan in [scientific research centers] within one year, introduce the world's top talents, and research the most cutting-edge science and technology, saying that it wants to [invest in the future]!
500 billion yuan.
Nearly 100 billion US dollars.
It is higher than the combined annual profits of the three top Internet companies [Yari], [Penguin], and [Qiandu].
Then [Chaoqun Group] said that all the money will be spent on scientific research.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately made headlines in media around the world.
Comparable to the news that [Ari] announced the establishment of a global research institute [Bodhi Academy] in 2017, with an investment of 100 billion yuan within 3 years, the news is much more shocking.
When the news about [Yari] came out, most people’s circle of friends thought that it would cost 100 billion to build a Bodhi Temple and hire ten sweeping monks. Articles like this were all over the screen.
At that time, everyone was very excited, thinking that large domestic companies were finally willing to spend real money to invest in real scientific research, instead of changing their methods every day and creating various festivals with various names or colorful and diverse skins.
Empty people's wallets.
However, the outside world was also talking about it and it was very controversial.
Especially [Ari] claims to “invest 100 billion yuan within three years”!
This was also a point of endless debate among the outside world.
At that time, in 2017, [Yari]'s financial report showed that its annual revenue was 158.273 billion yuan, and its profit was 57.871 billion yuan.
One hundred billion yuan is equivalent to [Ari]’s two years’ profit.
[Ari] Are you willing to withhold dividends from major Japanese shareholders for two years, and then plow all the profits into unknown scientific research investments?
On this point, the outside world is also skeptical.
【Ari】Can you get this money?
That's definitely no problem.
But such a desperate investment is too risky.
【Ari】Do you dare?
There was no answer to this question three years ago.
But now three years have passed.
At the time, [Bodhi Yuan], which claimed to "invest 100 billion yuan in three years, serve 2 billion people around the world, create 100 million job opportunities, and achieve greater success than Ali", did not come up with much that stood out, or really
Meaningful scientific research results.
And [Bodhiyuan] has also become "you must raise your own profitability and be self-supporting and self-reliant".
If a scientific research institution can comply with the requirements of administrative orders, it can produce heavy scientific research results in a short period of time and make a profit!
Then governments no longer need to worry about scientific research funds. No matter how much money they invest, they will see returns.
If scientific research could be like crops, they would be planted in the ground in spring and harvested in autumn.
Then humans should colonize Mars now and rush out of the solar system!
The uncertainty of scientific research is too strong!
It is possible that you have spent millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions of funds, and there will be no sound at the end.
All the investment was in vain.
And you don’t know how much money, manpower and material resources you have to invest in order to gain something, or even if you give everything, there will be no gain.
The pressure at this time is very high.
In the TV series "Ode to Joy", Xiaobao always takes Andy to the research center of their group.
Andy said that the research center is a very expensive place.
Mr. Xiaobao said, it’s not just burning money, but also despair in many cases. I don’t understand technology, and sometimes I invest huge amounts of money and can’t finish it for several months. I have to use my huge determination to overcome the doubts in my heart, and finally
, they often tell me that it was unsuccessful.
This is where scientific research makes people despair.
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The outside world believes that [Chaoqun Group] is just too hot-headed to promote investing so much profit into the scientific research industry.
When [Chaoqun Group] discovers that scientific research investment does not necessarily produce scientific research results, and finds that huge amounts of money have been wasted, they may go back and consider whether such investment is worth it!
With such a large-scale investment, perhaps only government units have the courage to persevere.
As for [Chaoqun Group], as a private enterprise, whether it can have such courage and determination is a question.
The outside world generally believes that [Chaoqun Group]'s move is more likely to be hype.
Of course, there are also people who are on the side of [Chaoqun Group].
However, the news of "500 billion yuan a year" investment in scientific research is really shocking, so shocking that it is unbelievable.
We must know that all universities in China combined have a yearly investment of more than 200 billion yuan in scientific research.
As of 2020, there are 3,021 colleges and universities across the country.
3,021 colleges and universities invest more than 200 billion yuan in scientific research each year.
More than 7,000 colleges and universities are needed to spend 500 billion yuan in scientific research funds.
[Chaoqun Group] A company with hundreds of thousands of people spends 500 billion on scientific research a year. You can imagine how exaggerated this is.
Someone specifically studied [Chaoqun Group]’s previous investment in scientific research.
[Chaoqun Group] is not a listed company, so it will not release its annual report to the outside world.
However, its six listed subsidiaries are required to disclose their operating conditions.
Researchers found that the six subsidiaries of [Chaoqun Group] invested surprisingly little in scientific research!
The sum of the six subsidiaries may be less than 5 billion yuan.
A large part of the investment is the salaries and bonuses of several scientific research leaders.
The actual investment in scientific research is even less.
The researchers inferred from this that [Chaoqun Group]'s overall scientific research investment is very small, and will probably not exceed 10 billion yuan.
In 2019, [Warwick] invested 11.334 billion euros in research and development, [Ari] invested 29.14 euros, and [Penguin] invested 2.235 billion euros.
[Chaoqun Group] has invested less than 10 billion yuan in scientific research, which is less than 1 billion euros.
However, the annual profit of [Chaoqun Group] is greater than the combined annual profits of the three companies [Warwick], [Ari], and [Penguin].
In fact, [Chaoqun Group] is in such a state that other companies are extremely envious.
The expenditure invested in scientific research every year is not much, but the products produced every year should not be underestimated!
This is so irritating!
If [Yari] and [Penguin] could have such an input-output ratio, their stock prices would skyrocket!
Having said that!
The market does not believe that [Chaoqun Group], which cannot invest 10 billion yuan in scientific research a year, can afford to spend 500 billion yuan in a year.
Instead, the market thinks this is [Chaoqun Group]'s self-promotion gimmick.
It’s not that the market doubts that [Chaoqun Group] cannot come up with the 500 billion yuan!
After all, after several major subsidiaries of [Chaoqun Group] went public, [Chaoqun Group] raised trillions of yuan in funds.
So far, [Chaoqun Group] has dispersed more than 400 billion yuan.
There are still more than 600 billion yuan in funds on the account.
This does not include the profit of [Chaoqun Group] in 2020.
The market generally believes that [Chaoqun Group]’s profits in 2020 will be higher than those in 2019.
Anyway, as soon as the news of [Chaoqun Group]’s 500 billion yuan investment came out, the stock prices of [Chaoqun Group]’s six major listed subsidiaries fell. What’s more, they even dropped to the limit.
This world is really a magical world.
[Chaoqun Group] has no choice but to hold this [Invest in the Future] press conference.
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