Open an Internet cafe?

As soon as Fang Chen said these words, Duan Yongping and others were instantly stunned.

If Fang Chen's first point is to transplant arcade and console games into computer games to increase the number of Chinese computer game users, this is still within their understanding, but what the hell is opening an Internet cafe?

They still know something about Internet cafes, which is nothing more than setting up some computer tables, chairs and benches in a room so that consumers can use computers.

In other words, an Internet cafe is a business service place that relies on renting out short-term computer use rights to obtain income.

And because most Internet cafes are privately opened without any formal business procedures, the environment is relatively harsh and the personnel are relatively complex.

They can ignore the shortcomings and criticisms of these Internet cafes now, but the key problem is that opening an Internet cafe has nothing to do with Qingtian.

Although Internet cafes, like Qingtian Chip, both use computers as their main products, Qingtian Chip is a high-tech manufacturing industry, while Internet cafes are at best small private business establishments.

And even though the country has introduced some policies regarding Internet cafes, most of the Internet cafes opened now are black Internet cafes.

It can be said that Qingtian Chip and Internet cafes are simply two unrelated entities.

"Mr. Fang, I'm not going to be a naysayer, but don't you think it's a bit weird to open an Internet cafe? I admit that if you open an Internet cafe, it will indeed be able to absorb part of the inventory of Qingtian Computer and reverse the current situation, but Internet cafes are just a service

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Business establishments need people to run and manage them. Not to mention that we don’t have such talents in Qingtian right now. Even if we do, who can guarantee that they can really run them well? Without losing money? Without causing all kinds of messes.

,Unpredictable trouble?"

"However, the more important thing is how many Internet cafes you plan to open. If you just plan to open ten or eight Internet cafes on a small scale, these problems will not matter. But these eight or ten Internet cafes will not matter to Qingtian Chip

There is no improvement in the current predicament, but if too many are opened, both funding and personnel will be a huge problem."

Duan Yongping's questions were like a barrage of questions, bombarding Fang Chen.

To be honest, if Fang Chen was just making a small fuss, he would have followed Fang Chen. Judging from his understanding of Fang Chen and the current difficulties faced by Qingtian Computer, he really didn't think Fang Chen would be satisfied with just that.

A little fight.

Zhang Rujing and Ni Guangnan also nodded in agreement.

They are engineers and scientific researchers who have been dealing with semiconductors and computers all their lives. They never thought that one day they would need to open an Internet cafe to solve the sales problem of their products.

"Old Duan, why don't you worry first? Since I plan to do it, I have my own reasons." Fang Chen said with a smile and a careless expression.

To be honest, Duan Yong's reaction was actually a little smaller than he expected, probably because he has become familiar with his incredible and unreasonable reasons over the years.

In fact, he had already thought about opening an Internet cafe before he planned to start Qingtian Computer.

There is no way. Semiconductors, especially processors, require high technical and capital requirements. Moreover, once you are one generation behind in technology, you will not be able to eat meat, not even be qualified to drink soup.

As for China Semiconductor, the processor technology level is more than just one generation behind foreign countries?

Therefore, he must prepare for the worst.

However, opening an Internet cafe is a very good way.

After all, the desire of Chinese people for computers can be said to be growing day by day, but for most Chinese people, buying a computer of their own is obviously impossible.

Even though the price of a computer host plus a monitor has dropped from the original 10,000 to 20,000 yuan to 6,000 yuan, for most Chinese people, computers are still out of reach.

There is no way, China is still too poor, six thousand yuan is equivalent to the annual net income of an urban worker.

Not to mention that in China, a country where the vast majority of the population is agricultural, the income of most people does not reach the level of 6,000 yuan a year. How many of the urban workers are willing to use their own money for a year?

Use the income you save without eating or drinking to buy a computer?

However, the Chinese people's desire for computers, technology, and the new world cannot be suppressed. As a result, Internet cafes naturally emerged.

Around 1995, the first Internet cafe prototype "3C+T" was established in Shanghai, operating as an Internet cafe. In May 1996, Shanghai's first official Internet cafe - Weigate, was born.

Nearly a thousand membership cards were issued in just a few months. On November 19, the "Shihuakai" Internet Cafe opened outside the west gate of the Yanjing Capital Gymnasium. "Internet cafes" soon became a fashionable leisure activity for young people.

Activity.

However, because the Internet cafes at that time mainly imitated the model of Western Internet cafes, they were more elaborate in decoration and very limited in scale. However, the Internet charges were relatively high, ranging from 20 to 30 yuan per hour. In the 1990s, 20 yuan was not a small number.

, so those who went to Internet cafes at that time were wealthy people, such as corporate employees, foreigners and other elite groups.

As the popularity of Internet cafes and their money-making effects became known to the public, various black Internet cafes sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

At this time, most of them placed ten or eight computers in their small houses for people's consumption.

Even the accounting method is still very backward, manual accounting.

After paying the Internet fee, the boss manually writes down the boarding and disembarking time on paper. Then when the disembarkation time is approaching, he will proactively remind him and ask if he wants to add more time.

In addition, basic services such as instant noodles, drinks, and boiled water are generally provided.

At that time, Internet fees generally dropped to 10-20 yuan per hour, which was much lower than before, but it was still much cheaper than using the Internet at home.

Because at that time, it usually cost around 100 yuan to open an account with Huaxia Telecom. In addition, Huaxia Telecom's Internet service fee was about 16 yuan per hour, and other ISP Internet service charges were generally between 9 and 12 yuan per hour.

Wait, you also have to pay a phone fee to access the Internet, which is 3.6 yuan per hour based on local calls.

Because Internet cafes have multiple machines, they can allocate these Internet fees to each computer, so the corresponding tariffs have dropped a lot.

However, around the turn of the millennium, Tencent's OICQ service was launched, and a series of PC games such as Counter-Strike and World of Warcraft became the first hobby of young people. "If you want to be rich, open an Internet cafe" became a popular saying in the streets. People who opened Internet cafes naturally

It's more and more.

However, at that time, more and more illegal Internet cafes without operating licenses were operating in small alleys, causing many minors to become addicted to games and not doing their jobs properly. Internet cafes gradually became the targets of parents' criticism.

It was also at that time that the number of domestic Internet cafes began to expand rapidly, which triggered fierce competition within the industry. At this time, the competition in Internet cafes was no longer a simple price war. Internet cafe owners began to compete in Internet speed, hardware equipment,

Large-scale publicity and competition on computer prices eventually led to a plummeting level of consumption in Internet cafes.

In the face of desperate situations, Internet cafes have launched all-night computer discounts, time-limited discounts and other measures. They have also let go of management, making Internet cafes a breeding ground for a series of social problems, and Internet cafes have begun to degenerate.

Of course, this is also related to the lack of supervision and policies at that time, plus the fact that the people who come to Internet cafes are middle school students with little pocket money, college students with limited pockets, young people who have just entered the society and are cash-strapped, and the society's low-income people.

Therefore, there is a huge demand base for opening Internet cafes now. It is no exaggeration to say that Internet cafes are in absolute short supply for the current Chinese people.

As for the profit rate, it is even more astonishingly high. Usually ten computers cost an average of 6,000 yuan each, and a small Internet cafe equipped with an Internet cable can easily earn more than 100,000 yuan in operating income a year. This money

After deducting the cost of opening an Internet cafe, at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan will be left.

And this is still the first year. When there is no need to pay for the computer cost in the second or third year, the 100,000 yuan will just fall into my own pocket.

A real huge profit.

Moreover, Fang Chen has many advantages that other Internet cafe owners cannot have.

First of all, if Fang Chen opens an Internet cafe, the computers are produced by his own company, and the network cables are also owned by his company. Don't forget that Qingtian not only laid China's backbone network, but also owns the telecommunications network management rights for eighteen provinces and cities in the north.

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Qingtian Telecom is the only telecommunications network operator in China along with Huaxia Telecom.

In addition, Fang Chen also has a large number of game production teams. There are four significant game production companies in Dongbo alone.

As for chat software like QQ, let alone it. Kingsoft Software under his control is now the absolute software leader in the country. With just one word, he can develop QQ in minutes.

The only thing that worries him is whether he wants to transfer Xiao Ma to take charge of QQ?

To be honest, he has been hesitating about this, always feeling that doing so would be like opening Pandora's box.

Shaking his head, he threw these messy thoughts away. At this moment, the obstacle Fang Chen needed to face was how to build a sufficient number of Internet cafes.

Just as Duan Yongping said, if you want to completely solve the crisis of Qingtian Computer, making small fuss will definitely not work, and he has no intention of making small fuss.

In the first phase, he planned to open at least 2,000 Internet cafes, and the number of computers in each Internet cafe should not be less than 100. As for decoration management and other matters, Qingtian would do all the unified work.

Now it’s troublesome. It’s easy to talk about computer desks, chairs, benches, decoration, etc., but what about opening an Internet cafe?

According to his personality, especially when he knows that the value of the shops will increase in the future, he will naturally tend to buy the ownership of these shops rather than lease them.

To buy two thousand shops at once, with good location and big enough, is obviously not a small amount of money. Even if calculated based on the current average shop price of three thousand yuan per square meter, one shop will cost

1.2 million is needed.

After all, an Internet cafe that wants to house a hundred computers will always need 400 square meters.

And two thousand shops is 2.4 billion.

Of course, the biggest expenditure is on computers. Two hundred thousand computers, mainframes and monitors will require at least 15 billion Chinese coins.

Including the cost of decoration, tables, chairs, benches, and network cables, Fang Chen estimates that it is less than 234 billion, and these Internet cafes cannot be opened.

After all, you must know that even if you own the telecommunications company, you will always have to pay the costs.

At most, we can only say that opening an Internet cafe has increased business for Qingtian Telecom and allowed Qingtian Telecom to make more money.

Moreover, Qingtian Telecom is only responsible for the telecom network in the north, and the south is still the territory of Huaxia Telecom.

In addition, he needs at least 20,000 employees who can run these Internet cafes.

These are all troublesome places for Qingtian.

And this is only the first phase of his plan. If it goes well, he wants to open at least 10,000 Internet cafes.

After all, it’s impossible for him to only consider the first-generation Optimus Computer and not consider the subsequent Optimus Computer, right?

To be honest, he has no confidence that he will catch up with Intel and AMD on the next generation of Optimus processors, so that Optimus computers and Optimus processors will be accepted by the public, and the Optimus chips will enter the positive cycle.

, can be completely self-sufficient.
To be continued...