Like many scholars at this time, Academician Ni did not buy a house by himself and still lived in the public housing allocated by the unit.

And it was on the fifth floor, and there was no elevator. Later, Academician Ni was too old to climb stairs every day, so he simply went to Zhongguancun to rent a house.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"

Academician Ni opened the door and saw that it was Song Weiyang, and immediately said happily: "Xiao Song, please come in!"

Song Weiyang introduced: "This is my bodyguard, named Hong Weiguo, a veteran who has been on the battlefield."

"That's the hero who defends the country. Hello Xiaohong, come in and sit there!" Academician Ni said with a smile.

Hong Weiguo hurriedly greeted: "Hello Academician Ni!"

Song Weiyang carried a bulging packaging bag and said, "This is a gift you brought back from Port City."

"I won't accept it if it's too expensive," said Academician Ni.

"You can tell by taking it apart." Song Weiyang smiled.

Academician Ni opened the packaging bag and found that there were more than a dozen CDs in it, including a complete collection of works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and other musicians. He was overjoyed and surprised and said: "This is a good thing! How do you know that I like classical music?"

"Listen to Liu Qiang." Song Weiyang said.

"Hahaha, I've accepted your gift," said Academician Ni, "but it must be very expensive. I will send you a gift back next time, so let's record the account first."

Song Weiyang said: "I am looking forward to Academician Ni's gift."

Academician Ni carefully put the music CD into the cabinet, and a proposal was taken out and said: "Xiao Song, I'm going to say that the country has the intention of vigorously supporting the software and semiconductor industries. When I heard the news, I decided to help make a big splash, which can be regarded as contributing to the development of the high-tech industry. You can take a look at the content first, and sign if there is no objection."

Song Weiyang immediately read the proposal carefully and said, "No problem, I signed it."

Academician Ni looked at Song Weiyang signing his name seriously, and then he started chatting about the progress of the development of China Technology's microcomputer motherboard.

For all Chinese people who do business, the 94 tax reform is an unavoidable issue - including foreign companies in China, who used to only collect unified industrial and commercial taxes, and VAT must be paid after the tax reform.

Before the 94 tax reform, China's tax revenue was messy, and even the central and local governments could not figure it out clearly. Tax evasion became the norm. After the 94 tax reform, value-added tax and business tax went hand in hand, and the two gradually became one.

Why did Lenovo have its own motherboard in the early 1990s, but now it only imports but not produces itself?

Because the tax collection is unreasonable and the VAT is set too high!

If a Lenovo computer with the same configuration is imported, each computer should pay a VAT of about 2.55% of the retail price. If you develop and produce the main parts yourself, each computer should pay a VAT of about 5.1% of the retail price.

In other words, the computers developed by yourself need to pay twice as much value-added tax than the imported and assembled computers (this involves the calculation of the sales tax and input tax, so I won’t write a detailed process)!

Not only Lenovo, but other semiconductor companies are the same.

So it’s not that Mr. Liu doesn’t engage in independent research and development. They think about problems from the perspective of businessmen, in order to maximize short-term profits.

The country must take the blame for this.

Therefore, Academician Ni and other knowledgeable people have been making continuous proposals since 1994, requesting the government to reduce the value-added tax on the high-tech industry.

Song Weiyang's signature today is optional because the Chinese government has realized this problem and will soon ask the State Economic Commission Policy Department and the Ministry of Information Industry to form a joint group to form the following policy: the high-tech industry still has to pay 17% VAT, but the tax amount of semiconductor companies exceeding 6% should be refunded, and software companies exceeding 3% should be refunded, which is a tax refund preferential.

Until 2002, the state simply reduced the value-added tax of semiconductor companies to 3%, and extended it to upstream design companies and downstream manufacturers in the semiconductor industry.

This has led to the loss of competitiveness in the price of European, American, Japanese and Korean companies when facing their Chinese counterparts. The United States has issued protest statements to China many times, hoping to reduce import value-added tax, but has not received any response. Therefore, multinational companies have set up factories in China. China's labor costs are only one hand, but on the other hand, they are to pay less taxes.

"Xiao Song, I'll show you something." Academician Ni said mysteriously.

Song Weiyang asked: "What's it?"

Academician Ni said: "A former student, I compiled a mini program based on the Linux system, which is quite useful. I think China should vigorously focus on the Linux system and carry out software commercial development around it. We cannot let the Microsoft system rule China's computers!"

Song Weiyang was speechless. This Academician Ni was really persevering. How could Microsoft's monopoly be so easy to break?

To put it nicely, it is called Yugong moving mountains, but to put it nicely, it is called overestimating one's ability.

Academician Ni sat in front of the computer, turned on the computer, pointed to the display screen and said, "Did you see? This is the interface of the Linux system, not inferior to Microsoft system, right? It's very convenient and very useful."

Immediately afterwards, Academician Ni demonstrated the mini program and said: "As long as the state supports and encourages enterprises to develop Linux system software, the prospects for this system are very broad. By the way, I will give you this mini program as a small gift."

Academician Ni opened the drawer, took out a stack of floppy disks, and inserted them into the computer in various ways, but the storage content was wrong. He scratched his head and continued to search: "Hey, why did I disappear if I put that floppy disk in the drawer?"

When Song Weiyang saw the floppy disk after another, he suddenly had an inspiration.

U disk!

You can make a USB drive!

It’s not a big deal that Song Weiyang has just realized that he really has no chance to use a floppy disk. He asked the typist to enter the computer and print the graduation thesis directly.

Everyone blames Doudou!

If the little guy can finish the paper at home, Song Weiyang must copy it using a floppy disk and then take it to the printing store. Then he would think of the U disk, a profitable business half a year ago.

Song Weiyang suddenly said: "Old Ni, it is inconvenient to carry floppy disks and may be damaged at any time. If you make a plastic or metal casing storage and plug it directly into the USB interface of the computer, do you think it is much more convenient?"

"Storage plugged into the USB interface?" Academician Ni was stunned for a moment, then patted his thigh and said, "Good idea! If you please make someone do it quickly, it will definitely make a sensation in the global technology community!"

Song Weiyang asked: "I don't understand technology, so it's not difficult to make this thing?"

Song Weiyang really doesn't understand, and he doesn't even know when the U disk was invented. He vaguely remembers that many manufacturers around the world were grabbing patents for U disks, but in the end they were robbed by a Chinese company. In other words, U disks were invented by Chinese people, but Song Weiyang has no impression of what the company that invented U disks is called.

The eggs are delicious, who still remembers the hen that lays the eggs?

Academician Ni thought about it and said, "It should not be difficult, and the specific design needs to be carefully considered."
Chapter completed!