Go Jun, executive director of Intel China, interprets the relationship between Intel and Sichuan province Chengdu in the first financial journal

2003, Intel announced the investment of 500 million U.S. dollars in Chengdu, Sichuan province to build plants. Today, one of the world's two laptops is equipped with a "made in Chengdu" Intel Chip, Chengdu has become the world's largest chip packaging testing center.

"Textbooks for foreign investment"

Go Jun first set foot in Chengdu in 2001-he is looking at Intel's plans to increase capital in China, and "Everything is full of variables." At that time, I only saw a tens of millions of dollar small foreign production enterprise in Leshan, they are the only one in Sichuan to produce chips. ”

Go Jun to our correspondent, as an IT enterprise, Intel chooses cities mainly from several aspects: a good policy environment, good infrastructure, the third is the talent team, there is not enough talent reserves to support the development of enterprises, the fourth is the matching of industrial chain, can not support the sustainable development of enterprises. The last one is the market, the market can provide more opportunities for future products.

What conditions did Chengdu meet at that time? Chengdu High-Tech Zone Development Planning Bureau Director, Southwest University of Finance and Economics Research Center researcher Tang Jichang has "since uncovered": before Intel settled in Chengdu, Chengdu's electronic information industry is "missing core, less soul, no face" situation.

He said that more than 10 years ago, in IC design, chip manufacturing and other industries, although Chengdu has many scientific research institutions, has research and development base and talent advantages, but because of the lack of major industrial project support, the lack of leading industry enterprises, industrial development interaction effect is insufficient, it is difficult to form a complete industrial chain. In this respect, regardless of financial resources or technology have higher requirements, although the local government support, but the force is not caught.

"In the process of entering the city, more or less will meet some difficulties, and solve difficulties or overcome the disadvantage, there are many enterprises and the city need to run." Go Jun a lot of emotion.

"The government understands that companies are particularly curious, and they are particularly willing to listen and constantly learn how to meet the requirements of multinational companies, which fills us with anticipation." "Go Jun a series of questions, it has also made Chengdu officials feel that even" where the nests of the felled trees are moved "will be discussed at the negotiating table – because Intel's values are" shared prosperity with the community ", rather than" we are here to destroy local resources ".

After the 2008 "5·12" Earthquake, Barrett, the chairman of Intel's board of directors, visited Chengdu in June and said it would continue to expand capacity and scale in Chengdu. "We believe that this earthquake will not shake Intel's determination to become bigger in Chengdu," he said. ”

One interesting detail is that in a contact with the Chengdu Municipal government, an Intel foreign colleague casually laments: "If there is a Starbucks here." "The speaker has no intention, the listener is interested, Chengdu city government departments immediately contact the world-famous coffee shop." Soon after, Starbucks officially settled into the city.

On the other hand, Go Jun said that when the Intel plant was transferred from Shanghai to Chengdu, it also faced various difficulties and needed an effective mechanism to solve the problems one after another. At that time, the Chengdu municipal Government took Intel's project as a very important project, the establishment of the Intel Office to provide a one-stop service, so created a precedent, so many enterprises now to invest, are a one-stop service, do not need an organization to solve their own problems, one-stop service to make it more efficient.

In the end, the city of Chengdu to the Intel investment project as a "foreign-funded textbooks", Intel's "airborne" has become the development of Chengdu's electronic information industry a real inflection point.

Essay Business costs increase

Go Jun remembers that when Intel announced that it had invested more than $500 million in a plant in Sichuan province, it was almost global shock. "Where is Chengdu?" "At the time, even some American businessman asked him.

As the world's largest chipmaker, Intel quickly produced a "butterfly Effect", absorbing Intel's "small partners" such as Ren Bao, Dell (13.86, 0.00, 0%), Lenovo, Chihong and other chip industry upstream and downstream enterprises to Chengdu set up factories, including integrated circuit design, research and development, Chip packaging testing and many other aspects, but also a lot, but also make the Chengdu integrated circuit industry to form a complete industrial chain.

And the industry's entry, and the rapid improvement of the past, the economic and social development of Chengdu, the bottleneck of some constraints.

"Such as aviation, Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport has become China's central and western regions of the busiest civilian hub airport and the southwest of the important passenger and freight distribution center, and in the establishment of Intel production base, Chengdu, the small number of shipments." Huang, deputy general manager of Chengdu Airport Cargo Terminal Service Co., Ltd., also remembers: Intel has just entered the city, and the logistics of this town is very low. Since then, according to Intel's request, the airport freight station for vigorous rectification. He admits, "if there is no big enterprise stationed, Chengdu Logistics development speed is not so fast." ”

In Tang Jichang's view, the Intel West into Chengdu is a landmark event, which makes the city's grasp of industrial positioning, not simply vertical integration, but the formation of a "three-dimensional construction."

"Vertical integration needs to lead to a major project, and supporting the introduction of upstream and downstream industries, spend a relatively long time, and the three-dimensional construction is based on the original industry, combined with its own endowment for innovation, the equivalent of the industrial chain to the top and bottom of the extension, do the long, the industrial service radius effectively shortened, investment efficiency, service environment, service So that the ecological environment of industrial development is getting better. Tang Jichang said, if vertical integration is a "clone" of an industry, the three-dimensional construction is "cloning + innovation."

However, there are some problems that arise. In a press conference, Go Jun said: With the development of cities, the further improvement of infrastructure, the environment of business operation is also improving, but correspondingly, the business costs are gradually increasing, including the cost of human resources.

How does Intel cope with the times?

"Now that America recalls companies, South-East Asia is waving to these IT companies, and they may be cheaper," he said. So we must see how we can improve our overall business costs in the local area. "Go Jun told reporters," This adjustment is a kind of advancing with the times. ”