Starting from a Fake University
Chapter 328 - 221: The Cunning Merchant in a Difficult Position (First update, asking for subscription)_1

Chapter 328: Chapter 221: The Cunning Merchant in a Difficult Position (First update, asking for subscription)_1

Haicheng.

In a manufacturing factory of Dingli Group, a brand-new product has officially started its production.

In just a few days, Dingli Group began replicating and manufacturing Rentang Medical Technology Group’s health robot, modelled after Big White.

Rentang Medical Technology Group named this robot "Rentang Health Robot", and its functions are similar to Big White health robot, capable of scanning human health conditions.

However,

To cut costs, Rentang Medical Technology Group took an extremely simple approach to the body scanning function.

The robot’s medical chip can’t be compared with the one programmed by Mist City Arts and Science University.

In terms of quality and functionality, it’s almost filled with vibes of a fake product.

Despite this, thanks to Rentang Medical Technology Group’s "reputation" among retired elderly, market research found that a significant number of elderly people favor their company’s affordable health robot.

Rentang Medical Technology Group seized upon the elderly’s frailty and their desire for good health.

"Hahahaha, Liu, Dingli Group deserves its reputation as a big corporation; the speed of your production line’s operation is amazing!"

Xu Wei came to Liu Guanghui’s Dingli Group production line for an inspection.

Seeing one Rentang Health Robot after another from his Rentang Medical Technology Group being assembled on the production line, Xu Wei was beaming as if he was seeing piles of gold.

"President Xu, you’re underestimating us at Dingli Group. No matter how big the order, we at Dingli Group can handle it."

Liu Guanghui said proudly.

"No wonder you guys at Dingli Group are considered the big players in the domestic manufacturing industry." Xu Wei joined in Liu Guanghui’s business praise exchange.

"Ahem, President Xu, keep a low profile. Speaking of which, we have already started production of the health robot. Have you been certified for the medical device yet?"

Liu Guanghui asked with concern.

After all, only if Rentang Medical Technology Group’s Rentang Health Robot sells well, will his Dingli Group receive more orders.

Due to the deep cooperation between Dingli Group and Rentang Medical Technology Group, the profit of each Rentang Health Robot order is extremely considerable.

Like Xu Wei, every time Liu Guanghui sees a Rentang Health Robot roll off the production line, he envisions gleaming gold nuggets.

"Fuck! Just talking about the medical device certification pisses me off!" Xu Wei suddenly said angrily.

"What’s wrong, President Xu? Is there a medical device certification that even you can’t handle?" Liu Guanghui asked with a smile.

In the past, whenever Rentang Medical Technology Group launched a new product, they could obtain medical device related certifications easily.

That’s because Xu Wei had connections working in the relevant departments, making the process a breeze.

"Ever since my wife transferred jobs, it’s become more difficult to sway the people up top. But as long as we put in the effort, there’s no connection we can’t make!"

Xu Wei said with a cold laugh.

"I still trust President Xu’s skills in this area!" Liu Guanghui genuinely trusted Xu Wei’s "skills".

Otherwise, Rentang Medical Technology Group wouldn’t have come this far over the years.

"Do you know how much money I spent on making these connections?"

Xu Wei looked at Liu Guanghui helplessly.

"Given the current situation, I assume it’s more difficult than before. This much?" Liu Guanghui estimated a figure, extending one finger.

Xu Wei shook his head.

"Could it be this much?" Liu Guanghui extended another finger.

Now, he was showing two fingers.

Xu Wei still shook his head. This time, Xu Wei stretched out his left hand, all five fingers raised.

"It’s not easy, with such a huge investment and cost, President Xu, have you staked the entire Rentang Medical Technology Group’s fortune on this?"

Liu Guanghui asked in surprise.

"But do you know how much profit we can make this time?" Xu Wei chuckled, "There are at least tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of elderly people in the country who need health robots to take care of their health."

"Indeed, our country’s elderly population is growing." Liu Guanghui nodded.

"Apart from their own retirement pensions, most of the elderly also receive maintenance from their children, which is not a small amount. According to data from previous health product sales in our company, over 65% of the elderly can afford, and are willing to buy our health robots."

Xu Wei said with a proud smile.

"Brilliant!"

Liu Guanghui mentally calculated the immense market size and high profit margin. It was no wonder that Xu Wei would take such a big risk for this.

...

Mist City Arts and Science University.

A few days after Ding Yue led the team back from the National University Sports Games in Shencheng, it would be the freshman registration day for the class of 2021.

Last year’s batch of old students started trickling back to school one after another.

Ding Yue was quite expectant, wondering how many students the Class of 2021 would enroll. The admission target set by the system was 15,000 students.

Ding Yue felt this goal wasn’t difficult to achieve.

After all, Qi Chunsheng, the Director of Academic Affairs, told Ding Yue that the number of enrollees in the self-recruitment plan had exceeded 25,000.

That is to say, even after deducting 30% of students who registered but didn’t show up to school, there would still be at least 18,000 enrollees.

Compared to last year, it could almost double, and Ding Yue felt it might be even more than double.

After all, Mist City Arts and Science University had a lot of bright spots over the past year that attracted many high school graduates to study here.

In addition to this, the promotional video of Mist City Arts and Science University released a while ago also gained the attention of many university dreamers who didn’t do well in the College Entrance Examination.

Whether in terms of qualifications or the learning and living environment, Mist City Arts and Science University is a good choice among private universities.

Of course, one would certainly prefer to study at a public university, but clearly there were many students with poor grades in the College Entrance Examination, scoring too low for public university admission, leaving them with private universities which don’t demand high scores as their only choice.

In this crowd of universities, Mist City Arts and Science University stood out, with its only shortcoming being that it’s relatively "new," having only been established a year ago, and therefore lacks a deep foundation.

After returning from Shencheng.

Due to Yang Chen’s departure, the basketball team of Mist City Arts and Science University was temporarily "disbanded".

Because without Yang Chen, the basketball team lost its backbone, and the remaining players had lost their fighting spirit.

There were no outstanding basketball players to be found in the same batch of students from the sports college.

Out of desperation, the team was temporarily "disbanded". It would wait for the injection of fresh blood from the 2021’s incoming students, and then select excellent students to supplement the school basketball team.

August 22.

Today is the busiest day for Mist City Arts and Science University.

The logistics department is actively preparing the materials for student registration, while Qi Chunsheng from the Academic Affairs department is arranging for each admissions department to get ready for tomorrow’s new student registration.

Tomorrow is August 23, the day when the 2021 incoming students of Mist City Arts and Science University officially register.

Even Lin Zhirou, as the president of the Student Union, was organizing students as an "upperclassman" to assist the Academic Affairs Office in preparing for the admission registration tomorrow.

Without realising it,

The students who were originally freshmen were about to become seniors, and many of them were quite excited, eagerly waiting for the arrival of cute juniors and beautiful girls.

Since it was the returning season, University Town which had been quiet over the summer break suddenly became lively.

However, Ding Yue didn’t care about this.

Ding Yue didn’t need to participate in the admission registration as there were other people to take care of it.

After lunch, Ding Yue and An Yujia arrived at the practical operating base of the Mechanical Department of Mist City Arts and Science University in the afternoon.

This is also the first production line of the Rentang Health Robot, Big White.

The production line is now complete, and the equipment has been moved and almost installed.

"Currently, our Mechanical Department Practical Operation Base’s Big White production line can produce approximately 50 units of Big White per day. However, unfortunately, we don’t have that many students majoring in mechanics," An Yujia explained regretfully while walking around the Practical Operations Base.

"Then how many can we produce in a day if we bring all the mechanical students from the class of 2020?" Ding Yue asked An Yujia.

"10 units." An Yujia shrugged and replied.

"Actually, that’s not bad. For a long time in the future, the Rentang Health Robot, Big White, will only be supplied to hospitals. As the degree of intelligence is not high enough yet, it is not available to the general public market for the time being. The popularization of hospitals is also a long process, so there’s no rush," Ding Yue said, indicating that being able to manufacture ten Rentang Health Robots a day is already very good.

After all, Tong Yihang, Liu Tiefei, and their team only managed to manufacture eleven Rentang Health Robots in over a month before.

"By the way, Wen Ruohan," Ding Yue suddenly turned around and asked Wen Ruohan, "Did Tong Yihang and their team return from their global luxury cruise tour?"

"Yes, they returned to school the day before yesterday."

Wen Ruohan hurriedly nodded in reply.

"Alright, tell them to come to my office later." Ding Yue commanded.

"Okay, Principal Ding." Wen Ruohan immediately pulled out her phone and sent a message to Tong Yihang on Whatsapp.

"Principal Ding, I recently heard some news, I’m not sure how reliable it is, but it’s quite important..."

Suddenly, An Yujia beside him carefully told Ding Yue.

"Oh? What news?" Ding Yue raised his eyebrows slightly and asked curiously.

An Yujia thought for a moment, then bit her lips lightly and said, "It’s like this, a friend of mine in the mainland, her brother..."