306: Chapter 306 Industrial Upgrading: One Person Leads a County to Success

Lu Li looked at the list of advertising quotes and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Advertising money during the Spring Festival is indeed too easy to make."

Su Qingxue couldn't help but smile as well.

"Currently, the discussions online about the Virtual Helmet Spring Festival Gala have completely exploded."

She swiped to the trending search page to show Lu Li.

Among the top ten trending searches, at least four or five were related to Guanghui Technology.

[Virtual Spring Festival Gala Town]

[Firework Car Battle Red Packets]

[Guanghui Technology Giving New Year Money to Children Nationwide]

[This Year's Spring Festival Gala Is Finally Not Boring]

[My Parents Praised Me for Playing Games for the First Time]

When Lu Li saw the last entry, his expression became a bit strange.

"My parents praised me for playing games for the first time?"

Su Qingxue tapped open the comment section.

"The popularity of this entry is rising very quickly."

"Many parents were originally worried that their children would get addicted to wearing the Virtual Helmets."

"But after tonight, the public opinion online has completely shifted."

Because many parents found out that their children weren't just huddled in their rooms alone scrolling through short videos.

Instead, they were watching the lantern festival and listening to shows in the virtual town.

Interacting with peers and participating in Spring Festival activities together.

They even earned red packets from the games.

Some children, after getting their red packets, immediately sent a small gift to their parents.

Some children used their red packets in the virtual store to buy massage chairs and sent them to their parents working out of town.

And some children, who usually had nothing in common to talk about with their parents, dragged them into the virtual town tonight to watch the fireworks together.

Su Qingxue tapped on a long comment.

It was posted by a mother.

It had incredibly high engagement.

"My son is thirteen this year. Usually on New Year's Eve, he only knows how to hold his phone and scroll through videos. Whenever I ask him to watch the Spring Festival Gala with us, he always gets impatient."

"But this year is different."

"He put on the Virtual Helmet and entered the Spring Festival Gala Town. First, he watched fireworks with his classmates, and then he played the Firework Car Battle, earning over thirty yuan in red packets."

"In the end, he actually used the red packet money to buy me a bouquet of carnations on a food delivery platform."

"When he handed me the flowers, he even awkwardly said 'Happy New Year'."

"My tears almost fell at that moment."

"I never expected that a tech product could actually allow my teenage son and me to share the feeling of the New Year again."

Countless replies followed below.

"Same with my family! In the past, she would cry 'boring' as soon as the Spring Festival Gala started. This year, she played wildly in the virtual town for two hours and even dragged me along to watch the lantern festival."

"My daughter earned twenty yuan in red packets and insisted on buying a scarf for her dad, saying he works hard in the winter. My husband was deeply moved."

"If nothing else, Guanghui Technology is really thoughtful this time. The kids played, but after playing, they still knew to send blessings to their families."

"I used to think the Virtual Helmet was just a game console, but now I find it really seems to create a new sense of companionship."

"This year my parents are back in our hometown, while I've been working abroad for many years. When the three of us met up in the virtual Spring Festival Gala Town, I really couldn't hold it in and burst into tears."

"I suggest Guanghui Technology prepare this in advance next year instead of doing it last minute. This thing has a much stronger sense of interaction than the real Spring Festival Gala."

"I declare that the Firework Car Battle is the new era of grabbing red packets. My son earned over eighty yuan tonight, which is more than the New Year money I got when I was a kid."

"LMAO, my mom originally wouldn't let me play with the helmet. But after I sent her a red packet, she's now asking if I can play on the first day of the Lunar New Year."

"Guanghui Technology's way of distributing money is much more sophisticated than those brands that only know how to shove ads down our throats."

Su Qingxue read these comments aloud to Lu Li.

As Lu Li listened, his expression gradually became somewhat subtle.

In the past, when he spent money, it was mostly for technology, production capacity, R&D, market, and strategic layout.

If he needed to buy factories, he bought factories.

If he needed to build R&D centers, he built R&D centers.

If he needed to subsidize users, he subsidized users.

To him, money was more often just the fuel to keep projects running forward.

But this time was different.

He had simply returned a portion of the advertising fees to the users, giving countless children and young people an extra sum of New Year money during the Spring Festival.

Yet, it resulted in so much genuine feedback online.

Someone spoke an extra word to their parents because of it.

Someone bought a small gift for their family because of it.

Someone watched a virtual firework display with their family from a foreign land because of it.

This feeling was completely different from simply earning billions in advertising fees.

Lu Li suddenly felt that throwing money around like this was indeed quite satisfying.

No wonder back then, Liu Dong of Jingmao Shopping was remembered by so many people when he took his wife, Sister Milk Tea, back to his hometown to distribute money to the village elders.

Once money reaches a certain level, the excitement brought by the numbers themselves becomes lower and lower.

Instead, seeing that the money spent actually changed some people's lives is what brings a more direct sense of fulfillment.

Su Qingxue glanced at him, as if guessing his thoughts.

She suddenly said:

"Actually, you've already done quite a lot for your hometown over the years."

Lu Li was stunned for a moment.

"Why bring this up all of a sudden?"

Su Qingxue said calmly:

"I just feel like you've never really taken these matters to heart."

Lu Li didn't speak. It was all minor charity work, so he naturally didn't pay it much mind.

He wouldn't use charity as an excuse to demand anything from his hometown.

Su Qingxue continued:

"When the Beining City smart city project was launched, you specifically made a request."

"At least fifty percent of the recruitment for relevant positions must lean toward the cities and counties surrounding Beining City."

"We can't let all the benefits be sucked away by the big cities."

This request initially caught quite a few people by surprise.

Because in terms of business efficiency, Guanghui Technology could completely filter and select the most outstanding and mature talents from across the country.

That way, training costs would be lower.

Staff would get up to speed faster.

And project progress would be smoother.

But Lu Li was very persistent at the time.

He believed that a smart city wasn't just about making the city itself more advanced.

It also had to allow ordinary people in the surrounding areas to enjoy the dividends of the era.

Once this policy was implemented, tens of thousands of new jobs were directly created in Beining City and its surrounding areas.

The county where Lu Li's hometown was located was naturally within this radius of influence.

Many young people who had originally been working out of town returned to their hometowns because of Guanghui Technology's projects.

They no longer needed to travel to coastal cities to work in factories.

Nor did they have to go the entire year without seeing their parents and children.

Right at their doorstep, they could find jobs with decent pay and stable prospects.

Later, Lu Li built a Guanghui Technology Robot production branch factory near his hometown.

Although this branch factory wasn't a core R&D base or a top-secret production line, to the local area, it was already a massive industrial upgrade.

Originally, the best jobs in that county were probably civil servants, teachers, doctors, and a few traditional factory positions.

But once the Guanghui Technology branch factory was established, the entire county's industrial structure was pulled up.

Logistics companies came.

Component suppliers came.

Vocational and technical schools added majors in Robot maintenance and intelligent manufacturing.

Surrounding businesses such as catering, lodging, rentals, and supermarkets were all boosted.

Even the housing prices in the county stabilized.

Those young people who used to drift outside began to reconsider returning home to buy houses, get married, and work.

Hearing Su Qingxue say this, Lu Li actually felt a bit uncomfortable.

Because to him, these things were often just done in passing.

He never thought about building a public persona for himself.

Much less did he think about having his hometown revere him like some legendary figure.

But the problem was, the people back in his hometown didn't think that way.

Chen Wanqing suddenly chimed in at this moment.

"You don't say."

"Someone from the village actually called me a few days ago."

Hearing this, Lu Li suddenly had a bad premonition.

He looked at Chen Wanqing.

"What call?"

Chen Wanqing's expression was a bit odd.

"The village committee over there is currently discussing something."

Lu Li's eyelid twitched.

"What is it?"