Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1799 Turning point of the times

Duan Yun has been suffering from the inability of his electronic products to enter the international market. Although the chips have gone abroad, making him a supplier of internationally renowned manufacturers such as IBM, in fact Duan Yun is only a patent license sold in the United States for a fee. IBM's chips Most of them are manufactured by companies like Texas Instruments, and most of the profits belong to American companies.

Tianyin Group produces hundreds of millions of chips every year, but in fact most of them are used in domestic products, including learning machines, repeaters, and now hot-selling VCDs. It is far from truly becoming a global chip supplier. Businesses still have a long way to go.

Tianyin Group has become the largest private enterprise and electronics company in China since the late 90s. In terms of annual sales and profits, it even surpasses all state-owned electronics companies in China. It can be regarded as the leader of China's electronics companies. But even so, Tianyin Group is not well-known in the world. Compared with Sony and Toshiba, there is still a big gap between internationally renowned electronics companies.

After years of dominance in the country, Duan Yun is not only satisfied with domestic achievements, but has already set his sights on the world. His next goal is to lead Tianyin Group to become an internationally renowned technology company.

The same as Duan Yun's group development strategy, China is also speeding up reform and opening up, and is preparing to embrace the coming globalization.

Throughout the 80s, the mainland still basically followed the planned economy system, but by the end of the 90s, the country had begun to gradually adjust its strategy, and "going global" had become the slogan of the country's development.

There are two main reasons why the country has begun to strengthen its policy of opening up to the outside world. On the one hand, since 1989, the distrust between China and the Western world has reached a peak; A socialist country with a population of more than 10 billion, China is also facing unprecedented political and economic pressure. It is precisely because of the existence of various comprehensive factors that China began to carry out drastic reforms and adjust foreign policies since the early 90s, adopting a relatively With an attitude of compromise and openness, we are preparing to gradually liberalize the domestic market and welcome the entry of Western capital with an embracing attitude.

The liberalization of various foreign policies has made the world's major multinational companies can't wait to increase their investment in China. The investments of General Motors, Motorola, DuPont and other companies that were once stranded have all resumed. Chrysler is discussing to expand the operation of BJ Jeep. , Hewlett-Packard, General Motors, Electric and other manufacturers are launching large-scale sales in all directions. Under the personal supervision of Bill Gates, Microsoft opened an office in BJ. The huge market with a population of more than 10 billion is welcoming with an unprecedented low threshold. The arrival of these foreign capital enterprises.

Since January this year, Sino-US trade negotiators have had intense discussions in Washington on protecting the copyrights and patents of US companies in China.

For months, the issue of Chinese textiles sparked bitter debate, but the impasse was broken before reaching the bottom line of the United States. Under the agreement, China promised to crack down on pirated software and protect patents on agricultural chemicals and pharmaceuticals, while Washington promised not to With the removal of China from the most-favored-nation trade list, the resumption of China's trade in June, the most-favored-nation treatment is almost a foregone conclusion. This news made all the American companies doing business in Hong Kong in mainland China also breathe a sigh of relief.

It can be said that at this time in 1992, China’s reform and opening up for more than 10 years has reached a huge turning point. China has been working hard to restore its status as a signatory to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Once this goal is achieved, it will truly join the global free trade. In the big cycle of the world, this will be a global journey with no retreat.

Compared with the gradual opening up of China, global politics and economics have also entered a new period.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union, the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the East-West Cold War, which lasted for nearly half a century, and the Gulf War launched by the United States made the United States dominate the world in international affairs. Unprecedented speed has entered the globalized business world.

For Duan Yun and his Tianyin Group, economic globalization is a huge business challenge, but also a huge business opportunity.

The most direct challenge to his group company is that with the continuous reduction of some domestic protective tariffs, the prices of many foreign products have plummeted, which has gradually put domestic products that rely on price for sales at a disadvantage, especially Tianyin. The cars and computers produced by the group will face strong competition from foreign brands.

However, compared with other domestic companies, Tianyin Group is in a relatively better position. On the one hand, its products have always paid attention to patent protection. Before the products are launched in batches, they have already applied for patents at home and abroad. Therefore, the intellectual property protection agreement between China and the United States has little impact on their company. On the contrary, many domestic companies that specialize in the production of counterfeit products may encounter disaster.

In addition to challenges, Duan Yun also ushers in a major opportunity, that is, the arrival of the global Internet era.

It was a great technological event, and one day in June of this year, Tim Berners called his colleague Gennaro and asked him to scan and put some cover girl photos into the World Wide Web (www), which he had just invented, Although that Luo really didn't know what the so-called World Wide Web was at the time, he still scanned it with a Mi C computer and uploaded it to C er N's ​​official website Info.ce rn.ch in FTP format according to Tim Berners' request. This is the world's first www website, and also the first picture on the Internet that can be viewed by clicking on it through a browser.

This is almost an era of creation. After 15 years of reforms in China, the world stepped its left foot into the river of the Internet. In this sense, China is lucky.

Duan Yun has always wanted to make a difference in the Internet industry, and now this major opportunity is getting closer and closer. The Internet industry will be the next key project after Duan Yun and the automobile industry.

At the same time, several companies controlled by Duan Yun in Shenzhen in the past have also ushered in an important turning point in their development.

(End of this chapter)