Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 2077 Letters from the North

When he went to the United States last time, Duan Yun signed a series of contracts, including the release of DVD discs, and signed a long-term agreement with small and medium-sized electronic distributors in the United States. The goal is to strive to sell 5000 DVD players before the end of this year , so as to initially open the US market.

Compared with the total domestic VCD sales this year, which has exceeded 220 million units, the sales volume of 5000 DVD players in the United States is not worth mentioning. When the scale of after-sales channels was relatively small, the sales volume of 5000 DVDs was already a very high sales task.

But I didn't expect that after a few months, DVD sales in the United States began to increase suddenly. In the past two months, the American branch received nearly 6000 new orders, and the total sales volume has reached more than 8000.

This also meant that Li Yun had completed the sales task set for her ahead of schedule, and there was more good news from her report on the phone this time.

First of all, in addition to the six film companies of the Motion Picture Association of America that signed DVD distribution contracts with Tianyin Group, there are 12 American film and television companies that want to sign DVD distribution agreements with Tianyin Group. There are more than a dozen copyright partners.

The reason for such a change can be said to be indispensible to Li Yun.

After Duan Yun left the United States, Li Yun did not relax in the slightest. She began to bring DVD prototypes to various electronic exhibitions in the United States. At the same time, she also contacted some authoritative electronic media in the United States. Li contacted some well-known writers and asked them to write some evaluation articles about Tianyin DVD for a fee. This series of measures finally let many American consumers know about this product.

In fact, Li Yun’s ability to make so many publicity campaigns is also inseparable from Duan Yun’s continuous investment in the United States. So far, Duan Yun has invested 3400 million US dollars in the United States. Before the end of the year, he will continue to invest 2000 million US dollars. The total amount exceeds 5000 million US dollars.

The reason why the investment is so huge, on the one hand, is because the scale of the US branch is getting bigger and bigger. The number of employees has grown from a dozen at the beginning to more than 300 today. Advertising and public relations are also very expensive. Duan Yun also acquired a 30% stake in Amazon, which alone cost $500 million.

Next year, Duan Yun plans to invest about 8000 million US dollars to continue to acquire some emerging American Internet companies. With his own foresight, he can ensure that his investment can not only recover the cost quickly, but also make a lot of money in the future.

So now Duan Yun’s business layout in the United States is not only a business layout, but also an investment layout. Now Today’s Voice Group can obtain nearly [-] million U.S. dollars in foreign exchange. Except for part of the money used to purchase foreign parts and technologies, the rest He plans to invest all the money in the US market, and strives to make the US market bigger and stronger in the shortest possible time.

In fact, Chinese companies basically do not encounter much resistance in investing in the United States now, because in the 90s, although there were differences between China and the United States, the relationship between China and the United States was generally relatively harmonious, especially in the era when Clinton was in power. The relationship between China and the United States has entered the second honeymoon period. No matter from the government or the non-governmental level, the exchanges between the two sides are relatively ordinary, and the mainstream media of the two countries have relatively positive evaluations of each other. It was not common in the past, so it can be seen that the relationship between the two countries is indeed more harmonious now.

In fact, since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the world has become a unipolar world. The United States stands at the top of the pyramid, followed by old Western capitalist countries such as Britain, France, Germany, and Canada. The third tier is Japan, South Korea, and Some other U.S. allies, as for China, are still at a lower level in the U.S. global structure. In the distribution of global production, they are allocated industries with extremely low profits and few high-tech scientific research. Division of labor, Chinese goods have always been synonymous with poor quality and cheap abroad.

But for the current China, it is temporarily unable to confront the United States head-on, so it must choose to compromise and keep a low profile. This is also a helpless and very pragmatic approach. It is precisely because of China's strategy of keeping a low profile and seriously lacking in strength. , This made the United States temporarily lose its vigilance against China, in exchange for a relatively peaceful and stable development space.

The current international situation is also very favorable to Duan Yun. Even if his company has achieved great success in the United States, just one or two Chinese companies standing on the global technological stage is not enough to arouse the vigilance and hostility of the United States. Moreover, Tian Group's current scale in the United States is not worth mentioning compared to multinational companies in Europe, Japan, and other countries, so Duan Yun's current investment in the United States should not encounter major resistance.

Standing in front of the window of the office, Duan Yun lit a cigarette and smoked. At this moment, his assistant Guo Kai knocked on the door and walked in, handing a letter in front of him.

Compared with the era when mobile phones were developed in later generations, in the 90s, letters were the most common way of communication.

As a domestic "national idol", Duan Yun receives thousands of letters from all over the country to him almost every year. The purpose of writing to him is also different. Some of them are out of admiration and want his photos. And those who signed, some want to ask him for "business advice", others want to let him borrow money, and some even complain about something happening at home and hope he can donate. There are all kinds of things.

And since the news that he was divorced by the newspapers last year, the number of letters has increased almost overnight. Most of them are love letters written to him by some girls. There are often one or two photos in the letters. The content of the love letter It was also very explicit, so that Duan Yun couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it.

However, Duan Yun basically has no time to read these letters, so he simply arranged for someone to "review" these letters. Although it seems very immoral and impolite to do so, Duan Yun really has no choice, after all, these letters have already disturbed him. Because of these censorships, there are not many letters that can be sent to Duan Yun in the end. Maybe only 2~3 letters a month are worth reading by Duan Yun.

But this time when Duan Yun picked up the letter, his eyes lit up when he saw the familiar handwriting on the envelope.

It turned out that it was none other than Ruixue who wrote this letter to him.

Opening the envelope, a photo immediately fell out of it. Duan Yun picked it up and looked at it, and a smile appeared on his face.

In the photo, the background is the Temple of Heaven covered by snow, and Ruixue is wearing a pink down jacket standing on the snow, with her hands in her pockets, smiling like a flower...

(End of this chapter)