Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 2279 The Ultimate Pursuit
Through this chamber of commerce, the group company has received a total of nearly 80 DVD orders. This number is very scary, almost equivalent to the total amount of VCD in China in the second year. The profit is much higher, which means that, at least in the next one to two years, Tianyin Group will still be able to obtain very high profits and maintain the positive operation of the group company.

However, Duan Yun also knows that in order to remain invincible in the field of science and technology for a long time, the center of the group company must always focus on the research and development of new technologies and new products.

In early December, Duan Yun visited the headquarters of Huawei, and it was Ren Zhengfei who greeted him.

Facing Duan Yun's arrival, Ren Zhenghui seemed very happy. After exchanging a few simple greetings in the office, the two immediately went to the Huawei R&D Center headquarters together.

After years of deep cultivation in the communication field, Huawei has become the largest supplier of communication equipment in China. In addition to CNC switches, through cooperation with Duan Yun's Tianyin Group, Huawei has shifted part of its focus to the mobile communication field. Last year, Huawei successfully developed their first 2G mobile phone, and gave Duan Yun a golden mobile phone, which also made Duan Yun throw away. 2G mobile phone users.

But in general, 2G mobile phones in China are still not popular in all aspects. One of the most important reasons is that there are relatively few 2G signal base stations in China. At present, they only have coverage in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and some provincial capital cities, which are slightly remote. It is difficult to receive signals in cities, or there is no signal at all, which means that 2G mobile phones cannot have too high sales in China.

However, compared to the earliest mobile phones, the performance of 2G mobile phones is too powerful. Whether it is signal stability or call quality, they are far superior to the mobile phones Duan Yun used in his early years. When it is not fully covered in the whole country, it is still highly praised by many domestic users. Last year, Huawei's 2G mobile phones achieved sales of more than 2 units. This sales volume has exceeded the forecast of the witnesses. In nearly a year, a total of 1 units were sold, which undoubtedly gave Ren Zhengfei and his Huawei a shot in the arm.

43000 mobile phones sounds like a small number, but in fact Huawei has surpassed Nokia and become the mobile phone brand with the highest sales in China. You must know that the current domestic market is mainly based on wired phones, and the number of users who install home phones is less than the whole country. 1/10 of the total population, and the families who can afford mobile phones are even rarer, so the sales volume of 43000 units is already very exaggerated, which directly pushed Huawei to the position of the leader of China Mobile Communications.

The success of Huawei is naturally inseparable from the help of Duan Yun. Duan Yun always controls 1/4 of Huawei's shares and firmly controls some of Huawei's key technologies and the supply of electronic components. On the surface, Huawei is more like a subsidiary company of Tianyin Group, and Duan Yun has always held Huawei's lifeline.

Ren Zhengfei naturally knows this, but he has no ability or willingness to get rid of Tianyin Group for the time being, because he is now more dependent on the weather. Apart from key technologies and raw materials, if he does not rely on Tianyin Group's sales and after-sales network, There's no way he could have gotten that much sales.

Moreover, in terms of the size of Huawei, the current strength is not enough to independently complete the research and development and production of products such as 2G mobile phones. Some thin margins, that's the reality.

Ren Zhengfei is a very pragmatic person, so from this point of view, he is willing to be a vassal of Tianyin Group, not to mention that Duan Yun was kind to Ren Zhengfei back then. If there was no support from Duan Yun at that time, he would not Impossible to succeed now.

So for these years, Ren Zhengfei was the first person to visit Duan Yun's house almost every year during the holidays. Even though he is now a very successful entrepreneur with a net worth of more than one billion yuan, he still has a grateful heart .

"This is the 6110 mobile phone released by Nokia this year. The price in the United States is about 1280 US dollars. In the past six months since its release, the sales volume has been amazing, accounting for almost 2% of the 40G mobile phones in North America." In the laboratory of the R&D center, Ren Zhengfei He picked up a mobile phone with the Nokia logo and handed it to Duan Yun, and then said: "Our products are not inferior in terms of performance, and they have a great advantage in cost and price. People have formulated a series of rules that are beneficial to them, so if our new mobile phones want to enter the US market, we must follow their requirements, and may have to purchase some American components.”

"Yeah, if you fancy their market, you have to take a share." Duan Yun nodded, and then said: "We can use some of their parts, but we must master the core technology. If the company wants to stand firm, it must have its own real ability."

"Mr. Duan is right. I also think that sometimes we have to make some compromises, but in terms of technology, we must lay down the basic skills." Ren Zhengfei replied in agreement, and then said: "Mr. Duan, your The company's DVDs are selling so well in the United States, can you help us open up some sales channels, I think with our strength in R&D and production of mobile phones, we can already wrestle with companies like Nokia..."

Ren Zhengfei's intention is obvious, that is, he wants to use Duan Yun's help to open up the US mobile phone market.

Undoubtedly, with the help of Duan Yun, the technical strength of Ren Zhengfei's products has become very competitive in China, but like all Chinese businessmen at that time, they were more eager to succeed on the other side of the ocean, especially For products such as mobile phones, because China's current communication facilities are not perfect, and the United States has basically achieved the popularization of 2G communication networks, the potential users in the United States are much larger than those in mainland China, and the profits are also much higher.

Moreover, as a technology company, only when its products gain a firm foothold in the United States can it be recognized by the world. This has always been Ren Zhengfei's dream. To become a world-class enterprise and entrepreneur for himself and his company is his ultimate pursuit in life.

(End of this chapter)