20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2889 Qi Xidong's Indifference

He thought about it and felt that Qi Xidong was a Chinese, a student of his father-in-law, a classmate of his teacher's wife, and the teacher's first love. Although the relationship between Qi Xidong and his teacher Liu Qihua was a mess that could not be explained,

I should still bring it up with him and see if we can reach a consensus.

Even if we cannot reach a consensus on ideas, we need to understand each other's intentions, bottom line and ceiling, and try to achieve information symmetry to avoid unnecessary misjudgment and internal friction.

"Brother Qi, what do you think about us joining the WTO?"

Zhao Changan handed Qi Xidong a cigarette, then lit up his lighter.

Qi Xidong was stunned. Just now, they addressed each other as "Mr. Qi" and "Mr. Zhao", but now it became "Brother Qi".

Obviously, what Zhao Changan meant was that they had finished talking about official business, or put official business aside for the time being and started talking about personal relationships.

The word "we" also made Zhao Changan's position clearer.

To be honest, Qi Xidong is not a very patriotic person, otherwise after completing his self-funded study in France, he did not return to China to bring back advanced financial ideas and management methods, but instead stayed in Western Europe to enjoy the decadence of the Western world.

In order to complete his studies, survive, gain money, power, opportunities and gain a firm foothold, he married a fat foreign woman, who cheated on him many times.

Of course, there are gains when there are losses. The fact that he can stand in front of Zhao Changan today and become the president of BlackBerry all started with his choice back then.

You should know that Qi Xidong was admitted to Fudan University in 77. At that time, he entered the school with a bundle of quilts, a mattress pad, straw husks, a homespun pillow and a homespun bed sheet on his back. On the eve of graduation in 81, in order to study abroad at his own expense, his family borrowed a lot of foreign debt.

At that time, Liu Qihua stayed in school, Tang Wenxuan became the vice dean of the School of Economics, and Qi Xiu was already pregnant for several months.

After he resolutely decided to study in France at his own expense, he discovered that the local prices were horribly high, which was beyond his imagination.

That kind of suffering will be remembered by him for the rest of his life. At that time, there was only one thought in his mind: "Persevere, stand out, and achieve success!"

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Including joining the 'Yinnano-Alcatel' Mingzhu mobile phone joint venture last year, it was only because Alcatel's expatriate conditions were too generous, and as the highest person in charge of the Alcatel joint venture, he felt that he could finally hold a high position and make his own achievements, so he returned to China.

In fact, Qi Xidong has been in France for nearly twenty years and has long been accustomed to the lifestyle, working style and rhythm there.

Just as he said, not long after he went abroad to study at his own expense, he ran out of money, and at that time there were no Chinese restaurants that needed him to wash dishes.

"When I was desperate, I met Luminara. At that time, she had a bad relationship with her family, so she forced me to marry her."

In other words, when he was in dire straits, it wasn't his~ who helped him, so -

After that, a few years after their marriage, when Luminara gave birth to Freya, he took his wife and daughter back to his hometown in China, paid off his debts, and gave his parents so much money that they could never earn in their entire lives.

Then in the past ten years, except for the two times when his parents passed away, he never returned to China again, and had no contact with his classmates in China. So Zhao Changan actually knew that Qi Xidong had already become a banana person.

Of course, this is obviously a good thing for North America, which is of Chinese origin and more suitable for both sides to accept and reach a compromise balance.

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However, what made Qi Xidong feel that he was born at the wrong time was that the past two years were the cold winter of the Internet, and there were huge amounts of funds around the world without better investment channels.

Due to the continuous advancement of communication industry technology, the entry threshold into the mobile phone field is getting lower and lower, resulting in a large amount of capital from all over the world pouring into the emerging mobile phone manufacturing industry.

Two or three years ago, the final retail price of a mobile phone could be three or four times the manufacturing cost of the phone. A mobile phone that cost two or three hundred dollars to manufacture could easily be sold for more than a thousand dollars.

With the entry of a large number of new machine-making companies and new forces, this huge profit was quickly compressed and collapsed.

As production increases to spread costs and upstream components continue to fall in price, the most obvious region is China, the world's most promising emerging market.

The prices of mobile phones that originally cost tens of thousands of yuan have been continuously reduced to the point where there are a large number of mobile phones that cost only 800 or 900 RMB.

After Imagination acquired the controlling stake of the joint venture from Yinnano, in addition to the bright spot of the Chinese market, Alcatel's mobile phone business worldwide has also been shrinking and losing money under the impact of this great wave.

Qi Xidong heard a piece of news from his wife that the company's top management was considering imitating Ericsson and first entrusting all mobile phone manufacturing capacity except the Chinese department to Flextronics for OEM, and then looking for a joint venture partner to sell no less than 40% of the mobile phone industry shares.

This is also why, faced with Zhao Changan’s invitation, Qi Xidong chose to pay a large amount of liquidated damages and resign without hesitation.

This time when he resigns, Qi Xidong hopes to get help from his wife and father-in-law and have some of the breach of contract compensation waived.

Because the hospital controlled by their family has had a good relationship with Alcatel's senior management for many years, he serves as the personal physician of the Alcatel senior management.

However, his wife flatly refused, and Qi Xidong almost took out all of his own savings to pay the compensation.

Of course, after Qi Xidong, Qiao Hang and other people who came from the joint venture joined BlackBerry, Zhao Changan gave them sufficient financial compensation in the name of Yinano.

However, his wife's behavior still chilled Qi Xidong's heart. On top of that, his wife and her cousin had been cheating on him for so many years, and even his daughter was not his own.

After taking the position at BlackBerry North America, he immediately began to work on divorcing his wife and completely cut off all ties with her.

"I have not done any research on this, nor am I interested in it. To be more pragmatic, there is absolutely no need to waste a lot of time that could be spent on work. Previously, the differences between China and the United States on China's accession to the WTO were too great, so I did not think it would be possible to pass within a few years. After joining BlackBerry, although the United States finally gave in due to the incident in September last year and China successfully joined the WTO, for BlackBerry, at least within the next ten years, the company will not consider entering the Chinese market."

Qi Xidong took a long puff of his cigarette and said indifferently, "It may even take longer. Since it is not a short-term or potential market for BlackBerry, my consideration is meaningless for the time being. By then, the truth will be revealed without any guesswork or illusion."