Return to the exciting era of 1999

Chapter 2161: Stick to the bottom line of Chinese products

"Boss Ji, a large media outlet wants to interview us. Do you want to agree?"

Ji Donglai was in quarantine at home when Zhao Shuying called him. Recently, various media outlets have been sending him invitations, hoping that Ji Donglai could be on their shows.

Recently, there have been more and more speculations from the self-media, and Zhao Shuying knew that the best way to fight back against the rumors was to let Ji Donglai be interviewed. Especially since Ji Donglai had just returned from abroad and was one of the few bosses of large private enterprises, all kinds of emotions were brewing at this time, and Ji Donglai's appearance was very important to stabilize the emotions of many people.

"Let's arrange it. It's not a big problem. Try not to find someone who is looking for trouble. I'm in a bad mood right now!"

The stove at home was lit, and with a small pot of tea, roasted sweet potatoes, eggs, skewers of meat, and local white wine, Ji Donglai could finally relax.

Only in China can Ji Donglai truly relax mentally. Abroad, Ji Donglai always feels that he is being monitored and unsafe.

The next day, a large media company registered in Hong Kong arrived as scheduled, and the media at the door were kept far away by the uncle in the hat.

Ji Donglai also walked out of his mansion for the first time and strolled around the village with the media.

Now almost everyone in the village is quarantined at home. Across the fence, everyone greeted Ji Sanchuan. The reporters followed Ji Donglai with their equipment. As for the photographer, it was a bit difficult. It was very hard to hold the equipment, and it was very cold here.

"Get a gimbal for the photographer, and just walk and shoot. I finally allowed you to come out for a stroll, I'm so excited, I'm worried you can't handle it, haha!"

After asking Ran Bo to prepare a gimbal for the photographer, Ji Donglai walked towards the school wearing a mask. Now the students were also quarantined. Across the campus, Ji Donglai looked at everything familiar.

The principal greeted Ji Donglai through the fence, and many students also popped their heads out of the classroom.

"Brother Ji..."

The children's world is the most innocent. Ji Donglai greeted them one by one, and the photographer captured it all in the camera.

"Besides my own family, I miss these kids when I'm abroad. This is where I started to support when I was in college. Over the years, the school's income and expenditure basically don't require me to invest much."

"Now that we are under quarantine, the businesses in the village have also been affected, so I was most worried about the children running out of food. Now it seems that everything is fine..."

After walking around the school with the host, Ji Donglai and a few others walked back slowly. There were only a few of them on the long downhill slope, and it was very empty.

“Does it take a lot of money to raise a child?”

The host followed Ji Donglai, and this time everyone put on portable microphones, and the host put his hands in his pockets. Before coming here, the host had read Ji Donglai's information and knew that this place existed, but he was still a little shocked when he really saw it.

The six tall buildings were packed with students, and except for the cafeteria and the sports field, all the classrooms were full.

When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, many children ran out to the fence and waved to Ji Donglai in a dense crowd.

"It's better here. The teachers are good and the children basically don't need extra classes. If they were in Hebei, the cost of food, accommodation, extra classes, books and materials for the children would be less than 20,000 yuan a year."

"The cost is lower here. We print the textbooks and teaching materials. The ingredients are directly supplied by the One-dollar Supermarket and the ranch to avoid food contamination."

"Every day, the school is supplied with a cow and two pigs, a truckload of fresh vegetables, at least three bags of rice, and two bags of flour. The cooking oil is also from the One Yuan Supermarket. It is very reliable and is transported and processed on the same day."

"It has been 2000 years since I started supporting this school in 21. Many of the children who left back then have returned to become teachers here. This is the best closed loop in education. They have suffered and will not let these children go through it again."

"The money is mainly for the teachers' salaries. In the past two years, the school has set up a special fund to receive donations from all walks of life, and a special department is responsible for managing these donations."

"This only covers high school. The money for the rest of the kids to go to college comes from these funds. The school's water and electricity bills are also basically paid from these funds, so don't worry..."

Ji Donglai introduced every detail of the school to the other party in detail, and he didn't care how much the other party could edit later.

The host was very smart. He didn't lead the topic to the enterprise until Ji Dong finished speaking.

"Mr. Ji, we know that Yiyuan Intelligent Manufacturing has its own international logistics platform. In recent years, Chinese products have been sold abroad through our platform."

"We know that some companies have some complaints about your platform. Some say that you have detained their goods, and some have had their goods destroyed. Even some products that have already reached an agreement with local customers were destroyed by your subordinates." "Some people say that you don't care about human relationships, and many customers in your system have suffered heavy losses. What do you think of this matter? Is it slander or is it true?"

When faced with an entrepreneur like Ji Donglai, the other party dare not offend him, but that does not mean that he will not raise the issue to a sharp level.

Ran Boyi frowned, but Ji Donglai smiled.

"The rumors are true. We have not only smashed them in the past, but we are also doing so now and will continue to do so in the future. Because only in this way can we ensure that the Chinese products exported from us are economical and affordable, and not the kind that can damage the high-quality image of Chinese products."

"We went abroad in 2005, and have always been committed to making high-quality Chinese products. Later, we built a business platform. Do you know how difficult this is? When we first arrived in Uzbekistan, we built a factory, and the locals purchased some so-called Chinese equipment, such as angle grinders."

"They broke down within a day of use, and some even broke down in less than a day. Our engineers investigated the cause, and after disassembling them, they found that they were all refurbished and used very poor parts."

"The locals don't care about this. They think that the products bought from China are made in China. So from that time on, I gave a strict order to our e-commerce platform that only products with good quality must be sold."

"Merchants who join our platform must first sign an agreement, a product quality assurance agreement. If they cannot guarantee this, once we find out, we will directly destroy the products and will not compensate them."

"I don't mind people saying I'm overbearing, because I'm not the first person to say that. We also purchase Chinese engineering equipment from local sources when we're abroad, and we know the anger of buying fakes or refurbished machines."

"In the early days, we even had to purchase electric drills from China, which were very expensive. Now when we are working abroad, we only need to purchase equipment from our platform or from local high-quality merchants, no problem."

"Our platform has already achieved one thing locally. Local people ask us for authorization. As long as we issue them our platform authorization logo, they will sell their products very well. Some people even secretly put up fake logos. So I think our approach is worthwhile..."

When talking about the business strategies overseas in recent years, Ji Donglai spoke in a very calm tone.

From 2005 to now, Ji Donglai has lost count of how many counterfeit Chinese products he has had his men smash, although it is impossible to completely ban them. But Ji Donglai has held on, even though many disputes have arisen over the years.

Ji Donglai took the opportunity to talk about how domineering he was when he built the school behind him. He broke the builder's kneecap and he doesn't regret it now.

Now because of the mask incident, many private sellers have cut off their channels to go abroad, and more people rely on Ji Donglai's e-commerce platform for purchases.

Gradually, this group of people began to approve of Ji Donglai's approach, because although the goods purchased from here are a little more expensive, the quality is absolutely guaranteed.

Even if foreigners come to complain, the platform will manage it.

Only with such strict terms in place did Ji Donglai have the confidence to deal with the locals.

"Have you counted how much equipment was destroyed? Our netizens are watching the show too!"

The host was surprised and gave Ji Donglai a sly smile while holding his mobile phone. Ji Donglai had actually discovered it a long time ago, but did not point it out.

"I do have 30 million, and I can't control the rest, but the ones that come out through my platform must be of good quality."

Speaking of this number, Ji Donglai is actually being conservative. It is about right to drop this number every year.

"Boss Ji, some netizens said that the consumption level of people in some regions is just like this. Why not meet the needs of local people? Especially some second-hand equipment, which is actually good. Selling it to them can also help us digest these excess production capacity in China. Isn't that good?"

The director was helping the host to screen, while Ji Donglai was walking on the asphalt road in the countryside with his hands behind his back, always with a smile on his face.

"There are three types of people who say this. The first type has never been abroad. The second type is second-hand equipment sellers. There are such merchants on our e-commerce platform. We have seized a lot of such equipment and eventually sold it locally as scrap metal. The third type is those who have achieved great results by selling second-hand domestic equipment abroad in the past."

"Of these three types of people, the last type is purely bad. Let me give you an example. Our group also has its own industry in Africa. When we first entered the African market, we saw old European trucks all over the streets."

"There are still some Chinese equipment that are broken down. The locals pointed at the Chinese equipment and told us that your equipment is not good, and European equipment is better and not bad!"

"We were very surprised to find that many of the cars were produced in 1978. They were taken overseas by the third type of people we mentioned above and sold to people abroad."

"They sold them as new equipment, but in fact they were almost scrapped in China. Africans want cheap equipment, and they cater to this mentality."

(End of this chapter)