Winning the new financial era

Chapter 466
"Mr. Zhang, I have admired your name for a long time, and I am still your fellow villager!"

In a high-end hotel in New York, a 30-year-old Chinese man is having a cordial conversation with Zhang Yida.

Lai Jingping just returned to the United States from Rongcheng recently, and suddenly received a message from a friend that Zhang Yida, chairman of Zhonghe Group, wanted to meet him.

Lai Jingping is no stranger to Zhang Yida. This young man who is nine years younger than him is the founder of the world's most valuable super unicorn company.

The popular Musical.ly software all over the world comes from his company.

So Lai Jingping rushed to New York from her parents' home in California without much hesitation.

"Mr. Lai's hometown is in Rongcheng?"

Zhang Yida quickly switched to the Sichuan-Shu dialect and asked a question.

Lai Jingping gave a wry smile, and replied in broken Sichuan dialect: "Mr. Zhang forgive me for not speaking well!"

As soon as Lai Jingping spoke, Zhang Yida knew that the child's dialect was definitely not good enough, and he was barely even at the fourth level.

Lai Jingping explained: "I immigrated to the United States with my parents when I was three years old. It was not until the end of 15 that I returned to Rongcheng to settle down again."

Zhang Yida waved his hand to show that he was fine, and it was uncomfortable to hear his passable Sichuan dialect, so he simply communicated in Mandarin.

"I heard that Mr. Lai used to be a diplomat of the US Department of Foreign Affairs?"

Lai Jingping nodded and said with a smile: "Before this, I worked in a law firm for a year, but later I found out that it was not the type of work I liked.

I passed the exam and entered the US Department of Foreign Affairs. At that time, I still dreamed that one day I would be sent to China.

But because of my Chinese identity, this dream has never been realized.

During the seven years as a diplomat, he traveled to Malaysia, Canada, and Vietnam.

Later, because of the establishment of this website, I started to translate Chinese online novels online, and gradually fell in love with this job.

At the end of 15, I resolutely quit my job as a diplomat in Vietnam and started to run this website full-time. "

Zhang Yida felt that this guy was very talkative, and he was not at all stage-frightened when facing himself, a well-known rich man. He was worthy of being a lawyer and a diplomat.

Zhang Yida said with a smile: "I'm a little curious, what is the reason or opportunity for you to start it?"

Lai Jingping smiled slightly, "That's a long story, in the summer of 2014, I read the novel "The Change of the Stars" by the Chinese Internet writer "I Eat Tomatoes".

And at the suggestion of Vietnamese friends, I started to translate another work of this writer, Panlong, on the SPCNET forum.

In the process of translating this novel, I have a large number of readers from all over the world.

For the first time, I felt that translating these novels was not only a way to familiarize myself with Chinese and Chinese culture, but also became the object of discussion and research by readers all over the world who constantly "remind" and reward.

Later, every time after I updated the translation, the fans forwarded the link to Light Novel, the light novel forum of the famous American online community Reddit.

The Light Novel forum has always been devoted to discussing Japanese light novels.

Since I started translating Chinese web articles, there have been fewer and fewer posts discussing Dongying novels.

Later, everyone in the forum was notified that any posts related to Chinese online novels would be banned, and only content related to Japanese light novels could be discussed in the forum. "

Speaking of this, Lai Jingping smiled, looking very indifferent.

He shrugged, "Forums can be banned, but people's thoughts cannot be banned. Ever since I opened the door to Chinese online literature to netizens all over the world, it has been out of control.

Netizens urge me to update every day!

I very much hope that one day, all online novels can cross the barriers of countries and nations, respect each other, and live together in friendship.

With this in mind, I set up a website specifically for "Panlong", and attracted different translators to jointly build a social network dedicated to translating Chinese online novels.

On December 2014, 12, the website officially started operation.

Every day, different readers from all over the world are waiting for updates from me and other good translators. In addition to reading novels, these readers will also learn from each other in the forum.

They called "Coiling Dragon" (Coiling Dragon) CD for short, and called each other Fellow Taoist ("Daoyou" or "Fellow of the Way"), discussing various artifacts and titles in the novel.

After the reward mechanism matured, the website also entered a profitable state.

While translating web content, I worked at the US embassy in Vietnam.

I do my job during the day and translate novels at night. "

Zhang Yida laughed and said, "I heard that you are a part-time Internet translator, and you have been promoted from a sixth-class secretary to a third-class secretary in two years."

Lai Jingping shook her head and laughed, "At that time, it was purely a hobby that kept me going, and it was actually very tiring!

Sometimes I have to go to China to discuss copyright matters with major novel websites including China Reading Group.

After persisting for a year, I couldn't persist anymore, so I resigned as a diplomat.

Back in Rongcheng, I rented a very ordinary apartment and worked full-time on translating novels and operating websites.

Because I often eat takeaway and lack of exercise, I gained 30 catties in three months. "

Speaking of this, he pointed to his beer belly and shook his head, "No way, the food in my hometown is too delicious to resist the temptation."

Zhang Yida exclaimed: "So it was born like this!

But what you have done is very meaningful. From a certain point of view, this may be China’s first mass and grassroots cultural export.

Just like people in China are obsessed with "Lord of the Rings" and "A Song of Ice and Fire".

This is not promoted by the Confucius Institute, nor is it a "Dream of Red Mansions" and Lu Xun's novels that are studied in the East Asian library of the university. It is a real cultural transmission. "

"Actually, it's not such an exaggeration. We are a group of like-minded people doing something meaningful together."

Even though he said so, Lai Jingping was already happy in his heart.

He didn't know the reason why Zhang Yida sought him out, but he guessed it should be investment, mergers and acquisitions. Otherwise, such a busy person, would he have time to drink coffee with him?

Zhang Yida asked again: "Can you talk to me about the specific business situation?"

Lai Jingping felt reassured now. He didn't know how he caught Zhang Yida's attention, but he was sure that Zhang Yida had taken a fancy to the world of martial arts.

Lai Jingping introduced: "We have 29 professional translators or translation teams, and currently the website has 50 translated works.

The early income of the website came from reader donations, but now we have started to introduce advertisements for commercial realization, and the donations have been cancelled.

The readers of the website come from more than 100 countries and regions around the world. The top five countries are the United States, the Philippines, Canada, Indonesia and the United Kingdom, and North American readers account for about one-third of the total.

Currently Alexa ranks globally, and our website ranks around 1000..."

Zhang Yida nodded, and asked again: "I heard there was a conflict with you?"

Lai Jingping shook her head, "It's just a disagreement of ideas.

At present, the fan group has just formed, I think it is not suitable
　Thanks Brother Nian Heyi for the reward!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)