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During the visit to Huawei, Duan Yun and Ren Zhengfei jointly formulated the plan and progress of mobile phone research and development, and set the product release date at the CES conference in the United States in February next year. This also marks that after DVD and MP2 players, Tianyin Group will cooperate with Huawei to launch the third electronic product for the US market.

However, Duan Yun is not too optimistic about the prospect of new mobile phones in the US market. The reason is very simple. The 2G communication era belongs to Europe. They started planning as early as 1982. Years have passed, and it is a global leader in terms of technology and product quality. It is certainly not easy for Tianyin Group to break the hegemony of European companies in this industry in a short period of time.

Moreover, the most critical patents and standards of 2G mobile phone communication technology mastered by European manufacturers are tantamount to establishing an invisible and powerful commercial competition barrier, which makes it impossible for well-known companies such as Motorola in the United States to compete with them. Chinese companies want to break this It is conceivable how difficult it is to build a barrier and occupy a place.

However, this is not completely hopeless. Tianyin Group can produce its own chips and has a strong industrial supply chain. The labor cost in mainland China is far lower than that of developed countries such as the United States and Europe. Therefore, the cost is always for Chinese companies to enter The magic weapon of the overseas market, and Tianyin Group is the most competitive mainland Chinese company in this field, so to lower some profits and prices, the 2G mobile phones launched by Tianyin Group linked to Huawei should be able to get a share of the US market of.

But what Duan Yun really bet on is the 3G era of mobile phones. At that time, real smart phones will appear, and it is also the era of mobile wireless payment.

So from the very beginning, Duan Yun's idea was to "enter the market first, and then grow bigger". By entering the market in advance to participate in the competition in the mobile phone market, he can accumulate enough technology, sales models, and word-of-mouth in this industry, and use the long-term approach to make progress one step at a time. Step by step to achieve beyond, and eventually become the industry leader.

In fact, Ren Zhengfei himself has this kind of thinking, because the deeper he enters the industry, the more he understands the real situation of this industry. Even if the 2G mobile phones launched in the United States this time can have good sales, in fact, a large part of the profits will be used to buy foreign phones. Patents and components are essentially working for foreign technology companies, and the profits they earn are far less lucrative than Tianyin Group's DVD and MP3.

However, it is already very remarkable that Chinese companies can occupy a place in the United States, especially in the high-tech communication industry. From this point of view, Ren Zhengfei is indeed an entrepreneur with a strategic vision.

This visit to Huawei’s R&D center made Duan Yun somewhat emotional. When Duan Yun came to Huawei for the first time many years ago, Huawei at that time only rented a simple house, and the total number of employees was less than ten. The technicians in charge of R&D were all fresh college students who were recruited by Ren Zhengfei by "coaxing and tricking". During that time, Ren Zhengfei had a very difficult time. Without the financial support that Duan Yun gave him back then, I am afraid that it would be very difficult for him. hang on.

However, after so many years of development, Huawei has become the top electronic communication technology company in Shenzhen and even the whole country. The CNC switches they developed account for more than 4000% of the business of domestic switches, and the number of employees has reached an astonishing more than 2 people, responsible for research and development. The technicians accounted for about 3/[-].

Now Huawei's office building is not inferior to Tianyin Group's R&D headquarters, and it has already set up a R&D branch in Shanghai.

Last year, Huawei set out to develop 2G (GSM) wireless communication systems. Due to a shortage of manpower, Huawei aimed at outstanding talents from Fudan University and Jiaotong University.

As a result, we rented four offices in a commercial building on Xietu Road. This was the original Huawei Shanghai Research Institute.At the beginning of this year, at the BJ Communications Exhibition, the second-generation mobile communication system launched by Huawei successfully made a call, and the Shanghai Research Institute has actually become a major research center for Huawei to study mobile communication.

Since the beginning of this year, Huawei's research and development funds have exceeded [-] million yuan. From this, we can also see Ren Zhengfei's ambition. After Shenzhen and Shanghai, he will open more research and development centers in China, and he is determined to become the leader of the domestic mobile phone industry. overlord.

That night, Duan Yun went to Ren Zhengfei's home as a guest and had dinner with his family.

Ren Zhengfei has experienced two marriages so far. The first wife is called Meng Jun. In order to marry Ren Zhengfei, he ignored his family's opposition and moved out of his parents' home. He and Ren Zhengfei rented a very simple small house outside.

Meng Jun is not an ordinary person, at least in that era, she and Ren Zhengfei were definitely not in the same family.Although Ren Zhengfei graduated from university is already remarkable, Meng Jun is a second-generation official who is the daughter of the governor of a province.

Perhaps because the woman's family has a strong background, Ren Zhengfei's first daughter took her mother's surname, which is also known as Meng Wanzhou to Chinese people.

Meng Wanzhou was born in 1972. She was admitted to Shenzhen University through her own efforts, and started from the lowest level of work, charging while working, and later obtained a master's degree in finance.

It can be said that Meng Wanzhou's life is truly down-to-earth, and every step she takes is firm and down-to-earth.This is due to my own experience of living in a mountain village since I was a child, as well as my unyielding and confident character.

Ren Zhengfei's current wife is Yao Ling, who is 10 years younger than Ren Zhengfei, and has been in love with him for a long time as his secretary. Under such circumstances, she married and gave birth to Yao Anna.

Ren Zhengfei's family was very happy when they saw Duan Yun come to their house as a guest, especially his two daughters, who seemed nervous and excited when facing Duan Yun, because all along, whether it was external public opinion or Ren Zhengfei's opinion of Duan Yun The various narrations and evaluations made them admire Duan Yun very much, especially Meng Wanzhou, who regarded Duan Yun as an idol.

The atmosphere in him is very warm. Duan Yun, as a distinguished guest, also talked about his entrepreneurial experience with Ren Zhengfei’s two daughters, and encouraged them to learn more knowledge and lay a solid foundation when they were young. That’s the only way, the future To have a successful life.

It can be said that Ren Zhengfei has now firmly bound him and his company to Duan Yun and his Tianyin Group. The cooperation between the two top technology companies in mainland China is destined to have a different future. extraordinary.

I am afraid that neither Duan Yun nor Ren Zhengfei thought that the cooperation between the two parties in the communication industry would have such a great impact on the entire global communication field in the future.