Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2889 General Status of the Industry

The Koreans really helped.

Taking advantage of the Meizu incident, Zhou Buqi originally wanted to let people inside and outside the industry know about his huge contribution to the domestic mobile phone industry. Not only did he take the lead in fighting against Qualcomm, but he also set an example for the industry by solving the problem of forced selling of leftover goods.

With this excuse, he can take over the domestic copycat mobile phone industry.

Integrate the resources of the previously scattered copycat mobile phone industry to form a relatively competitive large team. There is no hope for the domestic market, as the domestic market is developing too well, but there are still many poor and worthless countries abroad.

Not just Africa.

There are also Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Bangladesh, Cuba, Cambodia and other poor countries that maintain close relations with China. Forget Iran and North Korea. Doing business with these two countries is too risky and it is easy to violate the US ban on the sale of US goods and technology to Iran and North Korea and be sanctioned.

How much money you can make from this business is secondary.

Mainly because of the great contribution.

Although these countries are poor, they have a huge demand for mobile phones, and the amount of mobile phones they need to purchase each year can reach 4 million.

If Zhou Buqi takes over this market, it means that he can create more jobs, foreign exchange and tax revenue for the country. At the same time, he can also collect some "junk" that is not used in the domestic mobile phone industry, thus greatly reducing the waste of industrial resources.

He is already the richest man in the world.

Making money is not the first priority.

The reason why we still care about this business, including the electric vehicle industry, is that we want to make greater contributions.

This is not only a spiritual satisfaction of self-achievement.

If you make great contributions, you can feel at peace both mentally and physically.

However, it is not good for Zhou Buqi to publicize this kind of thing himself, as if he was showing off everywhere just because he helped Meizu a small favor. Samsung's President Park wanted to do something bad and create trouble for him, so he just happened to publicize this matter.

This industry symposium was held at the Ministry of Information Industry.

After passing by, Zhou Buqi did not enjoy the leadership privileges. He asked the car to stop at the door, and he got off first, and then asked the driver to go to the parking lot. Like most employees in the ministry, he got off in the parking lot.

Coincidentally, I saw an acquaintance as soon as I got off the car.

Chen Mingyou, the current president of OPPO.

Zhou Buqi has known him for many years.

At the beginning, when Zhou Buqi was still a small figure, in order to enrich the products of campus group buying, he specifically looked for three companies of BBK Group, including OPPO. Through campus group buying, he sold a large number of OPPO brand domestic MP3s that were fashionable and popular among young people.

As time goes by, the status of the two has changed dramatically.

"Mr. Zhou?"

Chen Mingyou saw him first, and immediately walked over quickly, stretched out his hands, and shook hands with him respectfully.

Zhou Buqi stretched out his right hand and shook hands with him with a smile, "Mr. Chen? We haven't seen each other for five or six years, right?"

Chen Mingyou said with emotion: "Yes, five or six years have passed, I am old now, but Mr. Zhou is still so energetic."

"Mr. Chen is in his prime, but he doesn't look old at all!"

"He can't be compared with Mr. Zhou. Mr. Zhou's face is extraordinary!"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing, "Mr. Chen can also read faces?"

Chen Mingyou smiled and said, "I know a little bit, Mr. Zhou..." He looked at Zhou Buqi carefully again and said half-seriously, "Mr. Zhou's forehead is red, it seems that there is something happy recently!"

Zhou Buqi was a little frightened.

  I didn’t expect this guy to be so accurate!

Last night he really accomplished a happy event. He served as a groom again and helped Wang Yanan's daughter Wang Yihuan to have her coming-of-age ceremony. Flowers were blooming, and the whole family was filled with joy.

Can this also be manifested by the redness of the forehead?

  Is this because the sun is too strong and the weather is too hot?

The two men walked out of the parking lot and headed towards the Ministry of Industry building, chatting nonsensically.

After a few words, Chen Mingyou seemed to suddenly remember something and said, "By the way, before coming here, I heard some rumors about Mr. Zhou, but I don't know if they are true or not."

"What rumors?"

Zhou Buqi had basically guessed it. It was impossible for the news of him being the groom to get out.

Chen Mingyou asked, "I heard that Mr. Bai from Meizu contacted you?"

"Yeah, about yesterday."

Zhou Buqi smiled calmly.

Chen Mingyou was a little excited. "Mr. Zhou, you... you helped Meizu resolve some supply chain disputes with Samsung?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Yes, it's solved. Samsung has a batch of remaining processors and wants to sell them to Meizu. I helped to say that in business, there is no reason for forced buying and selling. This industry symposium is also to resist Qualcomm's forced buying and selling."

Chen Mingyou said: "Mr. Zhou, in fact, it's not just Meizu, OPPO has also had this experience!"

"Oh?"

"We are not Samsung. BOE has a batch of display screens, which are leftovers from different production lines and batches. The specifications are different. There are about 170 million of them. They want to sell them to us."

"You don't need it?" Zhou Buqi had no way to criticize anything.

Qualcomm, Samsung and other foreign companies can be criticized at will. BOE is a domestic national enterprise and the mainstay of domestic display screens, so it is difficult to evaluate this matter from an objective standpoint.

This is the general situation in the industry.

It's the same in every industry.

As long as a company has a certain monopoly advantage, no company will not use it.

Chen Mingyou said with difficulty: "OPPO wants to transform into the smartphone industry. We will not be satisfied with the niche market. We have a big plan to institutionalize OPPO's mobile phone business. We don't want to lower our product standards by purchasing some leftovers. We hope to make the best products to thank our users who have supported us for so many years."

Zhou Buqi nodded. "Is this a common phenomenon in the industry?"

"almost."

Chen Mingyou sighed.

At this time, I met another entrepreneur who was attending an industry symposium at the door.

This is a big shot.

Mr. Li, the boss of TCL.

TCL's core business is still television, but in the past two years it has also been focusing on its mobile phone business, and even spent a huge amount of money to buy several obsolete display production lines from Samsung, in order to compete with BOE in the production of LCD panels.

Boss Li can be considered one of the top entrepreneurs of the older generation since China's reform and opening up. He is a pioneer of reform and has similar qualifications to Lenovo's Liu, Haier's Zhang, Huawei's Ren, and Vanke's Wang. He is highly respected in the industry.

In recent years, he has also been seeking breakthroughs for TCL, and has gradually developed TCL into a group. Through various clever means, he has carried out management buyouts, and the nature of the company has changed from a state-owned enterprise to a private enterprise. In the past, BlackBerry was licensed to TCL, which allowed TCL to enter the overseas mobile phone market in one step.

It’s a pity that TCL’s mobile phone business level is too low.

The BlackBerry brand is a waste.

After several years of cooperation, BlackBerry saw that the market performance was not improving, so it terminated the cooperation and found an American company to cooperate with. Under the operation of this American mobile phone company, BlackBerry's market share in Europe and the United States gradually increased.

Is there any American company, other than Apple, that is better than domestic mobile phone manufacturers in making mobile phones?

This is a bit too absurd.

All I can say is that TCL did a very poor job. Even if OPPO had taken the BlackBerry brand, it might have become famous long ago.

At this time, Boss Li was full of confidence. After hearing about Chen Mingyou's difficulties, he said with a smile: "That's not easy to deal with. Don't cooperate with BOE. I also have LCD panels!"

Chen Mingyou smiled and said, "Okay, if we can't resolve the differences with BOE, we will cooperate with you."

Saying this is to give face to the older generation of entrepreneurs.

I really don't agree with it.

His plan was that if he could not resolve the differences with BOE, he would go to South Korea, not to buy Samsung's display screens, which were too expensive, but to buy LG's.

LG's display is slightly better than BOE's, but the overall gap is not too big.

After all, the reason why BOE's display screen has made a breakthrough is because it acquired Hyundai Display that year, and it is based on Hyundai's display screen assets, which are all of Korean style.

Today, the global LCD panel industry is centered on South Korea, and South Korea's technology giants have defeated Japan's technology giants mainly by relying on display LCD panel business.

This industry in China was separated from South Korea.

It’s just that BOE’s price is more affordable.

LG's displays are only marginally better, but they're a lot more expensive.

Then, Boss Li also sighed, "Don't talk about OPPO, even TCL has this problem."

Zhou Buqi looked at him in surprise, "No way? Which supplier dares to block TCL?"

"Samsung." Boss Li sighed. "TCL is investing heavily in LCD panels, and it cannot do without Samsung's support. There is no other way. Samsung wants to make a strategic investment in the next step. I have to have a good talk with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission to approve Samsung's entry."

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi nodded. This was not surprising.

Boss Li looked at him with a half-smile and said half-jokingly, "How is it, Mr. Zhou? Can you help me?"

Zhou Buqi took a deep breath and said, "I want to help!"

"Ah?" Boss Li was a little surprised. "Are you really helping me?"

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "This is not how healthy industry development should be. The domestic mobile phone industry is developing so well now, we can't let these dirty things pollute it! This matter must be resolved!"

Boss Li couldn't help but frown. He was different from Chen Mingyou who was secretly happy. He was a senior entrepreneur and said cautiously: "This is not a small matter. It's not just about TCL and OPPO. It's the whole industry. I know you have good intentions, but for some things, you still have to do it within your means."

Zhou Buqi nodded and said slowly: "After I helped Meizu yesterday, I learned about the current situation in the mobile phone industry and found that this is a common situation in the industry. I was shocked. Our excellent domestic mobile phone industry cannot be trapped in such an industrial dilemma. I think it is my responsibility and I should find a way to solve it."

“This is an industry-wide issue!”

“Then I’ll help the entire industry!”