Reborn since 1993

Chapter 1253: Driving the tiger and swallowing the wolf
Li Dongling rubbed his cheeks. Shenzhou Global Communication can be said to be the real test of Dongling High-Tech's mobilization capabilities!
Returning to the mobile phone industry sounds easy, but in reality, Dongling Hi-Tech faces fierce competition from numerous rivals, including Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Samsung, and Sony.

Furthermore, Dongling Hi-Tech will also have to contend with the PHS mobile phone camp, led by Xiaolingtong, which it had personally nurtured!

Everyone knows that PHS (Personal Handyphone System) is not doing well in the future, but right now, PHS is still quite competitive due to its low call rates, and it is the first mobile phone that many young people in China buy.

With wolves in front and tigers behind, that's the predicament Shenzhou mobile phones are facing.

This will test the mobilization capabilities of the entire Dongling Hi-Tech Group. In this battle, Dongling Hi-Tech Group must exert all its capabilities and unleash all its strength to carve out a bloody path for itself in the mobile phone industry!

To be honest, the press conference was just a pretext. The real test is how many people are willing to buy Shenzhou Global Pass after the press conference. Sales volume is the key!
"Following the launch of Shenzhou Global Connect, Dongling Hi-Tech will now allocate all its resources and channels to Shenzhou mobile phones!"

Whether it's Focus Media, Wanjia Appliances' offline channels, Dongling High-Tech's telecom channel agents, TV shopping platforms, or Tianya's internet channels, they all need to start promoting Shenzhou Global Pass mobile phones.

Shenzhou Global Pass can partner with mainland China's telecom operators to launch contract phones, and it can also cooperate with other telecom operators overseas!

Li Dongling said that before the rise of e-commerce platforms, it was common for mobile phone manufacturers to cooperate with operators to launch customized or contract phones.

In the era of the four major mobile phone giants, ZTE, Huawei, Coolpad, and Lenovo, these four mobile phone brands cooperated with domestic telecommunications operators and sold their phones through operator stores that were ubiquitous throughout the city.

Offering free mobile phones with top-up credit is a characteristic of this era. In fact, it seems that Dongling Hi-Tech started this trend. Back then, Dongling Hi-Tech partnered with Pacific Bell to promote Shenzhou digital cordless phones in America, pioneering this approach.

Many overseas mobile phone manufacturers have now learned the trick of giving away eggs and partnering with local operators. Telecommunication operators are huge distributors, and Dongling High-Tech certainly cannot miss out on this opportunity.

Li Dongling's meaning was very clear: Dongling Hi-Tech was going to use all its offline and online channels to promote Shenzhou Global Pass mobile phones.

"Then we need to give distributors more profit; their commissions and bonuses need to be higher than those offered by our competitors!"

Ren Yuefeng said, "So many mobile phone brands want to cooperate with telecommunications operators, so why do telecommunications operators promote the Shenzhou brand instead of other mobile phone brands?"

Besides selling more phones than other brands, Shenzhou Global Pass also offers higher commissions to operators than its competitors, which motivates operators' stores and staff to promote and sell the products.

"Give them to them!"

"Shenzhou Global Pass is Dongling High-Tech's first product after returning to the mobile phone industry, and it must be a hit to open up the market!"

Li Dongling stated directly that the Shenzhou Global Pass costs $900, which is equivalent to 7200 RMB.

This price tag definitely places it as a high-end phone; even in America and traditional Europe, it wouldn't be considered cheap.

Similarly, the profit margin is high enough compared to other mobile phones, allowing for a larger share to be given to distributors, enabling them to promote Shenzhou Global Pass mobile phones.

If you sell a phone, that's called sales volume, which can be converted into cash. If you can't sell it, it becomes a loss!

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The familiar conference building of Pingyang Dongling High-tech Industrial Park has become a place where Feng Miaoyu, editor-in-chief of Yanjing Business Daily, feels like she is revisiting a familiar place.

This time, Feng Miaoyu personally led the team to Pingyang for interviews and reporting. Every time she comes to Pingyang, Feng Miaoyu feels that she needs to get to know this city again.

Pingyang's urban area is much smaller than that of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other major cities. The changes in these big cities are subtle and gradual, and it is only when you look back many years later that you realize how much the world has changed.

Emerging cities like Shenzhen and Pingyang, whose original urban areas were quite small, are now undergoing massive construction and expansion. Even if you come back after only a few months, let alone after a year or two, you will find that they have changed drastically.

Feng Miaoyu has special feelings for Pingyang. Just as she witnessed Pingyang's development, Pingyang also witnessed her transformation from a junior reporter to the editor-in-chief of the Yanjing Business Daily.

Deep down, Feng Miaoyu also had a feeling that this was the city destined for her.

"Sister Miaoyu!"

When Feng Miaoyu heard someone call her, she turned around and saw a short-haired girl. She called out to her with great surprise.

"Lu Shan!"

Feng Miaoyu didn't expect to run into an acquaintance today. The person was a reporter from Science and Technology Digest. The two first met at the Pingyang Dongling High-tech press conference.

Feng Miaoyu and Lu Shan both work for newspapers in Yanjing and often visit each other, so they are considered acquaintances. They just didn't expect to run into each other here.

"Sister Miaoyu, you're leading the team here personally this time?"

As soon as Lu Shan came up, she casually took Feng Miaoyu's arm. Upon seeing Feng Miaoyu, she knew she had found a powerful patron. The Beijing Business Daily had an extraordinary relationship with Dongling High-Tech, being one of Dongling High-Tech's major state-owned media outlets and mouthpieces in China.

Following Feng Miaoyu, Lu Shan knew that she wouldn't have to worry about anything else; Dongling High-Tech would reserve the best location and resources for the Beijing Business Daily.

Seeing Lu Shan, Feng Miaoyu couldn't help but think of her younger sister, Feng Miaoyu, whom she had raised single-handedly. With a touch of affection, she gently ruffled Lu Shan's hair. "Besides attending the press conference, I'm here because the Beijing Business Daily wants to do an exclusive interview with Dongling to witness the birth of the first privately-owned Fortune Global 500 company in inland China!" Feng Miaoyu said to Lu Shan.

"Fortune 500?"

Lu Shan, who was clinging to Feng Miaoyu's arm, was stunned for a moment, then her eyes widened. "Sister Miaoyu, you're saying that Dongling High-Tech is going to become one of the world's top 500 companies?"

Seeing Lu Shan's shock, even as a media professional, Feng Miaoyu knew how much of a storm this news would cause in China if it were released.

According to information obtained from the Yanjing Business Daily, Fortune magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, Asiaweek and other media outlets are all considering including Dongling High-Tech in this year's Fortune Global 500 list!
The Yanjing Business Daily is making some preparations in advance!

Feng Miaoyu said that, according to the trend, Dongling High-Tech was expected to reach the threshold of the world's top 500 companies last year.

However, the Southeast Asian financial crisis hit, causing the Southeast Asian market to collapse. This dragged down Dongling Hi-Tech's performance by more than 30% last year, preventing it from making it into the Fortune Global 500.

This year, Dongling Hi-Tech has experienced explosive growth since its establishment, and media outlets such as Fortune magazine have unanimously included Dongling Hi-Tech in their lists.

If Dongling Hi-Tech doesn't make the list, how can other Asian technology companies be included? Wouldn't that make Fortune magazine seem unprofessional and overly simplistic?
So this year, even though Dongling Hi-Tech is not a listed company and Fortune magazine and others cannot obtain Dongling Hi-Tech's specific revenue data, they still have to guess and inflate its figures to get it into the Fortune Global 500!
If Dongling Hi-Tech can't even make the list, how can American Cisco and American Online make it? In terms of revenue alone, Cisco might not even be able to beat Dongling Hi-Tech.

Even if Fortune magazine were to manipulate things, it couldn't fool the whole world; it had to at least be able to justify its claims.

Listening to Feng Miaoyu's words, Lu Shan thought that if Dongling High-Tech could enter the world's top 500 this year, it would definitely be a new record in the history of domestic science and technology!
Feng Miaoyu and Lu Shan followed the crowd into the conference building. There were quite a few people there to watch the excitement, all curious about what kind of products Dongling Hi-Tech would release.

A large number of reporters and media personnel came, along with many electronics enthusiasts, all drawn by curiosity.

"I heard that once Dongling Hi-Tech's new global headquarters is completed, all of Dongling Hi-Tech's product launches will be moved to the conference center of the new headquarters building!"

Lu Shan told Feng Miaoyu that she had heard rumors that once the Oriental Tower, the headquarters of Dongling High-Tech, was completed, all of Dongling High-Tech's headquarters departments would be moved there.

Upon hearing this, Feng Miaoyu was taken aback. She looked towards the conference hall in front of her, which could accommodate less than two thousand people. This was the place where Dongling High-Tech had released one best-selling product after another, but things had changed after all.

As usual, when the press conference began, the lights in the venue dimmed, and then the lights slowly focused on the stage.

After the emcee gave a routine speech, he suddenly raised his voice and invited Mr. Li, the philanthropist, to the stage.

When Li Dongling stood on the stage, the media reporters, spies sent by various computer and electronics companies, and all the cameras were fixed on him.

Today's press conference was broadcast online via text. Representatives from Tianya Forum and China.com were present, while Sohu, Sina, NetEase, and others showed up uninvited, eager not to miss out on this wave of buzz in the electronics industry.

"Every encounter is a reunion after a long separation, and the best arrangement!"

Standing on the stage at the press conference, Li Dongling said, "I am very happy to meet everyone here for the third time this year!"

"Here, right here, Dongling Hi-Tech has launched many new products, but today's launch event is quite special."

I prefer to call today's press conference...

Li Dongling turned his head and looked at the huge curtain behind him. Then the curtain lit up, and two words were written on it in the style of golden spears and iron horses: "Return"!
"Today's press conference is being held simultaneously worldwide, with press conferences also taking place in Barcelona and New York."

And those of you here today were among the first to see Dongling Hi-Tech's new product.

This is Dongling Hi-Tech's last new product of the year, and also Dongling Hi-Tech's year-end gift to all users: the Hasee Global Pass mobile phone!

When Li Dongling uttered the words "Shenzhou Global Pass Mobile Phone," and a photo of Shenzhou Global Pass appeared on the backdrop behind him, the press conference seemed to freeze in time, falling into complete silence.

But then, a huge booming sound echoed throughout the press conference.

The shock isn't the emergence of Shenzhou Global Pass, but rather Dongling Hi-Tech's return to the mobile phone industry. This is definitely the most explosive bombshell in the mobile phone industry this year.

When they heard that Dongling Hi-Tech's new product was a mobile phone, Liu Jun, the technical manager of Lianxiang Technology Department, Du Heping, the technical manager of Great Wall Computer, and a group of people in the computer industry breathed a sigh of relief. Some even clapped and celebrated. It is conceivable how much pressure their competitors in the computer industry were under.

Conversely, the representatives from various mobile phone manufacturers, including UTStarcom, Bird, and Kejian, all had increasingly serious expressions.

These people in the mobile phone industry really have nothing to laugh about; the former king of the mainland mobile phone industry has returned.

Looking back on the days when Dongling Hi-Tech dominated the mobile phone industry with its PHS phones, how could they possibly be happy when they had to pay six or seven yuan in patent fees and component orders for every ten yuan they earned? Now that their "big daddy" is back, it's no wonder they can't laugh!

At the same time, news of Dongling Hi-Tech's return to the mobile phone industry was quickly spread by several major portal websites.

The entire mainland mobile phone industry was suddenly shaken as if by a major earthquake. Not only the domestic mobile phone industry was affected, but also Japan Telephone and Telegraph Company received this "good" news immediately.

　Sorry for the late update!
　　
　
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