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Chapter 1338 Epic Gold Mine

AnDian Technology currently manufactures electric bicycle charging stations, but when the era of electric vehicles arrives, can AnDian transform into the electric vehicle charging station market?

This is also a powerful tool for harvesting韭菜 (a metaphor for exploiting people).

Just imagine, gas stations of the past will become charging stations for cars in the future, and charging stations will replace gas stations. What a huge market that is! It'll make everyone envious.

If you add parking lots, automatic car washes, car insurance, car repair, battery replacement, convenience stores, restaurants, and other businesses, how appealing would that pie be?

As long as you draw up a picture of the future and tell Wall Street that what An Dian wants to do in the future is to replace gas stations in mainland China, just draw up the big picture first. Whether you can actually deliver is another matter. Just ask Wall Street if they are envious.
After all, once it's done, it would be the birth of an epic gold mine. As for where the money will come from, well... we can learn from the three major telecommunications operators in mainland China. If we don't have enough money, we can borrow from Wall Street institutions.

Why is it that Luckin Coffee can treat all Chinese people to a cup of coffee, but Andian can't make sure all Chinese people can travel, have access to charging stations, parking spaces, and repair shops? What's wrong with that?
This is a losing proposition—no, this is an epic gold mine. If Wall Street firms help AnTian achieve this, wouldn't they be making money hand over fist?

In the future, people who drive electric vehicles in China can go to AnDian's service centers for charging, parking, car washing, and dining.

AnDian aims to reshape the way Chinese people travel. Just how catchy is that slogan? If it's built, theoretically, it could generate hundreds of billions or even trillions in revenue annually. Even if it can't compare to the revenue of the three major oil companies, it would still be number one after them.

Moreover, as time goes on, the global automotive industry is entering the era of electric vehicles, which is almost irreversible. After all, the cost, intelligence, and autonomous driving capabilities of electric vehicles are surpassing those of gasoline-powered vehicles.

In other words, the demand for AnDian will only increase as time goes on, and the financial prospects will only become brighter!

If that day comes, what will Anhui Electric's valuation be, and how will it compare to the three major oil companies?

With such a huge potential market capitalization that could exceed one trillion RMB, wouldn't Wall Street be tempted?
As for how much money it would take to realize the An Dian plan, that's not something that the philanthropist Li needs to consider. Anyway, the money comes from the pig and the dog pays the bill!

As long as AnDian's pie becomes popular on Wall Street, that's enough. Philanthropist Li can harvest a few crops of韭菜 (a metaphor for exploiting people) first and collect taxes until fifty years later.

As for whether An Dian's plan will ultimately be realized, that depends on fate.

If Wall Street institutions can't stand AnDian's long-term losses and want to run away, then Li the Great Philanthropist will let Dongling High-Tech take over. However, AnDian's scale may be greatly reduced, just to keep it alive as much as possible.

After all, having someone else pay the bill is a completely different matter from spending your own money. Spending your own money really hurts!

AnDian Technology, Kunpeng Power Battery, and Dongke Automotive Division are all derivatives of Chitu Company. In other words, Chitu Company must survive for these plans to gradually unfold.

If even Red Hare himself couldn't survive, then talking about all this is just nonsense and has absolutely no practical meaning.

This is why Li Dongling paid so much attention to Red Hare and Guan Zhenming.

If Guan Zhenming is unable to lead Chitu to success and increase sales of Chitu electric bicycles, Li Dongling would not mind sending in a new leader to give Guan Zhenming more experience.

Next, it depends on Guan Zhenming's own abilities. Li Dongling and the Dongling High-Tech headquarters have done all they can to help!
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Guan Zhenming went down from the top floor of the Oriental Tower to the floor below it. There weren't many offices on this floor; only about ten offices on the huge floor had their names posted on the door.

The offices of Dongke's General Manager Ren Yuefeng, Chief Financial Officer Hu Zixian, Marketing Manager Zhang Ao, Technology Manager Chen Tao, Logistics Manager Gao Peng, Legal Manager Gao Zhiyuan, and Disciplinary Committee Head Zhou Zhengyang are all located on this floor.

This floor truly represents the office space of the powerful figures at Dongling High-Tech. Although these people may prefer to work on the floor where their respective departments are located, they definitely have their own offices on this floor.

From this floor down, the various departments of Dongling Hi-Tech occupy an entire floor for office work. For example, the technology department, and even within the global headquarters campus, there are several laboratory buildings.

The logistics department is also quite large. In addition to an office building on one floor in the Oriental Tower, the global headquarters park also has an independent office building and several buildings for storing materials and supplies.

Passing by offices with signs hanging on them, Guan Zhenming stopped in front of the office named after Zhang Ao.

"Brother Zhang!"

As Guan Zhenming pushed open the door, he put down the bottle of wine he had brought from Shandong as a gift and greeted Zhang Ao, who was flipping through a book, with familiarity.

The bottle of liquor wasn't expensive; the key was that Guan Zhenming needed to make a statement. If he came empty-handed, it wouldn't be fair to his endorsers and supporters at the Dongling High-Tech headquarters.

Zhang Ao's office was simply furnished, without any fancy decorations, or perhaps it was a case of "what the superiors like, the subordinates will follow even more closely."

The office of the philanthropist Li was not luxurious. He did not hang paintings or calligraphy worth hundreds of thousands of dollars at auctions, had famous people inscribe them, or have a rosewood desk.

Li Dongling was like this, and naturally, the other senior executives of Dongling Hi-Tech followed suit. Regardless of their home decor, the offices at Dongling Hi-Tech were all decorated in a simple, modern style. "Just came from President Li's office?"

Zhang Ao put down his book, extended his hand to Guan Zhenming, gesturing for him to sit down, and then pressed the phone on the table to have two meals delivered.

The Zhang Ao of today is almost completely different from the image of a man with a strong sense of江湖 (jianghu, a term referring to the world of martial arts and chivalry) among outsiders. Outsiders know that Zhang Ao likes good wine, parties, sports cars, basketball, and of course, women.

However, few people have ever seen Zhang Ao reading a book, and outsiders would never have imagined that Zhang Ao would put down his wine and start reading.

Guan Zhenming, who had followed Zhang Ao for many years, knew that Zhang Ao's ability to sit in his current position and remain there was far more complex than outsiders imagined.

Zhang Ao may have been rough in the past, but how could he not have changed over the years as Dongling High-Tech has grown to its current size?
Zhang Ao also felt a sense of crisis. New people were constantly joining the marketing department, and talents like Zhu Zhaojiang and Guan Zhenming were constantly emerging. No matter how carefree Zhang Ao was, he still felt the risk of being replaced.

Zhang Ao knew that if he didn't study, didn't improve, and didn't impress others, then no matter how great his achievements, he would eventually be pushed down and eventually leave the powerful position at Dongling High-Tech.

Therefore, no matter how busy he is, Zhang Ao has attended an MBA training course every year over the past few years, and he also reads various books on marketing and management.

Zhang Ao is also familiar with the various domestic and international companies' promotional strategies and the latest promotional models. It's hard to say how much of this he actually uses, but Zhang Ao makes sure he doesn't fall behind and become an "old-fashioned relic."

When his assistant brought over two meals, Zhang Ao immediately opened the bottle of wine and clinked glasses with Guan Zhenming. "Has President Li already agreed?"

"Yes!"

After swallowing the spicy liquor, Guan Zhenming took a breath to calm down. He knew Zhang Ao liked strong liquor, just like the sports cars he collected in his garage—drinking the strongest liquor, driving the fastest cars, and soaking in the strongest drinks…

"Headquarters will fully support Chitu, and the level of support will even exceed my expectations."

General Manager Li demanded that AnDian Technology acquire more land and shops, including land in the city center, to prepare for future new businesses!

Guan Zhenming recounted everything Li Dashan had said, but he didn't even know the purpose of some of these plans.

"Since it was General Manager Li who ordered it, then let's do it. Doing it will definitely benefit Chitu!"

Zhang Ao couldn't figure out Li Dongling's intentions either, but over the years, he had long been accustomed to Li Dongling's cunning and manipulative methods.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand it now, but Zhang Ao is certain that these methods will definitely be useful in the future, and may even be of great use.

After a few drinks, Zhang Ao's spirits lifted. To be honest, in recent years, he had mainly focused on managing his subordinates and overseeing market departments across the country, so the market departments no longer needed him to personally lead the charge.

As the marketing department became more and more formalized, especially the marketing departments in various parts of Dongke, they all began to perform their respective duties. Zhang Ao looked at the reports the most. For Zhang Ao's personality, this was not a bad thing, but compared with the past when he led his team to develop the market, that kind of江湖 (jianghu, a term referring to the world of martial arts and chivalry) atmosphere was much more refreshing for him.

However, Dongling High-Tech is not what it used to be. Opportunities for Zhang Ao to personally lead the team into battle are becoming increasingly rare. If one day he is truly needed to once again engage in a head-to-head confrontation with Siemens in old Europe, it will mean that Dongling High-Tech has reached its most critical moment.

Clenching his fist, Zhang Ao said to Guan Zhenming, "The matter of Chitu is the matter of the marketing department. This time, I will personally supervise the ground promotion team!"

Having not personally taken action for a long time, Zhang Ao planned to take this opportunity to stretch his muscles and bones, lest the martial arts world forget that he was the man who once challenged Siemens!

"On behalf of all the brothers of Red Hare, I thank Brother Zhang for his support!"

Upon hearing that Zhang Ao would personally oversee the battle, Guan Zhenming was overjoyed and quickly poured himself a glass of wine.

With Zhang Ao personally overseeing the operation, the ground promotion team must be charging forward with great enthusiasm. Guan Zhenming felt that the Red Hare project was already halfway done!

……

At the fishing grounds of Yuhe Leisure Resort, Li Dongling was throwing large bags of disaster relief grain into the water while glancing at Xiao Zhiyuan, who was lying in an electric rocking chair behind him.

Wearing a tiger-head hat, tiger-head shoes, and a small cotton-padded jacket made of tiger skin, and covered with a pure white tiger-skin blanket, Xiao Zhiyuan was fast asleep in a rocking chair.

These tiger-head hats and shoes are made from raw materials imported from Russia. As for whether the raw materials are real or fake, Li Dashanren has no idea. Anyway, in the still slightly chilly spring, Xiao Zhiyuan's outfit is perfectly adequate.

Today, Yao Luoying attended a charity event organized by the Zhixing Foundation. Since the philanthropist Li had some free time, Xiao Zhiyuan was naturally taken care of by Li Dongling personally.

(End of this chapter)