Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 334: The Domineering CEO Beyond Imagination
In mid-January, Xu Shenxue went to inspect the Weiku Electronics Building, which was previously the Qianshan Insurance Building. It was once acquired by Zhiyun Group and used as the company's headquarters.

After the Zhiyun Group headquarters park was completed, the Zhiyun Group headquarters moved to the headquarters park. Weiku Electronics spent a certain amount of money to acquire this building from Zhiyun Group, and then used it as the headquarters building and renamed it Weiku Building.

During this process, Wecoo Electronics also developed rapidly, growing into a large-scale technology manufacturer with annual shipments of more than 200 million smartphones, covering various types of smart terminals, and was later renamed Wecoo Electronics Group Co., Ltd.

This building can be regarded as a witness to the early development history of Zhiyun Group and Weiku Electronics.

When Xu Shenxue came here, he felt very familiar with it, even like being home.

As the CEO of Weiku Electronics, Bai Qiwen has followed Xu Shenxue for many years and naturally knows what Xu Shenxue is concerned about.

Therefore, when Xu Shenxue came to Weiku Electronics for inspection, Bai Qiwen took Xu Shenxue directly to their new mobile phone R&D department and showed Xu Shenxue their latest mobile phone products: Xiaolan MAX8 and Xiaolan MAX8 Pro, which is still in the R&D stage but is actually almost completed.

"This is the Bluegogo MAX8 developed by us, which is responsible for the sales of our high-end models this year."

Bai Qiwen picked up a mobile phone and pointed it at Xu Shenxue.

This is a mobile phone that is slightly different from last year's Xiaolan MAX7 and 7PRO.

Bai Qiwen continued: "Our Bluemax 8 uses a 7-inch full-screen LCD. Compared with the previous generation Bluemax , the screen size is improved, but the body size is reduced."

"Compared to last year's Bluemaxpro, the bangs are significantly smaller and look more beautiful!"

"On the fingerprint module, continue to use the rear fingerprint mode!"

"However, the W906 8-nanometer chip will be used in our Bluemax 906, which will be the first phone to use the W chip. It is expected to be officially released in early March after the Spring Festival."

Xu Shenxue thinks that the Little Blue MAX8 is quite good. It looks similar to later mobile phones, except that it has a small notch screen.

But considering the age and technical issues, this is pretty good.

Next, Bai Qiwen showed Xu Shenxue the Bluemax8Pro, which was still under development and had not yet been finalized.

Xu Shenxue was more interested in this mobile phone.

"Based on the Bluemax 8, our Bluemax 8 Pro boldly adopts the under-screen optical fingerprint sensor, which further enhances the appearance of the phone and redefines the unlocking mode!"

Bai Qiwen was still somewhat proud when he said this: "Now the era of full screen has arrived. Except for the S series phones that use 3D face recognition, other mobile phone models are still using the traditional fingerprint mode. Our Xiaolan MAX8 will be the second mobile phone model to abandon the traditional fingerprint mode."

Xu Shenxue was naturally very clear about the fact that Weiku Electronics adopted under-screen photoelectric fingerprint technology, and this matter itself was approved by Xu Shenxue.

Without Xu Shenxue's approval, Weiku Electronics would not be able to obtain the under-screen photoelectric fingerprint module from Wanjin Technology.

The reason for restricting the under-screen optical fingerprint is mainly to avoid affecting the sales of S series mobile phones, especially S15MAX.

However, the S15MAX mobile phone has now achieved success. At the same time, Wanjin Technology is not the only domestic manufacturer of under-screen optical fingerprint. There is also Qianding Technology, which is also located in Shenzhen and has a strategic investment from Zhiyun Group.

Qianding Technology is also very powerful. In the early years, it developed the first touch IC in China and successfully entered the Zhiyun/Weiku supply chain. To date, it is still the core touch IC supplier of Zhiyun/Weiku.

Relying on the huge success in the touch IC field, they also laid out the capacitive fingerprint field early on, successfully launched the world's third capacitive fingerprint in 14, and then quickly became the exclusive capacitive fingerprint supplier for Samsung, LG and a large number of other mobile phone manufacturers.

Because at present, there are only three capacitive fingerprint suppliers in the world, and Wanjin Technology ranks first. However, all of Wanjin Technology’s technical solutions are only supplied to Zhiyun and Weiku Electronics, and are not supplied to the outside world.

The second place is Fruit. They previously acquired the world's second-ranked fingerprint technology company, and then developed capacitive fingerprint based on it. The fingerprint module of this company is also not supplied to the outside world, but only to Fruit for its own use.

Then other mobile phone manufacturers were in an awkward situation, as they did not have capacitive fingerprint technology available, so they placed their hopes on Qianding Technology a long time ago. Qianding Technology did not disappoint them and successfully came up with capacitive fingerprint technology. Then, it instantly became the exclusive capacitive fingerprint supplier for other manufacturers except for Zhiyun/Weiku and Fruit, the three smart terminal manufacturers...

Of course, they had no choice but Qianding Technology as the only one left.

By the way, the capacitive fingerprint solution of Qianding Technology in the past two years had a shipping price of about 70 or 80 yuan at the earliest, so it was only used in flagship phones at that time. Now, the price has dropped to 50 or 60 yuan.

But this is already very expensive for a mobile phone component.

At the same time, Qianding Technology is also working on under-screen optical fingerprint. Although it has not been developed yet, it is reported that they estimate that they will be able to produce samples by the end of the year and mass-produce them next year.

At the same time, many domestic and foreign companies are also working on under-screen fingerprints, such as Synaptics in the United States.

In this case, Zhiyun Group, which was the first to develop under-screen optical fingerprint but suppressed its use and did not allow Weiku Electronics to use it, also chose to supply this technology to Weiku Electronics this year.

Of course, even if Weiku Electronics uses it, the current under-screen photoelectric fingerprint technology is still relatively expensive. Wanjin Technology's supply price to Weiku Electronics is about 150 yuan, which is about twice as expensive as capacitive fingerprint.

So don’t count on other mid- and low-end mobile phones. The only ones that cost more than 3,000 yuan are the Xiaolan MAX series.

Xu Shenxue looked at the experimental prototype of the Little Blue MAX8Pro in front of him and felt that it was very similar to some full-screen mobile phones seen in later generations.

It uses an aluminum alloy body and its full screen has a small bangs mode. This small bangs is used to accommodate the camera, rangefinder, ambient light sensor, earpiece and other components.

The area of ​​its bangs is much smaller than that of the S15MAX.

Picking it up and looking at it, this phone feels pretty good because it uses an aluminum alloy metal body.

Turning it over, there is a horizontal dual camera and flash module on the upper left side of the back. In addition, the rear fingerprint on the previous Bluemax 6 and 7, as well as the Bluemax 8, have been cancelled.

Without the rear fingerprint, the entire back cover of the phone looks very smooth and pleasing to the eye.

The overall appearance has improved a lot.

In this way, when this phone is released in the fall, it may cause a sensation.

By the way, if nothing unexpected happens, this year will be the year of explosion for full-screen mobile phones, and also the year of explosion for rear fingerprints. Many mobile phone manufacturers have adopted the full-screen mode in many new mobile phone research and development plans launched last year, all of which have notch screens... In order to adopt the full-screen mode, the capacitive fingerprint cannot be placed on the front of the phone, and the side fingerprint has greater limitations. Therefore, many mobile phone manufacturers have chosen to use rear fingerprints.

Of course, these are all mobile phone manufacturers that are following the trend.

But Apple is different. They will continue to use front fingerprints this year and wait for their own 3D facial technology to mature. If nothing unexpected happens, they will be able to launch 3D facial recognition next year.

Samsung is also considering developing under-screen ultrasonic fingerprint technology and pupil recognition technology.

As for Weiku Electronics, it chose the under-screen fingerprint solution... Of course, this is also because of their special relationship with Zhiyun Group, and they can obtain the under-screen fingerprint module from Wanjin Technology. Otherwise, they will have to continue using the rear fingerprint.

Xu Shenxue looked at this Little Blue MAX8 Pro again and again and felt that the appearance of this phone was quite good. It also had an under-screen fingerprint. The overall look was highly similar to later mobile phones.

If this small bangs can be turned into a hole-punch screen, it will be more similar.

However, this mobile phone is now just a shell, because this experimental prototype is only a test product, the internal structure is not perfect enough, and it cannot even be turned on for demonstration. What Xu Shenxue sees now is just a shell.

If you want to see a demonstration of the under-screen optical fingerprint, you need a specially modified prototype.

Bai Qiwen said: "We are still optimizing the design of the Little Blue MAX8P, and then we will come up with a few more colors for the metal body. We expect to complete the design by July. At the same time, Wanjin Technology's second-generation under-screen fingerprint technology will also be mature and available for supply by that time."

"The first-generation under-screen photoelectric fingerprint module we are currently testing is still not very good. It is not secure enough. In addition, the entire module is relatively large and thick. We plan to wait until Wanjin Technology's second-generation photoelectric module is developed before using it!"

Xu Shenxue said, "It's better to wait. If we hastily use immature technology, even if it gains a temporary popularity, it will backfire. I have learned about the second-generation under-screen photoelectric fingerprint technology before. Wanjin Technology is currently developing it and it should be available in the second half of the year. According to their feedback, the security will be greatly improved and a liveness detection module will be added. Zhiyun's C series mobile phones will also adopt this technology in the future."

The full-screen strategy is a strategy that Zhiyun Group continues to promote, and 3D face recognition technology is gradually being adopted in high-end models, namely the S series and A series.

However, the hardware cost of 3D facial recognition technology is very high, and a mobile phone like the C series priced at yuan cannot afford the high cost.

However, the C series mobile phones have to enter the full-screen era, and for the sake of aesthetics it is impossible to use rear fingerprints. Side fingerprints are also not easy to use, so the best solution at this stage is under-screen optical fingerprint technology.

Therefore, when the first generation of under-screen photoelectric fingerprint technology was not working, Wanjin Technology continued to improve and develop under-screen photoelectric fingerprint technology, and launched the second generation with better security, which is expected to be used when the C10 series of mobile phones are released early next year.

The Little Blue MAX8Pro from Weiku Electronics has taken the lead and is expected to be released around October and will use the second-generation under-screen optical fingerprint technology.

After seeing the Little Blue MAX8 and the shell version of the Little Blue MAX8Pro, Xu Shenxue feels that this year's Weiku Electronics is still relatively stable.

It is quite difficult to further increase mobile phone sales... After all, the smartphone market has entered the inventory era since the beginning of this year.

Whether it is Zhiyun Group or Weiku Electronics Group, it is actually very difficult for them to further increase their mobile phone sales... After all, one with more than 300 million units and the other with more than 200 million units have almost reached the market limit.

There is no requirement to increase sales in the future, but being able to stabilize sales will be a victory!
After looking at these two mobile phones, Xu Shenxue also took a look at several other mobile phones that Weiku Electronics is planning to release in the first half of the year.

Including several models of the Bluegogo digital series and Bluegogo M series, with prices ranging from one thousand yuan to three thousand yuan.
Among them, the Little Blue digital series, namely this year's Little Blue 8 and Little Blue 8 Pro, have a main price range of two thousand to three thousand yuan.

The Little Blue M series is priced between one thousand and two thousand yuan. This year, they are planning to launch a Little Blue M12, which is still priced between one thousand and five hundred yuan, and has a pretty good price-performance ratio.

The Little Blue M series is actually the main shipping model of Vico Electronics. Its pricing strategy is that the low-end model is around RMB 1,000 and the high-end model is around RMB 1,500.

The models priced between 1,000 and 1,500 yuan are the main shipment models in China and even in many overseas developing countries, with extremely large sales volumes.

The Little Blue M series accounts for almost 40 percent of Weiku Electronics' sales.

If we add the Vicoo V series, which also focuses on this price range, then the shipment volume of mobile phones in this price range will account for more than 60% of Vicoo Electronics' sales.

This is also the main reason why Weiku Electronics sells many mobile phones but does not make much profit. The market for mobile phones at this price point is very competitive. Everyone is playing with price-performance ratio and madly lowering prices, resulting in very low gross profit margins and even lower net profits.

This is also the reason why Weiku Electronics has been promoting the Little Blue MAX series in recent years, trying to reach a higher price point... the profit in the low-end market is too low.

The three main series of the Little Blue brand, Little Blue M, Little Blue M Pro, Little Blue Digital, and Little Blue MAX, cover the price range of one thousand to four thousand yuan.

There is also a Weiku brand, which, after years of development, has formed the V series, K series and W series, also covering the price range of one thousand to four thousand yuan.

The core technology of this WeCool brand mobile phone is similar to that of Xiaolan, but the appearance is different.

For example, the Little Blue M and the Vico V actually have the same set of core technologies, but they only differ in appearance.

It belongs to a strategy of one R&D system and two brand systems.

This is an old tradition of Weiku Electronics, from the J56 core in the era of feature phones to the present.

The sales volume of the Weiku brand is much smaller than that of the Xiaolan brand. Last year, the sales volume was only more than 70 million units, while the sales volume of the Xiaolan brand reached more than 150 million units.

However, it is worth noting that the Weiku brand sells very well among the middle-aged and elderly groups, and its shipments are mainly concentrated offline, with very low online sales. At the same time, among the Weiku brand's mobile phone shipments, mobile phones priced around 2,000 yuan also sell better.

After all, the Weiku brand focuses on maturity and stability, and takes a mainstream approach, which is more popular among male and middle-aged users... It has little presence on the Internet, but it actually sells well offline, especially in third- and fourth-tier cities, where it has a large audience.

The Little Blue brand is more youthful and is very popular among young people, especially workers under the age of 30. It is also popular among students.

These two brands have their own audiences due to their different appearance designs. However, relatively speaking, the design language of the Xiaolan brand is more popular among people, so its sales volume is larger, especially in overseas markets.

Bluegogo sells more than 100 million units a year, and more than half of its sales are actually contributed by overseas markets, especially ASEAN and India, which are Bluegogo's main markets.

The dual-brand strategy covers as many user groups as possible. This is the core business strategy of Weiku Electronics. So far, the effect is quite good. Xu Shenxue also expressed his support for this.

After looking at the mobile phones, I also took a look at some research and development of smart terminals. The smart terminals under Weiku Electronics are mainly centered around the Xiaolan brand.

It has successively launched the Little Blue ultra-thin notebook, tablet computer, Bluetooth headset, smart watch, smart bracelet, as well as smart TV, sweeper, kettle and many other home appliances.

Among them, the little blue kettle sold very well because it can keep warm, display the temperature digitally, and control the temperature intelligently. It once triggered a buying frenzy. After several years of brewing, it now has a very high reputation among parents.

Many so-called experienced people will recommend the little blue kettle to parents of newborns. This thing is a magic tool for making milk!

You can set the constant temperature to over 40 degrees, for example 45 degrees, and then you can just brew it directly when making milk. It is simple and convenient.

Before this, how did parents make milk? They had to adjust the water temperature manually, which was extremely troublesome. Therefore, Xiaolan's constant temperature kettle is convenient and not expensive. It cost more than 100 yuan in the early years, but now it can be bought for dozens of yuan. It can be said that it solves a major pain point for parents. Since its launch, it has been selling very well.

Now, it has become a must-have household appliance for young parents... Anyone who has heard of this thing will be unable to resist buying one.

Of course, people don’t necessarily buy the Little Blue brand; many will buy other brands.

After all, this product has attracted a lot of manufacturers to follow suit, and now there are a lot of various thermos kettles on the market.

Weiku Electronics’ smart home products are also a major source of revenue for them.

Xu Shenxue also focused on their smart home field, but Weiku Electronics' smart home field, or the ecological chain model, has also ushered in a challenger, that is, Rice.

They are also playing with the ecological chain, and they are doing very well.

In the mid-to-low-end smart home ecosystem, Xiaolan and Dami, both owned by Weiku Electronics, are major competitors, and even their models are similar.

The fight between these two companies has actually better driven the development of the entire smart home ecosystem and related supply chains.

After looking at the research and development status of many products, Xu Shenxue held a meeting in the conference room of Wecoo Electronics and listened to the operating conditions of Wecoo Electronics in the past year and this year's operating strategy.

Bai Qiwen said: "This year, in addition to continuing to strengthen our dominant position in China, we will also further consolidate and expand overseas markets."

"At present, our products have a certain advantage in the ASEAN market and are also performing well in the Indian market. We will further increase our investment in these two major markets!"

"In addition to smart terminals, we will also make greater investments in the smart ecosystem, establish a smart ecosystem with smartphones as the core, fully open up all levels from mobile phones to smart homes, form a complete ecosystem, and drive the development of various smart products!"

Xu Shenxue did not interfere too much in the development strategy of Wecoo Electronics. Most of the time he just listened and occasionally said a few words.

Overall, the management team headed by Bai Qiwen in Weiku Electronics is doing a pretty good job, and Xu Shenxue is satisfied.

Not to mention anything else, the huge shipment volume alone is enough.

This is also Xu Shenxue’s main requirement for Wecoo Electronics... In fact, Xu Shenxue does not require Wecoo Electronics to make much money, but rather requires Wecoo Electronics to increase the shipment volume of various smart terminals.

Only when the shipment volume is large can there be enough orders for parts and components, which in turn drives the development of the supply chain.

Only when the supply chain develops can there be funds to promote technological development, and then develop better technology, and then feed back to Zhiyun Group's high-end areas.

Weiku Electronics made great efforts to enable Zhiyun Semiconductor to develop, especially to sell its first and second generation mobile phone SOCs, which formed a virtuous circle.

At that time, Wecoo Electronics even launched the H series of mobile phones, which were specially equipped with Zhiyun Semiconductor's SOC. You have to know that Zhiyun Semiconductor's SOC chips were not very mature at that time.

The development of many other supply chains, such as the development of domestic screens, also depends on the strong support of Weiku Electronics.

In the early stages of the development of the domestic supply chain, the technology was not very advanced and the products were poor, failing to meet the needs of the S series. Even Zhiyun Group did not dare to use domestic screens on the C series of mobile phones.

Finally, Wecoo Electronics took on the heavy responsibility of digesting the early domestic screens and relied on huge orders to boost the development of domestic screens.

Then a large number of domestic mobile phone manufacturers will be able to use cheap and affordable domestic mobile phone screens.

After further development, even the high-end mobile phones of the Zhiyun S series have begun to use domestic high-end screens.

In this process, Weiku Electronics played a crucial role.

Today, Xu Shenxue's requirements for Wecoo Electronics are still the same as they were several years ago: rely on huge shipment volumes to continue to drive the development of the supply chain.

Of course, Weiku Electronics itself has also benefited greatly from this process. Relying on the domestic supply chain to significantly reduce prices, and long-term cooperation over the years, Weiku Electronics has gained the trust of a large number of suppliers, maintained strategic partnerships, and thus been able to obtain a large number of high-quality and cheap components.

This enables Weiku Electronics to always maintain a certain cost-effectiveness advantage and maintain profits in the extremely competitive smart terminal field.

After finishing the inspection of Weiku Electronics, Xu Shenxue returned home, playing with the children while accompanying Lin Yaxian.

Now Lin Yaxian is pregnant with her second child. She is three months pregnant now. This time she is pregnant with a daughter, which makes Lin Yaxian very happy.

The first child was a son and the second was a daughter, so she now had both a son and a daughter. Lin Yaxian was very happy about this.

Xu Shenxue was also very happy. Compared to his son, he felt that he should like his daughter more... Well, mainly because he didn't have a daughter now.

Last year, Secretary Kim gave birth to a son for him.

Xu Shenxue, who now has two sons, naturally hopes to have a daughter.

After all, everyone says that daughters are the most caring and caring little girls. As for sons... although they are also very cute, they are a little inferior.

Just look at the son who is having fun in the inflatable castle on the lawn and you will know that this eldest son dares to play with and eat anything.

A few days ago, this son pulled out the bougainvillea that Lin Yaxian had just planted in the yard, insisting on tasting the roots. He even stuffed a handful into Xu Shenxue's mouth, saying that he wanted to share with his good friend and let his father taste it first...

Secretary Jin's second son is still young, but with the experience of his eldest son as a precedent, Xu Shenxue estimates that his condition will not be much better.

He was looking forward to the fact that the daughter Lin Yaxian would give birth to later would be better.

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The next day, Xu Shenxue left the company at noon since the day was not very busy, and went to Baisong Villa Community to visit Secretary Jin and his second son, and also visited several other secretaries.

Secretary Li is also pregnant. She is now six months pregnant, but it is also a son... The first three children were all sons, which makes me upset just thinking about it.

This is also the reason why Xu Shenxue is more looking forward to the little daughter in Lin Yaxian's belly.

Secretary Qian, one of the three secretaries in the early stage, just got pregnant last month, and it is still unclear whether it is a boy or a girl.

In recent years, Xu Shenxue has made these three secretaries pregnant one after another, also considering that their ages are relatively suitable, and they have been with him for many years, he can't keep following him like this without having children.

Allowing them to have a child would also give them peace of mind... for them, it would also be a guarantee for the future.

After all, let alone themselves, even Xu Shenxue himself could not guarantee that he would still be interested in them after a few years when they got older... After all, he was still a very normal man, and his aesthetic values ​​were highly consistent with those of ordinary men. He always liked young and beautiful women.

Xu Shenxue was also thinking that the secretaries who would follow him later could have children if they wanted, or not, it was up to them to choose if they didn't want to.

Xu Shenxue rushed to several villas in the afternoon, mainly to accompany Secretary Jin and his second son, as well as Secretary Li and Secretary Qian who were already pregnant.

At night, he stayed with Secretary Song, who came in last year.

Secretary Song studied classical dance and just graduated last year. Her appearance and figure are very much to Xu Shenxue's liking.

This person is actually somewhat related to Lin Yaxian, she is her cousin... Secretary Song is from Lin's mother's side of the family, and actually has a very good family background, with assets worth over 100 million.

Under normal circumstances, such a beautiful, rich and fair girl wouldn't have to work as a not-so-serious secretary.

But... the target is Xu Shenxue, so it’s different.

He is the richest man in the world, a technology tycoon with great reputation worldwide and an extraordinary status!
And he is young and handsome!

The prototype of the domineering CEO in countless female-oriented novels...even the CEOs in many domineering CEO novels are actually far inferior to Xu Shenxue.

The imagination of ordinary authors is still limited. Even the presidents they imagine are far inferior to Xu Shenxue, one of the top few people in the global village.

You said that the presidents in the president articles have assets worth tens of billions, hundreds of billions, or even trillions... The assets controlled by Xu Shenxue are even more than that. The market value of Zhiyun Group, converted into Chinese yuan, is close to five trillion!
Then there is WeCool Electronics Group. If it goes public, it will have a market value of at least 600 to 700 billion yuan.

HaiLan Automobile Group is also a behemoth, and the prospects in the field of smart electric vehicles are extremely bright. If this company goes public, it is conservatively estimated that it will have a market value of more than 1.5 trillion yuan.

There is also the very low-key but crucial Fairy Mountain Holdings.

Then there is Yihai Technology Group, the fourth largest Internet company in China.

South Gate Aerospace, the world's leading commercial aerospace company.

These companies are all extremely influential.

The resources and influence that Xu Shenxue can control have exceeded the limits of most CEO articles.

Faced with such a Xu Shenxue, even if Secretary Song's family assets exceeded 100 million, the gap between them and Xu Shenxue was still huge, not to mention that Secretary Song's family assets had to be left to his son, and she, a daughter, would not get much.

So Secretary Song was actually very happy to join the secretariat and become one of Xu Shenxue's personal secretaries.

Xu Shenxue also knew that Lin Yaxian had specially found Secretary Song, as if she wanted to put someone of her own in the secretariat, especially to check and balance the three early secretaries: Secretary Li, Secretary Jin, and Secretary Qian.

Because these three women had been with Xu Shenxue earlier, strictly speaking even earlier than Lin Yaxian. Even though Xu Shenxue called himself a scumbag, no one is heartless. These three women had been with Xu Shenxue for a long time, and Xu Shenxue had some feelings for them. Among a group of secretaries, he spent the most time with them.

This made Lin Yaxian feel somewhat uncomfortable, especially after Secretary Jin gave birth to a child, Lin Yaxian became even more dissatisfied.

But she is a smart woman and never shows anything in front of Xu Shenxue. She has her own ideas and practices.

Starting last year, she began to fill the secretariat with a large number of people.

A secretary is a favorite.

Three secretaries, some feelings.

I'll give you thirty secretaries, and you won't even be able to recognize all the people. Let's see if you still love me or not.

Then he would arrange a few close people to take control of the situation.

Xu Shenxue maintained a tacit attitude towards this.

Anyway, he and Lin Yaxian get along pretty well. Lin Yaxian can do whatever she wants with the secretariat, and he doesn't care much about it.

But he only looked for people in the secretariat, not outside or anywhere else.

It’s not that it’s impossible to find one or that women from outside are not attractive, but the risk is too great...and the candidates on the secretariat side are carefully selected, and with the dual checks of the security department and Lin Yaxian, the risk can be controlled within a certain range.

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The next day, Xu Shenxue continued his inspection trip. He planned to take a look at the situation of each of his companies before the New Year.

This time, he went to Xiaojiang Technology and saw their new generation of drones and their newly developed special project, the autonomous AI drone.

This AI drone is quite special in that after planning a flight mission for it, it can perform full-time AI autonomous flight without the need for real-time remote control of the flight process.

Xu Shenxue expressed great praise for this, and then immediately separated the project from Xiaojiang Technology and injected it into a newly established shell company.

Even though this type of AI drone is not mature at this stage, it is still a sensitive technology and is destined to be unable to be commercialized for civilian use.

Xiaojiang Technology is a purely civilian drone company. Although its products have been widely used on the battlefield by many overseas customers, Xiaojiang Technology is still a civilian drone company that focuses on aerial photography rather than anything else.

Therefore, the projects still need to be separated.

After the appearance of this AI drone, it quickly attracted the attention of relevant agencies.

(End of this chapter)