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Chapter 390: The Indian Market Full of Gold

Xu Qingshan looked at the ambassador in front of him with some confusion.

He was quite sure that he had not known this person before.

Lu Fengjun took out a small notebook from behind his back. It didn't look like something a mature and steady adult like him should have. The notebook was pink in color and had various Disney princess patterns on it.

"I heard that Professor Xu was coming this time, and I've been thinking about asking Professor Xu to sign for me."

Perhaps because he felt that his behavior was a little against the rules and a little presumptuous, Lu Fengjun rubbed his hands a little awkwardly and said embarrassedly.

"I work abroad all year round, and I don't get to go home for very long. My daughter is in the second year of junior high school this year. She has always liked you and regarded you as an idol. She didn't like science at first, but now her grades in math and physics are very good. I think if I can ask you to sign her name on the title page, she will be very happy on this birthday."

Xu Qingshan understood.

Lu Fengjun came to see him now, not as the Chinese ambassador, but simply as a father to make a request.

Looking at the uncle who seemed increasingly nervous and reserved, Xu Qingshan smiled and took the notebook.

"Of course, what's your sister's name?"

Xu Qingshan looked at the small notebook. It looked very exquisite and clean, and it seemed that it had just been opened.

"Lu Qianqian."

Lu Fengjun showed joy on his face and his voice trembled slightly.

"it is good."

"Come inside. It's hard to write standing up."

Xu Qingshan invited Lu Fengjun to come in. The room was luxuriously and spaciously decorated. Lu Fengjun did not look around after entering the room, even though Xu Qingshan had not even opened the suitcase.

He just sat upright on the sofa, waiting quietly with his back straight.

Xu Qingshan glanced at him and asked casually while writing blessings on the notebook.

"Has Ambassador Lu ever been a soldier?"

"Correct."

Lu Fengjun nodded.

"I used to be a communications soldier. After I retired from the army and went to graduate school, I joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

Facing Xu Qingshan, Lu Fengjun spoke frankly.

These are not things that need to be kept secret. Moreover, from Lu Fengjun's own point of view, Xu Qingshan is much more important to China than himself.

"Amazing."

Xu Qingshan gave a heartfelt compliment and put down his pen.

"Well, Ambassador Lu, please take a look and see if you are satisfied."

Xu Qingshan handed over the notebook. Lu Fengjun subconsciously took a look at it. What Xu Qingshan wrote was not short. Although he could not see the content clearly at first, it was enough to see Xu Qingshan's intentions. He shook hands with Xu Qingshan gratefully.

"Satisfied, satisfied. Thank you so much. If you need anything during your time in India, please feel free to contact me."

"okay."

Xu Qingshan did not refuse, but shook the hand he was holding with a smile on his face.

The help of a Chinese ambassador, even if it is just legal and legitimate help, will bring him great benefits.

"Ambassador Lu, how about we take another photo together? This way Qianqian might be more confident in the source of your signature."

Xu Qingshan took the initiative and said with a smile.

"Is this suitable? Is it convenient for you?"

Lu Fengjun asked with some surprise but joy.

"What's so inconvenient about this? Come, use your phone, and then you can send it to Qianqian when the time comes."

Xu Qingshan stood beside Lu Fengjun, took a photo with him using his phone, and then took another photo with his own phone.

Not long after.

Lu Fengjun left contentedly with his mobile phone and small notebook, while Xu Qingshan continued to stand by the window looking at the city of New Delhi.

In the next few years.

China's smartphone market will rise rapidly, but the problem it will bring is the gradual saturation of the domestic market. Especially after Xiaomi entered the market, the domestic market has been completely divided into clear basic levels.

In the future, it will not be easy to get a piece of meat in the market.

Every piece is hard bone.

Without solid technology and independent production capabilities, you will be controlled by others in every way.

Even Xiaomi, which had reached that level of scale in its previous life, failed to achieve complete independence. Not only Xiaomi, but also ZTE, OV, and the blue and green factories all failed in their attempts. Only Huawei succeeded.

But Xu Qingshan has not met Ren Zhengfei yet.

And, to be honest.

Xu Qingshan was able to intervene in the founding and growth of Xiaomi at this point in time, but he had no way to influence Huawei in the slightest, except in terms of technical supply.

Because in 2010, Huawei was the first company to enter the Fortune Global 500 list.

As soon as it entered the list, it was ranked 397th, with a market value of more than US$380 billion and revenue of US$218.21 billion.

NetEase, owned by Ding Sanshi, who had dinner with Xu Qingshan a while ago, was only worth US$60 billion at that time.

It can be said that among the three BAT companies in the entire Internet, only Baidu and Tencent have market capitalizations close to Huawei, and Alibaba is only worth tens of billions of dollars.

Compared to the infancy Xiaomi, Huawei is more like a mature giant.

In fact, the only option Xu Qingshan had was Xiaomi.

After the domestic market is saturated in the future, one of Xiaomi's biggest defeats in the international market will be in India.

Xu Qingshan will not stop Lei Jun's plan to enter the Indian market, because by then not only Xiaomi will target the Indian market, but mobile phone manufacturers around the world will also be eyeing the Indian market, a big piece of fat meat with hidden secrets.

Even though everyone knows that India is not a normal place, it is hard not to be tempted by the huge profits in front of them.

This is the world's second largest undeveloped market after China.

But Xu Qingshan knew very well.

The Indian authorities' greed was extremely ugly. For a period of time, the turmoil in the Indian market had spread to China. The front pages of the technology and financial newspapers he read in the reading room were all about the unfair treatment of major domestic mobile phone manufacturers in the Indian market.

India first controlled the import of complete mobile phones by raising tariffs.

Chinese mobile phone manufacturers began to expand into India around 2012, but at that time no one had built factories in India. They mainly bought mobile phone components from Huaqiangbei, assembled them into their own brands, and then exported them to India for dumping.

This made Chinese mobile phones almost labeled as "no-name brands", "OEM" and "OEM" in the Indian market at the beginning, with the main selling point being cheap and durable.

But by 2014, in order to grab enough fat in this vast market, China's major mobile phone manufacturers were no longer satisfied with the development model of importing electronic components from China for assembly, and began to build factories in India on a large scale to layout the industrial chain.

Of course, this is also due to India's efforts to increase tariffs and attract investment to create the "Make in India" strategy.

In December 2017, the Indian government raised the import tariff on mobile phones from 12% to 10%.

In February 2018, India once again adjusted the tariff on mobile phones from 2% to 15%. Coupled with the influence of the investment promotion policy, building factories in India will receive many preferential treatments, and many mobile phone giants have directly settled in India, among which Apple, Samsung and Vivo are the most active. After receiving India's sincerity in attracting investment, they began to spend huge manpower and financial resources to go to India to start setting up factories in 20.

Xiaomi and Huawei naturally did not want to be outdone and followed suit immediately.

The decade starting from 2014 was a critical decade for Chinese companies to deepen their industrial chain in India and build a large number of factories.

And at the end of this ten-year period.

The Indian mobile phone market, which has been reaping the benefits of China's increasingly mature mobile phone market, has basically changed its face after confirming that India has developed a complete mobile phone production ecosystem by the Chinese, Europeans and Americans.

India has begun to use regulations such as the Foreign Exchange Management Act and the Anti-Money Laundering Act to strictly scrutinize Chinese manufacturers. The methods they use include but are not limited to freezing assets, detaining senior executives, and even violently attacking companies, requiring major groups to replace local Indian executives with Indian nationals, etc.

In 2022, India banned 23 affiliated companies of vivo in India and froze 46.5 billion rupees. At the same time, it determined that the company had evaded taxes on revenue of 6247.6 billion rupees and detained several senior executives.

Companies like vivo are just a microcosm of the unfair treatment Chinese mobile phone companies receive in the Indian market.

Even international giants like Apple have suffered heavy losses in the Indian market.

and so.

What Xu Qingshan needs to do is not to block, but to influence Lei Jun as much as possible to adjust the development direction and market strategy, minimize the losses in the final stage, and reserve a retreat for the employees who come to work in India.

his goal.

It is in this Indian market, where gold is everywhere, that we can spend the lowest cost, make the most money and withdraw the safest way.

The security guarantee process cannot be achieved without the help of Lu Fengjun, the Chinese ambassador to India.

He wants to make money, but he doesn't want to suffer losses.

As for whether Lu Fengjun can stay in India for that long?
Xu Qingshan was not clear about this.

But as long as he maintains a long-term friendly relationship with the embassy, ​​even if Lu Fengjun is transferred, he will have the opportunity to establish new contacts with his successor.

It’s just an autograph and a photo, no big deal.

After Lu Fengjun left, Xu Qingshan naturally continued to rest until it was almost time for dinner in the evening, when someone came to call him.

This time, Chen Dayue and the others did not come, but Zhu Xiaohua came. It seemed that Zhu Xiaohua had some very good friends who were discussing some topic very passionately. Xu Qingshan saw them from afar and did not go forward to disturb them. He just found Tian Gang and sat at the same table with him to have dinner.

Perhaps it was because this was a special restaurant opened specifically for this group of Chinese scholars. Although it was a buffet, the dishes were all domestic, without those weird Indian foods and traditional curries.

This gives these old guys with fragile stomachs a chance to catch their breath.

Tian Gang sat at the dining table, poking the sweet and sour fish in front of him with his knife and fork, and spoke casually to Xu Qingshan.

"You were invited to give a one-hour report this year, which means you have completely caught up with me."

Xu Qingshan was thinking about whether to eat the fried pork neck first or the fried noodles first when he heard Tian Gang's words with a look of curiosity.

"Teacher, have you ever been invited to give a one-hour report?"

"Hmm? What are you talking about? Still? You don't think I'm not qualified, do you?"

Tian Gang's eyebrows raised, and the sweet and sour fish in his mouth no longer tasted good.

"In 2002! You were still in elementary school and I did it."

Tian Gang pursed his lips, very dissatisfied with Xu Qingshan's doubts.

"But it's good that you're here this year, otherwise it would be awkward for us at Beijing University. Why do you think Hua Qing was willing to join us in attending the Mathematicians' Conference?"

Tian Gang said somewhat helplessly.

Xu Qingshan's ears perked up.

"Is there any secret in this?"

“It’s not really a secret.”

Tian Gang looked around and said in a low voice.

"For conferences like the International Congress of Mathematicians, 20 of the most active mathematicians today are usually invited to give a one-hour report. Many of them are past or future Fields Medal winners. The invitees are determined by a program committee composed of world-renowned mathematicians appointed by the International Mathematical Union."

"Among the 20 one-hour speakers this year, although Lao Peng is from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology system, he teaches at Ludong University, so the Huazhong University of Science and Technology institutes in Beijing were not able to get in on the action."

Tian Gang curled his lips again, and Xu Qingshan discovered that this old man had quite a lot of micro-expressions today.

"This year, there are only eight mathematicians invited to give lectures at Huaxia. Two of them will give one-hour lectures, namely you and Lao Peng. Lao Peng is quite easy to talk to and has always been very focused on scientific research. He came on his own and should be here soon. You will be able to see him tonight or tomorrow. However, the other six will give 8-hour lectures and are all from other departments."

When Tian Gang was in China, he clearly did not show such obvious partisanship in front of Xu Qingshan.

But when he mentioned this today, he couldn't help but make a sour face.

"The geometry group and partial differential equation group are both from Aurora University, Fu Jixiang and Chen Shuxing, the dynamical system and ordinary differential equation group is Cheng Chongqing from Jinling University, the general statistics group is Shao Qiman from Jiangdong University, the control and optimization group is from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, but Zhang Xu is from Aurora, and the last one is Xu Zongben from Xi'an Jiaotong University."

"There isn't one from Jingda or Huaqing?"

Xu Qingshan looked surprised.

Didn’t we agree that our Peking University is the best in mathematics in the world?
After all this time, I am the only one who is the best in the world?
Tian Gang rolled his eyes at him.

"The staff turnover in our Beijing University Mathematics Department is relatively small. In the past, when I worked with Lao Ding, Lao Wang, Lao Zhang and others on the report, more than half of the staff from Beijing University accounted for the report. This year, we can't find any young and strong people. Your Xiao Chen failed to compete with Shao Qiman. What can you say?"

"So what you mean is that the three cars of people are all following me?"

Xu Qingshan realized this and looked surprised.

"That's right, after all, it would be embarrassing if there wasn't even one person who wanted to make a report in this large group of people."

Tian Gang took a sip of the old duck soup and exclaimed.

"The old duck soup here is quite authentic. Is this chef from China?"

"Who knows? Maybe he is from our Min Yue."

Xu Qingshan was in a good mood.

It turns out that I am the one who has the greatest face.

"In fact, making a report is a small matter. Huaqing and Huazhong University of Science and Technology are willing to follow you this time. The most important reason is that you are probably our domestic mathematician, born and raised here, and have the greatest hope of winning the Fields Medal."

Tian Gang said slowly.

"Fields Medal? Me? Now?"

Xu Qingshan had just stuffed a piece of pork neck into his mouth, and when he heard Tian Gang's words, he blinked.

No matter what he was thinking, the ignorance and surprise he showed at this moment made Tian Gang smile.

"of course."

Tian Gang said with an experienced look.

"From my many years of experience as a spectator, I think you have a real chance this year."

"What do you mean, Master?"

The old man likes it, so stay with him.

Xu Qingshan's acting skills exploded.

(End of this chapter)