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Chapter 548 Battery King VS Zhu Jiang Investment
Seeing that his suggestion was approved, Zhou Yun became much more enthusiastic about speaking.

It chattered away like a little bird, reporting on the latest developments on Zhujiang Online.

"Jiang Hui, it's rare that Zhou Yun is so dedicated to company management. Please give her some pointers so that Zhujiang Online can grow and thrive even faster."

Zhu Ling trusted her cousin Zhou Yun quite a bit.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been assigned to be Jiang Hui's secretary in the first place.

In Shenzhen, many bosses' secretaries are really just junior secretaries.

They work during the day and then continue working overtime at night.

Working day and night, with a very wide range of job responsibilities.

"I bet none of you have ever been to an internet cafe?"

Jiang Hui's sudden question caught Zhou Yun and Zhu Ling off guard.

What is an internet cafe?
I feel so unfamiliar with myself.

"Computers are still very expensive, and most families can't afford them or are unwilling to buy them."

"This means that in the next few years, the number of internet cafes in China will continue to increase."

"Many people who want to go online will go to internet cafes."

"Zhujiang Online has already captured the university market; the next key step is to capture the internet cafe market."

"Once we've secured these two markets, we won't have to worry about anything else."

Seeing their reactions, Jiang Hui knew that they didn't understand the situation in internet cafes.

So I took this opportunity to explain the situation properly.

"It's not that I look down on people, but the current level of understanding of the internet among Chinese netizens is still relatively low."

"In the future, a large number of people who know nothing about computers will flock to internet cafes to go online."

"For these people, how to understand Zhujiang Online, know that such a website exists, and be able to log in successfully is actually a problem."

"For example, if someone who hasn't even graduated from junior high school goes into an internet cafe, what do you think they're going to do?"

"Sometimes, they probably don't even know what they're doing."

Upon hearing Jiang Hui's words, Zhou Yun and Zhu Ling couldn't help but nod in agreement.

Asking someone who knows absolutely nothing about computers to turn on the computer and go online is indeed a bit of a challenge.

Early internet users at Huaxia Internet Cafes had a lot of room for improvement in their skill level.

"At this point, we need to proactively tell everyone what to do."

"For example, we could create an additional website specifically to house navigation for various websites."

"In the future, everyone will only need to log in to our navigation website and click on various links to go to the main websites and meet all kinds of internet access needs."

"We even want to make our navigation website the default homepage for all computers in internet cafes."

"At this time, we placed Zhujiang Online in the most prominent position on this navigation website, and even advertised on this website."

"Think about it, wouldn't this be a huge benefit to increasing the number of users on Zhujiang Online?"

Jiang Hui brought out the Hao123 website ahead of time.

Given Zhujiang Online's technical capabilities, they could produce something like this in a few days.

However, although this thing is very simple, its significance is extraordinary once it is promoted.

In his previous life, Li Xingping, a network administrator with only a junior high school education, successfully turned his life around by creating a navigation website.

With Zhujiang Online's early involvement, navigation websites can definitely unleash their full potential.

This is definitely very beneficial for Zhujiang Online in building its own internet empire.

In the future, other websites will have to be mindful of Zhujiang Online's stance.

The simplest way is that if you have a bad relationship with Zhujiang Online, you can have a huge impact by simply adjusting their position on navigation websites or even kicking them out of the game.

Taking Baidu as an example, at its peak, half of their traffic came from navigation websites.

If we lose half of that traffic, the valuation will drop by more than half.

The profits behind this are absolutely enormous.

It's so great that it exceeds the value of the navigation website itself.

The most crucial point is that navigation websites are clearly a winner-takes-all situation.

Each person only needs one navigation website; any extras are meaningless.

Once you get used to using a navigation website, you won't easily switch to another one.

After understanding the significance of this, Zhou Yun immediately said, "Brother-in-law, I'll go back to the company right now and arrange for someone to set up the navigation website."

"We aim to officially launch the navigation website in three days."

"Then I arranged for a dedicated team to promote our navigation website in various internet cafes, striving to reach more than 80% of internet cafes in the shortest possible time."

Zhou Yun stopped eating, picked up her bag, and headed out.

This left Zhu Ling, who was standing next to her, speechless.

"Jiang Hui, do you really think Zhujiang Online has such a bright future?"

Watching her cousin drive away, Zhu Ling's interest in Zhujiang Online actually increased.

Previously, her attention was mainly focused on the BMW Group, and she valued various industrial enterprises.

Jiang Hui seems to be paying close attention to newly emerging internet companies.

She naturally needs to pay more attention to it.

"The changes brought about by the Internet are equivalent to a revolution."

"The full impact has not yet been realized."

"But with the improvement of internet speed and the decrease in computer prices, more and more people will go online in the future."

"In the future, many aspects of daily life will be completed online."

"This impact is absolutely enormous."

"If things go well, Zhujiang Online's market capitalization may not necessarily be lower than that of BMW Group in the future."

"It's even possible that Zhujiang Online could become the largest company in China."

Jiang Hui is now putting many promising internet projects on Zhujiang Online.

Starting with portal websites, and then continuing to launch various projects such as online games, and even communication software, online shopping, etc.

Zhujiang Online will definitely become the dominant force in the Chinese internet industry.

Compared to it, BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) are all mere underlings.

How could the influence of such an internet company be small?
"So exaggerated?"

"Does that mean every industry should develop internet technology?"

Zhu Ling looked at Jiang Hui with some confusion.

"That's both right and wrong."

"In the future, all industries will definitely need to embrace the Internet, but it's too early to say now."

"For the internet to develop, it must essentially rely on strong physical enterprises and economic development."

"Otherwise, they are just castles in the air, meaningless."

Since there was nothing else to do today, Jiang Hui decided to have a good talk with Zhu Ling about the development of the internet.

Zhu Ling is one of the companies that Zhu Jiang Investment has been heavily involved with.

In the future, Zhujiang Investment will definitely involve various internet investments.

Although Zhujiang Online is a leading internet company, it's impossible for it to handle every project itself.

There's no need to actually do every project yourself.

If Zhujiang Online were to grow to such a large scale, the relevant departments would probably not be able to tolerate it.

It's not just the United States that has antitrust laws; China will have them in the future too. "I never imagined that such an ethereal thing could have such great power and influence."

"It seems that Zhujiang Technology also needs to speed up its development."

"Only when the penetration rate of mobile phones and computers is high can the influence of the Internet be truly realized."

Zhu Ling is now slowly beginning to understand some of Jiang Hui's previous plans.

Zhujiang Technology's large-scale foray into the mobile phone and computer markets seems to be driven by more than just the promising prospects of these two industries.

It is also related to the overall layout.

Lingnan Semiconductor provides chips and other semiconductor components to Pearl River Technology and BMW Group.

After Pearl River Technology grew and expanded, it launched Pearl River Online.

In this way, the group's business has formed a closed loop to a certain extent.

Previously, individual ships fought independently; now, it will be carrier strike groups.

It will be difficult for other companies to compete.

"That's right, that's exactly the point."

"For mobile phones and computers to become more widespread, it is crucial for the price of semiconductor components such as chips to drop."

"Lingnan Semiconductor has invested a lot of R&D funds and built new production lines in recent years in order to improve chip technology and reduce chip costs as soon as possible."

Jiang Hui continued to impart his understanding to Zhu Ling.

"I think Zhujiang Investment can focus its investments on chips, the internet, new materials, and new technology products in the future."

After talking with Jiang Hui, Zhu Ling also summarized her preparations for future investments in Zhujiang Investment.

With the group focusing on development, Zhu Jiang Investment naturally needs to significantly expand its external investments as well.

After a period of initial adjustment, Zhujiang Investment gradually developed its own set of operational logic.

He has gained some reputation within the industry.

If we launch a full-scale attack now, it will be quite easy to significantly expand our influence.

Since it's an investment, there will definitely be plenty of people who want Zhu Jiang's investment money.

China's comprehensive reforms have entered their fifth year.

The entire economic environment has undergone tremendous changes.

Many people have become much more proactive in starting their own businesses.

Various regions are also strongly encouraging employees to take unpaid leave so that they can start their own businesses.

Therefore, Zhujiang Investment will never lack projects.

"Yes, go ahead and throw it."

"If even one out of ten projects succeeds, it will be a huge success."

"If one out of twenty projects succeeds, you basically don't have to worry about losing money."

"If we do lose some money, we can afford it."

Jiang Hui's words relieved Zhu Ling of a lot of pressure.

Otherwise, I'd still be a little worried about giving out money bit by bit.

Soon, with Zhu Jiang's various moves, many entrepreneurs took the initiative to come to Shenzhen to explain their projects.

Zhu Ling, the person in charge of Zhujiang Investment, also started to get busy.

For some projects, she made the decision on her own.

In any case, most entrepreneurs nowadays want to raise less than 10 yuan.

There's no need to trouble Jiang Hui with this small amount of money.

However, for venture capital investments exceeding 100 million yuan, Zhu Ling would always consult with Jiang Hui.

It's not because 100 million is a lot of money.

Instead, as a startup project, those that raise over 100 million yuan in their first round of funding are usually not aiming for small projects.

Zhu Ling would feel more confident if Jiang Hui vetted the project.

"Jiang Hui, for this nickel-chromium battery project, they hope that Zhujiang Investment can invest 200 million yuan to take a 30% stake."

"According to them, once nickel-cadmium batteries are produced, their price can be reduced by half compared to imported batteries from Japanese manufacturers such as Panasonic and Sanyo."

“Our Pearl River Technology phones can be used directly, and in the future they may even be used on laptops.”

Zhu Ling gave Jiang Hui an investment plan.

"BYD?"

Jiang Hui was stunned for a moment when he saw this name that would be very familiar to later generations.

Didn't Mr. Wang only establish BYD in 1995?

It seems that the impact of my butterfly effect is quite significant.

Back in 1993, they came to Shenzhen to start their own business.

"Yes, that's the company."

"The founder previously worked at the Capital Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences."

"I was originally assigned to Shenzhen to develop the battery business."

"But after arriving in Shenzhen, he felt that he needed to start his own business to make a name for himself."

"That's how BYD came about."

Zhu Ling quickly explained what she knew to Jiang Hui.

She had already sensed Jiang Hui's interest in BYD.

That's really not easy.

Any project that Jiang Hui is interested in must have its own unique features.

"Compared to traditional lead-acid batteries and zinc-carbon batteries, nickel-cadmium batteries have a higher energy density, which is indeed the trend in recent years."

"BYD did not make unrealistic direct promotions about nickel-metal hydride batteries or lithium cobalt oxide batteries, and this approach was absolutely correct."

"After all, globally, nickel-cadmium batteries are the most promising for use in consumer electronics, and this will remain true for the next few years."

Jiang Hui quickly offered his analysis.

We will definitely invest in BYD's angel round.

Even if we eventually become competitors to some extent, that's okay.

After the left hand and right hand fight, no matter who wins, he is the winner.

"So, does that mean we can invest in this?"

Zhu Ling confirmed this further.

"Investment is definitely necessary."

"It's not just about investment; we can have Nanshan Equipment collaborate with them to build up the nickel-cadmium battery production line as much as possible."

"If we increase the level of automation, we will achieve higher production efficiency in the future."

"Taking advantage of this opportunity, Nanshan Equipment also began to study battery processing production lines."

"Nanshan Chemical, on the other hand, has begun to research battery positive and negative electrode materials and electrolytes and other related products."

"This part of the market will definitely not be underestimated in the future, and it is something our group needs very much."

Jiang Hui originally thought that the era of electric vehicles would not arrive so soon, so he did not invest in batteries.

Now that BYD has unexpectedly come into the spotlight, the situation is naturally different.

Taking advantage of this investment to venture into the battery field is a good move.

No matter what choices you make in the future, there will be many paths you can take.

(End of this chapter)