717. Infrastructure Maniac and Bike Sharing

It is not easy to run the department, Zhou Fangyuan has the recommendation of Professor Tian, and it took more than a month to do this thing almost immediately.

Of course, it is also thanks to the fact that the country has already improved the preconditions for mobile payment, Huaxia is known as the infrastructure madman, in terms of infrastructure construction, in the new century, no country in the world can be Huaxia's opponent.

Moreover, the "infrastructure madness" is not only said by Chinese people, but also by foreigners, who often call Huaxia "infrastructure madness". It is often said that there are many "world's best" buildings in Huaxia, and this may be the reason why Huaxia is called "infrastructure madness"! Of course, this is only one of the reasons, and there are other reasons why Huaxia is called "infrastructure madness".

For example, telecom base stations.

What is a telecom base station? A telecom base station is what is usually called a signal tower, which can enable mobile phones to receive signals and achieve the functions of communicating with each other and surfing the Internet. In foreign countries, the signal coverage is not very comprehensive, and if there is an accident in a place where there is no signal coverage, it is likely that there is no way to seek help from others. According to statistics, Huaxia Telecom's base station has more than 5 million coverage, which is more than 20 times that of the United States. There are now a total of 5 million 4G base stations in the world, and there are more than 3 million 4G base stations in Huaxia, accounting for 64% of the total number of 4G telecom base stations in the world. The other 36% of the number of base stations is shared by more than 190 countries, including the United States.

This is followed by the number of tall buildings in the world, with the Council on Tallest Buildings and Urban Habitat in the world publishing an annual report. According to the report, a total of 144 supertall buildings were completed in the survey, which is the highest year on record. Among them, 76 high-rise buildings have been completed in China, ranking first among all countries. The United States ranked second with 10 high-rise buildings completed during the year. Nanxian has 7 high-rise buildings completed, ranking third.

Huaxia colleagues also have many of the world's largest bridge construction, in this regard, it can be said that no country can compare, Huaxia bridge data ranks first in the world. The total length of highways in China has reached 46,000 kilometers, and if it is replaced by a relatively small country, the total mileage of the country's roads may not be as long as the total length of highway bridges in China. According to statistics, Huaxia has 800,000 highway bridges and 200,000 railway bridges, with a total of 1 million, ranking first in the world. And Huaxia has won many world records on bridges. There are several records here, namely the world's tallest bridge: the Beipanjiang Bridge. The world's longest high-speed rail bridge: Danquint Bridge. The world's longest sea-crossing bridge: Jiaozhou Bay Bridge. The world's largest steel arch bridge: Chaotianmen Yangtze River Bridge. The world's longest submarine immersed tunnel: the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. The world's largest span road and railway bridge: Lutong Yangtze River Bridge.

The infrastructure madness lives up to its name.

This is very important, you must know that infrastructure construction is the lifeblood of a country's survival. In recent years, the speed of development of Huaxia has amazed the world, and it is because of the infrastructure construction that Huaxia's infrastructure strength is world-famous. Highway and railway construction extends in all directions, and high-speed rail has become a "business card" to the world; the "Chinese speed" that once shocked China and foreign countries attracted worldwide attention because of the demolition of bridges and the passage of roads in eight hours. One infrastructure project after another has made the world sigh, leaving the name of "infrastructure madness" in the global infrastructure market.

In addition to the above-mentioned accident of the World's Tallest Building and Urban Habitat Institute, there is also a website called "Highest Bridges", which has published some data, this website specifically ranks the world's bridges, and many of the bridges in the ranking can be described as "crazy". As of the end of April 2018, only 18 of the top 100 bridges were not made in China, and 8 of the top 10 were made in China. Most of these bridges are located in complex terrain, high mountains and deep valleys, which were originally extremely inconvenient for transportation, and have become the country's economic vasculars and practical livelihood projects. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, the construction level of railway bridges in China has advanced by leaps and bounds. According to the China Railway Corporation, by the end of 2017, the domestic railway mileage reached 127,000 kilometers, ranking second in the world.

In addition to building bridges, China's road-building capacity is not to be outdone.

Previously, the CCTV documentary "The Generation That Changed the Earth" mentioned that China is "the world's largest highway construction country". In 1989, the total length of expressways in Huaxia was less than 1,000 kilometers, and by the end of 2016, the total mileage of Huaxia Expressway had exceeded 120,000 kilometers, ranking first in the world. The scale of the construction of highways in China has even overshadowed the famous intercontinental highway network of the United States.

There was a post titled "Why China is an infrastructure madman" on a hot list, in which more than 800 netizens answered, and their sighs and pride in the strength of China's infrastructure were overflowing.

Many of them used their hometowns as an example in their answers, saying that the muddy way home in the past has now become a smooth and smooth road, and the construction of the railway and the opening of the high-speed rail have made the time to go home shorter and the process more comfortable.

Some netizens also left their experiences around them in their answers, "I woke up and built three floors", "Boao Airport was built in 129 days", which really made people sigh, "This is the speed of Huaxia". These examples, based on their own experience, prove the strength of China's infrastructure construction. Huaxia has become an "infrastructure madman", of course, it is inseparable from the strength of domestic infrastructure construction, and some netizens even said, "If Huaxia is not an infrastructure madman, then there may be no infrastructure madness in the world..."

As for the reason for this, it is also very simple, China's vast territory and large population are the main reasons, and the development of infrastructure is also for the needs of people's life and social development.

As we all know, infrastructure is the foundation and necessary condition for economic and social development, and economic construction and development are inseparable from the boost of infrastructure. China is currently in an important stage of economic transformation to high-quality development, and the construction of infrastructure will lay a solid foundation for economic development. In other words, "if you want to get rich, you must first build roads", and if infrastructure construction is not good, the speed of development will not be able to keep up.

Of course, to build infrastructure, we need reinforced concrete, so what is the confidence of Huaxia as an "infrastructure madman"? Of course, it is building materials. In today's society, the main body is built on steel and cement, and building materials are the most important of all. In 2017, the total global crude steel output reached 1,691.2 million tons, and the annual crude steel output in Asia reached 1,162.5 million tons, of which China's crude steel output was 831.7 million tons. That is to say, except for China, the crude steel output of other countries can be on par with China's crude steel output if it is comprehensive.

And that's just one of them.

Such a terrible infrastructure capacity ensures the development of various projects, involving mobile payment-related, mobile phone signals, mobile networks, etc., and the infrastructure is far more than other countries, so the development of mobile payment can grow rapidly in China.

Of course, this is the original time and space, but even if Zhou Fangyuan does not intervene, the development of domestic mobile payment in this world will not be bad.

Therefore, he has to work harder, occupy the market one day earlier, and gain an advantage one day earlier.

Mobile payment is not only to seize the market, but also to charge a certain fee for large transactions, which is a market of hundreds of billions, even if it can only charge a one-thousandth of a handling fee, it is quite considerable. Coupled with the market share, such a business is not done in vain, and Zhou Fangyuan is not stupid, of course he will not let go of such a good opportunity.

In addition, in addition to mobile payment accidents, bicycle sharing should also be on the agenda.

He had bought a bicycle factory for this day.

The concept of sharing bicycles, in fact, has been around for a long time, it was first mentioned abroad, and the first thing to appear in China was about 07 to 10 years, but at that time there was only such a concept, and it was really developed, almost 13 years and 14 years.

Thinking back to 2017, when Zhou Fangyuan had not been reborn, he remembered it very clearly, but when the young people of 20 countries evaluated the new four major inventions of high-speed rail, scan code payment, bicycle sharing and online shopping, the Chinese people were very happy, and the crooked nuts were also very convinced, but who would have thought that in less than a year, Mobike, which could be said to be the strongest in the field in China, was facing the end of selling itself.

Shared bicycles do burn money, but this is very common in the entrepreneurial circle, from taxis to takeaways, Rebus also said seriously, "entrepreneurship still has to have endless money", but the shared bicycles burned neither taste, nor technical content, and finally set themselves on fire, billions of dollars ended up in this ending, no one expected. In the past, Mobike and ofo fell in love with each other and fought for data at the end of each quarter, but now it has stopped, but the two companies still have more than 5 million daily active users, and they maintain enough user touchpoints in the spitting stars in the sky, why can't they turn their advantages into victories?

In the final analysis, because bike sharing has always been a "non-customer" business.

The so-called non-customer is an economic concept, especially refers to those who have the willingness to consume but failed to become a customer group, to put it bluntly, there are two reasons, one is greedy, you have to 9.9 yuan free shipping;

Of course, traditional economic organizations can't do it, because the cost structure does not allow, costco realizes a part, its method is to turn itself into a buyer, take the user's 120 US dollar membership fee, run all over the world to bargain for procurement, and make money by commissions rather than the goods themselves; Pinduoduo can break the game, because of the wonderful combination of excess capacity + high inventory + Internet low-price culture in China, someone pays the bill on the C-side, and someone on the B-side naturally takes over.

What shared bicycles need to solve is laziness.

2-3 kilometers of short-distance travel in all major cities in the world are in demand, 95 began to appear in Europe public bicycle type, and later Zhou Fangyuan also did, but in the end took the initiative to withdraw from the chess game, in the end, everyone is a pile mode, it looks convenient, but there is still a huge, unmet "non-customer" demand, that is, the hope of free retrieval and return, without any restrictions.

This is the value of shared bicycles, and everyone can understand the business principle, but before domestic entrepreneurs, no one dared to challenge such an asset-heavy and high-risk game.

The reason is obvious, the business of accommodating the needs of "non-customers" cannot be played at all, because you are convenient, others will be troublesome, so there are so many communities "sharing bicycles are not allowed to enter"; there are so many cars hidden at home, so many QR codes are scraped off, and so many subway stations are surrounded.

Those who have satisfied people's inferior root nature will inevitably be defeated by their inferior root nature.

Wukong Bicycle has put more than 1,000 vehicles in Chongqing, with a loss rate of 90%, and Kara Bicycle has put 667 vehicles in Putian, leaving only 157 vehicles, with a loss rate of 76.5%. Accommodating unreasonable and unsatisfying needs is the beginning of the decay of any business.

Another crime of bike-sharing is waste, which is a scourge to the real economy, but it is not as simple as it seems.

In their heyday, Mobike and ofo took up to $4 billion in financing, enough to put 50 million shared bicycles, and if all of them were scrapped, equivalent to the total amount of structural steel of more than a dozen aircraft carriers, this is the media's algorithm, which is very scary. Orders for shared bicycles have been placed, steel mills have worked, depots have resumed work, workers have been paid, shopping malls have customers, tax revenues have been guaranteed, GDP has increased, and more, bike-sharing burns investors' money, not financial allocations. The core of the problem is that the shared bicycle is unfinished, and the boss of the "first bicycle town" Wang got 16 million vehicles of business and experienced the pleasure of "resurrection overnight, full of money", Mobike and ofo brought hope to the real economy in distress, and then ruthlessly smashed it.

Many people may wonder why this is?

It's very simple, because the shared bicycle is essentially a high-frequency, low-stickiness user entrance, it is traffic rather than a rental income platform, all the ways to realize it will not work in the end, there is no drama in going to sea, the Internet of Things is someone else's dish, and the rest is only traffic and advertising. Lao Zhu also said when he gave the ofo platform back then, saying that a car costs 200 yuan, 5 cents at a time, and rides 10 times a day, and the cost will be earned back in 3 months, but a few months later, he changed hands to Ali and cashed out 3 billion US dollars and withdrew.

Everyone said that the fall of Xiaolan and Cool Rider was the reason for the sandwich attack between Mobike and Ofo, but what was the result? The impact of the decline of bike-sharing on the startup community has been devastating, not only ending the aesthetic of burning money and violence, but also making a mockery of all the successful routines that once worked.

In the final analysis, this thing is not without prospects, because the "last mile" is really important, and whoever can fill in this piece can really change the way human travel, even if it is only a small change, it is a great innovation. However, the premise is that you must be rich, you can't just rely on investors, Harrow can live, Qingju can live, that's because Ali's father and Penguin's father are rich, which really responds to Xiao Ma's words - use salary to create happiness, no money to play NMB.

Therefore, sharing bicycles can be done, and the prospects are very good, but if you have money, Yuanfang Group, there is money now, so Zhou Fangyuan decided to get this thing out, as for who will suffer in the end and who will be fooled, then it is not something he should worry about, anyway, his bicycle factory should also work hard to harvest a wave, such a good business, do not do it in vain.