720 [Boao Forum]
At this year's Boao Forum, the first project was golf. In fact, it is to set up a golf club to provide a platform for those Chinese and foreign business elites to communicate freely.
Song Weiyang didn't go to play golf, he flew to Qiongdao that afternoon, and arrived there just in time for the reception dinner.
In fact, the forum officially began in the afternoon with a roundtable of young leaders with participants from all walks of life. There were young Chinese and foreign officials, media figures like Bai Yansong, and business elites such as Ding Sanshi, Shen Nanpeng, and Huo Dagongzi, and the theme of their discussion was "environmental protection and development."
In the evening, the real estate industry forum was held, and the keynote speaker was the small target big boss Wang, Pan Yiyi, Wang Shishi, Ren Dazui, etc., and some officials from relevant departments attended.
Ren Dazui was cheated by the media again this time, and the original intention he expressed was: social security and market distribution should be equally emphasized, and the social security system is to let people who can't afford to buy houses have houses to live in, such as low-rent housing, affordable housing, etc., but it is by no means a good house for people who can't afford to buy a house, and they can still live comfortably if they can't afford a house will disrupt the order of market distribution.
The headline of the media report was: "Ren Dazui: The government can't let people who can't afford to buy a house still live comfortably."
This news was hung up on the Internet that night and became a hot topic on the first day of the Boao Forum. Many netizens only saw the title and sprayed it in the comment area, anyway, they are used to it, and they will continue to spray Ren Dazui for more than ten years in the future - this guy always says something that is easy to cause ambiguity, and Chi Guoguo speaks from the perspective of a real estate developer.
The next morning, a large number of panel discussions were held at the same time.
There is a green energy forum, the speaker is a gringo (Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific president), and the participants are mainly CEOs of oil, automotive and other companies. There were also a number of Chinese and foreign officials, such as Iran's deputy minister of oil.
There is a telecommunications industry forum, and the speaker is the boss of the Ministry of Information Industry. The CEO of China Mobile, the chairman of the Indian Tata Group, the chief strategy officer of Microsoft, and the CEO of Shenzhou Technology, Shen Fuxing, attended the forum and expressed their opinions.
There were also many small forums on financial reform, corporate responsibility, world trade, etc., and Song Weiyang saw a lot of acquaintances, but he did not participate in any of them.
The big leader came at noon that day, and Song Weiyang was fortunate to be summoned and was called to the lounge to talk for 15 minutes.
In the afternoon, a bunch of group forums were held at the same time, among which there were many acquaintances and thieves in Internet forums.
Ding Ming, CEO of Sogou, was a special guest speaker, and other Samsung vice chairmen, Ma Xiaoyun, Xiao Ma Ge, Zhang Chaoyang and others attended. Although Zhang Chaoyang was convicted of only taking care of Sohu videos, he is still the nominal CEO of Sohu, and he attends such public events on behalf of Sohu.
There was also a party that night, and Song Weiyang was surrounded by people.
In fact, his main activity in the past two days was to deal with entrepreneurs from all walks of life, and at the same time to communicate with some officials at home and abroad.
On the third day of the forum, the roundtable on the 30 years of reform and opening up. Most media reporters were barred from entering the venue, and only state media reporters were allowed to take pictures, but they were forbidden to record the whole process.
There are three people sitting on the stage, one is Chen Weihong, the host of CCTV finance, one is Chi Fulin, a scholar-type official, and the other is Kui Lijie, the global CEO of Deloitte (foreigner). Everyone else sat below, each with a microphone in front of them, and more than 200 Chinese and foreign entrepreneurs and scholars participated.
Song Weiyang ran into Ma Xiaoyun outside the venue: "Old Song, why didn't you participate in yesterday's Internet forum?"
"It's okay to have you, I'm an Internet investor. Song Weiyang said with a smile.
Along the way, the two met many entrepreneurs, including the CEOs of many state-owned enterprises such as CNOOC and China Mobile.
Song Weiyang was placed in the middle right seat, with Director Fan of the National Economic Research Institute on the left, old friend Liu Yonghao on the right, and Ma Xiaoyun sitting in the second row.
The three hosts on the stage quickly chatted, reviewing and evaluating the achievements of China's reform and opening up in the past 30 years.
"Let's make a little game now," Chen Weihong said, "There are four animals: elephant, tiger, monkey and eagle, if you want to choose one as your corporate image, may I ask the CEOs here which one will they choose? ”
Mr. Wang of China Mobile smiled: "I choose an elephant." ”
Chen Weihong asked, "Why?"
Mr. Wang explained: "The image of the elephant is kind, very stable, non-aggressive, and helpful. It's like China, which will soon become the third largest economy in the world, and although it is big, China is still a developing country. Mobile companies are also developing, and they are very large, and while we are developing, we will also develop together with Chinese society and Chinese people. In addition, elephants are the largest land animals in the world, and I hope that one day mobile companies will be the number one in the world. ”
Chen Hongwei asked a few questions in a row, and then asked Song Weiyang: "What about Boss Song?"
"It's also an elephant," Mr. Song said, "but I don't think the same as Mr. Wang." Elephants are extremely aggressive animals, and if they violate their territory, they will inevitably destroy them. The same is true of my business philosophy, under normal circumstances, I develop steadily, I will not take the initiative to provoke others, and we will live together peacefully and make progress together. But if anyone encroaches on my territory, I will not compromise. ”
"If no one offends me, I will not offend anyone. Chi Fulin concluded.
"Yes. Song Weiyang said.
Chen Hongwei asked, "What about Boss Ma?"
Ma Xiaoyun said: "I choose monkeys. I don't want to be the first, the bigger the enterprise, the greater the responsibility, we want to help more small and medium-sized enterprises, private enterprises, everyone to be a happy monkey together. ”
Mr. Wei of China COSCO said: "I choose Eagle. Enterprises should be like eagles, occupy the high ground and see everything. ”
After picking about 20 entrepreneurs to choose, Chen Weihong began to move on to the next link: to say the most memorable first time he had experienced in the 30 years of reform and opening up.
This topic is much more lively, and entrepreneurs have spoken, all kinds of bittersweet memories, and all kinds of feelings about the past.
When it was Song Weiyang's turn, he smiled: "No first time is the most memorable, I regard every choice as the first time." Maybe I'm too young to like to reminisce, and I and my business still have a long way to go in the future. ”
What he said was purely to show off, the entrepreneurs present were all older than Song Weiyang, and none of them were as rich as Song Weiyang.
"What about Mr. Liu?" asked Chen Hongwei.
Liu Yonghao first reviewed his entrepreneurial experience and said: "There are many firsts in life. My next first time is to fulfill my social responsibility. I plan to invest 100 million yuan to help 100 villages in three years to establish cooperatives for pig, chicken and fish farming, and to unite farmers to form an industrial chain system. At the same time, I also need to prepare a guarantee company to solve the problem of financing difficulties for farmers. ”
Song Weiyang suddenly interjected: "Brother Liu, don't let the environmental experts hear what you say. ”
"Hahahaha!"
The audience erupted in laughter.
This is not a meme, but in the forum two days ago, four gringos promoted the idea of vegetarianism and called on people around the world to eat less meat.
One is last year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, one is the chairman of Philips, the other is the representative of the United Nations Development Programme in China, and the other is an animal husbandry research expert in Japan. It is said that eating too much meat will affect the environment, lead to a surge in carbon dioxide emissions, and will be harmful to your own body or something.
Liu Yonghao said: "Those people are full of food! In China in the 80s and 90s, how many peasants relied on breeding to subsidize their families. Especially for raising chickens, many rural children are counting on eggs to increase nutrition. There is also pig raising, and the teachers in the countryside urge them to pay the tuition, and the most common answer from the students is: 'My mother said, when the family sells the fat pigs, they will pay the tuition!'
"Well said!" Mr. Chen, of Qiongdao Airlines, applauded.
Soon we talked about the next session, where each person showed a photo, posted it on the exhibition wall, and told the story behind the photo.
Oh, my mother, this thing is so sensational, it's almost like "Art Life", and the scene seems to have turned into a bittersweet meeting. It is all about how difficult it was and how miserable it was back then, and how I broke through the obstacles to achieve success, and I must emphasize the help brought by the correct decision of the central authorities.
Song Weiyang found that he shouldn't have come, this is a group of old men collectively reminiscing about the past!
Wang Shishi, Pan Yiyi, all said how difficult it was to do real estate back then, they were on the verge of bankruptcy, and they didn't operate until the central government opened up the real estate market.
Ma Xiaoyun showed a group photo of the Great Wall, which was the photo of him taking a team tour of the Great Wall when he was about to leave Beijing to start a business, and then extended the huge impact of China's reform and opening up and economic development on the e-commerce industry.
Song Weiyang came to the stage with a smile, pasted a photo on the display wall, and immediately explained: "This is the successful tape-out photo of the first PHS RF chip of Shenzhou Technology, and this is also the first successful commercial mobile phone RF chip in China." At that time, Shenzhou Technology relied on PHS business, and its career had just started. But we have invested as much money as possible in scientific research projects, and now we have realized the self-production of baseband chips for China's smartphones......"
Hearing this, Mr. Ren in the audience suddenly smiled bitterly, and now the person in charge of the Shenzhou baseband chip project team is the employee who jumped from Huawei in the past.
"Science and technology are the primary productive forces," Song Weiyang is still pretending to be there, "Last year, Shenzhou's smart phones were listed in China for nine months, with a cumulative sales volume of 3.53 million units, and in the United States for three months, with cumulative sales of 870,000 units, and the total global sales exceeded 25 billion yuan......!
The entrepreneurs present don't want to talk anymore, obviously everyone is reminiscing about the bittersweet thoughts, what do you mean by running to show off your achievements?
Especially TCL's Mr. Li and Huawei's Mr. Ren, both of them have suffered miserably in the field of mobile phones, and they have invested a lot of money but have not been able to occupy the market. On the other hand, Shenzhou Technology, only that smartphone, sold for 9 months in China and 3 months in the United States, has an annual sales of 25 billion!
People are more angry than people.
Other entrepreneurs were also shocked because Shenzhou Technology is not a listed company, and all kinds of data do not need to be disclosed to the public. They only knew that Shenzhou smart phones were selling well, and they only knew that Shenzhou Technology was making a lot of money, but they didn't expect the real data to be so scary.
Those friends who also make mobile phones, not only Huawei and TCL, but also other brands, were speechless in shock at this time.
Let's put it this way, last year, China's smartphone sales accounted for only 12.6% of China's total sales, but accounted for 60% of the total sales.
In the end, Shenzhou sold 24 million ordinary mobile phones in China last year, and the average price of each mobile phone was only more than 570 yuan, and the profit margin was ridiculously low - this is the norm in the industry, including Lenovo, Huawei, and TCL!
"Bang bang bang!"
Envy is envy, speechlessness is speechless, applause still has to be given.
Journalists who were allowed to come in to observe (not interview) quickly wrote down the data in a small notebook and posted it to the portal that evening. The annual sales of Shenzhou smart machine products are 25 billion yuan, which immediately aroused heated discussions among netizens, and even experts from all walks of life came to join in the fun.
A netizen's focus is very unique, he complained on the Tianya forum: "This is a 5,800 mobile phones, and it actually sold more than 3.5 million units in nine months in China, where do so many rich people come from in China?"
The answer is, there are rich people everywhere.
As soon as the meeting ended, Song Weiyang received various invitations, all of which invited him to dinner and play ball to connect with each other.
The official staff of the Boao Forum specially called the entrepreneurs together and divided them into several groups for a group photo. Among the hundreds of entrepreneurs, Song Weiyang always stands in the C position, and next to him is often Mr. Liu.
Mr. Liu's memories today are also in place, saying that when he first started his business, he pedaled bicycles to sell goods, and how to persevere under the impact of foreign brands.
It's just that Song Weiyang is obviously more popular and respected than him, because Song Weiyang is special, special and rich!
Even though Google's stock price has begun to plummet, Song Weiyang's assets are not as much as Forbes announced at the beginning of the year. But he still stands out among these entrepreneurs, which is equivalent to the difference between billionaires and multimillionaires, and it is not a level at all.
By the way, Song Weiyang has officially withdrawn from the "China Entrepreneur Club" and accepted the invitation of the editor-in-chief of "China Business Circle" to join the "China Entrepreneur Club" - originally called "China Business Entrepreneur Club", Song Weiyang asked the other party to change his name because it was ugly.
These two magazines and two clubs have been in competition for a long time, but the former has the support of the Taishan Club, and gradually throws the latter out of the eight streets.
Now that Song Weiyang has agreed to join and become chairman, he immediately brought in a large number of top entrepreneurs, and although many belong to both sides of the board, China's two major business camps are becoming more and more obvious.
Mr. Liu did not communicate with Song Weiyang during the whole process, and the two had deep grievances. In addition to commercial competition, it is also because Song Weiyang invited Academician Ni to serve as a senior consultant of Shenzhou, and Academician Ni has publicly scolded Mr. Liu for several years.
"Boss Song, wait a minute!" Dean Zhang chased after him and shouted.
Song Weiyang had a headache, turned around and smiled, "Dean Zhang is still there, I thought you had already left Qiong Island." ”
Dean Zhang of Guanghua College of Peking University has been promoted from vice president to full dean. He also came to participate in the Boao Forum this time, pestering Song Weiyang in various ways, and dragged Dr. Ma to Peking University to give a lecture on the development and growth of Shenzhou Science and Technology.
Dean Zhang kept pestering and nagging, and Song Weiyang was so annoyed that he agreed to come down.
Anyway, he is going to take his wife and children to watch the Olympics, and after the Olympics are over, it will be time to start school after playing in the capital for half a month, and then he will take the time to give a lecture at Peking University.