Chapter 558: A Different Lianxiang Company
China has two deep impressions on enterprises all over the world, on the one hand, there are more than one billion demographic dividends, which can provide enterprises with high-quality and inexpensive human resources, so China has become the "world factory" in just 30 years!
On the other hand, it is the unruly business here. All kinds of counterfeit and shoddy and copycat piracy are rampant, and the lawbreakers are often more arrogant than the victims! However, Lianxiang Company is an exception, so it is the first domestic computer manufacturing enterprise to take the initiative to come to the door and hope to obtain patent authorization from the Oriental Research Institute.
Behind the rise of every great company, there are some successful traits that can be incorporated into the core culture of the enterprise. One of the characteristics of Lianxiang Company is to abide by the rules. In another time and space, before China's accession to the WTO, almost none of the domestic computer brands paid Microsoft the royalties for software such as Windows and Office.
Lianxiang could have gone with the flow, but it would rather bear higher costs than its competitors than break the international rules of the game. And since you follow the rules, then there is no reason for others to use other means against you than the rules.
Therefore, in 2004, Lianxiang Company was able to withstand the monstrous doubts in the United States, successfully acquired IBM's personal computer business, and opened the market for mid-to-high-end business jets with ThinkPad, and then defeated Dell, HP and other competitors in one go, and finally ascended to the sales hegemony of the global PC market.
Before acquiring ThinkPad, Lianxiang could only rely on the advantages of cheap labor in China. Relying on high quality and low price, it occupies a place in the low-end PC market. With IBM's brand and R&D strength, Lianxiang is finally qualified to sit on an equal footing with PC giants such as HP and Dell.
In the face of the rise of Lianxiang, other competitors are not tied down. Opposite. For example, Dell wants to enter the U.S. market in order to suppress Lian, maliciously saying that it has the support of the Chinese government. As a result, under the counterattack of Lianxiang Company, Dell's own reputation was seriously damaged.
Lianxiang's internationalization path is undoubtedly one of the most successful templates among Chinese enterprises. However, another domestic IT giant engaged in mobile communication and Internet equipment manufacturing, its overseas expansion path is exactly the opposite of Lianxiang, which can be described as an unusually bumpy road.
The company's M&A operations in the United States have been aborted several times due to the involvement of the U.S. government and Congress. Everyone knows the real reason. In fact, Cisco is behind the bad work. Cisco believes that its failure in the Chinese market is not due to its own technological inferiority, but because of unfair competition from Chinese competitors.
There is a huge difference between Chinese and Western business cultures. In order to win orders, Chinese enterprises can personally lead the team to accompany the other party's leaders to drink and eat. Foreign companies, on the other hand, may only reply to inquiries in China with a fax of a few pages.
Therefore, when the technology of the two sides is not much different, it is natural that Chinese companies that can do things and be people. But when the location of the battle between the two sides shifted from China to the United States. Everything is the other way around. The method of setting friendships and sending kickbacks behind the scenes has failed. You invite the customer to a casual meal. The other party may be subject to accusations of commercial bribery.
This is not to say that the competition in the American malls is really that clean, it is just that ********** rules are different. The rules of the game in the United States are called political lobbying, and if you look at Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Intel, Yahoo, and other IT companies, which company is not throwing a lot of money at Washington! Therefore, Cisco can keep the products of Chinese companies out of the United States without having to come forward on its own.
Of course, Lian thinks about the reason why this homegrown Chinese company is like most of its domestic counterparts. They parted ways from the beginning, but they actually had their own relationship with the father of the company's founder, Liu Chuanzhi. It's not that Liu Chuanzhi's father. How much has it played a role in promoting the development of Lianxiang company.
In fact, his father's name never appeared in Lenovo's rise biography. Liu Gushu, one of the earliest intellectual property lawyers in China, was also one of the first people in China to start promoting patent legislation.
In the same year that Liu Chuanzhi went to sea to found Lianxiang Company, his father Liu Gushu was also assigned by his superiors to establish the Hong Kong China Patent Agency Company. Because he grew up in such a family, Liu Chuanzhi's respect for intellectual property rights is naturally much higher than that of most Chinese in the eighties.
In addition to the general lack of awareness among the Chinese people, the difficulties in promoting intellectual property protection in China are also related to the government's laissez-faire. You must know that when Liu Gushu proposed patent legislation in China a few years ago, someone wrote a letter to the central government saying that he had betrayed the country.
Because there is no patent protection law, everyone can take advantage of foreigners in a big way. But this practice is actually picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons, and when China's economic development needs to be upgraded and transformed in 30 years, the price to bear is particularly huge.
In Li Xuan's view, the recognition and respect for the value of knowledge is what is most lacking in the more than 30 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is precisely because of the neglect of the importance of knowledge and technology that the phenomenon of brain-body inversion has appeared in China for a long time.
Money doesn't mean much to Li Xuan now, and he now hopes to lead the country to make some changes. Of course, this kind of change is by no means in the political system, because in Li Xuan's view, the United States, which is known as the beacon of democracy, is far from being as equal and free as advertised.
Not to mention the blatant racial discrimination, even the separation of powers, which Americans are proud of, is actually far from as glamorous as it seems. In China, power is often able to crush the rules of the game. And in the United States, money is also often able to twist the rules.
For example, the Simpson wife murder case, which is well-known to people all over the world, has completely demonstrated the disgraceful side of money that can play with the law. On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan, who had been in the White House for only 69 days, was suddenly assassinated.
The young man who committed the murder, John Hinckley, was found by a judge to be mentally ill and was eventually acquitted. The real reason behind this is that the criminal's father is a wealthy oil businessman in Texas, and he has enough money to hire the best lawyers in the United States to find loopholes in the law and exonerate his son.
Although, a few years later, Simpson was sentenced to death by a judge for another crime that did not seem serious. Hinckley was literally sent to a psychiatric hospital, where he spent 22 years in disguised captivity, after the federal government rejected his application for repudiation. On the face of it, justice was finally served.
However, everyone should know that these two cases are against the backdrop of an uproar in the United States, and the US Government naturally wants to make every effort to remedy them in order to protect its own dignity. But it is an indisputable fact that the sacrosanct law is played with by money. And the same kind of incident that failed to attract the attention of the whole United States will definitely become an unjust, false and wrongful case that cannot be resolved! )