Chapter 809 Banquet Zhang Jindong, wanting to get involved in Suning
When BBK DVD sales were in full swing, Lin Cheng left Guancheng at this time and came to Jinling, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.
Lin Cheng's trip to Jinling was a special trip to invite someone to dinner.
With Lin Cheng's status today, who is qualified to let him travel thousands of miles just to invite people to a meal.
This person's friends in later generations should be very familiar with it, that is, Zhang Jindong, the head of Suning Electric.
When he came to Jinling International Hotel, Lin Cheng arrived half an hour earlier than the agreed time, waiting for Zhang Jindong's arrival.
In the past, at dinners, others waited for Lin Cheng, but now it has been reversed, and it is Lin Cheng's turn to wait for others, which can be said to be enough to give Zhang Jindong face.
However, thinking of the thunderous momentum of Suning Electric in later generations, Lin Cheng felt that Zhang Jindong was worthy of his wait.
In the 21st century, Suning Electric Appliances and Gome Electric Appliances have become the two heroes in China's home appliance chain market.
In the early stage, Gome always overtook Suning by virtue of its first-mover advantage.
But when Huang Guomei was imprisoned and other shareholders fell into a storm of competition for control, Suning took the opportunity to surpass Gome Electric in one fell swoop and became the new overlord of China's home appliance chain industry.
After entering the era of online shopping, Suning Electric seized the pulse of the times and established Suning Cloud Business, which is second only to Tmall and Jingdong in the online mall of Suning Tesco, ranking among China's e-commerce prospects.
In the 10s of the 21st century, Suning Electric has been ranked among the top ten of China's private enterprises since it overturned Gome to become the overlord of the home appliance chain, and has never fallen into the top three after winning the championship in one fell swoop in 2014, and in 2015, it was ranked in Tanhua, and in 2016 and 2017, it won the top spot for two consecutive years, second only to Huawei, the new overlord of China's private enterprises.
There is nothing to be ashamed of losing to Huawei, the big devil, Ren Hua is too willing to do this!
As the founder of Huawei, he only retains 1.4% of Huawei's shares, and the other 98.6% of the shares are all distributed to Huawei employees.
After Ren Huawei distributes the equity, Huawei can truly be called a soldier of the whole people, and the employees all work hard for the promotion of shares, so that more than a dozen people in Huawei are tired to death on the job every year.
In the face of Huawei's desperate perverts, no private enterprise can be Huawei's opponent, and Suning's ability to sit firmly on the list for two consecutive years is already very remarkable.
In 2016, Suning's revenue exceeded 350 billion, and in 2017, Suning also acquired Tiantian Express, and the logistics channel was smoother, and the annual revenue of more than 400 billion yuan was a sure thing.
Such a powerful private enterprise, taking advantage of the fact that it has not yet grown and has not even walked out of the Jiangsu Province, Lin Cheng set his sights on Suning and wanted to take it into his arms.
However, after Duan Yongping's departure from the backgammon incident, it still dealt a very huge blow to Lin Cheng's reputation in the Chinese business community, and Lin Cheng was not 100% sure whether he could persuade Zhang Jindong to successfully invest in Suning.
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Zhang Jindong arrived at the International Hotel ten minutes ahead of 9:50, and was a little surprised to see Lin Cheng waiting in the Tianzi No. 1 box early, after all, compared with Lin Cheng, a super giant who combines the three richest people, he is just a small shrimp.
Zhang Jindong was born in 1963 and is now only thirty-six years old, which is the peak age of a man.
"The richest Chinese in the world, the richest man in Asia, the richest man in the country, the three richest people in one, the famous Mr. Lin, actually invited me Zhang Jindong, an unknown person, to wait here one step ahead of me, I am really ashamed of Zhang Jindong!" As soon as Zhang Jindong entered the box, he apologized to Lin Cheng.
There is no way, although Zhang Jindong has monstrous ambitions, compared to Lin Cheng at this moment, he is like an ant next to an elephant, which is not worth mentioning.
Lin Cheng said: "Dragon, can be big and small, can rise and hide, big is clouds and mist, small is hidden form, rising is flying in the universe, hidden in the waves."
Fang is deep in this spring, the dragon changes when the time comes, and the Jews have the ambition to cross the seas. Dragons are things, comparable to the heroes of the world.
Those who are heroes have great ambitions, good plans, opportunities to contain the universe, and those who have the ambition to swallow heaven and earth.
In my Lin person's opinion, Mr. Zhang is a real dragon diving in the pond, once he has to fly his wings, he can soar into the sky and become a hero no less than anyone.
Mr. Zhang doesn't have to be presumptuous, come, please sit down and talk!"
Everyone loves to listen to good words, and Zhang Jindong is no exception.
Lin Cheng quoted scriptures and compared Zhang Jindong to a hidden dragon, which made Zhang Jindong's eyes light up, and he felt like a confidant.
After the guest of honor sat down, Zhang Jindong asked with a smile: "Mr. Lin has ten thousand opportunities every day, and one minute is about millions, I don't know why Mr. Lin made a special trip to Jinling to invite me to a banquet." ”
Zhang Jindong was able to accept Lin Cheng's invitation to come to the International Hotel, and he had some vague guesses about Lin Cheng's intention, and it was very likely that he came to Suning.
Recently, Lin Cheng swept Duan Yongping out of the house, split the backgammon group, separated the household appliances, and pushed the most popular backgammon DVD, and Zhang Jindong also heard that Lin Cheng intended to acquire Shunde's Kelon Electric, obviously Lin Cheng has huge ambitions for China's electronics and home appliance market.
And today Lin Cheng invited himself to participate in the dinner, his next step, like himself, is to enter the home appliance chain market?
At this time, Suning was only a dealership specializing in selling air conditioners, although Zhang Jindong had intended to expand the air conditioning franchise to a comprehensive electrical appliance chain, but it was not until 2000 that this can be called a second entrepreneurship general strategy.
Lin Cheng said frankly: "Mr. Zhang, I am not here for Suning, to be honest, now Suning is just an air-conditioning franchise store, and I, Lin Cheng, can easily find thousands of electrical appliance chain stores that are larger than Suning to operate."
In fact, I am here for you, there are tens of thousands of air-conditioning franchise stores like Suning across the country, but there is only one talent like Zhang Jindong. ”
"Coming for me?" Zhang Jindong was shocked, compared to Lin Cheng, he was just a nobody, how could he get Lin Cheng's favor?
Lin Cheng said: "Time Magazine said that I have a pair of God-given eyes, and I think it is right, and I think so. Among the countless entrepreneurs who have gone to sea across the country, how can I find Mr. Zhang, who is still unknown, is because these eyes tell me that Mr. Zhang is a dormant dragon and will soar into the sky in the future!"
"What does Mr. Lin mean by this?" asked Zhang Jindong confusedly.
Zhang Jindong is grateful for Lin Cheng's attention, after all, Lin Cheng's status at this time is not much better than Li Chaoren, and Zhang Jindong at this time is just an ordinary small entrepreneur.
But as for Lin Cheng's true intentions, Zhang Jindong was still a little confused, and he didn't know what Lin Chengyi wanted.