After flying to Lin'an, Zhang Ran knew that many major events had happened in the circle recently, the most sensational of which was Wanda's announcement of an investment of 100 billion yuan to build the Oriental Film Metropolis.

Three days ago, Wanda Group's Oriental Film Capital, which claimed to have invested 100 billion yuan, held a launching ceremony in Qingdao. In order to create a sensational effect, Wanda spent a lot of money and invited a number of international superstars to help, including Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Nicole Kidman, John Travotta, etc. In addition, Isaac, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, former chairman Hawke, and CEO Hudson also came to help. In addition, the senior executives of Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Paramount, and Weinstein Pictures all appeared, and the opening ceremony of the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival was not lost.

Interestingly, there were only a handful of domestic stars and Chinese stars present, only a few including Zhao Wei and Jet Li. The contradiction between Wanda and the peak of the century is well known, and the Oriental Film Metropolis project is clearly carried out by the Century Film Capital, and giving the Oriental Film Metropolis a platform is likely to offend the peak of the century, and not many people dare to take this risk.

At the launching ceremony, Wang Jianlin announced in a high-profile manner: "The Oscar Academy of the United States, the four major artist management companies, and the China Film Association have signed an agreement with Wanda to support Wanda to hold the Qingdao International Film Festival in September every year from 2015, and at the same time, the world's four major artist management companies promise to invite 30 international first-line superstars and directors to participate in the Qingdao International Film Festival every year." ”

Wang Jianlin said in high spirits: "If you don't do it, you must be the best in the industry." This launching ceremony has been evaluated by the outside world, and the starting point is higher than the three existing film festivals in China. I believe that the first Qingdao International Film Festival in 2015 will be very brilliant and successful. I have set a goal for the Qingdao International Film Festival to become one of the three most famous film festivals in the world in three to five years. The Oscars have a history of 86 years, and with the status of American culture, it will be difficult to catch up in a short time, but other film festivals in the world, we will surpass them in three to five years!"

Wang Jianlin's declaration caused a lot of discussion in the media, and almost everyone thought that this was a war letter from Wan Da to the pinnacle of the century. Foreign media also believe that this is Wan Da's public cry from words to actions to the peak of the century. The cover of the latest in Hollywood's authoritative magazine "The Hollywood Reporter" is Wang Jianlin and Zhang Ran looking at each other face to face, and the title is "Movie Wars".

The industry believes that Wanda wants to compete with the peak of the century, and it will not work to engage in oriental films, and it must make efforts in content and publicity, because the most powerful place of the peak of the century is content and publicity. If there is no breakthrough in content and publicity, then Wanda will not be able to keep up with the peak of the century.

This year's summer file is a particularly obvious example, "Future Apocalypse" has set off a movie-watching storm in China, and now the domestic box office has exceeded 3 billion, and major theaters are making a lot of money. Only Wanda did not provide films at the peak of the century, so he could only show other movies, which led to the entire summer Wanda Cinema Line being crowded, which can be described as a heavy loss.

Sure enough, as expected in the industry, Wan Da showed his cards the next day. MGM, a subsidiary of Wanda and nine film companies including Legendary Sales, Weinstein Pictures, and Relativity Pictures, announced that they will co-produce films, and said that 20 Hollywood blockbusters will be shot in the Oriental Film Capital in the next three years.

On the afternoon of this day, the inaugural meeting of the Wanda We-Media Alliance was held in Qingdao, and Wang Jianlin's son Wang Sichong served as the chairman of the alliance. Representatives of Wanda Group, hundreds of public accounts from the media, Xinlang and other enterprises attended the inaugural meeting.

Although several film companies in the alliance with Wanda are not the top six in Hollywood, their strength is still quite strong, Weinstein is a frequent visitor to the Oscars, and they are indispensable at the Oscars every year; Legendary Pictures participated in the production of super blockbusters such as "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Inception", and its relationship with Warner is extraordinary; and Relativity Media is known as the sixth largest film company in Hollywood and the eighth largest film company outside the peak of the century...... When the strength of so many companies is brought together, the problem of Wanda Cinema Line can be solved quickly.

However, not many people are optimistic about Wanda's self-media alliance, and some insiders pointed out sharply: "This self-media alliance is contrary to the demands of the self-media." We media pay attention to independence and have a good look. These self-media joining the alliance formed by Wanda means that they openly admit that Wanda is his financial master. Then his independence as a self-media will be gone, and it will be difficult for netizens to believe his words and deeds!"

9:45 a.m. on September 16, Lin'an Century Hotel.

Zhang Ran and Wu Ruide took the elevator to the 28th floor of the hotel, where there is a 2,000-square-meter conference room that can accommodate 1,000 people. This mobile phone alliance conference was held here.

Participating in the forum, not only Microsoft, Fly and other international network giants, but also Alibaba, Sohu, China Mobile, Telecom, Huawei and other well-known Chinese network and communications enterprise leaders, including Ma Yun, Lei Jun, Zhang Chaoyang and many other domestic network enterprise leaders will be present.

When Zhang Ran and the others walked into the conference room, the conference room was already full of people. When the bigwigs saw Zhang Ran and them coming, they came over to say hello. Zhang Ran also responded enthusiastically, but after living in the countryside for nearly two months, he was a little unaccustomed to such a scene.

Ma Yun saw that Zhang Ran's skin was tanned, which was completely different from the state of the Lin'an Fantasy Film Festival a few months ago, so he said: "You are coming back from a vacation in Hawaii, right?

Wu Ruide, who was next to him, almost didn't laugh when he heard this, and Zhang Ran was also immediately happy: "What kind of vacation, I went to the mountains to be a farmer for two months, facing the loess with my back to the sky, and giving the sun to the sun!"

Ma Yun laughed when he heard this: "You are so humorous! How much is your boss Zhang a minute, how can you go to the mountains to be a farmer for two months without anything? Who are you fooling?" The others also chuckled, and they all said that Zhang Ran was humorous.

Zhang Ran was speechless for a moment, no one believes me if I tell the truth!

Soon after, the conference officially began, starting with speeches by the leaders of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the province. The boss of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said directly in his speech that the market share of the Android system in China exceeds 80%, which is not a good phenomenon, although Android has been kept open source, but its core technology and technical route are strictly controlled by Google;

The attitude of the state is very clear, the government supports Zhang Ran and them to engage in this system, and China's operating system market cannot be completely in the hands of foreign companies!

As the company's CEO, Zhang Ran couldn't avoid speaking on stage, but his speech was very brief: "Since the announcement of the launch of the Phoenix open source system at the peak of the century, it has attracted attention from the outside world and has been favored by many operators and manufacturers. Seventeen operators, including Telefónica and Telecom Americas, plan to launch Phoenix phones by the end of this year, and South Korea's LG Electronics also plans to release several new phones that support the Phoenix operating system by the end of this year, while most of the smartphones previously developed by LG Electronics used Google's Android operating system.

IOS is closed, the global market share of the Android system is close to 70%, one dominant, and the online world needs different voices, consumers and operators need different choices, and the world needs a system other than iOS and Android. The presence of Phoenix has greatly reduced the dependence of manufacturers and operators on Android and iOS, and has been able to save 30% of app revenue. We are confident that with the support of our vibrant community and dedicated partners, Phoenix will be able to meet the diverse online needs of two billion consumers!"

The news of the establishment of the mobile phone development alliance has attracted huge attention around the world, and the media of various countries have reported it one after another. The New York Times headlined "The Peak of the Century Will Challenge Google in China", the Los Angeles Times headline "Phoenix Challenges Android", and the Chinatown Journal commented that "Despite Phoenix's Acquisition of So Many Partners, Phoenix Still Has a Lot of Work to Do to Compete with IOS and Android"......

Domestic netizens are also talking about this, and many people said that they will definitely buy one after the mobile phone of the Phoenix system comes out and support domestic products. But more netizens pay attention to the actual problems such as how the system is and whether the game card is stuck or not. If the thing is good, everyone will definitely support it, but if your thing is not good, it is useless if it is domestic.

The industry is not very optimistic about the Phoenix system, the Phoenix system promoted by Century Summit is basically improved in ebOS, it is a very excellent system, and it has also been supported by many operators, and Century Summit also has the ability to take the lead in building an ecosystem, but the problem is that now the Android system has occupied an absolute advantage, and the general trend has been achieved. In this case, it is almost impossible for the peak of the century to break the game.

Many people are sorry for the peak of the century, if the time can be two years earlier, before HP acquires ebos, the peak of the century can snatch ebos from HP and promote it with various manufacturers, it will definitely not be this situation, but it is a pity that it is too late. Now that Google has a relatively complete ecosystem, it is difficult to convince ordinary users to change the operating system unless a more convenient product appears, and it is impossible for Century Summit to turn the situation around.

At the same time, analysts pointed out that although Huawei and other mobile phone manufacturers have joined the mobile phone alliance of the peak of the century, they will not really focus on the Phoenix system, the main focus is still the Android system, joining the peak of the century camp is just to seek a way out, in case one day Android will tighten the authority and not allow it to be used, then they have an emergency system. Just like Samsung and Intel jointly created the Tizen system, but the main focus is still Android, and only a few low-end products in Samsung mobile phones use the Tizen system.

Some people also pointed out that the reason why Century Summit did not acquire ebOS two years ago was because the company was being sniped by Goldman Sachs and Wanda at that time, and the fabric had serious debt problems, and it simply could not draw enough funds to complete the acquisition, which may be one of the important reasons why Century Summit and Wanda are at war now!

Zhang Ran admitted that he thought things too simply, thinking that Microsoft and Apple and other companies encircled Android through patents, and the acquisition of Motorola Mobility by the peak of the century would delay the development of Android, but he didn't expect Google to smash 6.5 billion yuan, snatch Nortel Networks from Apple, and obtain 6,000 patents and patent applications. Although Nortel Network's mobile phone patents are not many, it still provides a certain guarantee for Android to defend against patent lawsuits, and Google is still acquiring mobile phone patents. Because Google's acquisition of Nortel Networks did not make Samsung and other companies worry about "Google is also making mobile phones, what will I do if I get stuck in my neck in the future" as the previous acquisition of Motorola, the expansion speed of Android has not been delayed, but accelerated.

Zhang Ran knew that in the current form, if no major changes occurred, it would be difficult for the Phoenix system to open up the situation. However, as a reborn, he remembers very clearly that there will be a big event next year, Google and other American technology companies will be involved, and it will be a perfect opportunity for the peak of the century!