In early November, it was still early autumn in Shenzhen, and the wind was biting, but the temperature was still over ten degrees. When the weather is warm, it can be around 20 degrees.
In Hon Hai’s campus.
Guo Taiming is summarizing various information in the office with his close subordinates. He usually doesn't come to Shenzhen for work. Although the park here in Shencheng is the first park he opened, it is of very important significance.
But now he had to come.
Because Uber, a member company of the Phoenix Group, has successfully been listed on the Hong Kong stock market. As of today, Uber's market value is as high as HK$400 billion. Moreover, it is still rising slowly.
It is said that a large number of financial institutions on Hong Kong Island participated in the issuance, creating a harmonious atmosphere! But this is very unfriendly to him.
According to the news from a friend, Mr. Jing of the Phoenix Group was very dissatisfied with what he said before, "I give them food to eat." I need to give him some color. Now, the richest man in China, Li Jiacheng, has been stripped of his face by Jing Gao. How is that possible if he is not nervous?
Feng Fuhong is fifty-three years old this year. He has followed Guo Taiming for many years. When he saw his boss frowning, he sat at the conference table and suggested: "Mr. Guo, let's report it to the boss. We can always solve it."
Guo Taiming shook his head and threw the pencil in his hand on the conference table. "How to solve pure business competition?" He was sixty-eight years old and had age spots on his face. He picked up the teacup and drank tea and sighed: "Phoenix Group Their strategy is very clear. They are about to join the competition in the foundry field."
There are currently many domestic mobile phone OEMs. The competition between BYD and Hon Hai is very fierce. Since 2005, he has clashed with BYD's boss several times. BYD is now Huawei's largest mobile phone supplier.
In addition, Hon Hai’s competitors include Congluxun Precision. There is also the US-funded Flextronics. In addition, some established mobile phone manufacturers have their own factories, and occasionally their production capacity is released to take over work.
Hon Hai's profit is only about 5%. There are more and more players in this market, which makes Hon Hai’s living environment even worse. Some of his decisions to set up factories in India and North America proved unworkable.
Although the population here is beginning to age and young people are no longer willing to work in sweatshops to make money, the quality of skilled workers is still among the best in the world.
Feng Fuhong persuaded: "Mr. Guo, as long as we still have orders from Apple, there won't be a big problem. If Phoenix joins the foundry, they will never be able to reduce their profits to 2% or 3% to accept Apple's orders." Right? I don’t think Jing Gao is willing to do such a stupid thing."
Guo Taiming can have such a large industry. Even though he is old, he still has his vision. He said: "Old Feng, in the future, it is very likely that what we will compete for is not Apple's orders, but how much the workers on the production line will pay. If Is the Phoenix Group raising the salary in this area? I think it will be difficult for us to compete with it. So, can there be no conflict or no conflict? I heard that Jing Gao has been in Shencheng recently?"
Another assistant said: "Yes, Mr. Guo. We have learned from some friends that he has a schedule to inspect Huawei's factory in the near future. The two parties have already coordinated."
Guo Taiming was somewhat surprised, "Huawei is actually willing to let him take people to visit?"
There has always been an "interesting story" in the domestic mobile phone manufacturing industry. When Rebus was about to create Xiaomi, through his connections in Zhuhai, Kingsoft’s headquarters was in Zhuhai. He visited Meizu in Zhuhai and learned about the process of making a mobile phone. Then Xiaomi was established and took off.
So much so that later, when Meizu and Xiaomi were competitors for a period of time, Meizu's founder Huang Zhang would accuse Rebus of plagiarism, being unkind, and stealing Meizu's trade secrets whenever he met.
At the time, many people still believed this: Maybe Rebus really stole Meizu's stuff.
But now, in 2017, this is a joke. At most, Rebus learned about all aspects of mobile phone manufacturing in detail through the visit. But if Meizu showed Rebus the core design data and the list of its supply chain manufacturers, no one would believe it.
Now Xiaomi is one of the top five mobile phone manufacturers in China, while Meizu is so far behind that we don’t know where it is. This only shows that Rebus’ ability is strong! Plagiarism is nonsense. Others plagiarize and do better than you, don’t you think about it?
Phoenix Group has a Coolpad mobile phone. Isn’t Huawei afraid that Coolpad will “plagiarize” them?
The assistant said: "Yes."
Guo Taiming remained silent and said: "Contact the people in Phoenix. I hope that the two sides can turn the hostility into friendship. Those words of mine are just for the campaign and do not represent my true thoughts."
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November 2nd. It was sunny and windless. Huawei headquarters.
The head of the department responsible for receiving visitors was waiting downstairs early. A bus came slowly and stopped downstairs. This is Huawei’s internal car.
Jing Gao, An Xiaoqian, Dong Youwei, An Xiaoqian's assistants, and several Coolpad Mobile executives followed.
The top management of Coolpad Mobile has been changed a long time ago. There are senior executives recruited by Liu Sumei from headhunting, middle-level cadres promoted by Coolpad Mobile, and old subordinates brought by An Xiaoqian from Haiyi Group. Haiyi Group has fully merged with Phoenix Group.
An Xiaoqian also made the decision to recruit a senior executive from Huawei to serve as the vice president of supply chain management for Coolpad.
"Mr. Jing, welcome. My name is Han Miao, and my colleagues and I will be in charge of your visit today." The department head is a female general in her forties, well-dressed in a dark red suit.
"Hello. I'm going to thank you all for the hard work today." Jing Gao smiled and shook hands with her. After she finished her greetings, everyone walked into the building together.
First of all, Huawei's campus, the shape of the building, and the layout inside left a deep impression on Jing Gao.
This doesn't look like an office at all, but more like a five-star hotel. He had done his homework before. Dong Youwei and others showed him some of Huawei's public internal speeches, materials, photos, and videos.
Huawei is very willing to invest in the construction of office space. The building is magnificent and shaped like various works of art. The facilities inside the building really surprised him.
When it comes to office space, his first impression is of cubicles. It doesn't matter how powerful the company is. Most of them are like this. Huawei is outrageous here. The offices here at the headquarters are very luxurious, a bit like those found in enterprises and institutions.
"Mr. Jing, please come this way! Mr. Xu is waiting for you in his office." Han Miao smiled and led the way.
The first step in today's visit is to communicate with Mr. Xu, Huawei's rotating chairman.
Huawei's organizational structure is different from other companies. What they have implemented is a rotating chairman system. Jing Gao doesn’t know how the outside world interprets it, nor how Huawei interprets it internally. He has a perspective.
During the Tang Dynasty, there were sometimes three prime ministers, and sometimes there were five or seven prime ministers. According to established rules, the emperor was only in charge of officials of the third rank. Further down is the prime minister. The struggle between imperial power and prime ministerial power is a historical issue.
Jing Gao once read an online article about the "rotating political pen" that the great master highly praised. The first is to ensure the emperor's control, and the second is to ensure that no prime minister becomes confused and makes a wrong decision.
Huawei's corporate system has long been studied by many researchers. Founder Mr. Ren only retains the "one-vote veto power" and holds a little more than 1% of the shares. He did not speak out in the company like other founders.
Therefore, in Jinggao's view, Huawei adopts a rotation system to prevent individuals from making wrong decisions, and it also comes with an error correction mechanism.
"please!"
