At the same time in Suzhou, Li Miaomiao made a similar request to Zheng Li: "You must attend this Internet conference in Wuzhen with me."
The World Internet Conference, also known as the Wuzhen Summit, is held annually.
Even during this period, the event was not suspended due to special reasons, but was held via remote video conference.
The previous Wuzhen Summit was held in November. Starting from 2020, the Wuzhen Summit will be held earlier every year.
In recent years, the Wuzhen Summit has been held in August.
Zheng Li refused: "It would be nice if you represented me."
Li Miaomiao said that she wanted Zheng Li to attend the Wuzhen Summit, but actually she wanted to hang out with Zheng Li alone, even if it was just for the sake of attending the meeting.
Li Miaomiao took out her mobile phone and started playing an audio clip: "Okay, I will definitely participate next year."
Then he said: "This was last year's Wuzhen Summit, I asked you to participate, and you said you would definitely participate next year.
Last year’s theme was the metaverse, and in fact we were the protagonists of this theme.
In the past few years, when the concept of the Metaverse was at its hottest, Internet conferences did not use it as a theme.
It is precisely because our futureverse has initially realized people's expectations for the metaverse that we chose the metaverse as last year's theme.
Relevant leaders from Yanjing and Zhejiang Province told me countless times to invite you to participate, but I blocked it for you.
You told me last year that you would definitely participate this year, and I responded to the conference organizer in the same way.
This meeting will be held soon, and Wuzhen has already released the news that you will attend this meeting.
Google's President Pichai, Microsoft's Gates, Facebook's Zuckerberg and Iron Man Musk, who recently became a mage, have all expressed their willingness to participate in this Wuzhen Summit.
If you don't participate, I can't explain it. "
Speaking of this, Li Miaomiao was a little desperate. If Zheng Li refused to participate, she felt like she would offend everyone.
Others won't think much of Zheng Li, they will only think that she made up Zheng Li's meaning.
Li Miaomiao did not expect that the organizers of the Wuzhen Summit would release this news.
Last year, Li Miaomiao's reply to Wuzhen authorities was that Zheng Li would attend the Wuzhen Summit next year. This year's reply is a high probability.
She didn't mean it.
As a result, Wuzhen's publicity was that Li Zheng would personally attend this World Internet Conference.
You must know that Zheng Li has not appeared in public for so many years.
After the news of Zheng Li's participation came out, not only the founders of domestic Internet giants expressed their intention to participate in this Wuzhen Summit, but also the founders of overseas Internet giants expressed their intention to participate.
Even Gates, who has been away from front-line management for many years, said he would participate in this Wuzhen Summit.
Zheng Li looked at Li Miaomiao's embarrassed look and said, "Okay, I'll participate. Please arrange a few fewer meetings for me."
Li Miaomiao nodded quickly and said: "Don't worry, it will be three games at most.
Two exchange activities and opening ceremony. That's all you need to attend. "
The previous news about Zheng Li's participation in this Wuzhen Summit was only made public by the organizers of the conference when they invited the big guys.
After receiving the letter of approval from Li Miaomiao, the organizers of the conference released the news through official media channels.
“It is reported that the 2026 World Internet Conference will be held in Wuzhen at the end of August. This World Internet Conference will be the one with the largest number of big names in history.
Domestic heads of well-known companies such as Kechuang Biotechnology, Goose Factory, Ali, Huawei, and Rice participated in the event, and foreign heads of giants such as Apple, Tesla, Google, and Meta participated... "
The industry was in a state of excitement after the news came out.
The participation of so many big names means opportunities. What if your project or company is spotted by the big guys and takes off immediately?
You still have to have dreams to be a human being.
There is a lot of discussion online, and the Wuzhen Summit has not been so lively for several years.
About 20 years ago, photos of big boss dinner parties were circulated almost every year.
As for 2020, the 2020 World Internet Conference is known as: the quietest Internet conference in history.
The earliest date can be traced back to 2014, when Zhu * Yunlai, Li Yanhong, Ding Lei, and Zhang Chaoyang gathered together after the Wuzhen Summit.
A year later, it was still the same group of people, mainly including Ma Huateng and Lei Jun. After that, photos of these people’s dinner parties were circulated basically every year.
Of course, Zhu Zhi participated in this dinner party twice, but stopped participating after 16 years because of his sensitive status.
The most famous Wuzhen dinner party is probably the Dongxing Club in 2017.
The dinner hosted by JD.com’s Dongzi and Meituan’s Wang Xing hosted a number of front-line tycoons such as Ma Huateng, Zhang Yiming, Lei Jun, Shen Nanpeng, and Zhang Lei.
In the group photo of the dinner party at that time, netizens put the school emblems of the graduate schools of the various leaders on their heads.
You must know that in addition to the Dongxing Party at the Wuzhen Dinner Party in 2017, Ding Lei from the Pig Factory also organized a dinner party. After the crash, both Dongzi and Wang Xing invited so many big shots.
Judging from the group photo of Dongxing Club, Ma Huateng sitting in the main seat is also a manifestation of his status in the domestic Internet industry.
Due to Zheng Li's participation this year, many founders or heads of domestic and foreign Internet giants have expressed their intention to participate. Therefore, the outside world is speculating whether any photos of the dinner will be circulated this time.
In recent years, due to increased regulatory pressure and changes in the public opinion environment, even if the big bosses have dinner parties in recent years, photos of the dinner parties have not been circulated online.
I also don’t want to be scolded. Take Teacher Ma as an example. He went to Spain to play golf and drive a yacht and was photographed. Many people on Weibo criticized him.
The reputation is not what it used to be.
In the past, in order to do human business, even if they were scolded, the bosses still wanted to gain some publicity for their companies.
Under the recent regulatory intensity, it is almost impossible to expand new businesses, let alone monopolize.
Internet companies are all squeezing into B-side business, which does not require much public opinion.
Therefore, Wuzhen Dinner also became lonely.
The World Internet Conference usually lasts three days, and it is basically three days every year.
This year is no exception.
The first day is mainly for the opening ceremony and seminars, and the second day is for the Wuzhen Summit plenary meeting and the Entrepreneur Summit Forum.
Then on the second day, various sub-venues will hold forums in some subdivision directions.
The third day was similar, ending with a press conference.
This year’s theme is mainly the Industrial Internet.
The Metaverse was already talked about last year.
Internet practitioners have a clear perception that the industrial Internet has been mentioned for many years and has been mentioned since a long time ago.
Whether it is government-level work reports or the strategic plans of Internet giants, the Industrial Internet will be mentioned and placed in a very high position.
But in the past few years, there has been a feeling that the connection between the Internet and manufacturing is getting closer and closer.
The informatization and intelligent transformation of manufacturing industry is accelerating.
"Let us invite Mr. Zheng Li, chairman of Kechuang Biotech, to deliver the opening speech for this World Internet Conference."
Zheng Li originally thought that he was here to listen, and at most to participate in some exchanges.
As a result, there was actually a speech, which he had never done before.
But it doesn’t matter, the speech was written by Li Miaomiao, and the speech can be delivered by artificial intelligence.
Anyway, as long as I don't know what happened, it's not me who's embarrassed.
“Hello everyone, I am Zheng Li, the chairman of Kechuang Biotechnology.
It was my first time to attend such an occasion, so I was a little nervous. I rarely speak in front of so many people.
Everyone here must be thinking, isn't Kechuang Biotech a biopharmaceutical company? Come to the Internet Conference to join in the fun.
We were originally a biopharmaceutical company, but in recent years with the launch of brain-computer-connected mobile phones and brain-computer-connected VR, we have become a little bit involved with the Internet.
Especially since the end of last year, Kechuang Biotechnology has been deeply involved in the field of industrial Internet, and has created industrial VR with major Internet companies.
This means that the theme of this Internet conference is very relevant to us, so participating in it is not considered a cross-border effort.
Over the past four decades, the Internet has set off a prairie fire around the world.
To this day, none of us can exist without the Internet.
The Internet, like energy and food, has become a necessity in each of our lives.
But on the manufacturing side, the degree of integration between Internet technology and manufacturing is far less than the degree of integration between individual life and the Internet.
I am a person who likes to think very much. After today’s topic was told to me, I have some simple thoughts and understandings about it.
Today I am here to have an exchange and discussion with you:
In the next ten years, we can witness the accelerated development of the industrial Internet, not only the industrial Internet, but also the agricultural Internet.
Internet technology will empower, transform and upgrade these traditional manufacturing industries.
Everyone knows that I don't interfere much with the company's specific business. I leave all daily matters to our general manager.
But I will read reports, and I really like to read reports written by middle-level employees and senior executives below.
Since the end of last year, we have established joint ventures around industrial VR with major domestic Internet companies, such as Goose Factory, Dami, Huawei, Ali, etc.
The employees of these joint ventures, Kechuang Biotechnology, go deep into the front lines of the manufacturing industry to investigate the needs of the company.
One of my deepest feelings is, do manufacturing companies really need to be informatized and intelligent? Do they really need the industrial Internet to empower them?
Everyone here is engaged in the Internet industry and does not have a deep understanding of traditional manufacturing.
Let’s put it this way, the profits in the manufacturing industry are very slim. A profit margin of 3% is considered high. In other words, an entrepreneur with a revenue of one million can earn 30,000, which is considered too much.
Most small and medium-sized manufacturing industries maintain profit margins between 1.0 and 3.0 percent.
Where does the money come from to develop the industrial Internet? This is the first question, where does the money come from?
Another question is, can the Industrial Internet really bring benefits to them? Can we really increase production capacity and reduce costs?
Can these advantages cover the cost of the Industrial Internet?
If these two problems are not solved, the industrial Internet transformation of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises will be impossible.
After the employees of Kechuang Biotech went to the manufacturing companies that are widely distributed in the Yangtze River Delta region to conduct research, I read the research report and thought that these two issues will take time to digest.
To give a very simple example, for example, the cost of hiring a worker in the traditional manufacturing industry is 4,000 yuan, specifically to solve mechanized production problems.
But if this problem needs to be solved through information technology, the cost may be in the millions.
This cost is enough for a company to hire a worker for twenty years.
I think that to solve this problem, we need to rely on artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence can reduce the employment cost of programmers and improve the efficiency of programmers.
This indirectly reduces the cost of manufacturing transformation and makes more small and medium-sized manufacturing industries willing to join in.
In addition, there is a need for a model project, such as the smart steel production base jointly built by us, Huawei and Baosteel.
The production capacity has been increased three times, and the accident rate has been reduced to the point where no safety accident has occurred in half a year. A steel plant with an annual production capacity of two million tons has less than 20 employees.
After having such a model project, we are now discussing cooperation with many other steel groups.
For large-scale manufacturing industries, they have the willingness and strength to promote the transformation of the industrial Internet. It is necessary for us to promote some good results to similar small and medium-sized manufacturing companies.
For example, autonomous and driverless trucks have become popular since two years ago. Now more than 90% of the truck drivers of major logistics companies use artificial intelligence.
The technology of driverless trucks later spilled over to fields such as coal mining and internal transportation in steel plants. This is the spillover of technology.
An excellent industrial Internet project must involve a lot of technologies, some of which can be extracted and used in other highly relevant fields.
The popular SaaS service superimposed with customized development a few years ago has a similar logic.
The prospects of the agricultural Internet are also broad, but since we have not been deeply involved, I will not go into details here.
This is an era of great change, and the arrival of magic has accelerated the process of change.
The endless emergence of new technologies has caused every entrepreneur to face new changes and new challenges.
Facing the era of great changes, the advancement of the industrial Internet is bound to be a complex process.
We need to embrace technology, but also be cautious about whether technology can truly empower manufacturing and how to make the integration of the Internet and manufacturing less resistant.
This is the challenge that everyone here today will face. "
After Zheng Li finished speaking, there was thunderous applause.
As for whether it is to give face to Zheng Li and Kechuang Biotechnology, or whether Zheng Li is really good at what he said, there is a question mark.
“There are many other things, Zheng Li has a pretty deep understanding of the industry.
I didn't follow the above meaning and talk about the industrial Internet without thinking, but I still told the truth. "
“At Zheng Li’s position, he no longer needs to give face to most people.
And what he said was sincere, and he didn't step on any red lines, so why couldn't he say it?
The Industrial Internet is something that only large manufacturing companies can play with.
If small and medium-sized enterprises forcefully promote informatization and intelligence, are they looking for death?
Maybe your production capacity has increased by 10%, but the profit from this 10% production capacity is not even 1% of the cost of information transformation. "
