"Mr. Yu, we just talked about you Xia Wei. If you really want to talk about Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here."
"Haha, I'm not Cao Cao. At today's party, I just came to have a meal, chat with old friends, and reminisce about the past." Yu Chengdong said lightly, and then smiled and greeted the friends who came up. A handshake.
Mr. Gao of Guangqi Bentian has a special Mediterranean style, so it is very obvious among the crowd.
However, his steps were still a step slower. Mr. Zhang from Siris had already gotten up early to greet Yu Chengdong.
It’s hard for this boss born in the 1960s to compete with a group of young people born in the 1970s and 1980s.
Fifty-nine-year-old Jack Ma watched from the sidelines as this group of car company CEOs were so "excited". He didn't say much and just clapped.
This year is a critical year for Daxia Intelligent Manufacturing. Under the normal situation where technology companies are frequently targeted, Daxia's auto market is having a much better time than mobile phone manufacturers.
Although there will be special cases where Guo Jia will raise tariffs on the products of Daxia car companies, so far no major country has blatantly blocked Daxia car companies.
Nowadays, large-scale car companies do not have the weakness of chip shortage. Even because of the rise of Xiaxin Technology in the high-end field, car-grade chips that mainly use ten-nanometer processes have ushered in a period of advantageous times with a huge explosion in production capacity and top performance.
In the fierce competition, some car companies are suddenly thundering, and some companies are crossing borders to build cars. In addition, the smart ecology has expanded from mobile phones and home appliances to adults' second homes - cars. New energy batteries and motor technologies have made leaps and bounds. Daxia Auto Sales have shown explosive growth and have cut off most of the market share of foreign investors. At the same time, some of Daxia's own brands have also taken away the market share of many joint venture car companies.
The restructuring of the automobile industry is coming quietly. The reshuffle of the entire industry is comparable to the transition from feature phones to smartphones. The structural pattern in which established companies have the right to speak has been broken, and a new Daxia pattern has been born.
Corporate executives who plan to compete for the market again, under the leadership of some big bosses, naturally have various gatherings.
Today's gathering in a Chinese-style courtyard in a suburb of Suzhou and Hangzhou is currently the largest gathering of high-level car companies in the entire Xia Dynasty. The cooperative product was invited to this party.
Yu Chengdong looked around. Most of the people attending today's meeting were senior executives of joint venture car companies, such as Brilliance Baoma, SAIC Damazhong, Skoda, Guangqi Fentian, Yanjing Hyundai, Dayue Kia and other joint venture car companies. All have sent representatives.
These joint venture car companies are joint ventures between Daxia car companies and foreign car companies. Through equity investment cooperation, some foreign models are produced in Daxia, thereby achieving the purpose of reducing costs and introducing technology.
In the past, the car market in Daxia was dominated by foreign investment, followed by joint ventures, and local independent brands at the bottom. But now with the upward development of independent brands, both joint ventures and foreign-funded car companies have lost countless shares in the new round of market reform. This means layoffs, salary cuts, and stunted development.
After some exchanges, Jack Ma walked up to everyone very naturally, spread his hands, and said calmly: "I once said that the future will be more difficult every year, and I believe everyone has experienced it deeply over the years.
How to seek opportunities in the new competitive landscape and maintain our competitiveness is a problem we must solve.
Ultimately, technology is important, but technology is not the only thing. Even if it is as strong as Jiuzhou Technology, Gu Qing cannot let Jiuzhou Technology gain a foothold in Daxia and sell its products anywhere in the world.
Products need empowerment, operations require soil and connections, and the most important thing for a company is independence!
At present, the strength of both the passenger car market and the special industrial vehicle market is based on the material supply channels of Xia Xin Technology and Jiuzhou Alliance. In this system, a young man who is not yet thirty is pinching The lifeblood of all people.
Jiuzhou Technology has always been biased against joint ventures and foreign-funded enterprises in recent years, blindly supporting local enterprises. Hasn't everyone built factories in Daxia and provided jobs and employment to Daxia? Isn’t our joint venture a Daxia enterprise?
It is necessary to have a more complete industrial chain layout and guidance on technology patents for core components. A more robust industrial chain supply must be established to achieve breakthroughs in core automotive software and hardware technologies that bypass the technological restrictions of Kyushu.
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Jack Ma "gesticulated and spoke eloquently" in the crowd. When his speech got exciting, he would even wave his arms excitedly.
Yu Chengdong was still a little interested at first, thinking that today's party might have some interesting topics, but seeing these people singing and then me coming on stage, they brought their usual habits of meeting in the company to this party, and those who just flowed out of the water Plans and planning may sound interesting, but if you think about it calmly, you will find that these plans are full of loopholes and may not even have the genes to be established.
When Mr. Li, the vice president of Xiaopeng Motors, spoke, Yu Chengdong even had to cover his mouth.
He was afraid that he would embarrass everyone if he laughed out loud.
"Since its establishment nine years ago, Xiaopeng Motors has made a lot of explorations in terms of products, designs, models, etc. Judging from the results at this stage, our product strategic direction is correct. Starting from Xiayin Star Calendar 1021, Xiaopeng Motors will be As a leader in the field of new energy vehicles, in the past three years, we have completed the implementation of full-scenario memory parking, high-speed NGP intelligent assisted driving, and urban NGP intelligent assisted driving technologies.
In terms of infrastructure construction, we have deployed a self-built supercharging network to enhance user exclusivity and plug-and-play smooth usage experience. There will be more than 1,000 branded supercharging stations.
The current difficulties we face are mainly due to common industry issues such as the inability to improve chip specifications in a short period of time, pressure on battery and other supply chains, but these are not big problems. After all, our current resources are enough for us. "
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At the end, when it was his turn to speak, Yu Chengdong no longer had too many expectations, but he still concluded a few sentences quite seriously.
"The independent entire industry chain is not an easy path. Jiuzhou Technology is doing it, BYD is doing it, and everyone sitting here is also working hard in this direction.
We Xiawei currently do not have so many resources to develop in this direction. Although we will not directly build cars no matter how we explain to the outside world, no one seems to believe this, but there is a very important point in our afternoon culture. The spirit also applies to all our business lines, which is to leave the complexity to ourselves and the simplicity to our customers. This is actually the same logic as the car factory makes big money and we, Xia Wei, make small money.
This can be reflected in the cooperation model between Xiawei and Siris. We are jointly engaged in research and development. Xiawei and Siris work together to provide parts for cars, and we also work together from design, quality, user experience, overall quality control, ota's Understand the needs of consumers in terms of version upgrades and other aspects, and continuously upgrade the software.
During the years of cooperation, the quality and capabilities of Seris vehicles have been greatly improved, and the market share has achieved leapfrog growth.
We Xiawei people are good at research and quality experience. We will not build Xiawei brand cars, but we will build Xiawei's car ecology.
If all of you here are willing to cooperate with our Xia Wei..."
If the previous speeches of the senior management of car companies were all about flattering themselves, and even described the halved share as progress, then Yu Chengdong's speech was very "simple".
He took out the signboard of Siris Automobile's good times in recent years and promoted a wave of his own cooperative business, and he made a very "sensible" exit.
And before the party was over, Yu Chengdong waved goodbye to everyone.
"The company has some urgent matters to deal with." This one-size-fits-all reason instantly stunned the expressions of the executives of the joint venture car companies. Even Jack Ma, who had always been smiling, was stunned and said: "This way We can also provide an office room. Finally, we can all get together to chat today and Mr. Yu can play for a while?"
Speaking of having fun for a while, partying, chatting and having fun are secondary, uniting the circle and selecting friends is the most important.
Facing Jack Ma, although Yu Chengdong also looked apologetic, his words were not weak.
"This is really not an office matter, but some issues on the R&D side that need to be dealt with. As you know, we at Xiawei are currently developing in many fields. If R&D issues are stagnant for one minute, resources will be wasted for one second. Zhong Wanwan started."
After saying this, Yu Chengdong waved to everyone and apologized, then turned around and left the party.
"Oh, are you leaving now?"
"Why don't you just leave? Xiawei's smart driving and smart cockpit are the best technologies currently available."
"I heard that Xia Wei has continued to invest money in the semiconductor industry in recent years. While using chips manufactured by Xia Xin Technology, he is also making semiconductors by himself. He is so independent. It is such a thankless job. He Xia Wei can Can we catch up with Kyushu Technology within ten years? Impossible.”
"Hahaha, what you said, Lao Zhang, who else in Blue Star can develop commercially available carbon-based chips now? That guy Gu Qing has applied for a bunch of basic patents, which has directly blocked the development of new carbon-based chips. 90%, and there are still a bunch of high-end technologies that have not been patented, just waiting for others to take the bait.”
"Alas, Jiuzhou Technology is really speechless. It was obvious that they were able to install solid-state batteries on their glasses two years ago, but after waiting for so many years, they still haven't.
Apply solid-state batteries to other fields and push the technology to this point. Even if we want to enter his Kyushu Alliance, we are too lazy to enter. "
A group of senior executives of joint venture car companies were talking like village aunts. From time to time, they compared Xia Wei's R&D level with that of Jiuzhou Technology, saying that students from key universities in Daxia now have high ambitions and low wages. If the pay is low, they will not come. They are being fed by companies such as Jiuzhou Technology and Xiawei so that they cannot see the situation clearly.
The senior executives of Siris Automobile sat there with an embarrassed look on their faces, listening to these complaints and discussions. If it were seven or eight years ago, they would have finished the party no matter what, and by the way, they communicated with several CEOs of large companies and Jack Ma. .
But now that it has been deeply tied up with Xia Wei, Siris's business in the past two years is better than the joint venture car companies at today's gathering. It has many orders and a strong waist. Even after seeing Jack Ma, he dared to nod and refuse to retain its good intentions. .
As soon as the senior management of Siris left, it was like the whistle of the stadium sounded, and the senior management of several car companies also left the party one after another.
By nine o'clock in the night, at the high-level gathering of the Daxia automobile industry led by Jack Ma, only the senior management of more than a dozen car companies were left.
Outside the window, the rain in Suzhou and Hangzhou has not stopped. Even if there is air conditioning in the room, it still makes Jack Ma feel upset and angry.
How prosperous I was back then, no matter which industry I went to, the top management of leading companies had to deal with it easily.
But now that I have returned to China, all walks of life seem to have changed.
Small businesses that were dismissed at first have now become the mainstay of the industry. The companies that my company had invested in were in decline and decline, and even the senior management sent by my company had become street rats.
"It's all because of that damn young man!"
Jack shook his head and looked out the window. The young man's face seemed to be reflected on the glass window. He was so young, energetic, and handsome.
When I wanted to invest in Jiuzhou Technology, this young man rejected me with a smile on his face. He even forgot who put his company's products on Taobei?
If it weren't for the fierce competition between the Jindong Clan, Pinxi Clan and their own Ahli Clan at that time, this young man would have been banned by himself to the point of begging for mercy.
With emotion, Jack Ma finally took out today's cake under the hopeful eyes of the joint venture car executives: "We, Ali, are taking the lead in this project. The amount of funds to be raised is hundreds of billions of Xia Yuan, and the initial start-up capital is 10 billion. According to the progress of the project and the business performance of each enterprise, the investment will be increased in batches in the future.
During the project, in addition to coordinating various projects, we at Ali will also help introduce technology from foreign companies, help cooperative companies promote their products abroad, and even help everyone invest in some foreign regions to avoid tariff increases.
In one year, as long as the initial results can be seen, there will be follow-up funding and technical assistance. When mass production is actually launched, we at Ahri will promote it across the entire network. "
When Jack Ma threw his weight, the atmosphere at the party became quiet, and then it suddenly became noisy like a radio drama suddenly had a voice.
"One year? As long as there is capital investment, our kids can launch a new car this year!"
"Introducing new technology? The investment we need now is probably more than one billion per phase."
“How should the technology supply and cooperation model of this alliance be promoted?”
Money can make all the difference. Even the joint venture car companies that once made crazy money in Daxia are now willing to pay five buckets of rice, and they all expressed their own questions.
Seeing these people so excited in front of him, Jack Ma smiled slightly, feeling that the old days were returning.
I have more foreign funds and technology this time...
