Chapter 1736 Intense

According to Feng Yiping’s experience, in general, before a banquet ends, people’s minds are usually gone and their enthusiasm is gone.

But this annual meeting in Davos does not match his old experience.

On the 30th, the last day, not only did everyone not relax because the conference was about to end, but they cherished this rare opportunity even more.

It should also be because the closing is imminent, many people are no longer as cautious as usual when speaking.

In the discussion on this last day, Ma and Whitman "met by chance" in a discussion meeting.

Maybe it was because Feng Yiping was not there, Whitman had the confidence in front of Ma at this time; maybe it was because Feng Yiping was not there, Ma became a scapegoat...

In short, she attacked Lao Ma on the spot, "This meeting discussed many issues related to China. We also know that China's market potential is very huge,"

"But at the same time, a very realistic problem is that it is not easy to win these consumers. Price competition will be very critical, so it is destined to be very tragic,"

What was very embarrassing for her was that when she said this experience, or bloody lesson, there was some small laughter in the audience.

The laughers obviously knew their development in China very well.

The strong Whitman did not have the courage to look in those two directions at this time.

Because of the fact, she was really embarrassed to mention the development in China now.

"Except for the 50 million middle-class people who can consume well-known brands, for a wider range of low-income Chinese consumers, it is price, not product or quality, that determines everything,"

"This gives some of our peers an opportunity. In order to win over users, they not only adopt the unbusiness-incompatible strategy of free service, but also allow more merchants to sell counterfeit well-known brand products on their own platforms, right Jack?"

Who is Lao Ma? When Whitman started to speak, he probably guessed what she was going to say next, and said calmly, "Thank you, Ms. Whitman,"

"As a Chinese, I think I should have more say on this issue. Indeed, no matter which country, the middle class is the backbone of consumption, and this is also the case in our country,"

"For low-income people in China, yes, they care about price, but they do not care about quality. It should be said that they value cost performance,"

"I remember when I was young, people around me got married and the three big items were popular. They were the best products in our country at that time, and the total price was about 400 RMB, yes, it doesn't seem much, but at that time, the monthly income of an ordinary worker was less than 40 RMB,"

"Considering that people who had jobs but were not married at that time generally had to take care of their parents or siblings at home, it might take them three years to save enough money. Even so, at least most married people in the city at that time purchased the three major items,"

"This fully shows that it is not a problem of our consumption capacity, but mainly whether the product is attractive enough,"

Whitman talked about his own company's personal experience, and Lao Ma also responded with a most common situation in China in the past. It should be said that the response was quite powerful.

"For example, if someone made a mobile phone that everyone was excited about today, even if its price was at least one year's salary for most of us, then you can see how popular it would become in our country after it was launched,"

Lao Ma accidentally predicted it again accurately.

So, big mouths sometimes inevitably make mistakes and sometimes make people feel unfathomable.

"Regarding counterfeit and inferior goods, we admit that there are still some on our platform, but we will never condone them but resolutely crack down on counterfeit goods. Brands and their intellectual property rights must be protected. We have zero tolerance for infringement of others' intellectual property rights, not now and not in the future!"

"We not only think so, say so, but also do so. Since our establishment, we have set up a special team to be responsible for anti-counterfeiting work. Last year, we removed tens of thousands of goods from the shelves, cancelled the trading qualifications of hundreds of merchants, and reported to the judicial authorities,"

"But the problem is that the number of our current online products has exceeded 3 million, and it is still growing rapidly. As far as the e-commerce model is concerned, we can't check every product,"

"Next, we will use big data to monitor the relevant situation in order to more accurately grasp the information of which counterfeiters are, so that they will at least stay away from our e-commerce platform in the future,"

"We have always been a company that actively protects intellectual property rights. I believe that everyone here will have a clear understanding of this when they decide to enter the Chinese market through our platform in the future," he also took the opportunity to advertise.

But do you think he just let it go?

"We know that Ms. Whitman's company has already expanded its business around the world. There are friends from all over the world here. I would like to do a temporary survey. What do you think of Ms. Whitman and her company's work in protecting intellectual property rights?"

Whitman was so angry. This person was even more disrespectful to her than Feng Yiping. She was about to change the subject, "eBay has always..."

"Shua", one person in the audience raised his hand.

Following "Shua, shua, shua", several hands were raised.

Whitman's face suddenly turned as dark as the bottom of a pot. How could there be so many people who couldn't get along with him in person?

To be honest, even Lao Ma was surprised by this. He had only heard from Feng Yiping that European luxury goods companies had strong opinions on Whitman, but he didn't expect them to be so big.

There are so many!

You know, not all of those who came to participate in today's discussion are her supporters. Some representatives who hate her so much are also here. They were originally worried that they would not have a chance to express their opinions, but Lao Ma was just right. provided this opportunity.

It was those European luxury brands that hated her so much.

It is obvious to everyone that the profits of luxury goods are high, so this industry is naturally a hotbed of counterfeiting, and this is no exception in the West. There are many counterfeit luxury goods on eBay.

Many luxury goods manufacturers have repeatedly asked eBay to remove counterfeit goods from its website, and even went so far as to sue eBay in the United States. However, eBay has always insisted that sellers and buyers on eBay are ultimately responsible for the transactions that occur, and as a platform party, eBay , should not be held responsible for users selling illegal counterfeit products - awesome!

The first person to raise his hand at this time was Tiffany, who first sued eBay in the United States, but so far there has been no result.

Others are also brands that are so extravagant that they are impersonal, such as Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Chanel, Rolex, etc.

Lao Ma shrugged, "So..., everyone should make their own judgment,"

Only then did Whitman realize that these Chinese were not easy to deal with, and the one in front of him was even more fierce than Feng.

At this time, she could only repeat with a stern face, "Our core principle is that sellers and buyers are responsible for the transactions that occur, not the platform. We are also actively expanding our intellectual property protection solution VeRO...,"

However, at this time, there was already warm applause from the audience. Of course, it was definitely not for her, but for Lao Ma.

This was another complete defeat for her.

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At this time, Feng Yiping was also participating in the last discussion, which became intense from the beginning.

Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski, who has gray hair on his temples, asked in an excited tone from the beginning, perhaps because today is the last day of the annual meeting, or perhaps because this year is the last year of his presidential term, "Why are we all here talking instead of taking immediate action to address the challenges being discussed?"

His speech not only did not arouse everyone's disgust, but instead won him warm applause. I am afraid it was the warmest applause among all the heads of state attending the annual meeting.

Even Feng Yiping praised him, this guy is ruthless!

It would be a lie to say that nothing was gained during these five days of the annual meeting.

The heads of thousands of the best companies in the world are gathered here at the same time. This opportunity alone is very rare.

With so many people gathered together, even if they are chatting nonsense, there is a high chance that some real insights will emerge.

At least, you can be exposed to a lot of new ideas and make some new friends - exceptions like Feng Yiping are not needed.

However, to say that this conference with the title of "world" and an absolutely global membership has brought many direct changes to the world, then, it really has not yet.

There are many lofty, serious, and ambitious declarations and plans, but very few of these declarations and plans can be implemented in the end.

But this is actually not our bad nature, but that in today's increasingly globalized world, some things really require everyone to sit down together and negotiate a charter, so that we will not suffer the most.

For example, regarding climate issues, everyone must know how necessary and urgent it is to reduce carbon emissions. However, if I am the only one who reduces carbon emissions, not only will I be at a disadvantage, but it will also be of no use.

After President Kwasniewski, the guests at the meeting also repeatedly talked about the issue of "implementation". After all, the time you have here is precious. If you stay here for 5 days, nothing really good will be left in the end. , that is indeed a bit unreasonable.

Feng Yiping put forward a more specific measure, "From a management perspective, poor implementation is due to poor supervision. In terms of the structure of the conference, there are indeed some deficiencies in this aspect,"

“Then I think it’s possible to invite a certain number, say hundreds of young students every year to participate in the discussions at the conference to supervise the actions of the leaders?”

"I think, first of all, from a financial perspective, this shouldn't be a problem. After all, the members of the conference are all the most influential companies in the world, and there are currently more than a thousand,"

"Secondly, young people are always the most enthusiastic. I think they are also willing to have more contact with their business idols,"

"In the end, even if they don't have any good results in the end because of their ability or lack of real power to implement, at least let these outstanding young people feel the difficulty of doing things in advance, let them live in the future in advance, and also It must not be a bad thing,"

Everyone immediately started talking, and this seemed to be a good plan indeed.

Murthy from Infosys looked at Feng Yiping with bright eyes. Sure enough, the hero had the same idea. Feng thought exactly the same as me.

"Feng's idea is really novel. I am only worried about one problem. Most of the young students invited every year probably want to supervise you because you are their idol. In this case, won't it be useless?" Schmidt said with a smile.

This remark immediately attracted laughter.

Yes, Feng Yiping is the most popular idol among young people now.

The reason is that young people nowadays are generally arrogant. They may think that when they reach their age, that is, in their forties or fifties, they should be able to achieve the same achievements as they are now. Only Feng Yiping is difficult for them to surpass.

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As businessmen who value profit over separation, everyone has long been accustomed to various separations, especially Feng Yiping, who came to Davos just for meetings, not to make friends. After the meeting, he was even more free in the afternoon, just saying hello to Schmidt who was in the same hotel.

From now on, they will go their separate ways again. Many people here will be stuffed into his Google One.

Next, he was about to call Lao Ma, but Lao Ma rushed in and said, "Yiping, good news!"