Chapter 1118: The Heart Remains Young Even Though the Body Is Old (4K)

"Boss Yu, we just talked about your Xia Wei. Speak of the devil and he will appear."

"Haha, I'm not the devil. I just came to this party today to eat, chat with old friends and reminisce about the past." Yu Chengdong said lightly, then smiled and shook hands with the friends who came to greet him one by one.

Boss Gao of Guangqi Bentian has a special Mediterranean style, so he is very obvious in the crowd.

But his steps were still a step slower. Boss Zhang of Seris had already stood up and greeted 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.

Jack Ma, 59 years old this year, watched these car company bosses so "excited" and didn't say much, just clapping his hands.

This year is a key year for Daxia Intelligent Manufacturing. Under the normal situation where technology companies are repeatedly targeted, Daxia's car market is much better than mobile phone manufacturers.

Although there will be special Guo Jia to increase tariffs on Daxia's car companies' products, so far no major country has blatantly shut down Daxia's car companies.

Now Daxia car companies do not have the weakness of chip shortage. In fact, due to the rise of Xiaxin Technology in the high-end field, the automotive chips mainly using the ten-nanometer process and above have ushered in a period of great production capacity explosion and performance leap.

In the fierce competition, some car companies suddenly broke thunder, and some companies crossed over to build cars. In addition, the smart ecosystem has expanded from mobile phones and home appliances to the second home of adults - cars. New energy batteries and motor technologies have leapt forward. Daxia's automobile sales have shown explosive growth and cut off most of the foreign market share. At the same time, some Daxia's own brands have also snatched a lot of market share from joint venture car companies.

The restructuring of the automobile industry has quietly arrived. The reshuffle of the entire industry is comparable to the transition from feature phones to smartphones. The structural pattern of old companies holding the right to speak has been broken, and a new Daxia pattern has been born.

The senior executives of companies who intend to compete for the market again, led by some bigwigs, naturally have various gatherings.

And today's gathering in a Chinese courtyard in a suburb of Suzhou and Hangzhou is currently the largest gathering of senior executives of car companies in the entire Daxia. Xia Wei, who once said that he "can't build cars", was also invited to this gathering because of his excellent car machine solution and cooperative products with Seris.

Yu Chengdong looked around. Most of the people attending the meeting today were senior executives of joint venture automakers. For example, the senior executives of Brilliance BMW, SAIC Dazhong, Skoda, Guangqi Fengtian, Yanjing Hyundai, and Dayue Kia all sent representatives.

These joint venture automakers are joint ventures between Daxia and foreign automakers. Through equity investment cooperation, some foreign models are produced in Daxia, thereby achieving the purpose of reducing costs and introducing technology.

Daxia used to have the best market for foreign companies, followed by joint ventures, and the lowest end of local independent brands. Now, with the upward development of independent brands, joint ventures and foreign automakers have lost countless shares in the new round of market innovation, which means layoffs, salary cuts, and development obstacles.

After some communication, Jack walked to the front of the crowd very naturally, opened his hands, and said calmly: "I once said that it will be more difficult every year in the future. I believe that everyone has deeply experienced this in recent years.

How to seek opportunities in the new competitive landscape and maintain our competitiveness is a problem we must solve.

Fundamentally, technology is important, but technology is not the only thing. Even as strong as Jiuzhou Technology, Gu Qing cannot make Jiuzhou Technology gain a foothold in Daxia and sell its products to any place in the world.

Products need empowerment, operations need soil and connections, and the most important thing for a company is autonomy!

At present, the strength of both the passenger car market and the special industrial vehicle market is based on the physical strength of Xiaxin Technology and Jiuzhou Alliance. The supply channel of resources, and in this system, a young man who is not yet thirty is holding everyone's lifeline.

Jiuzhou Technology has been biased against joint ventures and foreign-funded enterprises in recent years, and has blindly helped local enterprises. Don't you all build factories in Daxia and provide jobs and employment for Daxia? Aren't our joint ventures Daxia enterprises?

It is necessary to have a more complete industrial chain layout and guidance on technical patents for core components, and a stronger industrial chain supply must be established to achieve breakthroughs in automotive software and hardware core technologies that bypass Jiuzhou Technology's restrictions.

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Jack Ma "gesticulated and spoke generously" in the crowd, and even waved his arms excitedly when he was excited.

Yu Chengdong was still a little interested at first, thinking that there might be some interesting topics at this party today, but watching these people singing and I took the stage, bringing the usual habits of corporate meetings to this party, those superficial plans and plans sounded interesting, but in fact, calm thinking, you will find that these plans are full of loopholes, and they may not even have the genes to be established.

When Mr. Li, the vice president of Xiaopeng Automobile, spoke, Yu Chengdong even had to cover his mouth.

He was afraid that he would laugh out loud and embarrass everyone.

"Since the establishment of Xiaopeng Automobile nine years ago, we have done a lot of exploration in products, design, and models. Judging from the current results, our product strategy direction is correct. Since the 1021st year of the Xia Yinxing calendar, Xiaopeng Automobile has been the leader in the new energy vehicle track. In the past three years, we have completed the implementation of full-scene memory parking, high-speed NGP intelligent assisted driving, and urban NGP intelligent assisted driving technologies.

In terms of infrastructure, we have built our own supercharging network to enhance the user's sense of exclusivity and the plug-and-play experience. There will be more than 1,000 brand supercharging stations.

The difficulties we are facing now are mainly common industry problems such as the inability to improve chip specifications in a short period of time and the pressure on the battery supply chain, but these are not big problems. After all, our current resources are enough for us to use. "

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Hearing the end, Yu Chengdong no longer had too many expectations when it was his turn to speak, but he still made a serious speech and summarized a few sentences.

"It is not an easy road to develop the entire industry chain independently. Jiuzhou Technology is doing it, BYD is doing it, and everyone present is also working hard in this direction.

We, Xiawei, do not have so many resources to develop in this direction at present. Although we will not directly start making cars no matter how we explain to the outside world, everyone does not seem to believe it very much, but there is a very important spirit in our afternoon culture, which is also applicable to all our business lines, that is, leaving complexity to ourselves and leaving simplicity to customers. This is actually in line with the logic that car manufacturers make big money and we, Xiawei, make small money.

The cooperation model between Xiawei and Seris can reflect this point. We are jointly developing. Xiawei and Seris provide parts for cars. We also understand the needs of consumers from the aspects of design, quality, user experience, overall quality control, OTA version upgrade, etc., and continuously upgrade the software.

In the years of cooperation, the quality and capabilities of Seris cars have been greatly improved, and the market share has achieved a leapfrog growth.

Xiawei is good at research and quality experience. We will not build cars under the Xiawei brand, but we will build the car ecosystem of Xiawei.

If you are willing to cooperate with Xiawei..."

If the speeches of the senior executives of the previous car companies were all flattering themselves, and even described the halved market share as progress, then Yu Chengdong's speech was very "simple".

He took out the signboard of Seris Auto's good days in recent years and promoted a wave of its own cooperative business, and then he left the stage very "sensibly".

And before the party was over, Yu Chengdong waved goodbye to everyone.

"There are some urgent matters to deal with at the company. "This all-purpose reason made the faces of the executives of the joint venture car companies stunned for a moment. Even Jackma, who was always smiling, was stunned and tried to persuade him to stay: "We can also provide an office here. Today, we can finally get together to chat. Can you play for a while?"

Speaking of playing for a while, gathering, chatting and entertainment are secondary. The most important thing is to unite the circle and select friends.

Facing Jackma, although Yu Chengdong also looked apologetic, his words were not weak.

"This is really not an office matter, but there are some problems to be dealt with in R&D. As you know, Xiawei is currently developing in multiple fields. If there is a one-minute stagnation in R&D, the wasted resources are all one million per second. "

After saying this, Yu Chengdong waved to apologize to everyone, then turned around and left the party.

"Alas, are you leaving now?"

"Why don't you leave? Xiawei's smart driving and smart cockpit are both the current optimal solutions. ”

“I heard that Xia Wei has continued to invest in the semiconductor industry in recent years. He uses chips manufactured by Xiaxin Technology while making semiconductors himself. He is so independent. This is a thankless job. Can Xia Wei catch up with Jiuzhou Technology in ten years? Impossible. ”

“Hahaha, what you said, Lao Zhang, who else in Blue Star can develop commercially available carbon-based chips now? Gu Qing has applied for a lot of basic patents, which directly blocked 90% of the new research and development of carbon-based chips. There are still a lot of high-end technologies that have not been patented, waiting for others to bite the hook. ”

“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 applied solid-state batteries to other fields. The technology has been held back to this point. Even if we want to join his Jiuzhou Alliance, we are too lazy to join. "

The executives of a group of joint venture car companies were talking like village aunties, comparing Xia Wei's R&D team with Jiuzhou Technology's R&D team from time to time, saying that the students of key universities in Daxia are now too ambitious and don't come if the salary is too low. They are supported by Jiuzhou Technology and Xia Wei and can't see the situation clearly.

The senior executives of Seris Automobile sat in the middle with an embarrassed look on their faces, listening to these complaints and discussions. If it were seven or eight years ago, they would have to finish the party and communicate more with several big company CEOs and Jackma.

But now that it has been deeply tied to Xia Wei, Seris's business in the past two years is much better than these joint ventures at the party today. All the car companies are good. They have many orders in hand, so they are very strong. Even when they see Jackma, they dare to nod and refuse the good intention to stay.

When the senior executives of Seris left, it was like the whistle of the stadium. The senior executives of several car companies also left the party one after another.

When it was nine o'clock in the evening, the senior executives of the Daxia Automobile Industry led by Jackma were left with only the senior executives of more than a dozen car companies.

Outside the window, the rain in Suzhou and Hangzhou has not stopped. Even if there is air conditioning in the room, Jackma still feels irritable.

How glorious he was at the beginning. No matter which industry he went to, the senior executives of leading companies had to deal with it well.

But now that he has returned to China, all walks of life seem to have changed.

The small businesses that were once disdained have now become the backbone of the industry. The companies that my company once invested in have gone bankrupt or declined, and even the senior executives sent out by my company have become rats crossing the street.

"It's all because of that damn young man!"

Jack Ma shook his head and looked out the window. The face of the young man 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. I have forgotten who put his company's products on Taobao?

If it weren't for the fierce competition between Jindong, Pinxi and my own Ali system at that time, this young man would have been banned by me and begged for mercy.

With emotion, Jackma finally took out today's pie in the hopeful eyes of a group of joint venture car executives: "We, Ali, will take the lead in this project. The amount of funds we are going to raise 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, we will increase the investment in batches in the future.

During the project, in addition to coordinating various projects, we, Ali, will also help introduce foreign technology, help cooperative enterprises to promote abroad, and even help everyone invest in some foreign regions to avoid tariff increases.

In one year, as long as we can see initial results, there will be follow-up funds and technical assistance. When it is really mass-produced, we, Ali, will promote it on the entire network."

When Jackma threw out his weight, the atmosphere at the party became quiet, and then it was like a radio play suddenly had sound, and it became noisy in an instant.

"One year? As long as there is capital investment, our Xiaopeng can launch a new car this year!"

"Introduce new technology? The investment we need now is probably more than 1 billion in the first phase."

"How should the technology supply and cooperation model of this alliance be promoted?"

Money makes the world go round. Even the joint venture car companies that used to make crazy money in Daxia are now willing to bend over backwards for a few dollars and have raised their own questions.

Looking at these people so excited in front of him, Jack smiled slightly and felt that the old days were returning.

This time, he has more foreign funds and technology...