Chapter 266 Jianghu
In the afternoon, Li Xiaofan took Pan Zhanlong and Gu Qijun to discuss and draft a preliminary business plan.
In the evening, after everyone left work, Li Xiaofan wandered around the CFido
S forum in China and several newly opened
S forums.
He found that since China Telecom began to allow applications for telecommunications value-added service licenses in May this year, the number of Chinese websites in China has gradually increased.
One of his favorite websites is the Shuimu Tsinghua
S forum, which was just established on August 8 this year, but is already very popular. Shuimu Tsinghua was once one of the most popular
S in mainland China, representing the online community culture of Chinese universities. Li Xiaofan found that the IP address of the newly opened Shuimu Tsinghua
S forum is also very interesting:
However, Li Xiaofan's favorite is still the CFido
S forum, where many big guys gather, and the biggest advantage is that you can know the domestic IT and Internet trends at any time.
He just found a very valuable post.
This post revealed that in May this year, China Telecom began to allow applications for telecommunications value-added service licenses and approved the first batch of five ISP service providers in the country.
There are five companies in total, including Zhang Shuxin's Yinghaiwei, Wang Peng's Shenzhen Xunye, Wan Pingguo's Zhongwang, Hexun and Century Internet.
In the past life, Zhang Shuxin's Yinghaiwei was too famous in the history of the Internet in mainland China, and Li Xiaofan had read too many stories about her and Yinghaiwei on the Internet.
Hexun and Century Internet have been reported a lot in China, and Li Xiaofan is also familiar with them.
Li Xiaofan doesn't know much about Wang Peng's Shenzhen Xunye and Wan Pingguo's Zhongwang. In the past life, there were few reports on the Internet, which aroused his strong interest.
The poster of this post, Gary, revealed that as early as October 1994, Shenzhen Xunye Company obtained the first approval document from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of China and was allowed to engage in international networking business of computer information networks. Shenzhen, together with Beijing and Shanghai, became the first cities in mainland China to provide Internet access services to the public, opening the era of commercial information services.
Gary continued to write: In May this year, Shenzhen Xunye has quietly registered the "China Online" domain name (COL*COM*CN). It is not difficult to see from the domain name that the company's goal seems to be very clear. They are learning the operating model of AOL, and are said to be preparing to invest 400 million yuan to create an AOL in China. According to rumors, Wang Peng, the founder of Shenzhen Xunye, seems to be very mysterious. He was born in a military family, has a handsome appearance, and has extensive connections in the political and business circles of various places. Currently, Shenzhen Xunye is operating in a joint creation model with various places. Shenzhen Xunye plans to first borrow money from banks to buy a full set of Internet access equipment from Cisco, Sun Microsystems, and Motorola, and then use these equipment to find local powerful partners to cooperate, split the shares in half, and prepare to roll out all over the country at once to provide dial-up access services to the public...
Gary's post revealed that another founder of China Net is Wan Pingguo, who was once the chairman of Tsinghua Graduate Salon. Gary said Wan Pingguo was a talented person, very smart. When he was studying at Tsinghua and served as the chairman of Tsinghua Graduate Salon, he cleverly used Tsinghua's brand and influence. When the leaders of various provinces came to Beijing for meetings, he often invited them to Tsinghua to give speeches and exchange ideas, making Tsinghua Graduate Salon very popular.
Gary said Wan Pingguo was very powerful. At the beginning of this year, he actually managed to raise 30 million yuan from Tsinghua and other institutions in one go. In May this year, Zhongwang opened smoothly, and was founded almost at the same time as another Yinghaiwei company. Because Wan Pingguo's company had a strong registered capital and the aura of Tsinghua behind it, he went to the State Administration for Industry and Commerce to register and actually got the golden signboard of "Zhongwang". Because according to the registration method of industrial and commercial names, the general company name must be preceded by a regional name, and if it is not a central enterprise, the industrial and commercial department will not approve your company name with the Chinese character "Zhong" at the beginning. And the powerful Wan Pingguo actually got it done.
Gary's post went on to say that Wanping's Zhongwang Company has currently formulated a grand business plan and is preparing to spend a huge amount of money to purchase the most expensive and advanced routers and servers from Cisco and SUN in the United States...
This Gary's site friend seems to have a very thorough understanding of the current mainland Internet world. Li Xiaofan guessed that he should be an insider or an industry practitioner.
Li Xiaofan felt that the current CFido
S forum was also very deep, just like there were many lurking bigwigs on the Tianya Forum in the past. He still remembered the century-long "pretentious" war of words that broke out between the two IDs of Beiwei Zhou Gongzi and Yi Yeqing on the Tianya Forum in his previous life...
After reading Gary's post, Li Xiaofan immediately felt awe for the domestic Internet world. The domestic Internet world is currently in a turbulent era. These current players are rich and powerful, with mysterious backgrounds. If you are not prepared to rush in rashly, you probably won't be able to beat them, and you don't know when you will be knocked down...
You must be fully prepared in advance and have a well-planned plan, so that you can kill in and play a game when the time comes!
However, after reading Gary's post, Li Xiaofan thought of another business idea: his own Singapore Yifan Technology Company is one of the authorized Asian distributors of Cisco Corporation of the United States.
At present, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is entrusting Tian Suning's AsiaInfo Group to build a national Internet backbone network project connecting the six major national Internet backbone networks. Wang Peng's Shenzhen Xunye, Wan Pingguo's China Net and Zhang Shuxin's Yinghaiwei, the first batch of domestic ISP service providers, are in need of purchasing a large number of Internet access equipment.
At present, the routers produced by Cisco CISCO in the United States and the servers produced by SUN Sun Computer Systems, another company with the entrepreneurial background of Stanford University in the United States, should be urgently needed by these domestic ISP service providers and Chinese telecom operators.
The last time Li Xiaofan went to Silicon Valley, he had a meal with the two founders of Cisco CISCO in the United States, and the professor couple introduced by Yang Zhiyuan.
During the meal, Li Xiaofan learned that Cisco CISCO in the United States had set up a representative office in Beijing. However, based on Li Xiaofan's experience in the previous life, those foreigners who had just been sent to the mainland might not be able to adapt to the culture of the mainland at first. As a product distributor, his Yifan Technology Company can play a very important role at some point...
And at that time, those multinational companies generally did not sell their products directly to end customers, but sold their products through intermediate distributors.
Li Xiaofan suddenly felt that the domestic demand for this Internet telecommunications equipment market has just started, and the market behind it is too big, with endless business opportunities!
If Yifan Company first goes to China to become a product agent and distributor of Cisco and SUN, it would be a business with little risk, and it can also gain a deeper understanding of the domestic Internet world.
At this time, Li Xiaofan also thought of another company: Huawei. Huawei may still be doing digital program-controlled switching business in Shenzhen...
Just as Li Xiaofan was looking at the posts on the CFido
S forum and thinking about it, his mobile phone rang.
The call was from Jerry Yang who was far away in Silicon Valley.