Rebirth of the Wild Age

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation has finished its meeting, but the major attractions in Brunei are bustling.

Wearing traditional Brunei women's clothing, Shen Si stood at the entrance of the Crystal Park, looked up to the front and said, "Is this crystal really weighing 4.5 tons?"

Song Weiyang raised his neck, estimated seriously, and said, "This crystal is about 2 cubic meters. If the density of the crystal is twice that of water, it would weigh almost 4 tons." He turned his head and asked Shen Fuxing again. , "Fuxing, you are a science student, do you remember the crystal density?"

Shen Fuxing corrected, "I'm an engineering student!"

Yang Xin said with a smile: "It's all the same, science and engineering are not separated."

Shen Fuxing shook his head and said, "Who has nothing to memorize the crystal density. It's probably true. The King of Brunei doesn't need to falsify the data, and he doesn't lack the park's ticket income."

Brunei Crystal Park, also known as Jerudong Park, was officially opened in 1994 and cost more than US$1 billion to build. It is said that when the king of Brunei was 48 years old, the princess gave him a large crystal weighing 4.5 tons. The king was very happy and built a crystal park to share the happiness with the people of the whole country.

I have to say that this king is really rich, 1 billion US dollars in the early 1990s. At that time, China's foreign exchange reserves were less than 20 billion U.S. dollars, and people directly used 1 billion U.S. dollars to repair gardens.

Don't say that this is developing the tourism industry, it is purely the king's pleasure with the people.

When the Crystal Park was built, Brunei did not pay much attention to the tourism industry. Even in 2000, the annual number of tourists to Brunei was less than 100,000. The country didn't even have a tourism management agency, and it would take a few more years to establish a tourism management committee.

On the contrary, due to the improvement of per capita living standards, Bruneian farmers have abandoned their original floating villages and moved to live in new modern houses. This has led to the rapid development of the construction industry. The rich and powerful have become urban real estate developers, while many Brunei Chinese have become builders, and the township construction industry is almost monopolized by the Chinese.

Everyone walked into the park for a tour, and Shen Fuxing suddenly said: "I have talked with the entrepreneurs who came to the meeting this time, and China Technology will never even try to sell computers to Southeast Asia."

Song Weiyang really didn't know, and asked, "Why?"

Shen Fuxing said with a wry smile: "Because the electronic components in Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines are more complete and cheaper than those in China, and in countries such as Malaysia and India, electronic components are one of their main export commodities. High-end computer brands, they must If they choose American brands, mid-to-low-end computer brands, they will choose crooked brands, and the assembled machines are unimaginably cheap.”

"It seems that we have to wait for China to join the WTO." Song Weiyang sighed.

Before joining the wto, China still had many restrictions on foreign investment in the electronics industry, so many multinational companies chose to build foundries in southeast Asia. After China joined the WTO, the restrictions were loosened a little bit, and brands from various countries came to China to invest and build factories. Relying on preferential policies, cheap manpower, and a vast market, China rapidly developed into the world's factory, but instead suppressed related industries in Southeast Asia, and even sold electronic products back to Southeast Asia.

Shen Fuxing said quite confidently: "However, Southeast Asian countries are not to worry about. Except for Singapore, other countries are all foundries, and they have no independent research and development capabilities at all, and they cannot launch their own local brands. Wait for China to develop. , Sooner or later, we should gain a firm foothold in China, instead of rushing to develop overseas. We thought it was a bit unrealistic before."

This can only show that China's overall industrial strength is not enough, otherwise it can bypass Lenovo's dominance in the country and directly go abroad to blossom.

Just like "OnePlus mobile phone", it can't compete with Huawei, Xiaomi and other brands in China, and they go directly overseas to develop. As a result, few people know about this brand in China, but it has a good reputation and sales in overseas markets. When OnePlus launched a new product, it held events in more than ten cities around the world, including New York, Paris, Berlin, London, and Bangalore. The stores lined up hundreds of meters away, and they were sold out as soon as they were launched. People who didn’t know thought they were selling Apple phones. .

It can only be said that those who go out of the backgammon department are all talented people, and the founder of OnePlus mobile phone is the former vice president of oppo.

"I've made an appointment with Mr. Du at the coffee shop in front." Shen Fuxing suddenly pointed to the front.

Song Weiyang led the team into the coffee shop, and a Chinese man who was nearly fifty years old stood up. He is slender and has a slender face. He wears a pair of rimless glasses and looks gentle. He shook hands with Song Weiyang and said, "Boss Song, I have known you for a long time, and I have always wanted to communicate with you face to face."

"Where, Mr. Du is the senior, who needs to support us juniors a lot." Song Weiyang said with a smile.

Du Jichuan, the founder of Kingston, was born in mainland China and grew up in Wanwan.

This gentleman liked music since he was a child, and he created the earliest student band of Wanwan in high school. He has a good level of guitar and drum kit. Precisely because he was addicted to music dreams, he skipped too many classes. After being dismissed by many high schools, he was still in the first year of high school. My parents were very troubled by this, and wanted to immigrate to the United States three times like Meng's mother, but they couldn't apply for a green card because they didn't graduate from high school. It may be that his parents were too strict, so he actually took a small sampan to smuggle to Hong Kong City and obtained a Hong Kong City Resident Certificate as a mainland refugee.

His parents were almost blown away, but there was nothing they could do. They could only send him the living expenses and help him contact the school in Hong Kong by the way. Du Jichuan was still playing music when he was in high school in Hong Kong City, and his academic performance was not good. After finally graduating from high school, his parents immediately sent him to Germany to study mechanical and electrical engineering.

The family's financial resources are also limited. After Du Jichuan arrived in Germany, he really realized the difficulties of life. He had to wash dishes in the restaurant opened by his relatives to make a living, and finally began to study hard. After living in Germany for ten years, he chose to immigrate to the United States. Due to the difficulty in finding a job, he could only make a living in real estate sales.

Later, Du Jichuan met David Sun, and the two started a company together. They all have the character of getting rich when they are small, and they think that 1 million US dollars is enough to spend, so when a big company comes to buy it, they agree to sell it without thinking twice, and each of them divides 3 million US dollars. At that time, the U.S. stock market was booming, and they invested all their money in the stock market. As a result, they encountered the stock market crash in 1987, and their debts amounted to more than 1 million U.S. dollars.

These two brothers and sisters still dare not tell the truth to their family members. They go out to work on time every day. They rummaged through boxes and chests to collect $2,000, and once again partnered to start a company. This company became the famous Kingston later.

"We have already applied for the USB flash drive patent, which can be found at the US Patent Office," Shen Fuxing said, "I hope Kingston can abide by the business rules and stop the USB flash drive patent infringement."

Du Jichuan smiled and said: "Of course, Kingston is a law-abiding company. I came here this time to discuss solutions. Kingston doesn't need to make money by breaking the law, and I don't take money very seriously. I didn't receive expensive money before. A letter from the company. I made an overseas call back to the United States last night, and I already know what happened. It was a person in charge of Kingston who withheld the letter."

"I believe that Mr. Du's reputation for spreading wealth has long been known all over the world." Song Weiyang said with a smile.

Four years ago, Sun Zhengyi acquired 80% of Kingston's shares, and Du Jichuan directly distributed 100 million US dollars to employees. This move made Kingston famous and became a company that countless young Americans yearned for, and its product sales also increased wildly.

Sun Zhengyi's assets have shrunk due to the Internet bubble this year, so he can only sell the company to raise money. Kingston took the opportunity to buy back all the shares.

Du Jichuan said: "U.S. patent licensing fees are usually charged at 0.5%, and some core technology patents can reach more than 1%. U-disk patents are not complicated. I hope to deal with them according to the normal market. Kingston is willing to pay 0.5% for U-disk. royalties."

Shen Fuxing said with a smile, "We only need 0.3%."

Du Jichuan was quite surprised: "Is there any company that thinks it makes too little money? Tell me, are there any additional conditions?"

Shen Fuxing said: "We hope that Kingston can join the U-disk patent alliance and sue those infringing companies together, such as BENV, the second-largest seller of U-disks in the United States! This is also beneficial to Kingston. If BNV continues to infringe, then The cost of its USB flash drive is lower, which is more competitive than Kingston’s USB flash drive.”

Du Jichuan blinked, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Yes, we can't let BENwei take advantage of it for nothing. But, the cost of the lawsuit needs to be paid by China Science and Technology. Kingston will only provide assistance when necessary, and always stand on the moral side Shenzhou Technology here."

Song Weiyang said: "No problem, if Kingston, the number one seller of USB flash drives in the United States, speaks up, it will definitely influence the judge's decision, and the speed of the lawsuit will be much faster."

Here, a patent licensing agreement was reached with Kingston, and Shen Fuxing immediately called back to China. While preparing to sue BENV, he prepared to sue domestic infringing brands, and also contacted the media to promote it.