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The Koreans were really helpful.

Through the Meizu incident, Zhou Buqi originally wanted to let everyone inside and outside the industry know his huge contribution to the domestic mobile phone industry. He not only took the lead in fighting against Qualcomm, but also set an example for the industry to solve the problem of forced sales of defective products.

With this excuse, he can take advantage of the trend to win over the domestic copycat phone industry.

Integrate the resources of the past fragmented copycat industry to form a large and relatively competitive team. There is no hope for the domestic market. The domestic development is very good, but there are still many poor and useless countries abroad.

It's not just Africa.

There are also countries like Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Bangladesh, Cuba, and Cambodia that are poor but maintain close relations with their own countries. Forget about Iran and North Korea. Doing business with these two countries is too risky. It is easy to violate the US ban on the sale of US goods and technologies to Iran and North Korea and lead to sanctions by it.

How much money you can make from this business is the second priority.

Mainly because of his great contribution.

Although these countries are very poor, they have a huge demand for mobile phones, and the number of mobile phones they need to purchase each year can reach 400 million.

Zhou Buqi's capture of this market means that he can create more jobs, foreign exchange and tax revenue for the country. At the same time, some "junk" that is not used in the domestic mobile phone industry can also be collected, thereby greatly reducing the waste of industrial resources.

He is already the richest man in the world.

Making money is not the first priority.

The reason why we still care about this business, including the business of the electric vehicle industry, is actually that we want to make greater contributions.

This is not only a spiritual satisfaction of self-achievement.

If you make a big contribution, you can have peace of mind and body.

It's just that it's not easy for Zhou Buqi to publicize this kind of thing by himself, as if he did a small favor for Meizu and showed it off everywhere. President Park of Samsung wanted to cause trouble for him, so he happened to publicize this matter.

This industry symposium is held at the Ministry of Information Industry.

After passing by, Zhou Buqi did not enjoy the leadership privileges and asked the car to stop at the door. He got out of the car first and then asked the driver to go to the parking lot. Like most employees in the ministry, they were dropped off in the parking lot.

Coincidentally, I saw an acquaintance as soon as I got out of the car.

Chen Mingyou, the current president of OPPO.

Zhou Buqi and he have known each other for many years.

Back when Zhou Buqi was still a small character, in order to enrich the products for on-campus group buying, he went to three BBK companies, including OPPO. Through on-campus group buying, he sold a large number of OPPO products that were fashionable and very popular among young people. brand of domestic mp3.

As time has passed, the status of the two people has undergone earth-shaking changes.

"Mr. Zhou?"

Chen Mingyou saw him first, and immediately walked over quickly, stretched out his hands, and shook hands with him respectfully.

Zhou Buqi stretched out his right hand and shook his hand with a smile, "Mr. Chen? We haven't seen each other for five or six years, right?"

Chen Mingyou said with emotion: "Yes, five or six years have passed and I am old, but Mr. Zhou is still so high-spirited."

"Mr. Chen is in his prime, but he is not old at all!"

"There is no comparison with Mr. Zhou. Mr. Zhou's face is extraordinary at first glance!"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi couldn't help but laugh, "Mr. Chen can still read faces?"

Chen Mingyou smiled and said: "Be a little more knowledgeable, Mr. Zhou..." He looked at Zhou Buqi carefully a few more times, and said half-truthfully: "Mr. Zhou's hall is red. It seems like there has been some happy event recently!"

Zhou Buqi was a little frightened.

I didn’t expect this guy to see so accurately!

Last night, he really achieved a happy event. He became the groom's official again and helped Wang Yanan's daughter Wang Yihuan go through the coming-of-age ceremony. The flowers bloomed and the whole family was filled with joy.

Can this also be shown by the redness of Yintang?

Is this because the sun is too strong and the weather is too hot?

The two walked out of the parking lot and walked towards the Ministry of Industry building, talking nonsense.

After a few words, Chen Mingyou seemed to suddenly remember something and said, "By the way, before I came here, I heard some rumors about Mr. Zhou. I don't know whether they are true or false."

"What rumors?"

Zhou Buqi basically guessed that it was impossible for the news about him to be the groom's official to spread.

Chen Mingyou said: "I heard that Mr. Bai from Meizu came to see you?"

"Well, what happened yesterday."

Zhou Buqi smiled calmly.

Chen Mingyou was a little excited, "Mr. Zhou, you... have you helped Meizu resolve some differences in their supply chain with Samsung?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, it's solved. Samsung has a batch of leftover processors and wants to package them up and sell them to Meizu. I helped by saying, in business, there is never forced buying or selling. This is the truth. This industry symposium is also about resisting Qualcomm’s forced buying and selling.”

Chen Mingyou said: "Mr. Zhou, in fact, not only Meizu, OPPO also suffered from this!"

"oh?"

"We are not Samsung. BOE has a batch of display screens that are left over from different production lines and different batches. The specifications are different. There are about more than 1.7 million pieces, and they want to sell them to us."

"You don't need it?"

Zhou Buqi has nothing to criticize.

Qualcomm, Samsung, etc. are all foreign companies and can be criticized at will. BOE is a domestic national enterprise and the mainstay of domestic display screens, so it is difficult to evaluate this matter from an objective standpoint.

This is a common situation in the industry.

It’s the same in all walks of life.

As long as it has a certain monopoly advantage, no company will use it.

Chen Mingyou said very awkwardly: "OPPO wants to transform into the smartphone industry. We will not be satisfied with the niche market. We have a big plan to systematically develop OPPO's mobile phone business. We don't want to purchase some To lower our product standards, we hope to make the best products to thank our users who have supported us for so many years.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Is this a common phenomenon in the industry?"

"almost."

Chen Mingyou sighed.

At this time, I met another entrepreneur attending an industry symposium at the door.

This is a big shot.

TCL’s boss Li.

TCL's core business is still televisions, but it has also been developing its mobile phone business in the past two years. It even spent huge sums of money to buy several obsolete display production lines from Samsung, and it will compete with BOE to produce LCD panels.

Boss Li can be regarded as one of the top older generation entrepreneurs since China's reform and opening up. He is a pioneer in reform. His qualifications are similar to those of Lenovo's Liu, Haier's Zhang, Huawei's Lao Ren, and Vanke's Laowang. He is highly respected by the industry. .

In the past few years, he has also been seeking breakthroughs for TCL, and has gradually developed TCL into a group. Through various ingenious means, he has conducted management buyouts, and the nature of the company has also changed from a state-owned enterprise to a private enterprise. In the previous life of BlackBerry, the mobile phone brand was licensed to TCL, which allowed TCL to open up the overseas mobile phone market in one step.

It's a pity that TCL's mobile phone business level is too low.

The BlackBerry brand was lost in vain.

After several years of cooperation, BlackBerry terminated the cooperation when it saw that it was not working and the market performance was not improving, and then found an American company to cooperate. Under the operation of this American mobile phone company, BlackBerry's market share in Europe and the United States has gradually increased.

How can an American company, other than Apple, be better than domestic mobile phone manufacturers in making mobile phones?

This is a bit too absurd.

It can only be said that TCL has done too poorly. Even if OPPO took over the BlackBerry brand, it might have already become famous all over the world.

At this time, Boss Li was complacent. When he heard about Chen Mingyou's difficulties, he laughed and said, "Isn't that easy? Stop cooperating with BOE. I also have an LCD panel here!"

Chen Mingyou smiled and said: "Okay, if we can't resolve the differences with BOE, I will cooperate with you."

I say this to give face to the older generation of entrepreneurs.

I really don't think so.

His plan is that if the differences with BOE cannot be resolved, he will go to South Korea. Instead of buying a Samsung display screen, which is too expensive, buy an LG display screen.

LG's display is slightly better than BOE's, but the overall difference is not too big.

After all, the reason why BOE's display screens were able to achieve breakthroughs was because they acquired Hyundai Display, a company that used Hyundai's display assets as the foundation, which are all of the Korean genre.

Today's global LCD panel industry is originally centered on South Korea. South Korean technology giants mainly relied on the display LCD panel business to defeat Japanese technology giants.

This domestic industry is all branched off from South Korea.

It’s just that BOE’s prices are more affordable.

LG's displays are limited in quality, but they are much more expensive.

Immediately, Boss Li sighed, "Don't talk about OPPO, even TCL has such troubles."

Zhou Buqi looked at him in surprise, "No way? Which supplier dares to jam TCL?"

"Samsung." Boss Li sighed, "TCL is investing huge sums of money to make LCD panels, which requires Samsung's support. There is no other way. Samsung wants to make a strategic investment in the next step. I still have to have a good discussion with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. Samsung’s entry is approved.”

"Um."

Zhou Buqi nodded, which is not surprising.

Boss Li looked at him with a half-smile, and said half-jokingly: "How about Mr. Zhou? Can you help me?"

Zhou Buqi took a deep breath and said, "Help!"

"Ah?" Boss Li was a little surprised, "Are you really helpful?"

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "This is not what healthy industrial development should look like. The domestic mobile phone industry is currently developing so well that we cannot let these dirty things contaminate it! This matter must be resolved! "

Boss Li couldn't help but frown. Unlike Chen Mingyou, who was secretly happy in his heart, he was a senior entrepreneur. He said cautiously: "This is not a small matter, and it is not a matter for TCL and OPPO. The whole industry is like this. I know you have good intentions, but there are some things you still have to do within your capabilities.”

Zhou Buqi nodded and said slowly: "After I helped Meizu yesterday, I learned about the current situation in the mobile phone industry and found out that this is a common situation in the industry. I was shocked. We are such an excellent company. The domestic mobile phone industry cannot be trapped in such an industrial dilemma. I think this is my responsibility and I should find a way to solve it.”

"This is an industry-wide thing!"

“Then I’ll help the entire industry!”