Chapter 203 Returning to China(1/2)
Zheng Li has been away from China for a long time, and almost always participates in the daily operation and management of Kechuang Biotech through remote communication and agents.
For a company like this where the founder is still alive, even if the founder is overseas, he is guaranteed to have strong control. Not to mention that Zheng Li is the absolute core figure of the Kechuang Biotech R&D team.
If Zheng Li inherited a scientific and technological creature from his direct relatives, he would have faced internal struggles after staying overseas for such a long time.
As for whether the struggle results in being ousted or whether control of the company is still firmly in one's own hands, it all depends on the individual's ability.
Zheng Li's first stop was to return to the Kechuang Biotech headquarters in Suzhou.
"How's it going? Did you find anything?"
"No, at least from the perspective of the magnetic field, Zheng Li doesn't have the slightest aura of a mage.
You must know that after being injected with the magic brain, you will have the ability to cast spells. The human body's magnetic field will change to a certain extent, and this change will be as dazzling as lightning in the dark in the perception of other mages."
Magicians from China were specially invited to the dock in Suzhou in order to judge whether Zheng Li might be Merlin.
There are many things that are irrational about Zheng Li. Although they can all be explained by genius, what if?
"Is it possible that Zheng Li can cast spells without a magic brain? So you can't sense the different magnetic fields on his body?"
"Impossible, human cell structure determines that we cannot interfere with the material world.
Magic would not be possible without a medium that serves as a bridge between the physical world and the personal spiritual world."
"Okay, temporarily lower Zheng Li's suspicion level."
After Chinese officials learned that Zheng Li had returned to China, the first thing they did was to check whether he might be Merlin.
Yes or no determines the level of official reception after Zheng Li returns to China.
If Asia's richest man wanted to win over Zheng Li and the local governments at all levels behind him, it would be fine.
If it is Merlin, or if Magi is found, the importance of hospitality will be increased.
"Director Zheng, long time no see."
The headquarters of Kechuang Biotech occupies a large area of Jinji Lake in Suzhou. Cheng Gang was filled with emotion after seeing Zheng Li.
Who would have thought that when they started their business, only three people with 50 million in venture capital could reach a market value of 3 trillion and complete the myth of 60,000 times capital appreciation.
Kechuang Biotechnology has become a classic example in the investment circle, and the gold content of hard technology is most vividly reflected in Kechuang Biotech.
There is another company whose hard technology has been mentioned frequently this year, and that is Deep Blue Storage.
As the only company in the world that masters biological storage, it is also a Chinese company and has attracted a lot of attention.
Because it is a state-owned enterprise, Deep Blue Storage has very good benefits and at the same time, it does a very good job of confidentiality management of its employees.
No information related to the company is allowed to be leaked to the outside world.
The outside world only knows about Deep Blue Storage’s products, and most of the gossip circulating on social media is false.
Foreign investment banks value Deep Blue Storage at more than 60 billion yuan.
Deep Blue Storage is the number one unicorn company in the world and is highly coveted by foreign investors.
Not only foreign capital, there are also many ghosts and ghosts in China who want to get involved. A year has passed and no one has succeeded.
In this era, what the investment circle values most about startups is your technological content and team R&D capabilities.
Zheng Li was also emotional. He could see with the naked eye that Cheng Gang had aged a lot and his mental state was obviously weakened.
"It takes a long time, but we have online meetings almost every week."
Cheng Gang then introduced the senior management team of Kechuang Biotech to Zheng Li.
The executive team introduced themselves one by one and shook hands.
Most of these executives, Zheng Li, have only been seen on the Internet, and this was the first time they met in person after returning to China.
After the pleasantries were over, Zheng Li sat in the middle of the large conference room and looked at the executives sitting on both sides:
"Hello everyone, I am very happy to meet you in real life. I have been in the Lion City for the past few years, and all my meetings with you are online."
"It's rare that I come back this time, and I want to communicate with you what kind of company Kechuang Biotech is and what our corporate vision is."
"In recent years, we have talked a lot about corporate vision. Take Brother Lei's rice as an example. The corporate vision is to allow everyone to enjoy the fun of technology."
"And their development over the years has indeed achieved this. What about ours?"
“The statement on Kechuang Bio’s official website is: Become a leader in technological breakthroughs.”
"But have you ever thought about how to do it? This is a very ambitious goal, and it cannot be achieved by me alone."
What Zheng Lizhen wants to do is that I can achieve it by myself, but I definitely can't achieve it without exposing my true identity.
"We invest 30% of our annual revenue in R&D every year, which is higher than Huawei. It can be said that we are the enterprise that invests the largest proportion in R&D in China."
"It's not even polite to say that we are now the leader in some fields. In the field of brain-computer connection, we are not only the leader, but also the standard setter in this field."
"At the end of last year, we convened a committee for the brain-computer connection industry, and under our leadership the standards for brain-computer connection were formulated. Neuralink had no choice but to obey even if it was repeatedly unwilling."
"But this is only temporary. Looking at the brilliant companies in the past from a historical perspective, there are very few companies that have been at the forefront of technological breakthroughs for decades."
"Take Americen Telephone and Telegraph Company as an example. They monopolized Americen's telecommunications business in the 1920s and invested 3% of their profits from the telecommunications business in Bell Labs every year.
Inventions such as radio telescopes, transistors, digital switches, UNIX operating systems, C language, etc. all came from Bell Labs.
As a result, Bell Labs, the jewel of the Telephone and Telegraph Company, was sold to Nokia.”
"So I don't expect Kechuang Biotech to always be a company that leads the development of science and technology, but at least I hope it will be before I retire."
"It will be at least thirty years before I retire. In these thirty years, I hope to do more research and make more contributions to society."
"I hope everyone will create a good working environment for researchers in terms of personnel, management and other aspects."
"The profit margin of our company is actually very high. There is no need to pay for the rolls. I don't need everyone to work overtime themselves or force their subordinates to work overtime to reflect their contribution to the company."
"For a R&D-oriented company, the company's internal atmosphere must be relaxed and comfortable so that R&D talents can have sufficient creativity and motivation."
"Although I am a workaholic myself, I don't expect my employees to be workaholics like me."
Even though many senior executives have never interacted with Zheng Li in real life, Zheng Li's workaholic level is a fact recognized within the company.
Even some middle-level managers will sometimes use Zheng Li as an example when asking their subordinates to work overtime:
"The big boss works until twelve o'clock every day, 365 days a year, why does he ask you to work overtime?"
Although Kechuang Biotech has never advocated overtime under Li Miaomiao's management, it cannot resist the temptation of someone who graduated from a large factory and then comes to the middle level of Kechuang Biotech and brings over the overtime culture.
Moreover, if a middle-level person like this takes the lead in writing papers and working overtime, even if his boss doesn't like it, it's hard to say anything.
As for employees’ inner grievances, most of them will not affect the status of middle management.
Zheng Li had seen situations like this on an anonymous internal forum among employees. At that time, he left a message directly below:
"If your work during working hours is full, you can refuse unreasonable overtime requests."
However, this behavior cannot be completely prohibited.
The larger the company, the more top-level managers are unable to directly interfere with lower-level employees.
Especially when Zheng Li takes the lead in working overtime, some middle-level managers will force their subordinates to work overtime and produce results in order to climb higher.
For example, the pharmaceutical pipeline has been burning money and is at a stage where only inputs can be seen but outputs cannot be seen.
At this time, it is obvious that the greatest benefits can be obtained by building the results pipeline first.
As the private enterprise with the highest market value in China, the competition within Kechuang Biotechnology is no less intense than that of Huawei.
Therefore, the pharmaceutical pipeline is the most important sector within Kechuang Biotechnology. There are 13 research routes, and each of them wants to be the first team to enter the clinical trial stage.
Not to mention that the salary package offered by Kechuang Biotech is no less than that of major Internet companies.
In contrast to the work intensity of major Internet companies, employees will feel that if their workload is not saturated for this salary, they will face the end of being optimized in the future.
Why has it become the norm for domestic Internet companies to work overtime, whether they are large companies or small companies?
On the other hand, the Internet giants like American have never heard of any company working overtime?
Moreover, foreign Internet companies contribute no less to valuable open source projects than domestic ones.
This is because foreign Internet companies do not update versions, release new features, and iterate products so frequently.
Domestic Internet companies have taken small steps and rapid iteration to the extreme.
However, Kechuang Biotechnology is not an Internet company or a biopharmaceutical company, and simply stacking workload cannot produce results.
This cannot be achieved by stacking up people.
If the recruitment of people is effective, based on the number of domestic graduates of relevant majors, China will have already caught up in the field of biomedicine.
“Also, let’s talk about the company’s short-term goals. Regarding endorphins, I have completed the first phase of research and development of industrial production methods.
The subsequent optimization work is handed over to the company's R&D team. The goal is to reduce costs and optimize the production process, but the quality of the product cannot be reduced."
The production of endorphins places high demands on production workers, and appropriately simplifying the production process can improve production efficiency to a certain extent.
"The other is lithium metal cathode materials. The graphene coating actually has a lot of room for optimization. The current three-dimensional structure of graphene may not be the optimal solution.
Including the structural design of lithium metal cathodes, it may not be the optimal solution. We have made many attempts in this area in the past six months, and we can increase investment appropriately in the future."
"The rest is brain-computer connection and innovative drug research and development. We are the leader in the field of brain-computer connection, and this is what I am mainly responsible for."
To be continued...