Chapter 152 Caution
China began to formulate a five-year plan in 1953 according to the Soviet model, which was suspended for two years between 1963 and 1965, and started to get on track from the 35 plan in 1966. After decades of practice, a complete procedure for evaluation, research, summary, drafting, argumentation, deliberation, approval and final implementation was finally formed.
1995 was the final year of the 85th Plan and the formulation of the 95th Plan, which was just at the time point of inheriting the past and starting the future. Therefore, in November, major departments gathered elite personnel from the industry to make final arguments and supplements for the draft of the next five-year plan, and then submitted them to the central government for deliberation before the end of the year.
Du Qiu gave up going to the Media Center and temporarily went to the Ministry of Electronics Industry. He attended a similar seminar. In addition to government officials, the participants also included authoritative academic experts, large state-owned enterprises bosses and well-known private enterprise bosses, including Haier Zhang, Lenovo Liu, Huawei Ren and other business leaders who were well-known before traveling through time. In the eyes of traveling through the party, the importance of these people is far greater than that of CCTV's advertising department director. After all, on one hand, it is profitable, and on the other hand, it is a false reputation.
Snapdragon is currently just a pure software company and has almost no intersection with the electronics industry. As soon as Du Qiu returned to China, he was invited to attend such a high-standard meeting. It can only be said that it was a storm, and it happened to catch up with the opportunity.
Behind every five-year plan, there is no smoke but absolutely fierce fight between vested interest groups and emerging interest groups. In addition to competition within the industry, this kind of fight must also compete with other departments. After all, China's economic strength in the 1990s was still very weak, and the annual fiscal budget was very tight. There were too many monks and too little porridge, so it would not be possible to grab it. The main rival of the Ministry of Electronics Industry was the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, which was at the forefront in 1995. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications happened to be closely related to Snapdragon's business.
In the era of planned economy, not only many companies have a high-end business idea, but they want to cover all employees' food, clothing, housing, transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death. Many departments also have the same idea, from raw materials to production, from research and development to sales. The most typical representative is the Ministry of Railways. In addition to building trains, repairing trains, and driving trains, they even have independent police and court systems.
Although the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is not as exaggerated as the Ministry of Railways, it also has its own system, including the research and development and manufacturing of telecommunications equipment. According to the division method of modern industrial systems, this part should belong to the Ministry of Electronics Industry. However, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications not only did not hand over it, but instead created obstacles everywhere, suppressing or even refusing to purchase telecommunications equipment produced by enterprises under the Ministry of Electronics Industry.
In the 1990s, the domestic telecommunications industry grew very fast, with telephone lines soaring from less than 10 million in 1990 to more than 80 million in 1995. Such a huge market made the Ministry of Electronics Industry very jealous, but it was helpless because this department was very young and had a tragic fate. It was established in 1983, merged with the Ministry of Machinery in 1988, and was independent again in 1993. It was repeatedly tossed, and the foundation was too shallow and had no right to speak. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications was not the same. It was an old department established in 1949, with millions of employees and tens of billions of revenue. The size and energy of both were not on the same level.
Therefore, after the Ministry of Electronics Industry re-independence in March 1993, in order to deal with the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Minister Hu decided to start a new business and adopt the strategy of joining the border and joining forces, and persuaded the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Electric Power and other departments to jointly establish a new communications company, named "China Unicom", and fought with China Telecom, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
Although China Unicom has obtained the qualification to engage in communications business, it was unable to get a penny of financial appropriation under the strong opposition of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. The management had to use the Eight Immortals to cross the sea and use their magical means to raise funds everywhere, which can almost be described as thirsty for money.
In May, Du Qiu invited the CEOs of several companies engaged in Internet business at the Beijing Hotel, including Yinghaiwei and China. During the meal, he talked about a plan to join China Unicom with the "China-China-Foreign" financing model to stimulate China Telecom to reduce Internet fees. This "China-China-Foreign" financing model was officially recognized by the senior management of the national leadership when Canada Bell Company signed a contract with Qilu Province Yancheng Unicom in October. Du Qiu became a high-quality cooperation partner worthy of winning in China Unicom's eyes.
In addition to this origin, during the Internet Conference in August, Du Qiu expressed his willingness to develop products such as switches, servers and high-end computers in joint ventures or cooperation with Huawei, Inspur, Founder and other companies that are suitable for the Internet field. He also actively made a lot of preparations for this afterwards. Therefore, when he appeared at the seminar of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, not only did no doubt it, but it became very popular. After all, Snapdragon just raised $1 billion, and was rich and no one wanted to miss the opportunity to get a piece of the pie.
The seminar started at 2:30 and lasted until 5:00. According to the schedule, there was also a very high-end banquet in the evening. Du Qiu was very good at drinking tables and socializing. After traveling through time, he would avoid it, and if he could not be avoided, he would refuse directly. Therefore, he had a bad reputation in the official and business circles of Yuncheng. Many people think that he was arrogant and unkind.
However, Du Qiu was preparing to attend the dinner that day, not because Minister Hu was very generous, but because it was interesting to socialize with those business celebrities who were over 20 years younger than God's perspective. Unfortunately, just after the meeting, an unexpected call dispelled his bad taste.
The phone number was transferred by the secretary to Minister Hu, and then by Minister Hu to Du Qiu. After Du Qiu answered the call, he immediately said goodbye: "Minister Hu, I want to go back to the hotel first and make some preparations for tomorrow, so I won't attend the dinner."
"Okay, the important thing is important, I'll ask the driver to give you it. By the way, we will have a special seminar the afternoon after tomorrow, so don't forget to make some preparations."
"I will."
When Du Qiu left the Ministry of Electronics Industry with a special license plate, he took out his cell phone that had been silent from his pocket. He originally wanted to call Liu Yunlai, but then he thought about it and called Du Chunhua instead and asked, "Sister, where are you?"
"At the Great Wall Hotel, Sister Sun helped me have an appointment with reporters from newspapers and TV stations to promote the company's product launch conference tomorrow. Have you finished the meeting?"
"It's finished."
"Danfeng is going to attend the class reunion. He is not in the hotel. If you are fine, come and help me support the scene."
"Sister, you are a strong woman who has attended the World Women's Congress and took photos with national leaders. How can I support the scene?"
In early September 1995, the Fourth World Women's Congress was held in Beijing. This is the United Nations conference with the largest number of participants so far and the largest international conference hosted by China after the founding of the People's Republic of China. It has a high standard and many national leaders participated or attended. Du Chunhua attended the conference as an outstanding representative of businesswomen. With the help of money and favors, he took photos with several big figures, and then used these photos to get orders for office supplies from many government departments and state-owned enterprises.
"Brother, have you been abroad for a long time and your skin is itchy again? You dare to tease me."
"Sister, you misunderstood. I'm not teasing you, but asking you for serious things." Du Qiu coughed gently, restrained his urge to bicker with his mother, and asked, "What did you say when you took a photo with those people?"
"I didn't say anything, I just had some polite words, such as being very happy to attend this conference, which would delay your time."
"They didn't ask you any comments or suggestions?"
"No, I won't say anything even if I ask. How can I take the scene seriously?" Du Chunhua seemed to feel that Du Qiu was worried and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"I'm going to attend an important meeting tomorrow with big names. I'm a little nervous. I want to get some experience from you, but I didn't expect you to know nothing." Du Qiu called and said, "Sister, you're busy with yours. I'll call Brother Liu, he should be more experienced."
"OK."
After Du Chunhua hung up, Du Qiu called Liu Yunlai again and asked, "Brother Liu, how are you talking to CCTV?"
"Director Tan said that there is no problem with advertising creativity and it should be broadcast, but there are a few lines that are best modified, such as changing the troubles of things to being unhappy with talents."
Du Qiu's plagiarized advertisements come from Apple's classic "think-different" in 1997. However, the purpose of Apple's production of this advertisement was to reshape the image of a fashionable and avant-garde company. Du Qiu's purpose was to establish a corporate culture of talent for Snapdragon, and to compete with multinational high-tech companies such as Microsoft and ibm for talents. Therefore, many characters in the original advertisement film, such as boxing champions Ali and Bob Dylan, were changed to iconic figures in American pop culture, and he changed them to pioneers in the history of computer science such as Allen Turing and Von Neumann.
Even the characters have been changed a lot, so changing a few lines is naturally not a problem. Du Qiu doesn't care about this and said, "Then change it to a similar idiom, as long as it doesn't destroy the entire advertisement's intention. Where are you now?"
"Zhou Yuan and I were preparing to have a meal with Mr. Xu from the advertising agency and discuss the strategy of bidding tomorrow morning."
"Leave the advertising bidding to Zhou Yuan. You come to the hotel where I stay now, and we will have a conference call with Yang Fan." Du Qiu looked up at the driver who was driving in front of him, and said vaguely: "I just received the notice from above and go to give a lecture at 9:30 tomorrow morning."
"Tomorrow morning?" Liu Yunlai was surprised, took a clear breath, and then said in a deep voice: "I'll go there right away."
After hanging up the phone, Du Qiu leaned on the comfortable seat, and in the quiet and closed space, he looked at the dark night outside the window, with bright lights and pedestrians, and various bustling street scenes. He felt that he was in two different worlds from the outside, and he felt a sense of superiority in his heart that all beings are ants and everything is in control. This sense of superiority is not false, because his words and deeds now can really change the fate of many people.
If the W3C standardization conference in September represents Du Qiu's influence to change the world's Internet landscape, then tomorrow's lecture will represent Du Qiu's influence to change domestic Internet policies. Whether it is changing the world or changing the country, it involves the lives of millions of people and trillions of wealth.
If it is a native of this time and space, it is very likely that he would be addicted to this famous and famous minister, unable to extricate himself from his sense of superiority, and inadvertently make wrong judgments and choices. Fortunately, Du Qiu is a time travel party, so he quickly broke free from his illusory sense of superiority and thought about the content of tomorrow's lecture with an extremely cautious attitude.
Be careful!
Du Qiu was not worried about the consequences of changing the world's Internet landscape, because whether it was destroyed Netscape or killed Google, the technical route that should be established will continue, and the business model that should be established will still be effective, but it was just a company to realize it. However, the consequences of changing domestic Internet policies cannot be ignored, because this thing is as mysterious as Schrödinger's cat, and it is difficult to predict whether it is good or bad. If you are not careful, it will turn the future that is as transparent as a spring in the eyes of the Party, and it will turn into a misty abyss.
Chapter completed!