Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 201 Peaceful years
Lin Yaxian also has her own strengths. For example, she is good at painting, especially watercolor painting. In addition, she is also very good at oil painting.

But she is really not good at these things in the kitchen... Although she is quite interested in these things and even asked the aunt at home to teach her, she is still not very good at it and can't even reach the level of ordinary people.

After trying a few times, Xu Shenxue naturally didn't want to try again. There was no need... There was someone cooking at home, and there was no need to do this to show so-called affection.

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In the next few days, Xu Shenxue's work and life returned to normal. He mainly spent time with Lin Yaxian. However, neither of them liked to make a fuss, so they didn't go out much. During the day, Xu Shenxue went out to visit friends, while Lin Yaxian painted by herself.

These days, when Xu Shenxue gets off work, Lin Yaxian will come over and stay with him. When Xu Shenxue goes to work the next morning, she will run straight home to paint. Recently, she is creating a series of paintings in preparation for her first solo exhibition in her life.

She has been invited to participate in a high-level joint art exhibition, and will exhibit with more than a dozen outstanding painters of the middle-aged and young generations.

This is her first art exhibition in her life and she takes it very seriously.

As there are so many young painters, why did the organizer invite her, who just graduated and has no fame in the industry?

Because Lin's father provided the venue for the exhibition, Xu Shenxue took on many of the expenses needed for the exhibition.

Lin Yaxian doesn't feel embarrassed or have any other bad feelings about this. She thinks it's natural... What's wrong with me spending money to buy the booth?
In fact, the reason for holding such an art exhibition was that Lin's father wanted to organize the first art exhibition for his daughter. It was a birthday gift. The other dozen or so famous middle-aged and young painters... they were just supporting roles!
Furthermore, if you want people to pay a high price for your artwork, you need connections... What connections? You need to know a lot of rich people.

Painters have to eat when they are alive, and they want to show their works in front of rich people and then hope that the rich will buy them.

Therefore, the organizers and other participating painters actually attach great importance to this exhibition... because they know that there will be a group of wealthy people coming to view the exhibition, and there will definitely be a lot of sales of works.

Lin Yaxian herself also wants her works to be seen by others, not for the sake of fame or anything like that, but purely out of a sharing mentality as a creator.

Once you create a work that you think is very good, you can't help but want to show it off to others and even get their recognition.

Many people in the cultural creation field have this problem...painters are just a minority, and writers are even worse.

This mentality is actually similar to that of a fisherman who has caught a big fish. He wants to carry the fish and walk around the community thirty times. If anyone looks at him for a second, he will say:
"How do you know I caught a big fish? Actually, it's not that big. It's only a little over 15 pounds, or 4,123.45 grams."

Lin Yaxian is busy with her creative work, but that doesn't stop her from doing some side jobs... Of course, she doesn't handle them herself.

Xu Shenxue sent a few people from the Liuhe Investment Office to help her deal with the early company issues, and Lin's father also sent people to set up the basic company structure...

While Lin Yaxian was busy with her creative work, a cosmetics company had already begun to be prepared... After she finishes this period of creative work, there will be a cosmetics company with a complete organizational structure waiting for her to realize her ideals and pursuits.

All is well!
The only small disturbance was that Lin's father was quite dissatisfied with her going to Xu Shen's house every day to stay at night, and then running back in broad daylight.

You can either live with Xu Shenxue or live at home.

What's the point of running over there at night and coming back the next day? Do you think this is my studio?

But Lin Yaxian is a person with her own ideas. She is happy with this, so Lin's father can only tolerate it...

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Not to mention Lin Yaxian, Xu Shenxue's work seems more complicated.

As June approaches, Zhiyun's annual new flagship launch conference is about to begin, and Xu Shenxue has more affairs to deal with.

Although there is a mature and complete process for the release of new products, there is still a lot to do, including the supply of various spare parts from the supply chain, the final mass production by the assembly foundry, and the delivery of the produced mobile phones to various countries for stocking.

Then there is the massive marketing campaign for new product launches.

This year, Zhiyun Technology will once again lead the development trend of smartphones, and equip new flagship phones with a number of innovative features and technological breakthroughs.

For example, in modern times, the 4.7-inch reticulated screen seems like black technology... Although this screen is from someone else, only Zhiyun Technology can afford and dare to use it these days.

Then there is the epoch-making all-network communication baseband. As for the overseas version, it uses a dual-network baseband because the TD-SCDMA baseband is not needed overseas.

It is worth noting that the Qualcomm MSM9200 customized chip purchased by Zhiyun this time is not the version with a communication baseband, but a version without a baseband.

As for Texas Instruments' chips, they do not come with a communication baseband.

The communication baseband will directly use Zhiyun's self-developed 3G full network and overseas 3G dual network baseband. In a series of mobile phones released by Zhiyun Technology this year, they will be fully equipped with the world's first dual network and triple network baseband, changing the previous situation where mobile phones can only use one 3G network.

In addition, there are many other innovations, such as the voice assistant "Xiaoyun" on the Yun OS4.0 system.

And many kinds of functional innovations!
This is the S11 series and PRO version. At the same time, this fall, Zhiyun Technology will also release the C4 series and A11 series.

In order to ensure that the new products can be successfully launched and sold after their release, staff from various departments of Zhiyun Technology have already started to get busy, and a lot of preparatory work has already begun at the beginning of the year.

After all, it is impossible to launch the product by holding a press conference, then slowly talking to partners one by one, and then supplying the product to the world.

In fact, many cooperation negotiations have been completed in the past few months, especially the orders from operators and first-tier channel dealers in various countries, which have actually been signed long ago and have already started to be shipped.

Just wait until the product launch conference to start global simultaneous launch.

Therefore, although Xu Shenxue has not had any major events recently, he still has a lot of daily affairs in the company.

Compared to Xu Shenxue's busyness, the ones who are really busy are Gu Zhiming who is in charge of the supply chain and Ji Chenghe who is in charge of marketing.

Gu Zhiming did not travel around the world like in previous years, but instead traveled around the country... This is because Zhiyun Technology's supply chain was spread all over the world a few years ago, but now most of the supply chain has been concentrated in China. Even the components of foreign manufacturers are produced in factories in China or looking for OEMs.

Only a few components are produced abroad, mainly mobile phone SOCs.

So now Gu Zhiming mainly travels around the country, especially in the Pearl River Delta.

The one flying around the world became Ji Chenghe!
As the vice president and CMO (chief marketing officer) of Zhiyun Group Co., Ltd., Ji Chenghe is not only personally responsible for the domestic market, but also has to supervise major overseas markets.

So Ji Chenghe is also very busy. As the new product is about to be launched, he has been visiting overseas markets one by one, mainly in Europe, Japan and North America.

The above three regions have good economies and great potential for consumption capacity, and are currently Zhiyun Technology's main overseas markets, especially Europe, which has received high attention from Zhiyun Technology.

Zhiyun Technology’s first directly-operated overseas flagship store was chosen to be established in Paris, France.

Then comes the first directly-operated flagship store in North America in Manhattan, New York.

At the same time, marketing funds in Europe also account for a relatively large proportion. In order to operate the local market, Zhiyun Technology has not only established multiple R&D centers in Europe, but also hired a large number of local employees locally... Zhiyun Technology has established branches in every country in Europe responsible for sales, after-sales, and technical support. Except for management and technical jobs that are sent from China, some ordinary jobs with little technical content directly recruit local people.

In early June, Ji Chenghe said in an interview in Paris, France: "We are proud to announce that our Zhiyun company has more than 13,000 employees in Europe!"

Of course, Ji Chenghe would not tell reporters that except for more than 2,000 special employees who were technical personnel brought in through the acquisition of several local technology companies, the remaining more than 8,000 employees were all in low-level service positions.

And scattered throughout Europe!
On average per country, there aren't that many people.

Of course, although these foreign employees’ positions are low-paying, their salary and benefits are actually quite good, at least they are within the average income level of similar positions in the local area.

As a multinational company, Zhiyun Technology has always strictly abided by local laws, but always stayed within the legal limits.

For example, in the R&D center in Silicon Valley of the United States, if you want to fire someone, you can just give them advance notice and let them go...don't even think about compensation because local laws do not support it.

It's not like laying off employees if a project fails, which is more troublesome. They either have to be transferred to other project teams or they have to be laid off with compensation.

Of course, this may not sound good, but from the perspective of the employee itself, working in a foreign-funded enterprise is actually quite good.

Regardless of country or region!

Because when most multinational companies go to other countries to set up businesses, they tend to be more rule-abiding and will do whatever the law requires, after all, they are on someone else's territory.

American-funded companies are like local tyrants in their own country. In the United States, the consortium is more terrifying than the governor. If they say you will go bankrupt, they will definitely go bankrupt... But in China, they are basically model companies that abide by the law and discipline.

The same Chinese-funded enterprises are like big bosses in China, shouting slogans like 997 loudly, but when they go overseas, they strictly abide by local laws and there is absolutely no such thing as 997.

This is the norm for multinational companies. They act like bosses at home but behave like good boys outside.

Otherwise... hehe!
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