Chapter 481: Combat Record Can Be Checked

This year, Wan Yan's revenue is still passable, and it is still one of the world's largest VCD manufacturers, but if you ask Jiang Wanmeng if he is happy, he estimates he can't laugh at all.

If you ask the domestic technology industry, the first one to suffer heavy losses due to patent issues, that is definitely Wan Yan.

Everyone knows that VCD was invented by Wan Yan. Wan Yan's revenue last year also reached 600 million US dollars, occupying 95% of the global VCD market share together with a host of domestic VCD brands like Aido and BBK.

However, although Wan Yan earned quite a bit, because it didn't apply for VCD patents globally, various VCD brands reached the point of flooding domestically and even overseas.

On the other hand, VCD patents were snatched by Japanese and other manufacturers, including VCD decoding chips and processing chips, which were controlled by four companies: E-Chip, C-Cube, Philips, and Sony.

This led to Wan Yan, which looked infinitely beautiful, falling into a cruel price war in the domestic VCD industry. Various VCD manufacturers fought to the death, and the profits were already frighteningly low. Outside, the profits of VCD were snatched by manufacturers like Sony and Philips.

Moreover, Toshiba had already launched the first generation of DVD, and the intention to replace VCD was almost obvious. Japanese manufacturers like Toshiba and Sony had even stronger control over the DVD industry than the VCD industry.

Once DVD began to be popularized, VCD being eliminated was only a matter of time. Even Wan Yan might go bankrupt. In fact, this year, because the VCD competition was too fierce, plus the appearance of DVD, since the beginning of the year, the revenue had already fallen by more than half compared to last year!

Jiang Wanmeng heard that domestic manufacturers had begun to contact Toshiba, wanting to get patent authorization from it, but the asking price there was that for one machine, the patent fee would be charged more than 20 US dollars!

More than 2,000 DVD patents, plus core components like decoding chips, were all in the hands of the Japanese. Domestic companies producing one DVD, how much they could sell was unclear, but basically working for the Japanese for nothing was already certain.

And in fact, a host of domestic DVD manufacturers in the previous life fought internally and were weak externally. Just paying patent fees to Japanese Toshiba and other manufacturers exceeded 23 billion RMB. Exporting one DVD earned two RMB, relying entirely on export subsidies to earn money. Otherwise, they would have lost their pants long ago.

As the inventor of VCD, letting Jiang Wanmeng bow his head to Japanese Toshiba and other manufacturers, and conversely paying patent fees to the other party, he really couldn't pull down his face.

Now seeing the special interview about Li Dongling on the central media TV station, Jiang Wanmeng only regretted that he didn't apply for VCD patents back then. Otherwise, the entire VCD industry wouldn't have rotted to the current state. The technology industry built by Chinese people was actually snatched away by Japanese people. How could Jiang Wanmeng not hate it!

Hailing City is also the location of the Chunlan Group headquarters. Now is the peak moment of the Chunlan Group. The annual revenue exceeds 10.6 billion, and Chunlan air conditioners occupy 30% of the air conditioner market share.

The Chunlan Tiger and Chunlan Leopard, two motorcycles priced over 5,000 yuan, are high-end goods in the motorcycle industry. 60,000 units were sold in half a year, with revenue exceeding 1 billion!

Chunlan is killing all sides in the air conditioner and motorcycle industries. Chunlan, which went public two years ago, now has a stock price exceeding 64 yuan per share, and together with Haier and Changhong, is named the three carriages of the A-share market. Chunlan has thus become the signboard of Hailing City.

As for the man who turned the tide when Chunlan was about to fall and led Chunlan's revenue to increase by 509 times, Tao Jianxing is undoubtedly the most powerful person in Chunlan now, and even has huge influence in Hailing City. Chunlan is now the king of air conditioners, and even the founder of Gree is a die-hard fan of Tao Jianxing!

Companies like Gree, Haier, and Midea in the air conditioner industry, facing Chunlan, only have the share of looking at its back and dare not say they can keep pace with Chunlan. The founder of Gree even clearly said that Gree is just crossing the river by touching Chunlan.

Like Pingyang, young people in Hailing City are also proud to enter Chunlan to work. They are unwilling to take off their Chunlan work clothes after work. When going on blind dates or visiting relatives, wearing Chunlan work clothes can increase the success rate of blind dates by a large margin. When going to relatives' houses, they are the objects of touting, and there will never be anyone who opens their eyes to pick faults, because relatives also hope to enter Chunlan to work through relationships.

"Tao Zong, what do you think about what this founder of Dongling Gao Ke said, that domestic motorcycles will suffer a crushing defeat overseas?"

The interview with Li Dongling reported by the central media is naturally also being paid attention to by Chunlan. Although they are not competitors, who dares to underestimate Dongling Gao Ke in the domestic home appliance and electronics industry.

The person who asked Tao Jianxing this question is the person in charge of Chunlan motorcycles. The name of the person and the shadow of the tree—if others said this, it would be fine, but the founder of Dongling Gao Ke has a different meaning, so it can't help but make people think about it.

If it was just exaggerating, it would be fine, but if it came true, then where would domestic motorcycles go? It was hard to say, including Chunlan motorcycles, it was said that changes might happen.

Currently, domestic motorcycle brands are indeed in full swing. Not only are they fighting evenly with Japanese and Korean motorcycle brands in the country, but they have also entered Siam, Cochin, Malaysia, Pakistan, and even India.

Longxin, Zongshen, Jialing, Kymco, Huanghe, Shancheng Motorcycle, Shanghai Motorcycle, etc., including Chunlan, there are dozens or hundreds of motorcycle manufacturers, large and small.

Regarding this "prophecy" of Li Dongling, the person in charge of Chunlan motorcycles is somewhat worried. Judging from the situation he knows, currently, domestic motorcycles are indeed killing crazy in Southeast Asia.

Not only are they ruthless to Japanese brands like Suzuki, Honda, Yamaha, and Korean brands like Daelim, but they are also ruthless to their own people. The price war is flying.

Like a Japanese brand motorcycle, it is over 2,100 US dollars in Southeast Asia, and Korean motorcycles are also over 1,500 US dollars. While domestic motorcycles in Southeast Asia sell for only 800 US dollars, or even 700 or 500 US dollars, and they are still desperately lowering prices.

Of course, this fierce price war has caused the market share of domestic motorcycles in Southeast Asia to soar to over 80%, almost killing the former motorcycle king Suzuki and others out of Southeast Asia.

But Chunlan motorcycle person in charge doesn't know, under this price war, a 200 US dollar domestic motorcycle, excluding production costs, tariffs, promotion expenses, how on earth can it still make money?

Being in the industry, Chunlan motorcycle person in charge understands that if selling motorcycles normally doesn't make money, then they can only take action from other aspects, such as reducing motorcycle accessories, using low-priced components to reduce costs. This will inevitably lead to poor motorcycle experience, high fuel consumption, easy to break, etc.

But the problem is, how many domestic motorcycle companies have established after-sales systems in Southeast Asia? If this continues for a long time, domestic motorcycles will be labeled as "poor quality" in Southeast Asia.

If Siam, Cochin, Malaysia, and other places hear the name of domestic motorcycles and change color, preferring to buy expensive Japanese motorcycles rather than cheap domestic goods, then the scene "predicted" by Li Dongling will appear.

After all, this kind of thing is not without signs. Thanks to that group of "daoye" (resellers), domestic goods have become synonymous with "garbage" in the old Maozi and other Eastern European regions. If they didn't really have no money, people in Eastern Europe would really not want to buy domestic goods.

This kind of influence has lasted for decades. Even after three or four decades, one or two generations have passed, people in Eastern Europe still have prejudices against domestic goods, which shows how deep the influence is. It is easy to destroy a reputation, but wanting to repair it is not something that can be done in a short period of time. The key is that there are opponents from Western Europe, America, and Japan who are desperately smearing domestic goods, making it even more difficult.

Tao Jianxing looked at the screen on the TV and sighed for a long time. Why did he want to enter the motorcycle industry? Wasn't it because air conditioners were rolling too fiercely, and Chunlan air conditioner profits began to decrease, so he entered the motorcycle industry.

"Regardless of how other motorcycle manufacturers are, Chunlan motorcycles must ensure quality. Chunlan motorcycles only do high-end motorcycles!"

Tao Jianxing said in a deep voice. What the motorcycle industry is like, he is also powerless. Motorcycles are now the lifeline industry for many places. They rely on local companies' motorcycles to sell more cars, then collect taxes, provide employment positions, etc. How can they stop internal friction? If you dare to reduce production, the motorcycle factory in the neighboring city will immediately increase production capacity to snatch your rice bowl!

Hearing Tao Jianxing's words, the person in charge of Chunlan motorcycles still had doubts. Facing the motorcycle industry that was about to be rolled into a hemp flower, can Chunlan really stay out of it?!

"Alright, the person in charge of the acquisition team, say something about the attitude of the Jin Ling Automobile Factory. Are they willing to sell the Jin Ling Automobile Factory to Chunlan..."

Tao Jianxing's mind is no longer on motorcycles now. The great success of air conditioners and motorcycles has made his mind no longer satisfied with these two industries. Like Li, the person from Dongling Gao Ke, he has also set his sights on the automobile industry!

Men's obsession with cars and firearms is engraved in their blood and bones, just like women like bags and cosmetics. For the founders of companies in various industries in the country now, when they feel that life has reached a certain stage, the next step is all cars!

It's just that Li, the person from Dongling Gao Ke, just talks about it. For the planning of cars, he is also considering defeat before victory, preparing to start from industries like electric bicycles, and then slowly enter the automobile industry after making money.

Tao Jianxing is different. As soon as he comes up, he is ready to do a big one, directly acquire an automobile factory, and then roll up his sleeves, ready to do a big job.

"Currently, domestic U-disk manufacturers with a certain degree of fame have basically stopped production. Now the legal department is suing SanDisk's vest company in the country, Xingzhidao, demanding compensation for Shenzhou Storage's losses of 20 million!"

At the Dongling Gao Ke headquarters, Gao Zhiyuan, the general manager of the legal department, was talking to Li Dongling about the combat record of the legal department. ===== CHAPTER 482 =====

At the Dongling Gao Ke headquarters, Gao Zhiyuan, General Manager of the Legal Department, was telling Li Dongling about the Legal Department's track record.