Chapter 3146: Saving others and saving oneself

Just as Xiao Churan said, the whole of Jin Ling, and even the whole of China, was paying attention to the specific content of the cooperation between the An family and the Ye family.

The grievances between the two families for so many years were actually popular all over the country twenty years ago.

Various newspapers, magazines, and gossip news at that time did not lack the so-called combing and analysis of the grievances between these two giants. Even now, you can find a lot of related articles by searching casually on the Internet. Many of these articles have carried out a certain artistic processing of the events of that year, with extremely high distortion and extremely low credibility.

But the more unclear the truth of this kind of giant gossip, the more it can make people treat it as after-dinner talk.

However, in the 20 years before this, the two families had never made any response to the grievances between the two sides, and there had never been any substantial evidence to prove that the two families still had any contact.

So much so that although everyone didn't know what happened that year, everyone knew that these two families had long been at the point of not seeing each other.

Now that these two families suddenly announced that they were going to conduct strategic cooperation, it was indeed very surprising. Not only did major media pay attention, but gossipers paid even more attention.

And the Ye family and the An family were also very high-profile this time. The press conference used the largest banquet hall of the Bai Jinhangong. After it was arranged as a press conference site, it could accommodate at least two thousand reporters.

This time, media with a certain degree of visibility all over the world were invited. Just the media reporters and staff who confirmed they would attend the press conference exceeded two thousand.

It was just that Ye Chen didn't expect that his wife, who had never liked joining in the fun, would be interested in this press conference.

Anyway, he originally planned to go to the press conference site as an audience, and going with his wife would have no impact.

Xiao Churan went out early after breakfast. Shortly after she went out, Ye Chen also drove away from home and headed to the Bai Jinhangong.

Today's Bai Jinhangong had completely stopped all external business. Security personnel were in three layers inside and three layers outside to ensure the safety of important figures from the An family and the Ye family. Even relevant departments specially sent a large number of security personnel from Yanjing to be responsible for security at the scene, which could be said to greatly highlight China's importance to the An family, the largest foreign investor.

This also released a strong signal to the outside world and those who had ulterior motives against the An family: the An family were distinguished guests who brought huge investment to China, and no one was allowed to endanger their safety.

When Ye Chen arrived at the Bai Jinhangong, his maternal grandfather's family and his grandfather were already seated in the largest conference room.

He Yuanjiang also brought his new wife Han Meiqing to arrive early. Today, not only did they have to announce the cooperation project between the two families to the outside world, but they also had to announce their personnel appointments.

After Ye Chen arrived, everyone began to sort out the process of the press conference and the details of the information to be disclosed to the outside world one by one, to ensure that the press conference in the afternoon would be foolproof.

Ye Chen's second uncle, An Kaifeng, took the lead and said: "Everyone, let me introduce the main process of today first. The press conference will start on time at two o'clock in the afternoon. This press conference does not invite external hosts, so I will serve as the host. From two o'clock to two twenty, I will give a welcome speech on behalf of the An Group, and then announce the cooperation project between the An family and the Ye family, which is the Changying Automobile brand;"

"Next, I will invite Uncle Ye to speak first, and then my father to speak. The content of the two's speeches will mainly revolve around the reasons for our cooperation and the cooperation goals. After the two finish speaking, I will make a first-stage summary report to the media friends again. At that time, it will be combined with PPT to disclose all the data of Changying Automobile on the spot, including but not limited to our investment scale, hardware scale, team scale, and the hypothetical models planned to be launched in the future;"

"After this, I will specially introduce Professor He and Professor Han to the media friends, introduce the resumes of the two, as well as the positions the two are about to hold at Changying Automobile. After introducing the two, the two will each have five to ten minutes of speaking time. After the two finish speaking, I will make a final summary;"

"After I finish the final summary speech, we will enter the media question session. The time planned for this media question session is half an hour, answering ten questions. At that time, who will be selected to ask questions will be decided by me randomly. We won't make arrangements in advance, but I will explain the basic rules of questioning to everyone in advance. They can ask me questions, or ask Uncle Ye or my father, or ask Professor He and Professor Han. It is that the questions must be proposed around Changying Automobile. If anyone proposes any questions unrelated to Changying Automobile, or deliberately wants to bring out the grievances and past events of the two families, I will directly refuse to answer, and transfer the questioning qualification to the next person. We are also equipped with a large number of security personnel and staff to maintain order at the scene. If any reporter pesters about some inappropriate questions, I will arrange directly, close the microphone at the scene. When asking anyone, please don't be disrupted by the other party's rhythm, we will go directly to the next question."

"In addition, everyone answering questions, please also tightly revolve around the core of Changying Automobile, and try not to spread as much as possible. After answering ten questions, I will thank all the media friends present and announce that this press conference has ended successfully. The process is basically like this, does anyone have any questions, feel free to put them forward."

An Kaifeng had represented the An family for many years and had rich experience. His process formulation was already very clear and bright, and the parts that everyone needed to cooperate with were also explained very clearly, so everyone expressed that they had no questions.

Seeing that everyone had no questions, An Kaifeng nodded and said: "Since everyone has no questions, let's enter the next link, which is the synchronization of specific information disclosed by Changying Automobile to the outside world."

Paused, An Kaifeng continued: "The total investment of Changying Automobile we announced to the outside world is 40 billion US dollars, and the first phase of investment is 20 billion US dollars, which will be jointly funded by the An family and the Ye family, each holding 50% of the shares;"

"The initial 20 billion US dollars will mainly be used to build a super factory and supporting facilities in Jin Ling. We refer to the time node of the Tesla super factory, and the goal is to achieve ground-breaking to landing and production within one year;"

"As for the subsequent 20 billion US dollars, it will mainly be used for capacity improvement, product upgrading, and the penetration and development of upstream and downstream industries such as automobile spare parts, whole vehicle logistics, and whole vehicle sales."

Ye Chen said at this time: "Second Uncle, I propose to add an education fund of 2 billion US dollars in the first phase of investment, used to carry out in-depth cooperation with major universities and vocational and technical colleges in Jin Ling. On one hand, we will invest in them, let them upgrade and strengthen their relevant majors, and on the other hand, based on our actual needs, we will fund the formation of automobile-related majors with these colleges;"

"This will also include a part used to establish special scholarships and grants, used to subsidize excellent college students and poor college students who are willing to study in Jin Ling and choose automobile-related majors. This point is relatively important. We haven't had time to communicate deeply with these colleges yet, but I believe that the solid financial support and employment positions are here, they won't refuse our cooperation, so at the press conference, please ask Professor Han to call on the relevant persons in charge of all colleges and universities in Jin Ling to communicate face-to-face with us after the press conference on this issue."

"Good!" He Yuanjiang said with difficulty hiding his excitement: "I have been teaching in universities for the past few years, and I know the needs of schools and students very well. For schools, the employment rate and the quality of employment of graduates greatly affect the overall attractiveness of the school. And for young people, excellent and stable employment opportunities are extremely rare. To be honest, it is not common in past school-enterprise cooperation. Most companies only provide employment opportunities for graduates during campus recruitment, and they feel that it is already very remarkable. We can not only give money to help, but also provide employment. For colleges, it is comparable to a living Bodhisattva. They will definitely attach great importance to it."

"That's good." Ye Chen said: "Many companies' assistance and help have many prerequisites, and there are many companies that are just fishing for fame and not really having that social responsibility. Our own positioning is to be the head car company of new energy vehicles in China, and we also carry the reputation of the An and Ye families. In terms of college cooperation, we naturally cannot be stingy."

He Yuanjiang lowered his head and calculated, and said: "Mr. Ye, to be honest, an education fund of 2 billion US dollars seems to be a bit too much. The number of relevant talents that Jin Ling can cultivate every year should not exceed 10,000, and we cannot recruit them all. We still have to recruit the best. I estimate that about 200 million US dollars is completely enough."

Ye Chen nodded: "Just subsidizing colleges and students, it definitely won't cost so much money. But what I think is that we want to carry out deeper cooperation with those schools that are willing to develop automobile-related majors. One very important point is to provide them with scientific research funds;"

"So my idea is that we can carry out in-depth cooperation with the specialty majors of these colleges, and both sides will jointly fund the establishment of laboratories, or simply fund the establishment of laboratories for their use. The laboratories must reach the world-leading level as much as possible;"

"A considerable number of local companies in our country do not attach importance to scientific research. They make hundreds of billions of profits every year, but they don't take the profits to research new scientific technologies, but instead take them to develop new game products, fast-moving consumer products, and live streaming. Although I don't have the qualification to judge their right or wrong, I don't want us to fall into the same category as them. 2 billion US dollars is just a beginning. If these colleges are promising and can fully utilize the hardware and funds we provide to research better technologies, I am willing to double this amount by 5 times next year."

Having said this, Ye Chen said earnestly: "Our cooperation with colleges and universities this time is to position ourselves as true living Buddhas. We give money to colleges to enhance their educational strength and give money to students to solve their living difficulties. Regardless of whether these students come to work at Changying Automobile after graduation, we will ensure they can study wholeheartedly until they graduate. Even if they don't come to Changying Automobile after graduation and are diverted to other car companies, they are still contributing to the Chinese automotive industry. If they are willing to stay in Jin Ling and join Changying Automobile, then we can be considered as saving others and ourselves—it is a deed of immeasurable merit!"