The rain is coming from the wind!
The next few months were very turbulent.

The word “Huawei” occupied almost all the front-page headlines.

The country also took action and started a new round of struggle with the other side of the sea.

Don’t cause trouble, but we’re not afraid of trouble either.

Chen Pingjiang always stood by and closely followed the latest developments.

Apparently!

Many things have changed and are very different from what I remember. The most obvious thing is that the sanctions against Huawei have been brought forward and are more intensive.

But if you think about it carefully, you can understand it.

What he did after his rebirth had a very obvious effect on promoting the domestic Internet environment and Internet companies.

Huawei is also far more powerful than in the previous life.

Finally, in May, the biggest and most powerful blow came.

Huawei’s main business suffered an almost devastating blow.

On May 5, Google removed Huawei phones from the Android upgrade list.

On May 5, Google stopped allowing Huawei to use Google’s GMS service.

On May 5, chip design company Arm abandoned Huawei and the launch of Mate 6 X was cancelled.

On May 5, the SD Association and the Wi-Fi Alliance cancelled Huawei’s membership.

On May 5, IEEE, the world’s largest academic organization, issued a ban on Huawei-related personnel from reviewing technical papers.

What’s even more outrageous is that the contract manufacturer Flextronics actually “confiscated” Huawei’s products worth $1 million.

However, the sanctions have just begun!
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At a small regular meeting of the Shanhe Holdings Strategic Committee.

The huge conference room was filled with smoke, making smokers and non-smokers alike feel uncomfortable.

Luo Wentao was so frightened by this that he broke out in a cold sweat. “Mr. Chen, I’m sorry. I didn’t know there was a problem with the circulating smoke exhaust system. It was my mistake at work.”

Chen Pingjiang waved his hand, not in the mood to waste time on this topic. Instead, he turned around and pointed at the door, motioning Luo Wentao to open it.

“Although we are well prepared, isn’t it a bit risky to do this?” Zhou Guangping, who is mature and prudent in the group, said: “Right now, while their attention is not focused on us, I think we should not be too ostentatious, but should keep a low profile and develop our own strength. Otherwise, we will provoke the other side and they will be eager to fight face to face. Is it worth considering?”

As the founder of Orange Technology, Zhou Guangping, who is responsible for hardware, has always regarded Orange Technology as his own baby and cannot bear to see the current good situation being hit.

He and Lin Bin have the same mentality.

Although it is clear that the Orange Group’s small strategy is to serve the Shanhe Holding Committee’s big strategy, after all, it is their own child who is being sent away, and it is normal to feel distressed or even incomprehensible.

There are two main points discussed in this meeting.

1. Given that Huawei’s Hongmeng OS is still in the design stage, everyone discussed whether to open their own Orange OS to Huawei for use.

2. Establish a new Super WIFI Alliance with Huawei.

The help was not that great, but it showed the attitude of Orange Technology and even Chen Pingjiang, who transformed into a white knight and decided to rescue Huawei, which was stuck in the quagmire. But everyone still felt that it was a bit risky.

There is no enterprise that would expand its business by siding with the world’s top power.

This is not the same as sticking your face out and yelling at someone, “Hit me, hit me!”

Are you afraid that the sanctions will not fall on you?

Chen Pingjiang nodded and tried to explain: “I can understand your feelings, Lao Zhou, but some things have to be done by someone. Haven’t you heard the rumors outside? Some people leave messages every day asking what we are going to do?”

He knocked on the table. “We can hide, but for how long? One month? Three months? Six months? Will we look like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand? We are a behemoth more powerful than Huawei. We are truly the elephant in the room. How can we not pay attention to us?”

“Since we will be sanctioned sooner or later, why not make our stance clear, re-equip ourselves, cut off our retreat and retreat? Haven’t we made a lot of preparations for this day over the years? It’s better to fight back when someone holds a knife to our necks than to take the initiative and muddy the waters.”

Zhou Guangping said helplessly: “Mr. Chen, I understand the truth, but I always feel that I was a little impulsive.”

Chen Pingjiang raised his hand to stop him: “Just do as I say. If the sky falls, there will be tall people to hold it up. We are that tall person. I don’t want to live the kind of life where I know I will be the next one, but I still foolishly wait to be killed. That’s not my character.”

Indeed, Chen Pingjiang has been preparing for so many years. If he still wants to hide his tail for fear of being seen across the sea, then he has lived in vain.

He will look down on himself.

“Businessman and entrepreneur, I hope others become entrepreneurs, not businessmen.”

Businessmen may have no nationality, they only need to pursue profits and be responsible for themselves.

But entrepreneurs must have social responsibilities. In addition to keeping their own businesses alive, they also need to have greater ambitions.

Everyone thinks that the richest man in Hong Kong, Mr. Li, is good at doing business, but no one would say that he has a sense of social responsibility.

make money?

Feel sorry!

For Chen Pingjiang, he already has enough money, which he cannot spend in the first half of his lifetime.

Now, what he wants is a sense of accomplishment and mission.

Bu Housheng, who rushed back from the United States specially, had to smile bitterly.

In order to delay being sanctioned, he said all the good things to the Americans and tried every possible means. Unexpectedly, when the time came, the boss actually jumped.

He felt as if his efforts were in vain and all his previous efforts were in vain.

Chen Pingjiang understood the helplessness in his eyes and smiled to comfort him: “Old Bu, your work is not without results. If it weren’t for you, maybe we would have been passively waiting for sanctions this time. Now, have you almost dealt with the business over there?”

Bu Housheng: “We have dealt with all that can be dealt with. For the others that cannot be dealt with in the short term, we have changed people to hold them on our behalf or let offshore funds manage them. It is not so easy to trace them back to us.”

Chen Pingjiang nodded easily, then looked around the audience and slowly said, “Everyone, when I visited Huawei many years ago, I proposed the hypothesis of how to survive in the face of sanctions one day. After I came back, we also worked hard to develop in this environment. We have achieved results over the years.”

“We even repeatedly rehearsed the sanctions we might face, and found that at most our days would be a little difficult, but we would never collapse. In recent years, the domestic supply chains for mobile phones, computers, and chips have been much stronger than in previous years. The lithography machines we have stockpiled are enough for us to manufacture 14-nanometer chips, and even the domestic EUV lithography machine project is progressing smoothly. After we get through these few years, our good days will come.”

“Everyone, please believe me!” (End of this chapter)