Chapter 457 The first flagship store in Xinghai, the spiritual realm of stars!
While the official opening ceremony of the Bolang Group's headquarters building was held, the first public open day of the headquarters was also arranged.
After the ceremony, which lasted only about ten minutes, it was an open day to the public, and all visiting members of the public, media, and guests were free to visit.
At the same time, all facilities inside the building are also activated.
Including but not limited to the self-service lobby tea bar located on one side of the lobby, the self-service casual restaurant located on the south side of the second floor, the gyms and gym ancillary facilities sky swimming pools located in different directions on the third, eleventh, twenty-third and thirtieth floors, etc.
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As for the employee cafeterias on the 2, 3, 11, 23, and 30 floors, they are temporarily closed.
Not only that, Bolang Group has also appointed dedicated personnel from relevant departments to introduce it to all visiting groups.
Even Wen Liang also became a member of the ‘tour guide’.
He smiled and invited Mr. Hu and several other important guests: "Mr. Hu, Mr. Zhu, Mr. Wan, and some of you would like to come to my office for a cup of tea."
Everyone was very kind: "Mr. Wen, you're welcome, please."
"please."
A group of people walked into the elevator room and quickly climbed to the 36th floor driven by the high-speed elevator.
This floor has been planned to become the new decision-making center of Bolang Group.
with IFC
The planning on the 65th floor is different.
Except for the main executive offices, important conference rooms, and a separate strategic decision-making center, there are almost no public office areas on the entire 36th floor.
That is, the assistants and secretaries of the main executives work in the public area.
As for why the assistants, whose ranks are clearly ranked among the top management of the group, are not given an independent office, it is simply because it is more convenient to arrange it this way.
Although the assistants have their own secretarial team, the assistants' work priority is first to handle official affairs for the executives with a very small number of employees, upload and issue them, and then handle other matters in charge.
Public areas offer better views in all directions.
You can't let your boss have to look for someone when he encounters matters that need to be handled. Then you won't call an assistant, it will be troublesome.
The general manager’s office on the 36th floor is not copied from IFC
The design style of the general manager's office on the 65th floor adopts a simple style, with a bright atmosphere.
Of course, the tea making set in the reception area was naturally moved over.
At this moment, Wen Liang was carrying a pot to make tea for Mr. Hu and others.
Everyone laughed and exchanged pleasantries.
Perhaps because the atmosphere was getting better, as the administrative boss in charge of the economy, Xiao Dan said with a smile: "Mr. Wen, your company has developed extremely rapidly since it entered the smartphone industry, and it is in a leading position in the industry at home and abroad..."
"...It is reported that your company is currently subject to targeted control in all aspects by Western countries led by the United States and Europe, which have no logic, no bottom line, and do not abide by market economic rules and economic and trade order..."
"I wonder if your company has any difficulties that we can help solve."
His conversational tone is more praising than the previous one, and the ingredients and concentration are very high.
Unlike when Lao Miao Tou was giggling, there was still a bit of encouragement in it.
Wen Liang was not surprised when Xiao Dan mentioned this. The reason was not complicated.
It is still related to the three-level finance of the city of Yangcheng. 75% of all fiscal revenue, including value-added tax, corporate income tax, and personal income tax, must be handed over to the country and province.
Among them, 50% of the total VAT amount is turned over to the state, 25% of the total amount is turned over to the province, and only 25% is left.
The registration place of Bolang Terminal is in Yangcheng, and tax remittance including value-added tax is concentrated in Yangcheng. Even the province has also enjoyed the benefits brought by the development of Bolang.
So now the province also wants to express its support.
Wen Liang was not polite, and said frankly: "If we just develop the existing business, it will be fine. However, the times are developing too fast, and I am afraid it will be easy to lose everything. So we have planned some new businesses, which require quite a lot of funds. If Bolang
It would be great if the province also participates in the terminal’s next round of financing.”
Xiao Dan looked convinced: "I have heard that your company is already conducting some research on key upstream technologies for forward-looking innovative technology products. I think it will be very good."
As he said that, Xiao Dan raised his eyes, glanced over Mr. Hu's face, and said with a smile: "The province has already had an attitude towards investing in supporting Bolang's development and fully supports it!"
"In this way, after I return, I will coordinate with the provincial state-owned assets, provincial finance, provincial development and reform, provincial industry and information technology, provincial science and technology, provincial commerce and other units to hold a meeting to form a preliminary opinion, and then communicate with your company."
Wen Liang quickly expressed his gratitude: "Thank you, Mr. Zhu, and the province for your strong support to Bolang's development!"
In fact, Ji Fang felt as calm as water.
Bolang has grown to such a large scale, and despite the pressure of Western comprehensive restrictions, it still suppresses an industry, beating the super giants of the same overseas industry to the point of breathlessness, and its product sales are invincible. It can be said that it is unstoppable. If Guangdong did not
That's an abnormal attitude.
And it must be at the provincial level.
Although Yangcheng is one of the four major first-tier cities and has very good economic development, compared with Guangdong, which has been the country's largest economic province for many years, there is a big gap.
Neither the administrative level nor the resource capacity are on the same scale.
Therefore, it is only natural that the province provides full support.
Wen Liang was just following the trend and proposed the next round of financing for Bolang Terminal, hoping that the province would join in the effort.
At least for now, Bolang is not so short of funds as a whole.
For the additional 200 billion funding gap proposed by Wang Wanyu, Wen Liang raised a total of 107 billion through the three major projects of Jingcheng, Jiangxia and Galaxy Chip.
The remaining part will be raised by Bolang Xiaocheng’s final Pre-IPO, IPO financing, other sub-business financing, and other unplanned business profits.
In addition, Xinghai’s new product revenue is estimated to be only 150 billion yuan this year, but in reality it will be far more than that.
Judging from the current sales situation, even if we completely ignore overseas markets and only count the domestic market, more than 30 million units of the Xinghai 1 Youth Edition have contributed a total of more than 94 billion in revenue. The Xinghai 2 series has sold just over 9 million units in the domestic market.
Contributed more than 44 billion in revenue.
This is already close to 140 billion in revenue.
In addition, there is the Xinghai computer series, which has shipped one million units in one go, with a total revenue of 11.7 billion. Later, there were some sporadic orders, slightly exceeding the 11.8 billion revenue.
This is enough.
So after all the calculations, Bolang Group is actually not short of funds. After all... its revenue from overseas markets is also considerable, which has reached over 60 billion when converted into RMB.
Moreover, profits in overseas markets are much higher, and the net profit of this batch is expected to exceed 30% of sales!
In the first quarter, when Xinghai 1 was selling well in overseas markets, the net profit reached 5%. Now the price is higher than before, and the channel cost is lower. It is not a big problem to exceed 30%.
But Wen Liang will not refuse local investment.
And his idea is that the more the merrier!
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While Mr. Wen Liang and Mr. Hu were drinking tea in the general manager's office, some Bolang members who had been assigned to work as "tour guides" were enthusiastically introducing this to the visitors, including Bolang insiders, media friends, and the public.
building.
At first, there was actually no general public watching.
But because there were so many people gathered here, and Bolang had already publicly stated that it would unveil its first Xinghai flagship store today, naturally some people rushed over to join in the fun.
It just so happened that Bolang held this headquarters open day to the public, so naturally we were very enthusiastic.
"The main body of our headquarters building is 182 meters tall, excluding the helipad on the roof, and a large amount of glass is used in the exterior decoration..."
"We considered some local elements in the design..."
“Among them, if you look down at the headquarters campus from a high altitude, you will find that the main building and auxiliary buildings resemble the Chinese character ‘中’ and the English ‘C’.”
“In terms of internal facilities, we took into account some suggestions and ideas from all employees of the company. In addition to the tea bar, leisure restaurant, staff restaurant, gym, swimming pool, etc. that everyone already knows, there are also some additional annex buildings surrounding the main building.
Entertainment facilities…”
"The areas on the third floor and below of the annex building and the main building will also be open to employees and their families at night."
"...Of course, our headquarters building adopts a loose design in all aspects, and the entire building is only equipped with more than 6,000 workstations."
This is hardly a waste.
In fact, the higher the standard of an office building, the less it can accommodate many people to work. Especially ultra-high office buildings like IFC rent space in a scattered manner, which is a huge waste. The average office area per person is as high as 22 square meters.
Just like Bolang's office layout in IFC, it is extremely space-saving. Otherwise, according to this standard, the five floors can only accommodate a total of seven to eight hundred people.
Now, although the entire building can be designed with unified planning and design of workstations and other office facilities, only more than 6,000 workstations are designed to accommodate a total of 36 floors and more than 90,000 square meters of space.
This is actually inconsistent with the original plan.
The original plan was designed to accommodate an office of 10,000 people. Later, when it was officially finalized, taking into account the expansion speed of Bolang and the planning of the headquarters park, the design was modified to make the workstation arrangement more relaxed.
Anyway... with the current total number of employees of Bolang Group in Yangcheng, they cannot be accommodated in one office building anyway.
Because the current total number of full-time employees of Bolang Group in Yangcheng has reached 15,000, this does not include the office areas open to part-time employees of various universities in Yangcheng.
It’s just that the offices of Bolang Group are relatively scattered at present.
In addition to IFC and the earliest Silver Gray Building, there are also a total of 15 office locations in Taikoo Hui office buildings, several Grade A office buildings in Zhujiang New Town, etc.
In the future, except for those who work in the headquarters building, everyone will move to the headquarters park, which covers an area of 4 square kilometers larger than Zhujiang New City.
Of course, that place will not be developed only for Bolang's own use in the end, but will work with the Yangcheng local government to promote the formation of a new science and technology city in the eastern part of the city.
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It lasted about an hour, and just after ten o'clock, the 'tour guides' took everyone to a preliminary end of the tour.
Wen Liang and Chen Jiaxin are busy giving gifts to important guests from all walks of life.
And Li Ze appeared at the right time.
He was responsible for presiding over the opening ceremony of the first Xinghai flagship store.
Li Ze walked out of the square in front of the headquarters building, walked to Jinsui Road, then walked eastward to the intersection of Jinsui Road and Xiancun Road, walked from the sidewalk in the middle of the flower bed to the decoration barrier, and finally stood still.
Turning around and looking at everyone, Li Ze said with a smile: "Good morning everyone, thank you for your hard work."
"Since the development of Xinghai brand, it has already enjoyed a high reputation at home and abroad, but so far there is no offline official store to display the series of works of Xinghai brand..."
"Obviously, everyone is right. The reason why there has been no store is to wait for this wonderful holiday today to showcase the image of Xinghai."
"..."
Li Ze talked nonsense for more than a minute, then opened his hands widely: "Welcome to the sea of stars!"
At this moment, a crane that had been parked nearby suddenly started to move. With a rumbling sound, the rectangular-shaped decorative baffle was slowly lifted up!
The veil is lifted bit by bit.
Quiet.
Everyone standing in front, back, left and right of the street, including the small square in front of the building not far away, waited with bated breath.
They are all looking forward to how amazing the Xinghai flagship store that Bolang will unveil in such a grand manner will be.
Finally, the lifting height exceeded three meters.
Everyone can basically see the face.
Suddenly, the crowd burst into exclamations.
From the Xinghai series products, people have already experienced the stunning symmetrical aesthetics of the Xinghai brand in industrial design.
I also feel that some details are cleverly integrated into the seemingly asymmetrical aesthetics of industrial aesthetics.
now.
Everyone has seen a building that may have a symmetrical aesthetic design language throughout. The oversized symmetry brings people visual comfort and an indescribable sense of high-end.
With Apple's direct-operated store Zhuyu in front, using symmetrical aesthetics to show stunning effects, and applying for relevant patent protection, Xinghai also uses symmetrical aesthetics to design brilliantly, which is a very difficult, high-cost, and risky thing to do.
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But... Xinghai did it!
Apple directly-operated stores mainly use a large amount of glass...super large glass materials to treat the exterior facade to create a sufficiently transparent and comfortable visual experience.
Xinghai, on the other hand, chose another path.
The facade was built with a larger area of material, using the traditional concept of a round sky and a square earth, and incorporating the aesthetics represented by the goal of "stars and sea"... (wobianbuxiaqule)
Overall design concept abbreviation:
Nature and science fiction.
When the decoration baffle was completely lifted off the flagship store, Li Ze opened the door and walked in, becoming the first real customer.
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Afterwards, media reporters scolded Li Ze for an interview.
The vast majority of young people who came rushed to each booth with a harmonious layout.
Someone soon exclaimed: "Hey, why are the watches and headphones locked in the exhibition cabinet?!"
A staff member immediately explained: "I'm very sorry, sir, the watch and earphones are concept products and are still under development. They cannot be touched and used for the time being. I hope you understand."
"Okay, okay, the laptop isn't just a model."
"No, laptop products can be used."
"..."
Of course this is just a small episode.
The overall height of Xinghai's first flagship store exceeds 15 meters and is divided into two floors. Some people quickly ran to the second floor.
The second floor also has a booth layout, but with an additional functional area: product usage guidance and consultation.
This area...
It is necessary.
The Xinghai series products are fine, but the Xinghai computer series and the future Xinghai tablet series, including other terminal series, may indeed require tutorials.
Not to mention that some of the interaction methods are slightly different, there are some excellent functional features that Xinghai officials, of course, hope users will try.
For example, in order to coincide with the opening of the first flagship store, some things are specially prepared.
There is a recommendation for an application software.
Long before preparing for the Xinghai computer series, Bolang Terminal took into account the habitual monopoly of the Wintel ecosystem that has lasted for 20 to 30 years.
Although Bolang spent money to develop many tool-based applications, they are still far different from those available on Windows.
Therefore, the Xingchen desktop application platform specially launched a small software officially launched by Xingchen today, called:
‘Desktop Spiritual Realm’
English nameVirtual
for
Stars, referred to as V4S.
It has only one purpose: to support running Windows systems on the Star desktop system.
This software is not purely self-developed by Bolang. The source is that Bolang acquired a Parallels company in Russia. This company has a well-known product called: Parallels
Desktop
for
Mac.
It is used to support the running of Windows systems on the MacOS platform. Later, it was supported until Apple launched the M series chips and has been continuously updated.
Originally, this company would be acquired by a Canadian company in 2018. Now it has been acquired by Bolang at a not exaggerated price. Based on its research and development experience in virtualization technology, it has launched the now excellent V4S.
Of course, the prerequisite for the normal operation of this software is that the Galaxy instruction set system has previously supported the translation and execution of the X86 instruction set, and can perfectly run all Windows programs. This is the so-called "just in case".
Bolang's senior management... specifically Wen Liang and Li Ze, are actually very clear-headed.
It is clear that no matter how the Star Desktop system develops, it cannot compare with the deep-rooted influence of the Wintel Alliance ecosystem and even Win+Arm in the future on user habits!
Until classical computers are replaced by products such as quantum computers, photonic computers, etc., the Windows application ecosystem will always be the mainstream of global computer platforms.
This is evident from the fact that Apple’s Mac ecosystem will still only account for no more than 8% of the global market in 2022.
If the Xingchen desktop system ecosystem wants to compete with Windows in the domestic market, there are only a few possibilities.
Events like Prism happen several times,
America sends more discipline statement documents,
Microsoft has completely banned pirated versions of Windows and prosecuted all pirated users in China.
Incredible vulnerabilities occurred in Windows such as being unable to connect to the Internet and could not be repaired for more than a month.
Microsoft collapses,
Only Xinghai Computer is sold in the domestic market.
Bolang has developed a new route along the route of breaking the von Neumann architecture and forming a new ecology...
There are still many possibilities.
Some possibilities can also affect the global market~
In short...the launch of this 'Desktop Spiritual Realm' software directly made the users visiting the site enthusiastic about consumption.
The dawn of personal user consumption of the Xinghai computer series has gradually arrived.