On June 24, 2003, China announced a major victory in the fight against SARS.
The World Health Organization announced in Geneva on the 24th that the SARS epidemic in Yanjing City has significantly eased and has met the relevant WHO standards. Therefore, the travel warning for Yanjing City has been lifted and Yanjing City has been excluded from the list of SARS-affected areas.
The decision takes effect from the day it is announced.
"This is very good news and shows that the world has made great progress in the fight against SARS." Ms. Brundtland, Director-General of the WHO, commented on the decision.
In 2003, the event that attracted global attention was the Iraq War.
On March 20, on the grounds that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction and supported terrorists, the joint forces led by the United States and Britain bypassed the United Nations Security Council and launched a forcible war in Iraq regardless of the opposition of the international community.
The war lasted for more than 40 days, and the United States succeeded in overthrowing Saddam's regime and entered the final security stage of the subsequent war.
early August
U.S. Commander-in-Chief George George delivered a televised speech to the nation on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, announcing that the major military operations of the United States and its allies had ended, and that Iraq would enter the reconstruction stage of democracy and freedom.
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August 4
Relevant executives from Intel, Motorola and Microsoft have successively made public speeches, expressing concerns about the Royal Family Fund's acquisition of Apple. The industry in the computer and personal electronic equipment fields is too concentrated, which is not conducive to full competition in the market.
In this regard, Mr. Jobs, CEO of Apple, said;
"With the rise of the high-tech Internet industry in Silicon Valley and the new economy sweeping across the United States, competition in the consumer electronics industry where Apple is located is full and fierce, and there are no signs of a leading company monopolizing the market. The above remarks are purely unfounded."
August 6
According to the British Sunday Times;
Motorola is in close contact with China's Huawei and plans to acquire the other party for US$7.5 billion. The text of the intention agreement for the merger has been initialed and is awaiting board approval.
Hearing this, Wang Yaocheng couldn't sit still anymore and suddenly sat up.
The wheels of history are rolling forward, still stubbornly running on a fixed trajectory, and scenes that happened in previous lives have reappeared.
"Well, has the Secretariat followed up on this matter? Has it contacted Huawei officials or Mr. Ren himself to obtain first-hand and accurate information?"
"Chairman, the Secretariat contacted Mr. Ren as soon as it received the news, and Mr. Ren sent a private email explaining the entire matter and Huawei's considerations in detail."
"Oh, let me see."
Zhao Feng flipped through a stack of documents in his hand and took out a specially marked document and handed it over. Wang Yaocheng took it and reviewed it carefully. His concerns about Huawei were generally clear.
Entering 2003, Huawei has experienced several major events.
First of all, the "Cisco Incident" is in full swing, and the external environment of the international and domestic markets is deteriorating.
The period from 1998 to 2002 was the most intense period of competition in China's communications market.
China Mobile was investing intensively in 2G (GSM route) at the time, releasing huge investments every year, but these investments were basically scooped up by foreign companies such as Ericsson, Motorola, and Nokia.
Huawei had developed GSM products in 1998, but they were not mature enough and could not enter key markets.
More importantly, Western companies are very wary of rising powerful rivals in the communications industry, and have begun to comprehensively suppress Huawei. They have learned the lessons of the fixed-line phone market being defeated by "Giant China". As long as Huawei and ZTE develop a certain product, they will
They jointly carried out significant price cuts to prevent the two companies from taking orders.
If there is no domestic equipment, we will continue to sell it at high prices to make huge profits.
At that time, Guangdong Province Mobile's GSM capacity expansion had orders reaching tens of billions, and Huawei could not get a dime.
The situation is very serious, and it is very difficult for Huawei to survive.
Previously, Mr. Ren Zhengfei, the founder of Huawei, released "Huawei's Winter" and made a pessimistic prediction about the market prospects.
Later, at the end of 2002, Huawei suffered its first performance decline in 15 years since its founding. Huawei's contracted sales dropped from 35.5 billion yuan in the previous year to 30.1 billion yuan, and its profits dropped significantly from 8.6 billion yuan in the previous year to 1.7 billion yuan.
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To this end, Huawei has conveyed the "Salary Reduction Proposal" to cadres at director level and above, hoping that everyone will work together to tide over the difficulties.
Faced with an uncertain future, Huawei's top executives are experiencing huge divisions.
Li Yinan, who once followed Mr. Ren to great success, helped Li Yinan leave Huawei and join the camp of rival Harbor. He also aggressively poached Huawei's technical personnel and competed fiercely with his old employer in core product areas.
At its most rampant, it even poached half of Huawei's technical staff.
In this difficult moment, Huawei decisively announced its entry into the mobile phone industry and launched its first CDMA mobile phone product to test the market.
Mr. Ren Zhengfei is not afraid of business competition. He is more concerned about the future of Huawei.
In a private email, Mr. Ren Zhengfei revealed his true feelings;
According to Huawei and its own predictions, through unremitting technological investment and development, Huawei will soon reach the internationally advanced level, and sooner or later it will confront the United States, the dominant country in the communications industry.
When the time comes, the United States will definitely crack down on Huawei. If we sell it to Motorola and wear an American cowboy hat, the company will still have tens of thousands of Chinese people working on it, which will help expand its market space internationally.
in this case
Mr. Ren Zhengfei advocates selling Huawei to American capital. The price has been negotiated at US$10 billion, and both parties have signed all formal contracts.
In other words, as long as Motorola pays, this cross-border merger is already a certainty.
The specific information reported by foreign media is not accurate, and the news events are generally correct.
Seeing this, Wang Yaocheng felt particularly heavy.
How similar is Huawei's difficult situation to our own?
Over the years, although Wang's consortium has been operating in the international market by virtue of its Hong Kong citizenship, it has developed rapidly. In fact, all this prosperous scene is just a mirror. Once the blow comes, will it be able to survive?
If the Americans don't take action now, it doesn't mean they won't take action in the future. Placing hope on their mercy is like dancing with wolves.
The energy of Americans must not be underestimated. In Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, and Europe and the United States, it has active energy, and can even influence the direction of high-level decision-making of local governments.
It must be taken seriously and a complete set of response plans must be developed.
Putting aside Commander George for now, there is close interest cooperation and interaction between the two parties. If Xiao Hei comes to power in a few years, he will be a ruthless guy.
Calculating that there is not much time left to plan the layout, only about four years at best.
In this short period of time, if you want to build the Wang Consortium into a piece of iron that cannot be smashed or chewed, even if a Category 12 hurricane hits, you must plan carefully.
Wang Yaocheng thought with a solemn expression, considered it and said;
"Director Zhao, in response to the strong suppression measures taken by the United States, Japan, South Korea, Europe and other countries against the consortium now and in the next five to ten years, your secretariat and the Hong Kong Guanfengyun International Research Center have designed a complete set of stress testing plans, and targeted
We will propose practical strengthening and improvement measures for the weak links of the consortium industry and make them the most important topic at present for research."
"Uh...well, the Secretariat will implement the relevant research topics immediately."
Zhao Feng did not expect that the chairman would attach so much importance to this matter. Huawei's situation aroused a strong sense of crisis in the chairman, and he assigned a highly targeted research topic.
If you think about it carefully, if the situation in the plan really happens, the blow to the consortium will undoubtedly be huge.
Preventing trouble before it happens is the meaning of the title.