Chapter 867 Internet Creation Competition
The Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed and the weather in Yanjing has become cooler, and this feeling is more obvious when getting up early.
That morning, Lin Weimin went to the roller skating rink before going to work. He found that the mural project was almost completed and it would be finished before National Day.
For this decorative mural, Lin Weimin spent another 20,000 yuan, but now that the effect is available, he feels it is well worth it.
After all, it is at the level of CAFA. It’s worth the 20,000 yuan!
After a trip to the roller skating rink, Lin Weimin stopped by the construction site next to the Jinghua Museum.
From the demolition and land acquisition last year, to the relocation of residents at the beginning of this year, to the demolition in April, construction finally started on this piece of land in May this year.
The project is divided into two parts. The one next to the Jinghua Museum is a three-story building covering an area of 13,000 square meters and a construction area of 40,000 square meters. It will be the exhibition hall of the future Jinghua Museum.
On the other side of the plot is the library, a six-story building covering an area of 11,000 square meters and a construction area of 66,000 square meters. Many people have no idea of this scale.
A few days ago, a large building was just completed and opened in Yenching. It is the second phase project of Haidian Book City - Haohai Building. More than 40 publishing houses and bookstores, including Guowen Publishing House, Yenching Publishing House, Press of Electronics Industry, and Yenching University Press, have settled in Haohai Building, with a construction area of only 18,000 square meters.
Including the first phase of the book city, the total area of Haidian Book City is only 50,000 square meters, but it is already the largest book and cultural building in Yenching.
The library that Lin Weimin wants to build will be only slightly smaller than the National Library in Yanjing.
A green space is planned between the two buildings. The total area of the project is over 40,000 square meters, the construction area is over 100,000 square meters, and the total investment is over 260 million yuan.
This number seems like a lot, but if we take into account the equipment and books that will be added in the future, this number may double. If we take into account the collections of the museum's exhibition halls, it may increase dozens of times.
From this perspective, 260 million yuan is not a lot.
However, Lin Weimin still reflected on himself. He originally wanted to build a library, but he didn't expect it to become bigger and bigger. He didn't care about the money, but the key point was that it would attract attention, which was not in line with his usual low-key style.
After taking a stroll outside early in the morning, Lin Weimin drove to the Chinese Literature Society.
When they entered the yard, they met the driver Xiao Weng who was wiping the car, and Xiao Zhou was also helping. When they saw Lin Weimin coming, they arranged to wipe his car as well.
"It's not necessary and it's not dirty." Lin Weimin politely declined the two's kindness.
He looked at the shiny Santana in the community, and something occurred to him. He asked Xiao Weng, "Xiao Weng, do you think I should change my car?"
Xiao Weng looked at the magnificent Mercedes and said with a smile, "Boss, you are such a joker. This is a Mercedes and you have only been driving it for a few years. If you want to change it, you should change it to the car in the company!"
Lin Weimin nodded, this is the simple value of the working people.
Han Zhuangzhuang has been immersed in the big dye vat of the film and television industry for too long, and his values have been distorted. He needs to reform himself.
I came to the office, made a cup of tea, and opened the newspaper to take a look.
"Guowen Publishing House launches Internet creative competition to expand new boundaries of literary creation."
Well, that's right. I saw an article about the Guowen Society's Internet Creative Writing Competition in Guangming Daily early in the morning. It was placed on the third page "Headlines". It not only proves the publicity efforts of Guowen Society for this event, but also shows the importance that Guangming Daily attaches to this event.
Literary creation has played an important propaganda role in the development of our D. Guowen Publishing House has been ingenious in expanding the boundaries of literary creation through the Internet, which seems to be something worth writing about.
The whole article is written in a standard way, with nothing surprising. It's normal for a press release.
After reading the newspaper, Lin Weimin turned on his computer again. The Internet speed was still touchingly slow, and he had to wait for a long time before logging into the webpage.
Since the creative competition is named "Internet", appropriate offline promotion will be sufficient, but the key still lies in the online aspect.
After all, the main participants of this creative competition are the new generation who like to surf the Internet. Guowen Publishing House can't expect a group of old writers who still write by hand to come and participate in this creative competition.
Lin Weimin browsed around several BBSs that he usually visited and found that there were indeed a few posts that mentioned the "Guowenshe Internet Creation Competition", and quite a few people posted comments.
The Internet Creative Writing Competition is actually equivalent to the essay writing competitions organized by many publications and publishing houses. However, this is the first time in the Chinese literary world that such a thing has been held on the Internet. Naturally, everyone who heard the news was interested.
After reading the forum, Lin Weimin went to the online chat room to take a look.
Almost all of the earliest batch of online chat rooms in China were opened in Guangdong, which was the first region in the country to lead the trend. Pengcheng Chat Room and Bi Hai Yin Sha were both established in the past one or two years and quickly gained considerable popularity.
At present, instant messaging software has not yet emerged, ICQ has just been born abroad, and there is no trace of QICQ. The immediacy of online chat rooms far exceeds that of forums and email exchanges.
Lin Weimin found two users on Bihaiyinsha and browsed around in their self-built chat rooms. He casually mentioned the "Internet Creative Creation Competition" and someone immediately took up the topic. Everyone was quite interested in the discussion and really started chatting.
Lin Weimin couldn't help but nodded with satisfaction. It seemed that the publicity effect was indeed good.
A week ago, the official website of Guowen Society was officially launched.
The launch of an official website of such a public institution would naturally not cause any waves in the domestic Internet field, but Lin Weimin’s principle has always been “be low-key in life and high-key in work”.
He does not position the official website of Guowen Society as a decoration, but hopes that it can play a real role and provide assistance to the development of Guowen Society. Therefore, when the official website is launched, how can such a big event not be promoted well?
On the day the official website was launched, an announcement was posted on the official website, and the first Internet Creation Competition of Guowen Society was officially launched.
Guowen Press first used its good relationship with many domestic media over the years to release the news in many print media.
What followed was a publicity campaign on the Internet. After more than a month of launching ITC Compass, the website traffic was significantly higher than before. Guowen Press had two exclusive hyperlinks on it, one to the official website of Guowen Press, and the other directly redirected to the bulletin board of the reader forum of the official website of Guowen Press. Even the red cannon had to call out to its ancestors.
We have adopted a two-pronged approach online and offline, and now the results seem to be surprisingly good.
There are not many Internet users these days, only a few hundred thousand in the whole country. But the cultural level of these people is really high. Most of them were or are literary youths. How could such an event organized by the Guowen Society not attract the attention of this group of people?
After browsing the Internet, Lin Weimin called Atexin Company and asked about the number of registered users on the official website of Guowenshe.
The official website of Guowen Press was designed and established by Aitexin, and its maintenance and operation were also handed over to Aitexin by Lin Weimin, but the content was handled by people from Guowen Press.
Of course, Lin Weimin is not letting Aitexin work for nothing. Guowen Society pays Aitexin 5,000 yuan in management fees every month, which can be regarded as a small income for Aitexin, which is currently only making money but not spending money.
Recently, Zhang Chaoyang has been in a very happy mood. It can be said that he has not been so happy since he founded Atemail.
After getting to know Lin Weimin, Atexin successfully obtained investment from Guowen Publishing House, and now it can be said that it has a backer.
Although the second round of financing of 375,000 US dollars is not much, it is a great improvement compared to the first round of financing of Aitexin. Zhang Chaoyang also knows that Aitexin's development in this year is indeed not outstanding. On this basis, it can still get financing equivalent to twice the previous valuation, which is already very lucky.
The ITC Compass launched in August has received very good user response and the website traffic has increased significantly.
Good things happened one after another, so Zhang Chaoyang was naturally in a good mood.
However, a piece of news came yesterday, breaking his recent good mood - Sitong Lifang received a US$6.5 million venture capital from Ivanhoe Mines and Walden International of the United States.
Sitonglifang is one of the pioneering software companies in China. It is also developing Chinese websites. Its strength is much stronger than that of a small company like Atixin. Now it has received 6.5 million US dollars in funding in one go. This should be the largest venture capital raised by the domestic Internet industry so far.
Zhang Chaoyang is very familiar with the development history of the US Internet industry. This is a winner-takes-all industry. Once an industry giant emerges, it will be a disaster for other competitors in the same field.
While everyone is burning money now, Sohu.com has a huge sum of 6.5 million US dollars in its hands. It can be said that it is invincible in the Chinese Internet competition in the next few years.
After receiving Lin Weimin's call, Zhang Chaoyang first reported the current number of registered people on the Guowenshe official website.
One week after the official website was launched, the number of registered users has continued to rise thanks to online and offline publicity campaigns.
On the first day, there were 26 people, on the second day, there were 89 people, and on the third day, there were over 100 people, reaching 167 people...
In the following days, the number of registrations continued to rise.
According to the server backend, the number of registered users on the Guowenshe official website reached 1,055 yesterday, and the cumulative number of registered users has reached 2,574.
For a website that has only been online for a week, this result is already very good. After all, there are only a few hundred thousand Internet users in China these days.
Moreover, the number of registered users on the official website of Guowenshe is still increasing by hundreds or thousands every day, which is really good news.
Zhang Chaoyang is a participant and witness in the construction of the official website of Guowen Press. He is not surprised that this new website has achieved such results as soon as it went online. Apart from anything else, the website's UI alone almost beats most of its domestic counterparts today.
The web design of the official website of Guowen Society is inseparable from Lin Weimin’s contribution. Zhang Chaoyang didn’t realize it when it was only on paper. Now that the website is online, Zhang Chaoyang can truly feel Lin Weimin’s unique ideas and concepts, and he has also gained a lot of inspiration from them.
Therefore, when facing Lin Weimin, although the other party did not understand technology, Zhang Chaoyang still treated him as a colleague with rich knowledge reserves.
The two chatted for a while, and Zhang Chaoyang mentioned that Sohu.com had recently received a huge amount of venture capital, and there was a sense of depression and urgency in his words.
“You are right to feel this sense of urgency, but you should not underestimate yourself. The Internet has only been around for a short time, but there are still many experiences and lessons to learn from.
I'm just saying one thing. You are in the United States, so you should understand the development history of the computer or Internet industry there. Is there any successful company that was born with a silver spoon in its mouth?
Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Netscape, these companies all started from humble beginnings. When their founders started their businesses, many people around them even thought they were joking.
But these people and the companies they founded are now actually changing the world.
Sitonglifang has now received a large amount of funds, which is certainly beneficial to their development, but it will not have any impact on the development of Aitexin.
What you should think about is how to make yourself stronger, rather than worrying about your competitors, and certainly not pinning your hopes on your competitors making mistakes. Your competitors' failure will not make you better.
Believe it or not, I am very confident in the development of Atexin.
Speaking of money, now everyone in the Internet industry is burning money. Sitonglifang has received more funds, so they can burn more for a longer period of time, which is of course an advantage. But don’t worry, our Guowen Press is the strongest backing of Aitexin, and we will not miss any of Aitexin’s financing! ”
Listening to Lin Weimin's powerful voice on the phone, Zhang Chaoyang felt heavy in his heart. It was not only a feeling of being moved, but also an encouragement and self-improvement from being trusted.
"Teacher Lin, I understand. Thank you for your guidance." Zhang Chaoyang said with some gratitude.
"There is no need to say thank you to each other. I believe in you, and you must believe in yourself even more." Lin Weimin taught earnestly.
"Yeah!" Zhang Chaoyang nodded firmly.
(End of this chapter)
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