Chapter 830 New Year's Closed-Door Meeting: The Smart Orange Robot That Was Praised to the Max in Mimo!
In the brightly lit, breezy Cloudcool Bar, on the second floor, in a dimly lit, ultra-luxurious private room, four beautiful and sweet-looking girls are energetically swaying their bodies on a small stage.
If paparazzi were there, they would be absolutely shocked.
These four people, although not super famous, are still rising stars in the entertainment industry.
The light fell on their lower abdomen, thighs, and calves, instantly creating a delicate white glow, like mutton fat.
After greeting Ma Wenteng, Lei Yijun, Ma Liyun, Zhou Hongyi and others, Zhang Yiming sat quietly to the side, occasionally taking a sip of wine to moisten his throat, or chatting with Xiao Jun and Lin Zhou.
Chen Yansen held a cup in his left hand, leaning back on the sofa, with Hangzhou Ma and Shenzhen Ma on either side of him.
Zhang Chaoyang was busy pouring drinks, while Ma Zheming from Ping An pushed a box of cigars worth tens of thousands of US dollars to the center of the table.
The people in the room were all there to attend this financial leaders summit. Unlike the one in Shenzhen, this meeting in Beijing was not open to the public and was commonly known as a "closed-door meeting."
The core content of economic development for the coming year is usually finalized at this internal research and development meeting.
To put it more bluntly, the stock market's K-line chart is closely related to this meeting.
Ma Zheming lit a cigar, took a deep drag, and slowly exhaled the smoke. He casually remarked, "There are quite a few P2P platforms that have collapsed this year. The bosses above them are a bit annoyed. Just wait, the era of strong regulation is coming."
In the past few years, the development of P2P platforms has been like a wild horse running rampant in China.
For example, there are nearly 200 P2P platforms in Shenzhen, and at least several thousand P2P platforms nationwide.
"This is a good thing!"
Zhou Hongyi put down his wine glass and said with a smile.
PingAn has Lufax, which has made a fortune in the P2P industry, while 360 also lends money, so naturally they hope to have as few competitors as possible.
With fewer choices for users, 360 can absorb more funds.
For small and medium-sized P2P platforms, compliance is very costly, while large companies like 360 and PingAn do not have to worry about this issue.
"I heard that the scale of ICO issuance will also be subject to regulation," Pony Ma interjected.
Chen Yansen smiled slightly, said nothing, and watched the dancing girls while drinking his whiskey with ice.
As for cigars?
He has never smoked.
In fact, if you can understand even a little bit of what's being said at such a drinking party, you can use the information gap to achieve financial freedom.
Restricting ICOs and tightening controls on the flow of funds in digital currencies indicates that the authorities intend to crack down on virtual currencies.
Simply short the stock and you can make money with your eyes closed.
However, he didn't care about such a small profit.
"Mr. Chen, since the Yaoguang E1 was launched, XPeng has been struggling to keep up. When can the supply price of Deep Blue batteries be adjusted again?"
At this moment, He Xiaopeng held up his glass, first toasting Chen Yansen, and then cautiously probed.
To put it simply, the standard version of the XPeng G1 sells for 698,000 yuan, while the Yaoguang E1 sells for 699,000 yuan. It seems like there's only a difference of 1,000 yuan, but the Yaoguang E1 is superior to the XPeng in terms of appearance, operability, and stability.
Moreover, Orange Auto received policy subsidies and built a large number of charging stations in highway rest areas and commercial complexes in East China, North China, and South China for users.
It has strong product capabilities and excellent service.
Therefore, since the Yaoguang E1 was launched, the sales of XPeng G1 have plummeted by half.
Especially the top-of-the-line version, which is priced almost the same, but the Yaoguang E1 has a range that is 1.5 times that of the XPeng G1.
Anyone with common sense knows how to choose.
"Prices will not be adjusted this year."
Chen Yansen replied calmly.
If the Yaoguang E1 is priced at 499,000 or even 399,000, he will definitely continue to lower the supply price of the first-generation deep blue battery, but the price of the Yaoguang E1 is not low.
DeepBlue Technology's supply price to Orange Auto is also very reasonable; they did not arbitrarily lower prices just because they belong to the same parent company.
Therefore, in his view, if XPeng is under a lot of pressure, it can lower prices, but there is no need to control the gross profit margin at 20%.
He Xiaopeng's smile froze for a moment, his hand holding the wine glass paused slightly, he sighed inwardly, then forced a smile and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.
Since Chen Yansen is unwilling to lower the price, he can only wait patiently.
After all, the new energy vehicle industry is the main industry promoted by Mr. Han. Once the infrastructure is improved and user acceptance increases, Orange Auto will most likely follow suit by lowering prices or launching new models priced around 300,000 yuan to increase market capacity.
Judging from Chen Yansen's past performance, the other party is still very willing to make the pie bigger.
Thinking about this, his anxiety lessened considerably.
But when his peripheral vision fell on Lei Yijun, his brow furrowed slightly.
Unexpectedly, the older brother also got the idea to build cars.
At that moment, he didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
The good news is that so many people are paying attention to the new energy electric vehicle industry, which shows that its growth potential is indeed amazing; but the bad news is that there are too many competitors on this path.
"Mr. Chen, could Xiaomi purchase Orange Auto's Mos Autodrive V1 system in the future?"
Lei Yijun asked tentatively.
His idea was that if Baidu's Robin Li spent years and billions of dollars without producing a decent product, then Xiaomi could.
impossible!
It's better to buy than to make!
In recent years, he has followed Orange Technology closely, using Orange Technology's products for both hardware and software, forming a deep-rooted path dependency.
Asking him to invest heavily in R&D is tantamount to killing Xiaomi.
Upon hearing this, He Xiaopeng also perked up his ears.
XPeng is also working on intelligent driving, but the difference is that XPeng focuses on LiDAR, while Orange Auto uses a pure vision solution.
The reason is simple: Orange Auto has a camera system jointly developed by Tiangong and Xingyuan Technology, plus a self-developed autonomous driving chip, which can support basic environmental recognition and decision-making calculations, such as predicting dynamic scenarios such as pedestrians crossing the road 100 meters away.
The wide-angle camera can cover a range of 60 meters, the medium-range camera can detect up to 150 meters, and the telephoto camera can detect up to 250 meters.
However, after the Yaoguang E1 was launched, he bought several of them, partly to try them out and partly to disassemble and learn from them.
The test results left him bewildered.
The Mos Autodrive V1 system in the Yaoguang E1 can easily outperform the XPeng.
Even Tesla, the previous industry benchmark, is no match for Orange Auto.
"sure."
Chen Yansen readily agreed.
If he can license the Mos Autodrive V1 system to Norinco Group, he can naturally sell it to Xiaomi as well.
Just like the Aurora Future system, the more cars equipped with this autonomous driving system, the more road data will be collected, thereby optimizing the algorithm and improving the judgment of artificial intelligence.
He Xiaopeng was also tempted after hearing this, and hesitated about whether to cut the intelligent driving R&D department.
But he was also a bit conflicted, feeling that since XPeng Motors used Senlian Group's hardware and software, it lacked core technology, so could this be called car manufacturing?
But Lei Yijun didn't have such a burden. Seeing that Chen Yansen agreed, he quickly picked up his glass and toasted Chen Yansen as a thank you.
Inside the private room, Chen Yansen was undoubtedly the star, surrounded by a group of super-rich people with assets of tens of billions.
at the same time.
A travel blogger named Christian shared his experience of staying at the Qingcheng Hotel in Shanghai on Mimo.
In the video, after he checked in, he stepped into the elevator, and a cylindrical food delivery robot followed him.
It required no human intervention throughout the entire process, could identify obstacles in front of it, and even greeted Christian.
Finally, deliver the items the guest needs precisely to the room door.
Christian looked shocked. After entering the room, he immediately downloaded the KuaiPao delivery app and personally experienced the service of the intelligent food delivery robot.
To his surprise, this thing could recognize English and converse with him in English, making it an interactive robot.
In fact, food delivery robots are not a new product. Five years ago, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne conducted experiments on food delivery robots, but it only remained at the laboratory stage.
After that, only semi-intelligent food delivery machines that "follow magnetic strips and tracks" are commonly found in restaurants in the Xiao Ri Zi and Goryeo regions, and strictly speaking, they are not considered intelligent navigation robots.
The Zhicheng food delivery robot in the video clearly has a certain level of interactive capabilities, and can recognize routes, control the elevator to go to a certain floor, send messages and voice reminders to guests in the room, etc.
"This hotel only costs $79 a night. Look at the amenities in this room: an Alexa smart speaker that controls the curtains, TV, and lighting system, and even a Mengjie sponge..."
Christian spoke at length to the camera.
The journey from the airport to the hotel was full of surprises for him.
The comments section exploded!
"Is China in 2050 now? Why does it feel like the United States is still in 1915? What exactly is the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection doing?"
"In the United States, food delivery robots might extend a small robotic arm and ask you for a tip."
"Haha, then I'll just take its arm off."
"China makes the United States look like a big rural village!"
"As a citizen of the United States, when you travel to China, you will feel like a country bumpkin."
"Some people say that China is an agricultural country, which is an insult to my intelligence. Do I look that stupid?"
North American netizens were amazed and left numerous comments, their praise making many overseas students feel embarrassed.
That's a bit of an exaggeration!
Chinese people, who were not usually very popular in white communities, have also noticed the change in attitudes around them. Many of them want to take the opportunity to chat with them and ask for their help in planning a general travel itinerary.
The questions were all sorts of strange and unusual, such as "Which city in China is fun to visit?", "Where is Chen Yansen? Can I get his autograph?", and "Is Shuangqing really a 6D cyberpunk city?".
Every region has people who idolize foreign things and habitually magnify the shortcomings of their local area, thereby creating a flawless ideal world in their minds.
This is exactly what these people from the beacon of democracy are like!
Many people want to travel to China, but after seeing the real China, they wonder how it differs from what the media portrays it to be.
In recent years, China has seen a surge of high-tech innovations.
For ordinary people in North America, daily life involves using Orange phones, Alexa smart speakers, Orang smart bracelets and watches, and having apps such as Mimo, ShortMimo, Lingxi Search, KuaiGo, and KuaiPao delivery on their phones. They can also see Yaoguang E1 trams on the streets.
It can be said that Senlian Group's products have long been integrated into the lives of local people.
Christian's video continues to gain popularity. According to Mimo's backend data, the video has been viewed over 10 million times in just three hours. The topics "Qingcheng Smart Hotel" and "Zhicheng Delivery Robot" have successively topped the trending searches in North America and even attracted reposts and comments from several overseas technology media outlets.
The most authoritative publication, Silicon Valley Tech News, directly published an article stating: "While we are still debating the safety of autonomous driving, China has already integrated AI into daily service scenarios, and the gap may be larger than imagined."
Fueled by the media, the number of "China enthusiasts" in North America is growing, and on Mimo, China is practically being hailed as their spiritual motherland.
Of course, the potential benefits are also obvious.
The ticket booking business of major airlines has become noticeably hot.
This video brought Christian a huge amount of traffic and popularity, making him gain 70,000 to 80,000 followers overnight.
Seeing the potential for profit, other travel bloggers immediately prepared to follow suit and planned to make a video in China.
Most of these people chose Shanghai, Shuangqing, and Luzhou as their first stop.
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The following morning, Chen Yansen traveled by car to the conference center to attend the financial summit as usual.
Compared to his previous outburst against Zhao Binhai of the Banking Association, he was much more low-key this time, mostly listening and not saying much.
He was well aware that Senlian Group was involved in too many industries and was taking away the profits of many people.
Therefore, his principle is that things should be done and benefits should be seized, but he should never try to gain an advantage through words, as there is no need for it.
The meeting touched on the issue of exchange rate reform, which involves proactively lowering the exchange rate of the Chinese Yuan and devaluing it.
Most of the entrepreneurs attending the conference are from companies listed on North American stock exchanges.
Chinese concept stocks are priced in US dollars, but their core assets and revenues are mostly located in China and settled in Chinese yuan. The depreciation of the Chinese yuan directly leads to a decrease in the company's net profit after conversion into Chinese yuan, resulting in a decline in profit expectations and easily triggering a sell-off and stock price fluctuations.
The fact that the person above mentioned it was also to give Chen Yansen and others a heads-up, to let them know in advance.
Of course, the exchange rate reform also has its benefits. For companies that go global and are denominated in US dollars but settled in Chinese yuan, such as cross-border e-commerce, internet equipment manufacturers exporting hardware, and game publishers, the depreciation of the Chinese yuan is equivalent to "unchanged costs but increased revenue after conversion".
For example, a product sold by a cross-border e-commerce company for US$10 was worth about RMB 62 before devaluation and about RMB 64 after devaluation, directly increasing the gross profit margin. Some companies have used this to expand their overseas market share.
After thinking it over, Chen Yansen decided to seize the opportunity presented by the devaluation and further expand his market share in Southeast Asia.
This matter has both advantages and disadvantages. Since we can't determine the final outcome, we should try to profit from it.
(End of this chapter)
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