After listening to Hou Tianyu's work report, Zhao Ye nodded slightly.
"Okay, let's do it your way!"
Wujiang Group is now very wealthy, so it doesn't mind increasing its investment in the logistics industry.
In fact, Zhao Ye even felt that Hou Tianyu's plan was a bit too conservative.
Putting everything else aside, the fleet is too small, with only a little over 5,000 trucks, which is hardly enough.
Lalamove is not only an e-commerce logistics platform, but also provides services such as same-city/intercity freight, moving, less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping, car rental and sales, and after-sales services.
The investment in modern intelligent warehousing and logistics centers and logistics outlets across the country cannot be solved by a mere 60 billion RMB.
However, for now, it's barely enough.
Hou Tianyu was thrilled to see that Zhao Ye had approved his plan. He quickly promised not to disappoint Zhao Ye and to make Lalamove Logistics Company bigger and stronger.
Zhao Ye smiled slightly. At present, the four major express delivery giants—SF Express, STO Express, YTO Express, and ZTO Express—are still in their initial stages.
Lalamove Logistics' starting point is miles ahead of them.
These companies may still be able to thrive in the express delivery industry, after all, the Chinese logistics market is too big for Wujiang Group to handle. However, it will be very difficult for them to become express delivery giants.
At this moment, Zhao Ye took out a document from the drawer.
"President Hou, this document is my assessment and summary of the development of China's logistics industry. Please take it back and study it carefully, and use it as a guiding principle for the development of Lalamove Logistics!" Zhao Ye said, and then handed the document to Hou Tianyu.
The content largely references the development experiences of major courier companies in the past, refining and retaining the essential lessons learned.
Furthermore, it also mentions the development and use of QR code technology.
QR codes can be scanned to obtain relevant logistics information, improving operational efficiency at each stage of the logistics process.
During the logistics and distribution process, QR code scanning information can be updated in real time at key stages such as transportation, warehousing, and loading and unloading, thereby optimizing transportation routes, reducing logistics costs, and improving service quality.
QR codes can provide a certain level of encryption and security protection. For high-value or confidential items, QR codes can serve as unique identification codes.
Finally, QR codes can also enhance cargo traceability and origin tracking services, providing logistics customers with more comprehensive services, and so on...
In 1994, a Japanese company invented the QR code. However, neither the inventor nor the company believed that the QR code could be widely used in society. Therefore, they made the QR code technology and code public and did not charge patent fees.
Wujiang Group can utilize QR code technology.
Before Zhao Ye was reborn, QR codes had already been applied to all aspects of social life, especially mobile QR code payments, which were all the rage in China.
Of course, we don't even have smartphones now, so there's no such thing as a QR code phone.
Zhao Ye plans to apply it to the logistics industry first, and further improve and refine the QR code technology.
When China's logistics industry begins to widely adopt QR codes, mobile QR code payments will become much easier. In fact, QR codes are widely used, appearing on tickets, product packaging, business cards, waybills, advertisements, and web pages. Simply scanning and recognizing the QR code allows access to the information it stores, which could be text, voice, a link, or a piece of data.
Before smartphone payments, QR codes could be used in all walks of life.
Hou Tianyu glanced at the document and was slightly surprised to find that a large portion of it was dedicated to explaining QR codes. He decided to study the QR codes carefully when he got back.
"Chairman Zhao, I'll take the documents back and study them carefully. If there's nothing else, then I'll take my leave!"
"Okay, it's nothing. You can go about your business." Zhao Ye nodded.
Hou Tianyu immediately took his leave and then got up and left the office.
Zhao Ye fell into deep thought and sighed softly: "After being reborn, there are many things I haven't remembered for a while, such as this QR code. If it weren't for the fact that the other party made the technology public and made it available to the world for free, I don't know how much money China would have to spend on QR code patents in the future... According to statistics, China consumes 14 billion QR codes every day, and the world consumes even more!"
"The sheer number of QR codes being used in a single day is truly alarming. The inventors and companies behind QR codes are suffering enormous losses. Even if each QR code only generates one cent in revenue, it would still be a huge sum!"
Zhao Ye couldn't help but feel sorry.
Of course, QR code technology would not have been so widely used if it hadn't been made public.
...
After returning to his office, Hou Tianyu immediately began studying the documents Zhao Ye had given him.
His eyes lit up when he saw the description on the QR code.
China is currently using one-dimensional barcodes, but as time goes on, the drawbacks of one-dimensional barcodes have gradually become apparent. They carry less information and have poor resistance to contamination. These shortcomings greatly limit the development of one-dimensional barcodes.
Compared to one-dimensional barcodes, two-dimensional barcodes not only have the advantages of large storage capacity and strong security, but also low cost and high reliability.
After carefully studying the QR code, Hou Tianyu was utterly shocked!
"Damn, assuming 1.5 billion QR codes are used every day, it would take 160 trillion ...
Hou Tianyu couldn't help but feel excited. While his competitors were still using barcodes, Lalamove Logistics was using QR codes, which significantly improved the quality of their services. How could his competitors compete with that?
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