Volume Seven, Section 111, Dare to Be the First in the World (2)
What are the Chinese people missing now?
What is missing is a more convenient environment and a more open atmosphere.
The former consists of infrastructure such as roads and communications, while the latter consists of local government policies and work styles.
Therefore, Sha Zhengyang's idea of taking the lead in building an inland transportation construction highland was fully supported by Mao Xiangdong at the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee.
Because there are so many expressways in the province, except for the Jiawan Expressway, they are all centered around the Handu, including the Han Zhaofu, Hanwu, Duyi, and Hanqin Expressways. If these expressways can be completed a few years ahead of the initial expectations, you can imagine how much improvement this will have in the construction of the national inland central city of Handu.
The concept of this national-level central city was also proposed by Sha Zhengyang. Mao Xiangdong had never even heard of it before. In Mao Xiangdong's view, this may be a conceptual thing Sha Zhengyang learned about contact with a higher level during his on-the-job training in Yanjing, and it has not even been able to implement it. However, if you can't push it earlier, maybe when you know it, other cities will be ahead.
Therefore, Mao Xiangdong tried his best to make Han people ahead in every link and every field. This is also Mao Xiangdong's strategy of daring to be the first in the world at the enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the Han Municipal Committee. In his opinion, Sha Zhengyang's many views, concepts and thinking vision have already possessed the temperament of a leader.
During the period of contact with Sha Zhengyang, Mao Xiangdong felt that he had gained a lot.
This young man has a very forward-looking vision. For example, he is making every effort to promote the construction of the Hanchuan Expressway, adopting the model of packing and bundling these highway assets and projects, absorbing private and foreign investment and Hong Kong investment, and finally operating and listing, which is extremely clever.
When these people still regard highway construction as a golden doll that can lay eggs and is reluctant to let go, Sha Zhengyang has already seen how great advantages and benefits the construction of these highways will bring to the investment and development environment of the entire Hanchuan Province.
Compared with the profits brought by the tolls of those highways, the entire investment promotion environment in Hanchuan Province has been greatly improved, and the transportation advantages are compared with the establishment of surrounding provinces and cities and the decline in transportation costs. These can attract more investments. This advantage is not comparable to that of the little toll profit.
It’s ridiculous that Li Ming and Wei Wenhui are still calculating whether they should do this or whether they can do this. Their eyes are not even as good as those of a thirty-year-old man. When Mao Xiangdong thinks of this, he feels ashamed.
The same situation happened to Handu, which was a major move to further accelerate the construction of communication network infrastructure. For this reason, Mao Xiangdong went to Yanjing three times to connect with the Ministry of Information and Industry and China Telecom, with the purpose of taking the lead in Handu to experiment as soon as possible. Originally, the Ministry of Information and Industry planned to try first in Shanghai and Shenzhen, but Handu was very positive and contacted the relevant company, Alcatel, to conduct preliminary surveys, so the Ministry of Information and Industry finally agreed to the current Handu pilot.
At this point, the positive attitude of the Han Metropolitan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government played a key role, and Sha Zhengyang also discussed with Mao Xiangdong that once Adsl is the first to be commercialized in Handu, it will inevitably greatly promote the rapid development of Handu in the Internet industry.
But this period is not long, because if Shanghai and Shenzhen discover this situation, with their strength, they may even be able to catch up in less than a year, and may even come from behind to surpass Handu.
Therefore, if Handu wants to maintain a leading advantage, it also needs to take targeted measures in other aspects to encourage and attract the Internet industry to settle in Handu, encourage and attract more Internet talents to work and live in Handu, and create an environment more suitable for the survival of the Internet ecosystem in Handu. Only this policy measures can offset the strength, location and atmosphere advantages that Shanghai and Shenzhen have formed.
"I know that even if Handu was the first to launch the commercial environment for adsl, there is still a big gap between the conditions of Handu and Shanghai and Shenzhen. Even cities like Yanjing and Guangzhou can catch up quickly and surpass Handu very quickly. So I am thinking about the ecology you are talking about. Well, it is an ecological system. How to create a website that suits the Internet or companies, you can think that Han is the most suitable place for them to take root, sprout and bear fruit. I'm afraid it's the ecological system you are talking about?"
Once Mao Xiangdong determines what he has to do without hesitation, he knows that this Internet ecosystem is still a little vague and slightest understanding of it, but his intuition tells him that this should be an industry with very broad development prospects.
Sha Zhengyang mentioned that if everything can be interconnected through the Internet as he said, then it is really a place to go. Email is just the most basic way. He also talked about instant communication methods such as phones, advertising methods, search targets and answers, and even enjoying various online games while sitting at home. It can be said that it is extremely rich and colorful.
These may sound impossible at first glance, but the email is the most typical example. Who can imagine a piece of information that took several days or even dozens of days to send in the past can now be transmitted to the other party in a blink of an eye and then printed out, without even waiting.
In short, the emergence of the Internet seems to make everything possible. Mao Xiangdong has this premonition that if anyone can seize this industry and seize the tide, he may win an era.
Sha Zhengyang thinks that Mao Xiangdong's description is similar. In his previous life, the term ecology was used a lot, and almost everything can be described as ecology. If it must be explained in a popular language, it is actually an organic fusion system, which probably means this.
The Internet is definitely an ecosystem, and this ecosystem is infinite and can derive countless ecosystems in countless fields. Therefore, in the past life, Tencent had an ecosystem, Alibaba had an ecosystem, and Baidu had an ecosystem. Almost every growing Internet giant is inseparable from the ecosystem. Without an ecosystem, you can't play it.
For Mao Xiangdong, if Han Du can create an ecosystem suitable for the development of Internet-related industries, then Han Du can be invincible in the future competition of this industry. Although he is not sure how big the Internet industry ecosystem will be in the future, it is definitely good to start from early.
According to Mao Xiangdong's ecology that is suitable for the development of Internet-related industries, it also needs to be developed, cultivated and optimized from the aspects of hardware and software.
For example, the adsl broadband that Handu is now building is a hardware optimization, which can quickly improve from dial-up Internet access to many times faster network speeds, greatly improving the efficiency of various communication and production.
Even the construction of highways is a hardware construction. On the one hand, the development of the Internet industry depends on people. People need to live and travel. Therefore, transportation is convenient and they can travel more easily, which is also an improvement, but its relevance is much worse than this kind of adsl broadband improvement and optimization.
"Secretary Mao, that's about this. In order to develop the Internet industry, there are already some signs and signs, such as the largest portal websites that mainly disseminate news information, and also websites that use email as pioneers. At present, because the Internet is still an emerging direction, many people have realized that this industry will change the whole world in the future, but they have not yet found how to make money from this industry. It seems that most people can only use it as a new media method to get profits by pasting advertisements..."
Sha Zhengyang is very clear that all the pioneers of gold digging on the Internet are still searching everywhere in confusion about how to find business opportunities to make money from this industry. Nowadays, practitioners can only analyze and judge whether this website or company has development potential based on click-through rates and popularity, and this is the most unreliable.
"What about the directions you mentioned to me in Zhengyang? For example, the games you mentioned, selling things online, and various services..." Mao Xiangdong asked with interest.
"This all needs to be built on a relatively mature system to truly exert its effectiveness, but every industry has come out of such stumble and at a loss. Everyone has an experimental process, and no one knows what this industry will produce tomorrow. I can imagine some directions, and they can do it too, but how to achieve it technically and how to make them mature from the business model and maintain it is all a problem. Only people in this industry continue to explore and answer it."
Sha Zhengyang added leisurely: "It is precisely this messy groping that contains infinite vitality and charm, so that people can enjoy searching in it. Once they succeed, they may become the pride of the times. Well, the U.S. Nasdaq stock market is dominated by the Internet industry. Since July, the stock index has exceeded 2,000 points, and the upward momentum has not diminished at all, becoming more and more fierce. I believe that it will not take long, and its stock index may double. All this is so unimaginable!"
Chapter completed!