Countercurrent 1982

After Duan Yun finished speaking, the scene immediately burst into warm applause, and the atmosphere became very enthusiastic.

Because compared to Duan Yun's success history, everyone present is more concerned about the current situation and potential of the Chinese market, especially how much consumption power the Chinese market has, which is the most concerned issue for these multinational companies.

And Duan Yun has also cleverly grasped the psychology of these people, and has been promoting the potential of the Chinese market intentionally or unintentionally. He also took the opportunity to promote his own e-commerce platform in China, which can become the best sales platform for foreign famous brands to enter the Chinese market.

"...At present, Tianyin Group has the largest e-commerce online sales platform in China and even in Asia. There are already more than 2000 manufacturers in China. It is estimated that by the end of this year, this number may break through to 3500." Duan Yun took the opportunity to start promoting his e-commerce platform, but he continued: "In the past, there were various bottlenecks, channel bottlenecks, and geographical bottlenecks in the sales of our domestic products. In fact, such a situation is also very normal, because it is limited by transportation conditions and local policies. Therefore, it is a very big challenge for any product to reach any corner of our country unimpeded, but now, our group company has invested heavily and after ten years of hard work, it has gradually solved these bottlenecks that restrict development..."

What Duan Yun said is indeed true. At the end of the 90s, the number of expressways in China continued to increase, which brought great convenience to logistics. As early as ten years ago, Duan Yun had already established logistics and storage centers in major cities in China. Today, this central system is even more powerful. Except for XJ and XZ, other important regions and cities have basically achieved coverage.

But for the European and American entrepreneurs in the audience, Duan Yun's words made them dubious.

Because in their impression, China is still a very poor and backward country. The biggest impression is that China is a kingdom of bicycles. In a capital like BJ, there are many bicycles, but cars are rare, so they think that China's logistics cannot be as smooth as Duan Yun said.

All in all, the prejudice against China in developed countries in Europe and the United States has always been deeply rooted. Even in their view, China’s economic level is slightly stronger than that in Africa. Developed countries in Europe and the United States are still unable to achieve an unimpeded logistics system established through e-commerce, let alone China, so they have always questioned this.

"...If everyone in the audience is interested in investing in the Chinese market, I think you can come to our company for a visit. At present, we have our own R&D centers and bases in Shenzhen, Shanghai and BJ. I believe that if you are willing to accept my invitation, there will be unexpected gains."

Duan Yun's impassioned speech on the stage attracted the attention of the audience, because they really saw something different from this young man, who was talented and full of confidence, which greatly changed their impression of the Chinese people.

Duan Yun’s trip to the United States has three purposes. The first is to make more friends, and make some influential people in the American business and political circles. The second is to expand business opportunities. With the help of Tianyin Shopping platform, he can expand his overseas business, bring more good products to China, and at the same time make himself a lot of money.

The last purpose, which is also the biggest goal of Duan Yun's trip, is to eliminate the vigilance of American political and business circles towards China's high-tech industry.

Duan Yun’s last goal is very cryptic. Since DVD and MP3 became popular in the U.S. market a few years ago, it has already attracted the attention of related industries in the U.S. and caused considerable repercussions. Some industry practitioners believe that China’s high-tech industry is developing very fast, far exceeding their expectations.

For Chinese people, this seems to be something to be proud of. However, in the current global market dominated by the United States, this is indeed a very dangerous thing, because in the plan of the Americans, China can only engage in low-end industries with very low added value. If China wants to leapfrog into high-end industries, it will inevitably be suppressed to a certain extent.

Moreover, in the current layout of the global industrial chain market, the United States is at the top of the pyramid. Inside the United States, there is a very complete and high-end system. Wall Street controls global finance, Hollywood is responsible for exporting values, Silicon Valley is responsible for high-tech industry research and development, and the US military is the basis for safeguarding US interests and dollar hegemony.

The Americans have taken the biggest profits from the entire global industrial chain system. Developed countries such as Europe and the United States, Japan and South Korea are in the middle or upper reaches of the industrial chain. For some small European and American countries, they only need to occupy a dominant position in a few or even one or two high-end industries. It is enough to maintain their status as developed countries, and these countries are more or less under the control of American capital.

And China and other third world countries are the most downstream of the national industrial chain. Relying on cheap labor costs, they eat some leftovers from developed countries in Europe and the United States, and they are also used as dumping markets for the products of developed countries in Europe and the United States, thus completing the last link of the entire global industrial chain.

Over the past ten years, Sino-US relations have developed steadily and entered the second honeymoon period since the early 80s. One of the big reasons is that China has been very "duty and obedient" in the past ten years.

However, if the Chinese exert their strength in the high-tech industry and grab the jobs of developed countries in Europe and the United States, the international situation will definitely become very bad. This is an inevitable thing, just like Japan back then. It was once rich enough to buy the entire United States, but finally bowed its head under the coercion of the United States and signed the Hiroshima Agreement, making it impossible for it to surpass the United States.

Duan Yun's Tianyin Group is currently developing very rapidly, especially in the high-tech industry. Some technologies have reached a leading position in Asia and even the world, such as chips and electronic products. Compared with similar products in Europe and the United States, they have a certain degree of competitiveness. (end of this chapter)