Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Shenzhen

Wang Dali and Tian Xiaoming discussed and discussed, and finally decided to locate the headquarters of their China Life Science and Technology Company in Shenzhen.During their discussions, there was a lot of regional bias.Beijing was the first to be excluded, "That's not a city for doing things. You meet ten people on the street, five of them are older than you and can trouble you, and the other five know people who are older than you. I can still trouble you." They all agree that Shanghai is the most modern city in China and the most livable city for human beings. "However, we are not Shanghainese, nor are we Caucasian foreigners. No matter how good a suit is, we are still foreigners."Guangzhou Taijianghu, although both of them can speak some Cantonese, but Wang Dali said that every time he lived in Guangzhou for a few more days, he would have the urge to buy a long knife and hang out on the streets. Perhaps it was a childhood shadow. The Hong Kong gangster videos are all based on the street scenes in Guangzhou, such as "The True Colors of a Hero" and "Across the World".Moreover, "the woman is too ugly, with high cheekbones like apes."

Wuhan, which is the closest to my hometown, is also excluded. "Frankly speaking, it is the local version of Shanghai. The philistine is not reduced, and the quality is a few grades lower."The reason for not choosing Hong Kong is very simple. Hong Kong is a trader at heart, buying cheap and selling dear. Has there ever been any innovative high-tech company in Hong Kong since ancient times? Shenzhen is close to Hong Kong, and there are many good companies that are truly market-oriented: Ping An Insurance, China Merchants Bank, Vanke, Tencent, CIMC, and Huawei. Everyone speaks Mandarin, there are no indigenous people, and there is no regional prejudice.

Tian Xiaoming's parents also moved to Shenzhen, and they lived close to Tian Xiaoming at the foot of Nanshan Mountain.Bai Bailu took a closer look at Tian Xiaoming's bed in Shenzhen and said: "The bed I slept on, Tian Xiaoming, you can go to the outside to get a room, but if you lead someone back to this bed, it would be too boring." Without waiting for Tian Xiaoming Answered, patted Tian Xiaoming on the shoulder, "Revitalize China, win honor for foreign students, give QH and Stanford face, and earn money for our three children. I will leave it to you. Remember to wash your hands before and after meals. Pay attention to personal problems .” Then she went back to Beijing to stay with her parents for two days, and then flew back to the United States.

Tian Xiaoming’s mother was very happy when she came to Shenzhen. In winter, Shenzhen is much warmer than Hubei. There is no extreme weather, and the days when electric heaters need to be turned on are only a week or two. In August and September, Shenzhen has fresh Nanshan lychees to eat. . "'Eating 300 lychees a day, I will always be a Lingnan native.' I am so fat and my surname is Yang. In this life, at such an advanced age, I should eat lychees well." Tian Xiaoming's mother said.The second sentence that Yang’s mother said to Tian Xiaoming was: “Xiao Ming, be careful, you have returned to China, it’s not the United States, it’s a legal society.” Tian Xiaoming looked at Yang’s mother’s serious eyes, and some images rushed into his mind , I really didn't know what to say, so I simply nodded, looking very sincere.

Not long in Shenzhen, Tian Xiaoming was deeply touched. These feelings include: First, after years of reform and opening up, some large cities in China have approached the world's developed level. Second, government officials are all service-oriented. Third, innovation must invest a lot of research and development costs. Fourth, the looks of Shanghai girls are all dressed up, and they don't have any cultural pursuits. The first example: Tian Xiaoming reminded a strong man who boarded the plane and jumped in the queue at Shenzhen Baoan Airport that the plane would not fly away until the guests finished boarding. Jumping in the queue is a very dirty behavior. He was punched and broke the bridge of his nose. The strong man Said: "I blocked? Who saw it? I've been here. You're the one who blocked it. I'll hit you the blocked one."

The second example: an official said to him: "I am indeed service-oriented. However, I am a doctor of public affairs management, a doctoral supervisor, and a founding member of the World Intercontinental Public Affairs Management Association. There are more talented people than migrant girls, and I can't manage things that don't involve a billion yuan, so I can only be Laozi and Zhuangzi and rule by doing nothing." The third one made Tian Xiaoming's company close to an overseas IPO successfully.One kind of innovation is to invest a lot of research and development expenses to form a technological breakthrough, the other kind of innovation is copycats, and Shenzhen's innovation is the second kind.The MRI, ultrasound and other imaging equipment made by a friend of Tian Xiaoming in Shenzhen are similar to the performance of the machines of big manufacturers, and only sell for one-third of the price. The machines of big manufacturers require patients to go to the MRI room of the imaging department to take pictures. His machine Come to the patient's bedside, Dachang's machine is equipped with a 20-inch professional black and white monitor, his machine is equipped with a 30-inch color monitor, Dachang's machine can only analyze images, and his machine can also play Doudizhu, Contra, Tank There are 30 nostalgic mini-games such as Great War, let alone watching American and Korean dramas. The interface is like an iPhone, and you can search by movie stars, drama titles, and screening frequency.

Tian Xiaoming got the hang of it and stopped the development of all chemical original research drugs. Not betting on his luck is like a godsend. He also stopped the exploration of macromolecular original research drugs and focused on difficult-to-make active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). Activity, half the price in the world market.Four years later, Tian Xiaoming's life science and technology company is infinitely close to the scale of the US IPO. Half a year after Tian Xiaoming returned to China, he met his first woman, who was from Puxi, Shanghai.Both parents speak English and drink English afternoon tea. Her surname is Yang.Yang Meimei's hair was cut, washed, and sprinkled on her shoulder blades. After washing her face, the two lumps on the left and right of her face were more tender and translucent than after putting on makeup. They were like magnolia flowers and porcelain. She seldom spoke. Where the lights are not bright, a face shines beautifully.They met at the biotechnology innovation conference in Shanghai. Tian Xiaoming was giving a keynote speech on the stage, talking about the innovation mechanism of Silicon Valley. To the right breast, rest the left cheek with the left hand, don't look at the PPT on the big screen, just look at Tian Xiaoming.Tian Xiaoming didn't look carefully at Yang Meimei. Tian Xiaoming was naturally shy. When speaking in public, he never looked at the audience, the ceiling, the door panels, the floor, or the void.After Tian Xiaoming finished speaking, Yang Meimei came up to change her business card, she smelled good.After the group dinner, Yang Meimei sent a text message, wanting to sit in Tian Xiaoming's hotel room, and would like to ask some questions.

Poured a glass of red wine for Yang Meimei, and after Tian Xiaoming drank a bottle, Yang Meimei was still playing with the glass of red wine in Yang Meimei's hands, and there was a touch of lipstick on the rim of the glass.After a bottle of red wine, Tian Xiaoming realized that he started talking too much, and talked about the chapter on the origin of Chinese in "On Everything". "The most concerned thing in "On Everything" is the various origins. After the origin analysis is completed, the rest will be simple. The first organic matter, the first life, the first human, the first Chinese, the first human Heartbeat, etc. One life is two, two is three, three is countless. Everything in this world is like this. One, the most difficult. After two, three, you're an entrepreneur. That's true of everything."

Tian Xiaoming opened another bottle of red wine, took a big gulp like drinking water, and continued talking about "On Everything".After the two bottles of red wine, Yang Meimei said to Tian Xiaoming: "Don't open the two bottles of red wine again. You basically drink the two bottles of red wine. Open it again, and I won't drink too much. Even if I drink a little more wine, I still have a sense of proportion." I am not a casual person, I am very concerned about some things. I am very happy to meet you today, and I know a lot of things that I never knew. I appreciate you very much and hope to see you more in the future. We will have a long time to come , your China Life Sciences company has not yet had an overseas IPO, and there are still many problems with the equity structure. When you have a little leisure time, you can summarize the management experience of these years and publish a book. Would you like to return to Shenzhen for half a day late? It’s getting colder, I’ll go to Maison Department Store tomorrow to help you pick out a cashmere coat, top-notch material, better quality than big-name brands, and less than a third of the price, after you buy it, remove the label on the back of the collar, and you’ll sit in it in the future On Hong Kong Dragon’s plane, those beautiful Hongkong Dragon flight attendants didn’t know what brand it was when they hung up your coat for you. If you touched the material, if you knew it, you would think it was made in Italy and look at you differently. You also have a wife , why doesn't your wife improve her taste and take good care of your clothes and hats?"

Yang Meimei opened the door and left.Tian Xiaoming remained in his strong alcohol smell, looked at the door that was gradually closing behind Yang Meimei, and fell into deep thinking like other important moments in life. Since Bai Bailu returned to the United States, Hetian Xiaoming talked on the phone every day, and occasionally made videos.When Tian Xiaoming first arrived in the United States more than ten years ago, he could make a domestic call, which cost close to two U.S. dollars a minute. At that time, one U.S. dollar was equivalent to ten yuan, so making a phone call was a big deal.In a few years, with IP telephony, one dollar a minute, one and a half dollars a minute, and one cent a minute. At that time, one dollar was equivalent to eight yuan.In a few years, with instant messaging over data networks, Skype, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Wechat, voice will be free.Tian Xiaoming can program by himself. After getting an Apple mobile phone, he made many small beta applications, such as finding bus routes, finding restaurants, finding parking spaces, and so on.Yang Meimei has seen a few of them, and told him that every small application is shining with the light of money. Tian Xiaoming said that he can do too many things and doesn't have so much time to complete every idea.Tian Xiaoming didn't like mobile phone videos, so he modified the program and recorded a few video clips in advance, and when Bai Bailu requested the video, he would automatically insert it.Tian Xiaoming gradually began to suspect that Bai Bailu was conducting ward rounds.The video was initiated by Bai Bailu, but Tian Xiaoming still felt that without holding hands, no matter how frequently the conversation was, it was as if the mouth could not touch the water. Men and women were as far away as life and death.

Gradually, China's Beijing time and Western US time became more and more obstacles. The bigger obstacle is the difference in background. It seems that a joke needs to be explained a lot to trigger a laugh. When the laughter comes, it is already ten minutes later. It's like the time lag of early IP telephony.Finally one day, Bai Bailu said, let's stop talking so often, it seems that emails are warmer.Tian Xiaoming said, that’s okay, so you don’t have to make up for the time difference. The last video didn’t have a suitable location, but you were afraid of missing the time and you would think too much, so you had to use a public toilet at a highway gas station. If you talk on the phone again, it will be mainly a quarrel. Bai Bailu said on the phone: "My parents are coming to the Bay Area, I'm so annoyed." Tian Xiaoming said: "What's there to worry about? You're so old, you're married, and you've been independent for a long time." Bai Bailu said: "You don't know how orthodox they are. Before I was eighteen, I was not allowed to wear skirts, but only pants. Now that I'm so old, I still can't wear a bikini for swimming!" Tian Xiaoming said: "What you can do is not to be bored, but to become stronger. You are an adult, don't be annoyed and frightened by your parents all the time. After all, people are individuals, and they should not control your life and your outlook on life." Bai Bailu said: "It's not as serious as you said, I just remembered that they will stay with me for two months, I'm the same as the first two." Tian Xiaoming said: "That's what I mean, don't be afraid, become stronger yourself!" Bai Bailu said: "Can you stop judging me like you judge others? Can you not always blame me? I have worked hard! What have you done for me? I think I have done a good job! Can you Can't talk to me like an asshole!" Tian Xiaoming said: "If I don't judge, how can I be a CEO? How can I "On Everything"? If you don't need my judgment, why do you call me? I hope you know that I have no malicious intentions. I hope you can Be carefree, be proud of the world, resist the bad influence of your parents and so on." Bai Bailu said: "No matter how bad my parents are, they never forced me to correct my attitude!" Bai Bailu hung up the phone, and Tian Xiaoming dialed three times like crazy, but Bai Bailu hung up every time. Tian Xiaoming had a dream that everyone living in the world is actually a driver driving a car.All drivers can only drive their own car, and most drivers think that their car is the best, most beautiful and perfect in the world, although most drivers do not say so frankly.There are very few drivers who are willing to admit that their cars are not so much. These drivers are defined as easy-going, and even fewer drivers will occasionally talk about their car's faults. These drivers are said to have a rare golden self-deprecation and sense of humor.Almost no driver realizes that any car is not fundamentally different from other cars, that the driver has no necessary relationship with this car, even though the driver has to drive it, its joys and sorrows are not absolutely inseparable from the driver.It is not chosen by the driver, and the driver knows nothing about all the design, manufacture, sales and after-sales service, and he has no control if he does not pass the extraordinary practice.After years of training, I have a certain ability to control, but I can't be sure that I can control everything in all situations.Therefore, everyone is a driver, and everyone should not drink and drive.