Guo Taiming, the "Genghis Khan" of Taiwan's scientific and technological circles, when he was on the battlefield for 37 years, lowered his head in the flashing light and "moved north and west" under the gaze of his opponents. In 1988, Guo Taiming reprimanded Fang Qiu, moved according to the times, crossed the river and crossed the sea, and entered Shenzhen. Therefore, he achieved his "OEM Empire"; now, under the wave of competition in Shenzhen, Guo Taiming chose to leave again, leaving the association It adds a bit of loneliness and sadness, but the expansion in the distance seems to swear the greater ambition and strategy of this hero who was hailed as "Tiger and Fox" by "Business Weekly".

In 1974, Guo Taiming established "Hon Hai Plastic Enterprise Co., Ltd." with 200,000 NT dollars marked by his mother and ten employees to produce and process plastic products, mainly black and white TV knobs.When someone asks what "Hon Hai" means, he will always say: "'Hong' is in the sky, and 'sea' is in the ground. Hon Hai is a company that wants to do business between heaven and earth." In 1976, he earned his first pot of gold Guo Taiming transformed the field of molds.With mature mold technology and keen business sense, Guo Taiming quickly transformed into the production of personal computer connectors when other colleagues were still nostalgic for the home appliance industry. Price" competition strategy, quickly occupied the market, in 1982, the company changed its name to "Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.".In order for the company to enter the global market, in 1985, Guo Taiming established a branch in the United States and created the "FOXCONN" brand.

Guo went to the United States alone with his suitcase. During this period, he hired an American as a marketing manager, as well as a driver and a spoken English teacher. The two formed this American branch.Guo Taiming has always called Hon Hai "fourth-rate talents, third-rate management, second-rate equipment, and first-rate customers." Therefore, in order to win orders from first-rate customers, Guo Taiming has traveled almost 32 of the 50 states in the United States, and the price of living is 12 dollars a night. He can even memorize the menu back and forth at chain restaurants like Denny's.For a long time, it is this kind of "desperate Saburo" that has been able to compare his opponents one by one. He was originally scheduled to retire in 2008. With the energy of working 15 hours a day, the 59-year-old stands guard.

In the mid-to-late 1980s, due to changes in the overall economic environment in Taiwan, traditional industries faced difficulties in survival due to the sharp appreciation of the New Taiwan dollar and the rapid rise in production costs such as wages and land, and were forced to relocate. Guo Taiming and Hon Hai were also in the first wave of relocation.Because, Guo Taiming has a famous concept of "global cost competition", which is the competition of "social cost + national cost + company marketing cost".He believes that "as long as it is a manufacturing industry, it is impossible not to consider the cost of manpower and land."

At that time, the monthly basic salary of Taiwanese had exceeded NT$10,000, while that in mainland China was equivalent to only NT$2,200, a difference of nearly five times.Especially in Taiwan, if you have money, you can't hire people, but outside the factories in the mainland, there are long queues of wage earners and girls entering the factory. At the same time, Taiwan's economic take-off drove land prices to rise steadily; while in the mainland at that time, there were as many land resources as possible, and a series of preferential policies introduced by local governments to actively attract investment were also quite attractive. In addition to providing services, they paved the way for manufacturers. , even the main tax incentives are attractive, from "two exemptions and three half reductions" to "five exemptions and five half reductions", that is, tax exemption for the first five years, and only half of the tax payment for the next five years. You can continue to enjoy the discount.

At that time, he had set his sights on Shenzhen, a frontier of China's reform close to Hong Kong.So in 1988, 14 years after the establishment of Hon Hai Group, Hon Hai Precision Co., Ltd. in Huangtian Village, Xixiang Town, Baoan District, Shenzhen was established to produce computer peripheral connectors.Then Hongfujin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. was established in Longhua Town, Baoan District.Therefore, Guo Taiming also became one of the few Taiwanese businessmen who broke through cross-strait political risks and entered the mainland.But compared with the great development in the future, the "handwriting" in the late 1980s can only be regarded as "testing the waters".

In 1993, the second wave of capital-intensive Taiwanese businessmen investing in the mainland rose again. At this time, Hon Hai had already accumulated a certain amount of strength and had the conditions for expansion. In 1993, a large number of enterprises bought land in Longhua, Shenzhen. Guo Taiming also took a fancy to Longhua, which is close to the urban area of ​​Shenzhen. At that time, Longhua was still a wilderness, and the weeds grew taller than people. A local government official said: "I want all the land I can see." This is the prototype of Longhua Park, which now covers an area of ​​2.3 square kilometers.Since 1996, Foxconn's Shenzhen factory has been relocated to Longhua Park. Since then, it has become Foxconn's largest factory in mainland China, the source of Foxconn's industrial real estate, and the world's largest personal computer assembly base.

When Guo Taiming explained the reason for his site selection, he said: "An open immigrant city has infinite vitality." He believes that Longhua will definitely become "the gathering place of manufacturing technology in the world, and the forefront of innovation and research and development in the world."At that time, the big president Guo Taiming stood in front of 150 new employees and said: "We want to be the largest company in the world!" Some employees below couldn't help laughing: "This man can really brag." With this factory building, No. 100 people?No one could believe it.

Many years later, a miracle really happened. This small factory with only more than 100 people in 1993 has become a factory cluster with more than 400,000 people today. Guo Taiming has a famous saying: "How a person views himself and the people around him determines his own structure. If a person takes a longer-term view of himself, the space will be wider, and he will not pay too much attention to gains and losses." Perhaps, it is precisely because of the benefits and losses of a city and a pool that Terry Gou built a global foundry enterprise at the right place and at the right time. "China Times" even analyzed the growth of Guo Taiming and Hon Hai, saying, "From a traditional mold company that just squeezed into Taiwan's manufacturing industry in 1985, to the world's largest foundry company, this is the same as Guo Taiming's 1988 It is absolutely related to start building a production base in Shenzhen and take advantage of the mainland's low-cost production advantages."

Guo Taiming's ancestral home is Shanxi, so the blood of Shanxi merchants is also flowing in his bones.For a long time, he has been pursuing the establishment of a "Great China Manufacturing Factory". He once stated: "My parents came to Taiwan from Shanxi Province. We are not only the way of thinking in Taiwan, but also the way of thinking in Greater China. Taiwan and Mainland China Our business should be combined." Therefore, he is also full of ambition: "The mainland will be the experimental battlefield of our manufacturing technology in the future, where we will challenge the highest level of manufacturing and sales."

On February 1, 1996, Foxconn Longhua Base broke ground.Since then, Foxconn has embarked on a road of rapid development with at least 50% annual growth, and some years with 100% growth. The second issue of "China Foreign Investment" in 2009 evaluated it as, "This manufacturing entity, which has grown at a compound annual growth rate of more than 50% since 1996, is like a sports car that cannot be stopped." Similarly, in Foxconn There is also a saying among the employees: "If you look at a millennium, look at Xi'an, the ancient capital of a thousand years; if you look at a century, look at Beijing, the ancient city of a century; if you look at ten years, look at Shenzhen, and see the changes in ten years; if you look at a year, look at Longhua, the speed of Foxconn." Gou is also good at using his small but fast-growing business in Shenzhen to lure potential clients.Since entering the personal computer field, Hon Hai's potential customers have locked in Dell, Compaq, and Intel. When Michael Dell, the president of Dell, visited South China in 1995, Terry Gou arranged for Dell to meet local government officials he knew well in exchange for the opportunity to drive Dell to the airport. Then, Terry Gou arranged for Dell to visit his factory on the way episode.At the time, Dell was not yet among the world's top five PC makers, and Hon Hai hadn't produced the parts that Dell bought directly.However, Guo Taiming saw that Dell was a rising star, so he wanted to get acquainted with him.Today, Hon Hai is one of Dell's largest suppliers. China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 was a landmark event that fueled Gou's imperial expansion.From 2001 to 2008, the annual turnover of Foxconn Technology Group jumped from 20 billion yuan to 420.7 billion yuan, an increase of 21 times in 8 years; among them, the total export volume has been ranked as the export champion of Chinese mainland enterprises by the Ministry of Commerce for 7 consecutive years. In the past few years, Guo Taiming has also reached the pinnacle of his life. On March 12, 2005, in the US "Forbes" magazine's ranking of the world's richest people, 55-year-old Terry Gou ranked 183rd with a net worth of US$3.2 billion, making him the richest man in Taiwan for the first time.At the same time, Foxconn's ranking in the "Fortune" Global 500 companies also rose from 371 in 2005 to 109 in 2009. Starting from Shenzhen, Foxconn's territory has spread all over the world.In China: In 2001, Beijing Science and Technology Park opened; in 2003, Shanghai Songjiang Science and Technology Park, Shanxi Taiyuan Science and Technology Park, Hangzhou Qiantang Science and Technology Park opened; in 2004, Shandong Yantai Science and Technology Park, Shenzhen Guanlan Science and Technology Park, Shanghai Foxconn Factory opened; 2005 , Shenzhen Songgang Factory opened; in 2006, Tianjin Science and Technology Park opened;In the global layout, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Vietnam, Russia and other countries have established production and R&D bases. In September 2007, Terry Gou gave a speech at the Fourth China Internet Business Conference, which was also the first time he made a public speech in the mainland business community.Speaking of Foxconn's success, he said that Foxconn wins in strategy.What is the strategy?Strategy is direction, timing, and degree.The opposite is the wrong direction. No matter how good the chariot is, how strong the horse is, no matter how strong the charioteer is, he will never reach the goal. Genghis Khan will win because of the direction and strategy. Investing in the mainland and establishing the "Whampoa Military Academy" of Hon Hai's global base - Shenzhen Longhua Industrial Park has undoubtedly become a stage for him to dominate the world. Guo Taiming once said: "Foxconn is a hungry giant, and it will never be full." With the "shackles" removed, the jungle is no longer dominated by the Hon Hai family, and predators are watching. Shenzhen has always been regarded as the most fiercely competitive business battlefield, and sometimes a dark horse that breaks out halfway will make veterans miscalculate.What's more, it is still a bloody sea of ​​foundry, which is almost the same survival criteria as battle royale.However, newborn calves always have a kind of arrogance regardless of the heights of the sky and the earth, and playing cards not according to common sense makes it difficult for veterans to parry. In 2002, Guo Taiming invited Wang Chuanfu (the founder of BYD) and Sun Yizao to visit the Foxconn headquarters in Taiwan. ". At that time, BYD was only a small company engaged in mobile phone batteries. Moreover, at the end of the era of huge profits for electronic products such as notebook computers and mobile phones, the profits of producing mobile phone batteries were also threatened. According to relevant data, since 2003, the number of rechargeable batteries Prices are falling at a rate of 10% per year.At the same time, as Japanese manufacturers open up to China's technology, the threshold for lithium battery production has been greatly reduced, and many manufacturers have flocked into this industry to share profits. With the intensification of competition and the decline of product profitability, BYD's cost advantage and technical advantage in the battery field have also been greatly challenged.Wang Chuanfu also said: "In the battery industry, in two or three years, we will probably break the ceiling. We need to find an industry with more room for development, but we hope that it is an industry related to batteries. .” This sentence has actually laid the groundwork for the subsequent transformation, but Guo Taiming did not expect that this small boat would dare to hit the idea of ​​a world-class OEM aircraft carrier with billions of dollars in orders. No one knows what kind of blueprint Wang Chuanfu was drawing in his mind when Guo Taiming led Wang Chuanfu to visit the workshop.However, after Wang Chuanfu stepped out of Hon Hai's door, it was announced that the exchange of fire between Wang and Guo was inevitable. First of all, relying on the trust relationship established by BYD during the long-term production of batteries for mobile phone giants, in 2002, BYD officially entered the field of mobile phone OEMs, mainly engaged in the manufacture of mobile phone modules and components, including mobile phone casings, LCD panels, cameras, Flexible circuit boards, mobile phone molds and other businesses. Later, Wang Chuanfu spent just a few years "cloning" a mobile phone OEM industry chain that was almost identical to Foxconn. Since 2003, BYD has poached more than 400 employees from Foxconn.At the same time, it also "grabbed" a lot of orders from Foxconn. Guo Taiming has always liked to tell a story: A smart beggar should choose between 50 yuan and 100 yuan banknotes given by benefactors. Only when he is not greedy can he flow smoothly.The so-called "non-greedy" in his business philosophy is "for the sake of customers, deduct the cost, lower the price, and don't eat a fat man to choke to death." Therefore, his quotation can always be 20% or more lower than that of his opponents, The purpose is to transfer profits to customers, so as to keep the flow of water flowing and the business to last forever.Therefore, Guo Taiming also left the nickname "Cost Down Terry" in the industry.However, a mountain is higher than a mountain. It is said that the cost of BYD is 20% lower than that of Hon Hai for the same mobile phone solution. In just a few years, BYD has developed by leaps and bounds in the field of mobile phone OEM. In 2004, BYD's mobile phone business achieved a revenue of 993 million yuan, accounting for 14.7% of BYD's overall revenue. In 2005, the annual income reached 1.906 billion yuan, accounting for 29.3% of the total income of Yardi, an increase of 103% over 2004.In 2006, before the listing of BYD Electronics, BYD's mobile phone OEM revenue increased by 169.3%, reaching 5.135 billion yuan, accounting for 39.67% of BYD's overall revenue.Also in 2006, BYD's mobile phone foundry department had obtained 15% of Nokia's "mobile phone mechanical component solutions" business and 3% of Motorola's business.After the financial crisis began, BYD's financial report was very optimistic. In 2008, it increased by 26% compared with 2007, and realized a net profit of 1.021 billion yuan. Among them, the mobile phone business income was 11.933 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30%. Compared with BYD's success all the way, Foxconn seems a little trembling. "IT Times Weekly" once interviewed Foxconn employee Liu Gen (pseudonym), he said, "Foxconn's situation is not as good as before, BYD has taken away too much business from us. Especially in the second half of last year (2008), the company Encountered the financial turmoil, orders have shrunk sharply." From the financial report released by Foxconn in 2008, compared with 2007, revenue decreased by 1.461 billion US dollars, a drop of 13.61%; net profit was 121 million US dollars, a sharp drop from 2007's 725 million US dollars 83.22%.Although the financial crisis has become an excuse for the less optimistic financial report, investors are still very clear that this is not the whole problem. In fact, it is BYD that is pulling Foxconn off the altar of high-speed growth. Guo Taiming, who looked down on the world and had a fiery temper, was still irritated, and the business dispute escalated into a war of twists and turns. In fact, what makes Guo Taiming most upset is BYD's "commercial plagiarism", and he has always ridiculed BYD as a company that is not as good as a "copycat" and started by stealing technology.Because, BYD's path in mobile phone OEM has striking similarities with Foxconn, and more than 400 employees who switched from Foxconn are engaged in mobile phone design, manufacturing and other businesses, including Foxconn who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to send to Europe to train Senior technical personnel and senior management personnel, including senior core supervisors of R&D in Japan, and a metallurgical refining synthesis technology. The hot-tempered Guo Taiming not only bombarded his opponent at the shareholder meeting for two consecutive years, he strongly condemned the other party for stealing more than 10,000 confidential documents from Foxconn; in the end, he simply took BYD to court. On May 4, 2006, Foxconn's network inspection system detected that Wang Wei and other Foxconn employees had sent a large number of system files to BYD, and the company immediately called the police.Foxconn then requested the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court to take evidence preservation measures. The court seized and copied the hard disk contents of the company's employees Liu Xiangjun and Si Shaoqing at BYD's office.Evidence shows that the hard drive contains a Word document with the header of Foxconn and the signatures of relevant Foxconn executives. In June 2006, Foxconn filed a lawsuit with the Hong Kong High Court and the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court, accusing Liu Xiangjun and Si Shaoqing of leaking Foxconn's business secrets after they switched to BYD, claiming 5 million yuan from the two, and asking the court to adjudicate Order BYD to immediately stop the unfair competition against Foxconn. A month later, the first batch of appraisal reports came out: there were 116 Foxconn files in the mobile hard drive, 68 of which were not public information.However, BYD insisted that most of the appraisal report and related appendices were unilaterally submitted by Foxconn, and the company had no knowledge of it. In June 2007, Foxconn once again brought a lawsuit to the Hong Kong High Court on the grounds of stealing trade secrets, and claimed 5.13 billion yuan.One month later, on the day when BYD originally planned to spin off its mobile phone business in Hong Kong, due to the lawsuit, BYD's first application for listing expired. After that, BYD continued to apply for listing, and Foxconn followed suit. The High Court filed a new lawsuit.Due to obstruction by Foxconn, BYD was finally postponed for half a year.Wang Chuanfu couldn't help himself, and he accused Foxconn of "deliberately making trouble" in public. The case, which has been entangled for nearly two years, had its preliminary results in 2008.After investigation and evidence collection, the local public security organ found that the case may involve a crime and criminal responsibility needs to be investigated.Foxconn withdrew its civil lawsuit against BYD in the mainland and turned it into a criminal lawsuit. On March 20, 2008, Xia Zuoquan, former executive director and vice president of BYD, was detained. On the 24th and 31st, Si Shaoqing and Liu Xiangjun were sentenced to 1 year, 4 months and 4 years in prison.Unexpectedly, BYD issued an announcement stating that Xia Zuoquan was released on the 4th day after detention due to insufficient evidence, while the other two sentenced employees had terminated their labor relationship with the company before being convicted, which is a personal crime and has nothing to do with BYD . Such a verdict obviously made Foxconn dissatisfied, and what made them even more unexpected was that on December 3, 2008, BYD turned against the generals, saying that the public security organs had withdrawn the investigation against BYD. The deputy director, Zhao Jun, and two other persons in charge were arrested by the public security organs on suspicion of destroying, forging evidence and accepting bribes.In addition, Zhang Chaozheng, a former employee of BYD, was arrested by the public security organs on suspicion of accepting bribes from Foxconn to illegally steal confidential documents for him.Foxconn seems to be getting more and more passive.The industry also believes that this may be an important sign that BYD has turned from defense to offense. The analysis of this commercial war, as "IT Times Weekly" said, "Wang Chuanfu is a member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress and has an important voting right in the appointment and removal of judges in the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court. From this point of view, Foxconn is completely passive. On the other hand, BYD is a native Shenzhen company, and the local courts tend to favor local companies, which is commonplace in China.” Guo Taiming is also very wronged by this, "We have to choose Hong Kong. We can't win the lawsuit in Shenzhen. It's like going to the casino. He will bet with you while he is the banker himself." This lawsuit seems to make Foxconn feel a little bit chilled. It has been making important economic contributions to Shenzhen, and it is obviously not treated fairly. The defeat in court added to Guo Taiming's anger, which led to a series of wars of words.Guo Taiming often said, "Counterfeiting is at most just plagiarism and imitation of appearance, and it will be hidden when someone checks it. BYD is not just plagiarism, but even sent commercial spies to steal our information and then destroy the evidence." However, different from Foxconn, BYD's extended battery industry includes not only mobile phone OEMs but also the automobile industry. This move is one step ahead of the "stabilization" Gou Taiming, who said that automobiles are part of his 6C strategy (Computer, Communication Communications, Consumer Electronics, Channel, Car, Content digital content), but until now there has been no big move, and BYD has chosen energy saving by taking advantage of the country's new auto industry policy and the trend of China's huge auto market With the advantages of clean and clean development, it has become a well-known independent automobile brand in Shenzhen and even in China. When Buffett expressed his deep appreciation for BYD Auto, when BYD Auto made a big splash at Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders' meeting, and when the name Wang Chuanfu spread in the American financial circles, Guo Taiming became even more furious and directly threw it at him. Warren Buffett, who supports Wang Chuanfu, has three major questions: "Buffett has always advertised that he only invests in companies with integrity and long-term operations. Why should he invest in BYD, which has stolen business secrets? Does Buffett dare to drive a BYD car to and from get off work? What kind of professional knowledge does Buffett use to judge BYD?" potential?” He also said sarcastically: “There are no stock gods in the world, and please believe the small shareholders, don’t be petrified when you hear Buffett’s name.” He also said, “In terms of competitiveness, it (BYD) is absolutely It is not our competitor, and I do not regard companies that steal commercial secrets as opponents. BYD is not even 1/10 of ours in many industrial fields such as molds. If I lose, I will jump from here (pointing to French windows behind)." However, Xu Changming, director of the Information Resources Development Department of the State Information Center, said, "Taiming Guo's questioning of the quality of BYD's cars is unreasonable. It is quite good among domestic independent brands. Their entanglement is caused by the grievances between the two parties, and has nothing to do with cars." It is said that now, anyone who drives a BYD car is not allowed to enter the Foxconn factory no matter what. When they are at the gate, the security guard will stop him and tell him solemnly: "BYD digs us. There is competition in the company, and the boss of the company stipulates that no entry is allowed, just like two countries are at war." In this battle, compared with Wang Chuanfu's superb business methods and the support of all the forces behind him, Guo Taiming seemed a little powerless, and he was no longer as good as before.In this competition, Guo Taiming was overwhelmed and confused. Some scholars once said: "The 'shanzhai' culture represented by Huaqiangbei, the industrial culture represented by Foxconn, and the R&D culture represented by Huawei constitute the indispensable trinity core of Shenzhen manufacturing. As long as this core continues Intact, and internal mutual influence, is enough to enable Shenzhen to continue to maintain vigorous vitality in the future." Unfortunately, this "trinity" is being consciously changed under the four unsustainable conditions (land, energy, environment, population) . I have to admit that when Shenzhen is promoting a new round of industrial upgrading and large-scale urban upgrading and transformation, the 12-year "love" between the Shenzhen government and Foxconn has also cooled down, and the two are also re-examining each other. In May 2010, at the Guangdong "Pearl River Delta Planning Outline" meeting, a senior official even bluntly stated that Foxconn would transfer the low-end industrial chain to the inland, and Shenzhen no longer regards Foxconn as the "golden goose". Contrary to the diametrically opposite attitude towards Foxconn, the Shenzhen government tried its best to "flatter" Foxconn's neighbor "Huawei".Because Huawei is one of the few technology companies in Shenzhen, where manufacturing is everywhere, when Shenzhen proposed to be an innovative city, Huawei was a shining business card. Shenzhen understands that Huawei means a lot to it. There is a saying in Longgang that "when Huawei coughs, Longgang will start to sway", so Huawei must be well served no matter what.Since 2005, Longgang has set up a "Leading Group for Serving Huawei" in a subtle and considerate manner. The group leader is the mayor. From top to bottom, similar organizations have been set up in districts and streets; in 2006, the office is ten minutes away from Huawei. The Bantian Sub-district Office even simply rented a factory building opposite Huawei, and concentrated the leaders of the sub-district office to work here. At the same time, they also set up a "Huawei Surrounding Remediation Office", including an urban management and law enforcement office specially set up for this purpose. mobile squadron.The only job in the street is the only one dedicated machine sweeper, and the only job every day is from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm, and it goes around the Huawei base uninterruptedly. In 2010, when news of Foxconn's "leaving" came out, the Shenzhen government even proposed to build a "Huawei New City" for Huawei.The incident happened when Jiang Zunyu, the newly appointed Secretary of the Longgang District Party Committee of Shenzhen, visited Huawei. During this trip, Jiang saw what Huawei employees called "Europe when you enter the door, and Africa when you leave the door". The Huawei base is beautiful, with two-way four-lane wide It is clean, with modern European-style buildings in the park; outside the park, it is surrounded by large and small urban villages. At that time, Guo Ping, the executive vice president of Huawei who was in charge of the reception, just joked, "There are no places around Huawei's headquarters for consumption. I hope that the relevant departments can build more delicious, fun and high-grade facilities. Huawei people like to eat. A decent restaurant would be nice." Leaders who think that "Huawei's business is Shenzhen's business" have heard it in their ears, kept it in their hearts, and even made a bigger plan: on the one hand, the government wants to improve the environment around Huawei; Star Huawei, taking the opportunity to develop.By building Huawei Science and Technology City, Huawei, a powerful "locomotive", will be provided with a platform that can exert more energy. In any case, the Shenzhen government can be said to have taken good care of and favored Huawei. In contrast, Foxconn has been left out in the cold. Competition inside and outside the industry has put pressure on Foxconn. Whether it is "vigorous" or "burdened", Foxconn has really "walked out of Shenzhen" this time. The originally low-key Guo Taiming also frequently appeared in this "north and west". Under the spotlight.Compared with the treatment in Shenzhen, Foxconn's "inland relocation" has become a stage for Terry Gou to show off. As soon as the news of Foxconn's transfer to Shenzhen came out, local governments offered olive branches to it one after another, fighting endlessly for this giant enterprise.For inland cities, Foxconn is definitely the darling of GDP. In Henan province alone, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Nanyang, and Hebi are actively running for Foxconn to settle in the local area. On June 20, 2010, Guo Gengmao, Governor of Henan Province, made a special trip to welcome Guo Taiming who landed at Xinzheng Airport under the high temperature of 35°C.After leaving the airport, a group of people drove to the large open space on the east side of Zhenxin Road, which is where the Foxconn Industrial Park will be located. Afterwards, Guo Taiming was also taken to visit the CBD of Zhengzhou New District, which is a new building built by the local government with huge sums of money. Modern business center.In the evening, the host and guest also had a dinner together.In the process, what is quite interesting is the scene where Guo Taiming hugged his one-year-old daughter and talked with Henan executives while laughing. For a long time, Henan has only been one of the fierce battles for Foxconn.For Foxconn, there have been many invitations, and personal visits by provincial leaders are no longer rare.Guo Taiming is not worried that Foxconn has no "foothold". On the contrary, he can choose the best according to the conditions offered by various places.Therefore, he seemed so leisurely and happy when teasing his daughter. Since then, a delegation of dozens of relevant leaders led by the executive vice-governor of Henan Province and the vice-governor in charge of investment promotion went to Shenzhen to further discuss related matters with Terry Gou.Among them, Zhang Baocheng, deputy director of the Zhengzhou Export Processing Zone Management Committee who participated in the negotiations, said, "At that time, Foxconn's business was the only job, and we lived in Longhua." This shows that for Henan Province, they vowed to win Get off Foxconn. In the process of fighting for Foxconn, Henan has done a lot of preparatory work, such as arranging almost all vocational school graduates in Zhengzhou to go to Foxconn for internships with "political tasks"; Registration form, etc.On the one hand, this large-scale recruitment operation is preparing for Foxconn's relocation to Henan, and on the other hand, it is also releasing smoke bombs to competitors. In fact, as early as a few years ago, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province had set up a Foxconn investment project coordination and promotion leading group, which was specifically responsible for Foxconn's investment promotion work.And Zhengzhou also issued a "check" for "maximum preferential treatment in land supply, security, taxation, employment services, etc." The governor of Henan Province also made such a request to his subordinates: "Some of the current projects, not only big projects or good projects, are often competed by many companies, cities, and provinces. The bigger the project, the better the project, the more the owners invest Be cautious, and often put forward various conditions, which is a matter of decision, so on the basis of doing a lot of prerequisite work, when necessary, the coach will go out and make decisive decisions." This series of actions reminds people of what Guo Taiming said at the signing ceremony of the Foxconn Science and Technology Park in Qinhuangdao three years ago.At that time, he said, "From the upper, middle to lower levels in Hebei Province, everyone has the same idea, action, and service. Your carefulness, seriousness, and delicacy in doing things really captured my heart." In 2010, Zhengzhou, Henan "captured" Guo Taiming's heart, and undoubtedly found the right excitement for Guo Taiming.A person like Guo Taiming who was named "Asian Star" by the US "Business Weekly" and an "electronics OEM aircraft carrier" like Hon Hai can bear the "rolling eyes" of others. Of course, he is unwilling to make fun of himself.Because "there is no place to stay here, but there is a place to stay."Just like Sun Yulin, special assistant to the president of Foxconn Group, said two years ago: "Every month or even every day, local governments come to Foxconn to stay, offer preferential conditions, and line up to invite us to invest. We have a lot of choices." In this round of "shows of goodwill", there is no lack of Wuhan, which has previously cooperated. When Foxconn settled in Wuhan in 2007, it enjoyed 17 key supporting projects tailor-made by the Wuhan government, including land acquisition and construction of special railway lines.In order to further expand Foxconn's production lines in Wuhan, the Wuhan Municipal Government also presented Foxconn with a dowry gift of "sponsoring a new factory building of 600,000 square meters" and "constructing low-rent housing for employees". ("First Financial Daily") Going back further, in February 2009, Huang Qifan, the mayor of Chongqing, personally went to Taiwan to meet Guo Taiming. It is said that the first sentence of the meeting was "I am not here to attract investment, I am here to deliver orders for you." ("China Securities At that time, HP established a notebook computer base in Chongqing, and Huang Qifan immediately took the lead for leading OEM companies such as Foxconn to solve their "order" pressure. In any case, in this scene of relocation, Guo Taiming fully demonstrated his "big brother" style, and made enough of the gesture of "you don't have a discount, there are still many places waiting for my investment". These are enough to offset the desire to leave Shenzhen. lonely. From Foxconn, it is easy to see the shadow of Shenzhen pioneers in the late 1980s. In the past 12 years, Guo Taiming, a "pioneer" from the other side of the Taiwan Strait, used his ambition to build a "OEM Forbidden City" in the wild grass of Longgang.However, Shenzhen, which developed simultaneously with Foxconn, has also grown stronger in the past 12 years.Today's Shenzhen is an arena, and even industry leaders like Foxconn feel the pressure. Perhaps, Guo Taiming, who has experienced Taiwan's transfer, has long expected that Shenzhen's manufacturing industry will upgrade sooner or later.Therefore, it is still possible to use his early "Southern Expeditions and Northern Wars" in the Mainland as pawns in "siege of cities and territories". "Enter" is probably the most decisive move.