Reborn multinational giant

This September, Wu Xiongfei was busy traveling around the new province with his DJI MG-1 plant protection drone to make money, while ten thousand miles away in Seattle, the United States, a group of visitors from China, also made the two countries, as well as the eyes of the world to focus on here.

This group of visitors from China, representing almost a "wall of power" in China's Internet industry, included Huizhong CEO Zhe Fang, Alibaba Board Chairman Ma, Baidu President Zhang Yaqin, Lenovo CEO Yang, Tencent CEO Ma, Jingdong CEO Liu, Xiaomi CEO Lei, 360 CEO Zhou, and Fasafe. CEO Cheng Xiaodong, etc.

You could say that in this group of people, all but the big man is still the big man!

The group came to Seattle to attend the 8th China-U.S. Internet Forum with the big leaders.

The China-US Internet Forum, jointly organized by the Internet Society of China and Microsoft Corporation, is held every other session, each in a city in China or the U.S. Since its inception in 2007, the China-US Internet Forum has reached its eighth session.

This year's event was also the highest and most influential in the history of the event because of the participation of big leaders and many Chinese Internet leaders.

Likewise, the U.S. side, in order to reciprocate, has sent a number of big names from the U.S. Internet industry in addition to big U.S. leaders, including Microsoft CEO Nadella, Apple CEO Cook, Google CEO Larry Page, Amazon CEO Bezos, IBM CEO Roriland, Qualcomm CEO Mollenkopf, Cisco CEO Chambers, Intel CEO Kozai. Uber CEO Kalanick, etc.

In short, both the Chinese side and the U.S. side have sent their Internet industry's top bigwigs, which is basically the same as the world's Internet industry's top group of bigwigs, and it can be said that the details of the various events of the global Internet industry in the past years, the participation of bigwigs have never been so full.

For this reason, both the industry and the outside world paid special attention to this event.

At the opening ceremony of the 8th China-U.S. Internet Forum in the media center of Microsoft's headquarters in Seattle on the morning of September 23, U.S. time, Fang Zhe, after the big leaders, delivered a speech on behalf of Chinese Internet companies.

"Many business models in the Internet industry originated in the United States, and Chinese Internet companies are actively learning from the American model, while also making a lot of localized innovations.

Since the beginning of the mobile Internet era, both China and the United States have emerged with some innovations or business models that are worth learning from each other.

For example, WeChat has become more than a simple instant messaging software, integrating social networking, media, entertainment, games and finance.

I deeply feel that the U.S. and Chinese Internet industries are closely interconnected and interdependent. Only by upholding more open, inclusive, fair and cooperative values and concepts can the U.S. and Chinese Internet industries, as well as the global Internet industry, develop more harmoniously and healthily and make a longer-term and lasting contribution to the global economy and the well-being of mankind.

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Fang Zhe was delivering a speech on stage, and off stage, Chinese and American Internet bigwigs were sitting at ease, but at this moment, several people on the American side, including Amazon CEO Bezos and Google CEO Larry Page, were smiling inexplicably.

Especially when Fang Zhe said "openness, tolerance...", Bezos muttered sarcastically, "You Chinese people deserve to say the word "openness" even in your current situation. At one point, Bezos inwardly muttered sarcastically, "Even in your current situation in China, you deserve to say the word openness?

Sitting next to Bezos, Google's CEO, Larry Page, was in a similar frame of mind.

There was no way to know what Bezos and the others were up to, not only did Fang Zhe, who was on stage delivering a speech, but also the Chinese bigwigs who were there.

At noon, at the invitation of the host, Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, business leaders from both China and the United States attended a banquet together.

More than thirty Chinese and American dignitaries were seated around an oversized rectangular table filled with a variety of world class cuisine such as Japanese mushrooms, French foie gras, and Italian white truffles.

On either side of Mr. Fang Zhe, Mr. Ali Ma and Mr. Lei of Xiaomi were seated, and right across from him, Mr. Bezos, CEO of Amazon, was seated.

Fang Zhe and Arima's English was very fluent, so at the beginning of the meal, their conversation with Bezos and other U.S. representatives across the table was quite relaxed and comfortable, while the big men sitting at other seats at the long table, those with good English also chattered with the U.S. representatives across the table, and those with bad English chatted with the Chinese representatives around them, and the U.S. representatives across the table, more or less the same situation.

The good news is that the table is so large that even if you eat quietly without saying a word, there are no embarrassing situations.

The chat with Bezos and Google's CEO Larry Page next to him was quite pleasant, but Bezos' next words began to spoil the friendly atmosphere.

"Jackma, some time ago, my secretary heard that you, Alibaba, had invested heavily in an e-commerce company in Southeast Asia, and then he suggested that I also invest in a Southeast Asian e-commerce company.

I educated him at the time, saying that instead of spending a lot of money to help improve the infrastructure in backward places like Southeast Asia, where infrastructure and logistics are backward and the e-commerce market is less than $10 billion, we at Amazon should put some effort into exploring new businesses.

Even one or two more membership services would make far more money than throwing it at Southeast Asia.

There are many developing countries in the world, like Southeast Asia, that are both backward and poorly populated, with low levels of consumption, for which Amazon is not suitable or necessary.

Of course, I'm not talking about you China, after all, from the market value of the Internet companies you came to participate in this time and from the point of view, your Chinese Internet industry is also equal to half of the U.S. Internet industry, you China, is still a quite large and potential market."

Bezos' words sounded as if he was talking about Amazon itself, but to Ali Ma and Fang Zhe's ears, they were full of arrogant sarcasm, very harsh.

Arima was about to respond, and Fang Zhe, who was sitting across from Bezos, directly sneered back.

"Mr. Bezos has a point. Small places like Southeast Asia and many backward developing countries are not worthy of Amazon's business, so let's leave the hard work to our Chinese companies.

I've always thought that it's never the backward learning from the advanced, and I don't know why, but in the past few years, I've always found Chinese companies in Silicon Valley startups, and who knows, maybe they have Asian founders on their teams!

I think China's Internet industry and the U.S. Internet industry, each has its own unique advantages, there is no one who is equal to who is half a what, just like some people on Wall Street said, I, a Fang Zhe, is equal to you six Bezos, they use money and wealth to measure personal value, it is really shortsighted!