If we want to know the attitudes of Liu Chuanzhi and Lei Jun towards Huawei, I think we need to first understand the company Huawei.
A brief history of the development of Huawei
Huawei was founded by Ren Zhengfei in Shenzhen in 1987. Perhaps even Ren Zhengfei himself did not expect that the company he founded would be important to the country 30 years later. sex. At the beginning, Huawei did not have its own core technology. What Ren Zhengfei thought at the time was: Since we don’t have the technology, let’s find products. In this way, Huawei found a Hong Kong switch company and became their agent; because Ren Zhengfei was very honest and kind in doing business, Huawei achieved profitability in the first year.
At this time, Ren Zhengfei did not think about how to make more profits, but used all profits to develop his own switch technology. In less than 2 years, Huawei They already had the more advanced switch technology at the time, and they successfully entered the communications field. Around 2001, Huawei had become a very powerful communications equipment supplier in China, and then it chose to go overseas. The first stop was Russia. At that time, Huawei had no foundation in Russia. However, it relied on its deep technical strength and high-quality and low-price products to successfully open up the Russian market. A few years later, it also became the largest telecommunications equipment supplier in Russia. With Russia's example, Huawei quickly achieved good results in Southeast Asia and Africa. Around 2002, Ren Zhengfei had already set his sights on Europe. At that time, it was Yu Chengdong who was sent to Europe to develop markets. Huawei has invested considerable resources and energy in Europe. Huawei used its core technology to help Germany build the first distributed 2G and 3G combined base station. At the same time, Huawei’s global capability center, financial center and risk control center are all set up. In Europe; in terms of sales revenue contribution, Europe is even more important.
In addition, after entering the smartphone era, Huawei also established HiSilicon Semiconductor and successfully developed the Kirin series processors that the Chinese are proud of; currently, Huawei's independently developed operating system "Hongmeng" has surfaced and has been registered as a trademark in Europe. "Hongmeng" is likely to become the first domestic operating system for the world. Liu Chuanzhi and Lei Jun’s views on Huawei
Liu Chuanzhi himself is also a legendary entrepreneur. Lenovo, the company he founded, has transformed from a small workshop-like company into the world's largest computer manufacturer. , Such achievements deserve recognition; but when it comes to Huawei, Liu Chuanzhi still recognizes it very much. Liu Chuanzhi often says that among all entrepreneurs, the one he admires and admires the most is Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei. Ren Zhengfei’s courage and courage are something he does not have, but Liu Chuanzhi believes that this does not mean that his choice is wrong. He has his own Unique way of thinking about problems. Liu Chuanzhi has such a high opinion of Huawei, which shows that he himself is quite big and has a broad mind.
Compared to Ren Zhengfei, Lei Jun is a junior. He often expresses on Weibo that Huawei is a respectable company and that he should learn from Huawei; although as an individual From a personal perspective, Lei Jun's achievements are very impressive, but when faced with Ren Zhengfei, he can only admire him.
This is also easy to understand. From the above discussion: we can see that Huawei, as a company, has made considerable contributions to the country’s technological progress. Obviously, this has exceeded the social responsibility of a company. responsibility. For anyone, such a height is unattainable. When faced with a company like Huawei, everyone would give a thumbs up.
Speaking of Liu Chuanzhi and Lei Jun’s attitude towards Huawei, it is actually their attitude towards Ren Zhengfei. Looking back at the road Huawei has traveled in the past 30 years, it is a bit like a foolish old man moving mountains. When Liu Chuanzhi talked about Ren Zhengfei, he mentioned Ren Zhengfei’s attitude towards things. Ren Zhengfei’s attitude is like everyone climbing a mountain together, they usually choose a hillside with a smaller slope. Even if it means walking a little longer, it is acceptable. However, Ren Zhengfei chose the steepest road and kept climbing up, so he arrived in the fastest time. Hillside, this is a direct reflection of the overall situation.
Huawei has been reported more in the media in the past few years. It is mainly oppressed by the US blockade. Some things must be pressured by the media or the public on the US. As a last resort, there are more opportunities to show up now, and Huawei is indeed the largest private enterprise now, and its total output value has exceeded the three BAT companies combined. If it were any domestic entrepreneur, he would show up on various occasions to show his social status, but Ren Zhengfei rarely accepts media attention. During the interview, everyone discovered that Mr. Ren Zhengfei had such a strong view of the overall situation after being included in the entity list by the United States. At such an urgent time for Huawei, he was still worried about the country’s basic education, calling for an increase in the salary of grassroots educators, and repeatedly Emphasizing the importance of talents, he also mentioned that Germany and Japan completed reconstruction in a very short period of time after World War II. This is the power of talents. To be strong, a country must have a solid educational foundation.
Liu Chuanzhi admires Ren Zhengfei’s courage and courage from the bottom of his heart. Huawei’s success today is closely related to Ren Zhengfei’s overall awareness. When the output value was only 100 million, he dared to spend 60 million to develop new products. The product seems radical but is actually the most practical and effective method. As a technology company, how can it have a position in the market without its own core products? This also kicked off Huawei's insistence on independent research and development and laid a very good foundation. Taking chip design as the basis, it is simply more difficult for domestic companies to reach the sky. Huawei has invested at least more than 100 billion since it started setting up HiSilicon chips in 2004. This is a real profit. During this period, many people must have thought they were fools. Chips can be bought as ready-made products directly from abroad. Why do they have to go all out and do it themselves? And they don’t know if all the money will be wasted in the end.
As long as Ren Zhengfei is determined, he will basically never look back. He will continue to stick to it and focus on self-research and development. Therefore, as long as it involves core technology development in the future, Huawei will basically provide sufficient resources. Strategic capital investment, and a lot of it may not produce immediate results, but we persisted for decades and finally made major breakthroughs in the chip and 5G fields. Using the method of Foolish Old Man to move mountains to research technology is a true reflection of Huawei. No matter what the situation, it is true talent and hard work, and there is no need for half-day lies.
Lei Jun has always regarded Ren Zhengfei as his idol for a lot of time, and he can still remember many of Ren Zhengfei’s sentences. If he were not a direct competitor, this good feeling may continue to strengthen, but due to competition Lei Jun also hit back at Huawei on certain occasions, but from the bottom of his heart he still admired Ren Zhengfei's big-picture outlook. Generally speaking, many domestic entrepreneurs like to form alliances or conferences, etc. Ren Zhengfei basically turned away from this kind of thinking and had no regard for his own life. He keeps a low profile when driving and traveling. He often rides the subway and is photographed by netizens. He has never felt a huge sense of superiority because he is the president of Huawei. Instead, he often has a very strong sense of crisis. It was Ren Zhengfei who created this sense of crisis that made Huawei He was very tough when facing his competitors.
China is lucky to have a company like Huawei. It shares most of its wealth with its employees, fully delegates power to its senior management, and studies technology to serve customers in a down-to-earth manner. There are only a few entrepreneurs who can achieve this level in China. They are typical representatives of Da Fool and Ruo Yu, and they also fully demonstrate the best genes of the Chinese nation. Many people feel that there are too many trolls from Huawei on the Internet now, but for If there is such a company in China, it is willing to pretend to be a pirate. It is a blessing for the nation to have entrepreneurs like Ren Zhengfei. I hope I can help you.
From the perspective of final attitude, after Huawei was sanctioned by the United States, Lenovo’s attitude was to protect itself at first, but later refuted the rumors and denied it, while Xiaomi sympathized with the same problem and basically did not make fierce remarks.
Lenovo’s remarks in recent years have mainly included the following points, which have aroused domestic anger: One is that it voted against Huawei in the 5G International Standards Organization vote because it was backed by Microsoft and Intel. Some patents were unable to become standards of international standards organizations and eventually accounted for 25% of the 5G standards (this is controversial. Lenovo refuted the rumor and said it was not Lenovo's behavior. The facts are unknown). One is the comparison between Lenovo's sales price to American consumers and domestic comparison. There is a big difference. Lenovo's official opinion is that it is "confident in the performance of the domestic market." Another is that Huawei was sanctioned this time. Lenovo was worried about the consequences for itself and did not express its own views on American companies such as Microsoft and Intel. Some even said they supported it. The remarks by the US company triggered a strong backlash against Lenovo from the domestic public.
As for Xiaomi, because its industrial structure, especially mobile phone terminal products, is basically in a state of being controlled by others, it will be difficult to be independent in the future trade friction pattern. Therefore, its official public opinion basically has no Statements that are clearly in contrast to public perceptions have appeared.
It should be said that Huawei and the trade friction incident have increasingly highlighted the embarrassment of my country's communications and technology industries being controlled by others. It is precisely because of Huawei's strategic foresight and neither being humble nor being overbearing that Huawei's pathos is revealed. Huawei has both faced In reality, we have been actively preparing for war. We have been preparing for sanctions from the United States for more than half a year. Before the Spring Festival, the entire Huawei has been rushing to equip and stock up. Huawei people have worked overtime all night without any complaints, and they have already prepared for a rainy day in the mobile operating system and chip industry. There are preliminary preparations and alternative plans, but Huawei remains objective and calm when facing the media. "If necessary, we will launch our own operating system. After all, Huawei has been preparing for it many years ago. The Android system is an open source system. We are committed to Android." We have also made huge contributions to the system ecology and long-term construction. If we can do without our own backup system, we still hope to use the Android system. After all, the completeness and ecology of the Android system are very excellent."
When I describe Huawei’s tragedy before and after, I hope to compare it with Lenovo’s inaction and complacency. It was satisfied with being an assembly OEM company without thinking about progress. Around 2000, it acquired the mobile phone divisions of LBM and Motorcycle. Until now, there has been no sense of urgency, preparation for industry iteration, or even such pursuit. With Huawei's structure, especially Mr. Ren Zhengfei's leadership spirit and sense of crisis in the national industry, the superiority and inferiority are obvious.
As for Lenovo and Huawei, I don’t need to say more about how Chinese people evaluate or perceive them. It should be fair and reasonable.
Speaking of Lei Jun’s attitude towards Huawei, we have to think of Lei Jun’s recent frequent angry attacks on Huawei in public. I have to say that Mr. Lei’s words, “Look down on life and death, and do it if you don’t accept it” really scared me.
I was lucky enough to be present at the press conference where Lei Jun angrily criticized Huawei’s PPT phone. However, Mr. Lei was not as amiable as usual. Instead, he used a harsh tone to belittle Huawei, especially that sentence "I've been pushed into a hurry, so I'll give you popular science about the technical weaknesses of perforated screens." At that time, the author turned against Lei Jun fans. However, Lei Jun also gave a reasonable explanation in an interview afterwards: For five years, he has been trying to unite domestic mobile phone manufacturers, but his friends have been slandering Xiaomi time and time again. At this time, he could no longer bear it.
Afterwards, the author also watched some videos of the Honor press conference and found that indeed, as Lei Junduo said, many Honor models like to compare with Xiaomi at the press conference. Today, high running scores do not mean experience. Okay, tomorrow I will say that the price/performance ratio and configuration are not as high as mine... On the Weibo posts of Huawei product manager Yu Chengdong and others, you can also see Weibo posts disparaging Xiaomi.
Now the author really understands Lei Jun a little bit. In the capital market, it is a life-and-death competition. The shopping mall is like a battlefield. It is an eternal truth that there are no brothers, not to mention Xiaomi and Honor. Two competing brands. It's normal to have friction. Just because Lei Jun is good doesn't mean he won't fight back.
As a melon-eater, we are not afraid of them fighting, but we are afraid that they will not fight. Therefore, it can be predicted that the new products of Honor and Xiaomi will become more and more cost-effective in the next period of time, and we will make money in this wave.
However, the author believes that although business competition is inevitable, friendly businessmen still need to unite. Since you are making mobile phones, you must have the confidence to become a benchmark in the industry. Even if your products are not high-end, can you provide the best value for money? Just like Apple, the press conference is never compared with any brand.
Seeing this kind of fight between them reminds me of Guo Degang and his colleagues. Guo Degang once said that a group of people who cannot speak cross talk are pretending to do so. Finally, someone comes who can really speak cross talk, so what should we do? Kill him.
Regarding how Liu Chuanzhi attacked Huawei, I personally have not seen this information, so I dare not judge Liu Chuanzhi and why he attacked Huawei.
However, at the launch conference of Redmi, Lei Jun’s attack on Huawei’s Honor brand was a naked one, saying that he would be pessimistic if he didn’t accept it.
In my eyes, this is just a very normal commercial hype. I think we as consumers observe from an objective perspective and there is no need to overly analyze who is right and who is wrong.
Back then, Redmi had a slogan: Always believe that something good is about to happen. Then Huawei Honor said that some good things have happened. In my eyes, this is a typical piece of marketing.
The mutual marketing of Redmi mobile phones and Honor mobile phones has greatly increased the exposure of both parties, and has also hit other third-party mobile phone companies. We can see the results of such bumpy marketing from other business cases.
For example, the conflicting marketing between Jiaduobao and Wanglaoji resulted in the disappearance of Heqizheng.
There are many, many other such examples. I will not list them all here. I believe everyone knows them.
So as judges, we can just take a look. Whether it's a soy sauce shopper passing by, someone holding a watermelon to eat it, or a group of people, there's no need to take this matter too seriously.
To evaluate Huawei and LianMi, we can change our perspective. Huawei can be proudly isolated by US sanctions. Based on this confidence, putting LianMi and others together with Huawei is too high regard for Liu Chuanzhi and Lei Jun. When looking at people and things, we need to look at the overall environment. Especially since the Sino-US trade war, we can see how important and urgent independent innovation is. It is commendable that Huawei can survive. It can even be said to have boosted the confidence of the nation. This is a hundred times stronger than thousands of reasons. Of course, Huawei still has many shortcomings, but at least it has fulfilled the responsibilities of a Chinese enterprise. At this time, I think a shameless enterprise should focus on innovation, rather than Liu Chuanzhi is peddling outdated theories everywhere, and he should not be as motivated as Lei Jun. Shopping malls are like battlefields, and flies cannot bite seamless eggs. If it is not Lianmi itself, who can hack you.
Liu Chuanzhi has a very high prestige in the entire business circle. The entire family is very powerful. Liu Qing, the head of Didi, is his daughter. Many business leaders want to give Liu Chuanzhi some slack.
So what is the attitude of these two powerful people towards Huawei, or towards Ren Zhengfei? In addition to admiration, it is learning. We can see from Liu Chuanzhi’s conversation after the Lenovo 5G voting incident and his description of Huawei’s 5G participation in the voting process that we are very humble and admired. Ren Zhengfei is an entrepreneur with a military background. He is very low-key and powerful. The picture of him queuing up to take photos at the airport is admirable. In addition, Huawei has now become the world's largest supplier of communication equipment and the world's second largest mobile phone manufacturer. In addition, the upcoming 5G and the step-by-step success of Huawei HiSilicon Semiconductor make every Chinese proud and admired.
Let’s talk about Lei Jun. Lei Jun is a programmer. After he founded Xiaomi, he was very friendly to the people. However, his attitude towards Huawei is the same. After the Redmi note7 conference, Lei Jun said that the sub-brands of friendly companies have been hacking. Xiaomi and Huawei are companies that he admires very much. Before founding Xiaomi, he was a die-hard fan of Huawei and would recite many of Ren Zhengfei’s conversations. This shows that Huawei and Ren Zhengfei have a profound impact on the entire industry.
As for Lei Jun’s rare speech at the press conference, his anger against friends and businessmen was also aimed at Honor. Huawei and Xiaomi are still not on the same level, so they need to learn more.
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I am a programmer. This question is close to my work and I want to talk about my experience in the industry for many years. Computer majors know that the industry worshiped and admired Lenovo Group in its early years. It is the dream of countless students to apply for a job at Lenovo after graduating from college. How to understand Liu Chuanzhi and Lei Jun’s attitudes towards Huawei? We need to understand it from multiple perspectives.
First of all, understand that Liu Chuanzhi is a legendary figure and a public figure who enjoys a certain social status in China. Putting aside the 5G voting incident, let’s look at the development history of Lenovo Group correctly. In 1984, Liu Chuanzhi led 11 scientific and information technology personnel from the Institute of Computer Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and invested 200,000 yuan to set up a private enterprise with diversified development. In 1985, it successfully developed the Lenovo Hanka, which translated the English operating system into Chinese, and developed a personal computer with one-click Internet access, hence the name Lenovo Group. In 1997, Lenovo Computer ranked first in national sales and remained unbeaten for 10 years. In 2005, it acquired the IBM PC Division. In 2013, computer sales ranked first in the world. In 2014, it acquired all related regulatory work of Motorola mobile phone company and IBM x86 server business. Lenovo Group now has large-scale production capabilities in the electronic information industry such as desktop computers, servers, laptops, smart TVs, PDAs, motherboards, mobile phones, and all-in-one computers. Enterprises and units in major cities all use Lenovo computers and servers. At present, only rural teams have not widely used Lenovo computers. In the future, Lenovo will choose to go further and let every village team use Lenovo computers. In 1994, Lenovo Group was successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
In 1994, Huawei Group launched a wireless GSM solution and introduced digital switches to rural areas. Ren Zhengfei, a veteran with a military background, started from promoting digital switches in rural areas, extended to promoting enterprise PBX technology, and began to move to major cities. In 2009, the market share of wireless access communications ranked second in the world, and mobile broadband products are available in more than 100 countries around the world. Huawei is now the world's leading supplier of ICT (information and communications) infrastructure and smart terminals, communications networks, IT and cloud servers.
Huawei's self-developed Kunpeng 920 server chip has affected Lenovo's lifeblood. Lenovo has been developing and growing for many years. It is the leader in the computer and server industry, but it does not have its own self-developed chips, which hurts Lenovo's self-esteem. Lenovo has not innovated for many years, and its century-old stores have turned into rotten stores where old and new cannot be replaced, which also makes people in the industry sigh with emotion. However, the two bosses have a friendly relationship. Liu Chuanzhi will feel unhappy if his self-esteem is hurt, but Liu Chuanzhi, who has a good demeanor, will not lose his grace.
As for Lei Jun, we need to be more tolerant and understand him. He is a young and promising programmer. He is already the CEO of Hong Kong Kingsoft Company in his 30s. He has accumulated rich entrepreneurial experience in the design of software architecture and company operation management. , the big boss of Xiaomi, is often ridiculed by Yu Chengdong of Huawei in the industry. Can he continue to remain silent? Definitely not. The opponents on the stage and the brothers off the stage are each their own masters. They have to support each company's team and establish each company's brand. It is understandable to start a war of words. Lei Jun's Xiaomi brand is based on the first cost-effectiveness. The market position has benefited many of our people. We fully understand the duel between contradictions and shields in market competition.
Huawei Group has grown from an inconspicuous private enterprise to the leader of the world's communications and information industry, and has won the right to speak for China's information industry in the international market. This is all a matter of deep cultivation in a field. The achievements gained over the years will inevitably attract some attention, and all the major managers have their own fantastic tricks in the game, but they are all embroidered balls thrown by the BOSS in the business world, so that the melon-eaters stare at their PPTs.
A lot of people below are talking about Lei Jun, and they seem to have forgotten Liu Chuanzhi in the title, so let me talk about Liu Chuanzhi first.
After Liu Chuanzhi handed over Lenovo to Yang Yuanqing, he took the title of the Godfather of Chinese Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship and participated in various public activities to teach others how to start a business and how to start a company. He was not idle even after retirement. The appearance rate is still very high. As a result, while teaching others to start a company, my own company failed. Now it is far behind Huawei. The former representative of Chinese high-tech enterprises has changed from Lenovo to Huawei. Lenovo is now regarded by netizens as a computer seller. .
Therefore, Liu Chuanzhi can look down on other companies, but he cannot look down on Huawei. He often says that he respects Huawei and Ren Zhengfei very much. He can only express his position in this way, after all, where are the facts.
Lei Jun’s attitude towards Huawei is easy to understand. Huawei and Xiaomi have been fighting for so many years and have become a pair of old enemies in the domestic mobile phone industry and even the global mobile phone industry. If it were not for Huawei, Xiaomi would probably be the best now. Life will be very nourishing. The emergence of Huawei has made Xiaomi very difficult in the domestic market in recent years. In Lei Jun's eyes, Huawei is Xiaomi's biggest enemy now, and his attitude towards Huawei is one word: do it.
I hope they fight as fiercely as possible. No matter which family dominates, it will not be a good thing for us.
Although Huawei and Lenovo were both launched in the 1980s, the person who was as famous as Liu Chuanzhi was not Ren Zhengfei, but Haier’s Zhang Ruimin. Ren Zhengfei was still a Chinese enterprise leader at that time. A little-known person. However, to this day, we do not compare Ren Zhengfei and Liu Chuanzhi; Ren Zhengfei seems to have become the uncrowned king.
Lei Jun said in an interview that he liked Huawei very much in his early years, and was even a die-hard fan of Huawei. He would be attracted by many of Ren Zhengfei's words, which shows that Lei Jun was indeed a "fanboy" of Huawei at the time. However, in the interview, he said this about Honor: From the beginning of the establishment of the sub-brand, it has always found fault with Xiaomi. What do you want? If you don't care about life and death, do it if you don't accept it!
Today, both Liu Chuanzhi and Lei Jun should actually admire their attitude towards Huawei. However, Liu Chuanzhi has achieved success after all, but after seeing Ren Zhengfei's Huawei becoming more and more recognized in the world, there seems to be a gap between Lenovo and Huawei. In Ni Guangnan’s words: Huawei’s valuation is US$400 billion. Lenovo's market capitalization is US$8 billion, a 50-fold difference! I believe Liu Chuanzhi is probably unwilling to do so.
Lei Jun and Huawei have reversed their attitude. It is estimated that they still popularized a 48-megapixel camera in Honor and broke out. In fact, Xiaomi has been a competitor with Huawei since its launch.
Later, Honor's route was surprisingly consistent with Xiaomi's. In fact, when it was targeting cost-effective brands such as Xiaomi, Lei Jun probably felt the pressure, and this time's anger was not just a dissatisfaction with Huawei!
In fact, Huawei's achievements are great because it is not limited to the Chinese market at all, which can be seen from Huawei's operator business. Similarly, Lei Jun and Liu Chuanzhi are not limited to the Chinese market, but Lenovo's route does not take into account the psychology of consumers in the Chinese market; Lei Jun cares too much about consumer psychology; therefore, domestic consumers' impression of Liu Chuanzhi is far less favorable than that of Lei Jun and Ren Zhengfei.
Huawei is different. Its pace and route are separate. It not only takes care of domestic consumers, but also does a good job in the international market: customer-centered. Therefore, no matter what, we still hope that the three companies can all develop in a good direction.