Unlike the refreshing mountains and seas, Chengdu has entered summer, and the air is hot and humid, but there is a special sweet fragrance in this air. It is different from when I came to Chengdu in June. At that time, I came mainly to take exams, and there was a sense of fighting against fate. Although the climate is hot and humid now, there is a sense of tranquility.
This is a sense of accomplishment that everything around you has been changed by yourself. Now Fulon's acquisition of Rongcheng Huatong is a big news in the relevant field. Seeing a company on the verge of collapse come back to life in the hands of Cheng Feiyang, under the establishment of Fulon's basic legal framework, all departments are operating effectively, and the combat effectiveness is more than a hundred times higher than before.
Now, among the 22 cities in Sichuan Province, Fulong has captured the markets in 14 municipal areas. Among these cities and areas, Fulong’s market share has exceeded 60%, and in some cases it has reached 90%. In some cities, the municipal government takes the lead, and all enterprises and institutions have replaced their lines with Fulong’s. This is certainly due to the fact that Li Jingping is the leader in business, but another reason is that Fulong’s products are stable, easy to use, the service is in place, and they are not expensive.
To get rich, you must first build roads. Now, to get rich, you must first build information highways. Leaders in every place hope that their policies can be implemented. The upgrade and guarantee of communications is the most basic requirement for the operation of a region's ears and eyes. In the past, it was limited by domestic technology and the monopoly of large companies, which led to being controlled by others in this regard. Now Fulong has risen strongly in the local area, and everyone can afford it. The service is so good that the old communication companies in various cities have no resistance, and they have been losing market share step by step.
Today, there are still four cities, namely Mianshan, Lecheng, Binjiang and Yangzhou, where the market size has not yet exceeded half, but Fulun is also rising.
In Sichuan Province, due to historical reasons, the products of three companies, Beituo, Fujitsu, and NEC, occupy the largest market scale here, among which Beituo has the highest market share. However, with the rise of Fulong, the situation has changed. The strongest Beituo has lost its position one after another, not to mention Fujitsu and NEC, which are just sandwiched in the gap. In Sichuan Province, the two companies are giants after all, but because of the inadequate deployment of forces and the loss of public support due to the previous poor service, they are now only being eroded, and the situation is very embarrassing. Only Beituo continues to invest its strength to block Fulong, the powerful enemy.
The four cities that Fulong has not conquered yet actually have the highest market share, but they have not yet reached the point of unification with more than half of the overall market share. However, with Fulong's rapid progress, the conquest of these four cities is only a matter of time.
Of course, Fulong’s focus now is no longer limited to the four cities that rank among the top six in the province in terms of GDP. This time, the company has moved to Chengdu, and its ultimate goal is to target the Chengdu market.
The acquisition of Huatong Corporation is only the first step for Fulon.
Previously, Fu Long secretly contacted Chengdu Huatong, and Cheng Feiyang arranged the "combat command center" in a small guesthouse on the edge of the West Second Ring Road. After Cheng Ran and Xu Lan arrived in Chengdu, Cheng Feiyang only asked the driver to take the two to Huatong Company, while he was still outside arranging troops.
Cheng Ran lived in the staff quarters of Huatong Company rented by the Secretariat. The main reason why he did not buy a commercial house was that Fulong wanted to use the shell of Huatong Company, the building, the factory, the equipment, and even the skilled workers in the past. This inevitably meant that he had to integrate with the masses. Living in the staff quarters also gave him the strongest control. He would know everything at the first time, and he would not appear to be superior.
This is also what Cheng Feiyang has always insisted on. The previous head office leaders had shelved the situation and had no understanding of the grassroots situation. This must not be allowed to happen again.
Cheng Ran and Xu Lan took some carry-on luggage and took the train to Chengdu. Some large items and luggage had already been transported to Chengdu by the moving company's vehicle. The two waited for a while outside the Huatong Company. At noon, the moving truck came and carried the luggage into the family compound. Three employees of the moving company helped move the things into the house rented by the Cheng family.
This house is rented on the second floor, the location of Huatong head office. One can tell at a glance the superiority that was retained within the system back then. Even some elderly people nearby lamented that in order to develop the telecommunications industry, the Chengdu government allocated a piece of Feng Shui treasure land to Chengdu Huatong!
It is located next to the Cultural Park and adjacent to the Jinjiang River. The park and the best buildings at that time were rising from the ground. There is a hospital nearby and the well-known scenic spot Qingyang Palace. It is close to the water, with a gentle breeze, singing birds and fragrant flowers. It is really comfortable and relaxed to work and live in such a place.
Cheng Ran knew that after the decline of Huatong Company, high-rise buildings were springing up in this area, with various Internet-famous buildings, restaurants, shopping malls, elevated roads, and subway lines crisscrossing, making it a commercial destination in Chengdu that attracts commercial value and has a huge passenger flow throughput.
At this time in 1998, everything around here was peaceful like water, with beautiful scenery. There were department stores that were peaceful without the hustle and bustle of later generations, commercial office buildings that looked trendy but old-fashioned in Cheng Ran's eyes, and some old buildings before the liberation scattered in the area. A property nearby called Ginkgo Spring had an average listed selling price of 3,200 per square meter. People from near and far called it a high-end property and were extremely envious of the dignitaries who frequented it.
In this city and in this era, all the earth-shaking things that would later change the world were in their infancy.
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Speaking of which, the staff quarters of Huatong Company are much more beautiful than Shanhai. Although the building was built ten years ago, it does not look old. The exterior walls are painted with gray fluorocarbon paint, which is highly corrosion-resistant and will not fade, peel off over time like some old buildings. The staff quarters are also large, with about a dozen buildings. Outside each building there is a separate garden and some plant shapes, which complement the nearby park. It can be seen how wealthy the Chengdu Huatong Company was at the time.
The houses are also generally very spacious. After all, in those years, when enterprises built their own houses, they often stole space. Unlike Cheng Ran's 90-square-meter two-bedroom, one-living room house in Shanhai, the family compound they rented cost 600 yuan a month, 138 square meters, three bedrooms, one living room, and two bathrooms.
We can't count on Cheng Feiyang who is busy outside now. After the official acquisition of Rongcheng Huatong, Cheng Feiyang probably hasn't been to Huatong Company. Cheng Ran and Xu Lan were busy for an afternoon to move the luggage into the house, but if they want to move in, they may have to wait for two more days.
After putting all the things away, the room was still a bit dusty and messy. We had to ask someone to clean and tidy it up thoroughly, and finally put new sheets on the bed before we could move in. The family had a place to go for the next two days, and Xu Lan had booked a room in the hotel at the door.
When he was almost done, Cheng Ran was moving the electric fan at the door. A handsome boy in a white shirt was looking at him at the door.
Cheng Ran was stunned for a moment. If this look happened in the future, he would definitely be a handsome young man.
The most noticeable thing about the boy is his big eyes and chubby face, which gives people a sense of righteousness and masculinity. In fact, this boy passed by the corridor before this afternoon and even looked inside a few times on purpose. He was probably waiting at the door because Cheng Ran and the others were almost done with their work.
Cheng Ran wiped the sweat off his face and looked at the boy. The boy said, "So it's you who rented Yuan Bin's house... Many people have left our neighborhood. Some have sold their houses, some have rented them, and all kinds of people have moved in. My dad said that the living conditions have become more and more mixed, and it's not comfortable..."
"It's mainly because my family doesn't have money. If we had money, we could have bought a commercial house like Yuan Bin's family and moved out. I don't really want to move out. I've lived here since I was a child and most of my friends are here. I'd be reluctant to leave..."
"Oh, my name is Lian Hu, and Hu is pronounced like the word for tiger, so everyone in the company calls me Lian Xiaohu. You can call me Xiaohu too. But my Hu is not ordinary. My grandfather got it. You know the jade tablets held by ministers in ancient times when submitting memorials to the emperor are Hu. My grandfather said that if I get this name, I will have a good fate and will become a high-ranking official in the future..."
"Hey, who are you? You just moved in here to make friends, why aren't you talking?"
Facing the questioning from this innocent and talkative male god who called himself "Lian Xiaohu", Cheng Ran moved his lips and pointed into the house.
"I'm going to move a stool over and listen to you talk slowly."
Hehe. (Laughing to please others)