At the end of this year, Zhao Yi and many of his companies were quite busy. Seeing this situation, Zhao Yi simply asked everyone to hold an annual meeting online instead of going back and forth.
In fact, except for the companies involved in the national welfare plan, which are relatively busy, other companies under his umbrella are not very busy except for the business related to the newly launched medical benefits.
But Zhao Yi is indeed not relaxed at all at the end of this year. Not only does he have to keep an eye on companies related to national welfare, but he also has to be busy with things in his own hands.
Zhao Yi wants to take advantage of this time at the end of the year to sort out technical information related to the personal care industry. If he doesn't do it now, he doesn't know if he will have time to take care of these things next year.
Of course, in addition to technical information related to the personal care industry, Zhao Yi is also more concerned about new business development for Chinese medical companies.
The new business mentioned here does not refer to medical treatment for overseas patients, but is prepared to allow Chinese medical companies to develop plastic surgery and other related businesses, because these businesses are commercial businesses and can charge fees.
There is no way around this. Due to the current huge shortage of medical funds, Chinese medical companies must actively open up sources to reduce their losses. It would be better if they can make a profit.
In negotiations with the government, these commercial medical projects are not included in the overall profit. In other words, there is no maximum 5% limit on these profit-making projects, and the profits obtained belong entirely to the Chinese medical company.
Therefore, Zhao Yi also attaches great importance to the benefits here. Everyone loves beauty. Simply relying on cosmetics can only play a supporting role. If you want to truly become beautiful, you still need to use plastic surgery to solve it.
If Chinese medical companies want to build their own core competitiveness, they must establish authority in this industry and crush their international counterparts with superior technology.
However, Zhao Yi is not comfortable relying solely on themselves to develop this industry, because plastic surgery is also a surgery, and if it is not done well, a serious accident will occur, so it is safer to participate by oneself.
In addition to helping Chinese medical companies expand their business scope, Zhao Yi is also helping Chinese pharmaceutical companies develop pharmaceutical research and development work related to "beauty".
For example, hair growth hormone has a huge market demand both at home and abroad, especially among foreigners, where baldness has become almost a common phenomenon.
Do they think that baldness is beautiful? Of course not, but they have no way to solve this problem. No one in the world can refuse thick hair, and the market here is huge.
In addition, even if the height is increased, Zhao Yi also plans to develop a height-increasing drug. Of course, this increase is not unlimited. It can only promote the secondary bone development of the human body, but it is still subject to genetic restrictions.
In other words, this height-increasing drug can only solve the problem of skeletal hypoplasia caused by malnutrition, resulting in failure to achieve the ideal height, and cannot break through genetic limitations.
Therefore, the effect of this height-increasing drug varies from person to person. If you are congenitally short, the effect will be very limited, but if you are short due to acquired shortness, the effect will be very obvious.
Of course, whether it is congenital or acquired, in the process of growth, it is actually difficult to reach the theoretical height given by genes, so no matter what the situation is, this drug will have some effect.
Precisely because of such an estimate, Zhao Yi does not have to worry about consumers calling the Chinese pharmaceutical company a liar company. After all, even if the effect is small, there is always an effect.
Another thing that caught Zhao Yi's attention was dentistry. This was actually not on the list of diseases that Chinese medical companies treated for free.
Although toothache can kill people, it is not a fatal disease after all.
In the past, most dental problems were solved by removing the original teeth and then fitting the patient with a denture. To be honest, this kind of denture is not as natural as the grown-in teeth, and its service life also has a certain limit.
Therefore, Zhao Yi specially developed a drug to induce the redevelopment of teeth in response to this problem. For him, who had developed somatic cell-directed induction technology, it was a piece of cake.
All of this was done to fulfill the dream of making money. He thought he was quite rich and didn't worry about money at all, but the fact hit him hard in the face.
As soon as the urbanization construction project started, he instantly discovered that so much of his money was wasted. If he didn't expand his financial resources, he would really be sucked dry by these projects.
In addition to the above research and development content, Zhao Yi also needs to develop auxins that shorten the growth cycle of plants and coagulants that reduce the evaporation of surface water.
Zhao originally wanted to deal with this early on, but he was busy with things later and did not take the time to deal with these two things.
So Zhao Yi thought about getting these things done in less than a month at the end of this year, so that no matter whether he has time or not in the coming year, he can finally put this piece of work into practice.
In fact, the most important thing is that many of his companies are completely on the right track and are already mature companies. The annual meeting is actually just to find a reason for everyone to get together.
To be honest, it was really exciting when everyone heard about the huge operating income before, but now most of these companies no longer have such a large amount of growth, and there are few cases of rapid growth.
In addition, the domestic market is becoming more and more open, and more and more domestic forces are entering the country. Zhao Yi wants to further reduce his presence in these mature companies.
First, these mature companies already have strong international competitiveness. It doesn’t make much difference whether they participate in the cooperation or not. Just let them develop slowly.
Second, compared with these mature companies, Zhao Yi's main focus for a long time to come will be on those companies that are still in their infancy, such as Internet companies and customer service companies.
To be honest, even this Internet conferencing software took Zhao Yi a day to complete at the last moment. He had almost forgotten about the annual meeting before, and he would have really forgotten it if his secretary hadn't reminded him.
Since common Internet protocols still have a certain degree of security, Zhao Yi still uses this less secure network protocol mainly because these protocols are relatively simple and easy to promote.
More importantly, this network protocol is suitable for the development speed of public networks and can provide large-capacity network services. This is the fundamental reason why these protocols can survive.
However, if it is a small scale, you can still use a private network protocol with higher security. Since this annual network meeting may involve some sensitive content, the security requirements are higher.
This is why it takes Zhao Yi a day to do these things. You must know that programming work is basically handed over to artificial intelligence, which basically does not take much time.
The main time is spent on formulating the protocol rules. Of course, some core algorithms also need to be handled by Zhao Yilai personally. Artificial intelligence has no way to solve these difficult problems.
This online annual meeting will not be held in the form of a large conference like before. This is mainly because there are more and more companies under his umbrella, and there may be more in the future, and the number of participants will also become larger and larger.
Although there has not been anything regrettable for Zhao Yi yet, there is no guarantee that there will be none in the future, so starting from this year, the one-on-one annual meeting model will be adopted in the future.
In fact, there is nothing special in the content of the annual meeting. The relevant report data has been passed to him. He only needs to take some time to look at it to know the operating status of these companies this year.
Zhao Yi also organizes this kind of annual meeting. The main purpose is to let his managers understand that he is the real boss. Don't forget the true status of a high-ranking official who has been sitting for a long time.
Of course, it is impossible to say these words openly, but it is enough for everyone to know. Anyway, the main purpose is to strengthen his sense of existence. After all, during normal management, he participates very little, so he can only emphasize himself through this method. The presence.
According to the reports from the responsible persons, Zhao Yi found that although those mature companies had achieved good results this year, they were still due to the natural growth of the market.
However, among these mature companies, there are still some companies that have achieved outstanding results, such as Pusi Chemical, which is a very obvious example.
In the past year, Pusi Chemical's market share in the field of agricultural chemicals has reached more than 90%, which can be regarded as a complete monopoly of the global market in this field, completely driving those international chemical giants out of this field.
Since it already has a de facto monopoly in the field of agricultural chemicals, Pusi Chemical Company can allocate part of its energy and begin to compete with international chemical giants in other chemical fields.
Therefore, in this year, Pusi Chemical Company's annual turnover reached 150 billion yuan, which was almost doubled compared with 1984, and the speed was quite astonishing.
Although the net profit margin is only 35%, which is 5% lower than the previous year, the main reason is that the competition with international chemical giants is too fierce. Even with the advantage of technology, they still have to use price reduction to compete. .
It is precisely because of the advantage of technology that although the price reduction is not that big, it still deals a fatal blow to the international chemical giant.
After all, they already have technological disadvantages. If the price gap between the two parties' products is not too large, both the government and farmers will choose products with better technology.
The agricultural chemicals provided by Pusi Chemical Company are not only more effective, but also less harmful to the environment and human body. Even if farmers do not choose Pusi Chemical's products, the agricultural products market will unconsciously vote with their feet.
After all, for agricultural product sellers, while providing users with cheap products, they must also be of good quality. This is not only responsible for their own consumers, but also responsible for their own wallets.
According to Duan Jianhong, President of Pusi Chemical, in 1986, Pusi Chemical's net profit margin will not only not continue to decrease, but may also rebound to around 45%.
The reason is simple. In the field of global agricultural chemicals, after defeating other competitors, Pusi Chemical's product prices will return to their original prices, and profit margins will naturally increase.
Of course, Pusi Chemical Company has no intention of continuing to raise prices just because it is in a monopoly position. This is very disgraceful and will also arouse the vigilance of consumers, especially the local government.
By selling these chemicals at normal prices, the profit margin is already very high. There is no need to offend your customers and local governments and cause unnecessary trouble to yourself for the sake of higher profit margins.
And because of its large scale in this market, production costs will fall further, and research and development costs in this field will also fall further. Even if the original price is restored, the profit margin will be much higher than before.
In addition to Pusi Chemical Company, Shangtong Trading Company's own business is also developing quite well. Now they have intensively carried out relevant domestic layout and have completed about 50% of their goals.
In the next year, the trading company will basically complete the first phase of its domestic layout. By then, Shangtong Trading Company will become the absolute center of domestic commodity circulation, an existence that no company can ignore.
What Shangtong Trading Company hopes to build in China is a commodity circulation platform with advanced technology, considerate service, and reduced circulation costs, so that various production companies do not have to worry about sales.
Of course, it will also allow each sales end to not have to spend too much attention on product selection, completely solving the conflict between supply and demand.
It's better for Zhao Yi to do this by himself, so he feels more at ease, because although he is also making money in it, he is making money that he should make, and the fees are within a reasonable range, and he will not overly squeeze the customers on the platform.
This is very different from the previous network platform. Through the platform of Shangtong Trading Company, both manufacturers and merchants can reduce their operating costs and difficulties.
And through this platform, both supply and demand parties do not have to worry about being cheated, because the commodity circulation platform of Shangtong Trading Company will provide relevant guarantees to ensure that if there is a fraud, full protection will be provided.
In fact, after Shangtong Trading Company completes building this platform, Zhao Yi will consider letting Shangtong Trading Company operate the online shopping platform.
This is not because Zhao Yi thinks the online shopping platform is so advanced. Compared with the new commodity circulation platform built by Shangtong Trading Company, the online shopping platform is actually a younger brother.
But after all, there is still a market. Instead of taking advantage of others, it is better to occupy this market as soon as possible. Moreover, because the trading company is not a debt-based operation, it is not so urgent to make money and will not do things that exhaust the benefits.
Of course, more importantly, Shangtong Trading Company already has all the conditions for an online shopping platform. It has a large number of manufacturers on the supply side and a large number of merchants on the sales side.
In terms of logistics, there will also be a huge logistics network covering the whole country, and warehousing has been opened all over the country. At the same time, Shangtong Trading Company also has broad international sales channels.
After Shangtong Trading Company completes the construction of the international logistics system, it can be said that they will have no problems with any online mall, whether it is B2B, B2C, or C2C.
Moreover, Shangtong Trading Company will integrate these models under its own banner, so that conflicts between models will not cause fierce competition, leading to a decline in commodity profits and degradation of product quality.
In other words, in a unified online sales network, whether it is direct purchase from manufacturers or sales by small and medium-sized merchants, it can be coordinated through Shangtong Trading Company to avoid runs and ensure that both parties can make certain profits.
Of course, consumers will also benefit from this platform. After all, Shangtong Trading Company has reduced the cost of the circulation link, so the price of goods will definitely be reduced while ensuring the quality of the goods.
In his previous life, Zhao Yi often shopped online, but to be honest, in order to ensure that his products have lower prices and have price competitiveness, the quality of his products is indeed worrying.
Zhao Yi, who doesn't like to go out very much, sometimes has to go to physical stores to buy products. Although the price may be more expensive, the quality of the products is indeed higher than online. This is an indisputable fact.
The reason for this situation is that firstly, in the early stage, online shopping platforms spent a lot of money to subsidize consumers, but after all, someone has to pay for the wool, so in the later stage, online shopping platforms had to find ways to make money.
At this stage, both consumers and platform merchants will feel a strong chill. Consumers find that the quality of goods is getting worse and worse, and manufacturers find that their profits are getting lower and lower, and business is getting harder and harder to do. .
Only those platform companies are making huge profits at this stage just to make up for the strategic losses that occurred before and replenish themselves.
But after they finish replenishing their blood, will they give up the benefits they have already obtained? We all know it with our butts. They will definitely not. They will still continue to make a lot of money.
Unless they find that this market has been drained of its blood, they will consider a fish farming strategy. This is the nature of capital. They will not realize the dangers within it until the day before destruction.
Even if they are aware of the dangers inside, they will put these dangers behind them in the face of huge interests. Even if one or two are awake, they cannot change this development trend and the general trend.
Therefore, Shangtong Trading Company naturally has the conditions to build online sales channels, but because they have not yet fully built a nationwide logistics channel and sales network, their energy is temporarily limited.
After these things are completed, they will immediately start building their own online mall. At the same time, they will also work hard to improve their international logistics system and expand international sales channels.
Since it has been difficult for Shangtong Trading Company to expand its international market share in the traditional sales field, it has used online sales channels to expand its global sales channel influence.
In fact, Zhao Yi also has a good advantage, which is that he is currently promoting urbanization construction projects across the country. If this layout is completed, most of the commercial real estate will be in his hands by then.
When the time comes, if online sales channels really crowd out traditional sales channels, he can also reduce the cost of traditional business channels by lowering rents, so that the two can develop harmoniously.
By then, no one will keep shouting that it is online platforms that have squeezed out on-the-ground businesses. In fact, in Zhao Yi’s view, high rents are the root cause of the death of offline business entities.
The online shopping platform was just the last straw for them, but in Zhao Yi's system, he could coordinate the interests of all parties, achieve harmonious coexistence, and balance the interests of all parties.
This is a harmonious development model, at least this is what Zhao Yi thinks, and he is also prepared to do so.
Anyway, no matter which channel it is, he can make money, it's just a matter of which side has less and which side has more. As long as the balance is good, the benefits that will eventually reach his hands will not decrease, and may even increase. (End of chapter)