This barber shop is actually a beauty and hairdressing shop. The first floor is mainly used for hairdressing, while the second floor is used for beauty. The products used are basically from Yadai Company.
As the largest personal care products company in China and even internationally, Yadai Company has expanded from its previous focus on personal skin care to many other areas, such as hair dyes and fragrances that Zhou Jinyu is using for her hair.
These products were developed independently by their R&D personnel based on the products and technologies originally provided by Zhao Yi to Yadai Company.
Adhering to the concept of health, Yadai's products focus on effectiveness and health. Many of their products have been sought after by many consumers as soon as they were launched, and they are no longer an unknown company.
After their number one product, the Age Invisible Series, and other series of products have taken the world by storm, consumers are increasingly recognizing their brand.
Compared with high-end products of other companies, Yadai's products are the most effective, and at the same time the greenest and healthiest, and the price is not much more expensive than other high-end products.
Therefore, it has become inevitable for consumers to choose Yadai Company's products. It is precisely because Yadai Company's products are of high quality and moderately priced that other companies' high-end products have been sold at reduced prices, otherwise they would not have much competitiveness at all.
But even so, as Yadai Company has gained a foothold and its brand awareness and product categories have increased, life for other cosmetics and other companies has become increasingly difficult.
This is not because Yadai Company deliberately targets them, but because they are really far behind in product technology. Even if the products are sold at reduced prices, their competitiveness is much worse.
In fact, for the vast majority of ordinary people, the prices of Yadai Company's products are still slightly higher, but they are much more affordable than the previous high-end cosmetics that were similar to luxury goods.
However, this situation will fundamentally change in the near future, because among the new varieties of plants he gave to the Fluctlight Environmental Management Company to treat the Loess Plateau, there are many natural cosmetic raw material plant varieties.
At that time, these substances extracted from natural plants will be used by Yadai Company to build their high-end luxury brands, and the current series of products may further drop in price to meet the consumption needs of ordinary people.
For example, Zhou Jinyu spent a total of 100 yuan on her hair this time, 50 yuan of which was spent on hair dye and other products, while labor and equipment costs accounted for the other 50%.
Such a price is still a bit expensive for ordinary people. At most, it can be done occasionally. If you want to do it regularly, ordinary people cannot afford it.
However, after years of influence, the domestic people have indeed paid more and more attention to personal care. It is an indisputable fact that the sales of Yadai's products in the country are getting higher and higher.
In the past, due to the fact that the income of domestic people was not very high, many people did not have the ability to consume if they wanted to. With the rapid growth of people's wages this year, the domestic enthusiasm for the cosmetics consumption of Yadai Company is naturally getting higher and higher.
However, among these types of consumption, the high-priced series of products of Yadai Company still lack the purchasing power. For example, the age-hiding series costs about 1,000 yuan a month, which is not affordable for ordinary people.
However, when Yadai Company's natural series of products come out, it is estimated that the price of the currently very expensive series of products will be cut in half at least, and then the price of the natural series of products will be even higher than now.
The purpose of this is on the one hand to allow more people to use their products and to further expand the market size of their products, and at the same time it is also a move to seize the market from other companies.
On the other hand, it is to carry out a clearer product classification and positioning, but the current Yadai company is not suitable to launch lower-end products with worse effects, at least for now.
With its excellent products, Yadai Company has taken over the majority of the cosmetics field around the world, and has also attracted great attention from various governments.
It's just that although cosmetics is a high-profit industry, it is not a strategic industry. Although there are some voices that are unfriendly to Yadai Company, there is no general consensus.
Because our country's economy and national strength are not what they were before. Other countries cannot just impose bans casually. They also need to consider the reaction of our government.
After all, although our country currently has a large amount of trade exports, it also has a large amount of trade imports. International trade cannot be banned immediately, and the associated consequences need to be considered.
Moreover, Yadai's products are indeed far superior to those of other companies. If banned, it will also cause dissatisfaction among its own citizens. After all, for consumers, spending the same amount of money to buy much better products is not a good thing for them. is a good thing.
Therefore, in order to ease the relationship, the current mid- to low-end market is not suitable for Yadai Company to seize. It is better to occupy the mid-to-high-end market with peace of mind.
When our country's national strength becomes stronger and Yadai Company can come up with better products, it will not be too late to make specific responses. It is estimated that by then there will not be as many problems as now.
Watching Zhou Jinyu pay for this haircut with a mobile phone, Zhao Yi's memory of his previous life became more vivid. With the increasing popularity of smart phones, mobile payment is becoming more and more popular.
The online payment system of Xinghan Technology Company has spread to the world as their social platforms and software. Almost all online consumption activities are now completed through their online payment system.
Especially the emergence of smartphones is a golden opportunity for their online payment system. Xinghan Technology Company also took advantage of this opportunity to launch more simple online payment functions.
For example, the mobile payment currently used by Zhou Jinyu is a very convenient QR code payment system in the previous life. Now QR code payment has become very popular in China.
It’s just that the current proportion of smartphone users is not particularly high, so the current places of use are still high-consumption places. In places like wet markets, some have not yet used QR code payment, and some have applied for it.
However, this situation is rapidly changing, because more and more users in our country have smartphones, especially in December, where the average monthly salary reached about 1,200 yuan.
It is not too much pressure for ordinary people to spend about a month's salary to buy a smartphone. And as the scale of the smartphone industry further expands in the future, various costs will further decline, and the price of smartphones will further drop.
Xinghan Technology Company is also currently actively promoting the promotion of offline smartphone payment channels in China, hoping to create a model offline payment system in the country.
And currently, such promotion has a more positive effect in our country. Due to the rapid economic development and short duration in the country, there are very few individuals with credit cards.
This means that offline credit card payments in our country are not very complete. In the past, most offline payments were completed using cash transactions. This means that the behavior of Mingxing Technology Company and the interests of traditional banks will not cause a huge conflict, that is, Easier to promote.
Financial development in developed countries has been going on for so many years, and almost all individuals have their own credit cards. Under such circumstances, it is very difficult to promote the development of smartphone offline payment systems.
Regardless of the fact that Xinghan Technology Company's online payment system is developing well abroad, it can challenge the status of traditional banks. If it does, it will definitely not benefit.
Because their online payment system also relies on traditional banks. If the two parties are unhappy and the traditional banks close their external interfaces, Xinghan Technology Company's online payment system will lose a large number of customers.
At least Xinghan Technology Co., Ltd. cannot leverage the interests of traditional banking giants simply by relying on its own strength. It is already a great thing to be able to occupy the online payment market.
This is because they rely on their own social platform monopoly and large user base to reach cooperation with various traditional banks that is relatively acceptable to both parties.
Of course, this can also be attributed to the assistance of its own allies, such as HSBC, which has already started internationalization, and China Minsheng Bank, which has just started to internationalize, and other domestic state-owned banks.
Since they have established a good foundation for cooperation before, and with Zhao Yi behind the scenes to promote the cooperation, this cooperation in the international market is a natural progression.
Minsheng Bank and domestic state-owned banks are not particularly influential because they have only been overseas for a short time. However, the overseas influence of HSBC cannot be underestimated.
A long time ago, Zhao Yi emphasized the importance of expanding the market to HSBC. In addition, the critical illness insurance jointly developed by Ping An Insurance Company and China Medical Company became a hot seller around the world.
Their international partner bank is HSBC. This has caused the number of international users of HSBC to increase sharply in a short period of time. Later, due to its excellent banking services, it gained the recognition of these customers, resulting in an increasing number of assets under its management. The bigger.
With HSBC disrupting the situation, it is impossible for other banks not to cooperate with Xinghan Technology Company. If they do not cooperate, they will hand over the market to HSBC.
Not to mention how many personal assets global individual consumers have in HSBC, at least they have a lot of accounts with HSBC, and it is very convenient to transfer assets.
It is precisely because its own strength is sufficient and the strength of its allies is not weak that Xinghan Technology Company's online payment system has occupied almost all foreign markets in a short period of time.
Now their online payment system accounts for more than 98% of the online payment market, and currently there are no similar challengers.
However, these data only sound good, but in fact the benefits they gain from it are mediocre. In order to expand global users, their current handling fee is zero and they cannot gain benefits from transactions.
The only thing that is somewhat profitable is the change that customers leave in the online payment system. It adds up to a lot of money. Relying on the interest on these changes can be regarded as a small gain.
But generally speaking, Xinghan Technology Co., Ltd. is losing money on the online payment system, because whether it is R&D investment or promotion investment, the costs are there and cannot be omitted.
However, this situation has been greatly alleviated after the e-commerce of Shangtong Trading Company was launched. In the past, customers used their online payment system and did not have much money left in their online payment system accounts. Most of them were in cash. Use cash transfer.
With the rise of e-commerce, the frequency of purchases has increased significantly. In order to make shopping more convenient, many customers simply transfer more money to their online payment accounts to avoid trouble when shopping.
This brought more deposit interest to Xinghan Technology Company, and it really gave them a wave of blood. To be honest, if Shangtong Trading Company was not their brother company, such benefits would never be given to them in vain.
With its status as a social giant and the support of the e-commerce giant Shangtong Trading Company, Xinghan Technology Company's online payment system has secured its top spot, making it very difficult for others to enter.
Although their online payment system is not as expensive as that of Domestic Baobao in the previous life, with the sheer number of users, even if the benefits brought by a single user are not large, the absolute value cannot be ignored.
When talking about Xinghan Technology Company, we often only mention their social and online payment systems. In fact, as their data centers are deployed around the world, the development speed of their cloud service business cannot be underestimated.
Because they have many data centers and provide very complete cloud service tools, there are currently no competitors in the world and they are the only player in this field.
The current Internet technology is actually not high. It is only because Zhao Yi has provided a large amount of basic technology and finished technology that our country's Internet technology leads the world.
Foreign Internet technology, whether it is from Yingjiang or other countries, is actually not very good. This situation is caused by many reasons.
First of all, the development of the software industry in our country is the best and largest. Although we often feel that there is not enough software talent, it is because our software business is very large, which has caused this situation.
In terms of the total number of software talents, our country definitely surpasses Yingjiang. If we add in the overseas employees of these companies, then the overall strength is comparable to their combined strength.
Moreover, the current basic Internet technologies are provided by Fanxing Software Company, and most of the domestic Internet technicians are from Fanxing Software Company. Even without the advanced technology provided by Zhao Yi, they can still take advantage of the competition.
Therefore, whether it is the software field or the Internet field, the overall technical strength of foreign countries is still far behind our country, and they are naturally in a weak position in competition.
Maybe you don’t have a real feeling for saying this. Just take the surge in the number of people who came to study in our country in the past two years as an example, and you can see the technological level of our country.
Among the overseas students, a very large proportion of talents come to study information technology. In the field of basic science, although our country has made many achievements, it would be deceiving itself to say that it has reached global leadership in all aspects.
But when it comes to the field of technology application, our country's strength in all aspects is not inferior to other countries, especially in software engineering, communication technology and Internet technology, it is in a leading position in the world.
It is very normal for these international students to want to come to our country to learn these advanced technologies, and major universities in our country also welcome this.
The arrival of these international students can not only generate income for our country's colleges and universities, but also improve their internationalization level. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
It may be that Tianwen University has made a good start. There is no such thing as free study abroad in our country, let alone the situation of paying a lot of money to international students in one year. This is impossible to happen now.
Only top international students have the opportunity to receive full scholarships. Other international students will have to spend a lot of money to study here.
And even if the school wants to recruit international students for free, it is impossible because the teaching funds are in the hands of Chinese education companies. They only provide full teaching funds to domestic students and have no obligation to provide this funding to international students.
Although in Zhao Yi's view, domestic universities are not very powerful in these aspects, after all, these domestic technologies are not developed from these universities, but are developed by his own companies.
Therefore, those who master these advanced technologies are basically his companies, but even so, our country's universities are still ahead of foreign universities in these fields.
After all, first come first served. Although these technologies did not start to be developed in these universities, since many advanced technical materials and papers were published in Chinese, they have benefited a lot from them and their overall level has also improved a lot.
Among these universities, Tianwen University of Information Technology founded by him is the most famous, although in terms of the history of its establishment, Tianwen University of Information Technology is indeed not worth mentioning.
However, because Tianwen University of Information Technology exclusively undertakes the earth simulator project, and its teaching staff is also the strongest in the field of information technology, many of the teachers are even top researchers from these top domestic companies.
In addition, the founding funds of the school are very sufficient, and the hardware facilities are also world-class. Therefore, when the enrollment was first launched, many international students who were interested in studying information technology applied.
Moreover, the benefit of studying abroad at Tianwen University of Information Technology is not only that you can learn top professional knowledge, but also that students from this school can better enter and work in top companies.
You must know that Tianwen University of Information Technology has close cooperation with its software companies, Internet companies, communication technology companies and electronic technology companies. Many teachers are senior researchers from these companies.
Under such circumstances, entering Tianwen University of Information Technology is the best way to enter these top companies, which will naturally attract more talents to apply.
Therefore, Tianwen University of Information Technology can select the best talents. Although it does not have a glorious history, in terms of the current quality of students, it is definitely not inferior to those of the world's top universities.
In addition to Tianwen University of Information Technology, the second choice of many students is Tianwen University. Although Tianwen University is a general school, not all majors are top-notch, but even the worst majors are not How bad.
In addition, there are a lot of top companies enrolling students from Tianwen University every year. Taking Tianwen University as the second choice is a good choice for students who want to study information technology.
More importantly, compared to Tianwen Information University, which is small and powerful, Tianwen University has a much larger enrollment scale, and the opportunities to study are much greater. If you don’t consider yourself to be a top talent, Tianwen University is Their first choice.
Only international students who are not accepted by Tianwen University of Information Technology and Tianwen University will consider studying at other domestic universities. After all, other universities are not particularly weak in this area, but the relevant resources are worse than these two universities. That’s all.
If our country wants to maintain its leading position in these fields, it is inevitable to absorb the world's top talents, and providing a suitable stage for self-realization for these top foreign talents can also weaken the strength of other countries in this regard.
Of course, the occurrence of this situation does not mean that our country's technical capabilities have surpassed other developed countries in an all-round way, but because our strength in the fields of software, communications, Internet and electronics is so strong that we are basically unique.
Therefore, even if our country has not announced that its GDP is the first in the world, judging from our country's export product categories and the advanced products they come into contact with in their daily lives, we still know which country is leading in these aspects.
Except for international students in the fields of software, communications, Internet and electronics, the international students in other fields are much worse. If we have to rank, the second largest number are international students majoring in medicine.
This is inseparable from the outstanding performance of China Medical Company and China Pharmaceutical Company. In just over two years, these two companies have greatly improved my country's medical technology and pharmaceutical technology.
Not only does it allow our country to achieve free medical care for all at a relatively low cost, but it also creates a large amount of economic benefits for our country every year, and its influence is second only to the previously mentioned fields in the world.
In order to cultivate more medical and pharmaceutical talents in the country, the two companies also cooperate closely with domestic universities and provide many technologies and theories to major domestic universities.
This has resulted in the technical strength of many medical and medical colleges and universities in our country having been greatly improved, and they are definitely capable of competing with all colleges and universities around the world in these fields.
Of course, top medical technology and pharmaceutical technology are still in the hands of these two companies. This is their bread and butter, and they cannot just hand it over to others casually.
Especially Chinese pharmaceutical companies, they only provide relatively basic theoretical basis and technical information, while high-level ones are kept within their own companies.
If these international students want to learn more advanced technologies, they can only join these two companies, which does have certain advantages for top talents.
Our country never has too many talents, because this is the basis for ensuring our country's rapid development and global leadership in many fields, especially at this stage.
Not only do we need to speed up the development of the quality and quantity of our own talents, but we also need to actively introduce and absorb high-level foreign talents to join us. No matter how good our level is, it is very necessary. (End of chapter)