My fintech empire.

Chapter 1196 [Determine the strategic direction]

What happened on the external network was also reposted to the mainland Internet by netizens who climbed over the wall. The comments from netizens from various countries on the external network that were attacking each other were translated and posted online, which also sparked heated discussions in China.

Many domestic netizens like to hear this and many of them even call out the poisonous tongues on the foreign websites.

Some domestic bloggers found that mainland netizens were very interested in these things. Most people could not access the Internet or could but found it troublesome, so some people became porters. They found that the attention was not low, so some people set up similar transfer accounts.

These events that happened among the people did not affect Oriental Express’s layout. The company is advancing steadily and orderly according to the established opportunities, and Kunpeng Technology is also expanding its production lines.

Having taken on a commercial contract for 5000 Kunpeng-5B UAVs from Oriental Express, it is certain that they will not be delivered on time without expanding the production line.

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Saturday morning, September 9th.

Fang Hong came to the high-tech industrial park in Xincheng again, but this time he came to the temporary headquarters of Oriental Express. The company is currently looking for a plot of land in the park to build its own headquarters building.

The earliest that the company can move into the new headquarters building is around 2018, but that is not the point. Oriental Express has already established its initial framework, formed a management team, and has begun to expand recruitment of employees from various departments.

Upon learning that the big boss had arrived, the first head of Oriental Express and his core executives came out to greet him.

Fang Hong came here today to make important arrangements for the strategic development of Oriental Express. In a small conference room in the temporary headquarters, Fang Hong looked at the head of Oriental Express and his senior executives who were attending the meeting and said: "Oriental Express must actively integrate into and serve the country's development strategy, accelerate the layout of key areas, achieve the goal of nationwide coverage of its business, and continuously improve its operational capabilities."

The head said: "The general direction for the next three years has been clarified. The goal of Oriental Express is to make every effort to refine and strengthen the advantages of digitalization, give full play to the advantages of the comprehensive platform, including the advantages of the rural market, continuously expand the scale of development and comprehensively improve the quality and efficiency, and open up a good trend of improving quality while advancing."

Fang Hong nodded and said, "Digitalization and intelligence are the core elements of Oriental Express's business and management, and this must be clearly recognized. When the company was just established, we faced an express market with both opportunities and challenges. Specifically, we will focus on the 16-character policy of 'technology-led, data-supported, talent-guaranteed, and intelligent operations', relying on digitalization and intelligence as the core and the general tone of both quantity and quality."

"Artificial intelligence, big data, driverless and other technologies are the future trends. If express delivery companies want to survive and develop in the future industry competition, it is crucial to seize digital opportunities and carry out digital upgrades. Against this background, Eastern Express must fully understand and clarify the "digital express" in the industry, with the goal of achieving the transformation from traditional operation mode to unmanned digital operation."

"My requirement is that Oriental Express should be able to realize intelligent traceability of products, visual intelligent management of logistics processes, intelligent enterprise supply chain, and a new logistics model with a modern auxiliary decision-making system, so as to truly complete the transformation from traditional logistics to intelligent logistics. The difficulty and challenge lies in how to integrate digital technology and physical logistics, which is also the competitiveness of Oriental Express."

The executives present at the meeting were all taking notes. After a while, the current head of Oriental Express looked at Fang Hong and said, "The day before yesterday, Shunfeng's people came over, and we also had discussions with them on network layout and market and service expansion."

“We will take regional advantage projects and operational advantages as breakthrough points, build a healthy matching of transport resources, create a comprehensive logistics service platform, strengthen the comprehensive logistics layout, and continuously expand business areas and service scopes according to customer needs, market development and industry trends, and create a differentiated product and service system.”

Hearing this, Fang Hong refuted on the spot: "To put it bluntly, Oriental Express is just a company that sells transportation resources. You rent my drone and I will deliver the goods to the designated location you mentioned. It's just such a simple thing. Why make it so complicated? How can we expand the scope of business? What kind of differentiated service system can we create? These are all matters of the end link, which are what third-party logistics companies should do. Don't be fooled by Shunfeng's people. Our customers are not just Shunfeng. You want to cooperate with him exclusively, can he afford it?"

The head of the company nodded repeatedly. He was not angry at the criticism from the big boss who was younger than him. After a moment, he said, "In addition, this is what we think internally. On the basis of the existing main business, we will increase the layout in rural and remote mountainous areas and promote the principles of cost zoning, service stratification, and product classification."

Fang Hong nodded: "This is quite good."

The head of Eastern Express added: "In addition, yesterday we also discussed whether to expand overseas layout, enhance cross-border service capabilities, and build new development advantages."

Fang Hong rejected the idea on the spot and said, "Forget about overseas deployment for now. Don't cause unnecessary trouble to the country and the World Trade Organization. The neighbors around us will feel insecure. I don't care whether they feel safe or not. The key point is that they are easy to be framed. Your drones frequently fly back and forth across borders. If someone secretly paints a drone with the Oriental Express logo and drops a bomb somewhere, you will have no way to defend yourself."

At this point, Fang Hong added: "Even if the company wants to do cross-border air express, the country will not approve it. The appeal issue is only one of them. There will also be smuggling issues. If these problems are not resolved, there is no need to consider overseas layout."

The head of Oriental Express nodded: "That makes sense."

Fang Hong changed the subject and said, "But it doesn't mean that we will completely stop doing overseas business. It's just that we can't do it now. The current situation and opportunity don't allow it. It's unlikely to happen in the next three to five years, but it doesn't mean that we can't do it in the future."

The participants present quickly understood what was said. To put it bluntly, it was still a matter of fists. When the time came when we no longer needed to consider the international impact, we could do it.

Do you feel unsafe with your neighbors? Just adapt slowly. You will be able to adapt to the new living conditions over time. Even if you are not comfortable with it, you have to learn to adapt.

As for framing someone? Who would have the guts to do that at that time?

If you don't want to talk to me about reason, then I can only talk to you about physics.

The meeting did not last long, and ended in less than half an hour. Fang Hong left. The development strategy of Oriental Express for the next few years was established. The next step was the execution issue.

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(End of this chapter)