Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

Salman and Xu Huasheng boarded the plane and entered the interior. The interior layout made Xu Huasheng nod his head.

It is fully functional, has a large space, and is luxuriously and comfortably decorated.

Among private jets, this plane is considered large. This model of aircraft can carry up to 12 passengers and has a range of up to 7,800 kilometers.

This range is enough for Xu Huasheng to fly from any place in China to any place in Saudi Arabia easily.

Even if he flies to the United States, he can easily reach the western United States from China, and he can also easily fly from China to the United Kingdom.

And this plane is obviously specially customized, and there are no twelve seats directly.

Instead, it is privately customized inside, with a separate office and a separate bedroom. This is a presidential suite in the air.

"Your Highness, this is too expensive..."

Xu Huasheng couldn't help but say. Although the price of this plane in this era is not as expensive as it will be decades later, this plane must cost tens of millions of dollars. Tens of millions of dollars in this era are very valuable.

"Xu, our friendship is priceless. Please accept my friendship..."

Salman said seriously. Seeing Salman's serious expression, Xu Huasheng finally nodded.

"Thank you for the gift from your highness. I like your gift very much. I hope our friendship will last forever..."

Xu Huasheng did not refuse again. It was only tens of millions of dollars. It was not a lot of money for Xu Huasheng, and it was not a lot of money for Salman.

The two people got off the plane with smiles on their faces.

Of course, Xu Huasheng did not drive the plane away directly. Now China's protection of Xu Huasheng is very strict. This plane needs to be sent by China for comprehensive inspection, and professional crew members need to be sent before Xu Huasheng can take it.

Finland, Nokia.

Nokia has been gloomy during this period, especially the communications department, which is almost doomsday.

The great changes in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union have caused Nokia's communications department to lose most of its market.

After the financial report came out some time ago, the shareholders were even more gloomy. In 1991, Nokia lost 102 million US dollars, which was fatal to Nokia at that time.

As a small company in Finland, Nokia is not big now. Losing 100 million US dollars a year is too terrible.

So during this period, Nokia was in contact with Ericsson, hoping to sell Nokia to Ericsson in a package.

But now from Ericsson's response, I'm afraid there is little hope. Because Ericsson is now like Nokia, it is also in trouble, where can it buy Nokia.

"President Ollila, we just received news that Huasheng Group in China wants to negotiate business with our company..."

Ollila's office was pushed open, and the assistant walked in and said.

"Huasheng Group in China?"

Ollila was stunned when he heard the name. Why did he feel that the name was so familiar?

"Yes, it is Huasheng Group in China. By the way, Huasheng Group is the second largest shareholder of Wosheng Group. DVD is the product of this company, and air fryers and fascia guns are..."

The assistant's words made Ollila suddenly remember who Huasheng Group is.

The second largest shareholder of Wosheng Group. The name of this company frequently appeared in newspapers in the first half of the year, but at that time this name was a tool used by European media to criticize American media.

In Europe, air fryers and DVDs are also very popular and have become must-have products for many European families.

In terms of size, scale and financial resources, it is obvious that Huasheng Group is much more powerful than Nokia now.

The identity of the second largest shareholder of Wosheng Group alone is extraordinary. You should know that the profitability of Wosheng Group is very high now. After the last commotion, Wosheng Group's products are hot again. Now there are many Wosheng stores in Europe, and there are two Wosheng stores in Finland.

The shareholders of the entire Wosheng Group are even more powerful, Walmart, Morgan, Rockefeller, each of them is a giant. The industry's current valuation of Wosheng is also very high. If it goes public, the market value will be at least several hundred billion US dollars.

"When will they arrive?"

Ollila asked hurriedly.

"Tomorrow afternoon, the other party said that their chairman Xu Huasheng will come in person..."

The assistant's words made Ollila seem to have grabbed a life-saving straw.

Now is Nokia's most difficult time. If Huasheng Group can inject capital or acquire Nokia, then Nokia may be able to overcome the difficulties.

Now all shareholders are not optimistic about Nokia. Although everyone believes that communications are the future, the current loss situation does not see a bright future at all. The future will also need to burn money. If the losses continue, Nokia will be in trouble.If they go down, they may burn themselves to death before the future comes.

Nokia was busy, and Ollila immediately notified all shareholders of the news. After learning the news, all the major shareholders were happy. If Huasheng Group could acquire Nokia, it would be great. It didn't matter who they sold it to. After all, Ericsson's money was the same as Huasheng's money. They just needed to stop the loss.

What they are worried about now is that Huasheng Group doesn't want it. After all, in their perception, Chinese companies are very poor.

In the entanglement of everyone, Ollila brought people to the airport in person the next afternoon.

When he saw a Gulfstream IV private jet landing at the airport, Ollila's eyes lit up.

This plane is not cheap. People who can afford such a plane must have a lot of money in their hands. Even if they can't acquire it, they can buy some shares.

After the plane stopped, Ollila and others drove directly to the bottom of the plane.

Xu Huasheng and his group got off the plane and saw Ollila. Xu Huasheng smiled slightly.

"Hello, President Ollila. I am Xu Huasheng, the president of Huasheng Group..."

Xu Huasheng greeted Ollila in Finnish. Hearing Xu Huasheng's fluent Finnish, Ollila was very surprised.

"Mr. Xu, welcome to Finland..."

Ollila didn't know much about Xu Huasheng. Although he urgently asked the company to collect information yesterday, he didn't collect much. He just collected some simple information.

But all this is not important. The next negotiation is the most important.

After leaving the airport, the group came to Nokia headquarters.

And Ollila enthusiastically introduced Nokia's business and technical strength to Xu Huasheng.

Especially when introducing their communication technology, Ollila's face was full of pride.

"Mr. Xu, this is a mobile phone that our Nokia is developing. It uses digital communication technology. This mobile phone is completely different from traditional analog signals. This technology belongs to the future..."

In the company, Ollila took out what he thought was a killer. The world's first mobile phone using GSM signals. Last year, the Prime Minister of Finland made the world's first GSM call.

Now this technology is Nokia's biggest trump card, and today Ollila took out this trump card and took out the prototype. Looking at the prototype, Xu Huasheng laughed, because this prototype was the Nokia 1011 mobile phone that made Nokia famous.