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In the next few days, Zhou Buqi and Shen Nanpeng visited many domestic battery factories, consulted many industry experts, and studied the technical direction of the power battery field.

This matter is quite meaningful.

Shen Nanpeng is indeed not an ordinary investor and can view investment issues from a higher perspective.

For Zhou Buqi, he is doing prosperously in the Internet industry, but the high-end Internet is a bit shaky... The cornerstone of the domestic economy is the manufacturing industry.

There has been a strange theory in the industry that the emergence of the Internet has hurt the manufacturing industry.

Many people really believe it.

Manufacturing is production, and the Internet is channel.

With strong market channels, the production process will only get better and better. Only traditional sales channels, suppliers at all levels, and various offline department stores, supermarkets and other physical stores will be damaged.

More importantly, it is impossible for these physical stores such as department stores, large supermarkets, and individual stores to go abroad.

The Internet is different.

As long as the Internet is done well, it can completely open up international horizons and expand sales channels overseas, which will find a sales market for the domestic manufacturing industry.

Zhou Buqi also knows that the Internet is a bit unreliable. Even if it reaches the level of BAT, it seems difficult to penetrate into the livelihood development of ordinary people, and it is also somewhat weak in responding to national policies.

Not only are they weak, Internet companies will always create all kinds of troubles due to issues of regulation, innovation, security, development, and policy, causing authorities to make difficult choices.

The automobile industry is a good compensation direction.

This is what has sunk down from the internet.

If Zhou Buqi was a pure Internet entrepreneur, that would be fine. But he is different. His industry covers a wide range and he has strong investor attributes.

The automobile industry is the largest industrial industry, and it is also the most important indicator of a country's strength.

It will even cover all aspects.

If a country cannot even manufacture cars or basic industries, how can it manufacture advanced aircraft, tanks, and armored vehicles?

Relying on publicity and hard praise, I will blush over time.

We still need to lay a solid foundation in a down-to-earth manner.

Zhou Buqi will not stop building cars, but batteries are a very good direction. In fact, he has already had a similar idea, but he lacks an opportunity to enter the market.

The current battery industry is still very weak, and the existing battery manufacturers are all a group of "small bosses".

The distance between these small bosses and Zhou Buqi is too far.

There was no chance for him to get close.

Now that Shen Nanpeng is pulling the strings, there is a great opportunity.

To support the new energy vehicle industry, if you don't manufacture complete vehicles...then produce the core business, and the most cost-consuming part of the electric vehicle is the battery.

Whoever masters battery technology will have a great say in the future electric vehicle industry.

Producing power batteries for electric vehicles is not as simple as producing mobile phone batteries.

The threshold is extremely high.

But it's not unattainable.

The country that can have both superb technology and the latest technology options, and can also reduce costs to the lowest... Only China can do better.

Once the battery is ready, the downstream new energy vehicle manufacturers can just buy it and assemble it.

More importantly, Zhou Buqi is the most important investor behind Tesla.

It gave Musk the most money and gave him the most power.

The two have a good personal relationship.

Tesla cars are currently in a lot of trouble, the biggest of which is cost. The production cost of a car is much higher than the sales price, so that you lose money by selling one car.

Connecting Tesla with a domestic power battery manufacturer will be a cooperation opportunity for mutual improvement.

Throughout February, Zhou Buqi and Shen Nanpeng traveled more than half of the south of the Yangtze River, visiting more than a dozen places, and visited almost all the battery manufacturers in China.

There are state-owned enterprises and private enterprises;

There are companies with many years of industry experience, as well as new companies that have just started their business.

Then, he really discovered the goal of his heart.

Found CATL in ND City.

This company has been in business for less than two years. Its business direction is to respond to national policies and develop power batteries for new energy vehicles...

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By the time Zhou Buqi returned to the Magic City, it was already early March.

Despite the fact that he keeps a low profile in China, he refuses to accept interviews from various media. But at his level, it is difficult to keep a low profile even if he wants to. Domestic media have restrained themselves, as well as foreign media.

This year's Forbes list of the world's richest people has been released.

Bill Gates, once the world's richest man, has slipped to third place, with a net worth of US$67 billion; Buffett's wealth is US$53.5 billion, ranking sixth.

As expected, Zhou Buqi retained the top spot!

His net worth reaches an astonishing US$93.5 billion.

A full $20 billion ahead of the second-placed Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos.

If you are so rich, you have to show it, right?

Forced donations are not a feature of China. They are the same all over the world. There are countless institutions and poor people in the world who are staring at the big capitalists and looking for various reasons to force them to donate.

Fortunately, Zhou Buqi had already taken action.

On the second day after the Forbes rich list was released, Zhou Buqi accepted an exclusive interview with Phoenix TV and Southern Weekend, and invited well-known Kun Opera performing artist and Director Wang of the Kun Opera Theater to jointly declare that Boss Zhou would take over A charity project came down - to promote traditional Chinese drama culture.

An extension fund was established.

Mainly charity.

Not for making money, just for promotion.

A total of 7.5 billion yuan was raised.

Zhou Buqi personally invested 6 billion yuan.

With so much money, not only will it support the operation and promotion of Zhixing Drama Club, but a large part of it will also be used to support drama schools to cultivate more outstanding drama actors.

Zhixing Drama Club has officially made its debut!

The premiere is expected to be on April 8th.

At that time, in addition to the established "Youth Version of Peony Pavilion", cross talk troupes such as Deyun Society and Qingqu Society will also be invited, as well as Happy Twist, and even Uncle Benshan's Liu Laogen Stage will send actors to perform a pure Green duet.

"I thought a few hundred million would be enough, but I didn't expect it would be several billion."

Xu Baihui also participated in this plan, but she was really surprised when she heard that so much money would be invested.

Zhou Buqi didn't take it seriously, "How much money is this? It's not a one-time investment, just invest it in several installments. The bigger the scale, the more popular it will be."

Xu Baihui hummed: "Don't forget, there is still my 300 million in it!"

"Yours?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Not from Jieyu Media?"

Xu Baihui blushed, "Jieyu Media belongs to me."

Zhou Buqi said: "The marketing promotion of Zhixing Drama Club will definitely encounter a lot of troubles. After all, this is not a comedy. The threshold for appreciation is relatively high. It is not as easy to operate as Happy Twist and Deyun Club."

Xu Baihui said: "No matter what, it is a performance after all. In the past few years, Happy Twist was also well received but not popular. No matter how good the comedy is, what can it do? But in the past two years, Happy Twist's offline performances have been sold out. Guess why?"

Zhou Buqi didn't guess, "Why?"

Xu Baihui said with a smile: "Idiot, it's because I'm famous! Several actors from Happy Twist have appeared on the Spring Festival Gala and many popular variety shows, and the next movie project has also been approved. Zhixing Drama Club wants to develop. , it’s actually very simple, just go for the stars. Make one or two of the core actors famous and become famous. With the star effect, the market popularity will increase.”

"Um."

"But there's a big trouble here."

"Um?"

"If I want to praise them, I would definitely praise the male and female protagonists of "Youth Version of The Peony Pavilion" at this stage, but they are all working actors of Kunqu Theater. They cannot take orders outside at will, and if they make money, they have to be arranged by the courtyard. . You have to coordinate this matter well. I'll try it. If I can't coordinate it well, you'll have to step forward and talk to the bigger leaders directly."

"OK!"

From Zhou Buqi's point of view, these are all trivial matters.

These days, profit is a bigger driver than staffing. If the official theater really refuses to let people go...then it is not impossible for the actors of "The Peony Pavilion" to collectively change jobs and become contracted actors of Zhixing Drama Club.