Ren Zhengfei interprets Huawei's future and moves to a new employee standing on the shoulders of his predecessors

Huawei's recent hot news, the first one is the release of the annual report in the first half of 2017. The crisis, Ren Zhengfei, who is the helm of Huawei, is very clear. His latest speech is: Huawei's 2017 semi-annual report, sales in the first half of the year. Revenue was 283.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15%. Among them, the income of the consumer business was 105.4 billion yuan. In the meantime, the growth of operator business and corporate business was only 5.71%. If we remove the business again, we can slightly estimate that the half-year revenue of Huawei's operator business is about 150 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of less than 2%.

In June 2017, Ren Zhengfei visited Thailand, Germany, Poland and Russia for four consecutive days and began to emphasize a similar but more rigorous concept – profitable growth and cash flow.

When Ren Zhengfei exchanged ideas at the German representative office, he said: "On the eve of the bad global economy, if the operators are not doing well, they can't force growth, otherwise they will be forced to die, to ensure profitability, to tide over the difficulties, and later. You can pick up the shells. Don't rush to support the scale, otherwise the imaginary will be blown away by the wind, and you will have to survive the disaster in a 'healthy way'."

In the terminal business, Huawei's smartphone shipments are still some distance away from Samsung, especially Samsung's electronic industry chain, which has an overwhelming advantage on OLED screens and memory chips. In high-end models, Samsung is also making a comeback. As of mid-July, Galaxy S8 cumulative sales of more than 15% more Galaxy S7. Samsung Electronics said that in the second quarter, mobile phone sales were 93 million units, and smartphones accounted for more than 85% of mobile phone sales. Huawei (Huawei) announced that in the first half of 2017, smartphone shipments were 73.01 million units, up 21% year-on-year, and it accounted for 9.8% of the global smartphone market, ranking third in the world.

At the symposium on Huawei's new employee induction training, Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei said in a speech that he hopes that the new employees will have an open mind and stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, even if they only advance one millimeter. If you always start from scratch, it is costly company investment and should be downgraded.

The following is a record of Ren Zhengfei's speech:

Ren Zhengfei's speech at the new employee induction training forum

Everyone wants me to talk about it. I don't know what to say to new employees. As soon as I have reason, everyone will say that I am preaching. Then, apart from preaching, what else will I have? Think about it, tell a story! Let me talk about the story of Chinese writing reform. Some stories I heard about many years ago. If there is something wrong, please forgive me. If you are right, give your young people an introduction. You should know it yourself. The wrong place is even gossip because I don't have time to verify.

1. "Father of Chinese Pinyin" Zhou Youguang

At the beginning of this year, Mr. Zhou Youguang, a professor at Fudan University, passed away. On the second day of his 112th birthday, he died of the disease and died on the third day. I read some books about him and I was deeply touched. I started with Zhou Youguang’s Chinese character reform. Zhou Youguang is a famous linguist in China. He specialized in the economy in his early years and was transferred to a linguist when he was nearly 50 years old. When he was in the war, he had no money. He led the family to write a press release on the way to earn the manuscript fee. The manuscript was written more and he became interested in the language. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Youguang was sent to work in Europe by Xinhua Bank. He found that Europeans attached great importance to the study of letters, so they bought many books on letters and used self-study in their spare time. After the founding of New China, Zhou Youguang was invited to serve as a member of the Hanyu Pinyin Program Committee and participated in the Chinese Pinyin Reform Program, making an important contribution to the country and was hailed as the “Father of Chinese Pinyin”. Some people are not convinced, and believe that more than one person has contributed. For thousands of years, thousands of literati have been determined to reform the unity of Chinese characters and pronunciation, and to sing Chinese characters. Modern people invented phonetic words, and also used international sounds to mark sounds, but until now, Chinese pinyin is the most concise and convenient. Don't be embarrassed, don't think of the "father" as the only one, you can also have "grandfather, uncle, sister...", many people have made great contributions, but Zhou Youguang has completed the "door" of football One foot."

Similarly, some people have expressed their opinion on Yuan Longping’s “father of hybrid rice in the world”. He believes that the first hybrid rice was proposed by American Henry Beachell, and that Chinese research on hybrid rice is not just a research group, but some people are still ahead of him. The key to high-yield hybrid rice is the discovery of male sterile plants, which was discovered by his students. Why do you call him the “father of hybrid rice”? Because Yuan Longping in the study, he conquered the "production system" and explored the success of seed production technology, which produced a lot of food for China. From the perspective of producing food, he should be the "father of hybrid rice." This is how human society has been explored in chaos. There are still many scientists in history, and even if they don't make too many achievements, they are great. Don't pursue any original invention, independent innovation, stand on the shoulders of predecessors, and make great achievements. You are very smart today, because the wisdom of the predecessors has been passed on to you.

The carcass extracted artemisinin from plants and was the first inventor of the new antimalarial artemisinin, which won the Nobel Prize. This is not her original invention, but Tu Yu said it is from the ancient book. She led the research team to systematically organize the medical books and herbal medicines of the past generations, collected more than 2,000 kinds of prescriptions, compiled and compiled them into the "Anti-malaria prescriptions", and selected more than 200 prescriptions from the modern scientific organization to extract from the extract of Artemisia annua L. with ethanol. Artemisinin, which continuously improved the extraction method, finally discovered artemisinin in 1971. Therefore, the terms "original invention" and "independent innovation" have philosophical limitations. I hope that new employees have an open mind and stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, even if they only advance one millimeter, it is also a merit. If you always start from scratch, it is costly company investment and should be downgraded.

Second, the two crisis of Chinese characters

The first crisis was a period of modern social transformation in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. In the late feudal and semi-colonial period, people were lagging behind. If someone went to take pictures of the peasants, he would hit you with a stick and thought that he would take his soul away. After the failure of the Westernization Movement, intellectuals began to reflect, and the expression of classical Chinese was complicated and it was impossible to popularize the people. At that time, the rise of Shakespeare's literature, music, and paintings in Europe was actually a baptism of philosophy in Europe. Through philosophy to unify people's understanding of things, the quality of European culture was high, which promoted the success of the industrial revolution. During the administration of Russia, Catherine II, a large number of Western paintings, music, dances, and philosophy were introduced. It was an impact on the old culture and a kind of liberation. Therefore, Russia took the lead in industrialization, and the Qing Dynasty was in power than the Empress Dowager Cixi. Rapid development. Russia has repaired the east-west railway, and we have a shame on the treaty.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the reform movement began to consciously promote the vernacular and raise up the "popular classical Chinese" called "new style". In the early part of the last century, the slogan of "literary revolution" was put forward. The characteristic of new literature is the use of vernacular style, which plays a certain role in the development of modern industry. Of course, we use vernacular and do not deny classical Chinese. Direct and realistic are the first advantages of vernacular, and they are relatively quick to reflect the expressions of scientific, technical, and social progress terms. How does the classical Chinese say "blue thin mushrooms" and "hi big rush"? Otherwise, today's progress cannot be described in classical Chinese. Small countries and ethnic minorities have made slow progress, and the source of language and words cannot keep up with social progress.

At that time, China’s economy, military and technology were very backward. The intellectuals reflected on why they were backward. The conclusion was that the economy was backward because of backward education. The backwardness of education was due to the “difficulty” of Chinese characters, which was difficult to recognize, difficult to remember, and difficult to write. Molecules take it for granted that English is easy to learn. When you learn, you will not spend any time and energy on learning the language. Chinese characters are too difficult to learn, so there are many illiterates in China. The solution was to reform Chinese characters. At that time, dozens of programs were designed. Some were the predecessors of the post-call (Chinese character encoding) and sketching, but more of them were the pinyinization scheme, which was to abolish Chinese characters. Lu Xun’s letter to a friend in private even said “Chinese characters are not destroyed, China will die”. Until the early 1950s, the path of Chinese-style phonetic writing was still a mainstream view. Not only the text reform, the voice reform is also successful, and Mandarin has spread throughout China.

The second crisis was the computer age. In the 1980s, when I first arrived in Shenzhen, the computer just started to rise. I felt great anxiety. I felt that the Chinese nation had to be abandoned by the times. Because the computer is an English input, what about Chinese characters? Later, Wang Yongmin invented the "Wang code five strokes", which is very great, let us see the hope of China. Of course, today the Chinese character input method is more advanced, is another story. The Chinese character is a malformed text that is not related to the computer. It has been solved by this method. It has evolved to this day, and the Chinese character input method has been very simple and scientific. Today, Chinese characters are more than English in terms of information storage, transmission, editing, sorting, retrieval, etc. In the future, computer scanning may be better than English because Chinese characters are graphic characters with low error rates.

Think back to these things and see how the Chinese characters are coming. Today, Chinese characters happen to be suitable for the information age, which is related to the contributions made by the predecessors. China will unify the market, unify the law, and unify the text to form a national trading system. When it joins the WTO, international trade will allow China's economy to develop rapidly. Therefore, for hundreds of years, the text reform is very important to the country and the nation.

Third, Chinese character reform and promotion

When I was a child, people were generally illiterate and literacy was extremely difficult. At that time, what we advertised to the poor was that you were illiterate, did not recognize the banknotes, and were deceived by people, prompting him to learn culture and sweeping illiterate people. Of course, illiteracy will not use 100 yuan as a corner. We were 11 or 12 years old at that time, and we went to the countryside every night to teach people to read. For hundreds of years, many volunteers and benevolent people have devoted their efforts to reforming language and writing to eliminate illiteracy. Replacing Chinese characters with Latin is once the voice of an era. How many leaders are eager to use Latinization, that is, they hope that the average person can speak and write together, sweep away illiteracy, and move toward modernization. On October 1, 1949, New China was established. Ten days later, the text reform committee was established. Wu Yuzhang served as the director. The process of writing reform is also very complicated. For internationalization, Chairman Mao also proposed to use Latin to unify the text. Revolutionary leaders Li Dazhao and Qu Qiubai were also active promoters of this view. As for how to change from Latin to Pinyin, there is no publicly detailed record at present. I have heard a story: Wu Yuzhang told Chairman Mao that if you change to Latin, young people do not know Chinese characters and do not understand history; in 1955, the text reform conference is said to have three more votes. Chairman Mao is very democratic and gives up. Latin. (From the foreign online hearsay, there is no basis.)

The second stage, how to make everyone literate? Study simplified Chinese characters and implement Chinese Pinyin. At that time, an ordinary cultural instructor of the army invented a new Chinese phonetic transcription, which laid the foundation for literacy. Chairman Mao received him three times. Next, in 1955, the text reform conference discussed the use of the Latin alphabet for phonetic transcription. The earliest use of the Beijing dialect was the standard, but the Beijing dialect added a tone and required 29 letters. Wu Yuzhang accompanied Chairman Mao to the venue and told Chairman Mao in the car. If 29 letters were used, 50 million overseas Chinese would not understand it in the future. Chairman Mao agreed to use 26 Roman letters to call, which is the basis of Mandarin.

In the third stage, the Chinese Pinyin program must become an international standard. If the text reform is only on Chinese soil and does not enter international standards, Chinese characters are problematic. During the Cultural Revolution, the country basically did not participate in international conferences. In 1979, the International Standards Committee sent a letter to invite Zhou Youguang to attend the ISO in Paris. He refused first and said that the clothes were broken. The state gave him new coats, shoes and socks, and then returned to China after returning home. He did not take a penny or a dollar, and went to an international conference. Because it is a foreign invitation, it is not a public sent abroad, 30 US dollars will not be issued; the renminbi is a foreign exchange control, it is not allowed to bring abroad, therefore, both hands are empty. At this meeting, he introduced China's opinions on the Chinese Pinyin program, let us see our text reforms internationally, and did a basic work of extensive propaganda. But at the time many countries boycotted because they had to spend tens of millions of dollars to change their books in the National Library. The second Warsaw International Conference accepted the international standard for locating the Chinese Pinyin Program to spell Chinese. However, the conference proposed that China should have a positive vocabulary. This is very difficult to achieve. China has no connected words so far. The third international conference proposed a meeting in China. Zhou Youguang reported to the state. In 1981, the reform was just opened. Deng Xiaoping agreed to hold a meeting at an air force guest house in Nanjing. The meeting was very successful. Zhou Youguang convinced everyone to accept Chinese Pinyin with 26 letters. The Chinese Pinyin Program became an international standard.

After so many sufferings and pains, Chinese characters have finally moved toward this path of China's development. Our text reform, everything is for internationalization. For example, the previous Chinese characters are vertical (direction is from right to left), and later changed to horizontal (direction is from left to right), conforming to people's vision, writing is convenient, and plays a great role in the internationalization of Chinese characters. Don't laugh at the predecessors, they are all crossing the river by feeling the stones. People after 5,000 years may also laugh at Huawei's "fools", but things after 5,000 years are not produced out of thin air, but our step by step efforts have heightened their development.

Fourth, the view is about to take, thick and thin hair

Zhou Youguang worked in New York when he was young. His classmates taught in Princeton and introduced him to accompany Einstein. Because Einstein is too lonely, Einstein talks about the "grass" of physical gravitational waves. Zhou Youguang talks about the international economy. In the "land book" of the situation, they only have one sentence in common - "the greatness of life is in amateur."

When new employees enter the company, they should actively strengthen communication, be fully prepared, and give full play to their best. It is hoped that young people will focus on prolific food and enhance soil fertility, not limited to their respective professions, cross-departmental and interdisciplinary communication. Huawei's previous tradition was to “like to live in groups and eat omnivorous food”. A group of people communicated with each other, raised each other, and complained less. If we use the energy of blame to "plan", I believe that there will be no complaints when the results are harvested, wages will rise, and opportunities will come. The community of voices is open, and all posts that criticize us are not cut down, and the privacy of the poster is protected. If you are comfortable after your death, don't be depressed, we can make a contribution. However, simple praise is not necessary; unreasonable attacks are not advisable; especially personal attacks are more undesirable. We are also able to distinguish constructive opinions from the community of minds and draw reasonable nutrition from them.

I saw a post on the community that said, dislike the philosophy of learning. As a grassroots employee, it is not important to learn philosophy without learning. As long as you work hard, produce more food, and get more bonuses, you will live and work in peace. But cadres above the middle and upper levels must learn a little philosophy, because philosophy is the compass of life. You see, it is impossible to plant tulips on the Gobi Desert, indicating that there is no philosophy of the northeast black land on the Gobi Desert. The Tsinghua Kingdom Victoria also said to the Westernization Movement that it is not important to open mines and set up factories. China must popularize philosophy. Only the whole nation has improved its quality and raised the idea of ​​logic between things. Only after the mind is open can innovation be built. To go one step higher, to change the rigid dogma, that is philosophy. We do not require new employees to learn philosophy. In the future, they will learn more after they are promoted. In strategic and tactical, they will have a scientific "scalpel" for dissecting the world and dissecting organizations. The company is in the process of structural adjustment, many documents are open to all members, and you are advised to read more company documents, and the understanding of the company will be more profound.

Books are the best teachers. All wisdom can be found in the book. Some are direct answers, and more are read by people. The average employee can do one thing well, but the work of leading cadres is multi-faceted, especially dealing with people. It is necessary to have a deep understanding of people and things, and philosophy is to study people's knowledge.

Fortunately for history, we have preserved the traditional Chinese characters and successfully promoted Mandarin in the country. What a great contribution! For the rise of the great motherland, what a great foundation for the realization of modernization! We pay tribute to the reformers who have struggled for the text reform for hundreds of years! We also have to add a brick and a tile to history. Hope is pinned on you.