At the end of last year, when Ma Huateng held Tencent's annual meeting, he said a meaningful word.
Ma Huateng said that although Tencent's current development is not bad, as Tencent's employees should maintain a normal heart, Tencent is just an ordinary enterprise, but it is only to catch the spring breeze of national development to rise rapidly.
Tencent's future task is to cooperate with the state to do a good job in a series of work such as the development of the Internet industry and people's livelihood protection, to be a helper for the country, to actively assume social responsibility, not to exceed power, not to lack. Although Tencent's current business line is very wide, it seems to cover all aspects of society, but Tencent is not a unique existence, as long as the country needs, Tencent may be replaced by other enterprises at any time.
Tencent has gone astray
Many netizens do not particularly understand Ma Huateng's words, Ma Huateng said this "modest words" is obviously an attempt, but what is his intention?
In fact, Tencent has encountered many twists and turns in recent years, although the scale is getting bigger and bigger. However, the speed of expansion is too fast, which also makes Tencent bury a lot of hidden dangers. When the Internet battlefield is caught in the crowd, many "big factories" naturally fall into a strange circle, that is, "monopoly".
More and more enterprises are entering the Internet industry, the resources that can be divided are less and less, and the cake is naturally getting smaller and smaller. At this time, everyone hopes to be able to obtain more resources through various means and squeeze out the opponent, so as to ensure that they can get more benefits.
As the head enterprise of the domestic Internet industry, it has more high-quality resources and a more stable audience in its hands. Therefore, Tencent naturally did not want to show weakness, and used the resources in its hands to begin to suppress its competitors by various means such as acquisitions, mergers, investments and even gangs.
Why does Ma Huateng say that Tencent may be replaced at any time
In fact, many of Tencent's means of competition have involved the category of monopoly. And this point has slowly received the attention of the state, once Tencent's hands have too many resources, and for these resources to achieve control, then China's Internet industry will be greatly affected, the development will fall into deformity.
In the past two years, the relevant state departments have invested more energy in Tencent's supervision, and have also interviewed Tencent many times to help Tencent correct its wrong development direction.
The focus of the relevant state departments has tightened Ma Huateng's nerves, because once the country realizes that Tencent's development model has affected, the state is likely to take some tough measures for the stability of the domestic economic development.
In fact, it has long been predicted that the state may split Tencent to deal with Tencent's repeated prohibitions on monopolistic behavior, but fortunately, no corresponding action has been taken so far. And Ma Huateng said that "Tencent may be replaced at any time", in fact, the purpose is very clear, that is, to show loyalty to the country and express his determination to obey the arrangement.
The subtext of Ma Huateng's words is that although Tencent is now a big family and has huge resources in hand, Tencent will not "cover the sky with one hand" and will not hinder the state's control and coordination of the economy. To put it bluntly, Tencent does not have too much ambition, only wants to do business well, will obediently listen to the country's words, and will not act recklessly and cause trouble for the country.
Once Tencent monopolizes, the consequences are unimaginable
In fact, after so many years of capital and resource accumulation, Tencent has a very heavy voice in the Internet industry, baidu and Ali, which were once called "BAT" together, have lost in the competition with Tencent, not to mention other successors who just want to get started.
Once Tencent is allowed to monopolize, then the domestic Internet industry will fall into a closed state, and new small and medium-sized enterprises will be difficult to develop due to the monopoly of resources by Tencent, which will lead to the entire industry without fresh blood flowing in, and eventually become pedantic and lack of vitality.
Tencent will also lose a certain degree of initiative because it has no competitors, and will only think about how to use resources to keep its own market, and will reduce the energy invested in innovation, research and development. Such a situation may not only make Tencent start to decline, but also may affect the progress speed of the entire Internet industry, or even stagnate, which is very serious.
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In any case, for Tencent's future development, the country can no longer let it develop on its own as before.
Indeed, as Ma Huateng said, although Tencent is getting bigger and bigger, the business scope covered is getting wider and wider, but China is not inseparable from Tencent, if Tencent affects the development of the country and makes acts that endanger the national economy, then Tencent is likely to be punished by the state, or even directly replaced.
Any enterprise that stands on the opposite side of the country and the people will eventually be abandoned by the country and the people, hoping that more and more enterprises will understand this truth and do not play with fire and self-immolation.
"Tencent may be replaced at any time", why does Ma Huateng say this?
Ma Huateng: Tencent is not unique and may be replaced at any time