Many people will not be unfamiliar with Lenovo, this brand known as the domestic light was very popular in the early days of its creation, but few people knew that Lenovo's core competitiveness actually came from Ni Guangnan. After returning to China in the 80s, he joined Lenovo and created the "Lenovo Hanka" for the company, which established Lenovo's status to a certain extent.
Executives such as Liu Chuanzhi and Yang Yuanqing had irreconcilable conflicts with Ni Guangnan for the sake of business interests, and eventually Ni Guangnan, the hero, was driven out of Lenovo. It is worth noting that some netizens found that the 84-year-old academician of the Academy of Engineering is still renting a house in Beijing, with a monthly allowance of about 10,000. Compared with Liu Chuanzhi, Yang Yuanqing and others, who have an annual salary of hundreds of millions, Ni Guangnan's life to run for China Core but was used is embarrassing.
1. Return to China to join Lenovo
Ni Guangnan was born in Zhejiang in 1939, and his parents taught him from an early age to study hard and strive to serve the country when he grew up. Ni Guangnan grew up with this belief, and later for some reasons was unable to join the army to serve the country, but he found another way - technology research and development. If you want to surpass foreign countries and become a first-class power, you must have high-tech support.
Ni Guangnan chose to major in radio, and he was recruited by the Chinese Academy of Sciences after graduation. At that time, computers were being studied at home and abroad, and Ni Guangnan also participated in related projects many times, and was later sent to Canada to study. During his time in Canada, his outstanding research level attracted attention, and the local government was willing to offer a generous salary of 70 times the domestic salary in order to retain him, but Ni Guangnan was determined to serve the motherland after completing his studies, and resolutely refused this request.
At that time, the computer was full of English letters, and if you wanted to translate Chinese characters, you could only use pinyin instead. Ni Guangnan did not want to let the traditional Chinese characters gradually disappear, so he thought of implanting Chinese characters in the computer, the so-called "Hanka". It happened that Lenovo Liu Chuanzhi's project was frustrated, so he strongly invited Ni Guangnan to enter Lenovo to do research and development, and Ni Guangnan joined Lenovo with all his net worth of 80,000 savings, hoping to fulfill his dream here.
Second, being swept away
Ni Guangnan is a pure researcher, and he joined Lenovo only to better study his Hanka. Liu Chuanzhi, on the other hand, paid more attention to the market and economy, and at that time he was deceived by hundreds of thousands of dollars because of the setback of the project before inviting Ni Guangnan in, and the two concepts can be said to be incompatible from the beginning. Later, Ni Guangnan developed "Lenovo Hanka" for Lenovo, which obtained a lot of benefits after being put into the market, and also made the Lenovo brand a hit.
Based on "Lenovo Hanka", Lenovo subsequently launched several models of computer products, further consolidating its position in the market. A few years later, Ni Guangnan's outstanding contributions were also rewarded, and he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. During that time, Ni Guangnan was responsible for leading Lenovo's technology sector, Liu Chuanzhi was responsible for external marketing planning, and the two worked together to make the Lenovo brand bigger and stronger.
But soon after foreign computers entered the domestic market, Lenovo's future was in jeopardy, and Ni Guangnan and Liu Chuanzhi also had irreconcilable contradictions. Ni Guangnan believes that we should continue to engage in independent research and development, and with core technology, we are not afraid of external competition. However, Liu Chuanzhi believes that independent research and development takes a long time and costs a lot of money, and if you are not careful, you may be swallowed up by other competitors. So Liu Chuanzhi and other management Ni Guangnan, who had been engaged in technology for many years, "swept out".
At a later meeting of the board of directors, Liu Chuanzhi publicly announced the removal of Ni Guangnan's chief engineer and director. Ni Guangnan, who had no real power, had to pack up his things and leave Lenovo, and before leaving, he told Liu Chuanzhi that he could fire himself, but he could not fire the technology created by the countrymen themselves.
Third, for the core of China for a lifetime
It can be said that Ni Guangnan's dream of Chinese chips has never been broken, and after leaving Lenovo, he met Li Delei, who contracted the chip business and hoped to cooperate with Ni Guangnan. He heard that he could continue to develop chips, and agreed without thinking. Soon after, he developed the "Ark One", with this chip he applied for a lot of purchase orders from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and also used his influence to attract investment in the company.
But Li Delei only wants to cooperate with the public and can't look at the companies in the market, which makes Ni Guangnan dilemma in the middle. Not to mention the loss of credibility, it also led to problems in the subsequent research and development of "Ark One". Ni Guangnan, who felt that business and technology could not be combined, eventually resigned and came out to do research alone, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences allocated him a house, but because the floor was too high, he rented another one.
Summary:
From returning to China to join the association to now be in his 80s, Ni Guangnan has devoted his life to the research of Chinese chips. After encountering the sweep of his old club Lenovo and the betrayal of Li Delei, he realized that it was difficult for technology and business to coexist, so he came out to conduct research alone. Now in his 80s, he still lives in a rented house, but Liu Chuanzhi, Yang Yuanqing and others, who started their business together, are already worth hundreds of millions.
From the data, Lenovo has voluntarily withdrawn its listing application, and now the biggest source of profit is cash lending business. It can be said that Ni Guangnan single-handedly supported the original "domestic light" Lenovo, and Lenovo, which left independent research and development technology, is now just a large and mediocre enterprise.
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