This 70-year-old man has been a low-key, not easy public speech in the past few decades, but the subversion in the past six months is beyond imagination.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Box Finance” (ID: daxiongfan), author Yao Wei.
It is hard to imagine that Ren Zhengfei, who has been known for his low-key for decades, has at least publicly spoken 25w in the past six months.
In the past 30 years, Ren Zhengfei has received a few public interviews. However, since January 2019, Ren Zhengfei has received 2-4 interviews with Chinese and foreign media in the middle and late of the month, including a round-table interview involving a number of media. Incomplete statistics. As of July 18, Ren Zhengfei accepted 22 games in 2019 and interviewed 100 Chinese and foreign media.
Why are you so openly communicating with the media now? Why are you so intensively interviewed by the media recently? We know that you rarely receive media interviews, why are you willing to accept interviews now? In several interviews, Shenzhen Media, “News of the Day”, CBS, CNN and other media reporters raised such questions to Ren Zhengfei.
Really, for the public, this 70-year-old man has been a low-key, not easy-to-open public speech in the past few decades, but the subversion in the past six months is beyond imagination – half a year seems Said the words of a lifetime.
More than 5,000 keywords
On July 20th, Huawei’s Ministry of Public and Government Affairs released the electronic version of Ren Zhengfei’s Interview Record in the “Sound Community”. The document contains the contents of any Chinese and foreign media interviews between January and May 2019.
(Ren Zhengfei accepts interview schedule for nearly half a year, tabulation: boxed finance)
According to statistics, this “Interview Record” is 514 pages in total, with a total of 190,000 words. Among these 190,000 words, there is no interview with the French “Opinions” weekly in June, CNBC, “Financial Times” in the United States, and the American “Yahoo Finance” and the Italian media round table in July. Coupled with this, Ren Zhengfei has at least publicly said 25w words for the past six months.
In the 20w words, what problems did Ren Zhengfei ask, what did he mainly talk about and what signals were revealed? (ID:daxiongfan) uses “Interview Record” as a data source to sort out important keywords, keyword-related views, and frequently appearing golden sentences.
We will come to the table first – what does the high-frequency vocabulary here mean.
Focus refers to the important meaning or value in the process of expression. For example, the frequency of the words “you, de, and place”, “first, second”, “you and me” will of course be very high, but considering the interpretation The value is not very high, so such words are not included. At the same time, there are some keywords such as “organization”, which have different meanings in the context and have not been added to them. High frequency, well understood, is the frequency of occurrence. The frequency of occurrence here comes from two channels. One is the reporter’s question, and the other is Ren Zhengfei. On the one hand, it represents the focus of the media and society, while on behalf of Ren Zhengfei and Huawei.
(Number of occurrences of important keywords in Ren Zhengfei’s “Interview Record”, tabulation: Box of Rice Finance)
“United States” 1016 times, “China” 789 times, “Future” 210 times, “Technology” 189 times, “Law” 168 times, “Canada” 152 times, “5G” 149 times, “Network Security” 142 Times, “customer” 141 times, “open” 140 times, “science” 116 times, “Meng” (Meng Zhouzhou and Ms. Meng) 137 times, investment 105 times.
The above is the key high-frequency vocabulary with high appearance rate in Ren Zhengfei’s “Interview Record”.
In the past half a year, Huawei’s Meng Zhouzhou incident, ban, entity list, and spare tire plan are believed to be very clear, and we will not repeat them here. What the outside world wants to understand is also basic.It is the information, opinions and coping strategies of Huawei or Ren Zhengfei around these events.
Interestingly, from the chart compiled by (ID:daxiongfan), you can find the name associated with Meng Zhouzhou (Meng Zhouzhou, Ms. Meng, daughter)< /em>Accumulated 199 times, Other related keywords have not broken 100, and even have single digits, such as the list 7 times, the ban 5 times.
These sorted keywords can be roughly divided into five categories. One is just mentioned, such as Meng Xiazhou, list and other vocabulary surrounding Huawei’s crisis in the past six months; second is 5G, technology, Products, research and development, network security, artificial intelligence, chips, standards, etc. involve Huawei’s business technology vocabulary; third, management, education, listing, business, investment and other business management keywords; four categories are struggle, future, open, Cooperation, confidence, and other vocabulary that expresses attitudes and opinions; finally, it contains keywords with multiple meanings that are not clear.
We first look at the various keywords in the proportion of 50 keywords: the first category, the keyword account for crisis events accounted for 22%; the second category, the keyword for product technology accounted for Compared with 32%; in the third category, keywords in business management account for 22%; in the fourth category, keywords that express attitudes and opinions account for 14%.
Review the overall number of keywords ((ie the total number of seats and occurrences of keywords): 5 categories, 50 keywords appeared a total of 5,072 times, Among them, the first category has 592 occurrences, the second category is 1199 times, the third category is 917 times, and the fourth category is 409 times.
(Ren Zhengfei’s “Keywords in the Interview” is an important keyword classification table, tabulation: Box of Rice Finance)
If you simply analyze the data from the above two groups, Ren Zhengfei’s interview in the past six months is basically through the shell of the event, talking about Huawei’s technology, business and management.
Hidden attributes behind keywords
The reporter of “Asahi Shimbun” is Ren Zhengfei: The United States bans exports to Huawei. Is Huawei already prepared, or is it quite a surprise? If you have prepared before, probably when did you start preparing?
In the interview, Ren Zhengfei replied that he was prepared in 2003.Selling Huawei to a US company for $10 billion. The reason is to judge that there will be a fierce conflict in the future, and Huawei may lose. However, due to some changes in the other company, the transaction was not completed.
Also, around 2003, Huawei executives discussed again whether to sell the company. The younger generation unanimously denied the sale, Ren Zhengfei said to them: “After that ten years, we must face fierce conflict with the United States, and we must be mentally prepared.”
The Meng Xiazhou incident and the United States’ inclusion of Huawei in the list of entities are all manifestations of conflict. The difference is only the time of day and night.
The stories I learned in the above interviews have a list, conflicts, and sales. If you refine these three keywords separately, you will make up the brain with different pictures and plots in different eyes.
Simple keywords, lacking a three-dimensional dimension, are also prone to ambiguity and multiple understandings. The best way to solve this problem is to put the “dismembered” vocabulary into the context while replenishing the event background.
We will simply sort out the major events of Huawei in the past six months.
(Huawei’s recent major event timeline, drawing: Box of Rice Finance)
In this context, we look at the high-frequency questions that reporters often ask and Ren Zheng is very answering in several interviews.
High Frequency Question 1: What is the opinion and judgment of the Meng Zhouzhou incident?
There are no less than 10 media questions to Ren Zhengfei, and the answers given are similar. Occasionally, I will tell some of my past experiences related to my daughter’s growth, but the core of the basic response is that this has nothing to do with Huawei, is taking legal procedures, and we are waiting for the results of the law.
The following is the original excerpt from the interview by Ren Zhengfei
Meng’s night boat has entered the judicial process, and I will not comment here.
Meng’s night, we use legal means to defend our rights.
I still think that the Meng Zhouzhou incident relies mainly on the law to solve this problem.
Meng Xingzhou has now filed her complaint. I think it is a personal matter of Meng Zhouzhou. I support her to file her complaint on this issue.I believe that the laws of the United States and Canada are open and transparent, and will eventually have a correct result.
High Frequency Issue 2: The Impact of Recent Negative Events on Huawei
This question is also a question of high rate of appearance when reporters ask questions. And this seems to be more “rushing” and negative issues, Ren Zhengfei’s answer is positive and positive vocabulary occupying the main body, such as maintaining a growth rate of 20%, thanks to the US government for giving us propaganda, external catalysis internal changes, the United States to Huawei Said to be a small market.
The following is the original excerpt from the interview by Ren Zhengfei
After thirty years of struggle, the vast majority of Huawei’s people are richer, and their spirit of hard work is losing. Huawei is in the process of loosening the organization. The suppression of the United States has promoted our internal unity and strengthened the internal spirit of struggle. We can streamline the redundant cadres.
Huawei is a small business, and the United States has accused Huawei. It may not distinguish between Huawei’s good and bad, but it has raised Huawei’s popularity and let the people all over the world know that there is a Huawei. Thanks to the US government for giving us publicity.
Our sales are growing very fast, and the terminal grows by an average of 50% per month, so we want to thank the US government for advertising us everywhere.
High Frequency Issue 3: Comments on the US and Trump
The United States mentioned 1016 times, Trump 74 times, and Apple 56 times. It is hard to imagine that when referring to these three keywords, Ren Zhengfei used the word “great” at a high frequency.
The following is the original excerpt from the interview by Ren Zhengfei
I still think that the United States is a very great country, because of its advanced system, flexible innovation mechanism, clear and clear property rights, respect and protection of individual rights, etc., attracting the world’s outstanding Talents, thus pushing hundreds of millions of talents to invest and innovate on American soil.
For the personal opinion of President Trump, I still think that he is a great president and dare to bring down the taxation greatly, which is conducive to the development of the US industry.
I think Apple has set an example for us and we will learn from Apple.
High Frequency Issue 4: How to build trust in other markets
How to be more open and transparent in finance? How does Huawei say NO? How does Huawei protect user privacy and information security? How does Huawei build trust in other markets? These sharp questions point directly to the relationship between Huawei and the Chinese government that the US has always suspected.
The answer given by Ren Zhengfei is very clear. It can be divided into three aspects: First, although Huawei is not listed, it can not be faked by KPMG. Second, the government has already met at the Munich Security Conference. The statement “will never let Chinese companies install backdoors”; the third is that as long as Huawei does a good job, there will always be people who want to buy it; if the product is not good, then no matter how publicized, no one else will buy it.
High Frequency Question 5: How Huawei responds in the future
When answering such questions, Ren Zhengfei often mentioned why Huawei insisted on not listing. It can be roughly summarized as follows: We are not listed companies, do not need to pay attention to financial statements, and do not pay too much attention to positive or negative public opinion. As the market narrows, we shrink, where is the future, we continue to move forward, and public opinion will not affect our stock price.
The following is the original excerpt from the interview by Ren Zhengfei
We are not a listed company, we are not concerned about the beauty of financial statements, and we are more concerned about the growth of our own strength.
Our non-listed companies don’t care about the financial statements that are not beautiful, but the strategic goals must be achieved.
There is no listed company in the world who dares to invest so much bombardment on the same “wall” as we do.
Huawei is a non-listed company. It does not pursue an increase in the number, nor does it pursue a profit level. It is good to survive.
We are different from listed companies. If we don’t go public, we won’t worry about the fluctuation of financial statements. If we are a listed company, today the international community is stunned by our public opinion. Today, we have no feelings and continue to move forward.
High Frequency Question 6: What do you want to say to readers/audiences in the US or around the world
You said that there is no good channel to communicate with the US government. Now, so many foreign media are sitting here. If you want to have something to say to the US government, what information do you most want to convey? If you want to borrow this platform, say something to the US government or the American society.