Chapter 568: Chapter 568: A Massive Shakeup in the Mobile Industry!
In just two years, it feels like a very long time has passed.
As the new students start their academic journey, Qin Yun once again represents outstanding students by delivering a speech to the newcomers. This time, many of the alumni who previously graduated have come to Jiangyuan University, and even dedicated journalists are here to conduct interviews.
After the speech for the new students, information about Qin Yun began appearing in various short videos at hand.
"Chairman of Celestial Fortune Group, Jiangyuan University junior Qin Yun delivers a speech to new students at Jiangyuan University."
"Jiangyuan University administration confirms the establishment of the Qin Yun Foundation, with Celestial Fortune injecting two million annually as school scholarships!"
...
Various news reports started to emerge.
Nowadays, Qin Yun has almost become an internet celebrity, bringing along immense traffic.
Twenty years old, self-made, a junior student, billions in net worth...
The achievements of Qin Yun seem to surpass those of Bill Gates and Zuckerberg. Qin Yun has accounts on Weibo and Douyin, though he rarely posts anything, yet his followers have reached tens of millions!
At this moment in Hua Country, Qin Yun is like Jack, easily catching eyes wherever he goes.
Countless young people idolize Qin Yun. Since Qin Yun’s news exploded, the number of students starting businesses in college has skyrocketed.
Regarding this, Qin Yun hasn’t paid much attention, spending less time at school and more time at the company.
And undoubtedly, what he focuses on most now is Celestial Fortune Battery.
With September continuously slipping by, Celestial Fortune has also invested heavily to acquire a battery factory.
Of course, this news isn’t at all secret.
"Why did Celestial Fortune suddenly acquire a battery factory?"
"I don’t know, is Celestial Fortune preparing to enter the battery industry?"
"It’s very possible! Celestial Fortune is a clothing company, but it has expanded into shampoos and toothpaste."
"That said, clothes, shampoo, and toothpaste are household necessities, but batteries aren’t that easy to make."
"That’s right, the lithium battery industry has reached a bottleneck, unless new material batteries emerge, there’s practically no way forward."
Countless individuals are paying attention, secretly discussing.
However, regarding battery research, Qin Yun’s confidentiality measures have been well executed, not allowing any information to leak.
Experimentation, safety testing, processing various documents, etc.
Unconsciously, time has already reached late September!
And finally, everything was completed!
In mid-September, Apple released a new phone, still with a notch screen, failing to achieve a full-screen display, yet its sales remained extremely robust.
Admittedly, Apple’s phone operating system is indeed smoother than others, slightly better than the Android system; otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many buyers.
When the new phone appeared, it couldn’t even be grabbed online. Even if it was grabbed, due to shortages, it was delayed and unshipped.
At the end of September, Apple’s new phone continued its hot sales, while other phones could only dodge its sharpness.
And just as Apple phones dominated, on September 29th, Celestial Fortune’s official website suddenly released news.
"Celestial Fortune Battery Factory has developed a more powerful mobile lithium battery, with endurance seven times that of ordinary phones..."
This short announcement has suddenly stirred the tranquil phone market into enormous waves!
"Celestial Fortune phone battery? Battery life seven times that of ordinary phones?"
"How is this possible? Phones are just so big, battery specs, size, etc., have significant limits, charging once to last ten or so hours is already good, now can it last over eighty hours?"
"Could Celestial Fortune be lying?"
"Are you stupid? This is Celestial Fortune’s official website, why would they say something so stupid?"
The news spread, shocking countless people, some with joy, some with drastically changed expressions.
After the statement was issued, within a short period, stocks of major listed companies in the battery industry globally all fell in response.
Those companies produce lithium batteries; if Celestial Fortune Battery Factory truly researched such powerful lithium batteries, those companies’ orders would undoubtedly significantly decrease.
Therefore, its stock price decline is quite normal.
One could say Celestial Fortune’s statement instantly triggered a major quake in the battery industry.
Currently, Celestial Fortune is no longer just any small company; Qin Yun’s name is even known by many abroad, marveling at the emergence of such an outstanding youth in Hua Country.
Among these companies, Yu Leyao’s father Yu Jiancheng’s company stock also took a dive.
"Has Qin’s battery factory developed a lithium battery with such amazing effectiveness?" At this moment, Yu Jiancheng’s expression kept changing, reading Celestial Fortune’s statement.
In a short time, his company’s market value evaporated by tens of billions!
With changes in expression, Yu Jiancheng couldn’t help but call Qin Yun.
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At Celestial Fortune headquarters, Qin Yun awaited the market’s reaction.
"President Qin."
Qin Xiaotao approached, saying, "Up until now, no mobile company has contacted us."
Phone battery research is for selling, but now no one is ordering.
If no one buys, it is undoubtedly without any profit.
"They should be considering, right?" Qin Yun calmly said.
He isn’t clueless about anything now; producing good things and everyone rushing to buy isn’t the reality.
This is the capitalist market, capital is ruthless, and current mobile manufacturers and lithium battery suppliers all have various interests intertwined.
The battery industry involves cobalt mines, lithium mines, graphite mines, as well as lithium battery separators, packaging, etc. How enormous is the capital chain?
How many mining companies and battery companies are involved?
The cake among them is enormous. If all accept Celestial Fortune’s battery now, many companies will be hugely impacted, potentially even bankrupt directly.
With just clothes sales, others will utilize various tactics upon seeing good sales.
This time, won’t those lithium battery suppliers adopt suppression tactics?
Such as acquiring Celestial Fortune Battery Factory, or persuading those cellphone merchants not to use Celestial Fortune’s battery?
These possibilities exist.
Upon hearing what Qin Yun said, Qin Xiaotao pondered slightly and asked, "President Qin, what if those mobile manufacturers aren’t willing to cooperate with us?"
"Unwilling to cooperate?"
Qin Yun responded with a smile, "If that’s the case, then we’ll make phones ourselves, establish a phone factory, and then see if consumers prefer our phones or others."
Nowadays, making phones isn’t difficult; otherwise, so many phone brands wouldn’t emerge, and most phone performances are quite similar.
Even if Apple’s phone system is the best, the average person can’t really tell.
"However, even if we do make them, we need to bring others on board," Qin Yun remarked silently in his heart after speaking.
(Thanks to the 1500 reward from Ban Sheng Liang Liang Liang to Shang, thank you.)
