Did Huawei cross the line of life and death when the "father of HarmonyOS" left?

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Author | Marudoyama

Toutu | vision china

Recently, Wang Chenglu, known as the "father of HarmonyOS", was exposed to have left Huawei.

On May 23rd, Wang Chenglu’s personal Weibo showed that Huawei’s certification had been cancelled. According to the data of Tianyancha, Wang Chenglu has become the only member of the core team of Shenzhen Kaihong Digital Industry Development Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Shenkaihong"), and a paragraph in his personal profile explains: "In May 2022, Dr. Wang Chenglu, who led the development of HarmonyOS system, left Huawei, and the next stop was Shenzhen Kaihong Digital Industry Development Co., Ltd. (Shenkaihong)."

According to public information, Shenkaihong was established on August 26, 2021, and completed the angel round of financing in January this year. Tianyancha’s equity penetration shows that the shareholders behind Shenkaihong include Huawei, ChinaSoft and CIC, and the actual controller is Chen Yuhong, CEO of ChinaSoft International.

Among the heads of many business departments in Huawei, Wang Chenglu’s presence is not prominent, but correspondingly, in addition to the most concerned HarmonyOS system, he also led the research and development of Ark compiler and EMUI. It can be said that Wang Chenglu’s professional resume runs through the whole development process of Huawei’s consumer software department.

Nowadays, the departure of this veteran will inevitably lead to discussion, especially after the extension of Harmony OS 3.0, the outside world is more concerned about whether this system will produce variables.

However, although this personnel change seems sudden, it actually has signs. At the Huawei Developers Conference on October 22 last year, Wang Chenglu made his last public appearance. At that time, his position had become the president of Huawei AI and Smart Full Scene Business Department, and the president of Huawei Consumer Business Software Department was replaced by Gong Ti.

Wang Chenglu, who left Huawei, is not far from HarmonyOS. According to various sources, his next stop will be to join Shenzhen Kaihong Industrial Development Co., Ltd. and continue to host the development of OpenHarmony.

Since its appearance at Huawei Developers Conference in 2019, HarmonyOS has carried too many expectations and doubts from the outside world. After the mobile phone business was frustrated, HarmonyOS not only shouldered the heavy responsibility of retaining users during the transition period, but also shouldered Huawei’s strategic responsibility for IoT.

In March last year, Wang Chenglu said in an interview with the media that the most important task in 2021 is to "make HarmonyOS’s ecological market share reach 16%, and the watershed of ecological prosperity must be crossed."

So, when Wang Chenglu left, did HarmonyOS cross the line of life and death?

Crossing the line of life and death in one year

Yang Haisong, vice president of Huawei’s consumer business AI and full scene business department, said in an interview: "What HarmonyOS needs to do is to take one year to complete the road that others have taken for five years."

Now it seems that Wang Chenglu did it.

Huawei’s shipments have suffered a cliff-like decline since 2020 due to problems such as chip failure and the discontinuation of Google’s mobile service suite. The HarmonyOS system, which was previously positioned as the "interface of the future Internet of Things", was also launched in 2020, and rapidly expanded from the IoT device side to the mobile phone side.

There is only one task of HarmonyOS system: to ensure that users will not be lost in the case of a large-scale reduction in shipments.

During this period, Wang Chenglu’s team made rapid progress. In September 2020, Huawei released the preview version of HarmonyOS 2.0 operating system at the developer conference, and released the developer Beta version three months later.

On June 2 last year, HarmonyOS 2 was officially launched, which means that the mobile phone equipped with HarmonyOS has become a formal product for the market.

From HarmonyOS 1.0 to the official version of HarmonyOS 2, Wang Chenglu’s team needs to solve many problems. Different from the general mobile phone operating system, HarmonyOS is firstly an IoT-oriented operating system, and its primary goal is to satisfy all kinds of hardware devices with one system.

By the time the official version of HarmonyOS 2 was released, HarmonyOS system already had the basic framework as a mobile phone system and IoT connection center.

For example, hardware mutual assistance and resource sharing based on distributed soft bus and distributed device virtualization are realized among various devices through HarmonyOS 2. At the development level of applications and devices, one-time development and multi-terminal deployment are realized, and at the same time, flexible deployment of various terminal devices is supported as required, and different types of hardware resources and functional requirements can be adapted.

After the release of HarmonyOS 2.0, Huawei pushed the official version upgrade to all mobile terminals in a short time. By December 2021, Huawei had 141 mobile devices supporting HarmonyOS system.

"If the old user has a very good experience after upgrading to HarmonyOS, he may stay. As long as we grab it in these two years, our hardware may come back. " What Wang Chenglu and his team have done is to make Huawei have the ability to build a complete ecology before solving the hardware problem, which is the most precious wealth left by Wang Chenglu to Huawei.

After completing the iteration of HarmonyOS 2, Huawei needs to attract enough developers to participate in the application development for this new system in a short time. It should be noted that when HarmonyOS 2 was released, the number of application developers for iOS was 24 million, and the number of Android application development was 20 million.

To this end, Huawei released the Hormony OS professional certification for the first time at the Harmony Connect Partner Summit last July to help developers achieve career advancement. Two months later, Huawei released the Euler operating system, which can be widely deployed in servers, cloud computing, edge computing, embedded devices and other forms. Through a set of operating system structure, it is compatible with diverse devices.

These developer-oriented service platforms have enabled HarmonyOS 2 to gather more than 1.2 million developers within a few months after its release, helping HarmonyOS become the fastest-growing operating system in the world.

Previously, Yu Chengdong had revealed that the number of Huawei devices equipped with Harmony OS had reached 240 million, the number of monthly users of Huawei terminals was 730 million, the shipment of ecological equipment was 150 million, and there were more than 2,000 ecological partners. This has exceeded the target of 300 million devices proposed by Wang Chenglu last year.

Although the mobile phone business is still constrained, this is the best result for Huawei at present.

Half a cup is not full

On April 28th this year, Huawei officially launched the developer preview version of HarmonyOS 3. At the press conference, Yu Chengdong said that there are still many limitations in the current Internet of Everything, such as the prominent data island effect, and the addition of HarmonyOS has created a possibility for "intelligent connection and collaboration" between devices.

In order to achieve this goal, Huawei has launched Harmony Design System, Ark Development Framework 3.0, Ark Compiler 3.0, DevEco Studio 3.0, etc. These development tool suites enable developers to realize more efficient end-to-end development of HarmonyOS applications and services.

For example, in the past, Huawei provided a multilingual user program framework such as Java/C/C++/JS and a multilingual framework API; for various software and hardware services at the framework level. At the same time, it provides multi-language framework APIs such as C/C++/JS for devices using HarmonyOS, and the APIs supported by different devices are related to the degree of component cutting of the system.

Now, developers can flexibly choose the tool suite according to different devices to complete the assembly of the operating system. Of course, compared with the huge and mature developer teams of IOS and Android, it is still difficult for HarmonyOS’s millions of developers to make up for the disadvantages of applications in a short time.

Although Huawei has been friendly enough to developers, it is still difficult to convince developers to share their energy with HarmonyOS because of the strong barriers formed by the operation of IOS and Android for more than ten years.

Huawei’s response is to continuously lower the threshold of open source. Wang Chenglu once revealed a point: Huawei analyzed the ecological development history of PC and mobile industry in the past 20 years, and found that 16% of the market share is a watershed. If it can exceed 16% of the ecological foundation, it will be successful without being eliminated by the market.

Perhaps based on this consideration, Huawei donated all the basic capabilities of HarmonyOS to the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation in 2020 and 2021, and the latter integrated the contributions of other participants to form the OpenHarmony (open source HarmonyOS) project.

In this regard, Wang Chenglu once explained that Huawei’s move is to enable all families to obtain codes in the Open Atomic Foundation on an equal footing, and eco-enterprises can better make products according to their own demands. Similarly, Huawei also got the code back from the Open Atomic Foundation, and then superimposed Huawei product features to make products.

However, although Huawei has made HarmonyOS completely open source through a third-party organization, this is not enough to support other mobile phone manufacturers to choose to build their own systems through OpenHarmony, because the current OpenHarmony is not supported by Java programs, and naturally it is impossible to support Android.

For the third-party mobile phone manufacturers, it is unrealistic that the mobile phone system is not supported by Android applications. Although Huawei developer official website has opened dozens of Demo, most of them are based on common application scenarios, which is far from being a mature open source system.

And if OpenHarmony can’t get more vendors’ access, then the "16% watershed" mentioned by Wang Chenglu still faces no small challenge before the Huawei chip problem is solved.

Shenkaihong, which Wang Chenglu joined after his departure, is a technology enterprise focusing on the secondary development of OpenHarmony. According to official website’s introduction of this company, Shenkaihong’s strategic goal is to become the leader of intelligent Internet of Things operating system, and it focuses on technical research and development and continuous innovation of intelligent Internet of Things operating system (KaihongOS) based on OpenHarmony.

It is worth mentioning that this company is inextricably linked with Huawei. According to Tianyancha data, the largest shareholder of Shenkaihong is Hongju Innovation Information Technology Partnership (Limited Partnership), which is personally controlled by Chen Yuhong, CEO of ChinaSoft International. Huawei has always been the largest customer of ChinaSoft International. The third largest shareholder is Hubble Investment, an investment fund under Huawei.

Therefore, Wang Chenglu’s departure seems to be not a simple personnel change, but more like a member of Huawei’s initiative to seek partners.

Will HarmonyOS’s ambition be realized?

Regarding Wang Chenglu’s departure, an industry insider told Hu Wei: "It will hardly have any substantial impact on the HarmonyOS project team, and HarmonyOS’s strategic planning will still be implemented along the existing goals."

The insider believes that from the ecological perspective of HarmonyOS, the flow of talents among eco-enterprises has been frequent in the past two years, and many high-end talents have cooperated with core eco-enterprises to varying degrees. Everyone may be able to collide with more new sparks by trying different "combinations".

Having said that, some people still think that Wang Chenglu’s sudden departure will still have an impact on HarmonyOS. Especially in the context of the postponement of Harmony 3.0, the industry is more worried about the future of HarmonyOS, which is mainly manifested in whether Harmony’s "de-Google" can go smoothly.

In an interview last year, Wang Chenglu once told the media, "In October this year, the third phase of open source code in HarmonyOS will be launched, and the code contributed by Google from the AOSP community is almost gone."

Wang Chenglu’s statement made HarmonyOS be pushed to the forefront for a while, but until today, the Hormony system that completely realized "Google-removal" has not come out. However, it has recently been revealed that Huawei will officially release the 3.0 beta version of Hormony at the developer conference held in June.

So, will this version achieve the achievement of "de-Googleization"? The answer may not be optimistic.

Zhihu Digital V @blindpirate once analyzed the code of HORMONY version 2.0 Beta. Statistics show that at least 56% of AOSP codes are submitted by Google, which is not counting the non-Google.com email submitted by Google.

In this regard, an Android development engineer also told Hu Wei, "It is unlikely to remove the code contributed by Google, because Google contracted most of the code of the virtual machine and HAL layer in AOSP."

Of course, there is also an interpretation that Wang Chenglu only refers to the open source part of the code that does not contain Google’s contribution, not the code that does not contain Google’s contribution in the whole system. From this perspective, it does make sense.

Another noteworthy project is HarmonyOS’s "Car Machine Plan". Huawei’s efforts in in-vehicle business in recent two years are obvious to all, and Wang Chenglu also plays a key role in the BU part of Huawei’s vehicle. Before the launch of HarmonyOS system, Wang Chenglu presided over the launch of Huawei’s first intelligent in-vehicle system, and after the release of Harmony 1.0, Wang Chenglu repeatedly said that in-vehicle will be a core link in HarmonyOS system in the future.

Judging from the actual performance, HarmonyOS-Automotive is completely qualified. This car OS has proved the reliability of HarmonyOS’s in-vehicle system on the M5. In addition, Huawei has already reached in-depth cooperation with BAIC, Xiaokang and Changan, and HarmonyOS-Automotive will land on domestic cars one after another in the future.

And will Wang Chenglu’s departure have a secondary impact on Huawei’s car system? It remains to be seen.

However, one thing is certain. With the continuous iteration of HarmonyOS and OpenHarmony, the ecological boundary of HarmonyOS is also expanding. Judging from the size of HarmonyOS today, changes in individuals and even teams will hardly have any impact on HarmonyOS. Only Huawei’s positioning can really affect HarmonyOS. Is it a short-term lifeline? Or the starting point of long-term strategic transformation?

If it is the latter, then Huawei will have to invest more power in basic software such as database, compiler and even programming language in the future. Under this assumption, the influence brought by HarmonyOS will far exceed the system itself.

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For example, this car is often mentioned as a space issue. Let’s take a look with the editor next.

Take a look at the appearance of Xingtu Lanyue first. The front design of Xingtu Lanyue is very sharp. The air intake grille adopts a large area of banner shape, which looks relatively young. Coupled with angular headlights, the visual effect looks quite cool. The car is equipped with LED daytime running lights, front fog lights, automatic opening and closing, adaptive far and near light, delayed closing, etc. To the side of the body, the body size of the car is 4970MM*1940MM*1792MM, the car adopts simple and elegant lines, the body looks very hard, with large-sized thick-walled tires, the shape is quite sharp. At the rear of the car, the overall shape of the rear of the car echoes the front of the car, and the taillights are very capable. Coupled with the unique exhaust pipe, the overall look is very atmospheric.

Sitting in the car, the interior of Xingtu Lanyue looks very avant-garde and soft. The steering wheel of the car is very in line with the interior style, and the leather material is used to make everything look very simple. Let’s take a look at the central control. With the 15.6-inch touch LCD central control screen, the interior design is quite layered, and the overall design of the central control is remarkable. Let’s take a look at the dashboard and seats. The dashboard design is remarkable and very eye-catching. The car has leather seats, and the seats are wide and thick, which are basically enough for daily use.

Xingtu Lanyue matches the automatic manual (AT) gearbox, with a maximum power of 192KW and a maximum torque of 400N.m, resulting in good power performance.

The car is equipped with vehicle to everything, driving mode selection, remote control keys, rear wipers, interior ambient lights and other configurations, the configuration performance is still relatively good, to some extent, improve the convenience of the driver.

After reading the above introduction, let’s make a summary. The car’s moderate size is a very suitable choice for many families, and the interior space is enough for daily use by families.

Nicholas Tse: I worked hard to prevent my son from working hard

    Yanzhao Metropolis Daily special reporter Qin Jing sent from Beijing


    Because of Xie Xian, people remember Nicholas Tse, who just debuted and is not well-versed in the world; because of the separation and combination with Cecilia Cheung, people understand Nicholas Tse’s true temperament; because of the more and more hard work, people are moved by this man who does not want to let his son suffer in the same way. Yesterday, the TV series adapted from Gu Long’s novel "Big Shot" held its premiere conference in Beijing, starring Nicholas Tse, Li Xinjie, Liu Tao and other appearances. Nicholas Tse broke his usual cool image and said a lot from the bottom of his heart. Many people say that he said more yesterday than in the past two years.


    1. Xiao Xie plays the cologne novel again and claims to be destined


    The 31-episode TV series "Big Shot" revolves around the story of Tian Sisi (played by Li Xinjie), the beloved daughter of the owner of "Splendid Villa", yearning for life in the rivers and lakes and pursuing Qin Ge (played by Yan Kuan), the idol in her heart. In order to pursue her dream, Tian Sisi marries Yang Fan (played by Nicholas Tse), who is married by her side. On the day of her marriage, she implements a marriage escape plan, swaps her clothes with Chu Chu (played by Liu Tao), the first woman in the rivers and lakes, and escapes from Splendid Villa. At this point, the story is fully unfolded. Qin Ge, a person in the rivers and lakes, and Yang Fan, an ordinary person, embark on the road to save martial arts, while Sisi


    "The Big Shot" is Nicholas Tse’s second role in Gu Long’s novel. In the previous "Xiaoyuer and Hua Wuque", he was "fluttering in white clothes and has a Xiaoxiao demeanor". Here, he is as chic and suave. But Xiao Xie said: "These two characters have changed a lot, and Yang Fan and Hua Wuque in’The Big Shot ‘have a very different grasp and handling of the characters. Hua Wuque is a little stern, but Yang Fan has a lot of changes, and his body language and martial arts skills are also different." When asked if he has a soft spot for Gu Long’s novels, Xiao Xie smiled and said: "It’s fate." As for the three words "big man", Xiao Xie paused for a long time before slowly answering: "These three words are difficult to explain, and in my heart, these three words represent too many meanings."


    2. Li Xinjie kicked "Master" Nicholas Tse unconscious


    "Big Shots" is a big challenge for Li Xinjie, because she has never shot a costume drama or a martial arts film, not to mention that this time she appears as a comedy character. Li Xinjie said: "I don’t have a foundation in kung fu, and I haven’t learned dance, so Nicholas Tse can be my master on the spot, and he is very good at fighting." It is reported that when filming this drama, Nicholas Tse basically did not use a substitute in order to pursue the real effect, and all the martial arts and prestige movements were completed by himself. This made the two female protagonists in the play admire it, especially when Liu Tao said of Nicholas Tse, "He does not need a substitute, because the substitute is not as good as him."


    Li Xinjie can also be regarded as Xiao Xie’s "true biography" in "Big Shots". There is a scene of kicking Xiao Xie’s head. Xiao Xie seriously said to Xinjie: "Come on, just kick here (pointing at your head), don’t have distractions, I won’t hide." Just after saying this, Xiao Xie fainted, he said: "I was dizzy for about two minutes at that time, I didn’t expect her feet to be so fast." Recalling these episodes, Li Xinjie apologized to Xiao Xie with some embarrassment, "I think sometimes hitting others is more nervous than being hit. I’m sorry." Xiao Xie smiled, "It’s alright, it’s filming." According to the reporter’s understanding, in order to preserve this real-life scene as much as possible, the play was basically not abridged during the review process.


    3. I don’t want my son to enter the entertainment industry again


    Nicholas Tse’s arrival added a lot of attention to the press conference of "Big Shot", and yesterday he also gave reporters a glimpse of his very different side. When others spoke, Xiao Xie basically lowered his head quietly and listened to others. Unless the host asked him, he had no choice but to answer. If he could summarize all his meaning in one word, he would never say anything else, but everyone could feel that it was not because of his arrogance, but because he was too bad at talking, because he always thought about each question carefully for a few seconds before giving the answer.


    Of course, in the face of this celebrity who has just become a father, the reporter’s questions will not only stop at the TV series. For the reporter’s concern, Xiao Xie also accepted all the orders yesterday and answered all the questions. When talking about children, Nicholas Tse’s face has a little smile, but there is a lot of maturity and responsibility. He told the reporter, "My son just turned 3 months old the day before yesterday, and now weighs 14 pounds." Xiao Xie is now a trapeze. He came to attend the press conference yesterday and flew back to Hong Kong in the evening. He said that he would take all the time to reunite with his family.


    Regarding the question of whether her son will inherit his father’s business in the future, Cecilia Cheung had previously expressed her attitude that she would not. Yesterday, Xiao Xie also expressed his mentality, "From falling in love to getting married and having children, I have always been very strict in my career. I insist on filming without a substitute, in order to create a good environment for my family. For the sake of the next generation, I don’t want to enter the entertainment industry again, because I don’t want to see my son being kicked down from upstairs by others." Xiao Xie lamented that celebrities only have a moment of light on TV, which is also a packaged success. Many people really don’t know the story behind them. But when the reporter asked him if his son would support him if he really entered the entertainment industry in the future, Xiao Xie thought for a long time and said: "That may be destined. In fact, there are many people who can sing and act, and whether he can stay in the circle depends on his endurance and willpower. When I first debuted, many people called me Xie Xian’s son. In the future, my son will not only be called Xie Xian’s grandson when he enters the entertainment industry, but also the son of Nicholas Tse and Cecilia Cheung.

Editor in charge: Wang Yuxi

Meituan shared car settled in Chengdu: the new gameplay after the giant invasion has been launched

Authors: Wang Xunkui and Zhou Xiaodan

Before the trial and error of the blue strands, after the drop of strict prevention, Meituan’s shared car business is destined to wade through a muddy road.

Geek Park has learned that Meituan’s time-sharing car business has been launched in Chengdu’s Pidu urban area, called "Meituan Car Rental", and this app can already be downloaded on the app store. At present, there are only two fuel models, Volkswagen Langyi and Volkswagen Santana. According to the available vehicles on the user map, it is estimated that there are about 50 to 100 vehicles in operation. Orders are still calculated according to "frequent + mileage".

Meituan has established a mobility division internally, and new businesses in the mobility field, including shared cars, Meituan maps, and driverless and taxi-hailing, are slowly being integrated into this division. According to media reports in early November, Meituan is recruiting relevant teams.

After testing the water taxi business in Nanjing at the beginning of this year and launching the Mobike bicycle entrance in September, Meituan’s hunger for big travel has stopped concealing.A former Meituan executive told Geek Park that within Meituan, travel has been listed as one of the company’s key business directions in 2018.

Like the ride-hailing business that went live before, Meituan’s shared car timeshare rental business will be piloted in a single city first.

A person close to Meituan told Geek Park that in the planning stage of this business, domestic second-tier cities including Chengdu, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Chongqing were all considered by decision-makers, but because "Xiamen market is too small, Hangzhou is heavily guarded by Ali, and it is afraid of diverting Nanjing’s taxi business. Chongqing also has a relatively mature start-up company (Panda car) to take root and try," and finally chose Chengdu.

Meituan’s almost borderless business expansion model has made it an "outlier" in Internet companies. Previously, Meituan’s layout in the travel field was explained by Wang Xing as "starting from the needs of customers", "anything related to food and life, we should consider participating."

The shared car timeshare rental market in Chengdu is not a blank. At present, there are already many timeshare rental companies such as Panda Car, Go Fun, EVCARD, and Tuge in the streets of Chengdu.

Although it is far from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Chengdu has long been the best training ground for time-sharing rentals.

The greatest dividends come from the policy levelIn September 2017, the General Office of the Chengdu Municipal People’s Government issued the "Notice on Encouraging and Regulating the Development of New Energy Vehicle Timeshare Leasing Industry", which directly stated that Chengdu will increase policy support for new energy vehicle timeshare leasing enterprises, and gave specific goals: "By the end of 2018, the city will basically form a new energy vehicle timeshare leasing service network, with 2,500 service outlets and 10,000 charging piles; by the end of 2020, the city will form a comprehensive new energy vehicle timeshare leasing service network, with 5,000 service outlets and 20,000 charging piles."

The release of this policy has brought a huge incremental market to Chengdu. At the same time, compared with Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, which strictly control the number of car license plates issued, Chengdu has not yet issued a license restriction order, which also lowers the threshold for "intruder" Meituan.

"Chengdu government support is relatively strong, the crowd is relatively open, and the traffic conditions are relatively good." Zeng Hao, the head of Panda’s Chengdu operation, said that he has not yet received news that Meituan’s time-sharing rental business is going to land in Chengdu, but he speculates that the good market and policy environment in Chengdu may be an important reason for Meituan’s choice.

The data shows that Chengdu is the second largest car ownership market in the country except Beijing, with car ownership exceeding 4 million and driving license ownership reaching 7 million. After a period of operation, Zeng Hao is very optimistic about the capacity of the Chengdu market:"That is to say, about 3 million people have a driver’s license without a car, and even if only 2% of them use shared cars, there is still 60,000 market space to explore."

In terms of vehicle sources, Chengdu-based shared car operators also have an advantage. Since 2007, Chengdu Economic Development Zone has been turned into a "Chengdu Automobile Industrial Park" specializing in the development of complete vehicles and supporting parts. In the International Automobile City located in Longquan, Chengdu, including Geely Volvo, FAW-Volkswagen, FAW Toyota, Chengdu Ruihuaxian Energy Automobile and other automobile manufacturers have established large production bases.

According to the above-mentioned person close to Meituan, similar to other domestic shared car operators, Meituan will also adopt the cooperation method of financing and leasing with several car factories and rental companies to "get the car": "In the early stage, fuel vehicles and new energy vehicles may be deployed, but in the future, new energy vehicles may be the main one."

For Meituan, choosing Chengdu can be described as the right time and place. But it is not easy to land services in this city in the southwest.

Meituan’s previous data and offline operation and expansion capabilities were largely based on the business of takeaway, in-store service, and even other life services. Whether it was the difficulty of operation or scheduling, it had little in common with car timeshare leasing. In fact, Meituan’s test of the water is very likely to "start from scratch".

But Meituan’s internal expansion into new businesses is also very "goal-oriented", the person close to Meituan said: "Usually a goal is set first, and then external resources are found, rather than judging by how much resources the company has."

The early entry of Go Fun and Panda cars and EVcards has established certain resource barriers to varying degrees.

For example, parking stations are still a scarce resource for the time being, and developing them is not an easy task. At present, Go Fun (Beijing Shouqi Zhixing Technology Co., Ltd.), which has the largest market share in Chengdu, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shouqi Group. In February this year, Go Fun officially signed a cooperation agreement with Sichuan Transportation Investment Group and established a joint venture company, and then launched the Go Fun Sichuan Jiaotong cooperation project.

According to a local car-sharing operator in Chengdu, Sichuan Transportation Investment Group controls all public and road parking spots in the city. "It would be great if the number of on-street parking spaces could be increased, which is very helpful for improving operational efficiency."

In order to facilitate charging and changing electricity and improve operational efficiency, shared car operators generally recommend that users park their vehicles at the company’s stipulated parking spots. And the resources of such parking stations are almost exclusive to each company. At present, Panda has won more than 200 parking stations in Chengdu, each of which can accommodate 10 to 20 vehicles."After all, some of the resources in a city are limited," Zeng Hao admitted that Panda’s parking resources still need to be expanded, "but at least our stations have signed contracts, so it is more difficult for new entrants to expand parking resources in the same places."

As a unicorn whose valuation has soared to $30 billion, Meituan’s every invasion can trigger an earthquake in a specific field. According to a person familiar with Meituan’s travel business, like previous attempts at power banks and convenience stores, Meituan is just pushing forward with a test of the water for shared cars. "Whether it will be done on a large scale in the end is still uncertain."

This is the expansion logic of Meituan’s new business.

In November, Meituan announced the closure of the power bank business. Wang Huiwen, senior vice president of Meituan Review, mentioned in an internal letter that Meituan’s important basis for judging whether to close a new business or increase investment or continue to explore is, "The strategic synergy value between our existing business, if the future market size is not large enough, but the strategic synergy value is large enough, you can consider expanding operations, otherwise it should be closed."

How big is the shared car market? Previously, in an interview with a Geek Park reporter, once CEO Wang Yang used a "self-created" calculation method to roughly estimate the size of the shared car market."The number of people in China who have a driver’s license – the number of private cars in China + 20% of the limited number of people, according to the use of 4 people in a car, and then a 50% discount for urbanization (the requirement for travel), based on the rental price of 150 yuan a day in China. If these are counted as the demand for shared cars, this is about a 300 billion market."

Since 2015, a large number of test-takers have flooded into the shared car timeshare rental field. After a few years, there have been a lot of casualties, and there are very few positive cases for reference.

At the outset of the market, the participants were mixed up and each had their own plans. "Car manufacturers use their left-hand products to buy their right hands and earn subsidies, while the right-hand products are used for shared cars." A practitioner broke the news that there was even a situation in the industry where the subsidy income of new energy vehicles exceeded the income of car sales.

But starting in 2016, subsidies for new energy vehicles were fully reduced and subsidy reviews were upgraded. The "policy dividend" gradually disappeared, the bubble stirred up by the trick of cheating and subsidies was pierced, and shared cars ushered in a real corpse.

This is still a game without a clear business model. This has also directly led to the cautious attitude of capital towards the industry. Several investors contacted by Geek Park expressed their "wait-and-see attitude".

Once the heavy investment of assets, whether it can "make money" has become a harsh criterion for considering the industry, while challenging the patience of investors. The break-even line that shared cars aspire to has risen and fallen, and no explosive breakthrough has been achieved so far. An investor who focuses on the shared car sector told Geek Park: "On average, it takes three orders per car per day to make money, and the GO FUN with the highest market share in the country can reach an average of 1.5 orders."

Most of the experimenters are still looking for a breakthrough from a single city. Not long ago, TOGO Tuge CEO Wang Lifeng mentioned at the B round financing conference that Tuge has been able to "level or even start making profits" in Beijing; according to another person in charge of a shared car company who did not want to be named, they can reach four or five orders a day in a good season, with a daily profit of 150 yuan per car.

In October this year, EZZY, which was closed down after only one and a half years of operation, is a typical example. EZZY, which focuses on the mid-to-high-end market, once used the method of "not caring about wear and tear efficiency" to create the ultimate user experience. The model of "burning money" made it extremely dependent on capital. When the 40 million yuan financing was exhausted, the capital chain was broken, and the business ended.

"This is a very heavy O2O field. Although EZZY has received 40 million before, this amount is too small for this industry." The person in charge of the shared car told Geek Park.

Meituan, which just announced a $4 billion financing in October, may become a giant in this field in terms of capital volume. Once it enters the market, it also means that Meituan has further penetrated the hinterland of Didi after the taxi business.

In fact, existing players in the industry are all worried about Didi’s next move. "Compared to Meituan and Mobike, which recently announced the news, we will be more concerned about Didi’s entry. Didi has government resources, funds, and a lot of travel user data, which is likely to bring about some different changes."

Didi, which has a clear first-mover advantage, is taking action.According to a car-sharing company executive contacted by Geek Park, he has received an invitation from Didi headhunters, but after the exchange, the executive said that Didi has not disclosed the specific gameplay for the time being, "I think they may not have thought about it."

Meanwhile, as recently as November, Didi’s vice president in charge of automotive business, Yang Jun, also publicly stated that Didi wants to become an operator of new energy vehicles and charging stations – a layout that can also help Didi pave the way in the field of shared cars.

"This industry still lacks an Internet company that relies on" technology "and volume to win. At present, the policies for shared cars in various places have become clearer. The next step is to see who can do this job that requires heavy asset control capabilities and extremely refined operations." An investor who focuses on the travel sector told Geek Park.

Before there were uncertain industry attempts, followed by Didi’s strict defense, Meituan’s shared car business attempts were doomed to navigate a muddy road.

However, for the entire industry, the arrival of the era of giant invasion must not be a bad thing.

Hong Jinbao and Liang Jiahui were guests, and Lin Zhiling appeared at the Golden Horse Awards

 


Lin Chiling


"October Siege" Leung Ka Fai


Samuel Hung

     The awards ceremony on November 20 has entered the countdown stage, and the executive committee announced the last wave of award winners on the 17th. "Ip Man 2" and "Detectives Di Renjie" were both shortlisted for "Best Action Design" by "Big Brother" Hong Jinbao, and the long-lost Golden Horse Actor Leung Ka Hui were invited to present the awards. Lin Zhiling, who has attracted much attention, finally took a leave of absence from the crew and successfully attended the Golden Horse event. Taiwan’s potential actresses including Li Kangyi, An Yixuan, Xie Xinying, Chen Yanxi and others will serve as the introducers of the best film, marking a beautiful end to the awards ceremony.

    Hong Jinbao, who has long missed the Golden Horse Awards ceremony because of his filmmaking, has been shortlisted for two films at the same time this year. Can he win with the tiger-like "Ip Man 2" or the dazzling and brilliant "Detective Dee Renjie"? The ceremony will be announced on the same day. Hong Jinbao started working as an action director very early, and is best at neat and powerful martial arts moves with a little humor, which makes him not only occupy a unique position in Chinese movies, but also attracts Hollywood to find him for filming. This year, he specially set aside a schedule for the annual Golden Horse Awards event. In addition to paying tribute to this year’s theme – "Action", he can be called the most "weighty" awards guest this year.

    A few days ago, Chen Wenqian said on the program that "he only likes Liang Jiahui and doesn’t like Weizai", which created a lot of news topics. It can be seen that Liang Jiahui, who has been a high-quality and good man for many years, still has a place in the new generation of handsome guys. His excellent acting skills can be said to be a regular finalist for the Golden Horse Awards. Wang Xueqi, who filmed "October Siege" with him, once said that Liang Jiahui took great care of everyone on the set, and would cook chicken soup for everyone to drink from time to time, and took care of him even more.

    Sister Zhiling has performed well in movies in recent years, and many big directors have designated to cooperate with her. The brave breakthrough starring her has made everyone see her determination and strength. After the 10/1 shortlist was announced, Sister Zhiling was the first on the list of inquiries. Not only did the audience look forward to her, but the media also frequently paid attention to her movements. The public relations and jewelry industry of various clothing brands led the way, just waiting for Lin Zhiling to nod and agree to attend the award ceremony. Presumably, the starry sky will shine on the day of the ceremony, and it will be very beautiful.

    The best film introducer design that appeared for the first time last year will be held by a number of potential Taiwanese actresses including Li Kangyi, An Yixuan, Xie Xinying, Chen Yanxi and others this year. In addition to paying tribute to the shortlisted films, it also symbolizes the continuous inheritance of the film’s vitality, and can also bring a slightly relaxed atmosphere to the tense unveiling moment.