Chapter 281 The layout of truly entering the world begins

Hu Lai's preliminary idea was soon recognized by Li Xiang and Lao Luo.

However, Hu Lai was not in a hurry and made a decision immediately. Some preliminary investigation work is needed before such important decisions are actually carried out.

After asking Li Xiang and Lao Luo to complete the "Super" mobile phone version as soon as possible, Hu Lai left the Phoenix Mobile Building and immediately notified Director Zhang about the plan to establish Phoenix Map and acquire the Mao Xiong Yandex Map Company.

Three days later, Director Zhang came to Hu Lai's office with detailed information.

As soon as he saw Hu Lai, Director Zhang went straight to the point.

"Boss, I have basically understood the investigation of establishing a map software company. I think it is very necessary after the investigation!"

"Ha ha."

Hu Lai was also excited when he heard this and said with a smile:

"Lao Zhang, then tell me what you think."

Director Zhang said relaxedly:

"I don't have any special thoughts."

"When you arranged for me to do a survey two days ago, I thought it was just a map software. But now I found that the significance of map software is not just a single software application, but even an important security guarantee related to the entire group's business.

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As he said that, Lao Zhang sat down, took a sip of tea, and continued:

"I haven't paid special attention to why Baidu and Tencent are developing their own map software, and even Alibaba has spent a huge amount of money to acquire Gaode Map, which has been losing money."

"Now everything is understood. The three giants BAT have an ecosystem that relies heavily on maps, such as Alibaba's Cainiao, Ele.me, Tencent-based Meituan, JD.com, etc. The important reason they develop map software is to ensure their respective groups'

Business security, after all, no one is afraid of using other people’s maps. What if they don’t use them one day?”

Hu Lai nodded and said:

"Yes! That's true."

"I have also considered these situations in the past few days. Although we do not have life services like Meituan and Ele.me, cars on our mobile phones are important scenarios for the use of map navigation, especially our 'unmanned autonomous driving'

It depends on high-precision maps."

"And, when we export new energy vehicles abroad, we need 'high-precision 3D electronic map'!"

"So, no matter what considerations we have, we must start to build our own 'Phoenix Map'. Lao Zhang, how are you investigating in the past few days? Is the electronic map industry difficult?"

Director Zhang paused slightly and said:

"It's not very difficult, but it's just that it's investment and income is small."

"The domestic Gaode, Baidu Map, and Tencent Map are almost all operating at a loss, while Google Map can make profits abroad. It also had more than 4 billion US dollars in advertising revenue last year, but."

"Google Maps is the best map software in the world at present, with more than one billion active customers around the world every month. We definitely cannot compare. We must make plans to lose a lot of losses or even lose money in the early stage."

Wave your hand nonsense.

"This is about the group's strategy, so don't think too much about profit."

Director Zhang nodded and continued to introduce:

"It is not difficult for us to develop electronic maps in China. The 'base map data' of electronic maps can be purchased from relevant authoritative surveying and mapping, and POI vector data (map coordinate points) can also be purchased through special data suppliers."

"Of course, relatively speaking, both the 'base map data' or 'POI vector data' provided by the official surveying and mapping department need to be updated continuously in the future."

"Like Baidu Maps, basically purchase map data from map supplier 'Four-dimensional Map New', and Gaode Maps is basically collected by itself, which also allows Gaodebi Baidu to update map information more timely."

"Of course, I also suggest that after we have basic data, it is best to collect data independently and update the map."

"Just data collection involves remote sensing satellites and aerial photography and camera technology."

Hu Lai asked in confusion:

"Remote sensing satellite, aerial photography and camera technology?"

"Yes, boss!"

Director Zhang directly turned the information to the remote sensing satellite information and explained:

"Now with the advancement of remote sensing and aerial camera technology, as well as cost considerations, most commercial map data rarely adopts the traditional field acquisition method."

"Now, it is mainly to take or buy high-precision aerial photos, satellite photos or remote sensing photos, and then perform data processing based on this, and then update the map. It is said that Google Maps's own aerial video can already reach 0.03 meters, that is,

3 cm accuracy!”

"This means that we need to work with satellite map companies to buy a lot of satellite map data from their mobile phones..."

"but!"

"If we want to map globally, as you said just now, we need to do global maps and cooperate with 'unmanned autonomous driving' to 'ultra-high-precision 3D electronic map', I suggest we better have our own map satellite, just like Google has its own

The map is like satellites!”

"This way, both cost and long-term plans are the best option."

Hu Lai frowned immediately. At the beginning, he thought was just to solve the problem of the overseas map of Phoenix Group. Unexpectedly, after a walk, he actually involved the map satellite...

The last time he learned about the satellite was Chen Hai and he mentioned Zezra's Starlink Plan...

Before he could speak, Director Zhang continued:

"Actually, my idea is also to support us launching satellites ourselves. You should also know Geely Auto, right?"

Geely Auto?

Hu Lai nodded. Geely Auto has been very good in the automotive field in recent years and is also a first-tier brand of domestic cars. It also acquired Meizu mobile phones some time ago.

He asked curiously:

"Well, what's wrong with Geely Auto?"

"Gely Auto launched nine satellites not long ago. Although these nine satellites will not play a substantial role in the short term, they are actually considered Geely Auto's layout for the future "unmanned autonomous driving."

"Although we have a Beidou positioning system now, Beidou is responsible for too many tasks. In addition to transportation, Beidou navigation also has hydrology, surveying, monitoring, meteorological forecasting and other tasks..."

"And because Beidou involves national security after all, it cannot achieve ultra-high-precision precise positioning in civil navigation, which leads to the 'ultra-high-precision navigation' pursued by 'automatic driving technology' that cannot be achieved, and all car companies need to

Find a way for yourself…”

"and!"

"The most important thing is that the latest news says that Mask is also preparing to create a group of global high-precision positioning satellites for Zezra's 'unmanned driving technology'..."

Hu Lai fell silent. Some time ago, he learned about communication satellites and launch vehicles because of Starlink plans.

but.

Because communication satellites are indeed invested too much, at least 100 billion US dollars, and there is no sufficient market in China, after a brief understanding, I gave up my plan to enter commercial aerospace.

Unexpectedly, after a month or two, I once again came into contact with the satellite industry due to map software and "high-precision autonomous driving navigation".

Moreover, what he did not expect was that the domestic company Geely also took action to make arrangements in advance.

After thinking for a while, Hu Lai made up his mind.

"Okay, Lao Zhang, we should really consider the map and satellite matters. Let's go over this matter in detail."

"We have no foundation in commercial aerospace, and it's best to see if we can invest in or acquire some commercial aerospace companies."

After saying that, he changed the nonsense.

"However, the most urgent task now is the map problem of Mao Xiong's family. How is the acquisition there?!"

Speaking of the acquisition, Director Zhang frowned slightly and said helplessly:

"I have also contacted Yandex Map Company on the Mao Bear and are now evaluating the possibility of acquisition."

"However, we did not have any experience in overseas acquisitions and mergers and acquisitions before. We were short of departments and managers, and we could not find a suitable person to take the lead for a while, so the progress is a bit slow now..."

Hu Lai nodded helplessly. Although Phoenix Group has some acquisition experience in China, this is indeed the first overseas acquisition.

He sighed softly. Although the matter was suddenly, the matter of Phoenix's acquisition of Yandex must be resolved as soon as possible in the short term, otherwise Phoenix's export strategy would be affected.

After thinking for a while, Hu Lai had no better way, so he could only say:

"Old Zhang, you can only handle this matter as soon as possible. Whether it is a 100% full merger or becoming Yandex's largest shareholder, it must be resolved as soon as possible."

"This is related to our strategy of exporting mobile phones in Maoxiong, and there must be no mistakes."

After a moment of pause, Hu Lai added:

"In addition to Mao Xiong's Yandex Map Company, we also need to make arrangements and acquisitions in other countries. It is urgent to set up a special overseas capital department. You must check it carefully and find a suitable candidate."

Lao Zhang couldn't help but smile bitterly. If there were any good candidates, he would have come to the door to invite him to join Phoenix in person.

The importance of the person in charge of the overseas acquisition department is self-evident. It not only requires strong negotiation capabilities, but also requires a wide range of professional knowledge, but also requires a sufficiently advanced vision.

In addition to these, you must also have the minimum professional quality, and at least you must consider the group sincerely!

It can be said that such high-quality talents are very eager for any investment institution, so there is no saying that they will come immediately if they want to recruit.

However, although Director Zhang was helpless, he had to bite the bullet and agree.

"Okay boss, I will try my best to find the right person as soon as possible..."
To be continued...