In December 1997, Ren Zhengfei and his management team gathered by the fireplace in a Silicon Valley hotel to discuss their recent meetings with a clutch of US technology firms. While their American counterparts headed home for Christmas, the boss of Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker, and his team remained at work, analysing what they had seen and heard. In Mr Ren’s vision for global expansion, the US was to be the role model.
1997年12月,華為總裁任正非和他的管理團(tuán)隊(duì)圍攏在硅谷一家酒店的壁爐前,討論最近與一些美國(guó)技術(shù)企業(yè)會(huì)面的情形。雖然美國(guó)企業(yè)的負(fù)責(zé)人們都已經(jīng)回家過(guò)圣誕,這家中國(guó)電信設(shè)備制造商的老板和他的團(tuán)隊(duì)卻仍在工作,對(duì)所見(jiàn)所聞?wù)归_(kāi)分析。在任正非全球擴(kuò)張的愿景中,美國(guó)是一個(gè)榜樣。