The industrial internet race is a long-term and arduous contest, it’s certainly not a brief skirmish. The trade disputes behind today’s two largest economies, the US and China, is essentially a war over who will become the world’s economic leader. The world’s first and second-largest economies are entering a period of intense confrontation. In this process, entrepreneurs are under tremendous pressure. Whether it’s B2C, B2B, or C2C e-commerce models, the advantages of being a leader are becoming more and more apparent.
Take the B2C market as an example, Alibaba has over 80,000 employees, creating nearly 70 billion in net profits, marking the era of a Chinese monopoly. It has been said that the future has already arrived, it just hasn’t been widely adopted yet. Looking forward to the next five to ten years, the next batch of companies at the level of BAT or TMD may emerge from China’s consumer market worth hundreds of millions of trillions. Industries like the new middle class, Generation Z, and youngsters in small towns, in markets such as residential, automotive, asset management, fresh food, frozen products, fashion, maternity and baby, pets, and beauty, especially those markets heavy in non-standard products and services that have been long ignored by consumer internet due to their unique characteristics, are expected to breed new industry leaders more rapidly.
As the era of the industrial internet arrives, routers will become the most powerful tools. With this tool, we believe that all industrial communities can create empowering and shared networks through industrial routers. Ultimately, it may bring together businesses that are actively seeking survival in their niche fields (many of which may have laid their roots in the BAT group but to less than satisfactory results), to create an industrial ecosystem that divides the world into three parts with BAT, industrial communities, and small yet beautiful players.
Those small shop owners, they possess an indomitable strength, like wildfire that can’t be extinguished, it grows back with the spring breeze. As long as we can unite, move from consensus to co-building, then from co-building to co-sharing, and finally to co-existence, we have reason to believe we can help change the fate of many people, and fundamentally change the industrial structure of every trillion-level stock market in China.
In conclusion, I would like to quote a profound aphorism from Thoreau in “Walden”: Some march to the beat of a different drum because they hear distant drums. Let us believe in those who march at a different pace; they will lead us together into the future.
