How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 648

## Stirring Up the Global Medical Device Industry

Shortly after, Yang Chen dropped off the two passengers at their requested location.

The two of them must have exclaimed “Handsome Yang Chen” at least a hundred times.

Yang Chen smiled, picked up his phone, and said, “Alright, let me scan your QR codes for payment.”

The female passenger quickly retrieved her phone and opened her WeChat payment QR code.

Yang Chen scanned the code and transferred 18,888 yuan to her.

The female passenger immediately said with surprise, “Wow, that’s a lot! Handsome, do you make a fortune driving for ride-hailing apps? You’re so generous!”

The male passenger also quickly opened his payment QR code and handed it over. Yang Chen scanned it and transferred 18,888 yuan to him as well.

Yang Chen: “What money can you make driving for ride-hailing apps? It’s hardly profitable.”

Male passenger: “If it’s not profitable, why are you giving out so much? Do you own oil wells or something and are just slumming it [experiencing life as a commoner]?”

Yang Chen: “Didn’t I tell you just now? I am Yang Chen.”

Female passenger: “Ah? Are you really Boss Yang from Starlight Corporation?”

Yang Chen: “That’s right! Otherwise, why would I transfer so much money to you? Don’t forget your belongings, hurry up and get out of the car. You can’t park here for too long.”

The two quickly took out their phones and snapped photos of Yang Chen.

Male passenger: “President Yang, I’m sorry, I wasn’t thinking straight just now. Please forgive me.”

Yang Chen: “Haha… I didn’t take it to heart. Get out of the car, I really have to go.”

Female passenger: “Thank you, Boss Yang, you are the most amazing person in the world! Bye-bye!”

The two passengers quickly exited the car, and Yang Chen immediately drove away.

Female passenger: “Oh my god, I’m so lucky today! This might be the luckiest day of my life. I actually got into a car driven by Boss Yang and even got 18,888 yuan transferred to me!”

Male passenger: “Sigh… God is really unfair. He lets him make so much money and be so handsome. He’s not leaving any chance for the rest of us men to get ahead.”

It was time for a break again, so Yang Chen found a coffee shop to relax with a cup of coffee.

At that moment, the TV in the shop was broadcasting a news report.

“Breaking news from our station: the renowned Japanese car brand Mitsubishi Motors released an announcement this morning. After amicable negotiations between the headquarters group and China’s GAC Group [Guangzhou Automobile Group], Mitsubishi Motors has decided to withdraw from the Chinese market. All joint venture companies will be taken over by GAC Group.”

Yang Chen smiled. Mitsubishi Motors finally admitted defeat and followed Yang Chen’s instructions to withdraw from the Chinese market.

Not long after, Koizumi Seiji, the president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group, called Yang Chen.

Koizumi Seiji: “Hello, Mr. Yang.”

Yang Chen: “Hello, President Koizumi. What’s up?”

Koizumi Seiji: “Have you seen the news? We have persuaded Mitsubishi Motors to withdraw from the Chinese market.”

Yang Chen: “Yes, I saw it.”

Koizumi Seiji: “Previously, the daughter of one of our group’s senior executives offended you. I would like to express my sincere apologies on his behalf, and I hope Mr. Yang will no longer hold it against us.”

Yang Chen: “Oh, I’ve already forgotten about it.”

Koizumi Seiji: “Haha… that’s good. Here’s the thing: we are going to hold a general meeting of shareholders in a few days to vote on a proposal. I hope Mr. Yang can support us on this. Is that okay?”

Yang Chen: “What proposal?”

Koizumi Seiji: “We are preparing to undertake the manufacturing of three destroyers, but the group needs to advance 50% of the funds [墊資 – diànzī, meaning to provide upfront capital], and the military will repay all of it within five years after delivery.”

Yang Chen: “Oh, that means I might not get any dividends for the next five years?”

Koizumi Seiji: “Not really, it will just be a little less.”

Yang Chen: “Oh, okay. I can support you on that.”

Koizumi Seiji: “Thank you so much. Then I won’t disturb Mr. Yang. Let’s talk again when we have time.”

Hanging up the phone, Yang Chen immediately sent the news that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was going to build three destroyers to his contacts in the military.

*Our shares can’t be completely useless; they have to be somewhat useful.*

After Yang Chen finished his coffee, he prepared to continue driving. Yu Shishi called him to report on the medical device situation.

The Dawn Hospitals across the country have now implemented the use of CT and MRI machines produced by Starlight Medical Group. According to feedback from doctors, the effect is much better than imported ones.

Jin Ming had already completed the capital layout of the medical device sector three days ago, and now he is waiting for Yang Chen to give the word to announce the news.

Yang Chen hadn’t seen Cheng Junjun for a long time, so he immediately went to Starlight Medical Group to find her.

Cheng Junjun was reading documents when the secretary came in to report: “President Cheng, the security guard said Mr. Yang is here.”

Cheng Junjun immediately put down the documents and asked, “Which Mr. Yang?”

Secretary: “Mr. Yang Chen.”

Cheng Junjun: “Ah, he’s here! Then hurry up and greet him, try to delay him a little, I’ll go touch up my makeup.”

Secretary: “Okay.”

Cheng Junjun quickly took her makeup bag to the private bathroom and applied a beautiful makeup as quickly as possible.

Although the little secretary tried to slow down Yang Chen’s pace as much as possible, by the time they arrived at Cheng Junjun’s office, Cheng Junjun was still in the bathroom putting on makeup.

The little secretary came to the door and said, “President Cheng, Mr. Yang has arrived.”

Cheng Junjun: “Oh, okay, I’ll be right out. Hurry up and make tea.”

Yang Chen: “No need, you go ahead and do your work, I’ll chat with President Cheng alone.”

The little secretary nodded, quickly went out, and turned the ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign around.

Yang Chen gently pushed open the bathroom door, but Cheng Junjun immediately pushed it shut again, saying, “Hey, wait a minute, I’ll be right there.”

Yang Chen: “What? Are you hiding something that you don’t want me to see?”

Cheng Junjun immediately opened the door, crossed her arms, and said angrily, “Go! How dare you doubt my loyalty to you? I’m angry!”

Yang Chen stepped forward, picked her up, and kissed her, saying, “You’re putting on makeup. You’re already beautiful enough; you don’t need to deliberately put on makeup.”

Cheng Junjun: “That sounds like a lie! If I were really that beautiful, would you not have come to see me for so long? I miss you so much, but you don’t even think about coming to see me.”

Yang Chen: “I’m here to see you now. How is it? How have you been lately with your life and work?”

Cheng Junjun: “Wow, it’s so tiring. I go to bed after twelve o’clock every night and get up before seven in the morning, and I still can’t handle a lot of work.”

Yang Chen: “Didn’t I tell you a long time ago to cultivate one or two confidantes to share the pressure for you? Haven’t you found a suitable candidate?”

Cheng Junjun: “That’s right! Since they are confidantes, how can they be so easy to find? People nowadays are very eager for quick success and instant benefits, and they value only interests. So far, I haven’t found anyone I can trust enough to hand over the company’s core secrets.”

Yang Chen: “Then I’ll keep an eye out and see if I can find a suitable candidate for you. Okay, let’s not talk about this. Let me see if you’ve gained weight or lost weight recently.”

Cheng Junjun smiled and jumped down, twirling around in front of Yang Chen, saying, “How is it? Have I lost weight or gained weight?”

Yang Chen: “The clothes are blocking it; I can’t tell. Can you take off your clothes and let me see?”

“Hehe… you’re annoying. If you want to take them off, take them off yourself,” Cheng Junjun said with a smile, then turned around very sensibly, turned her back to Yang Chen, and lay on the sink.

An hour later, Yang Chen emerged, holding Cheng Junjun, who had a flushed face.

At this time, it was lunchtime. Cheng Junjun picked up the phone and called the secretary, instructing, “Cherry, please ask the cafeteria to send two lunches over, with more beef and oysters.”

Little Secretary: “Okay, I’ll ask the cafeteria to make it right away.”

Cheng Junjun sat on Yang Chen’s lap and said, “Women need to be cared for. Look, after you cared for me for a while, my skin is obviously much better.”

Yang Chen: “Understood! I will definitely take care of you more in the future. Let’s talk about some work matters. Later, you ask someone to issue an announcement in the name of Starlight Medical Group, stating that our Dawn Hospitals have already implemented our self-produced medical equipment. Currently, CT and MRI machines are all in place. According to feedback from doctors at Dawn Hospitals across the country, our self-produced equipment is more accurate than imported equipment, and the price is only one-fifth of the imported equipment, which greatly reduces the operating costs of the hospital. With the reduction of hospital operating costs, the patient’s medical expenses will also be reduced accordingly. The focus is on two points: our self-production replaces imports and reduces patients’ medical expenses.”

Cheng Junjun: “Okay. Then I’ll write this announcement myself.”

Yang Chen: “Okay! You write it; I’ll give you some pointers.”

Cheng Junjun opened the document and wrote an announcement under Yang Chen’s guidance.

Not long after, the cafeteria delivered lunch.

The secretary took the dining cart and placed the lunch on the coffee table.

Yang Chen and Cheng Junjun went over to eat.

“Come on, eat more beef to replenish your strength, and oysters too; they’re good for you in that area,” Cheng Junjun said with a smile, sweetly feeding Yang Chen.

Yang Chen’s body has been transformed by the system, and the system will automatically repair his body, so it doesn’t really matter what he eats. The main thing is to see how the dish tastes.

Yang Chen: “This is too much; I can’t finish it.”

Cheng Junjun: “Eat as much as you can. After you regain your strength, I want you to take care of me again.”

Yang Chen smiled helplessly and said, “Then I have to eat more, otherwise my body won’t be able to handle it.”

In order to support the operations of Starlight Investment, Starlight Medical Group issued the announcement before the market opened in the afternoon.

It is no exaggeration to say that this announcement was like a thunderclap. It not only detonated the medical device sector in the stock market but also quickly spread across the entire internet. Netizens quickly flocked to Starlight Medical Group’s Weibo [Chinese microblogging website] and other accounts to discuss it enthusiastically.

“Oh my god, Boss Yang can’t get off the trending topics list. He just cleaned up Wall Street, and now he’s going to change the pattern of the global medical device market.”

“I just had an MRI at Dawn Hospital, and it was indeed very clear. I could see the problem myself. You can imagine how awesome it is.”

“Damn! My A-shares [shares of companies based in mainland China] are about to fall below 2900 points, but this announcement directly pulled them back, and they are about to rush to 3000 points. If my grandma hadn’t already experienced the domestic CT machine at Dawn Hospital, I would have really thought Boss Yang deliberately issued a fake announcement to boost the market.”

“No need to guess, Starlight Investment must have ambushed the medical device sector in advance. This wave of surge has sent money to Boss Yang again. Is there any way to know in advance which stocks Starlight Investment has ambushed? If we can know in advance which stocks they have ambushed, we can just buy them blindly and make money with our eyes closed.”

“Boss Yang is a messenger specially sent to lead our country to break through foreign technology blockades. The medical device field has always been our weakness. More than 90% of medical devices rely on imports, and they are also very expensive. The significance of Boss Yang’s self-produced medical devices is not only to reduce hospital operating costs and save patients’ medical expenses but also to allow us to break through international technology blockades. From now on, we will become technology and product exporters, and we can finally hold our heads high in this field!”

…

Soon, major media outlets began to report on the news that Starlight Medical Group’s self-produced medical devices were replacing imported medical devices.

*People’s Daily*: For a long time, our country has been in a situation of being taken advantage of in the field of medical devices. That’s right, you didn’t read it wrong; it is indeed a situation of being taken advantage of. The same set of equipment, they only sell it to European countries for a few million, but they ask us for 10 million, and they don’t accept any bargaining. After we buy this equipment at high prices, the subsequent maintenance costs are also extremely high. As long as there is a problem with the equipment, it must be repaired by professional personnel sent by the manufacturer, and Chinese people are not allowed to be present during the repair, which is completely to guard against us. Each repair requires at least hundreds of thousands of repair fees, and as much as millions of repair fees. The hospital also has to bear all the expenses of the repairman, which is really unbearable. These expenses will naturally be passed on to the patients by the hospital, so the problem of expensive medical treatment has not been solved. Now this situation is finally going to be gone forever! Starlight Medical Group has realized the self-production of medical devices, and CT and MRI machines have been implemented in Dawn Hospitals across the country. According to feedback from doctors and patients, Starlight Medical Devices are more powerful than imported equipment, and even patients can read the films themselves. Mr. Yang Chen has led China’s technology to break through blockades time and time again. He is a people’s hero of this era.

The *People’s Daily*’s evaluation of Yang Chen is really high, and he has been defined as a people’s hero.

If the quantum chip solved the industrial problem, then this time, the medical device solves the problem of ordinary people.

The average medical expenses for each patient are reduced by 500 yuan; what is this if not a real benefit?

Let the people of the whole country enjoy such benefits; what is he if not a hero?

Soon, the news that Starlight Medical Group’s self-produced medical devices replaced imported equipment spread all over the world.

The current main medical device exporting countries are Germany, the United States, Japan, and a few other countries. The news of Starlight Medical Group’s self-production has had a great impact on these countries.

Last year, when Yang Chen attended Da Ma Ge’s [Jack Ma’s] party with Sun Zhengyi [Masayoshi Son] in Hangzhou, he reminded him to quickly withdraw his investment in medical device companies, because once Starlight Medical Group’s medical devices are officially launched, the products of other companies will not be able to compete and will be immediately eliminated by the market.

Sun Zhengyi was skeptical at the time, but after returning to Japan, he still reduced his investment in medical device brands in Japan, such as Olympus.

Now seeing the news, Sun Zhengyi sighed helplessly and muttered to himself: “Yang Chen really lives up to his reputation; he is really amazing. Fortunately, I listened to his advice at the time and reduced my investment in medical devices; otherwise, I would have suffered a big loss now. He is really the greatest trader I have ever seen, and no one is his opponent. I will go to China again another day, and I must ask President Ma to connect me with him so that I can officially meet him. Being friends with such a person is definitely a good thing.”

At this time, a major earthquake occurred in the US medical device industry.

Looking at the global medical device industry, among the top 60 companies, more than 40 are US companies.

Companies like the most common GE, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, Stryker, Abbott, Boston Scientific, Alcon, etc., are all US companies.

Once Starlight Medical Group really achieves full-category self-production, these brands will completely lose the Chinese market.

If the product performance of Starlight Medical Group is really as powerful as the news says, their market outside of China will also be gradually seized by Starlight Medical Group, which is undoubtedly a disaster for these companies.

Therefore, led by companies such as Medtronic, GE, and Johnson & Johnson, the US medical device industry immediately organized an industry summit to discuss how to deal with the challenge of Starlight Medical Group.

Three days later, the “All-American Medical Device Industry Summit” was held in New York. Almost all companies in the industry sent representatives to participate, and some other countries’ brands in the United States also sent representatives to participate, such as Siemens, Philips, etc.

Medtronic President Adams Silva showed everyone at the scene the effect of the films taken by Starlight Medical Group’s CT and MRI machines and made a direct comparison with the films taken by CT and MRI machines of brands such as Medtronic and GE.

Everyone could clearly see at a glance that the films taken by Starlight Medical Device Group’s equipment were clearer, and even an ordinary person could see where the lesion was.

Adams Silva sighed and said loudly: “Everyone has seen it; the equipment of Starlight Medical Group is indeed better than the effect of our most advanced equipment. If I were the president of the hospital, I would definitely choose the products of Starlight Medical Group without hesitation. However, the order of the global medical device industry has been formed for decades, and it has been so stable for so many years. Now that Starlight Medical Group wants to disrupt the order of the global medical device industry, we must not agree. My suggestion is that we jointly express our protest to our respective governments, demanding that governments ban the import of Starlight Medical Group’s products and order China to continue to import our medical devices. The world order has been formed for many years, and we will not allow anyone to destroy it.”

Adams Silva’s argument is a perfect expression of the Western powers’ banditry ideology. The attitude of Western countries when facing the rise of China is like this. They regard China as a destroyer of the established order. They do not allow China to rise and can only be forced to accept the world order dominated by them.

Why?

China has been leading the world for thousands of years, but it has only temporarily fallen behind because it took the wrong path. China is now back on the right track, and it is only natural to return to the leading position again, isn’t it?

The participants in the audience immediately launched a heated discussion, expressing their views.

“I agree with Mr. Silva’s view. Now the global medical device industry is developing steadily under our leadership, and Starlight Medical Group cannot disrupt this established order.”

“That’s right! We must say no to them! If Starlight Medical Group seizes our market, our workers will lose their jobs; how pitiful they are! We must not let this happen. If anyone insists on this happening, then he is our common enemy, and we must join hands to defeat him and give him a profound lesson that he will never forget!”

“Friends, we must unite, and the moment has come to determine the fate of the medical device industry in the United States and even the world. We are the rule makers and also the guardians. Anyone who wants to challenge the rules we have made will inevitably pay a heavy price and will definitely end in failure.”