197: Chapter 197 CCTV Interview Part 2

"Were you trying to prove yourself at the time?" Wang Bingbing asked.

"I wouldn't call it proving myself. A few years ago, not just our Red Star, but almost all domestic mobile phones in Huaxia were seen as synonymous with knock-offs. My main intention was to change everyone's perception of our domestic phones."

"Four or five years ago, who used domestic phones in the mobile industry? Domestic phones were synonymous with knock-offs. It wasn't just the mobile industry; almost every industry faced this difficulty. They didn't just use Fruit and Samsung; look at the TVs in their homes—they were all Sony, Samsung, or Sharp."

"At that time, criticizing consumers for not supporting domestic products had no value whatsoever."

"I think the problem lay with our industry, with us not doing a good enough job ourselves."

"Why do so many people praise Sony's products? They started working on them 40 years ago, and before that, their products were also a mess."

"We didn't develop the Red Star X for a sense of achievement or to prove anything, nor was it to satisfy any vanity. I just wanted to do something I enjoyed."

"Our ultimate goal is to drive progress across the entire industry."

Wang Bingbing immediately followed up, "Then what was the biggest difficulty encountered during the development process of this phone?"

Chen Chen thought for a moment. "There were many difficulties. If I had to name the biggest one, it was how to make the phone's chin small enough."

"At the time, our phones were all using LCD screens, so we naturally wanted to use an LCD screen on the Red Star X."

"As development progressed, we found that LCD screens couldn't achieve a smaller chin because this type of screen uses a COG packaging method, which places the screen driver module at the bottom of the screen. This is also the reason why phones on the market have a big chin."

"So how did you solve it?" Wang Bingbing asked.

"Our Engineer said that since LCD screens wouldn't work, we should try an oled screen. After adding a flexible substrate, this type of screen can be folded. This way, we could fold the screen driver to the back of the phone screen, just like this."

Chen Chen used gestures to demonstrate the COP packaging method.

"The joint laboratory of Red Star and China Star, after two years of development and hundreds of thousands of experiments, finally mastered a brand-new packaging technology. The first product to apply this technology was our Red Star X Full-Screen Display phone."

As for the matter of customizing screens from LG, could such a thing be mentioned here?

Wang Bingbing also knew that the Red Star X's screen was customized from LG, so she tactfully didn't ask about the screen.

After all, Huaxia had not yet made a breakthrough in this area.

"Mr. Chen, you just said that making Red Star is about driving progress for the entire industry. That sounds a bit empty. Are there any specific aspects?"

"For example, the oled screen packaging technology I just mentioned. As far as I know, both LG and Samsung are still in the laboratory stage with this packaging method and haven't applied it yet."

"Through developing this Red Star X, we pushed our suppliers to break through this brand-new packaging technology. Take the fingerprint recognition module as another example. The fingerprint recognition modules available on the market, such as those from Samsung and Sony, are very expensive. Basically, phones under 3,000 didn't use them."

"It was also us, Red Star, who united with supply chain manufacturers to jointly develop a brand-new fingerprint recognition module, bringing the price of phones with fingerprint recognition to under 2,000 yuan for the first time."

"The first thousand-yuan phone equipped with a fingerprint recognition module, the shining k10, has excellent quality: an all-metal body, fingerprint recognition, a large screen, and a large battery."

During the interview, Chen Chen didn't forget to give his shining k10 a bit of a plug.

"The Red Star power strip I launched last year sold a million units in less than a month. Now look at the power strips on the market; aren't they all much better looking?"

"I think this is a very clear manifestation of Red Star driving industry progress."

"From the time you took over Red Star Company until now, when Red Star has become the mobile phone company with the highest shipment volume in Huaxia, it has only taken a short three years. Mr. Chen, do you have any thoughts on this?"

Listening to Wang Bingbing's question, Chen Chen did not answer immediately for the first time, but pondered for a moment.

Images flashed through his mind: from the first day he stepped into Red Star, with Lu Weibing grabbing his ear, to him leading the development of the first shining 1, imitating Dami Company to develop Xingyao OS 4.0, the popularity of red star 1, and the success of the Kunpeng mobile phone.

Scene after scene flashed quickly through Chen Chen's mind, making him marvel at how fast time flies. In the blink of an eye, he had already been on Blue Star for 4 years.

"Last year at the Internet Conference in Wuzhen, I said that Red Star's goal is to be number one in the world."

"Then, by the end of that year, our shipment volume reached number one in Huaxia and third in the world."

"First of all, I don't think being number one in Huaxia is something to boast about. Red Star still has a certain gap from the world's top mobile phone manufacturers. We must attach importance to this gap and catch up."

"As I said last year, our Red Star has only one goal, and that is to be number one in the world. Red Star will accomplish this goal within the next three to five years."

Wang Bingbing nodded. "It's clear that Mr. Chen is truly young and promising, and full of youthful vigor."

"If one isn't full of vigor, can they still be called a young person?" Chen Chen replied, neither too softly nor too harshly.

Wang Bingbing realized she had misspoken and immediately continued: "Mr. Chen, what gave you the idea to apply ceramic material to the body of the phone?"

...

While Wang Bingbing was interviewing Chen Chen, Lu Weiqi was also leading other CCTV News filming teams to film and explain the Hongxing Science and Technology Park.

Unlike Chen Chen, Old Lu was visibly excited about this kind of exposure.

CCTV, you know? Appearing on CCTV News! He had worked at Gionee for so long, and never had CCTV News come to interview him specifically.

No, that's not right; Gionee hadn't never been on CCTV News. The last time they were on the news was at the beginning of the year.

It was just that it was on the CCTV Legal Channel.

"This is our Red Star development laboratory. Many of our Red Star technologies have achieved breakthroughs here. For example, the Yangtze River Battery was pioneered by our Red Star fast-charging team."

"In the future, AI will be a huge industry direction, and we at Red Star have long since laid out plans in the field of artificial intelligence. Now, the Red Star Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has a development team of over 300 people, led by Professor Cheng Wenfei, a top expert in the field of artificial intelligence in Huaxia."

At the entrance of the artificial intelligence development laboratory, Lu Weiqi said to the camera.

Subsequently, the filming team also conducted a simple interview with Professor Cheng Wenfei.

The CCTV interview was just a small interlude for Red Star. There was still work to be done and products to be prepared.