Lansi Technology founder Zhou Qunfei...honoured to sit between Musk and Cook in Xi Trump state banquet

At this U.S. visit to China dinner banquet, the most eye-catching figure in the prime center seat between Musk and Cook was Lansi Technology founder Zhou Qunfei—from a rural factory girl to China's richest woman, with absolutely no background to rely on, building everything from scratch through her own grit. She was born in a small village in Hunan Province. At age 5, her mother passed away, and her father became disabled and blind from a work injury, leaving the family in dire poverty with nothing to their name. At 16, unable to afford school fees, she was forced to drop out and head to Guangdong to work in a factory, grinding glass on the assembly line—working days away during the day and furiously self-studying at night, earning certifications in accounting, computer operations, and other skills. That's how she spent a few years, until she scraped together 20,000 yuan from her wages, rallied eight relatives including her brother, sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law, and started a small workshop in Shenzhen doing watch glass processing. She handled machine repairs and sales runs single-handedly, grinding away like that for another four years.

By the 2000s, the mobile phone industry began booming on a massive scale. By a stroke of luck, her watch glass factory landed an order for TCL phone screens. She spotted the huge potential in the phone glass market and quickly founded Lansi Technology, specializing in the production, R&D, and sales of phone glass. At first, they only handled domestic phones and knockoffs, but everything changed when she went after a Motorola order—foreign companies had insanely strict quality standards. She bet nearly all her resources to meet Motorola's demands and snagged the V3 order, which sold over 100 million units worldwide, catapulting Lansi Technology straight to industry leadership. From there, she smoothly secured deals with Nokia, Samsung, and other foreign giants.

The pivotal turning point hit again in 2007, when Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, revolutionizing phones toward full-glass touchscreens. Jobs' obsessive craftsmanship demands left the whole world scrambling for a supplier that could meet them. Zhou Qunfei keenly sensed this was another massive opportunity, so she led her team in a three-month joint push with Apple engineers, breaking through key processes to mass-produce the first-generation iPhone glass panels. That locked in a long-term Apple contract, and soon after, nearly all Apple gear—from iPads to MacBooks—went to Lansi Technology for production. It also propelled Lansi to become the world's top player in touch glass panels.

That's why she got to sit next to Cook. But why was Musk right there beside her too?

After dominating global glass panels, Lansi Technology branched into more diverse smart devices, including car cockpits and robots. In autos, they've already locked in deals with 30 carmakers like Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, and Li Auto for windows, center consoles, and more. In robotics, they handle joints, sensors, and other components—areas with deep overlap in Musk's businesses.

A girl who dropped out at 15 with just a junior high diploma, emerging from rural Hunan to build an empire from nothing and become China's richest woman—forty years later, stepping into U.S.-China talks, seated between Musk and Cook. That's Zhou Qunfei's story.

This shown that it's not necessary to have degrees and all.sorts of papers qualifications to be smart and.innovative!

Be SMART in your common sense and able to seize opportunities when arises with foresight and 🧠 brains


Virgo49


PS. A repost by Virgo

China in the process of making better chips than H200

The Huawei story did not register in the brains of the hillbillies. Sanctions against Huawei did not work, despite even rallying the doggies to do the same to Huawei. Huawei was to show the middle finger to the USA and its doggies by becoming even more self-sufficient and prospering. Huawei is now even making its own chips and EVs.

Trying to strangle China using Nvidia chips is exactly the same mistake being made by the USA against Huawei. When Trump refused to sell top end Nvidia chips to China, it just made China more determined to overcome the problem by attempting to make its own, now even intent on cutting off China's tech firms from using Nvidia chips. The message from the Chinese Government was clear enough, that if Chinese tech firms can find alternative domestically made chips, import of foreign chips will be curtailed. That message probably gave Jensen Huang sleepless nights.

Trump thought he was playing the winning card, trying to project a semblance of having the upper hand by giving permission to Nvidia to go ahead to sell H20 and H200 chips to China. China did not even take up the offer, excusing itself by citing its fear of backdoors in those chips, apart from other reasons. But the harm had already been done, and China has put in place restrictions to prevent Nvidia H20 and now H200 chips to be sold on the Chinese market. Nvidia can sell those chips to McDonalds, while Trump can add them to his bumper burger orders like potato chips.

Jensen Huang made a wasted trip to China. The market for Nvidia chips in China is gone for good. It is not temporary. It is permanent.


Anonymous

Iran is the 'I" in BRICS. China needs Iran in BRICS

Now there is a propaganda campaign trying to sour relations between China and Iran, claiming that China is throwing Iran under the bus, as a bargaining chip that the USA might likely do the same over Taiwan. But Taiwan is already part of China and cannot be used as a bargaining chip by the USA. China will never agree. Anyway, that has still not been established, as Trump is still looking at the sale of weapons to Taiwan and the need to convince the war-hawks in Washington.

China is not going to betray Iran over Taiwan for sure. The Taiwan issue can fester for another 76 years, and China can sit around and wait. The Chinese are very patient people. After all, China already tolerated the Taiwan issue since 1949 without attempting to attack the island. All that threat from China against Taiwan is just a figment of the imagination of the war-hawks in Washington. In any case, Xi has warned Trump that the Taiwan red line must never be crossed. Few words, but clear and unambiguous. Trump, I think, got the message and has warned Taiwan not to think about independence. What will the next USA President do is beyond us to anticipate. The further sale of weapons to Taiwan is a sticky issue. Let us see what happens next.


Anonymous

Lunatic Trump continues to push for more vanity projects under his name

SHANGHAI: Could a proposed US-China “Board of Trade” help stabilise ties ahead of this week’s summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping?...

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who first outlined the proposal in March, said the mechanism would create a channel to formalise the kinds of goods traded between the two rivals. CNA

Megalomaniac Trump knows that this is his last two years before he disappeared like the dinosaurs. He is hastily trying to create more projects and monuments embossed with his name or image on them. Trump Tower is not enough, Trump Opera House, Trump Stadium, a better and more appropriate building will be Trump Museum to store his unwanted red caps. 

Trump will seize on every moment, opportunity, to want people to remember him, like what every dictator will do, knowing that his popularity will not last, like all dictators, will be demolished once he has fallen from power.

The Board of Piss has come and gone with the blink of an eye, with Trump pocketing all the monies for his family business. No body cares what happens to this board or the money he took. It is not accountable to anyone except Trump.

Now in this meeting with Xi, Trump is coming out with two more Boards, Board of Trade or Board of Investment to claim credit for them. Don't they have enough silly boards and institutions for trade and anti trade that they need two more Board of Piss with Trump's name on it but would be forgotten in due time?

It would be better for China to sign a trade agreement with the Trump family for some real business, producing more hats and MAGA souvenirs for sale to his supporters, Trump shoes, Trump pens, Trump panties, Trump diapers etc etc. Maybe have a joint production to produce an AI movie on Trump and his great and infamous achievements. He got another grand idea after his summit with Xi. He was impressed by China's Great Hall of the People and wanted to build one for America, maybe called Trump's Great Hall of America.

Trump is just an aberration, and a really bad one that will be thrown into the dustbin for good in less than two years and be forgotten, or as American jokes.

Silly American propaganda would not now work anymore once the Arabs and Muslims are secretly talking together

 Saudi Arabia launched covert attacks on Iran as regional war widened: Sources

The United Arab Emirates also carried out military strikes on Iran early last month, the Wall Street Journal reported, revealing previously unknown participation in the war by the two countries.

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia launched numerous, unpublicised strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks carried out in the kingdom during the Middle East war, two Western officials briefed on the matter and two Iranian officials said.

The Saudi attacks, not previously reported, mark the first time that the kingdom is known to have directly carried out military action on Iranian soil and show it is becoming much bolder in defending itself against its main regional rival.  CNA

The American terrorists are now so desperate that they have to resort to their stupid lies even knowing that they would not work anymore. First they tried to incite the Iranians to attack UAE by claiming UAE was hitting back at Iran. Now they are claiming that Saudi Arabia is also hitting back at Iran, to drag Saudi Arabia into their war with Iran. In the early days of this war, the Americans were spreading lies that MBS were telling the Americans to finish off the Iranians. Is this really believeable? The intent of releasing this lie was to pitch the Iranians against the Saudis. It did not need any second guess. Just look at the sources of these misinformation will tell where they are coming from. The Iranians are not hitting Saudi and Emirati strategic targets for obvious reasons. 

Both Saudi Arabia and UAE will be flattened if Iran believed in these American lies. Yes, Iran bombed some parts of Saudi Arabia and UAE. But these are American assets only. And the Iranians are closely in touch with the Saudis and Emirati on what they are going to hit, sparing the assets of Saudis and Emirati. New reports that UAE have started to attack Iran. How true is this? UAE inviting its own destruction? Another case of Mickey Mouse threatening a bigger power? Also reported that the drones that attacked UAE nuclear plant flew in from the West.

The clowns in Washington still think the Arabs and Muslims are stupid and can be manipulated by them to fight and kill each other. They cannot believe that the Arabs and Muslims are having their own communication networks to keep in touch and inform each other of the progress of this anti American and Israeli war.

The American and Israeli terrorists are running out of ideas and out of wits. Once the Arabs and Muslims are united, they cannot be divided and killed one by one by the American and Israeli terrorists anymore.  The Israelis cannot control America for long. Trump's term is coming up, and it might be shorter if his health does not allow him to stay on. The next American President is unlikely to be tainted by the Epstein episode and be controlled by the Israelis. Mickey Mouse Israel's days are numbered.