Chapter 716: Liang Jingsong, Back from Poaching at Mountain Star! A Candidate for CEO of Orange Car?

Early the next morning, the three major e-commerce platforms—Pinbei, Tmall, and Jingdong—successively released their sales reports for the Double Eleven Grand Promotion.

Pinbei: 23.76 billion!

Tmall: 34.92 billion!

Jingdong: 10.34 billion!

The three e-commerce giants reached a total single-day sales volume of 69.02 billion, just a stone’s throw away from the 70 billion mark.

On November 11th, the courier industry handled 173 million parcels, a year-over-year increase of 73% and nearly six times the usual daily volume.

Instantly, courier sorting centers, major service stations, and the couriers themselves all went into overdrive, racing against the clock to speed up parcel processing and prevent backlogs.

Over a hundred thousand Cloud Speed Couriers across the country were busy in a bittersweet state of pain and pleasure, their workload having tripled or even quadrupled.

The “pain” was the sheer number of parcels—there were too many to deliver. It was simply impossible!

Fortunately, the Cloud Speed parcel lockers and Cloud Speed Service Stations shouldered some of the burden, easing the pressure on last-mile delivery.

The “pleasure” came from the rising number of pickups, which directly boosted their income. Combined with the fourth-quarter performance bonuses, most couriers couldn’t hide the smiles on their faces.

Jingdong’s average daily transaction value surpassed 10 billion for the first time, but netizens’ attention was focused on the “Milk Tea Romance.”

After all, it was a real-life version of “domineering CEO falls for a college student,” with an age gap of nearly twenty years between them.

After pondering for a day, Liu Qiangdong decided to go ahead and publicly confirm the relationship on his personal Toutiao, Weibo, and Douyin accounts.

In his view, the “Milk Tea Romance” didn’t seem to have affected Jingdong’s performance; it had even brought unexpected exposure and traffic.

Additionally, Pinbei’s sales figures on Double Eleven also captured the attention of media both at home and abroad.

“On the eve of its IPO, Pinbei has delivered an impressive report card. The gap between it and Ah Li is gradually narrowing!”

“A single-day turnover of 23.76 billion, with individual stores for brands like Xiaomi, Haier, Apple, and Orange each exceeding 100 million!”

“94,000 specialty agricultural product stores sold a cumulative 39 million orders, a sign of the initial success of Pinbei’s farmer assistance program.”

“The Agricultural Association announced it will present Pinbei with the ‘Advanced Collective in Poverty Alleviation’ award, making it the first internet company in Hua Country to receive such an honor!”

Reading these reports, netizens were shocked to realize that Pinbei was no longer the niche e-commerce platform it had been two years ago, one that had built its foundation on social fission.

It had now transformed into Hua Country’s second-largest e-commerce giant, second only to Ah Li in strength, with a business scale equivalent to 2.3 Jingdongs.

It took Ah Li and Jingdong over a decade to reach their current positions, whereas Pinbei did it in just two years!

The remaining e-commerce platforms like Sunning, Gome, Yixun, and Dangdang didn’t even release their sales reports.

If you have achievements, you naturally show them off. If you don’t, why would you join in just to embarrass yourself?

The Matthew effect was becoming increasingly pronounced. Traffic and orders continued to converge on the three giants—Pinbei, Tmall, and Jingdong—who collectively controlled ninety percent of the market share, leaving hundreds of other websites to fight over the remaining ten percent.

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In a bright, spacious conference room at the Zhuxianzhuang Science and Technology Park, Liang Jingsong pointed to a middle-aged man beside him and said, “Boss, this is Chen Zhiming from the Process Integration team. He’s an old subordinate of mine from my days at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), and he’s an expert in FinFET transistor structure optimization, multiple patterning technology, and process node migration.”

“Mr. Chen, welcome to Xingyuan Technology.”

Chen Yansen said with a smile, extending his right hand.

“Hello, Boss! It’s an honor to join Xingyuan Technology.” Chen Zhiming, who looked to be in his forties and wore a pair of black-framed glasses, quickly stepped forward to shake Chen Yansen’s hand.

“Boss, this is Wang Junwei from the Lithography team. He previously worked at TSMC and Mountain Star. He’s extremely knowledgeable about DUV lithography machine process window optimization and source-mask co-optimization technology, and he also participated in the preliminary research and debugging of EUV Lithography Machines.”

Liang Jingsong continued his introductions, guiding another middle-aged man from his side to stand before Chen Yansen.

When he had left TSMC back then, he had taken a team of nearly 30 people with him.

This time, he had poached 23 people from Mountain Star, covering various fields such as device physics, yield enhancement, and intellectual property. Every one of them was an industry expert with a stellar resume.

This was an elite, hybrid team capable of accelerating the transfer of advanced process technology and driving breakthroughs in key areas like patent circumvention and mass production.

Chip manufacturing is an industry that requires the synergistic cooperation of multiple departments and technologies. Even someone like Liang Jingsong couldn’t go it alone.

“Thank you all for placing your trust in Xingyuan Technology. President Liang should have already gone over this with you, but for the next two years, you will all be based in Hu City. Once the chip production base in Luzhou is completed, we will relocate everyone there.”

Chen Yansen shook hands and exchanged pleasantries with each person one by one before adding, “Please rest assured. Although Xingyuan Technology is a newly established semiconductor company headquartered domestically, I can guarantee that everyone’s salary, compensation, and benefits will exceed international standards.”

“Boss, President Liang already mentioned these arrangements to us back in Seoul. It’s no problem.”

Chen Zhiming replied with a smile.

“Moving forward in two locations simultaneously will indeed speed up the timeline for mass production.”

Wang Junwei and the others nodded in agreement.

‘It’s a job. Naturally, you work for whoever pays the most.’

Besides, with their own old boss serving as the CEO of Xingyuan Technology, they could clearly expect a faster path to promotion.

Therefore, Liang Jingsong had to exert almost no effort when persuading his former subordinates.

Most of these key technical personnel, who had worked alongside him back at TSMC, readily submitted their resignations. They brought with them years of accumulated experience and resources as they turned around and joined Xingyuan Technology.