Rebirth of the Wild Age

After Sohu formally acquired chinaren, it changed it to "Renren.com" according to Song Weiyang's suggestion, and invested 10 million yuan to start the project.

Historically, Zhang Chaoyang had high hopes for Chinaren and he spent money on advertising, which attracted many students across the country to add alumni records. But that's all. Sohu was forced by shareholders to switch to e-commerce business. Except for the profitable Internet SMS, other projects tended to stall. The alumni record has no new content for a long time, resulting in insufficient user stickiness, and gradually forgotten by the students.

The current "Renren.com" does not advertise, but is doing two things:

First, contact with major colleges and universities across the country (including junior colleges), as well as many excellent high schools, and try to obtain test scores from each school. In the future, student users can find mid-term and final results online, and even the results of CET-4 and CET-6 and postgraduate entrance examinations.

Second, the technical team conducts content development to expand the basic functions of Renren. In the future, every user will have their own homepage, and even after going through a complicated application process, ordinary primary and secondary schools can create their own communities. Individual users can add friends to each other and communicate with each other in a way similar to in-site mail. There is also a friend recommendation function, that is, your friends' friends, classmates' classmates, the website will recommend a few for you to add.

Third, the company can also apply for the community on its own. This feature will not be available for the time being and will have to wait for the school community network to be established.

To put it bluntly, it is the primary version of Facebook.

In order to attract users, Song Weiyang even asked Renren to develop small games, such as stealing vegetables from the farm.

The goal of "Renren.com" is to enrich various content functions and get more schools to join before this semester.

Fortunately, Song Weiyang had reminded that Sohu did not spend much money after listing, and the financing range was also greater, far more free money than Sohu in history, and still holds more than 90 million US dollars-in another time and space, Sohu here At that time, only less than 50 million U.S. dollars were left in his hand.

At the same time that Sohu's Renren project is underway, a large-scale press conference is about to be held in Shenghai.

Including 70 pure water producers such as Xifeng, Wahaha, Zhengguanghe and C'estbon, the CEOs or department heads of these companies were all present, announcing the establishment of the "China Water and Beverage Health Association", and plans to strengthen Nongfu Spring and Xin X society.

The cause of the matter is this: In April of this year, Nongfu Spring suddenly announced that it would no longer produce pure water. From now on, it will produce all natural water and only be the porter of nature. In addition, Nongfu Spring also announced three experiments on animals, plants and cells, which proved that pure water is harmful and Nongfu Spring is beneficial.

In June, Xifeng and Wahaha formed a life-and-death alliance of 70 purified water companies through a private connection. The boss Zong even went off in person, swearing at Nongfu Spring, and then lodged a complaint with five departments including the Administration for Industry and Commerce.

Nongfu Spring did not show any weakness, continued to advertise wildly, and emphasized that it only sells healthy natural water.

In mid-July, when the relevant state departments had not made a decision, the Xinx News Agency suddenly issued a telegram without authorization, and gave the so-called "expert reminder": "Pure water is not suitable for long-term drinking in large quantities!"

As soon as this news came out, the pure water sales of Xifeng and Wahaha plummeted, and even the share price of Xifeng fell for the first time since its listing.

Historically, Wahaha gave up on this, Robust's pure water declined, and nature's porters rose strongly. But now Song Weiyang is unwilling to admit defeat. He asked Xifeng to spend 3 million U.S. dollars, Wahaha also promised to spend 1 million U.S. dollars, and the remaining 68 purified water manufacturers collectively pooled 4 million U.S. dollars for a total of 8 million U.S. dollars to sponsor Europe. Of a laboratory.

8 million US dollars, just let this laboratory do a few simple experiments, the other party was very happy and agreed, because this kind of experiment can be done with only a few ordinary researchers. But the incidental requirement is that Mr. Irwin Nell, a famous biophysicist and Nobel Prize winner, must show up in China to help clarify the facts.

Under normal circumstances, the Nobel Prize winners are super big cows, who simply look down on these millions of dollars. However, Song Weiyang mobilized his relationship with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, personally sponsored the Chinese Academy of Sciences 3 million US dollars, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences invited Erwin Nell to China for academic exchanges.

Irwin Nell is not that kind of scholar, nor is he an aloof scientist. In fact, he often participates in commercial projects and international activities. Now his laboratory is sponsored by US$8 million, and he has received an academic exchange invitation from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is very happy to take such a trip.

As soon as Song Weiyang stepped into the venue, Boss Zong walked over and greeted him proactively: "Boss Song, I've been admired for a long time, and I finally met today. Fortunately, fortunately!"

"To each other!" Song Weiyang smiled and shook hands.

Representatives of C'estbon, Zhengguanghe, Guoxin, Xinli and other manufacturers also came over to shook hands and exchanged business cards.

The representative of Guoxin asked, "Mr. Song, is pure water really okay?"

"Yes, I have never been able to compose it in my heart." Xinli's representative also said.

It can be seen that Nongfu Spring has not only fooled consumers, but also scared the purified water manufacturers, thinking that their own purified water is harmful to health.

Song Weiyang said: "US$8 million is not a waste of money. I also personally sponsored US$3 million from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which invited the Nobel Prize winners to disprove the rumors. Don't worry, pure water is harmless, the "experts reminded" of Xinx News Agency. It does not conform to the scientific basis. What I am thinking now is not whether we can regain public opinion, but whether to sue Xinx News Agency for false statements!"

"Sue Xinxing News Agency?" Boss Zong was taken aback and shook his head again and again, "Forget it, I can't offend the media."

Song Weiyang smiled and said: "Then let the new x agency a horse!"

The representatives of the purified water manufacturers laughed, and the solemn atmosphere instantly cheered up.

In fact, even after more than 10 years, the "Pure Water Harmful Theory" still has a broad market, and even CCTV ran out to report and interviewed many senior professors. In fact, these senior professors did not make direct negative judgments. Only one professor was unwavering. However, this professor did not have any cutting-edge scientific achievements. On the contrary, he made a lot of achievements in the fields of health preservation, Tai Chi, and health care. Some brands of water drinks.

Just Baidu about the hazards of purified water, you can search for a lot of results, and it is right.

Nearly time, a professor from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Irwin Nell arrived, and hundreds of reporters were whispering.

Song Weiyang personally acted as the host and said straightforwardly: "Well, there are two things today. One is to refute the rumors of the'pure water is harmful' theory, and the other is to formally establish the'China Water and Beverage Health Association'. Today, we are fortunate enough. I have invited Nobel Laureate Mr. Ervin Nell. Mr. Nell’s laboratory has done a series of related experiments on pure water such as Xifeng and Wahaha... Now I invite Mr. Nell to read his experiment. Room results."

Erwin Nell stood up with the materials and announced the experiment content and results in German. Song Weiyang even invited a simultaneous interpreter.

Soon it came to the free questioning session. A reporter asked: "Since drinking pure water for a long time is harmless, why should the Shenghai government, including the Shenghai government, remind primary and middle school students not to drink pure water?"

Zong Boss said: "I can answer this question. In recent years, local governments have issued laws prohibiting primary school students from drinking purified water because of the high profits of purified water in the past few years. There have been a large number of purified water brands across the country. These brands Many of the sanitary conditions of our products are not up to standard. After these years of industry rectification, at least the 70 pure water brands on our site have no problems and are in compliance with national sanitary standards."

The reporter asked again: "Then why are the developed countries in Europe and the United States forbidden to drink pure water?"

Song Weiyang laughed and said: "This news is that the media is secretly changing the concept, conflating'pure water' and'pure water'. For example, the purified water in the United States is industrial-grade high-purity water and requires an industrial license. It can only be produced. This kind of pure water cannot be directly drunk. Our pure water is only drunk by removing impurities and germs in the water."

Another reporter said: "According to the results of scientific experiments, purified water not only does not contain the trace elements needed by the human body, but because of its ultra-high solubility, it will also take away the trace elements needed by the human body, leading to symptoms such as osteoporosis. In addition, long-term drinking of purified water will lead to acidic physique, which is not good for human health."

Song Weiyang said: "Let's ask an expert to explain."

Irvine Nell replied immediately: "An adult has about 40 kilograms of body fluids. Drinking 2 liters of water a day will not change the concentration of calcium ions. As for the pH value of body fluids, the lungs and kidneys can be adjusted, and the water is purified. It is neutral and weakly acidic, and this adjustment will not bring any burden to the lungs and kidneys."

As soon as the old man finished speaking, Song Weiyang added: "The human body is not a sieve. Drinking water can wash away trace elements?"

"Hahahaha!" The bosses and representatives of the purified water manufacturer burst into laughter.

Some reporters still clung to it: "Even so, pure water does lack the trace elements needed by the human body, is it true?"

Song Weiyang said: "Yes. Purified water not only lacks trace elements, but also lacks protein and vitamins. Drinking only purified water will cause malnutrition in the human body and eventually cause a person to starve to death."

The boss of Zong said directly: "There are trace elements everywhere, don't you know how to supplement them with meals and fruits and vegetables?"

"Hahahaha!" The bosses and representatives of the purified water manufacturer burst into laughter again.

Song Weiyang said: "I specifically consulted Mr. Nell. He said that drinking a lot of pure water will indeed change the pH of body fluids. But before that, the human body will be supported to death by the water first, because you need to drink a lot of it at once~www. wuxiamtl.com~ and only drink one or two liters a day, which is completely within the adjustable range of body fluids and internal organs."

Zong Boss said: "Individual commercial furniture has caused huge losses to various purified water brands, and we will choose to pursue it to the end!"

Song Weiyang also said: "Not only the brand is damaged, but also my personal reputation. Xifeng has always been a socially responsible company, but because of rumors from a certain merchant some time ago, I and Xifeng’s Reputation has been hit hard. A Jiangcheng consumer wrote to say that he was grateful for Xifeng’s selfless assistance during the flood, but he was very disappointed with Xifeng and I because Xifeng was selling unhealthy water for him and his family. In danger! I, Song Weiyang, have become a big liar! Therefore, I must be there in person today, and I must make this clear!"

"Boss Song and I are always on the side!" Boss Zong said hard.

The reporter asked a few more questions and finally entered the establishment of the "China Water and Beverage Health Association". Boss Zong served as the chairman, Song Weiyang served as the vice-chairman (take the initiative to make the wise), the professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences served as the honorary consultant, and an official was invited to serve as the honorary chairman, and the bosses of other brands of mineral water served as executive directors and directors.

Groups of water and beverage manufacturers across the country are clearly squeezing out Nongfu Spring.

In history, Nongfu Spring later experienced the "standard gate" incident, why didn't the relevant associations stand up to help? It is because from the very beginning, it has already offended its peers.

The next day, more than 100 media collectively reported that Xifeng's stock price rebounded rapidly, but the sales of pure water could only grow slowly, and the losses caused could not be recovered. There were still widespread doubts about pure water in the society.

However, the sales of Nongfu Spring are steadily increasing. Even if the lawsuit is lost, it does not matter. The big deal is to change the propaganda content and lose some money.