Controversy over Liu Ni's dispute

The joining of Ni Guangnan completely changed the course of the company, and Lenovo finally had its own "technical business card". Out of respect and corporate image, Liu Chuanzhi immediately launched the God-making Movement. In order to maintain the prestige of "God", Liu Chuanzhi even did not hesitate to damage his own authority. Lenovo's president and chief engineer, the intimate "Gemini", became an example for many enterprises at that time. However, in 1994, in the international market, the future IT overlord Microsoft initiated subversive changes, which also greatly affected the sales of Lenovo Hanka.

Around 1994, Ni Guangnan traveled around Shanghai, Hong Kong and other places to recruit talents and established the "Lianhai Microelectronics Design Center". He devoted great enthusiasm to this project called "China Core". However, the words of Qin Li, the executive vice president of the company, made the enthusiastic Ni Guangnan hit a nail. Accustomed to "yes", Ni Guangnan naturally didn't want to stop there and went directly to Liu Chuanzhi. What he never expected was that this time, Liu Chuanzhi's answer was euphemistic, but the result was "no".

After this incident, the relationship between the two quickly deteriorated, and every work meeting of Lenovo became a quarrel between them. Liu Chuanzhi thought that Ni Guangnan was "pestering" and Ni Guangnan said, "I'm not finished with you." He began to accuse his superiors of Liu Chuanzhi's overbearing style, and later accused him of serious economic problems. Gemini, once intimate, has therefore come to the brink of life and death.

The quarrel continued until 1995. During this period, Ni Guangnan sent one complaint letter after another with the unique persistence and stubbornness of a technical expert. This is a letter from Ni Guangnan to Zhu Rongji, then Vice Premier of the State Council. In the letter, Ni Guangnan even sued Zhou, president of China Academy of Sciences, who believed that Zhou sheltered Liu Chuanzhi. As a business operator, Liu Chuanzhi won the support of almost all Lenovo senior managers with a beautiful "sickbed diplomacy" during this period.