What is the relationship between Ni Guangnan and Liu Chuanzhi?

From intimacy to the dispute between Liu and Ni.

At 199 1, the government of China is dismantling the trade barriers of the computer industry drastically. After the door was opened, Chinese and foreign computer manufacturers began to fight hand in hand. Soon, domestic computer companies, including Lenovo, found themselves involved in a brand-new competitive landscape that they were not familiar with and could not grasp.

Ni Guangnan joined Lenovo and completely changed the course of the company. Lenovo finally has 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.

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". This time, although Liu Chuanzhi's answer was euphemistic, the result was "no".

The relationship between them deteriorated rapidly, and every work meeting of Lenovo turned into 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.

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In the end, the working group sent by the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that "there is no material to prove that Comrade Liu Chuanzhi has personal economic problems", and the results gradually became clear. 1On June 30th, 995, Lenovo's board of directors agreed to remove Comrade Ni Guangnan from the post of chief engineer of Lenovo Group. At that meeting, Liu Chuanzhi looked at the speech in front of him and cried several times.

From the beginning of the "Liu Ni dispute", the media interpreted it as a confrontation between "market faction" and "technology faction". After getting rid of the shackles of Ni Guangnan, Lenovo unified its thinking and began to run wildly on the road of marketing. 1994, Liu Chuanzhi let go and appointed Yang as the general manager of Lenovo Computer Company.

Under his leadership, Lenovo's own brand computer sales ranked the top three in the China market. Yang is also known as "sales wizard" and "star of science and technology".

Phoenix Net-Liu Chuanzhi's 1994: Lenovo's "Liu Ni's Debate"