Who knows the development history of Baidu?

This person, Li Yanhong, is a typical "sea returnee". 1999 returned from Silicon Valley to start a business. This company is called Baidu, a typical network technology company that makes search engines. The word "Baidu" is taken from Xin Qiji's "Looking for him in the crowd for thousands of Baidu, suddenly looking back, the man is in the dim light." Li Yanhong is the president of Baidu.

Li Yanhong is extraordinary-

When the famous search engines google, infoseek and yahoo were in full swing in the online world, he flew against the wind and returned to China to start his own search engine in China.

Like Bill Gates and Mike Dell, the top figures in the IT field, he gave up his readily available doctorate in foreign studies, dropped out of school and went into business.

In the cold winter of June, 2000, he not only won the big technical commission orders from Sina, Sohu, Netease and TOM, but also successfully raised $654.38+0 billion for the second time.

Less than two years after returning to China, he won the title of "Top Ten IT Man of China in 2002" with a company with less than 100 employees.

The Baidu engine he founded became famous in three years. In China, it has been comparable to google, and even surpassed google in some indicators, which has been praised as a miracle by the international network community. Baidu's daily traffic has now become one of the "four big" websites in China.

Google is in love!

At 4: 30 pm on June 4, 2003, Baidu President Li Yanhong and Marketing Director Bi Sheng were waiting for a result. From creating Baidu to financing 100 USD, from selling technology to digging the first pot of gold for Sina, to setting up its own independent search website, from starting a business with eight people to 100 people's "lightning plan", Li Yanhong and others are waiting for a result-is Baidu better or Google better?

Since Google launched the Chinese version in 2000, "God" has drunk China people like a warm wind, and the first people who praised "God" were journalists and editors, such as Liu Ren and Fang Xingdong. Almost everyone would say, "Did you GoGo today?" It is said that Fang Xingdong suddenly stopped using Google because he suddenly found that his famous saying "Fang Xingdong" could not be searched on Google.

Li Yanhong wants to compare Baidu with Google. "Smart people" think they are comparing eggs with stones. But Li Yanhong doesn't think so. He thinks that Baidu has become "golden". Since the "Lightning Project" ended at the end of 2002, he asked people in the company to "never use Google again, Baidu is no worse than Google!" When meeting friends in the street, Li Yanhong is not good at "red" others, so Bi Sheng, the marketing director, said: "Baidu is no worse than Google! "It is said that none of their" red-skinned "friends think they have been cheated. A more pertinent comment said, "Baidu is as useful as Google in the Chinese field! " .

The public beta of "Google vs Baidu-the top search engine between the two major search engines" organized by China Computer Education News was held on June 4th, 2003 at 16? 30, * * * a week. In 10 evaluation? 0 15 ordinary users, about 55% choose "Baidu is better than Google", 10% choose "Baidu is similar to Google" and 35% choose "Google is better than Baidu".

There are "rumors" that this "public beta" has the shadow of Baidu's behind-the-scenes public relations; Some "observers" expressed doubts about this. On June 5th, Jinghua Times reported that Baidu surpassed Google. In public evaluation; On the same day, Beijing Youth Daily, which has a large circulation, published an article saying that Baidu has become the first portal for Chinese search, and Baidu has entered the "top four" of Chinese websites, following the three "portals" of Sina, Sohu and Netease.

It is common for reporters to like to write flowers. It is not surprising that there are always people in the workshop who "rightfully" doubt the "behind the scenes" of an event. After three years of hard work, it is a great thing that Baidu can be used by the media to talk to Google today.

Li yanhong has a feeling of Google in his heart. 1In April, 1998, he and William Zhang, technical director of Infoseek, went to Brisbane, Australia to attend the International Internet Conference, which was attended by two young founders of Google. Half of the guests at that meeting were related to search engines. At that time, Li Yanhong was the technical director at Infoseek. Everyone was curious about him and asked to exchange technology with him. So, they held a small party temporarily, left their names and meeting places on the message board of the meeting, and more than 100 people came. At that time, it was completely like "Western Gold Rush". The two founders asked him many technical questions, and he also contributed his research experience without reservation. Unexpectedly, in just three or four years, Google of these two guys cut Infoseek and Yahoo one by one like an engine killer. When Li Yanhong was in Silicon Valley, he was full of energy. In other countries, you can destroy cities and plunder land. In China, I, Li Yanhong, want to fight you to the end.

Li yanhong has a feeling of Google in his heart. After the Spring Festival in 2002, Li Yanhong began to vaguely feel that the search engine market in China has begun to mature, and what worries him more is that Google's reputation among netizens in China is getting better and better. One kind of pressure began to make Li Yanhong feel uneasy-on the one hand, Baidu occupied 80% of the China market, on the other hand, Google has become the most mainstream search engine in the world. How does Baidu resist Google's attack on China? These questions are constantly stimulating every nerve of his.

Li yanhong feels that the decisive battle with Google is just around the corner.

Baidu must surpass Google in technology.

In March 2002, a technical commando led by Lei Ming was established, and Li Yanhong named this secret technical action "Lightning Plan". (To be continued)

Baidu Legend II- Baidu Lightning

1999 Christmas, when all the rich and poor in the east and west prayed for God at home, Li Yanhong returned to China through the clouds. Obviously, on this day, Li Yanhong on the plane is closer to God than most people on earth.

It was also Christmas when he went to America eight years ago. I don't know if it's coincidence or intentional. The two most critical days in Li Yanhong's career are being with God.

This time, the biggest competitor of the search engine business he wants to return to China is Google, which is called "God" by western netizens.

He is determined to be a man who challenges God.

Baidu "Lightning"

Our reporters Li Hesheng and Andy report from Beijing.

1999 Christmas, when all the rich and poor in the east and west prayed for God at home, Li Yanhong returned to China through the clouds. Obviously, on this day, Li Yanhong on the plane is closer to God than most people on earth.

It was also Christmas when he went to America eight years ago. I don't know if it's coincidence or intentional. The two most critical days in Li Yanhong's career are being with God.

This time, the biggest competitor of the search engine business he wants to return to China is Google, which is called "God" by western netizens.

He is determined to be a man who challenges God.

Baidu company really opened in March 2000. Except for finance, cashier and administration, they are all technicians. Li Yanhong and Xu Yong are salespeople with five full-time technicians. There are also students from Peking University and Tsinghua who come to work part-time. It is not that I don't want to recruit more technicians. Li Yanhong lamented that there are too few talents in China who really understand search engine technology, so I had to do training while doing it.

Li Yanhong's new company was chosen in the Resource Building of Peking University. This place is very close to Peking University and separated from Zhongguancun by the fourth ring road, which is very suitable for scientific and technological entrepreneurship. His site selection technique was learned from Silicon Valley. Many IT startups work around Stanford University, which is convenient for teachers and students to take part-time jobs. The early Silicon Valley startups, exaggerated, "developed on the shoulders of Professor Terman and his students!" .

There are just two rooms left in the resource building of Peking University. Room 420 is at the corner of the corridor, with a large area, which is suitable for technicians to work centrally. 406 is in the middle of the corridor, less than 20 square meters, and Li Yanhong arranges finance and administration in it. Li yanhong's own office is located at window 420. Looking sideways from the window, he can see the 43 rd building where he lived when he was studying at Peking University. Every night, the lights in Building 43 always remind him of his infinite memories of college life.

The resource building of Peking University is surrounded by green trees, and the old locust tree downstairs is at least 30 years old. That summer, cicadas exploded in this tree and kept singing all night, like an endless seminar. Room 420 has lights on all night, and some people are sleepy, lying in a chair and sleeping; Some people can't help being sleepy, so they go to the toilet to wash their faces and go back to the computer to continue their work. "Smokers" obviously have more ways to resist the night, holding chairs, smoking in the aisle next to the toilet, and serenading after listening. Baidu was born in such a campus ballad-like environment, and won 80% share of China search engine market in one fell swoop within two years. At the beginning of 2002, the company moved to the more spacious Haitai Building.

March 2002, Beijing. This is a cold spring. Just after the Spring Festival, the company is filled with the aftermath of the New Year-

"Bi Sheng, did you go back to Tangshan for the Spring Festival this year?" "Robin? What is Li Yanhong's English name? Is the Spring Festival in Silicon Valley lively? "

Li Yanhong spent his New Year in America. Looking after his wife and children, he hurried back to China in less than 10 days. The American "Christmas" holiday has long passed, and Google is stepping up its market expansion in China. He remembered that he had returned to China at Christmas on 1999, and made up his mind to fight "God" at home. For more than two years, Baidu's ability to compete with Google in China is still insufficient. After Google launched its Chinese version in September 2000, at least 5 million netizens in China began to use Google.

Baidu suddenly became nervous in the New Year. According to Li Yanhong's opinion, the members of "Lightning Project" headed by Lei Ming must "let Baidu engine compete with Google in technology, and some indicators should be ahead of Google ..."

Lei Ming is a graduate of Peking University Computer Department in 2000, and he is very famous in the school. According to Li Yanhong, Lei Ming is indeed a genius in search engines.

Lei Ming's "lightning team" quickly took action. Li Yanhong also gave them specific indicators, demanding that after the "Lightning Project" is completed, Baidu's daily visits and views will be 10 times more than the original, and the daily downloading of database content will be 30% more than that of Google, and the page response speed will be as fast as that of Google, and the content update frequency will be more than that of Google.

That summer, the weather was unusually hot.

The members of "Lightning Team" not only have great innovations in technology, but also have new inventions. They bought a remote-controlled toy car, put the disks and documents that need to be exchanged on the toy car, and whoever needs anything will be transported by the car, saving a lot of effort. Others bought a scooter and stood on it to report to the finance office. The "Lightning Team" is very busy, and it is the Heat.

In August, 2002, Li Yanhong was still dissatisfied with the progress of "Lightning Project" and decided to be the team leader himself to lead the team members in research and development. Because of his profound technical accumulation in search engines and his understanding of the world's cutting-edge technologies at that time, his participation really improved the progress of the lightning plan. By the end of June, 5438+February, 2002, the last leaf of the old pagoda tree in the old building fell, and the lightning project in the new building was finally completed, and the dust settled for a busy hard work.

Robin Li's "lightning plan" involves 15 people, and some people jokingly call it "platoon". At first, some team members were worried that Google was an intensive camp with 800 people. "Can we beat it?" In April, Li Yanhong was hospitalized in Guang 'anmen Hospital. He cheered everyone up and said, "We are fighting in our own country. Isn't every one of you unconvinced by Google? This time it's the real knife and the real gun at work. Who is afraid of who? "

"Lightning Project" achieved brilliant results. In Baidu, someone quietly deleted Google's link and confidently used their own Baidu. Bi Sheng led the Baidu marketing team to meet customers during the day and the media at night, and launched the "Lightning Plan" to promote it. They want every netizen in China to know that China people's own search engine is not worse than Google.

After the victory of "Lightning Project", the company did not hold a "celebration banquet". Li Yanhong took everyone to the suburbs to play twice, which was a reward for everyone.

Baidu still has a long way to go. Compared with his peers in Silicon Valley, Li Yanhong is only more familiar with the road of China.

Please watch the third episode of Baidu Legend-Rhapsody in Silicon Valley.

In the history of world IT, Silicon Valley is a magical place.

In fact, Silicon Valley is not a valley. Geographically, Silicon Valley is located in California. It is a 30-mile-long and 10-mile-wide strip between San Francisco and San Jose. This place is backed by the Pacific coast mountains, facing an ocean in San Francisco Bay and surrounded by mountains and seas. It is not a real valley, but an imaginary "valley", which is a high-tech valley.

1In the summer of 997, Li Yanhong left the financial information company where he worked for three and a half years and set foot on the road of starting a second business in Silicon Valley from New Jersey.

Rhapsody in Silicon Valley

Our reporters Li Hesheng and Andy report from Beijing.

In the history of world IT, Silicon Valley is a magical place.

In fact, Silicon Valley is not a valley. Geographically, Silicon Valley is located in California. It is a 30-mile-long and 10-mile-wide strip between San Francisco and San Jose. This place is backed by the Pacific coast mountains, facing an ocean in San Francisco Bay and surrounded by mountains and seas. It is not a real valley, but an imaginary "valley", which is a high-tech valley.

1In the summer of 997, Li Yanhong left the financial information company where he worked for three and a half years and set foot on the road of starting a second business in Silicon Valley from New Jersey.

Silicon Valley is Li Yanhong's dream. Where are HP, SUN, Netscape and Yahoo? Oracle Bone Inscriptions, where are the Internet and VC? Investors include Stanford University and Berkeley, California. Every inch of land and sunshine there is so yearning for him.

William Zhang stood in front of Infoseek building to meet him. The CTO of Infoseek is from Taiwan Province Province, and he has a doctorate from Harvard University. From engineers to CTO, it can also be regarded as a "Jianghu expert" who has fought many battles. At an academic conference, he met Li Yanhong and talked about science and technology, Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province Province, China culture, Internet and search engines ... Everyone knows his friends. Zhang Li advised to go to Silicon Valley for development.

The financial information company that Li Yanhong once worked for is actually a professional consulting company specializing in analyzing financial data under Dow Jones. Li Yanhong's title is "Senior Consultant", and what he contacts most on weekdays is financial news. The Wall Street Journal is a compulsory course almost every day. Yahoo? Yang Zhiyuan and Anderson of Netscape, two mythical heroes sought after by the Internet, occupy the front page of The Wall Street Journal almost every day, and Li Yanhong has an impulse in his heart to go to Silicon Valley.

Li Yanhong has always wanted to "do what everyone needs", and he was excited to join Infoseek. Seeing that millions of people are using their own designs every day, he has unspeakable satisfaction in his heart.

Li Yanhong's residence is close to Netscape. Netscape was the "red man" of Wall Street at that time, and developed a browser software called "Navigator". Even Microsoft is afraid of three points, being chased by investors and praised by the media. That's what everyone thinks of as a "rich man crash machine."

After dinner, Li Yanhong often went for a walk near Netscape Company, and watched office buildings rise. The dusty construction site became a beautiful Netscape Industrial Park a few months later, which made him sigh the magic of the new economy again and again. There are many China engineers in Silicon Valley. Li Yanhong often attends everyone's party, and everyone gets together. Which company went public, the stock price rose sharply. So-and-so made money through options, and the villa was bought in the mountains.

Every conversation is an excitement.

Li Yanhong likes Infoseek's development environment very much. Everyone respects each other and the atmosphere is relaxed. Few people doubt the technical ability of this engineer from China. Some people commented on his contribution to Infoseek-William Zhang created the first generation of Infoseek, and Li Yanhong created the second generation of Infoseek.

When Li Yanhong joined Infoseek, the company was both brilliant and painful. Like most internet companies, the outside looks like a fire, a god, and the people inside think it is a piece of ice and a pit. The pressure exerted by investors on each company-large market share, healthy cash flow and strong profitability-really answers the old saying that "two horses must run, and the horse will not eat grass". Infoseek and excite play the fiercest. Johnson, the former president of Infoseek, tried to drag down his opponent by tightening spending. As a result, excite was not dragged down, but was "dragged down". Johnson was replaced by Harry Ma Chao, 36.

Ma Chao lived up to his mission. By the end of 1997, Infoseek's revenue in the fourth quarter reached12.5 million USD, up by 105% year-on-year, with a loss of 0. 15 USD per share, which was 0.05 USD less than expected by Wall Street. This is the most beautiful quarter since Infoseek went public.

In April, 1998, and Zhang attended the world internet conference in Brisbane. At this meeting, he met two young founders of Google. In Li Yanhong's impression, these two guys are both in their twenties and look fearless.

Another big event happened this month: Disney announced the purchase of 40% shares in InfoSeek. The joining of Disney excited Wall Street, but for Infoseek technicians, it was a long way from heaven to hell. Disney's style is typical of "sitting in a row", and the promotion of employees mainly depends on their qualifications. For young people who are used to the free wind in Silicon Valley, it is like closing a window facing the sea or grassland. Li Yanhong felt that his good days in Infoseek were coming to an end, even though he already owned more than 500,000 US dollars of Infoseek shares.

199 10 in China, the government invited a group of overseas students to return to China to attend the National Day Ceremony, and Li Yanhong was fortunate to be one of the invited students. This trip to China fundamentally strengthened his determination to return to China to start a business. 198 In the summer, Li Yanhong gave a technical lecture in Tsinghua at the invitation of Tsinghua University, and a group of Sohu employees also attended his lecture. After class, these Sohu employees encouraged him: "You have such good skills, why don't you go back to China and start your own business?" We Sohu buy your technology! " .

Li Yanhong, who returned to the United States from the "National Day Ceremony", has no intention of continuing to work at Infoseek. He thought of his good friend Xu Yong. Xu Yong met Li Yanhong when he just wandered from the East to Silicon Valley. At that time, Xu Yong worked as a salesman in a pharmaceutical company. Later, Xu Yong and a group of China people in Silicon Valley saved the documentary "Into Silicon Valley", which was also broadcast on Beijing TV and other mainland TV stations. One day in June, 1 1, Xu Yong invited Li Yanhong to Stanford University to attend the premiere of Walking into Silicon Valley. Li Yanhong and Xu Yong made an appointment to talk about the great event of returning to China to start a business together the next day.

Legend of Baidu (IV)-Gold Rush Day in America

Our reporters Li Hesheng and Andy report from Beijing.

The afternoon after the premiere of "Into Silicon Valley", Xu Yong came to Li Yanhong's house to talk about "big things" as promised. Li Yanhong came up with a "confidentiality agreement". Xu Yong was a little surprised, but immediately recovered his composure-after staying in Silicon Valley for two and a half years, Li Yanhong was used to the American way of talking.

Xu Yong signed a confidentiality agreement. Li Yanhong said: "Let's go back to China to be an Internet company."

finance

Xu Yong is also the high flyers of Peking University. Of course, at this time, he was a postdoctoral student in biology in the United States.

At dinner, the two discussed their respective share ratios, division of responsibilities, development plans and so on in the future company. For these two "dreamers" in Silicon Valley, the agitation of starting a business and yearning for the future are like a volcano that suddenly erupts, which excites them for a while.

165438+ In the morning of October in Silicon Valley, the autumn sun is like spring. After a night of conversation, their wonderful new company plan has "everything is ready, only the investment is needed".

Their financing target is100000 USD. There are many investors in Silicon Valley. It is said that when a leaf falls, it always hits three VCS. However, the wind has changed this time. The taste of venture capital is no longer a portal, but e-commerce, in which B2B is the most popular business model.

Unexpectedly, in this case, three VCS are willing to invest in their technology companies. These companies value three concepts of their new company: China, technology and team. Xu Yong found a reason to reject a VC that he didn't like very much. In his words, the other two were "too enthusiastic to refuse". Of course, these venture capitalists don't spend much money. Before signing the contract that day, a VC secretly called William Zhang of Infoseek outside the room and asked, "Is this Robin Li Zhen very good?" . Robin is the English name of Li Yanhong. William Zhang told him, "As far as engine technology is concerned, Robin can rank among the top three in the world." Two venture capitalists are more at ease, and some even want to vote alone. Xu Yong and Li Yanhong think it is best to invest together, with a family of $600,000.

After signing the investment agreement, Eng Hian returned to China, and Li Yanhong stayed in Silicon Valley for some time, visiting old friends and spending time with his wife Ma Dongmin. Without the help of his wife, his book Commercial Wars in Silicon Valley, published by Tsinghua University Publishing House, could not have been completed, and he would not have returned to China to start a business today.

1999 On Christmas Day, Li Yanhong boarded a plane to fly to the motherland. This is another important choice in his life.

On this day eight years ago, he left Peking University and his hometown of Yangquan to go to the United States for "gilding".

study abroad

Li Yanhong majored in library and information science in Peking University (No.1 in Information Management Department of Peking University), but he likes computers. Like many international students from Peking University, he applied to more than ten universities in the United States and was finally admitted to the University of Buffalo in new york.

Buffalo has beautiful scenery. When Li Yanhong first set foot on this land, it was covered with ice and snow. The computer department of this university ranks in the top 20 in the United States. Originally, Li Yanhong went to Stanford and Berkeley, California, but in those years, IT in the United States was too hot. Computer education in China was basically a "baby" in the eyes of these schools, and Chinese mainland students were not recruited at all. Buffalo does not intend to recruit mainland students, just because the school has hired two professors from Chinese mainland. At the request of professors, the school made an exception and recruited several students from Chinese mainland.

Influenced by Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, the University of Buffalo near Niagara Falls snows for six months in a year. When he first came, Li Yanhong attended classes during the day, tutored English and wrote programs at night, and was often busy at school until two in the morning. Li Yanhong's diligence is actually a true portrayal of many China students who have just arrived in the United States-cramming, attending classes and working.

Li Yanhong couldn't stand the freezing cold in Bufano at night, so he took out $ 1 000 from his study abroad expenses and bought a second-hand Toyota car. The campus parking lot will be emptied at 2 am at the earliest, which is the latest time for Li Yanhong to stay at school. The snow is deep and the ice is thick. Every time you start a car, you can't start it without 10 minutes of preheating and cleaning time.

Li Yanhong moved three times while studying in Buffalo. He shared a room with a couple for the first time in China. They don't get along well because the couple often lie about their monthly telephone bill. For example, there is no monthly fee for local calls. The couple thought he didn't know, so they had to let him share the monthly fee. The second time, the environment was good, but the landlord's cat made him allergic. The third time, I shared a room with an international student from Hong Kong. The two sides hit it off and were close to the school. I am very satisfied. During this period, his oral English and professional English have made great progress, unlike at the beginning, many professional courses were difficult to understand. He spent the most difficult time studying in the United States-the "running-in period" that international students often say.

International students who have passed the "running-in period" will always be a little fidgety. For example, taking a part-time job outside the school, participating in the organization of alumni associations and hometown associations, in short, "not idle."

1April 1993, Li Yanhong had the idea of "going out to have a rest". May-August is the summer vacation of school, so there is no point in staying at school. He decided to "work".

Li Yanhong read many job advertisements on the Internet, and if he thought it was appropriate, he submitted a resume. Once again, he was pleasantly surprised that a company called Panasonic was willing to accept his internship.

change

The internship at Panasonic Company changed Li Yanhong's life.

The news that Li Yanhong will go to a company for internship soon spread among international students in China-the company offered Li Yanhong an internship fee of $25 per hour. Under the same conditions, this company offers a high salary, which is almost unheard of among international students. Interestingly, when his roommate in Hong Kong asked him, "Which company did you go to?" At that time, he replied shyly, "A small company called Panasonic has a strange name." The roommate was shocked after hearing this. "This is still a small company, a famous Panasonic in Japan." . It turns out that Panasonic is a literal translation of Japanese Panasonic. No wonder it's so embarrassing. 1May, 993, Li Yanhong officially worked as an intern in Panasonic Institute of Information Technology. This is the first time in his life that he has taken up his post and earned money to eat by himself. Princeton is a quiet and beautiful town. The famous Princeton University once trained Einstein and other great scientists. At the same time, it is also the research base of industry, especially IT.

Panasonic's working environment is very comfortable, and you can see the indoor garden in the hall as soon as you enter the door. After work, Li Yanhong often sits in the garden and reads newspapers. The Wall Street Journal is his favorite newspaper.

Li Yanhong is engaged in the research of optical character recognition. During his internship, he put forward an algorithm to improve the recognition efficiency, which was highly valued by Panasonic, so that when he had to return to school after his summer internship, Panasonic broke the routine and continued to hire him to work part-time at school, and encouraged him to write and publish this research result. When Li Yanhong later read this research achievement at an international academic conference, he was praised by a "Taishan Beidou" in the international OCR academic community. Under his recommendation, this achievement was successfully published in the international authoritative academic journal Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence.

It is only a matter of time before the tutor decides that he has a doctorate. Moreover, if there are no special accidents, Panasonic will definitely hire him with a high salary after his doctoral graduation. Li yanhong's road to the United States seems to be smooth sailing.

Baidu Legend (5) Yangquan Kid

1994 before the summer vacation, Li yanhong suddenly received a letter of appointment from a small company on wall street, inviting him to be a "senior consultant" with the nature of "engineer". Li Yanhong hesitated. He has made a "good start" in the academic field. The next logical step is the golden road of "doctor-professor-authority", and this road of life is his ideal when he left his hometown of Yangquan.

Being an engineer or a scientist, Li Yanhong once again faces an important choice in life.

Yangquan xiaozi

Our reporters Li Hesheng and Andy report from Beijing.

1994 before the summer vacation, Li yanhong suddenly received a letter of appointment from a small company on wall street, inviting him to be a "senior consultant" with the nature of "engineer". Li Yanhong hesitated. He made a "good start" in the academic field, and then it will naturally be the golden road of "doctor-professor-authority", and this ideal is exactly what he held when he came out of his hometown of Yangquan.

Being an engineer or a scientist, Li Yanhong once again faces the choice of life.

select

When Li Yanhong was studying in the United States, it was the time when Clinton and Gore advocated the information superhighway. With Internet technology as the forerunner, the American economy is bullish in the world, a large number of companies go public to make money, and the flow of talents in each company is extremely active.

At this time, there is a general trend among students studying in the United States. As long as there is a job, most students who are studying for a doctorate will leave with a master's degree. Li yanhong really wants to get a doctorate before going to work, but the people in the company are very enthusiastic about him and the boss appreciates his research. And their academic talk is very speculative, which makes them feel that they have known each other for a long time.

Li Yanhong finally decided to give up his doctoral studies and become a "senior consultant" of this company.

Li Yanhong's dream of becoming a scientist was shattered.

There are many important choices in life, and every choice is a turning point in life. I want to think about it carefully every time, and I can't control myself every time.

From Yangquan to Peking University, from Peking University to Bufano University in new york, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, every step of Li Yanhong seems so natural and difficult.

childhood

Like their generation, Li Yanhong did not go to kindergarten, and the enlightenment education was basically taught by his two sisters. Li Yanhong has five sisters, three sisters and one sister. There is a small yard and a small blackboard in front of Li Yanhong's house, which is where his third sister often gives them lessons. At that time, Li Yanhong's favorite subject was mathematics.

When Li Yanhong was 8 years old, he was sent to Yangquan No.1 Primary School. Two months later, Li Yanhong moved to the children's school of Jin Dong Chemical Plant with his family. There, the teachers thought this was a child of a key primary school, and soon they became the vice monitor. At that time, Li Yanhong's attitude towards the teacher was: whoever praised him, he would listen to him; If someone criticizes him a few words, Li Yanhong will be naughty in class.

Most primary school teachers think that Li Yanhong is not a learning material, and Li Yanhong does not think that he is a special material. In the fifth grade of primary school, Li Yanhong handed a note to a female classmate in the class to express "love" and was sued by the girl to the class teacher. The head teacher informed Li Yanhong's parents that both teachers and parents came to hold a "criticism meeting", which made him lose face and was also considered as a "peach storm".

Li Yanhong first knew what stress was when he was in the third grade of junior high school. Because Li Yanhong wants to go to college, he wants to go to Yangquan No.1 Middle School to attend high school. 80% of high school students in that middle school can go to college, which is a famous "big college entrance examination" in Shanxi.

Few people think that Li Yanhong from his junior high school can be admitted to Yangquan No.1 Middle School, and his two sisters are more worried about him. Li Yanhong doesn't think so. He once recalled his first choice in life and said, "When I was a child, I had a strong indomitable attitude. The more things I don't like, the more I want to do it. " Perhaps this is the psychology. /ca & gt；