陈剑Jason|May 15, 2026 01:33
The most eye-catching person sitting in the middle of Musk and Cook at this US China dinner is Zhou Qunfei, the founder of BlueThink Technology. From a rural working girl to the richest woman in China, she has no background and started from scratch. She was born in a small village in Hunan. At the age of 5, her mother passed away, and her father became blind due to a work-related injury. Her family was in dire straits, and at the age of 16, she couldn't afford tuition fees and had to drop out of school to work in Guangdong. She worked on a factory assembly line polishing glass, working during the day and self-study crazily at night. She obtained skills certificates such as accounting and computer operation certificates. After a few years, she took the 20000 yuan she had saved from working and opened a small workshop in Shenzhen with eight relatives including her brother, sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law. She worked alone in repairing machines and selling watches, and then worked for another four years.
After the year 2000, the mobile phone industry began to develop on a large scale. By chance, her watch glass factory received an order for TCL mobile phone screens. She saw the huge potential of the mobile phone glass market and quickly established Lansi Technology, which was responsible for the production, research and development, and sales of mobile phone glass. At first, it only produced domestic and knockoff phones, but when she wanted to negotiate an order with Motorola, the quality requirements of foreign companies were very strict. She bet almost all of her resources to cooperate with Motorola and won the V3 order with global sales of over 100 million units, directly pushing Lansi Technology to the leading position in the industry. Later, she successfully won over foreign companies such as Nokia and Samsung.
The key turning point once again occurred in 2007, when Steve Jobs released the first generation iPhone, completely transforming the phone towards a full glass touch screen. Jobs' abnormal process requirements were unmatched by manufacturers worldwide. Zhou Qunfei keenly realized that this was another huge opportunity, so he led his team and Apple engineers to jointly tackle the problem for three months, breaking through the key process and successfully mass producing the first generation iPhone glass panel. From then on, he won a long-term contract with Apple, and almost all Apple devices such as iPad and MacBook were handed over to BlueThink Technology, which also helped BlueThink Technology become the largest company in the region in the field of touch glass panels.
That's also why she can sit next to Cook, so why is Musk sitting next to her?
After becoming the world's number one in glass panel manufacturing, Lansi Technology began to develop more diversified intelligent devices, including car cabins and robots. In the automotive field, including car windows, central control, etc., it has won over 30 car companies such as Tesla, BMW, Mercedes Benz, and Ideal. In the robotics field, it is mainly responsible for components such as joints and sensors, which have a deep overlap with Musk's business.
A 15-year-old girl who dropped out of school with only a junior high school diploma, started from scratch in rural Hunan and became the richest woman in China. 40 years later, she entered the China US talks and sat between Musk and Kuhe. This is the story of Zhou Qunfei.
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