This week's microblogging round-up continues a recent trend that's seen China's high-tech executives keep relatively quiet in cyberspace as they wrap up various year-end business and prepare for the long holiday period between western and Chinese new years. During this busy period there's less time for chatter, and executives often take to the road for one last trip before a needed year-end rest.
Two of China's most recognized tech chiefs, Lenovo (
0992.HK) CEO Yang Yuanqing and TCL (Shenzhen: 000100) Chairman Li Dongsheng, both detailed year-end road trips on their microblogs this past week, providing some insight to the daily routines that these executives go through during the course of the year.
Meantime, an executive from talkative smartphone sensation Xiaomi also commented on his company's latest investment in US wearable devices maker Misfit Wearables. That provided a bit of insight on Xiaomi's own decision to co-invest along with Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com (Nasdaq: JD) in this US tech start-up that's trying to carve out a niche in the up-and-coming market for wearable high-tech devices.
Let's begin this week's round-up of high-tech chatter with Lenovo chief Yang Yuanqing, who has been quite talkative since launching his microblogging account on the Twitter-like Weibo (Nasdaq: WB) service
last month. Yang gave a detailed account of his year-end road trip over the past week, which included stops at the company's US headquarters in the state of North Carolina and then across the Atlantic for European stops in Norway and Denmark.
On the US leg of his tour, Yang took time to meet with a reporter from US financial magazine Barron's. The interview wasn't too ground breaking, but did provide some insight about Yang's personality. Highlights included Yang's admission that he has been fond of cooking since he was a boy; he wasn't afraid to start learning English at a late age; and his acknowledgement that others
think he's a workaholic.
From the US, Yang traveled to Norway where his agenda comprised a whirlwind tour of six visits in just nine hours
in the chilly country. But Yang was most talkative during his next stop in Denmark, and his series of microblog posts reveal a particular fascination with that country's fabled children's author Hans Christan Andersen. Yang commented on the uniqueness of a night tour of Copenhagen, including a stop at a tavern where he got to sit in the same seat favored by Andersen
many years ago.
