Zuckerberg THE CONQUEST OF CHINA: TALK TO STUDENTS IN MANDARIN

Thirty minutes in Mandarin. And Mark Zuckerberg has left everyone speechless. The founder and CEO of Facebook has presented at the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing, also known as the MIT of China, sporting a tangerine that has allowed him to establish a direct relationship and conquer the audience of students and not just flocked to hear him.

Natural consequence: the video of the “Chinese Zuckerberg” has become viral on the web in a matter of hours. With the surprise move by Zuckerberg, a real charm offensive, which confirmed all the interest of Facebook for the Chinese market (where the social-network is banned since 2009), with its one billion potential customers. ” Da Jia Hao ‘,’ good morning, everyone, were the first words of Zuckerberg entering the stage of Tsinghua University.
Those who expected that they were the only words in Mandarin for Zuckerberg, he was surprised: the CEO of Facebook has in fact then spoke in Mandarin for the entire meeting. During which Zuckerberg among others confessed to having started studying Mandarin because the family of his wife, Priscilla Chan, speaks Chinese. ” China is a big country. Study the language helps me to understand the culture. And then I like challenges ‘,’ said Zuckerberg. Challenges among which there is also the development of Facebook in China, certainly facilitated by the performance target in mandarin.

Facebook is not the only actor of the Web to look with increasing interest at Dragone: in the queue is the entire Silicon Valley, ready to seize the opportunities offered by the imposing Chinese market and its new rich. A trend confirmed by a visit to the East of the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, to discuss the node security after the recent hacker attacks and especially to emphasize once again the importance of that market, the second in the world in the company of “Apple” after the United States.