"Mr. Sun, I'm generally satisfied with you. Do you have any questions about the company?" Chen Yuanguang, dressed in formal attire and looking somewhat youthful, asked from one end of the conference room.
Before arriving, Sun Renjie had been anxious, full of fantasies and expectations for the future. But the moment he arrived, he suddenly calmed down.
While waiting, he had looked around. The entire office area was bare, with nothing but workstations. There were only two interviewers, a man and a woman. The man looked familiar—he was indeed Chen Yuanguang, who had dominated Weibo's trending list for more than a week. Since Chen Yuanguang's research field overlapped heavily with his own work, Sun Renjie knew that face well.
The other interviewer was a young woman in a black suit whose gentle temperament was rare for someone her age, which gave Sun Renjie some ideas.
During the interview just now, however, the sharpness of the woman's questions shattered his assumptions. She clearly was no decorative figure. Chen Yuanguang's question immediately made him pull himself together.
"Mr. Chen, since we'll need to work together for the long term, I'd like to hear about the company's development plans. What will the main business be? Which part of the CXO chain will it focus on? Or are you planning to develop new drugs yourselves?"
CXO referred to pharmaceutical outsourcing, which was mainly divided into three stages: CRO, CMO, and CSO, meaning pharmaceutical research and development, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and pharmaceutical sales respectively. WuXi AppTec handled pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing within pharmaceutical outsourcing—that was, CRO and CMO.
Chen Yuanguang was candid. "Since you came to interview with us, I assume you know something about my research field. We'll try to partner with pharmaceutical companies and take on some vaccine-related R&D outsourcing to maintain our cash