After nearly a year of development in Zhou Yiren's Reform Research Laboratory, especially after it made several truly influential and epoch-making opinions and was formed into decisions by high-level officials, its work attributes have been extended from specializing in domestic research to international ones.
Therefore, Zhou Yiren should be able to handle the formalities for ships entering the mainland. Of course, when you talk about it, you can't say that you want to do business. You should talk about this matter as a major event that benefits the country and the people and accelerates reform and opening up.
Although there will be some private goods of his own involved in this, the expansion of maritime trade can indeed accelerate China's economic development. This is also the trend of the times. Yang Dongxu just fanned the butterfly wings to make it a little ahead of schedule.
"I'll also find someone here to help." Dongzi glanced at Yang Dongxu and said.
The only reason he was attracted by Yang Dongxu and to cooperate with him in opening Xiushui Clothing Company was because he was able to run the railway transportation. If shipping is opened, his bargaining chip will be much smaller.
"In this case, it won't be long before we see a shipment of goods." Yang Dongxu naturally knew why Dongzi was suddenly so active, and he didn't tell him.
Although Hao Yifan hasn't gone back yet after the matter has been decided, the matter can already be put into operation. The shipping company is located in Hong Kong and will not run away. So after smoothing the relationship first, Hao Yifan can go through the formalities directly without any delay when he returns.
"Say hello to me before you leave. I have something for you to bring." Yang Dongxu called Wu Aibing in, carried the tape recorder and left the room with a box of tapes.
The first thing I did when I returned to the courtyard was not to listen to all the tapes to see which songs in my notebook needed to be crossed out, but to call out to Wu Aibing who wanted to leave.
"You go and apply for a business license, and we will open a store to sell these things in a while." Yang Dongxu pointed to the recorder and tapes and said.
"How much does this cost?" Wu Aibing found it quite strange as he watched Yang Dongxu plug in the tape recorder and start playing songs.
"A tape recorder is 150 yuan, and a tape is 3 yuan a tape. Buy a tape recorder and get two tapes for free." Yang Dongxu thought about it in his mind and gave the retail price. As for the 110 mentioned in the box just now, it is pure deception.
"Is this too expensive?" Wu Aibing looked stunned.
Although due to the increasing circulation of banknotes, except for some scarce commodities, food stamps and the like have become more and more limited, so prices have increased a lot in the past six months, but the retail price of 150 is definitely a sky-high price. This is almost a price for a two-income family. A year's worth of money.
"This thing can only be sold at a higher price now. The purchase price is only 80, which is not low, right? Let's sell it for a few months and see, and then increase or decrease the price appropriately according to the market situation."
"Is it still going up?" Although Wu Aibing is not a money-hungry owner now, he still feels that this thing is too expensive.
"Where are you? In a few days, I'll ask Hao Yifan if he can get a tape recorder with a big speaker. The price of that thing starts at least 500." Yang Dongxu suddenly thought that when he reached the age of marriage, the man needed to buy something. of some home appliances.
One of them stood up about half a meter and had a tape recorder with two large speakers next to it. It was definitely on the same level as a TV. I just don’t know if this thing is produced in Hong Kong now.
If it is produced and shipped back, the guy who wants to open a disco will have the most important thing. Of course, in such a disco, you can only turn up the recorder volume to the maximum and dance. As for singing, it will take some time.
"Does anyone buy this?" Wu Aibing finally said what he wanted to say most.
"You won't know until you sell it whether someone buys it or not. You will be responsible for this from now on."
"Ah?" Wu Aibing was dumbfounded.
In fact, when he needed a tape recorder, Yang Dongxu had the idea of opening a store selling electrical appliances, and the person who did this decided on Wu Aibing.
There is no need to run to buy goods, just to get goods and distribute them. Wu Aibing is not that fond of Dongzi at Xiushui Clothing. So before the conflict breaks out, it is better to let Wu Aibing do other things. This shop is for him to practice, and Yang Dongxu has other plans in the future.
In the next few days, Yang Dongxu had another task of listening to songs. Among them, he heard many songs that he had heard, but most of these songs were sung by Zheng Lijun.
There's no way she's a goddess for generations. As long as people listen to music, those who haven't heard her sing are rarer than aliens. After listening to it twice and making sure that he had not missed anything, Yang Dongxu tore off a few pieces of paper from the book and burned them. These pieces of music had completed their mission.
"Stop messing with those useless things, come and take a look at this." Zhou Yiren, who came back from get off work, shouted energetically as he saw Yang Dongxu washing and painting with the drawing board.
"Here we come." Yang Dongxu threw away his paintbrush and ran over. He had no choice but to ask for help and had to have a better attitude, right?
He took a few pieces of paper from Zhou Yiren and caught his eye with the eye-catching title - "On the Development of Modern China's Economic Transportation Industry and the Prospects of Ship Transportation".
The manuscript was handwritten, and even the Reform Research Laboratory did not have a printer. Therefore, some articles can only be written by hand. Zhou Yiren's calligraphy is very beautiful, especially the calligraphy and pen calligraphy. Yang Dongxu has collected a lot of them, not to sell them for money later, but because he really likes them.
The content of the article focused on the importance of transportation to economic development. Yang Dongxu only mentioned ships two days ago. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yiren also included roads and railways.
To be honest, for China, which does not have much share of foreign trade, there is no problem in putting road and railway development ahead of ship transportation. However, from a long-term perspective, ship transportation will definitely be the main transportation carrier for foreign trade in the future.
The article had a lot of words, and it took Yang Dongxu more than an hour to read it, mainly because there were many small topics in it that made his eyes light up, so it took a bit long.
"The construction of roads and railways must indeed be accelerated, so that the whole of China can be better connected as a whole, and different regions and regions can better communicate with each other. However, if China wants to trade with foreign countries, ship transportation must increase its stakes."
"Can foreign trade really start now?" Zhou Yiren was a little unsure.
This is also a common thought among modern Chinese people. When it comes to foreign countries, they are all kinds of advanced, as if they lack nothing. Will they want such backward products or things like ours?
This idea cannot be said to be wrong, because even in terms of heavy industry in later generations, except for high-speed rail, there are still some gaps between China's manufacturing and some heavy industry countries in the world.
But such a thing is not absolute. For example, in a few years, China's light industry will definitely have a huge market in Russia, and the current Soviet Union will definitely have a huge market.
"Heavy industry and light industry are not available at the moment, but raw materials are definitely available. For example, for the small country RB, they lack too many mineral resources. We can't sell the products, but raw materials can be used, right?"
"This..." Zhou Yiren seemed to open a door in an instant, and his whole mind made an indescribable leap.
"Don't always feel that we are useless if foreign countries are developed. Anyway, I feel that there is no problem in starting foreign trade with RB. The richest products in East Asia are our country and the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union is very powerful now. It cannot sell out all the valuable things it exports. Although raw materials are also exported, the prices are very high. So we can trade the price slightly with RB.
Compared to getting high-priced raw materials from the Soviet Union, or transporting them to RB from other further places, our country is undoubtedly their best choice.
Also, don’t think about storing a lot of foreign exchange. After the country develops, there will be more of it than can be used up. So we use these things to exchange for technology. That is the valuable thing. With the technology back, we can produce some products ourselves without any need. I don’t know how much money I can save in foreign exchange costs by importing. "
Thinking about China's foreign exchange reserves and its holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds before its rebirth, Yang Dongxu couldn't help but ache. The more the better, it is not necessary. Nowadays, foreign exchange is not necessarily required to buy things. The oldest trading model of barter is also acceptable.
"You don't think you need to reserve foreign exchange?" Zhou Yiren looked directly at Yang Dongxu.
Foreign exchange reserves are a major event that is now on the agenda, and many leaders have begun to emphasize it during meetings. So when Yang Dongxu suddenly heard different opinions, Zhou Yiren felt that he had grasped something for a moment.
"It's not that we don't need to reserve, but we can't reserve blindly. If there are too many things, it will be of no use, but will become a burden. Yes, it is very convenient for us to buy things and technology with foreign exchange.
But again, why should we use foreign exchange to buy it? For example, RB wants coal mines, iron ore, etc., but we want the technology to manufacture cars in the United States.
There is no need to sell minerals for foreign exchange and then use the foreign exchange to buy technology from Americans. We can make requests directly to RB. We don’t need money for this transaction. If you give me the technology to make cars in the United States and buy minerals, I can give you more than the original price.
Our country does not have foreign exchange, but RB does. Moreover, it is easier for him to buy technology from the United States. If we exchange minerals directly with him, we can not only save our own foreign exchange costs, but also reduce links. More importantly, we can save money, right? "
"RB would be so stupid, would they agree?" Zhou Yiren felt that a new window was about to open, but he always felt that it was a little bit awkward, and his heart felt like a cat scratching his head.
"Why don't you agree? What is a capitalist country? A capitalist country is a money society, okay? If they have money to make, why don't they make it? RB people are not stupid.
Take the car technology just now. It is not only easier to buy RB from the United States, but it is also cheaper. Then when it sells it to us, it must not be more expensive than what it sells in the United States. Otherwise, why would we buy his product if we buy it in the United States?
But even if it is cheaper than the Americans, he will definitely make money, otherwise he will not resell it to us. Plus, if we promise more minerals, will he not do something that makes money on both ends?
You don’t even need to promise more minerals. Ask RB how much it costs to buy those non-sensitive technologies from the United States. If we add more money to buy them from him, will they not do it? For the same reason just now, they definitely won’t sell it more expensively than the United States, right? "
