If after the re-opening, such as in 1980, if Chen Zhiwen, Li Jiacheng, Hu Yingxiang, Fok Yingtung and dozens of Hong Kong rich people came to Yanjing, then there would definitely be people of high rank coming to pick him up, and the subsequent arrangements would also be She is very stable and classy, and even CCTV, People's Daily and other media will follow her and interview her all the way.
But now, there is no more. When a group of them come to the mainland, they should do it in secret. It is true that no one in Hong Kong knows about it, but as long as they don't say it out, everyone will remain silent.
However, although there was nothing on the surface, there was still a lot behind the scenes. Many plainclothes people were waiting at the airport early. The person who came to pick him up was also Deputy Director Zhang of the General Administration of Foreign Economic Relations.
The General Administration of Foreign Economic Relations, the State Planning Commission and the State Economic and Trade Commission are the three equally famous departments responsible for the national economy in China. In 2003, these three departments were merged into the Ministry of Commerce.
Everyone got on the bus again, but this one was not as luxurious as the one in eastern Guangdong Province, but the roads in Yanjing were obviously much better. The bus quickly left the airport and headed towards the city of Yanjing.
Through the window, Chen Zhiwen looked at everything along the way, and the memories of the times appeared in his memories.
In his previous life, he grew up in the 1990s. Although it is now more than ten years later, the small city at that time and Yanjing now are almost the same in terms of visual sense.
Countless pedestrians and bicycles are driving on the road. The most common means of transportation is buses. Occasionally, you can see some trucks and cars. However, as you get to the city, there are more cars and buses. .
Chen Zhiwen looked carefully and found that all the cars were basically domestic brands, and occasionally he could see a Toyota or Chevrolet.
Soon, the car arrived at Yanjing Hotel.
Deputy Director Zhang said: "Everyone, please rest in the hotel for a while. We will have a welcome banquet in the evening. Please be sure to come."
He spoke Mandarin, which not everyone present could understand, but there were always people around him who could, so there was no need to find a translator.
"Okay." Many people agreed.
As the capital of Yanjing, there are naturally many international friends coming here. Therefore, hotels accustomed to the West have long been available. Yanjing Hotel is one of them. It has showers, toilets, air conditioners, and TVs. It is as luxurious as a five-star hotel in Hong Kong. Class hotels vary a lot.
Chen Zhiwen has lived a very luxurious life in the past few years, but he has gotten used to this configuration. There are a few Hong Kong businessmen who look a little uncomfortable. It is estimated that this is the first time that Bao Yugang came to Yanjing three years later. This is the reason why we donated 10 million US dollars to build a five-star hotel here.
There was only Yanjing TV station among the TV stations, and it only talked about some local news or some domestic TV series. After watching it for nearly an hour, Chen Zhiwen realized that there was not a single advertisement on it.
After a while, it started to get dark. The latitude of Yanjing City is much higher. At this time, summer is turning to winter, and it gets dark earlier, but it is not very cold. In addition, the climate here is also dry, not as cold as in the Jiangnan area. Magic attack.
In the evening, Director Lin from the General Administration of Foreign Economic Relations came in person and had a cordial dinner with all the Hong Kong businessmen at the Yanjing Hotel. Naturally, they also talked a lot in Mandarin. However, because there is currently no policy requiring foreign investment, so There was no investment talk, but I just said that you can see more in Yanjing.
After dinner, when everyone was about to go back to their rooms to rest, President Liang suddenly grabbed Chen Zhiwen and said, "Sheng Chen, Director Lin wants to talk to you alone."
"Okay." Chen Zhiwen nodded and agreed.
After a while, Chen Zhiwen came to a place similar to a conference room. Director Lin quickly stood up and said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, please sit down."
"Director Lin is very polite, thank you." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile. The General Administration of Foreign Economic Relations is one of the components of the Ministry of Commerce in later generations. Director Lin in front of him will be at least equivalent to the deputy minister level in 50 years. Moreover, the Ministry of Commerce itself is one of the most important departments in the mainland.
"Mr. Chen's Mandarin is really good. If we just met by chance on the street, I would never believe that you are a Hong Konger." Director Lin said with a smile: "It is said that in Hong Kong, you can speak Mandarin so well. There are not many people there, most of them are elderly people who used to live in the mainland and later went to Hong Kong. Among young people, they are probably very rare."
"It's rare. I've basically never encountered him. Chen Sheng can be said to be the first young man to speak Mandarin so well." President Liang on the side also added.
"My father came to Hong Kong from the mainland and taught me Mandarin when I was a child." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.
This is not a lie. When he was young, Chen Tianfu did teach Chen Zhiwen Mandarin, but he forgot about it after learning it. Later, Chen Tianfu got busy and didn't care. After all, learning Mandarin itself is not too important. matter.
In the years after time travel, he had been active in Hong Kong and had never used Mandarin. Later, Chen Tianfu accidentally learned that Chen Zhiwen's Mandarin was very good and was very curious. However, Chen Zhiwen dealt with it by saying that he had been learning Mandarin in the past two years. In terms of time, It makes sense.
"But in an environment where everyone around me speaks Cantonese, it takes a lot of perseverance to learn to be so fluent." President Liang said with a smile: "I was preparing to go to Hong Kong to station, and I also learned Cantonese. It is not difficult to learn, but speaking it fluently , but it will take a lot of energy.”
"Thank you. As a Chinese, it is the most normal thing to learn Mandarin." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile. Hong Kong's Cantonese culture is actually one of the major reasons why it will be difficult to integrate into the mainland's economic system in the future.
Director Lin smiled and said, "That's good."
"I wonder why Director Lin invited me here?" Chen Zhiwen asked.
Director Lin said: "Actually, it's not a big deal. Mr. Chen, you are currently the most successful entrepreneur in Hong Kong. Several of your products are also exported overseas. I just want to ask how our mainland's industrial products should be." Open up overseas sales?”
"This question is too general. Can Director Lin give some practical examples?" Chen Zhiwen said. He could probably guess the purpose of inviting himself. After all, it has not been officially changed yet. It is impossible for him to invest by himself. Then he must Just discuss some issues.
"Take clothes, for example. I heard that Mr. Chen negotiated some potential cooperation agreements with the No. 1 Textile Factory in Yuezhou City in Guangdong Province. I am very grateful to Mr. Chen for his support of the domestic and foreign trade industry, but what I want to know more is how to Only then can we export a large amount of our textile products overseas?" Director Lin asked.
"There are actually many issues involved. When I was in Guangdong, I actually told the local factory director Pan that the textile industry is actually very technical, and it takes a lot of energy to do it well. "Chen Zhiwen said: "Let's talk about a sock. How to ensure that it can absorb sweat, ensure breathability, and ensure that people wear it comfortably. This is very important. Socks of the same size are cheap in American supermarkets for one dollar, a dozen pairs, but expensive. One or two dollars a pair. As far as the socks industry is concerned, most of the profits are in the latter. Cheap socks are basically used to support employees and make no money.
The same is true for clothes. People in European and American countries basically choose clothes not for survival reasons. They will consider comfort, lightweight, brand and appearance. If they want to do well, they must grasp these. "
"R&D can be done domestically, but everyone has different opinions on appearance. We don't know much about the preferences of Europeans and Americans, let alone the brand." Director Lin said with some embarrassment.
"In fact, Secretary Lam can refer to the development process of Hong Kong's textile industry in the 1950s. At that time, it was basically OEM for European and American brands. It was through these that the economy was slowly developed. Moreover, the mainland also has an advantage. That is, you can produce chemical fiber and cotton yourself, and labor is much cheaper, which is a big advantage." Chen Zhiwen said.
“We have also considered this, but the international environment in the 1950s was very different from today, and Hong Kong is also different from the mainland. Not to mention other things, there are very few people who can speak English, and communication is difficult, so everything is difficult. Director Lin said helplessly.
"English is indeed very important. If the country wants to fully export, talents in this field are absolutely indispensable. However, it is indeed difficult to solve this problem in a short time." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said: "But it is not impossible. Hong Kong There are many experienced foreign trade personnel there, and many are engaged in the textile industry. It may be feasible to set up a company to recommend domestic textiles to overseas customers, or to comply with the requirements of overseas customers and customize related products domestically. .”
President Liang's eyes lit up and he asked: "Sheng Chen, can you set up such a company? You also know that this kind of company requires not only funds, but also certain social resources. You are the most suitable one."
In fact, in the past two years, things have developed beyond their imagination. As early as 1973, the central government spent US$4.3 billion to purchase dozens of large-scale production lines from Western countries, including petrochemicals, steel, fertilizers and chemical fibers.
Oil and steel are naturally domestic needs and basic domestic logistics needs. No industry can do without them. Although the mainland is an oil exporter, its smelting technology is not good. There is no shortage of steel in the country, but high-quality steel cannot be made. This Two types of production lines can make up for the shortcomings.
Needless to say, the chemical fertilizer production line is related to the food security of one billion people across the country. The main purpose of the chemical fiber production line is for the textile industry. It can not only ensure that the people in the country have clothes to wear, but also develop the textile industry like many countries. Earn foreign exchange.
It's just that in recent years, they have made all kinds of clothes, but they can't sell them at all.
"Okay, I'll try it when I go back." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while, nodded and said, an important reason for Hong Kong's economic take-off after the 1980s is to serve as a bridge between the mainland and overseas.
Investment through Hong Kong has made Hong Kong one of the world's financial centers, and trade is another pillar industry. Especially in the 1980s, the Pearl River Delta, as the center of the country's light industry and a center for earning foreign exchange, was basically Hong Kong's countless trade The company operates in the middle. Even if local entrepreneurs from Hong Kong go to the mainland to invest, their orders actually come from trading companies.
In the era before the Internet, it was extremely difficult to develop customers. No one knew them, it was difficult to trust them, and there was no intermediate guarantee. Who knew if you were a liar?
Ordinary small factories simply don’t have this ability and can only go through various middlemen. Since there are people doing this business, you can naturally do it yourself. When the opportunity of this era comes, you have to seize the opportunity, especially now that you are still the first to do it. Once a crab eater succeeds, his profit may not be as good as that of finance or electronics, but the economic influence it brings cannot be underestimated. Moreover, for such things, he only needs to spend money to set up a company and have it managed by professionals. That's it.
However, due to the decline of Hong Kong's economy after the 21st century, especially the emergence of Alibaba, all such trading companies have basically died. Chen Zhiwen does not know history, and now he can only cross the river by feeling the stones, but with his own With capital and connections, the possibility of success is still very high.
"That would be great." Director Lin said with a smile. In China, the pressure to earn foreign exchange is very high because recently a lot of heavy industrial equipment, aircraft, and cars have to be introduced. In severe cases, they even need to be traded in gold. , from various cadres to ordinary factories, they are all trying to find ways to export more to make money, but the difficulty is too high. At present, the major exporters in the country are still various types of oil or mineral resources.
However, as the head of the foreign trade department, Director Lin also has a good understanding of overseas economic development. He also knows that as long as the industry is done well, the wealth created will far exceed resource exports. However, they are powerless, so they need a middleman.
"Does Chen Sheng have any opinions on industries other than the textile industry, such as various electronic products?" President Liang asked again.
"Actually, President Liang should know something about my Midea company. Strictly speaking, Midea is not a real high-tech electronics company, at least not yet." Chen Zhiwen said: "A company can become bigger by relying on some innovations, but Domestic products can only rely on research and development, and I actually don’t have any good opinions in this regard.”
Midea can grow in scale mainly by relying on games. This is a partial approach. It may be possible to cultivate a world-class giant company, but for a big country, this industry is not enough. If you want to develop the electronics industry, then just Able to take the technical route.
"This is too difficult. Many of the electronic components we produce, not to mention exported abroad, even some of our domestic companies are unwilling to use them." Director Lin shook his head helplessly.
"Are there any specialized electronics majors in universities in China now?" Chen Zhiwen asked.
"Yes, there are Tsinghua University, Peking University, Jiaotong University and Fudan University in Shanghai." Director Lin shook his head and said.
"These alone are not enough. If the country really wants to achieve something in the electronics industry, it would be best to build a professional electronics university, introduce a large number of advanced equipment from abroad, and train generations of talents. In this case, maybe There will be qualitative changes in ten years," Chen Zhiwen suggested.
The complete electronics industry is definitely not terminal consumer goods or previous production, but everything from the most basic resistors, capacitors, etc. to the most complex chips, from civilian products to military industry, basically everything is inseparable from electronics.
If the mainland wants to develop the electronics industry, the most basic thing is to do these things well first, and this will inevitably require a large number of talents.
"Build a university?" Director Lin shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Mr. Chen, it's impossible in a short time, and we want to teach the most advanced Western technology, and we don't have many such teachers. "
"I'm just suggesting." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile. When it comes to major industrial investment, this kind of thing may not be settled in a few years. After the reopening, maybe there will be room for activities.
(End of chapter)
