Li Wei, the technical director of the group, was directly exhausted due to continuous work. Because there are relatively few technicians who understand CCTV technology in Xizhou, since Xizhou TV Station is a collaborator of the project, they had to mobilize people from the equipment department to participate in the installation. Secretary Shitou led the construction workers to renovate the room for the CCTV system, but he was also tired and sick. Some workers were poisoned while spraying paint because they had been spraying and the protection was not in place, causing chaos. In the end, it was provincial leaders who intervened, prompting the Tourism Bureau to decide that the closed-circuit television system in the hotel hosting the fair would not be a mandatory acceptance condition. This craze for CCTV installation has gradually faded away. Another reason is that not everyone can afford a set of equipment and installation fees of around 100,000 yuan in those days.
The Second Xizhou Investment and Trade Fair opened grandly from July 10th to 13th, 1990 and lasted for four days. This is the largest exchange event in the commercial field in the five northwest provinces in the past ten years, and it is also a grand event to showcase the results of market economy reform and opening up. Leaders of the Ministry of Commerce attended the opening ceremony in person and spoke at the opening ceremony. Leaders of each of the five northwest provinces sent representatives to attend and send Congratulatory letter. On the day of the opening ceremony, the top leaders of the Northwest Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government sat on the podium and gave enthusiastic speeches, welcoming guests from all over the world and wishing the event a complete success. In his speech, the top leader of the provincial government promised that the fair will continue to be held, and will use the efforts of the whole province to provide good services to all guests who come to Xizhou to participate in the fair, and strive to make the Xizhou Investment and Trade Fair a success that can be held with Guangzhou A business exchange conference comparable to the Canton Fair. The opening ceremony also officially confirmed the abbreviation of Xizhou Investment and Trade Fair - Xizhou Fair.
The president of the Chamber of Commerce in Wenzhou, Yang Liufang's hometown, also came to attend. Xizhou did not send an invitation letter to the Chamber of Commerce, but Jiesheng knew him well. When Jiesheng received the invitation letter, he told him that he was going to Xizhou to attend the event in the near future. For this grand event, he asked through Jiesheng if he could attend. After Yang Liufang reported to the city leaders, the leaders readily agreed and asked the leaders of the Municipal Commerce Bureau to personally call the Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce, invite the chamber of commerce to send personnel to attend the meeting, and prepared an invitation letter. The president of the Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce was the first to make a speech as a representative of the chamber of commerce in the Western Trade Conference. In his speech, he was full of praise for the co-organizers and venue providers, this Wenzhou fellow who started his own business in Xizhou and started from scratch. When Jiesheng and he arrived, Yang Liufang also borrowed an Audi 100 from Director Wang, plus two cars from his company, to pick him up at the train station and the leader of the Xizhou Business Bureau presented a patched invitation letter. . After checking into Wolongshan Hotel, Yang Liufang held a welcome banquet for him alone, and also invited him to visit the tannery factory, furniture factory affiliated to the group company, and the aluminum factory industry and trade company in which he held shares. Although the production capacity of these factories is relatively backward in the opinion of the well-informed president, it is definitely worthy of praise that a young man can achieve such achievements in just a few years.
The presidents of supply and marketing cooperatives in neighboring provinces who have signed contracts last year and have established business contacts will inevitably have to meet with Yang Liufang. Because Li Tongfu's office was temporarily recruited to become the command center of the preparatory team, and provincial and municipal leaders were on duty there every day, Yang Liufang had no choice but to meet with the presidents of these supply and marketing cooperatives in the conference room. Yanhua, Xinye, and the tannery factory cafeteria were transferred there. As the daughter-in-law of a master chef, the three of them took turns serving tea and water to the guests. At the end of the day, their legs were still so tired that even their smiles became muscle memory.
News media from the central and northwest provinces as well as neighboring provinces have reported in detail on this West China Fair. Judging from the publicly released information, there are more than 2,000 exhibitors and more than 30,000 sets of various exhibits. There were more than 10,000 guests from the provincial supply and marketing system and provincial and municipal chambers of commerce. Local citizens in Western Zhou Dynasty also chose to visit the venue in their free time and buy some affordable and high-quality products. Exhibitors were naturally overjoyed to receive orders. The happiest thing is Lao Zhou's stall, because several counters are newly renovated and are in a more conspicuous position in the exhibition hall. The video tapes and VCD discs he sells are currently in hot demand, and the prices are not high. There are many. Blockbusters, Hong Kong martial arts movies, Taiwanese romantic dramas, and Bruce Lee's kung fu movies made in the United States are all very popular among guests. It’s 3 yuan to 5 yuan, and everyone will buy some of their favorite movies to take home. In front of the counter, everyone held up their money and asked the waiter to help them choose the movies they wanted. There were also those discs with women's naked shoulders on the cover. Even though they were replenished many times, they were all sold out.
Lao Zhou was so happy that he handed out Chinese cigarettes when he saw the leaders and staff of the supply and marketing cooperative. On the first day, he carried his black suitcase and ran to the bank two or three times. After get off work, I found Li Tongfu and Yanhua and gave each of them a big red envelope worth one thousand yuan. His colleagues from the wholesale market also came to see the excitement and inquired about the leasing situation of the shops. Lao Zhou all said that he would wait until the end of the Western Conference to help inquire. There were also those who had invested money to participate in Yang Liufang's memorial ceremony. They knew that the relationship between Lao Chen and Yang Liufang was much stronger than that of Lao Zhou, so they all approached Lao Chen and asked to rent a stall. Lao Chen immediately contacted Yang Liufang and expressed the merchants' willingness to rent the shop. He also bluntly said that A Fang was biased. Why not think of Yang Liufang first when something good happened? He asked that no matter what, he must get one for himself in the supply and marketing cooperative. Stalls. Yang Liufang was busy receiving the leaders of the supply and marketing cooperative. He agreed in the chaos, and did not forget to ask his elder brother to accompany Lao Chen for a walk.
Some are happy and some are sad. Merchants from other sales departments in the supply and marketing cooperative thought that they would be served first, so they wiped their counters spotlessly and arranged the products neatly. Some of them specially prepared for this session. Xichahui has made special packaging. But in the face of the huge crowd of exhibitors, no one paid attention to these merchants, even though they were only separated from the main venue by a wall. Someone asked me privately, why don't you go to other stores of the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some good products with high quality and low price? Their answers made these merchants very angry, saying that TV station 315 had reported that they were selling fake goods. The merchants wanted to join forces to cause a scene and seek explanations from their leaders, but they were stopped and warned by the police on duty. After the public security director learned of the incident, he urgently reported it to the leaders of Xizhou City, who then reported to their superiors. The superiors instructed Director Li to comfort him. Of course, Director Li did not dare to disobey the order and communicated with the merchants one by one, saying that he would definitely give everyone an explanation.
The frightened Director Li went to Yang Liufang, who was busy with his busy schedule, and told the situation. Yang Liufang instantly had an idea. He asked Director Li to receive the guests with peace of mind, and he would resolve the demands of these merchants. Of course Director Li trusted his beloved general, but he didn't expect that Yang Liufang almost made him lose his job this time. After Director Li left, Yang Liufang called Wang Shan and asked him to communicate with merchants and print flyers, explaining that the explosion at Xizhou Iron and Steel was caused by corruption within the steel plant and had nothing to do with the supply and marketing cooperative. He asked the merchants to nominate representatives to attend the reception. In the hotel, flyers were stuffed into the room through the crack in the door. Then let Levi broadcast the contents of the flyers with rolling subtitles through the closed-circuit television systems of each hotel, and remove the traces. The two were full of ideas and got the matter done quickly, and each merchant also contributed a hundred yuan in hard-earned money to fund the event. At eight o'clock and nine o'clock on the last night of the Xi'an Fair, the closed circuit of the hotel There were two rolling broadcasts on the TV show. That night, business representatives staying in the hotel also stuffed flyers into the rooms of the guests.
The signing ceremony and closing ceremony on the fourth day of the Western Conference were held at the Provincial People's Hall. Although some merchants left early to catch the train, the venue was still full. As an exhibitor representative, Yang Liufang held a grand signing ceremony with supply and marketing cooperative leaders and chamber of commerce representatives from the five northwest provinces under the witness of the leaders of the northwest provinces. The leaders then gave a speech. In the speech, the provincial government mentioned that this Western Trade Fair has promoted the circulation of commodities in the five northwest provinces, promoted the process of commercial marketization in the five northwest provinces, and expanded the results of the reform and opening up in the five northwest provinces. The leader was talking at the top, and everyone below was exchanging information about the supply and marketing cooperative being wronged in the Xizhou Iron and Steel Plant explosion. The staff responsible for public opinion monitoring did not dare to conceal the report, and the leaders of the provincial party committee and the provincial government soon knew about it.
At the summary meeting of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government on this Xizhou Trade Fair, President Li of the Provincial Supply and Marketing Corporation and Director Wang of Xizhou TV Station were severely criticized. Fortunately, both of them claimed that they had no knowledge and that it was a spontaneous act of the masses. Of course the provincial party committee and the provincial government knew the truth about the explosion at the steel plant and felt that it was unreasonable to let the supply and marketing cooperative take the blame, so they just asked the two to write an in-depth inspection and did not get to the bottom. Because the propaganda department was unable to effectively control the broadcast situation of CCTV, the provincial party committee and the provincial government immediately stopped the installation of CCTV throughout the province. Yang Liufang's fall has been a disaster. He claimed that the equipment was worth four million, but in fact it was worth more than three million. He had just sold less than ten sets and recovered one-third of the original cost. This prohibited installation was all lost. .
However, the flaws are not concealed. According to preliminary statistics from the Northwest Provincial Bureau of Statistics, this year's Xixi Fair generated a total contract value of more than 360 million yuan, not including the on-site exhibition revenue of nearly 50 million yuan. The results totaled 410 million yuan, excluding the execution share of subsequent contracts and derivative contracts. These derivative contracts include merchants who visited Yangliufang’s car seat showroom and signed a contract for Liufang Industrial Group to produce car bumpers on their behalf, and Car rearview mirror contracts; even Lao Zhou signed subsequent supply contracts for video tapes and VCDs with hundreds of audio and video stores. According to statistics, the GDP of Northwest Province in that year was 20 billion yuan, and one Western Conference accounted for more than 2% of the province's GDP. Among the results of 410 million yuan, Liufang Industrial Group's contract and sales amounted to 148 million yuan, and the subsequent contract execution amount and derivative contracts such as OEM automobile bumpers and automobile rearview mirror contracts totaled more than 80 million yuan, which was a huge gain.
