Chapter 427: The Cotery
"As the saying goes, this autumn wind rises, crab feet itch, and the navel is round in September and sharp in October. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Zhao Xicheng beckoned people to sit around the round table, and waved his hand with a smile and asked the waiter to bring up a plate of steamed hairy crabs: "This Yangcheng Lake hairy crab is not easy to eat in the United States, it was sent by the delegation of the China Shipbuilding Corporation of the mainland to be airlifted by plane, and everyone can taste it." Although it is not the best time, the female crabs in early September are already very good. ”
"Oh, it's rare that Lao Zhao, you have good things, and you remember a few old brothers!"
As soon as he wiped his hands with a warm towel, Wu Daqi sat down next to Zhao Xicheng, and then he couldn't wait to pick a hairy crab, and as soon as he got his hand, he glared at him with some surprise: "Oh, yes, it doesn't look big, but this weight is overwhelming!"
"Isn't it?" Opposite Wu Daqi, Song Wenzhong, who was sitting down, said with a smile: "Do you know what Lao Zhao used to get this hairy crab in exchange? Two 150,000-ton freighters! Who gave me such a big business, what did you mean by sending some hairy crabs?"
"Eat first, eat first, and then talk about it after eating. This hairy crab should be eaten while it is hot, and if it is cold, it will spoil the good things. Zhao Xicheng knocked open a hairy crab without giving up, and suddenly the mellow smell of hairy crab roe floated on the table.
"What Lao Zhao said makes sense, if you want to talk nonsense, I won't accompany you. This will be Jishan rice wine with hairy crabs, and it has a good taste that has not been eaten in many years. ”
Jodamon looks a bit like BB-8 in Star Wars Force Awakening, and his figure seems to be a big circle with a small circle on top of it. In line with his figure, this is definitely a foodie. Everyone else was still cleaning their hands or greeting each other, and he had already waved the eight crabs out of an afterimage. In a matter of moments, a hairy crab was brutally dismembered.
When Giodamon opened his head, everyone at the table stopped talking, but buried their heads in satisfying their appetites first.
Chinese people generally live in their own small circles in the United States, and this group of people at the table is Zhao Xicheng's closest "circle". These Chinese who bury their heads in eating crabs, when they are put outside, they are all stamped, and there is a strong party that will shake the industry.
If you want to eat hairy crabs, although it is not easy, how can they really not eat it. However, when they sat down to eat together, these people didn't say a word, and they really wiped out eighty percent of the hairy crabs on the table first.
At this time, each of them had a glass of rice wine, drank slowly, and had the interest of talking. This alone is worth learning from some leaders in China in this era.
"I said Lao Zhao, aren't you just to invite our brothers to eat crabs today?" Song Wenzhong squinted, as if he was reminiscing about the afterglow of gluttony, and leaned back on the back of the chair half satisfied and half lazy.
"That's right, it's rare to have good things in China, can I still not follow everyone?" Zhao Xicheng smiled, didn't make any more jokes, and his face was a little more positive: "Do you know, who did I meet at the reception of the CSSC?"
"CSSC has been in the limelight for the past two years!" Qiao Damon is similar to Zhao Xicheng, doing business related to the ocean, of course, he also heard a lot of news about CSSC by the way: "The giant general section shipbuilding method, hey, it is not light to squeeze the Koreans!"
"Hah, not really!"
When Gautamon said this, there was immediately a laugh at the table.
Since China Shipbuilding Corporation has been catching up, the international shipbuilding market share has won at least 5%. The Japanese contributed at least 1% of this, and the remaining 4% was all contributed by Korean shipbuilders.
In the nineties, the Koreans were already firmly established in the shipbuilding market Gann was different. In the 80s, the Koreans were just starting to exert their strength in the international shipbuilding market, accounting for only 11% of the total global shipbuilding market. The front wave has not yet landed, and it looks like it is about to be slapped to death on the shore by the back wave of the China Shipbuilding Corporation.
The loss of 4% of the international shipbuilding market does not only mean that South Korean shipbuilders make less money. The shipbuilding industry shrank by a third, and the steel companies fell into losses last year. Iron and steel enterprises are losing money, and the growth of infrastructure is slow, and the price of steel is rising instead of falling -- the decline in output has led to a decline in economies of scale, a decline in the bargaining power of raw ores, and a waste of energy supply, so in order to make up for the losses, they have to raise product prices.
South Korea, which had been growing well, was estimated to have slowed by at least 4 percent a year. South Korea's GDP was expected to reach $120 billion in 1986, but it turned out to be only $116 billion.
Of course, even so, South Korea maintained a GDP growth rate of 8.2%. Internationally, the call for a miracle on the Han River is still loud.
However, in South Korea, heavy industry conglomerates such as Hyundai, Samsung and Daewoo are worried about the behemoth China Shipbuilding Corporation. For the time being, South Korea's shipbuilding industry still has a certain advantage over China, but no one knows how long this advantage will last. After all, South Korea's coastline is only so much, even if all the shipyards are full, can it compete with the China Shipbuilding Corporation, which controls all Chinese shipbuilding enterprises?
If you really want to talk about the trust and overcome the problem of low-quality production capacity, how can it be compared with these heavy industry enterprises in South Korea. In the past, CSSC still had the problem of internal integration, after all, CSSC still had a problem of management of the shipyards under its jurisdiction.
Just like although China will have a SASAC in the future, nominally state-owned enterprises will be under the jurisdiction of the SASAC. However, the state-owned enterprises below may not necessarily sell the accounts of the SASAC. The China Shipbuilding Corporation's control over its shipyards is not as good as it can be. However, the application of the giant section shipbuilding method has greatly strengthened the control ability of China Shipbuilding Corporation over major shipyards. With the two assembly plants in the north and south as the center, and using the business network formed by segmented orders, shipyards that do not obey the command can only make domestic small orders of 10,000 tons, and watch other shipyards with production segments eat meat.
If you come and go, the shipyard that does not obey the management of the above will be overthrown by the workers below. From last year to this year, CSSC's performance can simply blind everyone's kryptonite eyes.
However, the vast majority of people's eyes are focused on China Shipbuilding Corporation, but only a few people have noticed the dissolution of Xinke Heavy Industry announced this year.
"Speaking of which, this person has something to do with this giant general section shipbuilding method. Zhao Xicheng said with a smile: "Have any of you heard of the shipbuilding method of China Shipbuilding Corporation?"
"Didn't they do it themselves?" Wu Daqi's industry was a little far away from navigation, and he shook his head and said: "I heard you say that this technology is so powerful, if it was invented by other countries, it won't be transferred to the mainland, right?"
"It's really not CSSC's own technology, but it's really made by mainland enterprises. Jodamon said with great interest: "This giant general section shipbuilding method is interesting here, and it is developed by an enterprise that has nothing to do with shipbuilding." We have also talked about this company before, it is the Xinke Group that has recently emerged in the mainland. ”
"ST Group? Aren't they making batteries and electronics? Why did they go to a heavy industry like shipbuilding? ”
Qiao Dameng smacked his lips and said with some embarrassment: "The new technology group is not in the mood to do shipbuilding and enter heavy industry, but actually wants to sell its technology to shipyards." After the implementation of the shipbuilding law of the giant general section, the new branch heavy industry that was established at the beginning has been successfully retired and announced its dissolution. But now China Shipbuilding Corporation has long been inseparable from the electronic products of the new technology group. What people do in this business is really a big deal!"
"Huh-"
In order to sell their own products to shipyards, they simply set up their own shipyards, and this kind of determination and courage is really a bit dizzying. Even if everyone here has been through the ups and downs of the business sea for a long time, their hearts are swaying when they listen.
"It turns out that CSSC is shaking, or the new technology group is working behind it!" Wu Daqi nodded in surprise.
Song Wenzhong suddenly glanced at Zhao Xicheng, thoughtful: "Old Zhao, what you said you saw at the reception of the Chinese ship, wouldn't it be—"
There may be people here who don't know anything about shipbuilding and seafaring, but there is certainly no one who is not smart. As soon as Song Wenzhong's words came out, someone who reacted quickly immediately also stared at Zhao Xicheng.
"Lao Zhao, did you meet it, Hu-"
Zhao Xicheng smiled and nodded: "Yes, I met Hu Wenhai from Xinke Group at the reception. ”
Hu Wenhai borrowed Zhao Xicheng's villa and didn't say that it was secret, but the fewer people who knew about it, the better. Zhao Xicheng only said that he met Hu Wenhai at the reception, so as not to make people embarrassed by someone looking for him to introduce him.
"Hu Wenhai has come to the United States!" Everyone at the table looked at each other, and they were all a little excited.
"I said Lao Zhao, you didn't grasp the opportunity? If you can pull him into our circle, it will be too difficult for you not to get rich by then! Look at the business that this person does, which one is not a big deal?
"But isn't it? Lao Zhao, if you can pull him in, you don't need to cheap those ghosts for any projects, wouldn't it be better to hand it over to our Chinese business gang to operate?
"That's right, Lao Zhao, we can trust your ability. ”
Facing everyone's burning eyes, Zhao Xicheng smiled helplessly: "Everyone, of course I know how capable Hu Wenhai is, and I also seized the opportunity to chat with him alone for a while. But people are holding the golden rice bowl of the mainland, and they can't look down on our small pool. ”
"What do you mean?" Wu Daqi frowned and said, "Lao Zhao, it's not strange that people in our small circle can't look down on us. With tens of billions of dollars of business at every turn, we are indeed a little worse. However, if Hu Wenhai is willing to come to the United States to develop, there will definitely be more than a few of us brothers who are willing to sell his face, and Chinese businessmen in the United States wish there was such a person who can stand out, right?"
Zhao Xicheng spread his hands: "I said the same thing, but people think that coming to the United States is to be a second-class citizen." Instead of hitting the glass ceiling, it is better to eat alone on the mainland. He even told me that China's economy would be more promising than the U.S. economy. ”
"This look, hey, after all, it's from the mainland, and the horizon is always narrower. Song Wenzhong sighed: "As far as the mainland is concerned, it would be good not to be thrown away by India in another thirty years!"
Not to mention, India's GDP in the 80s was indeed half a pound and eight taels of China. It was only after 1988 that the gap between the two was completely widened - if the difference in statistical methods is ignored.
Not to mention these "remnants" of the civil war who have always looked down on the economy, but after 30 years, there will be countless public intellectuals and little freshmen who want to drink the water of the Ganges? I believe that India's economy can surpass China's, and Song Wenzhong is certainly not the only one.
"I can't say that, there are some things I think Hu Wenhai is still very sober. Zhao Xicheng shook his head: "Let's just say that we Chinese are in the United States, and we do have a glass ceiling." Unlike the blacksters, the whites are strict against us!"
"Well, that's too. ”
Zhao Xicheng's words easily resonated with everyone, and they all shook their heads and sighed.
The Chinese have a higher level of education, and their ability to work and employment are also welcomed. But beneath the surface, Chinese people in the United States are even more discriminated against than blacks. This situation does not need to be explained in detail, and everyone here knows it. Even in the shopping mall and in life, don't look at their net worth, they also empathize with this status quo.
"But no matter what, even a second-class citizen is better than nesting in the mainland, right?
"To say that China's economy will have a better future than the United States, I don't think Hu Wenhai is more than that. ”
"Still young, little knowledge!" Qiao Damon pouted: "After making some money, do you really think you have a lot of ability?"
Zhao Xicheng waved his hand and quieted everyone down. He cleared his throat and said, "Don't say that, there are still capable people on the mainland." Let's just say that Li Qiang, who made more than $3 billion in futures in 73 years, who dares to say that the upper strata of the mainland have no international vision? They don't understand the international economy? I see, after all, this continent is orthodox in China, and there are talented people from all generations!"
When it comes to the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and the fact that China took the opportunity to roll up $3 billion in the international futures market, almost no one here is unaware of this matter. It is the accountant who presides over this work, the vice chairman who gives the money, and the Ministry of Foreign Trade runs errands and the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government inquires. And the person who led these departments to carry out specific operations was Li Qiang, who had just returned from the battlefield of Annan at that time.
Speaking of which, compared with this big bull, although Hu Wenhai has higher achievements, the overall environment is also better. It's really a little unclear who is the reborn traverser.
"I invited you here today, in fact, I am a little worried about what Hu Wenhai said. Zhao Xicheng leaned on the table and frowned: "If this sentence were said by another person, I wouldn't take it seriously." But for Hu Wenhai, there are always some ups and downs in my heart these days. Let's sum it up and see if there is such a possibility -- to use Hu Wenhai's capital and ability to interfere with the US stock market to a limited extent?" )