One day at the end of July, the night was as cold as water.

In Gu Kun's super invincible 360-degree sea view villa located in the Galloping Horse Atoll, after some soothing warmth, the clouds and rain stopped, and Zhu Youran nestled on Gu Kun's shoulder, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Husband, is it really okay for you to accompany me every day like this? Don't you delay your business? You haven't seen your courtiers to take care of business for more than half a month. Zhu Youran asked weakly.

At the beginning of the month, she had just finished her freshman year at Hujiang Jiaotong University, completed all the procedures for exchange students, and took the A330 special plane back to Lanfang.

Xiao Biesheng is newly married, why she and Gu Kun have only been married for more than five months in total, and this is two and a half months apart, and the little girl is suffocated.

After all, Gu Kun has the talent and physical endurance of an Olympic champion, even if he is a poor man in his life, and his face is ten or eight times uglier, I am afraid that there are many women who take the initiative to stick upside down.

In other words, Gu Kun is the kind of endowment that is qualified to eat soft rice and hard food even if he is poor and ugly, who can withstand the little girl.

However, it took three weeks for the irrigation of public grains to be handed over, and it was enough for Zhu Youran to calm down again, so he asked just now.

Gu Kun patted his wife calmly and confidently: "Don't worry, you can't make a mistake." What kind of business can I have now? In the past few years, the international situation outside has not been good, and I have been guarding this acre and three points of land in Lanfang, and I have been idle for a year and a half. In the future, the international situation will improve again, and I will be busy again, and I will not have time to relax. ”

Zhu Youran thought about it very carefully, and reminded him of the schedule very virtuously: "However, you can't delay the opening ceremony of the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel in a few days, right? I heard that the permanent envoys of the Chinese side will also attend, and the etiquette of foreign affairs still cannot be delayed." By the way, isn't today the day of China's accession to the WTO? Seems to be? Let's watch TV. ”

"I have thought of it a long time ago, and the draft of the speech has been prepared, isn't it just to congratulate China on its smooth accession to the WTO and further strengthen economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, especially cooperation in trade in services. ”

When China negotiates with world powers such as Oceania, it generally talks about software, cross-border Internet services, intellectual property rights, and financial services......

This has also led to the fact that many Chinese officials are accustomed to thinking that trade in services is those things.

But when it comes to Gu Kun, service trade is actually tourism and commercial services, not so lofty, just borrow a lofty name.

Gu Kun happened to be a little sage at this moment, since his wife was so concerned about national affairs, he was happy to comply, so he casually picked up the remote control, turned on the satellite TV, and tuned to the CCTV news channel in China.

Lan Fang has finally built a domestic TV station in the past two years, and plans to subdivide the entertainment variety channel and movie channel in the future, but it is still relatively simple, only broadcasting some news and comprehensive content, and there are also some problems with the timeliness of the draft, and the entire TV station needs to be run-in, so rich people are still used to watching first-hand international news on the Internet to watch news portals, or satellite TV.

The time difference between Lan and China is 1 hour behind Huaxia time, so even though it is quite late at night, CCTV's evening news feature is still being shown on TV.

"Sure enough, I remember correctly! I really signed a contract today. Zhu Youran watched the TV picture for a few seconds, and sighed with relief.

It turned out that what was shown on the television screen was the picture of the leaders signing a contract with the relevant WTO representatives, and the tone of the TV host's commentary was also very high-spirited and agitated, showing a sense of national pride from the bottom of his heart.

In addition to the commentary, many relevant experts and economists accepted CCTV's special interviews and talked about the impact and benefits of joining the successful entry into various fields.

Zhu Youran also listened carefully in front of the TV, and occasionally asked Gu Kun if he didn't understand, and gradually felt that he was related.

China's accession to the WTO will be of great benefit to Lanzhou's tourism industry, especially to tourism shopping.

Because before 2001 and after joining the WTO in 2001, the customs in various parts of China also relaxed the amount and type of goods that domestic tourists can bring back after going abroad, which is also the requirement and expectation of the international community.

01 years ago, it was very good for a person to bring a laptop and a digital camera back to China, although luxury clothes were not required to be worn all on the body, but they were never allowed to be completely packaged in the suitcase, and some even the tags had to be torn clean.

As for buying bags, watches and jewelry, the restrictions are even greater, the original watch and jewelry have to be worn on the hand, and no packaging can be left behind, and the watch box will be checked if it is placed separately in the suitcase.

These problems of gold, silver, jewelry and diamonds are not big, and 01 domestic diamonds do not pay attention to certificates, as long as the diamond is a real diamond, the packaging is worthless. If the watch can't be left with packaging, certificates, or even invoices, it will definitely greatly restrict people who go abroad from buying watches and giving them away, and only those who wear them are willing to buy them.

In a word, private tourism with goods, many of which would have been identified as gray before 01 years, will now turn white, so for such a major event as China's accession to the WTO, Gu Kun must personally come forward to congratulate and welcome the water.

Lan Fang people really deserve to celebrate together.

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A few days later, on August 5, a Sunday, was also the first Sunday after China's accession to the WTO.

Gu Kun, who has been with his wife for a month and doesn't ask about the world, finally appeared in public again. Today, he is going to attend the opening ceremony of the Burj Al Arab Hotel, which has been under construction for two and a half years.

At the turn of the spring and summer of 99, it was also in this place that Gu Kun set up a very strong air-conditioned double-glazed roof on the beach, with reflective viewing platforms on various floors, and held the official groundbreaking ceremony of the "Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel" with the arrogant attitude of "electricity does not cost money" (in fact, the construction of the underwater part of the foundation had been completed for several months before the official groundbreaking ceremony)

Now, in the same place, the opening ceremony is about to be held.

There were more invited guests than more than two years ago, in addition to friends from the business community, there were also some counterpart cadres in charge of commerce and cultural tourism departments in China.

Huaxia is obviously very much looking forward to the effect of "intercepting cross-border consumption" from Lanfang, and also attaches great importance to and cooperates. In fact, the experts of the relevant departments know this very well.

After China's accession to the WTO, although it has become more convenient for foreigners to earn money from exports, the problem of locals going abroad to buy luxury goods for consumption because of more relaxed restrictions on entry and exit shopping cannot be stopped. Joining the WTO is a matter of mutual benefit, and if foreigners are only allowed to make money and not foreigners are allowed to make your money, then why are foreigners enthusiastic about letting you in?

However, in the case of having to be earned by foreigners and spending a certain amount of money, it is very important to pay attention to who earns it. Chinese people go abroad to buy luxury goods, if anyone enters a foreigner's duty-free shop, it is duty-free in any country, and the price is similar in any country. If the people can be guided to buy in pro-China friendly countries, or exchange a little more or spend less foreign exchange reserves under the same conditions, then the guidance must be guided.

This time, people from the business department came to Lanfang to watch the ceremony, and it must be indispensable to negotiate strategic cooperation with Gu Kun.

In addition, foreign media, uninvited foreign real estate developers, and representatives of some luxury countries and city-states in Europe, the United States and the Middle East who came with a sense of experience and vigilance.

Everyone had their own minds and different purposes, and they sat down and talked in different dreams. From the Swire conglomerate in Brittany, to the Monegasques, to the princes and chiefs of certain city-states in the Middle East, there is always a way to spy on them.

Observing the luxurious appearance of the hotel, while the guests were amazed, Gu Kun on the stage had already begun to speak and cut the ribbon.

“…… Today, we would like to sincerely welcome guests from all over the world to make Burj Al Arab Lanfang shine......"

"I'm sure you all know why we chose to hold this ceremony on this good day. Therefore, we should not only celebrate the smooth opening of the hotel today, but also take the opportunity to congratulate the Chinese guests: I wish that after joining the WTO, Huaxia will integrate into the globalization of economy and trade faster and better, strengthen good-neighborliness, friendship and economic cooperation, and achieve better mutual benefit and common prosperity......"

"Last year, China achieved the great achievement of 4 million inbound tourists, including 1.4 million Chinese tourists, 900,000 Japanese and South Korean tourists, and the rest are mainly ASEAN tourists, as well as about 300,000 European and American tourists. I believe that with the completion of a series of higher-end tourism infrastructure represented by Burj Al Arab Hotel, we will be able to better serve guests from all over the world and make everyone feel at home. ”

Gu Kun almost didn't directly say that he invited more Chinese tourists to send money, and Chinese who wanted to buy luxury goods came to me to buy goods.

As for the tourist figures he mentioned, the number of tourists from East Malaysia and Brunei was not counted, because if you add them, it would be exaggerated and impossible to count. In the above-mentioned "total number of 4 million people", the part involving Malaysia only includes visitors from West Malaysia, that is, the Malay Peninsula.

In addition, if it is a Malay domestic tour from West Malaysia and East Malaysia, and transiting through the Lan side due to port and airport problems, it will not be counted, so the moisture will be too large. Because there are already five or six million people in East Malaysia, more than one million of them may come to Lanzhou every year.

And because the traffic is too convenient, it is the same as going to Xiangjiang in the special zone of China, dozens of kilometers away from stretching your legs. Therefore, many fishermen, boats, and traders may come once every three days. If the "number of people" is counted according to the tourism caliber, a person may come to Lanzhou 50 or even 100 times a year, if this part of the people is counted as "people", it is easy for Lanzhou to enter and exit 30 or 40 million people a year, then it is meaningless. The tourism department only counts people who have the potential to spend on tourism.

In order to facilitate transit passengers without visas, in recent years, the Lan side has also opened a fast lane, when leaving the airport, there is a way to go directly to the train or bus without customs, and Malaysians who take that channel can go directly to Kuching by seaside bridge, which is convenient for many people who take a plane from Kuala Lumpur to Kuching and Sabah.

Who let Kuching Airport gradually be in a semi-abandoned state in recent years due to the squeeze of Lan Fang International Airport, because the depreciation cost cannot be recovered due to the lack of flights, and it is simply normal for countries with capital attention to abandon the airport and spend money on the airport of neighboring countries.

The guests in the audience listened to Gu Kun's speech showing his muscles, and they also more or less admired the development of Lanfang's tourism industry in recent years, and had to sigh that Lanfang's business development was too fierce.

As Gu Kun cut the ribbon with his own hands, salutes roared on both sides, and streamers flew one after another, and the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel was officially opened.

The first day will not be entertained by the public, but will be enjoyed by all the invited guests on the list.

Some guests who have no ambition to eat and drink and have long knowledge have already entered the experience under the guidance of the beautiful waitress like a cloud.

There were also some who came with a purpose, and took advantage of the reporter's question session at the end of the press conference to step up their pursuit of some useful information.

The first person to grab the opportunity to ask a question was naturally a BBC reporter who had been secretly observing and holding back for more than a month - although Su Changyong was also a BBC reporter before, he was too eye-catching to show up recently, so it was not him who asked a question today, but the BBC temporarily sent a new colleague, and the new reporter was naturally sponsored by the Swire Group.

The reporter asked subtly: "Mr. Gu, you just mentioned that 'the opening of the Burj Al Arab Hotel is just a sign of the comprehensive upgrade of Lanfang's tourism infrastructure, and more upgrade plans are already being implemented', so can you disclose more details about this plan?"

That will also help foreign travel agencies to better promote the Lanfang tour project? Can you be specific, for example, in the next two or three years, what new facilities will be added and which blocks will be developed?"

Gu Kun smiled and nodded: "This question, it is said that some of them involve trade secrets, and if you say it too carefully, it is easy to be used and hoard land in advance to obstruct the plan." However, on a good day like today, in order to show the sincerity of our Lanzhou authorities to the greatest extent and show our determination to share the dividends of tourism industry upgrading and mutual benefit and win-win results with good-neighborly and friendly countries, I can still make an exception and authorize the answer.

Of course, it's just authorization, not my personal answer, because this is not my scope of work, and I hope you understand. ”

Of course, the reporters expressed their understanding, and then Gu Kun waved his hand and motioned to Director Chen Kechen of the Ministry of Infrastructure to answer this question.

Chen Ke was a little nervous, he had never seen such a big scene before, he walked on stage conscientiously, cleared his throat in advance, and only after clearing did he dare to come to the microphone:

"This question is answered by me, you may also know, for today's moment, Lanfang City's overall cityscape upgrade plan, as early as March and April has been launched, at present our progress is very smooth, on the basis of absolutely ensuring the real estate rights and interests of every citizen, completed the new planning of the main urban area.

In the future, we will build a new urban area completely from scratch in the northern suburbs of the existing urban area, and all the old city demolition compensation will also be carried out in the new urban area, and make good use of the original level of greening in the new urban area according to local conditions, and will never over-build and lead to the deterioration of the living environment.

At the same time, in the old city of Nancheng, we will not rebuild all the demolition plots, and we are going to directly fill in some places where the water and electricity pipelines and roads and bridges are not perfect and turn them into parks and green spaces. In addition, the following urban comprehensive support facilities are planned there, which I will explain in general terms below......

Chen Ke spoke on stage for less than two minutes, and every few dozen seconds of speaking, the BBC reporter's face turned slightly pale or blue.

And Shi Minglun, Su Changyong, Chen Wenming and others below already had a chill down their spines, and seemed to think of the most terrifying possibility.

"What? Gu Kun actually has the funds and the courage to shake off the entire old city and start anew?!"

"Lao Tzu has already smashed 800 million pounds!"

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Occasionally, there are more than 2,000 words, and people spray me. It's been six thousand words for two days, and there's no one left to spray me. So today and tomorrow it will be reduced to 4,000 words, and that's it. I'm not playing Tifa for laziness, I'm just trying to create a topic that squirts me.

On Saturday (the day after tomorrow), we will resume 6,000 words a day, and when the time comes, we will see if there are still people spraying after recovery, then stick to 6,000 words. If it is restored to 6,000, no one will spray, and it can only be reduced to 4,000 occasionally, making waves and causing people to ask.

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