At half past seven o'clock in the evening of the 27th, Li Guangyu came to the Peninsula Hotel to attend a banquet hosted by Georges Marché, the leader of the French Communist Party.

After visiting the mainland on the 14th of this month, he did not come to Xiangjiang until yesterday, and invited the elite of the Xiangjiang business community to attend this banquet tonight.

At present, France has the Socialist Francois Mitterrand as president, and the French Communist Party is an ally of the Socialist Party, and Georges Marché and the current President Mitterrand also get along relatively well.

At present, the internal economic situation in France is similar to that of England, and the domestic inflation and unemployment rates are high, so this time Georges Marché came to Asia, especially to the mainland, in the hope of increasing cooperation with the mainland, finding new markets for the development of French domestic enterprises, and improving the current domestic economic development situation.

This time, George Marcel passed by Hong Kong and met with Hong Kong business people, hoping to reach some cooperation with Hong Kong business people, and invite Hong Kong business people to visit France, invest in France, and improve France's current economic situation.

As for the situation on this side of Xiangjiang, Georges Marché read a lot of information here before he came to Asia.

Although the area of Xiangjiang is small, the strength of the business community here is not weak at all, and the situation here is particularly complicated.

However, it is in such a complex environment that these business elites in Xiangjiang have been able to achieve such great achievements, especially these Chinese-funded families in Xiangjiang, facing the suppression of the British-funded consortium in Xiangjiang, and finally defeated the British-funded consortium, and he admires the heads of these Chinese-funded families very much.

And he also learned that his domestic enterprises have also hit a nail here, Carrefour in Western Europe is booming, to develop the Asian market, but suffered a tragic failure, more than a year has passed, and still not much progress has been made.

Carrefour's opponent is Li Guangyu, the uncrowned king of the current business community in Xiangjiang and the leader of the Chinese family in Xiangjiang.

Whether in Japan or Treasure Island, whether in Singapore or Thailand, Carrefour is facing the suppression of Hengyu Supermarket Group, a subsidiary of the Lee consortium, and what makes Carrefour even more sad is that the Lee consortium and local retail giants have taken action against them.

And Carrefour wanted to join forces with the local supermarket forces to deal with the Hengyu Supermarket Group, but unfortunately these local supermarket forces refused without any hesitation, which is enough to see the influence of the Li consortium in these areas.

In recent years, the Lee consortium has continued to invest heavily in the UK, which has also made the French government blush, and if these funds are invested in France, it will also play a very good role in improving their economy.

In particular, the market occupied by the Li consortium in Asia, if you look at the current development trend of Bentley Group, you can see that in the past, Bentley Group was a little better than Jaguar, and there was a good market in North America, and other brands had no popularity in Asia at all.

But now, many families in Baodao and Xiangjiang and Southeast Asia no longer buy Rolls-Royce, but choose Bentley, and the elite also choose to buy Jaguar, and the Kirin Motors, a subsidiary of the Bentley Group, is a joint venture in Asia and many regions to expand their group's market.

During his visit to the mainland, Georges Marché also inspected the FAW manufacturing plant, and the FAW Kirin Automobile Company, a joint venture between FAW and Bentley Group, was naturally within the scope of his inspection.

Although the cars produced by this company are basically supplied to the government, the company's profits are relatively small.

But Georges Marché saw the potential of the company, with a population of more than one billion people on the mainland, and he himself inspected the Pengcheng Special Zone and saw with his own eyes the speed of Pengcheng's development.

As long as the mainland continues to reform and open up, the mainland will be the largest market in the world in the future, and the demand for cars is absolutely terrifying, and Bentley Group entered the market early, which makes them more advantageous than other automobile groups in the future.

Georges Marcher also went to Shanghai, where he also visited the SAIC Volkswagen manufacturing company, which is currently under construction, which gave him a sense of urgency.

Whether it is the Bentley Group of the Lee consortium or the Volkswagen of the Federal Republic of Germany, they have already entered the mainland market, but the automobile groups in their own countries have not yet attached importance to the development of the mainland, and how will they compete with the British and Federal German automobile groups in the mainland market in the future.

He had already decided that after returning to Paris, he would communicate with Mitterrand about what he had gained in the past few days, so that he would attach importance to the development of the mainland and let more domestic enterprises pay attention to the mainland.

In particular, automobile groups, whether it is the Bentley Group in the United Kingdom or the Volkswagen Group in the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the Chrysler Group in the United States and the Toyota Motor Group in Japan, have all established joint venture automobile companies with the mainland, and these companies are either in production or under construction, and France has lagged too far behind in this regard.

While the markets of Western Europe and North America are beginning to languish, the Asian market is full of vitality, Japan is already the second largest economy after the United States, and South Korea, Treasure Island, Xiangjiang and Singapore have all grown by more than 10% in recent years, so they have the title of the Asian Tigers.

The main markets here are currently occupied by local chaebols, and it is difficult for these groups in Europe and the United States to compete with them, and what surprised Georges Marché even more was that the consortiums in these regions began to cooperate, sniping at European and American groups and consortiums to come to Asia and seize the market with them.

Among them, the Xiangjiang Lee Consortium is the most, and has his allies in Japan, Treasure Island, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.

At present, the six major Japanese consortia are focusing on the U.S. market, competing with the top 10 U.S. consortia, and cooperating more with the Lee consortium in Asia.

Therefore, in Asia, the Lee consortium currently has no opponents, and the Heung Kong British consortium has been defeated and retreated, and the Singapore consortium finally chose to cooperate with the Lee consortium.

The Malaysian Chinese Consortium is an ally of the Lee Consortium, and a local family that provoked the Lee Consortium has disappeared.

The son of Chen Bichen, the leader of a Chinese family in Thailand, is currently an interest group on the periphery of the Lee consortium, and the relationship between the Lee consortium and the Thai royal family and the political family Qiu family is also quite good.

Georges Marche is terrified when he thinks about the network of connections that the Lee consortium has built in these regions, whether it is the group that they want to develop in Western Europe, or the American consortium that wants to come and occupy the market in these regions, they need to face the Lee consortium.

And the Li consortium obviously can't be regarded as a single existence now, there are countless consortiums following behind, especially the six major Japanese consortiums, don't look at them staring at the American consortium, if the Western European consortium comes to occupy the market here, they will definitely snipe.

Once these consortia and families are united, it will be very difficult for both Western European and American consortia to deal with this force, as in the supermarket sector at the moment.

This time it was not only Carrefour in their country that was hit, but Walmart in the United States also did not benefit.

When Wal-Mart saw that Carrefour was being sniped in Japan and Treasure Island one after another, they skipped these two markets and chose to open up a market in South Korea. It's a pity that they also didn't get the benefits, and they were jointly hit the Korean market by Hengyu Supermarket Group and South Korea's local Lotte Supermarket Group.

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