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Looking at the appearance and attire of these people, it should be European.

One of them had a national flag pinned to his chest, Xiao Ming had a good eye, it was the flag of England, and he was an official.

The thinking of Westerners has fallen into the rivers and lakes, England and the United States are husband and wife, of course, the most reluctant to simply Xia Guo Company to seize the business of the United States.

The Veolia company they call is a well-known global environmental protection company, including solids treatment and sewage treatment, with operations in various countries around the world.

Since a few years ago, many cities in Xia have signed cooperation agreements with Veolia to introduce Veolia's technology for environmental protection.

Veolia's technology is advanced and it was almost a monopoly before Pangu Technology was founded.

When he signed the contract with Xia Guo, the way of cooperation and the price were set by himself, and for the treatment of many pollutions, Veolia charged Xia Guo two or even three times the price of the same price in the United States.

Moreover, for the consumables for treating sewage, Veolia definitely does not purchase products from Xia Guo, but purchases more expensive European products.

Even so, for the sake of the urban environment and their own careers, many Xia cities have also used PPP to cooperate with Veolia, so that the local government owes a lot of debt.

Veolia's life in Xia Guo was very nourishing, and last year's profit was hundreds of millions of meters.

This time, after the United Nations Environment Assembly determines the sewage targets and treatment rules, companies like Veolia will enter various countries and regions to help them deal with pollution.

Now, the United Nations is looking at Pangu technology, which is lower cost and more effective, that is, to snatch a big order from Veolia's mouth.

After the advent of the Devouring II wastewater treatment technology, Xiao Ming knew that sooner or later he would have to compete with Veolia face to face. I didn't expect that the first head-to-head confrontation would not be in the major cities of Xia to grab contracts, but at the United Nations Environment Assembly.

Xiao Ming is not afraid of competition, nor is he worried about public opinion. Ignoring the embarrassed Westerners, Xiao Ming left the venue.

The following meeting was a time when various countries were competing for interests, Xiao Ming was not interested, and returned to the hotel to rest.

Qian Yihe's team has reached a cooperation with the United Nations, and the company will start with the United Nations Environment Programme's counterpart Xia Guo City and Indian industrial cities to help enterprises in these places complete the transformation and upgrading of sewage treatment.

After getting Qian Yi's report, Xiao Ming felt a little embarrassed.

The cities that need the help of the United Nations Environment Programme are the most polluted cities in the world, not to mention India, there are still many cities on the list.

As a native of Xia Guo, Xiao Ming really didn't know what to say.

The contract will be signed in the next few days, and Xiao Ming and Qian Yi will go to the Panasonic headquarters in Osaka after meeting with the company's employees the next day.

This is home to Panasonic's battery research headquarters.

Nakamura, the current chairman of Panasonic Group, warmly received Xiao Ming and his party at the headquarters.

After a brief greeting and reaffirming his friendship with Natsu, Nakamura introduced Xiao Ming to Panasonic's current business situation.

Today's Panasonic is not the Panasonic of the last century, he has turned the original Oriental giant enterprise into an ordinary multinational company.

At the beginning, the home appliance products that Panasonic was proud of were basically no longer the main business scope of Panasonic, and those that could be sold were dissolved, and the home appliance business of its Sanyo brand was also acquired by Haier.

"Xia Guo's enterprise is really powerful!" Nakamura continued to improve this matter in the conversation with Xiao Ming, but he also said: "Panasonic must also abandon the home appliance manufacturing industry if it wants to develop, which is the only way for the development of the enterprise." ”

Nakamura didn't explain it, but Xiao Ming also understood what he said, that is, Haier, Gree and other companies that are quite bullish in Xia Guo are actually copying the old path of Panasonic and other Oriental companies in the last century.

The glory created by Panasonic in the past, the experience that these companies are proud of, the difficulties that Panasonic is facing today, and the enterprises of Xia Guo will definitely encounter them in the future.

Panasonic's main business is now very widely distributed, from new energy to basic chemicals, from semiconductors to artificial intelligence, from the competitive consumer market to the commercial market, from product manufacturers to system solution service providers.

There are two simplest examples.

First, since 2015, Panasonic's new energy batteries have ranked first in global shipments every year, which are not only used by Tesla and other new energy vehicle industries, but also procured by the Ministry of Defense of the United States. New energy has not become the main economic growth point of Panasonic.

Don't look at the people of Xia Guo, they have always said how good our BD batteries are, how many countries are exported to, and the first in the world. I'm sorry, but Panasonic is more recognized around the world.

Second, in the commercial field, Panasonic has developed rapidly, such as cooperating with Xiaguo's Haidilao to open a smart hot pot restaurant and so on.

This kind of cooperation involves a complete set of commercial intelligent systems, not one or two smart home appliances, one or two artificial intelligence images are enough to solve the problem, and it is also the most lacking in Xia Guo enterprises at present.

Toyo's artificial intelligence technology has always been at the forefront of the world, and Panasonic will certainly not be absent.

The exposure of commercial cooperation is not large, but the profit is high and the cooperation cycle is long, which is incomparable with ordinary consumers.

You use Haier's washing machine, you may use it for four or five years to change to Hisense, but if you use Panasonic's entire commercial service system, unless your company is bankrupt, you will always use Panasonic's follow-up services, this is the cleverness of Panasonic.

A century-old enterprise has had its ups and downs in the process of development, but it has been able to survive! This is the most worthy reference point for Xia Guo's enterprises.

Nakamura said, "Our battery R&D department and basic chemistry department are here, and our factories are in your summer country and Southeast Asia. ”

Qian Yi added: "There are many Panasonic factories in Tianshi, Yangcheng and other places, all of which produce lithium batteries. Generally, Western and other countries place orders with Panasonic, Panasonic does design and research and development here, and the production task is placed in Xia Kingdom. ”

Xia Guo will earn some hard-earned labor costs and environmental pollution costs.

Panasonic hopes to cooperate with Pangu Technology, and Nakamura spoke very calmly: "The labor cost in Xia Guo is still lower than that of Toyo, and the battery is a polluting industry, and your environmental protection standards are still not far from ours." I say this, I hope you don't mind. ”

"Of course not. Xiao Ming said this, but he was very uncomfortable in his heart. Xia Guo has been developing for so many years, and the most attractive thing for multinational companies is not the scientific and technological foundation of Xia Guo, but the labor and environmental costs.

Xiao Ming also knew that Xia Guo was making improvements in this regard, but it would take a long time to completely change Xia Guo's position at the end of the industrial and technological system.