Liu Yanping went out, and came back with Qi Ruicang in a few years, and there was a young man with Qi Ruicang beside him, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, looking like he had received some Western education. As soon as Feng Xiaochen saw Qi Ruicang, he hurriedly stepped forward, shook hands with Qi Ruicang, and said apologetically: "Old Qi, I'm really sorry for keeping you waiting for a long time." I didn't know you were waiting for me, so I took care of the rest first. ”

"It's all about me, I didn't tell Mr. Feng about it. Liu Yanping was beside the leader to help her.

Qi Ruicang laughed and said, "How dare you, I know that Mr. Feng has a lot of opportunities, and today you have just come back from abroad." If it weren't for the urgency of what was at hand, I would have come back in a day or two. ”

Feng Xiaochen pretended to be serious and said, "Director Qi, if you say this, you will see the outside, no matter how busy I am, I dare not see you, Director Qi." Who doesn't know that you are the think tank of the central leadership, and it is not easy for many people to beg to see you. ”

Liu Yanping echoed: "Yes, Director Qi's article published in Economic Research last month, Mr. Feng also specially asked us to make a copy of it and send it to various departments for study, Director Qi's theoretical level is really high, and the cadres of our company feel that they have benefited a lot after reading it!"

"Uh, Director Liu, you're too protective of Xiao Feng, aren't you? "Qi Rui was defeated. He was obviously joking with Feng Xiaochen, but Liu Yanping seemed to really want to compliment Feng Xiaochen with him. In fact, what the two of them said was a few polite words, and no one took it seriously, Qi Ruicang knew that although Feng Xiaochen became the general manager, he did not lose his temper because of his promotion, and he was still the "old man" of the 84-level strategy institute.

Liu Yanping said with a smile: "Haha, I know that your classmates have a good relationship, isn't this all a joke?" Director Qi, you and Mr. Feng are chatting, let's have dinner in our company in the evening, I'll arrange it...... Uh, no, Mr. Feng, did you promise to attend the pavilion's reception banquet in the evening?"

Feng Xiaochen waved his hand and said, "It's okay, Sister Liu, you don't need to arrange the problem of eating, you can get busy first." ”

"Okay, okay, let's talk. ”

Liu Yanping walked out of Feng Xiaochen's office as she spoke, and closed the door for them casually. Only then did Feng Xiaochen begin to beckon Qi Ruicang and the young man who came with him to sit down, while Meng Yang exercised his duties as a secretary and quickly made tea for the two.

"Xiao Feng, let me introduce to you, this is Chen Xuan, a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in marine engineering. After Qi Ruicang sat down, he solemnly introduced to Feng Xiaochen.

Feng Xiaochen's eyes lit up, nodded to the young man, and said, "It turned out to be Dr. Chen, Lao Qi has told me countless times, saying that you are the most outstanding genius he has ever seen. Why, you have completed your studies in the United States, and now you are officially returning to China to start your own business?"

The young man named Chen Xuan was a little shy, and said, "It's Senior Brother Qi who has praised me, I'm not a genius, compared to my other doctoral classmates, I'm a person who doesn't do his job." Everyone has made great achievements in academics, and I have nothing but dozens of patents in marine engineering. ”

About this Chen Xuan, we have to start with Qi Ruicang's trip to the United States last year to attract investment.

After last year's Korean supermarket incident, Qi Ruicang lamented the backwardness of Yubei's economy and made bold promises to go to the United States to attract investment. Yubei China Merchants Bureau couldn't come up with the funds to let Qi Ruicang go to the United States, so Qi Ruicang simply paid for it himself. He studied in the United States for six or seven years, during which he also participated in some scientific research projects, earned some money, and the travel expenses to the United States were still affordable. Qi Ruicang is an idealistic person, unlike most other people who care about personal gains and losses. He chose to come to Yubei to be the deputy director of China Merchants, and he had the idea of hands-on practice, and spending this money was just paying for some experiments in his opinion, which was inconsequential.

After Qi Ruicang arrived in the United States, he contacted Chinese students he knew in the United States and some scholars he had worked with, and asked them to help introduce American companies to invest in Yubei. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, has a good academic foundation, coupled with practical experience in working in Yubei, and has some ability to motivate when negotiating with people.

Nowadays, the manufacturing industry in the United States is also facing severe survival pressure, rising labor costs make most of the manufacturing enterprises' products lose competitiveness, products from Japan, Asian tigers and some other developing countries have robbed American companies of customers, these companies want to survive, can only find a way to find a place with lower labor costs, the production line to move over.

Qi Ruicang is deeply aware of the predicament faced by American manufacturing enterprises, and he introduced the situation in Yubei to these enterprises in a targeted manner, telling them that the labor cost of Yubei is only equivalent to 1/20 of the United States, and as an old industrial base, the quality of Yubei workers is very high, not only has excellent technology, but also is very obedient to labor discipline, the latter is not possessed by workers in countries such as India and Mexico.

Qi Ruicang's investment promotion has achieved fruitful results. Seven or eight US enterprises that he led to Yubei for inspection eventually set up their landings, with an investment of more than $20 million, solving the employment problem of several thousand laid-off workers. According to the reward system of Yubei China Merchants, Qi Ruicang received a bonus equivalent to 5/1000 of the investment promotion amount, which also made up for his expenses in the United States. Qi Ruicang has also won universal respect in China Merchants because of this, after all, this kind of ability to go to the United States to bring in a group of enterprises, others do not have.

During the investment promotion period in the United States, a former classmate of Qi Ruicang introduced him to a doctoral student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, named Chen Xuan. Chen's research direction is marine engineering, and unlike other PhDs who focus on academic research, Chen's interest is entirely industrial. He invented many new technologies in marine engineering machinery, applied for dozens of patents, and after graduation, he started a business in the United States and started his own marine engineering machinery company.

Qi Ruicang talked with Chen Wei twice and learned that Chen Yun did have a lot of good technology in his hands, but the idea of starting a business in the United States was extremely unrealistic. Qi Ruicang had the idea of pulling Chen Yun back to Yubei to start a business. He took out the solution of his whole body and analyzed dozens of unfavorable factors for Chen Wei to start a business in the United States and dozens of favorable factors for returning to China to start a business, and finally made this technical nerd make up his mind, saying that he would return to China after graduation, defect to Qi Ruicang's men, and establish his own company in Yubei.

Qi Ruicang has high hopes for Chen, and even believes that Chen's company may be a key factor in the revitalization of Yubei. After returning to China, he told Feng Xiaochen about the situation several times, and discussed with Feng Xiaochen how to support Chen Su and how to make Chen Yun's enterprise develop healthily in Yubei.

Chen received his doctorate in the United States, and sure enough, he packed his bags and returned to China. Qi Ruicang got the news and rushed to the capital to meet him. Originally, they planned to go directly to Yubei to investigate, but Qi Ruicang learned that Feng Xiaochen would return to China today, so he decided to take Chen Yun to Feng Xiaochen for a walk.

Feng Xiaochen knew about Chen Yun's situation, and he said with a smile: "It is naturally very important to do academics, but it is equally important to do business. Look at Lao Qi, he was originally engaged in economic theory research, but now he has also become a director of the China Merchants Bureau and has begun to do practical work? China is now in a period of rapid development, and we need a large number of elites like Dr. Chen to devote themselves to industry and comprehensively improve the industrial level of our country. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Feng, for your encouragement. Chen Wei said, he pointed at Qi Ruicang with his finger, and said, "When Senior Brother Qi was in the United States last year, he also talked to me a lot. He said that the fastest growing place in the world is China, and China will build a large number of new ports in the future, and what I have learned can find more use in China. I think Senior Brother Qi is right, so I came back. ”

"China has the largest market in the world, and at the same time, it has the most abundant labor resources, which are all favorable conditions for Dr. Chen to start his own business. Feng Xiaochen said.

"Yes, I'm aware of that. Chen Su nodded in response.

Qi Ruicang said: "Xiao Feng, I have already had a comprehensive discussion with Chen Su yesterday, and he agreed to go to Yubei to establish his marine engineering industrial company. Our Yubei China Merchants Bureau is ready to package several enterprises such as Yubei Mining Machinery Factory and Yubei Packing Box Factory for cooperation with Chen Xuan, who has invested in technology and obtained a controlling stake. These enterprises have a certain foundation, and the workers are also ready-made, which saves the run-in cost in the early stage of entrepreneurship. ”

Feng Xiaochen said: "This plan is good, Yubei Mining Machinery Factory and Packing Box Factory, I have some understanding, their factory area is large enough, and the production equipment is also ready-made, but because the products are backward, they have suffered losses for a long time, so that they are insolvent." If Dr. Chen's technology is added and a few marketable new products are developed, it will soon be profitable. ”

"But here's the problem. Qi Ruicang said with a bitter face.

"What's the problem?" Feng Xiaochen asked with a smile, from the moment he saw Qi Ruicang, he knew that Qi Ruicang was here to help him solve the problem. When he learned that the person brought by Qi Ruicang was Chen Xuan, Feng Xiaochen had even guessed what Qi Ruicang needed him to do, to integrate several loss-making old enterprises, launch new products, capital, equipment, and markets, all of which were issues that needed to be considered.

"Money, equipment, markets. ”

Qi Ruicang spoke, and what he said was exactly what Feng Xiaochen had thought in advance.