Gu Biao has realized that when Director HeyGears comes to China to discuss investment cooperation, he may encounter an over-standard reception.

But he still didn't expect it to be so grand.

Cambridge Airport's other civil flights that morning were postponed and the terminal was closed.

The entire road of Airport Road was closed, and the evergreen trees on both sides of the road were specially pruned by the garden management department.

In Qiantang in the 80s, most of the newly planted street trees on urban roads were French paulownia. Only the evergreen camphor trees used on the airport road.

The reason why I chose this way was because 12 years ago, when Nixon and Kissinger came, it was February 27 and 28, the cold winter season. Therefore, the street trees on the airport road must be evergreen trees to ensure that the trees are green when the President of the United States passes by.

Twelve years later, the camphor along the way has become more lush and tall, and it has also come in handy in the cold winter of mid-February.

Gu Biao took Qiu Qing's arrangement and asked the bodyguards to drive and take a Mercedes-Benz convoy to the airport. After arriving, I found that Qiu Qing couldn't rank in the crowd that greeted him, and even Mayor Li couldn't get in the queue.

Because the first and second leaders of the province, including cardinals and whatever, are here.

"As for it, I've been secretary of state for almost a year, and now I'm a public relations director for a technology company. Gu Biao felt his scalp explode, but he couldn't explain it.

He knows that this is a cultural difference between China and the United States, and the Chinese always like to treat the old leaders who have retired, and still retain the respect and courtesy of the original peak.

This is a tradition in the state of etiquette, and it is not bad.

"Xiao Gu, come here. Qiu Qing had good eyes, and when he saw Gu Biao, he immediately beckoned him to go over and wait in line for the pick-up. (Compared to other officials in their fifties and sixties, young eyes are good)

A group of officials from the Foreign Trade Bureau and the Foreign Affairs Department next to him saw a young man in his early 20s, who was called to the front by Yue Zhong, the deputy in charge of economic work in the city, and his eyes were full of envy, but it only lasted for a few seconds.

Because except for those rookies who have just entered the industry and don't know the market, they will have doubts about Gu Biao's identity. Anyone else who has been an official in the city for a year or two does not know that Gu Biao, the big boss, is a student of Kissinger.

Some people who had no friendship with Gu Biao and had no reason to come to the New Year to pay their respects during the New Year, but at this moment, they were not afraid of losing face, so they came over to congratulate them.

"Boss Gu, congratulations on your Ph.D. graduation and making such a great contribution to your hometown. In the end, he was a patriot, he studied for a doctorate in Georgetown, and he returned to China for reimbursement. ”

Gu Biao was a little embarrassed: "The country cultivated me, I just did what I was supposed to do." The special plane is coming soon, let's line up quietly. ”

The commotion gradually subsided, and twenty minutes later, a Boeing 707 modified special plane slowly landed on the runway.

The range of the Boeing 707 is not to fly the Pacific Ocean, and it was originally designed to be used only for transatlantic flights. So if you fly from the United States to China, you have to refuel in Anchorage, Alaska.

As soon as the plane stopped, a battery-powered gangway on the side of the runway immediately leaned over, and there was a large red carpet in the tail compartment of the gangway.

"We very much welcome the efforts of Director HeyGears for the friendship and win-win cooperation between China and the United States, and please allow me to express my welcome to you on behalf of the people of Wu Yue. A local leader took the lead in stepping out of the crowd and shook hands with each other two or three times.

Then there are other people in order of level, which is similar to those shots on "News Series", so I won't go into details.

The provincial TV stations and newspapers are of course full of cameras. Even people from CCTV and Xinhua News Agency's Wuyue branch came.

Although Haig was a little surprised, fortunately, he was also a person who had been secretary of state for nearly two years, had seen the world, was very good at being a person, and would not express his disgust with red tape in person.

He just said repeatedly: "I am only here to invest in the inspection on behalf of UTC this time, just to investigate, and not to make any commitments." ”

But no one cares about this, and it seems that his ability to come is already a major positive proof of the city's value.

Gu Biao clearly heard someone he didn't know whispering next to him: "Even if you only go shopping and don't invest in the end, what's the matter, if you are willing to come to investigate, you have a long face, and Hujiang next door has not been invited yet." ”

When Gu Biao heard this, he couldn't help but wonder.

It turned out that the former secretary of state who came to the United States to inspect it could be used as a city card to prove the strength of the local area in 84.

But think about it, if a city has been inspected by the former US Secretary of State about the investment environment, as long as it symbolically invests in a few projects, it will definitely be made into a "historical performance" similar to the bidding documents by the municipal department in the future.

In the future, when other foreign businessmen come to inspect and show off this historical achievement, maybe it will be able to promote the later foreigners to invest money decisively. This is also a manifestation of the Matthew effect.

When Haig was close to the 20th person, it was Qiu Qing and Gu Wei's turn. The moment he saw Gu Biao, Haig's eyes lit up, and after shaking hands, he patted him on the shoulder, leaned his face sideways, and whispered softly:

"Gu, thanks to you for getting William Clark. Originally, I was going to ask Clark to talk to him personally and see if I could relax the censorship elsewhere - anyway, you did it for me, and Chairman Oakville was very satisfied. ”

Gu Biao smiled lightly: "Yes, then the next time I go back to Seattle for a vacation, I must invite Chairman Oakville to sit in person - in fact, when I was flipping houses in Vancouver the year before last, I knew Chairman Oakville."

At that time, I had just bought an island in Seattle, and I made a cameo appearance as an island owner during my vacation, and the chairman of Oakville was very enthusiastic and helped me meet many friends in the Seattle circle. ”

In the end, of course, Gu Biao also wanted to invite Haig himself to have the opportunity to go to his private island to play in the future.

The conversation between the two was in English, and it was a private conversation that no interpreter was allowed to interject, so the other elderly officials could not understand it.

Only Qiu Qing is a college student in the mid-60s, and his spoken English is not bad, and he listens to the conversation between Gu Biao and Haig, and he has a little more understanding of Gu Biao's strength.

Xiao Gu's power and connections are really intertwined, is this the terrible circle of friends accumulated by studying with the former US Secretary of State for two years?

As for the female reporters of the Wuyue branch of the Xinhua News Agency, they excitedly took the camera and clicked to take pictures of all the scenes of Gu Biao and Haig's cordial conversation.

"Sure enough, there is big news following Gu Biao, the energy of this person cannot be measured according to the traditional thinking in China, and even the former US Secretary of State seems to have such a good relationship. The reporters wondered.

(It's not good to write a lot about the words and deeds of the leader, so let's get over it like this.) ）

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The convoy returned to the city, sightseeing along the way, pulling to the lake on Nanshan Road, the mysterious guest house that was made more than ten years ago by the flower port to watch fish, and had a banquet to investigate and make friends.

The specific process will not be repeated.

Gu Biao was also pulled by the leaders to act as a translator for Director Haig, and he was also allowed to play freely, give full play to his subjective initiative, and act cheaply to mediate.

It's just that there will be a full-time translator from the leader, who will listen carefully on the side, confirm whether Gu Biao's translation is wrong, what private goods he carries, and whisper in the leader's ear from time to time.

In any case, this is also from "pre-review" to "post-filing", and it can be fully seen that the leadership really wants to give full play to Gu Ao's friendship with Haige to provide better conditions and make more achievements for investment.

In the afternoon of the same day, the two sides first finalized the establishment of a joint venture between Otis Elevator Company, a subsidiary of UTC, and a local mechanical and electrical state-owned enterprise in Qiantang to operate elevator business in China.

The conclusion of the discussion for the time being is that the newly established joint venture company is called Xizi Otis. The U.S. side holds 60% of the shares, and the Chinese side holds 40% of the shares, and the U.S. side has the decision-making power over specific operations. As for the equipment, the US will send a compliance team to review it, and only those that can be used will be needed, and those that do not meet the technical standards will be eliminated.

At the same time, the provincial and municipal levels have also given some off-the-market gestures in terms of business support, such as stating that in the next 5 years, all government engineering procurement projects in the province, where elevators are used, will give priority to the purchase of Xizi Otis products. For private engineering projects, it is recommended to purchase elevators of this brand.

Other details will be discussed later.

In fact, the province and city don't really care about how much money this joint venture can make, but they just hope to use this project as a guarantee to bring reputation and cards to the local government.

In this way, even if the Pratt & Whitney project does not succeed in the end and only becomes an Otis, the relevant departments of Qiantang City can still boast of "reaching a strategic investment cooperation with the American giant UTC Group", at least carrying this banner.

Therefore, Gu Biao completed this matter so smoothly, and in the eyes of the relevant provincial and municipal leaders, he is really a model who can and can do things.

Director Haig drank the reception wine that night, and first reported the good news of the first step to the chairman of UTC Oakville.

Over the next two or three days, the two sides were divided into two negotiation teams, one group continued to finalize the details of the Xizi Audis project, and the other group began negotiations on Pratt & Whitney's factory in China to transfer the JD-3 series turbofan engine production line.

The Pratt & Whitney negotiations are troublesome, because there are many sensitive points involved in the technology, and the domestic industrial base is also poor. Even if Gu Biao got William Clark and asked the Americans to move the engine assembly line over, Pratt & Whitney still didn't feel at ease about putting the most core process links such as turbofan blade materials and the overall stamping of the combustion chamber into China.

Especially the blade, because the blade process and material are universal, not only the latest JD3 model may use this blade, but also the PW4062 series uses this blade.

If the process leaks, won't the Chinese be able to make blades that represent the cutting-edge aviation turbofan engine technology of the United States in the future, and the Americans are very clear about this account - he is willing to transfer a Boeing aircraft level engine production line 20 years ago, that is, the part that keeps pace with the times cannot be leaked to you.

But the Chinese can't say that this is worthless, because in addition to the really immature, research and development of the Y-10, China is still zero in terms of large aircraft, and it is also beneficial to give you an American 20 years ago to explore the engine production line.

Even for such a cooperation, the province finally went to the Beijing running department, got through a lot of relationships, and even asked the relevant departments of civil aviation to put on a fake action of "if the engine price is reduced, it is possible to resume the purchase of Boeing 707 and reduce the intention to order Tu-154".

Gu Biao was in Qiantang and accompanied him for three or four days of negotiations, and it was about to be the Lantern Festival. He repeatedly told Qiu Qing that with the end of the winter vacation, he should go to the capital first and complete the formalities after graduation and handover.

Qiu Qing also helped him ask for favors, and the local leaders let him go.

When Gu Biao was leaving, Qiu Qing personally sent him to the airport, and he didn't forget to take care of him:

"Xiao Gu, it's better for you to go back to the capital as soon as possible, now it's more blunt for the civil aviation side to cooperate with the acting. The people sent by the province to run the department were also ineffective, and the Americans felt that the sweetness was not big enough and was secretive. When you go to the capital, just take it as a help over there, if my brother needs your help in an emergency, he will call you, don't drop the chain. Your cousin has already arranged for him to go to Xizi Otis to be a technical management cadre, and see him create it himself. ”