Monday, November 10, 1980.

Dongcheng, Beijing, No. 2 East Chang'an Street, that is, the first house number on the south side of the street from the TA Gate to the east.

This is where the headquarters of several ministries and commissions, including the Foreign Investment Commission/Ministry of Foreign Trade, are located.

Gu Biao has been here more than once, but he was an intern before.

He was holding his file. Including the bachelor's and master's degree certificates that were issued just two days ago.

Walked into the office of the Personnel Division.

Seeing a female clerk, Gu Biao politely went over and handed over his materials:

"Hello comrade, I am from the Foreign Affairs University, and I have made an appointment to report today. ”

Female clerks have to receive a lot of people every day, not only new colleagues who come to report, but also those who complain about their treatment and even ask for room in line.

Things are very complicated, so it's impossible to keep in mind which new colleagues are coming every day, so you can only look through the relevant documents when you encounter one thing.

In the era when computers were not popular, human resources work was originally done like this, and it was normal for the efficiency to be low.

Gu Biao's face, the first impression it gives people, is just terrifyingly young.

This 18-year-old young man actually graduated from the Foreign Affairs Academy with a master's degree and then came to the Foreign Investment Commission to officially report for work! Who told him to go to university at the age of 15, and he only attended one semester in his freshman year.

It must be shady—— if it is placed in the Internet era in the future, there will definitely be many people who spray like this.

However, as a person who opens his eyes to the world, Gu Xiao's own acceptance of the younger cadres is still relatively high - it's just that Chinese like to talk about seniority, so cadres are older. Looking at the world, it is not uncommon for cattle to succeed in politics at a young age.

For example, on the other side of the ocean in the United States, Clinton, a 68-year-old senior in the Department of Foreign Affairs at Georgetown University, became the state attorney general at the age of 29 and the governor at the age of 32 seven years after graduating from the bachelor's degree. I haven't seen the American people criticize the shady scene, right?

(Compare Clinton's achievements to China, a 29-year-old director and a 32-year-old high-ranking official, I'm afraid they can scare people to death.) ）

The female clerk was extremely curious and handled Gu Wei's materials.

When she carefully looked at Gu Ao's resume and the corresponding to-do documents, she couldn't help but be in awe.

"Director Gu, please come here, I'll take you to get the office key first. I'll send you the specific formalities later. ”

"You're welcome. Gu Biao nodded slightly, and followed behind the other party.

As she walked, the female clerk politely turned her head sideways to explain, and controlled her pace, trying her best to walk side by side with Gu Biao: "Your arrangements, the director and the deputy director have explained, and I will take you to the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Division and the Taiwan Assets Management Office in a while." After you join the company, you will be the deputy director of the Taiwan Capital Management Office, but our Foreign Investment Commission is highly appointed, so once the probation period has passed, it will be treated at the department level. ”

In 1980, in addition to the functional division-level internal organs such as the General Office, the Policy Research Office, the Personnel Department, the Finance Department, and the Supervision Department, the Foreign Investment Commission mainly had the following departments in the business fields:

Department of Treaties and Law (in charge of international treaties on foreign investment cooperation), Department of Foreign Investment Management, Department of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Investment Management, Department of Foreign Aid, Department of Foreign Investment Cooperation......

In addition, there are also some nondescript ad hoc institutions, such as the "Silk Quota Coordination Office" and the "Office of Foreign Cooperation in the Electromechanical and Technological Industries". They are all specific to certain industries that need to be supported, and the special establishment of counterpart departments can be regarded as the characteristics of this era of chaotic management.

Gu Biao was transferred to the management department of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, apparently fine-tuned in combination with his merits and ability characteristics during the internship stage - because a year ago, he cooperated with the CITIC Trust Bureau and completed the first Hong Kong dollar trust bond, and later made a model project, received a delegation of the chaebol and contributed to the first yen trust bond of 30 billion yen.

Therefore, the Foreign Investment Commission feels that he has some skills and ability to introduce funds from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and it is not known.

While he was pondering the above intentions, the clerkess reminded him again:

"Director Gu, although the national law is not very clear at present, since you are an official official of the foreign investment department, and some businesses involving related fields, you had better not engage in business behavior in person, it is a violation of discipline......

"I understand, I've already turned out. I am also not engaged in Hong Kong or Taiwan-related business. Gu Biao agreed, signaling that he would not make it difficult for the leader.

He has a cousin who is studying international business law at Columbia University, and this kind of legal work to disguise the real shareholder can of course be easily handled, and there is no need to repeat the details.

At the same time, he doesn't put his eggs in one basket. Whether it is his cousin Lu Guangfu, his sister Gu Min, or Han Ting, Gu Biao can disperse and disguise a part of the equity, and at the same time ensure full control in the form of mortgage convertible bonds.

Of course, this model will not be able to continue in the long run, but there will be no major problems in two or three years, as long as the value of your equity does not explode too quickly.

After clarifying the basic situation, Gu Biao had already been taken to his office.

It is a two-person shared office, and there are two deputy directors working here, which can also be seen that it is "not easy to live in a big place" on Chang'an Street, and the deputy director does not have his own independent office, and the director and above can do it.

"Director Xiao, this is the new Director Gu, who just graduated from the Foreign Affairs University. As soon as the female clerk entered the door, she first introduced Gu Biao and her colleagues to each other.

Deputy Director Xiao on the opposite side is a flat-headed man about 35 years old, and when he saw Gu Biao for the first time, he was also greatly visually impacted.

I thought that the deputy director who was 35 years old and had been treated at the department level was already considered to be a talented person, but the guy opposite was half younger than him.

"Brother Xiao is good, I will take care of you in the future. Gu Biao took the initiative to shake hands with the other party, and then scattered a box of five-pack "white-haired girl" cigars on the table.

"Xiao Gu, tsk, so young. My name is Xiao Zheng, you're welcome. Deputy Director Xiao said, took the initiative to pick up two cigars, felt the fire, and lit it for himself and Gu Biao.

"Director Xu is in a meeting, and I will convey the spirit of the meeting to everyone in the department in the afternoon, and I will officially introduce you to you at that time. There are not many people in the department, there are three departments in total, and there are only a dozen people.

I heard that you used to be with the deputy director of ** and the director of the 'Electromechanical and Science and Technology Industry Foreign Cooperation Office', right? I have vaguely heard about several of your achievements. ”

(Note: Don't underestimate the "machine office", although the suffix is just an office, but people are at the bureau level.) Moreover, it was formed by the merger of a bunch of "foreign affairs bureaus" of the Ministry of Industry, such as the First Machinery Department to the N Machine Department, during the restructuring last year.

Including the unspeakable task of breaking through the blockade of the Pap ash zone, this office must also be involved. In the center, there are many units in the name of offices, but in fact, the level is frighteningly high. ）

"Don't dare to be, it's just the right time. Gu Biao hurriedly humbled himself.

Xiao Zheng smiled and teased: "To tell the truth, Lao Bao has a future than Director Xu, and he is a person who will be promoted again in a year or two." However, you just graduated, and there is no place for the mechanical science office, so I will give you a bridge here first.

I also know that you won't stay long, as long as you make meritorious contributions, you can be transferred at any time. Even if you don't make meritorious contributions, you will be able to stay up for half a year at most and work a little hard, and you will be leveled down. ”

Gu Biao humbly asked: "I would like to hear the details." ”

Xiao Zheng waved his cigar and signaled: "The Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Division, at the beginning of the year, it was only called the Hong Kong and Macao Division, and the situation was still unclear at that time, and the country did not dare to mention the introduction of Taiwanese capital. Therefore, the Taiwan Capital Office was just established in the fourth quarter, and all of them were drawn out of thin air, and there were many vacancies.

The machine science office is a mature business, a radish and a pit, and it is difficult to add a deputy director out of thin air. The people over there have done a good job and have not made mistakes, and they are directly transferred to the Taiwan capital office to make room for your newcomers, which will offend more people. When you, who are also the deputy director, sit down and adjust flatly, it won't look dazzling. ”

Gu Biao suddenly realized that it seemed that his inspection period was about to be spent in the Taiwan Capital Office. Everything can only be blamed on the rules of officialdom.

In the early days of opening up, the mainland's use of external capital was also implemented in stages, with Hong Kong and Japanese capital being the earliest, because there were no policy risk obstacles at all, and the other side was willing to come.

In the early days, those who went to the Special Economic Zone to invest money were basically wealthy people in Hong Kong. And Taiwanese capital is involved in the trough period brought about by the formal establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in January 79 and the severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Taiwan.

Eighty-two years later, with the contact of Director Liao, the situation has loosened somewhat, but Taiwanese investors do not want to go to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and even the Pearl River Delta, which have been entrenched by Hong Kong capital.

Historically, until 84 years, after Deng Weiren publicly stated that "the experience of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange proves that the decision to build a special zone is correct", the list of the second batch of open cities in the mainland was announced. Then, Taiwanese capital concentrated on the opening frontier of Gusu and began to pour into the Yangtze River Delta in large quantities.

Later, on the "Top 100 Counties Economic List" in China for 30 years, the reason why Kunshan, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Gusu, continued to top the list was because it was a breakthrough for Taiwanese capital to concentrate and vent.

It can be said that the Pearl River Delta is the rear base camp of Hong Kong capital, while the Yangtze River Delta is the base camp of Taiwan capital.

"Being arranged to such a unit, it is a bit troublesome to want to make meritorious contributions, and it is impossible for Taiwan capital to be successfully introduced in the past two years, so I can only do some transactional work......

At present, for Taiwan businessmen, investing in the mainland is almost equivalent to being identified as a 'mutiny' on the other side of the strait, and the risk is too great. Unless there is a great temptation for him to abandon his business roots in Wanwan and move his family to Xiangjiang after investing, it is impossible to come to the mainland ......"

Gu Biao pondered about his work in the short term, and couldn't help but give up a little.

Forget it, if you don't have a chance, you can mess around.

Grinding for half a year, doing some basic transactional work diligently. As soon as the inspection period has passed, the treatment will be turned positive.

Even if you apply for a leave of absence without pay to study for a doctorate at that time, it is nothing - going directly to a doctorate as a fresh graduate, and then going to study for a doctorate after a deputy director who has already been treated at the county and department level, the effect and nature are completely different.

Gu Biao was thinking about it, and spent half a day with his colleagues for a little bit of interpersonal relationships. I went to the canteen with Xiao Zheng to have lunch together, and waited for Director Xu to convey the spirit of the committee meeting in the afternoon.