Zhao Jiajia This is the first time to set foot in this piece of Africa.

In the past, I had only seen some pictures of this land in TV documentaries, such as deserts, tropical rainforests, grasslands, and so on.

There are also people who are poor and hungry, who have died of war and disease.

She didn't see the desert, the rainforests and the grasslands, and certainly not the war and the hungry people, but the backward countryside.

Africa is a very vast world, country A is only a corner of this vast world, there is no particularly obvious African landform characteristics here, which can make people realize that this is African, that is, the skin color of the common people.

Poor and backward, even poorer than the poorest rural areas Zhao Jiajia saw when she was a child, many houses are low thatched houses, and there is no transportation construction in all directions.

They went from the capital of country A to the province where Santos was located, and the place they were going to was a resort opened by Wang Yongyuan by the sea, which was relatively far away.

If it's a highway, it doesn't take a long time to drive there, but most of the road is dirt and potholes, uneven, and stumbling along the way, which is very hard.

They also had soldiers from the army to escort the convoy.

Such an important guest must be protected by soldiers, otherwise no one can guarantee what will happen.

Santos's father was originally a general in country A, and he was also the chief of a tribe, with his own army, and a lot of power in the local area, belonging to the kind of warlord-like existence, and having the ability to transfer some soldiers to protect.

Their relationship with the government is not so clearly subordinate, but more of a peaceful coexistence.

Country A does not have particularly strong local jurisdiction, and in some places the regime simply does not pay attention to the government's orders, and the forces running for president have similar backgrounds.

This is the case in many countries.

Santos hopes that when he is elected president, he will strengthen the power of the government, eliminate those local separatist forces, and form a strong central government.

Only in this way can we better lead the people to engage in the economy and make a grand plan that is beneficial to the whole country.

But he also knew that, at least in his first term, he didn't have that ability to do something like that.

It's not that the presidents of those in front of them are not ignorant of this truth, and they are also incapable of accomplishing such a feat.

- At least, if someone else were president, he would not want a strong government to suppress his family's interests.

He told Gu Mu that after he was elected, what he could do in one term was to build a special economic zone in the area that the family could actually control, so that the people of the whole country could see the benefits of developing industry, so that they could drive public opinion and hope to be re-elected president.

At the same time, it can also mobilize such public opinion, eliminate the forces of local resistance, let industrialization spread to all parts of the country, and drive the country's economy to take off.

It can be seen that in his policy program, the special economic zone promised by the Jinshan Investment Company is very important to him, and it is the foundation for him to do a good job in the country's economy, and the basis for whether he can be re-elected.

As long as the country's economy can really be improved, those ordinary people are not stupid, and of course they will continue to support his election as president, rather than supporting those political swindlers who can only talk nonsense.

In this way, he will be able to realize his political ambitions.

It can be seen that Santos really wants to make the country richer and stronger.

In this regard, Gu Mu repeatedly stressed that as long as Santos can be elected and can carry out the promises made to invigorate the economy, the $5 billion promised by the Jinshan Investment Company will be in place according to the time they originally promised, and he also briefed Santos on the sale of some overseas assets by the Jinshan Investment Company during this period of time.

There is no doubt that such a sale is to realize the assets and use them to invest in country A.

"Kingsoft Investment's enthusiasm for investing in the land of Africa is obvious to all," Gu Mu said, "as long as you can be elected president and can implement your executive program of economic priority, we will dare to invest the maximum amount of money here." ”

Of course, Santos's team also knows about this, which is related to the success or failure of their campaign, and will definitely track the direction of Jinshan Investment's assets.

The situation introduced by Gu Mu is indeed similar to what they know, which also gives Santos greater confidence in Jinshan Investment Company's commitment to achieve it.

He assured Gu Mu that as long as he could be elected, he would give priority to the development of the economy and industry.

At the same time, he also told Gu Mu about the industrial projects that he hoped Jinshan Investment Company could invest in, which were basically some relatively basic industrial projects.

Under normal circumstances, there will not be any big consortium to make such investments, because these basic industrial projects are basically sunset industries, which belong to industries that have been eliminated in developed countries, and have little future.

Although it has not been eliminated in the African continent and still has a certain practical value, the profits are also quite meager.

To put it mildly, investing in these industries is even better than depositing that investment in a bank for interest, which has a greater level of security.

To be able to have a part of the meager profits, it is also to control the price of labor, if the price of labor is high, it will become a loss.

However, for country A, they must have their own basic industries, and then slowly form their own industrial system on top of these basic industries, with a certain number of skilled workers and researchers, so that they can slowly become bigger and stronger.

-- This is the old road of China's reform.

The development of high-tech industries in one step sounds wonderful, but it is just a dream.

Because those high-tech and new science and technology industries cannot recruit corresponding technical personnel in country A at all, they will not provide much help to solve the employment problem in country A, and will not play much role in achieving the goal of rejuvenating the country through industry.

Those basic industries need a large number of workers, can effectively solve the employment problem, and can also train skilled workers, which is the most important way to improve a country's industrial level and economic level.

For these industries, Santos promises preferential treatment on land and taxes.

Tax exemption for the first three years, and only half of the tax for the next two years.

The three exemptions and two halves were also learned from Huaxia.

In this regard, Gu Mu said: "You can sort out a report and send it to the company, so that they can prepare it in advance." ”

It just so happens that there are a lot of backward production capacity to be transferred in Huaxia, and it is easy to find a docking manufacturer.