Chapter 146 Investment Turmoil

Gu Mu's series of speeches on Weibo also caused a lot of repercussions.

This is tantamount to confirming that he wants to invest $5 billion in country A to help country A develop its industry.

He is not an ordinary lip talker, and now his identity is the chairman of Jinshan Investment Company, and making such a statement on his Weibo is binding.

If the promises made at that time are not kept, it will have a big impact on his reputation.

A person who engages in business has no credibility and casually talks big, and that would be a very terrible thing.

The investment quota of 5 billion US dollars may not be a big deal in those big countries, but investing in a poor African country like country A is definitely a big deal.

After Gu Mu came forward to endorse the $5 billion investment, the news quickly spread to country A.

Although country A is poor, not all people are poor, and some of them can live the same, with access to the Internet, education, and modern education.

Every country has its elite.

This news has caused a relatively large repercussion among the elite of country A.

If this is true, the investment of 5 billion US dollars will be used to develop industry, then the economic improvement of country A is very huge, and the industrial development of this country can be improved by leaps and bounds.

In particular, the investment was not directed at the mineral resources of country A, but at industrial development.

Investing in mining is not of much benefit to most people.

But investing in industrial development is different, in addition to boosting the economy, it can also create a lot of jobs.

This has made Santos very popular in country A.

The people who can pull in so much money are the heroes of this country.

They also noted that the premise of Jinshan Investment Company's willingness to invest so much money is that Santos can be elected president and can fulfill his policy platform.

In other words, if Santos is not elected president, the $5 billion investment will not exist.

In order to get that $5 billion investment, Santos would have to become the president of country A.

It is not one or two people who want to run for president in country A, but there are several people and several forces.

Among them is the current president, who is also seeking re-election.

Now all of a sudden, the news that Santos has attracted $5 billion in investment has made several other forces very dissatisfied.

They don't attract as much investment.

No big capitalist gives money for nothing, and he must see the benefits before he invests it.

To be honest, with the current situation of country A, investing 5 billion US dollars to develop industry is very unreliable and has huge risks.

There is a political risk, and there is a risk that this comes from a poor society.

There are many industrialists in the world who have invested in Africa, but very few can make money, and the biggest dilemma they face at that time is that the factories are open and they cannot recruit qualified workers.

It was supposed to be for cheap labor, and I went there to invest, but it turned out that cheap labor was not useful at all.

On the one hand, because of laziness and different cultures, many locals think that if they can earn enough money to support their meals and drinks that day, they should leave work.

There are many absenteeisms, and they cannot be punished, and the punishment will cause great public security problems.

On the other hand, because of the serious lack of education, there is no way to involve the local people in some jobs.

If you recruit people from other countries to work, the cheapness of labor will not be reflected, and the labor cost will be much higher than in other countries.

- It is impossible for people to leave their homeland and go to a poor and backward country to earn a lower salary than they did in their hometown.

Without higher wages, it is impossible to get people to work abroad, and it is not enough to be twice as tall.

Not to mention, the more backward the place, the more serious the administrative corruption, and the serious lack of supporting facilities for industry.

In this case, investing $5 billion in industry is basically throwing that $5 billion into it.

Wang Yongyuan dared to invest so much money in it, because there was a huge value of super gold mine there, and 5 billion US dollars could be thrown into it, and he could buy a stable, that is, a very profitable business.

Even if the $5 billion is invested, he won't be able to earn a penny, and he won't lose money.

It is equivalent to spending $5 billion to buy a Ping An.

As long as he controls the jobs of many workers in this country, his position in this country will be strong.

Other capitalists don't have a super gold mine of that magnitude, and if they invest $5 billion into it, they basically throw it there and don't want to come back.

No one's money is blown by the wind.

No matter how hard those forces tried, they couldn't attract so much investment, and there was no way to compete with Santos in this regard.

So they had to do something else to stop it from happening.

Their choice was to accuse Huaxia of rigging the election of country A.

That is to politicize and internationalize the issue.

Because according to what they have learned, Western countries do not want China to have more influence in Africa.

They are raising such a banner in the hope that the international community will exert pressure on Jinshan Investment Company to cancel such investment commitments.

Or compete with Gold Mountain Investment and invest more than $5 billion to support their industrial development and eliminate Santos' advantage.

However, country A is not an important country, it does not have important strategic resources, nor does it have an important strategic topography, and it cannot attract some political investment.

Although there are some countries that are very wrong with China, if they want to spend billions of dollars to snipe at a Chinese businessman for the sake of country A, an insignificant and poor country, they will not do it.

Country A is not that important and is not worth the cost to them.

However, it is possible to criticize public opinion.

I'm afraid it won't play any substantive role, at least it can disgust Huaxia.

This is a very good subject matter for hyping up the "Chinese threat theory".

In the past few days, many mainstream media in the West have reported on this incident, accusing China of using commercial means to manipulate the election situation of country A, with very sinister intentions.

Some even refer to this as a Chinese colonial method.

Of course, the parties concerned did not admit such a thing.

- because in fact they are also confused.

This is Wang Yongyuan's private operation, and it has nothing to do with the ghosts of the relevant departments, of course they don't want to take the blame, so when asked by reporters, they said that they didn't know about it, and seriously vetoed that accusation, thinking that it was a slander against Huaxia:

"As we all know, Jinshan Investment Company is not a state-owned enterprise, it is a private company registered abroad, and all the capital is private, and there is no state-owned capital background. To forcibly interpret this commercial choice of private companies as an act of the government is a very despicable means and we seriously condemn it!"

"Where an international investment company is going to invest, what industry to invest in, and how much money to invest in are normal business practices, and we don't think we should interpret this beyond the scope of business. ”