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Bidding Announcement Day. Based on the experience of large-scale events, the Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau held a celebration ceremony, hung colorful flags and red silk all over the office area of Dahua Petrochemical, and installed microphones and rostrums, and prepared cameras and TV reporters, as if they were ready to broadcast important events live.

After Su Cheng arrived, the director of the investment promotion bureau pulled the director of the office of the city government, ran over with a smile, and asked, "Su Dong, what do you think? Is there anything to change?"

He was really just asking, and by standard it was the most upscale.

Su Cheng said without hesitation: "The rostrum is removed, the microphone is left, and the place is vacated." Also, I brought something and pasted it on. ”

When the rostrum was removed, the ceremony changed. The government officials were a little uncomfortable with this, but they couldn't resist Su Cheng, so they had to admit it with their heads down.

When the things brought by Su Cheng were pasted, they could understand that they were not going to do any rituals at all.

Because Su Cheng directly wrote the selected companies on the big-character poster in the form of posters, just like announcing the results of the college entrance examination, there is a score behind each company.

At the same time, the scoring criteria are also written on the big-character poster, so that various companies can compare.

The size of the factory, the number of employees, the amount of raw materials used in the product, the importance and scarcity of the industry, the added value of the product, the cost-to-profit ratio, the environmental protection index, the safety index, the wages of workers, the tax status, etc., are all given different scores. This is not much the same as what Sioux City said that day, only in more detail.

This way of evaluation is naturally not determined by Sioux City on a whim. It is a system made by the strategy department half a year ago to evaluate Dahua's partners and the company's value in the supply chain.

The grading criteria are expressed in numbers, which could not be clearer.

Sioux City was also relieved to wait for the representatives of each company to see the scores, and then sign the contracts separately.

Although the standard is not perfect, it is Dahua's own business, even if some people disagree. In the end, it was just a good persuasion -- after all, it was Dahua who paid the money, and people decided the standard of the money themselves, and what objections could there be.

Three moments. Even if the 100 companies are selected, they are all large factories with a scale of more than 10 million.

The director of China Merchants who was watching from the side was called a drooling person. Such an enterprise has rules in the city. Who can recruit one, the deputy section is the main department, the main department is the deputy department, and the deputy department is given a real position. If ordinary government workers can pull such an enterprise, no matter how you get it, even if it is your father's factory, you will immediately join the party and be promoted and reused.

In the state of attracting investment across the country, recruiting relatives to open factories and running factories is absolutely incompatible with the use of power for personal gain. It should also be counted in the category of "righteous annihilation".

The reason why the director of China Merchants was able to become the director of the bureau is because when he was the deputy director, he brought in more than 20 enterprises for two consecutive years, although only five of them were more than 10 million, but it also made him sit in the position of the top leader of the hot China Merchants Bureau. The current director of China Merchants can be called the throne. Although there are many dangers, there are also many opportunities, and if you do a good job, you can hope to jump to the Standing Committee in one step, and it is a shortcut to officialdom.

100 large factories with more than 10 million yuan! The director of China Merchants looked at those names, and his eyes were dizzy.

Mayor Tang found an opportunity. Grabbing Su Cheng's hand and shaking it violently, he said: "Su Dong, Dahua Industry will always be our friend! We in the whole city must strengthen study, promote development, strengthen service, and vigorously serve all enterprises." ”

After a pause, he felt that the strength was not enough, raised his hand and said: "Don't go off-topic, don't go out of tune, don't mention new slogans, we only blow the march of investment promotion." ”

Su Cheng was laughed at by his string of words, and could only grab his hand and shake it violently.

When the reporters saw it, they immediately saw a string of flashing lights, and sighed in their hearts: "The mayor is really enthusiastic, and the relationship between Dahua and the government is really good." ”

The next time is the time to sign a contract and meet.

With more than 100 companies, if you want to meet and talk individually, one day is definitely not enough. Everyone simply moved to the hotel, put the drinks on the table one by one, and then let Su Cheng hold the cup and greet them at the table.

At the same time, Chi Hai and other local entrepreneurs were invited, although they will not relocate to Haicang, as long as they are a member of Dahua's supply chain, the relationship between the two sides will naturally get closer and closer.

Su Cheng also breathed a sigh of relief, determined the bank and bank loans, determined the national policy, and now determined the source of the commodity, it can be said that everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, countries and regions, led by Russia, fell into an economic crisis caused by inflation. The original factories stopped production, the workers lost their jobs, and the families lost their financial resources, so consumption fell and production was sluggish, but the demand itself did not really decrease.

There are three main ways for the United States and other Western countries to make money from the Soviet Union: one is to make a profit directly by trading foreign exchange and gold; the other is to buy their assets at a low price and sell them as the ruble appreciates and the Russian economy improves; and the third is the most discussed financial means by conspiracy theorists, buying short and selling the ruble to make a profit.

This is actually the usual way to make money in an economic crisis. France, Germany, the United States, and China have all suffered such robberies.

Of the three means, the acquisition of Russian assets at a low price is a violation of Russian privatization regulations. No one is more stupid than anyone else, and the Russians know that they are selling their assets cheaply, but they want to sell them to their own people, not foreign predators.

For example, many large multinational groups such as Siemens have crossed the bottom line of selling assets at a low price through Russian agents, and have made a lot of profits in the early days.

However, in 20 or 30 years, the money made by these companies can only be said to be half and half.

It should be said that the coming to power of iron-blooded Putin has changed the political situation in Russia, as well as the way Russia operates politics.

This KGB-born strongman himself relied on the Russian financial monopoly oligarchy to start his business, but later peeled off the skin and bones of the financial monopoly oligarchy one by one, and was very ruthless.

It is both fortunate and tragic that Russia has such a president. Fortunately, the status of the state has been improved, the country's economy has been restored, and the tragedy is that the political heritage has been destroyed and the instability of the future has increased......

Either way, Sioux City is reluctant to make long-term investments in Russia. Even Yukos has been purged, and the fate of foreign companies is even more uncertain. What's more, China's opportunities are no less than those of Russia, and Sioux City hopes to make a hammer deal through the banking and financial system, as well as light industrial products.

Now, the last piece of the hammer handle is also in place.

December 25th.

Gorbachev made a televised speech in which he officially announced his resignation.

The flag representing the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was lowered for the last time, and the Kremlin became the political center of Russia.

Sioux City was taken to the capital for the first time.

"Elder Zhou wants to see you. Hou Haiqing drove the car and picked up Sioux City at the airport. He worked in the State Department and often liaised with ministries, but this time, his job was to liaise with Sioux City. The superiors gave him this job, most of which was also based on the relationship between the Su family. Hou Haiqing was helpless about this, he couldn't explain to his superiors that the relationship between the Su family and Su Cheng was not close.

Sioux City just nodded heavily. The expressions and mentality of the people around him inevitably affected him. Haicang is located in the south, and the workers are not so politically sensitive, and when they talk about the Soviet Union, they mostly have a playful mentality. People in Beijing are different, all kinds of emotions rush to the face, some are happy, some are disappointed, some are angry, some are numb and painful...... Just passing by the airport, you can see many men with gloomy faces, and when they come to the area where the ministries and commissions are concentrated, the officials who come and go have serious expressions......

Hou Haiqing's mood was not high, and he introduced sullenly: "Elder Zhou wants to hear you talk about the Soviet Union, and if you can, you can also talk about China's future line." Zhou Lao said, rest assured and boldly. ”

Sioux nodded slightly. This proposition is not unexpected. What was really unexpected was the timing of his pick-up to Beijing.

Less than three hours after Gorbachev spoke, he was put on a plane, and then went to see Zhou Lao non-stop...... In this way, he may be the first batch of experts to introduce the Soviet Union, and this kind of treatment is almost like a staff member.

Hou Haiqing sent Su Cheng to the back of the car, sat in the passenger seat, and observed Su Cheng through the rearview mirror.

The Soviet Union fell in the time period that Sioux City expected, in the way Sioux City expected, and the ending was the same as Sioux City expected, if it was just magical, it would be a waste of dozens of pages of research reports written by Sioux City. If this is the only time, everyone can still say that Su Cheng guessed it, but after a series of baptisms such as Middle East oil barrels, the Iraq War, and the Haicang incident, even the upper-level Zhou Lao and others remember the name of Su Cheng clearly.

In Chinese history, high-ranking officials in their 20s are not common, and there are many staff members in their 20s......

Will Su Cheng become Zhou Lao's exclusive expert on international issues? If he does a good job, he may be.

While Hou Haiqing envied Su Cheng, he put himself in his place and secretly thought: The Soviet Union has fallen, what will China do......

In 1991, this became almost a permanent proposition. But it is indeed the proposition that China needs to solve the most, and it is also the most difficult proposition to solve.

There is a surge of thought in China, and there have been countless ideas. Western countries preach the "Great Rout", and the thesis of "comprehensive Westernization" will inevitably appear in the country, and there are also "re-revolutionaries" who advocate comprehensive austerity......

Hou Haiqing thought about it, and finally shook his head. If you let him decide, forget it, let him say the reason, it will be too difficult.

Looking up again, Hou Haiqing secretly paid attention to Su Cheng, and found that his expression was normal, and he couldn't help but be impressed, and couldn't help reminding: "There are still 15 minutes to arrive, and there will be a meeting after arriving, and there will be two other people at the meeting." ”

"Understood. Su Cheng closed his eyes unexpectedly, and he looked like he was taking a nap.

For him, the conversation that followed was more like manual work.