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Soon after, Lin Qi and Rong Jian boarded a car arranged by the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, and in addition to this, there were also police motorcycles opening the road in front of them, as if foreign leaders were visiting China.

The group arrived at the Friendship Hotel, which is one of the designated hotels in Beijing to entertain foreign guests.

In this era, China was still relatively conservative, and overseas people could not choose hotels at will, but needed to stay in some hotels designated to entertain foreign guests according to the arrangement, such as the Friendship Hotel, Beijing Hotel, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse......

The Diaoyutai State Guesthouse is the most common in news broadcasts, and it is generally occupied by visiting foreign heads of state.

Beijing Hotel is also a high-grade hotel. Of course, it's more about setting up a banquet than arranging accommodation.

The grade of the Friendship Hotel is relatively low, and generally overseas businessmen, scholars, or foreign guests who are not enough to stay in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse will be arranged to the Friendship Hotel.

Of course, the Friendship Hotel is only inferior to the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, in fact, the service level is about the same.

Nominally, the Friendship Hotel is a three-star hotel, but its specifications are almost comparable to a five-star hotel. The charging level is also in line with international standards. Standard room is available at RMB 120 per day. Business suites with toilets and reception rooms are charged at 480 yuan.

Lin Qi and Rong Jian would not choose the most expensive suite in order to pretend, but only booked two ordinary standard rooms. After all, this price is not cheap, and their money is not blown by the wind.

Of course, as a designated unit to entertain foreign guests, the Friendship Hotel does not accept RMB, only foreign exchange coupons. Foreign exchange coupons, on the other hand, are exchanged in foreign currency at the official exchange rate.

Neither Lin Qi nor Yung Jian had foreign exchange coupons, but they did have Hong Kong dollars. At the official exchange rate at this time, HK$3.25 is given for 1 foreign exchange coupon. Although foreign exchange coupons are not too common in China, they can also be spent, and moreover, they are more popular than the renminbi.

Theoretically, 1 foreign exchange coupon is equal to 1 RMB, but since foreign currency vouchers do not require a plan ticket for purchases, they are more valuable than RMB. Domestic black market 1 foreign exchange coupons can be exchanged for at least 1.3 yuan, and sometimes, even 1.5 yuan!

Lin Qi and Rong Jian each exchanged 10,000 yuan for foreign exchange coupons for accommodation and entertainment in domestic hotels during this period. At once, he earned more than 60,000 Hong Kong dollars, and if he exchanged US dollars, he also had more than 10,000 US dollars, which made the leaders of the Friendship Hotel very attentive.

You must know that in this era, about half of China's foreign exports rely on the Canton Fair. The Canton Fair is held twice a year, which makes the local hotels in Guangzhou overcrowded.

However, the hotels in the capital are relatively deserted, and they can't entertain many foreign guests in a year. Therefore, the task of generating foreign exchange is also very difficult.

In recent years, earning foreign exchange through exports has even been praised more than making profits! Many enterprises, even if they lose money, are willing to export their products in exchange for foreign exchange!

This is because, if ordinary enterprises and units earn 1 million yuan a year in exports, then in most cities, the mayor can treat them as a guest of honor, and when they hold a meeting of the people's congress deputies, they can be proud of themselves! And in this era, they can go sideways in the province by earning 10 million yuan in exports......

The reason why foreign exchange is important is because after the reform and opening up, many equipment needs to be imported with foreign exchange, and foreign companies do not recognize RMB!

Therefore, it is necessary to obtain foreign exchange resources through commodity export earnings, or domestic services such as entertaining foreign guests. However, we will concentrate our foreign exchange and introduce advanced technology and equipment.

For example, when Baosteel imported a set of equipment, the country's foreign exchange reserves immediately changed from a foreign exchange deposit balance of $840 million in 79 to -$1.296 billion in 80 years.

The accumulation of foreign exchange earnings from exports in one year is not enough for the first phase of Baosteel's project. From this, it can be seen to what extent the country's foreign exchange shortage is......

At this time, the Friendship Hotel covers an area of more than 300,000 square meters, with more than 1,900 guest rooms, and at the same time, there are more than 20 halls that can hold large banquets for 3,000 people.

Each hall has a different style, which can meet the aesthetics of guests from different countries and nationalities around the world. There are thousands of staff in the whole hotel, and the chefs are all national chefs, and any chef brought to Hong Kong can become a chef in a five-star hotel.

Nominally, it is just a three-star hotel, but to be honest, how many specifications of a large number of parallel five-star hotels can reach the level of friendship hotels?

During his stay at the Friendship Hotel, Lin Qi was most satisfied with the food and drink.

For less than 100 yuan a day, you can taste different styles of food from all over the world in the morning, noon and evening.

In terms of alcohol, it is also cheap to make Lin Qi secretly cool, a bottle of Moutai is only 8 yuan a bottle, even if Lin Qi is not a drunkard, he has to hold Moutai and drink until he is drunk.

Moreover, it basically costs nothing to eat, because ...... It was all the officials in the capital who spent money to entertain them, and for several days in a row, at noon and evening, a group of officials came, and then, everyone ate and drank at the wine table.

However, the matter of investing in the construction of the factory has been repeatedly shirked, and the officials present said that they are responsible for hospitality, not negotiations.

This made Lin Qi a little dissatisfied!

Rong Jian knew a little, pulled Lin Qi and said quietly: "Domestic officials are like this, and their usual salary income is not enough for a meal. You see, most of the officials who come to entertain us every day are fresh faces, and I am afraid that officials from different departments want to take turns to recruit us. If you don't wait for them to eat and drink well, the negotiators won't be there!"

"......" Lin Qi couldn't help but be speechless, the atmosphere of eating and drinking at public expense has already appeared in this era.

Officials in this era are only poor and can't eat a few good meals at home throughout the year, so they eat a few more good meals when they find an opportunity.

Of course, this trend cannot be raised, and now we have begun to consciously eat and drink public money to take advantage of the public, and in the long run, the moral bottom line will gradually break downward. The big greed in the future will come out of this kind of greed for eating and drinking.

Lin Qi doesn't hate bureaucrats, it's okay to eat and drink, and even, he can pay the bills without the need for public money to entertain. But the problem is efficiency, it was originally a serious matter of negotiation, but for several days in a row, no one could be found to talk about things, but there were a bunch of officials who had nothing to do with the negotiation to eat and drink, what was it like.

The country is in ruins, and Lin Qi also has a lucrative business waiting to be dealt with. Eating and drinking like this every day is not only a waste of Lin Qi's time and life, but also a waste of the country's precious development time!

You know, China's best development opportunities are also during the honeymoon between China and the United States in the late 70s and 80s. In this era, due to the acquiescence of the United States, a large number of blocked technologies have entered China. As long as China has foreign exchange, it can import a lot of technology and equipment that was blocked against China in the past!

With such a good opportunity, shouldn't we work more efficiently and get things done as much as possible?

But these bureaucrats who just eat and don't do things make Lin Qi feel very disappointed!

Therefore, at a banquet, Lin Qi couldn't help but slap the table to express strong dissatisfaction, and said: "Leaders, I accept everyone's warm hospitality. The meals these days were also very tasty. But I always feel that eating and drinking like this is not a thing...... After all, we were invited by the state to invest and set up factories, not for food and drink! You must know that the country is in ruins, we waste eating and drinking here, and the project cannot be implemented earlier, which has caused huge losses to the country and to us investors!"

"I've been to Shenzhen before, and what was a small fishing village a few years ago is growing rapidly. Of course, the scale of Shenzhen's economy and city cannot be compared with Hong Kong, and it is also very shabby compared with Beijing and Guangzhou. However, I am sure that Shenzhen is ten times more dynamic and efficient than Beijing, and much higher than Hong Kong. Some workers in Hong Kong, who travel back and forth between the two places, find that new projects are being started in Shenzhen almost every day, and they are changing every moment. The efficiency over there is shockingly fast, and although it is still very backward, I dare say that in a few decades, it will continue to maintain this efficiency, and it is possible to surpass not only the capital, but also Hong Kong to become the most developed city in Asia. Why" because of that city, there is a popular adage - time is money, efficiency is life!"

"In Shenzhen, I feel that time is being used more efficiently, and my life is not wasted. However, eating and drinking in the capital in the past few days made me feel a great waste of time and life. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, it's not that I don't give face, but I really don't have much time to consume, and there are a lot of businesses waiting for me to go back and deal with in Hong Kong. Now that 5 days have been wasted, the time I plan to negotiate in the mainland is 15 days, that is, in the last 10 days, if there is no progress, I can only regret leaving. And this time, it may be for a long time that mainland investment projects will not be considered. In the future, even if you invest in the mainland, you may be directly in the south, and you will no longer consider the capital. ”

To be honest, Lin Qi generally doesn't like to drag mud and water, and likes to be clean and neat.

In Beijing, he was dealing with an inefficient bureaucracy for the first time. For the first time, he knew that in the name of entertaining foreign guests and negotiating, there would be completely unrelated bureaucrats who would take turns eating and drinking. And these bureaucrats don't care about negotiations at all. As for the people who really talked about things, they didn't show up for a few days......

If these bureaucrats were employees of his company, then he would not hesitate to fire them all, not a single one!