Two days have passed in a flash.

On the morning of the 23rd, at Addis Ababa Airport, under the send-off of Jiang Longsheng, Tang Xiaolin and other embassy leaders, the China-Africa Trade and Investment Promotion Mission boarded the plane in an orderly manner.

So far, the first leg of this trip to Africa, the visit to Ethiopia, has also been successfully completed.

After the plane took off smoothly, Bao Anjun, head of the delegation, chatted with Zhang Zheke, deputy head of the delegation, and Zhao Guoyang.

For Zhao Guoyang's first stop in Africa, he easily sold more than half of the goods he brought, Bao Anjun and Zhang Zheke were so impressed.

Looking at Zhao Guoyang, who was sitting casually listening to the conversation between the two of them, Bao Anjun looked at him like a god and said, "Researcher Zhao, you, the deputy head of the regiment, are really convincing." ”

"In just two days, I directly sold more than 100,000 dollars of equipment, and reached an order of millions of dollars with others.

Listening to Director Bao Anjun's slightly exaggerated words, Zhao Guoyang hurriedly said humbly: "Director Bao, I'm just in a hurry." If Counselor Tang Xiaolin hadn't taken me and Mr. Zhang to the farmer's house of Deng Datong, I wouldn't have gotten to know that Malaysian Chinese businessman. ”

"Without this stubble, there would be no follow-up to talk about......"

Zhao Guoyang's humility made Bao Anjun's appreciation of him a little more, he laughed twice, and just wanted to speak, Zhang Zheke on the side spoke first.

Because Zhang Zheke is the vice president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, there are some hard tasks on this trip.

For example, we can help several enterprises in the delegation to reach a certain amount of trade volume and sign cooperation intentions, or go to Chinese businessmen in various African countries to collect economic and trade information.

In short, Zhang Zheke is different from Bao Anjun, he wants to make a real contribution to the delegation.

Originally, before the trip, Zhang Zheke was still very worried, afraid that he would not be able to complete the task assigned to him by his superiors.

However, now that the delegation had just visited the first country, Zhang Zheke found that he had exceeded the target in terms of "trade volume".

With such a result, how can Zhang Zheke be calm?

At this time, looking at this young researcher Zhao, who was jealous, how did Zhang Zheke see and like it.

He raised his thumb with a red face and said: "Researcher Zhao, I have worked in the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade for more than ten years, and I have never seen it!

"It's not that exaggerated, is it? President Zhang, it's just luck!" Zhao Guoyang said with a wave of his hand.

Zhang Zheke completely ignored Zhao Guoyang's modesty, and continued to speak: "Researcher Zhao, you are not modest. My boss Zhang can see that your brother's level and ability can definitely make people look up. ”

"In the next five countries to visit, the 'trade task' in my hand depends on you!"

Zhang Zhe looked at Zhao Guoyang intently and said, "Researcher Zhao, you should have heard about it in the past two days, except for the two major companies in our team, except for you and Teacher Zhang's two major companies, the rest of the team have not made much progress. ”

"If this trend continues, the heads of our enterprises will be criticized when they go back, and I, the vice president, will not be much better!"

"So...... Researcher Zhao, you know!" Zhang Zheke said as he squeezed his eyebrows at Zhao Guoyang, which made Bao Anjun next to him laugh.

Seeing that this Chairman Zhang climbed up along the pole, Zhao Guoyang was really funny.

You must know that Zhao Guoyang has great expectations for this trip to Africa.

Although in Ethiopia, he got acquainted with the young owners of the "Chenggong Group" by chance, sold a lot of agricultural and forestry machinery and equipment, and reached a lot of cooperation agreements with the other party.

But these are just unexpected surprises, and what Zhao Guoyang really cares about is the other two major countries on his "African trip" - Nigeria and South Africa.

Because these two countries have mining resources that he yearns for very much, and rich energy reserves.

In addition, South Africa's excellent port, Zhao Guoyang is looking forward to reaching a consensus and long-term cooperation with it.

If "Xingtai International" can have a sub-base at the southernmost tip of the African continent, plus São Paulo in Latin America, it can form a triangle with the domestic market and connect the global business.

Such a long-term layout plan is what Zhao Guoyang values the most.

In comparison, it is not a matter to sell dozens of more agricultural and forestry machinery and equipment, or to sell a "mine hoist".

Because there are so many plans that have not yet been implemented, Zhao Guoyang really does not have much spare time to help several other companies in the trade group negotiate business.

At this time, after President Zhang's begging, Zhao Guoyang's face showed a few difficult looks.

Although Zhang Zheke's ability is average, he still has eyesight and knowledge.

Seeing that Zhao Guoyang was difficult to decide, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Well, Researcher Zhao, don't misunderstand. I'm not forcing you to take a stand, let alone giving you a task. ”

"I just hope that you will do your best to give some help to these companies in our team without affecting the tasks of this trip......"

Bao Anjun, who was on the side, saw that the atmosphere was a little delicate, and also helped: "Yes, Researcher Zhao." Elder Li explained to me before leaving, so let's not affect your decision, in terms of action, you are completely independent!"

"President Zhang, he is also in a hurry, so he said this, don't take it to heart. You can go what you should do next!"

Listening to Bao Anjun and Zhang Zheke's cautious words, Zhao Guoyang was a little embarrassed.

Indeed, although he has too many imaginations, after all, he occupies the position of a deputy head of the group, and he still has to make some contributions to the team.

Thinking of this, Zhao Guoyang snorted slightly: "Director Bao, President Zhang, don't worry, I won't only care about myself, I will help Director Shen and President Xia think of a way when I have a chance!"

Seeing that Zhao Guoyang made this guarantee, Bao Anjun and Zhang Zheke glanced at each other and nodded contentedly.

"Okay, it's great that Researcher Zhao can think like this!" Zhang Zheke couldn't help but sigh.

"Everyone is their own person, and it is right to help each other!" Zhao Guoyang said calmly.

Next, Bao Anjun quickly changed the topic and asked Zhao Guoyang where he was going to go in the next two stops.

After listening to his question, Zhao Guoyang explained 1510: "Director Bao, that's the case. Because the 'West Africa International Construction Machinery and Mining Machinery Exhibition' in Nigeria is still four days away. I thought about it, and I didn't feel like I needed to rush over. ”

"Anyway, the previous plan was to go to Sudan first, and then to Cameroon. Now that we have time, why don't we visit these two countries first, and then go to Nigeria?

After Zhao Guoyang finished speaking, Bao Anjun nodded and agreed without much thought.

Speaking of which, Bao Anjun, director of the "Africa Department" of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, still has a very good understanding of the situation in African countries.

Geographically, the route recommended by Zhao Guoyang is also very suitable.

From Ethiopia to Sudan and then to Cameroon, it is a direct line.

And the second key visit country, Nigeria, is also at the farthest end of this line.

Of course, after visiting Nigeria, whether you go to Angola or South Africa, it's a different line.

However, the size of the African continent is simply too large, and the branches of the key countries are also scattered.

Under these circumstances, it is indeed impossible for the delegation to complete this visit in a single line.

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After a long flight of five hours, Zhao Guoyang and the delegation finally arrived at the second destination - Sudan.

This is the third largest country in Africa by area, located in northeastern Africa, on the Red Sea coast, and at the eastern end of the Sahara Desert.

With an area of 1886068 square kilometres, it is second only to Algeria and Zaire in Africa.

Sudan's economic structure is relatively simple, with agriculture and animal husbandry as the mainstay. Its industry is backward, its industrial base is very weak, and it is too dependent on nature and foreign aid.

Even in Africa, where economic development is generally poor, Sudan is still relatively backward.

However, because of the vast size of the country, Sudan is rich in natural resources such as minerals, oil, natural gas and timber.

According to the data at hand of Zhao Guoyang, Sudan's main mineral resource reserves are about 300 million tons of iron, 9 million tons of copper, 9,000 tons of silver, and about 500 million tons of oil, all of which are among the top in Africa.

Among these mineral resources, the most exciting thing for Zhao Guoyang is that Sudan has 700,000 tons of chromium reserves, which is a very staggering number.

In the early nineties, the element chromium was not well understood.

However, Zhao Guoyang knows that with the continuous improvement of global smelting technology, chrome alloy will soon become popular all over the world and become an important raw material for the manufacture of stainless steel, automobile parts, and aircraft parts.

As one of the most important metals in the technology of the future, chromium-nickel steel fused in different percentages is incredibly varied.

At present, for Zhao Guoyang, being able to control a chromite mine during this period is naturally of great significance to the establishment of his own industrial empire in the future.

Therefore, although the Sudan stop is not one of the three most important stops of the trade and investment promotion team's trip, it is a stop that Zhao Guoyang attaches great importance to.

When the plane slowly stopped at the airport in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, there was a burst of enthusiastic cheers in the greeting procession waving the five-star red flag below.

"It's finally here!" Looking at the crowd below through the glass, Bao Anjun, who was sitting opposite Zhao Guoyang, let out a sigh of relief.