Chapter 8: On the Road

The small town of Tamar is close to the Indian Ocean, and to the south, about 100 kilometers away, is the largest city in TSNY and its former capital, Dares Saddam. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Dar es Salaam is a coastal city, the transportation here is much more convenient than other places, the infrastructure is relatively good, of course, this is indispensable to the credit of the Chinese, since the sixties of the last century, China began to aid the construction of Africa, and the most aid is TSNY, and at that time Dar es Salaam because of its convenient location, so it received the most assistance.

Dar es Salaam is the most economically developed place in TSNY, where it has railways, ports and highways and other convenient transportation conditions, and most of the foreign cargo ships will dock at the port of Dar es Salem, load and unload goods from here, and then transshipment by rail, but the total mileage of TSNY's railway is not very long, the total length of its domestic railway lines is only more than 3,000 kilometers, which is not as good as a Beijing-Guangzhou line in China, and although the highway has more than 90,000 kilometers, but there is no expressway. Trunk roads are the majority, and most of the roads are not in very good condition, with four-lane roads and two-lane roads common.

Connecting the small town of Tamar to Dar es Salaam is a secondary road.

The pickup truck is on the road, and the TSNY at this time is still in the dry season, so the weather is relatively dry, and the dust on the road is very strong.

The small town of Tamar is relatively small, many things are not sold in the town, TSNY has almost no own industrial system, even printing money has to be entrusted to foreign companies to help print, except for some basic handicrafts, their daily necessities, almost all have to be imported.

And China is the world's factory, so many African businessmen will go to China to buy, but because businessmen are profit-seeking, so they will import the cheapest things, and then take them back to sell, the so-called penny is worth the goods, the price is low, the quality is naturally not too high, plus China's copycat brand, high imitation of those brand-name products are also very much, and the quality is really no quality, mainly a pair of shoes and mobile phones, take out a few times, it will be broken, Africans are poor, this does not mean that they do not know the goods, When many people go to the mobile phone store to buy a mobile phone, they are full of praise for those Chinese mobile phones with fancy functions and good appearance, but if they really want to choose, they will only choose Nokia mobile phones that have long been eliminated, and ask them why, they will say, this thing will not be broken after use!

Therefore, many people have been deceived, and people who have used Chinese products have no good impression of Chinese products.

When it comes to Chinese products, they shake their heads again and again: CHINA? NO!NO!

Zhang Chuan was very angry about this, disappointed in those people in China, this kind of smashing his own sign will really bring great harm to other people doing business in Africa, because as soon as you go out to talk to others about business, when others hear that you are Chinese, they will look at you with scrutiny, pick and choose the quality of your goods, and be very suspicious.

"Those poor quality goods in China should have stopped a long time ago, and so should those bosses, isn't it harmful to themselves to produce them? You raise the cost a little, improve the quality, even if the price is a little more expensive, but the competitiveness is still stronger than others, and no one can steal your business, you have to do this, the result is that our image here is very bad. ”

Lin Quan nodded, this phenomenon he had discovered before, speaking of Chinese, local blacks in Africa will praise Chinese smart, hardworking, but when it comes to Chinese goods, their expressions are a little weird, before Lin Quan went to the local watch repair, a small vendor on the side of the road, changed his watch with an electron, the kind of pill-like battery, one charged him fifteen yuan, this price he can buy another watch in China, But the man patted his chest and promised: Don't look at our store is relatively small, we are a regular state-owned enterprise, this thing is not a Chinese product, it is guaranteed to be used for more than three years, if your watch is out of power within three years, bring it to me, I will change it for you!

Forget about this person's big words, and use Chinese goods as a negative example, Lin Quan's face is almost green.

"But in recent years, the situation has been slightly better, we have a lot of powerful large companies and large enterprises have come to Africa to invest, such as Huawei, ZTE's enterprises, their local reputation is not bad, and in recent years, there are more state-owned enterprises in Africa to engage in infrastructure, such as China Construction China Railway and so on, their investment here is good, these are infrastructure, the speed of construction is fast, the quality is good, before what is there a canyon bridge from time to time? That was built by our China, and when it was completed, the president of that country personally attended the inauguration ceremony, which can be regarded as fighting for ourselves! ”

Along the way, Zhang Chuan always said again, Lin Quan listened silently, did not answer, Zhang Chuan came to Africa for a long time, he came here is actually mainly to do business, some small business, the calculation time has been here for six or seven years, these six or seven years he has earned a lot of money with his own hard work, but now because the business in production is not easy to do, so he will give up continuing to do business, and instead prepare to open a farm, and the business opportunity of opening a farm is also what he found when he went around running business.

In **** Ssalam, there are more than 50,000 people in Chinese-funded institutions alone, these are only Chinese markets, if you add local blacks, and foreigners in Europe and the United States, this market is quite large, there are local farms in Africa, but their scale is not large, most of them are some local people grow their own things, sold along the street, not only the variety is relatively small, and the taste is not necessarily in line with the requirements of foreigners, and if his farm is set up, It is possible to grow something that is not available locally, and in this way, his market is unique, there are no competitors at all, and the monopoly business is naturally the most profitable.

Zhang Chuan is very confident in this, he came to Dar es Salaam this time, on the one hand, to procure, to purchase some things necessary for the farm, and on the other hand, to negotiate with some companies, mainly Chinese-funded institutions, these companies have local offices, and they have a large number of workers, if they can sign orders with them, it is equivalent to opening up sales channels and paving the way for the future development of the farm.