Chapter 287: Diametrically Opposite Worlds
The truth that people take tea and cool down is the most typical in political circles. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
When Lao Xi was in Jianghuai Province before, he was very unkind to Xu Teng, after all, the official university crushed people to death, and later went to Shaanxi Province, and he could only talk about cooperation, after all, Shaanxi Province has coal fields, heavy industry, military industry, and talent reserves.
Lao Xi went to Gui Province, Xu Teng had roughly read it in the briefing prepared for him by Huateng Company, and he didn't take it seriously a few months ago.
Because the two are not strictly speaking, they are not friends, and when they go to Gui Province, there is really no room for cooperation.
Therefore, Xu Teng later forgot about this matter, went to the China-Security Economic Cooperation Forum to see Lao Xi, and listened to Lao Xi himself talk about this matter, and then he remembered.
In China, it is not difficult for the leaders of any province to meet Xu Teng, they can arrange a meeting in Shanghai and Jiangzhou in person, or invite Xu Teng to visit the local area, or participate in a national economic summit, and invite Xu Teng to meet at the meeting in advance.
There are many ways, but in many cases, seeing is equal to not seeing, and talking is equal to not talking.
In business, Xu Teng also does not see rabbits and eagles.
Lao Xi has been serving in Gui Province for a while, and he is very busy, and he has no suitable reason and price, so he did not invite Xu Teng to Gui Province. Originally, the province arranged for a vice governor to attend the Sino-Angolan Economic Forum in Angola, but later, the leader Xi found out that Xu Teng was going to attend the meeting and deliver a keynote speech.
Leader Xi made a lot of requests to Xu Teng at this meeting, and Xu Teng also agreed in name to it.
In fact, Xu Teng didn't agree to anything, anyway, there are always excuses in the back.
For example, Xi hopes that Xu Teng will come forward to coordinate and arrange for Luanda and Fangzhou to conclude a friendship city and sign a relevant cooperation agreement -- this is not reliable at all, because the Huayin consortium's PX project in Fangzhou Port is in cooperation with Sinopec, and the oil exploration business in Angola is mainly in cooperation with CNOOC and British Petroleum.
These are two things, and there can be no talk of cooperation at all.
This is a contradiction within the two central enterprises, and it is not at all coordinated by the leaders of a provincial party committee.
Of course, the Huayin consortium can coordinate, but it will cost a lot of money to do so.
Secondly, what benefits can Gui Province give to the Huayin Consortium? How much benefit can Angola give to the Huayin consortium?
Angola's spirit is by no means ordinary, and it wants to arrange for the capital Luanda and first-tier megacities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Tianjin to make friendship cities and deepen cooperation.
From the 50s of the last century to the present, Emperor Rabbit has also spent a lot of effort and great strength to cultivate Africa, and has made indelible contributions to the liberation and development of the African people.
Now the elites of many small African countries, that is not very easy to fool, these people, some of whom have studied in Europe and the United States, and some of whom have studied in China, have gathered together to discuss and work together to build the motherland.
The elite of Angola is even more difficult to fool, and there are a large number of elites who have returned from studying in the Soviet Union, and in the 60s and 70s, Emperor Rabbit also cultivated a lot of talents for Angola.
Otherwise, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, people will not take refuge in us.
Everyone understands, at least more than the domestic keyboard party, and the cooperation between people and the Huayin consortium is so deep, they should collect money, build the motherland, and build the motherland.
People have said that if the megacity cannot be arranged, then it is necessary to choose a coastal economically developed city at the sub-provincial level.
Hearing no, people even understand the word "deputy provincial" very clearly, or in Chinese and Mei Jiali clearly speaking, not in Portuguese.
People know very well how much power the Huayin Consortium has in China, and this matter will be left to you.
Leader Xi is a little unclear about the situation, Mei Jiali has been unwell recently, but she still has to participate in the China-Angola Economic Cooperation Forum despite her illness, and Xu Teng is also going to come over, which actually shows one thing - the Huayin consortium has a request for the elite level of Angola.
Many of the Portuguese-speaking elite have graduated from the University of Coimbra and some have PhDs, such as the pro-European vice president Guerrero, who was previously the chief economic adviser to President Tos.
This is the case in Africa, where the average national standard is relatively low, but the thousands and hundreds of elites in this country are basically returning from studying in Europe and the United States, and the proportion of studying in China is not too low, including many children of chiefs and local powerful factions, who are all sent to 211 universities in China for graduate studies.
Xu Teng came over this time to meet with the president and vice president, and possibly attend the president's family banquet.
He is in Angola, Lao Jiang and Gu Xueli are in Zhejiang Province during this time, and it must not be arranged in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, but there is also a sub-provincial city in Zhejiang Province that is a large coastal port city, and there are also px and chemical project investments of the Huayin consortium, which is very in line with the requirements of the Angolan elite.
Luanda is, after all, the capital of Angola, and the key is to have oil.
The Huayin Consortium is connected in the middle and acts as a broker, which can roughly help the two sides negotiate.
In addition, doing this work in Zhejiang Province is politically exquisite, and this is also a contribution to the country.
Therefore, the fact that Leader Xi wants to make Fangzhou Port and Luanda friendship is very unreliable, Xu Teng is embarrassed to say that he agrees for the time being, but in fact he will not help.
Not to mention Luanda, which is the second largest port city in Angola, Benguela, and the minimum standard required by people is also Jiangzhou, the worst sub-provincial city...... This is also the connection between the Huayin consortium behind the scenes, because Benguela Province is very rich in iron ore reserves, and it is also an excellent port in the Atlantic Ocean, and the export volume of timber, oil, sisal, and iron ore is not bad, and there is a certain complementarity between it and Jiangzhou.
In particular, because of the existence of the Huayin Consortium, the direct trade volume between the two cities is still good, and there are also quite a few Jianghuai businessmen in Benguela and Luanda.
Of course, the security situation in Benguela is much worse than in Luanda, where indigenous weapons and illegal arming abound.
This electoral system in Angola is actually a vote-buying system, where local votes are in the hands of chiefs and armed forces, and the president does not need to deal with the whole country, just deal with these hundreds of tribes.
There are troops everywhere, and the numbers and banners are different, most of them are president's, and 1/3 are all kinds of miscellaneous troops, which is a bit similar to the situation of the Republic of China.
This situation is good in Africa.
The Huayin consortium has been operating hard in Angola for six years, so to speak, at least half of the provinces can be settled, and it will not be possible to build a hydropower project, and halfway through it, a force will set up a bazooka and ask you to pay protection money.
State-owned enterprises can also come, and if something happens, they will find the ambassador to settle it.
Private companies?
Forget it.
People don't care if you are Chinese-funded or foreign-funded, the bazooka is on your shoulders, and you have to give as much as you want.
Xu Teng didn't know how many people Xi brought with him when he came to Angola to attend the forum, anyway, he brought more than 40 people, and the mercenary security company was responsible for the protection of the perimeter, and there were probably dozens of professional teams from special forces from various countries.
The African people are still very simple, whether you are the richest man in Asia or the richest man in the world, as long as there is an opportunity to kidnap you for ransom, it will not be merciful.
The reception of the China-Angola Cooperation Forum was held at the Hyatt Regency Luanda Hotel, which was invested by the Huayin Consortium, and Xu Teng was busy until more than 8 p.m. before he had time to go back to his room to visit Mei Jiali.
She came here more than ten days ago, and she had a little cold at the beginning, because there were too many things, and the treatment was not very timely, and it was delayed into pneumonia.
When Xu Teng came over, she was already asleep, her face was pale, she was still getting a needle, and she was accompanied by a nurse.
Illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread.
Xu Teng sat on the edge of the bed and touched her forehead, feeling that the fever had subsided.
Mei Jiali has been groggy for the past two days, and just woke up in the afternoon, at this time, when Xu Teng touched her skin, she woke up, opened those beautiful eyes and saw Xu Teng, smiling warmly, very happy that Xu Teng could come to the rescue in time.
"Your first time in Angola, I should accompany you well." She was a little apologetic, reached out to hold Xu Teng's hand, felt his warmth, and smiled bitterly, "Look, my hands are so cold." ”
"Tomorrow will be fine." Xu Teng pinched her palm, slightly damp, cold, and a little worried, but he didn't say anything.
There is a Sino-Angola Friendship Hospital in Luanda, which was established with donations from the Huayin Foundation, and the doctors are mainly appointed by public hospitals in the country, and there is also a Luanda Bo'ai Hospital.
Every time Mei Jiali goes to Angola, she will also bring a professional medical team, especially internal medicine and infectious disease doctors, who are basically the chief physicians of tertiary hospitals in China.
So, it's not too much of a problem.
Xu Teng also talked to the two chief physicians in advance, it was just ordinary pneumonia, because it was in a foreign country, it was not adapted to water and soil, and the characteristics of the manifestation were relatively serious, and now the latest generation of broad-spectrum antibiotics is used, and it can be cured in a few days.
"Have you eaten?" Xu Teng moved the sofa closer, sat next to Mei Jiali, and continued to hold her hand, and many bits and pieces flashed in his heart.
Passion is like a tide, stirring in each other's young age, slowly fading, leaving behind the love as solid as a rock, but sometimes, people can't figure out the difference between love and passion.
Xu Teng slowly realized that the gradual flattening between him and Mei Jiali was true love in itself.
"Drank a bowl of rice porridge." Mei Jiali smiled, lay on the bed, and looked at Xu Teng with a sideways face, "I don't have much appetite now, I was quite worried about you, it was the first time I came to Angola, and I was not familiar with all aspects." ”
"When it comes to me, there is not much difference between familiar and unfamiliar." Xu Teng found a novel on the bedside table, glanced at the title of the book "What to Move, Don't Move Feelings", smiled, and estimated that Mei Jiali was comparing the novel to her own relationship history.
"I'll read it to you." Xu Teng opened the book, found the page that Mei Jiali folded, and read it from the first line.
He reads, and Maegarrie listens.
When Xu Teng finished reading the whole chapter, Mei Jiali couldn't help but ask him, "You say, is this story similar to ours?" ”
"No, because neither the male nor female protagonists in the story can control their fate, they are just duckweed in the world, and in the end they can only be separated by secular forces and concepts. We are different, we are the masters of our destiny. Xu Teng closed the book and knocked on the door of Mei Jiali's head, "Don't think about it, move back to live early, we have been together for six years, do you think, how many six years can life have?" Love is for our sake, and the most important thing is nothing more than perseverance. ”
"You don't understand, I left you, kept a distance from you, and Xia Li, in fact, I hope you get married as soon as possible and give your children a complete and healthy family." Mei Jiali sighed a little, weak, her probability of pregnancy was a little low, and she really wanted a child.
However, she didn't go to the hospital for a minimally invasive surgery to solve the problem because she was afraid of having a child, does that mean she will age faster?
She didn't know.
"I grew up in the Mei family's environment, and now that I think about it, I really don't want our children to grow up in that environment like me." Mei Jiali looked at Xu Teng, her eyes were very calm, and she had already made up her mind.
She loves Xu Teng, but she doesn't want Xu Teng and Xia Li's children to face the same embarrassing situation as her father has other wives.
She didn't want her children to face this kind of thing.
Although, she felt that she still didn't want children as well.
People's ideas can change every year, every month, and her thoughts are very different now than they were six years ago, because she has matured, and she is no longer young and unscrupulous.
All sibling relationships generally have to face this problem, the woman is in her thirties, and the man is only in his twenties.
The two have been together for six years, and they have been very happy until they get up one morning, when Mei Jiali sees her crow's feet and thinks that she has lost her youth, and Xu Teng is only 23 years old.
It feels so gloomy.
With all this, what else can Xu Teng say?
At this moment, he could only accompany Mei Jiali, and the two chatted and enjoyed the beauty of time.
Love each other, but you don't have to be together every day, right?
Although Xu Teng is the richest man in Asia and is very rich, it is not suitable to have ten or eight wives in today's era, and even two wives are not legal, and the most important point is always children.
This is probably the most important part of Chinese cultural tradition.
The spirit of Chinese culture is actually a spirit of sacrifice, sacrificing part of the pursuit of self to protect the family and defend the country.
The two talked until late at night until they fell asleep to each other.
Angola's economy is growing much faster than China in the 90s, and the actual figure is higher than the statistic, not less than 12% per year, which is a big problem, because its inflation and economic bubbles are almost difficult to contain.
Luanda is the capital of Angola, and in 2005, housing prices surpassed those of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and went straight to the standard of Hong Kong's housing prices.
The size of the city is not very large, and the population is only about two million, but in Africa, this is the real megacity, the whole country finance, stock market, ports, oil, transportation, education, health care, ...... Resources on all fronts are concentrated in Luanda.
It is not an exaggeration to call Luanda the Hong Kong of Africa.
The total investment scale of the Huayin consortium in Angola is more than 7 billion US dollars, involving offshore oil fields, iron ore, manganese ore, timber, hydropower, coal power, real estate, hotels, ports and ...... Basically, you can invest in every aspect whenever you have the opportunity.
The ROI is clearly not trivial.
Of course, the Huayin Consortium has also made a lot of profits over the years to settle all aspects, which is basically a virtuous circle, the more you earn, the stronger the ability to balance all aspects, and the more you earn.
Therefore, common economic development is the anchor of bilateral relations.
The Huayin consortium and other central enterprises involved in Angola's economic construction have been able to stabilize bilateral relations at a very good level, such as the involvement of several of Angola's most important media.
It is also very dangerous for so many enterprises and such large-scale investments to be backed by a strong country.
Therefore, the stability of the political situation in Angola is very important to both China and Angola.
Xu Teng's visit to Angola this time also brought a lot of public welfare projects, including rice planting and training, including rural irrigation and electricity supply programs, including the establishment of several vocational education schools and Benguela Friendship University.
There are more or less benefits behind these projects, and how to operate them is not the scope that Xu Teng needs to ask.
Anyway, the Huayin Consortium has a complete set of professional teams in Angola and is very familiar with the situation in Angola.
Xu Teng was mainly responsible for the activities of the upper echelons in Angola, giving some speeches at the National Assembly and universities, accepting interviews with TV stations, etc., framing the façade and ramming the connections of the Huayin Consortium in Angola more solidly.
In addition to bilateral trade and investment, the Huayin consortium can earn at least US$2 billion a year, and in addition to bilateral trade and investment, the reinvestment of profits in Angola, especially real estate, ports, telecommunications, banking, and securities investment, is more profitable than oil extraction.
The domestic central enterprises are all functional enterprises, and their investment in Angola is very one-line, limited to various professions, and there is no patience and demand to do a good job of overall network communication.
Huayin Consortium is different, as long as it can make money, do anything, plus with domestic central enterprises, the influence is very considerable.
Therefore, the Huayin Consortium is now the largest and most important broker between China and Angola, specializing in serving the Angolan government, no matter which cabinet officials and ministers want to visit China, the Huayin Consortium will actively arrange it properly to ensure that the other party can have a high standard of treatment and the whole process.
A veritable civilian embassy.
The Huayin consortium is also very in-depth research on the national conditions of this country, many subsidiaries are registered in Portugal, detour into Angola, basically, as long as the "Lisbon" company, "Porto" company, it is simply all kinds of high.
Hennessy, Chivas Regal, Latour...... These foreign wines are in short supply in the upper class of Angola, and to put it mildly, Volga with a random brand is a hundred times better than Moutai.
The West Bay Petroleum Company of the Huayin Consortium is, strictly speaking, an oil company with Hong Kong and Macao capital, but it is registered in Canada, which is more popular in Angola than CNOOC.
This is the national condition of others.
In essence, this is also the general national condition of the vast majority of African countries, and the upper class of society admires Europe and the United States very much.
Xu Teng visited Angola for a week, and when Mei Jiali recovered, the two flew together to Brazil on the other side of the Atlantic, which is also the investment center of the Huayin consortium.
Brazil's second-largest iron ore company, about 1/3 of its capital comes from the Huayin consortium, and 3 of the 14 cooperative mining areas currently opened by Petrobras belong to the Huayin consortium of Ciwan Petroleum.
In Brazil's soybean procurement market, Huayin Consortium also cooperates with COFCO and China Textile Oil to jointly operate three soybean storage bases, Guodian and China Railway Infrastructure...... There are projects in Brazil.
Since 2002, the central enterprises have successively implemented the "going out" strategy, which is much more active than private enterprises, and the Huayin Consortium has actively made friends with the central enterprises, also in order to follow up this big wave.
In many things, it is not easy for central enterprises to intervene, and it is more convenient for the Huayin consortium to operate in private. The Huayin consortium is also very rich, and there is still considerable room for cooperation with central enterprises in overseas markets.
Brazil, the mood of the upper class is also quite high, to put it mildly, at this stage in 2006, you may not be able to afford China, the concept of the BRIC countries, there is nothing to do, and they always like to report the gap between China and Brazil at home.
Therefore, many Brazilians feel that China is a poorer country, at least much poorer than Brazil.
For example, the wife of a core of Evergrande feels that Brazil is more upscale, and she just wants to go back to Brazil...... This is also the national condition of others.
In fact, the middle and lower classes of the country are very lazy.
Xu Teng has read the investment report of the Huayin consortium in Brazil in recent years, and there are still many problems, the upper level has no integrity at all, talking is the same as farting, and the lower level is lazy and unable to command, and an infrastructure project invested in 2002 has not been completed in 2006.
Therefore, any global capitalist, no matter whether he is convinced or not, no matter what the national interests require, has to love China, it is too perfect.
As for the withdrawal of foreign capital from China boasted by the European and American media, it is nothing more than a copy of the theory of China's collapse.
As a capitalist, Xu Teng said responsibly that the labor cost in some countries is low, who invests, who has a sick brain, such as Japan, Panasonic has invested in Southeast Asia for so many years, what is the final result?
Panasonic finally invested back to Japan to be a civil engineering developer, what civil engineering developer, isn't it a real estate developer.
Southeast Asia is a very good international investment area in the world, and I went to South America, Africa, and India.
Don't look at the high scale of investment in Brazil by the Huayin consortium in recent years, 1/3 for iron ore, 1/3 for oil, 1/3 for financial and real estate speculation, and almost zero industrial investment...... Can't vote at all.
The level of chaos and corruption in this country is beyond words.
The government's ability to govern is basically zero, and there is no way to trust the government.
Later, President Rousseff was deposed on charges of corruption, and to put it responsibly, it was actually a group of extremely corrupt parliamentarians who voted to remove one of the most incorruptible presidents.
Xu Teng said responsibly that 80% of the money exported by the Huayin consortium in Brazil through intermediaries is given to these congressmen, and if they don't send money, they don't want to do business at all, and any project can be shelved in Congress for seven or eight years.
As long as the money is in place, it's really easy to say anything.
People don't talk about attracting investment, don't talk about what the country is rich and the people are strong, people talk about labor, environmental protection, and human rights, which are all good reasons for various card projects.
If this kind of country has no iron ore, no vast land resources and rainfall, and no oil, it is better to die of starvation.
The investment of the Huayin consortium in Brazil is very important, especially in Brazil in recent years, the land price and stock market have ushered in a rising tide period, Xu Teng and Mei Jiali visited Brazil for a whole month, participated in a large number of social activities, tried all their strength, won all contacts, and wanted to go to Brazil to grab money.
It wasn't until late September that the two returned to China.
Tired.
After returning to China, Xu Teng's only emotion was that he was too tired, living in Mahler Villa, and accompanying Xia Li to live the simplest life.
As a result, less than a week after returning to China, Lao Xi came, saying that he was visiting Shanghai for business and attending a meeting in Shanghai, but in fact, he came to him, and he also sent a lot of local products.
It's the other way around, it's really the other way around.
Compared with the two, Xu Teng can only say that the leading cadres in China really serve the people, and they don't want any face.
This is really embarrassing for the leader, in the past, in Shaanxi Province, he could still take out coal resources and bargain with the Huayin Consortium, but in that place in Guizhou Province, except for local products, there is really nothing. (To be continued.) )