Chapter 42 An impending disaster is also a feast for capital

A general industry association refers to a social intermediary organization that is between the government and enterprises, between the commodity production industry and the operators, and provides consultation, communication, supervision, coordination and other work for the members of the industry association. An industry association is generally a kind of non-governmental organization, which does not belong to the series of administrative institutions, but it is also a bridge and link between the government and enterprises. At the same time, the government also needs an organization that can spread its voice to the majority of enterprises, especially those industries where there are many private enterprises and the competition is extremely fierce.

Of course, not all industry associations are like this, such as the Football Association where Chinese people get angry when they hear it. Although in most countries on Shijie, the Football Association can be said to be an industry association, but in China, it is also a political management body. To put it more clearly, it is two sets of signboards and one team. It is obviously a social organization in the football industry, but in fact, it is a subordinate organization of the General Administration of Sports of China.

Industry associations are legal persons as stipulated in the Civil Law of China, and are a kind of non-governmental organizations and social groups in China, that is, non-governmental organizations collectively referred to in the international community. Social associations are more common in capitalist countries with a market economy. Because the business owners of the business economy are scattered and numerous, there is a great need for an organization to coordinate the relationship between enterprises, so as to face the government with one voice, so as to win more and more benefits. In some countries, the self-regulatory function of certain industry associations can replace the management of the government.

Fang Mingyuan's Shanghai Chain Retail Association, which they founded, is such a social group

The proposal to establish an industry association was proposed by Tang Yuqiang on that day, after learning that Fang Mingyuan might be the founder of Carrefour City, the mysterious Fang Shao. Tang Yuqiangleng was at the door of the Carrefour city headquarters, and waited until Fang Mingyuan and they were sent out by Sun Zhaolun, and then he leaned over with a "tian" face, and invited Fang Mingyuan and them to dinner in the name of gratitude.

His lack of "knowledge" made Uda Mitsuri feel very dissatisfied, of course, on the surface, she would not show 1ù.

But Fang Mingyuan is a little interested in Tang Yuqiang, although this person is a little greedy and lustful, but it can be seen that he still has a certain talent. What's more, whether this man is lustful is also a little inevitable, and the entire social environment is like this. Officials can use mBa knowledge to manage their own harem, so ordinary people bubble girls, or use their own money, right? So Fang Mingyuan nodded in response.

In the following time, Tang Yuqiang naturally tried his best to show his talents to Fang Mingyuan and bring the relationship between the two closer. The establishment of a chain retail association was proposed by Tang Yuqiang.

The chain retail industry is an emerging industry in China, and it is also an industry that state-owned capital does not pay much attention to, so not to mention the national industry associations, even the local industry associations, have not established and improved a few. Tang Yuqiang is aware of the opportunities contained in this, but with the strength of Hukelong City in Shanghai and the whole country, he does not have enough appeal, so he can only hide this idea in his heart.

But with the city of Carrefour on board, it's a completely different story. With Carrefour City's position in the chain retail industry in China, it can be said that it is very suitable to establish a chain retail industry association.

For Tang Yuqiang's proposal, Fang Mingyuan was of course extremely interested, you must know that all along, even with the protection of the Su family, the Mei family, the Lu family, the Chai family and the Guo family, Fang Mingyuan still has no sense of security about the future. No one understands better than him how in the future, those state-owned enterprises with state-owned capital as the surface and interest groups as the center will unscrupulously annex private enterprises with the support of the government. Even if these state-owned enterprises are bloated and inefficient, and the capital and employees of private enterprises are several times or even dozens of times that of private enterprises, they cannot create the same performance as private enterprises.

If it is for the benefit of the country and the people, Fang Mingyuan will give all these assets in the country to the government, and there is no second word, but Fang Mingyuan is unwilling to use his hard-earned money to cheapen those interest groups who are attached to the country, suck blood and eat rou, but still do not know how to be satisfied.

Therefore, how to strengthen the influence of the Fang family itself and strengthen the Fang family's right to speak in the political arena is the goal that Fang Mingyuan has been constantly pursuing. It's just that he can't do it, and if he is in the same boat with those interest groups, he can only find another way. Tang Yuqiang's proposal can be said to be right in the middle.

So, the matter began to work secretly.

On the one hand, Tang Yuqiang, as a local snake, contacted these large and small chain retail industry peers in Shanghai to reach a consensus; Carrefour City, on the other hand, negotiated with the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and requested the approval of the government to establish a local chain retail industry association in Shanghai.

Fortunately, Carrefour City has just obtained the consent of Carrefour City to be listed on the Shanghai Securities Exchange in accordance with the arrangement of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and there are not too many interests in the chain retail industry, so the application was quickly approved.

With the support of the government, things are naturally much easier, and Hukelong City also has a lot of influence in the chain retail industry in Shanghai, so in a short period of time, the shelves of industry associations have been built. Sun Zhaolun, general manager of Carrefour City, naturally deservedly became the president of the association.

Of course, Carrefour City has also made a lot of concessions, for example, Carrefour City will send people to help the members of the association improve the management system, provide some business convenience, as well as legal advice, support and other benefits to the members of the association, and the most attractive of these members, of course, is that the commodity quality inspection center that has been established in Hong Kong will open the commodity quality inspection business to the members of the association, and will issue a certificate of test results.

Of course, the benefits of Carrefour are also huge.

As an industry association, it generally undertakes certain functions, such as the representative function of representing the common interests of all enterprises in the industry; As a bridge between the government and enterprises, it conveys the common requirements of the member enterprises of the association to the government, and assists the government in formulating and implementing the communication functions of the industry exhibition plan, industrial policies, administrative regulations and relevant laws, etc. This will undoubtedly be a great help for Carrefour to further consolidate its market position in Shanghai.

However, what Fang Mingyuan values most is that the industry association has the supervision function of formulating and implementing industry rules and regulations and various standards, coordinating the business behavior between enterprises in the industry, and strictly supervising the quality of products and services, competition methods and business styles in the industry, maintaining the reputation of the industry, encouraging fair competition, and cracking down on illegal and irregular behaviors

That is to say, as long as Carrefour City grasps the chain retail association in Shanghai, it can justifiably put forward a series of rectification requirements for these member cities in the name of the association, and can send personnel to supervise all aspects of the city. This overlaps with the competence of the government departments, that is, the trade associations can even replace the functions of some government departments at some times

This is of course a good thing for Fang Mingyuan, who has always hated counterfeit and shoddy goods

At the same time, Tang Yuqiang, who actively did this, also gained great benefits, not only did Carrefour City agree to the two requests he put forward on behalf of Hukelong, but also agreed to reduce the cost of commodity testing sent by Hukelong to the same level as Carrefour City. With these two things alone, the management of Hukelong City predicts that the profits of Hukelong City in the coming year will be able to increase by another 10 to 20 percent on the basis of this year

As the manager of Hukelong City, Tang Yuqiang also successfully became the vice president of the industry association to assist Sun Zhaolun in the work of the association, which undoubtedly made Tang Yuqiang and Hukelong, and his status in the business community of Shanghai City has been raised to a higher level, and he has vaguely become the second strongest under Carrefour City.

As a result, Tang Yuqiang's status in the family has also been significantly improved, which makes Tang Yuqiang feel very grateful for Fang Mingyuan.

It's just that Fang Mingyuan at this time didn't have time to take into account Tang Yuqiang's feelings at all, because he suddenly remembered that a new historical opportunity appeared in front of him

That is the Great Hanshin Earthquake that is coming in the new year

It was in Fang Mingyuan's previous life, after a major earthquake that shocked Shijie occurred in the country of abundance in China, Fang Mingyuan noticed it by chance when he was searching for news about the earthquake on the Internet.

In mid-January 1995, the exact date he remembers exclusively, was born in the Kansai region of Japan with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. It is known as the Great Hanshin Earthquake and the Great Kobe Earthquake

According to later official statistics, the Ayutthaya earthquake caused extremely serious damage to the Hanshin area, an important industrial area in Japan. Nearly 6,000 people died, 90 percent of whom were stoned to death or suffocated to death. Nearly 30,000 people were injured, 110,000 buildings were destroyed, and 300,000 people were left homeless. Water, electricity, gas, roads, railways and ports in the region have all been damaged by near-destruction. The direct economic losses caused by the earthquake to Japan amounted to hundreds of billions of dollars, and the total losses were as high as nearly 2 percent of Japan's gross domestic product in '94, which can be called the most serious in Japan in more than 70 years since the Great Kanto Earthquake

For the Japanese, this is undoubtedly a tragic disaster, but for Fang Mingyuan, who predicted all this in advance, it was a feast of plundering Japanese capital

Fang Mingyuan remembers very well that the article about the Great Hanshin Earthquake at that time focused on the significant impact of the Great Hanshin Earthquake on the Japanese stock market and the Shijie financial market

On the day of the Great Hanshin earthquake, the Japanese stock market began to fall, falling by nearly eight percent in just four days, and then after a small rebound, it continued to decline. Among them, banks, real estate and companies in the Hanshin area fell the hardest, such as Japan's famous Sumitomo Trust Bank, whose stock price fell by nearly 20 percent in four days

The decline in the Japanese stock market even affected the Bank of Bahrain, resulting in the collapse of the Bank of Bahrain in the later shocking financial history

Such a big financial market turmoil is undoubtedly a feast for Fangjia Capital

But Fang Mingyuan also had a headache, if Fang family capital wants to participate in this feast and win the greatest profits, then it needs to mobilize the Fang family's funds overseas. Then it is impossible to hide from Lin Lian and Aso Kazuki. But how do you explain to them that you would know in advance that there would be a major earthquake in Japan?

Moreover, should I notify the Japanese government in advance so that they can be on guard? Although Fang Mingyuan's overseas industry started in Japan, and now in Japan, he still has many fans and huge interests, but few people know that in Fang Mingyuan's bones, he absolutely hates Japanese politicians, Japanese right-wing militarists, Japanese who refuse to repent of the history of aggression against China, and those Japanese businessmen who knock their bones and suck the marrow from China. It's just that he's not crazy enough to hate all Japanese.

More importantly, Fang Mingyuan suddenly thought that if he could warn of the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Japan in some way, then in the future, before the great earthquake in the land of abundance in China, if he gave the same warning, would it attract more people's attention?

You must know that it was an earthquake with a magnitude of 8, affecting an area of up to 500,000 square kilometers, which was the strongest and largest earthquake in the area since the founding of the Republic. According to the official statistics after the earthquake, nearly 70,000 people were killed in this disaster, nearly 400,000 people were injured in varying degrees of severity, and nearly 18,000 people were missing

Fang Mingyuan calculated, before that earthquake, what he could remember was that there were also Lijiang earthquakes, Indian Ocean earthquakes, and 9.21 earthquakes in Taiwan in his previous life. Although he can't remember the specific days clearly, he still has an impression of the years and months of these natural disasters.

If you predict these three natural disasters together, will more people believe it?

As long as he thought that he would have the opportunity to save these compatriots and change their fate, Fang Mingyuan could no longer suppress his thoughts of "predicting" the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

Fang Mingyuan immediately recruited Lin Lian and Aso Kazuki to discuss the issue of advance layout in Japan.