Chapter 68: The President Arrives
Beginning on May 30, 2015, the stock market began to fall sharply, as some commentators have suggested. China's A-share market is full of gloom, and the Shanghai stock market has been silent for six years from 2009, just two quarters of recovery, back to 3,000 points, and suddenly turned around again.
In a bull market, it often happens that a single day opens sharply lower and closes with hundreds of stocks falling to the limit. It has also happened several times in history. However, this time is clearly different.
After Yu Qi saw the news, he immediately called Liu Yang: "Did your parents' stock run away?" ”
"I don't know, what's wrong?"
"The precipitous decline in the stock market began. Let them cut all the stocks in their hands now. ”
"It's hard to say, is it? What if the stock price goes up after the cut, and you can't buy it back? "Although Liu Yang does not speculate in stocks, under the influence of his parents, he still knows a little about basic common sense." Do you have any inside information? ”
"Hey, how can I tell you!" Yu Qi thought to herself, I can't just tell you that I am a person from the future, right?
"Ahh Let's ask: Do you know why the old eunuch was richer than the little eunuch in ancient times? Yu Qi patted his head and thought of a joke.
"......" Liu Yang paused on the other end of the phone for some reason.
"Because they cut early!" Yu Qi finally had the shyness of a girl and did not explain further. continued to persuade: "Anyway, you let them cut it early, ah, it's a cut stock, don't get me wrong!" Remember: I'm doing it for their good! ”
Yu Qi didn't want to explain anything more. If you can listen, she says so much, enough is enough. Words are not speculative for more than half a sentence. If you don't listen to it, you will think she is verbose.
She hung up.
The president finally got on the plane as planned, and all the directors and above in China were ready to wait. Yu Qi also followed Diana, on standby.
Everything is cared about and messed up. Because everyone wants to show their best side in front of the president, the executives, who have always been calm on weekdays, have recently become changeable and suffer from gains and losses.
HR sent an email to all employees in Shanghai saying "Welcome President Spencer to visit". At 10 o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, we will be in the exhibition area on the first floor of the company to listen to Spencer's live speech. Seeing the photo of Spencer in the email, the female compatriots in the office began to sigh: It turns out that the president is still rich and handsome! Male compatriots began to sigh at the unfairness of fate: Why did all the good things be taken up by the descendants of the American plutocracy?
At around 9:50, the employees in the company's office building began to summon one after another to rush into the hall on the first floor, occupying a good seat for themselves and waiting for the president to come to the scene.
Early birds get worms. The colleague who came out slower, took the elevator to the first floor and found that the crowd had already stood at the elevator entrance, so he had to sit back upstairs and look at the stage downstairs from the glass wall.
At 10 o'clock, the whole building sounded the sound of the host's microphone test.
Surrounded by Wendy, Yang Wei, Yu Dexi and other people, Spencer walked from the special elevator to the small stage on the first floor.
Spencer wore a well-made smoky gray suit, and his short soft chestnut hair stood on his head in style under the action of styling water. He stood on the stage in style, smiling all over his face, and glancing at everyone with his dark blue eyes. It is as if he is greeting and greeting everyone one by one with his eyes.
The colleagues who had been waiting in the hall exchanged their heads and ears, and the sound of conversation disappeared all at once. Everyone quieted down and looked at the president on the stage calmly.
Spencer held the microphone with one hand and put the other hand in his pants pocket, greeting everyone in Chinese very gracefully. Then, in English, he expressed some thoughts on his visit to China and seeing the rapid development of the company. Finally, he thanked everyone for their contributions to the company.
Spencer visits China every year or two and is pleasantly surprised by the changes that have taken place each time. This time was no exception.
Yang Wei also said some uplifting words after Spencer's speech. Finally, according to the traditional Chinese culture, I would like to express my gratitude to everyone by clasping their hands into fists.
Everyone was "chicken-blooded" by the bosses, and after returning to their respective seats, it seemed that the work became more energetic.
In fact, another important purpose of Spencer's visit to China this time is to see whether the production reserves and market sales of Chinese factories are really consistent with the content of the reports submitted by the first level every month.
In the United States, Spencer's circle, everyone will also gossip about some overseas companies. After the global financial crisis in 2009, markets around the world were devastated by the crisis. Fortunately, as a large developing country, China's material needs and purchasing power are growing rapidly. At the last meeting, a friend said that he had opened a small company in China to open up new markets. However, just two years later, the Chinese company had to be declared bankrupt and liquidated. Because the general environment of the international manufacturing industry is not good, the company has been in a state of loss. The capabilities of both the R&D team and the sales team are lacking, so the sales of the product in the market are poor. Later, the straw that broke the camel's back was when his Chinese executives joined forces to guard and steal. The products produced in the warehouse look as if they have passed through customs in full form, and when they arrive somewhere abroad, the sales order has been completed. However, the company has never received payment for the goods. When it was liquidated, it was discovered that the goods had not been cleared at all, but the whereabouts of the goods had become a mystery. In the end, this friend advised Spencer not to take the money he had worked so hard to collect from the US financial market to feed these people in China who have no moral constraints.
Therefore, Spencer also plans to see how his Chinese company is. Of course, he didn't say anything about his own caution to anyone. But the big guys everywhere aren't stupid either: they're good at figuring out each other's minds from clues. Therefore, two weeks ago, after learning the specific date of Spencer's visit to China from the United States, the goods in the warehouses around the country were transferred to the distributor's warehouses in batches according to the amount of sales orders completed.
Even the production workshop, which was renovated half a year ago, has been repainted. The ventilation of the workshop is not very good, and the smell of paint has made the workers in the manual assembly section suffer a lot in the past two weeks - now that the information is developed, even the workers who have just come from the countryside know that the paint is poisonous. Therefore, even if it was hot and sweaty, everyone had to wear 3M masks issued by the Ministry of Personnel for the sake of their lives, armed to the point that only a pair of eyes were left staring at the components in their hands.
Although, Spencer knew in his heart that what he saw in China could only be what Yang Wei wanted him to see. However, Spencer felt that since it was impossible for him to accept the private interview, even if his subordinates dealt with it by surprise, as long as they could satisfy him, then he could accept this result.
Fortunately, he has a relatively large plate in China, so the various parties on the board of directors can supervise each other in the process of playing with each other's forces in China. Although he spent some management expenses for no reason, compared with the profits brought to him by the Chinese market, these efforts were worth it.
In any case, the cost of production in the U.S. manufacturing industry is now high: the government has less and less support in terms of factory land, tax revenue, etc. Labor costs, on the other hand, are increasing year by year. Workers' requirements for working conditions and labor intensity are getting higher and higher, so that capitalists like Spencer have to look for overseas production bases with better cost performance.
In addition to China, he will also compare the situation in India on this trip. Because the situation in China is becoming more and more like the situation faced by the United States.
It is true that India's labor force is much cheaper than China's, but the workers are lazy and less responsible than Chinese workers, so the production capacity of factories per unit of labor time is not as good as that of China. There is also the uncertainty of the prospects for the Indian market. So Spencer has been torn over whether this year's new factory should be built in northeastern China or India.
After the speech at headquarters, Spencer got in the car and went to the factory in the suburbs in the conference room specially prepared for him.
After hearing Diana talk about Spencer's itinerary, Yu Qi deliberately glanced at Daisy a few times and said, "The big boss is really wise, and he knows where to check is the most important thing." I didn't fall into the way of some people. ”
Daisy looked at Yu Qi deadly, she felt a layer of cold sweat oozing out of her back, and anger made her face flush for a while.