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A few days later, Fan was invited by Fortune magazine. Traveled to Shanghai for this year's Annual Meeting.

On 27 October, the Fortune annual meeting of Fortune magazine of the United States was held in Shanghai, and the theme of the annual meeting was China's next 50 years, which not only had the meaning of looking forward to the future, but also catered to the festive atmosphere of the 50 th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. More than 300 leaders of multinational companies attended the event, including more than 60 CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

Pudong International Airport landed more than 40 state-of-the-art private jets in one day, which is an unprecedented luxury sight, you know, this was unthinkable before, after all, China is a country with very strict air traffic control, although there are not a few people who can afford to own private jets, but it is difficult to get permission to fly.

In the past two years, China's economy has not only withstood the continuous shocks of Soros and the Asian financial turmoil, but also maintained a steady growth rate, and the soft landing of the economy has surprised the whole world, and the CEOs of major companies have come to see China for themselves.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger applauded China from a historical perspective, saying that the US has only 200 years of history, while China has 5,000 years, and the Chinese believe that their history is at least 4,800 years old without the participation of the United States.

Chief No. 1 personally attended the meeting and delivered a speech at the opening ceremony dinner, saying that tonight we are in the Lujiazui area of Pudong, Shanghai. Six years ago, it was a few modest houses and farmland, but now it is a financial and trade area full of high-rise buildings. More than 50 years ago, he was a university student in Shanghai, and he had a deep feeling for the poverty, backwardness, and national decay of old China. It was at that time that he was determined to devote himself to the great cause of building an independent, free, unified, and prosperous new China, and has been struggling to this day.

This year's Fortune Annual Meeting is also the highest level of international conference hosted by Shanghai, from the determination of the Pudong development strategy, the face of the largest metropolis in the Far East has changed with each passing day, to this year, the inner ring and outer ring viaduct, Yangpu, Nanpu and Lupu Bridges, the No. 2 money subway, Pudong Airport, Century Avenue, Pudong Avenue and China's tallest building Jin Mao Tower and a series of major projects have been or are close to completion.

The holding of this annual meeting means that Shanghai has returned to the ranks of the world's important financial centers.

The more than 200 Chinese entrepreneurs who attended the meeting were also very excited, after all, this was the first international business feast, and for many people, a ticket seemed to mean a ticket to globalization.

"Chinese enterprises still have a long way to go before they want to enter the forefront of the world." Fan Wuxian said this when talking to several entrepreneurs around him about the future development.

Just last month's "Fortune" magazine, the annual selection of the world's top 500 enterprises was announced, and five Chinese companies were on the list, namely Sinopec, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China, Sinochem and COFCO, all of which are state-owned monopoly enterprises.

As a result, whether more Chinese companies can enter the top 500 list in the shortest possible time has become the topic that local entrepreneurs are most concerned about. They see the annual meeting as a stage for taking oaths, giving foreigners the feeling of acting.

It can be said that in the United States, whether or not you can enter the top 500 may affect the direction of the company's stock and the salary of managers, while for Chinese enterprises, the top 500 complex contains the life value and national responsibility of entrepreneurs.

Fan Wuzhi has always believed that in terms of the current situation of Chinese enterprises, even if they develop in another ten years, there is still a certain gap if they want to truly reach the level of the world's top 500 enterprises.

After all, the world's top 500 companies are not only looking at the total economic volume, but also looking more at the corporate culture, the internal development potential, and the ability to adapt to market changes, and it is not just by relying on the monopoly market to achieve this goal.

Monopoly has no future, and only competition can continuously promote the healthy and effective development of the entire industry.

However, after Fan Wuxian stayed in Shanghai for half a month, a truly global ticket was finally successfully pre-sold.

On November 15, China and the United States formally reached an agreement, and the United States expressed its support for China's entry into the TO.

From 1982, when China participated as a specially invited observer, at the Ministerial Conference of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor of the TO, to 1986, when China formally submitted its application for resumption of GATT, it lasted for more than 10 years. China has been trying to apply to join the international economic cooperation organization, and the United States, which defends its own interests, has been the biggest obstacle.

As early as two years ago, China had completed all important multilateral negotiations except for the United States, but the negotiations between China and the United States have experienced several setbacks. The United States put forward a series of demanding lists of market openings, which were rejected by the Chinese side.

At a time when much international public opinion was already very disappointed with the Sino-US TO negotiations, the agreement was reached dramatically, and perhaps all the great moments were full of drama. For more than a hundred years, the Chinese have been trying to integrate into the global economic family in an active and equal role, and in the last year of the twentieth century, the Chinese finally got this ticket.

After the Sino-US negotiations reached an agreement, the high-level held a cocktail party, mainly the negotiators at that time, as well as the relevant personnel who had made great efforts to the negotiations, were invited, and Fan Wuxi, as a big man with a decisive influence on the domestic and foreign economies, was naturally invited to appear at the reception as a guest.

During the banquet, Chief No. 1 and Boss Zhu happily clinked glasses with Fan Wuxian and said a lot of happy words.

However, Fan Wuxi's mood is more complicated, although China has won the most critical vote to enter the TO, but the ensuing problems are also quite thorny, in order to get this vote, the Chinese have paid a lot of price.

The first is that within 12 years after joining the TO, other member countries can charge high taxes or non-tariff barriers on Chinese products, and the second is the anti-dumping investigation, within 15 years of joining the TO, other member countries can carry out anti-dumping investigations on Chinese products, which do not have to be based on the average cost of the survey country itself, but can be based on the average price of the third country. The third is that the TO will conduct an annual review of China every year.

In the final analysis, Western countries still treat China differently, and do not accept the rise of this eastern power from the bottom of their hearts, nor do they intend to recognize China's market economy status.

In fact, when discussing the pros and cons of China's accession to the WTO, many scholars made predictions that the disadvantages of the first 10 years outweighed the advantages and that the benefits of the next 10 years would outweigh the disadvantages, which means that many people have already considered the issue of paying tuition fees in advance, and have certain psychological expectations of the price that China will pay for joining the WTO.

However, what Fan Wuxian learned about was that nearly 10 years after China's accession to the WTO, there were constant disputes over anti-dumping and anti-subsidy activities, which did not really improve transaction efficiency and reduce transaction costs.

In the final analysis, the WTO is an international trade coordination organization established by the developed Western countries headed by the United States in order to adapt to the trend of world trade development and protect their own interests, with the aim of protecting the vested interests of the developed countries and promoting negotiations on trade in financial services and intellectual property rights.

It is a pity that in the negotiations on China's accession to the WTO, it did not win the status of a market economy for itself. Therefore, China's accession to the WTO is not a banquet as a friend, still less a revision of trade rules as a host.

Because China has not won the most basic rights, it cannot become a guest at the banquet of the developed countries of the West, still less can it revise the rules of the World Trade Organization. After China's accession to the WTO, far from reducing antidumping and countervailing lawsuits, because China has become a member of the WTO, other WTO members can crack down on China behind closed doors in accordance with WTO rules and even the bilateral protocol on China's accession to the WTO.

So. When we look back and re-analyze the WTO many years later, people will realize that the core value of the WTO is actually a market economy, and if it does not win the status of a market economy, then China's accession to the WTO will not be of much significance.

Of course, whether it was the participants at the Fortune annual meeting or many scholars in China, most of them did not expect this result, but Fan Wuxian watched coldly, but he saw the huge hidden dangers in it, and also noticed the efforts of the top management on this issue.

At the very least, he did not hesitate to accept one-third of New Zealand's wool sales, in exchange for New Zealand's recognition of China's market economy status, and opened a gap for Western developed countries to open up trade barriers against China.

In this sense, the toast between Chief No. 1 and Boss Zhu is completely affordable by himself.

"I suddenly realized that I had a lot of responsibility on my shoulders." Fan Wuxian drank all the red wine with a slightly bitter taste in the glass, and said to Boss Zhu, "This French product is really not authentic, it is better to drink sweet wine from Xinjiang." ”

"International law is the rule." Boss Zhu replied to Fan Wuxi, and then continued his previous words and said, "In the next ten or twenty years, it is very critical for China's economy to develop to what extent." If we catch up, then it will be relatively smooth after that, although it cannot be said that it is a smooth road, but we can still see the step-by-step development, if we lose this opportunity, then the gap between us and the developed countries in the world will become bigger and bigger. ”

"I believe that the next decade will be a golden decade for the country's economic development, and I have never doubted that." Fan Wuxian thought of many things in the past ten years, and couldn't help but say with great emotion, "Maybe we still have to go through many twists and turns, many tribulations, and many challenges." But we will eventually overcome those difficulties one by one and catch up. ”

"Hehe, listening to our little master Fan's prediction makes me feel more confident than listening to the prediction of economists." After hearing this, Boss Zhu immediately laughed.

Since Fan Wuxian said at the wedding that he predicted the earthquake in Taiwan, Master Fan's name has become even louder, and today Boss Zhu is in a good mood and also took this to make a joke about him.

However, speaking of which, Boss Zhu does attach more importance to Fan Wuxi's opinion, this guy is very accurate in many things, which makes people feel very amazing, and it can only be said that he is like a god.

In fact, Fan Wuxian is also very aware of this, although it is not advisable to often make shocking remarks, but occasionally express his views from a high position, and then confirm his own views, so as to establish his mysterious and lofty position in the eyes of the world, it is still very helpful for him to continue to maintain his current dominant influence.

Although he didn't have the idea of being a god, he could subtly deepen everyone's blind obedience to himself, and the benefits were many, at least when he put forward a seemingly exaggerated point of view, everyone would habitually think about it seriously, and would not point to his nose and say anything fantastical, which was the effect he expected.

Fan Wuxian walked around the hall, and was stopped several times on the way, except for a few young and beautiful girls from rich families who wanted to talk to him and make friends, it was some elites from various industries, everyone wanted to get some useful information from him.

Although Fan Wuxi doesn't like this very much, but in response to some of the questions they raised, Fan Wuxi still tries his best to provide them with some help, which can be regarded as a good deed every day, because there is a very accurate forward-looking, so Fan Wuxian can easily find those weaknesses from their ideas, and then pick them out one by one to judge, which makes the people who come to confirm a lot of gains, and those who come to seek advice are suddenly enlightened, and they have to admire Fan Wuxi's five bodies to the ground.

After staying here for a while, Fan Wuxi felt that he couldn't go on like this, otherwise the girls who had been listening to him would not even be able to step away, and now their eyes were basically heart-shaped that could be seen.

Judging from tonight's exchanges, most domestic entrepreneurs still lack enough self-confidence, which leads to the fact that they can't seriously discuss the development direction of their enterprises and what their companies really need in many cases, but to pursue foreign judging standards, although those standards may not be in line with the domestic market, which makes Fan Wuxian feel regretful.

As a great power that needs to rise from the encirclement of the world, it is not a good thing to follow other people's standards.

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