Chapter 469: The City I Don't Like
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However, what made Fan Wuxian feel a little comforted was that he finally didn't have to go on the road alone.
When he was about to leave the capital, his old friend Maximus came from the United States and was about to talk to him about cooperation.
The old Jewish man is a strategic partner of Fan Wuxi, and it is naturally impossible for Fan Wuxian to leave him here, so he postponed the formation and waited for him here.
Maximos came over this time, mainly about the mobile phone manufacturing of the tripartite cooperation to exchange some things, and it happened that his company also had a little Chinese business to deal with, so he simply handled it together.
Mobile phone business is an important profitable business of Fan's investment group, although the production time is not a few years, but due to the leading edge of LCD screen technology, coupled with the previously acquired INTEL mobile phone research and development department has been completely absorbed at this time, so it has a strong advantage in the underlying research and development technology, in addition to large companies such as Motorola can be compared, Ericsson and some other mobile phone manufacturers who have entered the Chinese mainland market in the early stage have felt great pressure.
After all, the capital consumed in the production and research and development of mobile phones in Chinese mainland is very small, coupled with the fact that Fan Wuxian was very much through Kevin hacked a lot of technical information at that time, and the largest part of the cost was basically negligible, which made Fan's investment group's mobile phone business stand on a very high ** at the beginning, and after several years of development, the technology has become more and more perfect, and the products have strong competitiveness.
It can be said that in the low-end market, Fan's investment group's mobile phones have begun to compete with overseas giants, especially in terms of manufacturing costs, obviously Fan's investment group's mobile phones have more advantages.
It is precisely because of the efforts of Fan's Investment Group that the domestic mobile phone market has developed rapidly, and the continuous reduction of prices has promoted the rapid expansion of the number of mobile phone communication users, which is larger than the number that has appeared in history, and the number of mobile phone users has exceeded 20 million.
The emergence of a huge user base has directly led to the dilution of the cost of mobile operators, and the cost per user has been greatly reduced, and the era of great development of China's mobile phone market has come ahead of schedule.
When Fan Wuzhi was on the Fudan campus before, he found a special phenomenon, many teachers and students on the campus are using all kinds of mobile phones produced by Fan's Investment Group, with prices starting from 1,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan or 4,000 yuan, and it is very rare among foreign brands with higher prices.
Fan Wuxian thought about it. Mobile phones, liquid crystals, and computers are the three industries that have taken away the most money and wealth of Chinese. Finally, because of my own intervention, there has been a fundamental change in these three industries. It has basically formed a de facto monopoly position in China, and there are some other companies competing with it. But in the case of LCD and mobile phones. Many of the underground technologies used by domestic companies are authorized by Fan's Investment Group, and some companies are even Fan's Investment Group's assembly plants.
"Fan. I heard that your father was promoted to a member of the Politburo, and I would like to congratulate you. "Maximus after seeing Fan Wuxian. First of all, he said to him with a smile.
"Hehe, thank you, thank you. But it doesn't seem to have much to do with me. Fan Wuxian smiled and thanked him. I can't count on him to help me develop the market, can I? ”
Maximus shook his head. "Oh no. It should be said that it is very big when it helps. Don't you think I'm coming with the good intentions of some people? ”
Fan Wuxian listened to Maximus's words. I was stunned for a moment. Then he asked with a frown. "Could it be that you're also a politician now?"
Maximus said with a smile. "Not really. However, it may evolve in this direction in the future. In fact, the methods of politics and business are similar. One of your Chinese once said. I want to be a big thing. There are two necessary conditions. The first is to have a thick skin. The second is to be dark in your heart. Actually, I thought about it for a while. I meet both of these conditions. So I've thought about mixing it up after these two years. Retired into politics. ”
Fan Wuxian shook his head and said, "If you run for governor or something, then you can't move all the state's money to your house?" That's a big problem! ”
Maximus laughed, "You think so too?" ”
However, Maximus came over this time, obviously there was something to say, so he said with Fan Wuxi, "Actually, I was entrusted by the American Banking Federation to lobby Chinese partners, and the American banking industry believes that China is about to restore its legal status in the WTO, so in terms of opening up the banking industry, you should go to the front, and they hope that you can use your influence to express the benefits of opening up the financial industry to the official." ”
As soon as Fan Wuxian heard that this was the case, he immediately shook his head like a rattle, "You are thinking about this wrong!" It will take at least 10 years for the opening up of the financial industry to be possible, do you think that China's domestic financial industry can withstand the impact of you capital predators? ”
In fact, there is no need for Fan Wuxian to say anything, Maximus also believes that the feasibility of this kind of thing is very small, unlike the bosses of the American banking industry, he often comes to Chinese mainland to do business, so he knows more about the mainland, especially following Fan Wuxian learned a lot of Chinese ways of doing things, and it is clear that China's reform is a semi-permeable reform, that is, selective absorption, rather than total westernization.
For things that are not good for the country, the government will obviously not agree to accept the idea of foreigners, so this kind of idea like the American banking industry can only be said to be wishful thinking for money, and there is not much possibility of realization.
"I said, it won't work, but they don't believe it." Maximus shrugged his shoulders and said.
"Although it can't be realized now, this matter can also be mentioned, after all, if you don't say it, how can people know what you think?" Fan Wuxian pointed out to Maximus.
In fact, he is not only reminding Maximus, but also reminding the domestic financial management through Maximus in disguise, asking them to know what the foreign financial industry thinks about the Chinese market, so that they can prepare for the opening of the financial market as soon as possible.
After all, once China joins the WTO in the future, China's financial market will eventually open up.
In this way, Fan Wuxian waited in Beijing for another three days, and waited until Maximus visited the bigwigs in various industries who needed to be visited according to his list, and then took a passenger plane with Fan's Airlines and flew to Sydney, Australia.
In fact, many people think that Sydney is the capital of Australia, because everyone often hears this name, and the main reason is that in 93, when Beijing bid for the Olympics, it lost to this city.
At that time, many people found it a little difficult to accept, because the votes of Beijing and Sydney were only two votes, some said that the members of Taipei did not vote for us, and some said that the members of the DPRK did not vote for us, and these two crucial votes made it impossible for Beijing to hold the Olympic Games for 2,000 years.
Later, some people said that it was Australia's trick at a critical time that reversed the situation.
At that time, before the vote, several news agencies sent messages from Sydney and Monte Carlo respectively saying that the domestic leader had given an interview to the Australian Special Broadcasting Corporation television in Beijing and said that if Beijing's bid to host the Olympic Games failed due to the obstruction of the US Congress, China would retaliate by boycotting the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
Therefore, at the beginning of the Executive Committee, Maranch asked He Zhenliang if he had resisted such a thing, and He Zhenliang unequivocally said that there was no such thing at all. Samaranch was so pleased that he immediately asked Napier, the IOC's director of public relations, to arrange for Ho Zhenliang to speak at the IOC's press conference that afternoon.
Sa's intention is obviously to provide Ho Zhenliang with an opportunity to clarify the facts and suppress this 'boycott' storm deliberately created by the West. This was not what some people wanted, so some people at the meeting said that if the Chinese side wants to clarify the facts, it can hold its own press conference, so why should he speak at the IOC's press conference?
Since 1976, boycotting the Olympics has been the IOC's most nerve-wracking affair.
Boycotts are generally motivated by political considerations, but over the years, there has been a consensus in the international sports community that boycotts are not in the interests of athletes. Ho Chun-leung was on the front line of contact with the IOC and felt the mentality of the committee members earlier than others.
Boycotting the Olympics for political purposes is the most unpopular in the IOC.
Sydney's rumor that China will boycott the Olympics is the best way to get the best results of hitting Beijing's bid at the least cost.
On this day in Monte Carlo, the incident immediately became the biggest news. Several television stations broadcast news of China's boycott of the Atlanta Olympics every hour throughout the day, and some footage of interviews with Australian television stations was shown to prove their case.
Several major Western news agencies broadcast news about China's boycott several times a day, and some of them had ulterior motives, saying that China has always put its political interests above the Olympic ideals, and that it had a history of boycotting the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and the 1980 Moscow Olympics in the past, and that Beijing was playing the political card again, and this time it wanted to use the boycott to blackmail the IOC in order to obtain the right to host the Games.
In this way, apparently, it had a big impact on the vote a few days later, and some Western commissioners who had been inclined to Beijing finally decided to change their minds on the fly and vote for Sydney.
Fan Wuxi, who knew the inside story, was naturally not very happy when he arrived in this city full of intrigue at this time, so he did not even agree to Maximos's suggestion to look around, at least to visit the Sydney Opera House.
He chartered a small airliner directly and flew non-stop to Perth in Western Australia.
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