Chapter 547: A Disturbing Topic

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Fan Wuxian is keeping an eye on Kodak's development in the Chinese market, which also has its purpose.

Although the decline of traditional photosensitive equipment is inevitable, Kodak's color printing systems will become popular, especially after the popularity of convenient photographic products such as digital cameras, these printing systems will gradually become popular, especially when major wedding photography studios begin to use professional printing systems to complete the final results, the output in this area is quite amazing.

Of course, now he does not show too much concern for the printing system, and all he asks is to share Kodak's achievements in digital camera technology, which is still acceptable to Kodak, because Fan Wuxian has agreed to solve the remaining employees in the factories that Kodak has acquired.

However, Fan Wuxian also proposed a solution, that is, these people can be dispersed to various places, in the name of regional agents to set up Kodak color printing equipment franchise stores in various places, and the required funds are solved by themselves, and the equipment is completely purchased from Kodak Company.

After hearing the news, Kodak was very stunned, they have always taken the road of technology monopoly market, at this time spent a lot of money to monopolize the Chinese market for three years, nothing more than to let Chinese can only use Kodak's film, once the use of habits, other brands will not be challenging, you must know that the habit of people is very terrible, when the main competitors enter the Chinese market, it is extremely difficult to make a comeback.

Kodak also hopes to be able to do so in various places. It is enough to establish a franchise store that uses its own printing equipment, which will widely use its own equipment, which is of great benefit to their own company's marketing, but at the same time they also want to monopolize this big cake, after all, the idea of establishing printing franchise stores across the country is essentially consistent with the effect of KFC and other enterprises opening stores in bustling business districts.

These occupy the most advantageous cities in large, medium and small cities. The geographical location of the store, even if it is a little insufficient in its own turnover, but with the rapid development of Chinese society, these losses will be greatly compensated for from the transfer cost of the store, so to speak, this is also a practice of the drunkard's intention not to drink.

However, now there is also a very awkwardness . The situation is that Kodak has to invest billions of dollars in the Chinese market to build a production base, to compensate Chinese enterprises that cannot be joint ventures with other foreign companies because of the agreement, and the cost of this is also very large, for the current poor management and debt-ridden Kodak company, the burden is very heavy, and if you want to build thousands of printing franchise stores throughout China, the investment is also very large, and it is really more than enough to do it.

Faced with the idea that Fan Wuxian wanted to enter the printing market, Kodak. It seems that the mood is a little complicated, not only hope that Fan Wuxian will enter the printing market as soon as possible, but also hope that he can occupy China's printing market, this contradiction can not be solved.

The reason why Kodak hopes that Fan Wuxian will enter the printing market as soon as possible is that the main . If it is because Kodak itself is facing relatively high pressure on profitability and is eager to promote this process by capturing the market, its own film will only sell well if the end-market solution is realized. If Fan Wuxian can simultaneously develop the needs of the bottom market, then Kodak's capital and energy will be saved, and Kodak can concentrate on expanding the photosensitive material production line.

But they also knew that if Fan Wuxian was allowed to do this. Once the terminal market is built, the resources at Fan Wuxi's disposal will be too great, and he can get rid of Kodak at any time, set up his own business, or cooperate with other foreign companies.

But at the moment. Judging from the situation, Kodak is obviously powerless to stop Fan Wuxi's idea of wanting to enter the terminal market.

"Since there is no way to stop it, then the only way is to cooperate well." Ye Ying said to his executives, "Anyway, from the current point of view, even if Fan's Investment Group wants to get involved in the printing market, the equipment it needs must be solved from us, which is the best opportunity for Kodak to make money." ”

Ye Ying thought very clearly, for the time being, Kodak is powerless to prevent Fan's Investment Group from entering the printing market, and there is no reason to stop it, after all, what they are now agreeing to monopolize is the film industry, not the printing market, monopolizing a market is very dangerous, even if it is a monopoly on the market of a developing country in a short period of time, Kodak's approach itself has caused a lot of controversy, but now Kodak itself is facing the problem of survival, not just the problem of development, so it can't take care of so much.

The printing market can only be ceded to Fan's Investment Group, but fortunately, they have also invested 200 million US dollars in the production base of photographic materials, which can be regarded as a collaborator in the same trench. When Kodak's production base is established and Kodak color rolls occupy the national market, the terminal printing market will always have to serve our customers, and it will not have any negative impact on Kodak's China strategy.

"Let's go and have a glass of wine with him." After Ye Ying thought clearly, she raised her glass and walked over to Fan Wuxi.

Fan Wuxi was talking to Boss Zhu with a smile there, he was not familiar with the CEOs of several other companies, and he had no contact before, and the scale of these companies was relatively small, so he couldn't put it in his eyes at all, so he didn't talk to them much.

However, between Fan Wuxian and Boss Zhu, they are exchanging views on some current matters.

"Listen to Comrade Fan Heng, Jiangnan Province is ready to go on the family car project? Are you behind this? Boss Zhu asked.

"It's not me who is promoting, it's determined by the laws of economic development in Jiangnan Province." Fan replied solemnly.

"Why is this idea weirder the older you get?" Boss Zhu said with a smile.

Fan Wuxian touched his nose and explained, "I'm not wrong when I say that, the economic development of Jiangnan Province has capital, and the metallurgical industry is also the underlying support of the automobile manufacturing industry, plus I can provide them with some technical authorization, so it is no problem to produce some more extensive family cars, and the main development direction I suggest to them is also for overseas markets." ”

"Oh, models with relatively large fuel consumption are indeed suitable for use in some overseas countries." Boss Zhu had been concerned about the development of SAIC for a long time before, so as soon as he heard Fan Wuzhi mention the overseas market, he immediately understood that the extensive cars that Fan Wuzhi said must be the kind that is not fuel-efficient.

However, the kind of models with high fuel consumption, generally speaking, have strong horsepower and strong off-road ability, which is indeed suitable for users in some overseas countries.

mentioned the problem of fuel consumption, Boss Zhu remembered some things again, frowned and said, "Domestic oil prices, um-"

"The current domestic oil price should be relatively cheap." Fan Wuxian nodded.

At present, the domestic oil price, that is, the appearance of three cents per liter, this year due to the financial turmoil in Southeast Asia, the global demand for oil once declined, and the oil price fell. As the economy slowly recovers, the demand for oil will continue to rise, especially in developing countries, where oil consumption is growing faster, and developed countries are ahead of the curve in terms of energy efficiency and commitment to the development of oil alternatives.

Overall, however, demand for oil has exceeded supply since the middle of the year. Even if the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has promised to increase production, it is difficult for oil prices to fall in the next one or two quarters due to the limited amount of production increase, the difficulty of refining and transportation to keep up, the long-term low international oil prices have failed to stimulate the increase in production, and the fact that the United States, Japan and other countries are about to enter winter and the increase in the demand for fuel for heating and heating.

However, the domestic oil price is still running at a low level, the main reason is that the smuggling of refined oil products is very serious, and the number of private gas stations in the country is also very large, and the two cooperate with each other, resulting in the emergence of low oil prices.

He emphatically pointed out that severely cracking down on smuggling activities is an important plan for ensuring healthy economic development and safeguarding social stability and national security interests, and that it is necessary to resolutely crack down on serious smuggling activities and never be soft-hearted.

At the national conference on cracking down on smuggling, Boss Zhu also made an important speech, and then a tremendous anti-smuggling struggle was launched throughout the country.

The reason why Boss Zhu began to frown at the mention of low oil prices was that the anti-smuggling struggle had been carried out for more than two months, but the problem of domestic refined oil smuggling was already serious, which made Boss Zhu feel very unhappy.

"The problem of smuggling refined oil products is now very serious, causing the country's tax revenue to lose hundreds of billions of dollars every year, and PetroChina and Sinopec have been losing money year after year, and the situation is very embarrassing. Now he shouts and fights for selfishness every day, but he can't hit the vital point, which makes people very angry. Boss Zhu said very angrily.

Last month, the Zhanjiang smuggling case was exposed, and the whole country was shocked.

Among the leaders of the criminal gang in the Zhanjiang smuggling case that caused a sensation throughout the country, Chen Lisheng, who is known as the king of car smuggling, has the deepest water and the most background, because his father was Chen Tongqing, secretary of the Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee at that time.

Chen Lisheng went crazy smuggling, and in a few years, he made hundreds of millions of dollars. In early 1996, Chen Lisheng and Deng Chongan, together with Li Shen and others, conspired to smuggle automobiles in Hong Kong and make profits. Deng Chongan is responsible for organizing the supply of goods and dismantling, coding, and packing the whole vehicle, Chen Lisheng is responsible for customs declaration in Hong Kong for export, shipping and picking up the smuggled goods at Zhanjiang Wharf, and handing them over to Deng Chongan or other smugglers, Li Shen and Zhang Yi are responsible for dredging the relationship and customs declaration, and collecting customs clearance remuneration of 70,000 to 100,000 Hong Kong dollars per container.

In the past two years, Deng Chongan participated in the smuggling of 3,000 car bodies and evaded more than 200 million yuan in taxes. Chen Lisheng participated in the smuggling of 2,000 car bodies and more than 10,000 tons of diesel fuel, evading nearly 200 million yuan in taxes in total.

In the anti-smuggling work in Zhanjiang City, Chen Tongqing's waist pole has not been stiffened, because his son Chen Lisheng is a well-known smuggling car king. Chen Tongqing also played the role of a protective umbrella for Chen Lisheng's smuggling activities, and in order to find a market for Chen Lisheng's smuggled goods, he did not hesitate to cheekily call people everywhere and pull connections. In order to make his son's smuggling funds abundant, he exerted influence and asked the Zhanjiang municipal government to come forward to guarantee a loan of tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars to Chen Lisheng's company in an overseas bank.

Not only that, it is said that on the first day of his transfer to Zhanjiang, Chen Tongqing took his son to visit the local leading cadres. People say that on the surface, this is the son sending Chen Tongqing to Zhanjiang, but in fact, it is the new secretary who paves the way for his son to make a fortune in Zhanjiang in the future.

"The ancients said that if you don't do it carefully, you will eventually accumulate great virtue. If the father and son of the corrupt officials could have realized this at the time and reined in the precipice as soon as possible, they would never have ended up with the tragic end of drowning in wine, burning in smoke, and crushing to death in ill-gotten wealth today. Boss Zhu mentioned the Zhanjiang case, and said to Fan Wuxi, "Compared with your father and son, Chen Tongqing's father and son are really worlds apart, and they are also father and son, but their conscience is obviously eaten by dogs." ”

Smuggling has seriously impacted Zhanjiang's economic foundation. Taking the sugar industry, the city's pillar industry, as an example, the city made a profit of 150 million yuan in 1995, but a year later, under the impact of smuggled sugar, the city lost 400 million yuan.

At that time, Zhanjiang was even known as a smuggler's paradise.

When it comes to smuggling, it is simply a blatant import. Truckloads of goods were openly pulled from the docks. The customs did not check the customs, the border defense was not fortified, and the anti-smuggling office became a smuggling office, and the supervision and control of the entire Zhanjiang port was a vacuum.

Some local state-owned enterprises are also linked to smuggling syndicates. Guangdong Samsung Enterprise Group, known as the Junma of Western Guangdong, uses smuggled auto parts to assemble complete vehicles, and the agricultural vehicles produced are extremely popular in the local area.

Ordinary people, although subconsciously aware that smuggling is illegal, know little about its harm. Ordinary people prefer to fill their cars with cheap smuggled oil, use smuggled gas for cooking, and eat smuggled sugar.

"People don't realize that it's a thirst quenching." Boss Zhu said, "There are four peak smuggling periods in China, three of which are from the fifties and sixties of the last century, and the scale is not large, like hills emerging from the plains. And now, smuggling, like Mount Everest rising on flat ground, is rampant! The collusion between internal and external smuggling, the collusion between officials and businessmen, and the large-scale smuggling have seriously undermined the country's economic order, and the new type of economic crime has reached the point where it must be cracked down. If smuggling continues to run rampant, it will not only seriously affect the smooth progress of reform, opening up, and modernization, but will also bring down our economy and our political power! ”

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