Chapter 775: Blue Sky Organization
For more than 30 years, Blue Sky has launched environmental campaigns around the world on a variety of topics, including intercepting whaling ships in the ocean, opposing the construction of nuclear power plants in France, boycotting potash plants in Canada, and eradicating genetically modified experimental fields in the Philippines.
As one of the world's largest chemical companies, Warren Group has also been the target of a key boycott by Blue Sky. Ten years ago, Blue Sky launched a large-scale boycott campaign against the Warren Group, at the same time besieged more than a dozen of the Warren Group's chemical companies around the world.
The Warren Group urgently activated the public relations mechanism, sent commissioners to negotiate secretly with the Blue Sky Organization, and finally agreed that the Warren Group would "donate" the equivalent of 15 million US dollars to the so-called environmental protection public welfare fund under the Blue Sky Organization every year, in exchange for the Blue Sky Organization to provide "environmental supervision" services to the Warren Group, which calmed down the situation and allowed the factories in various places to resume production.
Bernice and Gusev met in that conflict, so it can be regarded as a no-fight deal. Since then, Bernice has participated in several Blue Sky environmental forums as a technologist, where he has told his peers about the "pleasant experience" of working with Blue Sky, which is the equivalent of telling other companies to give up resistance and go to Blue Sky.
Bernice knew very well what was going on with the Blue Sky organization. On this earth, there are indeed many real public welfare organizations that aim to save lives and care for society, but more of them are in the name of public welfare. A pseudo-public welfare organization that actually collects money and launders money. In the post-industrial era, it is easy for people to breed the mentality of the Virgin, and they need someone to help them give away those excess loves, so all kinds of public welfare organizations are like carp across the river, and the blue sky is just one of the representatives.
As one of the people who suffered from it, Bernice was well aware of the destructive power of the blue sky. Faced with the aggressive competitive pressure of Chinese companies, Bernice thought of this former enemy and came up with the idea of bringing disaster to the east.
Gusev, the secretary general of a division of Blue Sky with more than a dozen full-time staff members, had been operating around Western Europe. In recent years, due to the increasing proliferation of various public welfare activities initiated by various public welfare organizations, the governments of various countries that used to have a policy of appeasement towards the activities of public welfare organizations have begun to show red cards to these organizations. Gusev organized several demonstrations against the construction of high-speed railways, but the results did not produce the desired results. Several staff members were also arrested and detained by the local police on charges of disturbing public order and assaulting police, and it took a lot of effort for Gussev to rescue them.
This part of Europe is no longer in a good place, and Gusev is becoming more and more aware of this. He began to look to the rest of the world, including the booming China. Coincidentally, just as he was about to take time to study China, Bernice's phone call hit his desk.
"Mr. Bernice, how did you start caring about environmental issues?" Gusev asked faintly.
"We at Warren Group have always been very environmentally conscious." Bernice replied, "After I came to work in China. I found that the Chinese are still aware of environmental protection in the era of the Industrial Revolution, and there is an urgent need for European environmental organizations to do some work for them. Don't you have such an interest? ”
"Of course we're interested." Gusev replied perfunctorily, while the mouse in his hand moved quickly, looking for information about the RX project. After reading a few reports, a knowing smile appeared on his face, and he understood why Bernice was calling him.
The rapid development of China's economy has put forward a huge demand for various chemical products. RX is an important chemical raw material. Demand in China has grown rapidly in recent years. Japan, South Korea, Germany and Singapore are major producers of RX, among which Warren Group exports up to 2 million tons of RX to China every year, worth billions of dollars.
China is a country that is very self-sufficient. Over the years, we have been working to increase the production capacity of the RX to meet its own needs. Once China's own RX units are put into production in large quantities, it will inevitably reduce its dependence on imported RX raw materials, and at the same time greatly reduce the price of RX, and the interests of many foreign manufacturers, including the Warren Group, will be harmed.
In this case, isn't it clear that Bernice invited Blue Sky to China for its activities?
Knowing this, Gusev knew how to communicate with Bernice, he snorted a few words, and then said: "Mr. Bernice, although we are very interested in going to China, we do not know much about the situation in China, and we need to spend a lot of energy to study this country. Also, China is a distant place after all, and the funding of our branch ......"
"I think this problem is easy to solve, and if Blue Sky is interested in carrying out activities in China, Warren Group's China representative office is willing to provide some convenience." Bernice replied without hesitation. He knew that these public welfare organizations did not scatter eagles without seeing rabbits, and his tongue alone could not make Gusev tempted, so before calling Gusev, he was mentally prepared to give some money for Gusev.
"If that's the case, it would be great, and we will thank the Warren Group for their enthusiastic sponsorship on behalf of the Chinese." Gusev laughed and unceremoniously substituted himself into the role of the savior of the Chinese.
A few days later, in the office of Guo Shuqing, the new secretary of Yiping City, Dongyuan Province, two Europeans with big noses were ushered in, accompanied by Xu Yang, deputy director of the Yiping Science and Technology Bureau.
Xu Yang was cleared and returned to a certain naval base because of serious problems in his life style. The base remembered that Xu Yang had made some contributions, so he didn't want to do anything wrong, so he didn't record Xu Yang's mistakes in the file, but sent Xu Yang back to his hometown of Yiping City for resettlement in accordance with the ordinary procedures for changing jobs.
Xu Yang graduated from a prestigious school and was promoted to a regular battalion position when he was in the army, so after transferring to the local government, he was arranged to be a middle-level cadre in the Science and Technology Bureau. Because of his outstanding talents, coupled with some good background in Yiping City, he was quickly promoted to deputy director of the Science and Technology Bureau, and it is rumored that the newly appointed Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Guo Shuqing admires him a lot and intends to focus on cultivating him.
"Secretary Guo, let me introduce to you, this is Mr. Gusev, the secretary general of the Post-Industrial City Civilization Branch of the International Blue Sky Organization, and Mr. Ekin, the executive director of the Post-Industrial City Civilization Branch, who made a special trip from Europe to China to carry out the promotion of the concept of post-industrial civilization cities." Xu Yang pointed to the two Europeans and introduced them to Guo Shuqing.
"Welcome, welcome, very welcome, Mr. Gusev and Mr. Ekin, welcome to teach the Chinese people the concept of European post-industrial civilization." With a kind smile on his face, Guo Shuqing shook hands with Gusev and Ekin, beckoning them to sit down on the couch while he sat on the single sofa on one side, a courtesy that only VIPs can enjoy.
"Blue Sky is one of the most famous environmental public welfare organizations in the world, and has carried out a large number of environmental protection public welfare activities around the world, which are well received by people from all over the world. This is the first time that Blue Sky has carried out activities in China. We are very honored to be the first stop of their trip to China. Xu Yang said to Guo Shuqing with a bit of pride.
"Oh, really?" Guo Shuqing really became interested, "Our small Yiping City has such a big attraction?" ”
"Let Mr. Gusev himself answer this question."
Xu Yang said, muttering a few words of English to Gu Shev, Gu Xie Fu nodded and began to speak, Xu Yang was on the side to translate for him.
"Mr. Guo, our post-industrial urban civilization branch is a branch of the Blue Sky organization specializing in urban civilization, we have our own interpretation of urban civilization, our concept is contrary to today's popular concept, we can confidently say that our concept is at least 50 years ahead of this era." Gu Xie Fu's mouth was a tall tone, which made Guo Shuqing and Xu Yang dizzy.
"Modern cities in the West have risen along with industrial civilization, such as Birmingham in the United Kingdom and Detroit in the United States. The development of industry can bring a large number of people and great wealth to the city, but at the same time, it also deprives human beings of their connection with nature, and alienates them into mechanical slaves.
With the advent of the post-industrial era, cities will be faced with a choice, whether to let industry squeeze people out of the city, or whether humans themselves will squeeze industry out of the city. Unfortunately, cities such as Birmingham and Detroit have made the wrong choice and are now facing a severe depression.
For the sake of the future of mankind, our Post-Industrial Urban Civilization Division has launched a campaign to save cities around the world, hoping to help cities in various countries break free from the clutches of industrialization and return cities to their original functions. This time, we chose Yiping City, China, as the first stop of our visit, hoping to be a pilot with global demonstration significance in Yiping, a rising industrial city. ”
Gu Shev continued to talk eloquently, and Guo Shuqing sat aside and listened, and a glimmer of light gradually appeared in his eyes. (To be continued......)