Strictly speaking, Yoo Jun's itinerary for this visit to St. Petersburg was not very tightly arranged. The so-called exchange of visits between sister cities is often of a tourist nature. Since they are sister cities, those in power of each other must also have an understanding of each other.

St. Petersburg is a famous tourist city in Russia, and Yoo Jun has long wanted to walk around the city. For Secretary Liu's wish, the Russian side is happy to fulfill. Of course, the business that should be done has to be done first.

On the morning of the next day, Liu Jun led the entire delegation to hold formal talks with Mayor Antonina and other dignitaries of St. Petersburg at the Smolny Palace. In the course of the talks, the two sides exchanged views on some topics of interest, and the atmosphere was very pleasant.

As Xiaoqing said on the phone, Antonina is in charge of the new city, and as a close confidant of President Ivan, she hopes to make dazzling achievements during her tenure. However, speaking of which, the first big move of the female mayor after taking office has a bit of a "ghostly" nature.

After Antonina took office, the first major thing was to "exterminate rats"0

Because of the rat infestation in St. Petersburg, Antonina had to issue a mobilization order, calling for a "man-rat war" to mobilize all forces to "exterminate" the rampant cypress rats in St. Petersburg.

This rat war, which has just begun, is said to be quite effective, and the number of rats killed is counted in "tons".

Naturally, the extermination of rats is a staged "campaign", and it is impossible for Antonina to establish her position by relying on the wide body of mice. In order to be recognized, she will have to make convincing achievements in other areas. For example, economic construction.

Since Russia broke away from the Soviet Union more than ten years ago and became independent again, the economic situation was very bad for a time, because the former Soviet Union implemented a strict planned economy, and there were many large-scale machinery production factories in Russia, but there was a great shortage of light industrial products, and even the supply of toilet paper became a problem. It is not so simple for a large country with a vast territory to achieve economic transformation.

After Ivan assumed the presidency, he tried his best to revive Russia's prestige as a great power, and adopted a series of tough measures in the economic field, which achieved relatively obvious results. The long-lost sense of honor has gradually returned to ordinary Russian citizens. However, Russia's current economic situation cannot be said to be very good, and there are still many problems that need to be solved. As the second largest city in Russia, St. Petersburg has an important economic position in the country

Before the visit, Liu Jun communicated with Minister Zhao Xinghua in detail, and Minister Zhao suggested that he could strengthen cooperation with St. Petersburg in the economic field, in other words, he should give St. Petersburg a certain amount of investment in exchange for the support of Antonina and others, which would be more conducive to his goal of visiting Russia.

According to the analysis, Antonina is still very talkative to President Ivan. The city of St. Petersburg also carries a lot of weight in Ivan's mind.

Therefore, Secretary Liu made it clear during the meeting that Yulan City intends to strengthen economic and cultural cooperation with St. Petersburg City. Among his entourage this time were not only heads of government functional departments, but also several well-known entrepreneurs in Yulan City's industrial and commercial circles, such as Kang Jingai, chairman of the board of directors of Yinhai Supermarket, and general manager of Yulan City's "Ten Thousand Miles Tourism Group Company," who were willing to invest in St. Petersburg and hoped that the Russian side would give them full support.

There are no less than 10 companies interested in investing in St. Petersburg, and if the conditions are right, the total investment will be no less than one billion dollars.

Listening to Yoo Joon's words, Antonina was inexplicably excited.

Investing more than $1 billion in St. Petersburg at one time is indeed a huge support for her, the new mayor. Other dignitaries of St. Petersburg were also smiling.

To be honest, their politeness to Yoo Jun at the beginning was mainly due to the need for diplomatic etiquette, coupled with Yoo Jun's special status. That kind of politeness is just a face, and there is still indifference and vigilance in his bones. Now that Liu Jun has made such a statement, everyone is completely different from Secretary Liu and the guests in Yulan City, and the closeness in their eyes is obvious. Liu Jun did not participate in specific business negotiations.

However, he has given programmatic instructions on the economic cooperation between the sister cities. He instructed that cooperation with the city of St. Petersburg should be concentrated in relatively high-end and formalized areas. In particular, it is necessary to attach importance to cultural cooperation between the two countries.

Before the collapse of the former Soviet Union, because the political situation in the Soviet Union was relatively chaotic, the state implemented a dual-track system in the economy, resulting in chaos in the economic field was no weaker than the chaos of the political situation. Some of our country's sharp-witted businessmen began bartering in the border areas of Russia very early. Domestically produced light industrial and chemical products are exchanged for Russian heavy industrial products, as well as valuable goods such as precious furs and medicinal herbs.

Qiao'er set up a company in the border city to run this business, and it has done a lot of work. A lot of the equipment of Tengfei Industrial Development Corporation is "tao" from Russia, which is of high quality and low price, and takes a great advantage. Now the company has grown and expanded its business to many cities in Russia, making a lot of money every year.

However, having said that, it is very rare to be able to operate on such a large scale like Qiao'er's company.

Many businessmen have always stayed at the level of "fallen masters", and there is no progress. Moreover, many domestic businessmen are very unscrupulous and often exchange inferior products for other people's valuables. Russia has been deceived many times, and has hated these unscrupulous businessmen in its southern neighbors, which has jointly damaged the image of businessmen in the entire republic, and at present, the overall credibility of our products and businessmen in Russia is extremely low, and the evaluation is extremely poor, and even some regular large companies have been affected because of this, and they are discriminated against in Russia's domestic business. There is even discrimination not only from the people, but also from the government. This made Liu Jun very unhappy.

Liu Jun is the kind of person with a very strong honor in his bones, and even a little "idealistic"0 He believes that the rise of a big country, and a big country that is rising rapidly, should not only be manifested in the enhancement of economic strength, nor should it be only manifested in the enhancement of comprehensive national strength, but also in the improvement of national quality, the improvement of the overall national image, and the improvement of the image and status of our citizens abroad.

In a word, we need to be a responsible power, not just a money-making country. This is the core of a real great power!

Therefore, Liu Jun's requirements for business cooperation are very clear, to be large-scale, and not to make a fuss. Entrepreneurs in a provincial capital city cannot regard themselves as "fallen masters"0

Kang Jingai, chairman of the Yinhai Group, plans to build a large retail supermarket in St. Petersburg. This is his profession, and it has been very successful in Yulan City and even in Province A. Kang Jingai's visit to Russia with Liu Jun this time was also recommended by Jin Youwei. Originally, Jin Youwei intended to go to Russia with Liu Jun. It's not for "publicly-funded tourism" that Jin Gongzi is not bad. He mainly wanted to show his face in such a big event, not only to help his son-friend, but also to show the identity and taste of Jin Gongzi. Let everyone know that Jin Gongzi is not an ordinary gentleman, and he still spares no effort to revitalize the country.

However, in the end, Liu Jun still did not agree to Jin Youwei to visit St. Petersburg with him.

For no other reason, Jin Youwei's identity is more sensitive.

After Jin Xiushi completely retired, Jin Youwei unceremoniously "dismissed" Zhong Haiyun and planted the big hat of the chairman of Xingyu Real Estate Group Company on his own head.

For this reason, Zhong Haiyun was very dissatisfied, and shouted that Jin Youwei couldn't trust her. Jin Gongzi smiled and said that his wife worked hard for the company's trivial matters day and night, which was too hard, and it was more appropriate for him to do the things that he was a big man. In the past, when the old man was in power, due to the regulations of the central government, Jin Gongzi was not good at doing business openly, at least he had to pay attention to secrecy, and he could not hold a serious position in Xingyu Real Estate, but could only be a "consultant". That's also a helpless thing, so I can only work my wife for 8 years. Now that the old man is officially retired, Jin Gongzi is hiding behind the scenes and not showing up, asking Zhong Haiyun to work hard in a woman's family, so he can't talk about it, so people can misunderstand that Jin Gongzi's ability is insufficient, and he has to rely on his wife to eat. Regarding Jin Youwei's explanation, Zhong Haiyun scoffed at it and didn't believe it at all.

She didn't believe that Jin Youwei would really be so good to her, or should she be in love more than ten years ago? Even when he fell in love, Zhong Haiyun took care of Jin Youwei meticulously, and Jin Gongzi was a big man who was not diligent from beginning to end! Undoubtedly, Jin Youwei can't trust her and wants to take away her "power".

And the fact is that Jin Youwei really can't believe Zhong Haiyun. Of course, this letter is only a general reference, and Jin Gongzi is not afraid that Zhong Haiyun will set up a small treasury privately and pull part of the company's money into his own small treasury. Jin Youwei doesn't care about money very much, the company's profits are good, and his wife wants to save some private house, which is nothing. The key Jin Youwei is very clear that the reason why Zhong Haiyun didn't dare to mistreat in front of him before was mainly because he was afraid of the big brand of the provincial party secretary of his old Jin family. Now that the old man has completely retired, the scale of Xingyu Real Estate is far from being comparable to that when it was founded, and it has become a first-class large company in Yulan City and even the entire A province, with a total asset value of billions, and Zhong Haiyun is no longer the Wuxia Ameng of the past. When this woman's wings are stiff, her mind will come alive, and she will not be so in awe of Jin Gongzi.

Nothing else, Jin Gongzi's outer room is quite a lot. Zhong Haiyun knows most of them. In the past, "swallowing his anger" was because Xingyu Real Estate could not do without Jin Youwei, and Zhong Haiyun could not do without Xingyu Real Estate. Now that the situation has changed, if Jin Gongzi still allows Zhong Haiyun to control Xingyu Real Estate, it will be a matter of several private money, but Jin Gongzi himself is in danger of being stuck in the neck.

Such a danger cannot be allowed by Jin Gongzi. To be continued!