In '78, the big countries that had just broken away from the Cultural Revolution began to abandon the program of class struggle and shifted their main energies to modernization. In November, the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee was held, and the state proposed reform and opening up.

At the end of 78, the Coca-Cola Company signed an agreement with COFCO Oil and Cofco to build a joint venture factory in the imperial capital, and in the form of compensation trade, Coca-Cola will provide equipment and raw materials for production, and the Grain and Oil Export Corporation will be responsible for consignment sales. Coca-Cola became a foreign company that entered the country.

On New Year's Day of '79, China and the United States established diplomatic relations, and the embassy announced that all American capital was welcome to invest and build factories in China. Encouraged by this news, a large number of overseas Chinese and American-funded companies went to the embassy to inquire about domestic investment, but in the end, very few of them made the trip, and the vast majority of them took sales as the main purpose, and regarded China as the next dumping market to be opened, and there was basically no enterprise with real technological content.

The frustrated China slowly shifted its attention to the neighboring Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, which are areas with a large number of overseas Chinese. In this context, Li Xuechu's trip to the north was warmly welcomed by the corresponding domestic institutions, and the efficiency problem that he had feared did not become a reality at all.

At present, both Hong Kong and China are in the stage of cautious exploratory contact. On the one hand, it is out of fear of the red regime, and on the other hand, it is worried about the insatiable nature of capital.

Both concerns seem to be justified, but the final results prove that the former's worries are unnecessary, and the latter concern has become a reality because China has not perfected the legal system in the following decade or so. After the end of the trial period, the 'expatriates' who deceived the whole country made many local governments pay the first tuition fees after the opening.

There are clever and simple tricks, and the clever ones take advantage of the loopholes in the law, and they are all in a rut if they are revealed, and they are simply deceived and disappeared, and it is difficult to recover them in this era. Some of the scammers are rich, and some are grassroots, and they go home after cheating their money. Some people in China can only speak two sentences of English and Cantonese, and few people have been arrested, and today's country is too simple, whether it is the government or the small people......

"I don't know how to think about these things." Li Xuechu shook his head, as if he wanted to get these useless distractions out of his mind. Sometimes I really want to remind the country that it is good to take fewer detours. However, unless there is a chance to meet with the central government, it will not help, after all, most of them are still serious businessmen. If you want to really solve the problem, you have to implement it in law.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to land at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport now, please do not leave your seat until the indicator light of the seat belt is not turned off and the flight is not stopped......" remembered the radio tone on the plane.

"It's finally here." Li Xuechu looked outward at the demon capital of the later generations.

It is very different from the impression of later generations, and the changes in the past 30 years have been really earth-shaking. The current magic capital has not yet shown the coldness and coercion of the international metropolis of later generations, there are no towering buildings, and there are even a lot of farmland around. Li Xuechu somehow gave birth to some intimacy, although he was not from the magic capital.

Looking down at the dense crowd of ants, the crowd of bicycles on the street, Li Xuechu felt that the corners of his eyes were a little moist, this is his place.

Looking around the airport, although there are many people around the airport, most of them are only dressed in blue, green and gray, and the style is also single. In a dark color of clothing, occasionally dotted with a little bright color, like a weed sprouting out of a gray earth, showing a bit of warmth in the early days of reform.

Although he has not experienced this era, Li Xuechu knows a little about the costumes of this era. The blue ones are cadre uniforms, the green ones are imitation military uniforms, and the gray ones are people's uniforms. Dressed in identical or identical clothes, so many people seem to have poured out of one mold.

In the vast sea of people, his group has a feeling of being isolated like an alien, and it seems to be true, the slightly crowded crowd comes to himself like a river meets a reef and automatically diverts it, and takes the initiative to keep a distance of more than two meters from his group, and looks at a few people with curious eyes.

"Fortunately, there are no foreigners among my own people." Li Xuechu smiled bitterly and looked at the few white people on the other side who were being watched strongly. Although the costumes are different, the faces are still the same, and the enthusiasm of the 'audience' is far less than that of a few foreigners.

At this time, the people of the demon capital did not have the eggs that would be strange to future generations, and surrounded the foreigner as a cherished animal, and pointed at the strange facial features of the foreigner's 'different from ordinary people', and there were people in the distance who kept calling friends and companions: "Come and see that, there are foreigners here." ”

"Let's go, don't look at the foreign guests!" The airport staff tried their best to evacuate the crowd, but there was nothing wrong for a while, and the foreigner moved several times slower than his group.

The foreigners were struggling, showing a little discomfort and confusion in the curious crowd, and one or two people saw Li Xuechu and his party, and there seemed to be a bit of distress in the eyes of the handover.

shrugged his shoulders, this Li Xuechu couldn't help.

But their troubles didn't last long. A few minutes later, a wave of people dressed in cadre uniforms rushed over.

"Disperse, disperse, don't watch the foreign guests." Several cadres shouted loudly outside the human wall and squeezed in. At this time, the class had not yet solidified, and the masses had not yet taken the initiative to avoid the habit of public servants, and they were quite reluctant to make their debut, which was really hard.

When Li Xuechu thought that it had nothing to do with him, the cadres diverted a wave of people to come over.

"May I ask if you are Mr. Li Xuechu from Xiangjiang?" A middle-aged man in a four-pocket trunk coat asked, but his eyes were already determined.

"Yes. Who are you? ”

The middle-aged man stretched out his hand enthusiastically. "We are Zhang Tao, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Industry, and welcome overseas expatriates to return to China to start a business!"

The two of them clasped hands together.

"It's quite powerful," Li Xuechu thought to himself. These people give themselves a sense of wind and fire, and they speak and act with a bit of cleanliness, which is not the same as the feeling given by later generations of officials.

"I'm here to talk about cooperation, but I do have plans to return to China to start a business." Li Xuechu said with a smile.

Director Zhang was quite satisfied with this answer. "Hehe, now the state's policy is to encourage foreign businessmen and overseas Chinese to start businesses in China, and if Mr. Li is interested, we will definitely give the greatest support."

"I'll think about it." The most thirsty thing in China is industry, but there are still many concerns about whether to open up the market for domestic self-employed exhibitions, but there are not so many worries about foreign investment.

Now China is the golden period of entrepreneurship, Li Xuechu also wants to participate, but unfortunately the current contact industry is only toys, this kind of little technical content of some do not want to do. What is there to make a lot of money and a high-tech industry? The prospect of the exhibition is good, and it is best to become a hegemon in the industry like Sony Samsung, which I am still thinking about. It's a pity that I'm not a tech nerd.

At this time, another person also leaned in.

"Hello, Mr. Li, I am from the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture, and you are welcome to return to China."

"Hello, hello."

……

Several cadres in a row are government personnel, the Municipal Industrial Bureau, the Foreign Trade Bureau, the Municipal Federation of Overseas Chinese, and the Municipal Association for Science and Technology...... The main Modu Film Studio, which wants to cooperate, has fallen behind. Externally, the government should take the lead, which is the characteristic of this era.

shook hands one by one, connected with the cordial greetings of the leaders, and briefly thanked them, and after a few greetings, a circle of sweat broke out on Li Xuechu's forehead.

The situation is similar to that of several foreigners on the opposite side, and the reception specifications are obviously higher than their own. After all, I am just here to cooperate, and the other party probably has the intention of investing in building a factory, right?

After about a quarter of an hour, seeing that the foreign guests had been invited to get on the bus, Director Zhang immediately smiled and invited the group to the hotel.

"Whew, it's finally over." Li Xuechu let out a sigh of relief.

got into the car, Li Xuechu saw that the two teams of cars were driving in the same direction, and probably the place where they lived would be arranged in the same place, right?

Sure enough, the two teams stopped at the entrance of the same building.

"Mr. Li, we're here." Director Zhang smiled and waved his hand.

Li Xuechu got out of the car and took a look: Peace Hotel.

This historic hotel is now the main place to receive foreign guests in the magic capital, and Li Xuechu also came here in his previous life, but he just took pictures in front of the door, and he didn't expect to go back to more than 30 years ago and have the opportunity to enjoy the reception here as a 'foreign guest'.

A few foreigners on the opposite side also came down, and the seemingly middle-aged foreigner and Li Xuechu smiled and nodded lightly, and the two teams entered one after another.

"Director Zhang, what nationality are they from, and what are they doing here?" Li Xuechu asked in a low voice.

"Oh, a representative of the American chemical industry." Zhang Tao replied.

"Are you here to buy oil or start a company?"

Director Zhang smiled and didn't answer. At this time, the discipline of foreign affairs is still quite strict, although it doesn't matter if it looks like it, but if you can say less, you can say less.

Seeing that people don't squeak, Li Xuechu doesn't ask, oil was one of the country's main export items in the first 20 years or so of opening up, and it will be the other way around in the future, and it will not be enough for himself.

This industry has nothing to do with me.

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