When I left Deng Gong's place, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon. At 3:30 p.m., the delegation would meet Premier Li of the State Council and discuss with some officials of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television and the mainland's Ministry of Foreign Trade on the mainland's policy toward Hong Kong's film industry.

Although the two talked too much, the two forgot to have lunch for a while. However, compared to eating one less meal, Lin Xiaozhi was still very satisfied with his ability to meet Deng Gong when he went north this time.

In the past few years, because the steps were too big and at the same time due to the deliberate misdirection of Western countries, the mainland almost suffered a change similar to that of Eastern Europe. Despite the decisiveness of the top management at the last moment, a catastrophe was quelled. However, after that, some conservatives in the party also began to point their criticisms at the correct national policy of reform and opening up, and in the past two years, everyone has seen that there is a danger that the mainland's reform has stalled or even retrogressed. So much so that the old man he saw today had to stand up again at this dangerous end, drag his sick body and go south with his spirit, to appease and affirm the ideas of the reformers, so that the 'reform and opening up, the national policy, which was once in danger of being denied, can continue to be implemented.

The historical southern tour was at the beginning of next year, but when Lin Xiaozhi saw the old man at this time, he had clearly read this kind of will to maintain reform and never go backwards from the old man's bland words.

In an interview with the French media at the beginning of this year, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, known as the gravedigger of ⊥-democracy and the most loyal lackey of the bourgeoisie, admitted that a referendum on the Soviet Union would be held in the first half of the year, assuring Western countries that the Soviet Union respects the rights of all citizens and member states, and that they will have the power to decide everything freely like a democratic country. Since March, the referendum of the Soviet Union has begun to be carried out in an orderly manner in the vast majority of the member states of the Soviet Union, but the three Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) and Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, and other member states of the Soviet Union have openly resisted the referendum, and the three Baltic countries have openly raised the slogan of withdrawing from the Soviet Union with the support of the NATO bloc.

It's time for Gorbachev to pay the price for his stupidity, and now it's time for anyone to see that the Soviet Union is in danger of disintegrating. If Soviet strongmen such as Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev were alive, they might choose to use iron-fisted military means and launch a purge of the top leaders of the three Baltic countries to stabilize the Soviet Union. But Gorbachev, who is as weak as a sheep, is likely to choose to retain these member states through political negotiations and co-optation, as he has done in the past.

As a result, far-sighted politicians such as Deng Gong have already seen that the Soviet Union has failed to maintain the Warsaw clique by all means in the past few years, not to mention the Baltic states, which have always been at odds with Russia, the main body of the Soviet Union.

The evil neighbor to the north has now reached the mouth of the precipice, and the old man sees the danger of regression at the same time as he sees the danger of reform. As an old revolutionary, although he has withdrawn from the national decision-making center, he cannot allow the mistakes of the past to be repeated, Deng Gong obviously has the intention of going back to the mountain to unswervingly protect the national policy of reform and opening up, he met with Deng Gong at this time, even if the old man only remembers a few words of good Hong Kong movies in a few hours of conversation, it is beneficial after all.

In the mainland, which has not yet emerged from the era of authoritarian politics, Deng Gong's affirmative words are worthy of the Hong Kong delegation's countless negotiations with the mainland.

"We all know that there were some problems in modern China during the Qing Dynasty, and our people were still in a feudal society at that time, but the European and American colonizers relied on capitalism and strong ships and cannons to forcibly launch the unjust Opium War, forcibly opened our country with armed aggression, and then divided the territory from the cowardly and incompetent Qing Dynasty rulers, and forcibly occupied a lot of our Chinese land, including Hong Kong. During the period of the Republic of China, there were some internal problems in China, such as Japan outside, and the Nanjing government supported by Britain, France, the United States and other Western powers inside, constantly engaged in civil wars. ”

"Chairman Mao once said that communists should dare to act, not be afraid of others' criticism, and humbly accept the opinions and suggestions of others. Therefore, we also admit that after the establishment of New China, we took many detours due to our lack of experience and some internal problems, but since Deng Gong came back and began to lead the work, he quickly formulated the correct path of reform and opening up, and successfully guided New China, which was in ruins, to embark on the road of enriching the people and strengthening the country...... The Hong Kong issue has a long history. During the Qing Dynasty, our country was weak and weak, and we could only let the British forcibly occupy our territory. But now that the country is strong, no one can bully us and forcibly occupy our territory......

In the afternoon, Premier Li of the State Council, Minister Ai of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, and others also met with Lin Xiaozhi and others in the Ziguang Pavilion in Zhongnanhai, nominally to discuss and listen to the experience report of the group from the north on the Hong Kong film industry, and to put it bluntly, it was a negotiation. Since Beijing temporarily arranged CCTV to take some of the silhouettes, Premier Li took the lead in making a brief speech.

“…… As the Prime Minister just said, Hong Kong has been left out because of its past experiences. We also know that many mainland compatriots look at us and think that we wear Western clothes and eat bread and milk, but in fact, except for some long-term environments, we all have a Chinese heart."

Before going north this time, Lin Xiaozhi thought about packaging himself as a moderate who supported reform, although he only went north for two days, but obviously the effect he wanted had been achieved, with the help of a song at the 1984 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Hong Kong singer Zhang Mingmin sang a popular song, and his words made Premier Li and Minister Ai and others have a smile on their faces.

"To our compatriots in Hong Kong, we have made a commitment. One country, two systems. Beijing respects the rights of Hong Kong's overseas Chinese and has pledged that it will not affect Hong Kong's basic institutions for the next 100 years. In addition, for all walks of life in Hong Kong, we will also introduce various supportive policies according to local conditions to promote economic ties between Hong Kong and the mainland."

Premier Li said with a gentle face, and the first person sitting on his right hand was Minister Ai of the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, who also made a promise when he heard this, "Although Hong Kong is an international metropolis, its own geographical limitations have led to very limited resources that can be used by the film industry, but the compatriots in Hong Kong have turned disadvantages into advantages very well, creating a good situation, which is admirable." Many of our comrades have spent some time in Hong Kong with the exchange of industries between the two places in the past few years. After coming back in the past few years, he has also brought back the advanced experience of the Hong Kong film industry, but these are not enough, with the return of Hong Kong to the motherland, the exchanges between the mainland and the Hong Kong film industry have to be increased on a large scale......"

After the events of the previous year, it is now very sensitive to talk about politics on the mainland. Lin Xiaozhi had repeated this issue again and again before he organized the delegation to go north, and because this delegation was all pulled up by his influence, and everyone gave him some face, so on the most sensitive political issue in Beijing, both sides avoided it very sensibly, and tacitly agreed not to talk about the political system, the power and functions of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, or anything else. Lin Xiaozhi threw all these packages to Huo Yingdong and them, after the previous private meeting, he had already gotten the news from Huo Lao, initially after the fourth session of the Seventh National People's Congress held in the mainland in April, he would organize a delegation to visit the mainland to restart the return negotiations between Hong Kong and the mainland that had been interrupted for more than a year.

The sky is falling, and there are still big bosses such as Huo Yingdong and Li Jiacheng on top, so their 'motley army' that is testing the waters to go north is also happy to avoid sensitive issues, and after avoiding sensitive issues, the negotiations with Beijing, which has a positive attitude and is looking for an opportunity to take the initiative to send friendly signals to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas Chinese, have also achieved some unimaginable results.

After more than an hour of negotiations, Lin Xiaozhi's trip to the north was far more successful than expected.

At the same time, a film support fund was set up to inject 20 million yuan a year to encourage young mainland filmmakers to go to Hong Kong to study and practice, and promised to provide them with a job opportunity of at least three months or more as much as possible.

For example, Beijing has approved Media Asia Group's qualification to build cinemas in mainland China, but only in four cities: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing, and each city can have a maximum of three cinemas. The conditions are slightly worse than those promised to enter by Golden Harvest in the middle of the dU century, because Beijing approved Golden Harvest to enter the hinterland of the mainland - Wuhan, but now it has only opened the three coastal cities and the capital with the strongest control over the mainland to the Media Asia Group, which is probably also due to political considerations.

Strictly speaking, this is a money-losing deal, because like Golden Harvest, Media Asia does not have the right to schedule films independently, and even when Lin Xiaozhi proposed that the released films could be submitted for review by the radio and television department, Beijing was still reluctant to let go. In other words, although Media Asia has obtained the qualification to build a cinema in the mainland, its cinema can only show films filmed on the mainland and approved by the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television for screening.

Of course, the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television is not without concessions, at least one of the words that Lin Xiaozhi originally thought would take a lot of effort to pass to make a movie, and the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television agreed to his request almost with a little groaning, agreeing that starting this year, the Hong Kong side will provide funds, scripts, directors and crews, and some actors, and the mainland side will provide filming locations, including some venues that are not too sensitive, actors, and crews, and have the power to review scripts, and the two sides will co-produce five to ten films every year. Despite the release of these co-produced films, radio and television did not rush to relax, saying that they still had to study and study. However, as a co-production led by the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television, since the beginning of the film, it has contacted many small crews in Hong Kong to contact local film studios to shoot Yanpai films, and the resources enjoyed are not of the same level, and even better grasped, and these co-produced films still have a great chance of being released in the mainland