Chapter 641: Making a Choice
"Thoughts?"
Zhou Shuo fell silent, and all kinds of thoughts came to him.
To be honest, he has always been in awe of "power", especially in China, where the influence of "power" can be said to be everywhere.
From the very beginning, he curled up in the small embroidery city, and later in the imperial capital, in Bohai Province, on every project. In the face of the district mayor, mayor, director of the Provincial Science and Technology Commission, secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, or even Hu Lao and Song Lao, he has always been careful to seek their support.
Only this time, he began to use his power unscrupulously. He personally ruined He Xi's career, and he can be said to have single-handedly arranged the drama of entering Beijing to rob people.
He entangled the four feudal officials, and he won the full support of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering.
In this contest, he has cast too many chips, and he no longer wants to be satisfied with continuing to lie dormant in the shadow of "power".
Zhou Shuo gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "I don't know how much Director Lang knows about things, but Fanhan Group, as a Chinese company, was banned by the U.S. Congress. This fair country doesn't care, we want to take care of it ourselves, but in the end something like this happened. Director Lang, if you were me, would you be cold? β
Director Lang was speechless for a while, frowning slightly. Zhou Shuo's toughness is beyond his imagination, it seems that he not only wants to catch Bai Lanxiong, but even the losses he suffered in the News Bureau and the North American Division must be recovered?
"Mr. Zhou, you are being irresponsible to yourself."
Director Lang seemed to be a little displeased, Zhou Shuo's request seemed to be really a provocation to the organization. Killing people is not enough. He used to think that Zhou Shuo wanted to take revenge on Director Jin at most, but who knew that he actually wanted to move the Information Bureau and the North American Division! These two organs are not of high rank. It's just at the director-level level, but it's an organization after all.
The way it works is a bit rough. Or fight for the rights of his own organization, which is not a big problem for Director Lang.
But according to Zhou Shuo's statement, I am afraid that for these two institutions, there will be a major purge next.
It is likely that the Bureau of Information will lose its authority over the press, and the North American Division and the entire organization will face the consequences. Delivery. Division. Adjustments.
This is a provocation for Director Lang and for the vested interests of the entire bureaucracy. After all, Director Jin has a sentence that is very right, his own children can fight by themselves. Why do you touch someone else?
If it's because of internal power distribution, reform, competition, etc., it doesn't matter if you kill ten directors of Kim, the Information Bureau, or the North American Division.
If it's because of Zhou Shuo, it's not appropriate.
But from Zhou Shuo's point of view, it is impossible to think like this. He gritted his teeth and said strongly: "No, I am responsible for the country." β
"Director Lang, you should know why the Pan Han Group was banned by the US Congress. In fact, it is very simple to solve this problem, and Pan Han Group is listed in the United States. Or I myself change my American nationality, and the Americans will remove this ban in minutes. But I am a Chinese, and I chose the most difficult path. I don't ask for much help from countries that are not strong enough now, but ......"
"But some. He can't hold me back! If you can't help or protect me, you can at least stand by and watch from the sidelines. Just because I offended a little bit of their authority, they treated me as a vengeance. If you were me, would you be able to swallow this breath? If there are such people in our civil servants. Who will trust the government in the future? β
Director Lang was silent again.
Power is arrogant, and he vaguely remembers that he seems to have heard it from an industrial party named Ma Qianzhuo. The state does not need the support of ordinary people. I don't care about their opposition, as long as they honestly supply GDP figures.
He doesn't quite agree with this statement, and usually scoffs at this less positive argument. But it seems that it is only at such times, when he is really faced with a choice, that he will find out when he looks at his heart.
Whether this statement is true or not, it shows the arrogance of power. Putting aside its red fruit and blood, at least it does cater to the arrogant mentality of many people in power.
Zhou Shuo's words put this qiΔ on the table. The United States is not a paradise, Zhou Shuo does not go public in the United States, does not change his American nationality, and it is not just patriotic feelings, of course, there are practical considerations.
The U.S. government may not have any interest in the Pan-Han Group, but the capitalists on Wall Street have long since sharpened their knives. And if Zhou Shuo changes his nationality, presumably the US state department is also very interested in cooperating with him. What's more, all the roots of the Pan Han Group are in China, and the cost of changing the door is too great. There is no need to hug the sinking ship of US imperialism and abandon the big tree of China.
However, the premise of this qiΔ is that those in power really regard the Pan Han Group as their own.
Director Lang thought about it again and again, and said after thinking twice: "What Mr. Zhou said makes sense, and the country's previous attitude towards the Panhan Group is indeed a bit chilling. But the country also has its own difficulties, there is such a sentence, I think Mr. Zhou must have heard it-"
Director Lang raised his head, looked at Zhou Shuo, and said sincerely: "Don't ask what the country has done for you, first ask what you have done for the country." β
What has Pan Han Group done for the country? Tens of billions of exports every year, almost millions of jobs, high-tech research and development, tens of billions of yuan in taxes......
But Zhou Shuo knew what Director Lang meant by this. Pan Han Group is not good enough.
So what is Cheng dΓΉ, which is good enough?
Favoring the Pan-Han Group and the United States to engage in trade frictions is actually a cost issue for the country, and joining the WTO is the trend of the times. As China's economic power grows, it's as if China is returning to the United Nations. Isn't there a saying, what is the United Nations called without China?
When China's manufacturing bursts out of its energy, without China's WTO, what is it called the WTO?
Therefore, whether to support the Panhan Group or not is not an absolute political choice. It can be changed, but it seems that the Pan Han Group obviously cannot pay this price.
Historically, China's exports in 2000 were US$249.2 billion, of which the Panhan Group accounted for only about 4%. Of course, this number is quite unnatural for a company.
But when it comes to the major politics of a country, it may be insignificant. Perhaps just a week's delay in WTO negotiations would have cost the 4 percent.
It may also add uncertainty to the negotiations, and even lead to the cost of negotiations in other industries. Inside and out, what if you lose it instead?
From this point of view, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation is right to be reluctant to come forward.
"In 2000, the real tax payment of Pan Han Group reached 50 billion yuan, and the export volume reached 20 billion US dollars. Last year, China imported $68.2 billion in consumer electronics, and I promise to compress that figure to less than $50 billion this year. β
Director Lang's head was dizzy, and he barely stood firmly.
He is the director of Office X, and it can be said that he has an account in his head about the situation in the whole country. If memory serves, last year, Pan Han Group paid 15.4 billion yuan in taxes and exported 8 billion US dollars.
Even so, this is already the most outstanding achievement of the domestic high-tech industry. The domestic tax payment reached 50 billion yuan, which means that the turnover of Panhan Group this year will reach about 300% of last year. The export volume will also be doubled and a half.
The most critical thing is that Zhou Shuo dared to say that China's electronic product imports have been compressed to less than 50 billion US dollars.
In Director Lang's mind, this is an impossible task.
Don't look at it, this only pushed down last year's electronics imports by 10 billion US dollars, which is not the case. In 1999, China imported $57.7 billion in electronics, and a year later it increased by $10.5 billion. In China, electronics are the fastest-growing imports.
If we want to push the amount back to 50 billion this year, we must replace at least $20 billion to $30 billion in electronic imports from the United States. This figure is similar to the growth of the domestic tax of the Pan Han Group.
Maybe Zhou Shuobao's figure is not nonsense, but in Director Lang's mind, this is still an uncashable check.
"Fanhan Group has wholly acquired the famous ASUS company in Baodao, and has mastered the design and manufacturing technology of computer motherboards. At the same time, we also have all the shares of the famous American graphics card company 3dfx, and the design of Voodoo's new generation of 590 graphics cards has also been completed, and we are very confident that we will make a comeback. Similarly, three years ago, Pan Han Group had already laid out in memory and hard disks. Under the x86 system, we can't complete localization with only CPU at present. β
"In addition, we also have accumulation in the CNC industry, this year after promotion, instead of foreign imports 50% is only a conservative estimate. In addition, we also have considerable accumulation in mobile phone technology, 100% localization of mobile phones is just the foundation, I can ensure that the performance of domestic mobile phones completely surpasses imported mobile phones. As long as the state provides some support, I am confident that this goal will be accomplished. β
"It can't be, right?" Director Lang was stupid when he listened, when did China be able to completely produce desktop computers? It's just sci-fi.
To describe it in a word more than ten years later, Director Lang seems to have seen a living "big chess party" in reality.
"No, probably." Zhou Shuo pointed at Director Jin and said in a cold voice: "As long as he pays the price for what he has done!" Pan Han Group can bring hundreds of billions of wealth to the country, what about him? It's nothing more than parasitic maggots! Director Lang, if it were the chief, how would he make the choice? β
Director Jin couldn't help but take a step back, only this time his face was no longer angry Tie Qing, but a little frightened pale. (To be continued......)