"There's 45 minutes left, and we're early."

In the dark of night, the International Conference Center was brightly lit, and in the parking lot outside the gate, two young people were poking their heads out and looking into the conference center.

According to the normal work and rest time, you should go to work during the day and rest at night. The two young CEOs of Scitech Cultural Development Company received an invitation at ten o'clock in the evening.

For most of the past six months, General Manager Li Yanjun and Deputy General Manager Wang Qingzheng have led the company to prepare for something crazy in the eyes of outsiders——— "Michael Jackson Beijing Concert"!

China's reform and opening up has entered its 13th year, and Western pop culture has long been overshadowed by Chinese youth, and Jackson has a large number of Chinese fans. Two years ago, after Jackson released the album "Danger" and set a sales myth of $31 million, he struck while the iron was hot and launched the "Dangerous Journey" world tour, but BJ was not one of them.

Li Yanjun believes that Jackson's shocking power in the world is unsurpassed, and if he can come to China to hold a concert, it is completely a good thing to promote China to the world, so he whimsically issued an invitation.

Success proved to belong to people with ideas, and their invitation was quickly met with an enthusiastic response from the Jackson team.

There are less than 20 people in and down Seth, from the driver, logistics to the copywriter, all of them are Jackson fans. Inviting their favorite singer to their favorite city, it can be said that in order to fulfill the dream of their generation, with the mentality of taking one step at a time, they began a six-month-long negotiation with the Jackson Performing Arts Group.

The start went smoothly, literally green light.

It's a pity that at the last minute. But because of a piece of paper, the approval document was stuck. The Ministry of Culture has been slow to hear back. Li Yanjun and Wang Qing were anxious.

There is no way out of doubt. Another village.

Just when they were almost desperate, they suddenly received a call from the News and Publicity Department of the "BJ Olympic Bidding Committee", asking them to bring relevant materials for the concert and come to the second floor of the International Conference Center at 10 o'clock this evening to negotiate.

Scitech Cultural Development Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Scitech Group, although there are not many personnel, there are many signed stars, including the famous Yingna. Scitech Group is one of the largest companies in BJ, and it not only has extremely professional cultural management capabilities. It also has its own office building, a hotel and a large modern department store.

As the general manager of Scitech Cultural Development Company, Li Yanjun is extremely well-informed.

Not only did they know that this was the residence of the Hong Kong "Bidding Committee," but they also knew that since the central authorities instructed the work of bidding for the Olympic Games a week ago to "further emancipate the mind," the BJ Olympic Bidding Committee moved its office, research office, news and publicity department, sports department, engineering planning department, finance department, and technical department to the International Conference Center to "co-locate the office."

The Huiqiao Hotel, where the previous office was located, only left an external liaison department and a sign saying "BJ Bid to Host the 2000 Olympic Games".

Although the "Olympic Bidding Committee" is not the Ministry of Culture and cannot give approval, it can help Scitech Cultural Development Company to strive for it. Li Yanjun believes that the whole BJ City may be aware of the significance of Michael Jackson's concert at BJ.

At the last chance, Wang Qing, the deputy general manager, seemed a little nervous, and smoked nearly half a box of cigarettes along the way. It made the car smoky.

Li Yanjun glanced at his watch again, sideways lifted the briefcase on the back seat and said: Let's go. If you have to wait, you have to go in and wait, what is it to sit in the car? ”

Success or failure in this move, Wang Qing focused on his head.

The conference center is not in the same building, and there are only two security guards and one staff member on duty in the hall, which seems a little deserted. The two walked to the reception desk to show their work cards and letters of introduction, and the staff looked through the appointment records and dialed the internal phone upstairs.

After waiting for about five minutes, a tall staff member in a dress walked out of the elevator, and said with a smile while beckoning the two of them to go up: "Liu Qin of the News and Propaganda Department of the Olympic Bidding Committee, you can call me Xiaoliu, the two of you are here early, and the leaders are in a meeting." ”

"Comrade Liu, is there still a meeting so late?"

Liu Qin glanced back and smiled casually: "We work in three shifts, and there are people in meetings 24 hours a day. ”

The government department works three shifts, which is really new in BJ City. When they took the escalator to the second floor, the two realized that the female cadre who received them was true.

The first conference hall, which covers an area of nearly 2,000 square meters, is brightly lit, with the office area on the left and the exhibition area on the right. In the office area, desks and computer desks are next to each other, and nearly 100 staff members are either burying their heads in reading materials, or gathering together to discuss something in a low voice.

The exhibition area is divided into two, and the one next to the gate is full of shelves, on which are hung dazzling posters of the Olympic bid, and more than a dozen people with long hair, who look like people engaged in art, or look left and right in front of the shelves with their arms crossed. Or simply sit on the floor and talk to each other.

Inside the exhibition area is a row of small houses, dozens of workers wearing hard hats are measuring and drawing, and stacks of drawings are piled up on small stainless steel carts behind them.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Wang, the rest area is over there, why don't you two go sit for a while first?"

This is the "heart" of BJ's Olympic bid, and Li Yanjun didn't want to miss this opportunity to visit, so he couldn't help asking: "Comrade Liu, can I just take a look?" ”

To his surprise, Liu Qin actually smiled and said, "Yes, you two are guests, except for the research room and the strategy team of the 'Auxiliary Bidding Committee', you can watch it casually." ”

Three shifts is incredible enough, and he actually allows himself to watch casually, Li Yanjun will be suspicious: "Really? ”

"Really," Liu Qin generously stretched out her right hand and made a gesture of please.

"Then you're welcome."

With the arrival of the "Bidding Committee", the "Olympic Bidding Committee" is changing every day.

First of all, there is a sense of crisis, through the information provided by Hong Kong compatriots and overseas Chinese, everyone knows the gap between BJ and its competitors; The second was an eye-opener, and through a week of spending time together, everyone understood how the international community operated.

All these have brought a huge impact to Liu Qin, a top student who graduated from a prestigious university. Let her see the narrowness and shallowness of her own knowledge and vision. In order to better understand the world. To communicate with the world, she reversed her previous work attitude of following the crowd, and smiled very politely: "Please, if necessary, I can introduce you to you." ”

"Won't you delay your work?"

"My job is to receive and introduce."

She glanced up at the time on the electronic clock, and confirmed that it would be a while before the meeting of several directors and the leaders of the Bidding Committee ended, so she accompanied the two of them and introduced as they walked: "This is the Propaganda Department and the Propaganda Group of the Bidding Committee, and their workload is very large. It is necessary to prepare propaganda materials and a "bid report" in more than a dozen languages, including Chinese, English, French, and German.

The first 17 parts include the characteristics of countries and cities, laws, customs and entry, environmental protection, finance, market development, competition schedules, sports venues, Paralympic Games, Olympic villages, medical and health care, safety and security, accommodation, transportation, technology, news and culture.

The eighteenth part is the letter of guarantee, which includes the letter of support from the chairman and the prime minister, the letter from the mayor and the director of the sports committee, the letter of guarantee signed by the heads of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the General Administration of Customs and other relevant state departments, as well as the presidents of 70 hotels and restaurants, as well as the certification of 28 international individual sports organizations, etc., nearly 200 copies. ”

I don't know if I don't listen to the introduction, and I am shocked when I hear the introduction. Only then did Li Yanjun and Wang Qing realize that the "Olympic Bidding Committee" did not take wages for nothing, but not only had to work. There's still a lot of work.

Looking at the two of them nodding their heads again and again, Liu Qin, who was using them as guinea pigs to exercise her introduction level. He continued: "The Bid Report covers all aspects of politics, economy, culture, sports and urban construction, and is an 'encyclopedia' that truly reflects the development prospects of BJ and China. The information mainly comes from the relevant state departments and the departments and bureaus of BJ City.

In accordance with the requirements of the International Olympic Committee, the Hong Kong compatriots in the Propaganda Department and the Propaganda Group should make specific expositions on the plans and goals for the year 2000. It is even more important to convince IOC members of the reliability and feasibility of the plan, for example, that the construction of stadiums and Olympic villages must explain the source of funding, the method of provision, the construction period, etc. ”

Li Yanjun glanced back at the staff who were proofreading various language materials in front of the computer, and sighed: "No wonder you have to work three shifts, it turns out that the task is so heavy." ”

"The Propaganda Department is not the busiest, the busiest and hardest are the Engineering Planning Department and the Executive Group of the 'Bidding Committee'. In order to ensure that the host is won, the central government has put forward higher requirements for the environment and transportation, and they are working with hundreds of environmental protection and planning experts from all over the world to formulate environmental protection and transportation plans under the leadership of the municipal party committee and municipal government, in cooperation with environmental protection and planning departments. After the plan is submitted to the International Olympic Games, it must be implemented to the letter. In other words, this is our commitment to the IOC. ”

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Several departments of the Olympic Bidding Committee and several groups of the Auxiliary Bidding Committee have their own division of labor, and all the staff and volunteers are busy, and none of them are idle.

Walking to the small house that the workers were building, Wang Qing couldn't help but ask: "Comrade Liu, what are you doing here, making it look like a developer's model house." ”

Liu Qin greeted the project commander, flipped out a drawing from the trolley, and patiently explained: "After the Olympic bid delegation goes to Morocco in September, the IOC will allow each Olympic bid city to set up a reception room in the hotel, to put it bluntly, the exhibition hall, all of which are suites with the same location and the same specifications on the five floors of the same hotel."

In the end, how to arrange, our 'Olympic Bidding Committee' and the Bidding Committee have several sets of plans, which one to use, can not be decided for a while, and finally the leaders make a decision, and then invite people from all walks of life to come and see the effect, which effect is good and choose which plan. The two of them are the first batch of guests, and they are both engaged in performances, they are very discerning, visit them, and give us some professional advice. ”

Although the Olympic Bidding Committee is not a government department in the real sense, its personnel are basically state cadres.

In the past, he was mysterious and secretive, but now he has suddenly become so open and transparent, Li Yanjun is really a little unaccustomed to it, and he can't help asking: "Comrade Liu, aren't you worried about us leaking secrets?" ”

To their surprise, Liu Qin actually took out two letters of appointment from the folder and said in a metaphorical tone: "Where are we here, we already know so many secrets, how can it be so easy to leave?" This is the 24th and 25th letters of appointment issued by our Olympic Bid Committee, and if you are willing to contribute to the Olympic bid, you should not refuse. ”

Li Yanjun was completely dumbfounded, took the letter of appointment and read it for a while before he asked again: "Liu ...... Willow...... Comrade Liu, you ...... You...... You're not kidding, are you, please join the Olympic Bidding Committee? ”

"We're just having a meeting, not kidding."

Liu Qin closed the folder and said enviously: "Mr. Li and Mr. Wang, you two were appointed by Mr. Charter, the director of the Bid Committee and the image ambassador of the Olympic bid. For this reason, a special meeting was held to persuade all the chairmen and vice chairmen, including Secretary Chen. ”

Today, after accepting the invitation of the Olympic Bidding Committee, the charter has become almost a household name under the propaganda of the huge state propaganda machine.

A well-known scientist, a great philanthropist who has donated tens of billions of yuan to science and charity, founded NB Electrical and NB Laboratory, loved the country and Hong Kong for the Olympic bid, and what is even more rare is that he is young, and the limelight has even overshadowed the famous red capitalist Mr. Gu.

For Li Yanjun, the charter is undoubtedly an unattainable figure, and he asked with an incredulous face: "Comrade Liu, does Mr. Zhang know about the two of us?" ”

"Of course you know, if you don't know, can you implore the Olympic Bidding Committee to give you two letters of appointment?"

"Yes...... Can...... But he never saw me. ”

"Mr. Zhang has read the letter written by the two of you to the Olympic Bidding Committee, I don't know what you want to ask you to do, he broke up the meeting, let's go over." Seeing that the two of them were still standing there stunned, Liu Qin smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, Mr. Zhang doesn't have any shelf, he is very talkative." (To be continued......)