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Yang Chao's speech at the meeting was carefully prepared by him, and if they did not let other countries see tangible benefits, they would not be willing to let go, especially with regard to the Philippines, which joined later, and they were still moving between China and the United States at this time, and the Americans withdrew from the Philippines and even withdrew from a bill that gave preferential tax rates to Philippine goods under the persuasion of some forces with ulterior motives, and as a result, the Philippines had great illusions about the United States.

Siam, which was sandwiched between the British and French powers, was very clear: to maintain close relations with China, including economic relations. Because Siamese did not seek economic gain, but national security, the Siamese hoped to use China's power to deter the British and French from attempting against them. But it is precisely because of this that they do not want to rely too much on the Chinese economy, and the Siamese people value their small and medium-sized industries very much and want to protect them.

North Korea, on the other hand, is staring at Japan and is bent on being their second in Asia, and it is difficult to accept that Japanese products are prevalent in Korea.

The only staunch supporters of free trade were China, Japan, and the Ryukyus, which were too small to have much influence, and in the end China and Japan had to come forward and compensate the three countries.

China has pledged to give the Philippines a concessional loan to help them develop their sugar industry; Japan, for its part, has pledged to import at least 1 million tonnes of Siamese rice a year.

However, the North Koreans have a lot of appetite, they not only ask countries to allow them to continue to protect their timber industry, but also ask Japan to promise not to develop the timber industry, they are not very short of loans, Japan will give North Korea 10 million taels of compensation every year, the timber industry has embarked on a benign development, what is lacking is the market, not capital. Therefore, the North Koreans are more greedy to maintain their rare and successful advantageous industry, and the Japanese have also valued this industry in recent years. Makes the North Koreans nervous.

The difficulty of the North Koreans made Yang Chao clean up Jin Yuehui on the bed again, and asked him to tell Jin Jiu that he was in such a stalemate. The East Asian Free Trade Area (EAFTA) is about to expel North Korea. Tell Jin Jiu to be honest, China's imports may increase several times in the next ten years. Doesn't Jin Jiu just want to suppress Japan in the Asian region, doesn't he just want to be the second in Asia, tell him to compete honestly. What the Japanese can do, the Koreans can basically do now. China will open up the textile market, within five years, the Japanese will not have enough to eat, the DPRK will fight for it, it can still grab a bite, if it is too late, the DPRK will lose the best opportunity for industrialization in 100 years.

The biggest reason why the textile, shipbuilding, and even light bulb factories that Kim Koo engaged in back then failed was that North Korea lacked a market. The lack of competitiveness of products and poor management and management are not good, but in the final analysis, it is a relationship between people, and Japan's economic development is good, not because their domestic market is much stronger than North Korea, but because they have a richer talent pool.

This talent pool is not simply human resources, but a highly qualified population with basic education, and in this regard, the DPRK has already completed basic education, and the compulsory education coverage rate is as high as 95%. Japan, which is taller than most European countries, is not comparable to Japan at all, and even China five years ago cannot even catch up with Japan, and China is today. The proportion of educated people who have just completed basic education but have already settled down is still not as high as that of Japanese.

Even the poor agricultural immigrants sent to Brazil by Japan are literate, and they are considered to be the highest quality immigrants in Brazil.

So ten years ago, Jin Jiu had to compete with Japan in various fields. After 15 years of hard work, North Korea has also established a basic education system and has cultivated about 3 million human resources with basic education.

The basic talent reserve is already in place, and at least the skilled workers who run enterprises can be seriously trained. At the same time, not to mention that China is about to open up its market, the minimum wage law passed by Mi Qing has indeed greatly increased the wages of Chinese workers, especially in inland areas, and the wage level in many places has been directly doubled, and now the state employs tens of millions of employees, and the state pays these people money through loans, and in a few years these wages become consumption power to burst out, and China's consumption power will surpass the United States in any aspect.

So this is North Korea's chance, and probably the best opportunity in the decades to come.

"If Jin Jiu is big enough, then Dongying is a shortcut to North Korea's rapid industrialization, and because of wage constraints, I guess it is good, soon Dongying's textile enterprises should go out of business on a large scale. The political correctness of raising wages across the country has deprived the inland areas of the opportunity to take over backward industries in the east, but North Korea has gained this opportunity. Dongying has a textile industry of more than 3 million workers, and if North Korea can take over half of the past, it will probably allow North Koreans to complete basic industrialization. ”

Yang Chao first knocked Jin Jiu, and then told Jin Yuehui that the industrial transfer was an excellent opportunity for the rapid development of the East Asian Tigers and the mainland industry after the reform, and now it is the best opportunity for the Koreans. In the hearts of traditional figures like Jin Jiu, in fact, the national consciousness is not strong, and what they have is a strong national concept.

Moreover, China and North Korea have the same language and the same species, and Jin Jiudu has said many times that the Jin family moved from the mainland and has a genealogy that has been inherited for more than 500 years. In addition, the descendants of Bai Juyi and the descendants of Confucius have all moved to North Korea and returned to the mainland ancestral hall to worship their ancestors, which happens from time to time. To a certain extent, this also made the Koreans in this era not have much opportunity for the Chinese in terms of ethnicity, and during the Qing Dynasty, the Koreans fled to the northeast due to disasters, and the Qing government also gave them resettlement and treated them as their own nationals. However, during the period of Japanese rule, the Koreans bullied the border people of China under false pretenses. But in this era, they did not have such an opportunity, because China did not give the Japanese a chance to penetrate the Northeast.

"Really?"

Jin Yuehui couldn't believe that Dongying's textile industry would go out of business.

Dongying is a model city, and the transportation system that Yang Chao advocated building back then was even more convenient than that of Qingdao and Yantai, where it was built according to the scale of 10 million people.

Moreover, Yantai and Qingdao can develop, one is a trade port with a foundation of decades, and the other is a model colony that the Germans have devoted their efforts to, and has inherited the vast majority of the 40 billion marks of investment brought by Yang Chao.

But this is the reality, the cold reality, Mi Qing to promote the rise of the wages of the national workers, is out of the best intentions, this intention has been welcomed by the majority of employees, but the result is that in the low-end industry China will lose competitiveness, especially when the tariffs are liberalized, the implementation of free trade, this lack of competitiveness, will become a direct industrial extinction.

In Yang Chao's view, instead of letting those industries lose their competitiveness and lose their markets by the Japanese competition, it is better to let the capitalists invest in North Korea and continue to make profits, profits will not deceive people, and capitalists are not dead people, they understand the truth of people's lives, and will look for new investment projects for the capital in their hands.

At the same time, North Korea will close the economic gap with Japan, and the improvement of national strength will also allow them to better balance Japan and continue to be the most stubborn nail in China's wedge next to Japan.

After a night of hard communication with Kim Yue-hui, the DPRK representatives made concessions the next day, and they signed a free trade agreement, and were willing to fully open up the domestic market, allow foreign investment, and allow duty-free import of goods from the five Asian countries.

Then, turning his head, Jin Jiu set up large-scale industrial zones in the vicinity of Pyongyang and Seoul, the two largest cities closest to Shandong, and sent a high-level delegation to Shandong to invite Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in North Korea, telling Chinese entrepreneurs that the average daily wage of North Koreans is less than 2 yuan, and the wages of female workers are even lower, and literate female workers can be recruited for 1 penny.

Pyongyang and Seoul have excellent traffic conditions, Pyongyang has the Taedong River passing through, later generations of Koreans can build 50,000-ton locks here, this era through the 10,000-ton giant ship without pressure, not to mention the Han River, later generations of South Korea's total economic output came from this region, is because of the superior water transportation conditions of the Han River.

The North Koreans chose these two cities as the base for the transfer of Shandong's textile industry, but they put a lot of thought into it, so that Dongying's chemical fiber and Shandong's cotton could be transported to Pyongyang and Seoul by cheap water, and after processing, they could be immediately sent to the Chinese market.

As for whether it can be developed, it depends on the business level of the North Koreans, and Yang Chao is more concerned about free trade.

After the six East Asian countries jointly signed a free trade agreement and announced the formation of the Asian Free Trade Organization, according to Yang Chao's imagination, small European countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Greece began to be moved, and they sent high-level trade delegations to visit Asia, and also hoped to join this China-centered trade organization, hoping to promote the free trade agreements they signed with China in the past to other Asian countries and merge the two free trade agreements. form a large free trade area across the continents of Central, West, Europe and Asia.

In fact, this is the result that Yang Chao wants to see, he has tried his best to get East Asian countries to give up tariffs, not only for the narrow market of these agricultural countries, but also for the markets of developed countries in Europe, and even the markets of these countries are not the ultimate goal, the ultimate goal is nothing more than to create an international system with China as the core, an international free trade system with China as the core.

The reason why these small countries like the Netherlands are so concerned is that compared with Europe and the United States, which are fighting a war of trade protection, China, which is still holding high the banner of free trade at this time, is really their only savior.

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