Chapter 393: A Solution to the Crisis
If we want to solve the current crisis, in addition to importing food on the one hand, the other aspect is to vigorously develop domestic agriculture, you must know that the population of the entire Australia is only 100,000 people, not to the point of hundreds of millions of people like the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to solve.
However, in order to develop agriculture, it is necessary to have a leader, and as the state-owned Manchester Farm Group, the largest agricultural company, it is essential to take the lead, after all, no one wants to step on that minefield first.
Agricultural development seems very promising, but it is far from the great future of real estate development and industry.
The state-owned Manchester Farm Group is nominally a state-owned enterprise, but everyone knows that this company is actually no different from a private enterprise, and the leadership of decision-making is basically in the hands of those few people, even if the company's manager and chairman and the like, they all rotate back and forth between them.
If you let them do it, they must be unwilling, not to mention that the registered capital of Manchester City Farm is state-owned funds, but compared to the initial investment, they have increased the group's capital dozens of times in the past two years, these are the results of their efforts, and now you have to let them take it out without even thinking about it.
Even though Zhou Aiguo is a nominal fraction of the state-owned conservatives, everyone knows that the state-owned conservatives have long been divided into two factions, and Zhou Aiguo cannot mobilize all the forces at all.
The first thing the government needs to do to solve the food crisis is to import grain, import from other channels, since Siam's food rise can be purchased from other places, this is the proposal of some of these people, but they don't know the current situation at all, except for Siam, there are really not many countries in Southeast Asia that grow a large number of rice and other crops, even if they buy, it is a drop in the bucket, and the price and transportation cost are definitely not lower than those purchased from Siam.
Zhou Aiguo proposed that a commercial foreign trade group be sent to Siam to negotiate, hoping to reduce grain prices through negotiations. And Australia can also give them preferential policies in some places, such as exported cloth and goods.
I believe that as long as the price of these things is discounted, those shrewd businessmen should not be so short-sighted and can't see the future, and these things are luxury goods sold in their country.
The Ministry of Foreign Trade is naturally responsible for the negotiations, and the Ministry of Foreign Trade has set up a trade point in Siam, and there are special intelligence officers and its own channels, which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cannot compare, so the state-owned faction has not fought with them for anything, after all, this matter is not a good errand, to put it bluntly, it is a bit thankless.
Since the Ministry of Foreign Trade has taken it. Let them take it over, and there is no need for them to grow branches for this piece of extraneous affairs.
There are still four months left for the Government to resolve the crisis, which is enough time to solve the food crisis and to develop and implement a plan for agricultural development.
At the meeting, Zhou Aiguo asked the state-owned enterprises to take the lead and give them only a week to come up with a development plan.
After the meeting, Zhou Aiguo called Bao Zitu and Zhao Shijie and others into his office, since the Zhou Ke incident, Bao Zitu's status in the government has obviously improved, and according to the news that everyone said. Secretary of the Supervisory Committee of the Infrastructure Construction Department of Bao Zitu.
The reason why Zhao Shijie was left behind was mainly because his Ministry of Foreign Trade was in charge of this negotiation, and whether or not the price could be lowered had a lot to do with the Ministry of Foreign Trade.
"Xiao Zhao, do you have confidence in this negotiation? It's up to you whether the King of Siam can put pressure on the merchants of the country to lower the price. ”
"President, to be honest, this negotiation is actually a bit difficult. According to what I have learned, it is a member of the royal family in Siam who initiated the food increase, so it may be a little different from what we imagined, but if I can, I hope that the government will send warships to conduct maritime deterrence and then negotiate. ”
Zhao Shijie said his suggestion. This was his idea, and that was what he did with the Dutch, and they could only make concessions when they saw absolute force, otherwise Australia would only sacrifice the greater good.
Deterrence by force, I also know that this is one of the best methods, but everyone knows the current situation, the construction of Sydney City and several cities has started, and it is difficult for the government to come up with a military expenditure again, and the East China Sea Fleet stationed in Hong Kong must also prevent the Zheng family's abnormal movements, so it can't be freed up at all.
Zhou Ai sighed, after all, he knows the difficulties of the government best, and it is difficult to do anything without money.
Negotiations are only a solution to the current short-term problems, and if we want to solve the problems in the long run, we must vigorously develop local agriculture, so that local agriculture will not fall into this dilemma.
However, there are also many obstacles to the development of local agriculture, and state-owned enterprises are not interested in working on agriculture at all, and large private enterprises naturally do not have so much energy to focus on this aspect.
The problem that Zhou Aiguo wants to solve is to convince the state-owned enterprises, and the most important thing is to persuade the Manchester City Farm Group to solve it.
"Lao Bao said your suggestion, if you want Manchester City Agricultural Group to develop agriculture, what plan can we implement." Zhou Aiguo asked for advice like a bun, and Zhao Shijie, who did not shy away from it, said in front of him, but also to let the other party give him ideas.
"President, judging from the current situation, if they want to do this, they must take the initiative, and I must have a certain handle in my hands, otherwise they will not be so obedient."
Bao Zitu, who has not really served as the chairman of the Supervision Committee, has begun to enter the role, and the advice given is to grasp the evidence of the crime, which makes Zhao Shijie, who is sitting on the side, speechless, I am afraid that the life of the leaders of state-owned enterprises will be more difficult in the future.
Judging from what he has learned, there is actually a lot of chaos within the state-owned enterprises, mountaineering is widespread, and one thing they have in common is that they like to play the pre-time game.
Eat and take cards, this is their strength, but also their weakness, didn't Zhou Ke make a big mistake in this, don't think that he is just an individual phenomenon, there are still many like him.
If Bao Zitu can really grasp the evidence of their crimes, maybe he can really make them blame.
So Zhao Shijie nodded unconsciously, affirming this suggestion, seeing his expression, Zhou Aiguo knew that this proposal could be implemented.
"I'll leave this matter to you to deal with, and it's your business." (To be continued......)