On the second day, Qi Yiming did not continue to discuss the issue of purchasing the F-14 with the Grumman side, and there was already too much to talk about yesterday, I am afraid that whether it is the Grumman company, or the US government and military, it will take a while to sort out this matter.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qi Yiming attended and attended a meeting of intent between China and the United States on economic and trade cooperation.

Qi Yiming himself is a businessman, and in fact, these contents are his profession. Although he was a person from the Ministry of Commerce who was the main speaker on behalf of the Chinese side, the official of the Ministry of Commerce held a draft in his hand, which was drafted by the Commission for the Reform of the System and the Ministry of Commerce in accordance with the supreme ideology of the "Qi Finger". Moreover, these sensible officials also specially submitted to Comrade Qi Yiming for axe correction guidance after finishing it.

Qi Yiming didn't care whether these people were sincere or false, he gave instructions on some issues one by one, and explained to the people in the Ministry of Commerce why he wanted to do this. The people from the Ministry of Commerce took this "corrected homework" and went to Zhongnanhai to find Ping Lao quite unconvinced, but Ping Lao smiled after reading it: "Comrade Xiao Qi has done a very good job, his vision is still very correct, and the road is also very stable, I think your Ministry of Commerce should learn more from Comrade Xiao Qi." ”

It's not that Ping Taizong praised Qi Yiming, just Qi Yiming's business level, even if later generations really threw him into the central ministries and commissions as a petty official, he was really competent to take care of things such as foreign economic and internal structural adjustment, let alone put him in a place where there were still various imperfect systems thirty years ago.

It is said that if Qi Yiming did not bring the red police base car when he crossed, Bacheng's novel would have become an officialdom novel.

Qi Yiming's positioning for holding an economic and trade exchange meeting with Americans this time is very clear -- to benefit from it. The central authorities have adopted Qi Yiming's suggestion and have taken a big step forward in the overall development of the country, and the economic opening up of the whole country is still dominated by a few special zones with relatively good geographical conditions. In this case, the country needs to introduce foreign capital in particular.

It turns out that although China's utilization of foreign capital was quite inefficient in the 80s, after the vigorous development in the 90s, China is almost the most effective country in the use of foreign capital in later generations. This can also be used as a criterion for evaluation of what China has obtained after the introduction of foreign investment. A large number of foreign-funded enterprises have settled in China, the first is to train millions of skilled workers for China, and although the average level of these workers is much lower than that of Western countries, the cluster effect formed by the convergence of this group of foreign capital eventually strongly attracts groups of foreign capital to continue to block in China, relying on this advantage to make profits.

Secondly, a large amount of foreign investment has played a huge role in enriching the Chinese market in a very short period of time. In the era of material shortage, people actually have some money, but can not spend it, so there is a reverse of the master and the like, the back door and other situations are popular, the seller's market and channels (relations) for the king to destroy the order of the market, and finally a large number of foreign-funded enterprises in the development, quickly alleviated the situation of China's material shortage.

Qi Yiming sat next to him with a smile, and the official from the Ministry of Commerce almost turned his head to look at the uncle after saying a few words, and asked himself if he was right, and if the leader needed instructions. After reaching the end, even the people on the American side couldn't stand it, and someone directly skipped the red-faced official of the Ministry of Commerce and asked Qi Yiming, who was sitting next to him.

"At this meeting, we are based on the principle of openness, sincerity, friendship and mutual benefit, and the most important requirement is to clearly state how the two sides will expand cooperation in the economic and trade fields in the coming period. As you have seen, since the beginning of the year, China has made up its mind to carry out high-level and high-efficiency reform and opening up in an all-round way, and we welcome American enterprises and funds to enter our country, and we will use various forms of preferential policies to help American enterprises to develop in our country. ”

An official from the U.S. Department of Commerce astutely asked: "So your country plans to fully open up foreign capital to China?" ”

Qi Yiming nodded and shook his head, and said: "There are so many points, first, we praise the FDI model for investment and construction of some projects in China, but we also advocate the model of joint ventures, for example, a considerable number of state-owned enterprises in our country are facing poor management and are about to die, I hope that some American companies with high-level management models and experience, excellent products can enter China, or joint ventures or acquisitions, and make use of the enterprise resources owned by these enterprises. Most of these state-owned companies have a large and loyal number of skilled workers, good government and public relations, and can become an important resource for foreign investment. Oh, and our policy support for joint ventures should be greater, especially here.

Second, financial control cannot be liberalized, but the renminbi will be released at such a ridiculous exchange rate of 1:4, and we will implement a basket of floating exchange rate policies, as for the weight of each currency, it is still being discussed, but as an international reserve currency, the US dollar will be very large. In order to avoid the country being swept by hot money, we will be more cautious about financial control.

Third, we will deal with the direct trade of goods in different categories, and we will still impose relatively high tariffs on imported agricultural products in China's relatively weak agriculture, but for ordinary products, we promise to gradually reduce them at the level of the GATT to reach a fair, just and reasonable tariff level. The ultimate goal is to join the GATT and integrate it with the world economy as much as possible. ”

Qi Yiming said three points, and almost all of them were dry goods, and the hands of these officials of the US Department of Commerce shaking their pens excitedly trembled a little. They seem to see a huge market of a billion people already beckoning to them. Moreover, politically savvy people can see that the conservative government in China has begun to turn more drastically, and it seems that overnight the communist country has taken off its red cloak and actually started a capitalist market economy.

Qi Yiming said again: "As I said before, this meeting is an intentional exchange, and I also hope that in the process of China's reform and opening up, we can get help from American friends who have a lot of experience in the market economy. ”

The U.S. Secretary of Commerce immediately stated: "China is willing to spare no effort to support and help China to establish its own market economy and join the big family of the free market, and the Ministry of Commerce will further propose to Congress to provide a construction aid fund or loan for China's economic construction." At the same time, if China fulfills its commitments, we will certainly appeal and operate in international organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank of China, and invest more financial assistance and loans to China. ”

To put it bluntly, what Qi Yiming did was to make money by flickering, he just put a few fait accompli in the later generations, and the Americans were happy to wag their tails at this time, of course, if they believe that the Americans are honest people, they are also idiots. However, in any case, it will be very helpful for China's future economic construction if it can knock out an extra amount of money.

The officials of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce next to them had to respect and envy Qi Yiming, in fact, what they wanted to say was almost the same, but as soon as Qi Yiming opened his mouth, the faces of Americans would change, and he opened his mouth to give money and benefits, and the gap between people was really not too big.

In fact, this is also related to the negotiation skills, at the beginning, the official performance of the Ministry of Commerce was mediocre, and he stumbled, and some key content was not on the point at all, which had something to do with the fact that he was an old-school official, and he may not understand much or be dissatisfied with many of the contents. Then he kept looking at Qi Yiming, as if asking for something. When people in the United States saw this, they naturally understood Qi Yiming's status, and immediately had in their minds a feeling that Qi Yiming was the person in charge, and what he said had status and reference value.

Therefore, when Qi Yiming's short and to the point speech was spoken, it was like writing an article that paid attention to first suppressing and then promoting, and the excitement for Americans was indeed not small.

After these important but actually non-binding matters are finished, Qi Yiming's most important task is almost completed. He also asked his direct business talent, Zhou Yutong, to take out a report of more than 300 pages, the content of which was an introduction and evaluation of the major industries in the interior of the Celestial Empire.

This thing is also a "huge work" completed by Qi Yiming after entangled a large number of professionals and obtained official help. When the Americans got it, they looked incredulous. To put it bluntly, this report is the official version of the Celestial Empire's brochure and introduction to foreign investment and industrial transfer.

For example, the report lists a lot of labor costs in various industries in the Celestial Empire, and even has detailed data on different regions. In addition, the price of various means of production in China and other cost factors are also taken into account. There are also the location conditions for economic development in different regions, which are also clearly introduced. In addition, China's advantageous industries, industries recommended and supported by the government, and relevant policies that may be introduced are clearly written.

This report is actually better under a different name - N things you need to know about investing in China.

For the United States, the most surprising content is that as a closed economy, China itself is also confused about various economic data and important contents. Now is not the era of advanced information, no matter how capable the CIA is, it is impossible to distinguish whether the wages of textile workers in Gansu are high or those in Shandong are high. It is not clear what important transportation routes the Celestial Empire intends to build to promote the economic development of a certain region, nor will it know the development of China's so-called advanced industries, which are tightly covered.

This report can basically give the United States a better understanding of the current state of China's economy and how it is not a treasure.