For all Chinese, the repeal of the "Chinese Exclusion Act" in the United States is indeed good news, although the "Chinese Exclusion Act" does not have a substantial impact on a wealthy person like Chen Qiang, but it is definitely a good thing to be able to repeal this bill that is full of discrimination against Chinese.

At this time, China and the United States had reached a military alliance, and the two sides wanted to work together to deal with Japan, so the "Chinese Exclusion Act," which was full of discrimination against China, was a bit out of place, so the US high-level began to discuss the repeal of the "Chinese Exclusion Act."

On October 11, US President Roosevelt consulted the US Congress to repeal the "Chinese Exclusion Act", and after deliberation by the Senate and House of Representatives of the US Congress, the House of Representatives finally announced the repeal of the "Chinese Exclusion Act" on October 21. 10 days to pass a decree is absolutely efficient for the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Congress, and in the future, it is not uncommon for a president to introduce a bill when he takes office, and when he has been in office for eight years, the bill is still being discussed in Congress.

In fact, things like the "Chinese Exclusion Act" have no impact on those rich and powerful Chinese, such as Kong Dagongzi, although he is Chinese, after coming to the United States, he still eats, drinks, and has fun to buy industries, and even can take advantage of the loopholes in American policy to sell cars, and the "Chinese Exclusion Act" is a decoration in his eyes.

Another example is Chen Qiang, who was originally a world-renowned athlete, and his reputation was there, so naturally he would not be bound by the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the United States even hoped that a capable person like Chen Qiang would join the American nationality. After Chen Qiang made a lot of money, the Chinese Exclusion Act became even more ineffective against Chen Qiang.

However, for those ordinary Chinese who stay in the United States, the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act is very great, because of the restrictions of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese people in the United States do not have the opportunity to educate and work, and their status is even inferior to that of African residents. African-American residents of the United States, although they are second-class citizens and are usually subject to various restrictions, are nominally considered "citizens" of the United States, but due to the restrictions of the "Chinese Exclusion Act," Chinese are not even considered "citizens."

Therefore, the repeal of the "Chinese Exclusion Act" is a great good news for ordinary Chinese living in the United States, although discrimination in American society still exists, and unfair treatment of people of color will still exist, and it will not be resolved in the future, but at least legally, it gives more opportunities to Chinese people in the United States.

Chen Qiang left Little Beckland's laboratory, and on the way back, Chen Qiang had in mind Little Beckland's suggestion to open a sporting goods company.

For Chen Qiang, this is indeed a good suggestion, in this time and space, when it comes to understanding sporting goods, no one can compare to Chen Qiang. Chen Qiang knows which sporting goods can make money, knows how to promote various sporting goods, and knows the development trend of sporting goods in the future, and knows what various sporting goods will look like in the future. With the knowledge in Chen Qiang's mind, if he opened a sporting goods company, he would inevitably launch new products every year, and they were all the most trendy things.

"Sporting goods are indeed a big business, and in the future, this will be a big market of hundreds of billions of dollars a year. If you really want to start a sporting goods company, you have to plan carefully. Chen Qiang said secretly in his heart.

There are too many categories of sporting goods, and this term is too general, so it can be said that in the process of physical education, competitive sports and physical exercise, all the items involved can be called sporting goods.

For example, basketball, football, volleyball, these are naturally sports rackets, badminton rackets, table tennis rackets, and they are also sporting goods; Barbells, dumbbells, treadmills, spinning bikes, and fitness bikes are also sporting goods; Shoes for sprinting, kicking football, basketball, even shoes for daily morning jogging, are still sporting goods; Clothes for competitions, clothes for training, big vests for mixed gyms, yoga pants for yoga are also sporting goods; Even the big sword played by the uncle in the park and the fan used by the aunt to dance the square can also be classified as sporting goods.

When it comes to sporting goods alone, it's so miscellaneous that you can't count them.

However, Chen Qiang knows that in the future, the most profitable of all sporting goods is undoubtedly shoes.

For people who exercise regularly, shoes are a consumable, with the exception of swimming, of course.

For professional athletes, it is normal to smooth out a pair of shoes in a few days, even for ordinary sports enthusiasts, two hours of exercise a day, a pair of sneakers is difficult to last for half a year. Therefore, the frequency of replacement of sneakers is relatively high.

And the reason why sneakers make money is because there is a special type of sneakers, and that is basketball shoes.

Basketball shoes are different from other sports shoes, basketball shoes can be worn in daily life, and they are relatively comfortable to wear, such as walking or working without delay. Other sports shoes are different, such as sprinting spike shoes, can not be used in daily life, the forefoot has nails to wear uncomfortable is one thing, the key is inconvenient, in the indoor words may be to step on the floor of others.

The durability, support, stability and comfort of basketball shoes are very good, so it can be integrated into the daily life of ordinary people and become a part of people's daily wear.

The price of basketball shoes is not cheap at all, not to mention that those who fry shoes in later generations will sell basketball shoes at sky-high prices, but the normal official price of basketball shoes is much more expensive than ordinary leather shoes or casual shoes. That kind of big brand basketball shoes, 1,000 yuan can only be regarded as entry-level, and people who play shoes professionally feel ashamed to wear them, Nike and Adidas, two brands of basketball shoes of thousands of dollars a pair, many styles even need to be made an appointment to buy.

Other kinds of shoes can not enjoy this kind of treatment, who spends a thousand yuan to buy a pair of casual shoes, it is estimated that others will think that you kid is crazy? Spend a thousand bucks on that!

The high price naturally means that the profit is large, and the cost of a pair of basketball shoes for a pair of 1,000 yuan is not even a hundred yuan. Nike relied on selling basketball shoes to sell itself to a market value of $150 billion, with a revenue of $40 billion a year, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to sign a player endorsement without blinking an eye.

As for the other sporting goods, all of them may not be as profitable as shoes. Double Happiness, which dominates table tennis, is already very happy to sell one billion yuan a year; Wilson's tennis rackets are among the best in the world, but their racket sales are less than a fraction of Nike's sales of sneakers.

Of course, Chen Qiang knows the huge profits of basketball shoes, and if he is asked to open a sporting goods company, he will of course make footwear the company's main product. Chen Qiang remembered a lot of classic sneaker styles in his mind, and if he was asked to design sneakers, he only needed to copy a few future best-selling styles to easily crush other competitors.

"If I open a sporting goods company and make shoes, there will be no Nike or Adidas anymore!" Chen Qiang thought triumphantly, but in the next second, Chen Qiang realized that he was taking it for granted, these shoes are not something that can be done, at least during the war.

Because of the US control of strategic goods!

In China at that time, many people made their own cloth shoes to wear, and the women in the family took the soles, sewed the uppers, and took care of the family's shoes, and wore shoes completely self-sufficiently.

Americans don't have such good handicraft skills, they buy all their shoes, and they make shoes by shoe factories. Americans also don't wear any old Peking cloth shoes, and their shoes are mainly made of leather and rubber. Leather and rubber can be used in the war, both are strategic materials, so they were controlled during World War II, so the raw materials for shoe making are not so easy to get their hands on.

Due to the shortage of rubber resources, at the end of 1942, the United States issued a decree on the supply of shoes in limited quantities, and ordinary people in the United States were also restricted from buying shoes at this time. Of course, the United States is rich in resources and has strong industrial production capacity, even if shoes are rationed, but the quota is enough for ordinary people, and there is still a surplus.

The footwear industry in the United States has also received a large number of orders from the army to produce various combat shoes, such as military boots, field shoes suitable for multiple terrains, non-slip shoes needed by the navy, etc., which have become the mainstream products of the footwear industry.

"My plan to sell shoes didn't work until at least 1945, and now I don't have access to the materials to make shoes. It's okay to talk about leather, and you can still receive cowhide and pigskin for a little more money, but you really can't get rubber without the approval of the military. If only there were synthetic rubber now. Chen Qiang sighed helplessly.

During World War II, the most developed synthetic rubber industry was Germany, because Germany could not obtain the resources of natural rubber, so it could only study synthetic rubber, and the styrene-butadiene rubber used by the Germans during World War II was very similar to natural rubber.

In addition to Germany, the synthetic rubber industry in the Soviet Union was also very developed, because the Soviet Union did not have rubber resources, so it could only develop synthetic rubber alternatives.

The United States had been controlling the Philippines until the outbreak of the Pacific War, and in addition to the United States had Hawaii and Brazil as its backing, so there was no shortage of natural rubber sources, so the synthetic rubber industry in the United States was not developed.

It was only after World War II that synthetic rubber began to be vigorously researched in the United States, and polyethylene rubber, which is almost identical to natural rubber, was not developed until 1955.

"Now I can't find synthetic rubber, so I have to do it myself. Synthetic rubber should have something in common with plastic, I don't know if little Beckland can develop it. Chen Qiang started the idea of little Beckland again.

Before the war ended, or synthetic rubber was not developed, Chen Qiang had to temporarily abandon his plan to open a sporting goods company.

However, thinking of making basketball shoes in the future, Chen Qiang couldn't help but think of the new basketball league.

In recent months, Chen Qiang has completely handed over the New York Knicks to team manager Edward Ireland, and Chen Qiang has not played basketball games in the New League.

Although the war affected the sports industry in the United States, the new basketball league still attracted a large number of spectators with its new rules and new ways of playing, at least after the end of the first season, it was considered to have gained a firm foothold in the American sports world. Then the New Basketball League held another draft, which was also very successful.

Now that the second season of the new league has begun, the teams are still the same as the original ones, and there is no increase or decrease, after all, in this special era, the major sports leagues are almost half-dead, and the rich owners will not invest in new teams, so there are no new teams to join.

A large number of players have changed, and the teams are becoming more and more adaptable to the new rules and new ways of playing, so the player allocation has also been updated, which also makes the game more exciting.

Overall, although the new basketball league has not expanded, the overall development is still very good. After all, this is a time of war, and it would be nice if things like literature and sports could maintain the status quo.

Chen Qiang certainly won't be satisfied with standing still during the war, and he plans to show off a new weapon at this time, which is the All-Star Game.

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In New York, the heads of the teams gathered again with a plan for the All-Star Game in front of them.

"All-Star Game? Is this a parody of baseball's MLB major leagues? Cardinal Auerbach asked.

"The inspiration did come from the MLB All-Star Game, but there were a lot of variations in the specifics." Chen Qiang replied.

Among the four major sports leagues in the United States, the first to hold an all-star game was the MLB league in baseball, and as early as 1933, MLB held the first baseball all-star game in Chicago. Since then, MLB has held an All-Star Game every year except 1945.

The first NBA draft in history was held in 1951, when the NBA, which had just been founded for four years, had begun to decline, so the NBA executives decided to follow the example of MLB and select the best players to have a match, and finally held the first NBA All-Star Game in Boston Garden.

In 1943, the MLB All-Star Game had been going on for a decade. So when the senior management of each team saw Chen Qiang's plan for the All-Star Game, the first thing that came to mind was the MLB All-Star Game.

Everyone patiently continued to read, and sure enough, they found the difference in Chen Qiang's plan.

"Skill Challenge? What skills are you challenging? ”

"Shooting contest? Is it more accurate than who shoots? ”

"Slam Dunk Contest? It sounds like the bar is a bit high, but the average player can't dunk the basket. ”

The crowd began to discuss, and everyone exchanged ideas with each other.

Chen Qiang picked up the coffee in his hand, took a sip, and looked at everyone with a smile to discuss.

After a while, the sound of discussion gradually stopped, and Chen Qiang stood up and began to explain his plan.

"As you may have seen, my planned All-Star Game is not simply to find two teams of players to play a match-up game, in addition to the match-up game, there are many other contents, in addition to inviting famous singers to perform live, I want to turn our All-Star Game into a basketball event, into a fan festival!"

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