In September 2013, Shanghai established a free trade zone.

This is definitely blockbuster news.

According to the state's design of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, the area centered on Waigaoqiao in Pudong is an outlying island like the Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands. Except that the location is in the interior of the mainland, the other conditions are no different from those of Liberty Island. It is equivalent to China's outside the borders. While most people believe that the Shanghai FTZ is unlikely to become the Virgin Islands or the Cayman Islands under the framework of the country and the law, it is possible to become another Hong Kong.

This level of policy is no less than that of Xiaogang Village, no less than Shenzhen, and no less than Hainan of that year. Prophets will sniff out far-reaching business opportunities from subtle policy changes, not to mention that the Shanghai Free Trade Zone is like a thunderbolt on the ground, and even ordinary people who have nothing to do with themselves will be awakened by this thunder.

Everyone understands that the Shanghai Free Trade Zone brings Shanghai an opportunity for economic take-off and an opportunity for individuals to create wealth. Perhaps, one by one, the myths of wealth creation will pour out from various relevant policies, which will be overwhelming.

Ankang once again returned to the state when he was an intern at Bristal Investment, and as soon as he entered the company every day, he frantically collected information on the Internet and used EXCEL to summarize it into entries according to the classification. At the same time, we use chat software and phone calls to communicate with government staff, entrepreneurs, and investors to understand the progress of the free trade zone policy. To this end, Ankang also actively participated in a series of sharing sessions on policy interpretation. One of the larger sharing sessions was held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Xuhui campus. The meeting was not held in the form of a seminar, but in the form of a report. The presentation was made by an expert on national policy with a government background.

According to Ankang's guess, there are many people who participated in this sharing session. At least in a large classroom. When Ankang drove the car into Jiaotong University, he realized that the huge campus was struggling to find a place to park. When I finally parked the car and found the meeting place, I realized that the building number corresponded not to a classroom, but to a large auditorium.

The auditorium was packed. Luckily, Ankang has an official admission ticket, so there are reserved seats to sit. There were many people who did not receive the vouchers and could only stand pitifully in the aisles. Although the conference was held at a university with a large number of young people, there were not many young people in this large auditorium. Middle-aged people are the most numerous, followed by the elderly. Most young people come with others.

These middle-aged and elderly people who have returned to college campuses are more focused than younger students, and they have a stronger desire to learn than younger students.

Ankang guesses that many of these people know the famous wealth-making myth of the Rothschild family-

The Rothschild family, who had influenced world finance for hundreds of years, built the most advanced intelligence network in Europe during the Napoleonic period, and used the information he obtained to make transactions. During the Battle of Waterloo, which decided the fate of France and England, the Rothschilds were the first to learn of France's imminent defeat. But the family members deliberately sold British bonds in the London bond market, triggering a wave of selling by other investors. Greed turns into fear, and fear triggers the herd effect. Eventually, the price of UK government bonds fell to the bottom.

Then comes the climax of the story. The Rothschilds began to buy all the public bonds on dips. The next day, news of Napoleon's defeat reached London. Only then did the exchange's investors realize that they had been deceived. This was followed by another wave of panic buying. In this way, the Rothschild family achieved a twenty-fold return on investment in one day.

In addition to the financial gains, the Rothschilds became the largest creditors of the British government, while also controlling the Bank of England and further controlling the amount of money in the United Kingdom.

The story is very informative, but the most important thing is that it makes people understand the importance of getting information and interpreting it.

The people crowded in this auditorium naturally understand this truth.

The meeting was held long beyond the scheduled time. The experts had already finished their presentations, but spent most of their time answering questions from the audience. So much so that in the end, the moderator had to limit himself to the last three questions and end the day's meeting.

Everyone watched the experts on the stage leave the venue with great satisfaction, and they were reluctant to leave for a long time. Everyone understands that any detail of this policy could affect their future and the future of their company.

The effect of the free trade zone continues to heat up, and the Shanghai free trade zone has also become a hot spot for investment. In the past, it only cost one or two thousand yuan a year to rent a virtual registered address in Waigaoqiao, but now it is impossible to rent it without 20,000 yuan. The skyrocketing price of rents is no worse than the skyrocketing British public debt that year.

Previously, it had always focused on the well-being of Lujiazui and Zhangjiang, and at this time it paid the most attention to the free trade zone. Pudong Waigaoqiao, an area traditionally dominated by international trade, now bears not only Shanghai's responsibility for building a shipping center and financial center, but also the responsibility of free trade, scientific and technological exchanges, cultural exchanges and so on. Waigaoqiao has become a bridgehead for Sino-foreign economic exchanges. It is about to become the most open region in Chinese mainland other than Hong Kong and Macao.

For the first time, Ankang set its sights on logistics, foreign trade, especially cross-border e-commerce, cross-border logistics investment opportunities. He believes that the combination of Zhangjiang's scientific and technological innovation enterprises and the traditional foreign trade industry in Waigaoqiao will definitely produce new business models and bring explosive development prospects.

Before Nanhuayu gave birth to a child, Ankang bought a townhouse in the Biyun community that Nanhuayu liked. Compared with Lujiazui, Biyun Community is relatively close to Waigaoqiao and Zhangjiang. This townhouse brings the enjoyment of paradise to Nanhua Rain, and brings peace and well-being from the pain of long-distance commuting.

Ankang jokingly said to Nanhuayu: "Fortunately, you like the Biyun community, not the Gubei community." Otherwise, I would have to doubt my life on the Yan'an Elevated Highway every day. ”

Nanhuayu said: "The Gubei community represents the Shanghai of the past, and the Biyun community represents the Shanghai of the future. Of course, we have to focus on the future. ”

"Uh-huh. My wife is right and reasonable. ”

Feeling the convenience of transportation, he soon felt the sense of stability brought to him by the European-style Biyun community. When he lived in Lujiazui, Ankang didn't like to go out very much. For him, standing on the streets of Lujiazui is like being a volunteer – a volunteer who inhales car exhaust into his lungs to filter it. And since living in the Biyun community, Ankang often goes home early. Walking hand in hand with Nanhua Yu, who had had a meal, on the boulevard.

With the birth of his son, the middle-aged Ankang finally realized the "five sons of Dengke" in life - with a wife, a ticket, a house, a car and children.