If it is after the reopening, such as 1980, then Chen Zhiwen, Li Jiacheng, Hu Yingxiang, Fok Yingdong and dozens of Hong Kong tycoons come to Yanjing, then there will inevitably be a high level of people to pick up the airport, and the subsequent arrangements will be stable and very high-grade, and even CCTV, People's Daily, and other media will follow up and interview all the way.

But now, there is no more, and when they come to the mainland, they should be doing it in secret, and there is really no one in Hong Kong who knows about it, but as long as they don't say it, everyone will remain silent.

However, although there are no things on the surface, there are still a lot of them in the dark, and many plainclothes people are waiting at the airport early, and the one who came to pick them up is also a deputy director Zhang of the State Administration of Foreign Economic Liaison.

The General Administration of Foreign Economic Liaison (GUI), along with the State Planning Commission and the State Economic and Trade Commission, is the three major departments responsible for the national economy, and in 2003, the three departments were merged, that is, the Ministry of Commerce.

Everyone got on the bus again, but this one is not as luxurious as the previous Guangdong Province, but the road in Yanjing is obviously much better, and the bus quickly drove out of the airport and headed in the direction of Yanjing City.

Through the window, Chen Zhiwen looked at everything along the way, and the memories of the times appeared in his own memories.

In his previous life, he grew up in the 90s, although it is more than ten years later, but the small city at that time and the current Yanjing are almost the same in terms of visual sense.

There are countless pedestrians and countless bicycles, driving on the road, the most common means of transportation is buses, and occasionally you can see some trucks and cars, but the more you go to the city, the more cars and buses become.

Chen Zhiwen took a serious look, all the cars are basically domestic brands, and occasionally you can see a Toyota or Chevrolet.

Soon, the car arrived at the Yanjing Hotel.

Deputy Director Zhang said: "Everyone, everyone will rest in the hotel for a while, and in the evening, we will have a welcome banquet, please be sure to come at that time." ”

He spoke Mandarin, and not everyone present could understand it, but there were always people around him who knew it, and there was no need to find a translator.

"Okay." Many people agreed.

As the capital, Yanjing naturally has a lot of international friends to come, therefore, accustomed to the West hotels have long existed, Yanjing Hotel is one of them, showers, toilets, air conditioners, TVs have everything, is the luxury of Hong Kong five-star hotels are quite different.

Chen Zhiwen has lived a very luxurious life in recent years, but he is also used to this configuration, but there are a few Hong Kong businessmen, and their expressions are a little uncomfortable, and it is estimated that this is also the reason why Bao Yugang came to Yanjing for the first time three years later, and proposed to donate 10 million US dollars to build a five-star hotel here.

There is only Yanjing TV in the TV station, and it talks about some local news, or some domestic TV series, and after watching it for nearly an hour, Chen Zhiwen found that there was no advertisement on it.

After a while, the sky began to darken, the latitude of Yanjing City is much higher, at this moment from summer to winter, it gets dark relatively early, but it is not very cold, and it is also a dry climate here, and there is no magic attack from the Jiangnan region.

In the evening, Director Lin of the State Administration of Foreign Economic Liaison personally came and had a cordial dinner with all Hong Kong businessmen at the Yanjing Hotel.

After dinner, when everyone was about to go back to the room to rest, President Liang suddenly grabbed Chen Zhiwen and said, "Chen Sheng, Director Lin wants to talk to you alone." ”

"Okay." Chen Zhiwen nodded and agreed.

After a while, Chen Zhiwen came to a place similar to a conference room, and Director Lin quickly stood up and said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, please take a seat." ”

"Director Lin is polite, thank you." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said, the State Administration of Foreign Economic Liaison is one of the components of the Ministry of Commerce in the future, and the Director Lin in front of him, if 50 years later, is at least equivalent to the level of vice minister, and the Ministry of Commerce itself is one of the most important departments in the mainland.

"Mr. Chan speaks Mandarin so well, if we just met by chance on the street, I would never believe that you would be a Hong Kong person." Director Lin said with a smile: "It is said that in Hong Kong, there are not many people who can speak Mandarin so well, most of them are elderly, who once lived in the mainland and later went to Hong Kong, it should be rare among young people." ”

"It's rare, I basically haven't met it, Chen Sheng can be said to be the first young man who speaks Mandarin so well." President Liang on the side also added.

"My father, who came to Hong Kong from the mainland, also taught me Mandarin when I was a child." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

This is not a lie, when he was a child, Chen Tianfu did teach Chen Zhiwen Mandarin, but he forgot about it when he learned it, and then Chen Tianfu was busy with things, so he didn't care, after all, learning Mandarin itself is not too important.

In the next few years, he has been active in Hong Kong and has never used Mandarin, and later Chen Tianfu happened to know that Chen Zhiwen's Mandarin was very good and very curious, but Chen Zhiwen coped with the past on the grounds that he had been learning Mandarin in the past two years, and it made sense from the perspective of time.

"But in an environment where all the surrounding Cantonese speakers, it is also very persistent to learn so fluently." President Liang said with a smile: "When I was going to Hong Kong, I also learned Cantonese, which is not difficult to learn, but it takes a lot of effort to speak fluently. ”

"After the award, as a Chinese, learning Mandarin is the most normal thing." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile that Hong Kong's Cantonese culture is actually one of the major reasons why it will be difficult to integrate into the mainland economic system in the future.

Director Lin smiled and said, "That's a good point. ”

"I don't know what Director Lin has done when he invited me to come?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

Director Lin said: "Actually, it's not a big deal, Mr. Chen, you are the most successful entrepreneur in Hong Kong at present, and several of your products are also exported overseas. ”

"This question is too general, Director Lin should give some practical examples, right?" Chen Zhiwen said that when he invited himself to come, he actually guessed the purpose, after all, it has not been officially changed yet, and it is impossible to invest by himself, so it must be to discuss some issues.

"For example, for clothes, I heard that Mr. Chen has discussed some potential cooperation agreements with Yuezhou No. 1 Textile Factory in Guangdong, and I am very grateful to Mr. Chen for his support to the domestic and foreign trade industry, but I want to know more about how to export a large number of our textile products overseas?" Director Lin asked.

"There are a lot of problems involved, in fact, when I was in Guangdong, in fact, I also told the local director Pan that the textile industry is actually very technical, and it takes a lot of energy to do a good job." Chen Zhiwen said: "Just say a socks, how to ensure that it can absorb sweat, ensure breathability, and ensure that people are comfortable to wear, this is very important, the same size of socks, in the United States supermarkets, cheap one dollar a dozen 12 pairs, expensive one or two dollars a pair, as far as the socks industry is concerned, the majority of the profits are the latter, cheap socks, basically to support employees, can not make money."

The same is true for clothes, people in Europe and the United States basically choose clothes not for survival reasons, they will consider comfort, lightweight, brand and appearance, if you want to do a good job, you have to grasp these. ”

"R&D can be carried out in China, but the appearance, everyone's opinion is different, and we don't know much about the preferences of Europeans and Americans, let alone brands." Director Lin said with some embarrassment.

"In fact, Director Lin can refer to the development process of Hong Kong's textile industry in the 50s, when it was basically based on OEM for European and American brands, and it was by relying on these that the economy slowly developed up, and the mainland also has an advantage, that is, chemical fiber and cotton can be produced by themselves, and labor is also much cheaper, which is a great advantage." Chen Zhiwen said.

"We have also considered this, but the international environment in the 50s is very different from now, and Hong Kong is not the same as the mainland, if you don't speak anything else, even the people who can speak English are very few, and communication is not good, and everything is difficult." Director Lin said helplessly.

"English is indeed very important, and if you want to do all your best exports, talents in this area are absolutely indispensable, but it is really difficult to solve this problem in a short period of time." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said: "But it's not impossible, there are a lot of experienced foreign trade personnel in Hong Kong, and there are many people engaged in the textile industry. ”

President Liang's eyes lit up and asked, "Chen Sheng, can you set up such a company?" You also know that this kind of company needs not only capital, but also certain social resources, and you are the most suitable. ”

As early as 73 years, the central government spent $4.3 billion to purchase dozens of large-scale production lines from Western countries, including petrochemicals, steel, fertilizers and chemical fibers.

Although the mainland is an oil exporter, the smelting technology is not good, and there is no shortage of steel in China, that is, high-quality steel can not be made, and these two types of production lines can supplement the insufficiency.

Needless to say, the fertilizer production line is related to the food security of one billion people in the country, and the main purpose of the chemical fiber production line is to ensure that the domestic people have clothes to wear, and can develop the textile industry to earn foreign exchange like many countries.

It's just that in recent years, all kinds of their clothes have been made, but they can't be sold at all.

"Okay, I'll go back and try." Chen Zhiwen thought about it, nodded and said that an important reason for Hong Kong's economic take-off after the 80s is to serve as a bridge between the mainland and overseas.

Investment through Hong Kong, so that Hong Kong has become one of the world's financial centers, and trade, is another pillar industry, especially in the 80s, the Pearl River Delta as the center of the country's light industry and foreign exchange center, basically Hong Kong's countless trading companies operate in the middle, and even if Hong Kong local entrepreneurs go to the mainland to invest, their orders, in fact, are also from trading companies.

In the era without the Internet, customers are extremely difficult to develop, everyone does not know each other, it is difficult to trust, and there is no intermediate guarantee, who knows if you are a liar?

The general small factory does not have this ability at all, can only through a variety of middlemen, since someone does this business, then they can naturally also, the opportunity of this era has come, then you have to seize the opportunity, especially now you are still the first person to eat crabs, once successful, the profit may not be as good as finance or electronics, but the economic influence of the drive is absolutely not to be underestimated, and this kind of thing, he only needs to spend money to set up a company, managed by professionals.

However, because of the decline of Hong Kong's economy after the 21st century, especially the emergence of Alibaba, this kind of trading company is basically dead, Chen Zhiwen does not know the history, and now he can only cross the river by feeling the stones, but with his own capital and connections, the possibility of success is still very large.

"That's great." Director Lin said with a smile that in the country now, the pressure to earn foreign exchange is very great, because there are a lot of heavy industrial equipment, airplanes, and automobiles to be introduced recently, and even need to be traded in gold when it is serious.

However, as the head of the foreign trade department, Director Lin also has a better understanding of overseas economic development, and also knows that as long as the industry is done well, the wealth created will far exceed the export of resources, but they are powerless, so they need an intermediary.

"What do you think about industries other than the textile industry, such as all kinds of electronic products?" President Liang asked again.

"In fact, President Liang should have some understanding of my Midea company, in a strict sense, Midea is not a real high-tech electronics company, at least not yet." Chen Zhiwen said: "A company can rely on some innovation to become bigger, but domestic products can only rely on research and development, in this regard, in fact, I don't have any good opinions." ”

Midea can be bigger, mainly by games, this is the door, maybe can cultivate a world-class giant company, but for a big country, this industry is far from enough, if you want to develop the electronics industry, you can only take the technical route.

"This is too difficult, many of the electronic components we produce, not to mention exported abroad, even some of our domestic enterprises are unwilling to use." Director Lin shook his head helplessly and said.

"Are there any special electronics majors in universities in China?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Yes, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Jiaotong University and Fudan University in Shanghai have them." Director Lin shook his head and said.

"These are not enough, if you really want to make achievements in the electronics industry, it is best to build a professional electronic university, introduce a large number of advanced equipment from abroad, and train generations of talents, so that there will be a qualitative change in ten years." Chen Zhiwen suggested.

The complete electronics industry is definitely not a terminal consumer product or a previous production, but from the most basic resistors, capacitors, etc. to the most complex chips, from civilian products to military industry, basically everything is inseparable from electronics.

If the mainland wants to develop the electronics industry, the most basic thing is to do a good job in these things first, and this will inevitably require a large number of talents.

"Build a university?" Director Lin shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Mr. Chen, this is unlikely in a short period of time, and we have to teach the most advanced technology in the West, and we don't have many such teachers." ”

"I'm just suggesting." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said. When it comes to major industrial investment, this kind of thing may not be settled in a few years, and after the change, maybe there will be room for its own activities.

(End of chapter)