Volume 1: Entrepreneurship Chapter 178: The Grand Space of the Second Western Trade Fair
Li Wei, the technical minister of the group, was directly tired due to continuous work, because there were relatively few technicians who understood CCTV technology in Xizhou, and since Xizhou TV was a collaborator of the project, he had to send people from the equipment department to participate in the installation. Secretary Shi took the construction workers to decorate the closed-circuit television system room, and he was also tired and sick, and some workers were poisoned when spraying the paint because they had been spraying and the protection was not in place, and there was chaos for a while. In the end, it was the provincial leaders who intervened to prompt the tourism bureau to decide that the closed-circuit television system in the reception hotel of this fair should not be used as a mandatory acceptance condition. Another reason why such a CCTV installation boom has gradually faded is that the equipment and installation fee of about 100,000 yuan was not affordable for everyone at that time.
The 2nd Xizhou Investment and Trade Fair was grandly opened from July 10 to 13, 1990, lasting for 4 days. This is the five northwest provinces in the past ten years in the field of business in the largest exchange activities, but also to show the achievements of the market economy reform and opening up of a grand meeting, the Ministry of Commerce of the State leaders personally attended and delivered a speech at the opening ceremony, the five northwest provinces leaders sent representatives to attend and send a congratulatory letter. On the day of the opening ceremony, the top leaders of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government of Northwest Province sat on the rostrum and made enthusiastic speeches, welcoming visitors from all over the world and wishing the event a complete success. In his speech, the top leaders of the provincial government promised that the fair will continue to be held, and will use the strength of the whole province to provide good services for all the guests who come to Xizhou to participate in the fair, and strive to make the Xizhou Investment and Trade Fair a business exchange conference comparable to the Canton Fair held in Guangzhou. At the opening ceremony, the abbreviation of the Xizhou Investment and Trade Fair was also officially determined.
Yang Liufang's hometown Wenzhou also came to the president of the Chamber of Commerce to attend, Xizhou did not send an invitation letter to the Chamber of Commerce, but Jie Sheng and he are acquainted, when Jie Sheng received the invitation letter, told him that he was going to Xizhou to participate in this event in the near future, he asked through Jie Sheng to see if he could come to the meeting. After Yang Liufang reported to the city leaders, the leaders readily agreed to let the leaders of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce personally call the Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce and invite the Chamber of Commerce to send personnel to attend the meeting and prepare an invitation letter. The president of Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce was the first to make a speech as a representative of the Chamber of Commerce at the West China Fair. In his speech, he was full of praise for the co-organizers and venue providers, this self-made Wenzhou villager who broke into Xizhou by himself. When Jie Sheng and he arrived, Yang Liufang also borrowed an Audi 100 from Director Wang, plus two cars from his company to pick up the train station and the leaders of the Xizhou Commercial Bureau sent a supplementary invitation letter. After staying at the Wolongshan Hotel, Yang Liufang held a welcome banquet for him alone, and invited him to visit the tanneries and furniture factories under the group company, as well as the aluminum factory industry and trade company in which he held shares. Although the production capacity of these factories is relatively backward in the eyes of the well-informed president, it is absolutely commendable that a young man can strive to achieve such achievements in just a few years.
The presidents of supply and marketing cooperatives in neighboring provinces, who had already signed contracts last year and had established business ties, inevitably had to meet with Yang Liufang. Because Li Tongfu's office was temporarily recruited to become the command center of the preparatory group, and there were provincial and municipal leaders on duty in it every day, Yang Liufang had to meet with the presidents of these supply and marketing cooperatives in the conference room, Yanhua and Xinye and the daughter-in-law of the master who was transferred from the tannery canteen, and the three of them took turns serving tea and pouring water to the guests.
From the central and northwest provinces and neighboring provinces of the news media on the West China Fair made a detailed report, from the public release of the news, more than 2,000 exhibitors, more than 30,000 sets of various exhibitors, the supply and marketing system of the five northwest provinces and the provincial and municipal chamber of commerce guests totaled more than 10,000 people. The local citizens of the Western Zhou Dynasty also chose to visit the venue in their free time to buy some affordable and high-quality goods, and the exhibitors were naturally overjoyed to get orders. And the happiest is Lao Zhou's booth, because several counters are newly renovated, and in a more conspicuous position in the exhibition hall, he sells videotapes and VCD discs are currently in demand, and the price is not high, there are many blockbusters, Hong Kong's martial arts films, Taiwan's romance dramas and Bruce Lee's kung fu films filmed in the United States, etc., are favored by guests. 3 yuan and 5 yuan, everyone will more or less buy some of their favorite films to take home. In front of the counter, everyone held up the money and asked the waiter to help buy the film they wanted, as well as those discs with women's shoulders exposed on the cover, although they were restocked many times, they were also sold out by everyone.
Lao Zhou couldn't keep his mouth shut, and when he saw the leaders and the staff of the supply and marketing cooperatives, he sent Chinese cigarettes, and on the first day, he carried his black suitcase to the bank two or three times. After getting off work, I specially found Li Tongfu and Yanhua and stuffed a big red envelope of 1,000 yuan for each of them. His colleagues in the wholesale market also came to see the excitement and asked about the rental of shops, and Lao Zhou said that he would wait for the end of the Western Trade Fair to help inquire. There are also people who have invested money to participate in Yang Liufang's meeting, and they know that the relationship between Lao Chen and Yang Liufang is much more iron than Lao Zhou, so they have asked Lao Chen to rent a booth. Lao Chen contacted Yang Liufang as soon as possible, expressing the willingness of the merchants to ask for a rental shop, and bluntly said that Ah Fang was eccentric, why didn't he think about him first if there was a good thing, and asked that he must build a stall in the supply and marketing cooperatives no matter what. Yang Liufang was busy receiving the leaders of the supply and marketing cooperative, and promised in the chaos, and did not forget to let Brother Ah accompany Lao Chen to go shopping.
A few happy and a few worried, the merchants of other stores in the same supply and marketing cooperatives thought that they would get the first month near the water, and they wiped their counters spotlessly, put the goods neatly and neatly, and some also made special packaging for this Western Trade Fair. However, in the face of the crowd of exhibitors, although they are only separated by a wall from the main venue, these merchants are not cared for. Some good people asked privately, why don't you go to other stores of the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy some good products with high quality and low price? Their answer angered the merchants, saying that 315 had reported that they were selling counterfeit goods. The merchants wanted to unite to make a big fuss at the venue and ask the leaders for explanations, but they were stopped by the police on duty and warned. After learning about it, the director of the public security bureau urgently reported to the leaders of Xizhou City, and the city leaders made a report to their superiors. The superior instructed Director Li to appease, but of course Director Li did not dare to disobey the order, and communicated with the merchants one by one, saying that he would definitely give everyone an explanation.
The frightened Director Li found Yang Liufang, who was busy and told him about the situation, Yang Liufang instantly had an idea, he asked Director Li to receive the guests with peace of mind, and he solved the demands of these merchants. Of course, Director Li trusts his beloved general, but he didn't expect Yang Liufang to make him almost lose his hat this time. After Director Li left, Yang Liufang called Wang Shan and asked him to communicate with the merchants to print leaflets, explaining that the explosion of the Xizhou Iron and Steel Chief was caused by corruption within the steel plant and had nothing to do with the supply and marketing cooperatives. Levi was then asked to broadcast the contents of the leaflets through the CCTV system of each hotel on a rolling basis and remove the traces. The two of them had a way, and quickly got things done, and each merchant also paid 100 yuan for the hard work to fund the event, and at 8 and 9 o'clock on the last night of the Western Trade Fair, the closed-circuit TV program of the hotel was broadcast twice on a rolling basis. That night, the representatives of the merchants staying at the hotel also stuffed leaflets into the guests' rooms.
The signing ceremony and closing ceremony of the fourth day of the Western Trade Fair were held in the Provincial People's Hall, although some merchants left early because of the train, but the venue was still full. Yang Liufang, as a representative of the exhibitor, and the leaders of the supply and marketing cooperatives and the chamber of commerce from the five northwest provinces, held a grand signing ceremony under the witness of the leaders of the northwest province. The leaders then made speeches, and the provincial government mentioned in their speeches that the Western Trade Fair promoted the circulation of commodities in the five northwest provinces, promoted the process of commercial marketization in the five northwest provinces, and expanded the achievements of the reform and opening up of the five northwest provinces. The leaders said above, and everyone below exchanged with each other about the injustice of the Xizhou Iron and Steel Plant explosion, and the staff in charge of monitoring public opinion did not dare to conceal it, and the leaders of the provincial party committee and the provincial government soon knew about it.
At the summary meeting of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government for this year's Western Trade Fair, President Li of the Provincial Supply and Marketing Cooperatives and Director Wang of Xizhou TV Station were seriously criticized. Fortunately, both of them claimed that they did not know, it was the spontaneous behavior of the masses, and the provincial party committee and provincial government certainly knew the truth about the explosion of the steel plant, and felt that it was unreasonable to let the supply and marketing cooperatives take the blame, so they just asked the two to write a profound inspection and did not investigate deeply. Because the propaganda department was unable to effectively control the broadcast of CCTV, the provincial party committee and provincial government immediately stopped the installation of CCTV throughout the province. Yang Liufang fell into Waterloo, he claimed to be four million, the actual value of more than three million equipment, just sold less than ten sets, back one-third, this ban on installation, all smashed in his hands.
However, according to the preliminary statistics of the Northwest Provincial Bureau of Statistics, the contract value of this Western Trade Fair is more than 360 million, not including nearly 50 million at the exhibition site. The total result is 410 million yuan, excluding the execution share of follow-up contracts and derivative contracts, which include merchants who visited the showroom of Yangliufang's car seats, signed a contract for Liufang Industrial Group to produce car bumpers on their behalf, and a contract for car rearview mirrors; According to statistics, the GDP of Northwest Province was 20 billion yuan, and a Western Trade Fair accounted for more than 2% of the province's GDP. Among the 410 million yuan achievements, Liufang Industrial Group's contracts and sales were 148 million yuan, and the follow-up contract execution and derivative contracts such as OEM car bumpers and car rearview mirrors totaled more than 80 million yuan, which was quite fruitful.