Chapter 469 A City I Don’t Like

What made Fan Wubing feel a little relieved was that he finally didn't have to be alone~.

When he was about to leave the capital, his old friend Maximus came over from the United States and was about to talk to him about cooperation.

The old Jewish man was Fan Wubing's strategic partner. Fan Wubing naturally couldn't leave him here, so he postponed the formation and specially waited for him here.

Maximus came here this time mainly because he needed to communicate about some matters regarding the mobile phone manufacturing of the three-party cooperation. It happened that his company also had some business in China that needed to be handled, so they simply handled it together.

The mobile phone business is an important profitable business of Fanshi Investment Group. Although it was put into production only a few years ago, due to the leading advantages of LCD screen technology and the previously acquired InTeL mobile phone research and development department, it has been completely absorbed by this time. It has a strong advantage in underlying research and development technology. In addition to being comparable to large companies such as Motorola, Ericsson and other mobile phone manufacturers that entered the Chinese mainland market early have felt great pressure.

After all, in China: very little capital is consumed in the production and development of mobile phones. In addition, Fan Wubing hacked a lot of technical information through Kevin at that time, so the most expensive part was basically ignored. This made Fan Wubing The mobile phone business of the Investment Group was at a very high level at the beginning. After several years of development, the technology has become increasingly perfect and the products have strong competitiveness.

It can be said that in the mid-to-low-end mobile phone market, Fanshi Investment Group's mobile phones have begun to compete with overseas giants, especially in terms of manufacturing costs. Obviously Fanshi Investment Group's mobile phones have more advantages.

It is precisely because of the efforts of Fan Investment Group that the domestic mobile phone market has developed rapidly, and the continuous reduction in prices has promoted the rapid expansion of the number of mobile phone communication users. Compared with the number that has appeared in history, mobile phone users have It exceeded 20 million households.

The emergence of a huge user base has directly led to the dilution of mobile operators' costs, and the expenses incurred by each user have been greatly reduced. The era of great development of the Chinese mobile phone market has arrived ahead of schedule.

When Fan Wubing was on the Fudan campus, a special phenomenon occurred. Many teachers and students on campus were using various mobile phones produced by Fan Investment Group. There are many, but among foreign brands with higher prices, they are very rare.

Fan Wubing made some calculations. Mobile phones, LCDs, and computers are the three industries that have taken away the most money from Chinese people. Finally, his intervention has fundamentally changed these three industries. It has basically formed a de facto monopoly position in the country, although there are also some other companies competing. But in terms of LCD and mobile phones. The bottom-end technologies used by many domestic companies are companies authorized by Fanshi Investment Group or even the assembly plants of Fanshi Investment Group.

"Fan. I heard that your father has been promoted to the Politburo. I want to congratulate you." Maximus saw Fan Wubing. First she said to him with a smile.

"Haha, thank you, thank you. But it doesn't seem to have much to do with me." Fan Wubing said with a smile and expressed his gratitude. "I can't expect him to help me expand the market, right?"

Maximus shook his head. "Oh no. It should be said that the help is very generous. Don't you think I came with the good intentions of some people?"

Fan Wubing heard what Maximus said. He was stunned for a moment. Then he asked with a frown. "Could it be that you have become a politician now?"

Maximus said with a smile. "That's not the case. But it may be developed in this area in the future. In fact, the methods of doing politics and doing business are similar. A Chinese person of yours once said before that if you want to achieve great things, there are two necessary conditions. The first is shamelessness. The second thing is to have a dark heart. In fact, I thought about it carefully. I meet these two conditions. So I have considered retiring and joining politics after these two years."

Fan Wubing shook his head and said, "If you run for governor or something, why don't you move all the money in the state to your home? That would be a big trouble!"

Maximus smiled and said, "You think so too?"

However, when Maximus came this time, he obviously had something to say, so he said to Fan Wubing, "Actually, I was entrusted by the American Banking Association to lobby Chinese partners. The United States The banking industry believes that China is about to restore its legal status in the WTO, so it should take the lead in opening up the banking industry. They hope that you can use your influence to express to the officials the benefits of opening up the financial industry."

When Fan Wubing heard this, he immediately shook his head like a rattle, "You must have thought wrong about this! It will take at least ten years to open up the financial industry. Do you think that now? Can China's domestic financial industry withstand the impact of capital giants like you?"

In fact, there is no need for Fan Wubing to say anything. Maximus also thinks that the feasibility of this kind of thing is very small. Unlike the bosses of the American banking industry, he often comes to China to do this.

, so I know more about the mainland, especially following the way Chinese people like Fan Wubing do things. It is very clear that China's reform is a semi-permeable membrane reform, which means that it is selectively absorbed rather than completely westernized. .

For things that are not good for the country, the government will obviously not agree to accept the ideas of foreigners. Therefore, such ideas as those of the American banking industry can only be said to be wishful thinking because of their desire for wealth. There is not much possibility of realization. At this time Hearing Fan Wubing say it with such certainty, Maximus suddenly felt that there was basically nothing left to talk about at this time.

"I just said that this wouldn't work, but they didn't believe it." Maximus shrugged.

"Although it can't be realized now, you can still mention this matter. After all, if you don't tell me, how can others know your thoughts?" Fan Wubing pointed out to Maximus.

In fact, he is not only reminding Maximus, but also in disguise, through Maximus, reminding domestic financial managers that they need to know what the foreign financial industry thinks about the Chinese market, so that they can do a good job as early as possible. Preparations for opening up financial markets.

After all, it goes without saying that once China joins the WTO, China's financial market will eventually open up.

In this way, Fan Wubing waited in Beijing for another three days. When Maximus visited the industry leaders who needed to be visited according to his list, he took the Fan Airlines passenger plane with him. To Sydney, Australia.

In fact, many people think that Sydney is the capital of Australia, because everyone often hears this name. The main reason is because in 1993, when Beijing applied for the Olympic Games, it lost to this city.

Many people found it difficult to accept what happened that year, because there was only a two-vote difference between the votes cast in Beijing and Sydney. Some people said it was the Taipei committee members who did not vote for us, and some said it was the North Korean committee members who did not vote for us. A crucial vote resulted in the Olympic Games not being held in Beijing for two thousand years.

Later, some people said that it was Australia's dirty tricks at a critical moment that reversed the situation.

Before the vote, several news agencies reported from Sydney and Monte Carlo that domestic leaders had been interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Beijing and said that if Beijing's bid to host the Olympics failed due to obstruction by the US Congress, China would To retaliate by boycotting the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Therefore, at the beginning of the executive committee, Malanchi asked He Zhenliang if there was any resistance. He Zhenliang said unambiguously that there was no such thing. Samaranch was very happy after hearing this and immediately asked IOC Public Relations Director Napier to arrange for He Zhenliang to speak at the IOC press conference that afternoon.

Sa's intention is obviously to provide He Zhenliang with an opportunity to clarify the facts and suppress the 'boycott' storm deliberately created by the West. This was not what some people wanted, so someone at the meeting said that if China wanted to clarify the facts, it could hold a press conference on its own, so why let He speak at the International Olympic Committee's press conference?

Since 1976, boycotting the Olympic Games has been the most troublesome thing for the International Olympic Committee.

Boycotts are generally motivated by political considerations, but years of practice have proven that the international sports community has reached a consensus that boycotts are not in the interests of athletes. He Zhenliang is on the front line of contact with the International Olympic Committee and feels the mentality of the committee members earlier than others.

The practice of boycotting the Olympic Games for political purposes is the most unpopular within the International Olympic Committee.

Sydney's spread of rumors that China will boycott the Olympics is the method that costs the least and has the best effect of damaging Beijing's bid to host the Games.

In Monte Carlo that day, this incident immediately became the biggest news. Several TV stations broadcast the news that China was boycotting the Atlanta Olympics every hour throughout the day, and also broadcast some footage from interviews with Australian TV stations to prove that their words were justified.

Several major Western news agencies broadcast news about China's boycott several times a day. Some of the news had ulterior motives, saying that China has always put political interests above Olympic ideals. In the past, it had boycotted the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and the 1919 Beijing Olympics. The history of the Moscow Olympics in 1980 also said that Beijing was playing the political card again. This time it wanted to use boycott to blackmail the International Olympic Committee to obtain the right to host the Olympics. Some even said that the Olympics would be handed over to Beijing, in case something changes. , very unreliable.

This obviously had a great impact on the voting a few days later. Some Western committee members who originally favored Beijing finally decided to change their minds temporarily and vote for Sydney.

Fan Wubing, who knew the inside story, was naturally not very happy to have arrived in this city full of conspiracies. Therefore, even Maximos' suggestion of traveling around, or at least visiting the Sydney Opera House, was ignored. agree.

He directly rented a small passenger plane and flew directly to Perth, Western Australia.

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