On a sunny afternoon, Jing Jian suddenly received a call from Nona: "Dear Bramble, what's going on? I haven't contacted me for a while. Why did I hear that you have terminated the car factory project?"

"Is that?" It was during the shooting interval that Jing Jian lay lazily on the lounge chair, "Dear Nona, what about the scenery of Mars? Have you caught an alien?"

A chuckle rang out on the phone: "Okay OK OK, I apologize. I admit that the proposal of your Chinese government has moved many of us, and there is some controversy within us. But I personally tend to you, so I really want to hear your opinions."

The reason why Jing Jian gave up so simply is because some of the thinking of Soviet officials is very similar to that of Chinese officials. They trust cooperation between countries, but instead do not pay much attention to business reputation.

In fact, Jing Jian didn't care about a failure. The reasons for commercial miscarriage were strange, and the failure rate has always been high. Are you calculating? Originally, Jing Jian was ready to go through this vaguely and silently withdrew. At least no one offended him. But since Nona had come to him, Jing Jian simply expressed his attitude: "Nona, I don't want to care about the reason. All I saw was the result. I will continue to give the 100 million US dollars promised to you, and the reciprocal trade will also continue to be implemented. This matter will pass like this! I can only express my deep regret."

The phone was quiet for a while, and Nona seemed to be thinking about something. After a while, she said, "Is there no room for recovery? Although for us, your $100 million is just a drop in the bucket, we attach great importance to our friendship with you."

Jing Jian smiled. Indeed, for the Soviet Union, the number of US$100 million can be ignored. However, at this time, the Soviet Union's economy was on the verge of collapse. In real history, in 90 years, that is, this year, GNP fell by 2.4%, while in 1991 it fell by about 13%. Fixed asset investment fell by 21% sharply in 1990, and an estimated 25% in 1991. The government budget deficit continued to rise, and inflation was completely out of control. Gorbachev's economic reforms were powerless to make the situation come true.

In addition, the Soviet Union had a lot of half-dead enterprises, plus 1 trillion rubles of internal debt and 120 billion US dollars of foreign debt? Compared with those debts, Jing Jian's money was indeed a drop in the bucket. However, his package of agreements could revitalize a considerable number of the upstream and downstream industries of the Soviet Union and continuously bring foreign exchange income. In a sense, not only Jing Jian can make money, but it also is a very important boost to the Soviet economy. Well, in theory, this is the case, if the Soviet Union does not disintegrate in the future.

"I also attach great importance to friendship with you." Jing Jian said to Nona, "Nona, say that! I don't want to hide my thoughts and know my own weight. Since the two governments have made some choices, I will honestly withdraw. Thank you for your phone call today, and I hope you will come and play in the future."

"But..." Nona seemed hesitant, "But we still hope to cooperate with you?"

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To be honest, Jing Jian’s shock at this time was indescribable. It seemed that there was a feeling that the world was unreal. He really couldn’t figure it out. Even if he was himself, it would definitely be directly cooperating with the Chinese government, right? This is different from Andre’s loan. The loan can be said to be Andre’s decisive role. For such a package of agreements, the decision makers must be a group of people, and they will definitely hold meetings to discuss. They have no relatives and reasons. Have they all taken brain fragments together?

"Sorry, Nona, I don't understand what you mean?" Jing Jian asked with confusion.

Nona on the other end of the phone was actually blushing and she felt very whispered. Indeed, at the beginning, the opinions on cooperation between the Chinese and Soviet governments gradually gained the upper hand, and the advantages were too obvious. What Jing Jian could do was basically available to China, and the equity of the Soviet Union could also be greatly improved.

But gradually, some oppositions appeared, and the opposition became louder and louder. We pointed directly at the core of the problem - state-owned enterprises!

Undoubtedly, if it is a direct joint venture, the model of this enterprise must be the state-owned enterprise model. However, at this time, the Soviet Union's domestic trend was already in chaos. Due to the mistakes in the Soviet reform policy and the deepening of the economic crisis, the Soviet leaders not only did not correctly summarize the lessons, but instead simply attributed the reasons for the poor economy to the socialist public ownership. Therefore, such an economic reform idea was gradually formed. The basic starting point was that the country now has too many assets concentrated, the people are alienated from the state-owned ownership, and the employees have no sense of ownership and enthusiasm, which has caused huge waste of social wealth. Therefore, the diversification of state-owned assets and the privatization of state-owned enterprises should be implemented, and the path of "mixed economy" in developed capitalist countries should be taken.

So during the debate, some opponents raised: "...The Soviet state-owned enterprise model has already had problems. Do Chinese comrades have magic pills in their hands? And the news from China that the large state-owned enterprises and factories in China are also suffering large losses on a large scale. Can two loss-making enterprises turn losses into profits immediately by joining a joint venture?"

"...On the surface, we seem to have a lot more shares. But I would like to ask, if there is a loss, will we continue to inject capital for the sake of a light Sino-Soviet friendship? If it is endless, aren't we asking for burdens? Well, if we don't continue to inject capital, the result will be even worse. The factory goes bankrupt and we can't get anything, and China at least has equipment and factories. I think such investment is better than to use it in China."

"...What we need is a free economy. When we close the door, we say that the socialist economic system has failed. We are willing to cooperate with capitalists and prefer to have fewer shares in our hands. At least he will carefully run the factory to ensure the success of this project."

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Perhaps such remarks are a complete joke in today's people's eyes. In fact, the quality of the business situation of an enterprise has little to do with state-owned private ownership. The key is advanced management systems and continuous innovation spirit.

OK! Economic issues can be argued. But as long as there is some basic common sense, you will never say such things - you are willing to give concessions to capitalists rather than cooperate with state-owned enterprises, right?

However, in the Soviet Union at that time, and even in most socialist countries, including China, most sociologists and economists had turned to Western-style free capitalism. Therefore, it is not surprising that such strange remarks have appeared.
Chapter completed!