Lin Ping did not wait for everyone to speak, and then continued, "Maybe you think you can wait and see and wait until the country confirms that it is a market economy before entering. But once your board of directors chooses to take this step, it may not take five years for them to regret their stupid decision.
At this time, our country's modern automobile industry is blank. Volkswagen's backward automobile industry dares to ask for prices everywhere. However, once you give up the joint venture, Minister He and others in charge of negotiations will face even more crazy negotiation asking prices from Volkswagen Group.
You are all businessmen, and you should understand how terrifying it will be once the market becomes a monopoly single seller market. Minister He and others have no bargaining with the public at all, so they can only delay time. Waiting for Volkswagen to live a more miserable life in North America, they have to sign a contract with us in the end. However, this only exists in a miracle, and no one knows the facts.
Perhaps you think the negotiations with Volkswagen and Minister He have nothing to do with you. But once Volkswagen has obtained enough negotiation chips, they will completely occupy this market in less than five years. A few years later, when you want to enter this market again, you will find that the shadow of Volkswagen is everywhere here.
Now talk to Minister He that you will get good bargaining chips. But five years later, I am afraid that Volkswagen has already formed a community of interests with too many people. Just guess whether Volkswagen will interfere invisibly and invisibly. By then, you may not even get half of the conditions now. Even if you successfully enter the market and engage in a joint venture with domestic companies, ordinary consumers will not recognize your brand at all.
Think about it, what cars do successful people drive on Wall Street? What houses do rich people live in? And who even has private jets?
Mr. Smith just said that our domestic market is mainly used to purchase cars. Who is using these purchasing cars?
At that time, successful people and rich people will drive cars with Volkswagen logos. On that day, all consumers will think that Volkswagen is equal to success, and Volkswagen is the goal of life. Just like people in your country who dream of becoming successful people on Wall Street, driving the same luxury car as them, living in the same luxury house, the same private jet, and the same private yacht.
If this day really comes, everyone is proud to drive Volkswagen. Even if you come to General Motors, it will be too late that day. Volkswagen doesn’t even have to advertise to compete with you, and ordinary consumers will think that you are a low-end brand.
In addition, it doesn't take too long.
It only takes three to five years to Volkswagen to seize the entire country's purchasing car market. When you come, there will be no cake to divide. After all, purchasing car is not toilet paper. The country is poor, and it may be difficult to eliminate it without ten or eight years. And on that day, you can only compete with Volkswagen for the consumer market. But as I just said, ordinary people may not be able to fight against him after various marketing of Volkswagen's single brand. Ten or fifteen years later, even if our economic level is not as good as Japan, at least the rich people who have grown up will multiply the market of Volkswagen Group more than several times.
Sorry, I'll go to the bathroom." After Lin Ping finished speaking, he got up and buttoned the suit, and ignored everyone's expressions and walked out of the banquet hall.
After listening to this long analysis, Smith's forehead actually felt sweat.
The members of the group accompanied him were also concentrating on thinking and savoring Professor Lin’s analysis just now.
"Professor Lin is right. The most important thing is how we see whether this country will take the market-oriented path. If we determine this, we can invest. It doesn't matter if the market is small now, we can cultivate it slowly. Even if farmers farm, they must have time and space to wait for growth, so that they can finally get harvest and harvest. If we give up now and let the public occupy this market, it may be extremely unfavorable for us in the future. Even if we want to curb the growth of competitors, it is necessary to invest here. If the public grows too fast here, they may have enough funds and then go to North America to make trouble. This is not a good thing for our group." A white-haired old man in the tour group said silently after thinking about it. His voice was not loud, but everyone could hear it clearly. Many people even nodded silently in agreement.
"The wages of workers in this country are very cheap, and now there is no modern automobile industry. If we negotiate, we should be able to get very generous conditions." People said in front of him without any hesitation, Minister He and his translator were also instructed.
Obviously, Lin Ping's words just now really stimulated these people.
In the past, they thought too much, and almost always looked at the problem from the perspective of return on investment. Especially for investment this year, they would like to have a return next year.
However, this theory is feasible in the environment of a completely market economy. You can even use digital models to calculate the data results of how much you invest today and how much you will earn next year.
But this place has just opened and everything is still in its infancy. You cannot use the above thinking method to view this investment. If this country is really determined to be market-oriented, now this critical moment is really the golden point of investment.
"We invest 200 million yuan, and even if we lose money, the group will not have too bad financial statements. But once we win the bet, the rewards we will give us in the future will be far more than dozens of times." Some people think this is like driving a big or small game. For General Motors, even if it spends 200 million yuan to play, it will not be that kind of trauma. But once it is done, it is equivalent to spending a little money to develop a huge gold mountain. After all, this country has a population of 1 billion, and as long as it insists on marketization, ordinary consumers will become rich little by little. It should not be a big problem to sell hundreds of thousands of cars every year.
Minister He could hardly hold the wine glass in his hand at this time.
This time, General Motors did not seem to have so many people, but the other party had no plans to negotiate. He even showed great resistance, and he didn't even want the translation guide sent by the Ministry of Commerce and diplomacy. If the First Machinery Department had contacted them for two years, I'm afraid they wouldn't have given face if they wanted to visit the capital with a group.
But who would have thought that after a university professor analyzed it, the group of people seemed to want to sign a contract immediately.
However, what surprised Minister He even more was that the Ministry of Machinery also knew that Volkswagen's sales in North America have not been very good in the past two years, but he never expected that it would degenerate so seriously. How could Japan's automobile companies become so powerful that they drove Volkswagen out?
"Deputy Minister He, I will introduce myself to you. I am David, Vice President of General Motors. I am sorry that I have concealed my identity from you before. Now I have officially issued a negotiation request to the First Machine Department you represent in the name of General Motors. I hope that both of us will enter the office mode immediately and negotiate related negotiations on how to jointly invest tomorrow." The white-haired old man David revealed his identity as the vice president of his group.
"Ah...Hello Mr. David!" After hearing the translator's words, Deputy Minister He Yong was shocked.
There was actually a big fish hidden, and what was even more surprised was that the other party had to talk seriously.
"I hope we reach a consensus soon." He Yong was very satisfied with this unexpected joy.
However, just as the two sides shook hands, Lin Ping walked back.
Chapter completed!