Chapter 242 He is indeed a talented student at Harvard
This time at the Spring Fair, the Maolin Provincial Pavilion set a precedent. In addition to receiving a batch of foreign trade orders, it also received a foreign businessman.
Yes, on the train from Yangcheng back to Ruizhang, there was a foreigner with a tall nose and blue eyes in the Maolin Provincial Exhibition Team. He also claimed that his Chinese name was "Curious Baby" when he saw anyone.
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Kerry and Mike's work efficiency was high enough. It only took one day to investigate all the information about Gao Fan and Canghua Technology and Trade. This was not because they had any high-end database, but because ordinary people
When they go to the relevant departments to find out about the situation, the relevant departments will try their best to find out for them. They really care about the urgent needs of foreign businessmen, think about what foreign businessmen want, and even think of things that foreign businessmen have not thought of.
After learning about Gao Fan's various outstanding performances, Bob further strengthened his opinion that Gao Fan is definitely a special person with a rare commodity. The Hatch Group wants to take the lead in China, the most promising emerging market in the world.
, establishing a cooperative relationship with Gao Fan is undoubtedly an excellent entry point.
With this idea in mind, Bob came to the Maolin Province booth to negotiate with Zhu Nian. He claimed that on behalf of the American Hatch Group, he was prepared to invest US$1.5 million to establish a company specializing in the production of vitamin products in cooperation with Canghua Technology and Trade Company.
enterprise, and owns 10% of the shares of this enterprise.
At first hearing Bob's words, Zhu Nian almost suspected that Bob was an international liar. Fortunately, he was not a time traveler. In China in 1983, there was no concept of international liar. In everyone's mind, foreigners must be gentle.
How can a virtuous and honest person be a liar?
Zhu Nian turned his questions to the translator. He felt that the translator must have misunderstood the meaning, otherwise how could such a strange thing happen.
Zhu Nian is very clear that the vitamin company Gao Fan mentioned does not currently exist. Hatch Group invested US$1.5 million and only wanted to obtain 10% of the equity. This is unreasonable in any case.
When Gao Fan came out to testify, saying that Mr. Hatch did indeed have such intention, which had been negotiated between them, Zhu Nian turned to pull Gao Fan aside, using a serious yet kind attitude.
Ask him if he said anything inappropriate to foreign businessmen, such as slightly exaggerating the situation of his own company.
Zhu Nian's mood is very contradictory. On the one hand, he is worried that foreign businessmen have been deceived by Gao Fan. If there is any international dispute, the responsibility will eventually fall on him as the leader. On the other hand, he is worried
It is true to worry about the cooperative attitude of foreign businessmen. They really take a fancy to the development potential of Canghua Technology and Trade.
If the foreign businessman's investment intention was genuine and he had not been deceived by Gao Fan, it would be inappropriate for him, as the deputy director of the Department of Foreign Trade and the leader of the Spring Fair exhibition group, to accuse Gao Fan in this way.
You know, once the Hutch Group's investment in Canghua Science and Trade is implemented, Gao Fan's status in the province will jump to a higher level. Even though he is a deputy director, he and Gao Fan have formed a bond because of such a thing.
Dissatisfaction is also very passive.
Gao Fan did not answer this question himself, but kicked the ball to Bob. Bob had communicated with Gao Fan several times before, and the two sides had a tacit understanding. After hearing Zhu Nian's question, Bob talked about it.
As for the discussion, it ranges from Ricardo to Rockefeller, from Sino-US friendship to the global village.
The interpreter of the exhibition group was so tired that he was sweating profusely, and could not translate half of Bob's happy speech. Zhu Nian was even more dizzy, but he confirmed one thing, that is, Bob's head had not been kicked by a donkey.
, he sincerely wants to invest in Canghua Technology and Trade.
"Mr. Hatch, you are really a good friend of the Chinese people!"
Zhu Nian finally held Bob's hand like this and said excitedly.
"Now I believe that you are indeed a talented student at Harvard."
While Zhu Nian was leaving, Gao Fan joked to Bob.
"Dear Gao, isn't the talent I showed you before not enough to prove my identity?" Bob asked dissatisfiedly.
Gao Fan shrugged: "No, you seemed too responsible before. This is not the style of Harvard Business School at all. Your performance just now is in line with your business nature."
"What kind of nature should a businessman have?"
"There is no business without treachery," Gao Fan said in Chinese.
"Traitors are not businessmen..." Bob imitated Gao Fan's Chinese pronunciation, and then asked in English: "What does this mean?"
Gao Fan then explained it in English and told the meaning of each word. Bob nodded desperately: "Yeah, I remember it. This is the fifteenth Chinese idiom I have learned from you.
, goose sells cakes, Chinese is so charming, this idiom is really accurate."
As early as the second meeting with Gao Fan, Bob revealed his identity and said that he was actually a student at Harvard Business School. Gao Fan didn't believe it at first, thinking that this cute and cute American college student in front of him was...
There is no way the boy is a Harvard student.
However, Bob quickly proved to Gao Fan his IQ and his super learning ability. In just a few days of interacting with Gao Fan, he had already learned hundreds of daily Chinese expressions, and even learned
There are more than a dozen idioms that can be used appropriately every time.
After the Spring Fair, the provincial pavilions went back home. Bob sent his two entourages back to the United States. He came to the Maolin Provincial Pavilion alone and asked to ride with them to Maolin. The name was of course to inspect Canghua Science and Technology Trade.
production conditions. While Zhu Nian expressed his welcome, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed.
In the past two years, the country has become more open, and foreign guests can move more freely in the country. They do not need to go through layers of approvals like in the past, and they need someone to accompany them wherever they go.
Bob wanted to return to Maolin with the Maolin Provincial Exhibition Group. Zhu Nian did not have to worry about policy restrictions. What made him feel embarrassed was that Bob resolutely refused Zhu Nian’s suggestion to book a soft sleeper ticket for him and proposed
Just sit on the hard seat with Gao Fan and others.
In this era, train seats are based on class. Zhu Nian is the deputy director and can buy hard sleeper tickets. But people like Gao Fan and Wang Yongxiang can only sit on hard seats.
Bob is a foreign guest, and he can enjoy the soft sleeper treatment with his passport, but he claimed that he wanted to get to know China better, so he was unwilling to sit in the soft sleeper, but wanted to sit in the hard seat with Gao Fan and others.
Zhu Nian tried hard to persuade him for a long time, and even planned to persuade Gao Fan to join him, but Bob was very firm and Gao Fan did not cooperate. It was not a big deal for foreign guests to want to sit on hard seats. Foreign guests are also human beings, and they can do it if they are human beings.
Sit on a hard seat.
In the end, Zhu Nian had no choice but to give in and watched Bob happily enter the hard-seat carriage, chatting and laughing with the onlookers in unskilled Chinese.