There were only meal tickets but no lunch boxes, and there was no food in the cafeteria, so we had to eat outside, naturally for three people.
While eating, Lin Xiaoguang smiled and joked: "Old Chen, Lao Gu, you two are now living in Hong Kong and Macao and the other in the UK, but you are thousands of miles apart."
Gu Min was assigned to the British and Irish Affairs Division of the European Department, mainly responsible for matters related to the United Kingdom and Ireland, but there were only a handful of the latter.
After hearing this, Gu Min pursed her lips and smiled, a little shy.
Chen Yiming rolled his eyes at Lin Xiaoguang and was slightly unhappy: "I don't understand, why are you learning Cantonese from me? Otherwise, you would also go to the English-speaking countries department. I regret it now. If I were not from Dongguang and couldn't speak Cantonese, I should have Can we also go to the European Division?”
"Not necessarily. You might go to the Americas Division, which is separated by the Atlantic Ocean from Europe. If you go to Asia, Australia and New Zealand, the distance is even further."
Chen Yiming suddenly felt that his whole life was dark.
"Don't be poor, you two, let's eat." Gu Min couldn't help but laugh out loud, and immersed herself in eating again.
In the afternoon, Sister Bai took Lin Xiaoguang to see the dormitory.
He didn't believe that there were people in the entire ministry who were in their forties and fifties. Sister Bai was taking them one by one to see them. If they were in their forties or fifties, she would still go crazy. He always felt that this woman looked at him in a strange way.
The two rode bicycles all the way there and arrived at the dormitory.
There are undoubtedly many dormitories in the Ministry of Foreign Trade, not just the one in the courtyard at No. 35 Maoer Hutong. They are going to another place now, but it is also a courtyard. He is a full-time student, and his accommodation is no different from others. At most The place is a little more spacious.
I looked at the house, but since I didn’t plan to live here, I didn’t care whether it was good or not.
As for why you didn't reject it from the beginning, saying that he has a house, this is of course a human thing. Otherwise, many divisions in the ministries and commissions do not have houses and can only live in dormitories. You, a newcomer, have a house, even if you bought it yourself, how can you let others do it? think?
He still had to keep a low profile, so he accepted the dormitory arrangement.
Before leaving, during chatting and joking on the road, Section Chief Bai finally brought the topic to one point.
"Chief Lin, do you know Director Lu?"
"I know him, my classmate's brother-in-law." Lin Xiaobald replied without raising his head.
"What classmate are you? Are we very close?"
Lin Xiaoguang thought that Meng Lanting was getting engaged, so he smiled and said: "Female classmate, we have a good relationship. I am very familiar with her parents and her brother. I also know Director Lu's family. His lover is my classmate's sister. It’s also very good to me.”
Section Chief Bai completely misunderstood this time, and his smile became even wider: "So that's it."
After coming back, I started training.
Learning is undoubtedly a very painful thing. The forty or fifty people they have just assigned to work are like forming a new class and starting to study and train again, but this time it is undoubtedly much stricter than before in school.
In school, if you make a mistake, the teacher will forgive you because you just came to learn it because you don't know how to do it.
But it is different here. If you do something wrong, you will be embarrassed and embarrassed. Even if the seniors in training do not criticize you, you will feel ashamed.
Here, mistakes are not allowed. Ministries are both big and small, and the slightest thing can spread throughout the building.
Fortunately, these people, No. 40 or 50, are all elites in foreign language majors in various schools. Their academic performance is not bad, and their performance in other places is also good. They barely meet the employment standards of the ministries and commissions.
After a week of training, Lin Xiaoguang took office as his deputy section chief.
That's right, although their rank is full-time, their position is deputy section chief. After all, they are new here and are not familiar with all the work. If they start rashly and make mistakes, it will be troublesome. This is a national matter.
The Ministry of Foreign Trade, as its name suggests, is in charge of my country's foreign import and export trade.
The responsibilities of the Hong Kong and Macao Office of the Asia Department are very simple. All domestic import and export trade involving Hong Kong and Macao are under its control. There are currently no private enterprises, so there are only state-owned enterprises at the moment.
In addition, the foreign trade bureaus of various provinces and cities also need to receive business guidance.
The Hong Kong and Macao Department has several major departments, including the Macao-related Import and Export Department, the Hong Kong-related Import Department, the Hong Kong-related Export Department, the Liaison Department, the Political and Engineering Department, as well as the archives room, information room, inspection room, communications room and other departments.
Lin Xiaoguang is one of several deputy section chiefs of the Hong Kong-related Export Section. This section has quite a lot of authority. For example, one of the items is the issuance of Hong Kong-related export and transit trade licenses.
For future generations, you can make a lot of money just by selling documents and licenses.
But now, they are all central and state-owned enterprises, and the company does not belong to them. It has nothing to do with whether they sell more or less. Naturally, they will not pay bribes, and of course they will not make any money.
In terms of customs, even though he is the leader, he still has power. He can make a lot of money just from smuggling, such as Xia Haiyuanhua.
But that's not his intention.
On the first official day of work, after getting familiar with my job and colleagues in the department, I started looking up information and writing while busy with the work at hand.
He currently has very little work on hand and is still in the familiarization period. The other deputy section chiefs may feel that he is new here and cannot make him work too hard, so they are very considerate of him and give him relatively little work to do.
To put it nicely, it is a good thing to get familiar with it first.
So he writes.
He checked a lot of information, including import and export trade data since the founding of the People's Republic of China 30 years ago, bilateral trade data reached since the establishment of the Canton Fair more than 20 years ago, and foreign trade data of national central enterprises, state-owned enterprises, local enterprises in various provinces and cities compiled by the foreign trade bureaus of various provinces and cities.
, very complicated.
Among them, trade involving Hong Kong and Macao is classified separately.
For example, in 1978, the country entered Supermarket, with imports of RMB 18.7 billion, exports of RMB 16.7 billion, and a deficit of nearly RMB 2 billion. This year's data has not yet been released, but in the first half of the year alone, imports were RMB 12.1 billion, exports were RMB 10.5 billion, and the deficit was also RMB 1.5 billion.
etc.
He had written a lot before, but because he couldn't find the data, he couldn't write more convincingly. Now that he has the data, his copywriting is soaring, and he can see that he is getting closer to the plan step by step.
After finishing writing that day, he checked it again and again. A few days later, he knocked on the door of Xu Zhidong's office.
"Please come in!"
"Sit down first and wait until I finish reading the documents." Xu Zhidong said without raising his head.
"Okay." Lin Xiaoguang sat on the sofa, sitting upright.
After a while, he became impatient and began to think about his plan. At this time, he became trance-like.
"What are you thinking about? If you have anything to say, tell me immediately."
"Director, this is a plan I wrote. Take a look." Lin Xiaoguang stood up quickly and handed over the document in his hand.
Xu Zhidong didn't even look at it. He put it aside and asked, "Tell me first, why did you write this?"
Lin Xiaoguang said bluntly: "Director, I have read a lot of information and found that the only problem our country is facing now that our Ministry of Foreign Trade is waiting to solve is foreign exchange. The country does not have enough foreign exchange."
"Everyone who works in this unit knows this. You don't need to say it. It's useful."
"Director, this is what I think. We should make good use of Hong Kong. The RMB is not an international currency, and neither is the Hong Kong dollar, but Hong Kong is special and it is easy to exchange foreign currencies." Lin Xiaoguang talked eloquently.
"Now there are many state-owned enterprises in China doing business with foreigners to earn foreign exchange. We don't have to dig in the same hole. We can go outside, to Hong Kong and Macao, like China Merchants Group and CITIC Trust, which was founded last year, to earn
Hong Kong dollars, even pounds and dollars, save the country and obtain foreign exchange."
Hearing this, Xu Zhidong smiled: "You mean, China Resources?"
Lin Xiaoguang saw this and nodded.
"Do you want to go to China Resources?"
"Yes, Director, I want to go to the grassroots level. I beg you to let me go to the grassroots level and go to Xiangjiang!"