In China's tourism industry in 1998, there was the concept of inducing tourists to do shopping, but there was absolutely no concept of "shopping tours".
In the early years, it was definitely a consensus that you had to buy things when going abroad. However, this consensus was established before 1994, under the background of foreign exchange controls.
At that time, people who wanted to go abroad wanted to exchange U.S. dollars privately, but they couldn't do it. Because before 1994, the foreign exchange rate of RMB was a dual-track system. The official exchange rate was very strong, and the black market exchange rate was very low. If you exchanged the official exchange rate, you could earn almost nothing.
It is a foreign affairs privilege.
Therefore, as long as they get U.S. dollars, people who go abroad will use the weight of their air tickets and carry-on luggage, bring as much instant noodles as possible, and use every cent that the country allows you to exchange for official exchange to purchase high-end imported products in foreign countries.
It also saves tariffs and the exploitation of the dual-track exchange rate system.
From January 1, 1994 to January 1, 1995, after a one-year transition period, China's private foreign exchange exchanges were finally liberalized. Although there are still limits, as long as you can get it from foreign embassies and consulates
For visas, regardless of whether you are going abroad for business or private purposes, the country must give you fair foreign exchange qualifications.
After the purchasing desire of a handful of wealthy people was unleashed, foreign travel agencies soon discovered that after all, only a handful of Chinese people with enough money could afford to buy, and the rest were basically sightseeing at public expense.
Historically, in the early "Li-Mattai" craze that started in 1998, people went there just for food, drink and fun, not for shopping. These countries were not developed enough. At most, Lijiapo Station bought a little, and the treatment was similar to that in Xiangjiang.
Chinese people spend a lot of money on travel and shopping. Basically, in the early 21st century, after joining the WTO and various customs requirements for carrying goods were further relaxed, it started to be released from tourist groups to Japan.
Since then, Xiangjiang and Japan have become the two main outlets for Chinese people to spend money abroad. Li Jiapo barely got a little bit of the light. As for Nanbang, it will have to work hard for a few more years. Basically, it started to benefit from shopping tours after 2006/07.
In those days, there were no professional purchasing agents. Until 2010, the main people who brought goods were a group of fishermen from the Special Economic Zone and Zhu City. They took advantage of the several customs clearance opportunities given by the government every day, and each person brought n mobile phones/laptops/
Electronic products such as MP3 players are brought in for legal personal use, and the government generally acquiesces.
The conditions for the authorities to give these fishermen preferential clearance times are that they must cooperate with fishing moratoriums and fishing bans and keep their fishing boats idle every year. (When I went to Xiangjiang and Ao County 15 years ago, I met many such fishermen when I passed the customs.
Later, after a few years, I went there less often, and then the professional purchasing network began to develop.)
In a word, at this moment, what is in front of Gu Kun is still a very blue ocean blank market. There is still a great opportunity to seize the opportunity at any cost and seize the national mental positioning.
It was only 1998, why are Hong Kong and Japan a shopping paradise?
Lanfang also has the opportunity to seize the recognition that "things are expensive, but buying luxury goods there is very cost-effective. If you buy them, you will make money. The more you buy, the more you will make."
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After all, He Lan and Mr. Yang of Huahai Oil couldn't understand Gu Kun's pattern.
But their professionalism allows them to remain loyal and cooperate with Gu Kun well even when they cannot understand their customers.
So just a few days later, Huahai Oil informed Gu Kun privately of the planned fraud plan. Gu Kun read it and thought it was feasible, so he asked the geological experts to "reverse the conditions from the conclusion" and add some techniques.
Data details.
All in all, it is enough to ensure that the nominal per capita crude oil reserves of the Netherlands in the next few years far exceed those of Bahrain, Kata and Kuwait.
While this big thing was being done, Gu Kun couldn't be idle in Hujiang, so he took some time to recuperate and go back to his alma mater to see and play with the school girls. (He is not that kind of person. The school girls mentioned here refer specifically to this year's school girls.
Lin Ying, who has just become a senior, and expresses condolences to those international students from Blackland who are also going to be seniors this year.)
While looking for other design institutes and research institutes, he had been sketching in his mind the idea of a project to show off the wealth of the wealthy country, and found a capable unit to help him design it first.
It's a bit early to start construction now, because he doesn't have much cash on hand. The tens of billions of dollars of funds in the stock market are only planned to be withdrawn by the middle of next year, and Internet stocks will be delayed until the end of next year.
Therefore, if he really wanted to build some world-famous landmarks that attracted global attention, Gu Kun would not be able to afford it for the time being and would not be able to make enough money.
Fortunately, for such a particularly important project, it is normal for the design and survey to take a year or two. Gu Kun can pay real money for the design fee in advance.
To give the simplest example, the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building in Dubai, cost US$1.5 billion and is 828 meters tall. Gu Kun is currently constructing several years ahead of schedule, and the technology is immature. To achieve the same target, it may cost
It will also be a bit more expensive.
If Gu Kun wants to come up with that much money immediately, the full amount, he may have to wait for another month to sell the stock, or postpone the complete repayment of the loan. However, the design fee generally does not exceed one-eighth to one-twelfth of the project cost (
Depending on the size of the design office, the floating range of the asking price is relatively large)
Therefore, it was very easy for Gu Kun to pay a design fee of US$100 million in advance.
In addition to grabbing the Burj Khalifa, the Burj Al Arab Hotel, the Galloping Palm Island, there are many projects that Gu Kun can grab.
Historically, this kind of super project must be done by the top design institute in Oceania, but now that Gu Kun has an idea in mind, it is also feasible to look for Tongji Architectural Design Institute to get it done.
When he was at the Jiaotong University Institute of Design, he was very familiar with the people at Tongji. The Tongji department was considered the second strongest university in China from architectural design to civil engineering, and no one was afraid of it except Tsinghua University.
The final construction plans for the tallest and the other three high-rise buildings in Hujiang in later generations were all worked out by the Tongji Department. They were also high-rise buildings of more than 600 meters or at least more than 500 meters. Difficulties such as shape and wind resistance were also very difficult. Tongji people
They can also be chewed off, so Gu Kun can trust their strength.
In the late 1990s, Oceania and Japan were indeed much more developed than China, but the degree of leadership in each segment was different.
There is no need for the Chinese to feel inferior to themselves when it comes to the issue of infrastructure madness, nor do they need to think that hiring a design institute from their own country is too embarrassing and not luxurious enough. Many projects do not perform well because of budget issues.
If you are willing to spend as much money as you would with the Oceania Design Institute and don't care about the construction budget, the civil engineering madmen from Tongji Research Institute can also sort it out for you.
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Friday, October 23rd.
Gu Kun asked the driver to drive his old Lincoln with extended license plates and visit his alma mater and the Chinese Normal University and Shanghai Foreign Language School not far from his alma mater.
Lin Ying and the others were alerted in advance and knew that Gu Kun was coming, so they looked forward to it very much.
The car drove slowly and quietly through the campus, with no intention of speeding or arrogantly. Unfortunately, the girls in these schools have already memorized this sign, which is more eye-catching than fireflies in the night.
"It's really hateful. You know how to play with foreign girls and often harm new girls." Many girls who consider themselves beautiful have no envy or admiration, but only a hint of subconscious saliva flashes in their eyes, and then they turn into jealousy again.
Gu Kun's casualness and bad manners when it comes to women have been known among the high-end female college students in Hujiang for several years. However, his reputation for respecting Chinese people and only harming and enslaving foreign girls is as well-known as his lustfulness.
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Who made him a top world star two years ago, the person who broke the most world records? His appeal among young people is not just based on wealth. It is only in the past year and a half that in order to cooperate with international financial hot money
After the struggle, everyone has slightly forgotten some other aspects of Gu Kun's character.
The car stopped downstairs in Lin Ying's dormitory, and Lin Ying immediately came over with a few carefully selected beauties.
"Husband, I miss you so much. I'm already a senior, take me back to Lanfang for internship. Oh, and also, I brought all the people you asked Sister Midlova to inform me to bring. You won't be
Today I want to..."
Gu Kun folded his hands and placed them on his crossed knees, tapping gently and yet evilly: "Not today, but in the future, you have to learn to adapt to my new personality - from now on, I will
The public image of a person is that of an oil tycoon who throws money at the heads of foreign girls in the top private rooms of bars, nightclubs, and KTVs, letting them shower them with money.
Today is just a warm-up, bringing a few girls across the market to negotiate with people from the design institute - I believe that if I put on the same posture as people from wealthy countries in the Middle East, they will better understand my needs."
Lin Ying's few small thoughts disappeared, and she suddenly smiled heartlessly and wholeheartedly: "That's good, it's nothing. You guys, why don't you get in the car quickly."
The executive version of Lincoln is very spacious. Although there are many rows of seats, we still choose to seat four people in one row, leaving the other two rows free.
Lin Ying sat on the right side of Gu Kun, so that it would be convenient to get out of the car when the time came. Saranova and Anastasia, the most outstandingly beautiful girls she had found, sat on the left side of Gu Kun.
When Gu Kun hugged her, he could feel Saranova trembling slightly, but he quickly controlled it with a few deep breaths.
Gu Kun felt it and criticized: "You guys are so shabby in your clothes? Forget it, I'll change my clothes and jewelry when I get there soon. Don't embarrass me. Recently, several luxury giants have moved to Xiangjiang, and I have many friends there.
I bought a lot of jewelry at the judicial auction, but I didn’t have any place to use it. I just picked it out, and it’s considered work clothes. You pick first, and the rest will be given to them. Lin Ying, you have to check it."
It turned out that Gu Kun came in more than one car, and there were other cars behind him, picking up another group of senior Mao Niuer, who were also going to have a drink with people from the Design Institute tonight.
Gu Kun only picked out the most beautiful ones to accompany him, and the others of course went to have a drink with the supplier casually, but it was just a drink. And these foreign students with more peripheral hairy girls certainly did not deserve the top-notch jewelry distributed by Gu Kun.
He has a social work job, so he asks Lin Ying to help him check things out. No matter how much money he has, he can't give random hair to those female international students who pass by.
These suppliers are not worthy of Gu Kun sending women, and drinking with them is just to let them understand Gu Kun's needs and style.
I want to design it in a style that is more tyrannical than the richest tycoon in a wealthy family!
If you are not number one in the world, there is no meaning.
In the evening, at the Gu family's river view villa near the Oriental Pearl Tower, the leaders of Jiaotong University and Tongji Construction University arrived. Just taking one look at Gu Kun's pomp, they felt quite shocked. They didn't know what Gu Kun was going to do.
Big news.
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ps: It’s already 3,000 words long, so I can just say a few words and answer questions for free.
Because the chapters of the past few days involved legal principles, many people privately chased me and asked me if they had watched the lectures of some Internet celebrities and plagiarized their ideas and then sold them. I had never heard of that name, so I searched it on Baidu.
Know who it is.
I just want to say, please have some common sense. I am in my 30s, and I studied the Fa at least ten years ago. When people of my generation were studying, even if they attended lectures, they would still listen to Han Youyi’s generation.
The teacher you are talking about now, the era when he taught and the era when I studied were not of the same generation.
Of course, I am definitely not judging anyone’s lectures as good or bad, because I have said that I have not listened to them, so I will certainly not evaluate them.
As for why some people think that the styles of legal analysis are similar, I can only say that the law is stable, especially the analysis at the jurisprudence level. Many of them are truths that have not changed for decades. This is what it should be.
The conclusions and analysis process given by different teachers are the same. Is it strange?
It would be strange if different teachers taught different laws.
Therefore, in the field of jurisprudence, the level of a teacher is only reflected in whether it is interesting, easy to understand, what the threshold is, and whether it can be understood by audiences who are less professional and have poor foundation. If the students themselves are of good quality, they will not choose the teacher.
Maybe today's post-00s students have more serious dyslexia than before, and they need to be more funny to make them concentrate. When we are born in the 80s, our willpower when studying should be stronger than today's students. We can concentrate without the teacher being funny.
People at Khan Academy have discovered this a long time ago, and it should be attributed to the fragmentation of attention brought about by the mobile Internet.