Among the measures Gu Kun just mentioned to “improve the convenience for people from friendly Asian countries to travel to Lanzhou”, increasing flight coverage is only secondary. The main focus is to “simplify visas”.
If the question just now was asked by Mr. Yang from Huahai Oil on behalf of his friends from China Travel Service, then Gu Kun would not need to mention increasing flight density at all.
Even if there are old friends like Mr. Ye or He Lan from COSCO Group present, such a rush to mention the flight density will have the opposite effect - you pay so much attention to air travel, where can you place the vigorous development of cruise tourism projects?
Although increasing the flight density will be beneficial to other suppliers in China, such as the three major airlines. However, the interests of the airlines have nothing to do with COSCO. The interests of small groups always come first. Gu Kun made his fortune that year
In the beginning, I hugged COSCO's thigh, so I couldn't forget my roots in front of my brothers. I had to do some things secretly, only doing them but not talking about them.
Gu Kun's ability to talk to people and tell ghosts to ghosts has been perfected over the years.
Those conversations just now were all for the Japanese, and they were just looking at the food.
As expected, Mr. Yamazaki was also interested in increasing the density of flights, so he asked a lot about this detail first.
"Your flights are indeed too few. So far, only Tokyo has five flights per week, and Osaka only has two flights per week. This makes tourists from Kyushu and Western countries very resistant. I think you should at least fly again in Fukuoka or Hiroshima.
If we open a route and all the Kansai people go to Osaka, who can bear it?"
Yamazaki seemed to have resented this issue for a long time, and he would never stop complaining about it.
"We will deal with it as soon as possible. Isn't the first runway of Lanfang International Airport almost full now? The second runway will be put into commercial use in 2003 soon." Gu Kun responded with a few words.
"Then let's talk about the simplified visa discount. I'm looking forward to this - Gu Sang, you were so unreasonable before. When we came from Japan, we didn't even get a visa exemption or even a visa on arrival. Yes.
Are you afraid that we Japanese will have no money to spend?
I dare say that Japanese people who are willing to go abroad will be able to live a comfortable life with the money they spend in the price zone of Southeast Asia! Your tourist visa actually requires us to check whether our Japanese guests have a formal job and proof of income. Freelancers
It’s too much to ask for a deposit or proof of assets.”
Gu Kun argued with reason: "Aren't we making improvements? Moreover, we were absolutely equal before. Didn't you, the people from Lanfang, also require proof of assets before they can successfully sign the contract?
Moreover, our country in Lanzhou is too small, and it will take time to build infrastructure and increase tourism capacity. For a small country with a population of 70,000 nationalities, the current permanent labor force is close to 300,000, and it will need to receive millions of foreign tourists every year. If liberalization is
Without a complete visa on arrival, we simply cannot handle the influx of people. We must prioritize people first, first come, first served.
If this matter is unfair, it’s not your fault. I think it’s Mr. Yang and his friends who should be upset.”
As soon as Gu Kun changed the topic, he brought the topic to Mr. Yang of Huahai Oil and several senior executives of China Travel Service who accompanied him.
Gu Kun also told the truth and was not looking for a shield.
He explained seriously: "Has China treated us Lanfang with enough preferential treatment? In fact, they have given you enough preferential treatment. So far, China has only granted visa-free access to foreigners from three countries. The first is your country, and the second is Japan.
It is Lijiapo, the third is Brunei, the fourth is our Lanfang, there is no fifth.
But our country is small and cannot handle it without setting a threshold, so we dare not grant visa exemption to China in a reciprocal manner. Aren’t you the same people who took China’s visa exemption but did not grant China visa exemption?”
(Note: The visa exemption for Japan was canceled in later generations, but it was still visa-free for Japan until the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century)
Gu Kun's words were very sound in theory, so Yamazaki had nothing to say.
So Gu Kun took advantage of the opportunity of using his words to crowd out the other party and took advantage of the victory: "However, since we have mentioned this matter this time, we must have more flexible discounts. Before, we treated Chinese guests and even you Japanese
The customer's financial conditions are reviewed, which are 'having a legitimate job, or having fixed property rights', and an additional 'having a frozen deposit of RMB 50,000' or a 'frozen deposit of one million yen'.
Now, we are willing to relax the deposit requirements for the latter half on this basis. As long as there is a legitimate job or fixed assets that are unlikely to be abandoned, the money can be replaced with other flexible conditions."
Many readers born in the 1990s or 2000s may find the conditions mentioned by Gu Kun strange, but if you are born in the 1980s, or those who went abroad earlier and visited Japan as teenagers, they should be familiar with them.
Because the financial review of visas by the Japanese to China is becoming more and more relaxed as China becomes stronger year by year (the purpose is of course to attract tourists to spend money, relax the threshold, and boost the economy. This may not be a good intention, and the motivation is not
verified)
After 2010, the Chinese basically had a serious job and a house in their name, and they passed the financial review in Japan directly. This is also because the houses in Huaxia are valuable in later generations. The Japanese think that it is impossible for anyone to abandon the house in Huaxia in exchange for
An opportunity to sneak away to Japan and work illegally.
Before 2010, even if you had a house in China, the Japanese would still check if you had any deposits. Generally, you were required to freeze a deposit of at least 50,000 yuan, with a deposit period of more than half a year, and the unfreezing date was to enter Japan.
After entering the country, the purpose of this clause is obviously to ensure that the visitor has a shopping budget of 50,000 yuan to spend in Japan.
In other words, in fact, the Japanese in the early years did not welcome Chinese people. They only welcomed the small group of people who "can spend 50,000 yuan on Japanese territory" in order to earn your 50,000 yuan.
I just let you go.
Until now, Lanfang people still need to use a money card to meet the one-card threshold. Of course, Gu Kun's situation is different from that of the Japanese. He is very friendly to the Chinese. He himself is Chinese, but Lanfang is too small and his carrying capacity is indeed limited. He
If there is no threshold, this poor place in Lanfang will soon be flattened by the influx of people.
When the time comes, there will be huge crowds of people, and the tourist experience will not be good, right?
Today, Gu Kun has taken an important step to change this.
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After grasping the rhythm of the conversation, Gu Kun quickly glanced around at the surrounding guests and found that many foreign tycoons from the tourism industry had gathered around to pay attention to the conversation between him and Yamazaki.
Gu Kun also laid out the final detailed measures: "Starting from this year, we will include a "frozen time deposit of more than 50,000 yuan" in the item of 'frozen time deposits of more than 50,000 yuan' in the property review of people from any friendly Asian countries.
If you choose one of the two conditions in parallel, you can pass the visa if you meet any one of them.
This alternative condition is that you must be a real-name authenticated user of a new e-commerce payment tool, Alipay. Anyone who has saved money in this payment tool and provides e-commerce and online shopping payment support to other civilians can do so.
It is equivalent to having a real estate and a fixed fixed deposit of more than 50,000 yuan, and you can sign without additional financial review.
In addition, by extension, any person in charge who operates any financial institution and its branches in Asian countries, whether it is the branch president, sub-branch president, deputy, key business manager of any bank. Or the senior executive of any insurance company, credit card company
As for the person in charge of the commercial credit institution, we can omit the additional property review and allow fast entry or on-the-spot processing as long as other parties agree with the requirements.
Of course, we currently only plan to provide discounts for ‘Alipay’ users for two years. After all, this is a new business, while traditional financial institutions are mature products that have existed for many years.
For new things, we are confident in the vision of early users. We feel that these people will become masters in the future, so we are willing to provide them with conveniences. If real-name authentication users come again after 2003, we may tighten the rules in the future. For example, not only users
, you have to save money in it, or have a credit score or something.”
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was stunned.
Gu Kun's words were very skillful. He did not directly praise Alipay, which was promoted by Zhonglian Games boss Bao and Ahri's Ma Feng during a secret conversation with him half a year ago, because it would be too much to support a new payment tool in that way.
It's obvious.
However, while Gu Kun gave exclusive privileges to early users of Alipay, he also gave preferential treatment to all financial institution executives, making it less conspicuous.
In other words, those who have American Express Centurion Black Gold Credit Card are actually exempt from visa requirements around the world. If you want to go to any country, the people from American Express Credit Card Company will help you get it done.
Gu Kun’s review-free offer for early Alipay users is equivalent to having an American Express card—not a black gold card, but a lower-level American Express card.
There's nothing wrong with that.
As for Gu Kun's suggestion of setting a time limit, that's no problem.
Just like in history, those who opened a Taobao store in 2003 and persisted in it, who in future generations would not be worth at least several hundred million? Those who opened a Taobao store before 2005, as long as they don't be stupid, could have earned tens of millions.
Users who used QQ before 2001 only had six-digit good accounts. Those who came n years later and are not early users, how can they enjoy the same distinguished treatment as early users with as good vision as "venture investors"?
Even reading a book online is much easier with a high-v account obtained in 2004, and the treatment is good, which is the same everywhere.
Early users of any Internet product should enjoy more dignity than those who wait and see. This is natural. Even a reader of the Internet article named "Malaysian Zha Zhahui" can feel that because he is for someone named
The early works of xx street writers were the first to reward a helmsman, so when a certain guy wrote a novel with a Nanyang theme, he had to give preferential treatment to the Malays even if he ignored the country.
After others become popular, you can reward even a silver alliance. Although it is more valuable and very touching, it is different from the nature of early venture capital. Of course, the writer will also add more to his words.
Thirty updates, this is unambiguous, and the respect the first Silver Alliance received will definitely be more noble than the Silver Alliance that will appear in the future when it becomes more popular.
Just like the $500,000 that Peter Thiel gave to Zuckerberg can turn into billions of dollars, subsequent investors who spend $50 million may not necessarily be able to exchange for more shares than Peter Beale exchanged for $500,000. But they will definitely
More dignified than the loose dogs after the IPO.
Zigong asked about the government. Confucius said: "If you have enough food and soldiers, the people will trust you." Zigong said: "We must go as a last resort. Which of the three should go first?" He said: "Go to the army." Zigong said: "
You must leave as a last resort. Which of the two comes first?" He said, "Go and eat. Death has always existed since ancient times, and people cannot stand without faith."
Gu Kun will reward those who come early. Even if the other person is just a small Internet cafe owner and has never seen much of the world, as long as he opens Alipay before the end of 2002, pre-remits money in the account, and offers to help others.
To buy the game point card service, Gu Kun would allow him to travel to Lanzhou without a visa, treating him as a noble being like an American Express credit card user.
Giving dividends and dignity to early users and early investors is an important part of the modern credit system.
Mr. Yamazaki was still confused: "I'm sorry, I don't understand. Mainly because I haven't heard of the Alipay you just mentioned. What is that?"
Gu Kun: "It is an e-commerce prepayment tool led by our Lanfang Bank, funded by Lanfang Bank, and set up branches and subsidiaries in various countries. It is a new thing that was just born this summer.
Of course, currently we only have offline partners in Lanfang and China, but in the future we will develop to other countries. Any country can join. If they want to build their own online electronic credit payment system, we will also
Recognize and treat all without distinction.”
Gu Kun's words were impeccable, and there was no trace of bias or preferential treatment at all.