There is a joke asking: What do poor families lack?
Answer: Just two things are missing.
Those two?
This is also lacking, and that is also lacking!
When Qin Hao stood on the top floor of the Imperial Hotel and looked down, he could clearly feel that this country was really in need of "this and that".
But while Europe and the United States have already lived a life of great abundance of materials, the ancient Eastern countries are still suffering from poverty of materials. Whether it is industry or agriculture, the technological level is far behind the world.
In this case, importing advanced technology and equipment from abroad became the only option. It also supported a large number of trading agents doing import and export business.
These days, there are agents who can make high-tech products, and life is very good. The Imperial Hotel where Qin Hao lives is adjacent to the Forbidden City, a five-minute walk to Tiananmen Square, and just a stone's throw away from Wangfujing.
This is the most prosperous area in the capital. But Qin Hao still felt a little ridiculed in his heart when he saw the 'yellow bread' running back and forth on the street.
In the 1990s, developed countries such as Europe, the United States, and Japan had already completed the second industrial revolution based on electrification and were preparing to welcome the third wave of information revolution.
However, China has not even completed electrification. Many domestic companies want to touch the edge of informatization, but they have major shortcomings in equipment and manpower.
This flaw is a business opportunity for Qin Hao. As a Chinese-American with yellow skin and a white heart, it doesn't matter if he doesn't speak Chinese fluently. He can make money by just being a comprador.
The country is eager for advanced products from Europe and the United States, especially in electronic technology. The gap is so large that imports are necessary.
Qin Hao can afford to live in the Imperial Hotel, go shopping in Wangfujing, and get several months of paid vacation every year, all by importing a large number of foreign devices into the country.
The huge profits were too hard to let go, so Qin Hao was willing to stay in a country he didn't like and deal with people he didn't like. Just because those who paid would regard him as a compatriot.
Damn it, rich people are compatriots.
Standing in front of the window of the high-rise guest room, you can see many people wandering outside the Imperial Hotel. Qin Hao looked down at them like ants in his spare time, which he found quite interesting.
Those guys looking around and cowering outside the hotel are second-rate dealers. They look for opportunities to get close to foreigners in the hotel and try to get some foreign exchange coupons.
Now that the exchange rate of soft currency is falling, many people are eager to find ways to exchange for foreign currency. They often curse everything in a harsh, disgusting and hateful tone, but in the blink of an eye they can humble themselves and please any Western face.
"Poor man."
Qin Hao raised his arm and glanced at the time. He was surprised why the phone in the guest room hadn't rang today. Half an hour ago, the front desk on the first floor of the hotel should have called to inform him that a visitor was coming. Do you want to accept it?
Qin Hao has contacts with several import and export companies with the prefix "中", and each one is eager to get better sources of goods from him. What he wants to do is to sell some bad goods at as high a price as possible.
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Of course, both sides need to show their face.
The import and export company will thank Qin Hao for his work and even invite him to attend certain celebrations or meetings. His presence will often make the inviting party feel honored and receive more benefits.
But today, the 'Electronic Import and Export Company' with the prefix '中' lost face. Their representative did not show up at the appointed time. Qin Hao was already angry and decided to teach the other party a lesson no matter what.
Raise price, reduce quantity, downgrade.
Qin Hao has many ways to deal with those bureaucrats. He knows very well what the bureaucrats are afraid of. Just one sentence to make the other party unable to communicate is enough to trigger a turmoil that shakes the world.
We made an appointment at ten o'clock, but no one was seen.
At eleven o'clock, the phone still didn't ring, not even a perfunctory apology.
At twelve o'clock, Qin Hao decided to go to the hotel's Western restaurant for lunch. He brought his mobile phone with him, but made up his mind not to answer anyone's call.
But until lunch ended at two o'clock in the afternoon, the steak in front of Qin Hao was completely cold, and he even drank a lot of coffee. But no one called him.
"Damn it, aren't those bureaucrats running around the import and export like this? I agreed to the meeting, and they should all be grateful. Did they get into a car accident on the way here?"
Qin Hao almost thought that his mobile phone was broken. But he dialed a number to the hotel front desk to confirm that the phone was working, but no one was looking for him.
Do you want Qin Hao to call him himself?
No, this is not possible.
Qin Haoke is the commercial representative of ADI (Analog Devices) in the United States. As a semiconductor company founded in 1965, ADI has a world-class leading position in the field of analog-to-digital conversion components.
This company located in Massachusetts, USA is almost synonymous with 'top' in the industry. Its customers include all semiconductor manufacturers. Because as long as in the field of electronic technology, ADI's products are indispensable.
In this regard, the current domestic technology and products are simply not worth mentioning.
Qin Hao is not only the business representative of ADI, he also represents many products of Texas Instruments. This is also a semiconductor manufacturer that has a dominant position in the industry.
To what extent has Deyi become the dominant company? Few companies of its contemporaries are still alive.
In the eyes of Americans, China now is like the third brother in the eyes of Chinese thirty years later. It is backward, ignorant, and somewhat mysterious.
Ordinary Americans were unwilling to work in China, so banana men like Qin Hao were sent here. Qin Hao also kept complaining to the headquarters about the backwardness of the imperial capital, even though he lived like an emperor here.
So Qin Hao decided to keep his composure and never call the fat sheep he wanted to slaughter easily. This momentum must not be weakened.
But there was still no call in the afternoon, which was so disappointing.
It was like yesterday there was a bustling crowd, but the next day there was no one around. Qin Hao realized something was not right, so he started calling the friends he could contact, trying to make inquiries around the world.
The call was first made to the trading agents of other foreign semiconductor companies in the Imperial Capital. Some were surprised, some asked, and some thought it was normal.
Could it be that he didn't keep his composure and was too suspicious?
Qin Hao stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the guest room and paced back and forth, as time slowly moved toward night. He stayed in the room all day, and did not go to the gym, the swimming pool, or the bar street in Sanlitun to look for women.
There was an ominous premonition hanging over my heart.
There are some rumors among the trade agents who live in the imperial capital - whenever the domestic import and export bureaucrats who usually welcome goods and services no longer contact you enthusiastically, it often means that they have achieved some technological breakthrough.
Whenever these breakthroughs are confirmed, it means that foreign manufacturers will lose some profits.
However, the current domestic technical level is generally lagging behind, especially the large gaps in basic fields, which means that a breakthrough at a certain point will not have much impact.
Moreover, the current development in foreign countries is advancing by leaps and bounds. If you fall behind, you will fall behind step by step, and you will never be able to catch up.
Qin Hao muttered to himself, "What I sell are analog-to-digital conversion chips that are necessary for the semiconductor industry, and they are also the most cutting-edge high-speed broadband type. There is no rival in the industry.
Even technological breakthroughs are not so fast! There must be some truth to scientific matters."
At night, the call finally came.
The voice that opened his mouth was anxious and urgent, and someone asked: "Anderson, how are your clients doing?"
‘Anderson’ is Qin Hao’s nickname, and he likes to be called that.
The caller was a German who mainly sold high-end machine tools to the country. Qin Hao and the other party met on the bar street, and together they swept through Sanlitun.
"What happened?" Qin Hao's heart pounded.
"It's over, all my orders are over. The Machinery Import and Export Company has returned all my tool orders. Even if I offered to reduce the price, they would not accept it.
You know? It's terrible, it's terrible. I've never seen those Chinese people so determined. They've never been like this before.
I asked all the friends I could contact, but no one could tell me the answer. I had no clue.
You know what? I love China, I love life in the imperial capital, and I love the girls here. But all of this requires orders."
The German guy spoke very hastily and fast, like a basin of cold water poured on Qin Hao's head, it was chilling. Suddenly, he also loved this country's...money even more.