Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1558 International Business Card
The plane taken by Western Digital's John Cohen and Vice President Carter finally landed at Shenzhen Airport. However, it was not Duan Yun who picked up the plane this time, but the SZ Municipal Government.

Tianyin Group has now become a signboard of the SZ municipal government. In the past two years, many American high-tech companies have applied to enter Shenzhen because they wanted to visit Tianyin Group. These foreign companies need to obtain the approval of the local government to visit China. , It is precisely because of this that the SZ city government must have learned of the news earlier than the Tianyin Group, so they can easily "cut off the Hu".

And this time it was Li Guangzhen, deputy mayor of SZ City, who came to receive the Western Digital company's visiting delegation.

Since the 80s, Li Guangzhen has successively served as the magistrate and senior county official of Baoan County, and since the beginning of last year, he has served as the deputy mayor of SZ City. , led the establishment of the earliest joint-stock company in the country, planned to issue the first stock in the country, and boldly promoted the Buji model that realized the corporateization of the enterprise-run market and market, creating a national precedent.

After becoming the vice mayor of Shenzhen, Li Guangzheng was mainly in charge of Shenzhen's economic development and foreign trade activities, and attracting investment was also a very important task for him. Because of this, the arrival of the Western Digital delegation to China attracted his great attention. And personally come to the airport to pick up the plane.

All along, the leadership team of the SZ municipal government has been more pragmatic. In their eyes, there are two lines of external work, one is to attract foreign investment, and the other is to introduce foreign advanced technology to drive the development of the entire high-tech industry in Shenzhen.

"Hello, Mr. Carter." After learning that the 1-meter-tall blond man walking in the front of the delegation was the vice president of Western Digital, Kahn, Li Guangzhen immediately stepped forward and extended his hand.

"Hello, Mr. Mayor." After learning from the interpreter that the somewhat thin old man in front of him was the deputy mayor of SZ City, Kahn felt a little surprised. He did not expect that after coming to China, the first person to greet him would be The local deputy mayor.

"Welcome everyone to China. Shenzhen is a special zone of China. We always welcome foreign friends from all walks of life." Li Guangzhen continued with a smile, "In addition, our Shenzhen side has always provided very good business opportunities for foreign countries. Investment environment, I hope that after you come to Shenzhen this time, you can visit some places in Shenzhen, I believe this place will bring you a lot of surprises, and make your trip worthwhile.”

"Thank you very much!" Carter said thanks after hearing the words.

"We are here this time mainly to discuss with Mr. Duan Yun, the general manager of Tianyin Group in your SZ City. I wonder if you can arrange it here, Chairman." John Cohen, who was following Carter, asked.

"Of course this can be arranged!" Li Guangzhen replied bluntly, only to hear him continue: "Tianyin Group is also making preparations to welcome you, so I can lead you here in Shenzhen tomorrow morning." While visiting, in the afternoon, Tianyin Group will hold a special welcome ceremony for you..."

"It's too enthusiastic. There's no need to make it so complicated. In fact, we just want to talk to Manager Duan of Tianyin Group about something face-to-face." Carter said with a smile.

"China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times. There is an old saying that it is a great pleasure to have friends from afar, especially for distinguished guests like you who come from the other side of the ocean. A custom." Li Guangzhen said hastily.

"Thank you so much." Carter said gratefully.

Carter certainly would not have thought that Li Guangzhen had so many routines, but this was his first visit to China, so he had to accept the local customs.

"But when we came to China last time, it wasn't so complicated..." John Kahn said at this time.

"Last time you came because you didn't know your identities and thought you were just ordinary tourists, but since you are coming to China this time as executives of a multinational company, you should naturally be warmly welcomed." Li Guangzhen is very eloquent Seeing the other party questioning, he immediately prevaricated.

"Alright then." In desperation, John Kahn could only follow Li Guangzhen's arrangement.

That night, John Kahn and President Carter temporarily stayed in the hotel of the SZ City Government.

And in the early morning of the second day, John Kahn and Carter were led by Li Guangzhen to visit the city government's planning exhibition hall, where there were many sand table models, and a special translator introduced Shenzhen's future planning and development plans to them.

It can be said that in front of veterans like Li Guangzhen, John Kahn and Carter can only be led back and forth by the nose. Now Li Guangzhen is an excellent salesman, and he tries his best to show the best of Shenzhen to foreign guests. On the one hand, and then persuade them to invest and set up factories, and let them eliminate all worries.

At the same time, Duan Yun was discussing something with Mayor Li Hao in the city government office building less than 100 meters away.

In the past month or so, Duan Yun has become a frequent visitor to the SZ municipal government. Almost every three or two days, he will be called by Li Hao to the municipal government to hold various investment promotion meetings. In addition, he also participated in two commendation meetings. On the Internet, Tianyin Group has become a role model for high-tech enterprises in Shenzhen, and Duan Yun has become a representative of Shenzhen's outstanding private entrepreneurs, and was selected as this year's SZ municipal model worker. awards.

If the relationship between Duan Yun and the SZ city government was mainly maintained by Tianyin Group’s donation of municipal projects, now the two parties have a closer relationship of interests. An "international business card" can demonstrate the strength of Shenzhen's high-tech enterprises.

In the past two months, the SZ municipal government has indeed achieved brilliant results. There are already 5 American and European companies planning to invest and set up factories in Shenzhen, and they have entered the stage of substantive contact.

In fact, Chinese people have always had a high awareness of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, making it a paradise for entrepreneurs. However, in foreign countries, BJ and Shanghai are the most famous Chinese cities in the world. Most of the early powerful foreign-funded enterprises We invested and set up factories in these two places.

Therefore, the SZ municipal government is using Tianyin Group's international reputation to attract investment for Shenzhen, which is actually a very smart and pragmatic method. When the international reputation is far inferior to BJ Shanghai, it is necessary to use Duan Yun and Tianyin The group is also helpless.

Duan Yun is also well aware of this kind of thing, and he is also very cooperative, because he knows that Shenzhen is the foundation of his company, and the more he uses the SZ government, the more his company's foundation in Shenzhen will be. will be more stable...

(End of this chapter)