Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 1618 Negotiations
The entire first floor of Volvo is completely an exhibition hall of Volvo's historical products. Here you can see all Volvo car models spanning nearly 1932 years from 1991 to 60, as well as some aero-engine equipment, which is very spectacular and also It can be seen that Volvo is very proud of these products.

Under the personal introduction of Rafe Johnson, Duan Yun and his team visited the entire exhibition hall on the first floor and learned about the development history of the Volvo Group.

Although Duan Yun had already learned about the situation of Volvo from the materials, after actually visiting their products, he felt a lot of shock in his heart. What impressed him the most was that this company can have today's technical strength. It is completely the result of little by little accumulation and accumulation. Every step taken by this enterprise has condensed the efforts of many scientific researchers.

There is another thing that deeply touched Duan Yun. In this world's leading multinational group, there are a total of 3700 technicians, more than 95% of whom are from Sweden. In some key technical positions, they are all local. Talents, these engineers and technicians are highly educated and highly creative, which is also related to Sweden's emphasis on education.

This kind of thing seems normal to outsiders, but in fact Duan Yun knows that the proportion of foreign employees in many multinational companies is very high, because it is far from enough to attract talents from their own countries if they want to be world-leading. It is far from enough, but for a small country like Sweden with a population of only 1 million, it is indeed a very rare thing that a company can grow so big with only local talents.

After visiting the exhibition hall on the first floor, Duan Yun and his party were taken to the conference room on the third floor.

The conference room at Volvo headquarters is very spacious and beautiful. There is a long oval table in the middle and large French windows on both sides. Standing by the window, you can overlook the entire city scene of Gothenburg.

"Mr. Duan Yun, Mr. Zhao, and Mr. Liu, on behalf of the Volvo Group, I would like to extend my welcome to your three distinguished Chinese guests. I also hope that you can get the desired results when you visit our Volvo this time." At the conference table After sitting down, Rafe Johnson smiled and made an opening remark to Duan Yun and the others.

"President Johnson, you are too kind. It is my honor to visit your Volvo Group today." Duan Yun also politely replied. As the protagonist of this negotiation, Duan Yun said straight to the point: "Mr. The main purpose of my visit to Volvo is to visit the automobile industry of your Volvo Group. At present, our domestic demand for imported cars is increasing, and Volvo, as one of the most powerful automobile groups in Europe, has a long history , world-leading technology, and in terms of management and marketing, it is also an example for us to learn from, so this time we come to Sweden, we want to seek cooperation with your group..."

"Mr. Duan, as far as I know, you are a very famous billionaire in China. You have been engaged in the production and management of electronic products. Why are you suddenly interested in our cars?" Another tall man sitting next to Rafe Johnson The man asked Duan Yun.

This man is Eriksson, vice president of Volvo Group. He graduated from Stockholm University and studied business administration. After graduation, he entered Volvo Corporation and worked here for more than 10 years. Work, promoted all the way to the department head, and the year before last, he was finally nominated by the company as the company's vice president and approved by the board of directors. He is currently the youngest executive in Volvo's management.

Regarding Duan Yun’s visit to Volvo, Volvo executives held a special meeting to study it before, because before that, no Chinese company had ever visited Volvo. The international influence is getting higher and higher, so it has attracted the attention of these Volvo executives.

Through the information provided by the consulate, these senior executives at Volvo made a thorough investigation of Duan Yun and his party in advance, and learned the identities of the three, especially Duan Yun's identity, which surprised the senior management of Volvo, because they learned through investigation that Duan Yun He is the boss of the largest private enterprise in China, and his net worth is conservatively estimated to be around 5 million US dollars. The most unbelievable thing is that Duan Yun’s company is actually a multinational company in mainland China. It was founded in mainland China as a joint venture with Toshiba and Western Digital. Enterprises, and the storage chips they produce are world-leading, and they cooperate with multinational technology giants such as IBM and Texas Instruments, and they are well-known in the world for microelectronics advice.

From these aspects, in the eyes of Volvo executives, Tianyin Group is a very powerful technology company. In addition, they also have a strong government background. This time, there are officials from a city government in mainland China , and the director of a state-owned factory, this undoubtedly made Volvo pay more attention.

It's just that the Volvo executives still don't know what Duan Yun's purpose is for coming to Volvo headquarters this time. After all, the Volvo Group is not involved in the microelectronics industry, and there is no business coincidence with the Tianyin Group.

"I think everyone should know about me and my company. Like your company, our Tianyin Group is a group enterprise with many project companies under the group. Automobile is an industrial project that our group company plans to get involved in." Duan Yun glanced at Volvo's senior executives, and then said: "However, as far as our domestic automobile production technology is concerned, it is really too backward, and your Volvo company has world-leading automobile technology, so we came to Sweden this time. , I just want to come to your company to visit and study, and to discuss the possibility of cooperation..."

"China is an amazing ancient oriental country with a splendid civilization. When I was a middle school student, I was very interested in the introduction of Chinese history in textbooks..." At this time, Rafe Johnson smiled slightly and said to Duan Yun: "Over the years, I have been paying attention to China's development. Your leaders are guiding China to carry out reform and opening up. The economy is developing very fast. It is a very potential market. But generally speaking, compared with the United States, Japan and Europe , your country's national consumption capacity is still too weak..."

"Mr. Johnson, you said that we Chinese are poor, I admit it, but if you underestimate China's consumer market, that is your mistake." Duan Yun glanced at Johnson, and then said: "In China, most A person's monthly income is only a dozen dollars, and there are many remote and difficult places where the monthly income is even less than 10 dollars, but there are many rich people. I will not say anything else. You should know about the German Volkswagen Company. China has set up a joint venture factory, and now the annual output has exceeded 6 vehicles, and the sales volume is still increasing year by year. I think your company's automobile production technology is not inferior to that of German Volkswagen. If you set up a factory in China, I miss yours The car should be more popular than the German Volkswagen..."

(End of this chapter)