The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 856: Trip to the Middle East
The two sides signed a series of cooperation agreements.

Panshan Group has fully entered Saudi Arabia, taking Saudi Arabia as the most important market in the Middle East and then radiating to the entire Middle East.

By the millennium, Huaxia Automobile Group will have established at least one 4S store in major cities in Saudi Arabia and at least one 4S store in major cities in the Middle East to strengthen Huaxia Automobile's sales channels and after-sales service capabilities.

4S shop is a car franchise model with "four in one" as its core, including vehicle sales (Sale), spare parts (Sparepart), after-sales service (Service), information feedback (Survey), etc.

In addition to its automotive layout, China Golden Dragon Computer Group Co., Ltd. will establish a Middle East headquarters, a research institute, as well as specialty stores and after-sales service stores in Saudi Arabia.

The cooperation agreements cover all aspects, including military and civilian fields.

It can be said that this trip to Saudi Arabia has achieved the expected goals.

Saudi Arabia thought that these collaborations would provide jobs for Saudi Arabia and train industrial workers. However, Liu Tao was not optimistic at all. He did not think that these could provide many jobs for the people of Saudi Arabia, and more of them would be transferred from China at that time.

There's no way, Saudi Arabia is too rich.

I guess no Saudi is willing to work in a factory, repair shop, or even an after-sales service shop to do technical maintenance.

After leaving Saudi Arabia, Liu Tao went to Kuwait.

Even after the Gulf War, Kuwait still maintained an armed force of 50,000, with 5,000 mercenaries.

Kuwait is really scared!

By now, Kuwait had restored the oil market and was bringing in a steady stream of oil revenues.

This time Liu Tao came to discuss mine clearance business.

The existence of minefields on the Kuwait-Iran border is a headache for Kuwait, and mine clearance is not easy.

The risk is high and the mine clearance process is slow.

The key is that Kuwait does not have the capability in this regard.

Panshan Group is very good at this. By dispatching a few demining vehicles, it can clear all the mines in the minefield in less than a year.

The mine-clearing vehicle is one of the few items of Panshan Group that are not for sale and have never been exported.

In addition to the mine clearance project, Liu Tao also hopes to strengthen cooperation with Kuwait.

As a country with extremely rich oil resources, the importance of Kuwait is self-evident. Moreover, Kuwait is rich. Liu Tao hopes to make more money from Kuwait and also hopes that Kuwait will increase its investment in China.

As LNG ships continue to be built, natural gas resources will also be transformed into huge wealth, and Liu Tao needs to speed up the layout of these.

In the field of natural gas production, it is difficult for Panshan Group to become very large. This is due to objective limitations. Even though China Petroleum Group is about to be separated from China Southwest Industrial Group Corporation and become the thirteenth second-level subsidiary group under Panshan Group, and China Petroleum Group will grow into an international energy giant in the future, its ceiling in production is obvious.

If you can't control this, then naturally you will control the transportation and sales!
Liquefied natural gas is needed by Europe, China, Japan, South Korea, etc.

The market is very large.

China Petroleum Group focuses on China's offshore oil and natural gas as well as overseas oil and natural gas. This is very different from the newly established China Petrochemical Group, which focuses on the exploration and development of China's onshore oil and natural gas.

The two parties are in a competitive relationship, but also complementary to a certain extent.

Currently, China Petroleum Group is at the forefront in terms of layout and operation, playing an important role in reform pilot projects.

Liu Tao will not only go to Kuwait, but also to Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Tanzania, Djibouti and other places.

The purpose is to inspect Panshan Group's industries and seek cooperation.

The current situation is relatively good. The world is generally peaceful, and all countries are solving their own problems and working hard to develop their economies.

The United States is now focusing on resolving its internal problems and promoting its own economic development.

This has also resulted in the world developing its economy.

If everyone works hard for development, there will be fewer conflicts.

If Latin America were not so close to the United States and were not the Americans' backyard, Liu Tao would have wanted to visit Latin America.

In the past ten years, oil prices have been high. In order to curb oil prices, the United States has gradually increased its oil development in Latin America. This has led to better economic development in Latin America in recent years and has helped it to get out of the economic crisis.

There are even countries like Venezuela, which have developed rapidly economically thanks to oil trade.

When Liu Tao arrived in Kuwait, he was warmly received by Prince Fahd and King Emir.

They are all very grateful to Liu Tao.

If there was no Liu Tao, there would be no Kuwait today.

It can be said that because of Liu Tao, Kuwait reduced its losses by at least 1500 billion to 2000 billion US dollars.

Moreover, Kuwait has benefited greatly from the cooperation between the two sides over the past decade.

Kuwait’s investment in China brings huge asset gains every year.

The most important thing is that Panshan Group is trustworthy and can be relied upon at critical moments.

After the Gulf War, Kuwait quickly resumed its life. If one had not experienced it personally, no one would ever say that Kuwait had been destroyed.

Kuwait is naturally happy to see the strengthening of bilateral cooperation and joint development.

After staying in Kuwait for three days, Liu Tao went to Qatar.

While Liu Tao was on his ocean voyage, the southern section of Shanghai Metro Line 1 was opened and put into trial operation, making Shanghai the fourth city in the mainland to have a subway after Beijing, Tianjin and Kunming.

Soon, Guangzhou and Shenzhen will also have their own subways.

Other cities, in terms of transportation planning, have also turned their attention to subways, planning to build subways in their own cities.

The advantages of the subway are unquestionable.

This will greatly promote the traffic in a city.

Hong Kong and Kunming have become templates for China's subways, and major cities have sent inspection teams to Hong Kong and Kunming to conduct subway inspections.

It can be foreseen that in the next thirty or forty years, China's subways will flourish in major cities, promoting the development of China's cities and economy.

In addition, there is a very obvious change, which is to further promote the development of commercial housing.

Previously, China's housing was mainly distributed by units as welfare housing, supplemented by commercial housing development. At that time, units provided money and land, and developers developed houses to earn a certain profit. A small number of them took a piece of land to develop commercial housing. However, in the next period of time, it will enter a stage where both the distribution of welfare housing by units and the development of commercial housing are given equal importance, which will further promote the real estate industry and improve people's housing needs and the environment.

When it develops to a certain extent, the housing distribution through unit welfare will be suspended. Instead, commercial housing will become the main type, and the government will build a batch of low-rent housing as a supplement, thus maintaining the healthy development of the real estate industry.

The whole world is working hard on economic development, and China is no exception, and it pays even more attention to it.

(End of this chapter)