King of Industry

  Chapter 730 Long-term layout planning

   Two days passed in a flash.

   On the morning of the 23rd, at Addis Ababa Airport, under the **** of Jiang Longsheng, Tang Xiaolin and other embassy leaders, a group of China-Africa Trade and Investment Promotion Group boarded the plane in an orderly manner.

  So far, the visit to Ethiopia, the first stop of this African trip, has also been successfully completed.

  After the plane took off smoothly, Bao Anjun, the head of the delegation, chatted with Zhang Zheke, the deputy head, and Zhao Guoyang.

  Bao Anjun and Zhang Zheke admire Zhao Guoyang for selling more than half of the goods he brought with him at his first stop in Africa.

  Looking at Zhao Guoyang who was sitting and listening to the conversation between the two of them as if nothing had happened, Bao Anjun looked at him like a **** and said: "Researcher Zhao, you are really convincing as the deputy head."

   "In just two days, you actually sold over a hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment directly, and reached an order of millions of dollars with someone else. Your business acumen, my brother, really makes us old guys feel ashamed!"

Hearing Director Bao Anjun's slightly exaggerated words, Zhao Guoyang quickly said humbly: "Director Bao, it's just a coincidence. If it wasn't for Counselor Tang Xiaolin who happened to take Mr. Zhang and me to the home of the farmer Deng Datong , it is impossible for me to know the Malaysian Chinese businessman.”

   "Without this episode, there would be no way to talk about the follow-up..."

   Zhao Guoyang's humility added to Bao Anjun's appreciation for him. He chuckled twice, and just as he was about to speak, Zhang Zheke spoke first.

  Because Zhang Zheke is the vice chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, this trip has some hard tasks.

  For example, help several companies in the delegation to achieve a certain amount of trade volume and sign cooperation intentions; or go to Chinese businessmen in various African countries to collect economic and trade information.

  In short, Zhang Zheke is different from Bao Anjun in that he wants to make real contributions to the delegation.

  Before the trip, Zhang Zheke was still very apprehensive, deeply afraid that he would not be able to complete the tasks assigned to him by his superiors.

  But now that the delegation had just traveled to the first country, Zhang Zheke found that he had exceeded his quota in terms of "trade volume".

  How can Zhang Zheke calm down with such a result?

  At this moment, looking at this enviously young Researcher Zhao, Zhang Zheke liked it so much.

  He raised his thumb with a red face and said: "Researcher Zhao, I have worked in the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade for more than ten years, and I have never seen it before! You are so awesome!"

   "It's not that exaggerated, is it? President Zhang, it's just luck!" Zhao Guoyang said with a wave of his hand.

  Zhang Zheke didn't care about Zhao Guoyang's modesty at all, and continued to speak: "Researcher Zhao, you don't need to be humble. My old Zhang can see that your brother's level and ability can definitely be looked up to."

   "During the visits to the next five countries, the 'trade mission' in my hands is all up to you!"

  Zhang Zhe looked at Zhao Guoyang intently and said: "Researcher Zhao, you should have heard about it in the past two days. Except for the two major companies under you and Mr. Zhang, the rest of our team have not made any progress."

   "If this trend continues, those of us in charge of the company will be criticized when we go back, and I, the vice president, will not be much better either!"

   "So...Researcher Zhao, you understand!" Zhang Zheke said while winking at Zhao Guoyang, making Bao Anjun next to him couldn't help laughing.

   Seeing President Zhang climbing up the pole, Zhao Guoyang was really a little funny.

   You know, Zhao Guoyang has great expectations for this trip to Africa.

  Although in Ethiopia, he got acquainted with the young owner of the "Success Group" by chance, sold a lot of agricultural and forestry machinery and equipment, and reached a lot of cooperation agreements with the other party.

   But these are just surprises. What Zhao Guoyang really cares about is the other two countries in the "African Tour"—Nigeria and South Africa.

  Because these two countries have mining resources and abundant energy reserves that he yearns for very much.

  In addition, Zhao Guoyang looks forward to reaching a consensus and long-term cooperation with South Africa's excellent ports.

  If "Xingtai International" can have a sub-base at the southernmost tip of the African continent, together with Sao Paulo, the Samba country in Latin America, it can completely form a triangle with China and connect global businesses.

   Such a long-term layout plan is what Zhao Guoyang values ​​most.

  Compared with this, selling dozens of agricultural and forestry machinery and equipment, or selling a "mine hoist" is nothing.

  Because there are so many plans that have not yet been implemented, Zhao Guoyang really doesn't have much free time to help several other companies in the trade group negotiate business.

  At this time, after President Zhang begged for permission, Zhao Guoyang showed a bit of distress on his face.

  Although Zhang Zheke's ability is average, he still has vision and insight.

  Seeing that Zhao Guoyang was having trouble making a decision, he quickly waved his hands and said, "Uh, researcher Zhao, don't get me wrong. I'm not forcing you to express your opinion, let alone giving you a task."

   "I just hope that you can give these companies in our team some help as much as you can without affecting the mission of this trip..."

Bao Anjun, who was on the side, saw that the atmosphere was a bit delicate, so he also followed suit and said, "Yes, Researcher Zhao. Mr. Li has explained to me before we set off, so we must not affect your decision. In terms of actions, you are completely responsible. independent!"

   "Chairman Zhang said this because he was impatient, so don't take it to heart. You can do whatever you want to do in the next step!"

  After listening to Bao Anjun and Zhang Zheke's cautious words, Zhao Guoyang felt a little embarrassed.

   Indeed, although I have too many imaginations, after all, I occupy the position of a deputy head, and I still have to make some contributions to the team.

  Thinking of this, Zhao Guoyang smiled slightly and said: "Director Bao and President Zhang, don't worry, I won't just care about myself. When I have a chance, I will help Director Shen and President Xia find a way!"

  Seeing that Zhao Guoyang made this promise, Bao Anjun and Zhang Zheke looked at each other and nodded contentedly.

   "Well, it would be great if Researcher Zhao thought so!" Zhang Zheke couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

   "We are all on our own, we should help each other!" Zhao Guoyang said frankly.

   Next, Bao Anjun quickly changed the subject and asked Zhao Guoyang where he was going in the next two stops.

After listening to his question, Zhao Guoyang explained in detail: "Director Bao, it's like this. Because the 'West Africa International Construction Machinery and Mining Machinery Exhibition' in Nigeria will be held in four days. I think After thinking about it, I feel that there is no need to rush over.”

   "Anyway, the previous plan was to go to Sudan first, and then to Cameroon. Now that there is time, why not visit these two countries first, and then go to Nigeria! Do you think it's okay?"

  After Zhao Guoyang finished speaking, Bao Anjun nodded and agreed without much consideration.

  Speaking of which, Bao Anjun, the director of the "African Department" of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, still has a good understanding of the situation in African countries.

   Geographically speaking, the route recommended by Zhao Guoyang is also very suitable.

  From Ethiopia to Sudan, and then to Cameroon, it is a direct line.

  The second key country to visit, Nigeria, is also at the farthest end of this line.

  Of course, after visiting Nigeria, whether it’s going to Angola or South Africa, that’s another line.

  However, the size of the African continent is too large, and the branches of key countries are also scattered.

  Under such circumstances, if the delegation wants to complete this visit, it is indeed impossible to complete it in one line.

  …

  After five hours of long flight, Zhao Guoyang and the delegation finally arrived at the second destination—Sudan.

   This is the third largest country in Africa, located in northeast Africa, along the coast of the Red Sea, and at the eastern end of the Sahara Desert.

  Its land area is 1,886,068 square kilometers, second only to Algeria and Zaire in Africa.

  Sudan's economic structure is relatively simple, mainly based on agriculture and animal husbandry. Its industry is backward, its industrial foundation is very weak, and it is too dependent on nature and foreign aid.

  Even in Africa, where economic development is generally not good, Sudan is relatively backward.

  But because of its vast land area, Sudan is rich in natural resources such as minerals, oil, natural gas and timber.

  According to the data at hand of Zhao Guoyang, among the main mineral resource reserves in Sudan, there are about 300 million tons of iron, 9 million tons of copper, about 9,000 tons of silver, and about 500 million tons of oil, all of which rank among the top in Africa.

  Among these mineral resources, what moved Zhao Guoyang the most was that Sudan had a full 700,000 tons of chromium reserves, which was a very astonishing figure.

   In the early nineties, chromium was not well understood.

  However, Zhao Guoyang knew that with the continuous improvement of global smelting technology, chrome alloys would soon become popular all over the world and become an important raw material for manufacturing stainless steel, auto parts, and aircraft parts.

   As one of the most important metals in future technology, chromium-nickel steels fused in different percentages are ever-changing and diverse, which is incredible.

  For Zhao Guoyang, being able to control a chromite mine during this period is of great significance to the establishment of his own industrial empire in the future.

  Therefore, although Sudan is not one of the three most important stops of the trade and investment promotion mission, it is a stop that Zhao Guoyang attaches great importance to.

  When the plane slowly stopped at Khartoum Airport, the capital of Sudan, there was a burst of warm cheers from the welcoming team waving the five-star red flag below.

   "It's finally here!" Looking at the crowd below through the glass, Bao Anjun, who was sitting opposite Zhao Guoyang, let out a sigh of relief.

  (end of this chapter)