Chapter 235: Grandma Liu Builds the Grand View Garden
Later generations often complain that there are too few visa-free countries for Chinese passports to go abroad, which is inconvenient. But on the other hand, the domestic review of foreigners' entry is also quite strict.
Although from diplomatic principles, visa exemption does not necessarily have to be equal to each other, in most cases, whether you are exempt from visas will also affect whether others give you exemption.
For example, the famous Sino-US issue, from the late Clinton period to the office of the O'Dark Horse, for nearly 20 years, the US National Wu Academy actually hopes to extend the longest period of long-term business visas for Chinese elites to go to the United States. However, the relevant departments think that the harm outweighs the benefits, and it will facilitate wealthy people to immigrate and escape, so don't. Therefore, both sides default not to develop more than one year of visa, or you can get a green card directly.
Therefore, for a long time, it has been more difficult for foreigners to come in than for Chinese people to go out. Even in the 2010s, the 15-day visa-free visa-free period opened in China was only targeted at Japan, Li Jiapo and Brunei.
In the 1980s, Li Jiapo and Brunei had not yet established diplomatic relations with China. Around the world, if you want to "go to China, go on a trip at will", you can only get a Japanese passport.
(Note: 1992~2010, Japanese passports are recognized as the most convenient passport in the circle, which is more convenient than Germany and the United States. Because the places where German and American passports can be visa-free, Japanese can basically go there, at most, a few small countries in Eastern Europe and East Africa. And Japanese also come to China directly, so the value of gold has increased greatly. After China exempted Lijiapo, the comprehensive convenience rate of Lijiapo passport rose to the world's first place.)
Even if a Monacos holds a French passport, they will be subject to various trials when they come in. It cannot be handled in one or two days unless the other party blatantly applies for diplomatic visits.
And this is obviously impossible.
Therefore, Gu Ao still has some time to prepare.
While he was secretly contacting Tiffany to understand her itinerary progress. He learned that she had successfully applied for a tourist visa and came to "artistic exchange" with the art fieldwork team. He could set off in about three days, and a mid-range transfer, and a five-day trip to China.
In 1981, China's civil aviation did not open a direct flight to France, and foreign airlines were not allowed to operate commercially in Chinese airspace, so they had to fly from Paris to Moscow and then transfer to Air China to Moscow to enter the country. (At that time, administrative regulations had already allowed private charter flights to apply for routes and entered Chinese airspace, but commercial flights were not allowed.)
Tiffany also secretly shared more information, it shouldn't be said to be a little secret to Gu Ao.
Because the little girl who had just finished her first year of high school did not have the string of "information" in her mind. In her eyes, all privacy is "little secrets" rather than "information".
"The director my mother was looking for was Bettorucci, an Italian, an forty-year-old uncle. I had just visited my father and mother in Cannes a while ago, so I was dragged in.
He seems to have nothing to be busy with recently, so he is preparing to take a break and has no plans to prepare a new film. This time, we are paying for him to travel around and take advantage of him. Then we will pretend that he doesn't exist, so we can play our own."
When Gu Ao heard about the name Betorucci, he had a vague impression, and then he thought of "The Last Emperor".
Bettorucci's "The Last Emperor" won both the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. This director was nominated for Cannes in 1981. He made no achievements in history for five or six years, and only started to do "The Last Emperor" in 1986. He only made a small movie with little fame in the middle, and also went to the Venice Film Festival to serve as the chairman of the jury.
However, Gu Ao thought about it again and again, it seemed that an Italian would not take the initiative to think of filming such a nonsensical subject as "the last emperor in the East".
The reason why Bettoruc was dragged in history was that in 1985, CCTV first filmed Uncle Daoming's TV series "The Last Emperor", and then sold it with the TV script, asking foreign directors to use it to make an art film, and to win an Oscar, and to provide some strength to Chinese traditional culture. This was the Chinese side's initiative to propose.
Nowadays, people from CCTV should not even study how to script Puyi's autobiography "My First Half of Life", so there is no such risk for the time being. Gu Ao can completely control the rhythm of the scene.
At worst, people from the cultural department will find out that this is an Italian director who is a bit famous and asks him to do some other private work to promote China. It doesn’t matter to Gu Ao, and it won’t change history.
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"There are five days left to arrange something fun? At best, come to China to visit natural scenery and scenic spots. But these are the meanings that are expected by foreigners, and are not as surprising as possible. To seize the surprise of the little girl, you must add some exciting information."
When he went to work the next day, Gu Ao was a little absent-minded and was always thinking about reception.
When lunch was about to be had, Director Bao passed by his desk and patted his shoulder: "Xiao Gu, let's see you being absent-minded all morning. Let's go and eat something before you can get busy."
"Yo, Uncle Bao, I'm sorry I'm just distracted and didn't see you coming." Gu Ao came back to his senses.
"Hey, why are you polite to me?"
The two went to the cafeteria with a smile.
In midsummer, Gu Ao had a bad appetite, so he ordered two warm buns and didn't order the hot dishes that had just been served.
"Young people eat so much? They have never experienced the difficult and hungry era. For those of us at our age, they can eat no matter how hot the weather is." Director Bao said kindly with contempt and teasing.
Gu Ao bit the cabbage and said in a negotiation tone: "Uncle Bao, I may have a foreign friend who is going to travel in China recently and I will come to play with me. My identity may not be too low, and I don't want to disturb the reception department too much. Then I may have to take another day or two off. You can see if I can't delay the work I have left behind. I will work overtime to get overtime."
Director Bao looked at him gossipedly: "Is the status not low? Could it be the graduate students led by Professor Kissinger?"
Gu Ao's eyes lit up, and he found that some things had been brewing for a long time, so it would be better to wait for the other party to make up for the reason.
Indeed, if a foreigner like Gu Ao comes to him to play with, the biggest possibility is that he is a fellow student who is studying at Kissinger.
Patrick Russell, a child of Alcatel's major shareholder, is already the humblest among all graduate students. The rest are either princes or second generations from foreign politicians.
"It is indeed a foreign friend I met through Professor Kissinger's relationship." Gu Ao quickly beat the snake with a stick without lying.
Director Bao: "Then you'd better tell the deputy director in the afternoon, and the leaders will definitely understand it. The rest, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is more familiar with me. Let them send you a letter and drive away the official accompanying staff at that time."
Gu Ao felt that this idea was good and thanked him now.
"Thank you, please go out and have something new in two days."
Bao Mianwei was unable to do so: "Isn't this good?"
Gu: "It's not for fun, but for everyone to give me some advice and see if there are any potential service flaws that I haven't noticed, which may make foreign guests dissatisfied. This is a test piece for you to be a test piece, and it is a contribution to the country."
Director Bao then put on an expression of unshirkable responsibility: "That's what it should be."
When he was at work in the afternoon, Gu Ao handed over the leave with the deputy director, asked for leave on his own, and then went to the foreign affairs department to complete the reception procedures.
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After get off work, Gu Ao had already figured out his plan and drove straight to a small shop that he had built with Qin Guogang, Director Bao and other colleagues a few days ago.
It was a three-story western-style building on the direction of Chongwenmen Street. There was a rustic sign like "Rock Club" hanging at the door. The first floor is a bowling alley, the second floor is a dance hall, and the third floor is a serious place to eat. And it is better than private. (Gu Ao and his colleagues will never hide dirt and dirt)
Within at least four or five years, the most enlightened entertainment venue in Beijing can only do this.
The other units that receive foreign guests, such as Friendship Hotel, may be more fashionable than here, but they are all state-owned and dare not take risks and innovations.
Because I have been here twice, Gu Ao's face and the owner of the car recognize him. Those who do this industry must have a sharp look and a wide face.
Gu Ao just walked in a few steps, a 30-year-old man with a cigarette in his mouth, suddenly walked over and greeted him: "Yeah, Mr. Gu, who is alone, will you not treat me today?"
This person is the boss here, named Feng Pao. He was born in a stubborn young man in the south of the city. He survived in a special era. He hid in the frontier and worked as a soldier for several years. Later, he worked as a craftsman and then made a mistake and transferred to the army. He returned to the capital to get some money and just set up an individual entertainment venue.
In the dance hall on the second floor, there were even intermittently housed several of the earliest underground rock songs in China. When they earned a reward for selling arts, they divided it into several dollars to rent.
Nowadays, as long as you can get a self-employed license, have the capital, and are not afraid of embarrassing, the business is actually very easy to do. Because others think that operating entertainment venues are embarrassing and have demands, but they can't bear to run a business. In fact, the competition is a blue ocean.
Of course, Gu Ao cannot write a message when talking to such a person, but says lies: "Boss Feng, I have something to discuss with you. I will stay with some foreign guests in a few days. Are you willing to dress up your place? I will leave the things. After using them, you will be happy to keep them as rented. If you are not happy, I will take them away."
"Don't, just give face and call Brother Pao. What's Boss Feng? If you have something to do, you'll tell me." Feng Pao said, pointing a big nine to Gu Ao.
"I think you can change the room to eat up a few restaurants upstairs and use the second floor to a place to sing and dancing. I will provide you with a few imported large color TVs, video recorders, and audio. Put them on the sofa bar..."
Gu Ao roughly described the design and purpose according to the layout of Japanese ktv (actually it should be called "karaok" now) in his memory.
Feng Pao was confused when he heard this, and he didn't know if this thing had a future and whether the customer liked it.
"Foreigners like to play with this thing? I also have two friends who have been to foreign countries, the United States and Italy, and have never heard of it. Will the investment be too expensive and no one can afford it?"
"But Japanese have already had it, and it only appeared two or three years ago. This thing is absolutely cost-effective. I believe I am right." Gu Ao encouraged.
Gu Ao didn't want such a small and insignificant money, but just wanted to have a place to entertain foreign guests, so he threw out this huge business opportunity.
In the upcoming 1982 years, we will seriously rectify economic crimes. I hope this Feng Pao is a bit forced and restrains himself. If he really dares to hide the dirt, he will be shot by himself, and it will not involve Gu Ao.
Monaco is said to be a major entertainment power, and it has no future than luxury. Only by relying on novelty can customers be satisfied.
Chapter completed!