Yu Dong and his group found a table in the restaurant and sat down. Wei Jizhong looked around and said with a smile, "It's quite lively to have all the delegations gathered in a hotel for a conference."
Deng Yaping, who sat at the same table, said with a smile, "It's better if we are all in the same hotel. It will be easier for us to find the committee members."
Hearing what Deng Yaping said, everyone at the table smiled tacitly.
The main battlefield for the Olympic bid is of course not the voting meeting tomorrow night. The real battlefield is outside the venue. Whoever can win over more International Olympic Committee members will have the last laugh.
Before Yu Dong arrived at the hotel, Deng Yaping and others were still lobbying various committee members to agree to vote for Yanjing.
Unlike Zhang Yimou and others who stayed in the hotel every day, people like Deng Yaping, He Zhenliang and others had almost no rest these days.
The delegation arrived in Moscow on July 7, and five days have passed. During these five days, He Zhenliang and the others have mainly done two things.
The first thing is to practice making statements.
After the conference starts tomorrow, there will be one of the most important and time-consuming aspects, that is, the presentation representatives of the bidding cities will take the stage to make presentations on their bid for the Olympic Games.
The so-called presentation is the final stage of canvassing votes. There is no unified format. You can choose a simple speech, or you can choose to match it with some eye-catching programs. The strategy on the Chinese side is relatively conservative, and the nine statements represent all selected speeches.
In order to ensure that there are no problems in the presentation session tomorrow, the narrators, He Zhenliang and Deng Yaping, have been rehearsing very seriously.
They practice repeatedly to time their speeches down to the second.
In the past few days, they have been rehearsing presentations every day, and even set up cameras according to the placement of the International Olympic Committee people. In order to increase the sense of reality, they also found someone to play the role of Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch and the host.
Waiting for the role, trying to simulate real scenes and strive to be perfect in the camera.
Yu Dong is also one of the presenters. Although he did not come to Moscow with the delegation, he has been practicing the presentation session in Jinling in the past few days, mainly practicing controlling the duration and ensuring that he completes his speech within the specified time.
In fact, the difficulty of this presentation speech is not very high, because the duration is very short, and the speech script will naturally not be long, so it is not too difficult to control the duration.
It's just that everyone attaches great importance to this speech, so there will be a lot of contact.
This is also the first time that Yu Dong has prepared so much for a speech. In the past, when he was required to speak at an event, he would often do whatever he wanted without a draft. Even if he had a draft, he would only have a rough outline. But this time it was different. He wrote the draft in advance.
After writing it, he sent it for review. After review, he began to memorize his own manuscript to ensure that every word was correct during the speech.
In the past few days since He Zhenliang and Deng Yaping came here, in addition to practicing presentations and speeches, they also did an important thing, which was to lobby the voting members of the International Olympic Committee.
Everyone's task assignments are very clear, and who is responsible for the attack has been clearly arranged. Plan A and plan B have been prepared for a long time. The main lobbyists are He Zhenliang and Deng Yaping, because they are also members of the International Olympic Committee.
I have known the other committee members before, so it is easy to get in touch with them.
He Zhenliang and the others actually wanted to arrange a task for Yu Dong before, but in the end due to various reasons, they did not arrange a lobbying task for him.
Yu Dong was not scheduled to attend today's daytime press conference.
Although Deng Yaping, who had been running for several days, had encountered many obstacles, she was still very motivated and was still talking about her plans for the evening during the meal.
"After dinner later, I'll go find O'Neal and try again. After chatting for the past few days, I feel that her attitude is a little better than before. Maybe if I work harder tonight, I can win her one.
ticket."
The O'Neal Deng Yaping refers to is of course not the NBA player Shaquille O'Neal, but her colleague at the International Olympic Committee, the Australian swimming star Susie O'Neal.
She has approached Susie O'Neill many times. Although the other party's attitude was better than the initial resistance, she still did not agree to leave the tickets to China.
Wei Jizhong also knew that Deng Yaping had approached Susie O'Neill many times, so he asked, "Have you talked to her so many times, have you figured out the reason why she didn't let go? Have other cities already made arrangements with her?"
"
Deng Yaping shook her head, "She doesn't necessarily have a city to vote for."
Wei Jizhong frowned. Since the other party did not have a certain city to vote for, but was unwilling to vote for Yanjing, it was probably because she had opinions about Yanjing and even China.
Yu Dong asked from the side, "Has Susie O'Neill been to China before?"
Deng Yaping thought for a while and said, "I heard her mention that she had been to China a long time ago, and it seemed she was participating in some competition."
Hearing this, Yu Dong noticed the element. If Susie O'Neill really had any prejudice against China, there was a high probability that it was because of her previous trip to China.
With economic development, China's sports construction, especially the construction of sports facilities in Yanjing, has been greatly improved in recent years. However, the previous sports infrastructure could be said to be terrible.
Perhaps Susie O'Neill went to China and saw the sports infrastructure there and thought it was too poor to meet the standards for hosting the Olympics.
After pondering for a while, Yu Dong said to Deng Yaping, "Yaping, don't go there empty-handed tonight..."
Before Yu Dong finished speaking, Wei Jizhong, who was sitting next to him, was startled and quickly stopped him in a low voice, "Be careful. There are many people in this hall, and there are a lot of foreigners who understand Chinese. How can you say this outside?"
can say."
Seeing the expressions of the people at the table, Yu Dong smiled and waved his hands, "Hey, where did you think you were? I asked Yaping not to be empty-handed. I didn't mean to bring a gift to O'Neal. I asked her to take a laptop from me.
There are a lot of videos stored in the laptop, all of which were taken by the Deep Space Company. There are videos of various stadiums in it. If Susie O'Neill is really biased against China because of sports facilities, maybe show it to her.
The video is better, she definitely trusts her own eyes more than other people's mouths."
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, but I estimate that I will have to wait a long time to finish tonight, and the computer will not be given to you until tomorrow, so don’t be in a hurry to use it."
Yu Dong waved his hand: "Don't give it to me, just leave it to Suzy O'Neill. I brought more than one computer, and I didn't put anything else in it. They were all videos related to China."
Zhang Yimou joked, "You are still a member of the outside world, and you are generous when you make a move."
"Haha, I'm not the rich one. These computers are sponsored by Acer and are their latest models. They can be considered as their contribution to the Olympic bid."
When I heard that the computer was sponsored by Acer, everyone here understood what it meant.
Acer seems to be discussing sponsorship with the Olympic bid committee recently, and the middleman is Deep Space.
The Olympic Bid Committee is actually quite interested in this matter, but now that the bid for the Olympic Games has not been approved, it is too early to talk about this matter. What they mean is that when the application for hosting the Olympic Games is approved, their Olympic Bid Committee will become the Olympic Committee.
Let’s talk about this matter after the organizing committee.
Although the cooperation negotiations have been temporarily put on hold, the two parties have always been in contact. This time Acer contributed a batch of computers, so it naturally has this intention.
The people at the scene of the sponsorship didn't want to talk much, but Wei Jizhong was more interested in the title "Yuanwai". He smiled and asked Zhang Yimou, "Director Zhang, why do you call Yu Dong a Yuanwai?"
Zhao Zhongxiang, who was standing next to him, answered helpfully, "I know this. I have read an essay written by Yu Hua before. Because Mr. Yu's family is rich, everyone calls him Yuanwai."
"Oh, is that so?" Wei Jizhong looked at Yu Dong in surprise.
Yu Dong nodded and confirmed Zhao Zhongxiang's statement, "That's true. Yu Hua and the others like to give people nicknames."
Deng Yaping said with a smile, "I didn't expect Teacher Yu Hua to be so humorous in private. I have read several of his novels, and they are all quite tragic. The first time I saw "Alive" was in the English version. I was in England at the time and read it.
I felt very familiar with the novels written by domestic writers, so I bought one.”
Yu Dong couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. The filter of a great writer is really strong. He likes to give people nicknames. Even if it is not a shortcoming, it is definitely not an advantage for ordinary people. But for Yu Hua, it is not.
It became humorous.
Halfway through the meal, Deng Yaping left in a hurry.
"I have to find Susie O'Neill quickly, and I must convince her tonight."
Seeing that she was very motivated, Yu Dong called his accompanying assistant to bring her a computer.
Not long after Deng Yaping left, He Zhenliang suddenly whispered, "Princess Nora is here."
Everyone looked towards the door and saw a middle-aged woman in a black dress walking towards their table with a smile.
He Zhenliang stood up first and took the initiative to greet Nora, "Princess Nora, good evening."
The person coming is the princess of the Principality of Liechtenstein. This princess is in her early fifties and is well maintained. She looks about forty years old.
It is very common for members of the Olympic Committee to meet members of the royal family. Among the existing 120 members, only more than 30 have participated in the Olympic Games. Many of the remaining members are nobles, including many members of the royal family.
member.
Liechtenstein is a small country, with a population of only more than 30,000. Some villages in China have a population larger than this.
However, Liechtenstein's economy is very good, with a GDP of more than 2 billion US dollars, which is very impressive for a country with a population of only more than 30,000. If calculated on a per capita basis, Liechtenstein is higher than most countries.
Liechtenstein's main economy comes from industry and services, but many people know this country because of their stamps.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Liechtenstein began to issue stamps to the outside world in an attempt to activate the national economy through stamps. This idea seemed strange to many people, but they actually succeeded in doing so. Now Liechtenstein’s stamps
It is loved by many stamp collectors, and the revenue from the stamp industry accounts for 10% of the national fiscal revenue.
Yu Dong is not a stamp collector, and the geography knowledge he learned when he was in school did not mention this country. The first time he heard about this country was because Liechtenstein leased their country to foreign countries.
Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for a small and remote country like Liechtenstein to have any interaction with China, but in the matter of the Olympic bid, Princess Nora's vote is very important to China.
He Zhenliang has contacted Princess Nora before, but the other party did not give any affirmative reply.
This time Princess Nora came over on her own initiative, and everyone could see that her target was Yu Dong. When she came over, she kept staring at Yu Dong.
When she arrived at the table, Nora first said hello to He Zhenliang and the others, and then said with a smile, “YU, I thought you wouldn’t come this time. I also felt sorry for this, such a grand gathering would be without you.
If you participate, you will definitely be disgraced."
He Zhenliang explained helpfully, "YU still has some work to do in China, so we came two days late."
Nora showed a sly smile, "So there is still work in the country? I thought you were trying to hide from the two writers associations in Russia."
Yu Dong smiled helplessly. It seemed that the fact that the two writers associations sent people to block him at the airport was not only known to the Chinese delegation, but also reached the ears of these committee members.
"I am very willing to communicate more with Russian writers. In my eyes, no matter which association they belong to, they are all my learning objects. It's just a pity that the meeting time is tight this time and I can't communicate with them."
Of course Nora didn't believe such polite words, but she didn't continue the topic. Instead, she talked about Yu Dong's new book, "Your new book "District 9" will be officially released tomorrow. I am your loyal reader. Tomorrow
I will definitely go to the bookstore to buy a copy, and I hope you can sign it for me."
Yu Dong smiled and said, "No, if you want it, I'll have someone deliver a few copies tomorrow morning and I'll sign them for you."
"Thank you very much. I do have a lot of your loyal readers. In fact, we have a lot of your readers in Liechtenstein. Although we only have more than 30,000 people there, I can guarantee that you can definitely hold a show there.
For the book signing, readers will line up from morning to night.”
Everyone present could understand that this was already a very obvious invitation from Princess Nora.
Yu Dong was not interested in the country Liechtenstein, but he was quite interested in the ticket in Princess Nora's hand, so when faced with Nora's invitation, he nodded and said, "Go to your country to hold a book signing."
Yes, it seems to be a very good suggestion. I should have time this summer. If the time is right, I can indeed arrange a book signing in your country. In addition, some writers from our International Writing Center should not mind going to Liechtenstein.
Check out such a beautiful country.”
If Yu Hua and the others were here, they would definitely scold you, Yu Dong, even if you "sell yourself out" yourself, you would take us with you.
Princess Nora's eyes lit up. He was very interested in Dong's proposal. If Yu Dong and some other writers could really visit Liechtenstein and hold a book signing there, it would definitely help them increase their visibility.
Liechtenstein has been racking its brains to develop tourism, but their country is too small and can be covered in half a day by bicycle, so there is nothing to see, so they want to develop something more unique.
It was an opportunity for Yu Dong and others to go there.
Chapter completed!