Convincing Du Minghua that Che Yueying and his wife's work was extremely difficult. Although Du Xiaoyuan was already in his early 30s, he had never left Tongyuan since he was a child. He had always lived under the nose of the old couple. Now he suddenly said he wanted to go to Africa, but his soul was scared away.

Du Xiaodi gritted his teeth and did ideological work for his parents for a month. Feng Xiaochen also patted his chest and said that the speaker of Avarena was his buddy, and the director of Zhonga Industrial Park was his subordinate. Du Xiaoyuan went there to be safer than put in a safe, and he ate and drank delicious food every day, and local girls took care of their daily life. It was definitely a happy life like a stupid son of the landlord. Du Xiaoyi and Huang Changfeng were also helping each other, saying that he would also go to Africa and that he could take care of Du Xiaoyuan in the future, and there would be no problem.

As for Du Xiaoyuan himself, he gave his parents a multiple-choice question: either let him go to Africa, or he was a playboy like he used to be, bullying men and women all day long, so that the old couple had no face to meet others in Tongyuan.

Du Xiaoyuan's threat ultimately played a role. After all, Du Minghua and his wife were both workers, and had some simple worldview and were quite despised by the playboys. Seeing that his son would be so disgraceful to him, the couple gritted their hearts and agreed to let Du Xiaoyuan go to Africa to see it first. If the environment there is okay, then work for a few years and save some qualifications to find a good unit. If the environment is not good, then forget it. Anyway, the family can support him.

In addition, the old couple also put forward two conditions for Du Xiaoyuan: First, he must find a partner within three years. If he can give birth to all the children, it is naturally the best; second, the partner must be Chinese, so don’t bring a black girl back. The old couple is old and cannot stand this stimulation.

Du Xiaoyuan agreed to his parents' request, and then happily joined Wang Ruidong on the plane to Africa. Wang Ruidong was impulsive at the beginning and said he wanted to do business with Du Xiaoyuan. During this period, the two brother-in-law were hanging out together, and they even found that they were in love with each other, so they joked and really invested together to establish a company, and named them Far East Machinery Company.

Du Minghua and his wife have received a lot of dividends in the Tongyuan branch of Chuntian Restaurant over the years, all of whom have planned to get married for their son. Now they are just taking it out for him as entrepreneurial capital. Seeing that his son is so energetic that he seems to have become a different person, the old couple also feel quite pleased and hide his worries and reluctance deeply.

As soon as Du Xiaoyi left, Du Minghua and his wife had no children around him and became an empty-nest elderly man. Feng Xiaochen asked them to move to the capital so that they could take care of him and Du Xiaodi nearby. However, the old couple of Du family said that they were used to living in Tongyuan, and there were many old colleagues and neighbors around him, but they were not used to going to the capital. Feng Xiaochen advised him a few times, but when he saw that the other party was firm, he stopped talking. The old couple was actually not old and in good health, so there was no problem living in Tongyuan. It was really uncomfortable to let them come to the capital.

For Feng Xiaochen, these housework are just to consider using his spare time. He is becoming more and more busy and has more and more work ideas. After several years of adjustment, China's economy has come out of the trough of the mid-1990s and has begun to enter the fast lane. All walks of life have put forward high requirements for the equipment manufacturing industry. As the general manager of the Equipment Industry Company, he really feels of great pressure.

"T negotiations, why do you need to ask for my opinion?"

In a conference room of the National Development Planning Commission, Feng Xiaochen complained to Wang Zhenbin, the director of a certain department with an innocent face. Wang Zhenbin was Feng Xiaochen's classmate when he was a graduate student at the Academy of Social Sciences. He has worked diligently in the State Planning Commission for several years and has become the chief manager. Today, he invited Feng Xiaochen to come here for a special trip, saying that the officials who participated in the T-negotiation wanted to ask him for some advice.

"Isn't China's commitment clause on the equipment manufacturing industry drafted by your Equipment Industry Company? In order to win the best conditions for your equipment manufacturing department, the country has made great concessions in agricultural products, rare earth export quotas, etc., do you not know this?" Wang Zhenbin asked back.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Of course I know. Thanks to the country for its support, we will also work hard to improve our technical level and will never let down the favorable conditions created by the country."

t, that is, the World Trade Organization, is not as tall as some people think. It is just an international version of the vegetable market we usually see. The World Trade Organization is a place for countries to bargain on trade issues. Each country joins the WTO to maximize its benefits. If a country claims that its purpose of joining the WTO is to the lofty ideal of free trade, either he is a fool himself or he regards other countries as fools.

China has applied to restore its status as a contracting party in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade since the mid-1980s. This "resumption of the customs" negotiation lasted for more than ten years and finally ended with the failure of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was changed to the WTO, and China's resumption of the customs negotiations became WTO negotiations, which took several years.

The difficulty of negotiations on joining the WTO is that both parties have their own demands. Each party hopes to get the greatest benefit from the other party and minimize their own losses. For China, the biggest demand for joining the WTO is to allow the cheap consumer goods they manufacture to enter the markets of developed countries without any obstacles. For developed countries, they hope that China will open up markets such as automobiles, industrial equipment, finance, and cultural products so that they can use their technological advantages to gain excess profits from China.

It is obviously impossible to get benefits without paying the price in negotiations. China has many important areas that need protection. If each area insists on not opening up to abroad, then foreign countries will naturally not open up their markets to China, and there is no need for China to negotiate the WTO. To protect some areas, other areas must be sacrificed. This is the minimum common sense in negotiations.

China's equipment manufacturing industry is still technically backward compared to Western countries. If the world is fully opened, Western industrial equipment will flock in, destroying the equipment manufacturing industry that China has worked hard to build. In order to protect the equipment manufacturing industry, the country has given up many rights and interests, including opening up some agricultural product markets and promising to export rare earths and other resources to the international market. These are all necessary exchange conditions, and no Long Aotian can be exempted by just expelling his turtle.

Feng Xiaochen is of course very familiar with these situations. In fact, the list of equipment fields that need protection is provided by the Equipment Industry Company to the T negotiation team. Some equipment China's manufacturing technology is already as good as Western countries, so there is no need to be included in the scope of protection. The fewer projects that need protection, the smaller the price the country pays.

It is precisely because of this reason that when Wang Zhenbin said that the negotiating officials were going to discuss some issues with Feng Xiaochen, Feng Xiaochen obediently rushed to the Dispatch Planning Commission. He said that the negotiations had nothing to do with him, and it was just a casual talk. In fact, he also knew that the relationship between T and the equipment industry was too close.

While he was talking, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and a staff member walked in with several officials. The leader saw Feng Xiaochen and hurried forward to shake hands with him, while also politely saying: "Mr. Feng, sorry, I've invited you here."

Feng Xiaochen looked closely and found that the other party was Xu Zhenbo, the director of the Foreign Trade Department, and he was also an old friend of Feng Xiaochen. While shaking hands with the other party, Feng Xiaochen responded with a smile: "It turns out that it is Director Xu, lucky to meet, lucky to meet."

"I originally should have visited Mr. Feng at the equipment company, but because this matter has something to do with the Development and Planning Commission, I still need to invite Director Wang to attend the talks, so I had to take the liberty to ask Director Wang to provide a venue and invite Mr. Feng over." Xu Zhenbo explained.

Feng Xiaochen said: "Look at what Director Xu said, Director Wang is my elder brother. Isn't it normal for him to come to talk to him? Even if Director Xu doesn't call me, I will often come to report to Director Wang."

"Youngest, your mouth is much more neat than before. I, the big brother, don't know how to answer it." Wang Zhenbin pointed at Feng Xiaochen with his finger and said helplessly.

These people are department-level cadres. Feng Xiaochen is a cadre in the enterprise. Logically speaking, he has a lower status. However, Wang Zhenbin and Xu Zhenbo both know that he is deeply appreciated by superior leaders and has a lot of connections in the field of equipment manufacturing. He is a young talent that cannot be underestimated. In addition, Feng Xiaochen has just been absorbed into the Party Group of the Economic and Trade Commission, which is only one step away from the deputy ministerial level. Wang Zhenbin and Xu Zhenbo are both older, so it is estimated that the career of the officialdom will end here. Based on these situations, the two of them naturally have to be more respectful to Feng Xiaochen, which can be regarded as "don't bully the young man's poor."

After the greetings, the guest and the host and the guests sat down separately and began the talks. As the host, Wang Zhenbin first delivered a brief welcome speech, and then Xu Zhenbo made a speech:

"Director Wang, Mr. Feng, today I would like to both of you. There is a very important issue. The Minister asked me to listen to your opinions. We are currently negotiating with the United States on joining T. The United States proposes that we significantly reduce the import tariffs on refined oils so that the refined oil produced by the United States can enter the Chinese market more. Before that, the Development and Planning Commission once proposed that we hope to maintain protection of refined oils so that our country's energy supply will be manipulated by foreign forces. I would like to ask you two, what further considerations do you have on this matter."
Chapter completed!