Chapter 458 Convergence
Due to the time difference, Chen Huai boarded the plane from Yanjing International Airport at noon and landed in London, the sun was slightly slanted here, as if he had only been on the plane for less than two hours.
In Shen Huai's impression, London's winter is wet and rainy, but when he got off the plane, the sky was covered with clouds of various shapes, which made the sun shine in gold and jade.
London's international airport is very busy, and Shenhuai and passengers on the same plane rushed to the customs inspection port to line up in front of the customs inspection port.
In front of Shen Huai, a middle-aged couple who departed from Yanjing on the same flight to visit their relatives in the UK. They only knew a few simple English. When faced with the question from customs personnel, they could not understand or speak, and their faces were flushed with anxiety.
Chen Huai first greeted the customs staff in English, and asked the middle-aged couple to take out their return tickets, telling them that in order to prevent illegal immigration, the customs inspected people who came to the UK for the first time.
After seeing the middle-aged couple showing their return tickets, the customs staff relaxed the inspection and allowed the middle-aged couple to pass quickly.
Chen Huai didn't delay the inspection port any time. He got his luggage and rushed to the luggage inspection office.
At the luggage inspection office, the middle-aged couple was so anxious that their faces were flushed and at a loss because of language barriers and foods such as sausages, meat and other foods in their luggage. When they saw Chen Huai coming, they greeted him in anticipation to be the translator.
Chen Huai became an interpreter again and patiently helped them communicate with the customs staff first. He saw that they entered and exited the airport before starting his luggage check.
Chen Huai came out of the passage with his luggage and saw Cheng Yi wearing a camel-colored tweed coat standing among the crowd picking up the plane, which was particularly eye-catching.
Cheng Yi saw Chen Huai simply carrying a big backpack on his shoulder, walking out of the passage in a simple manner, and waved at him with a smile, fearing that he would not see him.
The last time Yu Wenli, a girl who returned to Yanjing from London on a plane, accompanied Cheng Yi to pick her up.
The last time I took the plane, Cheng Yi believed that Chen Huai would not want to see Liu Fulong again, but was afraid that he would have any prejudice against Yu Wenli, so when Chen Huai came over, he explained first: "I don't have a car in London, so I have to pull Wenli out as a driver..."
It is very difficult to have one or two friends who are familiar with each other in London and can trust each other. Chen Huai can also understand the relationship between Cheng Yi and Yu Wenli, but he did not become cold because of Liu Fulong.
Yu Wenli gives people the impression that she is a beautiful girl who grew up in a greenhouse and is well-behaved. Her relationship with Liu Fulong is also a victim of the relationship between the Yu family and the Liu family.
Chen Huai thought that Cheng Yi might feel like she was sympathetic to each other on this point.
On the other hand, Chen Huai and Cheng Yi are only maintaining a superficial relationship to cope with pressure from both families. Cheng Yi will not interfere in his life, and naturally he will not interfere in Cheng Yi's private life.
Seeing Yu Wenli reaching out, Chen Huai shook her hand and smiled and said, "If you can let Miss Yu be a driver, I can brag about this for the first half of the year when I return to China..." He said to Cheng Yi again, "The flight Sun Yalin takes will be about half an hour before we arrive. Should we find a place to stay first?"
It was very convenient for Sun Yalin to come to London from Paris; Chen Huai still spoke to Sun Yalin on the phone before boarding the plane, and only then did he know that she had decided to come to London temporarily, but he couldn't say anything to Cheng Yi in advance.
Cheng Yi also knew that Chen Huai came to London to meet her, but it was just an excuse to divert others' attention, and in fact there was something else to deal with.
Chen Huai made an appointment to meet with Sun Yalin in London. It seems that Chen Huai's main purpose is to come to London, so Cheng Yi naturally would not feel any surprises. After checking the specific arrival time of the flight Sun Yalin was on, Chen Huai and Cheng and Yu and the other girl went to the cafe at the airport to take a short ride.
Maybe I wanted to make up for the unpleasantness of my last trip back to China. In the cafe, Yu Wenli also greeted Chen Huai very eagerly: "It's also a blessing that you came here this time, otherwise we would have to spend this Spring Festival by writing papers in the dormitory in the suburbs. It would be so miserable..."
"Doesn't there be any activities organized in Chinatown and international students in London during the Spring Festival?" Chen Huai asked strangely.
There are as many as 40 to 50 million overseas Chinese around the world, but 80% are concentrated in Southeast Asia, followed by the United States. The number of Chinese who settled in Europe was still in the 1960s and 1970s. The number of Chinese people living in China increased sharply. They are currently mainly concentrated in Britain and France, and there are currently about one million.
Although it is not like Paris, the Chinese community in London is quite large, with about one-third gathering, about 70,000 or 80,000 Chinese living in the UK, and there are also a few Chinese students. Chen Huai believes that the activities organized by Chinese in London during the Spring Festival should not be in a few.
Cheng Yi said: "The Chinese students in London are mainly Hong Kong students. The atmosphere is a bit weird and sensitive. Instead of having an unpleasant party, it is better to stay in the dormitory and write a paper..."
Without Cheng Yi's explanation, Chen Huai could understand what Cheng Yi said about the strange air circumference and sensitivity meant what letter, but just smiled and didn't talk about unpleasant topics.
Hong Kong will officially return to the embrace of the motherland in another year and a half. It is a wishful thinking that every Hong Kong person is happy to do so.
In recent years, it is precisely because of the recent return to the near future that Hong Kong is setting off a high immigration trend, and the UK is the main place for Hong Kong immigrants. Due to the special historical relationship between the UK and Hong Kong, Chinese students in London have always been mainly composed of Hong Kong students, which makes a considerable number of Chinese and international students living in the UK and have no sense of identity with the motherland.
When Cheng Yi came from China, she had a special background and it was indeed difficult to integrate into the Chinese group in London.
"I heard from Sun Yalin that the Chinese Business Federation will organize a New Year's Eve dinner tonight. It's a buffet anyway. I don't think I'll check the number of people. Let's go in and have fun together, how about it?" Chen Huai asked.
"Okay. But if you get out, it will depend on you." Cheng Yi agreed with a smile. She didn't want to be so bored in her dormitory writing papers during the Spring Festival.
Although overseas Chinese have a great difference in their sense of identity with their motherland, most entrepreneurs and businessmen in the Chinese community pay great attention to using the political and economic advantages of their hometown countries and using the special social capital created by kinship to expand their careers and improve their status.
Over the past decade of reform and opening up, the domestic focus of attracting investment in Chinese business has been on Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and the connection and exploration of Chinese businessmen in Western Europe are far from enough.
Although the Chinese businessmen in Western Europe are not as powerful as Southeast Asia, there are a group of outstanding Chinese business families such as the Sun Family in Paris, the Wu Family in London, and the Shan Family in Liverpool. They are often local Chinese leaders, with huge influence and close contact with each other.
Sun Yalin temporarily decided to go to the UK to meet with Chen Huai in advance, and mainly to attend the New Year's Eve dinner organized by the British Chinese Business Association tonight with Chen Huai.
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Sun Yalin and the others came from Paris, and the passing procedures were much simpler than Chen Huai and the others came from China.
Chen Huai and his team didn't wait much time in the pick-up area, but they saw the tall Sun Yalin and her father Sun Qishan walking out conspicuously accompanied by the entourage.
"Why did the cousin come here too?" Chen Huai was quite surprised when Sun Qishan left Paris on New Year's Eve and came to London in person. He asked with a smile.
"You threw the bomb out in advance, and Paris was also affected," Sun Qishan said with a smile. "I originally made an appointment with Wu Wenxiong from the Wu family in London to meet after the New Year, but when I thought of you coming to London, I simply came here first and introduced you to Wu Wenxiong. I will rush back to Paris tonight."
London is not far from Paris, and it only takes three or four hours to take the train. Sun Qishan is now with Sun Yalin to London and then back to Paris at night, which is not very inconvenient.
I don’t know how much effort Sun Yalin put in, but Chen Huai is still deeply grateful for Sun Qishan’s ability to come here in person.
Although Chen Huai also planned to contact the Wu family at tonight's dinner, it was obvious that the effect was completely different from Sun Yalin's recommendation and Sun Qishan's personal recommendation.
Although Sun Yalin is a rising star in the Sun family, her influence among the Chinese business community in Western Europe is far from comparable to her father.
Chen Huai introduced Cheng Yi and Yu Wenli met Sun Qishan.
Yu Wenli is also from a good background, but Jingrui Group is a newly emerging mainland enterprise. It is far from similar to the Chinese business consortium like the Sun family, which has been rooted in Western Europe for more than half a century. What’s more important is that the vision has not been opened yet. In front of old-school Chinese businessmen like Sun Qishan and Sun Yalin, they are still a little restrained.
It’s okay for Cheng Yi to have a father who is an alternate member of the Central Committee. No matter where he put it, he would not make people feel lightweight. She had met Sun Yalin a few times before, but she was not discomfortable. She was just a little surprised that Chen Huai threw a bomb, and the Dahua Business Group, which was called Paris, was also shocked.
However, Cheng Yi wanted to maintain her relationship with Chen Huai at the level of ordinary friends and coping with family pressure together. Although she was curious, she would not ask anything more.
Through the family foundation, the Sun family directly controls about 25% of Changqing Group's shares, and this equity assets are as high as US$2 billion. Even in Western Europe, where capital power is developed, the entire Changqing Group can be regarded as a consortium-type Chinese business enterprise with huge strength.
Meixi Power Plant and Meixi Port Terminal will not cause any major shock in the investment in Changqing Group. After all, this investment scale is still a little smaller than that of Changqing Group's huge power.
The key is that Sun Qiyi, who was in charge of Asia-Pacific affairs before, despising Meigang, which led to some confusion in the Asia-Pacific affairs of Changqing Group. Later, he had to overcorrect it and pay more attention to Meixi's investment opportunities.
In addition to the promotion of Sun Yalin, Sun Qishan and Yexin Bank, Meixi's investment opportunities are highlighted in the overall Asia-Pacific investment layout of Changqing Group.
This is also the effect that Chen Huai had to achieve before a series of actions.
Even though Sun Qiyi still had an aversion to Chen Huai, in order to maintain his position as the president of the Asia-Pacific and avoid making any mistakes and handles for others to seize, he had to pay more attention to the investment opportunities given by Chen Huai this time.
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