Chapter 62: Goodbye
The symposium with mainland business counselors was arranged until the afternoon. After signing the contract with Sun Renchao in the morning, he rushed back at lightning speed and finally rushed back to San Francisco after lunch.
The symposium was held at a hotel in Grandpa Jester in San Francisco.
In addition to running a Chinese restaurant chain, Jester's grandfather also has several chains of Western-style hotels under his name, but the level is not high. Only this one in San Francisco is the highest four-star, while the others are all three-star.
The formal start of this symposium is after lunch.
Before, Jester got information about this business counselor from his grandfather. It seemed that he had just come from China. He contacted Jester's grandfather as soon as he came to the United States. After hearing that Jester's grandfather had organized an investment group to go to the mainland, he wanted to talk to these Chinese people who were interested in investing in the mainland.
Dispel their concerns about the mainland.
It was 1:30 when Jester arrived at his grandfather's hotel. The symposium was set at two o'clock, and it was in a large conference room in the hotel. Originally, Grandpa Jester planned to let everyone have a meal together, but because of the business counselor from mainland China, it was not done.
This meeting room is on the top floor of the hotel, and Jester looked around bored while waiting for the elevator.
Then, his eyes changed and his expression became a little dull.
He saw a girl wearing a white dress, and the face that had been constantly emerging in his mind for nearly two months became clear.
It was the girl he met in the bookstore in Los Angeles before, named Qin Shuyao.
She was still wearing the plain white dress she had in the bookstore in Los Angeles before, and still had the refreshing ponytail, black leather shoes, and white cotton socks, which was the same as when Jester saw it in Los Angeles.
Then Jester saw a person following her who was dressed in an incompatible state of America.
The other party is not very old and is also a Chinese. He is at most in his early thirties, with capable short hair, a pair of old-fashioned black-framed glasses, and a clean and tidy Zhongshan suit. He has a pen in his pocket on his chest. Just from this outfit, Jester is enough to tell the other party's origin.
Obviously, Jester stared at a girl for a while, which naturally attracted the attention of the person being watched.
Qin Shuyao's face first showed a hint of anger, then glared in the direction of Jester. When she saw Jester's face clearly, a hint of surprise appeared on her face.
"It's you!"
The girl's voice was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, she met the boy she had lent to herself to watch "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" here.
"It's me." Jester just nodded. Facing this girl, he suddenly became a little clumsy, and he really didn't know what to say for the opening remarks.
"I've finished reading the book..." The girl obviously didn't talk to boys very often. She blushed as soon as she opened her mouth. Her voice was a little small, but it was very pleasant in Jester's ears. "I went to your school to find you, but they all said that you were unlikely to go back to school before the holiday ends, so I plan to wait for you to start school and give it to you again... I didn't expect to meet you here today."
"Haha." I don't know how to talk, Jester could only laugh dryly and said, "It's okay, I'm not in a hurry to read that book."
"Is this Mr. Li Jie?" The man dressed as a mainland intellectual walked up and asked with a smile.
"no."
Before Jester could admit it this time, Qin Shuyao took the initiative to speak, "My uncle, his name is Jester Lee, he is a Chinese American, and he is studying at UCLA. The book "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" I was reading before was lent to me."
"Haha!" This time, the man who was called uncle by Qin Shuyao laughed. He said in a teasing tone, "Shuyao, I'll let you be my assistant and help me organize some information about Chinese American entrepreneurs. You don't even understand who Jester Li is?"
These words made Qin Shu's jade-like cheeks turn red, extending to her white neck. She frowned with her beautiful eyebrows and seemed to be thinking hard, wanting to remember what special things the big boy named Jester Li in front of her was, but she still knew nothing after thinking about it for a while, and could only look at her uncle in confusion.
"Don't you usually watch the news?" Qin Shuyao's uncle could only ask this question.
Qin Shuyao shook her head again.
At this time, her uncle laughed and scolded with a little regret: "Your attitude still wants to be my deputy. If you weren't my niece, I would have scolded you to death."
"Hmph!" Qin Shuyao also snorted angrily by her uncle's words, staring at her uncle with two eyes, and said viciously, "If you dare to scold me, I will tell my aunt, you bully me, and see how my aunt deals with you after you go back!"
"Okay, I won't make trouble with you." Qin Shuyao's uncle waved his hand. He turned his eyes to Jester, stretched out his hand, and showed a very standard diplomatic smile on his face. He was neither humble nor arrogant, neither flattering nor alienated. He said in a very formal tone, "Yang Hailong, the business counselor of the Los Angeles Consulate."
"Li Jie, Jester Li, you should have heard my name." Jester also smiled and held the hands of the business counselor named Yang Hailong.
"Of course." Yang Hailong nodded without saying too much. Then he changed his subject and asked curiously, "I think you two knew each other before?"
Then, Jester told me about the encounter with Qin Shuyao in a bookstore in Los Angeles. Of course, he chased him out and gave him a book and naturally didn't say anything about him tying his shoelaces for Qin Shuyao.
He also clearly saw that he did not mention tying his shoelaces, Qin Shuyao's originally nervous and red face showed a relaxed look.
However, seeing Jester looking at him, Qin Shuyao looked away with embarrassment.
"So that's it." Yang Hailong also showed a clear expression.
However, his eyes were still a little weird when he looked at Jester. Jester was also a little uncomfortable when he saw him. Jester, who had a ghost in his heart, couldn't take the initiative to ask why he looked at him with such eyes. Fortunately, Yang Hailong's weird gaze only lasted for a while and then returned to normal.
After the elevator door opened, Jester, Yang Hailong and Qin Shuyao walked into the elevator together.
"I heard from Mr. Li that you plan to invest tens of millions of dollars in China this time?" Yang Hailong took the initiative to ask in the elevator.
Jester did not deny this, and he nodded and admitted: "I plan to build a large electronics manufacturing center in China, and the labor cost in the United States is too high."
Yang Hailong nodded after hearing this and continued to ask, "Have you selected the location?"
Jester shook his head and continued, "I plan to go to the country to check it out, but it must be the coast. I am more optimistic about Shenzhen Town now. After all, it is a special zone, and the conditions and benefits are better."
Yang Hailong smiled when he heard this. He seemed to think for a moment, and then said, "Actually, Mr. Li, in which place your investment of tens of millions of dollars is, there is no difference between welfare and conditions. What conditions can you enjoy in Shenzhen? You can enjoy them in other places. Moreover, after receiving the news from China that I have received a lot of attention from your investment, Minister Jiang of the Ministry of Electronics Industry gave instructions to make sure to clarify your investment goals. You can just raise any conditions."
This surprised Jester. He didn't expect that the investment plan he just talked about when he was chatting with his grandfather would actually make a ministerial-level senior official pay so much attention.
While speaking, Yang Hailong sighed and said, "Although there have been many foreign capitals investing in China before, most of them are industries that are purely exploiting human resources with very low technical content. However, your investment this time is the electronics industry that is most valued in China, not to mention that your investment amount is still so large."
Jester blushed when he heard this, and he couldn't help but make a sound. "Actually, what I plan to invest and build is just for OEM assembly, and this is just an industry that squeezes manpower."
"I know." Yang Hailong heard Jester say this, nodded, signaling himself to understand, and then continued, "But even so, it is something that has never been seen in China."
As he said, his tone became a little low: "Even if it is just OEM assembly, only foreign electronic products are bought in China, but domestic electronic products have never been sold to foreign countries. Although you are just planning to build an electronic product manufacturing center in China, for us, this is a good start. With one, there will be two. We just hope to prove that our Chinese workers can also create such high-tech things."
"So..." Yang Hailong's eyes became warmer when he looked at Jester. He licked his lips and said with great envy, "Minister Jiang has agreed to meet you personally when you go to the mainland. As for what kind of support you will get in addition to the treatment mentioned on paper, you will know then. Moreover, Minister Jiang will be promoted again after this change of leadership. I heard that he is going to Shanghai to serve as the top leader this time."
Jester was moved when he heard what the other party said. He suddenly remembered who was Minister Jiang who was the one Yang Hailong said.
He suppressed his excitement and tried to ask in his most stable tone: "Minister Jiang? Which Minister Jiang?"
Yang Hailong looked at Jester with some surprise, and said strangely: "You don't plan to invest in China. I still don't know which minister you are in charge of? The Ministry of Electronics Industry only has Minister Jiang, why are there any other Minister Jiang? It's the Jiang with three points of water!"
"It's him."
Hearing Yang Hailong's reply, Jester also confirmed who the Minister Jiang was in his mouth.
Chapter completed!