Reborn 92's Business Tycoon

Chapter 434: News from the big meeting

'The scenery on the south side is still better,' Feng Yiping muttered as he looked outside the car.

'It's their short skirts, isn't it?' Jin Ling next to him picked up the sentence.

'Aren't you looking at the documents?' Feng Yiping turned his head in surprise.

Jin Ling had been intently reading a few folders since getting in the car. Was she just pretending?

'I promised Jingping I'd keep an eye on things for her,' said Jin Ling, still without looking up from her documents.

This exhibition involved a very tight work schedule, and it was inconvenient to eat and stay in these days, so Huang Jingping had stayed at home and didn't come with them.

'In junior high school, I learned a poem that says, 'The ducks are the first to know when the spring river water warms'. It's not easy to see ducks these days, but it's easy to tell if the spring river water is warm or not – just look at the skirts,' Feng Yiping said with a smile, looking out the window at the girls who couldn't wait to put on their short skirts.

Jin Ling laughed and gave him a little tap on the shoulder, and even the driver couldn't help but laugh.

Feng Yiping did not fight back, but still smiled and looked at the girls in short skirts outside. At this time in the capital, many OLs in the company office buildings wear skirts, but it is difficult to encounter them on the street or in school. Moreover, Feng Yiping feels that skirts are most tasteful when worn in spring and summer.

The new factory building, which had only just been completed not long ago, looked even cleaner and tidier today. Xiong Yuliang was there with a group of people from export sales setting up the exhibition stand, while Lao Cai was minding the factory and organising the staff to work overtime to get these facade projects done.

Being so close to the Canton Fair, there are always customers who are willing to visit the factory. This is one of the reasons why the signing amount of the previous Canton Fairs has always been among the highest. Customers who are interested in the exhibition are more likely to sign a contract if they visit the factory.

'Yiping, Jin Zong, can you help check and see what else has not been done well?' Lao Cai asked with some uncertainty at the end of the tour he gave them around the factory.

You have to know that in the next few days, the factory may be receiving foreigners. For an older person like Lao Cai, who comes from the working class, this is not just business. He doesn't want the foreigners to see the slightest thing that is not good.

'It's quite good,' Jin Ling said, looking at the neatly trimmed lawn, the patch of newly repaired concrete at the entrance to the factory that hadn't yet dried, and the smell of paint drifting from the black iron fence. After the factory was built, the fence had been exposed to the wind and rain, and some of the paint had flaked off, so it seemed to have been repainted. He smiled and said, 'Yes, everything is quite good. Uncle Cai, you don't need to think too much about it. The foreigners who come to the factory will also be businessmen, and they will argue with you over a dollar. In essence, they are no different from domestic customers. And our factory, under your management, will definitely be able to attract foreign customers.'

'Yes, everything is fine. Uncle Cai, you don't need to think too much about it. The foreigners who come to the factory will all be businessmen, and they will argue with you for a long time over a dollar. In essence, they are no different from domestic customers.

And our factory, under your management, is absolutely world-class in terms of scale, hardware, greenery, and environment. Don't worry!' Feng Yiping also reassured Lao Cai.

He had just gone to the bathroom to check it out, and it was very good, completely on par with the Yijia Hotel.

'Oh, don't laugh, this is probably the first time this old man has officially dealt with a foreigner,' Lao Cai said with a smile.

'Get in touch with them a few more times, and you'll see that it's not a big deal. Our factory is mainly for foreign trade, so dealing with foreign businessmen is just a normal thing to do in the future.' Jin Ling also understood Lao Cai's feelings.

After a tour of the factory, Lao Cai gathered the supervisors together, met with the two bosses, and had lunch together outside. In the afternoon, the driver drove the company-rented Coaster and took them to the hotel they had booked. Tomorrow, the 87th Canton Fair will open, and it will definitely be too late to leave until tomorrow morning.

There is always heavy traffic, and these past two days, it must be even worse.

Because the booth was obtained through Director Jin, the provincial department in charge of the delegation had a mobilization meeting in the afternoon, and Jin Ling had to attend. Feng Yiping declined the driver's request to take him to the exhibition hall. At this time, driving there in that large car was not a good choice.

There were already more cars than usual, and to make matters worse, construction of Metro Line 2 was underway in the East Square of the railway station, which exacerbated the congestion near the exhibition hall. It would definitely be faster to go there on foot by yourself.

The Liuhua Exhibition Hall is located in a busy area, and later became Feng Yiping's second home. He was familiar with the area and walked through the streets and alleys. Along the way, he felt that he encountered more foreigners than locals. They spoke in various languages and were chattering as they walked in the same direction. Behind them were the excited hotel and restaurant owners and staff.

According to statistics, the Canton Fair, which is held twice a year, brings in 6 billion yuan in revenue for the city. Although it is definitely not that much now, half of it, 3 billion yuan, is a safe bet.

So when the spring and autumn Canton Fairs are held, it is a time of joy and laughter for the service industry. Not only are they not worried about customers, but they are usually fully booked 20 days before the opening.

And these days, whether the guests are domestic or overseas, they are all on business trips, which costs more than those on leisure trips, and they are the golden customers among the customers.

The name of the Liuhua Exhibition Hall is still 'China Export Commodities Fair' and has not yet been changed to 'China Import and Export Fair'. Although similar exhibitions are also held in the capital and Shanghai, the Canton Fair is still the first choice for many companies interested in earning foreign exchange for the country's exports.

Although the dot-com bubble had burst in the United States, this year's Canton Fair still had a distinct internet flavour. Dozens of billboards outside the venue were booked by a trading website, with the slogan 'Build a Fair that Never Ends', which sounds pretty corny according to Feng Yiping.

Later, Alibaba, which created China's richest man and nurtured many online shoppers, bought the advertising space on the buses for the fair.

The area around the exhibition hall was very crowded, and there seemed to be more foreigners. They had to apply for an access pass. This year's exhibition had some reforms. The duration was shortened from 15 days to 12 days. Many foreign businessmen came early. And because the Asian financial crisis had ended and the world economy was generally improving, there were more foreign exhibitors than last time.

There were a lot of cars, and even more trucks. It seems that the exhibitors were still setting up their booths. And there were nearly 1,000 more booths in this session than in the previous one.

There was also more police around the exhibition halls than usual. This is a national-level exhibition, the third largest in the world. The spring session in particular has always been a barometer of China's foreign trade, so nothing must go wrong.

The hotels and buildings around the exhibition halls are really close to the water and the moon. Taking advantage of their advantageous geographical location, they have successively converted their shops into temporary exhibition booths for rent at high prices.

Now, although the official exhibition has not yet started, outside the venue, foreign trade personnel who should not be able to get a booth for their company, or who are not exhibiting for other reasons, are already working with a spirit more persistent than that of the salesmen who will later buy insurance.

These handsome young men or pretty young women are all dressed professionally. Whenever a foreign merchant passes by, they will follow him, say, 'excuse me,' and take out a sample with their business card from their bag, enthusiastically introducing their company's products, regardless of what the other party wants to purchase. They really have the attitude of rather killing a thousand by mistake than letting one go.

In front of the exhibition hall, there was a unique sight: a group of 'student translators' made up of students from various universities, holding up red signboards with the names of their schools and majors on them, waiting for customers to hire them.

Feng Yiping found a pair of glasses and had a chat with the owner. He found out that they earned quite well doing this, generally getting 200 to 250 RMB a day, and graduate students could get even more, almost 400. If they happened to meet some foreign businessmen who paid in US dollars, it would be even more.

Wow, twice a year, 24 days in total, if they get work every day, they can easily earn enough for living expenses for an entire semester. It really is true that different environments shape different people.

In the evening, at the hotel where they were staying, Jin Ling, who had just finished the meeting at the Provincial Department of Commerce, also hosted a meeting. He didn't say much, just giving everyone encouragement.

In fact, not only did Cai value it, but everyone at the furniture factory, which was participating in the Canton Fair for the first time, also valued it.

Before everyone went to their rooms to rest, they also received the benefits of participating in this exhibition – custom-made grey suits that exhibitors could wear casually, but they didn't want to be casual in order to look professional.