General Headquarters, Double Happiness
In the United States,
the negotiations between Detroit and China cannot be completed in a day or two, and Li Xianshan was not idle during this period.
Last year, Future Auto reached a cooperation intention with General Motors of the United States to jointly produce Future Buick and Future Chevrolet vehicles.
Now after a year of preparation, it was finally time to sign the final agreement, and Li Shanshan also came to GM headquarters in person.
General Motors is the world’s largest automobile manufacturing company. Its core automobile business and subsidiaries are spread all over the world, with a total of 325,000 employees. The company is headquartered in Detroit, the automobile city of the United States.
General Motors was developed on the basis of Buick Motor Company in September 1908. It has become a leader in the global automobile industry since 1931. So far, the company has established automobile manufacturing operations in 33 countries around the world, and its automobile products are sold to more than 200 countries. .
In addition, General Motors Financial Services, a subsidiary of General Motors Company, is also the world’s leading financial services company, providing automotive and commercial loans, mortgage financing, insurance and other services to customers around the world.
The company’s other major businesses include Hughes Electronics, which provides digital television entertainment services and satellite services, and General Motors Locomotive, which manufactures diesel-electric locomotives and commercial diesel engines.
At this moment, Li Shanshan was visiting General Motors President Smith.
This is also a legendary figure. During his 10 years at the helm of GM, Smith has won titles such as “The Most Respected CEO” and “The Most Successful Entrepreneur in Contemporary America.”
Smith warmly welcomed Li Shanshan’s arrival, but in his heart he was not optimistic about the Internet.
In his opinion, the Internet industry is too frothy. The market value of Longkong.com can reach hundreds of billions, even several times that of his own General Motors. This is simply unacceptable to him!
However, he still admired Li Xianshan quite a lot.
No matter what, Li Shanshan is now the richest man in the world, and he is also an entrepreneur from a developing country.
In the United States, a country that worships individual heroism, this is a hero comparable to the captain of the United States.
Another important reason is that Smith himself strongly supports China’s entry into the WTO.
So when Li Xianshan invited him to sign a petition to Congress, he happily signed his name.
Of course, it was not because of his conscience or that he liked Huaxia.
The reason why he did this was that he had long wanted to move General Motors’ production plant!
During the years when Smith served as president, the company’s number of employees dropped from 412,000 to 325,000. The main reason for this was that labor costs in the United States were too high!
In the final analysis, the purpose of layoffs is to pay less money and wages, and to pursue maximizing the company’s interests!
“Mr. Smith, I hope our cooperation will go smoothly in the future and we will establish a joint venture in China to jointly promote the promotion and development of the automobile industry in the Chinese market.”
Li Shanshan said confidently: “I believe this is also a huge opportunity for General Motors. Opportunity!”
“No problem, I hope we can have a happy cooperation!”
After talking about the business, Smith couldn’t help but ask: “Mr. Li, what do you think about this China-Miami bilateral free trade negotiation?” “We have done everything we need to do. ”
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Li Shanshan thought for a while and continued: “I believe that the US government will make up its mind to accept China’s market, especially China’s 1.2 billion population market! Smith
was slightly startled when he heard this, and then looked at Li Shanshan: “Are you so sure that the United States will make concessions in this negotiation and sign the final trade agreement?” “Actually, I’m not sure either. ”
Li Shanshan smiled: “However, the development of the world cannot be separated from China. This is the general trend! ”
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“hope so. Smith
shook his head: “If China and the United States really reach a free trade agreement, we will have more cooperation opportunities!” ”
Now he is determined to set up factories in China, especially some auto parts factories. He also plans to set them all in China! Smith
has an account in his heart. The cost of auto parts produced in China is lower than that in the United States. One-third, and the quality problems are almost negligible. After all, they are all produced in large assembly line factories, so there are no quality problems. In this case, even if there will be
freight in the middle, the cost of sea transportation is very low, and large quantities In the case of production, the profit of his company will definitely be much higher than before!
For Smith who pursues higher interests, Huaxia is definitely the best choice, and Li Shanshan is the best partner!
After all, Li Shanshan has already demonstrated his strength. His mature industrial park in Longshan City shocked Smith.
Originally, he thought that Li Shanshan’s main business was only the Internet, and cars and water sales were his side businesses.
But after today’s experience After some contact, he found that Americans still didn’t have a comprehensive understanding of the world’s richest man!
Li Shanshan said in an interview with Forbes that Longkong.com was just his side business. At that time, everyone just regarded it as a joke.
But now, Smith I really believe it. Longkong.com may really be just a side business of his!
“Hiss…”
Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but take a breath, and he didn’t know that after a few years of development, what would happen in front of him? How high will this young man reach?!
Just when Smith was thinking wildly, a secretary suddenly walked in quickly and whispered a few words to him.
“Li, congratulations! Smith
suddenly showed a bright smile: “Maybe we can speed up the pace of cooperation!” ”
“oh? Li
Shanshan was stunned for a moment, but he quickly responded: “So, the free trade negotiations between China and the United States have been reached!” ? ”
“Yes! ”
Smith said with a smile: “Let’s celebrate together! ”
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On September 21, after 6 days and 6 nights of negotiations, China and the United States finally signed a bilateral agreement!
In every negotiation in the past 15 years, China “never intended to reduce one dollar, and never wanted to lose one dollar.” Say one word to get a compromise!
After the unremitting efforts of the Chinese delegation, coupled with domestic pressure from the United States, the United States finally had to agree to “solve the issue of China’s accession to the WTO in a flexible and pragmatic manner.” Under
this premise , this time the negotiation between the two parties was fair and was beneficial to us to the maximum extent without violating international practices. First, our country has won the
leadership in the transition period and market opening. Second, our country has been able to achieve economic development in an all-round way. It made the necessary flexible response within the scope of its tolerance. Third, it forced the negotiating party to meet our requirements during the negotiation. In the end, the United States promised
to grant our country permanent normal trade relations (that is, most-favored-nation treatment) and waived the general guarantee clause (that is, in After China joins the WTO, the United States can terminate WTO relations with us at any time), agree to relax restrictions on high-tech exports to China, etc.
Li Shanshan knows that the United States finally bowed!
