Who is this Lin Tongchun?
Ordinary people may have never heard of it.
But if you are overseas Chinese in Japan, or people from Fuqing, Fujian Province, you will definitely know his name well.
Lin Tongchun was born in 1925. His father went to Japan to make a living when he was five years old. When he was nine years old, his father took him and his mother to Japan.
Since childhood, he has followed his father in the clothing fabric business, and later entered the real estate and department store businesses. He later also dabbled in the entertainment industry and international trade.
He is a leader of overseas Chinese in Japan, an entrepreneur, and a philanthropist. He is also an envoy for promoting friendship between China and Japan, advancing cultural exchanges between China and Japan, and facilitating many friendly projects.
He rose from poverty to become a leader of overseas Chinese businessmen. He was deeply attached to his homeland and donated over 100 million to support education and public welfare in his hometown.
In short, it is no exaggeration to say that he is the number one overseas Chinese in Japan.
What is even more rare is that he has always had his heart set on the motherland, and his deep patriotism was practiced throughout his life.
In his previous life, when Lin Huowang was working in a clothing factory and a toy factory in Shenzhen and wanted to expand into the Japanese market, he met Lin Tongchun, who was already 70 years old at the time, through an intermediary.
As mentioned before, Lin Huowang's clothing factory and toy factory wanted to obtain the authorization for Pikachu, the IP image of Nintendo's popular animated game, but the other party actually offered a sky-high price of 50 million.
In the end, it was old man Lin Tongchun who stepped in to mediate the negotiations and lowered the price to less than 10 million.
If Chinese businessmen want to do business in Japan, they will definitely get twice the result with half the effort if they can get the introduction and help of Mr. Lin Tongchun.
Lin Tongchun also did his best to help domestic companies in Japan, introducing advanced production lines and technologies from Japan to promote domestic industrial upgrading and development.
Lin Tongchun played a crucial role in the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations.
Moreover, Lin Tongchun also actively promoted Chinese culture in Japan, expanded the influence of Chinese people, and fought for the legal rights and interests of overseas Chinese in Japan.
Lin Huowang recalled carefully that this time the Japanese delegation led by Lin Tongchun visited Jilin Province for exchanges, and it seemed that the main target was Jilin Province's Chuncheng First Automobile Factory.
This is at the invitation of the Jilin Provincial Government, hoping to introduce some production lines and advanced technologies of Japan's Toyota Motor to Chuncheng FAW, so as to enhance my country's overall automobile manufacturing capabilities.
Especially for the three major parts of a car, most of my country's major automobile factories are still using old engines and other technologies from the 1950s and 1960s that have been eliminated by the Soviet Union.
Not only does it consume a lot of fuel and make a lot of noise, but it is also not conducive to lightweighting and use in family cars.
Therefore, after the relations with developed countries abroad have eased in recent years, several major domestic automobile manufacturers have been seeking to introduce technology.
It can be said that governments in various places are trying their best to contact several world-renowned automobile companies in the hope of obtaining advanced technology for improvement.
Major manufacturers such as Japan's Toyota, Germany's Volkswagen, and the United States' Ford have all been invited to visit and conduct research in China.
However, when they saw the engine technology of our major automobile manufacturers, they couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Because we are so backward. It is no longer a matter of generation gap with foreign countries, but a comprehensive backwardness. Some of the technologies they have eliminated are much better than the most advanced technologies we have now.
It is precisely because of this that these international automobile giants, on the one hand, underestimate our car-making capabilities, and on the other hand, are thinking about how to sell our backward technology to us at a high price.
This time Toyota visited FAW with the same intention.
What’s funny is that Lin Tongchun thought that Toyota was sincere about cooperating with domestic companies, so he was so enthusiastic in helping to build bridges.
It’s a pity that Toyota’s appetite was too big and the conditions it proposed were harsh and greedy. In the end, FAW Jilin Province would never agree to it no matter what.
As a result, FAW was delayed for so many years. It was not until the mid-1980s that it started cooperation with Volkswagen of Germany and gradually realized the localization of the Audi 100 at that time through the assembly of completely disassembled parts.
Of course, all of this is a story for later. Even if Lin Huowang is a reborn person, no matter how arrogant he is, he can't get involved in the automobile manufacturing industry at this time.
Not to mention that the private economy in China has not been liberalized yet, even in the late 1980s, when the spring breeze of reform and opening up was blowing vigorously, the domestic car manufacturing licenses were all state-owned large factories. If a private economy or a small private factory wanted to make a car, it would be a dream!
Even companies like Geely, which were the first to build cars, all operated without a license at the beginning. They boldly started building cars without even having a license to build one.
At that time, Geely’s founder Li Shufu said a bold quote: making a car is just a sofa with four wheels!
This shows how bold and daring the private entrepreneurs at that time were, and the key is that they actually succeeded in the end.
“This is such a magical and crazy era!”
Thinking of all these things, Lin Huowang couldn't help but feel his blood boiling.
Since in this wave of reform and opening up, countless outstanding private entrepreneurs have been able to overcome numerous difficulties and finally take up the banner of domestic manufacturing.
It doesn't make sense. With my experience of rebirth and foresight into the future, I can't change the weaknesses in various fields in the country?
We, the reborn people, should speed up the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
"County Magistrate Xiong, I'd like to ask you for help with something..."
After thinking for a while, Lin Huowang said seriously.
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