Chapter 282 Autumn Fair
"Ningning!"
A call made Yue Ning turn around. Zhou Mingxuan, wearing a navy blue work suit, was squeezing over with a stack of lathe drawings in his arms. There was a little sweat on his forehead. "Director Wang from Shanghai said that the feed box of their C6140 lathe has been improved. I don't understand it at first."
Yue Ning took the blueprint and looked at the densely packed mechanical drawings, she didn’t understand either!
Other members of the team also came over one after another. They were all students majoring in economics and business, and they really couldn't understand this.
Yue Ning suddenly looked up and said to Zhou Mingxuan: "Come with me."
She took Zhou Mingxuan to find Qiao Jinxing, who was handing out business cards to foreign businessmen. After he finished handing out the cards, Yue Ning said, "Brother, do you understand this?"
Qiao Jinxing looked down at the blueprint and asked Zhou Mingxuan. Zhou Mingxuan shook his head: "How about you come with me to the booth and talk to the foreign businessmen?"
Qiao Jinxing turned to look at their factory director: "Director Li?"
"They are all helping our country's enterprises. You have only been back to Shanghai for more than a year, and they don't know you." Director Li said that they had sneaked in and could not let the leaders find out.
Qiao Jinxing followed Zhou Mingxuan over. There were several German guests at the booth. Qiao Jinxing started communicating with them in German and explained the problem clearly in no time.
"Comrade, thank you!" Director Wang of the machine tool factory shook hands with Qiao Jinxing.
Qiao Jinxing said, "You're welcome, you're welcome."
"Comrade! Judging from your accent, you seem to be from Shanghai?" asked Director Wang.
Hearing this, the comrade from the import and export company who was worrying about the translation came over and asked, "Comrade! Which unit sent you here?"
Qiao Jinxing didn't expect that his accent would give him away. He followed Ning Ning in, so what should he say now?
Director Li was watching from a distance. Seeing Qiao Jinxing's embarrassed expression, he quickly ran over and greeted him: "Manager Hou, this is Old Qiao from our Switchgear Factory No. 4."
"Lao Li, why are you here? Didn't I tell you about your product..."
Yue Ning finished and came over and called out, "Big Brother."
Qiao Jinxing called out, "Ningning!"
When Manager Hou of Shanghai Import and Export Company saw Yue Ning coming over, he asked, "Xiao Yue, is this your elder brother?"
"My boyfriend's eldest cousin. He works at Shanghai Switch Factory No. 4. This time he happened to come to Hong Kong to attend my boyfriend's brother's wedding. When he talked about the situation in their factory, my boyfriend helped him contact the Japanese PN company. As for me, I thought of bringing him to the exhibition to see if there are any opportunities." Yue Ning said directly.
"I see!"
"Yes! He said that Director Li still has to make the decision on business matters, so he invited Director Li over. I asked Director Chen for quotas and brought them both in." Yue Ning said with a smile.
Director Li immediately said, "Manager Hou, Xiao Yue asked Lao Qiao and I to come in and take a look."
Manager Hou knew that Director Li was a shrewd person. Besides, they were brought in by Yue Ning from Gangcheng. Qiao Jinxing was also related to the Qiao family in Gangcheng. He simply said, "You came in, but you didn't come to see me. Are you afraid that I will abuse you like a stepmother-in-law? You are a Shanghai company, so stay here. Lao Li, you have talents who can speak foreign languages, why are you hiding them?"
"Leader, where am I hiding? I came back from the countryside and no one wanted me, so you stuffed me into my Switch Factory No. 4, which is a wasteland and has no one to care about it." Director Li complained.
Yue Ning smiled and said, "Leaders, I have something else to do. Take your time."
Just as she was about to leave, she turned around and said, "By the way, leader. You have my elder brother now. I've taken Xiao Zhou away and asked him to help somewhere else."
Manager Hou quickly came over to shake hands with Zhou Mingxuan: "Xiao Zhou, thank you for your hard work!"
"You're welcome. It's my pleasure."
Yue Ning and Zhou Mingxuan walked forward and heard a voice: "The manual of this 'Xiangyang' radio is really difficult to translate. 'Adjust the volume' is written as 'move the volume'. What the hell is this? How dare you bring this thing to the exhibition?"
When Yue Ning heard this, he hurried over and looked at Xie Xuewen who was scolding someone.
Xie Xuewen is Professor Wan's doctoral student. When he heard that Yue Ning was going to organize a research project, he took the initiative to come to him and said he wanted to "contribute academic strength." Yue Ning didn't think much about it. The main reason was that he was a doctoral student, so he knew more than an undergraduate. Besides, he was also Professor Wan's student, so he had to give him some face.
It was not until the day the train departed from Pengcheng to Yuecheng that she realized it was a mistake.
Yue Ning remembers that amid the clanking sound of the green train, he introduced himself: "I have studied in Thailand for a period of time. The machines used in their textile factories directly export their products to Europe. The coconut oil processing factories in the Philippines have fully automated assembly lines."
Yue Ning didn't know what he meant by that. He pointed out the window and said, "In the town we just passed, the electric poles were crooked, and children were chasing chickens. There wasn't even a decent store."
The mainland is indeed backward. She can only say: "The mainland has just opened up and is indeed backward. But we are not here to find fault, but to find opportunities."
"Opportunity?" Xie Xuewen laughed. "Ningning, you are too naive. Foreign merchants want products with stable quality and timely delivery. Products from Southeast Asia have already occupied the market. Even if the mainland can reduce costs to the lowest, they may not be willing to buy them."
Thinking of this, Yue Ning walked over. When Xie Xuewen saw her coming, he immediately said, "Ning Ning is here."
He showed the product manual to Yue Ning: "Ningning, look, what is this translation?"
The people at the booth were told this and kept their heads down. Yue Ning didn't want to argue with him in such an occasion, so he said, "Xie, Senior Brother, Mingxuan doesn't have to go to the Shanghai Machinery booth, let him come? Why don't you go back and sort out the information first?"
"Ningning, you..."
"We can't let you use your talents in vain!" Yue Ning said with a smile.
After hearing what Yue Ning said, Xie Xuewen nodded: "Then I'll go back first. I'll tell you slowly about what I've seen and heard in the past two days."
"OK."
Yue Ning sent Xie Xuewen away and let Zhou Mingxuan take over as the translator here.
Yue Ning thought, I should go back and tell Professor Wan to ask this person to leave the research group. This kind of person can only cause trouble.
It ended at four in the afternoon and Yue Ning walked towards her house with everyone.
Fat Aqiang talked about what he saw today: "Today I almost had an argument with a Middle Eastern businessman. He said that China is not capable of making good things. I suggested that he go to the Forbidden City in Beijing to see the craftsmanship of Chinese craftsmen."
"Come on," Zhao Jiaying poked his forehead, "They're here to buy bearings, why are you talking about history with them?"
"That doesn't mean China is incompetent..."
Yue Ning laughed helplessly: "At this stage, I really don't have any skills."
Yue Ning said this, and everyone felt a little depressed. Zhou Mingxuan forced a smile: "Ning Ning, didn't you say it would be fine?"
"Definitely." Yue Ning was extremely confident about this.
They had already arrived at the door of Yue Ning's small building. In this three-story building, there was a chef who came from Gangcheng to help, and those who lived in Yuecheng lived at home. The others lived here. At that time, the hotel space outside was very tight. Yue Ning brought six team members with her. She and two girls squeezed into a room, and three boys squeezed together, leaving a small attic for Xie Xuewen.
After entering the house, Xie Xuewen came down from upstairs, probably because he heard the noise.
"You're back. Let's discuss this together."
Yue Ning said: "Let's cook first."
Yue Ningke didn't expect Xie Xuewen to come back early and prepare the dishes.
"I'll light the fire."
"I'm going to chop potatoes."
"I'm washing rice."
Several people immediately divided the work, and Yue Ning went into the kitchen. Everyone had agreed in the morning to make sausage and potato rice in the evening.
Yue Ning took out the sausage and cut it. Xie Xuewen stood beside her and cleared his throat: "Ningning, I want to talk to you about the direction of the project."
"you say."
"I think it's the wrong time for us to study the current situation of mainland imports and exports." Xie Xuewen pushed his glasses. "The mainland has not even established basic production standards, and the quality is unstable. Foreign businessmen dare not place large-scale orders. The teacher's research direction is the East Asian economic circle. The economic structures of these four countries, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia, are more similar to ours. Moreover," he opened his notebook, "I checked the data. Their GDP growth rate is twice as fast as that of the mainland, and foreign investment is increasing by 30% every year. It is easier to produce results by studying them."
"So what do you want?" Yue Ning asked.
"I want to change the topic." Xie Xuewen's tone softened. "We can use the mainland as a comparative case, and focus on Southeast Asia. This is in line with the teacher's direction and can..."
"Vincent," Yue Ning interrupted him, "I set this topic, the funding was provided by Baohua Building, and I recruited the team members." She paused, "If you want to do a Southeast Asian project, you can form another team and ask Professor Wan for funding."
Xie Xuewen's expression changed: "Ningning, what do you mean?"
"Literally." Yue Ning stood up. "Starting tomorrow, you don't have to go to the exhibition hall with us. Jiaying, pay him the meal allowance and transportation fee for the next two days."
Xie Xuewen got anxious on the spot: "Ningning! You are so disrespectful! I am a doctor..."
"Vincent." Zhou Mingxuan brought in potatoes, "You're wrong. We're not here to publish papers or compete for research projects."
He pointed out the window and said, "Yesterday Zhao Jiaying said that the textile factory received an order to export to Canada, but when the foreign company inspected the goods, they found that the color of the fabrics was different and deducted 30% of the payment, which was three months' salary for more than 30 workers."
He pointed at another student and said, "Fat Qiang said yesterday that the toy factory produced wooden horses, but the mortise and tenon joints were loose, so 20 boxes were returned. The factory manager squatted in the warehouse and cried, saying, 'I dare not accept any more orders from outside.'"
"We help the mainland because these factories need us." Zhao Jiaying took over the conversation, "Ningning said that what we need to do is not 'research', but 'connection', connecting mainland goods to foreign countries and connecting foreign money to the mainland. Because we are all Chinese."
When Yue Ning heard them say these words, she was very happy to have such a group of like-minded friends.
Yue Ning took the potatoes from Pang Qiang and said, "We think it's meaningful, so we'll stay. If you want to work on a Southeast Asian project, we won't waste your time."
Xie Xuewen looked at the group of people and suddenly realized that he was out of tune with them. He said, "You...you are unrealistic national chauvinists."
Xie Xuewen went upstairs and looked at the direction he disappeared. Zhou Mingxuan said, "Is he sick? How can helping the mainland be considered national chauvinism?"
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