Chapter 213 Is Overseas OK?
After leaving Chen Jun in the local area, he took the business card of the general manager of the Bowaguo project of Lin's Real Estate, greeted everyone on Mr. Yuan's side, and started to arrange for the business license.
Lin Ruoyan brought Hua Mengmeng and Lu Wei back to China. Because of the time difference, they lost a day on their way back to Beijing. After arriving in Beijing, Hua Mengmeng didn't dare to rest for too long. She immediately took over the tasks that Chen Jun had been in charge of and reassigned others.
As the boss, Lin Ruoyan naturally wouldn't return to work immediately. She needed to take some time off to adjust to the time difference. She also invited Lu Wei to her home and introduced her to her son.
"Son, come here. I'll introduce you to a great master." Lin Ruoyan coaxed her son, who was addicted to reading, out of the study and asked with a smile, "Is the book I sent back from the airport in Country F good?"
Lin Mengxi nodded obediently, then looked at Lu Wei with a bit of doubt, who had a gentle smile on her face.
Lu Wei was also taken aback when she saw Lin Mengxi. Logically, this was the first time they'd met. Previously, President Lin had only talked about his son, but never shown her a photo. Why did this child's eyes and eyebrows feel so familiar? Could it be that the son looked like his mother? She glanced at Lin Mengxi and President Lin again. Mother and son had a similar eye, but the rest of their facial shapes and hairstyles weren't very similar.
Lu Wei and her colleagues had special training and assessments on recognizing people's facial features. She was very accurate in remembering people. As long as she had met a Chinese or foreigner once, she could usually recognize them even if the other person had disguised their face.
This child looks like her mother, but more like someone she knows. Ah, could it be...
Of course, Lu Wei didn't dare to ask about such private matters at this time, so she smiled and said, "Student Lin, I heard from Chen Jun that you are his favorite disciple?"
Lin Mengxi felt a little guilty. Ever since Uncle Chen started working and wasn't around much at the courtyard, he hadn't been as diligent in his training as before. Anyway, he could always get full marks in physical education now, so he didn't have the same sense of crisis he used to have.
"Hello, Aunt Lu." He regained his childhood caution and didn't dare to say much, as he would make mistakes if he spoke too much.
Lu Wei said, "Chen Jun was defeated by me. Your mother asked me to teach you."
Lin Mengxi was surprised: "Aunt Lu is so powerful? Uncle Chen has been practicing martial arts in Shaolin Temple for ten years."
Lu Wei said, "His martial arts strengthen the body, while mine focuses more on actual combat. Is there anyone you want to protect? If so, you can learn from me. If not, go back to your room and continue reading."
If someone forced him to learn martial arts, he might have resisted out of stubbornness. But Aunt Lu asked him to choose, and of course he had someone he wanted to protect. He had been without a father since childhood, and he wanted to grow up quickly so he could protect and care for his mother in his place.
His expression was serious, and he nodded earnestly: "I have people to protect. I want to learn."
Of course, Lu Wei's rhetoric was directed by Lin Ruoyan. She knew her son was soft-hearted and not hard-headed. She knew that she needed to give him the inner drive to practice martial arts in order to unleash his potential. Lu Wei said seriously, "Then let me first take a look at your foundation."
Being beaten by the master, learning from failure over and over again, and gradually growing, is the way to rapid progress. Lu Wei originally wanted a punching bag, free to use for her children's martial arts training, but ended up with an apprentice who paid to be beaten. It was really too much for Mr. Lin to refuse.
Lin Mengxi also discovered that Aunt Lu was not only good at fighting, but also could speak English, so Lin Ruoyan paid an extra fee and asked Lu Wei to tutor her son in English.
By this time, Lin Mengxi was already fluent in Japanese, and their school even taught Japanese as a second foreign language. Lin Ruoyan was completely baffled by his desire to learn Japanese. In the real world, learning Japanese was a real struggle for her, and after graduating from university and receiving her CET-4 certificate, she hadn't touched a Japanese textbook since. This gifted child was actually addicted to learning languages?
Lin Ruoyan rested at home for a few days. Hua Mengmeng, as an assistant, had already compiled the relevant gains from the inspection trip to Bowa into a report, preparing for internal discussion.
Lin Ruoyan didn't dare to be lazy anymore. She went to the company and told everyone about the upcoming overseas project.
The design department has a heavy workload in the early stages, while the engineering department will be required to stay on-site in the later stages. While staying on-site in China is relatively straightforward, a two-year stay on the other side of the world requires a thorough selection process. If no one currently has the willingness to stay long-term, additional staffing will be required.
At the beginning, all majors may go to the design department to have a look, and finally only one major, architecture, will be retained. For the rest, Lin Ruoyan wants to cooperate with the people from the engineering department and the cooperative design institute.
Lin Ruoyan planned to persuade a domestic design institute with strong technical skills to go overseas with her. She wanted to leverage their design capabilities, as she had more management-oriented personnel on her side.
Therefore, when selecting people for the design department, we look for those who can be sent out for one or two years, regardless of gender, and have decent professional abilities. The key is that they must have stronger comprehensive abilities and be able to handle things and take on responsibilities.
Lin Ruoyan had already instructed them to contact a domestic design institute and have Zhao Xingxing go, but it was difficult to find one. There were so many real estate projects in China right now, and even with the huge price difference, many private companies were still focused on immediate profits and wouldn't go overseas. They needed to talk to a state-owned design institute about future national strategic trends.
Zhao Xingxing had studied abroad before, and Lin Ruoyan thought it would be difficult for her to accept this concept. Unexpectedly, Zhao Xingxing had such deep feelings about this because she had studied abroad and worked in foreign companies.
She said, "Mr. Lin, I understand. When I first worked for a foreign company, I wondered why foreign architects were paid so much, but only got paid so little when they came to China to do something with a deep plan. Drawing construction drawings in China obviously requires more manpower and costs, but they get paid less.
For our current overseas projects, our design institute is a foreign-owned one. Our creative ideas are sent abroad along with our construction work, so the design fees are high. Locals simply draw and sign the construction drawings, or even just copy and sign them, and they accept that. Our status has been elevated, and we've become a leader."
"That's right. Just as you understand it. We also need to talk about the country's grand strategy of going global. The leadership of state-owned enterprises certainly understands this. Sooner or later, we will all go global, using our superior technologies and services to exchange for resources and other things we lack at home. State-owned enterprise research institutes have the strength and ability to plan and get started early."
Zhao Xingxing understood the essence of the problem, so it wasn't difficult for him to persuade others. It was still possible to find state-owned enterprise compounds with farsighted vision who were willing to try, and they were also happy to send some people to accompany Lin Ruoyan to Bowa Country to take a look.
If you find a design contract worth 100 million yuan, and it's not technically difficult, then you can draw anywhere. With the money in hand, you can ensure the smooth construction of the project and leave your work overseas. This is also a way to realize your dream.
Mr. Yuan asked Lin Ruoyan to join the team, as she had brought in funding. Lin Ruoyan, while also soliciting the design institute, also took into account the cost of bringing their own supplies. Rather than wait for Mr. Yuan to receive the funds before paying the design institute, she advanced the payment herself. This way, the design institute felt free to join the charge.
The preliminary work for the project in Bolivia was arranged and carried out in an orderly manner, and Lin Ruoyan was invited by Feng Qiang again.
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