With the reform of state-owned enterprises, there are already signs of a wave of layoffs. Xia Baozhu opened two job training schools in Mingcheng and Jingcheng. The advantage of studying here is that job placement is guaranteed.
Tuition fees at job training schools can be paid on credit and then paid off through future employment.
She advertised nationwide, offering tuition waivers, travel expense reimbursements, and two weeks of free meals and accommodation to some eligible female students.
Some families with a preference for sons, upon hearing of this good opportunity, and believing that their daughters could better serve the family if they earned money, would borrow money to send their daughters to school.
Xia Baozhu repeatedly emphasized travel safety on television and in newspapers.
During the enrollment period, their school sends dedicated personnel and vehicles to pick up students every day, and tells students never to go with strangers outside the school.
The number of students who signed up was overwhelming, including not only young people, but also many middle-aged people in their forties and fifties, most of whom were laid-off state-owned enterprise employees.
They came full of hope, and after training and passing the qualification, they went to various parts of the country.
Entering the chain fast food restaurants, fried chicken shops, cold drink shops, dessert shops, convenience stores, food processing plants, electric vehicle factories, and most of them are various mobile food trucks under the names of Xia Baozhu and Sun Xingyan.
By 2000, the Zhuyan Group, founded by Xia Baozhu and Sun Xingyan, had helped 50,000 people find new employment.
These 50,000 people have settled in hundreds of cities, and with companies providing them with food and lodging in the early stages, they are no longer confused about the future.
Xia Baozhu still implements the store manager contract responsibility system, with the store manager above the general store manager. There are currently a total of twenty general store managers nationwide.
All similar shops and food trucks should have a unified logo and style.
Their food trucks have been upgraded and now resemble mobile houses, making them extremely friendly to employees and impervious to wind and rain.
Customers also appreciate the clean and tidy food trucks. In a time when hole-in-the-wall restaurants are everywhere, mobile food trucks are like a breath of fresh air, inspiring trust in customers.
Cleanliness and hygiene are the top priorities, whether it's food utensils or staff uniforms. Xia Baozhu leaves a complaint hotline on each food truck so that customers can come and supervise.
This also makes customers prioritize their food truck when choosing from multiple stalls.
At the same time, Xia Baozhu also instructed the head store manager to find remote mountainous areas with less pollution, based on the principle of proximity, and to pay a deposit to the village to reserve chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs.
The company will accept these poultry and livestock as long as they pass the professional inspection by the government.
While providing these areas with additional income, it has also gradually rescued many trafficked women.
With hope for the future, some trafficked women are unwilling to leave, and Xia Baozhu chooses to respect this decision.
Their group also has dedicated fruit and rice bases, and has established its own logistics center, reducing the instability of relying on other logistics providers.
As their business scope expands, the management team they hire becomes increasingly highly educated and experienced.
In addition, Xia Baozhu remains the spokesperson for Luming Clothing. As their group's influence grows, her endorsement fee has also increased, and she has filmed many advertising short films.
Xia Baozhu once starred in a movie where she only had two scenes. That movie had a hard time getting approved, and when it was finally released, it didn't receive a good response.
However, a director still discovered her and contacted her through Director Chen. Later, she participated in the filming of several movies.
Because she had never studied acting, her roles were very simple: pretty but empty-headed, requiring only brief appearances and a few lines.
It is regarded as a recreational activity outside of work.
Sun Xingyan invested in several films, and perhaps due to his good fortune, each film was very profitable. Later, he simply invested in a media company.
Although Sun Xingyan did not start his capital accumulation with real estate development as depicted in the book, he established an investment company with the income from his foreign trade company, and was keen on investing in all kinds of new things, helping many small companies that were just starting out to develop.
"Wife, you've finally finished your meeting!" Sun Xingyan, who had returned from out of town and was waiting outside the office, hugged Xia Baozhu as soon as she came out.
The department executives, heads bowed and chuckling, walked quickly past them, then glanced back at them from around the corner.
"President Xia and President Sun have such a good relationship, I'm so envious."
"Who can blame us when our CEO Xia is so beautiful? CEO Sun is always on edge when he goes out, afraid that he'll come back and find out that CEO Xia has taken a fancy to someone else."
"Haha, how could that be? Mr. Sun just likes to worry unnecessarily."
"Mr. Sun's concerns are not unfounded. I heard that the newly arrived returnee Johnny invited Mr. Xia to dinner."
"They're all back now, why keep calling him Johnny? It would be so much better to just call him by his original name, Song Haijun."
"Hmm, hmm, hmm," someone shouted, trying to remind the executives who were gossiping.
"Oh, it's Johnny. Yes, we've finished our meeting. President Xia is still inside."
After Johnny left, the group said, "Look, Johnny won't give up. He went to see President Xia again."
"Looks like President Sun is going to get jealous again, hehe, Johnny will probably be transferred soon."
Before going to bed that night, Sun Xingyan drank two glasses of milk as usual, and then began to complain to Xia Baozhu about Johnny's disrespect towards him.
“He dares to invite you to dinner in front of me, he’s really bold. If you want him to stay, transfer him to a branch office, and it would be best to let Chen Wenbin deal with him.”
Sun Xingyan whispered in Xia Baozhu's ear, explaining how he would transfer or force people he didn't like to leave their jobs.
“Okay, then transfer him to Chen Wenbin’s office.” Xia Baozhu prioritized Sun Xingyan’s opinion; she wouldn’t upset Sun Xingyan for someone unrelated to her.
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