Coquettish Rebirth

China is about to join the WTO, and the whole world is paying attention.When a few showrunners who came for interviews were asked to think about the framework with Jia Hongjian's ideas, Jia Hongjian started to pay attention to the general trend of the world in the top wealthy area of ​​Los Angeles. In the March 1979 issue of "The Economist", this British economics magazine with a long history once discussed: "Although in the short term, China needs a large amount of imports, which will stimulate the production of industrially developed countries, but never In the long run, the flood of Chinese exports will become inevitable."

At the same time, in May, Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry, a ministry-level agency of the Japanese government, issued a guidance document on how Japanese companies should respond after China’s entry into the WTO.In this document that once dominated the miracle department of Japan's economic take-off, they said this: "According to statistics published in 5, China surpassed the European Union for the first time in 2000 and became the second largest exporter to Japan after the United States. In 1999 At that time, China is expected to occupy No.2001 in the world market manufacturing and export share in color TVs, washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, microwave ovens, motorcycles and other products." Therefore, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry is actually the world's first The exact term "world's factory" was created to describe China, and at the same time, this title is indeed given to China.

Through this, we can find that the governments and companies of countries and regions in the world react differently after seeing such a giant as China.Some Xinxin felt that China must be a huge market that they could occupy, while others began to face it squarely.Even fear.This is like the China collapse theory and the China threat theory, two theories have been floating around the world.But no one can see through the fog of time and space like Jia Hongjian. Everyone is confused now, even though they claim to be very convinced of their own discoveries and conclusions.

At the end of May, James Kinch, chief correspondent of the British "Financial Times" in China, wrote in his article: "China has indeed gradually become the locomotive of East Asian economic development after 5, but unfortunately, Now he is not big enough for the whole world.” Even at this time, the entire Financial Times mainly reported speculation about how the world will bring China changes after China’s accession to the WTO, rather than what China will bring. What a change in the world.No one except Jia Hongjian could have imagined it.Maybe start in '98.In just three years after joining the WTO, China will have a profound impact on the world—starting with the disappearance of manhole covers!

That's right!In 04, China's demand for steel further increased, and it was even very interested in all kinds of scrap steel.This has led to a rise in world steel prices as well as iron ore prices.Then there were thieves who stole manhole covers in the UK.It might even be better to say that from February 2004 all of a sudden manhole covers all over the world disappeared.It was lost suddenly under cover of night and sold to the Chinese as scrap metal.If Jia Hongjian remembered correctly, the speed was quite slow at first.But gradually the speed is getting faster and faster, which fully proves that thieves all over the world are smart people-the first batch of stolen manhole covers appeared in Daiwan.As night fell, local thieves came out and stole the manhole covers.Local unscrupulous businessmen in charge of recycling waste materials secretly cut up the manhole covers, then shipped them to the compatriots on the other side of the strait.Then, there are countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia, followed by Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Scotland, and the United States.The most powerful country in the world since ancient times, this "middle country" will soon rise again after entering the WTO and show its influence on the world-starting with manhole covers and thieves.

Just like the former United Kingdom claimed to be an empire on which the sun never sets, and the British claimed that their land spread all over the world, so the sun will never disappear on their land—even if the land disappears, there will be colonies one after another. .In 04, although China did not claim that, the actual situation is that when the earth rotates and the dividing line between day and night moves continuously on the earth, those lands that have entered darkness will emerge one by one Many thieves stole manhole covers from their own countries, cut them and shipped them to China.So to some extent, the manhole cover thieves in the world are actually relay work one after another, just like the colonies of the empire on which the sun never sets are relaying to welcome the sun, manhole cover thieves all over the world are also constantly relaying to welcome the night , welcome the opportunity to work for the Chinese!Perhaps, China is the "empire where the sun never rises" in the dark world. Where the sun sets, there are thieves working desperately for China. Everyone relays 24 hours a day, stealing manhole covers.

If Jia Hongjian remembers correctly, 150 manhole covers were lost in Chicago, USA within a month, and this is just a drizzle——Scotland, England, on the other side of the Atlantic, lost it in one day when he was working in the "manhole cover theft gang" More than 100 manhole covers!With the trend of manhole cover theft, whether it is Montreal in Canada, Glasgow in Scotland, or Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, manhole covers are lost one after another every day, and there are also pedestrians who don’t pay attention to the road conditions and step on the ground every day. fell into the manhole.This kind of thing is affecting the world little by little as China enters the WTO and as China embarks on the road to revival.

But what has the deepest impact now is that some media in the United States have obtained some product tariff rules that China negotiated with the United States when China entered the WTO!I don’t know how they got this, but the problem is that Jia Hongjian, a former member of the WTO negotiating team, was surprised to find out from the newspapers that the tariffs on some of these so-called negotiated products were actually lower than when he negotiated in person. Low!And it's much lower!what 's wrong?When he talked about it back then, although these specific tariffs were not something he bargained for, he probably had an impression!It was a good talk back then!China and the United States basically negotiated before the accident in Yugoslavia, just waiting for the parliaments of the two countries to pass it!Why did it drop all of a sudden?

Has someone betrayed the country?Otherwise, all this cannot be explained!Why did the sudden drop in tariffs benefit the Americans?Jia Hongjian couldn't figure it out, so he didn't care whether it was three o'clock in the morning in China, he directly called Lao Long, the former head of the negotiating team! "Hello? Hung-chien? What's the matter? What's the matter?" The old dragon's voice on the phone was obviously just waking up, and he was still in shock—obviously, no matter who received the call at three o'clock in the morning, he would think it was something serious. event!

"How did the tariffs in the WTO negotiations be reduced so much? Who made the decision? Is this a betrayal of the country? Who did it?" Jia Hongjian questioned loudly on the phone, regardless of Lao Long's voice.But who knew that the old dragon would reply: "Except for the leader who is in charge of us, who else can give such an order? How could other people have such power? Hung Chien, are you doing this for this?" wipe?The boss?Who knows Jia Hongjian very well?The leader who guides everyone to negotiate?Jia Hongjian couldn't believe his ears! "Just for this matter? Is this matter not important? We have already negotiated and lowered the tariff? This... This is treason!" Jia Hongjian asked loudly in a daze at the end!It seemed that if he was not given an explanation and a satisfactory explanation, he would dare to go back to China immediately and make trouble in the Central Committee!From his point of view, it seemed that he was fighting hard on the front line on behalf of the country and the people on behalf of the people, but who knew that the "Lafayettes" in the back would easily agree to the unequal treaty. Why is this annoying?

"Oh, Hung-chien, don't be angry, don't be angry. The higher-ups also said..." Lao Long hurriedly comforted Jia Hongjian and said, "The higher-ups actually reviewed the smuggling of Xiamen. Originally, we It’s almost the end of the talk. The leaders have to learn from the smuggling matter. They have to think about why it happened like that. They have to think about why some cadres at the central deputy ministerial level were dragged into the water! Later, other departments in the country formed a special The investigation team was to find out why such a large-scale smuggling occurred. Then the investigation team came to a conclusion when we talked about it, and the conclusion was that the tariff was too high. If the tariff is high, there will definitely be smuggling..."

"Just to prevent smuggling?" Jia Hongjian couldn't believe it!If you are afraid of smuggling, then crack down on smuggling!Tariffs protect the country, dear!In order to combat smuggling, tariffs were lowered, and what if it hit the domestic industry in turn?It’s as if a dozen or so American films were originally limited to be allowed to enter China each year, but in order to prevent “smuggling” they were compromised to 30 or so. Doesn’t this affect domestic production capabilities?Even if you take a sports game as an example, the number of foreign players in a sports game is limited!Moreover, the number of foreign aid is limited, so the training of foreign aid in the team can at least allow young people to see and learn, but what about this reduction in tariffs?There is no way to learn at home!

"It is to combat smuggling. I also asked about this matter later, and the boss of Lekai told me that there is no use for high tariffs. People are afraid of smuggling. After the tariffs are high, smuggled products are everywhere in the market." Film, how do they sell Lucky? How much tariffs has the country received? Blocking is better than sparse, just thinking about preventing blockages and arresting, how can it be possible to catch them? It’s not good to say that Hong Kong and Macau tours arrange staff to go to Hong Kong every day What’s the price if the film comes from the Hong Kong belt? It’s just like smuggling when you gather together and send it to the inland! So when the higher authorities couldn’t increase their efforts to basically eliminate smuggling, they chose to simply lower the tariff , so that the smugglers can’t make a profit, at least make the price of licensed and parallel imports similar, so that at least the country can collect taxes, and can use the reduction of tariffs as a condition to subsidize domestic enterprises..." Lao Long said.

ha?Jia Hongjian was stunned for a moment.Well, the matter of subsidies seems to be more likely to cause trade disputes, and it is easier for people to think that it is the beginning of a trade war.If we talk about reducing tariffs with foreign countries, we can indeed obtain foreign understanding to allow domestic subsidies.It is not ideal to be able to receive tariffs and subsidies under such circumstances, but to a certain extent, it is a relatively rational statement... Okay, Jia Hongjian accepts this explanation for the time being... (unfinished to be continued..)