1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 369 Connection
Just as in later generations Party B would often be sent to work in Party A's company, since Xiang Hui was a liaison officer for special docking, he naturally had to hold a position in Dahua Company.

As a convention, the position title given by Dahua Company cannot be too shabby, so the position planned to be given is "Deputy Director of the Board Office."

Although the board office already has a deputy director, as a latecomer, Xiang Hui can only rank third in the department even if he goes there... But it doesn't matter, he is not going there to retire, and those superficial things don't have much appeal to him.

Of course, although it is not a big deal for a secretary of the executive office of a county-level city to work in a central enterprise at the moment, the necessary procedures still have to be followed. However, even if Ye Tao is coordinating the matter, it is absolutely impossible to complete it within a day or two.

Therefore, the next morning, after briefly handing over the work and precautions to the new person assigned by the secretarial team, Xiang Hui rushed directly to Dahua Company that afternoon and began to communicate with Yang Mo in advance in a private capacity.

Ye Tao made it very clear on the phone that this project was very important, but there were too many obstacles in the way of its implementation, so it needed to be advanced in a roundabout way.

Since the project itself needs to be advanced in a roundabout way, isn’t it normal for the working method to be a little roundabout as well?

However, although his leader had pointed out on the phone that "Yang Mo is not easy to fool" and had warned him to put in his best efforts when working with Yang Mo, when Xiang Hui came to Yang Mo's office under the guidance of Bai Mengmeng, he was still shocked by this young man who was several years younger than him.

Maybe it was because he was fully immersed in his work, but when Xiang Hui came in, Yang Mo, who was still writing seriously on a document, just raised his head slightly and said briefly, "Sit down, wait for me for ten minutes." Then he continued to bury his head in the document.

Xiang Hui was not unfamiliar with this tone. No matter whether it was his leader or the monitor or deputy monitor who were concentrating on reviewing important documents, they would use this tone to treat the small fry who accidentally barged in.

Although it was ridiculous for a section-level cadre of a central enterprise to speak in such a tone to a secretary transferred from the executive office, it was obvious that Yang Mo was not making fun of him or trying to intimidate him, but just treated him as an ordinary subordinate who had just come to report.

Xiang Hui knew very well that this was in line with the current actual situation, and the young man in front of him, who seemed to be just a minor official at first glance, was indeed qualified.

Remembering his leader's warning on the phone, Xiang Hui smiled bitterly, then calmly disguised himself as a clay figurine.

Gu. Upper Nine...Not serving the king or the princes, but doing noble things?

When his eyes fell on the words on the office wall, Xiang Hui's pupils shrank.

This Vice President Yang is really brave!

I wonder what the leaders would think if they saw this calligraphy when they came to inspect?
Xiang Hui swallowed gently.

If you have not read the "Book of Changes", you naturally cannot understand the meaning of this half-written sentence.

People who have only skimmed through the "Book of Changes" probably only know the second half of the sentence "do not serve the king or the princes", and think that this Vice President Yang has a strong personality and wants to be a contemporary Mr. Wu Liu, who does not take his superiors seriously.

But only those who truly understand the "Book of Changes" know that the most fatal part of this calligraphy is not the half sentence that was not written, but the three words "Gu.Shangjiu"!
"Shang Jiu" means fullness and perfection;
And he knew very well what "Gu Xiang" represented in the Book of Changes.

Although the hexagram "Gu. Shangjiu" can have two slightly different interpretations, no matter which one it is, anyone who dares to hang such a plaque in the office is audacious!

Time passed by minute by minute.

Just as Xiang Hui was wondering about the character of this actual "new leader" and how to get along with him in the future.

Bai Mengmeng walked in quietly and said softly beside his master: "The meeting room is ready and everyone is here."

After seeing Yang Mo nodded and closed the document, Xiang Hui finally understood that asking him to wait for ten minutes did not mean that he had to wait for Yang Mo to finish reviewing the document, but that the meeting could start directly after everyone arrived!

Thinking of what Ye Tao had told him in the morning, Xiang Hui squeezed a few documents in his briefcase, and sweat suddenly broke out on his palms.

Obviously, this is to test his own quality.

If I don't perform well... then there is no need to ask, I will definitely go back the same way and ask my leader to send a new liaison officer.

When Xiang Huilian thought of the consequences of being beaten back, the muscles on his back began to tense up.

Although his leader said that Vice President Yang was a man of swift and decisive actions, he went straight to the point right away... This was too swift and decisive!

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ten minutes later.

In a small conference room, there were Yang Mo, Miss Mu, Lu Yingying, Qin Xin, He Yongyi, Yan Laoxi, Sun Jian, Liu Xianfu, Li Jun...even Song Wenxuan and Lin Luosu were there.

Although it is said that the smaller the meeting, the more important the matter, the scale of the number of people attending this meeting is definitely not as large as a small meeting of three people, but except for Song Wenxuan and Eggplant Girl, the rest of the people are all the most important backbones of Yang Mo's faction, so the importance of this meeting is definitely not light.

However, unlike previous meetings, the person making the main report today was not Yang Mo or Qin Xin, but Xiang Hui who had just arrived at Dahua Company.

"With the upcoming completion of the Seventh Five-Year Plan, the improvement and gradual upgrading of various industrial supporting facilities in Qilu, both the province and the city have put forward the next step of ideas for the future industrial structure and structural adjustment of export products."

"In short, in the next step, the import and export structure adjustment direction of various regions in Shandong, including Dezhou, should be based on making full use of local comparative advantages, acquiring advanced technology, equipment and foreign exchange reserves through trade to make up for the lack of resources and funds in various regions, actively participate in the international commodity market competition, and accelerate the process of industrialization and economic development in various regions."

"In the case of a relative shortage of foreign exchange, imports should focus on capital goods, machinery and technology, and raw materials that are urgently needed domestically. All regions should take appropriate control over the import of high-end consumer goods to increase the role of import foreign exchange in promoting economic growth and technological progress. At the same time, exports should have a higher foreign exchange earning effect. This is the fundamental way to solve China's future international balance of payments problems and repay foreign debts..."

Xiang Hui's report had just begun when Yang Mo ruthlessly interrupted him: "Secretary Xiang, this is not the competent unit... Please get to the point as soon as possible!"

Xiang Hui was startled: "Okay, Mr. Yang."

After that, he skipped the opening content and continued, "According to the data compiled by the customs, under the current export structure, from the perspective of primary products, the supply of primary agricultural products is still insufficient because the vegetable basket and rice bag projects in the province are still in the start-up stage; the bulk of exports are some resource products such as crude oil, coal, and tungsten. For these products, on the one hand, domestic resource reserves are limited, and excessive exploitation has caused irreversible reserve declines in some product mining areas. On the other hand, the export of these products has conflicted with domestic demand. If there is no major breakthrough in mining volume and exploration results, their export growth potential is not great."

"On the contrary, from the perspective of manufactured products, the domestic market for textiles, light industrial products, electromechanical products and other manufactured products has been basically saturated, and their production capacity is relatively large in excess of the domestic market, with great potential for foreign exchange earnings and export growth."

"In addition, judging from the changes in the competitiveness of our province's main export commodities in recent years, although primary products have a higher competitiveness than industrial products, they are showing an overall downward trend. However, the competitiveness of industrial products continues to rise, especially the competitiveness of electromechanical products."

"This change shows that the status of primary product exports and their foreign exchange earnings is gradually declining, while the status of manufactured product exports and their foreign exchange earnings is gradually rising. This actually suggests that in the future, the adjustment of my country's import and export structure should be committed to promoting the export of industrial manufactured products and other types of deep-processed products... If the trend of my country's exchange rate changes is taken into account, the promotion of industrial manufactured product exports will be greater."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Mo stretched out his hand and signaled Xiang Hui to pause.

After a brief thought, Yang Mo said, "Ask the secretary... Is there any corresponding data to support this? Even a rough one will do."

Obviously, Yang Mo does not like this kind of vague directional discussion, which has no data to support it and is too subjective and speculative.

Xiang Hui was obviously a little confused: "Boss Yang, I don't have the specific customs data with me. I need to go back to the city to get it...but these arguments are indeed inferred based on the customs data."

This is the truth. Unlike what many people think, the competent authorities in various places in Qilu have their own think tanks and departments. Maybe they will consciously add water or hide some content in the external propaganda materials, but the materials in the internal work meetings must be supported by relatively sufficient data and facts... Otherwise, how can they formulate and arrange the work plan for the next year? Hearing this, Yang Mo just nodded slightly.

As a reborn person, he has the advantage of foresight and is not interested in this kind of macro analysis. On the contrary, what he lacks is some truly directional data in some niche areas... There is no way. The market is a dynamic process of change. Even if he is a reborn person, it is impossible for him to remember the detailed information of various industries from more than 30 years ago. He can only rely on his own experience and combine the data to make instant deductions.

Seeing Yang Mo's noncommittal look, Xiang Hui's heart tightened, and he quickly said, "Boss Yang, although the customs has too much original paper data to provide on-site, the experts of the Economic Development Research Studio have calculated the changes in the competitiveness of various export products in DZ City in the past two years through research and mathematical models based on these data... I personally think that these data can provide relatively indicative support for the next step of work."

How to calculate export competitiveness coefficient?
There are people in DZ city who are doing this?
Yang Mo suddenly became interested: "Please ask the secretary."

Xiang Hui was suddenly alerted when he heard this. He immediately took out a file bag from his briefcase with ease, and then he spread his five fingers apart as if counting money and took out two pieces of information in the shortest time.

Yang Mo nodded repeatedly after watching this. Even without saying anything else, just from this one move, he knew that the secretary sent by General Manager Ye to be in charge of the liaison was definitely a talent.

Thinking of this, he looked at his disappointing little apprentice… Look how efficiently he works, and then look at how clumsy you are. You should be thrown away when compared to him!

Xiang Hui was busy taking care of himself at the moment, so how could he have the time to observe Yang Mo's little movements?
After pulling out the two pages of seemingly simple information, his expression froze, and a hint of bitterness appeared in his eyes unconsciously. However, since things had come to this point, he could only bite the bullet and continue reading:
“DZ市初级产品出口，1986年的竞争系数为0.2363……1987年的竞争系数为0.1755……1988年的竞争系数为0.1210……1989年变成了0.089；”

“DZ市有关食品出口……1986年的竞争系数为0.1059……1987年的竞争系数为0.0647……1988年的竞争系数为0.0611……1989年变成了0.0461；”

“DZ市非食品原料出口……1986年的竞争系数为0.0207……1987年的竞争系数为0.0157……1988年的竞争系数为-0.0026……1989年变成了-0.0015；”

“DZ市纺织纤维及其废料出口……1986年的竞争系数为0.0128……1987年的竞争系数为0.0121……1988年的竞争系数为0……1989年变成了-0.0093；”

“DZ市石油、石油产品及相关原料出口……1986年的竞争系数为0.0957……1987年的竞争系数为0.0923……1988年的竞争系数为0.059……1989年变成了0.0443；”

“DZ市工业制成品出口……1986年的竞争系数为-0.2326……1987年的竞争系数为-0.1755……1988年的竞争系数为-0.1211……1989年变成了-0.0883；”

“DZ市化学及有关产品出口……1986年的竞争系数为-0.0319……1987年的竞争系数为-0.0592……1988年的竞争系数为-0.1043……1989年变成了-0.0669；”

"DZ City Organic Chemicals Export..."

(The above data are calculated based on the data of 1988 and 1990 in the China Statistical Yearbook and are not randomly compiled.)
The export competitiveness coefficient (TC index) is actually a very instructive number. It relatively truly reflects the actual situation of various types of products in overseas markets. It is used to reflect whether a certain type of product produced by a country or region is at a competitive advantage or disadvantage in efficiency, as well as the degree of superiority or inferiority, compared with similar products of other countries supplied in the world market.

Since the index is the ratio of the difference between the export value and the import value of a certain type of product in a country or region to the total import and export value of that type of product in that country or region, and because it eliminates the total amount factor and is a relative value, it is more comparable.

In general, the export competitiveness coefficient fluctuates between (-1, 1). The closer its value is to -1, the more the country's product production efficiency or quality is lower than the international level and has no export advantage. The closer its value is to 1, the more the country's product production efficiency is higher than the international level and has a stronger export advantage.

Of course, there are many influencing factors involved in foreign trade. In addition to the influence of policy factors, there are also indexes such as international market share (MS) and revealed competitive advantage index (CA). But relatively speaking, the export competitiveness coefficient is the most objective among all factors, and therefore has the greatest significance.

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Although there was not much content on these two pages, Xiang Hui only took three minutes to read the twenty sets of data. But as soon as he finished reading these data, he found that the atmosphere in the conference hall had changed significantly.

Especially Yang Mo, Miss Mu, Li Jun, and Song Wenxuan, all of them had a look of deep thought on their faces.

As the saying goes, laymen see excitement while experts see the secrets. For people who are not engaged in foreign trade, these data are undoubtedly twenty sets of boring numbers, and they may even get annoyed when they hear the series of zeros.
Of course, for practitioners whose business volume is not large, these twenty sets of numbers do not mean much. At most, they just serve as a reminder in a certain direction.

But for the cadres of central enterprises whose foreign trade volume is relatively large and which involve a number of foreign trade cooperation units and subordinate tertiary industry units, these figures are of great significance... As the saying goes, work for three years and see for three years, these figures may directly involve their future business adjustments.

In fact, this is also an important reason why Xiang Hui was sent here, and it is also one of the strong supports from the competent authorities of DZ City that Yang Mo has strived for.

Don’t think that anyone can see these internal data... No matter when, these data that have taken countless efforts and mental calculations are treasures of immeasurable value, and many of them are even classified as confidential.

Not to mention that Dahua Company is only a second-level central enterprise. Even if you are someone in the local administrative system, if your rank and weight are not at that level, you can't expect to see these data in the first place.

Therefore, once these 20 sets of data were reported, even a fool could see that the attitude of the DZ City authorities towards Yang Mo was indeed unusual... Even if it was a first-tier central enterprise unit that promoted central-local cooperation, it was rare for local authorities to be so unreserved.

Of course, unlike Miss Mu and others who simply thought about how to adjust future foreign trade projects, Yang Mo thought more.

No wonder when I was trying to persuade Ye Tao to promote the "Isolated Island No. 2" project, the other party's subjective resistance was not that strong. There was a reason for all the fuss!

Among all the export items of DZ City in the past four years, only the export competitiveness index of agricultural products, food and petroleum products has declined the slowest, and even still maintains a certain competitiveness... and among them, only petroleum products are high value-added industrial products.

On the contrary, the export competitiveness coefficient of DZ City's traditional major export industrial products, such as chemicals, electromechanical products, transportation equipment, and special operation machinery, has continued to decline in the past four years, and the decline has been very sharp. By 1989, it had fallen into negative values ​​across the board.

However, after more than ten years of development, Qilu, which has gradually established a foundation, has planned to upgrade its entire manufacturing industry. After much deliberation, it is a very good choice to use large-scale petrochemical projects as an entry point to force the upgrading of other related manufacturing industries... Although the resistance and difficulties involved are very considerable.

After realizing some things belatedly, Yang Mo looked at the liaison officer assigned by Ye Tao, and there was something different in his eyes.

After a pause, Yang Mo nodded: "Secretary Xiang, these 20 sets of data are very valuable for reference... Since the city is already doing research and preparation for industrial upgrading, then in the context of an export-oriented economy, the city should have some preliminary optimization suggestions and feasibility analysis for the structural adjustments in various light industry segments, right?"

Light industry?

Xiang Hui looked at Yang Mo with some surprise. Wasn't Solitary Island No. 2 a large petrochemical project? Why did Mr. Yang bring the topic to the light industry again?
However, before he came over, Ye Tao emphasized that he must follow Yang Mo's opinions and cooperate fully.

Therefore, even though he had some doubts in his heart, Xiang Hui nodded: "Since the export freeze last year, the city has begun to gradually investigate and survey various companies by category... Although the data sample cannot cover all industries, the general guidance has been drawn up, and the relevant feasibility analysis has also been speculated... The light industry is the main economic component of DZ City, so the city naturally has relevant content."

As he spoke, Xiang Hui paused, looked at Yang Mo hesitantly, and glanced at the others.

Seeing this, Yang Mo naturally knew what he meant and smiled: "Direction, since you can attend this meeting, you are naturally qualified to listen to and participate in this topic, and naturally have the most basic sense of confidentiality."

Seeing Yang Mo's statement, Xiang Hui nodded, then took out another file bag from his briefcase and opened it carefully...

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PS: Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, I wish you all a happy new year in advance!

In the new year, I wish all my classmates:
The sun is like the morning light, gentle and peaceful;
Be sincere and brave, joy is in sight!
But... I heard that you are going to make dumplings at work?
Hahahaha~
Hahahahaha~
Hahahahahahahaha~!

When you eat dumplings, tell me, I bought a lot of spicy noodles and fireworks today, I will light fireworks for you to have fun!!
Hahahaha~!

(End of this chapter)