My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 399 This is your world

When Wei Dong was facing the sales team and college students in Shanghai, he shamelessly mentioned that he wanted to sell things to the whole world.

He boldly declared that he would lead everyone to explore the world.

But that was just empty talk and grand promises.

He even came to Shanghai and subconsciously criticized those who made going abroad their life goal as pretentious and short-sighted.

If we really want to sell something, it's a medium- to long-term goal, at least ten or twenty years from now.

The person in front of me, however, meant immediately!

Wei Dong was a little taken aback, but then a figure immediately appeared in his mind's eye.

The figure who sold communication equipment to the forefront of the country, a nationally known case, illustrates that this strategy can be successful.

So now he slowly nods and says, "It's challenging, but it will definitely become the direction we strive for."

The 1980s were still the uphill period of globalization in manufacturing. People all over the world needed to understand and believe that collaborative production and manufacturing would be an inevitable trend. The concept of a global village was still being talked about everywhere.

Most consumers still find it unbelievable that a room full of things is made in all sorts of countries.

But in reality, for someone like Wei Dong, whose thinking is accustomed to decades of the future, globalization has already been skipped, and the world has reached a period of collapse.

Trade wars are the real theme of globalization.

So he not only took it for granted, but subconsciously treated it as a war.

The situation involves confronting and fighting against various major manufacturing countries.

The perspectives were all at the level of a leader: "The current situation is that the gap is too large. Capable people who go abroad are still aiming to improve their personal conditions. I will focus on cultivating such a team. They can surpass ordinary people in terms of vision and economics. Hmm, thank you for the instructions, leader. I will work hard in this direction."

In fact, the group of people in their forties and fifties were already smiling and clapping as soon as he nodded.

You can judge a person's character and conduct by these details.

Most people, upon hearing this groundbreaking idea, would first think it's an impossible task.

Even the most talented and insightful people might subconsciously reject it.

The current situation in China is far from dire; some families are so poor they can barely afford to eat.

The commodity economy and domestic trade are struggling.

Why are you suddenly looking at foreign trade?

Isn't that a bit too ambitious?

Or they might agree firmly to follow the leader's instructions, only to turn around and either give perfunctory answers or push things forward unrealistically.

Wei Dong, however, clearly had the idea in mind and quickly clarified the key points.

What he sells is not important; what matters is building this sales team.

The thoughtful response was immediately appreciated: "Okay, then we'll entrust this important task to you, to Dongsheng Trading. We hope you can lead Shanghai-made, East China-made, and China-made products to the global market."

Wei Dong indeed doesn't have as many of the tricks of the system.

The tech-savvy guy said, "This will be the direction our new generation of sales staff strives for, but we still need to sort things out one by one. Shanghai, as a long-established manufacturing hub, still has many old problems with state-owned factories. Jiangzhou, being a heavy industry hub, has serious problems with third-line factories. Both need to be reformed according to the market."

He immediately attracted people's attention and asked them to give examples of the details of these old ailments and chronic diseases.

Rang Weidong could easily rattle off his experiences from the past month of inspections along the Yangtze River and various first-hand investigations in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. He was well-versed in these topics and spoke eloquently and knowledgeably.

So, several leaders who had come together to upgrade their reception standards were actually there because of foreign investment projects worth tens of millions of US dollars.

I found myself listening and talking for two or three hours without even realizing it!

It was their busy schedules, with secretaries constantly reminding them of upcoming meetings or appointments, that led them to leave one by one.

The conclusion is clear: Shanghai fully supports Apple's investment and production project in the local market, but more importantly, it aims to stimulate the development of a series of related electronics industries and promote foreign trade sales through the introduction of technology from this contract manufacturer.

This means that Shanghai should strive to further explore and develop its foreign trade work.

Comrade Wei Dong, who hadn't yet grasped the implications, was instructed to take the lead in guiding the team without hesitation.

As we parted, I patted his hand earnestly and said, "Before you came, I was a little worried that you would see these problems in your work as obstacles. But now it seems you have none of these burdens, so I can confidently entrust the work to you!"

Wei Dong, somewhat bewildered, accepted the order.

When Lao Zhang and the business investment representative came out with the agreement, they were probably unaware that the nature of the agreement had undergone a huge change.

Therefore, Wei Dong had no choice but to stay and resolve the current situation before he could return to Jiangzhou.

What was originally just a preliminary investment agreement has now turned into a swift and immediate commencement of work.

Shanghai originally had plans to focus on developing the electronics industry, but these plans have been stalled due to the current tight monetary situation.

At this critical juncture, the investment in the Apple computer manufacturing plant immediately became the flagship project. The readily available land in the western suburbs was allocated to the project, and production lines were immediately set up. Priority support and mobilization were given to all aspects, from technology to personnel.

However, receiving strong support from the city is one thing, but putting it into practice is another.

Policy support often consists of only documents and bare land; the actual implementation is often separated by many levels, and you have to do everything yourself.

The urban area of ​​Shanghai at this time is not very big. Not to mention Pudong, it is basically a neighboring county. Even the western suburbs are farmland and wilderness.

However, there are already some signs of urbanization, and 60 acres have been designated as land for the development and construction of the electronics industry.

Let's help Comrade Weidong overcome the difficulties and get the job done.

This guy is quite experienced; he's already very familiar with this work style in Jiangzhou and Shangzhou.

A very small number of commune houses on the existing plots were vacated to serve as front-line command posts.

It's not like we're short of money right now; five million US dollars of foreign investment has been allocated to the construction.

We will strive to first establish a parts assembly workshop, a picture tube production workshop, and a keyboard and mouse production workshop.

The city granted special work visas to the foreign experts and immediately invited foreign production technicians to come and provide guidance.

Moreover, Weidong has a large number of university teams to support it.

June is graduation season, so he could send his sales staff to relevant universities to promote and recruit recent graduates. With the assistance of various units in Shanghai, he could quickly assemble his forces and get to work.

Young people who were initially uneasy, feeling that their work was being targeted and treated unfairly.

Now it seems that as soon as the boss took action, the situation immediately turned around, all the blocked links were unblocked, and the previously hateful treatment turned into a gentle breeze.

Why not worship and follow them even more?
They cheered and jumped right in!

They were so excited by the vast and promising future before them that they trembled with fear.

We were just following the boss, selling cameras and jeans, and it seemed like we were going to sell computers in the future. How did it suddenly become that we were going to manufacture computers and build a new city?

Is the boss going to become the district head?

Because sixty acres is roughly 40,000 square meters of space.

Although it's not even half the size of the Jiangzhou factory area, it's already a very spacious location in the suburbs of Shanghai.

Moreover, this place is closer to the airport than the city center, and it takes advantage of the crisscrossing waterways and canals around Shanghai, which is quite good.

Even if Wei Dong was not familiar with the Shanghai area thirty or forty years from now, he could guess that the future urban area would most likely expand to include the current plot of land.

What's the point of buying a house if you can't build your own neighborhood in Shanghai?

This presents an opportunity to leverage foreign investment to build a new industrial city.

Experts from Jiangzhou specializing in the planning and construction of small blocks, along with Lao Geng's construction experts, immediately dispatched a team to Shanghai.

Shanghai's expertise in this area is absolutely leading the nation.

However, Wei Dong also needs to have his own people to control the situation and strictly implement his main ideas and strategies.

Even if it's just a factory area plan at present, it should be developed according to the small block model.

It is clear that this electronics industrial park, which is roughly the size of seven or eight small blocks, will soon surpass the development progress of the development zones in Shangzhou and Jiangzhou.

Because they use US dollars here.

According to the sales agreement between Rang Weidong and Steve, of the $75 million foreign bank draft, $25 million was actually Rang Weidong's commission for the "new product launch"!
The $50 million figure represents the investment Steve Jobs requested from the board of directors after regaining control of Apple Computer, specifically for manufacturing in contract manufacturers in East Asia.

Even though everyone still finds it hard to believe that they can invest in mainland China.

Steve indulged and spoiled the genius without hesitation, and was most willing to spend money to let the genius do things that others wouldn't even dare to think about.

This made Wei Dong realize that as improvements and production progressed, as long as he helped Apple Computer "correctly" diagnose the problem, the scale of this contract manufacturer would continue to grow.

They don't need to affect their sales funds in mainland China at all; they can simply leverage existing resources to expand their business.

Moreover, since the current policy on foreign investment is not fully open, all funds are currently being raised under the name of Dongsheng Trading.

If it weren't for his relationship with Steve Jobs, Apple would certainly not have allowed such an ambiguous ownership situation to exist.

Therefore, he also needed to quickly create a model so that Steve could dispel the board's doubts.

In addition, the Shanghai area boasts unparalleled material allocation capabilities nationwide.

As a result, the construction progress was remarkably efficient.

The only difference is that the current construction cost is slightly higher than that of Jiangzhou and Shangzhou.

Unexpectedly, along with the Jiangzhou expert group, there was also a Hong Kong business group!

(End of this chapter)