My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 668 The Academic Superstar's Domination

The hotel tycoon didn't stay at the factory.

Although Wei Dong showed him several places to stay.

When the city receives foreign guests, it usually does so in the hotel above the Queen's Restaurant, which is not even as good as the state guesthouse that used to host higher-level leaders.

I heard this is someone like the Citibank Hotel tycoon, who's investing $100 million in Shanghai, so he'll definitely want to be received with the rank of a city leader.

Wei Dong finally managed to persuade him not to give them too much face, because business is business, and if you give them too much face, they won't get enough benefits.

If they want to make money, then let's follow the rules of business.

In the end, they only hired a translator from the city, whom Lao Gao said was his former boss.

I guess you could say I had a complete understanding of the situation.

The long-stay business suites at the White Building are completely full, and it's impossible to book them individually.

Awald led a team to conduct a very thorough inspection, saying that this was the first modern business apartment he had seen since coming to the mainland.

I could even vaguely sense the atmosphere of the Chicago hotel from half a century ago.

Then there's the four-star hotel for Hong Kong businessmen in the Economic Development Zone, which was barely completed and is currently undergoing hasty training at various stages. It's just so-so. The Citibank executive said it was nothing special, and not even as surprising as the business apartments.

Moreover, the smell from the newly renovated place was quite strong, so people didn't want to live there at all.

The trendy Hong Kong-style decorations at the time didn't appeal to Wei Dong, but he never said a word about it. He was learning from their hotel management and construction models, as well as their talent training. He shouldn't be talking nonsense and try to move the machine gun five centimeters to the side.

They even took us to the old military intelligence residence on the city's hilltop, where we could stay and enjoy the view.

The hotel tycoon ultimately chose to stay in the Salt Industry Association building, since several guest rooms there had been cleaned out and had their sheets changed, giving them a homestay feel.

The carpentry team leader in charge of the repairs here, along with about ten people, conveyed to him with a glance the determination of the American imperialists.

Wei Dong quickly reminded them to be polite and to call if anything happened.

As I was leaving, I saw a hotel tycoon wearing a diamond-patterned down jacket, accompanied by his assistant and translator, leaning on a cane as he walked along the riverbank. Perhaps he felt like he was walking along the Nile or Ganges.

At this point, I really couldn't care less about international hotel groups.

It was clearly visible to the naked eye that the traffic flow in the entire Jiangzhou city area began to increase significantly from the beginning of December!
All kinds of car models!
Most of the people who came this time were manufacturers.

Moreover, the contact number left has been completely overwhelmed with calls.

The telephone operators at the White Building are now working in shifts, and the phone calls keep coming in non-stop.

Didn't Dong Xueqing obtain data from the post office before? In 1984, Jiangzhou had approximately three million long-distance call records, averaging less than ten thousand per day for the entire city.

This is a megacity with a population of two million.

In December 1986, this phone line received two thousand calls a day!
Originally, I only had a phone number listed on TV and in newspapers for contact, but since November, many people have complained that they can't get through to me.

So Dong Xueqing asked experts from the post office to make a small programmable device.

Even if you call into the same line, the operator can immediately transfer you to one of the other lines the company already has.

This greatly alleviated the problem of not being able to get through on calls.

It can also take several calls at the same time, breaking down what used to be a few tens of seconds into a more detailed explanation.

The content of the phone call was actually very simple; none of them had experienced it.

Do we need to bring the vehicles in advance? Do we need to bring spare parts? Do we need to bring food coupons for food and lodging? Is there a designated unit to receive us? The last one is just someone who wants to eat and stay for free.

It's not about taking advantage; if you're in a system or organization, you'd naturally want to share the burden with your own people.

For example, local companies like Jiang'an Automobile in Lianjiang Prefecture feel that since they both belong to the Fifth Ministry of Machinery Industry, they should naturally give us the best support.

It's not enough for other people to answer the phone, we have to call you, Boss Rang. Xiao Rang has been telling us to support our work, and now that we've supported it, he won't even answer the phone?
Wei Dong had to painstakingly explain that this was a national exhibition, and that Jiangzhou companies were given priority in getting the best exhibition halls and booths. He was already being generous with the best booths, so why didn't he seize the opportunity presented by the host city to get the most eye-catching booth?
Only car manufacturers would do that; why would they need to set up exhibition booths?

Wei Dong was urged to quickly recommend a solution from the top students: "Don't you have foreign automotive experts? Ask them how to do it; they must have seen auto shows."

Because Collins decided to personally lead the team over to Cherokee, now that Cherokee has resolved the issue of foreign exchange quotas for imported auto parts and the issue of converting foreign investors' profits from car sales into foreign exchange, they are determined to sell like hotcakes!

Moreover, it's said that Hans Motors, Japanese minivans, and other three major brands are competing against each other, and even the working class of Citibank has a competitive spirit.

While still in Pyeongjin, a group of engineers sketched out the design of the off-road style booth, and five Cherokees, five 212s, and two CJs were sent over by rail freight cars.

This alone is baffling to many people. Isn't this just a car? Why can't it drive itself over?

Do you want cars to ride on trains?
Can a long-distance bus that has traveled two or three thousand kilometers still be called a display vehicle?

Upon arrival, we moved into the factory area and, with the help of the engineers provided by the general manager, quickly began setting up our exhibition booth.

Jiang An suddenly realized what was going on and immediately followed suit.

The Santana, together with the Shanghai-made sedan, traveled upstream on a cargo barge transported by Dongsheng Shipping.

The rest were mostly driven over.

For a time, it was bustling with traffic and very lively.

This has brought Jiangzhou into the era of traffic jams ahead of schedule.

This place basically had no traffic lights until the year 2000, a fact that Wei Dong had heard of even in Shangzhou.

Before urbanization, the mountain town lacked standard crossroads, three-way intersections, five-way intersections, and other undesigned terrain junctions. Traffic police directed traffic from their posts. Besides, there weren't many cars anyway.

This suddenly revealed that the vehicle simply couldn't support so many cars.

Actually, it's just that suddenly there are a few hundred more cars in the city.

Since they're already here, under the guise of test drives and exchanges, these drivers, salesmen, and factory managers from various car manufacturers are actually wandering around Jiangzhou!

Fortunately, the city's current deputy police chief, who was once a traffic policeman and became a national model expert, immediately mobilized various personnel to hold a business meeting and summarize and train more traffic police to direct traffic on the road.

The citizens also went crazy, having never seen so many cars before, all kinds of brand-new vehicles.

Men, in particular, have an innate liking for machinery.

Until the 1990s, many people took pleasure in being able to recognize hundreds of vehicle brand logos.

Now the streets are full of car brands I've never even heard of.

Students from all levels of schools gather in large numbers every day to look at cars in the square outside the exhibition center.

One day, Wei Dong was picking up his wife from get off work when he passed by and saw this. He quickly came back and mobilized everyone in the food street: "Let's set up a food stall in the exhibition center square!"

The construction team and the auto repair shop immediately helped to make dozens of hand-pushed food carts, the kind that he and his father used to make and push to the entrance of the printing and dyeing factory to sell spicy hot pot.

Then move dozens of the existing connected fiberglass tables and chairs from the food street over there, as well as the souvenir carts from the zoo, and transport them all over to sell.

With such a large flow of people, it's bound to generate more business.

There were definitely no city management officers around, and the exhibition center didn't dare to say a word to the food street brought by the exhibition consultants. They even helped to lay power lines and mark out the area, turning the auto expo into a rural market.

Going to the market.

As the month draws to a close, tens of thousands of people are gathering both inside and outside the exhibition center plaza at any time.

The onlookers and the factory vehicles that had been wandering around disappeared, replaced by excited salesmen, factory managers, and technicians from various machinery factories, parts factories, agricultural machinery factories, and repair shops.

With Cherokee, Santana, and Jiang'an Automobile setting the example, no other car manufacturer dared to drive their cars around anymore.

They were all brought back to the exhibition area, and some decorations were made based on the previously drawn plots.

The main issue is a kind of inexplicable pressure I feel inside.

The gap between top students and high achievers is clearly evident.

Previously, Wei Dong was asked to work with the police station to set up the development zone police center, and now it has been moved here directly. The municipal bureau is also urging Wei Dong to transfer the guard company of the infrastructure regiment here to manage public security.

The city authorities are definitely monitoring the situation closely, calling and inquiring every day to check if the situation is under control, whether it's too chaotic, and whether problems might arise.

In the past, large-scale gatherings were all officially organized, and each one was composed of various state-owned units, with each individual subject to control and management.

The current purely commercialized expo format makes me feel uncertain.

Tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of people gathered together could cause chaos just by going to the toilet.

Wei Dong had to explain that this was called exhibition economy, which not only developed related industries through exhibitions, but also boosted the local economy in all aspects, including food, drink, and daily life.

Fortunately, there is a large factory with tens of thousands of employees just two or three kilometers away, which can be adjusted and buffered at any time.

There is an experienced zoo located more than ten kilometers away that can accommodate tens of thousands of people every day.

Many people have been transferred here to assist with the work.

However, as the month progressed into the latter part, the media began to appear in large numbers again.

Reporters with cameras, microphones, and even video cameras were able to conduct interviews from the square to the exhibition hall, and even on the streets of Gangnam District and the Economic Development Zone.

TVB and Sunshine Daily also gave it extensive coverage.

It looked as if the entire nation was putting together the Olympics.

They further fueled national attention to the auto expo.

Wei Dong had previously estimated that sending out 500,000 to 600,000 letters to potential viewers would amount to over a million tickets, and that it would be good if even one-tenth of them came.

It seems like there's more than that number now.

Even Ai Jiayi heard the news and called to ask if they needed an advertising company or performance team to come and assist.

Wei Dong felt that having car models at this time was still too shocking.

But it is indeed necessary to organize some kind of vehicle parade performance to describe the overall situation of the exhibition to the performance director.

The retired dance troupe member said, "I understand. You can see for yourself."

A team was organized and rushed over from Pyeongjing.

She only quietly reported that it was President Qin who asked her to ask when the results arrived...

This way, the Hong Kong girl could bring a team of Hong Kong media members under the guise of supporting the performance group.

They've already gained international influence!

(End of this chapter)