"Check the woman's background, it doesn't look like a person who has appeared in vain." After Pei Xuede and others left, Fan Wubing ordered his subordinates.

"We have no information on this person, so we have to let the United States check it out." Fan Wubing's subordinates answered immediately.

Most influential figures have information to check in Fan Wubing's headquarters. This is also a secret for him to solve most people in the first time, study opponents, and summarize their rules, preferences and preferences. This is very beneficial for negotiations.

The US branches are very efficient in investigations. Sometimes, Fan Wubing laughs at it and says that they have already joined forces with FBI and Cia, so they are so handy.

Soon, the American branch received detailed information about the woman.

Fan Wubing picked up the fax and read it. It turned out that this person was Ye Ying, who had just joined Kodak for less than a year.

Ye Ying was born in Beijing, grew up in Taiwan, lives in Hong Kong, and holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations and English Literature from Taiwan University.

During her college years, she was a famous radio and television reporter in Taiwan and Japan. In the early 1970s, she became a U.S. nationality and served as an official of the Political Department of the U.S. Embassy in Myanmar and the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong. In the late 1970s, she returned to the press and worked for the Singapore Straits Times Group and the NBC New York. In 1979, as a BC reporter, she interviewed Deng Gong, who was the first visit to the United States with the CCV host, and became a woman who witnessed a special moment in history.

In 1982, Ye Ying joined the U.S. Department of Commerce, serving as business consul in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and as head of the business group of the American Association in Taiwan in Taipei. He then served as the Minister of Business Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in China.

Last year, Ye Ying joined Kodak at the warm invitation of the President of Kodak and served as Vice President of Greater China and General Manager of the Foreign Affairs Department, and is also one of the three core members of the Kodak project.

"This woman is very powerful. It is probably Pei Xuede specially inserted into China. A wedge from mainland China wants to leverage the currently strong Chinese film industry and clear the obstacles for Kodak's acquisition plan." Fan Wubing said to his subordinates after reading the information.

"The boss gave her a little too high, right?" Fan Wubing's hand and the subordinates said a little suspiciously.

"Don't underestimate anyone. A person, especially a woman who can be at ease between journalists, diplomats and senior executives of multinational companies, a woman who dares to wear any color matching on her body without having to make any mistakes first, a woman who dares to wear skirts very short and wear shoes very high at any time, even though she is a little older." Fan Wubing waved her hand and said, "But we should also note that such a woman's mind is much richer than that of a girl in her twenties, and what she needs to face is basically those real bosses who have become famous in their seventies and eighties. This advantage is something that the little girls don't have."

It is true that having some beautiful girls come to the company to support the storefront will look more pleasing, and in general it can also play a positive role. However, when it comes to determining the rise and fall of an industry and having to play with the officials and businessmen, the girls are not enough to see them.

Or some people don’t believe it, believing that beauties can be eaten everywhere, but at a certain level, what kind of beauties these people want cannot get? Especially those who are older don’t care about the appearance of women. For them, solving problems is the most important thing. Therefore, in many large companies abroad, capable old women are far more likely to be valued than those little girls who can only act as vase roles.

Thinking of this, Fan Wubing couldn't help but say a few more words, "Don't think that Obasan is old. In fact, these people may have made much greater contributions to the company. You should not judge people by their appearance at work."

A subordinate immediately asked, "Mr. Fan's meaning is not to say that once an older person comes to the company for a job, don't refuse it. Instead, you should first check whether the other party's ability is used by our company and is of great use? Such a person cannot be let go of easily?"

Fan Wubing was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that in the company's previous recruitment process, the age requirements were stricter. Often, the requirements were under 30 years old. Occasionally, there were some special talents over 35 years old, and they were also personally approved by senior executives to explore. As for the issue of older job seekers coming to apply for a job, Fan Wubing had never paid attention. I think it was probably the case that they directly rejected it?

Of course, it is not very realistic to expect to find any talent at the job fair. Especially for the current Fan Investment Group, it has long had a complete management team and the middle-level leaders trained. What they lack is just ordinary employees who can implement the plan. Therefore, general recruitment and targeted exploration of special talents are enough to be competent for various tasks.

A talent like Ye Ying with extremely strong communication skills has exceeded the general public relations processing direction, but has reached the level of senior professional managers. This is of course also the talent that Fan Investment Group lacks.

"Ahem—" Fan Wubing said after experiencing his chin, "We still need to use special talents in a quantity, especially for senior management personnel who are more familiar with the domestic situation and are good at interpersonal communication that the company lacks. The age can be increased to fifty years old. If it gets older, it will be meaningless."

When Fan Wubing mentioned this, he seemed to remember that in order to experience the people's sentiment, a deputy minister went to the talent market to apply for a public relations position. As a result, the other party actually told him not to be too old, and said bluntly that his position was only for young women**.

Later, when we learned about this, everyone was laughing and some people even pointed out that if the other party really wanted to recruit the deputy minister, no matter what, even if the deputy minister could not work in the company, he could establish a good personal relationship. The role played by this is irreplaceable by many young and beautiful girls. I think the boss of the company was a little regretful in the end.

In the most recent situation, you can also take the opportunity to hype your company, increase your popularity, and establish the banner of being unconventional to appoint talented talents in the company. It is a good thing that can gather centripetal force. It is a pity.

When Fan Wubing and the others were discussing Ye Ying here, Pei Xuede and Ye Ying were also discussing Fan Wubing there.

"We originally planned it well, but now a Fan Investment Group suddenly came out and disrupted the previous preparations." Ye Ying said to Pei Xuede with some concern.

On the third day after Ye Ying went to Kodak to work, she flew from Hong Kong to Shantou as vice president of Greater China and general manager of the Foreign Affairs Department. As one of the three core figures of the Kodak negotiating team, she appeared in the cooperation negotiations between Kodak and the entire photosensitive industry in China.

Ye Ying, who has been experienced by diplomats for many years, is good at communicating and is naturally easy to negotiate. Before she participated, the whole process between China and Kodak was in a very anxious state, and the communication between them was very bad. Everyone did not understand what the needs of both sides were and did not have a kind of trust.

After Ye Ying joined, she conveyed the Chinese government's big investment position to encourage Kodak to enter China, and also made Chinese companies understand that Kodak's strategic investment is real and really necessary to continue, so that the entire negotiation was opened up.

The preliminary plan is that the Chinese government implements different policies for six domestic photosensitive companies except Lekai. Xiamen Fuda, Shantou AD, Wuxi Almei and Kodak jointly venture, and Shanghai, Tianjin and Liaoyang will not cooperate with any other foreign joint ventures during the three-year infrastructure period of the joint venture. Kodak will pay China $400 million in asset transfer and economic compensation.

In addition, based on this agreement, Kodak was approved to invest US$1.2 billion in China to establish a photosensitive material production base.

But the Fan Investment Group suddenly said that it was going to join in, and it seemed that it was going to develop a package of solutions, which made Kodak feel a little incomprehensible, but the conditions proposed by Fan Investment Group were also something Kodak could not refuse.

Just as they learned about Fan Wubing's background, they believed that the joining of Fan's Investment Group was likely to have deep-seated reasons, otherwise the son of a Politburo member would not have run such a large investment group and intervened in such a joint venture.

"Public officials in mainland China generally are taboo to link with business, but Fan Heng and Fan Wubing are an exception." Ye Ying had been in the capital for a long time before. Although Fan Wubing and others were not familiar with her, she still knew the Fan father and son well. After all, in a sense, diplomats are actually the chief responsible for collecting intelligence in the country.

For Fan Heng, who is competent as a member of the Politburo, the Americans have conducted many and detailed investigations.

"What do you mean is there a conspiracy?" Pei Xuede asked hesitantly.

Ye Ying said to Pei Xuede, "If it is a joint venture between the three companies, many secrets will not become secrets. I am worried that some details will have an undeterminable impact on Kodak's company image, making the entire process uncontrollable."

After hearing this, Pei Xuede nodded and frowned.

After a long time, Pei Xuede said, "So, can you figure out the original intention of Fan's Investment Jitu as soon as possible? I want to understand this situation and let us grasp some active ones."

"It's a bit difficult. After all, for the old guys, I can understand what they are thinking, but for a 22-year-old young man, it's very difficult to catch **. I haven't even found his breakthrough yet." Ye Ying replied helplessly, "This is the first time I have encountered this in decades of diplomatic affairs. It's really tricky!"

Fan Wubing also obtained detailed information about the Kodak acquisition from the senior management at this time, but after reading it, he frowned a little. It was estimated that if he had not been involved, such documents would be difficult to see.

The purpose of the government preferential treatment of Kodak is to allow the market to change technology and unload the burden. However, the result of the merger and acquisition is not that Kodak transfers technology to Chinese companies, but that Chinese companies are fully incorporated into the Kodak system. It is not that Kodak accepts the burden of state-owned enterprises, but that state-owned enterprises transfer its main operating assets to Kodak on the premise that they bear the original debts themselves. The burden is still government-owned, such as environmental protection issues.

For example, in the Shantou AD, Kodak only promised to acquire the production line of color film of the AD and take away nearly 100 skilled workers who could speak English. On the surface, the AD retained the production line of black and white film, retained about 300 employees, retained the AD brand, and retained the only Chinese film brand except Lekai.

However, Kodak does not want the part of the black and white film in the AD, and Kodak will not pay more money because he acquired the black and white film in the AD at the same time, because Kodak has never produced civilian black and white film worldwide.

What remains at the same time as the Yuan brand is the still heavy debt burden of the Yuan Dynasty. As of this year, Shantou's cumulative losses of 300 million yuan and debt of 4.8 billion yuan, which is the company with the most debt among all acquired companies. Kodak promised to leave 1.8 billion yuan to fill the holes in the debt, but not even half of them were filled.

In other words, even if the joint venture became a top-notch one, the AD still carried more than 2 billion yuan in debt, and what it got was to maintain its place in the civilian black and white film industry. But the AD's land was not theirs, and the factory was not theirs, and they didn't even know who they were.

After all, the practical significance of this joint venture proposal is not that Kodak acquires all Chinese photosensitive materials companies, except Lekai, but that it gives Kodak an opportunity to develop independently in the Chinese market for three years. Kodak did not make China's photosensitive industry go to the world as they said, but that China's photosensitive industry becomes Kodak's world.

Therefore, when Fan Wubing saw all the doubts clearly, he felt even more depressed. It was hard to imagine how this matter was released? If it was just to reflect that an example of a merger in the entire industry could be a top-notch, Kodak could indeed make a big change in the Chinese film industry.

However, it should also be noted that this change is not a huge change in the Chinese film industry itself, but a change in the owner of the Chinese film industry, becoming Kodak.
Chapter completed!