Fan Wubing has a purpose to keep an eye on Kodak's development in the Chinese market.

Although the decline of traditional photosensitive equipment is inevitable, Kodak's color printing system will become popular, especially after digital cameras and other convenient photography products become popular, these printing systems will gradually become popular, especially when major wedding photography studios begin to use professional printing systems to achieve the final results, the output in this area is quite amazing.

Of course, he has not shown excessive concern for the hedging system now, and all he requires is to share Kodak's achievements in digital camera technology. This is the only point that Kodak is acceptable, because Fan Wubing agreed and will solve the remaining employees in these factories acquired by Kodak.

However, Fan Wubing also proposed a solution, that is, these people can be scattered around the country and set up Kodak color printing equipment stores in various places in the name of regional agents. The funds required are solved by themselves, and the equipment is completely purchased from Kodak.

After hearing this news, Kodak was very shocked. They have always been taking the path of technology monopoly of the market. At this time, they spent a lot of money to monopolize the Chinese market for three years. It was nothing more than just to let the Chinese people use Kodak's film. Once they get used to it, there will be no challenges for other brands. It is important to know that the development of people's habits is very terrible. If the main competitors enter the Chinese market again, it will be extremely difficult to make a comeback.

Kodak also hopes to establish a franchise store using its own printing equipment in various places, so that it will widely adopt its own equipment, which will be of great benefit to its own marketing, but at the same time, they also want to monopolize this big cake. After all, the idea of ​​establishing a printing store across the country is essentially the same as the effect of opening stores in bustling commercial areas such as FC.

These occupies the best of large, medium and small cities. Even if the sales of the geographical location are somewhat insufficient, with the rapid development of Chinese society, these losses will be greatly compensated for by the transfer costs of the store. It can be said that this is also a way for the drunkard to not drink.

However, there is also a very embarrassing situation now. Kodak wants to invest billions of dollars in the Chinese market to build a production base to compensate Chinese companies that cannot be jointly invested with other foreign companies due to the agreement. The expenses in this regard are also very high. For Kodak, which is currently poor in management and heavily in debt, the burden is very heavy. If you want to build thousands of printing stores across China, the investment will be very large, and you really have the will but not enough.

Faced with the idea that Fan Wubing wanted to enter the printing market, Kodak seemed a little complicated. He hoped that Fan Wubing would enter the printing market as soon as possible, and also hoped that he could occupy the China printing market. This contradiction cannot be resolved.

The main reason why Kodak hopes that Fan Wubing will enter the printing market as soon as possible is that Kodak itself faces a lot of profit pressure and is eager to promote this process by occupying the market. Only when the terminal market solutions are realized can its own film sell well. If Fan Wubing can simultaneously develop the demand of the bottom-end market, then Kodak's capital and energy will be saved and he can concentrate on expanding the photosensitive material production line.

But they also knew that if Fan Wubing was allowed to do this, then once the terminal market was built, Fan Wubing would have too much resources to be mastered. In the future, he would be able to get rid of Kodak, set up his own business, or cooperate with other foreign companies at any time.

However, judging from the current situation, Kodak is obviously unable to stop Fan Wubing's idea of ​​entering the terminal market.

"Since there is no way to stop it, we can only cooperate well." Ye Ying said to his senior executives. "Anyway, from the current point of view, even if Fan's Investment Group wants to get involved in the printing market, the equipment needed must be solved from us. This is the best opportunity for Kodak to make money."

Ye Ying thought it very clearly that Kodak is unable to prevent Fan's investment group from entering the printing market for the time being, and there is no reason to stop it. After all, what they are now agreeing to monopolize the film industry, not the printing market. It is very dangerous to monopolize a market. Even if it monopolizes the market of a developing country in a short period of time, Kodak's practice has caused great controversy. However, Kodak itself is facing survival issues, not just development issues, so he doesn't care about so much.

The printing market can only be given to Fan's Investment Group. Fortunately, they also invested 200 million US dollars in the photography materials production base, which can be regarded as a collaborator in the same trenches. I believe that they will not demolish the walls during the cooperation period, right? After Kodak's production base is established and Kodak color scrolls occupy the national market, the terminal printing market will always serve the majority of customers and will not have any negative impact on Kodak's Chinese strategy.

"Let's go and clink glasses of wine with him." After Ye Ying thought it through, she raised her glass and walked towards Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing was talking to Boss Zhu with a smile. He was not familiar with the bosses of other companies and had no contacts before. Moreover, the scale of these companies was relatively small and could not be placed in his eyes, so he did not talk to them much.

However, between Fan Wubing and Boss Zhu, they are exchanging views on some current things.

"I heard from Comrade Fan Heng that Jiangnan Province is preparing to launch a family car project? Are you pushing this behind the scenes?" asked Boss Zhu.

"It's not me who is promoting it, but it is determined by the economic development laws of Jiangnan Province." Fan Wubing replied seriously.

"Why is this stranger the older you are?" Boss Zhu said with a smile.

Fan Wubing explained with his nose, "I'm right to say that. The economy of Jiangnan Province has developed, with funds, and the metallurgical industry is also the bottom-level support of the automobile manufacturing industry. In addition, I can provide them with some technical authorization, so there is no problem in producing some more extensive family cars. The main development direction I suggest to them is also aimed at overseas markets."

"Oh, models with relatively large fuel consumption are indeed suitable for use in some overseas countries." Boss Zhu has been paying attention to the development of SAIC for a long time, so when he heard Fan Wubing mention the overseas market, he immediately understood that the extensive cars mentioned by Fan Wubing must be the kind that is fuel-saving.

However, the type of car with high fuel consumption has generally strong horsepower and strong off-road capabilities, which is indeed suitable for users in some overseas countries.

When it comes to fuel consumption, Boss Zhu remembers some things again and frowned and said, "The domestic oil price is ok--"

"The current oil price in China should be relatively cheap." Fan Wubing nodded.

The current domestic oil price is 38 cents per liter. This year, due to the impact of the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, global demand for oil once fell, and oil prices fell. As the economy will slowly recover, demand for oil will continue to rise, especially the oil consumption in developing countries is growing faster, and developed countries have a leading advantage in using energy efficiency and committed to developing oil alternatives, and the demand for oil is growing slowly.

But overall, there has been a situation where oil demand is greater than supply since the middle of this year. Even though the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries promised to increase production, due to the limited increase in production, refining and transportation are difficult to keep up, international oil prices have been hovering at low levels for a long time and have not increased production. As winter is about to enter, the increasing demand for fuel for heating in the United States, Japan and other countries has made it difficult for oil prices to fall in the next one and two quarters.

However, domestic oil prices are still operating at a low level. The main reason is that refined oil smuggling is very serious, and there are also a large number of private gas stations in China. After the two cooperate with each other, low oil prices are emerging.

In July this year, the National Conference on Smuggling Work was held in Beijing. Chief No. 1 met with the conference representatives and gave important instructions. He emphasized that cracking down on smuggling crimes is an important deployment to ensure the healthy development of the economy and maintain social stability and national security interests. We must resolutely crack down on serious smuggling crimes and must not be ruthless.

At this national anti-smuggling work conference, Boss Zhu also made an important speech, and a massive anti-smuggling struggle began across the country.

The reason why Fan Wubing mentioned the low oil price was that Boss Zhu began to frown. The reason for this was that the anti-smuggling struggle had been going on for more than two months, but the domestic problem of refined oil smuggling has become serious, which made Boss Zhu very unhappy.

"The problem of refined oil smuggling is now very serious, causing the country's tax loss to more than 100 billion yuan each year. As a result, CNPC and Sinopec have suffered losses for years, and the situation is very embarrassing. Now they call for anti-smuggling every day, but they just can't hit the key points, which makes people very angry." Boss Zhu said very angrily.

Last month, the major smuggling case in Zhanjiang was exposed, shocking the whole country.

Among the leaders of the Zhanjiang smuggling criminal gang that caused a sensation across the country, Chen Lisheng, who is known as the smuggling car king, has the deepest and most background, because his father was Chen Tongqing, the then Secretary of the Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee.

Chen Lisheng smuggled wildly and made hundreds of millions of dollars in a few years. At the beginning of 1996, Chen Lisheng and Deng Chong'an and Li Shen and others conspired to smuggle cars in Hong Kong to make profits. Deng Chong'an was responsible for organizing the supply of goods and dismantling, coding, and packing the entire vehicle. Chen Lisheng was responsible for customs declaration, exporting, shipping and picking up smuggled goods at the Zhanjiang wharf, and handing them over to Deng Chong'an or other smuggling elements. Li Shen colluded with Zhang Yi to clear the relationship and customs declaration, and received customs clearance remuneration for each container of 70,000 to 100,000 Hong Kong dollars.

In two years, Deng Chong'an participated in the smuggling of 3,000 cars, escaping more than 200 million yuan in taxes. Chen Lisheng participated in the smuggling of 2,000 cars, and smuggling more than 10,000 tons of diesel, escaping a total of nearly 200 million yuan in taxes.

In the anti-smuggling work in Zhanjiang City, Chen Tongqing's back could not be hard, because his son Chen Lisheng was the well-known smuggling car king. Chen Tongqing also played the role of a protective umbrella for Chen Lisheng's smuggling activities. In order to find sales for Chen Lisheng's smuggling goods, he did not hesitate to call everywhere and raise relationships. In order to make his son smuggling sufficient funds, he exerted influence and asked the Zhanjiang Municipal Government to come forward to guarantee that he would lend tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars to Chen Lisheng's company from overseas banks.

Not only that, it is said that on the first day of transfer to Zhanjiang, Chen Tongqing took his son to visit local leading cadres. People say that on the surface, it was his son who sent Chen Tongqing to Zhan, but in fact it was the new secretary who paved the way for his son to make money in Zhanjiang in the future.

"The ancients said that if you don't be careful in your actions, you will eventually cause great virtue. If this corrupt official and son could realize this at that time and stop the horse early, you would never end up like a sad end today with a drowned person who was drowned in wine, burned in cigarettes, and suppressed in ill-gotten property." Boss Zhu mentioned the Zhanjiang case and said to Fan Wubing, "Compared with Chen Tongqing and your son, there is a world of difference. The father and son are both united, but their conscience is obviously eaten by him."

Smuggling severely impacted Zhanjiang's economic foundation. Taking the city's pillar industry sugar industry as an example, the city's profit was 1.5 billion yuan in 1995, but one year later, under the impact of smuggled sugar, the city lost 400 million yuan.

Zhanjiang at that time was even called the paradise for smugglers.

Speaking of smuggling, it is simply a blatant import. Each ship of goods is publicly taken away from the dock. Customs do not check and border guards are not set up. The anti-smuggling office has become a smuggling office. The supervision of the entire Zhanjiang port is a vacuum.

Some local state-owned enterprises are also linked to smuggling groups. Guangdong Samsung Enterprise Group, known as Junma in western Guangdong, uses smuggled car parts to assemble complete vehicles, and the agricultural vehicles produced are extremely popular in the local area.

Although ordinary people subconsciously know that smuggling is illegal, they know very little about its harm. Ordinary people are more willing to fill their cars with cheap smuggling oil, use smuggling gas to cook, and eat smuggling sugar.
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