Chapter 0464 Trade Agent
There is a joke: What is the poor family lacking?
Answer: There are two missing.
Those two things?
This is also lacking, that is also lacking!
When Qin Hao stood on the high-rise building of the Imperial Capital Hotel and looked down, he could clearly feel that this country is really ‘this is lacking, that is lacking’.
But when Europe and the United States had already lived a life of extremely abundant supplies, the ancient Eastern countries were still suffering from the poverty of supplies. Whether it was industry or agriculture, the technical level was far behind the world.
Under such circumstances, importing advanced technology and equipment from abroad has become the only choice. It also feeds a large number of trade agents doing import and export business.
These days, there are agents who can be used as high-tech products, and life is very good. The Imperial Capital Hotel where Qin Hao lives is next to the Forbidden City, and it is a five-minute walk to Tiananmen Square, and it is just a short distance from Wangfujing.
This is the most prosperous area of the capital. But Qin Hao still felt a little ridiculed when he looked at the "yellow bread" running back and forth on the street.
In the 1990s, developed countries such as Europe, America and Japan had already completed the second industrial revolution based on electrification, and were ready to welcome the wave of the third information revolution.
However, China has not even completed electrification. Many domestic companies want to touch the edge of informatization, but have major flaws in equipment and manpower.
This defect is a business opportunity for Qin Hao. As a yellow-skinned Chinese American, it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t speak Chinese well, just be a comprador to make money.
China is eager for advanced European and American products, especially in electronic technology, which has a huge gap, which has to be imported.
Qin Hao can afford to stay in the Imperial Capital Hotel and visit Wangfujing. He has several months of paid vacations every year, which relies on a large amount of imported foreign devices in China.
The huge profits in this are so hard to let go, making Qin Hao willing to stay in a country he doesn't like and deal with people he doesn't like. It's just because those who pay money will regard him as a compatriot.
Damn it, only money is the compatriots. Mobile::
Standing in front of the window of the high-rise guest room, you can see many people wandering outside the Imperial Capital Hotel. Qin Hao looked down at them like he was watching ants in his spare time, and it felt quite interesting.
Those who look around outside the hotel and are timid are second-dealers. They specialize in finding opportunities to get foreigners close to the hotel and try to get some foreign exchange coupons.
Now the exchange rate of soft girl coins is falling, and many people are anxious to find ways to exchange foreign exchange. They often curse everything in a mean tone of disgust and hate, but in a blink of an eye, they can calmly please any Western pole.
"Poor man."
Qin Hao raised his arm and glanced at the time. He was very surprised why the phone in the guest room had not rang today. Half an hour ago, the front desk on the first floor of the hotel should have called to inform him that there was a visitor. Will it be welcome?
Qin Hao has contacts with several import and export companies with the word "China", and each one is eager to get a better source of goods from him. What he wants to do is to sell some bad goods at a high price as much as possible. : :
Of course, both parties must be fully faced.
The import and export company will thank Qin Hao for his work and even invite him to attend at certain celebrations or meetings. His appearance will often make the invitation party feel honored and take away more benefits.
But today, the "electronics import and export company" with the word "Zhong" is no longer showing up, and their representatives did not appear at the agreed time. Qin Hao was already angry and decided to teach the other party a lesson no matter what.
Raise prices, reduce volumes, and downgrade.
Qin Hao had some ways to punish those bureaucrats. He knew very well what bureaucrats were afraid of. Just one word made the other party unable to communicate, which would be enough to trigger a turmoil that would call the sky and the earth.
I made an appointment at 10 o'clock, but I didn't see anyone.
At eleven o'clock, the phone still didn't ring, and there was no perfunctory apologies.
At twelve o'clock, Qin Hao decided to go to the restaurant's Western restaurant for lunch. He brought his mobile phone with him, but made up his mind to not answer anyone's call.
But until two o'clock in the afternoon, the steak in front of Qin Hao was completely cold, and he himself filled with coffee. But no one called him.
"Damn it, those bureaucrats who run imports and exports usually don't do this? I agree to the meeting, and they all have to be grateful. Could it be that they had a car accident on the way here?"
Qin Hao almost thought that his mobile phone was broken. He could just dial a number to the hotel front desk to confirm that the phone was good, but no one was looking for him.
Do you want Qin Hao to call him?
No, this doesn't work.
Qin Hao is a trade representative of Adi (Adno) in the United States. As a semiconductor company founded in 1965, Adi has a world-class dominant position in the field of analog-to-digital conversion components.
This company, located in Massachusetts, USA, is almost synonymous with ‘top’ in the industry. Its customers cover all semiconductor manufacturers. Because as long as it is in the field of electronic technology, adi products are indispensable.
In this regard, the current domestic technology and products are simply not worth mentioning.
Qin Hao is not only a trade representative for ADI, he also represents many Texas Instruments products. This is also a semiconductor manufacturer with a dominant position in the industry.
How far is the overlord of "Deyi"? Few companies of its contemporaries are still alive.
In the eyes of Americans, China is like the third brother in the eyes of the Chinese people thirty years later. It is backward, ignorant, and a bit mysterious.
Ordinary Americans were unwilling to come to work in China, so banana people like Qin Hao were sent here. Qin Hao also kept complaining about the backwardness of the imperial capital to the headquarters, even if he lived here like an emperor.
So Qin Hao decided to keep calm and never call the fat sheep he wanted to slaughter easily. This momentum must not be weak.
But I still didn't call me in the afternoon, which was so disappointing.
It was like there were crowds of people yesterday, but the next day it was deserted. Qin Hao realized that it was a little bit bad, so he started calling to find friends he could contact, trying to inquire.
The phone number was first called to other foreign semiconductor companies' trade agents in the imperial capital. Some people were surprised, some asked back, and some people felt that it was normal.
Could it be that I was not calm and too suspicious?
Qin Hao stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the guest room and paced back and forth, and time slowly moved towards night. He stayed in his room all day, without going to the gym, swimming pool, and looking for women in the bar street in Sanlitun.
There is an ominous premonition that lingers in my heart.
There are some rumors among trade agents who have lived in the imperial capital for a long time. Whenever the domestic import and export bureaucrats who are sent to you on weekdays no longer contact you enthusiastically, it often means that they have made some breakthroughs in technology.
Whenever these breakthroughs are confirmed, it means that foreign manufacturers will lose some profits.
However, the current domestic technical level is generally backward, especially the large-scale gap in the basic field, which leads to a breakthrough at a certain point.
Moreover, the current development abroad is progressing rapidly, and one step behind will be behind step by step, and even if you can't catch up, you can't catch up.
Qin Hao muttered in his heart, "I sell analog-to-digital conversion chips that are necessary for the semiconductor industry, and they are still the most advanced high-speed broadband type, and there is no competitor in the industry at all.
Even technological breakthroughs are not so fast! There must be some reason for scientific matters."
By night, the phone finally arrived.
The opening was an anxious and urgent voice, and someone asked, "Anderson, is your client in good condition?"
‘Anderson’ is Qin Hao’s name, and he likes to be called this.
The person who called was a German, who mainly sold high-end machine tools to China. Qin Hao met him on the bar street and swept Sanlitun with his friends.
"What happened?" Qin Hao's heart skipped a beat.
"It's over, my order is completely finished. The machinery import and export company returned all my tool orders, and even if I said I would reduce the price, they would not accept it.
Do you know? This is so terrible, so terrible. I have never seen those Chinese people so resolute, they have never been like this in the past.
I asked all the friends I could contact, but no one could tell me the answer. I had no idea about it.
Do you know? I love China, my life in the imperial capital, and my girls here. But all this requires orders."
Chapter completed!