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Chapter 717:Happy cooperation

According to the cooperation agreed by Feng Xiaochen and Lulam at the Munich exhibition two years ago, Gabe exchanged iron ore with mining machinery and other industrial equipment to China, and used these industrial equipment to establish thermal power plants, steel plants, machinery factories, fertilizer plants, etc. These factories have been put into operation and are in good operation.With these factories, the power supply in Gabe is sufficient, the commonly used small machinery can be manufactured by itself, and the need for fertilizer for agricultural production is no longer in short supply, which has promoted the increase of food production, and the entire country's economy has entered a virtuous circle.

This time, Feng Xiaochen used the Gabe Industrial Park as China's industrial exhibition hall, and after negotiating with the ministers of industry, he led them to visit these established enterprises and let them see the use of Chinese equipment.

Africa is traditionally Europe’s backyard, and the vast majority of the industrial equipment used by countries is produced in Europe, only to have added some Japanese-made equipment in recent years.For Chinese equipment, most African officials are relatively unfamiliar, there are some doubts in their hearts, always feel that China is also a developing country, where can the technical level go?Feng Xiaochen took these industry ministers to the workshop and asked them to talk to local workers in Africa and listen to their comments on Chinese equipment, which undoubtedly strengthened the confidence of these officials.

Lulam is somewhat reluctant to do anything about the Chinese people's equipment sales in the country.Taking the line of China is a great opportunity for the country of Gabay, who once fantasized about expanding the industrial production capacity of the country, selling the produced steel, machinery, fertilizers, etc. to neighboring countries to earn excess profits.If other countries have established cooperative relations with China and can obtain the same equipment and produce the same products, then the advantages of the country of Gabe will not exist.

However, Lulam was no longer willing to tell the Chinese.He knows that standing in the Chinese position is definitely to develop more customers in Africa, and will definitely not only cooperate with one country in Gabe.Gabe is all relying on cooperation with China today, and the future still needs the support of China's equipment industry, in this case, how can Lulam offend the Chinese?

After all, we are the first to cooperate with the Chinese, and even if other countries start to cooperate with China, they are at least two years later than us, and we have an advantage.Lulam comforted himself in this way, and then arranged for his officials to say hello to the enterprises, so that they must be hospitable to the guests brought by Feng Xiaochen and Feng Xiaochen, and must not be slackened.

Such a machinery factory can produce more than 20 most commonly used machinery to meet the daily needs of industrial and agricultural production.If China provides all the equipment, plus infrastructure, it will only cost $28 million by way of a turnkey.Now sign the contract, you can also send 30 skilled workers free of charge for half a year of training.

Feng Xiaochen walked with a black official in the workshop of the General Machinery Factory in Gabe and introduced the officials endlessly.Since becoming the general manager of the equipment company, Feng Xiaochen has not guested the role of sales representative for a long time.This time to Africa, he is not suitable to bring more people to accompany, in this case can only be personally out of the horse.Then again, the black official he led was not small, and the minister's minister on the business card was the minister's, and Feng Xiaochen was a narrationist for them, and they were also up to their titles.

Some larger African countries, there are tens of millions of people, equivalent to a province in China, the Minister of Industry is equivalent to the director of the province's Economic and Trade Commission, Feng Xiaochen and they should be similar to the level of the same?

This time, Feng Xiaochen led an industrial delegation from the country of Ceriel, led by the Minister of Industry of the Republic of Ceriel, Franken.The country of Cyre is a poor country in central Africa, the industry is almost blank, there are only a few food factories and a repair shop, belong to even a single nail to import from abroad pure agricultural countries, per capita GDP is the bottom few African countries.

Originally a French colony, Cyril was a French colony, and in the 1960s, with the independence movement in Africa, he established a republic.Since independence, successive leaders of Cyril have been eager to find a path of economic revitalization, but have not been able to do so.Seeing that the Gabe country was dependent on mineral resources, neither the President nor the deputies of the Congress of the State of Cyre could be calmed down, and gave Franken a death order, requiring him to go to the country of Gabe to learn from their successful experience in the development of industry, and to bring up the economy of the country of the Republic of Ceriel.

At the request of Wang Weilong and Liu Wang, Lulam sent an invitation to governments to participate in the equipment handover ceremony, and Franken came with a dry hand.He had a contact with Feng Xiaochen and found that the general manager of the equipment company from China was very kind and did not discriminate against himself because Cyril was a poor country.He asked Feng Xiaochen to teach about the development of the economy, Feng Xiaochen talked about, painted a brilliant and operable road for him, listened to Franken's blood, I would like to go back to the president immediately, and then signed up with the Chinese to introduce equipment.

There are some similarities between Sair and Gabe, that is, although poor, the country is rich in mineral resources, and the degree of development is not high, and the potential is extremely considerable.In addition, the country of more than 20 million people, and most of them are young and middle-aged, and the labor resources should not be underestimated.Of course, Ceriel also has some unfavorable conditions, the most critical one is that it is located in the interior of Africa, not by the sea, so the transport conditions are far less than the Gabe country, this problem is almost also the bottleneck restricting the development of the country.

Feng Xiaochen gave the country of Ceriel a prescription, simply said, "If you want to build the road first."He suggested that the country of Cyrene work with neighbouring countries to build a railway to ports on the shores of the Indian Ocean so that the minerals of the Searill could be shipped overseas in exchange for the funds needed to develop the economy.The construction of the railway requires a lot of investment, Feng Xiaochen proposed that the country of Ceriel can use its own copper mine as collateral to borrow money abroad.Given that Western countries may be reluctant to provide such loans, China can act as the lender and can send engineering teams to help Ceriel build the railway.

"With the railway, your copper, tin ore, and tungsten ore can be shipped out for valuable foreign exchange."With these foreign exchange, you can purchase machinery and equipment and build your own industrial system.Along the railway line, you can establish some processing trade development zones, make use of your abundant labor resources, and develop labor-intensive industries, which is also a successful experience in China's economic development process.Feng Xiaochen said so to Franken.

“But can our people become skilled workers?”You know, we are a very backward country, with a 50 per cent illiteracy rate in our country, and even those with 12 years of education are limited to being able to write their own names.”Franken worriedly said to Feng Xiaochen.

Feng Xiaochen smiled, "Minister Franken, you know, it is not a simple thing to achieve industrialization in a country, it may take 30 or even 50 years, it may be two generations to three generations."When you strengthen your education from now on, when the railways are built and the mines are fully exploited, the children who are now trained are just of the age of employment, and they will be four new people who are ideal, knowledgeable, educated and disciplined.”

“But what are we going to do now?”Franken asked.

Feng Xiaochen said: "What is to be done at present is to carry out small-scale mining of copper mines, and to establish some small industrial projects, which of course requires some cultural technical workers."On this issue, we in China are willing to provide you with maximum assistance, including training skilled workers for you to have at least basic operational skills, as you see in the case of these Gabe workers.You know, they also have a very low level of education before they go to China for training.”

“That’s great!”Franken said with relief, then asked with ample: "Mr. Feng, you said that the factory was built by China to help Gabe, but why did I not see any Chinese engineers in the workshop?"

Feng Xiaochen said: "As far as this factory is concerned, in the period of time after the construction, we sent engineers on the spot to guide."But when the production of the factory is on track, we don't think it is necessary to let the engineers stay in the factory for a long time.Because of the high cost of hiring a full-time resident engineer, this cost will cost our customers an additional expense.”

“But what if the factory equipment fails?”Can the workers in the state of Gabe handle these failures themselves?”Franken asked.He remembered several food factories in his country, using equipment imported from Europe.Those equipment is actually very simple, but after every failure, the country's workers are completely unable to repair, can only be well-suited to Europeans to deal with, each time the cost is very considerable.

“We have taken this into account.In the past two years, we have established three after-sales service centers in Africa, which are responding to all of Africa in a timely manner.If you have a problem with your equipment in use, you can always seek support from the after-sales service center, they will provide you with guidance by phone, if necessary, you can send personnel to the factory to solve the problem.

“That’s it, that’s great!”

“Our aim is to provide the most convenient and affordable service to our clients, and Minister Franken is convinced of that.”

“I’m very confident that I think Chinese products and services are the best.”

“Then let us wish for a good time.”

“Have fun working together!”

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