Two days passed in a flash.

On the morning of the 23rd, at Addis Ababa Airport, under the sent-up of the embassy leaders such as Jiang Longsheng and Tang Xiaolin, the China-Africa Trade and Investment Promotion Group boarded the plane in an orderly manner.

At this point, the first stop of the trip to Africa, Ethiopia has been successfully completed.

After the plane took off smoothly, the delegation leader Bao Anjun started chatting with Deputy Leader Zhang Zheke and Zhao Guoyang.

Bao Anjun and Zhang Zheke were impressed by the fact that Zhao Guoyang easily sold half of the goods he brought to Africa.

Looking at Zhao Guoyang, who was sitting and listening to the conversation between them as if nothing had happened, Bao Anjun looked at him like a god and said, "Researcher Zhao, you, the deputy commander, are really convinced."

"In just two days, I actually sold more than 100,000 US dollars of equipment and reached an order of millions of dollars with them. My business acumen really make us old guys feel ashamed!"

Listening to Director Bao Anjun's slightly exaggerated words, Zhao Guoyang quickly said humbly: "Director Bao, I'm just a coincidence. If Counselor Tang Xiaolin hadn't happened to take Teacher Zhang and I to the home of the farmer Deng Datong, I wouldn't have known that Malaysian Chinese businessman."

"If there is no such thing as this, there will be no way to talk about the follow-up..."

Zhao Guoyang's modesty made Bao Anjun's appreciation of him a little more. He laughed twice. Just as he was about to speak, Zhang Zheke beside him spoke first.

Because Zhang Zheke is the vice president of the China International Trade Promotion Committee, this trip has some hard tasks.

For example, help several companies in the delegation reach a great deal of trade volume, sign cooperation intentions, or collect economic and trade information from Chinese businessmen in various African countries.

In short, Zhang Zheke is different from Bao Anjun. He wants to make real contributions to the delegation.

Before traveling, Zhang Zheke was very nervous, afraid that he would not be able to complete the task assigned to him by his superiors.

But now that the delegation has just gone to the first country, Zhang Zheke found that his indicators in terms of "trade volume" have exceeded the amount.

How can such a result make Zhang Zheke calm?

At this moment, looking at this jealous researcher Zhao, Zhang Zheke liked it no matter how he looked at it.

He raised his thumbs up with a flushed face and said, "Researcher Zhao, I have worked in the China International Trade Promotion Committee for more than ten years and have never seen it before! Awesome, it's so awesome!"

"It's not that exaggerating, right? President Zhang, it's just luck!" Zhao Guoyang waved his hand and said.

Zhang Zheke ignored Zhao Guoyang's modesty and continued to speak: "Researcher Zhao, don't be modest. I, Lao Zhang, can see that your brother's level and ability can definitely be looked up to by people."

"In the next five countries visits, all my 'trade tasks' are dependent on you!"

Zhang Zheke looked at Zhao Guoyang in a flash and said, "Researcher Zhao, you must have heard of it in the past two days. Except for the two major companies under you and Teacher Zhang, the rest of our team have made no progress."

"If we continue to develop in this trend, we will be criticized when we go back, and I, the vice president, will not be much better!"

"So... you understand Researcher Zhao!" Zhang Zheke said while winking at Zhao Guoyang, which made Bao Anjun next to him laugh.

Seeing President Zhang climbing up the pole, Zhao Guoyang was really funny.

You know, Zhao Guoyang has great expectations for this trip to Africa.

Although in Ethiopia, he met the young owner of the "Success Group" by chance, sold a lot of agricultural and forestry machinery and equipment, and reached a lot of cooperation agreements with the other party.

But these are just unexpected surprises. What Zhao Guoyang really cares about are the other two major countries that are "trip to Africa" ​​- Nigeria and South Africa.

Because these two countries have the mining resources and abundant energy reserves that they yearn for very much.

In addition, Zhao Guoyang is looking forward to reaching a consensus and long-term cooperation with South Africa's excellent ports.

If "Xingtai International" could have a sub-base at the southernmost end of the African continent, and Sao Paulo, Latin America's Samba country, could be trained into a triangle with the country and connect global businesses.

Such long-term layout planning is what Zhao Guoyang values ​​the most.

In comparison, selling dozens of agricultural and forestry machinery and equipment or selling a "mine elevator" is nothing.

Because so many plans have not been implemented yet, Zhao Guoyang really doesn’t have much spare time to help several other companies in the trade group negotiate business.

After President Zhang's request for resentment, Zhao Guoyang's face showed a hint of embarrassment.

Although Zhang Zheke is average in ability, he still has eyesight and insight.

Seeing that Zhao Guoyang was unable to make a decision, he waved his hand and said, "Uh, Researcher Zhao, don't get me wrong. I'm not forcing you to express my opinion, nor is it to issue a task to you."

"I just hope that you will do your best to help these companies in our team as much as possible without affecting this mission..."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little subtle, Bao Anjun, who also helped, said: "Yes, Researcher Zhao. Mr. Li had an explanation to me before leaving, so that we must not affect your decision. You are completely independent in terms of actions!"

"President Zhang said this because he was anxious. Don't take it to heart. You can go whatever you should do next!"

After hearing the careful words of Bao Anjun and Zhang Zheke, Zhao Guoyang felt a little embarrassed.

Indeed, although I have too many imaginations, I still have to make some contributions to the team after all, after all, I have to occupy a quota for deputy team leader.

Thinking of this, Zhao Guoyang sneered slightly: "Director Bao, President Zhang, don't worry, you two, I won't just care about myself. If you have a chance, I will help Director Shen, President Xia and others think of a solution!"

Seeing that Zhao Guoyang had made this promise, Bao Anjun and Zhang Zheke looked at each other and nodded with satisfaction.

"Okay, it would be great if Researcher Zhao could think so!" Zhang Zheke couldn't help but sigh.

"Everyone is my own, so it's time to help each other!" Zhao Guoyang said frankly.

Next, Bao Anjun quickly changed the subject and asked Zhao Guoyang where he wanted to go to the two stops below.

After hearing his question, Zhao Guoyang explained in detail: "Director Bao, this is the case. Because the 'West Africa International Construction Machinery and Mining Machinery Exhibition' in Nigeria will be held for four days. I thought about it and felt that I didn't have to rush over."

"Anyway, my previous plan was to go to Sudan first and then to Cameroon. Now there is still time, so why not visit these two countries first and then go to Nigeria! Do you two think you can do it?"

After Zhao Guoyang finished speaking, Bao Anjun nodded and agreed without thinking much.

Speaking of which, Bao Anjun, the director of the "Africa Department" of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, is still very familiar with the situation of African countries.

Geographically speaking, the route recommended by Zhao Guoyang is also very suitable.

From Ethiopia to Sudan, and then to Cameroon, it is all straight down.

The second focus of visit to Nigeria is also at the farthest end of this line.

Of course, after visiting Nigeria, whether it is to visit Angola or South Africa, it is another line.

However, the area of ​​the African continent is too large, and the branches of key countries are also very scattered.

In this case, if the delegation wants to complete this visit, it is indeed impossible for it to complete it in one line.

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After five hours of long flight, Zhao Guoyang and his delegation finally arrived at their second destination - Sudan.

This is the third largest country in Africa, located in northeastern Africa, along the Red Sea coast, and the eastern end of the Sahara Desert.

Its land area is 1886,068 square kilometers, second only to Algeria and Zaire in Africa.

Sudan has a relatively single economic structure, mainly agriculture and animal husbandry. Its industry is backward, its industrial foundation is very weak, and it is too dependent on nature and foreign aid.

Even in Africa, where economic development is generally not good, Sudan is a relatively backward existence.

However, due to the vast territory, Sudan has abundant natural resources such as minerals, oil, natural gas and wood.

According to the data at hand by Zhao Guoyang, among the main mineral resource reserves in Sudan, there are about 300 million tons of iron, 9 million tons of copper, 9,000 tons of silver, and 500 million tons of oil, all of which are among the top in Africa.

Among these mineral resources, what made Zhao Guoyang most excited was that Sudan's chromium reserves were 700,000 tons, which was a very amazing number.

In the early 1990s, people did not know much about chromium.

But Zhao Guoyang knew that with the continuous improvement of global smelting technology, chromium alloys will soon become popular around the world and become an important raw material for the manufacturing of stainless steel, automotive parts and aircraft parts.

As one of the most important metals in future technology, chromium-nickel steel fused in different percentages is ever-changing and incredible.

At present, for Zhao Guoyang, being able to control a chromite during this period is naturally of great significance to the establishment of his own industrial empire in the future.

Therefore, although Sudan's stop is not one of the three stops that the trade and investment promotion team attaches most importance to during this trip, it is a stop that Zhao Guoyang attaches great importance to.

When the plane slowly stopped at the airport in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, a warm cheer sounded from the welcome team waving the five-star red flag below.
Chapter completed!