Chapter 708 Farewell Dinner
The three days of staying in Zaire may be the most relaxing three days for Zhao Guoyang's "trip to Africa".
During this period, he hardly promoted the products of his two companies, but helped more than ten other companies in the delegation to "call".
In Zaire, because it was a Belgian immigrant before, there are many companies in Belgium and its closest neighbor France.
In addition, there is French in the official language of Belgium, so when Zhao Guoyang communicates with the heads of these companies, there are no obstacles at all, and even the translation is omitted.
With the help of Zhao Guoyang, the No. 1 Textile Factory and Lehaha Beverage Company in Xishan City, Jiangnan Province have successively reached orders of more than US$200,000.
Although compared with the orders Zhao Guoyang had won before, this order is nothing.
But for these two companies that have experienced long droughts, such orders are really too precious.
After the successful signing of the contract, Ji Ping, deputy director of the No. 1 Textile Factory in Xishan City, Jiangnan Province, and Huo Qizhi, vice president of Lehaha Beverage Company, held Zhao Guoyang's hand and repeatedly thanked him and said a lot of good things.
Zhao Guoyang was somewhat uncomfortable with being flattered by these two seniors in their forties.
Finally, it was Zhang Zheke who said a few words to the heads of these two well-known companies that helped Zhao Guoyang to relieve the siege.
Zhang Zheke didn't say much, just told them that Researcher Zhao had other things to do, and many comrades in the delegation were waiting for him to help.
In the final result of this incident, Zhao Guoyang helped several companies to sell for another day and helped them reach several agreements, which was considered a successful retirement.
So, in the past three days in Zaire, Zhao Guoyang really didn't worry about his company, but just took the role of a helper to accompany the rest of the delegation.
In three days, Zhao Guoyang became the most popular person in the delegation.
This also made several leaders of the Chinese Embassy in Zaire truly admire him.
Look, before the embassy's farewell party to the delegation began in the evening, Zhao Guoyang had been invited to the reception room by Ambassador Fang Rulong.
In the reception room, Ambassador Fang Rulong, Counselor Qin Zhigao, Counselor Xiao Pingding, and Military Attendant Ding Xiaofei sat in one row, while on the other side were the three giants on the delegation - Bao Anjun, Zhao Guoyang, and Zhang Zheke.
With a smile, he made a "please" gesture, and Ambassador Fang Rulong raised his teacup and signaled to everyone.
"Old Bao, the flight has been confirmed, right? Is it a plane tomorrow at 6 am?"
After tasting the fragrant tea, Ambassador Fang looked at Bao Anjun and said.
"Yes, Lao Fang. Tomorrow morning, our trade and investment promotion group will start its last stop. I really thank you and the embassy for your warm hospitality. I'm in trouble!"
"Hey, Lao Bao, you are too polite. A few comrades from our embassy are just looking forward to how many more days you stay in Zaire, so how can you talk about the trouble?" Fang Rulong said with a laugh.
After hearing this, Qin Zhigao and Xiao Pingding both nodded repeatedly and said yes, and their eyes involuntarily fell on the young man who was listening with a smile on the left side of Bao Anjun.
Military Officer Ding Xiaofei, who has never spoken much, couldn't help but sigh when he saw the eyes of his two colleagues: "Yes, Director Bao. Our Ambassador Fang's words are not exaggerated at all."
"Our embassy staff sincerely hope that the delegation and researcher Zhao can stay for a few more days!"
Hearing this, Bao Anjun glanced at Zhao Guoyang who was silent beside him and laughed: "I believe that Mr. Ding's words are true. However, the comrades in your embassy value us Researcher Zhao more, right? President Zhang and I are just a foil, haha!"
After Bao Anjun said this, Ding Xiaofei's old face turned red.
He was not as familiar with Director Bao as Ambassador Fang, and he didn't know that this person was so direct when he was joking.
When Fang Rulong heard this, he couldn't help but smile: "Old Bao, look at what you said, we think that the comrades in our embassy are so utilitarian!"
"Despite researcher Zhao has helped our embassy to complete its annual tasks, but your coordination with President Zhang is also a great contribution!"
After Fang Rulong said something, everyone nodded in agreement.
Even Bao Anjun and Zhang Zheke couldn't help but secretly admire Ambassador Fang's words and everything was invisible.
Indeed, during the three days of the delegation staying in Zaire, Zhao Guoyang not only helped the delegation reach a number of trade agreements, but also helped Qin Zhigao and Xiao Pingding to contact several French companies in Kinshasa.
These French companies are among the largest companies in Zaire.
If the embassy has a good relationship with them, it will be of great help to the trade groups that China will visit in the future.
Because of the lack of communication between each other, although the embassy was determined, it could not find a suitable way to do this.
Who knew that after Zhao Guoyang took action, he easily asked the heads of these large companies to leave their contact information.
With Zhao Guoyang's matchmaking, the subsequent matters were not a problem for Qin Zhigao and Xiao Pingding.
Thinking of Zhao Guoyang helping him, Qin Zhigao couldn't help but speak: "Researcher Zhao, I originally wanted to linger with you for a few more days and 'stealed' you. Now it seems that I can only do next time..."
Qin Zhigao sighed and explained, "I heard from President Zhang that Researcher Zhao, you have a younger brother and a younger sister at home. Lao Xiao and I have prepared a few small gifts for you. Take them back and play for your younger brother and sister."
After Qin Zhigao finished speaking, Xiao Pingding couldn't help but interrogate: "Yes, yes, Researcher Zhao, you have been busy with the delegation and our embassy these two days, and you haven't had time to visit the handicraft market in Kinshasa."
"Old Qin and I made random decisions and prepared some handicrafts for you. Don't worry, they are all worthless gadgets and will definitely not violate discipline. Let's just talk about being honest. Researcher Zhao, you must accept it!"
Zhao Guoyang really didn't expect these two leaders to be so polite, and even created the drama of "taking first and then reporting", which was a little embarrassed at the time.
"Counselor Qin, Counselor Xiao, this...is not very good."
Noting that Zhao Guoyang glanced at him, Bao Anjun smiled and waved his hand, "Hey, Researcher Zhao. This is the intention of the two counselors, don't shirk!"
"Yes, yes, yes, not only Researcher Zhao, you, Lao Bao, President Zhang, and members of the delegation, we have also prepared gifts!" Fang Rulong also added.
Seeing that the two highest-level leaders had spoken, Zhao Guoyang couldn't help but refuse anything, so he agreed politely.
After drinking tea, Fang Rulong told everyone about the situation of the delegation's next destination - South Africa, and then called in and said that the farewell dinner was ready.
Fang Rulong nodded and hung up the phone, stood up and invited the three people from the delegation, saying, "The dinner is ready! Lao Bao, Researcher Zhao, President Zhang, let's go now?"
What Zhao Guoyang did not expect was that the dinner held by the embassy was actually a small buffet cocktail party, and many well-known Chinese businessmen from Kinshasa were invited to attend.
The reception was held in the open-air yard of the embassy, and the lights were brilliantly lit and very eye-catching.
After Ambassador Fang and Director Bao delivered speeches separately, the big guys were holding plates and eating while enjoying the program prepared by the Kinshasa Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
Although Zaire's entire country is not wealthy, the capital Kinshasa is still developing quite well, and there are also many Chinese businessmen who come here to "find gold".
The people who performed the show at this cocktail party today were all young people with talented talents and high quality.
The delegation was so bored on the African continent that it had been ten days, and finally let it go completely.
While eating Zaire's specialty food, everyone kept applauding and cheering for the singers and dancers who performed the show, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.
Because this time, Zhao Guoyang has become famous in front of these Chinese chambers of commerce representatives.
Everyone is very interested in this young economic and industrial expert and wants to get close to him.
While drinking fruit wine and watching exciting programs in Zhao Guoyang, heavyweights from Chinese businessmen came to chat with him from time to time.
"Fellow Researcher Zhao, you can be said to be an expert in the economy. I wonder what you think of the future development prospects of Zaire, a country?"
An elderly Chinese business representative asked Zhao Guoyang happily.
"Well, Mr. Huang. Zaire's geographical location in the African region is very important, and its population ranks among the forefront of African countries. Although its internal turmoil has been in turmoil, this will not affect its broad development prospects..."
When Zhao Guoyang was talking to Mr. Huang, Ambassador Fang Rulong and Director Bao Anjun, who were not far from them, also raised their wine glasses and walked slowly over.
Obviously, these two people are also very concerned about the question asked by Mr. Huang.
Zhao Guoyang didn't know the actions of the two bigwigs behind him. After thinking for a moment, he continued to speak: "That's how I see it. Because our China has long been selflessly helping African countries, in the hearts of the Zaire people, we have always advocated friendship with China."
"No matter what internal turmoil looks like, this will never change."
"So, I think our Chinese entrepreneurs don't need to worry too much about the situation in Zaire. We just need to do our own business and provide excellent products."
Chapter completed!