Xia Xiang is not a narrow nationalist or a blind patriot. Today, when the world is increasingly becoming a global village, he will not deny advanced foreign production technology just for the sake of narrow patriotism, nor will he support domestic products without principles.

Domestic products should be self-reliant. If the country blindly tilts funds under policies without principles, it will eventually stop the domestic products, lose market competitiveness, lose the motivation to develop new products, and eventually lose everything.

But then again, Xia Xiang is disdainful of some central enterprises that have been tilted and supported by national policies and funds for decades. Even if the stupid and stupid people in the world start over others decades, they will seize too many opportunities than others when they start over decades ahead of time. What's more, as a central enterprise, who is known as the eldest son of the Republic, will be afraid of the challenges of private enterprises?

But some people are afraid, not only are they afraid, but they also try every means to hinder the rise of private enterprises. They only use all means to suppress national enterprises. Not only does they lack the style of state-owned enterprises, but they also expose their economic traitors' faces!

The current national situation or strange phenomenon in China is that if an incompetent leader, there must be a group of incompetent subordinates. Subordinates who are talented must show incompetence, otherwise, the leader will be displeased and will be suppressed by the leader in every possible way.

It is precisely because of this that China has never been able to become the most dynamic and future country, and it is not as strong as the United States, which means that seniority is serious and the official-oriented thinking is excessive. It seems that as long as you become a leader, politics, eloquence and even look ten thousand than others.

Among Dai Fusheng's entourage was a deputy director of the Development and Reform Commission.

As we all know, the National Development and Reform Commission is the most awesome government among all ministries and commissions in China. It is in charge of the life-and-death approval power for many major projects. If you insist on making an inappropriate metaphor, the National Development and Reform Commission is equivalent to the Second State Council, and sometimes even greater than the authority of the State Council!

Zhong Yang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, originally had little contact with Xia Xiang, but at the evening welcome dinner, he happened to sit with Xia Xiang. I don’t know if he was curious about Xia Xiang’s youth or was very interested in the achievements of the transformation of the energy-based economy in the West Province, so he took the initiative to shake hands with Xia Xiang and chat.

Although Xia Xiang is the head of a province, under normal circumstances, he is far less popular than the deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission. In some specific situations, for example, if the Western Province needs to approve a major project, he has to whisper in front of Zhong Yang, lower his posture, and say all good things to get the National Development and Reform Commission to pass the approval.

But Xia Xiang just chatted with Zhong Yang indifferently, neither alienated nor too enthusiastic, which made Zhong Yang feel neglected. When he thought of him taking the initiative to say hello to Xia Xiang just now, he felt very lost.

People in the officialdom pay the most attention to details and attitudes. Xia Xiangruo's approach to being close and separated made Zhong Yang think that Xia Xiang was arrogant and inevitably had an opinion on Xia Xiang.

What's so great about it? What's wrong with the youngest governor in the country? If there are any major projects in the West Province in the future, just don't fall into his hands. Zhong Yang thought about it, but ignored Xia Xiang and turned around to talk to another person.

Zhong Yang misunderstood Xia Xiang. Xia Xiang was not neglecting him or being arrogant, but Xia Xiang missed ancient jade.

The relationship between Xia Xiang and ancient jade cannot be said to be very deep, but it is also natural. It is like a slowly flowing river, flowing through the mountains and plains of time, flowing through the spring and summer of time, and naturally it will be the harvest autumn.

It is precisely because of this that when ancient jade goes away alone, Xia Xiang always misses the beauty of ancient jade from time to time. Perhaps it is the effect that ancient jade wants to achieve, distance produces beauty and deep nostalgia.

Now that he is about to meet Guyu in a foreign land, he feels the long-lost passion and beauty in his life. Imagine Guyu's life alone, Xia Xiang's thoughts cannot help but drift away. He can give up on accompanying Dai Fusheng to the Volvo Car headquarters that he admires the most, so he naturally has no mind to pay attention to Zhong Yang's tasteless chat.

What's more, he and Zhong Yang have no common topics.

If Dai Fusheng had not personally instructed all personnel to attend today's meal, Xia Xiang might have hid in the room and spoke to Gu Yu.

Xia Xiang's thoughts drifted to the distant European town. The ancient jade should be coming to Goetheborg to meet him at this time. Perhaps he was running on the Swedish country road, allowing the breeze from the fields to blow her hair, and the most pleasant climate in the northern part of early summer. I believe that the ancient jade must be more gentle as jade.

Suddenly, a conversation between Zhong Yang and another person disturbed Xia Xiang's Qingmeng.

Zhong Yang's tone was not without sarcastic meaning: "Volvo has always been a royal car in Sweden. It was first sold to Ford. Not only did it not make any progress, but the market shrank significantly. In desperation, it was sold to Geely again... Thinking about the royal brand that had been founded for more than 80 years, it was acquired by a private enterprise in China, which ruined a luxury car brand. Geely? A private enterprise, Li Shufu, a private entrepreneur, can a Volvo run well?"

"What a pity. Now when Volvo is mentioned, many Chinese people laughed at me and said, Oh, it turns out to be Geely."

Zhong Yang's words triggered a burst of laughter. Li Shufu, who was sitting in the distance, obviously heard Zhong Yang's words, but gave him a meaningful glance, and did not speak, nor came to defend himself.

The anger in Xia Xiang's heart suddenly ignited.

He and Li Shufu don’t know each other, and they also know that Geely Auto is mostly low-end cars and has an average image, but Geely’s acquisition of Volvo is a normal commercial acquisition, and we cannot only look at the problem from the perspective of narrow low-end brands destroying high-end brands.

While Chinese people are overly self-esteem, their inferiority complex is also very serious. Many consumers who cannot afford Volvo will laugh at Jia Deyi after hearing Volvo acquired by Geely. Even when a Volvo car is driving by his side, they will subconsciously pat their cars within 100,000 yuan. Ah Q said in a spirit: "It turns out to be Geely."

Then I gained great satisfaction in my mind.

Inferiority, excessive self-esteem, and sensitive and fragile are the conflicting psychology of the people in the transition period. On the one hand, they are eager to get respect from the world and recognition from others. On the other hand, they like vulgar comparisons, compare cars, houses, wives, and children, and compare everything. They either gain great psychological satisfaction in comparisons or gain great psychological loss in comparisons.

Chinese people are tired of living, but a little bit is due to survival and a half is due to comparison.

However, Chinese people are often easily fooled by the foolish people and are easily confused by the domestic abnormal market. Volkswagen entered China early, and after decades of storms and subtle influence of official cars, they were finally portrayed as a magic car.

A magic car is a deified car. After being deified, its advantages will be magnified countless times, and its disadvantages are also advantages. In short, Volkswagen's car is a good car, and then evolved to this day, Volkswagen's car has become a luxury car.

Xia Xiang did not comment on Volkswagen's success in the Chinese market, but he always remembered it in mind that Volkswagen only knew how to plunder profits for decades and never respect domestic consumption. One day, when he took power, he would definitely attack the automobile industry.

In fact, if it is just an Audi that only sells 700,000 yuan abroad but sells 1.3 million yuan at home, Xia Xiang does not want to interfere. Whether it is a foreigner who is described as having a lot of money and stupid people, or the Chinese people who are brainwashed by the public, they believe that the added value of the four circles is worth 600,000 yuan. Anyway, how to spend money is a personal matter and a self-regulation of the market economy. Once the national quality improves, the deformed market will naturally return to normal.

Xia Xiang will not interfere with the self-regulation of the market economy, but if someone continues to shout for their abnormal profits under the guise of market economy regulation, Xia Xiang will not tolerate it.

"Director Zhong, what kind of car are you taking?" Xia Xiangleng interrupted.

Zhong Yang was stunned: "Of course it's Audi."

Xia Xiang smiled slightly: "It turned out to be Volkswagen."

Zhong Yang's face suddenly changed. He wanted to say anything but felt that any rebuttal was pale and powerless. No, Audi is a brand under Volkswagen, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is Volkswagen.

The few people at the deskmate couldn't help but smile knowingly after hearing Xia Xiang's witty words.

Zhong Yang felt that Xia Xiang had lost face again, and his face tried hard to return to normal: "Governor Xia is also interested in the automobile industry?"

"Just understand a little bit, it's not as professional as Director Zhong." Xia Xiang smiled, his tone was calm and his speaking speed was slow, just saying a fact, "Audi was once a brand under Mercedes-Benz, and he didn't produce high-end cars, but was a very popular and low-end car. Later, Audi was abandoned by Mercedes-Benz and was acquired by Volkswagen. After Volkswagen acquired Audi, he changed his strategy and wanted to build Audi into a luxury brand. Volkswagen spent more than 40 years successfully shaping Audi into a luxury brand. And if it weren't for everyone to buy buses and only buy Audi, Audi was still being mocked by Mercedes-Benz, and BMW was ridiculed as a poor boy who overestimated his abilities and wanted to turn over..."

Xia Xiang's words caused everyone present to burst into laughter.

Yes, if Volkswagen had not entered China early and was officially supported by China, if Audi had not been designated as an official car by the official, Audi's road to turning over would be extremely long and might even fail. At present, China accounts for more than a quarter of Audi's global sales, that is, if there was no Chinese market, Audi would have surpassed Mercedes-Benz and BMW in international luxury cars, not to mention that it would have been the third place, and would have fallen behind Volvo.

This can also explain why Volkswagen, the north and the south, wanted to join forces to snipe Geely's strategy of acquiring Volvo. If Volvo rises in Geely's hands, it will have a huge impact on Audi's layout in the Chinese market!

Before acquiring Volvo, Geely encountered layers of difficulties in national policy barriers. After the acquisition, when it introduced the Volvo production line, it was also stuck by the National Development and Reform Commission for nearly two years. It goes without saying who is the driving force behind it.
Chapter completed!