Raise funds and submit the inspection reports collected in advance to relevant TNC experts for review, defense and hearing governance plans. A week passed quickly.

As Christmas approaches, Gu Ao finally gets tickets to join the TNC membership.

To be precise, Gu Ao became a member of TNC (Global Nature Conservation Association) as the chairman of the "Tiansuo Greening and Environmental Protection Fund" who had just been established for five days.

As for the name "Tiansuo Greening and Environmental Protection Fund", of course, it is because Gu Ao took Sony as a shield to join the grand event, so naturally he also had to give Akio Morita a word in his name.

And it was not in vain. Akio Morita also raised interest and gave millions of dollars to donate, requiring only "If China's CCTV shoots a documentary and promotional video in the future, it will reflect the funding source of the governance project in the film, and Sony's share of the funds."

Unfortunately, Sony's products had not yet entered China.

After all, Sony operates more luxurious electronic consumer goods, rather than TVs and washing machines, which the Chinese people in the mid-1980s believed that "four major electrical appliances must be married" were recognized by the Chinese people. Therefore, the Chinese at that time generally only knew that Panasonic Toshiba and Hitachi had no impression of Sony. In history, Sony was sought after by Chinese people, and it was no longer until the mid-1990s.

As a result, many Chinese without much culture later watched the documentary and mistakenly regarded the "Tiansuo Greening Fund" as "the fund used by Tiankun Company to plant Halaxy trees."

I wonder if Akio Morita would vomit out an old blood when he heard about this result.

...

December 23, the last working day before Christmas.

Gu Ao, led by Congressman Albert, went to TNC's headquarters in Watsonton.

One of the most authoritative professors in the relevant fields of the University of Tokyo, Mr. Shinichi Watanabe, will become the presiding expert for the public hearing before Gu Ao officially became a member.

In addition to Professor Watanabe, there is also an environmental expert named Lin Renze, who is not the most authoritative, but at least because of his pro-China position, he was also selected into the review team.

All this is just a formality, allowing several other TC directors and members in Watsonton to testify. In fact, the two professors have done a real and detailed argument before.

Professor Shinichi Watanabe cleared his throat and asked a lot of questions.

"...So, Mr. Gu, after the establishment of Tiansuo Greening and Environmental Protection Fund, the first special governance target is the Mu Us Desert on the Loess Plateau in China?"

Gu Ao: "Yes, we have to consider the practical feasibility. I think it is close to the Yellow River and the water source is guaranteed, unlike those deserts in the hinterland of the northwest. The problem of Mu Us is just that the soil is desertified and cannot retain water and soil. The official power of our Chinese has been there for more than ten years, but the scale and strength were previously subject to objective conditions and funds and could not be expanded."

Shinichi Watanabe: "The main idea of ​​your governance is to make straw first, and then plant saxal trees and sand willows? This idea is very rare. As far as I know, at the mainstream Japanese-funded foundation in China's sand control, the creation of wind and sand prevention forests is directly used to create tall tree species. Are you trying to save money?"

Gu Ao: "No, our idea is to use fast-growing easy-to-grow tree species to improve the land quality first. Increase the clay ratio and divide the sand blocks. This process only takes three or five years. After the soil is slightly improved, the focus can be shifted to the construction of tall windbreak forests..."

Most of Gu Ao's defense materials were made by him after he found relevant professors in China. However, in terms of his thinking, he drew on the experience of "eliminating the Mu Us Desert" that he read in the news, and used it a little.

That is, if you are familiar with the answers first, then ask relevant experts to help him supplement the proof process. Of course, when Gu Ao found relevant domestic experts, he lied to them and said, "This is the latest research result of foreigners. You just need to be responsible for argumentation and explanation, and pretend to explain it properly."

At the end of 1984, the degree of obstruction of professors in environmental science or agriculture and forestry majors at some Northwest universities was not able to verify the authenticity of what Gu Ao said, of course he was used as a gun. As long as there are big investors who are willing to invest money to protect the environment, these simple scholars are still willing to contribute.

Gu Ao also used despicable means to do good things, and there was nothing to feel guilty about.

Judging from the long-term plan, Gu Ao is also very sensible. He hopes that the charitable deserts are also in Shaanxi and Ning. For example, in addition to Mu Usu, you can also engage in Ulan Buhe in the future. They are all small and medium-sized deserts of tens of thousands of square kilometers.

As for Xinjiang, those who started at the deepest level of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers were originally due to insufficient natural water sources and were not desertified due to human activities. Gu Ao would not even see Qaidam Tarim. Later experience made him know that these attempts to "change the natural state of the earth" were hopeless.

However, if this foundation is really done for thirty years, every ten thousand square kilometers is destroyed, and a desert of 100,000 square kilometers is destroyed in total in thirty years, it will be considered a great merit.

At that time, with China's national strength and his many years of experience, it would be entirely possible to become the "China President and Global Director" like Jack Ma like later generations.

In that way, he will be a world-famous charity, and all forces must respect him and consider it carefully.

"... Very good. We have fully understood what other problems do you have?" Professor Shinichi Watanabe asked the other participants in the last half of his sentence.

Everyone said there was no problem.

"So, congratulations, Mr. Gu, welcome your foundation to become a member unit of TNC. I hope that more and more Chinese people will join the great cause of paying attention to environmental protection and greening."

After the ceremony, Gu Ao officially got a bunch of documents he wanted.

That night, there was an inconvenient exchange of interests. Gu Ao broadened Professor Shinichi Watanabe and Professor Lin Renze, and provided some resources for their future status in the est journal and other hidden discourse rights in the academic community.

I won't say much about it.

...

After the establishment of Tiansuo Environmental Protection Fund, it was quickly established in various offices and procurement departments in the mainland. The foundation's management structure is also a typical Western-style transparent management to ensure that funds are not wasted.

Gu Ao did not have talents in this field, so he temporarily seconded some talents from Akio Morita to take charge of the matter. However, Tiankun still temporarily sent two trusted financial personnel to check the accounts.

Even if Gu Ao started to prepare for technical demonstration, plan preparation and field survey work one or two months ago, considering the scheduling and procurement cycle, the foundation will not be able to officially start the tree planting work after the first month of the Chinese New Year next year.

There is nothing Gu Ao can do with these things, so during the Christmas holiday, he stayed in the United States to maintain his relationship and prepared to wait for New Year's Day before returning home anyway, the Chinese are just Christmas, and there is no Christmas holiday.

On Christmas Day, Gu Ao made a special trip to Akio Morita and prepared a gift to congratulate Sony's first generation CD Walkman D50 on his successful sale.

As mentioned earlier, Sony's D50 should have been the world's first CD Walkman, but it was robbed of the world's number one sign by Tiankun Music's CD Walkman. It also showed off its concept of "power bank (battery bag) split design" which is ahead of the times.

So, at the end of August, Akio Morita ordered Sony Electronics' Division to make major changes to Nobuno's Ichi, which led to the D50 being launched nearly two months late, and it was only waiting until the Christmas gift season came.

Moreover, the current d50 is no longer the appearance of the d50 in history. It is a bit like Sony's second-generation CD Walkman, which has absorbed a lot of Tiankun's optimized experience design.

The price after listing is also dozens of dollars more expensive than before. Because the positioning of "the latest and most trendy cost-effective black technology" has been seized by Gu Ao, which is somewhat similar to the positioning of "Xiaomi Black Technology" in later generations. Therefore, Sony wants to raise its own value and can only make things better, sell them more expensively, and maintain the aristocratic style.

The material design of this d50 is much better than before, and it even uses a magnesium-aluminum alloy shell, which costs $240 for bare metal. With a full set of accessories such as power banks and headphones, there are two sets of packages of $280 and $300 (the quality of headphones is different).

In other words, it is 40 to 60 US dollars more expensive than the Tiankun series Walkman package.

However, with the coolness and high-end reputation accumulated by the Sony brand in the walk-man era, many American consumers still bought it.

Even if Sony fans and some music enthusiasts have bought Tiankun’s Walkman, they will not forget to buy one more to collect it, or give it to their family in name, but in fact they use it themselves.

This is also determined by the attributes of the Walkman. If it is a home-use CD machine, a family can only buy one and put it in the living room for everyone to use it. But a Walkman can be several for each family, and each young person will carry one after another when he goes out.

Of course, considering the price, if you do this, you will be an enthusiast-level family.

Within a week, Sony actually sold a total of 100,000 D50 CD Walkman, and the sales of Tiankun CD Walkman in this Christmas season have more than doubled during the same period!

Gu Ao also has to sigh that the brand reputation and user minds accumulated by Sony over the years are really not comparable to those of Tiankun, a rising rookie who has only been stable for two years.

After the Sony D50 was sold, Gu Ao came to the door to congratulate him just in time, which made Akio Morita feel a lot more happy. The knots that he had accumulated in his heart six months ago were completely relieved.

He has realized that Gu Ao is not Sony's main competitor. In other words, even if Gu Ao wants to become competitors with some Japanese manufacturers in the future, there are other Toshiba, Nintendo and even NRC, which are more suitable to be Gu Ao's enemies.

Sony can completely take advantage of its complementarity with Tiankun and continue to take advantage of the situation to develop.
Chapter completed!