In the seven or eight years, a great power that had just left the cultural revolution began to give up the class struggle program and shifted its main energy to modernization. In November, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee was held, and the country proposed reform and opening up for the first time.

At the end of 1978, Coca-Cola Company signed an agreement with COFCO to build a joint venture factory in the Imperial Capital. In the form of compensation trade, Coca-Cola provides equipment and produces raw materials, and the Grain and Oil Export Corporation is responsible for the sale. Coca-Cola became the first foreign company to enter the country.

On New Year's Day in 1979, China and the United States established diplomatic relations. The embassy informed that all American capital would come to China to invest and build factories. Inspired by this news, a large number of Chinese and overseas Chinese and American-funded companies went to the embassy to inquire about domestic investment, but few of them ended up in the end. Most of them were mainly for sales, treating China as the next dumping market to be developed, and there were basically no companies with real technical content.

The frustrated country gradually shifted its attention to the adjacent Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and these many Chinese and overseas Chinese areas. Against this background, Li Xuechu's northbound travel was warmly welcomed by relevant domestic institutions, and the efficiency issue that he had originally worried about did not become a reality at all.

Now both Hong Kong and the country are in a cautious and tentative contact stage. On one side, it is out of fear of the red regime, and on the other side, it is worrying about the insatiable nature of capital.

Both of them seem to make sense, but the final result proves that the former’s concerns are redundant, and the country has not improved the legal system in the next ten years, making the latter a reality. After the test period, the "expats" across the country made many local governments pay their first tuition fees after the opening.

There are clever and simple tricks. Those who are wise and have no choice but to take advantage of the legal loopholes and are found to be lost. They simply go missing after cheating, and it is difficult to recover in this era. Some of the scammers are rich, some are grassroots, and they go home after cheating money. Some of them are only English and Cantonese, and few are caught. Today's country is too simple, whether it is the government or the common people...

"Think about these things for no reason." Li Xuechu waved his head as if he wanted to throw these useless distractions out of his mind. Sometimes he really wanted to remind the country and avoid detours. However, unless he had the opportunity to meet with the central government, it would be useless. After all, most of them were still serious businessmen. If you want to truly solve the problem, everything must be implemented in the law.

"Dear VIPs, we are about to land at Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai. The indicator light of the seat belt has not turned off and the flight has not stopped. Please do not leave your seat..." The radio sound on the plane remembered.

"It's finally here." Li Xuechu looked out at the demon city of later generations.

It is very different from the impressions of later generations. The changes over the past thirty years have turned upside down. The current Demon City has not yet shown the coolness of the international metropolis in later generations. There are no towering buildings, and there are even a lot of farmland around it. Li Xuechu has some sense of intimacy, although he is not from the Demon City.

Looking down at the dense crowd of ants and the crowds of bicycles on the street, Li Xuechu felt that the corners of his eyes were a little wet. This was his place.

Looking around after leaving the airport, although there are many people around the airport, most of them wear only blue, green and gray, and the style is also single. A few bright colors are occasionally dotted in a dark-toned clothing, like wild grass budding in a gray land, showing a bit of warmth from the early days of the reform.

Although I haven't experienced this era, Li Xuechu knew a little about the costumes of this era. The blue ones are cadre costumes, the green ones are imitated military uniforms, and the gray ones are people's costumes. Wearing similar or exactly the same clothes, so many people seem to be poured out of the same mold.

In the vast crowd, I felt like I was isolated like an alien. The fact seemed to be true. A slightly crowded crowd came to me and automatically diverted like a river meeting a reef. I took the initiative to keep a distance of more than two meters from my group, and looked at the few people with curious eyes.

"Fortunately, there are no foreigners in my own people." Li Xuechu looked at the white people on the other side who were strongly watched. Although the clothes were different, their faces were still similar, and the enthusiasm of the "audience" was far less than that of the foreigners.

At this time, the people in the Demon City did not have the Dan Ding, who was not so strange to the future generations. They regarded foreigners as precious animals and surrounded them three layers inside and three layers outside. They pointed at the foreigners' strange facial features that were different from ordinary people. Some people kept calling friends in the distance: "Let's see, there are foreigners here."

"Everyone let me give in, don't watch the foreign guests!" The airport staff tried their best to evacuate the crowd, but there was no way for a while. The foreigners moved several times slower than their own group.

The foreigners struggled to walk, and showed some discomfort and confusion among the curious crowd. One or two saw Li Xuechu’s first party, and the look they handed over seemed to have a bit of help.

Shrugged, Li Xuechu couldn't help.

However, their troubles did not last long. A few minutes later, a wave of people wearing cadre costumes rushed over.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go, don't watch the foreign guests." Several cadres shouted loudly outside the wall and squeezed in. At this time, the class had not yet solidified, and the masses had a bit of reluctance to leave the public servants, and they had a little reluctant debut. It was really hard.

When Li Xuechu thought it had nothing to do with him, a wave of people came over.

"Are you Mr. Li Xuechu from Xiangjiang?" asked a middle-aged man wearing four cadre costumes, but his eyes were confirmed.

"Yes. Are you?"

The middle-aged man enthusiastically extended his hand. "We are Zhang Tao, deputy director of the Shanghai Stock Exchange Industrial Bureau, and we welcome overseas expatriates to return to China to start a business!"

The two of them held their hands together.

"It's quite powerful," Li Xuechu thought to himself. The senses these people give themselves are very exciting, and their words and actions are a bit clean and neat, which is different from the feelings given by later officials.

"I came here to discuss cooperation this time, but I do have plans to return to China to start a business." Li Xuechu said with a smile.

Director Zhang was quite satisfied with this answer. "Haha, now the country's policy of foreign businessmen and overseas Chinese to start businesses in China is encouraged. If Mr. Li is interested, we will definitely give the greatest support."

"I will consider it carefully." What I want most in China is industry, but I still have many concerns about whether to open up the market and allow domestic self-employed individuals to develop, so I don't have so many concerns about foreign capital.

Nowadays, China is the golden period of entrepreneurship, and Li Xuechu also wants to participate. Unfortunately, the industry I have come into contact with is only toys. Some of these things that do not have much technical content are not wanted to do. What kind of industry can make a fortune and have high technical content? It is good to develop into a dominant industry like Sony and Samsung. I am still thinking about it. It’s a pity that I am not a technical mate.

At this time, another person also leaned forward.

"Hello, Mr. Li, I am from the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Bureau. Welcome to return to China."

"Hello, hello."

...

Several consecutive cadres are government personnel, from the Municipal Industry Bureau, from the Foreign Trade Bureau, from the Municipal Federation of Overseas Chinese, and from the Municipal Science and Technology Association... The main master of the Modu Film Studio, which needs to cooperate, is at the end. The government must take the lead in the external situation, which is the characteristics of this era.

He shook hands one by one, connected the warm greetings from the leaders, and gave a brief thanks. After several greetings, a circle of sweat broke out on Li Xuechu's forehead.

The foreigners on the other side were similar, and the reception specifications were obviously higher than those of them. After all, they were just here to cooperate, so the other party probably had the intention to invest in the factory?

After about a quarter of an hour, seeing that foreign guests had been invited to board the car, Director Zhang immediately smiled and invited the group to the hotel.

"Huh, I've finally finished dealing with it." Li Xuechu breathed a sigh of relief.

After getting on the bus, Li Xuechu found that both teams of cars were heading in the same direction, and the place where they lived would be arranged in the same place, right?

Sure enough, the two fleets of cars parked at the entrance of the same building.

"Mr. Li, we are here." Director Zhang waved his hand and gestured with a smile.

Li Xuechu got off the car and took a look: Peace Hotel.

This historic hotel is now the main place for the Magic City to receive foreign guests. Li Xuechu also came here in his previous life, but he just took a photo in front of the door. Unexpectedly, he would have the opportunity to enjoy the reception as a "foreign guest" when he went back more than thirty years ago.

Several foreigners on the opposite side also came down. The seemingly leading foreigner and Li Xuechu smiled and nodded slightly to greet each other. The two teams entered one after another.

"Director Zhang, which country are they from? What are they here for?" Li Xuechu asked in a low voice.

"Oh, it's the representative of the American chemical industry." Zhang Tao replied.

"Are you here to buy oil or start a company?"

Director Zhang smiled and refused to answer. The foreign affairs discipline was quite strict at this time. Although it didn't matter, he would say less if he could.

Seeing that others didn't say anything, Li Xuechu stopped asking. In the first twenty years of opening up, oil was one of the country's main export projects, and it turned out to be the other way around, and it was not enough for me.

This industry has nothing to do with itself.
Chapter completed!