industrial overlord

Chapter 606 Counting Trade Frictions
Huang Gang has always trusted Lin Zhenhua's predictions, which probably came from the true biography of his mentor He Haifeng. During the more than 20 years of communication with Lin Zhenhua, He Haifeng was convinced by Lin Zhenhua's accurate predictions many times, thus forming the Such a habit.

Hearing Lin Zhenhua say that anti-dumping is just a dessert before meals in Western countries, Huang Gang asked seriously: "Brother Lin, in your opinion, what sanctions from Western countries may we encounter in the future?"

"It's too much to calculate." Lin Zhenhua said.In the years before he crossed over, the trade war between Western countries and China was in full swing. Although Lin Zhenhua was only a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, he had heard many things by ear, and now he happened to tell Huang Gang about it. Maybe it can also play a role in planning for a rainy day.

"First of all, it is anti-dumping. You think we are facing a lot of anti-dumping investigations. In fact, this is just the beginning. There will be more and more such cases in the future. The country must not only be mentally prepared to respond to the lawsuit, but also Do a good job of knowledge and system preparation for responding to the lawsuit, and make the response to anti-dumping institutionalized and normalized.”

Huang Gang nodded and said: "We are indeed already preparing for this matter. In fact, our country's products were also subject to anti-dumping investigations and anti-dumping duties were levied in the past few years, but the number of cases at that time was small. The scope is also small. Over the past few years, foreign anti-dumping efforts against China have continued to increase, and the number of cases has increased by double digits every year. It seems that a special agency will really be established in the future to deal with such things.”

"In addition to anti-dumping, there is another method commonly used by Western countries, which is to set up non-trade barriers related to standards and certification, including environmental protection standards, social responsibility standards, and technical standards. Import and protect domestic industries. In this regard, our government probably has no experience at all, right? Let alone enterprises." Lin Zhenhua continued.

Huang Gang asked: "Brother Lin, do you have any ready-made information about the standards and standards you mentioned? To tell you the truth, we have indeed heard about these things, but when it comes to the details, we don't know anything about them." Got it. The Ministry of Foreign Trade may have more information than we do, but it is also very limited. Some leaders, including some, think that as long as we join the WTO, everything will be fine and there will be no more trade frictions. "

"Hehe, so there is an old saying that is good, the most important thing is to educate the leadership." Lin Zhenhua said with emotion.

"Is this an old saying?" Zhang Qiong questioned with a smile.

Lin Zhenhua originally wanted to make a joke and liven up the atmosphere. He smiled at Zhang Qiong, and then said to Huang Gang: "How about this, Xiao Huang, I will ask Mr. Qian Yuanping, the legal consultant specially hired by our group, to tell you about it. Lectures, he is a Hong Kong lawyer who has been studying trade policy issues over the years, and has a lot of experience in various trade wars.

Also, when I was in Jingxi City last year, I met a returnee named Xie Mingcheng who specialized in social responsibility research. Now our group is entrusting her to help us with some international standard certification work, also to deal with non-trade barriers. Another day You'd better invite her to give you a lecture. "

"Well, very good, I've made reservations for these people." Huang Gang quickly took out his work diary, wrote down the two people Lin Zhenhua mentioned, and asked Lin Zhenhua to report their mobile phone numbers, planning to ask them to come another day The planning committee went to have a chat.If they are really as good as Lin Zhenhua said, it is very necessary to arrange them to give lectures to officials.

"Huang Gang, I don't think we can always rely on Brother Lin to recommend talents to us to solve the problem, can we? Can we find Renmin University, as well as foreign economic and trade schools, and let them do related research. This is all We should give full play to the wisdom of scholars to study the new topics that have emerged during our country's participation in international competition." Zhang Qiong was on the side giving advice to Huang Gang.Zhang Qiong graduated from an authentic planning major, and now works in the planning committee, but he is not in the same department as Huang Gang.

Huang Gang said: "That's for sure. I'm about to make a report to the leader and ask for instructions to organize relevant universities and research institutions to carry out research on this topic. This should belong to the category of soft science. Now let's hear what Brother Lin has. Suggestion, I think many of Brother Lin's ideas are much better than the experts in colleges and universities."

"Well, then I'll continue." Lin Zhenhua said, he always believed that thriving is not a spring, and the development of China's industry must rely on everyone's strength.Huang Gang, as an official of the Planning Commission, sometimes a single policy can affect tens of thousands of companies, so Lin Zhenhua is still very willing to communicate with him more.

"Western countries still have a killer trick, which is to force the appreciation of the renminbi. This trick was used against Japan in 1985, that is, the Plaza Accord. After the Plaza Accord, due to the rapid appreciation of the yen, the internationalization of Japanese companies Competitiveness has dropped sharply, and the Japanese economy has been sluggish ever since, and it is still half-dead today." Lin Zhenhua said.

Regarding the Plaza Accord and its impact on the Japanese economy, Huang Gang has done special research and knew what Lin Zhenhua said is true. He said: "Our country is a country where the government controls the exchange rate. As long as we insist on not appreciating the renminbi, there is nothing Western countries can do about it." Bar?"

"If you want to add a crime, why don't you have excuses?" Lin Zhenhua said, "Besides, the value of the renminbi itself is indeed undervalued. The current exchange rate of the renminbi to the US dollar is 8.3 to 1. In fact, 8 yuan of renminbi can be bought in China. The things you can get are several times more than what you can buy with one dollar in the United States. Therefore, it is reasonable for Western countries to accuse the RMB of being undervalued. At that time, if Western countries bring this matter up to the WTO The dispute demands resolution, and the WTO, if not entirely biased toward the West, at least not toward us?"

"Hey, that's true." Huang Gang laughed. As an official of the Planning Commission, he certainly knows the real value of RMB.It is an open secret in the international financial market that the renminbi is undervalued. Although there is no international pressure to force the renminbi to appreciate, judging from what Lin Zhenhua just said, it may be a few years before the renminbi is required to appreciate. The voice of appreciation will appear.

Lin Zhenhua said: "If China wants to enter the international market in an all-round way, there are still some rules of the game that must be followed. The issue of the value of the renminbi will be exposed sooner or later. Therefore, this issue also needs to be prepared in advance."

"Dumping, non-trade barriers, currency value, there are a lot of things." Huang Gang counted with his fingers, "If Western countries really use all these means, it will be enough for us to drink a pot. Brother Lin, you Having said so many difficulties, then, is there any good countermeasure?"

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "Director Huang, you can't be too Huanggang. You are a government official, and I am in an enterprise. I have already fulfilled my duty by introducing so many problems to you. You actually asked me to provide countermeasures. Isn’t this too aggressive? Why don’t we switch, you go to Hanhua as the chairman, and I go to the planning committee to sit in your office?”

"Change it, change it, this is what you said, whoever doesn't change is a puppy!" Huang Gang agreed without hesitation.In front of Lin Zhenhua, he can be regarded as a junior, so it's okay to play tricks.

"Uh..." Lin Zhenhua choked.His position as the chairman of Hanhua is really more affordable than that of Huang Gang, the deputy director of the planning committee. Not to mention changing with Huang Gang, even if He Haifeng wanted to change with Lin Zhenhua when he was the deputy director of the planning committee, he would won't do it.Lin Zhenhua has always been a relatively free and undisciplined person. In his opinion, government officials, apart from being superficially glamorous, cannot compare with a corporate chairman in terms of freedom of doing things.

"Forget it, I'll admit it." Lin Zhenhua could only break his promise and get fat, "I should have known that you government officials have thick skins, and you can only make fun of yourself by reasoning with you."

"Really? How did I hear that a certain chairman didn't count what he said just now?" Zhang Qiong exposed Lin Zhenhua's shortcomings and cheered for Huang Gang.

Huang Gang said: "Zhang Qiong, don't be too demanding of comrades in the company. They are intriguing in the market all day long. It is their professional requirement that their words don't count. They are not like our government officials. Words count."

"I can't say no to you." Lin Zhenhua quickly raised his hand to beg for mercy. He brought the conversation back to the topic and said, "Let's talk about business. I think the most important thing to deal with the possible trade war launched by Western countries is to comprehensively improve our The competitiveness of the enterprise itself. Forging iron requires hard work. If our technology level is high and the product quality is good, it will be difficult for us to be defeated by those crooked trade frictions."

"You are right. Our Planning Commission is also studying this issue recently, requiring domestic enterprises to strengthen their own strengths, especially to strengthen product development and master core competencies. They can no longer simply compete for quantity and cost as in the past," Huang Gang said. .

Lin Zhenhua added: "The second aspect is that the state should support enterprises. When facing various foreign trade sanctions, the government should come forward to support enterprises. If they initiate trade lawsuits against Chinese enterprises, we must actively pursue them. Counter-litigation. Anyway, things like trade rules are very flexible. If we are more firm, the WTO will restrain itself.”

Huang Gang quickly wrote it down, and said at the same time: "This is also very important. We really lack the experience and courage to go to court with developed countries. We always want to calm things down. Now it seems that blindly giving in is not a good choice. When it is time to be tough, Still have to be tougher."

Lin Zhenhua bowed his hands to Huang Gang, and said with a smile: "With Director Huang's words, our company is about to burn incense. Director Huang is really the living Buddha of my company."

"How dare, how dare, a big entrepreneur like Mr. Lin is the pillar of our country and the bread and butter of our government officials." Huang Gang also responded with a smile.

After the two talked and laughed, Lin Zhenhua continued: "There is a third thing that we lack, that is, we should actively cultivate our own spokespersons in Western countries and let them speak for China, so as to divide their power from within. "

"This..." Huang Gang was finally stunned. Lin Zhenhua's third countermeasure was so bold that even a young official like Huang Gang, who was open-minded, couldn't help being shocked.

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