bonanza

Chapter 433
Malaria is known as "the No. [-] killer in West Africa". In West Africa, the number of deaths due to malaria every year exceeds the sum of deaths from war and starvation.

This is not the most important thing. The more important thing is that in the next two years, several West African countries such as Guinea, Liberia, and Mali will hold presidential elections. In addition, the heads of state of many countries came to power through coups.

If malaria can be effectively cured, it will play a great role in elections and political stability.

Liberia is one of the countries that will hold presidential elections next year. They originally planned to send an official from the Ministry of Health to discuss the matter of artemisinin, but today they suddenly changed their minds. Their head of state will come here in person.

When the United Nations votes, no matter how poor or small a country is, it still has one vote.

In the process of restoring China's legal seat in the United Nations, the votes of brothers from Asia, Africa, and Latin America played a vital role. China has always attached importance to its relations with these countries, so it is naturally very happy to receive this news.

But Yang Dongsheng was in a little trouble here, and he didn't know if it was the role of James Whistler. The head of state specifically proposed to visit the company in Shanghai.

Yang Dongsheng's factory is not afraid to visit. Although they are all second-hand equipment bought from Europe and the United States, in China at this time, their equipment is already the most advanced, and the entire factory area looks absolutely spectacular.

But the problem is that artemisinin is not produced here, so what will he show the head of state?
Yang Dongsheng is also planning to take this opportunity to extend the tentacles of the pharmaceutical industry to Africa!Although that place is poor, it cannot stop the crowds and the market is not small.

According to James Whistler, malaria is the number one killer in West Africa, but as far as Africa as a whole is concerned, AIDS is the disease that kills the most people. This is a world problem. Yang Dongsheng has no way to solve it, but colds and pneumonia rank second. caused by respiratory infections.

Due to the weak local pharmaceutical capabilities, international pharmaceutical giants have sold very common cold medicines and anti-inflammatory drugs at very unusual prices in Africa.

The Shanghai company happened to have produced a number of Chinese patent medicines for the treatment of colds and pneumonia.

Dongsheng Pharmaceutical, located in the south of Lunan, also produces several varieties of cold, fever, and anti-inflammatory drugs. These drugs have long passed the patent protection period, and any domestic pharmaceutical factory can produce them. The market has long been saturated, so they can only go outside.

If the foreign head of state sees that they cannot produce artemisinin and excludes them, Yang Dongsheng's plans will all come to naught.

This guy James Whistler didn't know how to make a call. He is now running all over Africa, and Yang Dongsheng can't contact him at all.

Someone from the pharmaceutical branch proposed to make some fakes for them to see. Anyway, they had never seen how to extract artemisinin, but Yang Dongsheng rejected it.

Foreign heads of state come to visit. At that time, they will not only deceive foreigners.

Two days later, James Whistler arrived in Shanghai together on the special plane of the head of state of Liberia, and brought a head of state with him. Next, because he will have many heads of state coming, James Whistler showed his face this time.

The welcome ceremony is over.

Yang Dongsheng and James Whistler sat down in the coffee shop.

James Whistler reported in detail his recent work progress, and besides Guinea and Liberia, they recently went to Benin.

Yang Dongsheng nodded, "By the way, what did you tell that head of state? Why did they visit our factory? I don't produce that kind of medicine here!"

James Whistler was taken aback, he didn't know about it yet, "I just said that I have a friend who runs a pharmaceutical company here, and he also told me that China is the original producer of artemisinin, and nothing else Besides, I think he just wants to meet you!"

"That's good!" Yang Dongsheng nodded.

Hearing that Yang Dongsheng's new office building and new house did not have office desks, chairs and furniture, James Whistler gave Yang Dongsheng a newly purchased batch of wood.

Back in the room, Yang Dongsheng made a phone call and asked Director Li to pay attention to receiving wood, find someone to make furniture, and then began to check the harvest in Africa.

The land of Guinea and Liberia has expanded a lot recently, and Yang Dongsheng has billions of tons of iron ore and bauxite in his hands.

The newly entered Benin is far inferior to Guinea and Liberia, not to mention iron ore, and the grade is much lower than that of the other two countries, and the silica ore does not reach the high grade expected by Yang Dongsheng.

Just when Yang Dongsheng was about to quit hastily, he suddenly froze in one place...

Yang Dongsheng saw gold, his eyes were full of gold.

The land that James Whistler bought in that area was intermittent and spread over a large area, but Yang Dongsheng still didn't see the end of this golden vein, and Yang Dongsheng couldn't see the end either.

Yang Dongsheng has seen many gold veins, but he has never seen such a large area of ​​gold veins, and the grade of this gold vein is quite high. I am afraid that only South Africa's Rand gold mining area can compare with this place.

Yang Dongsheng immediately got up and knocked on James Whistler's door, asking him to buy the land at any cost.

The next day, when the foreign delegation came to the pharmaceutical branch, a fat, dark man came up and gave Yang Dongsheng a big hug, which almost made Yang Dongsheng faint.

At the end of the visit, everyone took a group photo again, and the big fat man took a photo with Yang Dongsheng deliberately, and never asked about artemisinin from the beginning to the end.

Yang Dongsheng didn't understand if the fat man came to give him a platform on purpose, but Yang Dongsheng accepted the intention.

Then the main members of the visiting group left Shanghai and rushed to Huajing, leaving behind their health department officials.

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The influence of the United States in the WHO, this is a lice on a bald man's head, it is obvious.

If the United States has to be overthrown to enter the WHO's recommended list, Yang Dongsheng and the others will also be beaten to death.

In fact, entering the WHO recommended list is not necessarily related to overthrowing the United States!The big market for anti-malarial drugs is in Africa, and the WHO is actually an international organization that operates in the same way as Western governments.

The shortcomings of Western countries are all there, and they are even more serious.

Except for some countries where corruption is particularly serious, such international institutions are basically the most corrupt, because they have almost no anti-corruption measures and anti-corruption departments.

The highest authority of the WHO is the World Health Assembly, but this assembly only meets once a year, and it doesn't actually care about anything.

The executive body of the World Health Assembly, the Executive Committee, is really in charge. It is composed of 32 technical experts in the health field. Except for the Director-General, these people are the most powerful people in WHO.

In addition, in various regions, WHO has regional medical research advisory committees, which also include Africa.

(End of this chapter)