Rebirth: 1977

It was around 10:30 in the evening when Xia Minglei received Xu Rong's call.

This meeting of government affairs coordination and business coordination exchanges among Pengcheng, Yangcheng and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai was initiated after the New Year's Day of 1985.

The government officials from these places attached great importance to this event and made careful preparations for the welcoming and face-to-face exchanges.

However, in order to implement his plan, Xia Minglei decided to advance it by half a month after discussing it with the leaders of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Naturally, he had his reasons for explaining it. Besides, the current leaders of the Shanghai Stock Exchange had a good personal relationship with Xia Minglei.

After they discussed and decided, Xia Minglei suggested that they travel privately to various places in Shanghai to learn from others.

We will make a new plan for the future development of Pengcheng in one week.

In the next three days, Pengcheng, Yangcheng and Shanghai will have a "small-scale" exchange.

It was originally planned that the leaders from Jiangsu and Zhejiang would go to Shanghai together for exchanges.

It has now been decided that the leaders of Pengcheng, Yangcheng, Shanghai and Zhejiang will go to Jiangnan Province together for meetings and exchanges.

The reason is that Jiangnan Province's current industrial development is the most prosperous in the country, and now that the shield machine is fully implemented, in addition to exchanges, they also want to go to the site to observe and communicate on site.

When Xia Minglei made this suggestion, he gave local leaders time to re-arrange their work.

He is not a reckless man. He arranged all these things right away. People who don't know the inside story will not realize that he is using the time of office work to fulfill his selfish desires.

Although the Shanghai leaders agreed with Xia Minglei's reason for "a week of private investigation and learning", as the host, they had to send relevant cadres to take care of his food, accommodation and transportation.

The expenses of Xia Minglei's trip to Shanghai were all sponsored by the Zhejiang Province, which will be called the 'Chamber of Commerce' in Pengcheng in the future, and currently it is only sponsored by the 'Hometown Association'.

'If you give me a peach, I will give you a plum in return'.

Among the people Xia Minglei and his delegation met during the inspection and exchange program were officials, entrepreneurs, and businessmen.

Hou Yong is also in it. He is now a senior leader in the Zhejiang Province Hometown Association.

Zhejiang Province has much more resources in Pengcheng and Yangcheng than before, whether it is doing business or setting up factories and enterprises.

Among the industrial and commercial enterprises in Pengcheng, one third of them are foreign-funded enterprises, Zhejiang Province hometown associations, and the one that can rival them is the "Private Economic Federation" of Jiangnan Province.

In 1979, the country unified and restored the "All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce", but local governments, enterprises and private economies have not yet continued to use this name.

In the early 1980s, people doing business were sneaky and were chased by market managers wearing red armbands.

Those who run slower will be fined if caught.

The tools they rely on for survival, such as tricycles, bicycles, etc., as well as the goods and items they sell will all be confiscated.

After the incident, you can also take the money to the market management office to redeem it.

By the mid-to-late 1980s, entrepreneurs, businessmen and self-employed individuals from all over the country joined the "individual private economy" organization, which was led by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau and managed by the tax bureau and local government departments.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the 'Organization for Communication with Private Enterprises' was unified and changed back to the 'Federation of Industry and Commerce'.

The president is usually a deputy leader of the local government, and the vice president is an outstanding entrepreneur or businessman.

Everyone knows that Hou Yong holds such a high position in the Zhejiang Province Hometown Association (which has also changed its name to an individual private economic organization).

But when it comes to relationships with government leaders, no one would be so tactless as to break this window paper.

In this era, whether you are an entrepreneur or a businessman, it is easy to make money, but your social status is average.

No one dares to confront the government head-on.

However, it is hard to say what happens in private. If someone has dirty hands and is easily bribed, he may be coerced and exploited.

After all, at this time, all the leader's pen, signature and seal can get you a piece of land, a project or a loan from a bank.

Therefore, the Zhejiang Provincial Association will not suffer any loss if it is willing to provide sponsorship fees for exchange meetings between several local leaders.

Ultimately, it's about mutual benefit.

Following the leader, as long as they get a project, they will make the money back.

Moreover, there are many benefits to being close to the leader. When other businessmen need to find the leader for something, they will first find him for help and introduction.

He has both connections and money.

They are the first to know about good projects, and leaders also need them to act as the government’s mouthpiece and spread the news.

Smart people know what to do.

Xia Minglei has now firmly established himself as the top leader of Pengcheng, and Pengcheng's economic development is also on the right and fast track.

Originally used as an "experimental field" for the national economy, it has been recognized and promoted nationwide.

Although Xia Minglei changed his plan temporarily this time, he also has his own development plan and strategy.

Among the entrepreneurs and businessmen who followed them abroad, 50 percent were from Zhejiang Province.

Foreign-invested enterprise owners account for 30 percent of the total.

Entrepreneurs from Jiangnan Province and other regions account for 20 percent.

Among these foreign-funded enterprises, there is no Fujia, Tong family, or the company in which the family holds shares.

In other words, any foreign-funded enterprise related to Ye Tianshui, including Ye Tianshui's enterprises, did not get a share of the pie.

Because Xia Minglei left suddenly, most foreign-invested enterprise owners do not manage their businesses themselves.

Xu Zhen, the main person in charge of Ye Tianshui's investment project in Pengcheng, was in charge of a lot of things and he himself was not from an economic management background. Everyone was so busy that they did not react for a while.

If Ye Tianshui had not issued an order to pay attention to and understand Xia Zijian's job transfer, this unusual problem would not have been discovered.

Otherwise, no one would notice if there was anything fishy going on.

Even Xi Jun, who had seen the lists of visitors, did not analyze or interpret them.

Those people around Ye Tianshui who have some connection with him all know that he has a close relationship with Mr. Ye, the leader of the Pengcheng Municipal Government, so they naturally won't have any "doubts" about the leaders.

Si Kong Kong and Xia Zijian are not in the government work system, so they would not notice it.

When high-level leaders visit overseas in this way, the entrepreneurs and businessmen following behind them can reap rich dividends.

Xia Minglei brought a large team on the trip. A few days before arriving in Shanghai, he actually went to inspect two major future projects that Shanghai was designing and planning.

Their first stop was the Huangpu River.

The leaders of the Shanghai Stock Exchange had a personal relationship with Xia Minglei. They also valued the financially strong foreign-funded enterprises behind Xia Minglei, as well as the domestic private entrepreneurs who had already made a fortune in Shenzhen.

Just a little personal relationship was not enough to make them cooperate with Xia Minglei to change their original job opportunity.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange also entered an important juncture in its transformation from a planned economy to a market economy.