Monday, November 10, 1980.

The East City of Beijing, No. 2, East Chang'an Street, is the first door sign on the south side of the street, which is to count to the east of the gate.

This is the headquarters office location of several ministries and commissions such as the Foreign Investment Commission/Ministry of Foreign Trade.

Gu Ao has been here more than once, but he has been an intern before.

He held his file, including the undergraduate and graduate degree certificates that were freshly issued two days ago; bachelor’s and master’s degree certificates.

Walked into the Office of the Personnel Department.

Seeing a female clerk, Gu Ao politely went over and handed over his own materials:

"Hello comrade, I am from the School of Diplomacy. I made an appointment to report today."

The female clerk receives a lot of people every day, not only new colleagues who come to report, but also complain about treatment and even asks to queue up to divide the room.

Things are very complicated, so it is impossible to remember which new colleagues you want to come to each day. You can only look through the relevant documents when encountering one thing.

In an era when computers were not popular, human resources work was done this way, and it is normal to have low efficiency.

The first impression that Gu Ao’s face gives people is that he is terrifyingly young.

This 18-year-old young man has graduated from the School of Foreign Affairs and then officially registered for the Foreign Investment Commission! Who told him to go to college at the age of 15, and he only attended one semester in his freshman year.

It's against the will of heaven! It must be a shady scene! - If it were in the Internet era in later generations, there would definitely be many people who would criticize this way.

However, as a person who opens his eyes to the world, Gu Ao himself has a relatively high acceptance of the younger cadres - it is just that Chinese people like to be senior, so cadres are older. Looking around the world, it is not uncommon for those who are successful in politics at a young age.

For example, in the United States on the other side of the ocean, Clinton, a senior at the 68th grade of the Department of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, became the state attorney general at the age of 29 and the governor at the age of 32. There was no sign of criticism from the American people, right?

(Transfer Clinton's achievements to China to compare them. The 29-year-old director and a 32-year-old senior official may be scary.)

The female clerk handled Gu Ao's materials with a very curious attitude.

When she carefully looked at Gu Ao's resume and the corresponding to the documents she was to be done, she couldn't help but feel respectful.

"Director Gu, please come here. I will take you to get the office key first. I will send the specific procedures to you later."

"You're welcome." Gu Ao nodded slightly and followed the other party.

While walking, the female clerk politely turned her head and explained, controlling her pace, trying to walk side by side with Gu Ao: "The director and deputy director have explained your arrangements, and will take you to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Investment Management Office later. After you join the position, you are the deputy director of the Taiwan Investment Management Office, but our Foreign Investment Commission is all highly qualified, so once the inspection period is over, you will be treated as a department-level director."

In 1980, in addition to the General Office, Policy Research Office, Personnel, Finance, and Supervision of these functional internal institutions, there were mainly several departments in the business field:

Treaty Law Division (International Treaty in charge of foreign investment cooperation), Foreign Investment Management Division, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao Investment Management Division, Foreign Aid Division, Foreign Investment Cooperation Division...

In addition, there are some special institutions that are not suitable for the needle, such as the "Silk Quota Coordination Office" and the "Mechanical and Electrical and Technology Industry Foreign Cooperation Office". They are all specifically targeted at certain industries that need to be supported, and the establishment of counterpart departments is also a feature of this era of chaotic management.

Gu Ao was brought to the management department of Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao, which was obviously fine-tuned in combination with his achievements and abilities during his internship. Because a year ago, he cooperated with CITIC Trust to complete the first Hong Kong dollar trust bond, and later made it into a model project, received the Japanese chaebol inspection team, and promoted the first Japanese yen trust bond of 30 billion yen.

Therefore, the Foreign Investment Commission feels that he has some skills and ability in introducing Hong Kong and Taiwan funds, which is unknown.

He was thinking about the intention above, and the female clerk reminded him again:

"Director Gu, although the national law is not very clear at the moment, since you are a formal official of the foreign investment department, and some businesses involving related fields are better not to do business in person, which is a violation of discipline..."

"I understand, I have already transferred out. I don't do business in Hong Kong and Taiwan." Gu Ao agreed, indicating that it would not make it difficult for the leader to do it.

He has a cousin who is studying international business law at Columbia University. This kind of legal act of concealing real shareholders can of course be easily handled, and there is no need to elaborate on the details.

At the same time, he would not put the eggs in a basket. Whether it is his cousin Lu Guangfu, his sister Gu Min, or Han Ting, Gu Ao can disperse and disguise holding part of his equity, while ensuring full control in the form of mortgage convertible bonds.

Of course it is impossible for this model to continue for a long time, but there will be no major problems within two or three years. As long as your equity value does not experience too rapid explosive growth.

After explaining the basic situation, Gu Ao was taken to his office.

It was an office shared by two people, with two deputy directors working here. From this, we can also see that "it is difficult to live in Chang'an Street". The deputy directors do not have their own independent office, so they can only be at the director or above.

"Director Xiao, this is the new Director Gu, who has just graduated from the School of Diplomacy." As soon as the female clerk entered the door, she first introduced Gu Ao and her colleagues to each other.

Deputy Director Xiao on the opposite side is a flat-headed man about 35 years old. When he saw Gu Ao, he was also greatly visually impacted.

I thought that the deputy director who was 35 years old and who was treated as a director, had already achieved great success in his career, but the guy on the other side was half younger than him.

"Hello Brother Xiao, I, Gu Ao, take care of you in the future." Gu Ao took the initiative to shake hands with the other party, and then spread a box of five-pack "White-haired Girl" cigars on the table.

"Xiao Gu, right? Tsk tsk, so young. My name is Xiao Zheng, you have to be welcome." Deputy Director Xiao said, and took the initiative to pick up two cigars, took out the fire, and lit them for himself and Gu Ao.

"Director Xu is having a meeting. He will convey the spirit of the meeting to everyone in the office in the afternoon. He will formally introduce you to everyone at that time. There are not many people in the office, there are a total of three subjects and more than a dozen people.

I heard that you were originally following the Deputy Director * and Director Bao from the 'Office of the Mechanical and Electrical and Technology Industry Foreign Cooperation Office'? I have also vaguely heard about your contributions."

(Note: Don’t underestimate the “Machinery Department Office”. Although the suffix is ​​only an office, it is at the department level. And it was formed by the merger of a bunch of “Foreign Affairs Bureaus” from the Ministry of Industry, including the Ministry of Industry, including the Ministry of Industry, etc., during the restructuring last year.

Including the unspeakable task of breaking through the blockade of the Batube Ash Zone, this office also needs to participate. In the central government, there are many units that are in the name of the office, but in fact the level is extremely high.)

"I dare not take it, it just happened." Gu Ao quickly modestly.

Xiao Zheng smiled and joked: "To be honest, Lao Bao has a future than Director Xu. He is a person who will be promoted in one or two years. However, you have just graduated and the Machinery Department Office can't make any room, so you can go here to cross the bridge first.

I also know that you won’t stay for a long time. As long as you make meritorious service, you can be transferred at any time. Even if you don’t make meritorious service, you will be transferred at most for half a year of inspection period. It’s a bit hard work, and you will be transferred at a level.”

Gu Ao asked humbly: "I would like to hear the details."

Xiao Zheng waved a cigar and signaled: "Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau Department of the Ministry of Commerce, at the beginning of the year, it was only called Hong Kong and Macau Department of Commerce. The situation was unclear at that time, and the country did not dare to introduce Taiwanese capital. Therefore, the Taiwan Capital Department was just established in the fourth quarter, and everyone was drawn out of thin air, and there were too many vacancies.

The mechanical department has mature businesses, one carrot and one pit, and adding a deputy director out of thin air is very difficult. They have done well and made no mistakes. They are transferred directly to the Taiwan investment office to make a seat for you newcomers, which will offend people more. When you are the deputy director, you will be able to sit firmly and switch them in a flat manner, it will not look eye-catching."

Gu Ao suddenly realized that it seemed that his inspection period would be spent with Taiwanese capital. Everything could be blamed on official rules.

In the early stages of opening up, the mainland's utilization of external capital was also implemented in stages. Hong Kong and Japanese capital were the earliest, because there were no policy risk barriers at all, and the other party was willing to come.

In the early days, those who went to the SAR to invest money were basically wealthy. Taiwanese capital involved the trough caused by the breakdown of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in January 1979. People in Wanwan were in seclusion for several consecutive years.

After 1982 years, with Director Liao's contact, the situation relaxed, but Taiwanese capital did not want to go to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Special Zone and even the Pearl River Delta, which had been entrenched by Hong Kong capital.

In history, until 1984, Deng Weiren publicly stated that "the experience of Shenzhen Stock Exchange proved that the decision to establish the special zone was correct", and the list of the second batch of open cities in the mainland was announced. Then, Taiwanese capital concentrated on selecting the frontier of opening up of Gusu, and began to pour into the Yangtze River Delta in a massive amount.

Later, on the "Top 100 Counties Economic List" in China for 30 years, the reason why Kunshan, a county-level city under Gusu ranked first is because it is a breakthrough for Taiwanese capital to vent its concentrated catharsis.

It can be said that the Pearl River Delta is the rear base of Hong Kong capital, while the Yangtze River Delta is the base of Taiwanese capital.

"It's a bit troublesome to be assigned to such a unit. It's impossible for Taiwanese capital to successfully introduce it in the past two years. I can only do some business work...

For Taiwanese businessmen, investing in the mainland is almost equivalent to being recognized as a "bending" on the other side of the strait. The risk is too great. Unless there is a great temptation to make him willing to abandon his career foundation in Wanwan and move his family to Xiangjiang after investing, it is impossible to come to the mainland..."

Gu Ao thought about his short-term work and couldn't help but give up a little.

Forget it, just live a life without a chance.

After half a year of foreign work, I worked diligently to do some basic business work. After the inspection period, the salary will be turned into a regular basis.

Even if you apply for a job suspension and stay in your job at that time, it would be nothing. If you go directly to a doctorate with a fresh graduate, you will go directly to a doctorate, and then go to a doctorate with a deputy director who has already confirmed the treatment of the county and department level, the effect and nature will be completely different.

Gu Ao planned and spent a long time to get in a little interpersonal relationship with his colleagues. He went to the canteen of Xiao Zheng for lunch, and waited for Director Xu to convey the spirit of the committee meeting in the afternoon.
Chapter completed!