Chapter 828 Canned Food and Harvest
This day.
Liu Tao went to the countryside with the provincial government to inspect.
The mountains in the countryside are full of fruit trees.
Now many places in Yunnan Province that are not suitable for growing grains and vegetables have all been converted to growing fruit trees.
In many places in Yunnan Province, canning factories have been built to specialize in the production of canned meat and canned fruit, and nearly half of the output is used for export.
This is like a microcosm of the Chinese canning industry.
Even last year, although Chinese canned food was subject to various anti-dumping measures in Europe and the United States, more than half of the canned food produced each year is still exported.
The domestic market is getting narrower and narrower. After all, fresh fruits are becoming more and more abundant. Who still eats canned food to satisfy their cravings?
On the contrary, in many Western countries, people have a hobby of eating canned food, and the per capita canned food consumption is much higher than that of China.
At present, the Chinese canning industry has initially formed several canned fruit brands, specializing in canned fruit, which are sold well at home and abroad.
The cost of Chinese canned food is much lower than that of Europe and the United States, which has led to the bankruptcy of many foreign canning factories.
They came to DH Prefecture, where the mountain villages no longer plant rice and vegetables as before, but instead plant goat milk fruit.
The mature fruit of goat milk fruit is bright red to purple-red, fresh fruit is edible, 91% of the edible part, moderately sweet and sour, delicious, rich in water, bright in color, and can be made into juice, canned food, candied fruit and other foods.
It is currently in the flowering period and looks quite good.
Liu Tao and his friends chatted with the farmers to understand the situation.
Most areas of Yunnan Province are not suitable for growing grain because of inconvenient transportation and low yields. Farmers can barely feed themselves by farming. This is because Yunnan Province has built a large number of reservoirs and hydropower stations in the past ten years, and its drought and flood resistance has been greatly improved compared to before. Otherwise, if there is a disaster year, farmers will have to suffer.
But it is different to plant fruit trees. The government provides additional subsidies for planting fruit trees on a per mu basis through policy guidance, and also guides canning companies to set up canning factories. Part of the fruit is used in the market as fruit, and part is used as canned food, juice, candied fruit and other foods.
In this way, farmers have more income. They can go out to work during the slack season and return to the countryside to work during the busy season. The government can also obtain taxes through these food factories.
Of course, compared with taxes, the government attaches more importance to the employment opportunities provided by food factories and the increased income brought to farmers.
Now Yunnan Province has initially formed a fruit area, such as Zhaotong apples, DH state goat milk fruit, Mengzi pomegranates, Mile grapes, Pu'er and Dali sour papayas, Yuanmou tamarind, Xishuangbanna jackfruit, Huaning oranges, Mengzi crackling, Yuanjiang mangoes, Fumin bayberry, etc.
At present, Yunnan Province attaches equal importance to the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and its development speed ranks among the best in the country.
Especially after the railway and shipping are unblocked, Yunnan Province's foreign trade capacity will be greatly enhanced, and there will still be great development prospects in the future.
And this time will only take a few years.
Inspect the rural areas of each county for two days, go around and have a look, chat with the people, and understand the most real situation.
There are inevitably some problems or contradictions in this.
Buyers always want to lower prices to get more profits, while farmers always want to sell more and increase their profits.
Some agents use the contract signing method. Some farmers signed but regretted it, and some agents regretted not paying.
These can only be left to time, or to the market to adjust.
What the government can do is actually quite limited. It is good if it is written in black and white, and it can also mediate or sue.
If it is just verbal, it is really a case of each party having its own reasons.
Hong Kong.
There are a lot of cars and people, bright lights and wine, and it is very noisy.
Hong Kong is becoming more and more prosperous. It is a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor.
Hong Kong is probably the place with the largest number of rich people in the whole of China.
It is difficult to count how many billionaires, multi-millionaires, and millionaires there are in Hong Kong.
The banquet hall of the Peninsula Hotel.
A cocktail party is being held, and all the famous people in Hong Kong are here.
Whether you are a celebrity in Hong Kong depends on whether you appear in this occasion.
Drinking and chatting happily.
Those who can bring the real ones will undoubtedly choose the real ones.
Only some unmarried people are accompanied by stars and supermodels.
Many wealthy people in Hong Kong bring their children to see the world.
Everyone will involuntarily focus their attention on a middle-aged man with a smile on his face.
It is the organizer of today's cocktail party - Liu Tao!
Liu Tao rarely appears in Hong Kong media reports. The media seems to have a tacit understanding and try not to report as much as possible.
So ordinary people actually know very little about Liu Tao.
But once they reach a certain level, they all know Liu Tao and his huge power.
The heads of wealthy families who are unattainable in the eyes of many wealthy people are now very humble and compliment Liu Tao.
Liu Tao holds a wine glass in his hand and walks around the banquet hall casually, talking to guests one by one.
The reason for coming to Hong Kong this time is naturally because the previous layout has reached a harvest time.
In the second half of 1992, Finland's economic difficulties worsened, and its foreign exchange reserves dropped sharply, which was no longer enough to support the exchange rate of the Finnish mark, which was in a very weak position. On September 8, the Finnish government was forced to announce that the Finnish mark would be decoupled from the German mark and allowed to float freely, which was actually a devaluation of the Finnish mark.
From September 11 to 12, there was a trend of selling Italian lira and buying German marks in the market, which became the first peak of this currency crisis. The lira exchange rate plummeted and soon broke through the floating lower limit stipulated by the European Monetary System.
At the same time, the pound exchange rate continued to fall and approached the floating lower limit.
In order to save the lira, the Italian central bank intervened in the market on a large scale and sold tens of billions of German marks to buy lira. The German central bank industry provided strong assistance.
However, the speculative momentum has been established and it is still difficult to resist the further spread of the speculative trend.
On the 15th, the selling trend swept across Britain, becoming the second peak of this crisis. The pound exchange rate plummeted all the way, only slightly above the stipulated floating lower limit of 1:2.778.
The deteriorated lira fell below the stipulated lower limit again. At the same time, the French franc, the Spanish peseta, etc. also began to fall.
On the 16th, the British government announced two interest rate hikes. Raising interest rates twice in one day is unprecedented in British history. Central banks of various countries took joint action to inject a large amount of funds to support the pound, but they still failed to stop the pound's decline. Within a day, the pound depreciated sharply again.
On the 17th, weak currencies such as the pound and the lira stabilized, and the selling trend that had been blowing for a week gradually eased. On the 20th, the currency crisis came to an end.
As part of the international hot money, Liu Tao naturally made a lot of money this time, and it can be said that he made the most money.
Now that overseas funds have smoothly converged into Hong Kong through various channels, it is naturally a time of harvest.
In order to celebrate the capital feast after two years, Liu Tao specially held a cocktail party at the Peninsula Hotel.
In the past, Liu Tao rarely organized cocktail parties himself. Most of them were organized by Ho Ying-tung and others, and Liu Tao participated.
This time, it was his fifth cocktail party in Hong Kong, which is almost equivalent to an average of one cocktail party every two years.