Chapter 959: September Shipwreck
Panshan Group system continues the previous practice of simplicity.
Either you hold your own wedding, invite some friends, don't hold a big one, and set up some banquets in a hotel outside.
Or you hold a collective wedding, organized by the company, and hold a collective wedding every quarter. After receiving the marriage certificate, employees write a report. This method is paid by the company.
Liu Tao occasionally attends the collective wedding held at the headquarters to bless the newlyweds. As for private banquets, Liu Tao almost never goes, but lets his wife or secretary go on his behalf, and these are often the senior executives of Panshan Group.
Before Feng Defeng's son got married, he held more than ten tables in Kunshi Hotel. Liu Tao also did not attend, but asked Zhu Lin to take the children.
Han Weidong was also promoted by Liu Tao. He can be said to be his confidant and right-hand man. It is not too much for Liu Tao to attend the banquet when his son is getting married, but Liu Tao declined.
Han Weidong did not say anything else. He also knew Liu Tao quite well.
He has two sons and one daughter. The eldest son graduated from Beijing University of Technology. The second son just graduated from Southwest Associated University and started a business with several classmates. The youngest daughter will take the college entrance examination next year. Her academic performance is quite good. His children are very promising.
Han Weidong's wife works in the canteen as a patrol aunt, intimidating all employees so that they dare not waste food.
Han Weidong spends one-third of his time in Qiongdao in a month, leading the work of the command center.
As the third-ranked leader of Panshan Group, Han Weidong has a lot to deal with.
The two drank seven bottles of beer and stopped drinking, both retaining the last sobriety.
After taking a shower in the hotel, Liu Tao drank the sobering soup prepared by the secretary, relaxed for a while, and went to bed to rest.
At seven o'clock the next morning, after breakfast, Liu Tao set out to inspect Qiongdao.
The current assets of Panshan Group in Qiongdao are as high as 300 billion. It can be said that Panshan Group has supported the entire Qiongdao in recent years, covering ports, shipping, highways, airports, water supply and power supply, real estate, tourism, agriculture, energy, etc.
So far, Qiongdao is still in a continuous blood transfusion, and it is losing money every year. According to the current situation, it will have to lose money for a few more years.
The leaders of Qiongdao accompanied Liu Tao to inspect the work.
As the second largest island in China and located at the southern end of China, its strategic position is very important. It is an important fulcrum facing the entire Nanyang.
After staying in Qiongdao for two days, Liu Tao returned to the headquarters of Panshan Group.
On September 6, at the 106th meeting of the International Olympic Committee held in Lausanne, Switzerland, Athens, Greece was elected as the host city of the 28th Olympic Games in 2004.
This time, China did not participate in the election to host the Olympic Games, but kept its promise and fully supported Athens.
There are many reasons why Athens, Greece successfully won the right to host the 28th Olympic Games in 2004.
2004 is the centenary of the Olympic Games. As the birthplace of the modern Olympics, Athens is of great historical significance for holding the Olympic Games here, and the International Olympic Committee also wants to include the idea of the centenary return of the Olympic Games.
Speaking of which, Athens, as the birthplace of the Olympic Games, was originally considered to be the venue for the 1996 Olympic Games (the centenary of the Olympic Games), but it unexpectedly lost to Atlanta, USA in the 1990 bid. Therefore, the centenary return of the Olympic Games can only be postponed.
However, it does not prevent the International Olympic Committee from continuing to promote the idea of the centenary return of the Olympic Games!
This time, when Athens applied to host the Olympic Games, China gave great help, which also helped Athens to obtain the right to bid for the Olympic Games to a large extent.
Although the application for the right to host the Olympic Games failed in 1993, China did not give up. This time, it is aiming at the 29th Olympic Games in 2008!
Two days later, an unfortunate news quickly spread around the world. The Haitian ferry was seriously overloaded. Most of the 804 passengers were missing and only 60 people were rescued and survived, causing a major maritime disaster. This was another maritime disaster since the sinking of the Haitian "Neptune" passenger ship in 1993, which caused more than 1,700 deaths.
Haiti is an unfortunate country, too far away from heaven and too close to the United States.
As the first independent republic in Latin America and the first black republic in the world, Haiti has not developed. Instead, it is one of the least developed countries in the world. The economy is mainly agricultural and the infrastructure construction is very backward.
This country with a population of nearly 8 million has military rebellions from time to time. For Haitians, the best way out is to leave Haiti and go to the United States. As long as you enter the United States, it is equivalent to entering heaven, eating delicious food and drinking spicy drinks, and you can live a good life without doing anything.
Liu Tao couldn't help but sighed when he saw this news.
Haiti is an island country located in the Caribbean Sea. It belongs to the western part of Hispaniola Island in the northern Caribbean Sea of Latin America. It has a total area of about 27,800 square kilometers, which is almost as large as China's Qiong Island. It borders the Dominican Republic to the east, the Caribbean Sea to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the north, and Cuba and Jamaica to the west. The coastline is 1,080 years long.
The word Haiti means "mountainous country" in Indian language, because 75% of Haiti is mountainous, with only narrow plains along the coast and rivers.
Although Haiti is adjacent to Cuba, life is much worse than Cuba.
Since Cuba started its reform and opening up, relying on Cuba's characteristic industries, Cuban sugar, tobacco, coffee, and cocoa have become popular all over the world. Cuban handmade cigars are loved by the world's wealthy. High-end cigars can even be sold for $10,000 per box, and 1 box is 40 cigars, that is, a Cuban cigar can be sold for $250!
Every year, Cuba can earn more than $3 billion in revenue from cigarette exports. Adding other things, Cuba's annual exports reach $5 billion.
Because of the relationship between the United States and Cuba, Cuba holds RMB.
Cuba has no industry. Industrial films mainly rely on imports from China, including oil, grain, machinery, fertilizers, chemical products, etc.
Cuba's life is getting better now, but Haiti is not so lucky. The Cuban people have hope for life, and the only hope of the Haitian people is to go to the United States, work in the United States, immigrate to the United States, and become Americans.
Liu Tao shook his head. The distance there is too far. It is not easy to trade with Cuba. In that place, you have to get the nod of the Americans to do anything. If the Americans don't nod, you can't do anything you want to do.
Americans may not be able to accomplish something, but they can certainly make you fail.
This time, the huge sea disaster in Haiti attracted the world's attention, but who could have thought that every year, the number of Haitians who died on the road to the United States was many times this number.
Ten times or twenty times?
Throughout Latin America, Americans have huge power and influence. The closer to the United States, the greater the power and influence of Americans.
Even the elites of these countries are likely to have studied in the United States, have American passports, or have assets in the United States or deposit money in American banks.
This kind of cultivation that has lasted for one or two hundred years cannot be changed in a short period of time.