To arrange this visit, the diplomats of the two countries, especially the diplomats from the Kingdom of Gila, have been preparing for more than half a year. The content of the talks and who will talk about them have been agreed in advance.
Some projects that can be finalized were actually finalized before Charles departed, and the process was signed and completed during the meeting to show the results of this visit.
There are still many projects that have not yet been finalized and require further negotiation and communication. This also involves a series of specific tasks such as epidemic prevention, security, reception, etc., which is very trivial and complicated.
Dongguo pursues a foreign policy in which all countries are equal, but Dongguo is, after all, a very important country in the world, and Kiriguo is probably one of the most neglected countries. Ciel's trip this time is really not easy.
Charles brought a visiting team of more than 100 people. It was quite troublesome to provide a closed-loop reception in Dongguo. Fortunately, Wang Fengshou had made communication and preparations long in advance and tried his best to arrange everything as properly as possible.
This is the largest foreign mission in the history of the Kingdom of Kili. Charles is also the youngest head of state in the world. However, his trip was very low-key and there was almost no publicity report. The official of the Kingdom of Kili only issued a simple
notice.
The East China official also just issued a press announcement, reporting that Kiribati President Shire was invited to visit. It was just a few lines. After the talks are over, the two countries may issue a more detailed joint announcement or something like that.
Such a low-key visit would not have caused any waves, but the unofficial media made the matter a certain topic, reporting, analyzing and judging the visit from all angles.
Overseas media focus on criticizing the Dongguan government, claiming that the upcoming talks between the two countries represent Dongguan's ambition to expand its influence on the Black Continent and undermine the world order.
The specific content of the cooperation has not yet been disclosed, but it has already been described as a cultural and economic invasion by the East.
In Dongguo, many self-media organizations in the private sector have organized their voices, jokingly calling Shire's team a begging group or a group of foreign monks, mocking them as coming to beg for money from Dongguo. Their main purpose is to criticize Dongguo.
As for how the country of Kilili would feel, not many people care.
Frankly speaking, the current situation of many countries in the Black Waste Continent has indeed lowered the lower limit, and the final results of many cooperation projects are quite absurd and magical. As for the Kingdom of Miles before the establishment of the New Alliance, it is even harder to find the lower limit.
Of course, Charles was very aware of these situations, so he kept his stance very low this time and had given enough promises in advance.
He knew very well that this was the best or even the only option if he wanted to truly pull the country from the bottom of the valley to the upward channel. If he missed it, he would not be desperate in the future, but many things would become extremely difficult.
As for other options, they have been tried a long time ago, which constitutes the modern history of Jili Country.
This time he wants to discuss construction assistance and cooperation in more than 70 projects in 15 fields. It is indeed construction assistance, because the country itself does not have the technical reserves, construction team, material production and supply capabilities for these projects.
It can even be said that most countries in the world currently do not have it.
But Kilili Country has another advantage, that is, it now has a stable environment, including political environment, public security environment, and living environment, which can provide various guarantees for construction projects.
Dongguo has sent several small delegations in the early stage and was invited to do on-the-spot inspections in Kiriguo. Otherwise, it would not be at this point.
From the very beginning, the Kingdom of Chile did not just want some economic assistance, but wanted all-round cooperation.
Dongguo's large-scale infrastructure construction capabilities are unparalleled in the world at this historical stage. However, large-scale infrastructure construction in Dongguo has gradually reached a bottleneck in recent years.
However, the team of skilled workers, including the entire infrastructure industry chain, requires continuous new projects to maintain them, and the country of Gila provides a huge demand in this regard.
Roads and bridges, power stations, mineral mining and processing, logistics, information flow, and energy flow networks are all key projects. Cooperation can basically be divided into three categories.
The first category is order-based projects, in which China directly places orders and pays the agreed payment in installments. This is the safest and most secure way of cooperation for Dongguo, which is equivalent to exporting personnel services and technical equipment.
The second category is loan-assisted construction projects, in which Dongguan will provide special loans to make up for the lack of funds on the part of Kilinland. This loan has a special supervision account and is only used to pay the contract payment for the construction assistance project. Kiliguo may also pay cash.
Can't even touch it.
The loan requires a secured mortgage, and the specific form needs to be discussed by both parties.
The third category is direct investment projects, which upon completion will be equivalent to a wholly-owned or joint venture established by Dongguo within the territory of Kyri. In fact, it is equivalent to owning or controlling the economic resources of the country to a certain extent.
When both parties have a good reputation, the latter two types of cooperation are more beneficial to Dongguo, as they can absorb excess capital and production capacity at the same time, but the risks are also greater, so a careful balance is required.
For example, for road and bridge projects, the first mode is adopted in Huanxiangte State; while in other parts of the country, almost all the second mode is adopted. Similar to this, there is also the construction of transmission and transformation grids.
Another example is the hydropower station project, which is the area of cooperation where both parties can reach the best agreement. The Lofogen Hydropower Station has been completed to generate electricity, and the Banyuan River Hydropower Station is under construction.
Hydropower is limited by natural resources, and there is not much room for development in Dongguo. In recent years, some small hydropower plants that have affected the river basin environment have even been dismantled. However, as a country with very special meteorological and climatic conditions, what it needs most is water conservancy construction.
Water conservancy and hydropower projects are a mixture of the above three types, and their planning can last many years.
Of course, the officials of the Kingdom of Gila lack funds, so they need to apply for assistance loans. And many self-financed projects are basically Huanxiang Industrial Investments, so Feng Zibin came with the delegation, which can be regarded as escorting Shire.
Now that Feng Zibin is here, Hua Zhenxing will of course be seconded. The Embassy of Guili State also posts many group photos of visiting personnel on its website, all of which are high-resolution photos with large pixels.
In the large group photo and another small group photo, Feng Zibin and Hua Zhenxing can be seen at the same time. This was also specially arranged by Hua Zhenxing. His level of transformation and magic has now increased with his cultivation.
This kind of group photo can be flawless, and even the people on the scene can't find any clues, and the only ones who know the inside story are our own people, so it can be regarded as coordinated collective cheating.
Feng Zibin is a special commercial representative appointed by the president. In fact, he does not appear on many occasions and does not participate in specific negotiations. His most important task is to give the final nod when certain projects are involved.
Huang Fengye's project team traveled back and forth between Pingjing and Wucheng during this period, spending most of the time in Wucheng. At the end of April, everyone rarely returned to the office in Pingjing, because they would officially move into the dormitory in two days.
Just after going to work this morning, Lin Hongshan suddenly exclaimed: "Old Huang!"
Huang Fengye was startled, turned around and said, "What's wrong?"
Lin Hongshan: "Do you know what Xiaohua's background is? He almost became the ambassador of Kilili Kingdom to the East Kingdom. He is the childhood friend of the President of Kilili Kingdom. We have worn crotchless pants and played in the mud together since childhood! He is not from the East Kingdom..."
Just now she was scrolling through the news about President Xi Jinping's visit and found a group photo.
There are less than ten people in the photo, including Charles, the president of the Kingdom of Li, Wang Fengshou, the ambassador to the East, Feng Zibin, the actual controller of the development of Fangguan... and there is also Hua Zhenxing.
In the past, Lin Hongshan would not have paid attention to such news at all, and would have just swiped past it when she saw it. But now, after all, she has joined Fangguan Development, and two acquaintances, Luo Hongyu and Hua Zhenxing, have been seconded to the Jili State Mission.
Bian helped.
Lin Hongshan saw a photo of Hua Zhenxing and the "big shots" of the Kingdom of Kilili, and searched for keywords. A bunch of links popped up, which were basically old news from last year, which shocked her.
After hearing this, everyone gathered around and marveled. The new team members lamented that they were late and regretted not seeing Xiaohua in person.
No wonder Huang Fengye and others were surprised. When Qi Yichao introduced Hua Zhenxing to the project team for internship, he only said that Hua Zhenxing was a freshman at Chunhua Jianyuan College and did not explain much else.
Hua Zhenxing gives the impression that he is a young boy from the East. Maybe his family has a good background, but I didn’t expect that he is an international student from several countries, and he is not the kind of immigrant who just changed his nationality for the college entrance examination.
After understanding the situation, Huang Fengye actually felt that he was not surprised.
There is also Luo Feiyu in the same group who comes from the headquarters of Jili Kingdom. I heard that she is originally from the Eastern Chinese ethnic group, and the chairman Xia Yading I met two days ago is an out-and-out black desert.
Aboriginal.
However, Chairman Xia gave him the impression that he grew up in a small town in the Eastern Kingdom. If he had covered his face, at least Huang Fengye would not be able to detect that the other person was a native of the Black Wasteland.
Xia Yading speaks Dongguan very fluently and even has a slight dialect accent. It sounds like he comes from the same place as Director Chen Weihu.
Huang Fengye heard it right, and his powers of observation were quite strong. Xia Yading indeed spoke with an accent from the Eastern Subei region, because when he first learned Dongguo, his teacher was Chen Weihu, who was also living as a slave laborer in a plantation.
Not to mention that Huang Fengye and others felt this way, the Dongguo representatives who participated in the project cooperation negotiations between the two countries also felt this way. If you didn't look at the faces and skin colors of Charles and others, sometimes you would think that they were just starting.
What about domestic meetings?
How to describe it, it's like the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development... held a special meeting to discuss the development plan of a certain place. Although there were many diplomats at the scene, there was no need for translation, everyone spoke Dongguan.
In addition to the natives of the Black Wasteland such as Xia Er and Xia Yading, there are a large number of Chinese people of Eastern descent in the delegation from the Kingdom of Kilili, such as Wang Fengshou, Li Jingzhi, Shen Sishu, He Guang, Luo Feiyu, etc.
This kind of conversation is less ceremonial, but more intimate, and it is very convenient to talk.
Kilili Country has designated Eastern Mandarin as its official legal language, and it can be said to be the only Eastern Mandarin-speaking country overseas. Such a country actually appears in the Black Desert Continent, which makes people feel a bit strange, even a little absurd.
Before the arrival of Western colonists, Dongguo was once the official language of various countries in Dongzhou, and Dongguo script was also widely used throughout the Dongzhou continent throughout history.
Nowadays, in some overseas areas, although some residents still use Dongguo and Dongguo script, they have not been designated as official legal terms like Kiri Province, let alone the only official language.
Speaking of which, there is another small episode. After the founding of New Guinea, English, Lansi and Dongguo were all designated as official legal languages, and Dongguo was used in actual work.
Someone planned a coup in the capital in an attempt to overthrow the newly established Shire government. Of course, the result was quickly suppressed, and the Gila government immediately launched an investigation into the attempted coup.
The conclusion of the investigation is very absurd. Some overseas forces provided one million meters of "military operation funds", but only less than one hundred thousand was intercepted at various levels and provided to the remnants of local armed forces in Mowang City.
In supporting the coup forces to come to power, the most important demand of the planners was to cancel the legal status of Dongguan.
Charles was very angry, so he crossed out English and Lanxi, and Dongguo became the only official legal language in Kilili Country. This young man who grew up in a neighborhood gang also had a very good temper.
Although he was not here to beg for alms, Ciel knew very well that he was here to ask for help this time. The fact that Kilili Country became an Eastern Mandarin-speaking country was the greatest sincerity.
This means that Kiri Kingdom is willing to accept the cultural traditions and lifestyle of the East Kingdom. Furthermore, and more importantly, it is willing to accept the industrial system and technical standards of the East Kingdom and connect with the industrial structure of the East Kingdom.
The first key topic of the talks went smoothly, because there was really no reason for it not to go smoothly. The two sides determined that the Dongguo currency would be the currency for trade settlement, and that Guilin would join the Dongguo currency international settlement system and accept the digital Dongguo currency.
Guinea is not a current member of the WTO, so this is a unilateral negotiation between it and Timor-Leste, and the results of the negotiations will not be automatically used by third parties.
This issue is of great significance. It is equivalent to the country recognizing the status of the Dongguo currency as an international currency and treating the Dongguo currency as the main body of the country's foreign exchange reserves.
Of course, the Kingdom of Gilly did this after many careful considerations. In this way, the East Kingdom's assistance to the Kingdom of Gilly has become much simpler.
Based on the current level of development of Kilili Country, Dongguo can provide all the products and services it wants to import. If Dongguo does not even have them, either other countries cannot provide them, or the substitutes are extremely cost-effective.
The Eastern Kingdom lacks resource-based products, and these are exactly what the Kingdom of Miles itself has, but it does not have the ability to mine and process them.
For example, the Kingdom of Kilili has discovered two oil fields, one in the Wage Desert and the other at the northernmost tip of Huanxiangt State, but they have never been exploited.
Kilili Country itself cannot be exploited, and overseas capital is not interested in it, because Kilili Country is very close to the world's major oil-producing areas, where cheap and high-quality crude oil is available, and the return rate for new oil fields in Kilili Country is too low.
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In fact, the Kingdom of Gila has been importing refined oil products in recent years because there is no domestic refinery. When the East Kingdom assisted in the construction of the heavy oil power plant in Fiso Port, it also built a supporting terminal, mainly for the import of heavy oil.
This cooperation also includes oil field exploration projects. The northern oil fields are fully invested by Huanxiang Industrial, including supporting refineries, and a long-term agreement has been signed with Dongguo.
The Wage Desert Oilfield is fully invested by Dongguo and owns 60% of its output. This is a special cooperation method that is different from the general joint-stock system and is mainly seen in mineral mining projects.
These two oil field projects may not seem economical in the short term, but the country mainly considers it from the perspective of national strategic security. If the surrounding situation changes and the country is blocked, it must ensure the supply of basic crude oil in the country.
If the crude oil is cut off, all kinds of large engineering vehicles, especially agricultural machinery, will have to sit down, industrial and agricultural production will be greatly affected, and people's livelihood and safety will not be guaranteed. These two projects must be arranged first.
Its production capacity scale does not need to meet all needs in normal times and is supplemented by certain imported oil products, but in special times, it can ensure that it meets the country's strategic needs.
There are many cooperation projects to be discussed between the two countries, and they all basically have the above characteristics. The direct investment projects from Kiribati are okay, but how to ensure the safety of investment in loan-assisted construction projects and direct investment projects in Donggang?
Some words cannot be said directly by Dongguo, but Kililiguo can also understand the hints.
For example, if the Shire government falls in two years, this is a situation that must be taken into account given the turmoil of the black and white countries. So what should we do about the project we are talking about today?
What else could Ciel say? He could only try to dispel the other party's doubts through various channels, such as military cooperation.
On the other hand, Huanxiang Industrial's investment in Dongguo is also a guarantee. For example, its subsidiary Fangguan Development has spent tens of billions, which can also be regarded as a certificate of investment.
Regarding cooperation in the military field, the Kingdom of Gilly declined the proposal to send officers to the East Kingdom Military Academy for training. Although cooperation between the East Kingdom and the Black Waste countries often takes this form, Li Jingzhi believes that this is not what the Kingdom of Gilly needs most at the moment.
of.
The army-building ideas and tactical command taught at the Dongguo Military Academy are of course of extremely high standard, but senior commanders often find it difficult to put them to use after they return.
This is normal. What troops did the Dongguo officers command, and what troops did they return to command?
Li Jingzhi hoped that Dongguo could help Kililiguo, so he set up a non-commissioned officer training school locally to train grassroots non-commissioned officers and improve the construction of the military system.
Li Jingzhi even hoped that Dongguo could send a grassroots officer training group to help Kilili Kingdom directly train its field troops.
Another matching measure is that Huanxiang Industrial develops through Fangguan and systematically recruits veterans and demobilized soldiers, including commanders and fighters at all levels... These are not included in the content of this meeting.
Kilili Kingdom will also provide a supply port to Dongguo's ocean convoy fleet. It's too sensitive to call it a military base, so let's call it a supply base.
In accordance with Hua Zhenxing's instructions, Li Jingzhi carved out an island on the northern coastline of Kiri Kingdom, where the supply base for the Eastern Kingdom was located.
Ports, especially large natural ports, are greatly restricted by natural conditions. Although Kiri Country has a long coastline, there are not many such places, and this island is just right.
It covers an area of more than 20 square kilometers and is more than ten kilometers away from the land. Its location is in the Huanxiangt State in the northern part of the country, which is exactly the middle section of the Huanxiangt State coastline.
There are currently no man-made facilities there, and it is still an undeveloped no-man's land. Historically, it has only been visited by pirates.
Feng Zibin nodded and named the island Shuangyong Island. He gave Dongguo a fifty-year lease with no rent. However, Dongguo had to build the facilities on the island himself, and he also had to be responsible for helping train Ji Li in the future.
National Navy.
But Dongguo also needs basic supporting facilities for construction, at least the supply of water and electricity must be guaranteed, right? This involves other cooperation projects. The cooperation between the two countries is a complete system.
Shuangyong Island happens to be located at the mouth of the planned Zhenhang River. This river does not yet exist. However, with the experience of building the Beiluo River Basin, the creation of the Zhenhang River Basin will run through Huanxiang Tebang’s development in the next few decades.
Construction plan.
The first step is to build the Zhenhang River Hydropower Station upstream, which is twice the size of the Lofogen Hydropower Station.
In the entire Zhenhang River Basin, one hydropower station is not enough. The mountainous areas in the upper reaches and the wetlands in the middle and lower reaches also need a complete set of water conservancy systems. In the long-term plan, the number of large and small gradient hydropower stations in each tributary reaches double digits.
At the mouth of the Zhenxing River, a city will be built in the future. It is one of the six main cities planned by Huanxiang Tebang, and it is tentatively named Changhe City.
In addition to the six main cities, Huanxiang Tebang has also planned thirty towns that are equivalent to county towns. Currently, only three have been built, namely the three towns in the agricultural reclamation area.
Even if the Zhenhang River Hydropower Station is built first and the main channel of the Zhenhang River flows continuously all year round, the construction period will probably be close to ten years.
So what should we do in the short term? Lease the Gaoqiao Town Port to Dongguo for free, and the lease term is tentatively set for twenty years.
This port or dedicated wharf was actually built by the Dongguo engineering team. There are ready-made oil depots and various storage warehouses on the shore. With a little modification, it can be used as a temporary supply base, but the scale is limited.
The twenty-year lease term is Huanxiang Tebang's promise. In fact, how long this temporary base will be used depends on how quickly the construction of Shuangyong Island in Dongguo progresses.
Kilili Country is located on the east coast of the Black Wasteland Continent. Its outer sea is close to the busiest shipping lane in the world, and further north is the canal connecting to the Basin Sea.
The Dongguo Ocean Escort Fleet cruises in this area in shifts all year round and is in great need of such a supply base.
This is not only a military cooperation project, but also a comprehensive project related to water conservancy, electricity, and urban construction. In addition, the Kilili Army will also be uniformly equipped with standard weapons produced by the East.
The high quality and low price of Dongguo's weapons is only one factor. The outsourcing of military command and equipment systems is, in a sense, tantamount to paying a protection fee.
Especially when it comes to purchasing modern high-tech weapons systems, doing so is equivalent to leaving the country that produces the weapons and equipment undefended.
Military equipment is too expensive, especially modern advanced weapons. It is simply a gold-eating beast that cannot be fed. Given the economic capabilities of the country, it must take its time and maintain a stable long-term development strategy.
Apart from anything else, the country's current naval strength is approximately zero, and its air force only has two general-purpose helicopters for both military and civilian purposes, plus a batch of unmanned aerial vehicles.
Even with Huazhenhang's financial resources, Dongguo Pingjing's multi-billion-dollar community can buy whatever they want, but the equipment and modern army are still stretched thin. Fortunately, the military forces surrounding Kilili Kingdom currently do not pose much of a threat.
Some of the projects discussed by the two countries can be started tomorrow after signing today. Most of them are long-term intentions for the future, which can be adjusted at any time according to the cooperation situation and involve huge budgets.
The budget that Huazhen Bank can use in the next seven or eight years will range from hundreds of billions to one trillion Dongguo dollars every year. It depends on the efforts of Gao Le and Bai Shaoliu.
With the support of Huanxiang Industrial represented by "Feng Zibin", the country of Kilili doesn't just want assistance. At least for the projects that have been negotiated, the scale of direct capital investment is also very large.
Therefore, the meeting went relatively smoothly and basically met the expectations in advance.
What Ling Hua Zhenxing didn't expect was that a small project that seemed inconspicuous but had a huge potential impact would encounter obstacles.
Negotiations in the field of educational cooperation that Shen Sishu is responsible for are relatively difficult, especially the cooperation intention between the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Gila and the Wucheng Branch of Feigong University, which was actually rejected!
(Typos should be corrected first and then corrected)