Chapter 234: He came to our place to act like a hooligan

The exhibition room of the Zhili Province Textile and Garment Products Group was being decorated in full swing. Members of the trading groups from other provinces were either watching the fun from the sidelines or someone stepped forward to take the lead and wanted to seek an explanation from the organizer.

How come everyone’s exhibition room was like a storage room before, but suddenly their merchandise group can start decorating it? If they were a state-owned company, everyone would just put up with it, but they are all joint ventures from various provinces, so do they have to be treated differently?
As a result, the organizer sullenly kicked out the person who asked the question:

“Why are you making such a fuss? It was just a coincidence. A Hong Kong reporter interviewed her and it was published in the newspaper. A patriotic Hong Kong overseas Chinese who happened to be engaged in decoration design saw that it was not easy for a female comrade to lead her fellow villagers to do a side business, so she took the newspaper and found the foreign affairs contact person. She got permission to decorate her house. If you also want to decorate your house, you can tell the Hong Kong reporter what you do!”

After driving the people away, the organizer of the exhibition site even glanced at the third floor with envy…

This girl named Han Hongzhen was so lucky. She met a noble man in Hong Kong Island. A female reporter from Hong Kong Island who came to shoot the Canton Fair happened to meet Han Hongzhen while shopping. When she heard that she was a young woman who was making money by doing side jobs with her fellow villagers, she decided to interview her immediately and published an interview article in Hong Kong Island’s “Tiantian Daily” with rich emotions.

In theory, this is nothing special. Every year at the Canton Fair, there are always three or five business representatives from all over the country who are interviewed by reporters from Hong Kong who come to the Canton Fair to record the events, allowing their names to be published in Hong Kong newspapers.

Generally speaking, representatives attending the Canton Fair have received foreign affairs training in various provinces long before they set off, and they know what to say and what not to say, so there have been no remarks that would damage the country’s image.

There was actually nothing wrong with Han Hongzhen’s interview this time. She kept thanking the national policies and the support of leaders at all levels for giving Zhongping the opportunity to participate in the Canton Fair.

The only thing wrong was the female reporter from Hong Kong Island. The newspaper she worked for was called “Tiantian Daily”.

This was the first newspaper in the world to publish a color news paper, and it also published a photo of Han Hongzhen posing with the exhibition room.

The organizers were naturally well aware of how bad the exhibition rooms allocated to the joint trading delegations from various provinces were. Once the photos were posted, all the citizens in Hong Kong saw the terrible environment of the exhibition room where Han Hongzhen was located. When they heard that the Zhongping delegation led by this female comrade was actually engaged in ready-made garments, half of the citizens in Hong Kong mocked them, saying, “The Canton Fair, the largest garment exhibition room in China, has only such a standard?”
Any garment workshop in Hong Kong with a shop in front and production in the back looks more presentable than this showroom.

The other half understood and said that the country had just begun to change and this female comrade was already very capable, so why add insult to injury or make sarcastic remarks about her?

After reading the newspaper interview, a female boss of a design company in Hong Kong admired Han Hongzhen’s courage and was willing to help Han Hongzhen decorate the exhibition room free of charge. She took the newspaper and went to the Canton Fair Foreign Affairs Liaison Office, but was then kicked out by a young staff member of the Liaison Office.

Is it necessary for a Hong Konger like you to come and give orders about the exhibition room arrangements at the Canton Fair in China?

The young comrade who was booed in the morning was transferred away by the organizer in the afternoon. The organizer obviously thought more far-sightedly than the young people.

The Canton Fair is being held right now. In order to prevent the media in Hong Kong and some Western countries from taking the opportunity to hype up the issue and affect the reputation of the Canton Fair, and at the same time to show that the province and Hong Kong are one family, even if we are unwilling to see the lively scenes of the trading delegations from various provinces, we have to hold our noses and bear it for the sake of the overall situation.

In this way, the organizer arranged for the owner of the decoration company to meet with Han Hongzhen and allowed the other party to help decorate the booth where Zhongping was located. The person in charge also got an opportunity to appear in Hong Kong newspapers.

The other five companies in the Zhili Province Textile and Garment Products Group are now convinced by Zhongping. A small workshop from a rural area of ​​Zhili Province was able to find connections in Hong Kong to renovate its exhibition room.

If she had taken the initiative to contact the Hong Kong businessman for the decoration, it would have been a clear violation of foreign affairs discipline and she would have been punished when she returned. However, the amazing thing about this incident is that even if some people suspected that the Zhongping people were behind it, there was nothing wrong with the procedure. First, after Han Hongzhen was interviewed by a Hong Kong newspaper, the decoration company found the reporter through the newspaper, and then found the organizer, and finally met Han Hongzhen through the organizer. Even the experienced security officer of the organizer said that according to his many years of security experience, it was definitely the first time that Comrade Han Hongzhen met the female Hong Kong businessman who helped her with the decoration, because if the two had colluded in advance and pretended to be strangers, each other’s expressions and subtle movements could not be hidden.

During the period of decorating the showroom, the six company representatives from the ready-made garments group became guerrillas. Although they had been working overtime, it would still take at least five days to complete the work. So during these days, everyone could only squat or stand in the corridor, without even a place to rest.

On this day, when Xie Hushan was supervising the work in the corridor and chatting with several representatives from the same group, a yellow man accompanied by an interpreter walked towards them along the corridor.

“It’s either a notebook or a stick. Guess which one it is?” An older sister in the same group took a look and asked Xie Hushan and a few others to guess the riddle.

In recent days, there are many visitors, mainly from Japan and South Korea, but these merchants are mainly active on the first floor, purchasing industrial raw materials from the state-owned enterprises under the charge of ministries and commissions. Few people come to the third floor to see their exhibition rooms jointly operated by various provinces.

Before anyone could start guessing, the visitor had already looked around the undecorated exhibition room and asked the translator in Korean.

“Mr. Park would like to ask…”

Before the other party’s translator had finished speaking, several older brothers and sisters, who had just been as close as sworn brothers and full of revolutionary friendship, immediately stood up, hugged their own translators and rushed forward, pushing away other people’s translators to ensure that their own translators could be at the front and carefully introduce their factory’s history, products, etc. to the foreign friends.

Xie Hushan was the only one left standing there, watching in silence as several representatives rushed to talk to the foreign businessmen:
“You are so loyal. You just called me a big brother. Since we are all benefiting from Zhongping and decorating our showroom, you can come to Zhongping first when you get business.”

South Korean merchants may have gotten used to the enthusiasm of the Chinese in recent days. They were not intimidated. Instead, they asked the translator to take out a picture album from his briefcase and handed it to everyone: “Excuse me, can your factory produce this product?”

A few fools who had squeezed to the front and hadn’t even seen the album heard the translation and patted their chests and said:

“Our factory is an old factory from the time when the country was founded. The clothes that the leaders wore at the founding ceremony were all made by our workers stitch by stitch. There is nothing that our factory cannot make!”

“Two years ago, Yugoslav leader Tito came to China to visit a primary school. The red scarf he wore was made in our factory!”

These few were still trying to make the factory famous. The eldest sister and Team Leader Li, who were at the front, had already seen the contents of the album clearly, and their faces changed immediately.

Team leader Li was a man after all, and his face showed no emotion. He just smiled and pulled the translator back, saying humbly, “Yes, yes, let’s let the factory that makes the leader’s clothes and red scarves take a look. Our factory can’t do it.”

The elder sister next to him was outspoken and her face darkened immediately:
“What the hell is this? Are you from South Korea here to act like a gangster?”

(End of this chapter)