Chapter 20 Dismal Trade Data
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The Politburo's resolution on personnel appointments was notified to Sergey Shah on the second day. Although Sergey Shah was prepared to go further in his official career, he did not expect to enter the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation to serve as an assistant minister. . You must know that this is a leadership position at the deputy ministerial level, and it has a lot of power. Although it is called an assistant, it is the actual executor of the work at the ministerial level.
The superior removed Seryozha from the post of director of the Ministry of Agriculture, but let him retain the post of secretary of the Moscow Youth League Committee. That's because no one took over the new workers' village project, because this project was created by Sergey Shale, and it is now the image project of the Moscow government, and it is also the largest livelihood project in the Soviet Union. Once another person comes over to take over, if the job is done well, it means that Xie Liaosha has laid a good foundation. No one would do this kind of unprofitable thing.
Now that he has been promoted to a cadre at the deputy ministerial level, Serezha's treatment will naturally increase. When he reported to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, he also accepted the treatment and privileges enjoyed by deputy ministerial cadres. Sergey's car was changed from Volga to Jill 4104 limousine, and also changed from one special car to two special cars. At the same time, two full-time drivers came to serve Sergey Sha. In addition, there is the housing treatment. Seryozha has two more villas in Moscow, one is in the compound of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation in the city center, and the other is a holiday villa on the outskirts of the city. Brezhnev's son, Yuri Brezhnev, once served as the first deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. These high-ranking villas were also built by Yuri Brezhnev in those years , are all decorated with the best materials. How could Mr. Bo's son treat himself and his colleagues badly? Now that Yuri has been dismissed, Sergey is now taking advantage of it.
In addition to housing, there are now many more staff around Seryozha who take care of his daily life. Including private doctors, nurses, chefs, cleaners, guards, gardeners and other staff who serve him exclusively. If you count his secretary and driver, the team serving him has no fewer than twenty people. Of course, if Seryozha has children or gets married, the government will arrange more service personnel such as nanny for him.
The change in living conditions is just a small matter. What really makes Seriosha feel helpful is that it can access some data and information that he could not have access to in the past, and provide more basis for his future decision-making. Seryozha transferred his long-time secretary Nastya to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation again. With the improvement of Seryozha's position, Nastya has also risen, and has become an official at the same level as the deputy mayor of Gorky City. As for Seryozha's old subordinates in the Youth League Committee, such as Goldman and Pugachev, who have contributed a lot to the project of the Moscow Workers' New City. Seryozha originally wanted to transfer them to the Ministry of Agriculture, but before finishing the process, Seryozha came to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, so the promotion of the two of them took a lot of trouble.
A few days before he took office, Seryozha was not in a hurry to go to work in the ministry. He asked Nastya to go to the ministry first to give himself a first stop. While hiding at home, he cared about some things in his own business, and at the same time studied the import and export data of the Soviet Union with Glencore's data analysis department.
After Sergey Sha's analysis, although the Soviet Union is one of the only two superpowers in the world, there are really not many high-end products that can be sold in the international market. Looking at the export data of the Soviet Union, the most competitive export products are mainly oil, coal, iron ore, cement, gold, natural gas and other mineral products. Then there are arms and agricultural products (caviar and the like). There is no comparison with those industrial products with high technological added value in Western countries. And looking at the trading partners of the Soviet Union, half of the trade volume comes from poor countries such as the Eastern European bloc, and the rich European Community accounts for about 12%, followed by the United States and some other countries. If it weren't for the reasonable price of oil and natural gas, a huge country might not be able to survive long ago.
Under the current international environment, it can be said that it is extremely unfavorable for the Soviet Union's foreign trade. Although the Soviet-European gas pipeline and oil trade brought the Soviet Union a large amount of foreign exchange, the wealth was squandered on the war in Afghanistan and the import of food, agricultural by-products, daily necessities and other livelihood materials from abroad. Although the leaders are aware that there are problems in the economy and reforms are needed, their understanding of the economy comes entirely from the data of the statistics department. For example, simple calculations such as how much GDP can be increased by building a new factory, but the operating rate of the factory and whether the products produced are internationally competitive are not issues that leaders need to worry about.
Seryozha also has business in the United States, and he is very aware of the economic gap between the two countries. Although the current U.S. leader, Ronald Reagan, is developing military power in a militaristic manner, the U.S. economy is also facing the risk of recession. But the computer industry in the United States was becoming a new economic driving force and growth point, and the Soviet Union did not have this advantage. There is a serious shortage of labor in the Soviet Union now, and even under such circumstances, a large number of young and strong people are still sent to the battlefield in Afghanistan. But problems at this level are not something that Sergei can reverse.
It can be said that although the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation is a good department that everyone envies, if you really want to do something, the road ahead of Seryozha is not easy. Seryozha can use Glencore’s channels to sell more petroleum and petrochemical products, natural gas, electrolytic aluminum and other resources and raw materials for the Soviet Union, but he cannot guarantee that the prices of these resources and raw materials will never fall. If it did happen, the blow to the Soviet economy would be devastating.
However, to Sergesha's surprise, Glencore's industry analysts seemed to be very interested in the Soviet Union's domestic automobile industry. Especially the Volga brand cars produced by the Gorky Automobile Factory and the Lada brand cars produced by the Volga Automobile Factory. Many analysts believe that these brands of cars have huge market advantages, and if they are operated properly, they will have a very broad market Foreground, these words of the expert caught the attention of Seryozha.
As a post-80s generation, Xie Wenlong knew a little about Volga and Lada. When he was a child, the signboard of the car repair shop in front of his house said that it specializes in Santana, Volga, Lada and other models. At that time, he had to pass by this auto repair shop every day after school. It was not until he was about to graduate from elementary school that these Soviet car brands gradually disappeared from the repair scope of the auto factory. Now, the words of Glencore analysts have led Serezha to find a new direction of work, which is to develop the Soviet Union's automobile industry.