After the mass demonstrations, the daytime celebrations officially ended. Zhao Yi followed everyone down from the tower. Next was a luncheon prepared by the government, which Zhao Yi and Lin Hexia also needed to attend.
The luncheon was not long, it ended in about an hour and a half. In fact, few people ate. Most of the time was spent listening to the leaders' speeches and socializing among themselves.
Because Zhao Yi is very well-known, the treatment standards given to him at this military parade were also very high. Naturally, many people were interested in him, so many people came to socialize with him.
This resulted in him not eating much food, but drinking a lot of wine. Fortunately, fruit wine was also prepared at the reception, so he was not afraid of getting drunk easily. But drinking so much on an empty stomach, even drinking water, made people a little uncomfortable.
The fruit wine hosted by the government this time is a fruit wine produced by secondary fermentation of 100 kinds of fruits provided by Baiwei Food Company. It is their top brand and the market price reaches 100,000 yuan per bottle.
Those who can attend this luncheon are not all wealthy businessmen. In fact, there are also many labor representatives from all walks of life. For them, this is a rare opportunity to taste it.
Even wealthy businessmen, not everyone can treat this as a daily drink. In addition to the high price, the sales volume is not particularly large. After all, things are rare and expensive.
In addition to guaranteed quality, output is also a decisive factor in price. In order to maintain price stability and maintain value, Baiwei Food Company will control output every year.
The products provided to the State Banquet this time will naturally not occupy their regular production, and the price is not the market price, but provided free of charge. After all, the State Banquet is also advertising the products of Baiwei Food Company.
After the state banquet, Zhao Yi and Lin Hexia returned to their homes. In fact, there were some other activities later, but they were not mandatory, such as arranging for representatives to come to Beijing to visit the capital's landscape or commemorative places.
Zhao Yi and Lin Hexia did not continue to participate in such activities. They had been in the capital for a long time and could look for opportunities at any time if they wanted to visit. Moreover, they also wanted to go home and take a rest.
The daytime celebrations were all over, and a grand fireworks show was arranged for the evening. The spectacle might be even grander than the New Year's Eve fireworks show, but they had no intention of going to see it.
First, the place where the fireworks are set off is relatively far away from his residence and is arranged in the new city of Chaoyang. After all, the infrastructure there is very complete. The effect of setting off fireworks there is much better than that in the old city.
Second, the on-site environment is relatively complicated. For someone like him, if he takes many people there, the atmosphere will feel diluted. If he takes few people there, personal safety may not be guaranteed, so he simply doesn’t go.
After the two of them returned home, as soon as they sat down, Chef Lao Li brought out the snacks he had prepared. It wasn't very complicated, just the braised noodles that are often eaten here.
"How do you know we're not full?" Zhao asked Lao Li curiously while eating.
"From what you said, I've never eaten pork and never seen pigs running away? How can a state banquet like this be as casual as a normal banquet? I'm sure I won't be full, so I just prepared some." Lao Li laughed. said.
This time Zhao Yi and the three of them went to Shanghai to compete. Lao Li originally wanted to go with them, but Zhao Yi thought it was too troublesome. They are not wealthy people in the Middle East. They would not be able to eat without a cook.
Therefore, Lao Li was quite free during this period, which was equivalent to taking a paid vacation. Therefore, after Zhao Yi and Lin Hexia came back, he was very active.
After all, in the traditional concept, you have to get paid to do things. Since you have been paid for free for so long before, if you work more actively, you can also win the favor of customers.
As for what he said, it is actually not entirely accurate. When the country was lacking in materials, even the diet of the central leaders was relatively simple, and they usually lived in a meager diet.
Therefore, at this kind of state banquet, the food is improved for everyone. It is not like now. When eating, it is similar to normal and more casual.
Nowadays, material conditions are extremely abundant. Although we usually don’t eat dishes as elaborate as those at state banquets, vegetables, fruits and meats are everyone’s daily meals.
It can be said that in the past ten years, the changes that have taken place in the country have been profound and thorough. Not to mention those lofty things, when it comes to the daily lives of ordinary people, it is a huge leap.
From being unable to have enough food and clothing to being warm, now we can eat whatever we want. The proportion of daily food consumption in total consumption has also gradually decreased, and now it only accounts for 30% of household expenses.
This is because Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company provides all organic food, which is relatively expensive and expensive. If it is not organic food, the price will be very low.
However, for domestic people, they would rather pay higher prices to buy organic food than pay low prices to eat non-organic food, because there is still a significant difference in taste between the two.
Although these are organic foods, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company does not treat them as high-end consumer goods. The prices are generally acceptable to ordinary people. The export price of their products of the same quality is four to five times the domestic price.
The prices of a few products are even ridiculously high. For example, the wasabi that Japanese people particularly like to eat is made from wasabi. And wasabi has relatively high requirements for the growing environment, so the price is naturally very high.
However, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company uses advanced agricultural technology to realize large-scale planting of wasabi, which has reduced the price of wasabi a lot. However, there is still a huge difference between the export and domestic prices.
The price of wasabi in China is not particularly cheap, but it does not make domestic people think it is very expensive. It is one of the more expensive types of ordinary food, but the difference from the price exported to Japan is indeed ten times.
Anyway, the companies under Zhao Yi have never thought about benefiting all mankind. As long as I have it and you don't have it, then I will set the price, because they have the right to speak.
Ingredients like this that were once very precious have been conquered one by one by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company through advanced agricultural technology, making the previously unattainable ingredients affordable for ordinary families.
For example, the most expensive truffles in Yunnan could not be cultivated artificially before, which made the price very high and not affordable for ordinary people.
Although the price is not particularly cheap now, it is not unattainable. It may be a little expensive to eat every meal, but if you eat it once or twice a week, there is still not much pressure.
The most important thing is that the quality of these agricultural products cultivated by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is basically the same as that of wild products, and it is basically impossible to feel the difference in taste.
Of course, this does not mean that Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company does not have particularly high-end ingredients. For example, they have artificially cultivated truffle fungus products with better taste and quality, and the price is naturally higher.
In fact, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company generally uses agricultural cultivation technology to achieve the goal of large-scale cultivation of ingredients that were previously very rare, so that ordinary people can afford them.
If new varieties that are not found in nature are superior in taste and quality, they will sell them as high-end ingredients, providing them with higher profit margins.
The purpose of this is to reduce human demands on the natural world. It is actually very difficult to control some things in the natural world. If the price is still very high, then logging will be very rampant.
If you want to curb this situation, you can only cultivate it artificially and lower the price to a level that many people find unprofitable. This will prevent excessive demands from nature and cause much less damage to the natural environment.
Although natural logging cannot be completely controlled, as long as it is controlled within a certain range, nature will recover naturally without serious consequences.
As for varieties that do not exist in nature, if the quality is very good, they can be used as high-end products, because they themselves have complete control over the voice and do not have to worry about facing fierce competition.
This strategy can not only take care of one's own profit margins, but also protect the environment. It can also allow ordinary people to live a good life that was previously unimaginable and enjoy the improvements in life brought by technology.
It can be said that this approach of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company basically takes care of all aspects, and it can also do not harm its own interests. It can be said that it kills multiple birds with one stone.
The only ones who are not satisfied with Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company are the agricultural product importers from various countries, especially Japan, whose demand for our high-end ingredients is very high.
Nowadays, the Japanese people seem to be lying on a mountain of gold and silver. They have a very strong consumption capacity for high-end products, and the consumption of high-end ingredients is also rising.
As the largest agricultural product manufacturer in the world and closest to Japan, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is naturally their first choice for cooperation, and there are many high-end ingredients that can only be purchased from Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company.
In fact, the export price of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company's products is not higher than that of similar products from other countries, otherwise it would not be so competitive in the international market.
It's just that compared to the domestic sales price, it is really too high. For importers, of course, they hope that the import price is the same as the domestic sales price, so that their profits will be high and the scale of sales will be as well. bigger.
Obviously, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company will not do what they want. Regardless of whether they want to buy or not, in addition to these importers, there are also export channels such as Shangtong Trading Company.
If they don't sell the high-end ingredients of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, they will be cheaper than Shangtong Trading Company, so they have to accept the quotation of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company.
In fact, it is not just Japan's mid-to-high-end ingredients that are dominated by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company's products. Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is present in almost all mid-to-high-end ingredients in the world, and the proportion is still very high.
For example, black truffles, caviar and foie gras, which are particularly popular among French people, are mostly occupied by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, accounting for more than 80% of the market.
Like the previous top-quality black truffles, ordinary French people could not afford them. The price was very high and precious. However, after the successful cultivation of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, the top-quality black truffles were directly turned into mid-range ingredients.
The price is much lower than before, and the ordinary middle class can also afford it. Although the price is not very cheap, you still don't have much pressure to eat it once or twice a week.
The unique black truffle products they cultivate themselves are naturally exported abroad as the top-quality black truffles, and the price is naturally affordable only to the wealthy class.
For products such as caviar and foie gras, the output is actually not large using traditional farming methods. After all, it is only a certain part of the biological body, which is a huge waste.
Previously, everyone also knew that Chinese pharmaceutical companies can independently cultivate human organs. This technology has also been obtained by Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company and applied in actual production.
Therefore, for caviar and foie gras, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company does not raise a whole fish or a whole goose, but carries out specific cultivation of these specific tissues.
The yield of tissues and organs produced in this way is naturally much greater, and the quality control can also be more precise, which is not comparable to traditional agricultural methods.
Of course, the cost of production in this way is not low. Low-end ingredients do not have the conditions for large-scale production, so there may not be much profit.
However, in the field of mid-to-high-end food ingredients, there are strong production conditions, because compared to their selling prices, this cost increase is not so sensitive.
Using this method, it can not only produce on a large scale, but also reduce the original high price by a large margin, almost monopolizing the global market and becoming an important supplier of mid-to-high-end ingredients in the world.
It can be said that there are many people around the world who are resentful of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, and there are also many people who highly praise Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company, resulting in their reputation being mixed.
For these industry practitioners, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is cutting off their financial resources. What were originally expensive high-end ingredients have now become mid-range ingredients, and profit margins have dropped sharply.
And for their traditional production model, some costs are even higher than the market price, forcing them to stop production and leave the industry. How can they not be resentful.
But for the majority of consumers, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is good news to them, and even everyone in the consumer chain will benefit from this. After all, the market size is large, and it is not just Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company itself that will benefit.
Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has become the largest agricultural and animal husbandry company in the global market and the most technologically advanced agricultural and animal husbandry company in the world by virtue of its excellent product quality and affordable prices.
The reason why the domestic primary industry has remained at a high level for a long time is because Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has contributed a very large share to the development of the primary industry, making them the most profitable agricultural and animal husbandry enterprise in the world.
It is also because of their own high-profit characteristics that they can withstand the higher land acquisition prices in China. Otherwise, the rent paid to farmers alone would make many agricultural and animal husbandry companies unprofitable at all.
You must know that there are no so-called agricultural subsidies now. Not only are there no subsidies, but there are also agricultural taxes. The cost is much higher than that of agricultural and animal husbandry enterprises in developed countries.
If we don't work hard on technology and don't take advantage of others, Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company will definitely not be able to achieve the current situation.
Now Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company itself is a well-known brand. As long as the logo of Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company is affixed, consumers can consume with confidence.
Because Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company sells organic food at the lowest level, they are not very interested in products that are too low-grade. After all, such products are too low-profit for them.
Of course, this does not mean that Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company has been able to produce all high-end ingredients, because their business scope is too wide, not just in terms of ingredients.
Compared with food ingredients, the business scale of industrial raw materials is also not small. As mentioned before, I will not go into details here, and the establishment time is only about 10 years.
Even if they have such great ambitions, it is impossible to cover all businesses in such a short period of time. After all, scientific research personnel are limited, and they must do it step by step.
Not to mention the technical support provided by Qingnong Biological Laboratory, the number of agricultural researchers they have is more than 150,000. Basically, more than 60% of domestic agricultural researchers have been recruited by them.
The rest are recruited by state-owned agricultural and animal husbandry companies and national government units. With Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company as a successful example, domestic agricultural and animal husbandry companies are also paying more and more attention to investment in agricultural scientific research.
Nowadays, the salary of college students who graduated from agricultural majors is no less than that of industrial scientific researchers, but the workload is more difficult than that of scientific researchers who sit in laboratories for a long time.
After all, agricultural scientific research is more about the fields, and even special crops need to be inspected in extreme climate environments. Long-term inspection and analysis of the growth environment of plants is quite difficult.
This situation has led to the rapid development of my country's agricultural science and technology field. From a country that was originally relatively backward in agriculture, it has become a leading country in agriculture. To put it bluntly, it is even number one in the world.
However, this is not the limit of the development of my country's agricultural industry. Due to the short development time, many aspects have not been taken into account. The development of this area will be better in the future.
However, as a result, the proportion of agricultural output in GDP will be difficult to decrease, and may even continue to increase, which is somewhat contrary to the phenomenon of industrialization.
In industrialized countries, the proportion of the scale of the primary industry is actually very low. Most of the economic value is created by the industrial field, because the weight of people's meals is fixed, while the consumption of industrial products is unlimited. Just look at Do you have enough money
However, my country's agricultural development is very different. Because of the leadership in biotechnology, we are not just limited to traditional agricultural products, but have cultivated and developed many new agricultural products.
It not only provides more raw materials for industrial development, but also provides more possibilities for industrial development. At the same time, in the field of food materials, it also provides high-quality food materials as the main products, increasing the proportion of residents in the food consumption field.
For residents, although they spend more money on food, they are enjoying products that only the rich could afford before. This is a consumption upgrade.
If agriculture wants to continue to develop in the future, it must continue to provide better food materials to the people, so that they can continue to upgrade their consumption, so that they can maintain their own profits.
If we do not make progress, the scale of agricultural output value in the future will become smaller and smaller with the development of industry and service industries. This is an unfavorable phenomenon for Tianji Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Company.
Because agriculture is different from other industries, product prices cannot be significantly increased for no reason. That is not conducive to social stability and is not allowed by the government.
Moreover, the increase in the price of domestic agricultural products will naturally benefit the development of the agricultural product import industry, but will harm its own interests. Therefore, conventional agricultural products cannot be raised just because they want to.
Therefore, if you want to continuously increase the price of products, you naturally need to continue to provide residents with better products, and in this way, you don't have to worry about imported agricultural products.
Because imported agricultural products do not have an advantage in product quality, even if they are cheap, they may not be the first choice for wealthy residents.
Especially for our people, eating has always been a top priority. Being able to eat well has been what they have been pursuing for thousands of years. You will not choose to buy just because the price is cheap. It mainly depends on the quality of the ingredients.
Ordinary people like Yingjiang can solve their stomach problems by eating fast food for a long time. It is impossible in China. In the field of food consumption, our people are more willing to spend money, just to see if the money is enough.
As the domestic people become increasingly wealthy, it is impossible to provide unlimited products. The total amount of per capita consumption of products is basically stable and will not increase because of wealth.
The most effective way to consume the funds in the hands of residents is to continuously upgrade residents' consumption. Only in this way can the stability of the domestic economy be maintained and residents' living standards continue to improve.
He is not particularly interested in desperately producing cheap products, because that can easily lead to overcapacity and industrial and financial crises, because this approach is not a long-term solution for economic development.
And he himself does not agree very much with residents constantly saving money instead of spending it on consumption. This is also not conducive to economic development and industrial upgrading.
In order to prevent residents from saving money, he has also made relevant arrangements, such as housing, medical care, education and pensions. After these are completed, people will have no reason to save money.
Even for the capital market, he does not particularly support it. Our country's economy is already the first in the world, but our stock market and financial market are indeed far inferior to those of developed countries in Europe and the United States.
He does not envy this. After all, in his opinion, finance is useless if it is idle. Apart from causing damage to the social economy, it does not have much benefit.
Doing so will limit the investment channels for domestic residents. There is no need to buy a house, and there are not many channels to buy it. There are risks in the capital market, so it is better to consume with peace of mind.
The only thing that needs to be guaranteed is that residents can receive stable and continuous income. Otherwise, this model will be unsustainable. Once large-scale unemployment occurs, it will be difficult to continue.
He also has follow-up arrangements for this. Otherwise, knowing that there are such flaws and still implementing such a policy would be irresponsible to the people and irresponsible to the development of the country.
Eating braised noodles with black truffle, his thoughts drifted so far without even realizing it. He almost thought about my country's agricultural development layout from beginning to end, and became more certain about his previous layout.
Just like this black truffle braised noodles, although it is also braised noodles, the level of enjoyment is not comparable to ordinary braised noodles. If this becomes the daily consumption of the people, then the living standards of the people will be evident.
Isn't this the purpose of economic and technological development? Economic development can provide people with more salaries, and technological development can provide people with more and better products. This is a virtuous cycle. (End of chapter)