There have been more things happening in recent years.

A while before Fan Wubing left, there were actually some extremely subtle changes in China-Russia economic and trade relations. During the period when Fan Wubing went to Africa, China-Russia economic and trade relations deteriorated sharply. For a while, there were even rumors that China-Russia relations were about to take a major turning point, and the top leaders were also very uneasy about this change.

"Not long ago, CNPC bid for the auction of Slav Oil Company in Russia and was banned. The long-planned Sino-Russian oil pipeline has been delayed for a long time. The procurement of Hyundai-class destroyers and Su-30KK aircraft has been repeatedly postponed due to the struggle between Russia's internal interest groups. A series of frictions and differences in the economic and trade fields have come one after another, which has made many people doubt the nature of China-Russia strategic cooperative relations. Some people in both countries are pessimistic about the prospects of Sino-Russia relations." Boss Zhu said to Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing nodded. China-Russia economic and trade relations are currently undergoing an important structural transformation. Last year, China exported 5.3 billion US dollars to Russia and imported 8.9 billion US dollars from Russia. According to estimates, the bilateral trade volume of China and Russia will exceed 15 billion US dollars this year, setting a record high.

It is worth noting that over the years, the achievements of China-Russia economic and trade have been achieved when China-Russia bilateral goods and personnel exchanges were once interrupted.

Although there are constant disputes and frictions between the two sides, it is accompanied by the rise in trade volume, which also shows that the outstanding feature of China-Russia economic and trade relations is the growth in frictions.

Friction is friction in the transformation of trade structure and mode. Growth is growth in the continuous deepening of economic and trade cooperation.

Being able to clearly understand the characteristics of China-Russia economic and trade relations is an important condition for ensuring the continuous and healthy development of bilateral cooperation. Especially when encountering friction, we should face it with a calm mind and resolve it in a timely manner. We should accelerate the transformation of China-Russia trade with a forward-looking vision. This is a rational choice to promote the continuous deepening of China-Russia strategic cooperative relations.

Because Fan Wubing knew this very well, he did not care too much about these changes.

To summarize the development of China-Russia economic and trade relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union, it can be clearly seen that China-Russia economic and trade cooperation is undergoing an important structural transformation: the cooperation mode has changed from simple trade to mutual investment, and technical cooperation; the scale of cooperation has transformed from fragmented to bulk transactions; the cooperation subject has been upgraded from guerrillas to regular troops.

In this important qualitative change, many unprecedented problems arise: the transformation of cooperation methods makes the simple barter or cash payment methods used in the past "debtor trade" used in the past, and practices that conform to international trade practices are becoming the main mode of China-Russia economic and trade; the changes in cooperation subjects mean that large companies and large enterprises in China and Russia are becoming the main body of China-Russia economic and trade. The entry of these giant ships of these enterprises cannot cause greater waves to the economic and trade lakes of China-Russia economic and trade, and it is impossible not to produce some problems that cannot occur during the trade period.

The change in the scale of cooperation means that a cooperation project often involves important economic and strategic interests between China and Russia, which makes it impossible for both countries to not adopt a more rational, pragmatic and cautious attitude on some strategic projects.

Another very important issue is the two factors that deserve attention, namely, Russian interest groups and local forces.

At present and in the future, energy and military industry are the highlights of China-Russia economic and trade cooperation. In these two areas, any cooperation project is not just a simple business behavior. Russian interest groups with large enterprises as the core are increasingly becoming the main body of China-Russia economic and trade cooperation, and their impact on bilateral economic and trade development is gradually increasing.

The corporate behavior of Russian interest groups affects each other with national policies. Government decisions must not ignore the ideas of interest groups, while interest groups try to influence the country's foreign policy more.

The impact of interest groups on China-Russia economic and trade cooperation is twofold: on the one hand, Russian interest groups actively participate in China-Russia economic and trade cooperation due to huge business opportunities, which has promoted the upgrading of the bilateral economic and trade structure. Without their participation, many large-scale cooperation projects will be difficult to put on the agenda; on the other hand, since interest groups and China are still in a running-in period, their complex mentality of cooperation with China and their mutual interest struggles often affect the fish, which to a certain extent restricts the promotion of certain China-Russia cooperation projects.

Since Putin came to power, he attached great importance to the development of the Far East and East Siberia. He regarded it as an important part of maintaining Russia's territorial integrity and national security. The Russian Federation Security Conference and Government Work Conference have discussed the development of the Far East and East Siberia many times.

Against this background, the Far East and East Siberia's position in diplomatic decision-making mechanisms has also increased accordingly, especially in its decision-making on China.

The leaders of the Russian Far East region have also been complex in their attitude towards China-Russia economic and trade. On the one hand, they hope to accelerate economic and trade cooperation with China to promote regional economic cooperation; on the other hand, they often hope to use China as a bargaining chip to maximize their interests in economic cooperation with other Northeast Asian countries in bargaining with the central government of the Russian Federation.

At present, local forces in the Far East and Siberia mainly influence decisions on China by directly doing the work of senior Russian leaders such as Putin, through security meetings, the State Council and the Federal Council.

"Although China and Russia have experienced a series of differences and frictions in the field of economic and trade cooperation, the two sides have made many important progress. From a deeper perspective, differences and frictions are superficial, even exaggerated and hyped, while the progress is real." Boss Zhu said to Fan Wubing, "Taking energy cooperation as an example, despite repeated delays in the decision-making, Russia still made a commitment to increase oil exports to China through railways. During this year's regular meeting between the Chinese and Russian Prime Ministers, both sides decided that the oil transportation volume through railways will reach about 5 million tons in the next three years, and gradually reach an annual supply of 15 million tons in the future. I personally believe that for China, what is important is not the direction of the oil pipeline in Russia, but the full acquisition of oil as scheduled without increasing China's costs."

Boss Zhu’s meaning is very clear. In the process of China-Russia economic and trade facing important transformation and quality improvement, differences and frictions are inevitable. The key is how to resolve these frictions with rationality, wisdom, courage and patience, and promote the successful transformation and continuous deepening of China-Russia economic and trade. In this regard, as the top leader, there are obviously many things to do.

Fan Wubing knew very well that it was unlikely that Boss Zhu would come to him just to say a few words. He must have something to rely on him, so he asked simply, "What do I need to do?"

"We need you to go to Russia, figure out the tricks through personal relationships, and then formulate corresponding countermeasures. According to our intelligence, Putin seems to have encountered some difficulties this time and is a little unable to suppress these opposition forces, so there will be so many economic and trade frictions in the near future." Boss Zhu said to Fan Wubing.

"Well, that's right--" Fan Wubing frowned.

Fan Wubing has always attached great importance to Sino-Russia relations, otherwise it would be unlikely that he would lend Putin so much money to Russia for domestic economic development. In fact, under the premise that the US power has soared, China's best foreign policy is to bring Russia closer and resist the threat of the United States.

Putin is also very clear about this, so he welcomes the assistance of Western countries, but he stays away from the assistance with conditions. This is why he borrowed money from Fan Wubing's private consortium. This time, it is obvious that some pro-Western forces in Russia are unable to get along with him, and consciously destroying the economic and trade relations that have been smoothly developed between China and Russia, in order to crack down on Putin's economic power and lay the foundation for the next Russian presidential election.

Therefore, this time, Boss Zhu commissioned Fan Wubing to meet Putin in Russia as a private person, in fact, in order to express China's support for Putin, and reiterate the importance of the strategic partnership between the two countries and some economic assistance to Putin that can be provided by Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing figured this out and felt a little hesitant. If he went there this time, it would be good to help Putin. It would be impossible for the other party to repay him and give him some real benefits in return. However, it is wrong to be in a state of disgrace to the government.

After all, I am just a businessman and have no obligation to bear this burden, especially since this burden is not small, and it may cost me hundreds of millions of dollars to settle the situation in Russia.

After Boss Zhu talked about the situation, he kept paying attention to Fan Wubing's expression and found that Fan Wubing was a little hesitant and did not give a positive answer quickly for a while. This is a very strange thing.

Fan Wubing was indeed hesitating in his heart. The key question was not how difficult this matter was. But because his affairs in Africa were not over yet, he could not swallow his anger so much. After all, no one could fool him, President Fan, and it would never be possible.

"What's the difficulty?" Boss Zhu asked Fan Wubing, "It's because I'm about to step down, and my words don't work?"

"That's nonsense-" Fan Wubing immediately laughed, and then told Boss Zhu about buying a mine in Africa.

After hearing Fan Wubing's explanation, Boss Zhu realized that there was such a special issue for Chinese investors overseas. He couldn't help but feel very moved. In addition to expressing his gratitude to the old overseas Chinese, he also told Fan Wubing that he asked the ambassador to the country to return to China to report his work.

"If such a thing happened, the embassy was unaware of it. Moreover, there were important people in China, and their services were not kept up, and there was no prompt for such local security situations. This was too much." Boss Zhu's attitude towards this matter was relatively clear.

It can be expected that after the ambassador comes back, there will be no good results. After all, Boss Zhu is a well-known iron-faced person. After he starts to scold his grandson, he can be described as scolding his grandson. Fan Wubing can't help but observe a three-second silence for the unlucky ambassador.

However, he was very supportive of Boss Zhu's decision. Even if we are still weak countries now, we can't do anything else in our position. We always need to collect some information from all aspects, right?

Did the government send you there just to let you live in villas overseas and see free human-elephants lions and elephants?

Of course, Fan Wubing knew very well. Boss Zhu's move was actually not without his intention to show kindness to him. Didn't you say that you went to Africa and felt very angry? Then I'll vent your anger and let you balance it.

From this perspective, Fan Wubing is grateful to Boss Zhu for his decision, but he has another plan in his heart. The matters there cannot be solved by criticizing the ambassador. He still needs to make a decision and then take down the other party's mine.

No matter what methods or channels are used, this established goal must be achieved. In addition to giving yourself a breath, the huge profit expectations of the mine are also the main driving force that attracts Fan Wubing to invest there.

After all, the iloxane mixed mine that is determined in front of me has a value of tens of billions of dollars to be mined. In addition, there are many similar mines that can be mined, which is almost certain. Fan Wubing is almost certain. The total value of the iron ore that is easy to mine there is at least more than tens of billions of dollars. This is a treasure land!

So Fan Wubing said to Boss Zhu, "I can go to Russia, and I can mediate the matter on my behalf. However, I want to know how much influence we have on African countries?"

Boss Zhu was very happy after hearing Fan Wubing's affirmative reply, but when he heard Fan Wubing ask about his influence on African countries, he seemed a little surprised. He immediately thought that maybe Fan Wubing was very dissatisfied with the fraud he suffered in Africa and wanted to have a subsequent crackdown.

After considering it, Boss Zhu said to Fan Wubing, "We have a great influence on Africa, but you have to know that in some small African countries, politics and economy are often disconnected."

"As long as you can handle the government, there will be no problem." Fan Wubing immediately said when he heard this.

Fan Wubing has now made up his mind to get back the face in Africa, especially the mines with huge benefits, which are the targets that must be fought for.

It can be imagined that if the African mineral plan is implemented, the domestic lack of mineral resources will be immediately reversed and will even have a profound impact on the international ore market, which will in turn cause huge changes in the world's resource allocation.
Chapter completed!