Reborn multinational giant

Since this incident, public opinion and impressions of Baidu have become worse and worse.

However, Baidu doesn't really care, because Baidu has “monopolized” the domestic search field.

After Google left China, Baidu, which lost its competitor, became proud to eat fireworks. Perhaps in the eyes of President Li and Baidu's senior management today, the share price is far more important than the public impression and other nothingness.

People don't have a choice but Baidu, do they?

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A busy day has already begun in May in the Netherlands, where the weather is pleasantly warm and located in Port Rotterdam, the second largest city in the country.

Port Rotterdam, the crown jewel of the Dutch economy, is one of the engines of the Dutch economy.

In the 1960s, the port of Rotterdam was once the largest port in the world, and booming trade flows contributed immensely to the economic recovery and reconstruction of the Netherlands and Europe as a whole after World War II.

Today, the Port of Rotterdam is still the biggest port in the Netherlands and Europe, the hub of trade, despite the slippage in world ranking.

With the Belt and Road Strategy put forward by China in the past two years, the strategic and economic status of Port Rotterdam, a European maritime gateway, has once again risen.

Sunny, windy and sunny.

In the face of the warm sea breeze, a small signing ceremony is taking place at Euromax pier near the west corner of Port Rotterdam.

“Ladies and gentlemen, today is a good day.

Today was a very, very good day.

Today, we, Euromax Pier, will welcome its new owner, from the Central and Far East Pacific Corporation in Hong Kong.

Applause and welcome! "

On a simple podium, an old white man with thin hair and a large stomach poop said seriously.

The applause under the stage was thin, a uniformed dock worker, lazy and lacklustre.

“This Hong Kong company called Midwest Pacific is such a miserable bastard. The old Grande did not know what rhetoric was used to trick them into buying our docks.”

“Shh! Lower your voice, in case the deal gets screwed up, the old Grantham must be pissing us off.Anyway, the pier is not broken, we have wages, they love how to torment how to torment.”

“Well, it's just pity for these deceived Chinamen.”

“Oh, they Chinese aren't smart enough to deserve to be cheated.”

The staffs on the ground stole private conversations, whispering.

On stage, the old Grantham continued to sprinkle:

“It is well known that our Euromax pier has been one of the most advanced piers in the entire Port of Rotterdam since its inception in 2010, with more than one-fifth of ocean freighters choosing to load and unload cargo at our pier...”

Standing not far from the old Grande Terre, the representative of the Central and Far Pacific Company smiled and looked at the old Grande Terre openly talking nonsense.

They may know a little more about what's going on at Euromax Wharf than the old Grande Terrace before them.

Affected by the European debt crisis and the economic downturn in Europe, the volume of trade transactions throughout the Port of Rotterdam has been declining in recent years, and competition among the port's terminals is fierce.

Failure to catch up with the good timing of Euromax Pier has been in a loss position since it became operational in 2010.

Combined with mismanagement and high fees, the Euromax pier, which has been in operation for six years, has not recovered its costs, but rather increased its losses year after year.

To date, Euromax Wharf has become the fourth buyer to reach COSCO Pacific.

COSCO is willing to take over this mess and naturally is not naive to think that this shitty dock can get up and make a lot of money in its own hands.

They were commissioned by a mainland Chinese company to buy the pier.

As to the reason and purpose of the mainland company's purchase of the pier, they were not very clear and did not want to ask, just to make money and take advantage of it.

Funding for the purchase of Euromax Wharf Equity and related shareholder debts will be provided by the Continental and Far East Pacific under a trading agreement between them, and the Far East Pacific will surrender and take over Euromax Wharf on their behalf.

In return, COSCO Pacific will be awarded the right to operate Euromax Wharf for the next 10 years, and if Euromax Wharf has been losing, the loss will be borne by the mainland company.

“Sigh, even though it's a port picked up for nothing, if you don't make some money these 10 years, it's not as long as you've been busy working for nothing.”

The representative of the Far East Pacific Company, thinking nonsense on the stage, walking to God, pulled him back to reality with the voice of the old Grantham speaking:

“Now, let's give a warm round of applause and welcome Mr. Wang, representative of the Far and Central Pacific Company, and make a speech!"

Mr. Wang walked to the podium and glanced up at the dock workers who were lazy and scattered together.

“If you want to run the pier yourself, the first thing you need to do is cut off half the employees who are waiting to die!" Mr. Wang hinted that, according to his understanding, one of the important reasons why Euromax pier has been losing money is the reduced efficiency and high employee benefits of the pier workers.

Mr. Wang calculates the tactics of dealing with the dock workers in secret, but his lips praise:

“I've always admired Port Rotterdam.

It is the maritime gateway for the Netherlands and Europe, one of the busiest and most lively ports in the Atlantic and one of the flags of global free trade.

Euromax Wharf has made an important contribution to the prosperity of the Port of Rotterdam, and you have made an important contribution to the prosperity of Euromax Wharf.

Because of the excellence of Euromax Pier, we in the Far and Central Pacific chose to acquire it and use our huge customer base between China and Europe to add wings to Euromax Pier like a tiger and make it more prosperous.

I promise that after we acquire Euromax Pier, the employee benefits will remain the same as they are, in addition to which we will.... ”

On the docks, Mr. Wang painted a large pie for the dock workers, while Charles, the head of international public policy relations in Europe, was ridiculously accompanied by a gentle middle-aged man playing golf at St. Nicholas's, a Swiss resort thousand miles away.

“Congressman Bruce, good news, Euromax's signing ceremony is today.

This dock is now in the hands of the Chinese!You don't have to worry about those damn losers and lazy dockers! "

Charles whispered.

Bruce shook the club and punched the ball into the hole, haha:

“I knew Charles, you've been hanging out with your brother in China for years, and you really have some skills.

As soon as the money arrives, the light-engineering machine can be delivered to the pier that night.”