Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant

South America is not Qu Li's investment focus, but it does not prevent him from promoting some cooperation between the two parties, especially Jumei's global procurement plan.

How many cars have to be sold? If you don't work hard to open up the market when you are most famous, do you really want to wait until no one cares about it? Qu Li's entrepreneurial ventures have always been in an adventurous state. How can he know how to operate steadily?

Brazil’s auto import tariff is 30%. It is basically uncompetitive to export future cars here, so Chery builds a factory here, and Qu Li wants to fight for tax exemption or tax reduction for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

In 2014, Brazil canceled the tax incentives for local auto companies, and the auto parts tariff was 10%. Argentina's vehicle is 16%, and parts are 2%. There are preferential taxes, but the currency exchange rate is unstable, and the car price is the highest in Latin America, only PASS.

If you want to sell cars in South America, the best choice is Brazil. If you want to sell cars in the entire Americas, the best choice is Mexico, because Mexico can export cars and auto parts to Brazil with zero tariffs. geometry. But it doesn't matter, Mexico is a member of the North American Free Trade Area, and the import tariff of auto parts is zero.

Qu Li met with entrepreneurs in Brazil and attended several dinners, together with senior executives from the Vision Fund and China United (Xiangjiang Fortune) Group. It is unknown what kind of cooperation they will have, but it may be just to make friends friends.

Of course, Brazilian businessmen are still quite curious about Qu Li’s entrepreneurial experience, and want to learn more about China’s entrepreneurial environment through him. What’s there to say about this, compared to China, it’s relatively law-abiding, and you can do anything as long as it’s not breaking the law.

Not long after, I met with Brazilian high-level officials in a private occasion, and exchanged views on various economic and social issues, and also talked about his "sustainable energy economic theory". Many countries have already done many things, such as limiting carbon emissions. It's just that Qu Li's theory has not been summed up.

This theory has been resisted by "fossil energy giants" in various countries. Various financial media magazines in Europe and the United States have criticized Qu Li's ideas everywhere, but more people still support it, especially environmentalists who support carbon emissions.

Because the imposition of "carbon tariffs" will help developed countries restrict developing countries, but they did not expect China to jump out of this big pit, and later became less active. But the control of "carbon emissions" has become a social consensus at that time, even if it is false, we must continue to promote it.

Brazilian executives are obviously not stupid. They use food to produce ethanol fuel, which is very environmentally friendly. However, considering that more than 100 million people in Brazil are starving, this kind of environmental protection is a kind of oppression for society itself, which is difficult to sustain, and there is also moral pressure.

"The current hot sales of electric vehicles is largely due to the high price of oil. What if the price of crude oil falls?" Qu Li heard such a voice during the communication with them, and felt that it was not unreasonable. He recalled some of the remaining memories, Looking through the notes, I found that international oil prices have indeed fallen since 2014. Some people say that it is to combat Eros, some say it is to combat the shale oil industry, and it may be to eliminate the pure electric vehicle industry.

From Qu Li’s standpoint, of course, one would suspect that the energy giant is trying to attack his theory of “sustainable energy economy” and hinder the development of electric vehicles. Unfortunately, Qu Li is not only electrified but also intelligent, and its competitive advantage will become more and more obvious in the future. .

Before returning to China, I arranged for Future Geometry to buy short options on international crude oil or directly sell short. Now the international oil price is higher than 100 US dollars, and it will be lower than this price in a year and 18 months. If you invest 30 million US dollars, you can earn more than 10 times after more than a year, right?

This kind of investment with high certainty, Tianming Fund has to invest to make some money. If you don’t make money, you don’t make money. Other companies don’t need it. It has nothing to do with him. You can’t let Glory speculate in oil futures. It’s too dishonest. .

As for the future, he has to do so many innovations, and if he really wants to open up to research and development, he will lose money every minute, so he must take certain risks.

The World Cup is not over yet, and Glory has become famous in South America. Before, it was only spread from Europe and the United States. Now, smartphones, drones, smart watches, balance cars, and sports cameras have appeared on a large scale in South America. The Internet, TV, and music The traffic brought by Li, the richest man in the world, to watch the game has finally put the brand influence into practice.

There are not many people in Brazil who can afford Honor flagship phones, drones, and self-balancing vehicles, but this kind of black technology products represent the upper limit of the brand to a certain extent, and Honor is not inferior to Apple in any way.

At this time, Qu Li took Rouba to the Brazilian tropical rainforest on a cruise ship to see the scenery. Helicopters are also available, but the sound is too loud and the space is too small to use it. The cruise ship is very good. Facing the meat that wants and wants anything, you can do whatever you want.

Unlike other tycoons, Qu Li has never held a public meeting. Although it is a bit regrettable, there are little girls who adore him and let go, so he can accept the reality.

Originally, he wanted to spend a week in the tropical rainforest, but a friend from SPIC contacted him, and they were also investigating in Brazil.

The relationship between China and Brazil is very good. State-owned enterprises have invested a lot in Brazil, especially the power sector such as the State Grid, and later invested tens of billions of dollars. Mainly concentrated in power grids and power generation companies, such as State Grid acquired Brazil's third largest power grid company, and Three Gorges Brazil became the second largest private power generation company.

Brazil is extremely rich in water resources, and later clean energy accounted for 85% of its energy supply, of which hydropower accounted for as high as 65%, and wind power was also very powerful.

"You want to invest, what do you want me to do?" Qu Li didn't think he could get a piece of the pie

"I want to talk to you, is Brazil worth investing in..."

"You also consider economic benefits, isn't that the task?" Qu Li also believes that the purpose of state-owned enterprises' overseas investment is not pure. Of course, they themselves say that it is purely market behavior. Whether it is true or not has nothing to do with him.

"If you really want to make money, we don't have bonuses. Do you want to care?"

Brazil is known as one of the BRIC countries, but after so many years, it has more presence than South Africa, not as good as India. Although every country has the right to development, according to Chinese history, some countries have entered the end of their dynasties, and it is hard to return.

India's problem is like that of the Song Dynasty. The founding father did not solve domestic conflicts, but wanted to become a superpower in the region, so his prestige was destroyed by friends from the north. With a per capita GDP of 12,000, Brazil has the potential to become a developed country.

"I think their economic and social structure is unhealthy, deindustrialized, innovation is weak, and high welfare dooms their future to not be as bright as everyone imagines."

"What about electricity investment?"

"Without the development of large industries, how can the electricity consumption of the whole society increase?" (End of this chapter)