Chapter 1054 (1/2)

David Rubinstein, the founder of Carlyle foundation, arrived at the hotel in the west of Suzhou at 7 o'clock on time. When he saw a dimpled Chinese girl with a smile, the 47 year old middle-aged man, who has been involved in Washington's officialdom and fund field for many years, first reacted with emotion.

As one of Simon westero's two most important lovers in China, Rubinstein knows that Chen Qing is actually the same as Lin Su, who is on the Forbes 400 list of the rich in the United States this year. In terms of status and wealth, it is hard to avoid the feeling that people are more angry than others.

Carlyle foundation was founded in 1987 and has been struggling for nearly ten years. Rubinstein's wealth is only $20 million or $30 million.

Fortunately, with George Soros officially joining Carlyle as a partner a few months ago, and even further catching up with the booming westero system, Carlyle fund, which had been playing a small game in the past decade, finally ushered in a big turning point.

In particular, last month, after tireless contact here, Carlyle fund received a one-time investment of US $1 billion from Westeros.

Westrow's investment in Carlyle fund is even better than George Soros's joining. Therefore, although westero company has made a clear limit on this fund, basically just borrowing Carlyle's shell, David Rubinstein still attaches great importance to it.

In any case, it's no mistake to invest with the westrow system.

In addition to the 1 billion US dollars, I had a personal talk with westero at the beginning. The arrangement over there was to smash all of them into China's heavy industry, and to be exact, the construction machinery fields related to construction, transportation and mining.

With the rapid expansion of Carlyle fund this year, the investment strategy of focusing only on the U.S. domestic defense field in the past must also be changed, and diversified investment is the inevitable choice. Since Simon westero himself pointed out a way, David Rubinstein came to China a week ago to investigate the current situation of China's related industries.

Just as he was about to return to the United States, he received instructions from westero that Carlyle should invite Chen Qing to be a government policy adviser for all projects involving funds from the westero system in China.

Carlyle's early breakthrough was to obtain a large number of Defense orders by inviting former senior officials from Washington as executives or consultants. Even if there is no westero's request, since Carlyle has decided to do business in China, it will have a good relationship with the Chinese authorities. Since the other side has given an arrangement, even though David Rubinstein thinks Chen Qing's weight is a little low, or even nothing at all, he still agrees.

That's why we have this meeting today.

After greeting each other, David Rubinstein and his assistant sat down at a round table with enough room for seven or eight people. Chen Qing was the only one who sat down, and two confidants were responsible for taking the dishes. They didn't want to let the irrelevant people hear the conversation here. The hotel attendant had to walk to the door.

Chen Qing turned to Rubinstein and said, ”David, after half a month in China, how do you feel about Chinese food?”

David Rubinstein is a very talkative person. He smiles and says, ”it's amazing. I think I can't live without Chinese food in the future.”

”In fact, the same is true of the boss. However, westerners may not be used to some of these tastes. Fortunately, there are many kinds of Chinese dishes. Anyone who comes to this country can find their favorite food. ”

”It's true.”

The serving efficiency here is very fast. With a simple chat, the two waiters have already brought some food. After all, it's a foreign guest. Here she carefully adopts the dining mode. In fact, Chen Qing is more and more fond of this way of dining, rather than a group of people stirring together in a dish.

Simple greetings, both sides quickly get to the point.

”So, David, what do you think of the batch of enterprise information we provide here?”

David Rubinstein was obviously unsophisticated, but he still insisted on eating with chopsticks. He said: ”frankly speaking, Chen, the six enterprises I visited in person in a week gave me the same feeling that they were rough, backward, chaotic and small in scale. Just like XCMG Machinery Group in Jiangsu Province, its revenue in the past fiscal year was only 260 million US dollars, which is not enough Caterpillar, the largest construction machinery manufacturer in the United States, had a revenue of US $14.3 billion last year, but its net profit reached US $950 million ”

Chen Qing's smile remained unchanged:” so, David, are you not optimistic about the boss's choice? ”

David Rubinstein didn't deny it, saying: ”if it wasn't for Simon's investment strategy, I would never have invested a cent in these areas of China.”

Chen Qing was very patient and asked, ”what about now?”

”Follow Simon's way of thinking, of course,” Rubinstein said with a smile. ”I just hope that this investment will not become a Waterloo for Simon, otherwise, Carlyle will also have bad luck.”

Chen Qing half joked: ”in fact, if you can prove that the boss's judgment is wrong, it's a pioneering work. At least so far, of course, it's not that the boss didn't make mistakes, but in many industries, the boss has always been right. ””Yes, so Carlyle plans to follow up the same bet.”

”You won't be disappointed, but David, I also hope you remember that the interests of the westero system should come first.”

”Of course, the customer is our God.”

Chen Qing nodded, then said: ”why don't we talk about the specific, do you have a definite goal?”

David Rubinstein raised his free left hand and put up two fingers: ”two, as I just said, XCMG is one, and the other is in Hunan. This is a private enterprise called Sany Heavy Industry.”

Rubinstein's research objectives during this period are actually materials provided by cerxi Capital China Institute of economics.

Since Chen Qing was appointed as a government policy adviser by her boss, she also conscientiously read the information of many enterprises. Rubinstein said that the general situation of the two enterprises immediately appeared in Chen Qing's mind.

Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group is a large state-owned enterprise. Rubinstein just said that the revenue of 260 million US dollars, equivalent to 2.2 billion yuan, is a considerable scale in China.

The contrast is another Sany Heavy Industry, which is different from XCMG's involvement in agricultural machinery, automobile manufacturing, port machinery and other aspects. Sany is just a company only involved in construction machinery for the time being. To be exact, Sany is a concrete conveying equipment company.