Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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Of course, not all collaborations are as wonderful as fairy tales. In business activities, cultural and conceptual conflicts never cease. Remy Martin of France has established a Sino foreign joint venture, Dynasty Winery, in Tianjin. The French manager complained to a visiting reporter from The Washington Post, "The first thing we have to tell them is, please don't spit everywhere in the distillery." However, the Chinese feel that the French are too picky, "they are not used to working in China, and when there is a power outage, they get angry." At the beginning of the project negotiations, the French promised to purchase a large amount of local grapes, but when farmers happily picked the grapes to the factory gate, more than half of them were rejected. Angry farmers poured all the grapes at the entrance of the winery, and of course, the Chinese partners of the winery were also very dissatisfied. 'If the sugar content of the grapes is less than 18%, they won't buy them. We have never heard of such a thing'. The final solution is that the French have announced the standards and conditions for purchasing and significantly increased the purchase price of qualified grapes.