Elon Musk is here to learn the Tao and favors during this trip to China.

Not long ago, Musk's SpaceX and Orbital-ATK shared NASA's $3.6 billion international space station cargo contract, which was only two years after SpaceX's first rocket launch.

From the perspective of technical accumulation and stability, Musk has a lot of work to do to successfully complete NASA's contract.

So, three months ago, Musk worked 90 hours a week. In the past two months, his working hours per week have reached an astonishing 110 hours. But even so, he still took time out of his busy schedule to fly to the Shanghai Stock Exchange to attend the cocktail party to support Bian Xuedao.

The reason is very simple. Musk regards learning the Tao as friends, and standing up with each other is a tacit understanding between friends. Moreover, Musk also wants to pave a way for Tesla to enter China through this trip to China.

In fact, in Musk's plan, the Chinese market has always been one of the major centers of Tesla's global strategy.

Compared with SpaceX, which is highly quaint and poor, Tesla is undoubtedly closer to the lives of ordinary people. Of course, this "ordinary" needs to be quoted, because the price of Tesla-Model-S is not affordable.

However, in the long run, the price of Tesla cars can be expected, because as long as the technology is mature, mass production, charging network is deployed, or even the factory is built in China, the price will definitely drop, but even if it drops, the products will face middle- and high-income people who are environmentally friendly.

Musk started his trip to China with the purpose of his investigation and contact.

Unlike Bian Xuedao, Musk is an impatient person.

On the evening of December 29, Bian Xuedao personally went to the airport to pick up the plane. The two were sitting in the car and it was less than 5 minutes after leaving the airport. Musk asked Bian Xuedao: "I want to set up Tesla's China headquarters, Yanjing and Shanghai Stock Exchanges, where do you recommend choosing?"

Unexpectedly, when he met Musk, he asked such a "sensitive" question. Bian Xuedao pondered for a moment and replied: "Sensible choice for Shanghai Stock Exchange, rational choice for Yanjing."

After hearing this, Musk thought for more than a minute, and looked at Bian Xuedao and said, "I thought you would say that you would choose the Shanghai Stock Exchange rationally and choose Yanjing emotionally. I didn't expect you to say the opposite."

Bian Xuedao said with a smile: "You can think so, it means you did your homework before you come."

Musk nodded: "I consulted the Chinese engineers in the company and took out a few hours to read three books on Chinese culture."

Knowing that Musk has the "genuine skills" that can read books very quickly, Bian Xuedao did not worry about the issue of "reading three books in a few hours". He smiled and said: "The direction of studying culture is the right direction, but it is not enough. There are two words that need to be studied - national conditions."

Musk is a person who can understand it at all. After listening to Bian Xuedao's words, he digested it a little. He turned to ask: "Cities must come up with some preferential policies for foreign investment. Do you have any good suggestions for preferential policies?"

Preferential policies...

Musk's question made Bian Xuedao feel like he was turning his elbow outward.

But then I thought that if Tesla really wants to enter China, several cities that are expected to win will definitely be invincible. By then, without the need for Bian Xuedao to give suggestions, each city will come up with the most competitive preferential conditions to win Tesla's favor.

So, it doesn’t matter if you tell the truth now, but before telling the truth, Bian Xuedao wants to listen to the truth from Musk first.

So, Bian Xuedao pondered for a few seconds and asked Musk: "In your plan, when will you plan to bring Tesla cars into China?"

After staring at Bian Xuedao for two seconds, Musk said seriously: "The plan is in 2013. If all links progress smoothly, 2012 is also possible."

"Oh..." Bian Xuedao nodded slowly when he heard this, then touched his chin for a few seconds, and said, "I heard a news from my news channel that within two years, in order to solve the problem of urban traffic congestion and to alleviate traffic pressure, it is very likely that the growth of vehicles on the road will be restricted by license plate lottery. So... If Tesla cars enter China in four years and need policies, they can ask local governments to give preferential policies for buying Tesla cars without lottery in the name of new energy vehicles, which will be very attractive to some car buyers."

"In addition, Tesla owners can also be required to obtain a new energy license for free, enjoy driving on bus lanes, and enjoy welfare policies such as driving in the city without being restricted by the tail number. Of course, the premise of all this is to build a joint venture factory, otherwise it will be more difficult to obtain these policies."

The conciseness of Bian Xuedao's speech, Musk's understanding is also top-notch. The two of them asked questions and answered questions, and soon they explained the issues they were concerned about.

When he was 10 minutes away from the hotel, Musk asked him a question he thought about all the way on the plane: "Do you think Chinese people like Tesla cars?"

Bian Xuedao said seriously: "I personally think that I will be unacceptable to the local environment."

Musk asked: "Why?"

"What I just said, the national conditions... the national conditions are different!" After a pause, Bian Xuedao continued: "First, most Americans live in separate houses, with their own garages and parking spaces, and can install their own dedicated charging facilities. Most Chinese live in buildings, with very few villas, and even the proportion of private parking spaces is not high, so it is difficult to have space to install high-power charging facilities."

"Secondly, it is not uncommon for American families to have three or four cars. Fuel cars and electric cars can be driven in a mixed manner. Chinese families, due to economic conditions and difficulty in registering, it is difficult to buy one car, not to mention the second one, so most of them are one car for one family. If the only household scooter is an electric car that has trouble charging, then the convenience of life will be reduced. Zero-pollution and zero-emission electric cars are very environmentally friendly, very responsible, and cool, but it is a means of transportation after all, and its value is to provide convenience. If this cannot be guaranteed, it will definitely be abandoned by consumers. The convenience I mean not only charging, but also after-sales service. Have you calculated that how many years would Tesla take if it wants to build 50 super charging stations and 50 after-sales service centers in China?"

After hearing Bian Xuedao's words, Musk's face became serious.

"Third, China and the United States are two completely different markets. Consumers in the two countries, especially the wealthy, have huge differences in consumption concepts. I cannot say more about this, you can slowly understand it."

The hotel is in sight.

Musk was silent for a while, and suddenly sighed and silenced.

When Bian Xuedao saw this, he laughed and said, "You dare to build the Rockets by yourself, but you were discouraged by my words?"

Musk smiled and said, "I am an engineer. In my eyes, technology is controllable, while the market is much harder to control."

Bian Xuedao nodded, shook his head again, and said, "You forgot that Chinese people pay great attention to reality. As long as the three key points of charging, after-sales and price are handled well, the market can still be optimistic and expected."

The car drove into the hotel parking lot, and Musk leaned on the seat and said, "Thank you for saying so much to me."

Knowing what Musk is referring to, Bian Xuedao smiled and said, "I'll tell you this because I don't make cars, because there are joint venture cars all over the streets in China, and no matter what, electric cars are indeed a little more environmentally friendly than fuel cars. I personally hope that my descendants can absorb less car exhaust."

Five minutes later, the two stood in the elevator, and Musk asked Bian Xue: "Have you arranged tomorrow's itinerary?"

Bian Xuedao nodded and said, "You tell me that you will contact us the next day when you come to the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The teachers and students of Jiaotong University are very looking forward to your speech tomorrow!"

Musk asked curiously: "You won't go?"

Bian Xuedao grinned and said, "Go, I'll sit in the audience tomorrow to applaud you."

As the elevator was rising, Musk, who was jumping in his mind, suddenly asked: "I need a Tesla Greater China president. Do you have any recommendations?"

Bian Xuedao shook his head and said, "This is really not there."

Walking out of the elevator, Musk said: "Someone recommended me a person, Chinese, female, I don't know if you recognize him."

"Oh?" Bian Xuedao looked at Musk and said, "What's the name?"

Musk said calmly: "Jessica-Zhu, Zhu-Dezhen."

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Chapter completed!