Resource Tycoon Reborn

In the first half of May, the global movie market is almost dominated by "The Matrix". Even in Japan and South Korea, where local movies are very popular, there is no movie that can compete with it for the top spot at the weekly box office. We can only watch it.

Let it march forward with great joy, leaving the others behind!

It must be said that "The Matrix"'s wonderful special effects, refreshing plot, and tense fighting scenes have indeed won praise from the vast majority of audiences and film critics. In order to understand this movie,

Many viewers bought tickets to watch the movie multiple times. The hot movie-going craze also caused movie theater chains in various countries to arrange more screens and shows for "The Matrix" in order to meet the needs of the people. This made "The Matrix" more popular.

The total global box office inflated like a balloon, quickly breaking through the US$1 billion and US$1.5 billion mark, heading straight towards the US$2 billion mark.

At this point, no one doubts whether the global box office of "The Matrix" can break the two billion US dollar mark, as long as the schedule is longer. And those theater owners who have made countless money from "The Matrix" will

Refuse to extend the schedule? The result is of course no! If they don’t seize such a rare opportunity, they are not worthy of being a qualified boss. Therefore, even countries like France, Japan and South Korea, which have always taken good care of local films, related

The department also turned a blind eye to this issue and watched "The Matrix" occupy the vast majority of domestic screens!

And more importantly, there is an important film market in China, which has not yet officially opened for release. The reason is very simple. The classification and review work of "The Matrix" is only about to be completed at this time, and the domestic release of "The Matrix" will take a long time.

It was postponed until after May 15th. Domestic movie fans expressed strong dissatisfaction with this. Movies invested and shot by Huaxia Film Company can only be seen by Chinese people later than many countries in the world. This makes them feel very

Ridiculously.

Fang Mingyuan is more open-minded about this. Compared with many domestic filmmakers, he and Hong Kong Kumho Film Group are already very lucky. "The Matrix" was just released relatively late. Unlike some movies,

They have already become famous at international film festivals, but domestic movie fans still don’t know about it, and they even have no channels to watch it! And compared with the previous life, although the domestic film classification system that has been introduced has such and such in Fang Mingyuan’s view,

There are shortcomings, but being able to launch a domestic grading system now is a great victory in itself!

As for China, as a large market with a population of more than one billion and a booming film market, it will become the world's second largest film market after the North American film market in the future. The movie box office it can contribute is also quite astonishing.

What people are paying attention to now is whether "The Matrix" may push "Titanic" out of the world box office runner-up position, and even threaten "Terminator 3" as the world box office champion!

While "The Matrix" was in theaters around the world, another huge trade dispute involving hundreds of millions of dollars was taking place.

On May 7, China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine issued a notice that because customs had repeatedly discovered that soybeans imported from Brazil were mixed with soybeans with seed coating agents, it decided to suspend the export of four overseas soybean suppliers, including Louis Davos Group Company.

China’s qualifications to export soybeans! At the same time, China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine clearly requires domestic inspection and quarantine agencies at all levels not to neglect the enforcement of laws and regulations on imported goods, and not to neglect their fundamental responsibilities to protect the country and the people! Inspection and quarantine agencies at all levels must conduct export inspections

The inspection and quarantine responsibilities of commodities and imported commodities are equally valued!

On the same day, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China also officially informed the Brazilian Embassy in China that the Chinese government will not tolerate any seed coating agent residues in soybeans exported from Brazil to China!

As a result, the trade relationship between Brazil and China suddenly became tense.

On May 9th and 11th, China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine once again announced that it had suspended the import of soybeans to 21 overseas suppliers found to contain seed coating agents exporting to China, including the four major

Multinational food giant.

In response, relevant departments in Brazil and the United States reacted strongly.

.This may cause nearly 10 million tons of Brazilian soybeans to be unable to be shipped for export, causing serious losses of up to hundreds of millions of dollars to the Brazilian soybean industry.

, asking the Chinese government to lift the ban. Otherwise, all exporters must unite to put pressure on their respective governments and ask the three governments to unite to protest China's practices to the WTO.

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At the same time, the Chinese government's requirement that exported soybeans do not contain any seed coating soybeans is unscientific and unrealistic. He believes that the amount of soybeans with seed coating agents in these exported soybeans is very small and cannot be processed into soybean oil.

Afterwards, the possibility of causing harm to the human body is extremely low.

, believes that the introduction of this measure is not because soybeans are mixed with seed coating soybeans, but because the Chinese government is replacing tariff barriers with non-tariff barriers in order to curb the total amount of imported soybeans!

Regarding the accusations from Brazil and the United States, China clearly pointed out that after joining the WTO, China has kept its commitments and significantly reduced tariffs on agricultural products. The average tariff level on agricultural products in various countries around the world is about 60%, with the highest tariff

It can reach one thousand percent! However, the average tariff level of China's agricultural products is only 15.2%, which is less than a quarter of the world's average agricultural product tariff level, and the highest tariff is only 65%.

In terms of soybean imports, the Chinese government has abolished import quota restrictions in 2002, and the import binding tariff has also been reduced from the original 114% to 3%. Soybeans have actually become the first level of China's openness after China's accession to the WTO.

The highest agricultural product, which makes the import price of soybeans and their products lower than the domestic price, even lower than the domestic production cost! At the same time, the import tariff of soybeans in many countries is 20% to 30%!

Even higher!

The United States accuses the Chinese government of replacing tariff barriers with non-tariff barriers and restricting soybean imports is extremely unfair.

The Chinese government also clearly pointed out that in order to protect the health of its citizens, many countries have enacted strict animal and plant inspection and quarantine laws. These laws require strict quarantine and epidemic prevention systems for imported agricultural products and food. Moreover, inspection standards and

Inspection times are often changed and adjusted. When exporting China's agricultural products, they all comply with the legal standards of the importing country, so imported soybeans must comply with China's domestic legal requirements. The United States believes that the "zero tolerance" standard is unscientific and unrealistic.

The Chinese government believes that the accusation is pure nonsense! At the same time, the Chinese government pointed out that because the U.S. government provides high agricultural subsidies to soybeans, cotton, wheat, corn and other crops, developing countries, including China, Brazil, and Argentina,

The agriculture of many countries such as India has had a strong impact. The Chinese government will consider negotiating with the governments of various countries that have been affected by the dumping of agricultural products by the United States and submitting a draft to the WTO meeting to be held in late July and early August, requesting to limit the proportion of agricultural products subsidized by the US government, and crack down on

The United States dumps agricultural products from other countries!

This proposal by the Chinese government immediately received positive responses from the European Union and the Brazilian Cotton Industry Association. In the following days, many countries expressed explicitly or covertly that they would oppose China at the World Trade Organization meeting.

The government supports this draft proposal!

In the United States, since 1996, the U.S. government has accused other governments, especially the governments of European Union countries, of providing subsidies to farmers, but the U.S. government itself has continued to increase subsidies to farmers, and the annual subsidy amount has far exceeded

far exceeds the standards stipulated in the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture!

, since 1996, the U.S. government’s direct support for domestic agriculture has increased by more than 800%. Just this year, the U.S. government decided to spend up to 15.7 billion U.S. dollars in the next five years.

It is used to subsidize the purchase of agricultural products, but the U.S. government has publicly promised to reduce support for the agricultural sector. This inconsistent behavior is a heavy blow to the international credibility of the U.S. government!

, from 1999 to 2003, the U.S. government subsidized domestic cotton production as high as 12.5 billion U.S. dollars, which caused the U.S. cotton planting area to continue to expand, and low-priced U.S. cotton strongly impacted the world's cotton market.

market, causing world cotton prices to continue to fall, causing serious damage to Brazil's domestic cotton industry. Many cotton farmers had to give up growing cotton, causing Brazil to lose 600 to 800 million U.S. dollars every year! The Brazilian Cotton Industry Association will request the government to formally report to

The World Trade Organization submitted a motion to appeal against the United States' illegal increase in subsidies to cotton! (To be continued...)