Chapter 185: One after another
Secretary-General Liu arrived and shook hands with Su Can. He showed no puzzlement over Su Can's age; instead, he seemed perfectly natural and relaxed as he smiled. "I happened to be in Xuhui District on business. When President Qiao called, I thought there must be some serious trouble. How are things coming along?"
When Facebook had first been established, Mu Xuan, Old Madam Mu, and the others, who were then in Shanghai making preparations to establish the Pudong Cadre Institute, had taken some time out to pay it an inspection visit.
That visit had not even alerted the District Government, but many important figures in the city had tacitly understood its significance. Secretary-General Liu had accompanied the deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee to visit his former teacher from the Central Party School, and had already taken note of the name Facebook Chinese. As Facebook Chinese gradually got on track, Secretary-General Liu Changhui made several more inspection visits. Most people might not have known how popular Facebook was in the United States or the social networking craze it had sparked, but these were familiar to him. Apart from its unfathomable founder, Su Can, he could also foresee its enormous prospects in China, so he had kept following its progress.
In fact, the Chinese branches of some multinational Fortune 500 companies in the Meiluo Building often received this sort of treatment. Citigroup, Pepsi-Cola, Microsoft China, and others regularly received inspection visits from Shanghai Municipality's various leaders. Whenever these companies launched a new project, the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government would also attend the ribbon-cutting ceremony. This was perfectly normal. Through these exchanges, and because Liu Changhui wanted to foster closer ties with Facebook Chinese, his relationship with Qiao Shuxin had also grown close.