Chinese factories went on an expedition to Mexico to find hope in looting, stealing, and infighting

Author | Zhou Qian

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If you're traveling to Mexico in 2023, you'll be able to get through customs.

Randol couldn't tell if he was lucky or bad. He made it safely to his destination, Monterrey, the capital of the Mexican state of Nuevo León, but he lost almost all of his luggage, leaving only his clothes and an empty backpack containing only a laptop.

Mexican visas have always been difficult to obtain, and Randol has had to enter the country with a curve. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2023, he got a 20-day Norwegian Schengen visa, set off immediately, and after staying in Norway for four or five days, he flew to Mexico City via Germany.

In order to make the entry as smooth as possible, Randol made preparations in advance. He found an intermediary and paid $4,000 to someone who claimed to be from "customs." The other party specially instructed him: You just said that you are here to travel.

At the entry window in Mexico, Randol answered according to the instructions of the "customs officer", but he did not expect the customs officer to directly retort to him: Don't lie, you look like you are smuggling into the United States.

He was then taken to the "little black room". The room was already crammed into thirty or forty people, and it was a little cramped. He saw a lot of East Asian faces, and he was told that there had been more and more "crossings" (illegal border crossings) recently, and that many people who came to travel would be detained. Randol has a plan for what to do next: tell the truth.

Four hours later, he met with the customs official who came to inquire further, and told the other party that he was the general manager of the Mexico region of Suzhou Ruikoda Group Company, and he had come to land a branch and invest in the construction of a factory. Customs looked at the invitation letter and a series of other personal information, and after several phone calls to verify the situation, Randol was finally released at 1 or 2 a.m.

At 6 a.m., he boarded a plane to Monterrey and arrived alone.

There was no time left for him to find his luggage, and as soon as he settled in, he and three other engineers who arrived a few weeks later set out to form a team. From renting land to build a factory to officially put into production, it only took them about half a year. Compared with other companies that have not completed the process in the past year, they are considered to be more agile players after Chinese manufacturing companies came to Mexico.

Suzhou Ruida Mexico factory, interview courtesy of photo

In fact, in addition to the competition of factory construction speed, Chinese factories have already started a war in Monterrey to grab people and land. "There is no land for a long time" is the first impression of many Chinese factories on Monterrey. Randol privately hears circulating data that in recent years, Monterrey has flooded more than 260 branches of large Chinese companies. Almost all companies are looking for factories, external suppliers, and recruiting employees. Randol mentioned several times: "In 2023 I know more IPO owners in Monterrey than in the last 20 years. ”

Industrial parks have become Mexico's most strained resource. Many people know the story of a local park turned over. The park is located in a remote area, more than 20 kilometers from the city of Monterrey. At the beginning of the establishment of the park a few years ago, only a few companies settled in, and the park basically relied on investment to continue its life, and it was difficult. After the epidemic, the industrial park has gradually heated up, and there are capital verification standards in the park, which is now difficult to find, and many branches of large listed companies have been stationed in the construction of factories.

A more recent turning point came in March 2023, when Tesla plans to increase its stake in Mexico. Musk announced that he will invest $5 billion to build a factory in Monterrey, Mexico, which will be 20 times the size of Tesla's Shanghai factory and have a planned production capacity of one million vehicles.

Many companies in the automotive industry chain have followed Tesla, and Randol's group is one of them. In late May this year, the project of Ningbo Xusheng Group, a supplier of Tesla, also started in the Mexican state of Coahuila. A person close to the project told Hard Krypton that if it goes well, the first phase of the factory will start production in the second half of 2024 and will be officially mass-produced in 2025. Hard Krypton also reported that some supply chain companies directly took production line workers to Mexico to build factories.

The changes happened back in 2021. The new crown epidemic and global shipping congestion, enterprises' demands for supply chain security are greater than cost considerations, and building factories nearby has become a new trend. In addition, Mexican compliantly manufactured products can enjoy extremely low tariffs and even duty-free treatment when exported to the United States and Canada, including home appliances, textiles, toys, etc. Players in these industries are also flocking to Mexico in order to gain access to the rich and vast North American market at a lower cost.

Chris Cotai Logistics, founder of M life Logistics, is also deeply touched by the popularity of Mexico in recent years. In 2021, the group began to look for a local logistics warehouse in Mexico, and the vacancy rate of the warehouse was basically around 10% at that time. By 2023, this figure has fallen to 1%-1.5%, and it is difficult to grab a desirable warehouse with a wave of money.

The rent of the warehouse has also increased by nearly 50% in the past year, and the price of the first warehouse leased by M life Logistics in 2021 is several dollars per square meter, and the rent of the second warehouse in 2022 is about $3 per square meter compared with the first one, and the price is still rising.

These are just footnotes to Mexico's emergence as a global capital hotspot. According to the statistics reported by the Mexican Ministry of Economy, Mexico attracted a total of 29.041 billion US dollars in foreign investment in the first half of 2023, of which 78% was new investment. In the first 11 months of 2023, multinationals made a total of 363 announcements on investments in Mexico, totaling $106 billion in Mexico, which are expected to flow into Mexico in the next two to three years.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) soars in Mexico, Source: Ministry of Economy

Whether active or passive, Chinese factories on the other side of the ocean have also swept into this torrent. The expeditions were not so accustomed to dealing with the bizarre life in Mexico, where many opposites were intricately intertwined, prosperity and poverty, entertainment and boredom, danger and leisure.

In addition to adaptation, practitioners in China's manufacturing industry are ambitious and often have to face thorns, which is by no means an easy choice, but at the moment, they need new possibilities.

Look out over North America

Mexico has the dual advantage of being backed by North America and radiating to Latin America. Of course, it is the North American market that is mainly arousing the enthusiasm of Chinese manufacturing plants.

Whether it is consumption power or industrial ecology, the United States is irreplaceable. "The domestic involution is becoming more and more serious, the profits are getting thinner and thinner, and it is possible to expand the business chassis when you go abroad to make money", "Everyone rushed out and found that the world's largest market is still the United States, and if you want to win the American market, only Mexico is a good choice", "Basically, they are all going to the United States, and they are here to target the American market." Multiple sources told Hard Krypton. This is also the real state of the vast majority of Chinese manufacturing companies entering Mexico in 2023.

Mexico shares a land border with the United States to the north, and the border between the two countries is 3,169 kilometers long, making it one of the longest land borders in the world.

Since the 90s of the last century, American multinational companies have implemented an "offshoring" strategy, outsourcing part of their production and business to other developing countries overseas, on the one hand, it is convenient to serve the local market, and on the other hand, it can better use the advantages of integrating local production costs. However, in recent years, under the influence of geopolitical and economic factors, "offshoring" has begun to transform into "nearshoring".

The key word for "nearshoring" is "near", which refers to outsourcing operations to businesses in neighboring countries or regions with similar geographies, time zones, languages and cultures. This also means a significant reduction in shipping costs. It takes about one to two weeks to transport goods from Mexico to New York, and about four days to Los Angeles, "but the sea logistics from the port of Shenzhen to Mexico takes about 25 days, and Shanghai may be a little faster." Wan Jun, founder and chairman of Jilian Group, introduced to hard krypton. While saving time costs, it can also reduce the increase in freight costs caused by external factors.

For Mexico, in addition to its close geographical dependence on the United States, the most important thing is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the "American-Canada-Mexico Agreement", which have been around for 30 years. From 1999 to 2021, more than half of all foreign investment in Mexico's automotive industry came from the United States.

One of the most obvious examples is the prosperity of border cities.

Tijuana is bordered by the city of San Diego, California, and is only 19 kilometers from the United States. Because of the proximity, there is a theory that the wind blowing from the southern United States can even bend the clothesline in the courtyard of the Tijuana.

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Tijuana's rise to prominence on the border and its entry into the international division of labor with the help of U.S. radiation and policy preferences has made Tijuana a major manufacturing center in North America over the past few decades as a number of multinational groups have built factories here. Many people call it "American's factory", and even more unceremoniously - "America's economic colony".

Rife with guns, smuggling, drug dealing, and gang crime, this border city is also known for having one of the busiest border crossings in the world. Approximately 12,000 buses, 6,000 trucks and 63,000 passengers travel between San Diego and Tijuana every day. Factory employees drive across the border to commute without passports and come and go freely.

In order to better undertake the policy preferences given by North America, a common tax avoidance model here is that foreign companies directly ship raw materials and equipment to Tijuana, under the framework of Mexico's IMMEX ("manufacturing, processing and export services") program, these parts and containers can be exempted from VAT for a long time after entering Mexico, and temporarily imported goods do not even need to pay customs duties in the process of manufacturing and exporting, and the raw materials are assembled locally into products and shipped to the United States within a certain period of time. According to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at the time, the finished product would be exported duty-free under the name of Mexican exports. This is also the so-called "bonded factory".

Many of the electronic products sold in the United States come from the Tijuana assembly line. One of Foxconn's production bases is located in Tijuana. Most of the flat-screen TVs sold by Samsung and Sony in the United States are made in Tijuana. Hisense's first factory in Mexico is also in Tijuana, covering an area of 190,000 square meters.

"Now Americans can't do without factories in Mexico. Luis, a practitioner in the Mexican home appliance industry, told Hard Krypton. Hu Hai, chairman of Huafushan Industrial Park in North America, also mentioned in an interview with the media that 80%-85% of household appliances produced in Mexico are exported to the U.S. market.

Even though Tijuana is located in a desert area, the city is dilapidated and bleak, and the security is extremely poor. But among the Chinese who went to Mexico to build factories, the popularity has been comparable to that of the capital Mexico City. People here often say nowadays: there is really no place left. A local headhunter admits that Tijuana's land has been eaten and squeezed clean. One factory had to raise its warehouse to two floors, with trucks waiting in long lines at the door.

Behind the rise in water temperature in border cities, policy changes are the most direct catalyst. In 2020, Mexico, Canada, and the United States signed a new trade framework agreement, the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Tri-State Agreement (USMCA), which came into effect.

The unprecedented change is that the agreement updates the country of origin requirements, which require 75% of the car or auto parts to be of North American origin and 75% of the parts of the car produced in Mexico to be produced in Mexico. This means that the model of automakers producing parts in China and shipping them to Mexico for assembly will not be sustainable.

With Tesla's announcement of the construction of a factory in Mexico, the Ruida Group, which is in Tesla's supply chain, knows very well that if it does not chase Mexico, the future factory business in the United States will inevitably be handed over to other Tesla suppliers, which also means that the group will lose a large part of its main revenue. "If other peers follow Tesla, listen to Apple, and build factories overseas, then their opportunities will surpass ours, and we will shrink more and more. Randol said.

No one wants to give up an opportunity to someone else.

Randol has traveled to more than 20 countries in the past decade, and has served as the supply chain manager of a leading mobile phone brand in North Africa, and has also been responsible for the construction of supply centers in Brazil and Mexico. In 2022, just over half a year after joining the Ruiko Group, the chairman directly approached him, hoping that he would use his previous experience to take over the project of the group's first stop in building factories overseas: Mexico.

"Many people think that Vietnam is also quite rolly, and there is no cost performance, so they choose to go to Mexico. After all, Mexico is closer to the customer, and it is the closest place to North America. And everyone knows that Tesla has built a factory, since the customer is important, won't you go?" Wan Jun also said.

The U.S.-Canada-Mexico agreement explicitly regulates the automotive supply chain, but other manufacturing classifications do not ignore the implications. They need to be prepared to keep the North American market. The Chinese home furnishing company Minhua Holdings' factory project in Mexico, with a total investment of US$300 million in two phases, took only a few weeks to decide to buy the land. "Our main market is the United States, and we don't want to lose that market. Chen Pengyu, CEO of Minhua's Mexican subsidiary, said in an interview with the media.

As the world enters a new era, Mexico, a manufacturing country that connects with North America, has a completely different status. Chinese factories are also facing new choices in the undercurrent. The Fear of missing out mentality pervades it, and both large enterprises and small workshops are eager to catch the wave of the new wave.

The bottom of Mexico

A young and abundant workforce has always been the invisible foundation that underpins Mexico's development. Mexico is a relatively young country with a population of more than 100 million in Latin America, with a median age of about 26 and 42.1% of the population under the age of 25.

If you only look at the labor price, Mexico and Southeast Asia do not have any advantages. Mexican government statistics and labor department data show that manufacturing workers typically earn between $400 and $1,000 per month, depending on the manufacturing sector and skill level. In China and Vietnam, the figures are $620-930 and $250-500, respectively.

"The salary of employees looks similar to that of Chinese workers, but when combined with the corresponding social security, bonuses and other benefits and security funds, the comprehensive cost is about 1.5-2 times that of China. Randol estimated.

Compared with the labor costs of the United States and Canada, Mexico's labor force is still abundant and cheap. In June 2020, according to Mexico's National Statistics Institute and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average hourly wage of manufacturing workers in Mexico was US$2.4, compared to US$22.7 in the United States, 9.4 times that of Mexico.

In addition to the labor force, compared with other Latin American countries, Mexico's infrastructure, industrial conditions, and material life are also much superior.

The most typical is the automotive manufacturing industry in Mexico. Because of its long-standing ties to the U.S. market, Mexico is also known as the "backyard of the U.S. auto industry." It is the world's seventh-largest producer of light vehicles and fifth-largest exporter of automobiles and parts, with 3.9 out of every 100 vehicles produced worldwide being assembled in Mexico, according to the Mexican Automobile Manufacturers Association.

In the 90s of the last century, before China joined the WTO, Mexico already had many factories of car brands. In addition to GM and Ford in the United States, there are also large Japanese and South Korean car companies, stretching from the U.S.-Mexico border to central Mexico. To this day, there are still many Koreans in the neighborhood where Randol lives, and there are many Korean restaurants nearby.

The factories of Japanese and Korean companies that entered in the early years have long been firmly rooted in Mexico after years of development, and Mexico has also established its own industrial base and industrial park on the basis of years of interaction with the North American market, and has also cultivated a group of professional managers. Millions of people are employed across the entire Mexican automotive chain.

When it comes to the future of the local automotive industry chain, the Mexican government has reacted quite quickly. Before 2021, there were no EV-related companies in Nuevo León, where Monterrey is located, but in 2022, the state had six Tesla suppliers, and the number is growing. A steady stream of parts was shipped from the supplier's warehouse to Austin, Texas, through a transit corridor built specifically for Tesla in Nuevo Leon. Under the duty-free policy, the cost of these parts is much lower than that of domestic production in the United States, and they can be delivered in one day.

In addition to the automotive industry, Mexico absorbed assembly plants from all walks of life in the early years because of the tax exemption policy. In the early days, the Mexican manufacturing industry was the territory of Korean and Japanese companies, and later Chinese companies gradually appeared. In 2014, TCL acquired Panasonic's Sanyo Electric's LCD TV factory in Mexico for $15.22 million, and one year later, Haixin bought Sharp's Mexico factory at almost double the price.

Today, at least in the field of home appliances, Mexico's home appliance processing capacity has reached the same level as domestic factories. For example, Luis said that what the parts of a TV can be assembled in Huizhou and Dongguan can be assembled in Tijuana. Even Mexico has been able to procure a variety of components, including electronic components, in addition to simple styrofoam and cardboard boxes. "At least from the perspective of home appliances, which are not particularly high-tech products, its supply chain is very mature. There is no such thing as what can be made in China and cannot be made in Mexico. ”

Contrary to what many people think, although Mexicans do not like to work overtime, their professional ability is not bad. In March 2023, heavy rains in Mexico caused a home appliance company's warehouse to collapse, leaving more than 20,000 units crushed in the rubble, leaving employees helpless. However, local employees in Mexico found a new warehouse on the same day, and then it took only three days to dig up all the remaining goods. "If a company is built by local people, its performance will not be too bad. Luis said.

And, apart from steel bars and tower cranes, Mexico's cities and towns offer better living conditions than the barren Mesoamericans.

Most of the Chinese managers and staff live in towns 30-40 minutes away from the factory, and the company is responsible for transportation. Townhouses (known locally as houses) have pools, lawns, and tall leafy trees that need to be carefully tended and irrigated, a luxury decoration in arid Monterey.

Such living conditions are common. Many companies rent out the best neighborhoods in town for their employees, give them a ride to and from work, or give them an Uber for reimbursement. These townhouses are strictly managed and secure to the point where some people don't even bother to lock their doors. The HR manager will proudly tell the boss, "You see, it's very safe and we don't need to lock the door." (You see, it's safe here, we don't have to lock the door.) ）

It's just that out of the luxury community, it is still a completely unfamiliar land for a group of Chinese factory people who have just set off and want to seize the beach in Mexico and quickly gain a foothold.

An adventurer in the thorny ground

Although Mexico's own manufacturing foundation and accumulation are deep, for the Chinese who come to invest and build factories, there are still countless problems in many visible and invisible links.

At the bottom of the list, the cost of setting up a factory in Mexico is not low.

Founded in 2014, Jilian Group provides one-stop solutions for Chinese enterprises to build factories overseas. Wan Jun told Hard Krypton that after the epidemic, affected by factors such as exchange rates, prices in Mexico have risen significantly, and the prices of factory building materials are often 8-10 times or even more than 20 times that of China.

Steel is a material that has not risen much, and the price in China is about 7,000 yuan per ton, including processing fees, but when it is shipped to Mexico, after adding tariffs, the price of steel per ton has risen to about 18,000. The first step in building a factory is the challenge of the material side.

Sometimes you can't get what you need right away with money. If the early stage has not been fully investigated, the materials and equipment still have to be customized from China, plus the delivery, the time before and after is basically about two months, which requires the enterprise to do enough preliminary consultation and time planning after determining the construction of the factory.

"Generally speaking, it takes at least 2 years to buy land and build a factory, and 6-8 months for civil engineering. For enterprises that choose to rent a factory, the follow-up overall decoration takes 5-8 months, and after the decoration is completed, it will go through a series of commissioning. Wan Jun told Hard Krypton.

After the factory was built as scheduled, the trivial operations were more troublesome with criminal activities such as theft, robbery, and kidnapping. For Chinese companies, there are two most likely problems: logistics and warehousing.

Truck drivers are a well-known high-risk profession. Luis also mentioned that it is common for local truck drivers to be killed while in transit. On the journey from the port to the factory, or from the factory to the city, the robbers would lie in ambush on the side of the road with precision, shoot the head, drive away the truck, and leave the body on the side of the road. What's even more bizarre is that the robbers seem to be sure of what the truck is in and where it will pass by.

Even if you don't encounter the bandits, the road situation in Mexico is complicated, and the trucks may encounter body breakdowns, road congestion, traffic accidents, etc., and sometimes at least a week to travel for 3 or 4 days. The warehouses of the large Mexican chain channels are all located in different corners, and more than 100 stores may correspond to 200 warehouses, and the delivery itself takes a lot of time.

In the warehousing sector, people with some experience in Mexico know that you can't rent a single-family factory, because you will be robbed every once in a while, or even at gunpoint.

Even if you're not violently hacked into Mexico, doing business in Mexico is always ready for your warehouse to be stolen. Losing items has become an invisible financial cost. Hiring a security team is a necessary expense. Even if security guards are hired, theft cannot be eradicated due to the frequent self-theft of guards.

In May 2023, Randol's factory was still in the final stages, and only a steel wire mesh was added to the perimeter to act as a fence. After the previous group of security guards was withdrawn, they recruited a new group of security guards, who were on duty in the morning and evening. One morning, when Randol and the others arrived at the factory, the security guard was gone, as was the air switch in the power distribution cabinet in the factory.

After investigating, they found out that at 2 a.m. that day, the security guards colluded with each other to dig a hole in the ground outside the wire wall, enter the factory and steal all the air switches. The unit price of these air switches in China is 5 or 600 yuan, but in Mexico, because of market monopoly, brand premium, expensive materials and other reasons, they can be sold for 20,000 yuan, which is a valuable product.

After this unexpected loss, Randol and his team specially recruited people to dismantle the steel wire fence and build a 2.5-meter high wall, and added a 1.2-meter high-voltage power grid to the wall, and the factory became a strong fortress. Thinking back on this incident, he just said calmly: "It is very common for Chinese-funded enterprises here to be robbed and stolen. ”

More often than not, the stolen factories are not as fortunate as the Randols who are able to dig into the ins and outs of the entire stolen process. Even if the monitoring is called up at the first time, the person in charge of the park will only tell with a meaningful smile that the monitoring is broken at that time.

It seems that everything has the potential to be stolen. In some parks, large holes were cut out of the barbed wire fence and large cabinets in the factories were stolen; in some factories, cables worth more than 100,000 yuan were stolen at the slightest negligence; and the factories had just bought a bus to pick up and drop off workers, but they disappeared the next day. This also makes many factory owners prefer to spend more money every month to rent a car to send workers to and from work, rather than buy a special bus.

Even if there is no obvious theft, the company tolerates "inventory loss". Every quarter, when Luis counts their inventory, they find that more than 100 TVs have disappeared inexplicably, and some have been judged to be "defective" and have long been disposed of privately.

Employees come and go, and there's no way to investigate who did it. "Because it's so much, you just have to live with it turning into a financial problem. ”

They came up with some solutions. At one point, the company lost another shipment. Because it happened to be in the period of catching up with sales performance, Luis's first reaction was to "admit it". A few months later, a batch of TVs appeared on the market at very low prices. They found out that it was the missing shipment.

At the meeting, he mentioned this matter to the leadership. The other party is very bland: you go to the R&D personnel. Only then did Luis know that the company came up with a countermeasure, locking the TV according to the tracking number, and then remotely implanting the software. As soon as the user turns it on, a Spanish language will appear on the TV screen, to the effect that this TV has been stolen, please call the police immediately. Such a twist and turn can somewhat recover some losses.

There are also better ways to reduce risk. For Chinese companies in Mexico, the purchase of insurance at every stage is necessary. From the beginning of customs delivery to the sale of goods to the terminal, after the insurance is purchased, the financial cost of theft will be covered by the insurance compensation, and the enterprise generally determines the premium according to the company's assets, with the annual amount ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of pesos (i.e. hundreds to thousands of yuan). It's not expensive, but it's important to buy updates in a timely manner.

On the factory side, the management of workers is also a headache. And Mexican workers have their own way of doing things, and the regulations that are clearly prescribed may not be commensurate.

It is customary for factories to pay their workers every week, which in disguise leads to a high turnover of factory personnel. For example, many employees in many companies are still working on Friday, but many may not be able to show up for work on Monday. He learned that a mobile phone supply chain factory had to send cars to the street every day to recruit workers, and posted job advertisements everywhere.

Even a single worker can bring a factory out of business. Iván, who started a business in Mexico, befriended factory owners, and there were some cases of fiasco. Some factories have been unable to operate because of the union. A small company is forced to face a rogue lawyer to fight a lawsuit because of the terms of an employee's contract, which can last up to three years, and if the other party wins the lawsuit, the company needs to pay for the past three years of wages plus other losses that need to be paid in the lawsuit. "They don't know how big the pit is, sometimes it's so big that you can't get up when you go in. Iván said.

Even more laborious is mediating with local professional executives. In the past decade or so, managers who have worked in the United States have strong professionalism, and Chinese managers are always at risk of being hollowed out.

Ideally, Chinese people who have worked in Mexico for many years and have experience can be found to take over, but the number of such talents is scarce. Generally speaking, after building a factory, the company can only find a local person to dredge the sales channel. When sales improve, if Chinese want to take over the channel, they will find that they can't even meet the channel people.

Randol has also battled with managers he has hired in Mexico. The other party tried to skip the company's organizational structure, form his own team, and tried to win over Randol, but he refused. Later, Randol also investigated layer by layer, preventing the other party from relying on its own resources to try to earn commissions privately through the company's cargo transportation. Eventually, the local manager left, and Randol consolidated his management.

It can be said that enterprises that enter Mexico to build factories may face a quagmire from time to time, which is the norm for Chinese factories to go overseas. Mexico, in the midst of a savage growth period, is rife with uncertainty and gray areas. But Mexico aside, there is no better choice. Ordinary people are also forced to train into bold adventurers in various thrilling encounters.

Having spent more than 10 years in Mexico, Iván has long developed a habit of looking left and right from time to time when he goes out. Many Chinese will make similar moves. After all, after living in Mexico for a while, danger always comes and goes.

One night a few years ago, Lván was waiting on the side of the road for his colleagues to go to dinner together. Suddenly a motorcycle came at him, and after two young people got out of the car, they began to snatch his mobile phone. After several tugging, the other party failed to do so, and Lván saw one of them draw his gun and pull the trigger in his direction.

After a "bang", the two walked away. For a moment, Lván's whole body was numb, and he didn't know if he was in pain or bleeding. After reacting, he examined it from head to toe only to realize that he had not been shot.

Afterwards, Lván immediately bought a plane ticket to return to China, and he didn't understand why he had to put his life and death in such a place after crossing the ocean and overcoming many difficulties to come to work.

But he only cooled down at home for a month, and then got on the plane back to Mexico. After weighing up, Lván still can't let go of Mexico's work and living resources, and when he lacks strong external protection, he will become an impregnable wall. Now that the shock of that night has faded, Lván would say of Mexico as he introduced it to others: "It's a treasure country." ”

Mexico has a paradoxical charm. It's not a paradise, but it's not short of opportunities. This kind of rare thing today is also the most persistent thought of Chinese factories.