Chapter 176 Changing faces faster than turning the page of a book

"I'm glad that Mr. Liu is optimistic about the future of the Shanghai Stock Exchange," Huang Daohan said with a smile.

The whole plan does seem to be beneficial to Shanghai. After all, it does not have to spend any money in the early stages, and can obtain a 51% stake in a new commercial street.

It can not only enhance the city's taste and improve the living and investment environment of Shanghai, but also generate tax revenue.

Moreover, the original residents will also have improved housing conditions. The only thing to pay attention to is the location of the new commercial street so as not to take away business from the original prosperous area.

Liu Zhicheng smiled and said, "I have always been optimistic about the development prospects of the mainland. As the economic center of the mainland, I believe that in the near future, the economy of Shanghai will definitely not be lower than that of Hong Kong."

"Then I'll take advantage of Mr. Liu's good wishes." Huang Daohan didn't really take it seriously. After all, Shanghai is still far behind Hong Kong now.

After a pause, Huang Daohan said, "Mr. Liu, according to current laws, even if this commercial street is established, it must be operated by us. After all, foreign capital is not allowed to enter the retail sector!"

Liu Zhicheng thought for a moment and said, "Secretary Huang, in fact, I want to position this commercial street differently from Nanjing East Road. I want to do differentiated operations.
The reason why I thought of this project is that I found that although there are many places to play in Shanghai,

But for Western tourists, it is still relatively simple. But since these people have come to Shanghai, we naturally need to guide them to consume.
This will stimulate the economy and increase the country's foreign exchange reserves, so I came up with the idea of ​​building a pedestrian street.
According to my initial plan, this street will mainly be occupied by bars, billiards, hotels, indoor sports and other entertainment facilities.”

"Mr. Liu's idea is very good." Huang Daohan said.

If this newly built commercial street does not take the domestic retail route but targets overseas tourists and businessmen, it is likely to become a new major foreign exchange earner.

Liu Zhicheng glanced at Senior Official Huang and continued, "But I have a request for this investment project.
If the law allows foreign investors to own properties in the future, I hope that all properties will be distributed according to the current shareholding ratio. "

Liu Zhicheng's plan was very simple. After 86, when foreign capital was allowed to be wholly owned, the property rights of the shops on this street needed to be clearly defined, and they should try their best to operate the shops themselves to maximize profits.

"I need to hold another meeting to discuss this." Huang Daohan replied.

It is still a preliminary intention now. Now this business plan still needs to be approved at the municipal party committee meeting. Although it is not a big problem to be passed, there will be a lot of details that need to be discussed later.

Liu Zhicheng smiled and said, "Then I'll wait for good news."

"No problem, I will convene a municipal party committee meeting tomorrow morning to discuss this matter." Huang Daohan nodded.

Liu Zhicheng knew it was time to leave, so he stood up and said, "In that case, I'll take my leave first. Regarding the Pujiang Bridge, thermal power plant and pedestrian street projects, our two teams will continue to discuss in detail in the future."

"Okay, then I'll take Mr. Liu there." Huang Daohan nodded and said.

"Thank you!" Huang Daohan sent him to the door, and Liu Zhicheng soon left the city hall building with several of his men.

The next day, several engineers from Shanfeng Investment, Huangpu Group and China Electric Group arrived in Shanghu under the leadership of Huo Haiqing.

After following Liu Zhicheng's request, the infrastructure company under Shanfeng Investment began to work with some experts from the Shanghai Transportation Bureau to survey the terrain on both sides of the Huangpu River, intending to find the best location to build a bridge.

Engineers from Qingshan Power Generation Company, a subsidiary of China Power Corporation, began negotiations on the construction of a thermal power plant.

The Shanghai Municipal Government also held a municipal party committee meeting to discuss the "pedestrian street plan" proposed by Liu Zhicheng. However, it was said that there was a lot of controversy and no unanimous conclusion was reached that morning.

For Liu Zhicheng, there is no need to rush for such a large investment. Although the meeting at the Shanghai Stock Exchange did not agree, it did not reject it either, which means there is still hope.

Moreover, even if the project is approved, comprehensive negotiations will still be needed on the address, investment scale, construction bidding, etc., and these will naturally be the responsibility of the company's business negotiators.

Accompanied by Huo Haiqing, Liu Zhicheng will soon head to his next stop, Kyoto City.

The plane soon arrived at the airport outside Kyoto. This time when he came to Kyoto, Liu Zhicheng was relatively low-key and not many people knew him.

Only relevant departments and related personnel of Chigo International in China came to pick us up at the airport.

"Mr. Liu has an amazing financial capability to use a Boeing 747 as a private jet!" said Director Chen, who is in charge of the electronics industry and took the lead in this event.

He sighed as he saw the private jet falling from the sky from behind the glass of the VIP waiting room. As the head of a domestic electronics department, he naturally knew the price of ordering a Boeing 747.

"Old Chen, this is just a drop in the bucket. Look at the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Expressway. The investment of 1 billion US dollars is nothing. But I heard that his investment in the United States is worth tens of billions of US dollars." Director Duan of the transportation department said with a smile.

"I know this. According to our investigation, it is an investment in a supermarket and a computer company? This is more than our country's foreign exchange reserves," Director Chen said in amazement.

You should know that last year the country's foreign exchange reserves were only 15 billion US dollars, and the total import and export trade of the entire country was only more than 200 billion US dollars.

This is the data of a country's foreign exports and purchases, which is only several times that of other supermarkets.

It is not difficult for people in China to know what is happening abroad, but with so many things happening abroad, of course they won’t know if they don’t investigate.

As for Liu Zhicheng, the richest Chinese in Southeast Asia and the person they are trying their best to unite with, there will definitely be necessary investigation and understanding.

"Mr. Liu is very kind to us. He not only invests a lot in building bridges and roads in China, but also helps our international students overseas.
Not only do they sponsor them, they also provide them with work-study jobs in the United States, and the income of the jobs they provide is not low.

Otherwise, the students we send to the beautiful country will have a hard time.” Director Chen added.

These people have also been abroad for inspection and probably have some idea of ​​the price levels overseas.

Nowadays, international students sent from the mainland can basically only be given a few US dollars for living expenses.

If they cannot find a part-time job, it is unimaginable for them to live overseas.

"That's the case. We have to pay more attention to this reception, and it's also a way of thanking Mr. Liu for his patriotism. Of course, if we can get him to invest a little more, it will be worth it." Director Duan nodded and said.

"Let's go, the plane has stopped and we will probably be out of the VIP channel soon," said Director Chen.

"Okay." After hearing this, Director Duan immediately put out the cigarette in his hand and called everyone to go and greet him.

In the VIP channel, Director Chen received the visiting Liu Zhicheng and his group, and then took them to their residence.

This time it was not an invitation from the central government, so it was naturally impossible for them to stay in the State Guesthouse. Instead, they were arranged to stay in the Beijing Hotel.

Liu Zhiben originally wanted to arrange his own accommodation, but at this stage he basically doesn't have many options. There are several hotels under construction in Kyoto City, but they are basically not completed.

The receiving official was also very considerate. He did not come to discuss business on the first day. After sending us to our destination, he arranged for the relevant hotel staff to take care of us and then said goodbye and left.

The next morning, guided by a government car, Liu Zhicheng, Huo Haiqing and his team arrived at an office building of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building (the future Ministry of Electronics Industry).

This is a typical Soviet-style office building, only 6 stories high, but with a very large yard.

The relevant leaders of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building also attached great importance to Liu Zhicheng's arrival and introduced to him in detail the current planning layout of the electronic industry in Beijing, as well as the situation of the group's joint venture factories in Beijing.

For this large-scale joint venture project, the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building took the lead and, with the cooperation of the Beijing Municipal Government, carried out large-scale demolitions in the suburbs southeast of Beijing City.

The new factory covers an area of ​​500 mu and is divided into four plant areas. Currently, only two of them are used to produce fans and walkmans, mainly for export and supplemented by domestic sales. In order to facilitate transportation, two new connecting roads were built, one leading to a nearby main avenue and the other directly leading to the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Expressway that is being prepared for construction.

In the future, the export products of the joint venture factory will be transported to the port via highways and sold far and wide at home and abroad.

In fact, Liu Zhicheng had some knowledge of the content introduced at the meeting. He would basically receive a detailed report every month on large-scale investments in the country for his understanding.

But today the leaders of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building have no intention of doing this. The factory buildings have already been built, and they just hope that the Hong Kong side will increase investment, make full use of the newly built factory area, and expand export sales.

Liu Zhicheng would not agree rashly and would definitely discuss it with the team.

In order to break the current situation, Liu Zhicheng proposed to visit the new factory. After the meeting, a group of people set out together to the factory located in the southeast of Jingcheng City.

Soon, the group arrived at their destination, where a huge factory stood before them.

"This speed is really fast." Liu Zhicheng said with some emotion as he looked at the factory workshop in front of him.

This project was verbally agreed upon with people in China when he came to Beijing before the Spring Festival this year, and it has been less than a year.

There will be further negotiations, location determination, demolition, factory construction, etc.

But I didn’t expect it to be completed in less than a year. This efficiency is many times faster than that of Hong Kong.

Huo Haiqing, who was following behind, explained, "Mr. Liu, it only took us one month to negotiate with the mainland and we have already agreed on the terms of the joint venture.
Then we selected a site, carried out demolition, and then worked 24 hours a day to build the factory.
At that time, I heard from the mainland construction workers that they had to show the spirit of the Daqing Campaign to achieve such a fast speed. "

"Yeah." Liu Zhicheng nodded.

Liu Zhicheng certainly knew the so-called fighting spirit, which is a spirit of winning glory for the country and pride for the nation.

It is also a spirit of hard work and entrepreneurship that takes the overall situation into consideration and relies on self-reliance.

In future emergencies, it will take only 7 days to build a hospital. In other countries, it would be impossible to build a hospital in 70 days.

At this stage, the mainland's economic foundation is relatively weak, so the output value of civilian products may be relatively low.

"We have already started producing fans here, but because it is the off-season, the finished products are stored in the warehouse. The Walkmans are basically all shipped out after they are made."

"Yes," Liu Zhicheng nodded and said, "We should try our best to avoid quality risks and give priority to selling our products in the Southeast Asian market rather than in Europe and the United States."

"Okay, Mr. Liu." Huo Haiqing nodded and said.

In the past few years, although Chigo International's fan products have developed well in the Southeast Asian market, they are no longer absolutely dependent on the European and American markets.

As antique fans have become popular in Europe and the United States, the European and American markets remain the main source of profits.

Overall, the current Southeast Asian market's market share is still not as large as that of North America, but the total turnover has also reached tens of millions of US dollars.

Every time Chigo launches a new fan, it basically tests the waters in the Southeast Asian market first, and then pushes it to the European and American markets.

The purpose of doing this is simple, which is to avoid quality risks and affect sales in Europe and the United States.

"Yes, if there are no major problems, we can export to Europe and the United States on a large scale next year," said Huo Haiqing.

"But you told Niu Guangli that the export of products from the factory in Jingcheng must also be controlled. After all, the original purpose of building the factory was for domestic sales. How is the domestic sales situation now?" Liu Zhicheng asked.

The main purpose of investing in Beijing is to enter the domestic market. Chigo International must have priorities, and the main factory for fan exports is in Shekou.

"This is handled by people in the mainland. The channels are all shipped through domestic department stores. There is a set quantity for shipment each month," said Huo Haiqing.

"Well, okay. The quality we provide domestically must be the same as that provided abroad. What I value is the big market in the future, not how much money we can make now," said Liu Zhicheng.

"I understand." Huo Haiqing said.

The group went from the fan factory to the Walkman manufacturing factory, where there was a long assembly line with the Walkmans running slowly on it.

On both sides of the production line are various workers. Each person only needs to do one thing, which is basically a very simple job.

At noon, Liu Zhicheng and his team had a simple meal in the factory.

Liu Zhicheng had a rare opportunity to go deep into the grassroots and understand the real life of ordinary employees, so he asked for the same meal as the employees.

The current rule here is one meat dish and two vegetables, and you can eat as much as you want. This kind of food looks good, but it still doesn't meet the rules in Hong Kong.

According to the regulations in Hong Kong, employees’ meals include two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, but in reality, it is even better, with occasional dairy products or fruits.

Director Chen saw that Liu Zhicheng was thinking about something, so he smiled and said, "Mr. Liu, the food here is already top-notch in the country.
Even for the locals in Beijing, it is difficult to guarantee that they can eat meat every day. The food in our office is
In fact, it is similar to this. At most, the chef may cook less, so it is a little more delicate. "

Huo Haiqing also explained: "Mr. Liu, we originally followed the standards of Hong Kong, but many employees saved the food and took it home.

Later, in order to avoid this situation, we discussed with Director Duan and others and decided to lower the food standards.

The money saved is then used to give all employees some benefits every month, which are basically a few pounds of bacon or meat dishes such as chicken and duck. "

"Yes." Liu Zhicheng nodded and said, "That's it, but it must be carried out strictly in accordance with the regulations."

Meat is very precious in China now. Given the bad economy, it is estimated that children in some families will not be able to eat meat for a long time. So it is a good choice to distribute it like this now.

Otherwise, if all employees save the food to feed their children, it will affect the factory's production and seem not worth the loss.

Giving out some meat as a benefit to employees every month can not only motivate employees, but also help more families.

Liu Zhicheng also felt somewhat helpless about the current situation in the mainland. After all, he was not a saint and could only try his best to cooperate with the domestic situation.

Then, with the joint benefit of all, we can help hundreds of thousands or even millions of people in several industrial chains.

"We must strengthen management assessment and don't let employees think that this is what they deserve. If they deserve to be fined, they should be fined, and if they deserve to be fired, they should be fired." Liu Zhicheng said slowly to Huo Haiqing.

"Yeah," Huo Haiqing replied.

Director Chen, who was standing by, was also very surprised when he heard Liu Zhicheng say this. Just now he was worried about the country and the people, but now he is like...

Could it be that the capitalists’ faces change faster than turning pages of a book!

This was something that Director Duan and his colleagues could not accept at once, and it just proved a saying: Reform and opening up means not only economic reform but also ideological reform.

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