Chapter 340 Seeking welfare

As luck would have it, Fang Hexuan received an invitation from the Chinese Manufacturers' Association as soon as he returned to Hong Kong. To be honest, he was not very interested.

The so-called Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong has more than 2000 members, covering almost all enterprises and companies from all walks of life in Hong Kong.

This organization is similar to the Chamber of Commerce of a certain province. The large number of members will inevitably lead to a lack of core issues, which means that there are too many people and too many opinions.

If the Federation visits the mainland, its main purpose is to investigate the environment of reform and opening up, meet with central or local officials, and gain some psychological comfort.

But for the other party He Xuan, this is not even as good as chicken ribs.

He was almost one of the earliest entrepreneurs to invest in the mainland, and his confidence in the mainland's reform and opening up was greater than even that of the ship chartering king.

Therefore, he really doesn't need to waste time traveling to the mainland to take a look around.

If it is really necessary to return to the mainland, his schedule can be arranged compactly and in a time-saving manner, and it will not affect his meeting certain people at all.

To be honest, Fang Hexuan looked down on these insects who were just thinking of visiting the mainland now.

These people are short-sighted, cowardly and greedy. If they don't rely on the low labor and land costs in the mainland, they are destined to do small things all their lives.

I asked my secretary to notify the executives of more than a dozen subsidiaries, and if anyone wanted to visit the mainland, they could sign up for the visit in the name of Alphabet Group.

As for himself, he asked his secretary to help him write a reply to the Federation Secretariat, making up a random excuse, saying that he had just returned from a business trip in Europe and was not feeling well, and would definitely attend next time.

A man's reputation is like the shadow of a tree. Fang Hexuan has made such a big name in the Chinese world in recent years that any organization wants to be associated with him.

Even if it has nothing to do with him, he is often politely invited to participate in a bunch of messy activities.

His personal assistant office has several subordinates who help him deal with trivial matters that he considers.

Sometimes, when it is really difficult to save face, you just ask your assistants or secretaries to attend the event on your behalf.

That’s why Ma Ali said that his happiest time was when he was a teacher earning 91 yuan a month.

These words are by no means Versailles, but just the helpless feelings after being in this position.

As a time traveler, Fang Hexuan should be the most free and easy-going among the wealthy Chinese when it comes to the ways of the world. But even so, he is sometimes annoyed by the endless stream of invitations.

Therefore, he still admired Li Huanggua very much. This man spent half of his time on business and the other half on making connections.

He himself admitted that if he did not rely on his title as the richest man and the support of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai Hometown Association, his popularity in the Hong Kong business community might not be stronger than Huanggua.

Although there is no such thing as "Superman of Gifts" in this time and space, and Huanggua has been defeated in several battles with him, the network of contacts he has woven in Hong Kong is so great that even the chartering king often sighs in front of him.

In the office, I called Wanda’s Deputy General Manager Luo Jianlong to ask him about the construction progress of the island manor project.

In fact, according to the original plan, the entire manor project was estimated to take 3-4 years.

But as the Moutai in his warehouse accumulated more and more, and with the help of Da Yanming and his men, he managed to bring back two batches of temple treasures in advance, in addition to the 15 bottles of 82 red wine ordered from Lafite Winery this time.

He now urgently needed a place that was large enough, fixed and safe to store these collections. Therefore, although Fang Hexuan had urged Ye Gengnian of Xinchang Group several times, and the other party did recruit more construction workers who were unemployed due to the depressed real estate market to join the large-scale construction of the island manor.

But the construction progress wanted to be accelerated two or three times, and even his own senior executive Luo Jianlong had to tell him with his neck stiff - Boss, if you want to move in this year, stop dreaming!

He insisted that the earliest completion time would definitely not be before next New Year's Day, which meant that if Fang Hexuan was lucky, he would have to wait until the Spring Festival.

After saying goodbye to Luo Jianlong reluctantly, Fang Hexuan did not hang up the phone. He continued to call the R&D center shared by BYD and BMW in Hung Hom.

The director of this R&D center is Douglas, an American who once worked as R&D director at Ford. He has personally presided over the design and development of dozens of models and has extensive experience.

He was poached by Fang Hexuan through an international headhunter. When the two met for the first time, Boss Fang was quite moved by the other party's passion and persistence for technology.

The deputy director is Schulz, a German who has previously led research and development at BMW and Volkswagen. He is also a geek in the automotive industry who loves car modifications.

Although the two are the principal and deputy principal, their work has different focuses. Douglas is more inclined to BYD's models and the research and development of the three major components, while Schultz focuses on BMW.

The two foreigners like to quarrel when they meet, but it is not a quarrel over management, but they often argue over the details of a certain technology.

As a boss, Fang Hexuan quite likes this kind of internal competitive atmosphere. This is why he is willing to let someone with an engineering background manage the R&D center instead of sending a professional manager.

Although both of them are a bit of a technology fanatic, they are not fools. It is impossible for them to really spend money desperately to accumulate technologies that will not be used or will not be used temporarily. Therefore, the R&D center has been able to continue to operate relatively stably and healthily so far.

Fang Hexuan only sent the financial department to work there, and even gave the personnel power to the two of them. It can be seen that he really trusts these two executives.

The purpose of his making this call was to get some benefits for himself.

When Boeing placed an order for the 747-300, he made several requests to the designers.

One of them is to reserve a warehouse specifically for parking your own car.

Just like when the President of the United States goes on a visit, there are special military aircraft to help him transport "Army One".

Fang Hexuan hopes that he will be able to carry BYD and BMW cars with him in the future and drive them wherever he goes.

This will not only provide greater peace of mind, but will also indirectly advertise the two automobile companies under its umbrella.

The benefits of choosing 747 are now apparent.

This long-range passenger aircraft can not only fly across continents and oceans, but its wide fuselage is also large enough for users to do more.

As soon as Fang Hexuan made his request, Boeing's designers and engineers immediately came up with a solution.

In fact, he was not the first person to make such a request. The President and many wealthy people had similar ideas.

All I can say is that if you have enough money, power and influence to a certain extent, you will have enough resources to meet your needs no matter what you do.

Now that Boeing has agreed, the remaining problems will need BYD and BMW to help solve.

(End of this chapter)