Chapter 352 Return of the property to its original owner
On August 8, Hong Kong Governor Youde made his first official visit to the Mainland since taking office.

As a heavyweight Hong Kong businessman, Fang Hexuan joined the delegation on a one-day trip to Guangzhou.

In 1980, with a $6 million investment in Shenzhen, he established good relations with the Guangdong provincial government.

In the past two years, BYD and BMW have not only built factories in Nanshan District, but also attracted a number of outstanding foreign auto parts suppliers to settle in, and also promoted the development of auto parts factories in China, especially in the surrounding areas of Shenzhen.

It can be said that Fang Hexuan not only created jobs, but also promoted a certain degree of industrial upgrading in Guangdong Province.

Therefore, the SZ municipal government and the Guangdong provincial government have given their full support to BYD and BMW.

Although BYD's first compact car EVO will not be officially launched in October, Guangdong provincial officials have already taken action.

In addition to the official decision to purchase 100 EVOs for official travel by municipal governments at all levels across the province, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhuhai will also purchase 300 units to be put into the local taxi market.

After cost accounting, market research and competitiveness analysis, BYD decided that the price of the US version of EVO will range from US$3.6 to US$5.8.

Although Fang Hexuan does not plan to sell this model on a large scale in the mainland, according to the current exchange rate of 1:1.89 between the US dollar and the RMB, even the lowest configuration of 3.6 US dollars will cost 6.8 yuan in RMB.

In other words, even if the Guangdong provincial government only purchases 400 EVOs, it will cost at least more than 2700 million yuan.

This amount of money may not seem like much in later generations, but for government procurement in 1982, it was a huge investment.

Although they may have the will but not the ability, their attitude of strong support makes Fang Hexuan very satisfied.

Just like what the SZ city government did to Lao Wang’s BYD in later generations.

The main purpose of Youde's visit to Guangzhou this time is to conduct in-depth consultations with Guangdong Province on two major areas: economic cooperation and friendly exchanges.

One of the biggest purposes is to remove the bottleneck that hinders Hong Kong's development - electricity supply.

In view of the explosion at the Cheung Chau power plant on the 13th of this month that caused a large-scale power outage in almost the entire Hong Kong Island, the Hong Kong government has made up its mind to solve Hong Kong's power shortage problem through cooperation with Guangdong Province.

Specifically, Guangdong Province will build a nuclear power plant in Daya Bay, Shenzhen. After the project is completed, the Hong Kong China Light and Power Company will be responsible for purchasing electricity from the former.

In a sense, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station was built for Hong Kong.

When the deputy senior official of Guangdong Province introduced the nuclear power plant plan to Hong Kong Governor Youde, Fang Hexuan was also present at the meeting.

He then recalled an experience he had with his colleagues in Hong Kong in his previous life.

At that time, Fang Hexuan was still working as a civil servant in an agency under the ministry. I remember that in 2002, he went to Hong Kong on a short business trip with his colleagues.

The day before returning to the mainland, they decided to go shopping and buy some things to take back.

When they were taking a taxi, the Hong Kong driver discovered that they were from the mainland and took the initiative to chat with them.

This driver's attitude towards the mainland is relatively friendly among Hong Kong people. At least he did not ignore them the entire time.

When Fang Hexuan's colleagues discussed with him the topic "Why Hong Kong people look down on mainlanders".

His colleagues listed a series of examples of the mainland helping Hong Kong, such as the mainland supplying water and electricity to Hong Kong, and the mainland providing Hong Kong with high-quality rice, flour, grain, oil, vegetables and meat.

But this seemed to touch the Hong Kong driver's sore spot. He immediately turned cold and said in a sarcastic tone:
"It's not like we Hong Kong people haven't paid. Besides, if we don't buy, who can you sell it to?"

Fang Hexuan's colleague was furious at the time and almost started a quarrel with the other party.

Even after traveling through time and space and being reborn, he still had a deep memory of this experience.

In Fang Hexuan's opinion, the mainland may indeed make money in the process of supplying these basic necessities, but to put it bluntly, if the mainland does not supply them, Hong Kong will really become a dead port, a stinking port. Because of its geographical location, Hong Kong cannot or needs to spend a huge amount of money to obtain these things from areas outside the mainland.

Since Hong Kong has no choice, it is completely a seller's market for the mainland.

In other words, even if the mainland does not sell the best quality daily necessities to Hong Kong, Hong Kong will have to buy them with a pinch of its nose.

But the mainland did not do so.

The quality of fresh and frozen products delivered to Hong Kong by the "three express trains" is far superior to those sold in farmers' markets in the mainland.

But most Hong Kong people don’t understand this simple and obvious truth, or rather, they simply pretend not to understand.

After being distracted for a while, Fang Hexuan came back to his senses and nodded to the deputy senior official of Guangdong Province.

We stayed in Guangzhou for one night and returned to Hong Kong with the tour group the next day.

That afternoon, when Fang Hexuan was reading documents in the office, there was a knock on the door.

He looked up and saw Big Eyes Ming walking in from outside.

After asking the other party to sit down and asking the assistant to bring in two cups of coffee, Fang Hexuan asked with a smile:

"Brother Ming, why are you here? Didn't I give you five days off? Today seems to be only the third day?"

Da Yanming smiled faintly at first, then restrained his expression and said:

"I've been busy at Barak for two years, and I'm not used to having some free time all of a sudden. I'd rather come to Jun Shao's place, even if I'm just a follower, I'll feel at ease."

Hearing him say this, Fang Hexuan also put away his smile and sighed:

"Thank you and Brother Long for your hard work over the past two years."

Big Eyes Ming stood up, bowed slightly and said:

"Master Xuan, please don't say that. I'm not ungrateful. Before I met Master Xuan, I was just a loser who couldn't even pay for my wife's medical treatment. But now, I've become a member of the Hong Kong Billionaire Club. All of this was given by Master Xuan, and I'll remember it in my heart."

Fang Hexuan was also recalling the days when he was in prison with the other party four years ago. After a while, he came back to his senses and asked:

"Just like what you said, Brother Ming, you are already worth billions. Are you really willing to continue working for me?"

Da Yanming quickly said seriously:

"Before, I wanted to quit the society and live a good life after earning 100 million Hong Kong dollars, but now it seems that I am a person who can't sit still after all. As long as Master Xuan still needs me, I will do anything for him!"

Fang Hexuan showed an admiring expression and shouted:
"Good! Brother Ming is indeed a man who can do great things!"

Having expressed their determination, the two began to discuss the matter over coffee.

"Master Xuan, this time the difficulty is greater than Barak's, right?"

"Haha, it's hard to say, but it's also easy to say. However, everything depends on human effort!"

"Master Xuan, even if we succeed, we won't be able to take away too many things."

"I know that. With so many things lost overseas, we can only try to pick the most valuable ones and bring them back, so that they can be considered as returning them to their original owners!"

(End of this chapter)