The Industrial Giant Reborn

Yanjing City, Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant, in a box, several dishes with strong aroma were sent into a box.

"This roast duck looks pretty good." Bao Yugang said with a smile, "Come on, Chen Sheng, I'm treating you today. Don't be too polite."

"Don't worry, I didn't have breakfast this morning, but I'm just waiting for now." Chen Zhiwen laughed.

"Okay, come on." Bao Yugang said with a smile.

There are only the two of them in this private room. Bao Yugang treats guests. There are many delicacies in Yanjing City, but most of them have similar tastes in Hong Kong. Only this Yanjing Roast Duck is special. Hong Kong also has roast ducks, but as long as the method is different , the taste will be different.

"The taste is not bad." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said. In fact, he is basically immune to delicacies after eating delicacies from mountains and seas. Fragrant.

"Well, it's not worse than Hong Kong." Bao Yugang smiled, and said, "Chen Sheng has been a bit generous in recent days."

"It looks big, but a lot of it is the intention of the future, and it takes a long time to invest. In fact, it's nothing, it's just mutual benefit." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

The construction of a university in the deep sea and the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway are projects that will take several years. Especially the latter, 90% of which may require loans, so it seems that the capital requirements are high, but the investment is not much. As for the launch to help the uncle The project itself is also good for Costco in the United States.

One of the purposes of coming to Yanjing this time is the economy, and the domestic side also tries to reach a certain level of cooperation with these Hong Kong businessmen worth hundreds of millions.

Especially after last year, the country originally expected to develop with the West on a large scale after the opening, and formulated a huge plan to introduce 20 billion US dollars in investment in the next five years. As a result, due to various reasons, there were no talks with many Western manufacturing giants within this year. Success, which also made the country realize that it is difficult to do business directly with the West, so it turned its attention to overseas Chinese. Although overseas Chinese are not very good at the large-scale industries that the country needs most, they have funds. The easy ones to catch up with are naturally Hong Kong companies. In the future, CITIC Group, the largest commercial group in China, was born for this purpose.

Therefore, this time when Hong Kong businessmen enter Beijing, as long as departments that have something to do with the economy come to test it out, there may be opportunities for cooperation. It is also easy to know.

"The current situation in Hong Kong, if Chen Sheng invests so much money in China, isn't he afraid that it will cause a little trouble in Hong Kong or Europe and the United States?" Bao Yugang asked with a smile.

"I understand what Bao Sheng means, but now it's not 50 years ago. The empire on which the sun never sets is no longer available, especially in Asia." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile: "As for the United States, there is no need to worry. They are now Relations with the country are also very good.”

A long time ago, Chen Zhiwen formulated a strategy that should be invested in the mainland after the reform and opening up, especially in infrastructure projects, special real estate projects, large factories, etc. in some big cities in the 1980s, as long as it was beneficial to him, he would invest. .

As for other influences, he didn't care too much. Li Jiacheng in history made his position clear and served as a director of CITIC Group. In exchange, he was recruited by HSBC and gave him Hutchison. Although HSBC has its own purpose, it is enough to show that the Hong Kong government dare not do anything. As for Europe and the United States, it is now a honeymoon period with China.

"It is always necessary to be prepared, although I also think it is unlikely." Bao Yugang smiled and said: "By the way, I have already told the domestic side about the suggestion Chen Sheng gave me before, and they also agreed. I agree with this plan, and I figured it out, as long as there are no major problems in domestic foreign trade exports in the future, then I can't lose money on this investment, and I have to thank Chen Sheng."

"You're welcome, everyone should help each other." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile. In fact, domestic shipping companies are basically offshore fleets. Before the reform, foreign trade was not very developed, and they were mainly transported to Hong Kong. However, after the reform, export has become one of the most important purposes of economic development. , according to the original historical development, after the three-way supply and one supplement spread across the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, the volume of export goods will double, and the domestic transportation capacity will definitely not be enough. At that time, it will inevitably need to rely on overseas shipping companies, cheap Western ghosts are not as good as cheap ship kings, and ship kings will also place orders for domestic ones, killing two birds with one stone.

"Chen Sheng has helped me a lot during this period, but in turn, I have basically not helped Chen Sheng. In the future, I am afraid that I will need to rely on Chen Sheng to acquire China Power, especially HSBC. If the electricity acquisition is successful, I will use the lowest discounted price to increase Chen Sheng's shares, and in addition, Chen Sheng's commodity exports in Hong Kong, as long as I take my ship, it will be the cost price." Bao Yugang said proudly : "Don't refuse, or I will feel uncomfortable."

"Okay, yes." Chen Zhiwen nodded and agreed without being pretentious.

Although Bao Yugang's financial resources are second only to him in Hong Kong, and stronger than the Kadoorie family, the controlling family of CLP Power, but one attack and one defense, Bao Yugang as the buyer will be much more difficult. Even if he can succeed, he may There is a great price to pay.

The most unstable factor is the large banks in Hong Kong, especially HSBC. Although Bao Yugang has a good relationship with HSBC, it is completely different from the original history. Jardine, which challenged them, has now repeatedly launched mergers and acquisitions of large British-funded consortiums by Chinese capital. This situation, not to mention HSBC, even the Hong Kong government is not happy to see it.

Chen Zhiwen also predicted that this situation would happen when he acquired Hong Kong Electric, so he entrusted Henry Morgan to acquire Haifeng Bank to limit HSBC. As long as HSBC is controlled, other banks basically have nothing to fear. Hong Kong's third largest bank, Standard Chartered, may not be able to quickly mobilize HK$1.2 billion.

Stabilizing HSBC was an indirect help to Bao Yugang, but to Bao Yugang, it was a huge favor. Although a little discount he proposed might not be repaid, but there was one thing, and Chen Zhiwen was willing to accept it.

"Okay, then I will feel more at ease." Bao Yugang said with a smile.

"Actually, I have another idea." Chen Zhiwen paused and said, "In Hong Kong, there are actually a group of people who are willing to invest in China. If they are single, their ability to invest is limited, not only in funds but also in resources. It is much more convenient for a group of people, so I want to form a small alliance. In the future, everyone can discuss with each other and invest in each other. Sometimes, some risks may be great for some people, but small for others. With this alliance, you can transfer certain risks, what does Bao Sheng think?"

"Sounds good." Bao Yugang nodded and said. He naturally understood what Chen Zhiwen meant. The so-called risk is actually relative. Those who have no assets over there, it doesn't matter.

"And it's not just about investing in China. In the future, there will be some good projects overseas, even in Hong Kong. Everyone can cooperate together. If there is a physical factory, they can also undertake part of the orders of Midea or Xinghe Trading. In this way, everyone can We can develop together." Chen Zhiwen continued.

In Hong Kong, he can naturally dominate his family, but even the world's most powerful country, the United States, has many younger brothers around him, and the same is true at the business level. With the great potential of Midea's trade with Xinghe, the future scale may be at the level of hundreds of billions of dollars. There will definitely be a lot of people following behind to eat and drink. After all, no one can monopolize the wealth of the entire industry chain.

That being the case, it is better to give the profits to those who are willing to invest in the country, whether it is building factories or investing in infrastructure, as long as they have this intention, they can join this alliance.

"The order from Midea and Xinghe Trading is the most popular business in Hong Kong. I'm a little moved by what I said." Bao Yugang said with a smile.

"If Baosheng is interested, he can indeed consider entering the physical manufacturing industry. At least I can provide enough orders in the early stage." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"Same as Hu Yingxiang and Hu Sheng?" Bao Yugang asked.

"Yes, Hu Sheng's Hehe Industrial has become one of Midea's main suppliers, but the foundation is still weak. In the future, I think it will develop no worse than Hehe Real Estate." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

As early as 1978, Hu Yingxiang established a real industrial company to provide Midea with plastic casings for electronic products, such as fans, refrigerators, radios, the latest game boys, etc. This was actually Chen Zhiwen's deliberate behavior. I really admire Hu Yingxiang, who invested most of his assets in the domestic infrastructure industry when Hong Kong was developing well, which caused him to completely fall behind the ranks of Hong Kong's super rich in the future. In the future, if you really want to grow bigger in the field of electronic foundry, your worth and influence will definitely be higher than the four major families in Hong Kong in your previous life.

However, there are definitely difficulties. Not everyone can become Foxconn, but as long as there is a certain scale, it is not bad. Besides, in the previous life, Wanwan was an electronics foundry giant and had a great influence in the electronics industry. Now, Chen Zhiwen also I plan to use my own ability to cultivate some potential foundries in Hong Kong. It is also good to snatch some of them. Even if we still build factories in the mainland in the future, some of the wealth will always flow to Hong Kong instead of the Gulf. bay.

"If you say that, I'm a little bit moved. I'll think about it when the CLP matter is over." Bao Yugang nodded and asked again: "Then what's the name of this alliance?"

"Since it's an alliance, we should climb to the top, and it also thinks that domestic investment is the main focus, so it's called Taishan Club, how about it?" Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"Mount Tai, the first of the Five Sacred Mountains, the Taishan Society, has a very good name, simple and elegant." Bao Yugang nodded and said.

"In fact, it's not just from Hong Kong. If there are other overseas Chinese, they can also join in, or some potential businessmen will appear in the country in the future, and they can also be brought in. How to do it, let's discuss it later?" Chen Zhiwen said, the details of the future, he I don't know, this road can only be said while walking.