Chapter 29 News Clippings
At the end of May, the maximum daytime temperature in Guangzhou has already reached 30 degrees, and there is a very hot summer atmosphere.
Li Kaiyuan took a nap at noon for a while, but woke up and found that Chen Chong was missing. When he walked out the door, he found that he was wearing big shorts and a white vest, sitting on a stone bench under a banyan tree in the yard reading newspapers.
"It's so hot in the afternoon, what are you doing outside? There's air conditioning inside."
"The air conditioner in the room is too old, and it keeps buzzing, which makes me feel a headache." Chen Chong waved to her and said, "It's quite cool under the shade of the trees, windy, and natural green and pollution-free air conditioner."
Li Kaiyuan covered his eyes with his hands, walked through the sunlight, felt it for a while, and said, "It's really cool."
She sat down on the stone bench opposite Shen Chong and said with some emotion: "In the past, when I accompanied my customers to the factory on hot days, I could tolerate the high temperature of more than 40 degrees. I stayed there for a whole day. Now I'm only less than 30 degrees, so I feel unbearable."
"The ancients said that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality." Chen Chong said while drawing circles on the newspaper with a pencil: "Life is getting better and better, so can people have a future."
"I'm talking big, I'm all right." Li Kaiyuan bent down and picked up a newspaper he threw on the ground, glanced at it, and asked, "These are old newspapers a month or two ago. What do you think of these?"
"The newspaper is old, but the content on it may not be old." Chen Chong looked up and pointed at the newspaper in her hand with a pencil, saying, "Look, this is the news on March 30. The State Council held a long-term planning symposium, and all the bigwigs participated. It mentioned that the economic structure should be adjusted appropriately to make agriculture and light industry develop faster, and the energy, transportation, and construction industries should be strengthened. There is another thing, here, 'We must make great use of foreign trade to promote the development of the domestic economy. This kind of news is good for you and me.
"These are nothing, they are all clichés."
"Hair is long and short. Aren't you willing to do real estate? That's the scope of the construction industry." Chen Chong knocked the bottom with a little favored smile and said, "Look, here, in the next two or three years, the total investment in capital will be controlled at about 50 billion yuan. Just think that 50 billion yuan will be fine in two years, and only 10 billion yuan a year. Now all provinces and industries in the country are looking for development, hungry for money. After 70% to 80% of the investment, how much is left? And how much is left in Guangdong? The construction industry is a very expensive industry. It's not okay to have no money. Look at the capital of Hong Kong's big real estate developers, Land Group, Changjiang Industry, and New World Development, all capital is based on one billion yuan. In this case, "to strengthen the development of the construction industry, "to make a large degree of use of foreign trade, and you happen to be doing toy export trade. Isn't that good?"
Li Kaiyuan's eyes lit up, he lowered his head and looked at the contents of the newspaper carefully, then sighed and said, "A Chong, it's a pity that you don't want to be an official. If you go to be an official, maybe I can still get the imperial edict of a first-rank lady, which is majestic."
"In the past, it was a feudal society, and it was a domineering man. Now it is a commercial society, and the title of a billionaire is truly majestic."
"Then you tell me, how should I do it?"
"It's not you who do it, it's us who do it together." Chen Chong pointed to the stack of newspapers under her feet and said, "I have read those newspapers. Do you want to find a pair of scissors, cut out all the news drawn in circles, and then make a collection of newspaper clippings. Isn't Secretary Jia treating us to practice in the evening? Then take them as gifts and give them to him."
"What to give this?" Li Kaiyuan said inexplicably: "As Secretary Xi's secretary, Secretary Jia has read this kind of party newspaper many times."
"He has seen it, but it doesn't mean we can't give it to you. It's different." Chen Chonggao smiled mysteriously and said, "We don't know how many times we have eaten shark fin abalone. We can buy as much as we want. But when we treat you, we still have to be kind to you. Are you right?"
"You have many misunderstandings," Li Kaiyuan stood up and said, "I'll go to the waiter to ask if they have scissors and glue."
"By the way, buy a big notebook in the store at the door, the kind used to keep accounts."
Li Kaiyuan nodded and walked out, while Chen Chong buried his head and continued to read the newspaper.
The so-called big words are awesome, and the elephant is invisible, and the policies and remarks that have far-reaching influence are always hidden in unintentional places. Without the perspective of transcendent people, it is difficult to discover the mystery.
"On May 16, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council approved the "Minutes of the Meeting of Guangdong and Fujian Provinces", and decided to set a certain range of areas in Shenzhen City, Zhuhai City, Shantou City and Xiamen City, Fujian Province to pilot the special economic zones... First, fiscal and foreign exchange income are subject to fixed quotas; second, materials and commerce are appropriately used for market regulation under the guidance of the national plan; third, local authority is expanded in terms of planning, prices, labor wages, enterprise management and foreign economic activities; fourth, pilot special economic zones to actively absorb overseas investment and foreign capital, and introduce advanced foreign technology and management experience. The pilot special economic zones must adopt both active and prudent policies and gradually implement them. The management of special economic zones can adopt different systems and policies from the mainland under the conditions of adhering to the four basic principles and not damaging sovereignty. The special economic zones mainly implement market regulation...
Chen Chong read the news back and forth several times, then used a pencil to draw a few circles on the keywords such as "price", "different systems and policies", and "market regulation". After Li Kaiyuan came back with the tool, he folded the newspaper and said, "Cut this off, and post it on the first page later."
"What the hell do you want to do?"
Chen Chong looked at her cutting the newspaper with a smile and said, "Didn't you guessed it when I showed "Die Hard" for the two big guys two days ago?"
"I only know that you came to the mainland with a copy of "Die Hard" and had another purpose." Li Kaiyuan gave him a blank look and said, "Don't forget that when I was a child, I grew up at the Great Wall Film Studio. All the movies produced by Great Wall are dubbed in Mandarin and can be screened directly in the mainland. "Die Hard" needs to be dubbed, just go to the Great Wall, why bother to come to Guangzhou to find Zhu Film Studio, so you must be playing tricks again
"No one knows a husband as much as a wife. I think I am perfect, but I didn't expect you to see through it." Chen Chong laughed and said, "Actually, I had just started to think about it, and then I thought of bringing the copy of this movie to the mainland.
He picked up the glue bottle, posted the cut newspaper on the big notebook, and said, "Some time ago, I bought a lot of stocks from Hutchison Whampoa. I originally planned to take a bite of Land Land Group, get a few good land, and build a cultural and creative industrial park..."
“What is a cultural and creative industry?”
"To put it simply, it's the set, but it's much bigger and more things to do." The concept of cultural and creative industry did not appear until the end of the century, and Chen Chong couldn't explain it clearly. After seeing Li Kaiyuan nodding, he continued: "It's just that the plan is not as good as the changes. After weighing it, I decided to give up this plan and transfer the stock of Hutchison Whampoa to Bao Yugang. After the stock was sold, I had about 200 million US dollars of idle funds in my hand. You also know that if the money is in my hand, it's just a pile of waste paper, so I plan to take the money I earned to the mainland and build a high-rise building."
"No wonder you have to come to the mainland with a copy of the movie." Li Kaiyuan knew the elegance when he heard the song and asked, "Build a building taller than the Kangle Building?"
"That's right." Chen Chong nodded and said: "The mainland urgently needs to change its conservative and backward international image. A skyscraper built by foreign investment is the best image project. Now building a building can get many preferential policies."
"Building a building is quite an investment. The land in the mainland is state-owned. Once it is built, we cannot obtain the property rights and cannot resell it. How can we make money?"
"There is no property rights, but you can rent it, just use it." Chen Chong blew the clippings posted, then turned a page and said: "Sign up a contract of 20 or 30 years and make money by rent. Now the rent is cheap, but it may not be cheap in ten years. And according to my estimate, it will not take twenty or thirty years. After the construction is completed, at most five years, all kinds of potential benefits can be made back."
"How to operate it specifically? Find a joint venture between mainland units or cooperate like Ho Ying-Tong?"
"No rush for this. Let's use static and stop to see what the mainland plans. Let's talk about it slowly. Kangle Building is only 178 meters. I plan to build a building more than 0 meters. This investment scale will definitely alarm the central government.
"You can do such a big thing, I can't do it." Li Kaiyuan cut the newspaper for a while and asked again: "After talking, you didn't seem to say where to build it?"
"Shenzhen or Guangzhou, choose one of two." Chen Chong said with a smile: "As for where it is built, it depends on which city is more powerful."
"After you say that, it is probably built in Shenzhen." Li Kaiyuan glanced at him and said, "Shenzhen丨The population of urban areas is just over 30,000. A skyscraper is built there, and everyone can be installed in it at once. There is no need to build the streets. Everyone should live in it."
"Mr. Liao said that your heart is as clear as a mirror and is not stained with dust. It's really right." Chen Chong looked at her bright eyes and said, "I can't hide any thoughts from you."
"That's because you don't want to hide it." Li Kaiyuan smiled slightly, handed him a cut newspaper, and said, "You all know the national leaders and the secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee. How many bargaining chips can Guangzhou and Shenzhen be there? You hold your wallet and don't specify the location of the building under construction, you must have other intentions."
"It's just a small and innocuous attempt." Chen Chong said lightly while applying glue: "The draft reform of the film screening system in the mainland has been drafted and submitted to the Film Bureau a few days ago. The Film Bureau has not approved it yet. In this draft, it stipulates that only Shenzhen丨 is used as a pilot. You just said that Shenzhen丨 has a population of only 30,000. What's the point of piloting there? My building is just a big cake, painted for Guangzhou people. If they can change the film bureau and become a pilot city, I will build it in Guangzhou. If not, I will build it in Shenzhen丨. The economic benefits driven by this building can at least quadruple the number of urban population in Shenzhen."
Chapter completed!