Chapter 684 Dubai Dragon City
This submarine not only has avant-garde and novel appearance, but its luxurious interior is even more breathtaking, including a hydromassage bath, fitness room, wine cellar and up to 10 bedrooms. In addition, conference halls, undersea telephones and satellite TV are also essential facilities. If you even like to play basketball, you can also set up a certainly the most expensive basketball court in the world. Through the huge viewing windows on the yacht, you can watch the wonderful undersea creatures while playing basketball. This is probably something that most people have never thought about.
Yang Xing also invited many wealthy people, including the Crown Prince of the UAE, to board the boat and personally demonstrated the flexibility of the submarine floating up and down like a sports car. He also joked that for super rich people like them, the biggest concern is safety. This submarine is not a good product. It uses all military-industrial standard parts. The oxygen reserves on it can be at least 20 days, allowing to penetrate the 300-meter-deep seabed. Even if a nuclear war breaks out, it can hide in the deep sea to prevent nuclear radiation.
This submarine moved many people present. Nowadays, international wealthy people have long passed the stage of showing wealth with luxury cars. If there were no one or two yachts, I would be embarrassed to show off my wealth to others. However, it is rare to afford yachts of more than 24 meters. This level is recognized as a "giant" or "super" yacht. Currently, there are only 5,000 yachts of this level in the world, which is a symbol of a huge wealth.
However, for top wealthy people who have exceeded the threshold of one billion US dollars, such superyachts are not good "toys" in their minds. Their interests have shifted from floating yachts to submarines that fewer people can afford. Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Yang Xing partner Branson and Titanic film director Cameron all have their own private submarines.
Many wealthy people present immediately expressed their interest in this "big toy" that combines yachts and submarines. Yang Xing proposed that each submarine must be booked one year in advance, and the price is as high as US$80 million, but it still cannot stop the endless consultation crowd. The Crown Prince of the UAE and the Chief of Dubai ordered two without hesitation, making the atmosphere of the venue reach a high level.
Yang Xing's show was inspired by his and Yu Aojun's submarine in the submarine. Now the two tourist submarines are still engaged in their jobs in Boao and Sanya, Hainan - taking tourists to the seabed. During the 2001 Middle Star World Conference, the "Deep Sea Star" deep submarine that Yang Xing and Branson rode together was Zhongxing's own product, reflecting its R&D and manufacturing strength. Because the group has extended to the high-end value chain in recent years, Star Manufacturing has successively acquired several French and Italian yacht manufacturers and launched this navigator that combines the characteristics of yachts and submarines to meet the needs of the high-end market.
Yang Xing's high-profile appearance really attracted the attention of the Crown Prince of the UAE and the Chief of Dubai. With An Yili beating the side drum, they became very close to Yang Xing. Yang Xing launched a $300 billion financial war. Although the participants kept their mouths tight. The outside world thought that the main messenger was the Rothschild family, many insiders did not forget Yang Xing's benefits and helped him create momentum.
In the international super rich circle, a recommendation that can be praised by high-end customers is often more effective than a large amount of money. Yang Xing’s own property exceeds 10 billion US dollars. He is also unanimously praised by the European financial community. The Crown Prince of the UAE and the Chief of Dubai naturally received rumors. For those who can help him make money, Yang Xing’s eyes are naturally different.
Originally, Dubai only wanted to attract investment from Xinghua Real Estate, but unexpectedly caught Yang Xing, the big boss behind the scenes. Judging from his pomp, it was obvious that his plan was not small. The Dubai chief immediately proposed to invite Yang Xing to the palace for personal talks. Although the content of the negotiation is unknown, it is obvious that Xinghua Real Estate's investment in "World Island" was gone. But An Yili did not look disappointed on his face, but was even more excited. Because the boss replaced the "World Island" plan with another large investment, that is, to build a world-largest overseas Chinese commodity trading center in Dubai - Xinghua Longfeng City.
In March 2002, China and the UAE reached a cooperation intention. The Ministry of Commerce of China and Dubai World Group jointly invested US$300 million to build a "China City". The designers of Dubai World Group got design inspiration from the Chinese totem dragon and designed a huge building complex with a winding appearance similar to a winding Chinese dragon. It is 1.8 kilometers long from "Dragon Head" to "Dragon Tail". The shops distributed along the main roads form one by one, one by one, and the entire "Dragon City" covers an area of 330,000 square meters, which is extremely conspicuous in Dubai's land of every inch of land.
This huge Chinese commodity trade wholesale center mainly faces customers throughout the Middle East. In fact, the wealth and poverty in the Middle East are severely differentiated. Except for a few rich people at the top of the pyramid like the Dubai Chief, the majority of the population is still a large number of poor immigrants. Due to the vast area and sparse population, oil wealth makes the residents of their own country have no worries about food and clothing. For some heavy, dirty, heavy physical work and service industries, most of the residents of their own country are unwilling to engage in it, so they have to hire cheap labor from abroad, resulting in the proportion of foreigners in many Middle East oil-rich countries exceeding their own country's residents.
Only a small number of rich locals are involved. Most of these foreign workers from India, Bangladesh and Southeast Asia live in poverty and cannot afford the high-priced Western goods that locals like to buy. Cheap Chinese goods are very popular. Yang Xing thinks this consumer market has great potential. Dubai is located in the Middle East trade hub, with developed sea and land transportation, loose domestic economic policies, and a very superior business environment. So he finally decided to invest here, not to build a sea artificial island for the rich to take vacation and leisure, but a large shopping mall close to ordinary people.
Yang Xingken invested in Dubai Dragon City because he knew that the construction of Longcheng in his previous life made customers feel like Yunlai. Statistics show that the annual trade volume of "Dragon City" commodity trade reached 80 billion to 90 billion US dollars, quickly becoming the money cow of Dubai World Group. When Dubai World Group fell into a debt crisis, it received a lot of rent subsidies from China's "Dragon City" and other money-loss projects like "World Island" saved the life of Dubai World Group to a certain extent.
He didn't want this kind of golden doll, but he went to invest in a sunken world island. Yang Xing, who knew the direction of history, would certainly not make a foolish choice. In order to dilute the control of Dubai World Group over Longcheng and to earn more, he also deliberately increased the investment amount and proposed to build a larger-scale "Fengcheng" on the side of Longcheng, which concentrated China's commodity trade, exhibitions, catering, hotels, film and television, leisure and tourism projects. The estimated investment of this two commodity cities, dragon and phoenix, is as high as 1 billion US dollars!
This number has exceeded the expected investment in Dubai's "World Island", so Dubai naturally has no dissatisfaction. Yang Xing also privately instructed An Yili, asking him to learn from the Zhongchang Group, learn about their success in building a voluntary small commodity city, and combine the experience of Xinghua Real Estate in commercial real estate, using Dubai import tax as low as 5%, exempting business tax, personal and corporate income tax, not implementing cargo quota restrictions on imports and exports, freedom of capital entry and exit, stable currency and US dollar exchange rate for many years and the advantages of Chinese companies, fully utilize the advantages of Chinese companies, use Chinese goods to open up the Middle East market, and hold the "Canton Fair" to Dubai!
Yang Xing's move "Li Dai Tao Zo" not only successfully transferred the shelving plan to invest in "World Island" and needed explanations to Xinghua Real Estate's upper class, but also made Dubai admire Yang Xing's generous moves and decisive business decisions. The Dubai chief himself likes to win the bid for innovation, otherwise so many unique buildings would not have been established on Dubai's land. Yang Xing's idea of designing the China Commodity Trading Center with traditional Chinese dragon and phoenix shapes is very impressed by his spleen and stomach.
After using such a submarine as a gift and using the stepping stone to invest in Dubai's Dragon and Phoenix City, Yang Xing then proposed to take advantage of the opportunity to visit Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Middle Eastern countries. UAE state senior executives readily agreed to Yang Xing's recommendation that his trip to the Middle East had a good start.
The Dubai Chief told Yang Xing that he was here this time. In November this year, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE. At the same time, the Dubai Air Show was also held. At that time, the heads of several major oil-producing countries in the Gulf will come to attend the event. Yang Xing does not need to visit each country one by one. He just needs to wait in the UAE. Yang Xing will just stay in Dubai with the guests.
As the city with the most open customs in the Middle East, Dubai not only attracts tourists from both East and West, but also a good place to relax for many rich people from other Middle East countries with strict domestic teachings and feeling quite depressed. Yang Xing stayed in Dubai, not just basking in the beach for vacation, but also shouldered the important task of opening up the entire Middle East market. Therefore, even while waiting for the GCC meeting, he also visited the Middle East officials who came here for vacation one by one with the recommendation of senior Dubai officials.
The object he visited on this day was a Saudi royal family named Prince Mohammed Bin Fahd. He was a noble person and was mainly responsible for Saudi Arabia's domestic security and heavy industry investment. After decades of relying on oil growth, almost all Middle Eastern oil-producing countries reached a consensus that the national economy cannot be driven by oil alone. Dubai tried to develop other industries, which was the effort to do so. Other oil-producing countries also established various sovereign funds early on, leaving a large part of the oil dollar to invest everywhere, and prepared for the national living standards to not decline sharply once the oil was exhausted.
This Prince Fahd is the manager of one of the major sovereign funds of Saudi Arabia. He is rich and powerful. There is also a hint of arrogance in his eyes when he looked at Yang Xing. Yang Xing still maintained the habit of smiling face to greet people. After a few simple greetings, he pointed to a giant passenger plane parked at the Dubai airport in front of him, which looked as elegant as a white swan and asked: "Prince, do you think I will give this plane as a gift to His Majesty the King as a gift?"
Chapter completed!