After hearing Jia Daoli's question, Li Jiacheng shook his head in annoyance.

Hong Kong people are very welcome to have a third power company in Hong Kong to move in. If they forcibly refuse, it will easily cause people to be disgusted.

But it is very advantageous to start a third power company in summer. If you leave it alone, the power company in summer will take away a lot of their business.

First, he built many power stations in the mainland and had very abundant power generation capacity. In terms of power generation, he generated more than his Hong Kong lamp and Kadoli Huadian, which can completely supply Hong Kong's needs.

Secondly, he has many commercial buildings and residential communities in Hong Kong, which can be fully connected to his own power grid. In the Hong Kong real estate market, nearly one-twentieth is controlled by Xia Tian, ​​and the proportion is quite high, so it is not difficult for him to gain market share.

If power is supplied at a low price in the summer, more people will use their power services. At that time, their two power plants will lose a large amount of market share, which is definitely bad news for them.

So, the problem now is that they are not against it, nor can they ignore it, and of course they are even more unlikely to support it, and they are in a dilemma.

"You have signed a control agreement with the Hong Kong government before. Is there any way to do this?" Wu Qing was reminding them.

After he said this, Li Jiacheng's eyes lit up.

In 1994, in order to limit Hong Kong Power's profits and prevent it from over-raising electricity prices and affecting people's livelihood, the Hong Kong and British government signed a control plan agreement with Hong Kong Power, stipulating that the allowable profit level of Hong Kong Power is 8% of the average net value of fixed assets.

Although this control agreement is not a franchise agreement, it is in principle to allow a third distribution company to enter the market. However, if it is urgent, it is necessary to try whether it is useful or not.

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Li Ka-shing and Ka Daoli then filed a lawsuit with the CFA Office, demanding that the Hong Kong government fulfill the agreement and rejected the application to establish a third power company in Xia Tian.

Because this control agreement is not a franchise agreement and is not effective enough, in order to make the lawsuit more likely to win, Li Jiacheng and Jia Daoli did not hesitate to hire top lawyers to fight this lawsuit.

At the same time, they also regretted that they did not sign a franchise agreement with the Hong Kong and British government at the beginning. It was a mistake to leave a hole to make Xia Tian turn the tables. However, at that time they did not expect Xia Tian to have a power company, so they were completely unprepared and were really upset.

Because it was not the direct defendant in this case, Xia Tian faced much less pressure. However, he did not sit around and watch the fight, but actively helped the Hong Kong government respond to the lawsuit and provided relevant documents, agreements, information, etc.

He understood that Li Jiacheng's purpose in this lawsuit was not to win, but to delay time. Because he could not win just by relying on the control agreement in his hand.

If he sues the Hong Kong government, he can delay time, from the local college to the higher college college and then to the final college college. If the lawsuit is fought one by one, the time can be delayed day by day.

Fighting a lawsuit in Hong Kong is a protracted matter. Mei Yanfang's mother fought for the property dispute for twenty years, Xinma Shizhan and Ma Zheng had fought for ten years, and Gong Ruxin's inheritance case for seven years...

As long as Li Jiacheng is willing, as long as he can afford to pay, he can continue to fight the lawsuit. Once he fights for more than ten years, even if the Hong Kong government wins the lawsuit, the summer power supply plan will be of no use.

Because by then, the golden period of Hong Kong's manufacturing industry will be gone, and if electricity is introduced into Hong Kong, Hong Kong's manufacturing industry will not develop. Without manufacturing, Hong Kong's prospects will be bleak. Even if electricity is brought in, it will only make money from the people at most, and it will not be able to maximize its effectiveness.

Therefore, Xia Tian would not let Li Jiacheng's conspiracy succeed, and immediately organized public opinion to expose and criticize the matter.

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Hong Kong people are very looking forward to a third power company because they have been forced to bear high electricity prices for decades. The high electricity prices have made many ordinary people afraid to turn on air conditioners, blow air conditioners, and use high power household appliances in summer. Because factories also have high electricity prices and high costs, they have to spend hundreds of thousands or millions of electricity bills every year.

Now it is finally easy for a third power company to enter Hong Kong, so they naturally welcome it. But now, Li Jiacheng and others use despicable means to make the people use cheap electricity. This is obviously too much!

Therefore, people who were unwilling to be exploited by profiteers took to the streets to protest, demanding that the Hong Kong government approve the applications of third-party power supply companies as soon as possible so that people can use cheap electricity as soon as possible.

The Hong Kong government is actually very welcome to the introduction of third-party power supply companies, because the newly appointed Hong Kong government is still very willing to do practical things for the people.

In the past life, the 85,000 plan, Cyberport Plan, Traditional Chinese Medicine Port Plan, Silicon Port Plan, etc. were all intended to revitalize Hong Kong's economy and relieve public pressure.

On the one hand, high-priced electricity restricts the development of Hong Kong's manufacturing industry and seriously affects people's daily lives, so reforms are necessary.

So the Hong Kong government finally withstood the pressure and passed the summer application for a third-party power company, allowing him to set up a power company and introduce mainland power into Hong Kong.

At the same time, a press conference was held, criticizing some companies and individuals for their own selfish interests and abusing Sifa and litigating randomly, which not only occupies precious Sifa resources but also disrupts the normal market order.

The Hong Kong government's statement was harsh. Although Li Jiacheng and others were determined to refute, they still endured this tone after considering it.

The so-called people who know the times are heroes! They also realize that both the Hong Kong government and the mainland support and hope that a third power company will appear in Hong Kong.

On the one hand, the input of power from the mainland to Hong Kong will help strengthen the connection between the mainland and Hong Kong; on the other hand, the input of power from the mainland to Hong Kong will help Hong Kong's economic development and improve the living standards of the people. It will kill two birds with one stone.

It’s just that it’s not easy to set up a third power distribution company in Hong Kong.

Because investment is a problem. The construction of the power grid requires a lot of funds, which is difficult for both the Hong Kong government and the mainland to cope with. Except for summer, there is almost no one in Hong Kong, and no company dares to take on this burden.

Since you are willing to invest in summer, it is naturally a good thing for them.

If Lee Ka-shing and others object, they will play against the Hong Kong government and the mainland. Even if they win by chance this time, the consequences will be very serious.

So weighing the pros and cons, they can no longer object to this matter. Otherwise, the loss will not be the monopoly position of electricity, and I am afraid that other places will face difficulties.

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Chapter completed!