The Industrial Giant Reborn

Chapter 178
"Come down for dinner?" Mother Wu Xiuling's voice came from downstairs.

"Let's go, let's go, I'm already hungry too, but you mother and son don't allow me to drink Coke, otherwise I wouldn't be so hungry." Chen Tianfu put away some things on the table and said complainingly.

"Eat less sugar, that's what the nutritionist said, or drink a bottle of Coke and swim with me for 30 minutes." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

As he gets older, his metabolism cannot keep up, and eating more sugar may cause physical problems. Chen Zhiwen is very concerned about his family and his own body, especially in this era, where medical technology is far inferior to that of future generations. 50 years later, a diabetic Both are terminally ill.

When he has nothing to do, Chen Zhiwen likes to go swimming in the downstairs swimming pool. This is the simplest way to exercise. The only problem is that the 20-meter-long swimming pool is a bit too small. If you change houses in the future, you will have to change to a bigger one.

"Forget it, I can't stand this day, let's talk about it in Xia Tian." Chen Tianfu shook his head quickly and said.

The meals downstairs, as Chen Zhiwen requested, are basically vegetables. For meat dishes, there is only a plate of shrimp tails and a plate of pickled fish. When it is spicy, it is really refreshing.

The next day, Chen Zhiwen, who recovered quickly from the jet lag, arrived at Hutchison Whampoa's Hutchison Building at ten o'clock in the morning.

The name of this building has not been changed, because the Whampoa Group also has a Whampoa Building, which is only a dozen floors high, and it is still in Hung Hom.

After becoming a Chinese star in Hong Kong, many newspapers in Hong Kong always like to put his name in it, and because it involves himself, Chen Zhiwen naturally needs attention. He has not been in Hong Kong for so long, and the newspapers have accumulated a lot. Fortunately, Chen Zhiwen has long established a special board secretary meeting, and six young and beautiful women who have returned from studying abroad were arranged in Hutchison Whampoa, Red Bull and Galaxy respectively.

From the perspective of company affairs, Hutchison Whampoa is naturally the most. Naturally, Hutchison Whampoa has three board secretaries stationed inside, and one person is responsible for collecting newspaper information, selecting important, relevant, and suitable ones, and then handing them over to Chen Zhiwen. This saves him a lot of time.

The secretaries of the board of directors prepared the materials very well, and they even had a special list. At a glance, Chen Zhiwen could see what happened in Hong Kong during this period, and which media mentioned him.

After reading it in less than half an hour, Chen Zhiwen handed the newspaper to a board secretary standing aside, and then said to Zhou Jiayang and Richard who were sitting opposite: "During this time, the hype in Hong Kong There is a lot of news about our plans to develop the Hung Hom site? Is there any news from HSBC?"

For some media, Chen Zhiwen doesn't care at all, but the attitude of big banks is still more important.

"No, there is no movement from HSBC. We repay the principal and interest of the debt to HSBC every month, and there is no action from them," Richard said.

"It's good news if there's no movement." Chen Zhiwen nodded, then took out a business card from his pocket, handed it to Richard and said, "Richard, this is a special malpractice that I found in the United States using my relationship." They have the ability to clear some of Hutchison's overseas projects in a short period of time.

In addition, I have already negotiated with the other party about the port of Hehuang in Indonesia. The transaction is 1500 million US dollars. After getting the cash, the Indonesian port has no relationship with us and Huang. You are responsible for negotiating with them and disposing of it. All Hutchison overseas business. "

This is the benefit of keeping a bunch of British inside Hutchison. This kind of negotiating business with Europeans and Americans is the most suitable way to find these ghosts. They are all white, and they are naturally much better. There is indeed such a trend in society, unless you can get involved in a large Japanese conglomerate, or at least Bao Yugang's level, can you be treated equally by others.

"Sell all of them? Now Hehuang's debt is much better, and some overseas investments can be profitable." Richard said with some reluctance. Many of these projects started when he was under Qi Dezun. He also knows how it works.

"Withdraw your fist, you can punch better." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile: "He Huang will go out again sooner or later. One Hong Kong can't satisfy me, but not now. What we need to do now is to obtain enough funds and then develop on a larger scale, and then go overseas.”

"Okay, Mr. Chen, I understand what you mean." Richard nodded and said. Although a group of British people don't know how to develop real estate, they are not fools. They naturally know the profits of Hong Kong real estate. Hutchison Huang is now obviously Shrink most fronts, and then focus on real estate development.

As for the future?Whether to continue to be a large local real estate company in Hong Kong, or to diversify like the previous Hutchison Wong, is beyond their control, but for them, they still hope that Hutchison Wong can diversify, because in terms of real estate, they The British can't, but diversification and other fields are their strengths, and they are also the weaknesses of Hutchison's internal Chinese capital.

But the boss has been shrinking funds and selling most of the business, leaving them helpless.

Next, Richard reported the development of Hutchison Huang's various businesses in the past month, as well as the sales of the business. Generally speaking, everything was within Chen Zhiwen's expectations. It is impossible to stay. Even if in the future, Hutchison Huang has enough funds, it will, like Hutchison Whampoa under the later generation of Lao Li, select a few areas for development and strive to develop into a world-class level.

After Richard left, Zhou Jiayang said: "Chen Sheng, I have already had a preliminary communication with the Hong Kong Lands Department and the Chamber of Commerce about the Midea Industrial Park, but they insist on paying the normal industrial land price. For the transaction, I calculated it, and the cost of buying the land alone may cost hundreds of millions, which is too uneconomical, but Wanwan proposed to exempt the land fee."

"We are begging the Hong Kong government for this, of course they are hardened." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said, "So we have to turn around and build momentum to suppress the Hong Kong government?"

"Chen Sheng means to use employment to suppress the Hong Kong government? But I am worried that the Hong Kong government will not care about this kind of industry?" Zhou Jiayang said with a frown.

"MacLehose still cares. He has a strong understanding of the economy and manages Hong Kong fairly well. As long as we put pressure on the media, it may have some effect." Chen Zhiwen pointed out He pointed to a few newspapers on the table and said.

The Hong Kong British government, in many cases, especially a few decades ago, did not care about the life and death of ordinary people in Hong Kong. However, with the decline of the empire on which the sun never sets, the mainland has become one of the five permanent members. The port has become a gathering place of wealth, which can bring considerable benefits to the UK, and the British government has only begun to pay attention to it.

The current MacLehose is indeed a good governor, but it was able to successfully launch the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong, which touched so many people's cheese. The mainland, which needs to import a large amount of high-tech equipment and materials from Hong Kong, also urgently needs the situation in Hong Kong to stabilize.

The real failure of the British Hong Kong government is that it was not until the 80s, after it was determined that Hong Kong would return to the mainland in 1997, that it began to let the real estate market be in chaos, and deliberately increased the income of civil servants many times, plus increasing various infrastructure investments. Stimulating Hong Kong's economy in the short term is also the fundamental reason why the real estate bubble period from 85 to 97 lasted for 12 years. Before that, the real estate market basically cycled every 6 to 8 years.

On the private side, Hong Kong's main export economy before MacLehose was the simplest light industry or assembly industry such as textiles, garments, and watches. With the development of the electronics industry, in the early 80s, Hong Kong became the world's most famous place for electronics manufacturing, and the export of electronic products also became the top five export industries in Hong Kong.

However, due to limited ability, MacLehose is not capable of cultivating an electronics giant, even in the UK, but at least MacLehose is good in terms of industrial attitude.

"Then we can only try it." Zhou Jiayang nodded and said, although he is not involved in the management of Midea and Red Bull, he understands real estate.

Therefore, Midea and Red Bull naturally entrusted him to find suitable land, but the demand is too great, and considering the needs of surrounding workers, it cannot be placed in a place that is too remote.Zhou Jiayang found a few suitable places, but the larger the area, the higher the cost.

On the other hand, as Chen Zhiwen's intimate assistant, he actually understands what the boss means, because in many plans of Red Bull, Midea, and Anta, one or two or three floors are built on the ground. If it is really just for building factories, Some workshops can be built on industrial office buildings.

Chen Zhiwen said: "Then let the major newspapers in Hong Kong publish it together. In addition, when the time is right, I will ask TVB to participate again."

(End of this chapter)