The Industrial Giant Reborn

Chapter 197 The Unchangeable Painful History

Miss Hong Kong's activities have entered a traditional low ebb period. It will take some time to attract and find suitable people to participate in the finals.

After confirming that this year's Miss Hong Kong election will definitely shine, Chen Zhiwen started to work again with peace of mind.

Whampoa Garden, the largest real estate project in Hong Kong's history, has started construction. Almost most of the entire Hutchison Group's funds have been put on this project. Other business departments are basically in a low-key period, and it is enough to maintain normal operations.

If you have the ability, you can make a breakthrough by yourself. Chen Zhiwen is not opposed to some capable teams expanding their business, but thinking about it, this is Hong Kong. Apart from real estate, there are basically no opportunities against the sky.

Similarly, the slimming campaign of non-real estate businesses is still going on. In less than a year, Hutchison, which once had 360 different businesses, has sold 300 of them today, and the company has reduced its staff by tens of thousands. From an outsider's perspective, the company has shrunk a lot.

What remains is the business that has the potential to become a giant.

The remaining core business has also undergone multiple reorganizations. They are Hutchison Real Estate, which is in charge of the real estate business. One of the real estate companies.

Although Hutchison has gradually got rid of the debt crisis, the cooperation with Li Jiacheng is still continuing. Hutchison has internal data on previous cooperation. The cooperation with Li Jiacheng has the highest return and a high turnover rate.

The second largest business is the port. Currently in Hong Kong, there are 1.5 berth terminals belonging to Hutchison, half of which are joint ventures with Hyundai International Container Terminals under Wharf. This half-berth terminal was obtained only last year With a turnover of 6 million Hong Kong dollars, the gross profit is as high as 2.8 million Hong Kong dollars. However, the original investment of the terminal was borrowed. The current Hutchison Wharf is only repaying the loan with profits. It's time to lie down and make money.

The third business, of course, is retail, but it is still in its infancy, and it mainly develops locally in Hong Kong. ParknShop has opened 30 new stores in the past six months, and Watsons has opened 13 new cosmetic stores in Central. Home, although it looks good, compared with the whole Hutchison, it is just testing the waters.

The fourth business is trade in and out of Hong Kong. The main direction is building materials. Although the transaction amount is large, the profit is only a few points.

At present, these four businesses are the main ones, and there are several others that Chen Zhiwen is optimistic about, but they have not yet started, such as telecommunications and infrastructure. These need to wait for an opportunity, and more importantly, they need a lot of funds. It is not yet the period of rapid expansion.

In addition to Hutchison, the industrial park in Yuen Long has already started formal construction. A large number of construction teams have entered the site to level the land, and all factories will be established soon.

Although this is the largest and most advanced industrial park in Hong Kong's history, most of it is basic assembly, and the requirements for construction facilities are not high, so as long as Party A's money is in place, the speed of construction will naturally be extremely fast.

As for Midea and Red Bull, if they complete the construction of this industrial park earlier, the production capacity of so many businesses under their own will be greatly increased, and even the cost will be reduced, which will be more conducive to gaining more overseas markets. .

Yuen Long, a corner northeast of Midea Industrial Park, in an 5-story building with an area of ​​8 square feet:
"Chen Sheng, these are the first batch of sports shoes we made with the help of Nike engineers." A Chinese about 40 years old handed over a new set of shoes in his hand.

"Wang Gong, you've worked hard." Chen Zhiwen said politely. This Wang Gong's name is Wang Hualong, and he is a well-known master in Hong Kong's shoemaking industry. It's not because he works the longest, but because his ability is solid In the strongest, in his previous job, he designed new shoes many times, and was also appreciated by the customers of the company he used to work for.

After signing a supply agreement and a shareholding agreement with Nike, Chen Zhiwen established Anta Shoes in Hong Kong. The initial purpose was to supply purely for Nike.

In this way, capable and experienced footwear talents are naturally recruited with high salaries. In just two months, Anta Footwear has recruited more than 40 engineers in one go.

Although it sounds like a lot of people, the wages in Hong Kong are still very low. Even the most powerful Wang Hualong only earns 2500 Hong Kong dollars a month, and many of these engineers can speak English, so they can communicate with Nike engineers. very convenient.

Because time was the most urgent, Chen Zhiwen specially arranged for the Nike factory to be built first in the industrial park, and then the equipment dismantled from the United States was also put in place in batches. At the same time, Chinese engineers studied and studied with Nike engineers.

With equipment available, Nike shoes with good quality were produced as early as the end of March, but sample production and mass production are obviously two different things, which require a lot of production experience, a lot of skilled workers, a lot of cooperation, etc. Therefore, even if it works day and night, it took more than two months before the factory officially produced the first batch of 3 shoes.

"Find me a pair of size 43, I'll try it." Chen Zhiwen looked at the light shoes in his hands, and suddenly became interested, "Okay." Wang Hualong nodded, and then gave instructions to the people around him, and it took a while , a pair of size 43 shoes was sent over.

"It feels pretty good." After Chen Zhiwen put on the shoes, he took a few steps to feel them, and they seemed to be similar to the thousand-yuan sneakers he bought from Nike and Adidas later on.

The development of history has little to do with shoes. In many ways, shoes are no worse than 50 years later. This is a useless industry for pure prophets, but by virtue of their early investment in Nike, they became their suppliers. There is also an opportunity to enter the footwear industry.

"The quality of these shoes is no less than that of Adidas. One of my previous companies also supplied goods to Adidas." Wang Hualong said with a smile.

"There are Adidas suppliers in Hong Kong?" Chen Zhiwen asked curiously. Hong Kong's shoe industry is far less developed than that of clothing, and shoes are mainly cloth shoes, slippers and other products. Galaxy Trading has also purchased for Costco and Wal-Mart many times. These are the simplest shoes.

"Yes, but it was only for two years, and then the order disappeared. I don't know why." Wang Hualong said.

Chen Zhiwen didn't ask any further questions, and said, "Okay, let's follow this. After the production is completed, it will be ready to be supplied to the United States. Now it is the initial stage of production, so we must attach great importance to quality, otherwise, the company may close down at any time."

This is not to scare the employees, but even if you are already a major shareholder of Nike, but the quality of the shoes you supply is not good, how can you have the face to continue to ask for orders?

"Okay, no problem. We only produced during the day shift at the beginning. Everyone, including Nike's engineers, will follow the factory. Only when the quality is stable and enough talents are trained, we will start the night shift again." Wang Hualong nodded and said. .

"Okay, then I'll wait for your good news." Chen Zhiwen said, for his own strategic investment, Chen Zhiwen pays more attention to it, which is a sharp weapon that can control the employment of tens of thousands of people in the future.

Chen Zhiwen is very satisfied with the successful completion of Anta's samples. When the quality is stable in the future and he has enough funds, he can set up footwear brands in Asia first.

As soon as I got back to the office, I saw Zhou Jiayang walking over with a serious face and said: "Chen Sheng, something happened in the north, it's a big earthquake."

There are too many things that cannot be changed by manpower, and natural disasters are naturally one of them, and there is no way to change them even when gods come.

Although he knew the result, Chen Zhiwen met Liang Weilin, then president of Xinhua News Agency, in a coffee shop in the Kowloon Peninsula.

"President Liang, hello, I'm very glad to meet you." Chen Zhiwen met the president of Xinhua News Agency who was already full of gray hair.

Mr. Liang shook hands with a smile and said, "Sheng Chen, I have admired him for a long time. In Hong Kong for so many years, Mr. Chen is the only businessman I admire. The acquisition of Hutchison Group has really increased the prestige of my Hong Kong Chinese."

Faced with the invitation of this potential star in the Hong Kong business world, President Liang naturally had to come to meet in person. This kind of entrepreneur who controls the fate of tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong has always been a good friend of Xinhua News Agency. The opponent, put the opponent in the middle position.

"Where is it?" Chen Zhiwen said modestly: "Then the other one must be Bao Yugang, the ship king?"

Facing those people in Europe and the United States, especially his partners, Chen Zhiwen has always been very confident and arrogant. This is because in Western culture, when you should be tough, you must be tough and show your ability. Otherwise, people will look down on you instead. , but in Chinese culture, it's the other way around. You can be humble when appropriate, but you can't go too far.

"Yes, Baosheng has always been the pride of the Chinese." President Liang said with a smile.

"Please sit down." Chen Zhiwen stretched out his hand to signal that today is naturally a treat for him, a capitalist.

"Thank you very much." President Liang nodded.

"President Liang, this is a wish from me, please accept it." After sitting down, Chen Zhiwen took out a check from his pocket and handed it to President Liang.

"Sheng Chen, thank you very much for your support, but I can't accept it." President Liang glanced at the last few zeros on the check, and felt a ripple in his heart.

1000 million, or US dollars, who can not be tempted?

When he was suddenly met by Chen Zhiwen, a top entrepreneur in the Chinese community in Hong Kong, President Liang knew that the other party must be for that matter, but he was still surprised to get so many donations.

However, he was still very happy in his heart. Although he couldn't accept this check, having this intention was enough to explain the other party's attitude.

You know, the Xinhua News Agency was established as early as 1947. The main purpose of the establishment is to unite the Chinese in Hong Kong. Business superstars like Bao Yugang and Chen Zhiwen are the core goals. If they can get such a large donation this time, then The opponent is at least a centrist.

"I don't have any demands, and I won't make any demands in the future. Is it okay?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"This is a rule, Chen Sheng, I can't help it." President Liang said helplessly.

"Then, as a Hong Konger, I donated money to the country, not for this earthquake, how? The mainland government can use this fund for other places, such as agriculture, industrial development, urban renovation, whatever." Chen Zhiwen continued.

At present, the country is still a planned economy, and each place has its own spending plan. When this happens suddenly, it must raise funds from other places. If you can donate from other directions, it can be regarded as indirect help, and a large amount of funds are withdrawn. Under the circumstances, there must be many places that are really short of funds.Most importantly, it doesn't seem to violate the rules.

"This..." President Liang was a little embarrassed. Although it seemed to be okay, anyone with a discerning eye knew what was going on. After thinking for a while, he said, "Chen Sheng, if you really have the heart, we can't accept this money, especially now, after a few days Months may be ok, but it’s better to replace it with other materials, such as agricultural products, industrial products, etc.”

"Okay, after a few months, I'll switch to food." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, before the re-opening, it's really not appropriate to give money directly. Even after the re-opening, Bao Yugang wanted to donate a hotel in Yanjing. Many people are afraid to take over.

Food is still a hard currency in China, and it happens to be winter in a few months, so food is needed even more.

When the coffee came, President Liang drank a few sips, chatted with Chen Zhiwen for a while, and then left.

With such a big event happening in the mainland, Chen Zhiwen was not the only one who came to him, but also reporters from countless newspapers. They wanted to surround him so that he could come out to see Chen Zhiwen, and they ran out in disguise.

After returning home.

Chen Tianfu, who was already waiting anxiously, saw his son come back, and hurriedly asked, "How is it?"

"No." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said.

"Why is that?" Wu Xiuling asked a little puzzled.

"We probably don't know the specific situation, so we won't discuss it." Chen Tianfu continued: "But thinking about so many people, I still feel uncomfortable?"

"Dad, don't worry too much. The domestic disaster relief capability is definitely the best in the world. You have to believe this." Chen Zhiwen said firmly. Maybe the country is a little poorer now, but every time the disaster relief capability of the Chinese nation is definitely second to none. .

"Well, to be honest, we can't help much." Chen Tianfu shook his head and said.

"Actually, that's right. It mainly depends on the country." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, this kind of super disaster requires tens of thousands of manpower for the rescue alone, a large number of professional teams, and the cost of post-recovery needs to be supported by all the power of the country. Although there are a lot of donations at home and abroad, the main body is still supported by the state.

In fact, Chen Zhiwen also knows that his donation this time will definitely not be accepted, and he just hopes to help, because at this time, there are indeed too many people in need of help, and even indirect assistance may save many people. life.

Chen Tianfu also came back to his senses, and said: "That's the only way to go, Ah Wen, don't your companies have a lot of purchases? Maybe you can also tilt more towards the mainland. There will always be more foreign exchange in the country. A little ability saves people, a little more, a better economy, and many people will benefit.”

"No problem. At the Canton Fair this fall, I will ask Midea to go to the mainland to find some suppliers of simple industrial products. Industrial exports are of greater significance to the mainland." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

In fact, the Mainland and Wanwan have been competing for so many years, including the Hong Kong market and the development of the export industry. Before the 70s, the Mainland basically gave priority to it, because the large amount of basic food that Hong Kong needs every day is an astronomical figure. , The China Resources Group in the Mainland is mainly responsible for the supply of people's livelihood products to Hong Kong. At its peak, export earnings accounted for one-third of the entire Mainland.

However, since the late 60s, Wanwan has introduced foreign capital on a large scale to develop the OEM industry. As a result, in less than ten years, the export value has exceeded that of the mainland.

This actually surprised the mainland. It clearly provided the basic living materials for more than 400 million people in Hong Kong, but the amount of exports to Hong Kong was surpassed by Wanwan. The reason is very simple. It is because Hong Kong is not suitable for opening factories, so most of them have found Wanwan to be in charge. Although it seems that there are not many processed products, the value far exceeds the daily necessities.

"That's fine. I heard that the domestic injection molding industry is okay. They should have no problem making electric fans and radio casings." Chen Tianfu nodded and said.

"No, it doesn't matter. As long as we have enough orders, they will improve. Isn't Hong Kong's industry developed in this way?" Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

There are no companies that can do well when they first start a business. The development of any country also develops from low to high. With sufficient orders and an attitude of wanting to develop, the quality and cost performance can be gradually improved.

Besides, the mainland is so big, there are always those who can do well, and it must be much cheaper than suppliers in Hong Kong, which is also good for Midea.

"Well, help as much as you can, as long as you have a clear conscience." Chen Tianfu nodded and said.

His construction companies, even the construction companies under Hehuang and Xinghe, need to purchase a large amount of construction materials from outside every year, and many of them come from the mainland, but this is not a help, because these have always come from the mainland, especially It is river sand, which can only be imported from the mainland.

But industrial products are the weak point of the mainland, and this kind of order can make them feel meaningful. Obviously, only Chen Zhiwen has this ability.

"There will be opportunities in the future." Chen Zhiwen said.

What has happened can't be changed, so I can only find a way to help in the future. Anyway, it will be changed, and it will be here soon!
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