Video Game Empire

Chapter 206: Hong Kong Governor's Mansion Dinner

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The company's performance is good, and everyone's mentality is relatively relaxed. The atmosphere of the afternoon meeting is not serious, but full of laughter. It's just that the staff outside were cautious and a little curious when they passed the conference room with the door closed.

After the meeting, Li Xuan had already booked a dinner table for everyone at the Fulinmen Restaurant, but because he was going to the Governor's Palace for the banquet temporarily, he could only regret his absence.

The Hong Kong Governor's Palace is located on Upper Albert Road in Central. It was completed in 1855 and has been the official residence of the Governor of Hong Kong since the fourth Governor of Hong Kong. After the first episode of the "Qiangqiang Threesome" program was broadcast last night, it triggered a lot of follow-up discussions in the newspapers today. Where is the way out for Hong Kong's industry? Many visionaries have seen all kinds of worries behind Hong Kong's booming economy.

Before Li's TV station and TVB TV station in order to compete for ratings. He mainly spends his time on entertainment programs and TV dramas, and has never opened a serious political talk show similar to "The Threesome of Qiang Qiang". After all, the general public at the bottom are more concerned about the firewood, rice, oil, salt and market anecdotes. I don't know much about the politics and economics of high-rise buildings.

And ATV's statistics on the first phase of "The Threesome of Qiang Qiang" also reflected this problem. Compare with the original viewership of the same time period. The performance of "Qiangqiang Threesome" was not as dazzling as the other new columns before it.

But the public sensation it caused was more enthusiastic than the previous "Who Can Be a Millionaire". Almost all Hong Kong newspapers rushed to the draft overnight, distributing resonant articles in editorials or political and economic columns. The right to speak has always been the social elite, and they are born with a humanistic feeling of worrying about the country and the people.

The price of industrial land in the suburbs of Hong Kong is actually three times that of Silicon Valley in the United States. In the past, few people would pay attention to this information, but when the real comparison data is placed in front of everyone, it is hard to believe.

Hong Kong gives the impression of being a free port. Tax rates are relatively low, creating favorable conditions for industrial development. But the tax rate is low because more than half of the Hong Kong government's fiscal revenue comes from land sales. In fact, after the money is passed on layer by layer, it will eventually be reflected in the housing prices of ordinary citizens and the cost of factory rent paid by factory owners. It's just that these hidden taxes are usually ignored by most people, but the wool ends up on the sheep!

"Your Excellency the Governor, I am very honored to have your invitation and have the honor to have dinner with you!" Li Xuan smiled and shook hands with MacLehose who came to greet him. After meeting last year's cocktail party, Li Xuan and the Governor of Hong Kong shook hands. The relationship is not deep.

"Mr. Li Xuan. The Oriental Electronics Company you founded is a banner of the rise of Hong Kong's electronics industry. The government has not communicated enough with the business community before. We hope to have direct dialogue with entrepreneurs like you in the future!" MacLehose solemnly said Speaking of, it's a statement.

If before. Li Xuan may be a little excited. There are only a handful of people in Hong Kong who have the right to talk directly to the Hong Kong Governor. Only the HSBC Taipan and Jardine Matheson's Taipan have such qualifications. This represents a noble status.

But the 25th Governor of Hong Kong in front of him is also the longest-serving Governor in Hong Kong's history. Leaving Hong Kong at the end of the year. MacLehose has been appointed Governor of Hong Kong four times since he took office in 1971. The 64-year-old has served in Hong Kong for ten years.

This news was learned by Li Xuan from a member of the British royal family through Albert Hawke. No. 10 Downing Street will officially announce the news at the end of this month at the earliest. MacLehose's successor has also been identified, the former British ambassador to China Sir Edward Youde.

Youde is a China hand who has dealt with the Communist Party as early as 1949. At that time, the People's Liberation Army's Million Hero Division was preparing to cross the Yangtze River. The British Far East Fleet's frigate "Purple Quartz" did not listen to the dissuasion and illegally invaded the Yangtze River route, intending to interfere with the PLA's crossing of the river, but was severely injured by the PLA's shore artillery fire and stranded.

Youde, who was the third secretary of the British government's embassy in China at that time, stabilized the People's Liberation Army in the name of negotiation, and then let the "Amethyst" escape by night. Afterwards, Youde served as the British ambassador to China from 1974 to 1978. He was one of the few diplomats in the British government who knew the situation in China very well. You can also see that the British government has begun to prepare for the next central negotiations.

In fact, MacLehose has already exceeded the maximum age for governors of overseas territories, but because of his outstanding political performance in Hong Kong throughout the 1970s, he was repeatedly retained by the British government after his term expired. The news that MacLehose will retire is not a secret, after all, his age is already there, but there are variables when he will step down. In order to let him leave as soon as possible, Li Xuan also made a lot of efforts in secret, and paid a check of 500,000 pounds for this.

If the new governor takes office later next year, after he has spent a few months familiarizing himself with the situation in Hong Kong, the Sino-British negotiations will almost begin, and there will be no time to take care of the governance of Hong Kong. However, if the new Hong Kong Governor can take office at the beginning of the year, it will leave enough time for Li Xuan to persuade the new Hong Kong Governor to introduce some policies that are beneficial to him.

The first episode of "Three Walks" is called "The Crisis and Opportunity of Hong Kong Industry". After that, several consecutive episodes will be launched around Hong Kong industry, which will thoroughly heat up this topic. And Li Xuan's target. Naturally, it is the governor who has not yet taken office.

An active non-intervention policy does not mean letting things go. Such more intense rhetoric would be issued when the Governor of Newport took office. There must be suspicion of coercion. After all, Hong Kong is still governed by the British, and it is necessary to master a scale. Can't be too stiff.

The news of the new Hong Kong governor has not yet come out, but in fact, the plan for Youde to take over as the governor of Hong Kong has already won the consensus of Thatcher's cabinet. Compared with Youde, who has also begun to prepare for his appointment in Hong Kong, the recent public opinion in Hong Kong is definitely one of the focuses of his attention. If the entire Hong Kong society is focused on discussing the way out for Hong Kong's industry, he, the new Governor, will naturally have to think about the policy policy in this regard.

"Your Excellency Governor, thank you for your hard work in Hong Kong's social governance over the past ten years! According to ATV's recent survey, you are the most respected Governor ever in the hearts of the public!" Li Xuan said with a deep meaning.

People leave their names, geese leave their voices! Politicians in any country hope that their political achievements will last forever, and the smile on MacLehose's face is even more cheerful: "Really? I don't know who is in second place?"

"Governor Grantham!" Li Xuan said.

about this survey. He didn't lie. In the past ten years of MacLehose's governance of Hong Kong, he implemented anti-corruption and promoted integrity, and reformed social welfare. The whole of Hong Kong has made great progress in housing, integrity, education, medical care, welfare, infrastructure, transportation and society. In addition, MacLehose's image is very close to the people, so that he has won a good reputation among the general public in Hong Kong.

"Mr. Li, you are the youngest and most promising entrepreneur in Hong Kong. What do you think Hong Kong's industry lacks most now?" MacLehose asked. Since he invited Li Xuan to the Governor's Office today, he naturally asked stance.

"I think what is lacking the most is intelligence! The textile industry, which Hong Kong's industry started from in the early days, has been completely weakened due to trade quota restrictions. It has long since dropped out of the top ten of Hong Kong's exports. The top three products exported by Hong Kong are ready-to-wear, toys and watches!

But for these three products, Hong Kong wins with price. For example, Hong Kong's watch exports exceeded 100 million last year, ranking first in the world. However, the price of Hong Kong-made watches is only one-half to one-third that of Japanese products, which can only occupy the low-end market with the least profit margin.

The bottleneck that Hong Kong industry is now encountering. That is, the ability to improve its position in the entire global industrial chain is seriously insufficient! Hong Kong's core technology and the driving force of innovation, such as Hong Kong's watch manufacturing industry, although developed, but the movement of mechanical watches. The electronic watch's circuit boards and other core components are all imported, and the Hong Kong factory actually only earns an assembly fee! "Li Xuan said. In fact, these are old questions, and he did not expect any new plans from the outgoing governor.

What great changes has the rise of Dongfang Electronics brought to Hong Kong's industry? Before 1980. The top five export value of Hong Kong are garments, toys, watches, radios and electric fans. After the rise of Dongfang Electronics, the top five exporters became ready-to-wear, toys, watches, games and computers.

In the first three quarters of this year, the total export output value of UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com Oriental Game Company has exceeded 4 billion Hong Kong dollars. Last year, Hong Kong exported a total of 55 million sets of radios, and the total export value was only 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars. A subsidiary of Dongfang Electronics is enough to be worth an important industry in Hong Kong.

According to rough statistics, the output value created by the two main businesses of Dongfang Electronics, games and computers for Hong Kong has accounted for 15% of the total industrial output value of Hong Kong. However, Dongfang Electronics is still in a period of rapid growth, which is why Li Xuan is qualified to seek higher influence.

"The lack of degrees in Hong Kong's higher education, especially the small number of engineering admissions, has caused the entire Hong Kong industry to face a shortage of high-end talents! I suggest whether it is possible to promote the Hong Kong Polytechnic Institute to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University!" Li Xuan gave his own suggestion.

If the Hong Kong government can vigorously develop higher education, it will undoubtedly benefit the most scientific research enterprises such as Dongfang Electronics. In other respects, there are really not many places for Dongfang Electronics to seek help from the Hong Kong government. The reason why Li Xuan did not insist on building a semiconductor factory in Hong Kong before is also an important aspect of talent shortage. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Pay attention to ~ point / Chinese website public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter), participate now! Everyone has a prize, pay attention now WeChat public account!) (To be continued..)

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