The Industrial Giant Reborn

On the premise that Chen Zhiwen and John Shi have reached a cooperation, the cooperation efficiency between Hutchison and Swire Group has increased rapidly. After all, the transaction is inevitable, and there is no need to make another choice, just negotiate the price.

After a week of negotiations, the Swire Group reached a cooperation agreement with Hutchison and Galaxy Real Estate to sell the 640,000-square-foot Saixi Lake land in the north corner of Hong Kong Island to Galaxy Real Estate, a commercial area of ​​35,000 square feet on Admiralty Parkway, for HK$91 million. The land was sold to Galaxy Properties for HK$78 million.

After the announcement of the official news, the real estate market in Hong Kong was in an uproar.

Cheung Kong Industrial Headquarters:

"I'm sorry, Li Sheng, I didn't get the Saixi Lake land." Sheng Yongneng, the vice president of Cheung Kong Industrial, said a little disappointed.

"It's fine if you don't get it. No one would have thought that Chen Zhiwen would suddenly jump out and buy this land. It was unexpected." Li Jiacheng smiled lightly.

He bought the land of Saixi Lake from Taikoo. After much deliberation, he calculated that several other Chinese-funded real estate companies are running their own businesses, and they should not suddenly rush out to grab the business, but he never thought of Chen Zhiwen. Will sell, after all, although the current Hutchison Huang has improved somewhat, its debts are still extremely heavy. Under normal circumstances, it should operate conservatively, develop its own land and then pay off the debt slowly.

"Failure is failure. I caused the company to lose a huge deal." Sheng Yongneng continued.

"Let's not talk about losses. With hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, in today's Hong Kong, you can buy other land, and you won't lose it no matter what." Li Jiacheng said: "Besides, the deal between Galaxy Real Estate and Swire is between Chen Zhiwen and John Shi We talked about it in person. These two people came forward in person. There may be other transactions. What we can see is only the announcement. In this case, it is useless even if I come forward, so don’t take this matter to heart , The real estate market in Hong Kong has begun to recover, and opportunities abound. Since Saixi Lake failed, we should quickly lock in other land. In addition to Swire, there are still many British companies selling real estate in Hong Kong, such as HK Electric and Wheelock."

"The biggest problem now is that we don't know how many resources are behind Chen Zhiwen." Sheng Yongneng said with some concern. As for the players in Hong Kong's current real estate market, they are very clear that among the British capital, apart from Landmark, The rest are basically the source of welfare for their Chinese capital. Among the Chinese capital, everyone probably knows how powerful they are. Only Chen Zhiwen, after purchasing Hutchison, still has the energy to buy other lands. deep.

"Just avoid it. There is no need to get entangled in this kind of thing. We have the Canadian Imperial Bank behind us. Funding has never been a problem. It depends on our courage." Li Jiacheng said indifferently.

"Okay, I understand." Sheng Yongneng nodded and said, "Then I will find a suitable project for us now."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Li Jiacheng smiled and watched Sheng Yongneng leave the office.

"It's a pity!" Li Jiacheng shook his head. In front of his subordinates, he naturally had to show an indifferent attitude. Besides, this was indeed not the fault of his subordinates.

Although Hong Kong is not without land of similar quality and area, they are all in the hands of other British investors. If you want to get it, you have to look at the opportunity. You have to negotiate for a long time and spend a lot of energy. Swire actually almost succeeded, but because of their own I wanted to make it cheaper here, but it disappeared for no reason.

Galaxy Group Headquarters:

"Chen Sheng, I discussed the construction plan of Zhiwen Primary School with some officials from the Education Bureau of the Hong Kong Government. These are the ten places recommended by the Hong Kong Government. What they mean is that we should choose 5 of them to build School, here are photos of all places and information about the habits nearby." Li Haonan carried a stack of envelopes and a large map of Hong Kong.

There are ten circles marked on the map, with serial numbers from 1-10 on them, and each of the common envelopes is also marked with a serial number, obviously corresponding to the place on the map.

"Yuen Long, Tin Shui Wai, and Tuen Mun are all in this area." Chen Zhiwen said looking at the map.

"Yes, these places are relatively poor and have a large population, so the demand for schools is relatively high. Although the economy of these towns such as Sheung Shui and Shigang is not good, relatively speaking, there are relatively few permanent residents. .” Li Haonan explained.

"There are so many people in these places, is it because they are all from the mainland?" Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

The development of Hong Kong relied on the port at the very beginning. More than 100 years ago, it was one of the largest deep-water ports in Asia and the largest supply place for freighters. Therefore, early Hong Kong people mainly gathered on Hong Kong Island, and a small number of them lived in Kowloon.

With the development of time, the population is increasing, and the population of Hong Kong Island is too large, so the market economy relies on high housing prices to drive the crowd to Kowloon, but most of them also develop from south to north, slowly from Kowloon Tsim Sha Tsui to Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok , Tseung Kwan O, Kowloon Tong, and Sha Tin, while Tin Shui Wai and Yuen Long on the other side of Hong Kong are less populated, but they are suitable for living, and they are close to the mainland, so the population is increasing.

In a few years, when the real estate economy explodes and housing prices in Kowloon become unbearable for ordinary people, the Hong Kong government will plan to turn Yuen Long into a new town in Hong Kong.

But that was in the future, and now it is still very poor, because the transportation is not developed, and there are not many factories.

"Yes, especially in Tin Shui Wai, many mainlanders brought their children to Hong Kong. Although they have obtained ID cards, it is difficult to find jobs. They can only do odd jobs there." Li Haonan nodded and said.

"Then let's build it mainly in Tianshuiwei. People there have lower incomes and need their children to have the opportunity to study more." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.

"Chen Sheng, there is another problem. It is easy for us to build a school. The Hong Kong government also promised to send some teachers over, but the parents of the students may not send their children here. In terms of tuition fees and living expenses, it is a big problem for many families. It’s a lot of investment.” Li Haonan continued: “I have investigated, and many families may really only have enough to eat, and I am afraid that they will be powerless to support their children to go to school.”

"It's okay, I've thought about it. If it is confirmed that the family really has no income, we can send money from our Huagang Fund to subsidize it. But the money must be used wisely, and we must check it out." Chen Zhiwen said.

"Okay, I will let Huagang Fund conduct a preliminary investigation." Li Haonan said.

"In addition, we can announce that if the students of Zhiwen Primary School in the future have excellent grades, we can further support them. As long as they have the ability, it is not a problem to support them to go to university." Chen Zhiwen added.

In many cases, giving a hope will stimulate more than ten times the potential. Otherwise, everyone knows that even if their children are talented, they have no money to go to college, so they will just give up early.

"If this is the case, I think more people will be willing to send themselves to school." Li Haonan said with a smile. Normal people hope that their children can have the opportunity to receive education, whether it is the super rich or the most ordinary family , The poor hope that their children can change their destiny by learning.

"I can help as much as I can. Has the school's structure diagram been released?" Chen Zhiwen continued to ask.

"Not yet, it may need to be specially designed according to different locations." Li Haonan replied.

"Well, let me have a look after the structure is designed." Chen Zhiwen continued: "However, it is best to keep the decoration style the same in several schools. In the future, it needs to be consistent in other places, even other countries, so that everyone can I found that this is the unique style of our Zhiwen Primary School."

"Unique style?" Li Haonan pondered.

"You can't think of it, and I can't think of it. That's why we spent money to hire a designer." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said: "Zhou Jiayang went to the United States to invite a world-renowned architect to come to Hong Kong. Ask him to have a look."