The Industrial Giant Reborn

As the largest entrepreneur recognized in Hong Kong at present, many state-owned enterprises in Yanjing City and local enterprises in other places want to cooperate with Midea or Xinghe Trading. These two are relatively well-known and have already established some enterprises in China. Cooperating with them, I have won a lot of foreign exchange, and even many senior executives and outstanding employees of the company have also obtained the qualifications to go to Hong Kong or even the United States. Going out of the country once is willing to pay a huge price.

However, the person in charge of business in Yanjing City is also very considerate. It is impossible for everyone to come to see Chen Zhiwen, and even other Hong Kong businessmen are not so easy to meet. Submit the content plan that you want to cooperate with, and even so, there are restrictions. If the enterprise does not have a certain scale, don't even think about it.

Those who are able to meet Hong Kong businessmen are also leaders at the level of Yanjing City who are in charge of national coordination in a certain field. These people will come forward to discuss some possible cooperation plans.

Apart from Chen Zhiwen, other Hong Kong businessmen also have their own plans. After all, they are here, so they must have fun, and those who are less will invest several million Hong Kong dollars.

Before coming, Chen Zhiwen also made preparations. In an external hotel outside the State Guesthouse, Midea and Xinghe sent more than 30 people here, just to analyze the manufacturers that can cooperate with Midea, or they can supply Midea, or He can produce cost-effective supermarket daily necessities, etc., but Chen Zhiwen himself is relatively leisurely, and he is lazy to ask if there is no business worth hundreds of millions.

In the next two days, Chen Zhiwen accompanied his uncle's family to climb the Great Wall, visit the Forbidden City, visit the Summer Palace, etc., and experience the scenery of Yanjing City in the 1980s.

On the sixth day in Yanjing, Chen Zhiwen didn't go out to play again, because an unexpected guest came.

"Chen Sheng, this is Director Yin of the Ministry of Communications. He is in charge of road planning across the country. Director Yin, this is Chen Zhiwen and Chen Sheng, the most successful Chinese entrepreneur in Hong Kong." Hu Yingxiang of Hehe Industrial brought A guest was introduced immediately after the meeting.

"Mr. Chen, hello, I have heard of your name a long time ago in the mainland." Director Yin smiled and shook hands.

"Director Yin, hello." Chen Zhiwen also smiled and shook hands, "Please come in."

The three of them walked to the sofa in the inner living room. Hot tea has been prepared here. People in China, not to mention now, not many people are used to drinking coffee even after decades. The tea here is also prepared for them in China. All are first-class tea.

The intermediary Hu Yingxiang first said: "Sheng Chen, I brought Director Yin here today because he heard that you are also planning to invest in the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway project, so there is something he needs to talk to you about."

"Is there any problem with investing in Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

Although Guangdong Province and Shenhai City are not too far away, the investment in highways, even the small developed countries in Europe, is very difficult to build their own highways with their own fiscal revenue. The amount of funds involved is very high. Huge, although Hu Yingxiang is one of the five real estate giants in Hong Kong, even with bank loans, it is difficult for his family to raise the funds needed for this section of more than 100 kilometers of highway.

Therefore, a lot of other funds from Hong Kong also participated, including Chen Zhiwen, but the proportion of his investment is not large, only 10%, purely for participation, and another purpose, that is, the syndicate of banks that make loans also pay more attention to investment Who are among the investors, the more the number, the stronger the strength, and the more assured the bank is, the less the risk is, the less the interest can be. If a person and Ma Yun start a joint venture company together in 50 years later, it will naturally not let Banks are skeptical.

"No problem, we very much welcome Mr. Chen to invest in China." Director Yin smiled, and said: "I came here to see Mr. Chen today, in fact, I mainly want to ask. Invest in a similar highway?"

"Domestic expressway? Which city does it connect to?" Chen Zhiwen's heart moved, but there was no change on his face, and he asked.

"Currently domestic traffic has the highest demand for expressways, which belong to the section from Yanjing to TJ City. However, considering the convenience of exporting a large number of factory goods in Yanjing City, the expressway needs to be extended to Tanggu, where there is an exit. The port." Seeing that Chen Zhiwen did not veto, but asked for details, Director Yin was overjoyed and immediately replied.

Yanjing City is not only the capital, but also the economic center of the north. There are many industries here, with a large number of factories, which produce a large amount of goods every day for export or transportation to other cities in the country.

But in terms of scale and quantity, it is still inferior to Shanghai. In addition to the fact that Shanghai was the industrial and economic center of the country decades ago, the impact of transportation is very large. In fact, everyone's land transportation is similar, but Shanghai is close to the sea. Jiang, it's so convenient to transport goods, but if you want to go to the seaside for things in Yanjing, you have to go to Tianjin and then go to Tanggu.

You must know that the role of the port is not just for export. In fact, the goods can be sent to all coastal areas in China through the offshore, which is much more convenient and cost-effective than domestic transportation. This naturally led to the Yanjing-Tianjin-Tanggu section. Congestion, and severe damage to roads due to prolonged loads.

However, before the change, everyone was used to it, and they didn’t think there was any problem with it. But after the change, many leaders of the Ministry of Communications also went overseas. When they saw the highways in Japan and the United States, they realized this. It is the future of transportation development.

However, the cost of expressways is too high. Even if there is not much demolition fees and labor in the country, the construction cost of one kilometer is close to tens of millions of dollars. At present, the annual financial allocation of the entire Ministry of Communications is only 150 million yuan. , This amount of funds is not enough to build a ten-kilometer expressway, not to mention that even the capital Yanjing and TJ City, the amount that can be distributed is only 5 million yuan.

Huge economic pressure. Originally, the Ministry of Communications had given up building expressways, but Hong Kong billionaire Hu Yingxiang proposed the model of first building roads and then tolling, which gave everyone a hope. However, this kind of investment is too much, and there is still no way to raise so much money domestically. , can only rely on foreign businessmen, but how can ordinary foreign businessmen overseas invest so much money to build expressways in the Mainland? Only a small group of businessmen, such as Hu Yingxiang, who want to build the motherland have this courage and ability.

After some communication, the Ministry of Communications also learned that with Hu Yingxiang's ability, the construction of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway basically required all resources, and it was impossible to build another expressway. The people in the Ministry even wanted to persuade Hu Yingxiang to give up the construction Shenzhen Expressway came to build the expressway between Yanjing and Tianjin, because relatively speaking, the latter is obviously more important, but in the end, considering that it is the frontier of reform and opening, and the eyes of the whole country are fixed on it, it can only be this way in the end.

But what he didn't expect was that Hu Yingxiang proposed to him another rich man to invest in the construction of the highway, and Chen Zhiwen's wealth and financial resources were obviously stronger and more capable. This gave the entire Ministry of Communications new hope. With the construction of this expressway, the economy near Yanjing City may be raised to a higher level.

"Yanjing to Tanggu? This road should be more than 100 kilometers long?" Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said, in his memory, the most famous expressways in the country with the best economic benefits are the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway, Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, Jingjintang Expressway, etc. Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway is presided over by Hu Yingxiang. Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway is not needed at present, because the economy of Jiangsu Province has not yet developed, and there are railways and Yangtze River water transport, which is enough for the time being However, the route of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway is too long, and given the current domestic economic conditions, this road is not needed at present, and the rest is the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway.

The logic here is very simple. As long as it is a highway connecting big cities, it must have high returns in the future, and it is also the most needed investment in China at present.

"Yes, we haven't measured the specific high-speed route, but it is estimated to be about 120 kilometers." Director Yin said that measuring the land also requires a very large investment. At least the soil bearing capacity test needs to be carried out in all the passing places. If there is no budget, Then the government department can only make a rough calculation.

"Then this expressway also needs a joint venture?" Chen Zhiwen asked. The Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway is actually a joint venture. The domestic party accounts for 51% of the capital, but there is no money at all. The only advantage of repaying the money is that there is a very large number of construction teams in China. Although there are not many expressways in China, a lot of railways have been built in the past few decades. At least there is no shortage of qualified workers.

"Yes, this is a stipulation of the national law. For the specific cooperation plan, we can refer to the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway invested by Mr. Hu in East Guangdong. If you have any ideas, we can discuss it again." Director Yin said with a smile.

"Well, Director Yin, I have this intention for this investment, but I need the data after specific measurement to make a decision. As for the funds needed for land measurement, I can pay in advance and calculate it into the investment after the project is confirmed. How?" Chen Zhiwen said after thinking for a moment.

No matter how you invest in the expressway with the most lucrative domestic profits in the future, you will not lose money in the future. If there is a loss, you just need to put forward more win-win requirements. However, in terms of time, it is a pity to waste it. It took several years for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway from the intention to the start of construction. Therefore, I can advance the funds first. Measure, and when the contract is signed, the construction can start directly.