Under the premise that Chen Zhiwen and John Shi reached a cooperation, the cooperation efficiency between Hutchison Whampoa and Swire Group increased rapidly. After all, the transaction was inevitable. There was no need to make a choice, only to negotiate the price.
After a week of negotiations, the Swire Group reached a cooperation agreement with Hutchison Whampoa and Galaxy Properties to sell the 640,000-square-foot Saixi Lake land in the North Point of Hong Kong Island to Galaxy Properties for HK$91 million. A commercial area of 35,000 square feet on Baiyun Road in Admiralty The land was sold to Galaxy Real Estate for HK$78 million.
After the official news was announced, the real estate market in Hong Kong was in an uproar.
Cheung Kong Industries Headquarters:
"I'm sorry, Li Sheng, I didn't get the land in Saixi Lake." Sheng Yongneng, the vice president of Yangtze River Industries, said a little disappointed.
"Forget it 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 said with a soft smile.
He had carefully considered the acquisition of the land in Saixi Lake from Taikoo, and had considered that several other Chinese real estate companies were running their own businesses, so he should not suddenly rush out to grab business, but he never thought of Chen Zhiwen. After all, Hutchison Whampoa, although it has improved somewhat, is still extremely in debt. 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.
"We can't talk about losses. With hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, you can buy other land in Hong Kong today, and you won't lose anything no matter what." Li Jiacheng said: "Besides, the transaction between Galaxy Real Estate and Swire was the result of Chen Zhiwen and John Shi. It was discussed in person. These two people came forward in person. There may be other transactions. All we can see is the announced ones. In this case, even if I come forward, it will be useless, so don’t take it to heart. , Hong Kong’s real estate market has begun to recover, and opportunities abound. Since Saixi Lake failed, we will quickly lock in other land. In addition to Swire, there are many British investors in Hong Kong selling real estate, such as Hong Kong Electric and Wheelock.”
"The biggest problem now is that we don't know how many resources there are behind Chen Zhiwen." Sheng Yongneng said with some worry. As for the players in Hong Kong's current real estate market, they all know that among British investors, except for Land, Everything else is basically a source of welfare for their Chinese capital. Among the Chinese capital, everyone has a rough idea of how powerful they are. Only Chen Zhiwen, after acquiring Hutchison Whampoa, still has the energy to acquire other land. I don’t know how strong his foundation is. deep.
"Just avoid it. There is no need to worry about this kind of thing. We have the Canadian Imperial Bank behind us, and funding has never been a problem. It just depends on our courage." Li Jiacheng said nonchalantly.
"Okay, I understand." Sheng Yongneng nodded and said, "Then I will go find a suitable project for us now."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Li Jiacheng smiled and watched Sheng Yongneng leave the office.
"What 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 there is land in Hong Kong with similar quality and area, they are all in the hands of other British capital. If you want to get it, you have to look at the opportunity. It will take a long time to negotiate and spend a lot of energy. In fact, Swire has almost succeeded, but because of its own I wanted to make it cheaper here, but it was gone for no reason.
Galaxy Group Headquarters:
"Sheng Chen, 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 to us by the Hong Kong government. What they mean is to let us choose five of them to build. School, here are photos of all places and information about nearby habits." Li Haonan brought a stack of envelopes and a large map of Hong Kong.
There are ten circles marked on the map, with serial numbers from 1 to 10 on them, and each of the common envelopes is also marked with a serial number, which obviously corresponds 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 relatively large population, so the demand for schools is relatively high. Although the economies of towns such as Sheung Shui and Shek Kong are not good, relatively speaking, there are relatively few permanent residents. ." Li Haonan explained.
"There are so many people in these places because they all come from the mainland, right?" Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.
Hong Kong's development relied on ports from the very beginning. More than 100 years ago, this was one of the largest deep-water ports in Asia and the largest supply place for cargo ships. Therefore, in the early days, Hong Kong people mainly gathered on Hong Kong Island, with a small amount in Kowloon.
As time goes by, the population increases, and Hong Kong Island has too many people. So the market economy relies on high housing prices to drive people to Kowloon, but most of them develop from south to north, slowly from Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon to Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok. , Tseung Kwan O, Kowloon Tong, Sha Tin, while Tin Shui Wai and Yuen Long on the other side of Hong Kong have a smaller population, but they are suitable for living here and 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 are so high that ordinary people cannot afford it, the Hong Kong government will prepare to turn Yuen Long into a new town in Hong Kong.
But that was in the future, but it is still very poor here because the transportation is not developed and there are not many factories.
"Yes, especially in Tin Shui Wai, many mainlanders bring their children to Hong Kong. Although they have obtained ID cards, it is difficult to find jobs. They can only live by doing odd jobs there." Li Haonan nodded.
"Then let's build it mainly in Tin Shui Wai. People there have lower incomes and more need their children to have the opportunity to study." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said.
"Sheng Chen, there is another question. It is easy for us to build a school. The Hong Kong government has also promised to send some teachers here, but the parents of the students may not send their children here. In terms of tuition fees and living expenses, it is a problem for many families. It’s not a small investment.” Li Haonan continued: “I have investigated and found that many families may really only have enough to eat, so they may be powerless to support their children in school.”
"It's okay. I have thought about this. If it is determined that the family really has no income, we can use our Huagang Fund to subsidize it. However, the money must be spent wisely and checked clearly." 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 very good grades, we can provide further support. As long as they have the ability, it will not be a problem to support them to go to university." Chen Zhiwen added.
Many times, giving a hope can 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 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 they are the super rich or the most ordinary family. , the poor hope that their children can change their destiny through learning.
"Please help as much as you can. Has the school's structure diagram been released?" Chen Zhiwen then asked.
"Not yet, this may need to be specially designed according to different locations." Li Haonan replied.
"Well, show me the structural design after you finish it." Chen Zhiwen continued: "But the decoration style is best kept 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 either. This is why we spend money to hire designers." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said: "Zhou Jiayang went to the United States to hire a world-famous architect to come to Hong Kong. When the time comes, I will Please teach him."
(End of chapter)
