As the largest entrepreneur recognized in Hong Kong, many state-owned enterprises in Yanjing City and local enterprises in other places are thinking of cooperating with Midea or Galaxy Trading. These two are relatively well-known and already have some domestic enterprises. By cooperating with them, we have obtained a large share of foreign exchange, and even many company executives and outstanding employees have obtained the qualifications to go to Hong Kong and even the United States. This makes countless people jealous. You have to know how many people in China now want to go to Hong Kong and even the United States. Going abroad is a huge price to pay.
However, the business person in charge of Yanjing City also dealt with it very thoughtfully. It is impossible for everyone to come to see Chen Zhiwen, and even other Hong Kong businessmen are not so easy to see. All the people who come will at most give their own company information, Submit the content plan you want to cooperate with, and even so, there are restrictions. If the company does not have a certain scale, don't even think about it.
Those who can meet Hong Kong businessmen are the leaders in Yanjing City who are responsible for national coordination in a certain field. These people will come forward to discuss some possible cooperation plans.
In addition to Chen Zhiwen, other Hong Kong businessmen also have their own plans. After all, if they come here, they will definitely be interested, and even those with less will invest several million Hong Kong dollars.
Before arriving, Chen Zhiwen was also well prepared. In an external hotel outside the State Guesthouse, Midea and Galaxy sent more than 30 people to analyze the manufacturers that could cooperate, either to supply Midea or to He can make cost-effective daily necessities for supermarkets, etc., but Chen Zhiwen himself is relatively leisurely. He would not bother to do anything unless he has a business worth hundreds of millions.
In the next two days, Chen Zhiwen accompanied his uncle and his family to climb the Great Wall, visit the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, etc., and experience the scenery of Yanjing City in the 1980s.
On the sixth day in Yanjing, Chen Zhiwen did not go out to play again because an unexpected guest came.
"Chen Sheng, this is Director Yin from the Ministry of Transport. He is responsible for national road planning. Director Yin, this is Chen Zhiwen Chen Sheng, the most successful Chinese entrepreneur in Hong Kong." Hu Yingxiang from Hehe Industrial Co., Ltd. A guest was introduced immediately after the meeting.
"Hello, Mr. Chen, I have heard of your name in the mainland for a long time." Director Yin shook hands and smiled with a smile.
"Hello, Director Yin." 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 was already prepared here. Not many people in China are used to drinking coffee, not to mention now, even in a few decades. The tea here is also prepared for them in China. They are all first-class tea.
The middleman 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."
"Are there any problems with investing in the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway?" Chen Zhiwen asked.
Although Guangdong and Shenhai City are not too far away, investment in highways means that even small developed countries like Europe find it difficult to use their own fiscal revenue to build highways within their own borders. The amount of funds involved is very large. Huge. Although Hu Yingxiang is one of the five real estate giants in Hong Kong, it is difficult for his family to raise the funds needed for this more than 100 kilometers of highway even with bank loans.
Therefore, many other funds from Hong Kong also participated, including Chen Zhiwen, but his investment proportion was not large, only 10%. It was purely for participation. Another purpose was to provide a group of banks for loans, which also valued investment. Who are the people among them? The more they are, the stronger they will be, and the bank will be more assured. If the risk is smaller, the interest can be lower. If a person and Ma Yun jointly open a company in 50 years, naturally they will not let them. The bank was 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. Actually, I mainly wanted to make inquiries. I don't know that Mr. Chen has no intention to invest elsewhere." Invest in a similar highway?"
"Domestic highway? Which city is it connected to?" Chen Zhiwen's heart moved, but his face did not change as he asked.
"Currently, domestic transportation has the highest demand for highways, which is the section from Yanjing to TJ City. However, considering the convenience of exporting a large number of factory goods in Yanjing City, the highway needs to be extended to Tanggu, where there is an exit. Port." Seeing that Chen Zhiwen did not veto, but instead asked for details, Director Yin was overjoyed and answered immediately.
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 it is still not as large as Shanghai in terms of scale and quantity. 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 almost the same, but Shanghai is close to the sea. Jiang is so convenient for transporting goods, but if you want to go to the seaside for things in Yanjing City, you have to go to Tianjin and then to Tanggu.
You must know that the role of the port is not only for export. Goods can actually be delivered to all coastal areas in the country through the offshore. This is much more convenient and cheaper than domestic transportation. This naturally leads 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 didn't think there was any problem with it. But after the change, many leaders of the Ministry of Transportation also went overseas. When they saw the highways in Japan and the United States, they realized that this was 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 10 million US dollars. At present, the entire Ministry of Transportation's annual financial allocation 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 can only allocate 5 million yuan.
Due to the huge economic pressure, the Ministry of Transport had originally given up on building expressways, but the model proposed by Hong Kong tycoon Wu Yingxiang to build roads first and then toll later gave everyone hope. However, this kind of investment is too much, and the country still cannot raise so much funds. , we 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 number of businessmen such as Hu Yingxiang who want to build the motherland have this courage and ability.
After some communication, the Ministry of Transportation also learned that with Hu Yingxiang’s ability, building the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway would basically require all resources, and there was no way to build another expressway. People in the Ministry even wanted to persuade Hu Yingxiang to give up building the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway. The 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 forward position that has been opened, and the eyes of the whole country are staring there, this is the only way to do it.
But what he didn't expect was that Hu Yingxiang proposed to him that another rich man would invest in building a highway, and Chen Zhiwen's wealth and financial resources were obviously stronger and more capable. This has given new hope to the entire Ministry of Transportation. With the construction of this expressway, the economy near Yanjing City may be brought to a higher level.
"Yanjing to Tanggu? This road should be more than 100 kilometers long, right?" Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said. In his memory, the most well-known and most economically beneficial expressways in the country are the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway, The Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan Expressway, etc., the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway is presided over by Hu Yingxiang. The Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway is not needed yet because the economy of Jiangsu Province has not yet developed. In addition, there are railways and Yangtze River water transportation, which is enough for the time being. , the route of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway is too long, and with the current domestic economic conditions, this road is not currently needed, and the remaining one is the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan 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 the country at present.
"Yes, we haven't measured the specific highway route, but it is estimated to be about 120 kilometers." Director Yin said that measuring land also requires a very large investment. At least soil bearing capacity tests need to be carried out in all places passed by. If there is no budget, Then government departments can only make rough calculations.
"Then this expressway also requires a joint venture, right?" Chen Zhiwen asked. The Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway is actually a joint venture. The domestic party accounts for 51%, but it has no money at all. It relies entirely on the Hong Kong party to advance funds and then borrow money from the bank. The only advantage of paying back this money is that there is a very large construction team in the country. Although there are not many highways built in the country, a lot of railways were built in the past few decades. Even though there is a big difference, but At least there is no shortage of qualified workers.
"Yes, this is stipulated by national law. For specific cooperation plans, we can refer to the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway invested by Mr. Hu in eastern Guangdong. If we have any ideas, we can also discuss it." Director Yin said with a smile.
"Okay, Director Yin, I have the intention to invest in this, but I need specific measurement data before I can make a decision. As for the funds needed to measure the land, I can advance it first, and then calculate it into the investment after the project is confirmed. How?" Chen Zhiwen said after thinking for a moment.
This highway will be the most profitable in the country in the future. No matter how you invest now, you will not lose money in the future. But since it is a cooperation, of course you have to get the maximum benefit for yourself. And with the current domestic situation, if you make a profit yourself, it does not mean that the country will 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 to start construction from the intention. Therefore, you can advance the funds first. After taking measurements, once the contract is signed, construction can begin directly.
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