Chapter 371: The Wind Rises
After a tumbling Friday, early Saturday morning, the major newspapers carried out a lot of coverage of yesterday's events, focusing on the Xiangjiang issue and the stock market experience yesterday from its peak.
Due to the different holdings of the major newspapers, their views on these issues are obviously different, so that the streets and alleys of Xiangjiang have different opinions, and they are very at a loss about the future of Xiangjiang.
Some of the media seem to be deliberately trying to muddy the waters of the Xiangjiang River, and the reports have some insinuations, pointing the finger directly at Li Guangyu and the Li Group.
On Saturday morning, as soon as Li Guangyu entered the office, Gan Qin reported to Li Guangyu that some media reported that the Li Group had long lost confidence in Xiangjiang, and not only did not transfer a large number of its own business abroad, but also shorted the Xiangjiang stock market in large quantities on the stock market.
As we reported at the beginning of the year, after the Starlight Real Estate Group, a subsidiary of the Li Group, hurriedly completed the first phase of the construction of Tin Shui Wai, the remaining construction land did not intend to continue to open up, but instead entered the treasure island market in a big way, building three real estate projects at one time, from which it can be seen that the Li Group may no longer be optimistic about the local economic development of Hong Kong." β
Later, he also described Li Guangyu's actions in the stock market, and he still knows a lot about the inside story. He even refuted what Li Guangyu said at yesterday afternoon's press conference.
Pointing out that Li Guangyu is optimistic about the economic development of Hong Kong and that the future of Hong Kong is only to deceive the citizens of Hong Kong, and that the Li Group and its allies have already moved their main business to other regions.
After listening to what Gan Qin said, Li Guangyu knew that there was a British-funded consortium behind the newspaper to make trouble, and the newspaper itself was founded by the British, and it was also the largest English-language newspaper in Xiangjiang, and it was still relatively influential among the elite in Xiangjiang.
Li Guangyu himself can't ignore this, if some of the media in the back are driven together, it will also be a more troublesome thing for the Li Group, which is not conducive to the future development of the Li Group.
Li Guangyu instructed Gan Qin: "Gan Qin, you inform Liu Tianci and Zhou Liang Shuyi and let them refute this. We want to show all walks of life in Hong Kong that our Lee Group has always been based on Hong Kong, and we are full of confidence in the future development of Hong Kong, and we also ask the citizens to believe that the future of Hong Kong will be infinitely bright. β
Li Guangyu is very aware of the power of public opinion, and now the Li Group itself does not invest much in Xiangjiang, but has invested a lot of money in Baodao and Japan. Xingyue Real Estate Group is building two real estate projects in Japan at the same time, and supermarkets are also continuing to expand in Japan.
The treasure island is the largest investment place of the Li Group, the construction of the production base of Bentley Group, the construction of the semiconductor company, and the construction of the Starlight Real Estate Group at the same time in Taipei, Taoyuan and Hsinchu at the same time. The supermarket group is even more radical in Baodao, and every county and city has a faΓ§ade to be renovated, and there will be 10 supermarkets open in Baodao at the same time.
On the contrary, on the side of Xiangjiang, the Li Group has been very quiet this year, and there are no new projects to invest, and only banks and supermarkets are expanding, and supermarkets are only in Mong Kok in addition to Tin Shui Wai.
Once people with ulterior motives use this to attack the Li Group and arouse public discussions, it will be very unfavorable to the Li Group, and it will even give some people the feeling that the Li Group wants to evacuate Xiangjiang.
To this end, Li Guangyu specially convened a high-level meeting and instructed the senior management of the group to express to the outside world that the Li Group has always been full of confidence in the future development of Heung Kong. Internally, the Group's employees, especially those at the middle and senior levels, are reassured, so that they do not have to worry too much about the situation in Xiangjiang. Trust our group, as long as our Lee Group is still around, there will be no problem with their work.
Li Xuemei said: "Li Sheng, if we don't take some practical action this time, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for the outside world to feel that our Li Group is optimistic about the future of Xiangjiang, and we still need to come up with some plans in this regard." β
Li Guangyu already has a plan for this, and for the time being, he will announce the plan first, and then talk about it, at least after the collapse of the Xiangjiang property market, and now that the land is so expensive, Li Guangyu will not be the wronged boss and send money to the Xiangjiang government in vain.
Li Guangyu said: "Didn't I say before that this Li Building is just for us to use as an office temporarily, and this time we have gained something in the stock market, which is enough to support the construction of our new building." This time, I am going to build a group building with a design height of 201 meters, four underground floors and 52 floors above, with an estimated investment of about 1.2 billion US dollars. β
Everyone in the upper echelons of the building knows that the new landmark is the HSBC Tower under construction, with four basement floors, 46 floors and a height of 180 meters. The Lee Group is trying to put HSBC down on this.
At the same time, everyone is also very happy that after the completion of this building, it will be the largest building invested by Heung Kong and the tallest building in Heung Kong, which can also highlight the strength of Li Group.
Li Xuemei asked, "Li Sheng, how did you arrange this building in terms of time?"
"Xuemei, about this building, we don't even have land right now, and this news is just to stabilize the current situation, and I plan to officially start this matter at the end of next year. However, you have to publicize to the outside world that our Li Group is actively doing a good job in the preliminary work of the construction of the group headquarters, and has been inviting Master Pei Jinming to design our new building, which will create a landmark building in Xiangjiang. Li Guangyu said.
Li Xuemei said: "Li Sheng, I know how to do it. β
Li Guangyu then instructed Li Xuelan to open two more supermarkets in Heung Kong Central and Hung Hom, and the stores were best located near the subway station.
When Li Guangyu actively responded to the deliberate targeting of the Li Group by some well-intentioned people, some people also noticed the news, which filled their hearts with worries.
If only it was rumors in the newspapers, but the current layout of the Li Group is really as reported in the newspapers, is this not the Li Group has a plan to completely withdraw from Xiangjiang.
The influence of the Li Group in Xiangjiang is huge, and once the Li Group chooses to withdraw from Xiangjiang, I don't know how many families will follow behind them, and the economy of Xiangjiang will suffer a devastating blow.
After learning the news, Zheng Dong, president of the Xinhua News Agency, immediately contacted Fok Yingdong, hoping that he could contact Li Guangyu, so that Li Guangyu could maintain an optimistic attitude towards Xiangjiang, and did not want to cause Xiangjiang's economy to suffer another heavy blow because of some choices of the Li Group.
Fok Ying-tung knew very well that Li Guangyu had a judgment on the current development a few years ago, and at that time he expected that there would be problems in the current economy of Hong Kong, so the Li Group and its allies would jump out of Hong Kong to avoid losses.
Li Guangyu really can't be blamed this time, Li Guangyu has invested a lot in the mainland, Huo Yingdong himself can understand the choice of Li Guangyu and his allies, after all, they are all pursuing profits, and they know that they will lose money, so they naturally go to other regions to invest.
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