Chapter 659: Universal Twin Towers

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"Boss, after nearly four months of bidding for the construction, a total of two design schemes have been retained. These are the 'Dragon-shaped Scheme' from SOM Architects and the 'Zun-Shaped Scheme' from the Beijing Architectural Design and Research Institute. ”

"SOM's 'dragon-shaped plan' is a spiral design with a total height of 633 meters and a main height of 582 meters, with a total of 119 floors, 6 podiums, and 6 basements. In the case of the twin towers, the two buildings add up to a total of 864783 square meters. The total investment in the construction is 10.8 billion Chinese dollars. ”

"The 'respectful plan' of the Beijing Architectural Design and Research Institute has a total construction area of 887,000 square meters, including 724,000 square meters above ground and 163,000 square meters underground, with a total height of 528 meters and 108 floors above ground, including six podium floors and 7 underground floors. The total investment in the construction is 9.8 billion Chinese dollars. ”

Guo Shouyun looked at the beautiful renderings on the two photos, the dragon-shaped scheme is similar to the Modu Center Building in the later generations, and the respect-type scheme is similar to the headquarters building invested by CITIC Group in Beijing. However, they are all single-family houses, and Guo Shouyun is a 'twin tower' stacked here.

"The plan is indeed very good, and the renderings are also very beautiful, but they are too high!" Guo Shouyun put down the information and said after a moment of silence.

"Boss, according to the information we have received, the Modu World Financial Center has decided to increase the height to 492 meters, and if we lower the height, we may lose the opportunity to compete for the reputation of the world's tallest building. Xing Zhiping persuaded.

"The tallest building in the world?"

Guo Shouyun shook his head. In a few months, those Middle Eastern tyrants will start building the 'Burj Khalifa', and they will pile up the height to the 162-storey 'madness', 848 meters. Therefore, whether it is the 'dragon-shaped plan' of SOM Architects or the 'respectful plan' of the Beijing Architectural Design and Research Institute, we must say 'goodbye' to the 'world's tallest building'.

"Look, here's what I just got. ”

"Burj Khalifa?"

After taking the information in Guo Shouyun's hand and taking a look, Xing Zhiping showed surprise on his face.

"The Burj Khalifa was adopted under the Dubai government's intention to expand tourism beyond the oil industry and to attract global attention by building the 'world's tallest building'. And in order to avoid being surpassed by latecomers, their design requirements for the Burj Khalifa are as high as possible. In terms of current engineering technology, the height of the Burj Khalifa is enough to reach 700 meters, or even more than 800 meters. Dubai's government, which has abundant oil resources, also has enough funds to support such construction. ”

After a pause, Guo Shouyun looked directly at Xing Zhiping, "But we are different from Dubai. The construction of the Twin Towers in Beijing by the Global Fund requires not only a sensational effect, but also a balance of economic interests. If the height of the twin towers is below 460 meters, the height of 88 floors will cut the investment in half, while the construction area will only drop by 164,200 square meters. In addition, although we are not as tall as the World Financial Center, we are also the second tallest building in China, and we are also the twin towers. The shock and sensational effect are not weak. ”

Xing Zhiping and Tang Wenfang glanced at each other, they clearly remembered that when Guo Shouyun talked to them about the Beijing Twin Towers project, he also swore many times that he would make it the world's tallest building. It's only been half a year now, why has it changed? Is it really because the 'Burj Khalifa' is too difficult to surpass?

Guo Shouyun noticed the change in the expressions of the two, and he could guess some of their thoughts.

Although the total investment of the "Beijing Twin Towers" project is difficult to surpass by the "Burj Khalifa" and the balance between economic and practical value, the core reason is the problem of money.

Since the decision to separate the public and the private, he has been able to use the funds from his investments, mainly from writing books, from the rights of film adaptations, from the sharing of design fees, such as the iPod mini and MacBook Pro designed for Apple, and from his salary. More than a dozen positions, such as the chairman of the board of directors of Ruby, have annual salaries and dividends, which add up to tens of millions of dollars in annual income, and then there is investment income, which will be put into some low-risk bond funds when they are not used temporarily. Without counting the black income of the internal security forces, he can earn about 5~600 million US dollars per year through these channels.

After the tax reduction in various ways, about 400 million US dollars can be used for investment.

This part of the money, in addition to maintaining family expenses, can be used to invest about 350 million US dollars in a year.

$350 million is equivalent to about 2.7 billion Chinese dollars at the current exchange rate. Although it looks like a lot, compared to Guo Shouyun's series of investment plans, the money can only be used to revitalize Delong's loss-making assets.

As for Global Real Estate and Global Fund, the main investment is the US$4 billion he borrowed from Standard Chartered Bank with GCA Holdings, and the US$500 million he personally invested in previous years. Today, after buying 58,000 commercial houses and 2.187 million square meters of commercial real estate, about 60% of this money has been spent, and the remaining 40%, or $1.8 billion.

In 2004, housing prices in the downtown area of Beijing were around 5,000 Chinese dollars. Because of the country's suppression of housing prices, and the World Style Garden is far away in Xiaotun Road, Fengtai District, although it is not a suburb, but the geographical location is relatively remote, so the housing price is low, only about 3,000 Chinese dollars.

In the price of one square meter, the land fee, the preliminary engineering cost, the construction and installation engineering cost, the municipal public facilities cost, the management fee, and various miscellaneous expenses are added together, accounting for about 70% of the house price. In other words, the total investment of Global Real Estate in the construction of Qingye Mansion, Bailu Mansion, Maple Leaf Mansion and Shoushan Mansion is 88.34 billion Chinese dollars, equivalent to 10.42 billion US dollars.

Because the construction period is divided into five years, it means that only 2.08 billion US dollars need to be invested in a year. And because the real estate investment model is basically 30% of its own funds, and the remaining 70% relies on bank loans and bonds, the investment in the first year fell to 625 million US dollars.

If you include the Kirin Plaza, the initial capital required for the entire project this year is $700 million.

As for the 'Beijing Twin Towers' project, the proportion of construction costs is higher. But if the height is placed below 460 meters, then the construction capital of the entire project will be maintained at about 5 billion Huaxia coins, and the three-year construction period means that only about 1 billion Huaxia coins need to be invested in the first year to be able to leverage the entire project.

However, this year, there are at least 5 unfinished buildings under the Global Fund, about 1.2 million square meters of commercial complex renovation projects, plus Guo Shouyun's comprehensive development project of tourism + real estate in Yunnan Province.

The $1.8 billion loan from Global Real Estate and the Global Fund is not fully exhausted, but only $200 million or $300 million can be left as liquidity for risk prevention.

As for the second batch of investment by Global Real Estate and Global Fund next year, in addition to hoping that their revenue can be stronger, they can only continue to mortgage the stocks in the hands of Hanhua Trust.

If it doesn't work anymore, sell the small apartments of Qingye Mansion, Bailu Mansion, Maple Leaf Mansion and Shoushan Mansion. But it's a last resort.

Thinking about it, Guo Shouyun feels that he is really a little embarrassed now! There are more than 10 giant companies under his hands, but the liquidity in his hands is actually insufficient.

"If I had known this, I should have cashed out a sum of money when LinkedIn went public. Guo Shouyun said in his heart.

For the sake of more interests in the future, and also to maintain his position as an absolute controlling stake in the company. He gave up the opportunity after LinkedIn executives and investors cashed out half of their equity, so he didn't get any income from the stock market.

"Boss, if we revise the plan, what about Huaxia Construction Corporation...?" Xing Zhiping said.

"I'll tell them personally. ”

Seeing the resolute attitude of the big boss, Xing Zhiping didn't say anything more. I just feel a little sorry in my heart. During this time, he was bent on making the world's tallest building a reality in his own hands. However, thinking of the Middle Eastern tyrant who is not bad for money, he also knows that this idea is basically impossible.

"In addition, you can take a look at these two documents!"

"Tuniu's travel development plan?"

"Yunnan Province Real Estate Development Master Plan?"

The two of them took it and saw the covers of the two documents in their hands, and they both showed surprised looks.

"Tuniu Travel Group is the company I founded after I took over Delong's travel assets. At present, it has three subsidiaries: Tuniu Travel, Tuniu Parks and Tuniu Hotels. Tuniu Travel is divided into three business divisions: online website, offline outlets, and buses, with Tuniu Parks developing and maintaining tourist attractions, and Tuniu Hotels, as the name suggests, investing in hotels. ”

"After taking over Delong's assets, Tuniu's online website is mainly a website built by the original Delong Travel Group, but it is still very simple, and I have instructed people to redevelop it according to the model of Ctrip.com, and in the south of Suzhou Province~After taking over the Great Western Tourism Company, it currently has 579 stores in the country's major first-, second- and third-tier cities, and the bus department currently has 327 tourist buses after integrating the international bus company under Shancheng Industry and the bus department of the Great Western Tourism Company. ”

"Tuniu Park, which currently owns Pengcheng's 'Minsk Aircraft Carrier Theme Park', Xin~Xinjiang Kanas Lake Scenic Area and Turpan Grape Valley Scenic Area, is working with local scenic spot management departments to develop Jinggang Mountain and Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi Province, as well as Huangguoshu Scenic Area in Gui Province. ”

"At present, there are two main Tuniu hotels, namely the Tunhe Hotel and the Meihuada Hotel, which are owned by the former Delong. They are 4 and 3 stars. According to the plan, Tuniu hotels will be divided into five levels and five different brands, namely Tuniu five-star hotels, Tuniu four-star hotels, Tuniu three-star hotels, Tuniu resorts and Tuniu hotels. Except for Tuniu Hotel, which is an economy hotel, that is, an express hotel, the rest correspond to star ratings and service standards. ”