Chapter 938: Visiting Relatives
Hu Mei drove early the next day and took the highway back to Yanjing to reunite with her family.
Shen Huai, Cheng Yi, Song Hongjun, Yao Ying, and Sun Yalin, plus Yang Haipeng's family of three, and Yao Ronghua's family of three, accompanied the two old men to stay in Shimen for two days; Ji Chengxi specially sent a car to invite everyone to Qinghe to talk to each other, but arranged a special plane in Qinghe to send everyone to northern Yunnan to sweep the tombs.
In 98, in addition to Yangang's 3 million tons of new plant project in Jihe New Area, Rongxin also launched an expansion plan on the basis of the original foundation of Shimen Iron and Steel Group, planning to invest 2 billion yuan to expand the production capacity of Shimen Iron and Steel to 2 million tons. Coupled with the Luangang Group, whose production capacity ranks ahead of Meigang in China, the steel production capacity of Hebei Province will reach 167 million tons in 99 years, becoming the second largest steel province in China.
The construction of the Shanxi-Qinghai Coal East-South Line System Project, which includes the Jihe New Port and the Jinnan Railway, entered a climax period of construction in '98 with the help of relatively injecting construction funds, and a series of major projects such as the Jinqing Expressway and the Shiqing Expressway were launched, which played a great role in bringing the economy to Hebei Province, especially the southern Hebei region, to the strong economic growth.
Nearly half of these projects are directly promoted by Cheng Wenguang, and the acquisition of construction funds depends on Cheng Wenguang's strong hand, which plays a vital role in Cheng Wenguang's foothold and prestige in Hebei Province.
In 98 years, the Bank provided a total of 1 billion yuan of loans for the Jinnan Line, Shiqing Expressway, Jinqing Expressway and other projects, and Meigang was not only directly responsible for the construction of the Jihe Iron and Steel Logistics and Processing Park and the comprehensive wharf project, but also injected 200 million yuan into the Jinxi Coal South Line Project in the form of purchasing corporate bonds.
In addition to the Jinnan heavy-haul railway and the comprehensive coal transportation port with an annual throughput capacity of 40 million tons, the annual coal production capacity of Jinnan Group will also be increased to 40 million tons, which requires huge investment.
In order to complete the project in advance to 2,000 years, the Ji family and Jinnan Group also need to raise 8 billion construction funds to invest in.
With such a large amount of capital demand in a short period of time, the local financial resources cannot be drained up, and the Ji family and the senior management of Jinnan Group can only raise funds through multiple channels.
Ji Chengxi went to work in Qinghe in 95 years, and now it is also the fourth year, first as the secretary of the Jihe County Party Committee, and then as the deputy secretary of the Qinghe Municipal Party Committee, deputy mayor, and mayor.
After Ji Chengxi was transferred to Qinghe as mayor, Jihe was also withdrawn from the county and changed to Jihe New District, which was upgraded to a state-level economic development zone, from which we can see the influence of the Ji family -- but the influence of the Ji family in the fields of industry, economics and finance is still weak; Ji Chengxi hopes that the business credit bank and the Meigang system can provide more construction funds for the Jinnan line and the development of the Jihe New Area than last year.
For more than a year, Yang Haipeng has mainly been active in Qinghe and Shimen, and the steel logistics and processing park and comprehensive wharf have been built in Qinghe Jihe New District. Yu Wenfei of Jingrui Group is also an acquaintance, and his daughter Yu Wenli was Cheng Yi's classmate during his study in the UK, and Tan Shiwei and Tan Jun's father and daughter also spent the Spring Festival in Qinghe this year, and everyone was even more lively after arriving in Qinghe.
However, Shen Huai accompanied the two old men to northern Yunnan, and after sweeping the tomb of his mother, he had to rush back to Donghua - whether Donghua was to the Sun family or his grandfather Shen Shan, it was the homeland where the ancestors were located, and it was the focus of the two old men's trip;
When you go to northern Yunnan to sweep the tomb, you don't need so many people to accompany you, so Shen Huai, Cheng Yi and their entourage accompany the two old men to northern Yunnan, and everyone else is about to meet in Donghua.
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When Shen Huai's mother Shen Guixiu died of illness, the political environment in China at that time was not good, and Shen Shan and his wife were also torn and tortuous, and the Sun family was embarrassed to go abroad after countless relationships overseas, and they couldn't even take Shen Huai out back then - at that time, they just hastily dug up a lonely grave in the bamboo forest behind the thatched house and buried the body.
Eighteen years of things are not people, everyone to find, the thatched house, bamboo forest, lonely grave, has long been bulldozed to build four fund-raising houses for the workers of the farm, where the bamboo forest is also built a farmer's market, long ago can not find the scene of the year.
Shen Huai accompanied his grandfather and grandmother to stay in northern Yunnan for three days, found the local government, and found the neighbors of the year, but after several inquiries, some people remembered that there was a lonely grave here, but no one remembered where the remains in the lonely grave were thrown when the farm was flat to build a fund-raising house.
Seeing that northern Yunnan was so poor, in the end, he only donated 1 million to the Lian Farm where he lived that year, which was used to rebuild the dilapidated houses of several primary schools that were about to collapse, and everyone returned to Donghua by plane in a desolate mood.
Fortunately, they flew back to China by special plane from France, and they did not experience too many turbulence on the journey, and the bodies of the two old people could still support it, but their spirits were extremely poor.
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On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Sun Qishan, Sun Qiyi and others arrived in Donghua from Hong Kong.
Those who went to Donghua with Sun Qishan and Sun Qiyi also had more than 20 people of the same generation as Shen Shan.
The Sun family belonged to Shen Huai's uncle's generation, and most of them were gray-haired, and the youngest was sixty years old, and they all moved overseas together before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Although in the past 20 years, few people have come back, but there are still some thoughts about their hometown, this time it is also organized by Sun Qishan and Sun Qiyi, and the older generation of the Sun family is still alive in the world, and they all came back to see it this time.
Sun Qishan and Sun Qiyi's generation, although many of them were born in China, but before leaving the country, they were all young, and they had almost no memory of their hometown, and they were busy with work.
As for Shen Huai and Sun Yalin's younger generation, no one else accompanied them back this time.
However, Shen Huai's purpose this time is also to hope that the old people of the Sun family of Grandma and Grandpa's generation can return to China to visit their relatives - although the Sun family to Grandma and Grandpa's generation almost do not hold management positions in industrial departments such as Evergreen Group and BNP Paribas, as long as they are not alive and have not passed away, it is still these old people who can really decide the development direction of the Sun Family Fund and the Evergreen industry.
Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Sun family had a great business in Donghua, and the branches and leaves were prosperous.
In the early years, the city steel mill was expanded on the basis of the iron factory left by the Sun family, and Chen Dan's Shangxi Garden was also renovated from the warehouse of the yarn mill left by the Sun family.
In Sunjiadai Village, where Meixi's old house is located, many families with the surname Sun are also distant members of the Sun family, but they are old and old, and if they really want to get close to their ancestors, they may have to be counted as five or six generations away.
The three brothers of the Sun family in the early years, Sun Yaoting also served as the vice chairman of Huaihai Province.
The Republic of China Mansion that Chen Dan bought on Yiyuan Road in Xucheng was the residence of Sun Yaoting and his family when they were serving in Xucheng; at the beginning, Sun Yalin inquired and confirmed that it was the former residence of his great-uncle Sun Yaoting, and then let Chen Dan buy it and transform it into a branch of Shangxi Garden in Xucheng.
At that time, the Sun family had no intention of returning to Donghua to invest, and the first electromechanical company directly invested by Evergreen Group and SITC Industry in Meixi Industrial Park was only 20 million - Sun Yalin said well, people always miss the old, Sun Yaoting's children are also prosperous, and there are still three people in the uncle's ancestors, and the former residence of Xucheng is in their hands first, waiting for them to think about the fallen leaves and return to their roots, and they can always knock them out of an extra sum.
After the reform and opening up, the local government attached great importance to the work of attracting investment, and considering the influence of the Sun family overseas, the protection of the former residence of the Sun family in the city was strengthened.
Nowadays, the Wenshan Park and the South Park in the city are all expanded on the basis of the Sun family's private garden, and the tower garden built by the Sun family in the early years after the Tianning Temple is now the most famous tower cemetery in Donghua City.
For many old people in the Sun family, half a century has passed in a blink of an eye, and many people revisit their hometowns and pick up the memories of childhood and youth half a century ago, all with tears in their eyes.
Looking at these scenes, the bleak state of mind brought about by Shen Huai's trip to northern Yunnan was diluted a lot.
"In this way, your careful thinking will turn around again......" Sun Yalin did not go to northern Yunnan together, but transferred from Qinghe to Hong Kong to pick up these old people of the Sun family to Donghua. During the Spring Festival, most of the staff were at home on vacation, and Sun Yalin also found enough people to help arrange the diet and living of a large number of people after arriving in Donghua, otherwise she could only give his father and a large number of old people to support the Sun family, which was really hard these days.
Hearing Sun Yalin say this, Shen Huai just smiled.
A few years ago, when he heard that his grandfather and grandmother were returning to China for the Spring Festival, he asked Sun Yalin to arrange for the elderly of the Sun family to organize a group to visit relatives, and he did have the intention of guiding the investment focus of the Sun family and Evergreen Group back to China.
Since the 70s, Evergreen Group has begun to invest in the Asia-Pacific region, and has accumulated and controlled various assets in the Asia-Pacific region for more than 20 years, amounting to nearly 2 billion US dollars.
This may seem impressive, but it is still a small number compared to the tens of billions of dollars in assets controlled by the Sun family in Western Europe.
Evergreen Group's investment in the Asia-Pacific region was mainly concentrated in Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea in the early stage, and it was only after the outbreak of the Asia-Pacific financial crisis that it was forced to make large-scale domestic transfers.
Even so, the investment directly involved by Evergreen Group in China is less than 600 million US dollars.
Shen Huai hopes that the investment directly participated by the Evergreen Group in China should account for one-third or more of the assets controlled by the Sun family.
Although Sun Qishan is also more optimistic about domestic investment opportunities, and most of the capital in his personal name has participated in the construction of a series of industrial projects in Meigang through Zhongxin, Sun Qishan himself has only entered the board of directors of the Evergreen Group on behalf of the Sun Family Fund, and it is difficult for him to make his personal voice on major issues such as the adjustment of the investment strategy of the Evergreen Group.
The correct order is to change the impression of the old people of the Sun family on the country, breed their emotions of returning to their roots, and promote the change of the family's will that can affect the investment trend of the family fund, so that the future investment and development strategy of the Evergreen Group can be adjusted through Sun Qishan, Sun Qiyi and others......