Chapter 206: The Governor's Mansion Night Banquet
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The company's performance is good, everyone's mentality is relatively relaxed, and the atmosphere of the afternoon meeting is not strict, but full of laughter. It's just that when the staff outside passed by the conference room with the door closed, they were all cautious and a little curious, this is the moment when all the big bosses of the Eastern Group gathered!
After the meeting, Li Xuan had already booked a table dinner for everyone at Fulinmen Restaurant, but he could only regret his absence because he was going to the Governor's Palace for a banquet temporarily.
The Governor-General's House, located on Upper Albert Road in Central, was completed in 1855 and has been the official residence of the Governor of Hong Kong since the fourth Governor of Hong Kong. After the first episode of "Qiang Qiang Threesome" was broadcast last night. It sparked a lot of follow-up discussion in the newspapers today. What is the way out for Hong Kong's industry? Many far-sighted people have already seen all kinds of hidden worries behind Hong Kong's booming economy.
In the past, in order to compete for ratings, Li's TV station and TVB TV station mainly spent effort on entertainment programs and TV dramas, and never opened a strict political talk show similar to "Qiang Qiang Threesome". After all, the general public at the bottom is more concerned about firewood, rice, oil, salt and market anecdotes. I don't know much about politics and economics.
And the ratings of the first episode of "Qiang Qiang Threesome" calculated by ATV also reflect this problem from time to time. Compared with the ratings of the same period as the original, the table of "Qiang Qiang Threesome" is not as bright as the other new columns before.
But the sensation it caused was more enthusiastic than the previous "Who Can Be a Millionaire". Almost all of Hong Kong's newspapers rushed overnight to distribute resonant articles in editorials or political and economic columns. The right to speak has always been the social elite, and they are born with a humanistic feeling of worrying about the country and the people.
Industrial land prices in the suburbs of Hong Kong. It's three times the size of Silicon Valley in the United States, and few people would have paid attention to this information before, but the real comparison number is in front of everyone. But it's hard to believe.
Hong Kong gives the impression of being a free port with relatively low tax rates, which creates favorable conditions for industrial development. But the tax rate is low because more than half of the Hong Kong government's revenue comes from land sales. In fact, after these money are passed through layers of transmission, it will eventually be reflected in the housing prices of ordinary citizens. and the cost of factory rent paid by the factory owners. It's just that these hidden taxes are usually overlooked by most people. But the wool is all out of the sheep in the end!
"Your Excellency the Governor, it is a great honor to have your invitation to have dinner with you!" Li Xuan smiled and shook hands with MacLehose, who came to greet him.
"Mr. Li Xuan, the Dongfang Electronics Company you founded is a banner for the rise of Hong Kong's electronics industry. In the past, the government did not communicate enough with the business community, and I hope to have a direct dialogue with entrepreneurs like you in the future!" said MacLehose solemnly. It's a statement.
If it had been before, Li Xuan might have been a little excited. There are only a handful of people in Hong Kong who have the right to speak directly to the Governor, and the senior class of HSBC and Jardine Matheson are qualified in this way, which represents a high status.
But the 25th governor of Hong Kong, the longest-serving governor in Hong Kong's history, will leave Hong Kong at the end of the year. MacLeho has been reappointed four times since he became governor of Hong Kong in 1971, and the 64-year-old has served in Hong Kong for 10 years.
Albert Hawke learned the news from a member of the British royal family, and 10 Downing Street will be officially announced to the public at the end of this month at the earliest. MacLehose's replacement has also been confirmed, which is Sir Youde, the former British ambassador to China.
Youde was a China expert who had been dealing with the Communist Party as early as 1949. At that time, the People's Liberation Army's million-strong division was preparing to cross the Yangtze River, and the British Far East Fleet's frigate "Purple Quartz" did not listen to the dissuasion and illegally invaded the Yangtze River route in an attempt to interfere with the PLA's river-crossing operation.
At that time, as the third secretary of the British government embassy in China, Youde stabilized the People's Liberation Army in the name of negotiations, and then let the "Purple Quartz" escape by night, for which he was awarded the honor of the British court. From 1974 to 1978, he served as British Ambassador to China, one of the few diplomats in the British government who knew China very well. Youde's succession as Governor of Hong Kong can also be seen that the British government has begun to prepare for the next central negotiations.
In fact, MacLehose was well past the maximum age for Governor of the Overseas Territories, but because of his outstanding performance in Hong Kong throughout the 70s, he was repeatedly retained by the British government after his term expired. The news that MacLehose is retiring is not a secret, after all, his age is already there, but there is uncertainty about when he will step down. In order to let him leave as soon as possible, Li Xuan also made a lot of efforts in secret, and paid a check for 500,000 pounds for this.
If the new governor takes office late next year, and by the time he spends a few months familiarizing himself with the situation in Hong Kong, Sino-British negotiations will almost begin, and there will be no time to take care of Hong Kong's governance. But if the new governor can take office at the beginning of the year, it will leave enough time for Li Xuan to persuade the new governor to introduce some policies that are beneficial to him.
The first episode of "Qiang Qiang Threesome" is called "The Crisis and Opportunities of Hong Kong Industry", and the next series of columns will revolve around Hong Kong industry. will completely stir up this topic. And Li Xuan's target is naturally the governor who has not yet taken office.
A policy of active non-intervention is not the same as letting things go, and such fiery rhetoric would have been uttered when the new Governor took office. It is inevitable that there will be a suspicion of coerced confession. After all, Hong Kong is still governed by the British, and it is necessary to grasp a scale and not make it too rigid.
The news of the new governor has not yet come out, but in fact, the plan for Youde to take over as governor of Hong Kong has won the consensus of the Thatcher cabinet. Youde has also begun to prepare for his appointment in Hong Kong, and recent public opinion in Hong Kong has affirmed that he is one of the key points of concern. If the whole of Hong Kong society is focused on exploring the way out for Hong Kong's industry, it is only natural that he, the new governor, will also have to think about the policy in this regard.
"Your Excellency the Governor. Thank you for your painstaking efforts in the past 10 years for the governance of Hong Kong! According to ATV's recent survey, you are the most respected governor in the hearts of the people!" Li Xuan said with a little deep meaning.
No matter which country's political achievements have been left behind, they all hope that their political achievements will be remembered through the ages. The smile on MacLehose's face was even more cheerful: "Really, I don't know who is in second place?"
"Governor Grantham!" Li Xuan said.
He didn't talk nonsense about the survey. In the past 10 years of MacLehose's governance of Hong Kong, he has implemented anti-corruption and clean government reform and reformed social welfare. Hong Kong as a whole has made great strides in housing, integrity, education, healthcare, welfare, infrastructure, transport and social aspects. In addition, MacLehose's image is very close to the people. It has earned him a good reputation among the general public in Hong Kong.
"Mr. Li, you are the youngest and most promising entrepreneur in Hong Kong, what do you think Hong Kong's industry is most lacking now?" asked MacLehose, since he invited Li Xuan to the Hong Kong Governor's Mansion today, he naturally had to put on a posture of inquiry.
"I think what is most lacking is intelligence! The textile industry, on which Hong Kong's industry relied in the early days, has been completely weakened due to trade quota restrictions, and has long since withdrawn from the top 10 of Hong Kong's exports. The plastics industry, which once accounted for half of the country, is gradually disappearing, and now Hong Kong's top three exports are ready-to-wear, toys and watches!
But these three products are all won by price. For example, last year, Hong Kong's watch exports exceeded 100 million, ranking first in the world. However, the price of Hong Kong-made watches is only one-half to one-third of that of Japanese products. Only the low-end market with the least profit margins can be occupied.
The bottleneck that Hong Kong's industry is now encountering is that its ability to improve its position in the entire global industrial chain is insufficient! Hong Kong's core technology and innovation are not enough. For example, although Hong Kong's watch manufacturing industry is developed, the core components such as the movement of mechanical watches and the circuit boards of electronic watches all rely on imports, and the Hong Kong factory is actually just making an assembly fee!" Li Xuan said, in fact, these are all commonplace problems, and he did not expect the outgoing governor to launch any new plans.
Before 1980, Hong Kong's top five export output values were garments, toys, watches, radios, and electric fans. After the rise of Dongfang Electronics, the top five exporters became ready-to-wear, toys, watches, games and computers.
In the first three quarters of this year, the total export output value of Oriental Games Company has exceeded 4 billion Hong Kong dollars, while the total export value of Hong Kong exported 55 million radios last year was only 3.5 billion Hong Kong dollars. A subsidiary of Dongfang Electronics is enough to be worth an important industry in Hong Kong.
According to rough statistics, Dongfang Electronics' two main businesses, games and computers, have created an output value for Hong Kong, accounting for 15% of Hong Kong's total industrial output value. Dongfang Electronics is still in a period of rapid growth, which is also where Li Xuan is qualified to seek higher influence.
"The shortage of degrees in Hong Kong's higher education, especially the small number of engineering students, has caused the entire Hong Kong industry to face the problem of a shortage of high-end talents!
If the Hong Kong government can vigorously develop higher education, the biggest benefit will undoubtedly be a scientific research enterprise like Dongfang Electronics. In other aspects, there are really not many places where Dongfang Electronics needs to turn to the Hong Kong government. The reason why Li Xuan did not insist on building a semiconductor factory in Hong Kong before was that the talent shortage was also an important aspect. (A good activity for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you to take!Follow up ~ point/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now immediately pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account!) (to be continued......)