Chapter 262: I'm here to avoid the limelight
Zhao Xiulin shook his head: "None of those rich businessmen in Hong Kong are easy to deal with. Don't look at them donating a lot of money one by one, it is to seek fame, so as not to be scolded as rich and unkind! It is not difficult for this Mr. Li to write a check with a stroke of his pen. After all, he is really not bad for money, and it is said that the private jet he ordered costs hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars.
But if someone decides to donate a hospital or a restaurant, and proposes to name it after his father, what should we do? Mr. Bao Yugang from Hong Kong transferred $10 million to the Beijing-Beijing city government as early as last year, but the construction of the Zhaolong Hotel has not started for more than a year!
The two of us have just breathed a sigh of relief, and we should not make any extraneous branches! I'm really afraid that this old bone will be crushed!"
Zhao Xiulin's tone was a little helpless, he and Wang Daohan, as the first and second leaders of Huhai City, have been under tremendous pressure in the past year or two. Bao-Steel, a large-scale steel project launched by the central government with huge investment, suddenly dislocated the foundation pile when it was piling the foundation more than a year ago, which almost caused the project to be discontinued, almost causing tens of billions of losses.
Although Baoshan Iron and Steel has a special engineering headquarters that is directly responsible to the central government, Huhai City, as the location of the Baoshan Iron and Steel project, is under tremendous pressure, and the voices of the people's congress deputies from other provinces are overwhelming. In particular, since 1980, the country has entered a period of adjustment and has begun to rectify the economic overheating phenomenon that has been in place for seven or seven years, and a large number of projects have been forced to discontinue due to lack of foreign exchange.
However, the Baogang project, which has taken up a huge amount of foreign exchange, not only did not stop work, but even after some problems, it continued to move forward with the strong support of the central government. The dissatisfaction of brother provinces and cities with Huhai xรน. Zhao Xiulin and Wang Daohan already had a deep understanding during the meeting.
"Alas, just put such a big piece of fat meat and don't take a bite. It's a pity!" Wang Dao quipped with a smile. He and Zhao Xiulin are both old revolutionaries, and the two of them cooperate quite well in Shanghai. But we have to consider the general climate of the whole country. It's better not to grab some limelight.
Li Xuan didn't know that his name as a "good money boy" had spread from Hong Kong to the mainland. He entered through the revolving hall door of the Peace Hotel, and when he looked at it, the floor of the hotel lobby was paved with cream-white Italian marble, and the top bronze openwork chandelier was luxuriously and elegantly decorated.
"Mr. Li, welcome to Huhai as a guest, we are not well entertained. Thank you for your understanding!" Zhao Xiulin was the highest-ranking person present, so naturally he spoke first.
Now there are first, second, and third secretaries, and Li Xuan doesn't have much impression of this first secretary of Huhai, but he has heard a little about the mayor of Huhai. This mayor Wang is a year-old friend of three generations, and he is also the "king" in the "Wang-Koo talks" between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in the 90s.
And his son is more well-known to the general public, known as one of the "Four Youths of Beijing-City". Of course, compared to the other three, who only have a few small sums, Wang Gongzi is the real red-second generation. Wang Gongzi's previous girlfriends are very famous, and the first one is Zhou Xingxing's dream lover Qi Meng in "The Saint of Gambling".
After staging a sibling relationship. Wang Gongzi quickly abandoned Qimeng and turned to pursue Xiaoyanzi, and first got the two Xiaoyanzi in his hands, which is really a model for my generation. Compared with this later prince. Li Xuan felt that he was weak.
Just when Li Xuan was arranging other people's sons, the first and second leaders of Huhai City also smiled at each other. The person in front of me just staged a wedding of the century that attracted worldwide attention just a few months ago. Now as soon as he turns around, he appears with his lover. I don't know whether to describe it as youthful and romantic, or whether it should be evaluated as young and frivolous. But Li Xuan's private life is not qualified to be evaluated.
"It's better to hear than to see. Mr. Li is really young and promising!" Zhao Xiulin said with a smile.
Li Xuan smiled reservedly, like this. In the past two years, he has heard it more than a thousand times.
"I don't know how Mr. Li arranged his trip this time, and if he has any plans to visit other places? We don't have many beautiful natural landscapes in Shanghai, and there are not as many places of interest and historic sites as in Beijing!" Wang Dao said with a smile.
Li Xuan faintly heard the other meanings in the other party's words. Asked if he had any plans to go to Beijing? Of course not! As he is now the richest man in the world, he will definitely have to be personally received by the second generation when he goes to Beijing. But in less than half a month, the Iron Lady will go north to negotiate. Li Xuan is going to that place of right and wrong now, wouldn't he focus all his eyes on himself.
"I actually came here to take refuge, and I was annoyed by those reporters in Hong Kong, and I had nowhere to hide, so I had to hide in Shanghai!" Li Xuan explained straight to the point, "The Home Return Permit of the Xinhua Branch in Hong Kong is very useful, and Hong Kong compatriots like me can return to the embrace of the motherland at any time! Those foreign reporters who want to apply for domestic visas will have a lot of trouble! I also asked Mayor Wang and Secretary Zhao to say hello to the reporters in Shanghai, but don't leak the news that I am here, I am afraid that Hong Kong reporters will really chase me here!"
Li Xuan very frankly expressed his desire not to see the newspaper, in fact, he already regretted coming to Shanghai at this sensitive moment. He knows that he is receiving a lot of attention now, and if he makes his itinerary in the mainland public, it is easy to cause many misinterpretations. The other party did not contact him on the first day of his arrival in Shanghai, but must have made a report to the Beijing side, and only came to test it after receiving instructions from Beijing.
Zhao Xiulin and Wang Daohan glanced at each other and nodded slightly to each other. Li Xuan's current identity is not what it used to be, and many things cannot be forced. In fact, the relevant leaders of the central government also felt that the possibility of Li Xuan going north was very low, so they did not send someone to Shanghai, but asked them to test each other's attitude first. Xinhua Hong Kong Branch's evaluation of Li Xuan is political neutrality, and it is naturally impossible for such a person to involve himself in the whirlpool at such a time.
"Lao Liu, you can say hello to the Propaganda Department later, since Mr. Li wants to be quiet for a few days, we as the host naturally want to create the best conditions for the guests!" Zhao Xiulin instructed the sixth deputy secretary general who came to pick up Li Xuan before.
"Mr. Li, does your company have any plans to consider Huhai Investment?" Wang Daohan asked tentatively.
The task given to them by the central government, the two of them have already got the results, although they are not very satisfied, but they can at least talk back. The next step is to fight for the interests of Huhai City.
"How do we cooperate? If I want to be a sole proprietor, there seems to be no precedent in the mainland other than the Shekou Industrial Zone in the Deep Sea Special Zone. If it is a joint venture, how long will our joint venture negotiations drag on? As far as I know, the negotiations between Shanghai Automobile Company and Volkswagen of Germany have dragged on for several years, and there is no result!
The business of our Dongfang Electronics Company is an industry that is changing very quickly, and two or three years is enough to complete a life cycle. If our negotiations drag on for too long, we haven't had time to set up a joint venture company in a hurry, the original technical standards are outdated, and we will have to start from scratch!" Li Xuan shook his head and said unceremoniously. (To be continued......)