Chapter 287: Be Obedient
"After deliberation, the board of directors has tentatively decided to choose the location of the cinema in Tseung Kwan O, which the Hong Kong government has just planned as a new town! If we are willing to invest in the construction of a film and television city on a large scale in Tseung Kwan O, it is bound to quickly bring a large area around it. This is also beneficial for the future development of the whole new town!" explained Zhou Liang Shuyi.
The ATV hierarchy has apparently thought it through this issue.
"Tseung Kwan O is still a wasteland, and the Hong Kong government has just completed the first phase of reclamation, how much can we push the land price down?" Zeng Zhiwei asked. In fact, he was also involved in this matter. Previously, as the president of Asia Pictures, Zeng Zhiwei also went to the headquarters of ATV Group many times to participate in project seminars.
"The Hong Kong government launched an industrial site in Kowloon Bay a few days ago, and the transaction price was HK$30 per square foot (0.1 square metre). The price of Tseung Kwan O is definitely not as good as that of Kowloon Bay, so we hope to keep the price of the land below HK$25 per square foot! According to our plan, the total area of ATV's new cinema will reach 12 hectares, and the total investment in the initial plan will be as high as HK$450 million!" said Chow Leung Shuyi.
Zeng Zhiwei sighed lightly, 12 hectares is about 1.3 million square feet, if it is residential or commercial land, even in a place like Tseung Kwan O where birds don't, the market price of such a huge piece of land is at least more than 2 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Of course, the price of industrial land is much cheaper, and in this round of real estate collapse, industrial land has depreciated the most. You must know that more than a year ago, Dongfang Semiconductor applied to build a chip packaging and testing factory in Tai Po, and the most preferential land price given by the Hong Kong government was still as high as 100 Hong Kong dollars per square foot.
Even so, ATV Group wants to use the nature of industrial land. It is by no means an easy task to apply to the Hong Kong government for such a large piece of land. The Hong Kong government will certainly come up with a series of additional conditions. For example, it is forbidden to use land for the construction of commercial buildings that are not related to the studio.
"Mr. Zeng, I hope you can come forward to contact my colleagues in the Hong Kong film industry. ATV Group is willing to welcome other film companies to participate in the investment on the basis of the whole project led by us! For example, although they have risen rapidly in the past two years, they do not have the dilemma of their own dedicated studio, so they will inevitably suffer a lot of constraints when making movies!" Zhou Liang Shuyi said.
Zeng Zhiwei nodded, understanding the other party's purpose for coming to him. If ATV Group can join forces with other film companies and form a group to negotiate with the Hong Kong government, it can reduce a lot of pressure on itself. Of course, the premise of this qiē is that the entire project needs to be led by ATV Group. and ATV Television and Asia Pictures. Definitely have the priority to facilitate filming in the studio.
The ATV Group under the leadership of Huang Xizhao and Zhou Liang Shuyi has a thriving trend. In contrast, TVB after Shao Yifu became the owner of the company has counterattacked several times in the past two years, but it has failed to suppress the momentum of ATV. This time, ATV was determined to spend a huge amount of money to build a cinema, and the scale of 12 hectares has even surpassed that of Clear Water Bay Cinema, which was built by Shaw Brothers in the early sixties. However, when Shao Yifu bought 10 hectares of wasteland in Clear Water Bay, far away from the city, from his second brother, it only cost 450,000 Hong Kong dollars.
"If ATV is under financial pressure, it can hold a board meeting to raise funds! The company's financial cost will be very high! Now is the critical time for Asia Television to take off, and the development of the TV station cannot be suppressed because of the construction of a cinema!" Although Li Xuan has not received ATV's application for funding before, he has clearly given his support attitude.
Zhou Liang Shuyi is interested in taking advantage of the low tide of Hong Kong's real estate industry, and the construction of a film and television city at this time can minimize the cost. At the same time, it can make up for the last shortcoming of ATV. What Li Xuan is interested in is the positive signal released by the investment itself.
Not long ago, because Dongfang Electronics Company acquired the American company Fairchild Semiconductor. There were rumors in the Hong Kong market that Li Xuan was not optimistic about Hong Kong's future prospects and was ready to withdraw his capital and leave. He has the aura of the richest man in the world on his head. Every move is very attention-grabbing, and it is easy to cause random interpretation by the outside world.
Although Dongfang Electronics immediately clarified this rumor. But after all, there is no basis for words. The core sectors of Dongfang Electronics Group really have no plans to invest in Hong Kong in the near future. On the contrary, the computer park company has planned to start an IPO roadshow in the United States next month, and will soon be listed on the Nasdaq exchange.
Although Computer Park has been an overseas subsidiary of Dongfang Electronics from beginning to end, the news that has returned to Hong Kong will certainly exacerbate concerns about whether Li Xuan is really ready to shift his career focus out of Hong Kong. At this time, the best way to show your attitude is to invest in Hong Kong.
If ATV Group, in which he holds absolute control, throws out a cinema plan with a total investment of up to 450 million Hong Kong dollars at this time, it will be enough to dispel all doubts from the outside world. Therefore, just from a political point of view, Li Xuan will definitely fully support the new cinema project of ATV Group. And the full support of Dongfang Electronics Group and the efforts of ATV Group alone are two completely different concepts.
"After you make the detailed plan, hand it over to Han Peng, and Dongfang Electronics will fully support ATV's new cinema plan!" Li Xuan said to Zhou Liang Shuyi.
Speaking carefully, this is Dongfang Electronics' second large-scale infrastructure investment in Hong Kong after the completion of the Dongfang Shi Yàn Building. Previously, Dongfang Electronics had factories in the United States, Taiwan and the mainland, but did not invest in Hong Kong. In fact, Li Xuan has sprinkled a lot of money in the Hong Kong headquarters, but it has been spent on aspects that are not easy for everyone to notice, such as the construction of the real yàn room and the cultivation of talents.
The main reason for this situation is naturally inseparable from the perverted land prices in Hong Kong. Just as Hong Kong public opinion criticized more than a year ago, Hong Kong's land prices are three times that of Silicon Valley, 10 times that of Singapore and 15 times that of Taiwan. Such high land prices have hindered the upgrading and transformation of Hong Kong's industry.
However, 40% of the Hong Kong government's fiscal revenue is supported by land sales, and if land prices are cut on a large scale, the Hong Kong government's finances will definitely collapse. In FY82/83, the Hong Kong government is expected to run a deficit of HK$4 billion due to the sharp drop in land prices.
Therefore, Li Xuan can only take advantage of the opportunity that the land price is gradually entering the lowest point and reserve as much land as possible. Unlike Li Jiacheng and Zheng Yutong, who are bold and have murderer capital, Li Xuan's main goal will be on industrial land to prepare for Dongfang Electronics' future investment in Hong Kong.
Zhou Liang Shuyi hopes to bring in some film companies to form a group to negotiate with the Hong Kong government, and Zeng Zhiwei has always been good at dancing with long sleeves and has good connections in the circle. Therefore, Zhou Liang Shuyi came to him to contact and communicate, and she happened to meet Li Xuan here, and the big boss said that he would give his full support, which increased her chances of winning by a few percent.
Zhou Liang Shuyi and Zeng Zhiwei were still talking about the details in the lounge, and Li Xuan walked out alone, and he didn't need to be meticulous about these details. As a superior, Li Xuan only needs to grasp the general direction and give his own attitude.
As soon as Li Xuan walked out of the lounge, a pair of beautiful eyes had already fallen on him quickly. Guan Zhilin, who had been carefully dressed, smiled sweetly at Li Xuan who was not far away, and then walked towards him generously.
"Li Sheng, has your scene been filmed?"
Guan Zhilin also knew that Li Xuan was definitely unwilling to expose his relationship with her, and he didn't make too close expressions, but just looked at him with those beautiful eyes that were flirtatious.
"I don't have your role today, why don't you rest more at home!" Li Xuan said casually.
Guan Zhilin still has some pain between her legs, and she can't help but think of last night's madness, and there is a little crimson cloud on her pretty face: "I'm fine at home, just come to the set and see if I can help!"
Li Xuan looked at the girl in front of him with a shy expression, a little helpless. He heard that Guan Zhilin is notoriously big and doesn't bother to pay attention to ordinary people, so she would take the initiative to help on the set to have a ghost.
The 21-year-old Guan Zhilin is still very immature, and she can't connect with the rich killer who plays in love in Li Xuan's impression at all, but is more like a delicate rose that has just bloomed.
"Let's go, let's go have afternoon tea together!" Li Xuan saw that many people in the crew began to look at the two of them quietly, so he simply asked yì to leave the set first. He had just drunk the other party's head soup last night, and he had obviously not cultivated to the realm of pulling out the cock ruthlessly.
"Li Shengyan is very blessed!" After the two left, several handymen from the crew got together and whispered.
"If you guys are too idle, you can go and sort out the props for the next scene first!" Hong Jinbao glared at the few of them and warned them not to gossip. Zeng Zhiwei is not there, and he has the greatest weight in the crew.
In fact, Zeng Zhiwei was introduced by Hong Jinbao and entered the film industry as a dragon and tiger martial artist. I didn't expect Zeng Zhiwei to climb the big noble man Li Xuan, the Asian film industry he was in charge of, backed by the towering tree of ATV Group, and in just two or three years, it has developed into one of the top film companies in Hong Kong. And Hong Jinbao's own Baohe company, although it was established as early as 1980, is still a guerrilla force, not a regular army.
"Where are we going for afternoon tea? I know there's a new pastry shop in Causeway Bay, and the egg tarts there are very good!" As soon as Guan Zhilin got into the car, she naturally reached out and grabbed Li Xuan's arm, and her whole body snuggled up to Li Xuan's body.
Li Xuan didn't answer, just looked at her indifferently, which made Guan Zhilin a little uneasy. Li Xuan stared at her for a while, then suddenly reached out and gently pinched Guan Zhilin's pointed chin, raised her mantis head slightly, and looked at those eyes that were a little resentful.
"What a stunner! You know, I already have a legal wife, and I don't want to make my lace news all over the city!
Pocket money enough to buy clothes and bags every month, a luxury car with a driver, and a single-family villa with a garden are not a problem! But the premise is that you have to recognize your own position, and don't have any illusions that shouldn't belong to you! For example, my mother likes Zhong Chuhong very much, and only recognizes her as the daughter-in-law of the Li family!" Li Xuan said with a playful expression. As he spoke, his other hand had already reached into Guan Zhilin's clothes, kneading the two soft balls on his chest wantonly. (To be continued......)