A convoy of two Santanas, two Cherokees and a Range Rover drove on rugged mountain roads in northern Guangdong. With the east wind of reform and opening up, the economic level of Guangdong Province can be said to be unique in the whole of China. Even after 30 years, Yue Sensible still firmly holds the position of the strongest province in China's economy.

However, unlike Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province, which began to rise in the 90s, the economic development level of Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province is relatively average, even if the economy of northern Jiangsu and western Zhejiang is relatively poor, but compared with the national average level, it is not lagging behind at all.

However, the eastern part of Guangdong Province is completely different, and the level of economic development in various regions of the province is extremely uneven. The Pearl River Delta has risen rapidly relying on the dividends of reform and opening up, and its per capita GDP has reached the level of developed countries in the world in later generations. However, the remaining areas of eastern Guangdong, western Guangdong, and northern Guangdong are still economically backward, and there are still a large number of impoverished counties.

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads! In fact, the economic situation of a region can be clearly distinguished from the roads! Although China in the 80s did not build a dense network of highways as it did a few decades later, most areas were at least connected by provincial and national highways.

However, the financial situation of each region is different, and the level of road maintenance is completely different. After the convoy departed from the provincial capital of Yuezhou City, the journey to Qingyuan City was not difficult. But after converging the people of Qingyuan Citizens and the Political Bureau, the road conditions to continue north became worse and worse!

Li Ying sat in the passenger seat of the Range Rover, a luxurious off-road vehicle in much better condition than his peers Santana and Cherokee. But she was still so jolted that she was about to spit out bile.

"Ah Ying. This trip is not comfortable, isn't it!" Cai Yanan handed a bottle of water to Li Ying, who was blue-faced, and said in a concerned tone.

Cai Yanan is the head of the Oceanpower (China) Foundation, and Li Ying took her first job after joining the foundation. It was to work as her special assistant to gain practical experience. Cai Yanan naturally knew Li Ying's true identity, and in order to take care of Li Ying's situation, he had already deliberately asked the driver to lower his speed, and stopped to repair it from time to time.

"Sister Nan, I feel like my whole stomach is no longer mine!" Li Ying barely squeezed out a smile, she had already anticipated the hardships of this trip in advance. But these years of privileged life have made her delicate body adaptable. It's not something that can be improved by just a lot of ambition.

"Ms. Cai, Ms. Li, there are less than 10 kilometers to get to the county seat of Liannan County. Liannan and Lianshan counties in the north of Qingyuan City. All of them are ethnic minority autonomous counties. The traffic here is relatively backward, the natural environment is quite bad, and it can be regarded as the most economically backward area in the province!" Wang Wang, director of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, stepped forward to explain. In fact, he was also suffering from motion sickness just now. The face is also not very good-looking.

"It is precisely because the country's economic development is not fast enough and the people's living standards are not high enough that the central government will vigorously promote the cause of reform and opening up and shift the focus of the country's work to economic construction!" Cai Yanan's art of answering suddenly made Director Wang nod again and again.

Cai Yanan is actually no stranger to how to deal with government officials. Because he used to work in the government department, but her husband had an aunt who fled to Hong Kong when he was 49 years old. So in 1979. In the name of visiting relatives in Hong Kong, the family was granted a permit to go to Hong Kong.

At that time, Hong Kong's immigration policy was still based on a policy of resistance. Anyone who can successfully reach the city of Hong Kong. You can go to the Chinese Residence Extension Office in Queensway to apply for a temporary identity card. After one year of continuous residence, you can obtain an official household registration in Hong Kong.

Although Cai Yanan is already a Hong Kong native, she is no stranger to the way things are done in China. At the beginning of the establishment of the Oceanpower Foundation, she successfully applied for a job in the foundation. With outstanding ability and ability, she quickly stood out in her work.

Previously, the Oceanpower Foundation had been managed by Zhong Chuhong, and as a woman, she naturally paid special attention to the strong woman under her. After the Oceanpower Foundation began to expand its activities in the mainland and upgraded the original office in the Deep Sea Special Zone to the Oceanpower (China) Foundation, Cai Yanan's special background in the mainland gave her the opportunity to take charge of her own affairs.

"Girl Li, which country's brand is this car, it seems to be rare in China, and it is indeed more comfortable than the Cherokee I sat in!"

Director Wang touched the soft leather cushions on the seat and sighed. Because he wanted to discuss the specific itinerary for the next step, Cai Yanan specially invited Director Wang to ride with him in his Range Rover before starting again.

"Land Rover is a British car brand, and it is a car company specializing in off-road vehicles, just like Jeep in the United States, which is a joint venture with BAIC!"

Cai Yanan also subconsciously glanced at Li Ying sitting in the front passenger seat as he spoke. She naturally knows that the price of this Land Rover is worth two or three Cherokees. Being able to sit in this luxury off-road vehicle on this trip is completely stained with Li Ying's light.

"The Cherokee produced by our Beijing Automobile Factory cannot be compared with Land Rover at all! After all, Britain is an old capitalist empire, and it seems that there are still a lot of good things at the bottom of the box!" Director Wang nodded and said.

Although Cai Yanan is not very proficient in cars, she and her husband each bought a car to travel, so they naturally know more than the Director Wang next to her. The Cherokee model produced by Jeep and BAIC Group is not at the same level as Land Rover's Range Rover.

Jeep is the first foreign automobile company to negotiate a joint venture with China, and it and BAIC established a joint venture with Beijing Jeep as early as 1984, and the first model produced was the Cherokee.

The reason why the domestic side chose this model was to introduce a cheap means of transportation that could adapt to the bad road conditions in remote areas. It's just that for various reasons, the Cherokee is much more expensive than the Santana, which came out a few years later.

In the traditional impression of Chinese, jeeps are far less magnificent than sedans. So the popularity of the Cherokee in China is far less than that of the Volkswagen Santana. But in fact it is like in the mountains of northern Guangdong. The Cherokee is much more adaptable than the Santana.

Just when Cai Yanan and Director Wang were chatting in the back row, Li Ying, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, began to slowly adapt to this bump. She finally had the energy to chew on what her brother Li Xuan said last night!

What is the purpose of Li Xuan and the Oriental Group in doing charity? It's to give back to the community!

If you are poor, you will be good for yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world at the same time! This is indeed one reason, but it is not the whole story! Politics and business have never been separated, and in order to gain a firm foothold in the Eastern Bloc in the United States, Li Xuan chose speculative politics. Politicians who use a lot of political cash to hand themselves over are put on the throne of congressmen and even presidents.

Politics in the United States is an electoral game, although election laws certainly do not allow money to buy votes directly. But money allows politicians to recruit more campaign aides to call voters one by one. If you have money, you can print more leaflets and posters to promote your governing philosophy, and if you have money, you can broadcast advertisements on television that discredit your election opponents.

So under the same conditions, candidates who can raise more campaign funds. However, China's political ecology is completely different from that of the United States, and the promotion of officials depends on the appreciation of the higher-level leaders. And if you want the leaders to promote you, the most convincing weapon. It's just to show good political achievements.

So if the Eastern Bloc wants to get involved in politics here. In fact, the best way to do this is to use various investment projects to convey political achievements to officials. In this way, Li Xuan may be able to make a good group of people, but the Oriental Group is easily led by the nose and cannot fully follow its own established plan for investment layout.

Of course, with Li Xuan's current identity, in fact, as long as he is willing to invest in China, even if he doesn't take the initiative to do anything. He will definitely be a guest of honor in Beijing. For example, the richest Chinese in another time and space, Li Jiacheng's Cheung Kong Group received various preferential treatment when it entered the mainland.

But Li Xuan's character is not as long-sleeved and cunning as Li Jiacheng. And even Li Jiacheng in later generations, when his Changshi system withdrew from the domestic market and turned to Europe, he also suffered overwhelming attacks.

When you came in, you talked about human contacts, and you made a lot of money in China's rapid growth. After China's economy entered the new normal, you began to emphasize business principles again, and you turned your head very coldly and left! The reason why Li Jiacheng was attacked overwhelmingly was not that the money he earned from China could only stay in China, but that his standards of conduct before and after had undergone serious changes.

Li Xuan was neither willing to take the initiative to provide political achievements, nor did he want to pay too much attention to personal contacts, he wanted the Eastern Bloc to maintain a relatively detached position in the country. However, if the Oriental Group wants to obtain a favorable development environment in China, Li Xuan has to show goodwill!

So in this case, charity becomes the best option. Li Xuan spends a lot of public relations money on politicians in the United States, while at home he simply spends this money on charity. Foreign capital in China already has super-national treatment, and after brushing on a layer of Buddha's shining golden body, it will naturally be able to practice into a diamond indestructible body!

Therefore, the money spent by the Oceanpower Foundation is not meaningless to the Eastern Bloc. The money donated can actually be understood as the brand public relations expenses of the Oriental Group! After Li Ying has this understanding, she also has a greater sense of responsibility for her new work!

Guangdong Province is the main investment base of the Oriental Group, so the focus of Oceanpower Foundation's current assistance is naturally placed in Guangdong Province. After this visit to northern Guangdong, the Oceanpower Foundation will then conduct an investigation of the eastern and western parts of Guangdong, which are also economically backward.

After completing the systematic mapping, Oceanpower Foundation will cooperate with the Guangdong Provincial Government to carry out a large-scale charity program. Compared with the previous petty fights, Li Xuan has prepared a start-up capital of 500 million Hong Kong dollars this time, which can definitely cause a lot of sensation in the province and even at a higher level!

Li Xuan's Oceanpower Fund, unlike many other foundations, only devotes a minimum proportion of government agencies, such as 5% of total assets, to charity every year, and can cope with relevant inspections to complete the task.

Li Xuan injects funds into the Oceanpower Foundation every year, which is about 1% of his total personal assets. And the Financial Times has just conducted a new assessment of his property. The Financial Times finally concluded that the personal wealth of the world's richest man has exceeded $25 billion.

In other words, the annual donation funds received by Oceanpower Foundation from Li Xuan alone are about 2 billion Hong Kong dollars. The balance of these funds is only about 20% per year, and the remaining 80% will be spent in time!

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Just when his sister was bumping in the deep mountains of northern Guangdong, Li Xuan attended a grand opening ceremony in Shekou Industrial Zone. China's first joint-stock bank held by a corporate legal person, China Merchants Bank, was officially launched!

Unlike China Merchants Bank in another time and space, this bank, which has only one branch and its business scope is limited to a small area of Shekou Industrial Zone and Nanhu Development Zone, has accepted foreign shareholding for the first time in history!

Jiahua Bank invested 10 million yuan and held 5% of the shares in China Merchants Bank, which has a total share capital of 50 million yuan. This is hailed as a major breakthrough in China's financial sector!

As early as 1982, Jiahua Bank set up an office in the Deep Sea Special Zone. Later, in 1984, together with HSBC, it became one of the first foreign banks to obtain a business license from the central bank. As a result, Jiahua Bank upgraded its former Shenhai Special Zone office to its first branch in Chinese mainland and was qualified to engage in more comprehensive banking business.

With the help of the layout of the Oriental Group in the deep-sea special zone, the total capital exported by Jiahua Bank to China has exceeded 10 billion Hong Kong dollars in just a few years. China's control over foreign banks has always been relatively tight, and after learning that China Merchants Group was interested in setting up a bank of its own, Jiahua Bank began to actively engage with it, hoping to expand its influence in the mainland by saving the country.

It is important to know that although China Merchants Group is a large group, it does not have any experience in the financial industry, especially in the banking field. This is not the case with Carnival Bank, which has now grown to become the third largest bank in Hong Kong after HSBC and Standard Chartered. Its advanced management experience can provide a lot of help to the newly established China Merchants Bank!

It's just that it's not so easy to tear a hole in China's closed banking system. Jiahua had hoped to hold a 20 percent stake in the newly formed China Merchants Bank and gain one or two board seats on the bank's board. However, the end result was that Jiahua was only allowed to hold 5% of the shares.

However, although Jiahua Bank failed to achieve its goal, it also successfully signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Merchants Bank. Jiahua will use its own advanced experience to help China Merchants Bank build a modern banking management system in line with international standards.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning, after the initial cooperation and the gradual accumulation of more trust in the future, Jiahua Bank has undoubtedly taken a big step forward in the race to enter the mainland market......!