Chapter 20 It's Time for Investors to Come
[Please keep in mind the domain name of this site " ", or search in Baidu: Sanlian Literature Network] As soon as the Spring Festival passed, there was a frenzy of deepening the reform process in China.
Not only is the soaring price of the means of production making people see that a new wave of construction is brewing in China, but foreign capital is also doing its best to seize the mainland market. China's stance of speeding up reform and opening up has greatly relieved Americans and Europeans. For three years, the fog of mistrust that pervades China and the Western world has gradually lifted.
Multinational companies can't wait to increase their investment in China, and the once stranded companies such as General Motors, Motorola, and DuPont have all recovered, Chrysler is discussing expanding the operation of Beijing Jeep, and manufacturers such as Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, and General Electric are launching large-scale sales in all directions, in Bill*#8226; Under Gates' personal supervision, Microsoft opened an office in Beijing. One of Avon's product managers said they had signed 8,000 sales misses, while Procter & Gamble said its business in China was growing at a rate of 50 percent.
At about the same time, the country's economic reform is struggling, especially for those state-owned enterprises that are on the verge of collapse. In almost every province, there are many state-owned enterprises that are on the verge of bankruptcy and really cannot continue to operate, and even if they continue to increase capital investment and policy support, they will only be able to survive for some time in the end.
Under such circumstances, many economists have called for the complete relaxation of restrictions on state-owned enterprises and the revitalization of enterprises, or rather. It is to directly push these enterprises into the capital market.
Fan Wuzhi recently noticed a problem: Some Chinese capitalists in Southeast Asia have gone to the mainland to test the waters in the name of serving the motherland, trying to obtain a controlling stake in the entire enterprise by reorganizing the assets of some enterprises that are not doing well in China. One of the most eye-catching is a Hong Kong company called Great Aim . Domestic companies are being acquired on a large scale.
In just a few months, Great Aim has acquired dozens of large and small enterprises in mainland China. At a cost of about $400 million, in exchange for an absolute controlling stake in these companies, and it intends to integrate them into a large group company and take them overseas to be listed as a whole.
Fan Wuzhi sent people to investigate the Great Aim company and found that his boss was an Indonesian Chinese, and he was only a shareholder in the company with less than 20% of the shares. Behind him are Li Ka-shing's Hutchison & Co., Sinar Mas Group, Morgan Stanley and other major securities firms. In addition, this person also has a close relationship with the Itochu Foundation in Japan and other companies, and his capital background is very complicated. Obviously, those capital predators who are hidden behind them want to kao Huang Hongnian's assault and gain benefits.
Fan Wuxian studied the other party's investment strategy and quickly understood their intentions.
Judging from most of the acquisition plots, the merger and acquisition of Great Aim is basically a mayoral project. First communicate directly with the top leaders of the government, take advantage of the east wind of the southern tour, make good use of the political card, hold it high, and build momentum with anger. The non-stop Great Aim is buying enterprises everywhere like cutting rice, and specially selects national backbone enterprises with good capital quality and profit prospects. From the very beginning, we had a plan to sell as a package.
Great Aim focused its acquisitions on the two major industries of rubber tires and beer, first bringing the two rubber factories under the name of China Tire Holding Company registered in Bermuda, and then issuing new shares and listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Then, with the proceeds of 100 million US dollars, it acquired three tire and rubber factories, and three of the five factories obtained by Great Aim were designated production plants in the domestic tire industry. In the beer industry, Zhongce has acquired a number of breweries and established a Chinese beer holding company registered in Bermuda, with plans to list in Toronto, Canada.
At first, Fan Wuxian was very strange how the government would allow foreign capital to buy domestic high-quality enterprises on a large scale, and after he researched it, he found that after this series of actions. It's all secretly promoted by big capital behind the scenes.
At the same time as Great Aim was making large-scale acquisitions in various places. He was followed by a huge group of theorists and media figures, whose appearance made the reformist ideologues seem to see the light of the old system of putting state enterprises on the back burn. Many economists believe that the phenomenon of Great Aim is an effective model for the restructuring of state-owned enterprises and a product of the era of deepening the reform of China's economic system, and that the merger and acquisition of Great Aim has finally enabled state-owned enterprises to achieve diversification of property rights that have not been broken through for many years, which will enable the reform of state-owned enterprises to completely get out of the old way of reform in the cage.
Under the influence of this media trend, the top management also believes that it is possible to take advantage of Great Aim Company's familiarity with the principles and channels of listing of foreign enterprises to transform some state-owned enterprises into international enterprises after reorganization, and to list them abroad one after another, so as to attract more foreign funds to invest in the development of domestic enterprises.
Fan Wuxian roughly calculated that in fact, Great Aim would not invest more than US$500 million in the acquired projects, but if it was successfully listed, its profit would be more than US$3 billion. From the beginning to the end, Great Aim had no real intention of making these enterprises bigger and stronger, they just hoped to make a windfall in the restructuring of China's state-owned enterprises by taking advantage of Deng Gong's southern tour.
Basically, this is just a business model in which the government and businessmen use each other, and the local government has turned several state-owned enterprises into foreign-funded enterprises by introducing foreign capital, dragging them out of government control and achieving their own achievements in promoting the reform of the economic system, while Great Aim has taken the opportunity to accumulate wealth and package and sell the acquired enterprises overseas to make huge profits.
"I think it's time for me to do something." Fan Wuzhi felt that it was a shame to allow these people to plunder the country's high-quality resources like locusts in front of him.
Therefore, he decided that he should do something to show his existence and remind them that he would regret blindly introducing foreign capital in the end.
The Pingyuan factory is the first step he wants to use to realize his strategic layout on the big chessboard of China.
Although the Spring Festival holiday is not long. But according to local customs, it is indispensable to go to relatives, so the seven aunts and eight aunts wandered around, and then ate a few times, and it was mixed up on the fifteenth day of the first month. When everyone in each unit settles down to work, basically this New Year's month will be almost over.
The country is promoting reform and opening up, as far as the rock is concerned. There's also something that's been talked about lately, our little rock. Now it has also attracted foreign businessmen, although it is only an investment intention, but it makes everyone feel a little excited, after all, in an inland province, to attract the golden phoenix, it means that we have a plane tree here!
Of course, people are willing to invest without goals. It is said that the investor is a young and beautiful Indonesian female overseas Chinese, and she is interested in the newly discovered high-quality mineral water source in Malan Village, Panshi City.
Li Mingjiu, the director of the Pingyuan Factory, naturally heard the news as soon as possible, and his mind was immediately hooked.
According to the original idea, he wanted to build the mineral water factory first in the name of the plain factory, and then slowly make it lose money through business methods. In the end, it was sold to its own relevant rights holders, and finally reorganized and changed the brand to continue to play the market.
You must know that in this way, the time will drag on for a year and a half, but the most important thing is safety, and Li Mingjiu doesn't care about this year and a half years. But now the situation has changed. If the government supports it again, in today's environment of deepening reform and vigorously introducing foreign investment, I am afraid that it will not be competitive.
Especially now that Malan Village and its own plain factory do not give in to each other on the issue of water sources, and the people have the advantage of geographical advantages, if the government relaxes, this matter will definitely not have anything to do with itself.
Li Mingjiu thought about it, but when it came to the fat in his mouth, he couldn't let others take it.
"Looks like we have to strike first!" Li Mingjiu decided. I have to first take the name of the plain factory. Get in touch with this female overseas Chinese and try to negotiate this matter. Even a little concession would be appropriate.
In any case, Li Mingjiu is also a factory of the Pingyuan Factory, a cadre at the level of the main hall, and a leader of four or five thousand workers, and he wants to make an appointment with the overseas Chinese who have just returned to China to make investments, but he can still do it, so the day after he asked someone to pass the word, the other party agreed and made an appointment to meet in the hotel of the Pingyuan Factory.
The hotel of the plain factory, was originally invested more than 1.5 million to build, although the area is not large, only more than 40 sets of rooms, but because the factory itself is out of work, so its configuration is still very high-grade, in terms of hardware conditions alone, completely more than the three-star hotel.
Early in the morning, Ma Xindu, the manager of the Pingyuan Hotel, led the staff to clean up and down the hotel, and the places where flowers should be placed were properly arranged, and the small garden in front and back of the hotel also deliberately found a car with the fire brigade to spray twice, and the cement road before the hotel was almost dusty, so clean that people could not bear to step on it.
"Everyone be careful, today is a foreign guest to talk about business with Director Li, this is related to the future development of our factory, we must not be sloppy!" Ma Xindu stood at the big iron gate in front of the hotel with his waist crossed, shouting orders to the busy workers.
For Manager Ma, the workers are still a little afraid, this person is deeply favored by Director Li, it is said that the personal relationship between the two is very good, and there are rumors that he is a pimp, using the high-quality waiter resources in the hotel, it is very much a few leaders, deeply despised.
But this kind of thing, unless someone stands up to identify it, or catches the current situation, otherwise everyone is just chanting two sentences behind their backs, and it is not okay to put it on the surface, you talk nonsense without evidence, then it is a frame-up.
But there is one point, no matter how embarrassing the situation in the factory is, the capital investment in the hotel is not less than a penny, and the waiters in the hotel are more than a watery spirit, and there are a few coquettish goods, which seems to be able to support everyone's speculation from a certain aspect.
After a while, the factory director's car drove into the yard, Li Mingjiu got out of the car with a serious expression, turned around the yard with his hands behind his back, nodded, seemed to be more satisfied, and went into the small conference room that was specially cleaned up to take a look, and found the ashtray on the table. frowned, and then said to Ma Xindu, who was accompanying him, "Old Ma, this is not needed, people are women, and our people can't smoke here, remember to explain them one by one later." Don't forget. β
"Yes, yes, I'll let you know." Ma Xindu nodded and said with a smile.
Li Mingjiu walked around the guest room again. instructed two clever waiters to take care of it, and then walked down, and drove out again, probably to welcome the female overseas Chinese.
After Ma Xindu saw Li Mingjiu's car leave, he turned back and rearranged the things in the hotel, Rao was a little uneasy. I checked it out again for myself.
At half past ten o'clock in the morning, the convoy of female overseas Chinese finally arrived, a total of four, the first place is a Mercedes-Benz, well-informed people recognize it, it is the car of Mayor Fan Heng's son-in-law, and later there are two Audis, and the last one is Li Mingjiu's Santana.
Ma Xindu personally opened the door for the leading Mercedes-Benz. The leaders of the Plains Factory waiting at the entrance of the hotel were full of smiles and applauded to welcome the arrival of female overseas Chinese.
Shen Manhua was dressed in a fashionable outfit, Tingting walked out of the Mercedes-Benz in a curling manner, her eyes were covered by a pair of wide sunglasses, and she couldn't see the true face of Lushan.
The next group of people were some leaders of the city government. But none of the Standing Committee members and the deputy mayor appeared, which made the people of the Plains Factory a little puzzled.
It stands to reason that Li Mingjiu's banquet for female overseas Chinese is naturally aimed at the mineral water source, and the Panshi City Government stands on the position of maintaining Malan Village, and it is impossible to ignore it.
But it doesn't seem likely! Until yesterday, the two sides were still arguing in the city government over the question of who owns the water. There is no reason to be so calm today.
Li Mingjiu caught up from behind. He also felt a little aggrieved in his heart, not that he suffered a secret loss on the side of the city government. It's because the female overseas Chinese didn't get into her own car, but if you look at the few cars in the same industry, that is, your own car is the worst, which can't blame others, who makes the current situation of the Pingyuan factory not good?
Although Li Mingjiu's private small coffers are rich, but changing cars at this juncture, isn't that asking for trouble for himself? Although he is more arrogant, he still knows the importance of these things, and if he arouses the opposition of the whole factory, even if he has strong support from the ministry, he will not be able to get involved.
The Mercedes-Benz driver was none other than Fan Wuxi, who was walking side by side with Shen Manhua with a smile at the moment, looking like no one was around, which made Li Mingjiu feel quite jealous, "This little hairy child, who does he think he is?" Even if he came over, he didn't make it so public! β
But he also knows a little bit, Fan Heng's son seems to be very rich, and he also has some dealings with foreigners, but Li Mingjiu doesn't know much about specific things.
After all, Li Mingjiu is just an outsider, and Fan Heng's family left Panshi for many years before they came back to become mayors, if it weren't for the parties back then, not many people really remember Fan Wuxi's amazing actions in the past, and not many people are willing to publicize their deflated things all over the world.
Time is the best weapon to consume everything, Li Mingjiu naturally has no way of knowing how capable this little hairy child he hates, he just thinks that this kid looks a little underwhelmed.
"This used to be a wastelandβ" Fan Wuxian pointed out a garden near the hotel to Shen Manhua, "I remember when I was a child, there were two woods here and there, and in the summer, I often brought a group of children to come and play." Now the park you can see used to be a big garbage pit, and then in order to beautify the environment, the factory specially filled the big pit, and built a park on it, but it was a place for the workers to rest and play, but some dead cats and dogs after the thing, there is no place to throw it. β
"Dead cat, dead dog?" Shen Manhua asked a little puzzled.
"Well, it's the big pit under the park, which used to be used to throw these things, and it is said that some people have thrown dead children, but I haven't seen it myself." Fan replied solemnly.
"Oh-" Shen Manhua tightened the mink coat on his body and surrounded the fur collar. When Fan Wuxian said this, it seemed that he had seen it with his own eyes, and a small grain of sand rose on his skin.
"How can there be such a thing, our Plains Factory has been an advanced unit of civilization for many years." Li Mingjiu listened to Fan Wuxian maliciously slandering the park he had single-handedly set up, and couldn't help but argue.
It cost more than 3 million yuan to build the park, and a lot of manpower and material resources were invested, and Li Mingjiu gained a lot of benefits from it. So the last thing he wanted to hear was someone in front of him talking about the park.
The group walked into the hotel. Under the guidance of the waiter, I entered the small conference room.
Although it is closed, and it is just after the cold winter, but there is no feeling of suffocation in the house, yesterday, Ma Xindu asked people to clean the inside of the house thoroughly, and the doors and windows were opened for ventilation. At this time, the floor heating is very suitable, the temperature in the house is ten degrees, neither hot nor cold, and the flowers placed in the four corners also exude bursts of fragrance from time to time, refreshing.
Fan Wuxi hurriedly pulled out a chair for Shen Manhua, watched her sit down, and then pulled another chair for himself. He sat down on his own.
Li Mingjiu's face became even more stinky, and he said in his heart Looking at the conversation between this female overseas Chinese and Fan Wuxi, it seems that the two of them are very familiar with each other! So how likely is it to succeed in today's negotiations?
Fan Wuxian is the son of Fan Heng, Fan Heng is the mayor of Panshi, and Malan Village is under Panshi. And the mineral water source is in Malan Village, so after counting one ring after another, Fan Wuxian is obviously sent by Fan Heng to monitor the negotiations between the female overseas Chinese and himself! In such a situation, how do you start the negotiation? How to communicate his hole cards with female overseas Chinese in front of Fan Wuxi?
Ma Xindu, as the manager of the hotel, first expressed a warm welcome to Shen Manhua, and then invited Li Mingjiu, the director of the factory, to speak.
Li Mingjiu was polite, and then said, "Today, I am honored to invite Miss Shen Manhua, an overseas Chinese from Indonesia, to our plain factory." I'm so happy! The ancients said. Have friends come from afar, are you happy? That's exactly how we feel right now. I was able to discuss the common development plan with Ms. Shen. This is a big event for our plain factory, which is also in line with the general policy of deepening the country's reform and opening up. β
Shen Manhua smiled slightly, "I am very grateful for the welcome of your factory and the love of Director Li." I returned to China this time, mainly to make some contribution to the economic development of the country, but also for us to find some good projects suitable for the development of local overseas Chinese in Indonesia. Personally, I hope we can work together. β
Li Mingjiu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and when he was about to echo the land, Shen Manhua added, "But I heard that it seems that there are some disputes about the ownership of water sources?" β
As soon as these words were spoken, the people in the room suddenly stopped talking, and the originally fake smile suddenly became a little embarrassed.
Li Mingjiu's expression remained unchanged, he glanced at Fan Wuxi, who was sitting next to Shen Manhua and drinking tea by himself, and said to Shen Manhua, "Miss Shen misunderstood, there is no dispute about the ownership of the water source, even if the location of Malan Village is sitting now, it also belongs to the land of our Plains Factory, so the power to dispose of the water source is completely up to our Plains Factory, and there is really no need to say anything about this." We made an appointment with Ms. Shen today with a very sincere attitude of cooperation, hoping to facilitate the completion of this joint venture water plant. β
In fact, after thinking about it for a few days, Li Mingjiu also turned this corner, since he can't eat alone, then he might as well take the road of saving the country by curve, as long as he succeeds in cooperation with foreign businessmen, and once he attracts investment, then his political achievements will be there, whether it is to go to the head office or directly enter the ministry The conditions are enough, even if he stays in the plain factory to continue to be the director, he is also the director of the joint venture factory, and his status is very different from before. Putting a halo of courage and innovation on your head will be of great benefit to your future career.
Moreover, he has also studied the reaction of the Panshi municipal government, just based on the appearance of Malan Village, the conditions for joint ventures with foreign businessmen are too poor, and even if the municipal government wants to support it, the cost of investment is too great to outweigh the losses, so if they see the determination shown by the Pingyuan factory, it is very good. I guess the tone of opposition will not be so strict.
As long as he gives Malan Village a little sweetness, or makes some compromises to the municipal government, Li Mingjiu believes that the joint venture will definitely fall on the head of the Pingyuan Factory, after all, this is also a big political achievement project for the Panshi Municipal Government. Fan Heng will not let go of this good opportunity to make contributions no matter how wrong he looks.
One more point. is the lineup of the city government to attend the negotiation today, obviously to accompany the guests, otherwise what qualifications does a hairy boy like Fan Wuxian have to be opposite him? Could it be that this is also a concession?
Li Mingjiu's head turned around for a long time, and he always felt that today's things were promising.
Sure enough, after Li Mingjiu finished speaking, a deputy director of the mayor's office on the side of the city government said. "Director Li's words are also a little inappropriate, in the past, these lands were of course owned by the Plains Factory, but now Malan Village has been established for more than ten years, and it has formed a fait accompli, and you can't help but admit this status quo."
"We have land approvals." One of the leaders of the Plains Plant immediately retorted.
"What's the use of having an approval?" The deputy director said disdainfully, "Our villagers have built a large number of houses on it, and no one has cared about it for more than ten years. Naturally, these have become collective industries. It's like in the past, the Russians' lands were all west of the Volga River, but where do you see the current territories of the Russians? If the approval is useful, can we take out the territory map of the Qing Dynasty and bring back such a large piece of land? β
"You, you're using strong words!" The leader of the Plains Factory was so angry that he choked.
Li Mingjiu frowned and said, "These words are meaningless. As the largest state-owned enterprise in Panshi City, we should always get some policy support from the city! Even if there is no support, you should not hold us back! Does Malan Village have the strength to attract investment? In the future, a mineral water plant will be built, but what do they know? You can't take inferior resources and fool patriotic overseas Chinese like Miss Shen who have the heart to serve the country! It's unjustifiable! β
Shen Manhua didn't speak, just looked at the two sides arguing there, very funny.
Fan Wuxi coughed, and then interrupted the argument between the two sides, "There is no need for everyone to quarrel. This thing. In fact, it is a matter of historical legacy, and there is no point in arguing here. Let Miss Shen see the joke in plain terms. Deng Gong also said that the old man was on a southern tour, we should be bold and move faster, if we quarrel like this, how much time will we have to delay? How much slower is the development of our Panshi City than that of our sister provinces and cities? Therefore, we should still talk about this matter in line with the principle of joint development and putting aside disputes. At the end, he turned his head and asked Shen Manhua, "Miss Shen, did you say?" β
Shen Manhua nodded and smiled, "What Mr. Fan said, I completely agree. You come up with a clear charter and talk to me about investment. β
Li Mingjiu thought to himself, it seems that if he doesn't make a little concession, the city will not easily give up the cornucopia of mineral water sources, so he asked, "If Malan Village has any requirements, you can also put it forward, and if our Plains Factory has the ability to meet it, we can also agree to it." β
The deputy director who spoke just now frowned and said, "What else would the peasants want?" Land, of course! β
Fan Wuxian continued his words and said, "We haven't considered this statement before, but I have a proposal, I don't know if you are interested in hearing it?" β
Li Mingjiu said in his heart, aren't you Mayor Fan's private representative, otherwise where would a hairy child be qualified to sit here? So he replied, "Hehe, everyone can express their opinions, brainstorming, let's listen more, there is always no harm." β
Fan Wuxian nodded and said, "Malan Village occupies the land of the Pingyuan Factory, which is already a fait accompli, and it can't be changed, but the Pingyuan Factory hopes to obtain mineral water sources for development, which is also a reasonable thing, as a municipal government, you should not take care of one or the other." β
Li Mingjiu nodded, and said in his heart that this is still a human saying, and that land is ours.
"But the Pingyuan Factory did not dare to transfer the land to Malan Village rashly, after all, there was the original approval. Or if Malan Village cedes the water source to the plain factory, the villagers are naturally unwilling, and something will happen sooner or later. Fan Wuxian said with a smile, "There is a compromise solution, that is, Pingyuan Factory, Malan Village and Miss Shen form a new joint venture company to deal with the disputed land assets and water source issues, and Malan Village and Pingyuan Factory will invest in the land and water source, and Miss Shen will invest in the new company through capital, and the new company will be a joint venture controlled by Miss Shen, so that these disputes can be avoided." β
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