Chapter 537: Wall Street
"If you love him, send him to New York, for it is heaven; If you hate her, send her to New York, because it's hell there! ”
This is a classic line in the hit TV series "Beijinger in New York" the year before last.
Chen Guan came to New York for short-term study, tuition and living expenses are all public funds, without the mentality of Wang Qiming, Guo Yan, A Chun, and David, the protagonists of the TV series "Beijingers in New York", who are struggling in life, New York has no heaven and hell in his eyes, only developed, prosperous and colorful.
During the Taiwan Strait crisis when he first arrived in New York, for the sake of safety, the Central Plains study class in the United States strictly forbade the students to go out in accordance with the domestic instructions transferred from the embassy. Chen Guan said that he was young, with a high level of English, and could go to the library every day and enjoy it, but not the other students, they were all leading cadres about 40 years old, and they came to the United States to learn advanced management experience, not to go to the library, and if they always stayed in the dormitory, they were very breathless, but they were unwilling to violate discipline and were afraid of embarrassing the motherland, so they could only pass the time by chatting with each other and exchanging work experience.
The rift in Sino-US relations caused by the crisis in the Taiwan Strait cannot be repaired in a short period of time. Although the Taiwan Strait crisis was lifted at the end of March and the study of study classes in the United States was regularized, it was only for studying, and the ban on not being allowed to go out on the streets alone for sightseeing has not been lifted. It was not until the end of April that the policemen who often appeared in the rented quarters of the study classes in the United States disappeared, and the figures of the strangers were also gone, and the squad leader, Zhang Zhiguo, consulted the embassy in the United States, and the ban on the trainees not being allowed to go out on sightseeing on the streets was lifted.
At this time, the students were completely liberated, and after class, they began to travel around New York in groups of three or five!
New York City consists of five boroughs, including the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, with a total area of 1,214. 4 square kilometers.
Manhattan, the heart of New York, is the world's center for finance, business, art and fashion.
Manhattan Island is 21 long from north to south. 5 km, 3 at its widest point from east to west. It is 7 kilometers long, long from north to south and narrow from east to west, with an area of only 57. 91 square kilometers.
Manhattan Island is bordered by the East River to the east, the Hudson River to the west, the Harlem River to the north, and Staten Island to the south. It is connected to the Brown Borough, Queens, Brooklyn and New Jersey through tunnels and bridges, and is connected by ferries to Staten Island.
The small island of Manhattan is home to the world's financial, securities, futures and insurance industries.
The United Nations Headquarters is located on the West Bank of the East River on the island of Manhattan.
The streets of Manhattan are very regular, like a chessboard, and the streets are mostly named after numbers, with avenues and streets naming in two ways, the streets in the north-south direction are called avenues, and the streets from west to east are numbered as 1 to 12 avenues, interspersed with several non-numbered avenues. These avenues are Manhattan's north-south traffic arteries; The east-west streets are called streets, which are numbered in increasing numbers from south to north, and are divided into two districts, east and west, based on Fifth Avenue, such as East 29th Street and West Houston Street; The only road that crosses Manhattan diagonally is Broadway.
The development of Manhattan was carried out from south to north, and because of the sequence of development, three areas were formed: Downtown, Midtown, and Uptown. Downtown refers to the old town south of Manhattan, which is Manhattan's traditional financial and business district; Midtown, the section between 23rd and 59th Streets, has grown into Manhattan's new commercial center; Uptown refers to the northern part of Manhattan.
NYU's main campus is located in the area near Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, with the campus unwalled, centered on Washington Square, north of Houston Street, west of Broadway, south of 14th Street, and east of Sixth Avenue. In other words, NYU is completely integrated into New York, and the integration of the school and the city is the highest in the world!
The school is in the city, the city is in the school, if it weren't for the impact of the Taiwan Strait crisis, Chen Guan and they wouldn't even have to go out of the school gate, they could enjoy New York!
Chen Guan is a young man, he never thought that he would have the opportunity to come to New York, the most prosperous city in the world, but now that the ban on going out alone has been lifted, and he is shouldering the mysterious mission of sanctioning Lu Bin, he naturally can no longer blindly attend classes and go to the library, and begins to travel around New York.
No one else will believe it, but some time ago, due to the impact of the crisis in the Taiwan Strait, the students who went to the United States strictly abided by the ban and did not even go to Washington Square in the center of the main campus, for fear that they would be found in trouble by the US police or agents if they were not careful. Because Chen Guan has a mysterious mission, he is especially reluctant to meet with American police and agents, let alone move at will.
In this lifting of the ban, Chen Guan first went to Washington Square, sat down on the chairs made by those big people, passed the addiction of the big names in American history, and lingered in front of the Washington Arch, silently remembering Washington's honors in his heart, and then took this as a starting point to start his New York comics.
Wall Street is the first place Chen Guan wants to visit.
NYU's main campus is conveniently located next to Wall Street.
When he arrived on Wall Street, Chen Guan saw that the streets were narrow, and high-rise buildings stood arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder, side by side. The total length of the street is exactly the same as that introduced in the information, that is, 540 meters, which is not as long as the main road in Wulongyu Village!
In just 540 meters, there are more than 2,900 financial and foreign trade institutions!
Chen Guan did not ridicule the narrowness of Wall Street, nor did he look at Wall Street with a critical eye, saying something like capitalism is doomed. On the contrary, standing at the west entrance of Wall Street in Trinity Church, looking at the men in suits and leather shoes in a hurry, and looking at the professional women wearing various clothes, Chen Guan had an unreal feeling in his heart, as if he could also come to Wall Street to dominate the situation and live a financial elite addiction!
Wall Street, that's the dream of wealth in the minds of many young people. Don't say anything else, it's just to find a partner, as soon as I heard that the man is a Wall Street financial practitioner, I don't know how many beautiful girls will be dazzled, and they will chase after the pole to get married!
Chen Guan knows that as long as he mixes on Wall Street for a few years, it is likely that the annual salary will reach more than 100,000 or 200,000 US dollars, which is 1:8 now. The exchange rate of 315, equivalent to RMB, is more than 800,000 yuan and more than 1.6 million yuan, which is something that many township cadres in China dare not think of!
I am afraid that most of the men and women in front of me are masters with an annual salary of 100,000 or 200,000 US dollars. This income drives their footsteps forward, forward, and all the way!
From Trinity Church all the way to the east, Chen Guan strolled, the Bank of New York Building, the American Xinfu Bank Building, the JPMorgan Chase Building, the American Trust Company Building, the Toronto Toronto-Dominion Bank Building, the New York Bank Headquarters, the Deutsche Bank Building, the Brown Brothers Harriman Trust Building, the Citibank Building, the Manhattan Trust Bank Building, the buildings of financial trust and insurance institutions flashed in front of Chen Guan's eyes, and one after another foreign trade and commercial institutions fell behind Chen Guan.
Walking all the way, looking all the way, Chen Guan opened his eyes, and only felt that Wall Street was a veritable world financial center, and it deserved it!
Chen Guan had read the relevant information before he came, and knew that there were as many as 223 Japanese companies and institutions on Wall Street alone, and Korean companies and Japan were not much different, but there were few Chinese-funded institutions. For this alone, Chen Guan feels that China's reform and opening up still has a long way to go!
Chen's key targets are the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the New York Mercantile Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The reason why he wanted to take a look at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York was because Chen Guan knew that the bank had a cellar dedicated to storing gold, which was the largest in the world.
Chen Guan became a young billionaire by relying on the Yangshan gold mine, and naturally has a soft spot for gold. Although he knew that it was impossible to enter the cellar of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to inspect it on the spot, Chen Guan was still willing to go to see the bank, even if it was to stand at the door and feel the warmth, heaviness and kindness of gold!
The New York Stock Exchange building is located at 18 Broadway on the corner of Wall Street.
Standing in front of the New York Stock Exchange building, looking at the famous bull sculpture wishing the stock market bull bull, Chen Guan's heart was very uneasy, thinking of the predecessor of the New York Stock Exchange, those traders and speculators stood under a plane tree on the side of the street to conduct informal transactions, and thought of the New York Stock Exchange in front of him when these traders and speculators signed the "Sycamore Tree Agreement" and turned informal transactions into formal transactions.
So far, the Wall Street stock market has experienced two major crashes in 1929 and 1988, but after the crash, the New York Stock Exchange is still standing, and the number of listed companies is increasing day by day, and the market capitalization is getting bigger and bigger!
What is the reason for this?
The answer is already in Chen Guan's heart, that is, people's dream of chasing wealth, the inexhaustible vitality and innovation of the market economy!
In just two months of studying in the United States, Chen Guan has thoroughly understood the truth that innovation is the source of development, and he has always focused on innovation from the perspective of innovation when he looks at things and thinks about problems.
At this point, Chen Guan's realm is already very high.
When others visit Wall Street, they take a camera to click and take pictures, and they hold a miniature video camera to record non-stop. Chen Guan was relaxed, walking around the street naturally, seeing with his eyes and thinking with his heart, and he didn't even have the idea of taking a photo on Wall Street to commemorate it!
The traders of the New York Stock Exchange would never have imagined that just outside the building of the New York Stock Exchange where they worked, there was a young man who could still maintain a normal heart when he arrived here, and saw the essence of the securities industry so thoroughly!