Chapter 9 Preparations

Shen Chong came to Japan, mobilized the people, and brought more than 20 subordinates, including the investment department, the film department, the newspaper media, and the TV station, and when he went to Singapore, he only brought a secretary, which was unusually low-key. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

After the crossing, as his career became bigger and bigger, and his wealth became more and more, although Shen Chong has always been very modest and self-restrained on the surface, in fact, he has been extremely arrogant and arrogant in his heart, like Singapore, a country like Singapore, he didn't pay attention to it at all, but some time ago, after the emotional problems were exposed, he deeply realized that he was still a person, and he was by no means an omnipotent immortal, so his arrogance dissipated, and his mentality sank, so that he truly reached the realm of harmony and nature, calm and moderate life, and the performance of various young and old people in the past, It's just a disguise supported by a golden finger.

No matter how strong you are, after all, you are just one person, Singapore is small, after all, it is a country, and it is a developed country with backers and geographical advantages around you.

Therefore, after receiving the invitation of the National University of Singapore, Shen Chong said that he didn't care, but he attached great importance to it in his heart, and specially instructed Gu Liwei to collect information and make preparations, if it was just over two months ago, let alone the preparations, he was likely to directly take the face of the Internet indignant, make a big fuss, and attack Lee Kuan Yew's various ** policies that discriminate against Chinese - anyway, if it is blocked, a small country with a population of one or two million, who cares about that little market?

But now his mentality has changed, on the other hand, Singapore is the only Chinese-language cultural base outside the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, just like the United States uses Taiwan as an unsinkable aircraft carrier, in a cultural sense, Singapore is also the bridgehead of Shen Chong's media empire to expand into Southeast Asia.

Mouth cannons can't change the world, Lee Kuan Yew used policies to suppress Chinese culture, I will use money to support Chinese culture, let's use practical actions to wrestle our wrists......

So on the flight from Tokyo to Singapore, Shen Chong has been looking through the information about Singapore that Gu Liwei specially faxed to Tokyo.

The information is divided into three parts, the first part is that Singapore is reclaiming the sea to build Changi International Airport, part of which is underwritten by Gammon Construction, Shen Chong, as the new owner of Gammon Construction, it is necessary to have a brief understanding.

In 19ru, Singapore's main airport is Cen Yeriba Airport, built in 1955, has been unable to keep up with the needs of development, and is located in the urban area, it is inconvenient to expand, so the easternmost Changi construction of a new airport, a total of UU million cubic meters of earth and 4000000 cubic meters of gravel, the first phase of construction is scheduled to be completed next year, that is, in July 198l, including the first passenger building, the airstrip, 45 aircraft parking spaces, and all related support facilities such as aircraft maintenance depot, Fire stations, offices, cargo centers, and other facilities.

Shen Chong only briefly looked at the contents of this aspect and did not pay much attention to the fact that these projects were nearing completion, and the handover work had not yet been officially completed, and that Kinmen Construction was still nominally a company owned by Jardine Matheson

The second part is the details of the Jurong Industrial Park in Singapore. Jurong is located in the southwest of Singapore Island in the coastal area, about 10 kilometers away from the city, with an area of UU square kilometers, originally a barren land composed of swamps and hills, in 19ul the Singapore government planned 64du hectares of land here to develop an industrial park, in 19U8 the factory buildings in the park, ports, docks, railways, roads, electricity, water supply and other infrastructure construction were basically completed, and in the same year U established the Jurong Town Authority t to control the supply of industrial land and various parks across the country, And the Economic Development Bureau will dispatch professional investment teams around the world to be responsible for investment promotion.

Jurong Industrial Park was originally focused on the development of labor-intensive industries, mainly to solve the employment problem of Singaporeans, to 1979, the industrial park employed one-third of the country's labor force, the unemployment rate has also been reduced from 10 in the sixties to the task is basically completed, so since last year, the industrial park began to transform, launched the 19ru-1990 ten-year master plan, supported high-growth and high value-added enterprises, and began to build the Singapore Science and Technology Park, recruiting science and technology development enterprises.

In 1979, South Korea's GDP was as high as more than $000 million, Taiwan had $33.8 billion, Hong Kong had $500 million, and Singapore was less than $9.3 billion, only one-third of Thailand's......

However, according to the data, the main direction of the transformation of Jurong Industrial Park is chemical and machinery manufacturing, and does not attach importance to electronic technology.

Innovation is good, sound digitization is just the technology that Shen Chong wants to tinker with recently, but according to Gu Liwei's verification, Singapore does not have a company called "innovative technology" at this time, presumably it has not been established, and if it is not established, then there is no chance to appear, the innovative ace "Shengba" series of sound cards only came out in 1989, Shen Chong can't wait so long, with the speed of his crazy money research and development, at most three years, and now the dumb p will make a sound.

Singapore is just a spare tire used by Shen Chong to stimulate the Taiwan authorities, and the study of the information on the Jurong Industrial Park is also a superficial article, and what he is really concerned about is the third piece of information.

This is information about "Nanyang Siang Pao" and "Sin Chew Daily", in Shen Chong's previous life, the names of these two newspapers, most people may not have heard of them, but if you mention the name of another newspaper, many people must know, that is "Lianhe Zaobao".

"Lianhe Zaobao" is the only overseas Chinese newspaper that can be sold in mainland cities, and its website is also one of the few overseas media that can be read without going over the wall, and "Lianhe Zaobao" is just the abbreviation of this newspaper, its full name, called "Nanyang Sin Chew Lianhe Zaobao", is a newspaper formed by the merger of "Nanyang Business Daily" and "Sin Chew Daily".

"Nanyang Siang Pao" was founded in Singapore on September 1923 by the famous overseas Chinese Tan Kah Kee, is the largest newspaper in Singapore and the Chinese community in Malaysia, sold more than 100,000 copies in its heyday, in 1971, Lee Kuan Yew accused the newspaper of being pro-communist, reporting on the good news of the China News Times, beautifying life, and harming the interests of Singapore, and then launched the so-called "May Storm", arrested the general manager and editor-in-chief of Nanyang Siang Pao, and then changed the law to stipulate that the daily newspaper must be reorganized into a public limited company, The maximum shareholding of a shareholder must not exceed 30 Nanyang Siang Pau, and the ownership of Nanyang Siang Phong changed hands, thus declining.

The "Sin Chew Daily" was founded by Hong Kong's generation of newspaper tycoon Hu Wenhu in 19 years, originally belonged to one of the three major newspaper groups in Hong Kong, Sing Tao Newspaper, but before Hu Wenhu died, he made a will to divide the family, "Sin Chew Daily" was inherited by his adopted son Hu Jiao, this newspaper was originally influential, and did not make money, but Hu Jiao was lucky enough to recruit a super bull to be the editor-in-chief, this person is named Li Kexing, originally an editor of AFP, Jing Chuan Bao Agency, brilliant writing, editorial writing is extremely brilliant, spicy and sharp, Even several world-famous international news agencies used his editorials as a model, and the U.S. Consulate in Singapore often used his editorials as a political report to return to China, which helped the sales of Sin Chew Daily to rise steadily, and became the leading Chinese newspaper in Southeast Asia in the 60s.

Although "Nanyang Siang Pao" and "Sin Chew Daily" have fierce competition and fight with each other, these two newspapers have a completely consistent position, that is, they vigorously advocate the Chinese language, safeguard Chinese education, and resolutely oppose the English education forcibly promoted by Singapore and Malaysia after World War II. It caused a great social repercussion and forced Singapore to abandon this policy.

However, in the "May Storm" in 1971, "Sin Chew Daily" was also suppressed by Lee Kuan Yew, the boss Hu Jiao was invited to tea by the Political Department for three days, Lee Kuan Yew publicly accused him of accepting ** funding, so the newspaper always attacked the Singapore government, Hu Jiao was originally a second ancestor, no ability, no courage, obedient, neither denied, nor argued, the reputation of the newspaper was greatly affected, the main writer Li Xingke was forced to go into exile, after several twists and turns, "Sin Chew Daily" became a local bank in Singapore.

After the two banners of "Nanyang Siang Pao" and "Sin Chew Daily" advocating Chinese education were cut down, Singapore's Chinese education collapsed rapidly, and a large number of Chinese schools were reorganized into English schools, and since 1976, Singapore began to advocate the change of Nanyang University to English education, and in 19ru, Nanyang University was merged into the National University, and no one dared to raise objections.

The reason for Lee Kuan Yew's merger with Nanyang University is that Chinese University cannot recruit students, and according to the data of public surveys, there are 10,000 Singaporeans over the age of 10 who only understand Chinese, more than 300,000 people who can understand both Chinese and English, and 10,000 people who only understand English Chinese.

Of course, university education is Singapore's own business, and Shen Chong is not the president, so it is not his turn to take care of this matter, he is a media, and he just wants to engage in "Nanyang Siang Pao" and "Sin Chew Daily", these two newspapers were only merged into "Lianhe Zaobao" in 1983, and it is said that when the two newspapers with a history of more than 50 years merged, some people once sighed that it was better not to call it "Lianhe Zaobao", but "Shangxing (sad) Morning Post".

Until the 21st century, Singapore was considered one of the countries with the lowest press freedom in the world, lower than Chinese mainland, and extremely strict controls.

Shen Chong scratched his finger on the map on the document, pouted, and said secretly: "Malaysia strictly controls all Chinese media, Indonesia bans the publication of Chinese newspapers and imported Chinese books, plus Singapore, all of them are undisciplined things."