When Shen Chong drove past the Golden Gate Building, Li Kaiyuan was being interviewed by Lin Xingzhi, editor-in-chief of the "Hong Kong Economic Daily" -- comprehensive newspapers are miscellaneous and inappropriate, and they are indeed a bit chicken-barred, but professional financial newspapers are fragrant and sweet, and both the mainland and Taiwan have relatively loose controls in this regard, because financial and economic information is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, and behind every piece of news, there are all kinds of business opportunities and crises. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info (Note 1)

Different from Shen Chong's almost tabula rasa business card, Li Kaiyuan is now worthy of honor, a bunch of titles, the three most dazzling of which are the president of Kaiyuan Toys, the president of Gammon Construction and the director of Jardine Matheson, Kaiyuan Toys' Rubik's Cube and Cauliflower Doll sell well all over the world, with a turnover of hundreds of millions of dollars, and is the largest toy company in Hong Kong and even the whole of Asia; Gammon Construction is a veteran construction company with a history of more than 60 years, which has undertaken many large-scale projects in Southeast Asia, with strong strength and reputation. Jardine Matheson is the king of foreign banks, and HSBC is a giant side by side, and its board members are all rich and illustrious, Li Kaiyuan is among them at the age of 244 or 5, which is an unprecedented feat in the Hong Kong business community, so when she returned to Hong Kong from the mainland, some media have upgraded the "toy queen" to the "business queen", thinking that she is Hong Kong's first strong woman and Hong Kong's first richest woman.

Shen Chong is a super friend in the media industry, even if it is an unknown tabloid or a rookie reporter who has just debuted, he will chat a few words when he meets him, cooperate with the photo, and go to the newspaper almost every day, and Li Kaiyuan is not friendly to the media, except for the surprise when he held a press conference in June, he never appeared in front of the public, she suddenly agreed to accept an exclusive interview with the "Hong Kong Economic Journal", Lin Xingzhi was overjoyed, but also a little flattered, so he came to visit in person.

"Miss Li, Gammon Construction is a company dominated by engineers, and the vast majority of employees are men, and as far as I know, after Gammon Construction broke away from Jardine Matheson, about one-fifth of its employees resigned, and many of them resigned because they were unwilling to work for female managers, what is your response to this problem?"

"I'm not worried about gender, Gammon Construction is a mature commercial company, not my private garden, I believe that as long as we can provide a superior environment and competitive salary, both men and women, will be willing and dedicated to working for the company." Li Kaiyuan smiled slightly and said: "Flowing water is not rotten, the household hub is not beetle, and it is very normal for employees to resign. ”

"The construction industry is a highly professional industry, and Miss Li has no experience in this area before, so is there any pressure to become the president of Gammon Construction?"

"Of course, there is pressure, but it is not great, after the completion of the restructuring of Gammon Construction, there will be a dedicated CEO and CTO, who will assist me in managing the company's ......"

The position of CEO first appeared after the end of the American Revolutionary War, Alexander Hamilton, one of the drafters of the American Constitution, opened a bank in New York, and then found a professional manager to manage it, and gave his position the name of chief-executive-officer, CEO is called CEO in the mainland, but in Hong Kong it is called CEO, many companies have it, it is not unusual.

CTO is Shen Chong's "initiative", before 1980, there was no so-called chief technology officer in the world, until the mid-to-late 80s, GE and AT&T these multinational groups did not appear CTO, but their main job is to transform scientific research results into commercial projects, not very important positions, but after the rise of the computer and Internet information industry in the 90s, CTO has evolved into a team leader who studies the company's core technology, and its strategic position has been greatly improved.

Shen Chong is a crossing party, and has a unique advantage in strategic vision, but what he lacks is the tactical details of the strategy step by step, and these details all need to be supported by technology, so at the beginning of the establishment of Activision Games and Kaiyuan Toys, he hired the top experts in the industry to serve as CTO with a high salary, set up an independent laboratory, and developed various technologies according to demand, such as cabbage dolls, last Christmas, there were only four models and more than a dozen derivative props, and by August this year, There are more than 30 models and hundreds of derivative props, and smart dolls with built-in computer chips that can speak and sing have also been developed, which have brought huge profits to the company.

After briefly explaining the concept and recruitment process of CEO and CTO, Li Kaiyuan joked to herself: "I, the president, strictly speaking, should be the chief sales officer, I am only responsible for recommending the company's strong strength and outstanding talents to customers who need it, and sales is my strength, and I am very confident in this." ”

"Ms. Li is currently working in Gammon Construction, is she planning to shift her business focus to the construction industry?"

"I'm very optimistic about the future of the construction industry, but for now, my focus is still on the toy industry, and I won't be involved in day-to-day operations when Gammon Construction's restructuring is complete."

"New Century Toys every year during Christmas and Spring Festival, will launch the world's best-selling heavyweight products, last year was the Rubik's Cube, this year is the cauliflower doll, what is next year? Can you tell me about it, I think a lot of people are interested in this, especially readers with children at home. ”

Li Kaiyuan opened the locker behind the desk, took out a few design drawings from it, and showed them to Lin Xingzhi, one is a yellow plush toy, with a round head and a big mouth, no hands and feet, at a glance, you can tell that it is a character in the popular video game "Pac-Man", one is a plastic robot, wearing angular armor, carrying a unique weapon, full of science fiction, and the other is a little fairy with wings on her back and a magic wand in her hand.

"If Editor-in-Chief Lin has watched "Die Hard", he may have noticed that in the movie, there is one such doll in Momoe Yamaguchi's office." Li Kaiyuan first pointed to the Pac-Man pattern and introduced: "Kaiyuan Toys is the only officially authorized peripheral product manufacturer of "Pac-Man", this doll will be launched next month, and the number of orders has exceeded 1 million sets. ”

"The cabbage doll is a toy that is biased towards girls, to be exact, it is a toy for European and American girls, so this year we have developed a toy for boys, this is called Gundam, from Japan's popular cartoon "Mobile Suit Gundam", this set of toys has more than ten different kinds of robots, each robot can be assembled by itself, and the playability is very high...... This one is inspired by the Japanese anime "Flower Fairy", which has a total of six fairies and dozens of flower cards......" (Note 2)

"Children like toys very much, and they also like to watch cartoons, I think the organic combination of animation and toys will produce the effect of one plus one is greater than two, so our company sponsored Jiayi TV to buy the rights of these two cartoons, and is currently producing Chinese dubbing, which is scheduled to be broadcast next month...... In addition to that, I also invested in a cartoon called "Transformers" in Japan and developed a toy to go with it, but I am afraid that this Christmas will not be in time for ......."

Lin Xingzhi was writing hard in the shorthand book, and at the same time vaguely felt that Li Kaiyuan's explanation concealed some very important meanings but he didn't know what they were.

Pac-Man ...... Video game...... Activision Entertainment......

Gundam, Flower Fairy...... Cartoon...... Jiayi TV ......

This Miss Li and that Shen Caishen are really a perfect match, and their every move is echoing each other, and there is a faint trend of collectivization......

"These toys look beautiful and playful, and I think this Christmas, there are a lot of parents who have a headache." Lin Xingzhi picked up the camera, while taking the design drawing, while complimenting, after shooting, he asked: "Miss Li, Kaiyuan toys have always had the problem of insufficient production capacity, during last Christmas, cauliflower dolls were in short supply, and the price on the second-hand market even exceeded the official price of new products. ”

"On the one hand, we started stocking in advance, on the other hand, we took the way of authorized production, and signed OEM agreements with several large toy companies in Hong Kong that meet the standards, and our new factory in Shenzhen has been completed and started, previously limited by the scale, Shenzhen can only produce toys accounting for about 20% of the total sales, after the completion of the new factory, the production capacity will be doubled, I believe that there will be no shortage of supply this year."

"Miss Li is the first Hong Kong person to set up a factory in Shenzhen, what do you think about the mainland's approval of Shenzhen as a special economic zone yesterday?"

"Shenzhen's potential is very large, and the land, population and policies are very competitive, which is very suitable for investment and factory construction." Li Kaiyuan is probably the person who knows Shenzhen best in Hong Kong except Shen Chong, she talked eloquently, listed some data and related information, and said: "Many people have doubts about Shenzhen's infrastructure, indeed, the current infrastructure there is not very good, but this situation will soon change, because the mainland will send a professional infrastructure engineering force to Shenzhen to carry out urban infrastructure construction." (Note 3)

China and Britain have not yet negotiated the future of Hong Kong, and in 1997 it was unresolved, at this time the mainland sent a force to Shenzhen, what does it mean?

Lin Xingzhi was taken aback, and subconsciously asked, "Army?" ”

"It's an infrastructure engineer soldier, and he doesn't hold a gun."

"How many are there?"

"About 20,000, maybe not that much in the early stage."

"How did Miss Li know this information?"

"Because as our partner, Gammon Construction will also participate in the construction of some infrastructure projects in Shenzhen."

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Note 1: I made a clerical error in the first few chapters, and I forgot to add the word "comprehensive" in front of the newspaper, which is hereby corrected.

Note 2: "Mobile Suit Gundam" aired in Japan from April 7, 1979 to January 26, 1980, and in Hong Kong from September 17, 1980 to October 29, 1980, and Flower Fairy was aired in Japan from February 9, 1979 to February 8, 1980.

Note 3: In September 1979, more than 1,000 infrastructure engineers arrived in Shenzhen, but it was not until 1982 that they began to be stationed on a large scale.