Preparing to choose a land in Shekou Industrial Zone, Lin Xiaozhi inevitably had to deal with Shekou China Merchants Bureau.

Because he had said hello in advance, and Shenzhen had also been affected by the political storm in the past two years, Shekou Industrial Zone seemed a little deserted, so Lin Xiaozhi easily met the head of Shekou Industrial Zone, Mr. Ouyang.

"Mr. Ouyang, please forgive me when you are on vacation, I hope it did not disturb your vacation." Looking at an old man with gray hair on the sofa opposite, Lin Xiaozhi gave enough respect. Not to mention that this person is older than his grandfather, just when this old man was sixty or seventy years old, he dragged his sick body back and forth between Hong Kong, Macao, and the mainland, just to bring funds for the economic development of New China after the reform and opening up.

In the early 80s, in order to bring Hong Kong investment to the poor and white Shenzhen, almost all the people in the Hong Kong business community have personally visited, and Hong Kong is only a river away from Shenzhen丨 is the mainland planning out of the reform and opening up window, and Shekou Industrial Zone is the focus of Shenzhen's planning, this old gentleman since the end of the seventies to take over the Shekou Industrial Zone and China Merchants Bureau, the most frequent time a year back and forth between Hong Kong and Macao and Shenzhen丨 more than 170 times, So much so that even the British garrison on the other side of the river knew him, and for a while, the British veterans stationed in the garrison only saw his license plate and let him go without even checking it, which was too familiar.

At the same time, he also served as the chairman of the China Merchants Bureau, and for a period of time, a lot of capital from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan invested in the mainland through him, so Ouyang was once regarded by many Hong Kong media, especially commercial newspapers and periodicals, as the vane of the mainland's commercialization reform, and was highly reported. Before Lin Xiaozhi decided to go north to Shenzhen, he also inquired about him, and saw rumors in a business newspaper article last year that he asked for retirement for health reasons last year. Now that more than a year has passed, this old man is still in charge of Shekou Industrial Zone and China Merchants Bureau, even if Ouyang is really retiring, he is indeed old.

"Mr. Lam speaks Mandarin so well, I've seen a lot of Hong Kong people, but most of their Mandarin is not standard, and they have to be translated to communicate. If I remember correctly, I had a brief meeting with your grandfather, Mr. Lin Jili, in '84......"

The seventy-five-year-old man Ouyang's health is not as healthy as ten years ago, and when he met Lin Xiaozhi and others, he was supported by a man who looked like his secretary, and the other hand was still on crutches. However, the old man seemed to be in good spirits, and when he first came to visit, he took the initiative to come out and shake his hand

In 84, Ouyang had met his grandfather Lin Jili, Lin Xiaozhi really didn't know about it, at that time, he was just a prodigal, and he was either in and out of the night market or a drinking party all day long.

However, although he didn't know what to do, it didn't affect Lin Xiaozhi's answer, he said with a smile: "The old gentleman still remembers this, hehe, Hong Kong has a lot of exchanges with Taiwan, and it has also been deeply influenced by Taiwan in the past, including language and culture." However, over the past decade or so, as Beijing has begun to pay more attention to Hong Kong and continue to import influence into Hong Kong, I believe that more and more Hong Kong people will identify with the mainland in the future. ”

It seems that he didn't expect Lin Xiaozhi to show favor so deliberately, so Ouyang was also stunned when he heard this, so he laughed for a while, pointed to the man who looked to be in his thirties who was supporting him next to him and said, "Mr. Lin's visit this time is also a coincidence, and it just so happens that one of my former subordinates also came to see me today." He is Ma Zhe, I think you should be familiar with it, Ping An Insurance Company is now in charge of him"

was suddenly pointed by him, and the man in casual clothes in his thirties next to him was also stunned, seeing Lin Xiaozhi turn his face in surprise as if he was looking at him carefully, he smiled and took the initiative to stretch out his hand to Lin Xiaozhi: "Hello Mr. Lin, it happened that you came to Shenzhen in March, I was in the United States and Europe to study their insurance system, and I couldn't come back for a while, but I didn't catch up with the meeting." ”

Ping An Insurance Company also has a lot of roots with Ouyang, its predecessor was China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone Social Insurance Company, RR year changed its name to 'Ping An, and China Merchants and Shekou Industrial Zone are Ouyang is responsible. Before that, Ma Zhe was the deputy manager of the social insurance company of China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone, so Ouyang said that he was a general in his past, although he had the intention of promoting Ma Zhe, it was basically true.

Lin Xiaozhi looked at him in surprise, saw that he stretched out his hand to take the initiative to show goodwill, and shook hands with him with a smile: "Hello Mr. Ma, this is really a coincidence, I came to Shenzhen this time丨In addition to inspecting Shekou Industrial Zone and considering direct investment in Shenzhen, I also came to participate in the shareholders' meeting of Ping An Insurance." ”

Xu is in Shenzhen丨 saw a lot of investment in the mainland, holding his head high, lest others not know that he is here to give alms, the same Hong Kong businessman, Ma Zhe was a little surprised by his kind attitude, and he couldn't help but have a good impression of him. It is important to know that although he is the managing director of Ping An, in fact, in addition to receiving a fixed salary, he only has a small part of the shares, and if he is not the company's management, he would not be eligible to participate in the shareholders' meeting. However, he has the heart to have a deep friendship with Lin Xiaozhi, and he is still a smart person after all, so he knows that today's occasion is not suitable.

He got up with a smile and said, "The shareholders' meeting is the day after tomorrow, and I will talk to Mr. Lin in detail about the future development of Ping An at that time." Today I heard that the old man is unwell, so I came to see the old man, so I won't delay your discussion. This is my business card, with my contact information on it, if Mr. Lin wants to go around in Shenzhen, I can be a guide for Mr. Lin. ”

In the early 90s, it was rare for a company to use business cards in mainland China, and this Ma Zhe was worthy of being a person who had studied in Europe and the United States. Lin Xiaozhi took his business card with a smile, and also drew one of his own and handed it to him. He got up to say goodbye, and Ouyang didn't keep it, as Ma Zhe said just now, today's occasion is not appropriate, Lin Xiaozhi came to visit Ouyang, obviously there is something to talk about.

After Ma Zhe got up and left, there were no outsiders in the house, this Ouyang has been going back and forth between Hong Kong and the mainland for many years, obviously very familiar with him Lin Xiaozhi, knowing that he is close to the mainland in his position, so his attitude is very enthusiastic: "Mr. Lin came to Shenzhen this time丨 has the intention to invest in the mainland, we are welcome with both hands." Shenzhen, as the mainland's window for reform, has been working hard to learn from the advanced experience of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, but due to some historical reasons, the mainland has a big gap with foreign countries in terms of basic investment, capital, and technology, and these are exactly what Hong Kong does not lack. I just don't know if Mr. Lin is coming this time, is he going to set up a factory or directly invest in mainland enterprises? ”

Because of the strategy of exchanging technology and capital in the market at the beginning of the mainland's reform, the mainland did not reject foreign investment in mainland enterprises in the 80s and 90s, and of course, as a socialist country, there were still many restrictions. For example, the military industry and the quasi-military industry are not open to foreign investment, and some central and state-owned enterprises involved in the lifeblood of the country's industries, such as electricity and energy, are temporarily closed to foreign investment.

These regulations are undoubtedly good, because they maintain the mainland's control over enterprises, attract foreign investment, introduce new technology and management systems, and also benefit the people. Unfortunately, under the selfishness of some politicians and managers of state-owned enterprises who only seek political achievements, they were gradually defeated by the foreign capital, resulting in the loss of some state-owned assets, and many high-quality brands were acquired and annexed by foreign capital.

Of course, it's still the early nineties.

"I just have some spare money in my hands, and if I meet a suitable company, I will definitely consider investing in and sharing the dividends of the mainland's reform. Of course, I came to Shenzhen this time for two main purposes. The first is to consider investing in the construction of a large consumer electronics company and factory in Shekou Industrial Zone, after the completion of the site selection, I will invest 100 million yuan within a month, and at least 100 million yuan per year in the next five years. In addition, we at Media Asia also have the intention to purchase some land in Shenzhen to build a large-scale cinema city to meet the future production needs of our group......"

After calculating the investment in the future of Tseung Kwan O TV City and Hengdian Film and Television City in the mainland, Lin Xiaozhi paused before continuing: "It is conservatively estimated that Media Asia will invest one billion yuan in the cinema within five years, ...... Hong Kong dollars."

The Shaw Brothers' Clear Water Bay studio was built relatively early, and Lin Xiaozhi is not very clear how much it cost. However, when he came to Hong Kong to film in his later life, he went to TVB's Tseung Kwan O TV City, where it is said that the investment was about 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and when listening to the proud introduction of TVB's staff, it seemed that it cost as much as 1.6 billion yuan to buy land alone. The scale of Hengdian Film and Television City is nearly ten times larger than that of Tseung Kwan O, and it will only cost 3 billion yuan to build it in the future, and it will cost at least 25.6 billion yuan to cut off some of the water that has been falsely reported in the construction cost.

Now the Hong Kong dollar is worth more than the renminbi, so he invested one billion Hong Kong dollars to build the Media Asia Cinema, which may not be as large as the Hengdian Film and Television City in later generations, but it is definitely much larger than the future Tseung Kwan O TV City, which has a shooting area of just over 10,000 square meters.

Ouyang was overjoyed when he heard this, these two are not small investments. It is important to know that businessmen from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan are good at calculations, and they are not afraid of the mainland government like foreigners, and they are always worried that their investments in the mainland will be confiscated, so many businessmen from the three places invest in the mainland, all of them are on the scale of millions or tens of millions, and most of them are building garment, plastic, and other processing factories that do not have much technical content, not to mention pollution, but only a small part of them can benefit. If you can eat Lin Xiaozhi's investment, there will be more than one billion in the next five years, which is also a rare big deal.

But he was an old man after all, and he didn't fully believe his words. After pondering for a moment, he replied: "Mr. Lin wants to invest in Shekou Industrial Zone to build a factory, we encourage and support this, as long as you abide by the laws of our mainland in terms of investment, I can guarantee that there will be no less preferential policies." As for the movie city you mentioned, this is a bit troublesome, and it is not suitable for Shekou Industrial Zone and cannot be put down......"

Although he has no concept of the film city, he has visited foreign theme parks, and Zhilu Road is the most occupied, and the small ones are not more than 100 acres. The planned area of Shekou Industrial Zone is only about 10 square kilometers, which is more than 10,000 acres of land, and it would be too wasteful to put the film city in Shekou Industrial Zone, where the infrastructure has begun to improve. Just give up, and I feel a little bit of a pity.

After thinking about it, he asked: "If Mr. Lin doesn't mind building the cinema elsewhere, I can help you take the lead with the Shenzhen Municipal Government."

The implication is that he hopes that he can build the film city in the suburbs or even Shenzhen! Some remote countryside.

In this regard, Lin Xiaozhi nodded and agreed without thinking about it, but also put forward his own requirements, hoping to obtain at least more than 500 acres of land.

In his opinion, the area of the completed urban area of Shenzhen is still less than a fraction of that of later generations, even if the cinema is built in the suburbs and countryside, after a few years, is there a difference between it and the urban area after more than ten years? Security is not

After staying at Mr. Ouyang's place for an afternoon, when he left and returned to the hotel, Lin Xiaozhi saw that Song Nianhui, who had gone to the Ping'an headquarters in the afternoon, had returned, and was frowning and reading the newspaper in his room, and he didn't notice that he was coming back at all.

"What are you looking at, so focused?"

Lin Xiaozhi was curious, and walked over with a smile and asked. His eyes were good, and he saw from afar that the newspaper was in simplified Chinese, obviously not the newspaper brought by the two from Hong Kong, but distributed in the mainland. After getting used to traditional Chinese characters, if you have not studied them specifically, you will have a certain degree of dyslexia. Song Nianhui obviously didn't specifically learn simplified Chinese, but he was still trying to read the newspaper because he could read it very hard, and it was obvious that the content of the newspaper was quite attractive to him.

Startled by his words, Song Nianhui looked up and saw that it was him who was back, so he stretched his frowning brows, stretched out his fingers and twisted the tip of his nose, "I really don't know what the Dao Continent thinks, I threw away all the things of the ancestors."

Apparently the simplified Chinese characters made him look struggling.

Seeing Lin Xiaozhi hooking his head and looking at the newspaper in his hand, he handed him the newspaper casually: "In the middle of the second edition, read it yourself."

Looking at his expression again, there were some complaints and some sighs, which made Lin Xiaozhi more curious about the content of the newspaper, and he didn't refuse to take the newspaper directly.

Simplified Chinese characters are not dyslexic for him, Lin Xiaozhi looked at Song Nianhui's words, and his face quickly sank.

At the press conference held at 10 a.m. in Beijing, Chen Hong, Secretary-General of the Committee for the International Decade for Disaster Reduction and Vice Minister of Civil Affairs, briefed Chinese and foreign journalists on the disaster situation and on behalf of the Chinese Government, urgently appealed to relevant United Nations agencies, governments, international organizations, and all relevant parties of the international community to provide humanitarian relief assistance to the disaster-stricken areas in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. ”

Looking down carefully, Lin Xiaozhi also took a breath of cold air, and finally remembered a little childhood memory - the 199l East China flood.