Chapter 406: Waving the Flag and Shouting
Hong Kong's economic boom has also led to high prices, which used to cost only 10 yuan for a claypot meal, but now it has risen to 15 yuan. And the more representative of the price is the house price, when the stock market crash in 73 years, a house of 20,000 Hong Kong dollars can be bought. Now it costs at least 100,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the price has increased at least fivefold.
The rise in labor and prices has caused the industrial products produced in Hong Kong to gradually lose their price competitive advantage, and its leading position in the international market has gradually been eroded by Taiwan, South Korea, Nanyang and other regions.
Hong Kong is a typical city with few people and few people, and domestic demand simply cannot meet the current industrial growth, so that if we do not hurry up to open up new markets in the future, or do not find other product competitive advantages, then sooner or later Hong Kong's manufacturing industry will collapse, and millions of Hong Kong people will lose their jobs.
The financial edition of "Daily Daily" then gave a way to solve the problem, Hong Kong's manufacturing industry can not go much now, one is to open factories in Nanyang and other places in the south, and use cheap local human resources to reduce production costs; Another way is to be forced to transform, from an industry with low technical capabilities and a low entry threshold to a high-tech industry: another way is to go north, use the mainland's cheap human resources, sufficient production raw materials, and continue to maintain its own low costs.
However, the first way is to go south to Nanyang for development, although the cost of local human resources is very low, but the level of education is also very low, and most of them are illiterate aborigines. In addition, the power of the Nanyang countries is turbulent, and there is a coup d'état, wars, protests, strikes, etc., which are about to occur one after another, and the investment of Hong Kong businessmen may not be effectively guaranteed.
At the same time, Hong Kong is not a country, just a city under the British Empire. Once there is a problem with Hong Kong companies investing in Nanyang. It is also uncertain whether Britain is willing to stand up for Hong Kong businessmen. Even if it chooses to stand out for Hong Kong businessmen. But it's not clear how much can be done. It is difficult to say whether it will be just a statement of condemnation, economic sanctions, or the use of military force. What's more, with Britain's declining national strength, it is still a question whether it will be able to deter the countries of the South Seas.
Therefore, investing in Nanyang looks like a good prospect, but in fact, it is full of dangers, and you can't even save your life if you are not careful.
Again, if you choose the second path, you will have to invest a lot of money in scientific research. But with the level of science and technology in Hong Kong. How difficult it is to complete the transition to high-tech industry. The reason why Silicon Valley in the United States is famous in the world and has become a well-known high-tech industrial zone in the whole world is because there is one of the most famous universities in the United States next to Silicon Valley, and there are many research institutes, laboratories, etc., which bring together scientific and technological talents from all over the United States and even the world. And it is the convergence of so many of the world's brightest minds that makes Silicon Valley's high-tech products emerge one after another.
The developed financial industry in the United States has also provided a steady stream of funds for the development of high technology, and the amount of these funds is huge enough to scare a group of Hong Kong businessmen to death, and they are not heavyweights at all. Xu Guanwu's angel investment fund has made many investments in Silicon Valley over the years. But it's still not the most capitalized investment fund in Silicon Valley. The funds that have a lot of money are backed by Wall Street bankers. Their money can basically be said to be endless.
If Hong Kong businessmen want to spend so much money to invest in high-tech industries, they must first set up universities from scratch, then hire world-class experts and scholars, and then recruit the brightest students in the world's world, and then let them go to laboratories to do research, and then wait for the results of research before conducting business transfers. I'm afraid it will take more than fifteen years. How can a businessman wait for such a long time?
And if Hong Kong businessmen are not willing to pay this money, the British government in Hong Kong is obviously not willing to pay this money, and they are not even bother to invest in the high-tech industry in Britain, so how can they be willing to invest a large amount of money in Hong Kong?! So this second road seems to have a door, but in fact, even the windows are sealed.
The only way left is to go north to the mainland, which has a vast territory, a large population, abundant raw materials, and most importantly, a common culture and language, which will reduce a lot of trouble for Hong Kong businessmen. Although the mainland has had a decade of catastrophe before, and there has been compulsory public ownership and so on, which has made Hong Kong businessmen suspicious of investment, if the mainland adopts the policy of reform and opening up and can really implement it to ensure political stability, it will be a good place to go.
The financial edition of the "Tian Tian Daily" has used a month of intensive reporting to take the pulse of Hong Kong's future economy, and has hired well-known financial experts from Hong Kong and the world to conduct consultations, thus prescribing three prescriptions for the future development of Hong Kong's economy. Of course, the first two were vetoed by the "Daily Daily" itself, so there is only one way out for the left.
In the original people-friendly style of the financial edition of the "Daily Daily", it only reported on the Book of Horses, Mark Six, Hong Kong's local financial news, etc., which is relatively far away from the report on the major events of the family and the country.
So at the beginning, everyone thought that the financial edition of "Tian Tian Daily" was funny, and it would be good to do a good job of running this promising newspaper of your Ma Jing, and what kind of pulse would be given to Hong Kong's economy when you were idle? ! How can those things that I and other Xiaomin can worry about?! Those things are things that the Governor and the Legislative Council have to waste their brains, we just want to have jobs, make money, and have meat to eat.
At the beginning, the report of the financial edition of the "Daily Daily" did not attract much attention from the Hong Kong people, and even the Hong Kong businessmen did not wake up. If they want to read financial reports, they generally don't read the financial edition of "Tiantian Daily", because this newspaper is too low-end, mainly for the small people. The coverage of international financial news is also not timely, far less than that of "Cheng Pao", "Hong Kong Economic Daily", "Sing Tao Daily", etc.
However, with the gradual deepening of the report, the reports that have been repeated for several days have still attracted people's attention. In particular, the "Tian Tian Daily" has invited local financial experts in Hong Kong, as well as well-known financial experts in the world, which has increased the authority of the financial section of the "Tian Tian Daily" and made Hong Kong citizens begin to believe it. Hong Kong's economy is really about to reach a bottleneck. And then all sorts of facts. Be reasonable. For example, it has made Hong Kong people believe that if they do not take precautions, they will really be in trouble in the future.
Of course, Xu Guanwu is optimistic about Hong Kong's economy, and other newspapers are optimistic about Hong Kong's economy, such as "Cheng Pao", "Hong Kong Economic Journal", "Overseas Chinese Daily", and so on, all of which advise Hong Kong citizens not to be too pessimistic. Hong Kong's economy will not fluctuate much in the future. However, the report of the financial edition of the "Daily Daily" is purely out of nowhere, worrying about the sky and spreading rumors, lest the world be chaotic.
Of course, they all have their own reasons, first, Hong Kong is strategically located, almost in the very center of East Asia, south of the South Seas, east of Taiwan, north of the mainland, North Korea, west of Vietnam, Thailand and other places. With such a good geographical location, it is suitable for being a trade hub. Hong Kong's harbour is well-known in the world. Shipping freight is ranked among the top in the world, and there is no need to worry about being surpassed by other ports.
In addition, Hong Kong is a free trade port, and the economic policy is unmatched by other parts of East Asia, and its status as a free trade port can also attract a large amount of investment, even if it cannot be transformed into a high-tech industry, it can also be transformed into a financial industry zone.
Regarding the views put forward by "Cheng Pao", "Hong Kong Economic Daily", and "Overseas Chinese Daily", "Tiantian Daily" naturally refuted them. Although Hong Kong's geographical location is superior, it is not irreplaceable, and Singapore is more advantageous than Hong Kong in the Straits of Malacca, occupying the shipping arteries of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Moreover, Singapore's port is no worse than Hong Kong's, and as long as Singapore develops in the future, Hong Kong's advantages will decline sharply.
In addition, the geographical location of the Magic Capital, Yuezhou, Shantou, Xiamen and other places in the mainland is not inferior to Hong Kong, and once developed, Hong Kong has no geographical advantages. If the magic capital becomes a pilot for reform and opening up, then Hong Kong's so-called advantages will be gone. With the human, financial and material resources of the mainland, none of them can compete with the city of Hong Kong.
As for the so-called free trade port, in fact, it is only a policy advantage, and once other regions follow suit, Hong Kong may not be able to compete. Moreover, even if it is upgraded to a financial service-oriented society, with the large-scale influx of hot money, Hong Kong's already high prices are bound to continue to rise wildly, and it is difficult to say whether Hong Kong's ordinary citizens will benefit from it.
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The truth is always being debated and confused, and the only solution is to silence the other side.
After listening to the pros and cons of the reasoning, the citizens of Hong Kong were all dizzy with their heads flickering, and they hardly knew which side to believe.
On the surface, the British government in Hong Kong did not respond to this kind of controversy in the market, but in private, the "Tian Tian Daily," which has always praised the mainland and proposed that going to the mainland is the way to solve Hong Kong's economic survival, has been warned by the British government in Hong Kong. And Wanwan, which is across the sea, is also stuck in several of Xu's movies, and the electric inspection just doesn't pass.
Seeing the month-long report of the financial edition of "Tiantian Daily", it has also caused a lot of repercussions in the society, and has basically achieved the publicity effect that Xu Guanwu wants. He agreed to Wanwan's request on the right side, no longer published news that sang about Hong Kong's economy and publicized the mainland, and still resumed the people-friendly line of reporting on the horse classics and Mark Six lottery.
For Xu's understanding of current affairs, Wanwan is still relatively happy. However, in view of Xu's repeated and repeated pro-China tendencies, he still wanted to teach him a lesson. They passed the word to Xu's side through the Bamboo Union, and if they still wanted to keep the Wanwan market, it was best to come over in person.
After Xu Guanwu received the message from the Bamboo Federation, he couldn't help but be stunned at first, thinking to himself how the message of an authority should be passed on through the Black X Society, which sounds too child's play.
But then I thought that in history, it was true that the Bamboo Federation had been co-opted by the Kuomintang for a period of time, and there was a scandal called the "Jiangnan Case" that shook the world, and I suddenly understood in my heart.
However, although he received this news, Xu Guanwu had no idea of going to Wanwan, he told his eldest brother about it, and asked him to go to Wanwan on his behalf to talk to the authorities over there.
Xu Guanwen couldn't help but smile bitterly after hearing this, this is not the first time he has helped his second brother wipe his buttocks, and it was Xu Guanwu who was going to the mainland to participate in the Canton Fair, but Xu's movie was stuck by Wanwan, and it didn't pass the review. Now I didn't expect to be named by the Wanwan authorities again because of the news that was inclined to the mainland, which can really be regarded as "evil deeds".
In fact, Hui Guanwen couldn't understand why his second brother was so inclined to the mainland, because in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and even until the new century, Hong Kong people always had a sense of superiority when they faced mainlanders.
Whether in movies or on TV, mainlanders are either cousins and cousins who have never seen the world and always make all kinds of jokes; Either it is a big circle of provincial and Hong Kong flag soldiers, fighting and killing, extremely fierce; Either it's the second wife of Beigu, who makes a living by selling her own meat, etc., in short, it's either a male thief or a female singer or a rural bun. (To be continued......)