Chapter 135 Industry
In addition to the already identified Hughes Aircraft Company, Hughes also decided to invest in the construction of the first television station in South China.
Television is still a new thing, even in the United States, the current TV station is mainly to broadcast movies and commercials. News programs are still slowly being explored, while sports programs have not yet been broadcast, not even recorded.
Because many sports clubs are afraid that with TV broadcasts, fans will not be able to watch the game live, and it has to be said that people's thinking is still relatively backward.
This TV station is a joint investment by Zhou Nan and Hughes, Zhou Nan will invest 3 million US dollars, accounting for 40 percent of the shares, and Hughes will invest in technology and equipment, and talents, and occupy 40 percent of the shares.
The other 20 percent is to obtain the exclusive license fee to operate in Nanhua, and in addition to this, the Nanhua Propaganda Department also has the right of veto on the broadcast of television programs.
Although Zhou Nan himself will not dismantle Nanhua's station, it is impossible for him to stare at Asian TV programs every day, so public opinion needs to be controlled by the Propaganda Department.
This TV station is still not in anyone's eyes, and it is considered a complete waste for a TV station to invest more than six million dollars.
It's not just other people who think so, even Yannick is counting Zhou Nan. If Volkswagen had $6 million now, it would have doubled its production and its profits would have more than tripled.
Zhou Nan's attitude is very resolute, money is inexhaustible, but fame and tools cannot be faked.
He will never give up his rights to anyone in the area of public opinion propaganda, and this will have a bearing on the ideological struggle in the coming decades.
Nowadays, television is expensive, TV programs are expensive to produce, and TV stations seem to be unprofitable, but it is more important to grasp the mouthpiece and public opinion than to make money.
Hughes didn't really care about it, and he bought several TV stations in Las Vegas just to show him movies whenever he wanted.
It's just that he has money and willfulness, and he bought a few TV stations at once, and now there is a waste of personnel and equipment, so Zhou Nan said that he wanted to set up a TV station in Nanhua, and he had ready-made talents and equipment, and he just used it.
In addition to these, Nanhua is now talking to him about plans to buy oil well equipment. Nanhua should set up its own national oil company to conduct thorough exploration of oil and mineral resources in Nanhua.
Hughes Oil Well Equipment Company is the world's largest supplier of petroleum equipment exploration and refining, and even after Hughes died, his Baker Hughes Oil Services Company is still one of the largest oil service companies, with very strong technical strength.
Because of these contracts, Hughes has become the largest individual to invest in South China in one fell swoop, and when these contracts are all negotiated, Hughes's investment in South China will exceed 50 million US dollars, which is an extremely terrifying figure.
However, he did not lose anything, because Pan Lao had promised that his aircraft company, which was currently bidding for a fighter jet that had failed in the US Air Force, would become the main model of Nanhua in the future.
In fact, the H1C model currently developed by Hughes Aircraft Company is no worse than Lockheed, the main model of the US military, and is more advanced in terms of fire control.
It's just that arms procurement is more about who has a hard relationship, so his model will lose the bid.
Of course, the main reason for this is that Hughes fooled the U.S. Air Force.
During World War II, Hughes used the money of the U.S. government to develop a large number of useless aircraft, among which the H4, the largest aircraft in human history, until the next century, there is still no aircraft that can be larger than this aircraft seventy years ago, not even the Airbus 380, which was later known as the giant.
But the H1-4, the prototype of the aircraft, was hailed as the most beautiful aircraft, and the Japanese stole his technology and turned it into a Zero.
Now, the aircraft has undergone three facelifts, and its practicality and economy have been greatly improved.
Moreover, his aircraft company also has a fist product, the XF11 reconnaissance aircraft, which is also the famous Lockheed U2 reconnaissance aircraft in later generations.
It's just that Hughes now has a stiff relationship with the military that the plane has not received the attention of the U.S. government. So much so that Hughes later used this aircraft to exchange helicopter technology with Lockheed, which was renamed the U2 reconnaissance aircraft and served in the U.S. Air Force until the next century.
After the advent of the Global Hawk unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, the US military is preparing to retire this aircraft. But because the Global Hawk still has many unsatisfactory places, in 2017, at the end of Zhou Nan's memory, this aircraft is still in service.
Taking advantage of the fact that the U.S. military has not yet paid attention to this model, as long as Nanhua can digest this technology, in the next few decades, Nanhua will have one more fist model for export.
In addition, Hughes Aircraft's radar fire control system, laser fire control technology, laser weapons, the world's first satellite, including the U.S. government's spacecraft to the moon, are all manufactured by Hughes.
Now that it has taken the lead, I am afraid that the US Government will have to look at South China's face in these aspects in the future.
Howard Hughes invested 50 million US dollars to build an aircraft factory, of course, there will not be only one company landing, followed by various suppliers of Hughes Aircraft Company, although the number of these supporting factories is not as good as an automobile factory, but it will also drive the comprehensive development of an industry.
From the refining of aviation aluminum to engine technology, Nanhua can get great technological improvement.
Taking advantage of the fact that the relationship between South China and the United States is now in the honeymoon period, the US government has not yet paid full attention to the Hughes Aircraft Company, so Zhou Nan is really proud of digging into the corner of the United States.
In addition to the Hughes Aircraft Company negotiations, the most closely watched negotiations are those of Volkswagen AG.
Because Hughes Aircraft Company is wholly foreign-owned, while the Volkswagen factory is a joint venture, and Volkswagen's joint venture is not a joint venture between several big businessmen, but a joint venture with a crowdfunding model.
Because the investment in the Volkswagen factory is not a small amount of money, even according to the minimum investment size, the investment of Volkswagen will not be less than 10 million dollars in cash alone.
Yannick and Zhou Nan couldn't come up with so much money, and no Chinese could have such great economic strength, so they used the crowdfunding model to subscribe for stocks.
Through this model, it is also possible to start cultivating the financial market in South China from now on.
Volkswagen will receive a 40 percent stake in a full-fledged technical partnership plus a small amount of cash. The South China government invests in land, holding 20% of the shares.
The remaining 40 percent of the shares were divided into 8 million shares for $8 million.
Although none of the Nanhua families could afford to come up with eight million dollars at once, when the shares were split into eight million shares, they were sold out through several banks in less than three days.
As soon as many Chinese from other places heard the news, they learned that the stocks had been sold out, and they were still noisy.
Volkswagen has not yet officially put into production, and the current stock has increased by more than 20 percent, and even so, it is still unmarketable.
At present, there is no large automobile company in Asia, and the famous Japanese Toyota and Mitsubishi are now just a handicraft workshop, with an annual output of only 300 units.
Volkswagen's construction will fill the gap in the entire Asian region, and I dare not say that it is comparable to European and American companies, but the initial plan is to produce 100,000 vehicles per year.
And the construction of Volkswagen will promote economic development more than aircraft companies. Because the automobile industry includes too many supporting industries, it can be said that the development of automobiles and buses has almost driven the development of more than half of the industrial projects, which is the biggest promotion of the economy of South China.
However, South China's economic policy is not comprehensive good news, for example, in terms of public opinion propaganda, energy and resources, South China implements a state-owned policy, which has been condemned by Western countries.
The West is eager for the comprehensive privatization of South China, and the East is eager for the full nationalization of South China, but the South China platter has taken a middle route, and of course it will suffer some criticism.
However, the current government is still quite enthusiastic about the enthusiasm of the officials, and Zhou Nan has also fully communicated with most people, and has made a clear analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the two economic models.
Privatization in the first place will only lead to the inability of the government, if nothing else, you sell the land to individuals, what will happen to the expansion of the city in the future? What to do with road repairs? Where does the money come from for the investment in infrastructure?
Nanhua has just been established, and at present, it is in the investment stage, and there are too many places that need to use money.
Western countries want you to borrow money to control your economy, so the government must leave a little land for itself.
Oil and minerals, forests and land, are the land reserved by the South China government.
In addition to these aspects, South China basically implements a liberalized economic policy. The tax burden in Nanhua is actually not high, almost a little lower than the average level in the world now.
According to the calculation of industrial investment, the total tax burden is about 20 percent, a little lower for processing enterprises, a little higher for production enterprises, and no more than 10 percentage points up and down.
At present, the tax rates of all countries in the world are still at a relatively high level, even if the tax amount is relatively low, but the excesses and miscellaneous taxes in all aspects are relatively high.
However, Nanhua is different, ensuring that any production-oriented enterprise, as long as it is procuring in Nanhua, the tax rate of all aspects added up does not exceed 25%.
To give a very simple example, the accessories you purchase today are produced by another South China company, then there is a tax rebate share for this process, ensuring that your product price is competitive.
However, many countries are unable to do this, and in some countries, the tax burden of some production enterprises is as high as more than 50 percent, or even 100 percent.
In order to maintain competition, those production-oriented enterprises can only try to lower the sales price and reduce the production profit, resulting in the fact that there is never the money to develop and invest in new technologies, and they can only copycat.
Therefore, this economic policy is favored by all Chinese businessmen and foreign investors. If it weren't for the conflict between Nanhua and the Javanese people, coupled with the weak basic facilities, foreigners who came to invest would definitely not be the only one now.
A small island of two square kilometers off the coast of the Yamaguchi Ocean is currently being bulldozed and flattened to reclaim the sea to create a port.
In the future, it will become a free port with an area of about five square kilometers, and import and export entrepot trade will be tax-free.
This is also a testing ground, with the aim of building Nanhua into a free trade port for future generations. There is no such attempt in the world, and it will not be until 20 years from now that duty-free free trade ports will appear around the world.
Industrial projects are developing rapidly, but agricultural problems have become a long-standing problem in South China.