178 Building momentum

"Coming down for dinner?" Downstairs came the voice of her mother Wu Xiuling.

"Let's go, go down, I'm already hungry, and you mother and son don't allow me to drink Coke, otherwise I wouldn't be so hungry." Chen Tianfu put away some things on the table and said with a complaint.

"Eat less sugar, as the dietitian said, or you can drink a bottle of Coke and swim with me for 30 minutes." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

Chen Zhiwen is very concerned about his family and his own body, especially in this era, medical technology is far inferior to that of future generations, 50 years later, a diabetes is a terminal disease.

When there is nothing to do, Chen Zhiwen likes to go to the downstairs swimming pool, which is the most concise way to exercise, the only problem is that the 20-meter-long swimming pool is a bit too small, and you have to change the house to a bigger one in the future.

"Forget it, I can't stand it this day, let's talk about it in the summer." Chen Tianfu hurriedly shook his head and said.

The food downstairs, such as Chen Zhiwen's request, is basically vegetables, and meat dishes are also a plate of shrimp tail and a plate of sauerkraut fish, which is spicy, and it is really cool.

The next day, Chen Zhiwen, who recovered quickly from the jet lag, arrived at the Hutchison Building, the headquarters of Hutchison Whampoa, at 10 o'clock in the morning.

This building has not changed its name, because the Whampoa Group also has a Whampoa Building, which is only a dozen storeys high, and it is still in Hung Hom.

After becoming a Chinese star in Hong Kong, many newspapers in Hong Kong always like to put his name in it, and because it involves himself, Chen Zhiwen naturally needs to pay attention, he has not been in Hong Kong for a long time, and the newspapers have accumulated a lot, but fortunately, Chen Zhiwen has already set up a special board secretary, and 6 young and beautiful women who returned from studying abroad were arranged in Hutchison Whampoa, Red Bull and Galaxy.

From the perspective of company affairs, it is naturally Hutchison Whampoa that has the most, and naturally Hutchison has 3 board secretaries stationed in Hutchison, and there is also one person who is responsible for collecting newspaper information, selecting important, relevant and suitable ones, and then handing them over to Chen Zhiwen, which can save him a lot of time.

The secretaries of the board of directors have prepared the information very well, and there is also a special list, so that Chen Zhiwen can see at a glance what happened in Hong Kong during this period and which media mentioned him.

After reading it in less than half an hour, Chen Zhiwen handed the newspaper to a secretary of the board of directors standing aside, and then said to Zhou Jiayang and Li Hard, who were sitting opposite: "During this time, there is a lot of news in Hong Kong that we are going to develop the land in Hung Hom?" Is there any movement on the HSBC side? ”

For some media, Chen Zhiwen doesn't care at all, but the attitude of big banks is still more important.

"No, there is no movement on the HSBC side, we repay the principal and interest of the debt to HSBC every month, and there is no action on their side." Richard said.

"No movement is good news." Chen Zhiwen nodded, then took out a business card from his pocket, handed it to Richard and said: "Richard, this is a big fund that I found in the United States that specializes in dealing with non-performing assets, and they have the ability to clean up some of Hutchison's overseas projects in a short period of time."

In addition, I have already negotiated with the other party at the port in Indonesia, a $15 million deal, and after getting the cash, the Indonesian port will no longer have anything to do with Hutchison, and you will be responsible for negotiating with them and disposing of all Hutchison's overseas business. ”

This is the benefit of leaving a bunch of Britons in Hutchison, this kind of negotiation and business with Europeans and Americans, it is most suitable to find these ghosts, they are all Caucasians, and they are born to be much better, although they don't like it, but the current global society does have this trend, unless you can mix with the big Japanese conglomerates, or at least the level of Bao Yugang, so that others can treat you equally.

"Sell them all? Now Hutchison's debt is much better, and some overseas investments can be profitable. Richard said with some reluctance, many of these projects were started when he was under Qi Dezun before, and he also knew the business situation.

"Retract your fist to make a better punch." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile: "Hutchison will go out again sooner or later, a Hong Kong can't satisfy me, but not now, what we need to do now is to get enough funds, and then develop on a larger scale, and then go overseas." ”

"Okay, Chen Sheng, I understand what you mean." Richard nodded and said, although a group of British people don't know how to develop real estate, they are not fools, they naturally know the profits of Hong Kong's real estate, and Hutchison is obviously shrinking most of the fronts now, and then concentrating on the development of real estate.

As for what the future holds? Whether they will continue to be a large-scale real estate company in Hong Kong, or will diversify like the previous Hutchison, is not something they can control, but for them, they still hope that Hutchison can diversify, because in terms of real estate, they will not be British, but diversification and other areas are their strengths, and they are also the weaknesses of Chinese capital within Hutchison.

But the boss has been shrinking funds and selling most of the business, which also makes them helpless.

Next, Richard reported on the development of Hutchison's various businesses in the past month, as well as the sale of the business, in general, everything is still within Chen Zhiwen's expectations, for the unfamiliar and no money business, he simply cannot stay, even in the future, Hutchison has enough funds, and will be the same as the Hutchison Whampoa under the old Li in the future, specifically choose a few areas to develop, and strive to develop to the world-level level.

After Richard left, Zhou Jiayang said: "Chen Sheng, I have had preliminary communication with the Hong Kong Lands Department and the General Chamber of Commerce about the Midea Industrial Park, but they insisted on trading at the normal price of industrial land. ”

"This is our request for the Hong Kong government, of course people are tough." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said: "So we have to build momentum in turn to suppress the Hong Kong government?" ”

"What does Chen Sheng mean by using employment to pressure the Hong Kong government? But I'm worried that the Hong Kong government won't care about this kind of industry? Zhou Jiayang frowned and said.

"MacLehose still cares, he still has a strong understanding of the economy, and the management of Hong Kong is quite good. As long as we put pressure on the media, it may have some effect. Chen Zhiwen pointed to a few newspapers on the table and said.

The British government in Hong Kong, in many cases, especially a few decades ago, did not care about the lives of ordinary people in Hong Kong, but with the decline of the empire, the mainland became one of the five permanent members, and after the 70s, Hong Kong's deep-water port became a gathering place of wealth, which can bring a lot of benefits to the UK, and the British government began to pay attention to it.

The current MacLehose is indeed a good governor, but the fundamental reason why it was able to successfully launch the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong and move so many people is the support of Britain and the repeated protests and warnings of the mainland.

The real and complete collapse of the British government in Hong Kong was not until the 80s, after determining that Hong Kong would return to the mainland in 1997, it began to let the real estate market be chaotic, and deliberately increased the income of civil servants many times, plus increased various infrastructure investment, forcibly stimulated Hong Kong's economy in the short term, which is why the real estate bubble period from 85-97 years can last for 12 years, and before that, the real estate market is basically a cycle of 6-8 years.

On the private side, MacLehose's main export economy before Hong Kong was the simplest light industry or assembly industry such as textiles, garments, watches, etc., and during MacLehose's administration, the Hong Kong government also repeatedly traveled policies to encourage the development of the electronics industry, and in the early 80s, Hong Kong became the world's most famous electronic foundry place, and the export of electronic products has also become Hong Kong's top five export industries.

However, because of his limited ability, MacLehose is not able to cultivate an electronics giant, not even in the UK, but at least in terms of industrial attitude, MacLehose is still good.

"That's just a try." Zhou Jiayang nodded and said that although he does not participate in the operation of Midea and Red Bull, he understands real estate.

Therefore, Midea and Red Bull naturally entrusted him to find a suitable land, but this demand is too great, and considering the needs of surrounding workers, it cannot be placed in too far place. Zhou Jiayang found a few suitable places, but the result of the large area is naturally higher cost.

On the other hand, as Chen Zhiwen's intimate assistant, he actually understands what the boss means, because many of the plans of Red Bull, Midea, and Anta are to build one or two or three floors on the ground.

Chen Zhiwen said: "Then let several major newspapers in Hong Kong be published together, and in addition, when appropriate, I will let TVB participate again." ”

(End of chapter)