Shekou, a wasteland, naturally did not have much to visit, and in the afternoon of the same day, He Guoyuan and several technicians returned to Hong Kong after choosing the location of the factory site.

At this time, it is still not suitable for large-scale investment, but even a small part of the fan business that Midea does not look down on, and the annual sales are as high as 10 million US dollars.

In less than a week, thousands of workers with junior high school education and 200 high school education were drawn from all over the country, plus 10 technical engineers who had gone to university.

After President Liang notified, Chen Zhiwen ordered a dormitory building to be vacated in Hong Kong, and then sent this group of people in batches, among whom high school students and above were expected to study in Hong Kong.

With Midea's letter of intent for investment and a phone call from Chen Zhiwen, the Bank of East Asia, which has long-term cooperation with Hutchison and Galaxy, gave Shekou a loan of HK$30 million within three days for the work of three links and one level in Shekou Industrial Zone.

In February, although it was still during the Chinese New Year, the Shekou Industrial Zone did not stop, and Midea Group quickly signed an investment agreement with Shekou Industrial Zone, and the first capital of 5 million Hong Kong dollars arrived immediately, and then invited domestic construction companies to start building factories and corresponding office buildings.

In the case of foreign exchange opening, the speed is naturally fast, 24 hours, people stop the equipment non-stop, to the middle of April, the factory is all built, and the efficiency of the industrial zone is also very high, water and electricity have been opened, the road in the industrial zone has also been built, only the road to Hong Kong remains, because it involves Shenhai City (formerly Bao'an County), so it may take a little time, but it has been much better than before.

Midea's Hong Kong factory also quickly relocated the corresponding equipment, first relocated the assembly of the most labor-intensive business, Chen Zhiwen's first direct investment in China is also officially established, and he also went to participate in the opening ceremony.

"I have to say that the entire factory was built in 3 months, and there is so much greenery, and the construction speed in China is much more efficient than in Hong Kong." Chen Tianfu said with a smile after taking a turn around the factory.

"So I think the future of the mainland can definitely be developed." Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

"It's no wonder you didn't move Midea's fan and radio business to Wanwan two years ago, it's really more suitable here." Chen Tianfu said.

"Shekou is now 30 square kilometers, which is 50 times larger than Hong Kong's Midea Industrial Park, not only Midea, but I also plan to let Galaxy Trade guide some suppliers to build factories here, the more popular it is, the greater the benefits for me." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Under the temptation of huge foreign exchange earnings in the future, Yuan Geng successfully expanded the area of Shekou Industrial Park to 30 square kilometers, which is of great help to Chen Zhiwen, and the production cost can be further reduced, so it will be of great benefit to Costco, ParknSHOP and RT-Mart.

"That's good, tens of thousands of jobs, not to mention the entire mainland, are not a small number for this deep-sea city, even in Hong Kong, will it have a great impact?" Chen Tianfu asked.

"The impact will not be very large, Hong Kong's wages are getting higher and higher, the income of the service industry has gradually exceeded that of the factory, many people are no longer willing to enter the factory, besides, there is no basic industrial chain supporting in Shekou, so it can only attract the simplest assembly or primary processing." Chen Zhiwen explained.

The skyrocketing price of real estate has directly pulled up everyone's wage income, which is unbearable for many simple manufacturing industries in Hong Kong.

"That's good." Chen Tianfu said with a smile: "I also want to invest in China, but I am in real estate, so I don't have any opportunities." ”

"Actually, it's not nothing." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said: "Shekou Industrial Zone is naturally not suitable, but Shenhai City can, this city has just been changed, and it can be regarded as a place in China that is ready to do a pilot project for reform, whether it is Shekou or Shenhai, in fact, the meaning of the mainland is actually to attract Hong Kong investment." From a development point of view, if Shenhai City wants to attract Hong Kong capital in large quantities, the first step is to build a good hotel in Shenhai City, otherwise it will be too inconvenient. ”

"Hotels? Five-star? Chen Tianfu asked.

"You don't need a five-star, a three-star one is enough, you can meet the basic requirements of Hong Kong businessmen, and it's better to build more rooms with more funds, and it's more realistic." Chen Zhiwen said.

There is also a lack of five-star in China, but it is a big city like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, which needs to entertain international-level entrepreneurs, and at the same time, these big cities are also the face of the country, but Shenhai City is not at present, the three-star environment is actually not bad, as long as it is brought into Hong Kong's hotel business model, it must be much stronger than the current big hotels in big cities in the mainland.

"It's okay, then I'll send someone to take a look." Chen Tianfu nodded and said.

"By the way, Dad, maybe Shenhai City will try to do real estate similar to Hong Kong in the future, let's not touch it, many high-quality investment projects in the mainland are higher than real estate income." Chen Zhiwen said again.

"Shenhai City does real estate? Can you do it? Chen Tianfu asked in surprise.

"Whether we can do it or not, we just don't participate." Chen Zhiwen said.

In the original history, in the summer of this year, there will be Hong Kong businessmen to find the leaders of Shenhai City, put forward the strategy of jointly developing the land, and then selling it to Hong Kong people, this trick is indeed very successful, because the housing prices in Shenhai City are only 20% of Hong Kong, some people in Hong Kong can not afford to buy a house and come here, and others, many Hong Kong people in the mainland arranged their relatives in the deep sea, for the promotion of the house, Shenhai City also launched a policy of buying a house and sending a household registration.

The temptation of real estate is also great at this moment, even if it is to change the frontier, in the 80s, the output value of real estate is more than that of industry.

Although he is doing real estate business in Hong Kong normally, Chen Zhiwen still feels that there is no need to come to the mainland to do this, and the income is not high, and only those small real estate developers in Hong Kong are involved.

"Okay, listen to you, I'll only invest in a few hotels." Chen Tianfu nodded and said.

It was fast to May.

Hong Kong ushered in a major event: the Harbour City, which had been built for almost ten years, finally opened.

The Wharf, which had been slowly in the hands of Jardine Matheson, was immediately revitalized after being acquired by Galaxy, and after selling part of the land by Galaxy's partial capital injection and Wharf itself, it was completed in less than a year under the overnight rush of work.

At the same time, the investment promotion work is also going very smoothly, not only many commercial brands in Hong Kong, but also many overseas brands.

"Mr. Chen, the average number of people in Harbour City in the past three days is about 8 million." On the fourth day after the opening of Harbour City, Zhao Lilin, the general manager of Wharf, came to report as soon as he obtained the relevant data.

The entire Wharf has a lot of resources invested in Harbour City, the entire Harbour City, the shopping mall area is 2 million square feet, the hotel above and the total area of the office building is 4 million square feet, just with this project, you can make Wharf one of the largest landlords in Hong Kong, but the landlords are also graded, in Central and in Yuen Long Sha Tin, the difference in value is more than ten times, the location of the Harbour City is not bad, but in the end it depends on the flow of people to determine the actual value.

"8 million? What was the average turnover on that day? Chen Zhiwen asked, the flow of people is too empty, a person enters and exits the door ten times, even ten times.

"The first day was 13 million Hong Kong dollars, the second day was 11 million, and the third day was almost 11 million, which is the result of our vigorous publicity, and it cannot be used as a daily reference." Zhao Lilin said.

"It's not bad, 35 million Hong Kong dollars in three days." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, the Hong Kong dollar at this time is very valuable, and the current retail sales of the entire Hong Kong are estimated to be about three or four billion, and it is already very good that Harbour City can account for 3 percentage points of the whole Hong Kong.

In later generations, a harbour city can account for almost 7% of Hong Kong's total retail sales, but this is also the data of decades of operation of the descendants of the ship king plus a large amount of follow-up investment.

"Yes, judging from the recent number of people on the Star Ferry, many people on Hong Kong Island are willing to come to Harbour City to play, but now there is a new problem, that is, the number of ferries is not enough, in recent days, a few have been seconded from other points, plus many ferries are very old, so I want to buy a few new ones, a little faster, and a little more people." Zhao Lilin continued.

"Yes, no problem." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, although the Hung Hom Cross Harbour Tunnel has been opened to traffic, but the rapid development of Hong Kong's population and economy makes the ferry still the most important way to cross the Victoria Harbour, after all, if you take the tunnel in many places, it is necessary to go around a long way, besides, the ferry is also a kind of enjoyment, provided that the environment of the ferry is better, Chen Zhiwen has actually heard of some of the old facilities of the ferry, and it is good to change to a new one, this kind of small ferry, it doesn't cost much.

"In addition to attracting people from Hong Kong Island, we also want to attract the whole Kowloon Peninsula, and the best way to do that is to get the Kowloon Bus to cooperate." Zhao Lilin paused and said, "Chen Sheng, I think that if Wharf can acquire Kowloon Bus, it will have great benefits. ”

"You want to buy Kowloon Motor Bus?" Chen Zhiwen asked in surprise.

"Yes, KMB has some good land, and the bus is also a public service, although it can't make a lot of money, but it is relatively stable, and this also takes advantage of the development of the real estate industry of the whole group, at least we can build bus stops at the entrance of many communities." Zhao Lilin analyzed.

"It makes sense, then I agree with this matter, you and the people of Hehuang and Xinghe discuss it together to see how to acquire KMB." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, "In terms of funds, if the Wharf is not enough, you can make it up together." ”

In the history of Hong Kong, there have been many acquisitions, but the largest ones are actually Hutchison, Wharf, HK Electric, Wheelock and Hongkong Land, which was besieged by a large Chinese consortium, and the last one failed.

And there are dozens of large and small, and Kowloon Bus is also one of them, which was acquired by Sun Hung Kai.

For this kind of small company, Chen Zhiwen doesn't really care much about it now, there are many of them, and the scale is much smaller than Hutchison Wharf, and he can't let go of any of them, especially in the 80s, his own funds will rise a few grades, plus Silicon Valley technology companies are also in the incubation period, and he is ready to concentrate on conquering overseas markets.

In addition, there are several real estate companies under their hands, and when they expand, they will naturally have the idea of acquiring some companies, because this is the inevitable development, and the rise of the Hong Kong Chinese-funded consortium is the process of making money while acquiring.

If the company feels that it needs to do something to someone, then Chen Zhiwen will naturally support it, but he will not personally participate, the scale of the company is getting bigger and bigger, and this kind of small thing can be decided by himself.

"Okay, I'll go to them right away." Zhao Lilin said happily that it is very happy and exciting for any professional manager to be able to acquire a company that is not small in Hong Kong, especially since a large amount of land in Wharf itself is on the Kowloon Peninsula.

"By the way, help me pay attention to the sales status of Anta's flagship store, this store in Harbour City is the first of Anta, and it must be done well." Chen Zhiwen said again.

Four years ago, Chen Zhiwen invested in Nike, the future shoe giant in the United States, and also received a large number of Nike orders.

And Nike's development is the same as history. With an average annual growth rate of 80%, Hong Kong's footwear industry has developed rapidly, and in the past few years, ANTA Shoe Factory has also taken the entire footwear industry chain into its own hands through capital operation, in addition to chemical raw materials.

At the beginning of this year, Anta established its own shoe brand in accordance with Chen Zhiwen's original plan, but considering that its major customer Nike is in the United States, Anta's main development priority is still in Asia.

"The apparel brands in Harbour City are all on the third floor, and Anta has two stores on this floor, both of which are in good locations, next to the elevators, and we will also promote Anta in our daily advertisements." Zhao Lilin said that he has long known that the mutual assistance of resources within the group, especially overseas supermarket groups, play a decisive role in the initial development of many businesses of the entire group.

Anta, since it can be paid attention to by the boss personally, it is estimated that it will also be one of the key businesses in the future.

(End of chapter)