After visiting the Red Bull Shanghai factory, the group will return the same way, the time is more urgent, because a little later, the ferry side to limit the number of shifts, the current Huangpu River or the Yangtze River, is still one of the main modes of transportation of the east and west arteries, the day is a little better, but at night are restricted to cross the river boats, the sky is too dark, easy to have accidents, the horizontal ferry will be much less, which also leads to before dark, more people will be congested here.

Although there is already a bridge on the Huangpu River, it is impossible to go around it from where it is too far away, right? Cars are not afraid of fuel consumption, but pedestrians and bicycles can't, too far to bypass, can only wait for the ferry.

At half past five in the afternoon, the group returned to the Peace Hotel, where Zhao Daohan, director of the Shanghai Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, hosted a banquet to entertain Chen Zhiwen and others.

In the face of the banquet of the director of the Shanghai Investment Promotion Bureau, Chen Zhiwen was naturally very happy, Shanghai City, in the domestic status is very special, the weight is heavier than many provinces, here is the center of the national economy, a few decades ago, Shanghai City can account for 35% of the country's total economic output, now although it is not so exaggerated, but the proportion is still extremely high.

"Mr. Chen, please be seated." As soon as Chen Zhiwen entered the private room, Zhao Daohan, director of the China Merchants Bureau, got up and greeted him with a smile.

"Thank you, Director Zhao." Chen Zhiwen replied politely, and then sat down, and an assistant and Qin Zhihao who followed him also sat down next to him.

In addition to the director and deputy director, there were also two officials from China Merchants Bureau, which were the first two to go to Hong Kong to introduce Red Bull.

"Mr. Chen, I'll give you a glass first." Deputy Director Wang first raised his glass and said with a smile: "As a Chinese, Mr. Chen can beat several major British business giants in a row in a place like Hong Kong, and even acquired them, I have to say that I admire it very much." ”

"Deputy Director Wang has won the award, and this is thanks to the strength of the country, otherwise, we, the Chinese in Hong Kong, would not have this opportunity to obtain a fair business environment." Chen Zhiwen also raised his wine glass, stood up and said with a smile.

The so-called business scale, in fact, depends on the country behind it, the United States' current financial giants, oil giants, and military giants can dominate the world, the most fundamental reason is the strength of the country behind it, and the same is true for the future Internet.

Otherwise, even if the Chinese in Hong Kong really rely on their strength to become one of the business giants, they will not be able to suppress British capital, at most they will have some achievements in areas that British capital is not good at, such as the shipping field 20 years ago, because the main market is overseas, Hong Kong British asset management can not go that far.

"Yes, if the country is strong, then everyone's life will be better." Director Zhao said with emotion: "Although I have never been to Hong Kong, I also know that although there are many poor people in Hong Kong, it is still much stronger than Shanghai City, and much stronger than other places in China." ”

"That is also developed step by step, many of the Chinese in Hong Kong in the 50s are not as good as Shanghai now, I think ten or twenty years later, the standard of living in China will be much better than now." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

On the Internet in later generations, many people complained about their poor living conditions, wanted to lie flat, and even envied that their previous generation had no worries about their life in the seventies and eighties.

These are, in the seventies and eighties, only a small number of people could not worry about eating, many people, eating very poorly, may not be able to eat meat a few times a year, no matter how bad, may not be full. Those who could be left behind by the materials or with photos and videos left in the Internet era were the wealthiest places and groups of people in China at that time, such as big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

In fact, this is the result of the economic and industrial upgrading of the whole country, and the similar principle is that ten dollars an hour in developed countries is equivalent to a month's income of people in poor countries.

Because you can live for a few days by working casually, the god of Sanhe can exist, if it is placed in Southeast Asia and Africa in the 90s or the 21st century, you will starve to death if you don't work well.

"I borrowed Mr. Chen's auspicious words." Director Zhao said with a smile: "It's just that if you want to develop, you must have industry, I heard that Chen Sheng's Midea Group now has two electronic products, which sell well in the whole United States, and many factories in Hong Kong and Wanwan have no time to produce, I don't know, can I undertake this business in Shanghai?" ”

"This is not possible for the time being, at present, game electronic products do not plan to move to Hong Kong, production capacity is tight, and it is only caused by the initial outbreak of overseas, and when the first batch of people buy it, the demand will not be so large." Chen Zhiwen shook his head and said no.

Since before Christmas last year, after the red and white machine was listed in the United States, the demand was very large, but this state could not always exist, and Hong Kong had already prepared, and it was affected in the early stage, and when the market stabilized, it was able to form a balance between production and sales.

As the backbone of Hong Kong's current industry, Chen Zhiwen does not plan to transfer the game industry in the short term, because this is one of the foundations of his transcendent position in Hong Kong, as long as he controls the employment of more than 100,000 people under his own and related supply chains, then everyone needs to pay him three points.

Besides, when it comes to the transfer of the supply chain of the most core products, it is also necessary to have sufficient preparation, otherwise once there is a problem in the process, which affects the quality of the sales side, the consequences are unimaginable.

In the future, the mainland will be able to become the world's factory, but not relying on cheap labor, but a complete industrial chain and a large number of high-quality are the most important.

"So what if we go to the factory in Shanghai and supply Midea? Even the simplest plastic parts are fine, and the cost of our Shanghai stock market in this regard should be much lower than that of Hong Kong. Deputy Director Wang said again. For the deputy director of the Shanghai Merchants Bureau, it is not worth mentioning in person, but it also depends on which customer is and how much benefit it can bring.

"Then you can try, but our Midea has high requirements for parts, and if it doesn't meet the requirements, it may lead to claims, which I have to make clear in advance." Chen Zhiwen said.

With Hong Kong's current labor costs, in front of the Shanghai market, which also has a part of the industrial base, some of the simplest commodities do not have an advantage, and some not very important parts such as plastic shells still abide by the most basic principles: under the same quality, who can be cheaper, who will have orders.

"No matter how hard it is, you always have to try to know if it works." Deputy Director Wang nodded and said, these people still know a little about the basic business situation overseas, no matter what industry, if they want to make a little more, they must have a little risk.

"Well, when I go back to Hong Kong, I will talk to the people of Midea about it, and they will send someone to Shanghai to communicate with the factory here." Chen Zhiwen said.

"Then thank you Chen Sheng." Director Zhao also said: "If Mr. Chen has any requirements for me to go to Shanghai, or if we can cooperate together, we can put it forward at any time, and we are willing to cooperate with Hong Kong businessmen like Mr. Chen." ”

"Okay." Chen Zhiwen nodded, raised his glass and responded.

This time to the country, in fact, basically can invest in the project, is about the same, the special industry of automobiles not to talk about, Yanjing City is the main home appliances, Shanghai City is the main food, the walk is to rely on exports while ensuring the balance of foreign exchange under the premise of entering the domestic market, making money is a trivial matter, first the brand into the country.

Others, for the time being, there is no need, except for a Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway, Chen Zhiwen is not ready to invest in other infrastructure projects for the time being, as for Hu Yingxiang's large number of ambitious projects, although it looks scary, but to complete, it takes a long time before and after, and so many projects, the negotiations involved will definitely take a long time, it is very good to reach an intention within two years, and it is really enough to invest, that is, 84 years later, the environment at that time is already suitable for large-scale investment in China.

However, some small projects will continue, such as the Galaxy Trading has been trying to light industrial products in the mainland procurement plan, now, the retail market in the United States, the 80s will be in the new retail power and the old retail power of the decade in the stage of lifting, Wal-Mart led by several major retailers will challenge the traditional Celtic, Sears and other giants, Costco although the model is different, but will also participate in it, the business model, in fact, is the small profit but quick turnover gradually replace the previous default regional monopoly retail model, This naturally requires reliance on cheaper supplies. Galaxy Trade will make every effort to reduce procurement costs.

As for other businesses, the main investment purpose is to enter the domestic market, and at the same time take advantage of the domestic cheap labor to develop some simple light industry.

PS: There is another shift in the evening

(End of chapter)