"Chen Sheng wants to invest in a highway in Zhejiang Province?" Director Li's eyes lit up, this is not less than the port of large-scale infrastructure projects, and even the economic drive is not worse than the port, and the port + enough highways, then together, it will also play a 1 + 1 greater than 2 effect, Tianjin's Tanggu Port, in the past two years suddenly began to expand exponentially, the fundamental reason is the opening of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou Expressway, which is convenient and fast to connect Yanjing and Tianjin, two large cities with a population of more than 30 million, if you count the nearby provinces and high-speed road links, the number of people driven is even greater.

Even because of the emergence of high-speed, many of the loss-making goods that were originally transported have become profitable, so as to further stimulate the economy, it is because of the success of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou Expressway that everyone understands the importance of the expressway, but such a large investment, the local government simply cannot afford this money, that is, at the national level, the investment has to be planned slowly.

As early as a few years ago, the central government of the country has set the future of three horizontal and five vertical 8 highway arteries through the country, and then through the auxiliary road can link most of the country's cities, but the planning can be made, but it is difficult to start, it is really the amount of funds required in the middle is too large, the last central five-year plan, but only planned a few cities closer to each other, and Zhejiang Province, it was also planned to a high-speed from Hangzhou to Ningbo, but there is no money, this is just a plan, want to build, then you have to pay for it.

"Yes, I have this idea, I think the location and industrial base of Zhejiang are very good, and the economy will inevitably get better and better in the future, so I think it is definitely more cost-effective to invest in highways here." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

After the completion of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou Expressway, there was no big move in the mainland, although it also invested in Tanggu Port, but it was purely an investment and did not participate too much, but it was still during the negotiations on the Hong Kong issue, so Chen Zhiwen did not take the initiative to make any big moves.

Now, in 85 years, the Hong Kong and British side is no longer a problem, and the domestic side has also started a new round of further opening up, so it is naturally time for them to invest.

The port is one of them, but the suitable port has been discovered for a long time, and these places have basically been developed by the local government, but it will be like the Ningbo port, which lacks money for modernization and reform.

The role of the port, not to mention now, is a hundred years ago the great powers know, therefore, the mainland government, in fact, has a strong confidence, including the current Ningbo port, although Hong Kong capital can participate, but it is more likely to be pure investment and appropriate management, price, the mainland is also difficult to make concessions, after all, high-quality deep-water ports, there are only a few.

Therefore, Chen Zhiwen is ready to invest in ports in the mainland, but the upper limit is not very high, first, the number of super-large ports is so much, and second, even if the mainland government introduces foreign capital into the port, it is unlikely that many large ports will find one, which is the most basic way to avoid risks, if Chen Zhiwen stands in the position of the mainland, it will definitely be the same.

But the highway is different, the country is currently all 0, and the most important thing in the country is the city with a large population, every city needs high speed to develop the economy, so that they have more choice.

Zhejiang Province, as an economic super province in later generations, is naturally the key target of Chen Zhiwen's preparation to invest in expressways, especially in the 80s, many quasi-first-tier cities can be said to have chosen their own choice, and the other two super provinces of Jiangsu Province and Guangdong Province, the former has the Yangtze River, the demand for high-speed in a short period of time is not very high, and the latter has a lot of investment in Hong Kong, and it is not too short of money.

Therefore, this time I came to Ningbo, to see the port is just by the way, anyway, the future results are there, I actually close my eyes and pay the money, the main purpose is to discuss investing in high-speed here.

The entire coastal area is the essence of the future inland economy, and investing in high-speed investment here will make a lot of money.

Of course, real estate is stronger, but at present, Hong Kong capital is basically unable to participate, at most to build hotels, and Chen Zhiwen has also arranged for Hongkong Land's Mandarin Oriental Hotel to do this.

"Thank you Chen Sheng for being so optimistic about our Zhejiang." Director Li asked with a smile: "Is Chen Sheng planning to build a highway connecting Ningbo Port?" Same as the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou Expressway? ”

As the local person in charge of attracting investment, Director Li certainly knows what a monstrous wealth this young man in front of him, who is much younger than himself, has in his hands, and it can be said that as long as he is willing, he can invest a little in Ningbo City at will, and he can change the living standard of the entire Ningbo people as a whole.

Yanjing, is a series of portfolio investment, driven by a large number of economy, there is a high-speed irrigation of several urban areas, one of the country's only two large-scale automobile joint venture factory, a large home appliance factory, a national skyscraper - Yanjing International Trade Center, coupled with the formation of industrial chains around these, tens of thousands of high-income employees and indirect economic effects, so that at least hundreds of thousands of people benefit, that is, because Yanjing has too many people, if such an investment is placed in Ningbo City, I think there is a qualitative take-off in the economy of the whole city.

"Yes, there is this idea, and the main role of high-speed is to serve freight." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

In fact, many people don't know that the meaning of the existence of the highway is to help the transportation of trucks, and before there was no highway, the transportation of goods was carried by trucks on various roads, which caused a lot of trouble.

The first is to consume more fuel and more time, now the main passage in the country is the national highway and provincial highway connected between various cities, sometimes go to the far city to detour through the city center of countless cities, not only consume time, but also increase traffic jams, thereby causing the overall social operation efficiency to decrease, at the same time, the driver is also a big problem, which is also a waste of time.

The second is that the truck itself is also a vulnerable product, especially now the quality of domestic trucks itself is not very good, spending longer time on the road, walking more roads, and always stopping at low speed, which is a major damage to this important means of production.

Therefore, although the highway is charged, but compared with the benefits, this cost, any truck driver is willing to pay, which is completely different from the later generations, the ordinary highway quality of the later generations is also very high, and there is electronic navigation, so it is very convenient, but even so, the efficiency is still higher speed.

As for so many family cars, in fact, it is just a high-speed service, but for high-speed investment, the income of so many civilian cars is also very considerable, in this era, no one would have thought that the mainland would become the world's largest car market in a few decades, how many people in the 80s, even bicycles can not afford to buy.

"Then I don't know where Chen Sheng is going to start from Ning Bo and where to connect?" Director Li hurriedly asked. If we can see a large-scale expressway again, not to mention the economy that can be driven in the future, even in the past few years of construction, it can also drive tens of thousands of jobs, which is a real political achievement.

"Starting from Ningbo, passing through Shaoxing, and then arriving in Hangzhou, we can connect the three large cities in Zhejiang Province, and if we build a few more kilometers locally, we can cover a lot of areas north of Zhejiang." Chen Zhiwen said.

"Connected to Hangzhou? That's almost 200km. When the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway started, it made the nearby construction companies almost too busy, but the highway itself not only needs a large number of workers, but it also requires a lot of manpower for all kinds of raw materials, and because of the weight, it can only be purchased from nearby, so that the income is basically left in their own province, and even in the north of these cities.

"Director Li, in fact, I also want this expressway to start from Hangzhou again, turn around and go to Shanghai, so that it can also connect to the metropolis of Shanghai, and I think the effect will be better for the nearby economy." Chen Zhiwen said again.

This expressway is naturally one of the most famous expressways in later generations, Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway, connecting the largest cities in Shanghai and Zhejiang, with high economic benefits, but only slightly worse than the Guangdong-Shenzhen Expressway, and has long been in the top ten inland expressway revenues.

Now it has reached 85 years, many domestic highways have been planned, but there is no money to build, but wait until the early 90s, after the economy improves, and then carry out practical actions, which can be said to be their own window period, these years and then miss it, there will be no chance.

However, after all, this is a matter of Jiangnan Province, unlike the previous Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway, it is not easy for him to go to Yanjing to talk, it just so happens that Bao Yugang wants to pull himself to invest in Ningbo Port, which can be regarded as giving Chen Zhiwen the opportunity to directly propose it.

Hearing that he was going to connect to Shanghai, Director Li was stunned, but Bao Yugang, who was listening on the side, said with a smile: "Chen Sheng is really generous, if this expressway connects Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo, it can really benefit tens of millions of people." ”

Although there is no investment in the expressway, but Hu Yingxiang and Chen Zhiwen in the domestic two high-speed investment, Bao Yugang also probably knows the cost of this, the price is more than one billion US dollars, although not as good as a super port, but the risk is greater, because the port is a phase of expansion, in the initial effect is not good, you can stop the loss in time, but the expressway is different, basically need to be built, only to know how the benefits are, not to mention, this high-speed, than the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway and Guangdong-Shenzhen Expressway are much longer.

originally thought that Chen Zhiwen was just following him through the motions, but he didn't expect that people were the protagonists, but it didn't matter, he didn't care about these, as long as he could really take care of the tens of millions of fathers and villagers in Ning Bo's hometown, it didn't matter anything.

"Chen Sheng, when it comes to Shanghai, I can't call the shots, but I don't think they will refuse, besides, no matter where the expressway is built, it will definitely need to be reported to the central government, you also know that the expressway needs a joint venture, and our mainland side also needs investment." Director Li thought for a while and said.

"It doesn't matter, even if the Shanghai side doesn't agree, we can just count it from Hangzhou to Ningbo alone." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile, in fact, it is unlikely that Shanghai will disagree, and Hong Kong capital coming to build roads must also be a matter of benefiting the country and the people.

Of course, it is not absolute, in last year, when the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway was completed, Chen Zhiwen took a fancy to the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway that was being proposed in China at that time, this high-speed through several provinces, dozens of large cities, it can be said that it covered the traffic of hundreds of millions of people, and this highway, in later generations, is also the highest income. Maybe from the unit length can not be compared to the Guangdong-Shenzhen Expressway, but the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway is much longer, a Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, than the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangzhou Expressway + Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo + Guangdong-Shenzhen is stronger.

However, when Representative Hutchison put forward this investment intention, it was finally rejected, and the mainland government decided to invest in this expressway on its own, and Chen Zhiwen did not force it again, perhaps for a special reason, perhaps because people with a discerning eye know that the benefits of this expressway must be very large, and they will certainly not lose money, so if there is no risk, there is naturally no need to introduce foreign capital. This is also normal, Chen Zhiwen will do the same thing, such as building an office building or shopping mall in Central, Hong Kong, he will not make joint ventures with outsiders, only those who have a little risk, or the return on capital investment is not very high, or need to introduce strategic partners, will consider introducing others.

The rules of business in this world are like this, and everyone is the same.

Besides, if the future of the country's highest returns of several high-speed are their own investment, then the appearance may be a little ugly, such a large market, can eat a little bit, Shanghai, Hangzhou Ningbo is their next goal.

"Okay, Chen Sheng, when we get to the city government, I will report this matter as soon as possible." Director Li said.

"Thank you." Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile.

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Everyone soon arrived at the city government, this trip, itself is just to see, Chen and Bao have basically decided to invest in Ningbo Port, and after learning that Chen Zhiwen intends to invest in a new expressway in Zhejiang Province that is longer than the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Expressway, the leaders of Ningbo City are naturally even more happy.

After the news was transmitted to the leaders of the provincial party committee, the leaders of Shanghai City and the central government, the municipal party committee immediately called the leaders of the relevant infrastructure departments to discuss a preliminary plan in the shortest possible time.

Chen Zhiwen and Bao Yugang returned to their hotels.

"Chen Sheng's investment in the mainland is estimated to be tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, right?" The two sat by the small lake, drinking tea and chatting.

"I haven't done the math, it should be about the same." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, a high-speed that has been invested, several large factories, Yanjing International Trade Center, and Hongkong Land, which is ready to build hotels on a large scale in the mainland, add up to almost tens of billions of yuan, and Galaxy Trade, which has no investment but has given more than 10 billion Hong Kong dollars in orders to the mainland.

"Chen Sheng thinks the mainland can go so far?" Bao Yugang asked again.

"Do you see Japan now? I think sooner or later, the mainland will be able to reach this level. Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"It can't be, right?" Bao Yugang frowned and said: "One Japan is already a headache for Europe and the United States, and one more mainland, and there are so many people in the mainland, if it really develops like that, unless science and technology are further developed, otherwise, theoretically it is unreasonable, and this world can only maintain about 1 billion people to live a good life." ”

"What Bao Sheng said is very right, however, I still insist on my point of view, we Chinese have the spirit of not admitting defeat in our bones, and now we are making every effort to develop the economy and science and technology, then we will definitely not give up halfway, and we will not stop if we do not develop to the top of the world." Chen Zhiwen said: "In fact, Japan is the same, in terms of culture, it is relatively close to the mainland, South Korea may be similar, but Southeast Asia is far behind, and the Southeast Asian Chinese who inherit this culture are gradually developing, and many have become super-rich in Southeast Asia." ”

"There's a point in that." Bao Yugang nodded and said.

"What is Bao Sheng asking for?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"You know my situation, and I need to prepare for the worst." Bao Yugang said calmly: "The future direction of the group under my subordinates, I also need to set it for my sons-in-law." ”

"It's also said that what can worry us is the future generations." Chen Zhiwen agreed, in fact, the so-called loss, as long as it does not hurt the fundamentals, basically they will not care at this level.

Not to mention that he knows the future, basically he will not lose, that is, ordinary rich people, as long as they are self-made and achieve a high status, they will basically use various methods such as diversification to protect their wealth, unless it is very rare to encounter a special situation similar to the collapse of Kodak or Nokia.

But when wealth is free, how to pass it on, it has become a more worrying problem, rich but three generations, definitely not a joke, Hong Kong's existing rich people, are also very attached to the future education of children, Chen Zhiwen since he had children, also often think about this problem.

However, Bao Yugang is special, he has no sons, only 4 daughters, but the four daughters don't like business, so they can only let their son-in-law inherit their own business empire, which is also a very rare case of family inheritance in the history of global business.

"Seeing Chen Sheng's heavy investment in China, it seems that you are as optimistic about the future of China as I am, which makes me feel a lot more relieved." Bao Yugang said with a smile: "I have been adrift on the ocean all my life to do business, missed the real estate in Hong Kong, now, I don't want to miss the domestic one, but unfortunately in addition to the deep sea, pure real estate investment is not very convenient at present, I can only invest in the port this kind of infrastructure, but compared to Chen Sheng, it is still a little worse." ”

"In terms of ratio, you're actually higher than me." Chen Zhiwen thought for a while and said: "Bao Sheng, if you really want to invest in domestic real estate, then choose the deep sea, what shopping malls, office buildings, hotel apartments, just build." My father, too, has a lot of these projects in Deep Sea City. ”

Originally, Pao Yugang acquired Wharf, relying on the huge land held by Wharf, it can be regarded as a successful landing, and now the acquisition is China Power, although CLP's potential is no worse than Wharf, but there is indeed no land property, which is still not comparable to HK Electric.

Bao Yugang's relationship with himself is not bad, and he is likely to be the same as the original history, so it doesn't matter if he puts forward some correct investment advice, anyway, Shenhai City is so big, it is impossible for him to eat alone.

"Okay, I'm relieved to have Chen Sheng's words." Bao Yugang nodded, and said, "Chen Sheng, if my sons-in-law have any difficulties in the future, please ask Chen Sheng to help as much as possible." ”

"No problem, but it's limited to investments in Hong Kong and the mainland." Chen Zhiwen said.

"Okay, if they want to invest overseas and fail, they can only be regarded as taking the blame." Bao Yugang said. Of his four sons-in-law, 3 are foreigners, and their attitude towards the country is not very good, and now he is still there, and there is no problem with anything, but after he leaves, it will be really difficult to say. (End of chapter)