"Mall?" Director Lin was stunned for a moment and asked, "How big?" ”

With the reopening, many existing business models abroad have been gradually introduced into the country, which can also avoid many detours in China, such as the most basic retail supermarkets, which were mainly similar department stores in China, and now, when supermarkets are popular abroad, the new ones opened in China are basically supermarkets.

As far as he knows, RT-Mart now has more than 200 stores in more than 20 cities in China, especially in Shanghai, where there are more than 2 RT-Mart in each district on average, because of its high-quality service and low price and good quality, it has obviously become the favorite shopping place for urban residents in Shanghai.

Director Lin also knows that he has been to many countries in the past two years, and he has also visited them.

"Director Lam, Hong Kong's Harbour City, I don't know if you've been there?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Harbour City? I went there 5 years ago and I have to say that Harbour City is the biggest mall I've ever been to. As soon as Director Lin finished speaking, he also reacted and asked, "What does Mr. Chen mean is that in Pudong, a shopping mall as big as Harbour City will also be built?" ”

"Yes, I have this idea, and although Hong Kong's Harbour City is large, it is the result of years of reconstruction, and it is difficult to be satisfactory in many aspects, and if it is built directly, the one-time design is in place, and in many aspects, it will be more perfect than Harbour City." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

Harbour City, in the 50s, there was still a large port, the area is very large, before the container era, ships ocean-bound transportation, need a lot of manpower, turf for loading and unloading, in the late 60s, containers began to gradually popularize, the traditional manpower port declined, a large number of land was vacant, the land was built here Harbour City.

It's just that neither the vision at that time nor the funds of the land were built to today's scale at one time, and the current Harbour City is also built and demolished step by step, demolished and built, although there are no shortcomings because the area is large enough, but in any case, it is still not better than the initial one-time design.

"Is what Chen Sheng said true?" Director Lin couldn't help but be a little nervous and asked, once such a large shopping mall and the few buildings mentioned by Chen Zhiwen just mentioned, once it is really built, it will be a very good start for the Pudong Development Zone, not only with large-scale projects, but also such projects, once started, can also bring huge taxes to the government, not to mention the thousands of jobs that will be driven.

Moreover, in the long run, a super shopping mall similar to Harbour City, the significance of Pudong, is much stronger than what office buildings, first of all, after the office building is built, it is basically to collect rent, can not drive a few jobs, and shopping malls need a large number of people to work, but also to stimulate consumption, increase government long-term taxes, the second is to be able to drive Pudong and even the entire Shanghai tourism, not only foreign tourists, in recent years, is a lot of people in China, but also like to go to the supermarket or shopping mall shopping, the first batch of wealthy people, Generally, they like to go to such a "high" place to live, enjoy and consume.

"Of course it's true, how could I be joking about such a thing." Chen Zhiwen said: "Tomorrow my official letter will be sent to the Shanghai government, and there will be some unilateral cooperation intentions, and we will negotiate again in the future." ”

Just a large commercial plaza, even if the price of land in Pudong is about equal to 0, and the labor in the mainland is also very cheap, but whatever, it also requires billions of investment, plus the surrounding buildings, adding up to tens of billions of possibilities, and the investment amount is not less than an ordinary highway.

Such an investment intention, if it were not for the fact that the economic development of the country was very good ten years after the reform and opening up, I am afraid that it would have to be listened to directly, but now it is only an intention, and how to invest in the future still has to be negotiated.

"Okay, then I'll report this to the top later." Director Lin said, in fact, the establishment of Pudong New Area, the leaders of Shanghai City have the idea of inviting Chen Zhiwen to come over to invest, after all, this has invested in many places in China, it stands to reason that he will not give up Shanghai, but how much will he invest? Whether it will be optimistic about Pudong or not, everything is not clear.

And this time Chen Zhiwen came to Shanghai in person, in fact, it is already a statement, investment is inevitable, therefore, the above sent him to contact, but, originally thought that there would be at most a hotel plus two or three buildings of psychological expectations, suddenly was raised, just a shopping mall comparable to Harbour City, it is much higher than they expected, and Chen Zhiwen has not made it clear, in addition to the shopping mall, how many buildings will be built? only said that there will be a hotel, that is to say, the number of buildings, can also be discussed, so the other party must be willing to invest in Pudong, otherwise it will not be so vague.

"Okay, then tomorrow, we'll have a formal discussion between us." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, such a big investment, there must be a lot of details to negotiate, even if he is willing to invest strongly, at most he will promote the acceleration, rather than directly decided, anyway, the development of Pudong is based on ten years, most places, in fact, there is no need to be in a hurry, it doesn't matter if it is a few years later.

The only thing that needs to be settled as soon as possible is actually the land on the edge of the Huangpu River, especially opposite the prosperous area of Puxi, these plots of land are the most valuable, similar to the place in Hong Kong's Central near Victoria Harbour, so Chen Zhiwen personally came to Shanghai to promote this matter, otherwise, the investment in other places in Pudong can be commanded remotely.

Pudong, which has not yet been greatly developed, has nothing to see, and after a circle, the group returned to Puxi, Director Lin went to the place where he should report, and Chen Zhiwen returned to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Puxi.

Like Yanjing, a few years ago, it also won a large piece of land, and after paying a lot of demolition fees for the people on the original land, a large five-star hotel was established in Shanghai, with 66 floors, including 8 underground floors and 58 floors above ground, which is the tallest building in Shanghai today, and the other three hotels in Shanghai are only slightly worse.

"The view here is really good, with the sea on one side, half of Shanghai on the other, and half of Pudong and Huangpu River." Chen Zhiwen walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window and said.

At the moment, he is on the top floor of the Mandarin Oriental Puxi Hotel, where there is a separate suite of his own, where he can work and rest.

"There are not enough skyscrapers in Shanghai now, and if one day it is the same as Hong Kong, it will be difficult to see such a view." Dong Youwei on the side said with a smile.

"Yes, this farmland plain in front of us now will become a CBD commercial center full of skyscrapers in the future, and it will have higher skyscrapers than Hong Kong. Chen Zhiwen said with a smile.

"Will it surpass Hong Kong?" Zhou Jiayang on the other side asked: "The area of Shanghai is much larger than that of Hong Kong, so it won't be all skyscrapers, right?" ”

"You don't look at how many people are in Shanghai? How many people in the whole hinterland, once the entire economy develops, it will inevitably go through everything that Western countries have experienced, such as urbanization. Chen Zhiwen said: "Once large-scale urbanization begins, a large number of people will flock from the countryside to the city, and more people will flock to first-tier cities such as Yanjing and Shanghai from other cities. Coupled with commercial demand, how many buildings, hotels, and shopping malls are needed to meet the demand? ”

"If that's the case, it's a Shanghai city, and it's hard for us to win a big market." Dong Youwei said.

"Don't think too much, why can't we invest too much in one place, in the future, Yanjing, Shanghai, Shenhai, Guangdong, Jinling and a bunch of second-tier cities will be our goal, and every city can stop in moderation." Chen Zhiwen said with a smile: "Now let's discuss the investment in Shanghai." ”

"I've already called someone to send the sand table." Dong Youwei said with a smile.

"Sand table? You won't build a sand table in Shanghai, right? Chen Zhiwen said in surprise, this is almost impossible.

"That's not true, it's some of the commercial core areas in Shanghai, I have prepared some, and they are not as exquisite as the ones in Hong Kong." Dong Youwei said with a smile.

After a while, a few people sent a few small carts, on the car, it is the three-dimensional sand table of some of the more famous commercial areas in Shanghai City, which also includes both sides of the Huangpu River, you can see some well-known buildings in Shanghai, such as the Peace Hotel, Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, etc., but it is also obvious that the proportion is not right, otherwise, the sand table with a small part of Shanghai is really created, the area is too large, the cost is also very high, and most places, there is no meaning to show.

"My hope is to get enough land in this place, and the middle location is just to build our new Harbour City, and then next to the new Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and the rest, just build an office building, plus a high-end apartment, the more the area, the better, our funds, plus the use of domestic bank loans, can easily win so many projects." Chen Zhiwen said: "Tomorrow, on behalf of Hongkong Land and Hutchison, you will go to negotiate with the government representatives, and try to lean in this direction, I estimate that the government is unlikely to really let us all take these golden positions, so let's see what they mean when the time comes." ”

Not to mention that the country has been reopened for more than ten years, but it has not been changed, smart people naturally know which house is in a good location, which is not good, Huangpu River, everyone likes such a location, and the Huangpu River is facing the most prosperous business district in Puxi, it is the most dazzling cub, who doesn't want it?

Long before the reopening, there were already many people living in these places, and even the location of the department's office, which is why Chen Zhiwen did not plan this land ten years ago, because everyone is not stupid, even if such a place is not commercially developed, but it is also suitable for living and office, it has long been occupied, and it is not the turn of outsiders, that is, now that the central government has ordered the development of Pudong, these places need to be demolished to build high-end CBD business, otherwise, they will not have such an opportunity.

The reason why it is proposed to build a new harbor city, in addition to the fact that it is definitely profitable to build such a project in Shanghai, the project itself is also used to attract Shanghai, super large-scale shopping malls, in any place, can stimulate local economy and consumption, especially Pudong wants to build a CBD center on a large scale, then you must do a good job in the needs of high-end business people, large shopping malls are one of them.

Outside the shopping mall, it should not be a problem to build a hotel by yourself, he has also invested a lot in Shanghai over the years, this face is still there, that is, the rest, how many office buildings can be taken can be obtained, it is difficult to say, all eat the best location, it is impossible, and it is not necessary, although the location is good, but the number of places in the second class location is more, and it can also be made up from these places.

"Okay." Zhou Jiayang and Dong Youwei said.

Hutchison and Land, in the global investment direction, many are distinct, but there is no limit to real estate investment in the mainland, it is really because this market is too big, not to mention the mainland, is a Shanghai, the two of them together can not eat much, as long as the two do not have direct competition, then free play, such a big market, they will not be stupid competition, cooperation together to use common resources to compete, isn't it better?

"In addition to the development of Pudong, Shanghai is also preparing to build a world-class port, Lao Zhou, do you know what progress is going on here?" Chen Zhiwen asked again.

In Shanghai, in addition to Pudong New Area, there is also a major project that will be the future Pudong Port.

Over the years, not only the economic take-off of Shanghai, but also the Yangtze River Delta, a large number of industries began to rise, the demand for exports is getting higher and higher, and the efficiency of traditional ports is too low to meet the needs of the entire Yangtze River Delta, and the previous Shanghai port can not be converted into a large new container terminal, therefore, the central government also ordered to build a new terminal.

Chen Zhiwen naturally knows that this is the future Pudong port, but he can only know the name, and he doesn't know the rest, but in the original history, Li Jiacheng invested in this port, so today's own Hutchison will naturally not let go of this opportunity.

Zhou Jiayang replied: "We and Huang have also negotiated cooperation with Shanghai City, in principle, we can be a joint venture, but because Shanghai City has not yet found a suitable location, so all joint venture negotiations have not begun, and we will wait until the location is determined, and we will probably know how much money is needed before discussing the follow-up." ”

"Okay, this port, we must fight for it." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said. (End of chapter)