There are now several strong women in DreamWorks, among whom Xi Meng and Li Xue are the representatives. Xi Meng, under Zhao Hong’s instruction, pays considerable attention to hotels in the mainland.

We have already planned to build city-specific hotels in Xi'an, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and other major cities. Like the Courtyard Hotel in Beijing and the Shiliyangchang Hotel in Shanghai, we are exploring the unique characteristics of each city.

In Xi'an, a complex of buildings of the Tang Dynasty must be imitated, based on the antique style, mixed with modern facilities, to create a hotel with the culture of the Tang Dynasty.

As for Nanjing, it is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. It is not easy to build a cultural hotel here. Here, a high-end hotel is built based on the architecture of the Ming Dynasty. As for Hangzhou, it is mainly to build a hotel with a belt next to the West Lake.

There are quaint hotels.

As Suzhou is so famous for its gardens, DreamWorks also purchased many gardens to be demolished to build a hotel here. It can be said that in addition to these four places, other places are also being planned.

All hotels are unique hotels based on local conditions. Zhao Hong just proposed a plan, and Xi Meng was the executor.

She quite agrees with Zhao Hong's plan, and it is implemented vigorously and resolutely. There are currently four hotels under construction in the mainland, and more than ten are planned. It is planned to build at least fifty such super hotels in the mainland.

Because these hotels are very sophisticated, the materials they choose are not ordinary. For example, in many antique buildings, the materials used are purchased from Southeast Asia. There are many good woods in Southeast Asia, such as mahogany, paulownia, sandalwood, etc.

The price for these is not too expensive at this stage, but it is not a small amount. This year, the material cost alone cost 2 billion Hong Kong dollars. Fortunately, the hotel recovered more than 1 billion Hong Kong dollars when it was dismantled and sold. In addition,

The profits earned by the Upper Peninsula Hotel this year were also considerable.

Therefore, the hotel group could barely break even in the first year, and the head office would have to invest heavily in the next year.

The purchase of materials started a few years ago. The company has several storage plants in mainland China and Xiangjiang. The reason for this is to ensure that the hotel will not lack raw materials when it expands.

Furthermore, Zhao Hong also knows that the prices of these raw materials remain the same every year, and their value increases at an alarming rate, so anyone who buys them will not lose money.

In fact, the value of timber in Southeast Asia is not very high now. The main reason is that the economy in the mainland has not developed yet, there are not many local tycoons, and there are not many timber speculators. And many Western timber merchants in the world are not familiar with the timber here.

Too interested.

Timber resources are quite abundant in places such as America and Europe. There is no need for them to go all the way to Asia to get timber. After all, the transportation cost is not low.

What I want to say is that although DreamWorks Shipping Company has only been established for more than a year, it has benefited quite a lot. With more than 30 ships of all sizes, DreamWorks' own business is a bit too busy.

Transporting timber alone is a lucrative job, traveling back and forth between Hong Kong, the Mainland and Southeast Asian countries. These routes are short, safe, and the money earned is quite high.

This allows the shipping company to earn all the money needed for the maintenance of dozens of ships in rotation. The shipping company still has a slight surplus after one year, which is quite good.

Zhao Hong has reason to believe that the shipping company will make more and more money next year, and the company has passed the running-in stage and can begin to develop rapidly.

Zhao Hong felt that establishing a shipping company was a great move. It seemed that in a few years she would be able to be the shipping king.

The fact that Bao Tycoon and the others have achieved such great fame in the world is inseparable from their title of shipping king.

Zhao Hong found that Xi Meng was too aggressive in doing things. Many things could be slowed down according to Zhao Hong's wishes, but they were just unwilling to do so. All projects at the Peninsula Hotel were required to be executed quickly.

This makes Zhao Hong a little embarrassed!

As for Li Xue, she is no worse than Xi Meng. Ever since she took over Dabao Beauty Company, the beauty company has been in a state of expansion.

Under such circumstances, the company's profits are still rising at a rate of 50%. As long as there are beauty salons wherever DreamWorks has buildings, this move is a good thing for DreamWorks.

The beauty salon company bought two floors of the buildings built by DreamWorks in various places, which brought an astronomical amount of cash to DreamWorks. This allowed DreamWorks Corporation to calmly arrange many large-scale projects, such as the construction of automobile factories.

, MTR projects, Tin Shui Wai infrastructure facilities, etc.

Li Xue also harassed Zhao Hong from time to time, mainly asking Zhao Hong to write more formulas to the beauty company. Now the company has more than 20 kinds of beauty products.

Each one is super popular, and the company is making huge profits.

The investment by beauty companies in the mainland is not a small amount. At this stage, there are corresponding medicinal material bases across the country, but they are mainly distributed in the southwest.

The Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is cloudy and rainy, and the temperature is not low. In this case, it is suitable for the growth of many medicinal materials, and the medicinal efficacy is not low. In addition, there are many medicinal material bases in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Heilongjiang and other places.

These investments amount to no less than HK$670 billion, which is by far the largest investment by Hong Kong capital in the mainland. Even China World Trade Center cannot keep up.

It is unknown how many farmers have benefited from these investments, at least millions of families.

Zhao Hong had always thought that his investment in the Mainland was not large, but when he calculated it carefully, he was surprised.

The combined total investment of DreamWorks and Dabao in the mainland is no less than 150 billion Hong Kong dollars, and this number is increasing year by year.

For beauty companies, no amount of medicinal materials is too much. The company is also stepping up its efforts to establish medicinal material bases in various places in the mainland. The company has a huge demand for herbal natural medicinal materials.

This is mainly because the company does not use synthetic medicinal materials like other beauty companies. All its own medicines are purely natural, and Zhao Hong’s prescriptions are all the essence of concentrated medicines.

This will lead to the company being very dependent on medicinal materials.

In the process of building a medicinal material base, the company often encountered misunderstandings from local farmers. The land had just come into their hands a few years ago, and everyone's attachment to the land was quite deep.

At this time, the government also helped with publicity. In fact, the government also had shares in the medicinal material base in the mainland. In this way, although the company made less money, many things were easier to handle.

What Zhao Hong believes in is that everyone makes money, and win-win cooperation is the bond that maintains friendly relations.

Mainland leaders are quite satisfied with this. They find that working on projects with DreamWorks saves them worry and effort and makes less money.

This is very different from other Hong Kong capital's various difficulties. In fact, many times they want to give preferential policies to DreamWorks and Dabao, but they don't need them, so they just get as much as they want.

It can be said that it is relatively easy for Zhao Hong to do anything he wants to do in the mainland now. Among Xiangjiang people, his influence in the mainland must be among the top three.

Even Li Chaoren is not comparable to him. He, Li Chaoren, is currently torn between the British government and the mainland. Although both parties benefit, it does not leave a good impression on the mainland leaders.

Although Zhao Hong has never taken a side, her actual actions have not been compromised at all, and she has spared no effort in supporting the mainland.

It's not like Zhao Hong didn't receive hints from the Hong Kong government, asking him to invest more in England, but the results were minimal.
Chapter completed!