Chapter 80 [Manufacturing Industry] (Additional update! Please vote for me!)
Author: Ren Zhufei
Chapter 80 [Manufacturing Industry] (Additional update! Please vote for me!)
Castle Peak Road, Tsuen Wan.
Tang Zhongyuan, Song Qiaoling and his wife stood happily on a piece of land, which has been carpeted and decorated around it. Today is the foundation laying ceremony of Oriental Textile's second factory.
Oriental Textile's first factory covers an area of just over 30,000 square feet, and the factory building is also a one-story factory. Due to orders from Yangtze River Industries, it has developed rapidly and the orders are in a very good state.
When Cheung Kong Industries was preparing to expand its scale, Lin Zhichao wanted to inform Tang Zhongyuan to consider investing in a new factory; so Oriental Textile immediately prepared to build a three-story industrial factory on an 80,000-square-foot piece of land owned by it.
Lin Zhichao had no reason not to support his father-in-law. After all, he would have to be accommodating to his father-in-law and mother-in-law in the future; at the same time, he also needed his own business alliance.
Tang Zhongyuan is a veteran in the textile industry. He has no problems with management and technology. His shortcoming is that his courage and sales ability are slightly lacking.
Of course, with Lin Zhichao as his backer, Tang Zhongyuan's courage and sales level are also improving; just like an average student, having top students to make up lessons will always have a very good promotion effect.
"Brother Zhongyuan, congratulations!" Shanghaitan textile tycoon Wang Tongyuan came to congratulate him.
In the past, these Shanghaitan textile tycoons only had eyes for their cousin Tang Bingyuan, and they were labeled as members of the Tang family, shareholders and executives of the Tang textile factory.
Now, everyone seems to regard him as a person of the same business level, and Tang Zhongyuan enjoys this change.
"The investment is huge!" Wang Tongyuan praised.
Tang Zhongyuan said modestly: "Where to build a three-story factory! Brother Tongyuan is the leader in our industry and has the largest scale."
Wang Tongyuan ordered a batch of textile machines from the United Kingdom in February 1947. Later, the Republic of China government informed him by telegram that it was extremely short of foreign exchange and warned him that imports were not allowed. Therefore, Wang Tongyuan asked British manufacturers to ship the textile machines to Hong Kong and invest in factories.
.In this year (1948), Wang Tongyuan led 80 outstanding workers and technicians from Shanghaitan to Hong Kong, and he ran on both sides.
"Humble! You are not small either!"
The two were polite to each other, and soon someone else came.
With the crazy depreciation of the gold yuan notes, the wealthy people in Shanghai were unwilling to have their wealth swallowed up by the Jiang Dynasty, so they began to sell off their assets and prepare to move to Hong Kong and overseas. There are already many people who have come to fight in the front line.
Tang Bingyuan also came to congratulate him with his wife Wen Jinmei. After all, they are all from the Tang family, so there is no reason not to give him face.
Wen Jinmei said quickly: "Zhong Yuan, you seem to have changed as soon as you arrived in Hong Kong. I really can't believe that you had such courage in the past!"
Naturally, Tang Zhongyuan was not as experienced as a woman, so he smiled and said, "My cousin is just kidding me! When I arrived in Hong Kong, I realized that it is not an option to just sit back and have nothing if money is not spent. Once this person is forced, he naturally becomes a little more courageous."
This was said perfectly and seamlessly.
But Wen Jinmei insisted on taking a bite and said with a smile: "You have found a good son-in-law!"
It is no secret in this circle that Tang Zhongyuan relies on Lin Zhichao. Nearly two-thirds of Oriental Textile's orders come from Cheung Kong Industries.
As soon as Wen Jinmei finished speaking, people around her began to pay attention.
Someone said: "So, Changjiang Industrial is going to expand its scale again?"
Tang Zhongyuan didn't care and said with a smile: "It's not clear yet. Anyway, he expects his orders to double next year, so I will expand the factory. Moreover, I am very optimistic about the development of Hong Kong's textile industry. We not only want to export products to Southeast Asia
, but also to export products to Europe and the United States."
"Okay, brother Zhongyuan is ambitious!" someone among the guests agreed.
For a moment, Wen Jinmei felt that she was losing out because her husband only opened a factory this year.
After a while, Lin Zhichao came with Tang Caiyun, accompanied by Jian Dongpu from the Bank of East Asia, which gave Tang Zhongyuan enough face.
Of course, for Jian Dongpu, Oriental Textiles is also a loan target of the Bank of East Asia, so it is not a waste of time for him to attend a groundbreaking ceremony.
When Wang Tongyuan and Lin Zhichao talked, Lin Zhichao's first thought was not that Wang Tongyuan was a Shanghaitan textile tycoon, but that he had a nephew named Wang Guojing; this Wang Guojing was a playboy, but he was Guan Zhilin's ex-husband in his previous life, although he was only married a few years ago.
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Looking at the many textile professionals in Shanghai, Lin Zhichao lamented that Hong Kong's textile industry will be dominated by people from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in the future. Next year, Chen Tinghua, Tang Xiangqian, Cao Guangbiao, An Zijie, Zhou Wenxuan, etc. will all gather in Hong Kong.
But what about the garment industry?
Hong Kong's ready-to-wear tycoons seem to be all from Guangdong Province, such as Lin Baixin, Luo Dingbang, Chen Ruiqiu, etc. This gave Lin Zhichao some ideas.
After all, he will enter the clothing field sooner or later, so early intervention is obviously a must.
However, early intervention does not mean immediate intervention!
If he was asked to just do OEM work for Southeast Asia and Africa, he would obviously not like it. It would be a waste of his time and energy, and he would not learn much experience.
He plans to build a brand!
Lin Zhichao's eyes suddenly lit up and he thought of a good choice.
As far as he knew, the Hong Kong crocodile shirt founded by the Germans in 1911 had been confiscated by the Hong Kong government and the brand had not yet been sold.
If he takes it and develops shirts, shirts, leather shoes, leather goods, etc., and becomes a mid-to-high-end clothing brand in Hong Kong, it will obviously be a good choice.
Thinking of this, Lin Zhichao smiled. He didn't expect to get an inspiration after seeing so many textile tycoons. This trip was indeed not in vain.
After attending the foundation laying ceremony of Oriental Textile, Jian Dongpu followed Lin Zhichao to Yangtze River Industrial for inspection.
Lin Zhichao is the largest borrower of the Bank of East Asia, with an amount of about 3 million Hong Kong dollars. How can Jian Dongpu not be serious? The Bank of East Asia is almost always watching the development of his industry to avoid causing huge losses to the bank.
"I didn't expect that the small zipper industry would be so promising. Human vision really determines its development." Jian Dongpu had to praise Lin Zhichao.
I saw the factory of Cheung Kong Industries, where workers were producing in an orderly manner, and the machines were continuously spitting out zippers. This scene was like visiting a money printing machine factory.
Lin Zhichao said with a smile: "I am also under great pressure. RB has already mechanized the production of zippers, and competition is about to break out."
Jian Dongpu was very confident in Lin Zhichao and said: "You have not only improved the automatic zipper machine and pioneered the slider stamping machine, but I believe that Changjiang Industrial can bring zippers into the world and become an industry giant."
Are you kidding? He has inspected Yangtze River Industrial many times, so he naturally knows the complexity involved - mechanical improvements.
Lin Zhichao said: "This is the direction we must work hard on!"
Changjiang Industrial has established mechanical cooperation with Bourne Machinery, and will not lose to other competitors in terms of machinery in the future. As for the issue of raw materials, Lin Zhichao has thought about it, whether it is aluminum alloy, copper, or nylon in the future, develop and invest as much as possible.
Even building factories in Taiwan and Southeast Asia is a good choice.
"By the way, you bought all the land around here, are you planning to speculate on the land? I see that the textile industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai has begun to build factories in Tsuen Wan. Do you think the value here will appreciate quickly?" Jian Dongpu asked again.
He was very optimistic about Lin Zhichao's business talent, so he spared no effort to support him. After all, supporting such a business tycoon, once successful, would be of great benefit to Bank of East Asia.
"The appreciation is certain, but I won't necessarily speculate on land. These lands may be used to build factories in the future. I believe that Hong Kong's industrialization will arrive with the arrival of mainland business owners, skilled workers, machines, funds, etc.
A very high ratio. Naturally, I don’t want to fall behind and show my talents in the manufacturing industry.”
Jian Dongpu immediately sighed, Lin Zhichao was young and ambitious, and a large factory of sixty or seventy acres had such a huge output value and scale.
At the same time, he captured a useful message from Lin Zhichao's words, that is, Hong Kong's industrialization prospects are very good. He is quite optimistic about Lin Zhichao, so this information is helpful for the Bank of East Asia's reference - to increase loans to the manufacturing industry.
Later, Lin Zhichao took Jian Dongpu to visit the three-story factory building under construction. In this wilderness of Tsuen Wan, Cheung Kong Industries is like a rising pearl, which is gradually lighting up the entire Tsuen Wan.
While visiting, Lin Zhichao was also thinking about a question.
It’s time for Cheung Kong Industries to establish a research institute. With the increase in the number of people coming to Hong Kong from the mainland, there are many talented people among them. If we don’t recruit them now, how long will it take?
He needs mechanical talents, management talents, etc.