Seeing that the Spring Festival of 1980 is coming, Jiayi Group is busy with the New Year's Party. Li Guangyu is also looking forward to this party. This time, not only artists from Xiangjiang will participate, but Baodao and Japanese branches will also participate.
Personnel were sent to participate, including the talented girl musician Miyuki Nakajima.
On the morning of February 12, after having breakfast, Li Guangyu did not go to the company, but sat aside and read the newspaper delivered today.
Seeing this, Cao Weiqing asked: "Guangyu, you don't plan to go to the company today?"
"Today I am going to attend the opening ceremony of the Hong Kong Metro from Central to Kwun Tong. The Hong Kong Metro Railway Company has sent me an invitation. Do you want to attend?"
Cao Weiqing said: "There must be a lot of people there today, so I won't go."
Nowadays, Cao Weiqing is pregnant, and Li Guangyu is not the same. She goes to that lively place. There are too many people. If something happens, it will be troublesome.
After chatting with Cao Weiqing for a while, Li Guangyu, accompanied by Du Yonghong and others, went to the Central Station of the Xiangjiang Metro, where the opening ceremony of the first line of the Hong Kong Metro from Central to Kwun Tong was held.
Today's Xiangjiang Mass Transit Railway Company is still wholly owned by the Xiangjiang government, and no private funds have been introduced. Moreover, no family in Xiangjiang will invest in the subway company, not even Li Guangyu himself.
The main reason is that the subway investment is too large, the cost recovery time is too long, and there are many uncertain factors. Li Guangyu is still more willing to invest in other groups, such as Heung Kong Electric and Heung Kong Telephone.
At Central Station today, the Hong Kong Police Station has already deployed a large number of police personnel to maintain order and ensure the normal conduct of the event.
The media in Xiangjiang also came out one after another. Although many reporters were blocked by the police, they were still observing the big shots attending today with great interest.
I don’t know whether the Xiangjiang government today invited many Xiangjiang bigwigs to attend the opening ceremony to show its importance to the subway, or for other reasons.
As the time for the opening ceremony approached, one by one Xiangjiang's upper class figures began to show up.
When Li Guangyu arrived, he saw that many acquaintances were already here. Luo Decheng, Stanley Ho, Charter King, Xu Shixun and others were all here.
Of course, when the Xiangjiang government organizes such an event, it is indispensable for several figures from major foreign banks to be present. Even the top executives from HSBC and Standard Chartered came here.
Li Guangyu walked to Luo Decheng and the others and said hello to the elders one by one.
Luo Decheng said jokingly: "Guangyu, as the Xiangjiang Metro continues to improve, I'm afraid your Kowloon Bus Company will be affected."
Li Guangyu is not worried about this. The three lines currently under construction will not have a big impact on the business of Kowloon Bus Company. Moreover, due to the 15% profit red line set by the government, Li Guangyu does not want to invest in this company.
No matter how much money he makes, what he wants is the influence of this company and the convenience of the development of his own real estate company.
Li Guangyu said: "Uncle Decheng, the population of Xiangjiang has increased by hundreds of thousands. These subway lines alone cannot affect the Kowloon Bus."
Luo Luo Cheng said: "This is the best, but the opening of the Central to Kwun Tong subway this time is good news for your uncle and the others. The real estate company they established last year was a property in Kwun Tong. This time there is only
I’m afraid that housing prices will increase again.”
Li Guangyu still knows the situation of Stanley Ho's property there. Last year, he specifically asked Li Guangyu to help them open bus lines near the property to cooperate with their property sales.
Nowadays, the real estate market in Xiangjiang is rising rapidly, and the property prices in subway stations are even higher. The auctions of these land parcels are also subject to fierce competition from major real estate groups. Li Guangyu doesn’t have much interest in real estate in Xiangjiang, so he thinks it’s better to go there.
It is more comfortable to make money in Japan.
Li Guangyu knew that in his previous life in 1982, the Chen Zengxi family teamed up with some Chinese families to compete with the Jardine Matheson Group for a property on the subway, spending billions. As a result, the property market in Hong Kong plummeted, and they suffered heavy losses.
After Li Guangyu completed the development of the first phase of Tin Shui Wai, he no longer planned to continue the development. From 1982 to 1985, the real estate market in Xiangjiang was very sluggish. Li Guangyu was not willing to invest funds in this, so he decided to let Starlight Real Estate come to
It is safer to develop Baodao.
Near nine o'clock, Governor MacLehose of Hong Kong arrived here.
MacLehose said: "Welcome all guests to attend this opening ceremony, and also welcome all journalists and citizens of Xiangjiang. After many years of construction, the first line of our Xiangjiang Metro will be fully opened to traffic today. The opening of the subway
, providing another choice for citizens to travel and making it convenient for everyone."
MacLehose said: "Our government has always been committed to serving everyone well. This time is the opening of the first line. We are still seizing the time to build the second and third lines, which will also provide better services for everyone's travel in the near future.
Serve."
Then the general manager of the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Company also delivered a speech. At 9:30, the ceremony ended. Li Guangyu and others accompanied MacLehose on the train to Kwun Tong to experience this era.
The feeling of riding the subway.
Li Guangyu didn't feel very good about this experience. Compared with the subway in Chengdu and the light rail in Shuangqing in his previous life, both the speed and the comfort of the carriages were far incomparable.
After experiencing what it was like to take the subway in this era, Li Guangyu, accompanied by Du Yonghong and others, went to the property developed by Stanley Ho and others to look around.
I have an intuitive feeling about the energy of the He family. The land being developed is only 500 meters away from Kwun Tong Station. If the energy of the He family were not so great, how would their newly established real estate company be able to obtain such a land?
The place of this location.
This company is currently managed by Stanley Ho. Stanley Ho and Ho Ji are only directors of the company and have not participated in the company's affairs.
When Li Guangyu was walking around this building, Stanley Ho came over and said to Li Guangyu: "Guangyu, why did you remember? Let's take a look."
Li Guangyu said: "Uncle, today I happened to experience what it's like to take the subway from Central to here with MacLehose, so I stopped by to take a look at your property development."
Ho Hongqing smiled and said: "Guangyu, our place is pretty good now."
"Uncle, your place is much better than mine in Tianshuiwei. Traffic and people are not a problem here. How is your sales now?" Li Guangyu asked.
Ho Hongqing said: "Now we have sold more than 50%. I believe it will be sold out before the construction is completed."
Li Guangyu said: "Uncle, after the development of your real estate is completed, Xiangjiang will be temporarily slowed down. If you like, we can develop it in Japan, or Baodao is also okay."
He Hongqing heard what Li Guangyu said, and it was probably because Li Guangyu thought that there would be problems with the housing market in Xiangjiang in two years, otherwise he would not be allowed to stop the development of Xiangjiang and turn outside.
Ho Hongqing said: "Okay Guangyu, we still have two years to go. After the development is completed, we will also have a certain amount of capital, and we can go out and try our luck."
Li Guangyu was also worried that Ho Hongqing would continue to invest in Xiangjiang and be trapped in it in 1982, so he issued a warning.