The next morning, Li Guangyu and his party arrived at Singapore Changi International Airport by special plane. Singapore Prime Minister *** and the Minister of Industry and Commerce greeted Li Guangyu, Zheng Yutong and their party at the airport.
In the Singapore Government Living Room, *** and several government officials had friendly discussions with the Li Guangyu delegation.
This time Li Guangyu and his friends are investing no less in Singapore than in Malaysia. They will build a Chinatown in Singapore with an investment of 4 billion Hong Kong dollars. There are some differences between this place and Malaysia. This place pays more attention to business and offices and has no planned residential buildings.
Since Singapore has government-guaranteed housing, housing prices here are relatively stable, and profits from commercial housing are relatively low. Li Guangyu and others are not involved in commercial housing in Singapore.
The Chinatown they built in Singapore this time is mainly a commercial complex and office buildings. They have no plans to sell them. Future profits will mainly depend on rental income.
After *** introduced Singapore’s advantages and their government’s policy on foreign investment, Li Guangyu said: “Singapore has grown rapidly over the years and is known as the Four Asian Tigers together with Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea. It has convenient transportation and excellent
The geographical location and excellent political and business environment make us believe that Singapore’s exhibitions will be more brilliant in the future, and our subsidiaries are also willing to invest in Singapore and jointly exhibit with Singapore.”
*** is very happy with Singapore's development over the years. He now hopes to build Singapore into a financial center, a high-tech research center, and a Southeast Asian logistics and trade center in Southeast Asia.
In this regard, the investment by Li's Consortium and Xiangjiang Consortium has a huge promotion effect, especially in logistics, trade and finance. Li's Consortium and Xiangjiang Consortium have large fleets behind them, and the top banks in Asia are all
Can provide support for their Singapore exhibition.
As for high-tech research, *** also knows that Li Guangyu focuses on semiconductors in Baodao, and the mobile phone industry is in Hong Kong. They don't have to think about this in Singapore.
His most important thing is to seize their advantage of Singapore being located in the Strait of Malacca, and reach an agreement with the Lee Group and the Heung Kong Group on logistics, so that Singapore can become the distribution center of their shipping group in Southeast Asia.
Since Singapore is the only country in Southeast Asia that has a relatively complete set of heavy industries, the Lee Group and the Heung Kong Group are able to provide services in terms of ship procurement and Bentley Group's steel needs.
In the afternoon, Li Guangyu and his party, accompanied by the Minister of Industry of Singapore, visited Singapore's Jurong Industrial Zone, which is the current location of Singapore's heavy industry.
Compared with Singapore, Xiangjiang still has some shortcomings in this aspect. There are no heavy industrial enterprises in Xiangjiang. Even the technology industry is far behind Singapore. Currently, Xiangjiang can only surpass Singapore in terms of finance.
In the evening, Li Guangyu and others discussed today's inspection situation and discussed the next activities.
Zheng Yutong said: "Guangyu, here in Singapore, there are not many investment opportunities for our real estate group, and the profitability is low, which is not suitable for our real estate group to move in in large numbers. I think the hotel industry here has great potential, and the tourism market here is still good.
, I believe that our hotel can achieve very good results when it enters the dream."
Now, regardless of whether the Lee Group or the Heung Kong Group, the vast majority of shareholders own real estate groups, which is also their current main business. However, the profitability of commercial residential properties in Singapore is too low, so they will not enter the Singapore market.
The Lee Group's main markets in Southeast Asia are still mainly in Malaysia and Thailand, with the Philippines and Indonesia, and they have no plans to enter into Singapore on a large scale.
Although the geographical location here is quite good, the labor costs are much higher than those in Malaysia. This is why Li Guangyu built his truck production base in Malaysia instead of Singapore.
It is good for Singapore to establish an oil, gas and chemical industry, but Li Guangyu and others have not entered the energy industry at present. It is too early to talk about this issue now.
Moreover, the Singapore market is only so big, and the real estate industry they are engaged in is not very profitable here, and they are not willing to come and compete with Singaporean families.
This time, Li Guangyu's Wheelock Group ordered two cargo ships from the Singapore state-owned shipyard, and Cao Weide also ordered two ships on behalf of the Wanbang Shipping Group. It was regarded as a project given by them after inspecting Singapore.
In addition to the Chinatown investment of 4 billion Hong Kong dollars, their investment here this time is almost the same.
Of course, Li Guangyu Wheelock Group and Cao Wenjin's Wanbang Shipping Group have also signed agreements with Singapore to use the Singapore port as the group's Southeast Asia cargo distribution center.
Li Guangyu himself also knows that Singapore will be one of the important tourist destinations in Southeast Asia in the future. The tourism market in Singapore will be very good in the future, and the hotel service industry will be very good.
Li Guangyu said: "As for the hotel, Vice President Wang Xingquan will conduct an inspection and make an effective plan."
Cao Weide said: "Guangyu, this time our Wanbang Shipping Group and your Wheelock Group will join hands to build a cargo warehousing center at the Singapore Port. The senior management of your Wheelock Group will be responsible for this. You also know that my father and I are now in business.
"Many, we don't have enough manpower in this area. Your Wheelock Group has been relatively idle in the past two years, so having a vice president come over will not delay the development of your Wheelock Group."
Cao Weide often travels between Hong Kong and Bangkok. He doesn't want to take over the affairs of Singapore anymore. It's better to ask Li Guangyu to send people here. Anyway, there are many high-level officials in Wheelock Group, so let them send people here.
For the construction here, it will be great if Wanbang Shipping will send financial personnel over.
Li Guangyu is also aware of the situation of the Cao family. Cao Wenjin now has to travel frequently between Hong Kong and Tokyo, and Cao Weide himself has to travel between Hong Kong and Bangkok. They really don't have much energy to take care of the affairs here. Now, in addition to opening the Wheelock Group,
There are currently no projects outside the Jockey Club, so there is no problem in having a vice president come over.
Li Guangyu said: "Second brother, I will arrange for a vice president of Wheelock Group to come over and take charge of the preliminary work of the cargo storage center here. Your Wanbang Shipping Group will arrange personnel to coordinate and form a management team here."
After discussing the affairs here, Li Guangyu said habitually: "Gan Qin, please inform Guo Qingya and ask her to arrange for a group vice president to come to Singapore."
After Li Guangyu finished speaking, Zheng Yutong and others all laughed, and Li Guangyu also realized that Gan Qin is not here now.
Li Guangyu then said to Le Yiling: "Yiling, please contact Guo Qingya and ask her to arrange for a vice president to come and connect this investment with the Singaporean government based on the situation here, so that this cargo storage center can start construction as soon as possible.
Put into use.”
Cao Weide was a little worried about his sister. It seemed that Li Guangyu was used to using that assistant. When he had something to ask, he would subconsciously turn to Gan Qin. He didn't know how this would develop in the future. He hoped that nothing would happen to the two families.