Songjiang Prefecture Yanjiang Road was the first high-standard cement road in the Tang Dynasty and the only high-standard cement road with a length of more than 100 kilometers.
This road along the river is not static, most of its sections are wide cement roads, but when it comes to the Shanghai Special County Trade Zone, that is, after passing the Wusong River Bridge, it reaches the old city.
This section of the road is only over 4,000 meters long, but it is paved with asphalt.
The extremely wide asphalt road and the kerosene lamps on both sides of the road are not the biggest features of this road along the river.
The biggest feature of this section of Yanjiang Road is the dense rows of high-rise buildings on the roadside, as well as the luxury hotels and headquarters of large companies inside these high-rise buildings.
Many well-known companies are setting up headquarters or offices.
As the most famous shipping company in the empire, Feng's Shipping Company also purchased land here a few years ago and then built an eight-story shipping building with a tower that is more than fifty meters tall.
The emergence of hydraulic power elevators, steel cement and even pure steel beam structures have allowed high-rise buildings to appear densely in economically developed cities, of which Shanghai is undoubtedly a typical example.
From the first eight floors to the 12th floor, now the wealthy Shanghai Terminal Company is preparing to build a super-tall building with a height of 100 meters.
After all, Shanghai Terminal Company is the largest landlord in the Songjiang Prefecture area. It seems that the company is just a terminal service company, but in fact the company's main business is real estate.
Don't be fooled by their names!
In the early years, in order to raise funds for the construction of docks and trade zones, Songjiang Prefecture took out all the land and used it as funds for the Shanghai Terminal Company to raise funds.
Now that the dock has been completed a long time ago, by the way, Shanghai Terminal Company has also become the largest landlord in the Songjiang Prefecture area!
Because their company owns the entire land on both sides of the Huangpu River in the city center, to put it in the simplest and most straightforward terms, the land and properties in the entire trade zone belong to them, and this is only a small part of the properties they own.
Although a considerable part of the land has been rented out, and the lease period is long, which can last for decades or hundreds of years, there are even unconditional renewal terms, turning it into a permanent lease model.
But this was only in the early days. The Shanghai Terminal Company was very poor at that time.
Later, when I got rich, and many people believed that such a permanent lease model would greatly harm the interests of the government, many years ago, the Shanghai Terminal Company stopped directly leasing the land permanently, and instead built it by itself.
rental model.
As the largest real estate developer and landlord in Songjiang Prefecture, the company has always been a promoter of the construction industry in Songjiang Prefecture and even the entire empire, so it is normal for them to want to build a skyscraper over 100 meters tall.
However, the construction of this high-rise building, which was clearly designated as the dock building in advance, has not yet started. Therefore, for now, the high-rise buildings in the trade area are generally still only a few tens of meters high.
The height of the shipping building is not outstanding among the tall buildings in the trade district, but it can still be ranked among the top twenty.
It can be seen from this building that people are rich.
After all, Feng Shipping Company is not only the second largest shipping company in the country, but they are also one of the top ten shipbuilding manufacturers in the country. They are also involved in steel, machinery, coal, terminal services and other aspects.
To put it simply, they take shipping business as their core, and then build a series of businesses around shipping, reducing operating costs by building their own ships, even building spare parts, mining coal, etc.
This model actually aims to build an independent supply chain from top to bottom, from iron ore to steel to ships to shipping, all done by one person.
This model has advantages and disadvantages, and the advantages and disadvantages are very obvious.
But that's not important. What's important is that this company has money.
"In the past two years, Pacific Shipping has become too popular. Their new Pacific series has almost taken over the high-end shipping market!" Guo Yake, general manager of Feng Shipping Company, wearing business attire and smoking a cigar, looked worried.
road:
"Not only Pacific Shipping, but also our old enemy Yangtze River Shipping has frequently made efforts in the mid-to-high-end field in the past two years, and they already have more reputation!"
"And what about us? Although we at Feng entered the passenger transport field very early, we have been engaged in low- and mid-level passenger transport for a long time. We used to think that we could win based on volume and have been in the low-end market for many years, but this has caused extremely bad consequences.
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"The public has now had a very bad negative impact on Fung Shipping. They think that Fung Shipping will only engage in low-cost shipping. When the middle class and above travel, if they have a choice, they would rather choose the commitment
The luxury liner of other shipping companies is not our luxury liner either!”
"We conducted a survey before and collected tens of thousands of survey reports. These survey subjects were all mid-to-high-end travelers with a monthly salary of more than ten yuan. However, the results of the survey were very unsatisfactory. Among those with a monthly salary of more than ten yuan and less than one hundred yuan,
Among mid-range travelers.
Only five percent of people will give clear priority to travel on our luxury liners.
Sixty-five percent of people said that if our ticket price is lower than that of other shipping companies, they will tend to choose our company's luxury liner to travel.
Another 25% said that even if our luxury liner tickets are cheaper, they would give priority to Yangtze River Line or Pacific Line or other shipping companies' luxury liner travel."
"And it is worth noting that among high-end passengers with a monthly income of more than 100 yuan, 78% clearly stated that under the same circumstances, they would give priority to the luxury liner of Yangtze River Line and Pacific Line, and we
Fung Line’s luxury liner was even ranked fifteenth or lower!”
"I think this is the drawback of our long-term focus on the low-end market!"
"But this situation must change. Now that the wave of globalization has begun, the number of passengers with ocean travel needs has increased significantly every year. In the first quarter of this year, the number of luxury liner passengers from the mainland to the West Coast of the Americas increased compared with the same period last year.
Ten percent.
"In global routes, that is, global routes from the mainland to Southeast Asia, to India, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, the luxury passenger ship market has increased by at least 15 percent."
"As for the more important local coastal routes, the mid- to high-end market has increased by at least 20 percent!"
"The mid-to-high-end market is already experiencing a blowout. We can't wait any longer and must take action immediately!"
When Guo Yake said this, he stood up suddenly: "In order to change the company's image and compete for the mid-to-high-end market, we must build an unprecedented super luxury liner that will not be surpassed for at least ten years!"