I bought the "Kharkov", an aircraft carrier that was obviously behind the times, to build a theme park for the purpose of doing a road show to make the enemy relax their vigilance and paralyze their carelessness. I really thought that Gu Kun was an unambitious person who just wanted to make money.
Tourism money guy.
If Gu Kun really wants to cooperate with Beiguo in the future, he will have to come up with a new product like the "Isakov" to be even remotely qualified.
With "Kharkov" being able to achieve profitability, if Gu Kun spends a lot of money before the end of the year, the enemy's suspicion will be much less.
After setting aside a budget of more than 20 million US dollars for the "Isakov" in the accounts, Gu Kun looked at the remaining 38 million and divided it up a bit.
For this reason, he also called all his most important subordinates to discuss it together.
Because Luo Haili was on summer vacation and had nothing to do, she went through the procedures quickly. Now it has been a few days since Gu Kun notified her, and she has already arrived at Lanfang, so she participated in the internal discussion together today.
As the temporary general manager of "Lanfang Culture", Tang Jia helped the big boss behind the scenes to host the meeting, which was also attended by Gao Jianxiong, Luo Haili, Lin Ying and Chen Li.
Long Wu is currently avoiding the limelight abroad and will not participate. With his cultural level, he cannot make any suggestions for tourism development planning.
As for the office location of "Lanfang Culture", it currently rents an office building above the foreign trade company in Savuyang. It has not built its own house yet, and even if it wanted to, it would not be so soon.
Tang Jia was the first to speak: "We are going to come up with a project investment plan in the next few days. After going to the Grand Duke to review it, it will be approved by the soon-to-be-established Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and filed with the Ministry of Construction.
Let’s all work together and tell you what you think is most lacking in Lanzhou’s tourism industry, which focuses on attracting public tour groups from China and also attracts tourists from Japan and South Korea. In order to open up more channels for discussion, the boss hopes that you will speak first.”
The people under Gu Kun, except for Tang Jia, basically have no business talent. They just come to brainstorm together.
I guess it's just Luo Haili. Although she is a sports student, she comes from a prestigious family like Jiaotong University, so relatively speaking she has a little bit of talent.
At this moment, in order to win the trust of the new boss, Luo Haili took the lead in breaking the ice:
"I think that if you want to develop tourism, you must first solve the traffic problem. There is a popular saying in China in the past two years that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. Lanfang can also improve urban road facilities, mainly because of the need
an airport.
I see that the tour groups coming from China now are all 15-day boat tours, which is such a waste of time. How many people can spare 15 days of vacation? Those who only want to spend three to five days or a week, just go there
Because there is no airport and it is blocked abroad.”
After finishing speaking, Luo Haili waited anxiously for a few seconds to observe everyone's reactions. Seeing that everyone was relatively quiet, she thought there was something wrong with what she said, so she quickly added: "Of course I haven't calculated how much it will cost to build a new airport. If
If it’s not cost-effective, it might be possible to temporarily use the airport in Kuching and then provide boat transfers.”
"You are right, we do need an airport." Gu Kun was afraid of damaging everyone's confidence, so of course he had to confirm it immediately.
What's more, Luo Haili's suggestion was originally part of his plan to buy, buy, buy.
Gu Kun also took the initiative to help explain: "The construction cost of the airport is not as high as you think. If you only need to build a runway first, I have also asked the domestic construction unit and it is roughly three to four hundred and one square meters.
We can build a 2,400-meter runway to land medium-sized aircraft such as the Boeing 737/Airbus A320 for only 15 million yuan. As for the runway above 3,000 meters to land the 747, Lanzhou currently does not need it because we have no transoceanic tourism customers."
Airport runways are much more troublesome than highways. In order to ensure rigidity and prevent settlement, all the soft strata must be dug out first, and the base layer, paving stone layer, sand and gravel layer, and road surface must be laid layer by layer. The road surface and gravel layer must be constructed separately.
Bury various electronic monitoring sensors and underground pilot lights.
Therefore, the cost of this thing in the mid-1990s was less than half of what it was a dozen years later. Because there are not many domestic construction teams that can do this, labor costs do not account for a high proportion of the total cost.
Unlike building a highway, labor costs can account for a large part. So after the labor surge in later generations, the cost of highway projects will be many times more expensive than in the 1990s (of course, it does not rule out that the money goes to inexplicable places)
Seeing that everyone was listening attentively, Gu Kun continued his analysis: "The current total cost of airport construction in China is expensive. One of the main reasons is that the construction of terminals and boarding facilities is more expensive than the construction of runways. The other is the land trouble. The other is
Airports can easily take up several square kilometers of land.
We in Lanzhou can avoid these problems. First of all, we have a vast territory and a sparsely populated area, with a land area of more than 2,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 80,000. I can ask the Grand Duke to clear out an area at a low cost to find an area with enough area to share the population equally.
Rare outlying islands.
As for the supporting facilities, we can just build a relatively low-cost control tower and a waiting hall, instead of the terminal building. Let tourists take the shuttle bus and board the plane through the gangway. Calculated this way, the total cash expenditure should not be
More than 25 million yuan."
Everyone else listened quietly without questioning.
Tang Jia thought for a while: "There is only one runway. Isn't it not very compliant? Firstly, it is impossible to take off and land at the same time, and the throughput efficiency will be much lower. Secondly, there is no backup in case of accidents. And what we receive are high-end luxury products."
Tourists, will the gangway boarding look shabby?"
Gu Kun: "What's so crude about the ramp? Jiajia, this is your stereotype. We in China always think that terminals are high-end because northern tourists don't like the wind when boarding. The airport is very empty and the wind is very strong.
For a large aircraft, the door of the aircraft is ten meters above the ground, and the wind force can reach level 7 or 8.
But we are in the tropics, and no one is afraid of the cold wind. If you go to the airport in Malaysia, their ramps also have awnings. I think we can do the same, or decorate the awnings with some tropical vines.
Plants make it more southern-style, and guests will never think it is low-key, but will only think it is sentimental.
However, the runway suggestion can be considered. If after adding a backup runway, the total expenditure still does not exceed 40 million yuan, I can accept it."
Tang Jia and Luo Haili took out their notebooks and wrote down their boss's views.
As expected, they still need to learn more and practice more before they can keep up with the experience and knowledge accumulated by Gu Kun for more than ten years in his previous life.
After Tang Jia finished recording, he conveniently reserved US$5 million in the capital account for the "simple airport" project.
Finally, she thought about it again and asked, "Five million dollars may not be enough. The airport also needs radar equipment to monitor pilotage. These equipment are very expensive."
However, when faced with this problem, Gu Kun said shamelessly: "Go to Sister He and ask her to find someone else. Just ask China to sponsor our complete set of radars! We won't pay a penny."
"
All the subordinates were stunned.
Just kidding! A complete set of radars worth at least tens of millions! If it were to follow the specifications of Pudong Airport or Beijing Airport, with such a density of radar deployment, it would easily be worth hundreds of millions!
The boss actually asked someone to give it away for free? Are you a sponsor?
"This...isn't possible?" Tang Jia was a little confused.
Gu Kun: "How is that impossible? Just say that all the radars they sponsor are provided by their technical support personnel and operated by them. As for whether they want to share data, I don't know."
Tang Jia finally understood in seconds.
This is the right to set up a radar station only 50 kilometers away from the land border between Brunei, Malaysia and India. For big countries with national defense ambitions, although there is no threat from Nanyang countries, they can also use this to guard against Oceania in extreme circumstances.
The air force was deployed to Nanyang to provide early warning.
Next door to Lijiapo, there is a fleet of Oceanic F-15 fighter jets watching eagerly.
Of course, the civil aviation radar station that Gu Kun asked others to send was purely for civilian use.
It's just that Lanfang has many illiterates, no university, and no top students in science and engineering. Even the users have to be technical support personnel sent by the other party, so if there is something fishy in the radar station sent by the other party, Lanfang won't be able to detect it.
Lan Fang is blind to the law, not knowing the law and breaking the law.
Even if the Northland does not have any commercial interests, they still want to set up radar stations in the Weisha Islands and even the Shosha Islands. Now Gu Kun invites them to set up a station in Lanfang, where the conditions are much better. How could anyone refuse.
Not only does the equipment have to be given away for free, but also technical support, follow-up services, maintenance logistics, and daily operations have to be given away for free. Gu Kun doesn't even want to pay the wages of the operation and maintenance personnel.
There is probably no one in the world who can build a civilian airport with such economy.
Gu Kun only needs to be responsible for two runways, and then watch tourists flying down every day to collect money.
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"That's it for the airport's planning. It should be outsourced. I'll talk to Manager He later and ask her to help mediate and introduce it."
Tang Jia closed the book and asked everyone to continue discussing the remaining construction plans.
A group of people talked about some current pain points and urgent needs, including the water and electricity supply of Benma Atoll, where Gu Kun is the owner of the island, and other infrastructure. Gu Kun asked Tang Jia to record them one by one.
, leave it to experts to verify.
At the end of the session, Lin Ying, who had never dared to speak, timidly made a suggestion.
Lin Ying is the youngest person present at the meeting today. After all, she is only 17 years old and has just graduated from high school, so she does not understand the previous topics and dare not speak about them.
"I think what Lanzhou currently lacks most in its public tourism business is an international-class conference hotel."
"Conference hotel?" Tang Jia, who presided over the meeting, had not yet reacted. "Conference hotel, is it a hotel that specializes in meetings? Can't it be replaced by an ordinary hotel? If you need a conference room, just rent some in an office building, right? It's small
Ying, I know your family runs a hotel, and you are quite familiar with this..."
After Lin Ying was refuted, she blushed even more. Fortunately, she thought about it before speaking, so she plucked up her courage and insisted: "I have observed it recently. At present, the public tour groups from China are nominally
It's all about "inspection and recuperation", because no one dares to say that the publicly funded projects are just for fun.
But how many inspections and recuperations can there be? Based on China's national conditions, the largest publicly funded business trip is for meetings. Having a conference hotel that has reached international first-class standards can be a fig leaf for those conference groups. In view of... Gu Ge's business relationship
, can’t we get more orders?”
"This is a good idea!" Gu Kun couldn't help but praise it.
It seems that collective efforts are indeed valuable.
There are specialties in the art industry. Although Lin Ying is only a rich second generation, her family runs a hotel. She has been exposed to it all these years, and she can understand many truths more clearly than top students who have just entered the industry.
Gu Kun immediately ordered, "Jiajia, add this to the plan. As for the source of business, you and I will visit Sister He together in a few days. We won't bother the two masters with anything. If we catch the big fat sheep of COSCO, we will always
I need to gather a few more handfuls of wool."
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ps: I just reached 1,000 in the middle of the night, and my words still have to count, so I updated 5 yesterday, updated 3 today, and the extra update is today. And I tried to have as many words as possible. The total of 3 updates should exceed 10,000 words.