"Poverty will definitely breed evil - thoughts after watching "The Sword of China"." The first issue of "Shengguang Economic Weekly" in January 1993 published a manuscript written by President Zhou Qingfeng himself.
Because it provides detailed and effective economic information and accurate judgments on the future economic situation, this weekly has become the most serious information and commentary publication in the domestic economic circle and is influential in East Asia.
I don’t know how many economic experts and professors in China are struggling to publish articles in this journal, but it has extremely strict requirements on the quality of manuscripts and would rather not publish them than publish them indiscriminately - anyway, the editorial department of the journal does not make money by selling publications.
In such a benchmark publication, an article that looked like it was written by a primary school student was published in the 1993 New Year's Day special issue. Readers across the country were dumbfounded when they saw the signature, feeling that the CEO of Shengguang was here to defraud manuscript fees.
Just flipping through it, this is my review of a documentary that has not yet been publicly broadcast. There are only a thousand words, and the first 800 words describe the current domestic drug epidemic and social crime problems. At the end, the tone changes...
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Zhou Qingfeng attributes all these problems to poverty. His last sentence at the end of the article is neither emotion, blessing, nor accusation, just a few dozen simple words.
"In order to help alleviate the poverty problem in the southwest region, Shengguang Group's investment focus in 2093 will be in Yunnan."
Just like this, the Jiangxi side jumped up first, and the province called the Beijing Office overnight to inquire about the situation - what's going on? Does this uncle not love his hometown? If you have something to talk about, don't change the focus of your investment.
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Jiangxi's GDP in 1992 was originally less than 60 billion, but it was severely damaged by the investment of "Shengguang". Just building bridges, roads and power stations and grid facilities cost more than 7 billion.
Later, the Hongdu factory started the "Red Tomcat" project, and dozens of new aerospace supporting factories, large and small, were built. In addition, there were also electronic components and lead-acid battery projects in Tianyang City. The total amount was
Seven billion.
Although all these investments have not been spent, the effects are obvious.
Tianyang's GDP was doubled that year, and Jiangxi's GDP was hit to nearly 70 billion. There were construction sites everywhere in the province, and graduates from major universities were fully employed. Just dredging the Ganjiang River and repairing the reservoir created tens of thousands of jobs.
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‘Holy Light’ is even planning to lend money to Jiujiang to build Yangtze River dams to avoid uncontrollable floods in a few years, benefiting nearly 40 million older people.
Jiangxi feels that it was so good in 1992, so it should be even better in 1993. From then on, the economic surge will not be a dream. But if Uncle Zhou watches a documentary and gives his thoughts, the investment focus will shift.
What kind of trashy movie is this? Our God of Wealth was kidnapped in one fell swoop.
The Jiangxi side is still considering whether to send leaders to talk to Zhou Qingfeng in person. The main leaders from the Yunnan side have already taken the opportunity to arrive in the imperial capital and blocked the entrance of the 'Holy Light' Group.
"A man must keep his word. If he publicly announces that he wants to invest in Yunnan, he must not break his promise."
People from Yunnan caught Zhou Qingfeng and refused to let him go. "We have taken stock of how much investment 'Shengguang' had in Jiangxi last year. Our 'old, young, borderline and poor' province is not greedy, so just invest 10 billion."
Yunnan's economy is about the same as that of Jiangxi, not much better. It is more remote than Jiangxi, and it is close to Myanmar, a major source of poison, so it can be said that it suffers deeply.
The 'Holy Light' organized the sale of light industrial products across the country to Da Mao and Ermao's family, and conducted a currency swap of 200 billion soft sister coins with Da Mao's commercial bank. All this money has been spent by Da Mao.
However, the cake consisting of 200 billion super large orders has basically been divided up by several coastal provinces. Provinces like Shanghai, which have advantages in light industry, are simply starved of it, and it is so satisfying that they don’t want to give it up.
But the inland provinces can only stare blankly. Yunnan and Jiangxi cannot produce any advantageous products, and if they want to export, they can only eat three melons and two dates.
But as long as there is investment, the situation will always get better.
‘Shengguang’’s investment in Jiangxi is gradually seeing results. Maintenance-free batteries have become Tianyang City’s flagship product and are sold to Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea. This project alone will be enough for Tianyang to make a living in the next 20 to 30 years.
A "battery factory craze" is emerging in China, and several provinces also want to invest in similar projects.
‘Holy Light’ decisively relied on ministries and commissions to suppress this trend – President Zhou helped everyone find industries with their own advantages and avoid duplicating investment and killing each other.
The color TV industry is in a state of ruin because of cannibalism, wasting money and time, and turning the purchased production lines into waste. Ministries and commissions should still play a role and provide guidance.
Now one wants to retain investment and the other wants to pull investment away. Zhou Qingfeng met with the leaders of the two provinces and made some "simple" requests - first, can the two provinces take the initiative to exempt agricultural taxes? Reduce the burden on farmers.
Nowadays, agricultural taxes are not much collected, but the tax collection costs are worth the money collected from farmers. For example, in the late 1990s, the agricultural tax in Jiangxi Province was more than 90 million, and the tax collection cost was also more than 90 million.
It is equivalent to not receiving taxes, but causing misery to the farmers.
"Farmers are suffering a lot, so it's better not to collect taxes. As long as you apply to the ministries and commissions for the pilot exemption of agricultural taxes, I will definitely invest no less than 10 billion RMB in both provinces."
When Zhou Qingfeng made an unexpected request, the leaders of the two provinces were shocked and surprised. But this problem is very realistic. Yunnan and Jiangxi are not major agricultural provinces, and neither of them collect any agricultural taxes. They just continue to collect them due to administrative inertia.
Without the intervention of some major external force, the bureaucrats will not change this kind of thing. But with the tens of billions of investment commitments from the Holy Light and the tangible benefits for the whole year of 1992, both provinces have expressed consideration.
"Please think about it quickly. After all, 1993 has already started. When the tax is exempted, I will invest." Zhou Qingfeng took advantage of the situation and made his second request - to borrow money from the province to carry out projects.
The current market for maintenance-free batteries is almost unlimited, but Holy Light has registered relevant patents all over the world, so it is not afraid of being sanctioned by the United States. Other countries either come to Holy Light to buy products or buy patent licenses.
However, ‘Holy Light’ was actually sold. Foreign countries spent a lot of money to buy patents and build factories because they were optimistic about this market. Naturally, Zhou Qingfeng would not just watch, he wanted to expand and increase production capacity!
The first phase of the Tianyang Battery Factory introduced a full set of Japanese technology, and its current production capacity is already overloaded. Half of the second phase is still Japanese technology, and the construction period has passed halfway. Production will definitely start by the end of 1993.
But this is not enough. The plans for phases 3, 4, 5, 6... have been arranged. The factory buildings and production lines will be made as local as possible, and construction will begin once the investment is in place.
‘Holy Light’ has become popular in China. Does anyone want to cooperate and invest in making money together? The convenience of the group’s reputation came out, and a bunch of banks came to Zhou Qingfeng crying and shouting with money.
Who wouldn’t want to get involved in this kind of high-yield and stable business? Zhou Qingfeng is confident that by exploding production capacity, he can overturn all the foreign factories that buy his technology patents one by one.
"So, do you want to invest a share in my new investment project?"