That evening, Li Yuhang met with the director of the Provincial Department of Commerce at the Jincheng Hotel.
Although the richest man incident has slowly passed, it must be said that Li Yuhang's reputation has been greatly improved. After arriving in Guocheng, he received many people who wanted to meet him.
Tonight, Chen Daibin is just the first person. In the next two days, he will continue to meet with some senior officials or big shots.
In the guest room of the hotel, after both sides complimented each other, Chen Daibin got to the point of today's meeting.
"Mr. Li, it is reported that the heads of many department store retail companies in this province are meeting here this afternoon to jointly deal with the threats from foreign department store retail companies. I wonder if there is a charter?"
Li Yuhang didn't believe that this person didn't know about the meeting. He came to meet with him tonight for this reason.
Now that he is asking questions knowingly, he is obviously preparing to use this as an opportunity to make some concessions on his side so that tomorrow's negotiations can continue.
Since the other party wanted to ask, Li Yuhang started talking to the other party. Last year, he was dissatisfied that each retail company could only have one branch of more than 100 square meters in a county or city. This time he wanted to see if he could find a breakthrough with Chen Daibin.
, which is also the first reason to meet the other party.
"Mr. Chen, in this afternoon's consultation, everyone is consistent in the general direction. The retail market in Sichuan and Shu Province should be occupied by our own companies in the province. We will resolutely attack those foreign retail companies and prevent these companies from taking over.
Reach out to our market in Sichuan and Shu provinces.
There are only some differences on the specific sniping. As you know, due to some restrictions, many of our companies are powerless when it comes to encircling and suppressing foreign department store retail companies.
In this regard, I also hope that the department or the province can relax this restriction. After all, this article can only restrict our own companies and is useless to companies outside the province."
This provision is actually a secret rule set by the province and major enterprises. It is not written into the explicit terms and does not have legal binding. It is impossible for the province to provide this provision to enterprises from other provinces, otherwise it will be considered as regional protection.
It also affects the work of attracting foreign investment.
This rule was originally set because the Jianan Supermarket Group was expanding too fast and the other major supermarkets needed time to integrate and develop. In order to protect the major supermarkets, this rule was specially made and to avoid the monopoly of the Jianan Supermarket Group in the province.
It seems that the effect is pretty good so far. Although Jianan Supermarket is still far ahead in department store retail sales in the province, Hongqi Chain, New Four Seasons Supermarket, Guocheng Supermarket and Zhuhai Supermarket also occupy a lot of market share. There is no need to worry about Jianan Supermarket Group.
One company controls the retail market prices of department stores in the province.
"We know that you are not satisfied with some of our policies, but we just hope that Mr. Li can understand more that monopolizing the market in one place is not a good thing.
At present, the department store retail pattern in the province is very good. Everyone is competing for development and expanding to other provinces when they have the spare capacity. I believe that with the continuous development of Jianan Supermarket Group, it will become one of the department store retail giants in every province. Even if there is no monopoly market at that time
, Jianan Supermarket Group is also a giant in domestic supermarket retail, and no one can compare with it."
Li Yuhang knew very well what Chen Daibin meant, and he knew that not only in China, except for a few places, no department store retail in any region could be monopolized by one company.
No matter how Jianan Supermarket Group develops, it will never be able to monopolize the supermarket retail market in a province, not to mention a province, or even a county.
He can only try to seize the market as much as possible. Currently, one store per county or city is reasonable, but with the rapid development of the domestic economy, just one branch in a district is far from enough. Li Yuhang does not want to be tied down.
"Mr. Chen, I don't have the intention to monopolize the market, and our Jianan Supermarket cannot monopolize the market. Moreover, the general pattern of the province has been formed, and there will be no one who will eat whom in a short period of time.
As long as the major supermarkets do not make mistakes and provide good services, they will be able to operate well. And I promise that as long as the other four supermarkets do not engage in price wars, our Jianan Supermarket Group will never enter into price wars with these supermarkets in the province.
I just hope that the government will lift some restrictions on us so that we can go all out when facing foreign opponents."
The province supports these retail companies in preparing to attack foreign companies, and supporting the development of local companies is a matter of course.
It's just that if their government doesn't directly intervene, foreign companies can't make irresponsible remarks. If they can't develop if they come in, they can only blame themselves.
If these retail companies in the province really reach an agreement this time, in the future, whether it is Huarun, Wal-Mart, or Carrefour, as long as they want to enter the Sichuan and Sichuan market, they will have to be prepared to pay a huge price.
The afternoon meeting had already heard the report. Li Yuhang and others were planning to build multiple supermarkets around the Huarun Supermarket to contain and strangle them. They would gather multiple people together to injure people. It is unlikely that any company would want to do this.
To face.
Chen Daibin said with a smile: "It seems that Mr. Li is determined to void last year's agreement this time. I can't give you an accurate answer to this now, but reform and opening up continue to advance, and we must also follow the laws of market development.
Rules that are in line with market development must be abolished."
Li Yuhang knew that he had succeeded for the most part when he heard this. It seemed that the province also knew that with the entry of retail companies from other provinces, this rule was no longer suitable for the development of enterprises in the province. However, considering the impact, it did not immediately invalidate some of the implicit provisions last year.
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Within the country, due to some reasons, only Sichuan and Shu provinces have such a rule. As for the establishment of several major retail supermarkets, this aspect is not unique to Sichuan and Shu provinces. Some provinces are also doing it, but not on such a large scale as Sichuan and Shu provinces.
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As for local protectionism, this exists, but it will definitely not prevent these companies from establishing branches. At most, they will have advantages in procurement by local governments and enterprises and institutions, as well as some welfare benefits.
The shopping card of Jianan Supermarket Group has developed very quickly. Not only the major supermarkets in the province, but also many supermarkets across the country are following the same example. This thing only recognizes the card but not the person when it is sold. It can be used as cash for consumption.
Whether it's a benefit or a gift, it's a good thing.
In terms of shopping card sales, local supermarkets have an advantage over foreign supermarkets, and state-owned supermarkets have an advantage over private supermarkets.
"Thank you, Chief Chen, for considering our company. With the government's support, I believe that our company will be able to develop better, and we will be able to maintain the retail market in Sichuan and Sichuan Province, and we will never let foreign supermarket retail companies become the retail market in our province."
Giant."
"Mr. Li, it's good if you have such confidence again, but I heard that Jianan Supermarket Group has now focused on East China and Central China. There has been big news in Central China in the past two days. Jianan Supermarket Group will sell 30
There are 7 branches, covering the market in Jiangcheng, Jingmen, Xiaocheng and other places.
East China is not far behind either. On the 1st, 24 new stores were open at the same time, and as many as 20 new stores were under renovation.
Sichuan and Sichuan Province, where Jianan Supermarket Group was founded, has been quite quiet recently, and I hope Mr. Li can also increase investment in the province."
Chen Daibin didn't know the situation. Currently, as many as 50 stores in Sichuan and Sichuan Province are under renovation, completely improving the Jianan Supermarket Group's markets in the province except for the three major autonomous prefectures.
Just because some renovations have not been completed and Jianan Supermarket Group has not made any official announcement, not many people know the news, and Chen Daibin obviously doesn't know either.
"As an enterprise in Sichuan and Sichuan Province, Jianan Supermarket Group will naturally not forget local investment. We have 50 stores under renovation in Rongzhou, Mianzhou, Jingcheng, Jiazhou and other places, and they are expected to open at the same time on the 1st of next month.
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At the same time, our Guocheng Jianan Supermarket shopping mall is accelerating the construction, and the Jianan Supermarket Shopping Center in Shapingba District has also signed an investment agreement, and construction is expected to start in the second half of the year."
Chen Daibin was naturally happy about Li Yuhang's large investment in the province, and repeatedly assured that the province would pay close attention to the investment in Jianan Supermarket Group and complete various procedures as quickly as possible.