Chapter three hundred and fortieth talks between the two sides
Because Li Jianhui and others came from afar, Yuzhou senior officials were not in a hurry to hold talks with them. They allowed Li Jianhui and others to have a good rest in the afternoon, and specially hosted a banquet for Li Jianhui and others at the guest house at seven o'clock that night.
It was not until nine o'clock in the morning the next day that Zhang Weihua led many senior Yuzhou officials to sit together with Li Jianhui, Chen Zhiyong, Chen Xinyi, Wang Qionghua, and Chen Zongwu.
Originally, Chen Xinyi did not plan to participate in this meeting. After all, Li Shuyan needed her care.
Just considering that Chen Xinyi is the president of the Xinjian Charity Foundation and has donated a lot of funds to Sichuan and Sichuan Province and Yuzhou City in recent years, and Wu Qiongying offered to take care of Li Shuyan, Li Jianhui asked Chen Xinyi to attend together.
At the opening of the meeting, Zhang Weihua, a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and a senior official of Yuzhou City, said: "Here, on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, I would like to first welcome you back to your hometown, and convey the greetings to you from Secretary Lu of the Provincial Party Committee and Senior Official Wang.
I would also like to thank the Xinjian Charitable Foundation for its large donations to our province in the past few years.
In the past two years or so, in the vast rural areas of our province, 436 Xinjian Hope Primary Schools have been put into use and 382 are under construction, making a huge contribution to the basic education of our province.
At the same time, as a senior official of Yuzhou City, on behalf of the Yuzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you, and thank you for your support of Yuzhou’s education and Yuzhou’s welfare undertakings.
There are currently 78 Xinjian Hope Primary Schools in use in Yuzhou, and 64 more are being built. The infrastructure of the six children's welfare homes in our main city has been repaired, and the living standards in the homes have also been greatly improved."
"I am very grateful to the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government as well as the Yuzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government for their concern and attention to us. Although I grew up in Xiangjiang, my ancestors grew up in Sichuan and Sichuan for generations. This is my eternal hometown.
I feel very happy to be able to do something for my hometown. In the future, our Xinjian Charity Foundation will continue to support Sichuan and Sichuan Province and support the development of basic education and welfare in Yuzhou City, so that the next generation of our province can have a
A relatively good growing environment.”
Oriental-style talks are like this. Generally, they don’t get straight to the point. After this topic of welcome and gratitude lasted for nearly twenty minutes, today’s talk really got down to business.
At present, Yuzhou is far less huge than later generations. The Jiangjin area has not yet been placed under Yuzhou, and the other three cities (regions) in eastern Sichuan are not under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou.
The political status is far from comparable to that of the 21st century. At this time, even finance is under the jurisdiction of Sichuan and Shu Province.
However, because Yuzhou is a heavy industrial city and is not lagging behind the other three cities in eastern Sichuan, both total GDP and per capita GDP rank among the best in the country.
Although it looks good at the moment, Yuzhou's senior officials have a strong sense of crisis. Especially in the past few years of reform and opening up, the economic development rate of coastal cities in southeastern and southern China has far exceeded that of the mainland.
A very important aspect of this is the rise of light industry. When the self-employed group continues to grow, products across provinces will no longer be controlled.
The period of reform and opening up is still short, and the available assets of the citizens are still very low. They cannot afford expensive heavy industrial products, but they can still afford clothing, snacks, toys, and even relatively expensive home appliances.
Because Yuzhou, as an important heavy industry center city in the southwest of the country, has many tasks, they cannot adjust the structure casually to promote transformation.
However, the speed of coastal economic development forced them to think more. After many discussions between the municipal party committee and the municipal government, the municipal government came up with a development plan for Yuzhou in the next five years.
The first is to ensure the current development of heavy industry, while supporting and encouraging the development of light industry and the service industry, so that the proportion of heavy industry in Yuzhou's economy will decrease year by year.
It's just that some of the cooperation proposed by Yuzhou's senior officials is not feasible in Li Jianhui's view. After all, Yuzhou is far from the coast and the transportation cost is too high.
Li Jianhui's funds are temporarily unable to come in. At present, the only places that allow foreign capital to establish wholly-owned enterprises are a few special zones.
Other regions have to look at the industry for joint ventures, and the review time is uncertain, and all aspects of legal protection have not yet fully caught up.
In recent years, in addition to the special zones, Huo Yingdong, Charter King and others have responded to the high-level leaders' joint ventures with some places to establish hotels.
As for the joint venture in manufacturing, there are no joint ventures yet. Xinjian's Lane Crawford, Watsons and Golden Princess Cinemas, which it controls, are also stuck in Shekou and unable to expand. He is powerless in Yuzhou.
Although Linjiang Electrical Appliances is developing well now, it is still only a self-employed business and cannot cross the red line of recruiting eight employees. This is also the fundamental reason why Wu Qiongying cannot open a branch.
At present, there are some joint ventures in China, but they are all joint ventures between foreign capital and state-owned enterprises. The only special one is the Patriotic Construction Company of the Industrial and Commercial Circles in the Magic City. This company was jointly invested and established by many democrats in the Magic City and people from Hong Kong for some reasons. It has also been
It is called the first private enterprise in China.
However, Naga Company is formed by the accumulation of various factors and cannot be copied. It is basically impossible for Li Jianhui to refer to this company.
In fact, Li Jianhui is also aware of the reason why Lane Crawford and Watsons are restricted. Currently, many domestic products need to be purchased with tickets.
Once Lane Crawford and Watsons enter major cities, it will greatly impact the system, and the upper management will not allow it.
Li Jianhui also knew very well when the era of vote-based supply ended in his previous life. Anyway, he had never encountered this situation since his previous life as a director.
I just heard the director of the welfare home mention that the end of food stamps was in the early 1990s. Food stamps like Lane Crawford were sold for food, cloth, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, sugar, tobacco, alcohol, eggs, and meat, and they were not allowed in supermarkets currently without tickets.
If you show up, that family in Shekou is considered to be merciful outside the law.
"Secretary Zhang, it's not that my Tesco Group doesn't want to cooperate with Yuzhou companies. You should also know that our main market is currently in Baodao and Southeast Asia, and we have to consider transportation costs.
I also learned a little bit about the situation in Yuzhou, and I wonder if Secretary Zhang knows about my Jade Lion Group. I personally think that the automobile industry is the most suitable cooperation project for us at present."
When Li Jianhui arrived, everyone present carefully read the information about Li Jianhui. These were specially forwarded to them by the Xiangjiang Xinhua News Agency.
They had tried their best to overestimate the rumored world's richest man before, but after reading the information in detail, they felt that they still underestimated him by a long way.
Before this, it was difficult for them to imagine that one person could make the industry so big. The big domestic capitalists in the past were simply unable to compete with Li Jianhui.
According to data, Li Jianhui owns hundreds of businesses including real estate, retail, shipping, aviation, public transportation, electricity, gas, schools, hospitals, clothing, jewelry, steel, shipbuilding, automobiles, film and television media, financial banks, semiconductors, home appliances, and foreign trade.
The total assets of the company are hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars, and personal assets are as high as more than 60 billion Hong Kong dollars.
The GDP created by the people of Yuzhou city in one year cannot compare with Li Jianhui's personal assets, which deeply shocked all the senior officials in Yuzhou.
They also had a rough understanding of the Jade Lion Group mentioned by Li Jianhui, although this group has not yet had a car on the market.
But this group's reputation is not low at all. It has not only established a production base, but also established a joint venture with Jaguar to establish Jade Lion Jaguar Motor Company, and a joint venture with the Malay government to establish Penang Motor Company.
Donghua Holdings also transferred the shares of Donghua Automobile Company, a joint venture with Nissan, to Yushi Group. Although Li Jianhui's personal shares have been reduced, Yushi Group has become stronger.
At present, the domestic automobile industry is also experiencing a renaissance. Modu Automobile Factory is communicating with the West German Volkswagen Group on cooperation matters, and Jingcheng Automobile Factory is also discussing joint venture matters with Chrysler, the third largest automobile group in the United States.
Although Yuzhou's automobile industry cannot compare with several well-known automobile manufacturers, it has also produced Changjiang brand jeeps and has some automobile manufacturing foundation.
If we really cooperate with Yushi Group, it may be able to promote the development of enterprises in the entire Yuzhou automobile-related industry.
Although it is somewhat contrary to their previous plan to support light industry and Xinjian cooperation, they feel that this matter can be studied carefully and try their best to launch the first joint venture car before Modu Automobile Factory and Beijing Automobile Factory.
"Mr. Li, I am personally very interested in your proposal, but things are sudden and I cannot make the final decision on this matter.
After the meeting, we in Yuzhou will discuss this matter and report it to the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government. If it is feasible, we will submit it to the Ministry of Industry for approval. How about we discuss this matter after the results are obtained?"
Li Jianhui naturally had no objection to this, and he never thought that this matter could be successful after just one or two discussions. Just look at Volkswagen and you will know that the other party has been communicating with Modu Automobile Company for a year or two.