No matter what the intentions of the Bryan government were, Li Jianhui still wanted to take action this time in Sham Shui Po. On the next morning, Li Jianhui convened a joint meeting of senior executives of Wheelock Group, Xinjian Education Group, and Xinjian Medical Group.
Originally, since the government had proposed Heung Kong Medical University and Heung Kong Capital invested in running the school, Li Jianhui was not willing to miss this opportunity.
As for the other two universities, Li Jianhui has no plans to intervene this time. Currently, there are enough universities run by his companies as sole proprietors and joint ventures. Now it is more about improving the quality of education rather than blindly pursuing quantity.
As for the construction of Wheelock Plaza, Wheelock Group has actually had plans to build in Sham Shui Po for a long time. However, due to the focus on exploring the Southeast Asian market in the past two years, the construction plan in Sham Shui Po has been shelved.
This time, we have some convenient conditions provided by the government, so we can just enter here. According to the four-year construction plan, when Wheelock Plaza in Sham Shui Po is put into use, I believe that the situation in Hong Kong will also stabilize and the economic development of Hong Kong will accelerate again.
In the densely populated Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, the Wheelock Group has no plans to expand. The construction of Wheelock Plaza in Sham Shui Po will also improve the group's layout in Hong Kong.
This is basically the last Wheelock Plaza that Wheelock Group will deploy in the Xiangjiang market. Wheelock Group will not plan new projects in Xiangjiang for a long time to come.
The biggest issue at this meeting was whether Xiangjiang Medical University should establish an affiliated hospital and an affiliated traditional Chinese medicine hospital.
Xinjian Education Group naturally hopes to establish it, and the reason is very good, to use it for school clinical clinics and scientific research.
The medical group was immediately dissatisfied. It was okay for the medical university to be managed by the education group. Now the education group actually wanted to get its hands into the medical industry. Zhou Huamin, the president of Xinjian Medical Group, immediately expressed his opposition.
"Li Sheng, I insist that Xiangjiang Medical University should be managed by our medical group. After all, we are more professional in medicine than the education group. It also makes it easier for us to manage the two affiliated hospitals, and it is more convenient for other hospitals in our group to communicate with the medical university.
cooperate."
The top management of Xinjian Education Group was naturally unwilling to give up this opportunity. Its president Zhang Libo immediately retorted: "I admit that I don't know much about medical skills, but when it comes to teaching and educating people, I think our group is more suitable.
The two affiliated hospitals are also mainly to improve the quality of school education, not to make profits.
If you are really put in charge of Xiangjiang Medical University, I am afraid that in the future each of these students will lose their noble moral character, which obviously goes against Li Sheng’s original intention of investing in education.”
"Brother Zhang, what you said means that we managers are wrong in pursuing profits. Don't think about it. If we, brother companies, were not pursuing profits, where would the wages of your group's employees come from and what would you take?
Invest in building one school after another.”
"Zhou Huamin, I didn't say that there is a problem with brother companies pursuing profits, but education should not be mixed with too many interests, and schools are not a place to make profits.
The purpose of our school is to enable these students to have the spirit of honesty, trustworthiness, gratitude, and dedication. Only these students have such character. In the future, these students will contribute to the development of our Xinjian Department and even the Tung Wah Association industry.
They will easily leave the Xin Jian Clique or even the Tung Wah Association because of some external interests.
If these children are mercenary in school, this will not only be a failure for the development of our group, but also a loss for our Xinjian Department."
Seeing that Zhou Huamin was about to refute, Li Jianhui knocked on the table, and after the conference room became quiet, he said in a deep voice:
“Although we all belong to different companies, we are all under the Xinjian Department, and any disputes can be negotiated calmly.
I also know that you are all thinking about the development of the Xinjian Department, but there is no need to be so competitive.
I like to make money, but I don’t want to make all the money. You are all the founders of your respective groups. You should remember my original intention of establishing these two groups.
Regardless of whether it is a hospital or our school, the main purpose is to facilitate local citizens to seek medical treatment nearby, especially to facilitate the employees of our Xinjian Department and Tung Wah Association, rather than simply considering profits.
Of course, your two major groups are not charities. You still need to have necessary income, but there must be a red line. You can't just make profits. You should know that if it is just to make money, I don't need to establish you two.
family group."
After some discussions, Xiangjiang Medical University was jointly invested and managed by Xinjian Education Group and Xinjian Medical Group. The education group is mainly responsible for the teaching of the school, and the medical group is responsible for the two affiliated hospitals, as well as the clinical internship and training of teachers and students of the school.
Scientific research matters.
As for the construction, Xinjian Construction Company is responsible for it, and there is no need for the two major groups to intervene in this aspect.
Li Jianhui also saw this dispute between the presidents of the two major groups. What he said at the meeting at the beginning of the year did not dissuade these presidents from wanting to expand into industries other than their main business. As long as there is a little opportunity, these presidents will try their best to seize it.
live.
"Jianhui, are you still thinking about the meeting just now?"
"Jiahui, why are people's hearts so hard to be satisfied? Not to mention Huihong, Lane Crawford, Watsons, Hutchison Real Estate and other groups, let's talk about medical groups and education groups, both of which are now quite large.
Its market value and reputation are also among the best in Xiangjiang.
What I want is that these companies can be good at their main business, but these people always think about the rapid growth of their company's profits and scale."
"Jianhui, each of our groups is relatively independent and large in scale, which naturally fuels the ambitions of the presidents of each major group.
And to put it mildly, if these group presidents are really content with the status quo and muddle along, I'm afraid you will have even more headaches now.
You also know that no industry can be successful forever. These group presidents want to develop across industries for the sake of the group itself, and this is not just the case for our companies.
If you look at the four major foreign banks in Hong Kong, and then look at some well-known companies in the United States, many of them are developing across banks, and Wal-Mart has also entered the food production industry. This is inevitable."
In Guan Jiahui's view, the main reason why Xinjian's companies have such problems now is that Li Jianhui has divided the industries too finely. For example, Huihong, Huaxin, Huahong, Phoenix, and Jingyi can all become one group.
Li Jianhui is not unaware of this. In his previous life, some giant mainland companies also spanned multiple industries.
It's just that the companies under the Xinjian Department are very different. Although in the eyes of the general public, these are independent companies, within the Xinjian Department, their development must be based on the development strategy of the entire Xinjian Department, rather than letting each one become what it once was.
Wheelock or Hutchison Whampoa.
In this matter, Li Jianhui needs to communicate more with the senior executives of major groups and let them look at the problem from the perspective of the entire Xinjian Department, rather than just thinking about the development of his own company.
Of course, Li Jianhui will not dampen the enthusiasm of these high-level people to develop enterprises, but he will guide the enthusiasm of these people in the development of the company's main business, and strengthen and refine their own main business, instead of blindly looking at which industry has good performance.
He just wants to enter this industry to make profits. He doesn't want to one day own all real estate and financial companies.