In the banquet hall of the Xin Hui Hotel in Central, many major shareholders of well-known companies in Hong Kong gathered, including members of the Six Hong Kong Congresses in Hong Kong and members of the Nanyang Society in Hong Kong.
As the organizer of this party, Li Jianhui and Guan Jiahui came here early to welcome everyone.
At 8:30 p.m., Li Jianhui delivered a speech at the party.
"Thank you very much for giving me the honor and coming to attend this party hosted by me.
The world situation is ever-changing. Although our industry has benefited from the rapid economic development in Hong Kong, we have a good net worth.
But we should clearly see that there are many factors that restrict the further growth of our industry, such as a small market and many uncertainties in follow-up policies.
This forces our companies to go out and go to markets that have vast markets, clear policies, and are friendly to our Chinese capital.
I specially invite you all to gather here today because I hope to discuss with you which market can accommodate us and is the most suitable market for the development of our industry.
I also hope that everyone can put aside their past grievances in this market, work together, develop together, and jointly create a market dominated by our Chinese capital.
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Li Zhaoji, Li Chaoren, Zheng Yutong, Charter King and others knew very well what Li Jianhui meant. After saying so much, they were nothing more than inviting them to jointly develop the ASEAN market, especially the Malay market.
Previously, the Tung Wah Association had regarded the ASEAN market as its own territory and had never thought of cooperating with various forces.
They also know some reasons why Li Jianhui did not continue to slowly develop the industries under the Tung Wah Association this time, but chose to invite them to join together. The most important thing is time.
From Li Jianhui's behavior in the past few years, it all shows that he is scrambling for time. It seems that something is forcing Li Jianhui.
Of course, there are also reasons why the relationship between the Tung Wah Association and the Japanese consortium has become worse and worse during this period. In the past, the Asian market could be said to be the exclusive domain of the Japanese consortium, especially the ASEAN market.
However, as the Tung Wah Association's market share in various industries in the ASEAN market has increased over the years, there have been more and more interest disputes with Japanese consortiums.
Even with the American consortium in front and Korean capital behind, the two sides are increasingly unable to maintain their alliance. The most significant change is that many companies from the Japanese consortium and Donghuahui ended their cooperation on New Year's Day, and Japanese companies
Restrictions have been placed on the raw materials of some Tung Wah Hui companies, and some Tung Wah Hui products have also been subject to increased tariffs by Japan.
Not to mention what Li Zhaoji and others thought about this, Guo Henian, as the person responsible for the Nanyang Dialogue, spoke on behalf of the Nanyang Dialogue.
“ASEAN is the region where we have the largest number of Chinese immigrants overseas, and we are closer culturally. In addition, ASEAN countries are not big countries, and their economic systems are extremely suitable for everyone’s development.
We at the Nanyang Economic Cooperation Association very much welcome everyone to enter the ASEAN market for development. While promoting the growth of your industry, we will also increase the influence of our Chinese in the local area and make the local government more biased and supportive of the development of our Chinese-funded enterprises.
At the same time, we also hope that everyone can guide more talents to go to ASEAN, increase the proportion of our Chinese in the local population, and at the same time help promote the vigorous development of various local industries."
Anyone present who is not a smart person knows that the Donghua Society must have discussed it with the Nanyang Society in advance and even reached a cooperation on this.
I recall that a few years ago, the two families were still rivals. Now, for a common goal, they have given up their previous grievances and worked together.
Shi Huaiya's speech shocked all parties. He not only stated that Far East Hui's industries would enter the ASEAN market on a large scale in the future, but also directly came up with an action plan.
The headquarters of Far East Shipping will be moved to Nanshan City, the headquarters of Wellcome Supermarket and Jardine Matheson Land will be moved to Johor Bahru, and the headquarters of Cathay Pacific Airways will be moved to Kuala Lumpur.
In the future, Far East will focus on developing the two major transportation industries of aviation and shipping, as well as the two major industries of retail and real estate in the ASEAN market.
Seeing that no one was willing to stand up and speak for a while, Li Jianhui immediately took the microphone and said: "I know this proposal is a bit abrupt for everyone. After all, everyone has their own development plans.
In this case, we will officially enter today's evening party. Please feel free to do so, and you are welcome to come to me for consultation on investing in ASEAN cooperation."
As the music starts, the party really begins. You can get food and drink by yourself, or you can ask the waiter for help.
Of course, everyone's thoughts were obviously not on eating and drinking, and they were not in the mood to dance to the music with their wives or female companions.
The Tung Wah Association, the Nanyang Association, and the Far Eastern Association are just talking nonsense. Anyway, the three parties have already negotiated and jointly focus on developing the ASEAN market.
Members of Xinhong, Xinya, and Nanjiang each came together to communicate whether they would enter the ASEAN market on a large scale.
The Xianghua Association is discussing the impact of various parties' large-scale entry into the ASEAN market on them. Due to factors in the north, it is impossible for them to enter the ASEAN market on a large scale during this period.
"Yu Gang, Li Jianhui's intention has been revealed. Four of the Far East Club's corporate headquarters have moved to Malay. Donghua Club has not taken any action, and both Cathay Pacific and Xiangjiang Airlines are increasing their routes to ASEAN.
The conditions for immigrants in Malay are not inferior to those of the Bryan government. Especially in Johor, for Chinese immigrants, almost as long as they are healthy and normal people.
Taking our place last year as an example, the first choice of places for emigration has become Malay, Taiwan, England, Canada, the United States, Singapore, etc., all of which were ranked behind.
According to rumors, the Kuala Lumpur Exchange will be relocated to Johor Bahru, where Tung Wah Club, Nanyang Club and even British Capital have contributed a lot. It is not ruled out that these parties will subsequently build it into the top stock exchange in ASEAN and even Asia.
I believe everyone has heard some rumors in the north. It is a difficult decision before us now. I don’t know how long I can persist. After all, I also need to consider my family’s thoughts.”
Listening to the words of his old friend, the boat chartering king also sighed in his heart, and he was not the same. After all, no one is full, and the whole family is not hungry. There is a big family behind him. Many times, his persistence is rewarded by his family.
Don't understand.
"Runhua, what is before me now is only one way to go. Most of our assets are tied up in the mainland market. Compared with other forces, we have no extra choices.
Now we need to strengthen our faith and not be influenced by rumors. We believe that policies will only continue to advance and not go backwards.
We all know how big the mainland market is. With the vigorous development of the northern market, we will definitely be able to regain our past status and influence in the future."
"Yugang, taking this opportunity today, I still hope you can accompany me to talk to Li Jianhui. I really don't want to see the relationship between Li Jianhui and the North continue to move away from each other.
Even if the Tung Wah Association wants to focus on developing the ASEAN market, I don’t want to see a large number of Tung Wah Association’s corporate headquarters move at this time. This will have a huge impact on the north, Hong Kong and the Tung Wah Association.”
Why doesn't the Charter King understand the impact of this? It's just that compared to Huo Yingdong, he is more rational in this regard.
He believed that since Li Jianhui had done this, he had already considered the impact clearly, and their attempts to persuade him at this time would not have any effect.