In order to win more Chinese families to stand with the Tung Wah Association, Li Jianhui also made concessions in some aspects and provided more convenience to Malay Chinese enterprises in sales channels.
In terms of real estate, Tung Wah Hui mainly focuses on developing the three states of Johor, Malacca, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. Tung Wah Hui will not be involved in the markets of the northern states on a large scale.
As for banking business, except for Nanlong Bank, the other major banks are mainly located in urban areas and will not go to villages and towns, leaving a market for Malay Chinese banks to develop.
Guo Henian and others were very happy when they saw this. After all, it was not a last resort and they did not want to be at odds with the Tung Wah Society, especially when the main core members of the Tung Wah Society had all immigrated to Malay.
And they also hope to ride on the rapid development of the Tung Wah Association. In the past, because the main force of the Tung Wah Association was in Hong Kong, Li Jianhui took more care of enterprises in Hong Kong.
Now that Li Jianhui and others are Malay-Chinese, they will take more care of Malay-Chinese companies in the future.
Guo Henian and others have long been jealous of the large-scale trade between the Tung Wah Association and the member states of the Warsaw Pact, and have always hoped that Li Jianhui could purchase their products.
Take sugar for example. You must know that Guo Henian is known as the sugar king of Nanyang. Sugar sales are one of the main industries of the Guo family, and they have been actively opening up markets in various places.
He has also been eyeing orders from Aodong Trading Group in this area, and has communicated with Li Jianhui many times, hoping to reach cooperation with Aodong Trading Group in this regard, but unfortunately the results have not been able to fulfill his wish.
Taking advantage of today's opportunity, Kuok Ho-nien also brought up old matters again, hoping that Tung Wah Association's channels would take more care of Malay-Chinese companies when purchasing products, such as the purchase of sugar, or the purchase of light industrial products such as clothing.
Li Jianhui did not refuse this matter. After all, Tung Wah Hui did not enter the sugar industry, and in the past, procurement was done in the north.
Now that the headquarters of the Xinjian Department has moved south to Johor Bahru, the concentration of supplies for the Warsaw Pact member states will also be moved from Xiangjiang to Nanxin City, a logistics and shipping center close to Johor Bahru.
In order for the Xinjian Li family to better take root in Malay, they will naturally give priority to purchasing products from Malay companies, especially products from Malay Chinese companies.
The Warsaw Pact member states are currently cooperating with the Odong Trading Group, and the purchased products mainly include grain (mainly wheat), sugar (mainly white sugar), clothing, footwear (a high proportion of leather shoes), vegetables and fruits, and food.
Industrial production equipment and textile industry production equipment.
Currently, the products that can be provided by Malay-Chinese companies include sugar, clothing, and footwear.
It's a pity that whether it's clothing or footwear, Aodong Trading Group has long had regular partners. Although some of these companies are not Tung Wah Association companies, they are also tied to Tung Wah Association, and both prosper and prosper together with Tung Wah Association.
, one loses all, and is also a staunch supporter of Donghua Association. It is impossible for Aodong Trading Group to change its partners.
Li Jianhui will not specifically explain this, and many company founders have established production bases in Xiangfei City, and have also immigrated to Xiangfei City, and are already members of the Malay Chinese. Donghua will give priority to purchasing Malay Chinese.
There is nothing wrong with the products of the capital enterprises.
Regarding Guo Henian, Li Jianhui also made some suggestions. One of them is that he hopes that the main force of the Nanyang Society, headed by the Guo family, should return their focus to Malaya and Nanyang during this period, instead of laboring hard to plan a situation where the door has not been fully opened.
market.
To this end, the grand plans of Johor State for Johor Bahru City and Penang State for Penang City were also specifically mentioned.
“I know that as Chinese, we all have deep national sentiments and are able to return home in glory while developing and expanding our own industries.
But we should see that Nanyang's economy and market size have been growing rapidly in recent years. Even pigs can fly if they stand on the trend, not to mention everyone with rich business experience and strong capital.
In my opinion, Guo Sheng's focus on Greater China, especially the northern market, and he himself lives in Xiangjiang, is a complete waste of watermelon.
If the Nanyang Association is unwilling to return its focus to Malay and Nanyang, then we cannot blame our Donghua Association for not leaving a market for you.
For example, in the city of Penang, the urban resident population has exceeded three million within ten years. This not only involves companies establishing production bases to provide jobs for citizens, but also involves all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation for three million citizens.
Take the issue of housing as an example. With more than two million people added, dozens or even hundreds of residential areas will be added.
If the main force of the Nanyang Association does not return, then we, the Tung Wah Association, can only take over. By then, our subsidiaries such as Xinjian Real Estate, Huangpu Real Estate, Chinese Real Estate, Guanghua Construction, Kowloon Construction, Xing Leong Real Estate, etc. will intervene in Penang City on a large scale."
Upon hearing this, Guo Henien and others understood that Li Jianhui was forcing the Nanyang Society to invest in the development of Penang City in order to reduce the pressure on the Tung Wah Society itself.
To know that a city in Johor Bahru with a resident population of more than 5 million within ten years is enough for the Tung Wah Association to struggle for a while. Now there is a Penang city with a permanent population of more than 3 million within ten years. Even the powerful Tung Wah Association feels huge.
pressure.
Now Li Jianhui obviously hopes that his Nanyang Association will take over the planning of Penang City, while Tung Wah Association will focus on Johor Bahru City.
It is difficult for Guo Henian and others to object to this, because what Li Jianhui said is right. Malay and even Nanyang are no longer what they were a few years ago. They are now in a period of rapid development. The Nanyang Society's enterprises focus on Malay and Nanyang.
It is most beneficial to the Nanyang Society.
Moreover, Penang City is the center of northern Malay and one of the three largest cities in Malay. Once the Tung Hwa Club enters on a large scale, there will not be much room for development and survival of the Nanyang Club in Malay.
It can be said that Li Jianhui is forcing them to make a choice again, either to return their focus and increase investment in Penang City, or to choose to leave Malay.
Guo Henian pondered for a moment and said: "Li Sheng also knows that it is very difficult to increase the permanent population by more than two million within ten years. This cannot be achieved easily by investing in one or two companies.
This matter is so important that I do not have the same status in the Nanyang Society as Li Sheng does in the Donghua Society. A meeting needs to be held to discuss this matter.
If our Nanyang Association decides not to participate in Penang City’s ten-year plan and Tung Wah Association’s companies enter the market on a large scale, we, the Nanyang Association, are not qualified to step in and stop it.”
Li Jianhui also understood the difficulties of the Nanyang Society. Its main industries were banking, hotels, real estate, retail, shipping, and plantations. Although there were also manufacturing industries, there were not many.
Penang is not a financial city, nor is it an international consumer city. It is extremely difficult to add tens or millions of jobs.
This is one of the reasons why Li Jianhui wants to leave this to the Nanyang Association. After all, the Donghua Association focuses on Johor Bahru, which is a financial center and an electronic semiconductor R&D and production center. Even if the planned permanent population is two million more than Penang City,
Li Jianhui is also confident.
In order to enhance the overall strength of the Malays and to focus the Nanyang Society on the Malays, Li Jianhui still came up with some ideas for it.
Because there are many automobile manufacturing bases and parts production bases in urban areas or suburbs under the counties of Penang, and they also have a huge number of employees, but there are no well-known consumer centers in these places.
The city of Penang can be built into a consumer city in Penang and even northern Malaysia, and the Tung Wah Association can provide some help in this regard.
In addition, it can also be built into a tourism and entertainment center, such as attracting Jiajiayi Culture Group to build an animation theme park, or Disneyland.
As for more, Li Jianhui did not mention it again. This requires the Nanyang Association to find a solution on its own. As one of the cores of the Nanyang Association, Penang does not need too much dictation from the Tung Wah Association.
And I believe that before long, the Nanyang Association will have a better idea. Even though it may be copied, it can also promote the growth and development of Penang.
In fact, with regard to Johor Bahru's five million permanent population, Li Jianhui has already thought of a move, which is to annex Nanshan City, which is dozens of kilometers away. This will not only increase the permanent population, but Johor Bahru City will also have the top port in Malay.
In fact, the operation in this aspect is relatively easy. After all, Johor Bahru City and Nanshan City are both under the jurisdiction of Johor Bahru County. As long as Johor Bahru County mentions it and the Johor State Assembly approves, the merger can be achieved.
Li Jianhui had this idea because he remembered from another life that some cities in the north had done this, annexing surrounding areas to enhance their own strength.
However, Li Jianhui has not given any advice to Guo Henian and others for the time being. He wants to see what the Nanyang Society thinks about this, which will also determine the Donghua Society's attitude towards the Nanyang Society in the future.