Hearing Lin Sanqi's concerns, Fu Guoding didn't take it seriously:
"Mr. Xiao Lin is overly worried. Medicines are different from other commodities. Medicines are based on their efficacy. Go and take a closer look. Which of the Tongrentang Angong Niuhuang Pills and Pien Tze Huang, which are in short supply on the market, is advertised in the media? ?
The key is the efficacy. If your medicine is effective, word of mouth will spread from patient to patient. Once it becomes a myth, patients will eventually flock to it. So as long as Mr. Xiaolin makes good medicine, I believe there will be no need to worry about sales. ”
Mr. Mao was thoughtful at this time:
"Mr. Xiaolin, if you really want to set up a factory, there is actually another place you can consider."
Lin Sanqi chuckled: "Old man, you are not talking about Xiangjiang, are you?"
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of everyone in the office lit up.
Director Song clapped his hands and said: "Yes, it's wonderful. Xiangjiang is right next to Huadu. It only takes an hour by high-speed train and just over two hours by car. It's like we are in the same city. I still have to drive when I get off work in the city during the evening rush hour." More than an hour.”
Mr. Mao chuckled and further explained:
"Hong Kong is different from our mainland. Medicines are in line with international standards. They do not prohibit the sale of natural medicinal materials such as musk and bezoar, as long as you can provide legal breeding certificates.
Many domestic pharmaceutical companies have already set up pharmaceutical factories in Xiangjiang.
As far as I know, Peking Tong Ren Tang, Jinling Tong Ren Tang, Guang Yuyuan, Dar Ren Tang, Pien Tze Huang, Hu Qing Yu Tang, Jiuzhi Tang, Tasly, Guangsheng Yuan, etc. all have their own factories in Xiangjiang.
Not only mainland pharmaceutical companies have set up factories in Hong Kong, but Japan and South Korea have also set up Chinese herbal medicine factories in Hong Kong, such as this Japanese medicine. ”
The old man took out a small medicine box from the drawer next to him
"This was given to me by an old friend for research. Look at the ingredient list: musk, toad venom, bezoar, bear bile, broadleaf, pearls, ginseng, and borneol.
Among them, the three herbs, musk, bezoar and bear bile, can be used freely in Xiangjiang without so many restrictions.
Therefore, if Lingnan Tang wants to create its own medicine, Xiangjiang is a good choice. Among other things, musk can be imported from abroad or imported from relevant domestic breeding bases, so that the source of raw materials can be easily solved.
And the most important point is that after all, Xiangjiang is a part of our country. The country has given Xiangjiang many preferential policies, and the trade tariffs between the two places will not be too high. This will be conducive to the export of medicines from Xiangjiang to the mainland. ”
Lin Sanqi had already had this idea of setting up a factory in Xiangjiang. However, this idea was very hazy before, but now that Mr. Mao said this, he became more determined.
Mr. Mao added at this time:
"However, there are risks in setting up a factory in Xiangjiang. The biggest risk is that land is expensive. Not only residential buildings are expensive in Xiangjiang, but industrial land is also expensive."
Xiangjiang is a typical urban economic model, with the service industry accounting for 93.4% and the secondary industry accounting for 6.5%. If specifically speaking, the manufacturing industry accounts for less than 1%.
Therefore, the industrial hollowing out of Xiangjiang is very serious. It does not encourage the development of industry, let alone provide any preferential policies for industrial enterprises, such as giving you land concessions.
They just like to speculate in real estate and play finance.
Fortunately, Lin Sanqi is not a poor owner. He only lacks the opportunity and reputation to get the medicine from 60 years to 23 years, so Xiangjiang must go and the factory must be established.
The next day, Shenzhen Bay Port
Lin Sanqi was sitting in the company's Alpha business car, looking a little strange at the long queue of cars in front of her.
"Hey, today is not a holiday, so why are there so many cars passing through? It takes a long time to wait in line, right?"
Lin Tianhua sat next to him and laughed: "Qizai, is this your first time going to Xiangjiang?"
Lin Sanqi nodded awkwardly: "Yes, it's my first time."
There is no way, before this year's Dragon Boat Festival, the Lin family is still among the poorest in Shilou Village. Not to mention going to Xiangjiang, even the Lin family has never been to other cities in the country.
Travel is a very luxurious thing for ordinary people.
Multimillionaires per capita can only appear on Douyin, and not all villages in the city are uncles.
Hearing Lin Sanqi's sincere answer, Lin Tianhua felt a little confused.
I wonder what kind of opportunity this clan nephew has encountered? How could he go from a worthless poor scholar to a small "capital" who could set up a factory in Hong Kong in just a few months?
Of course, an old fox like him in the workplace remains calm on the surface:
"Then let me tell you about the situation in Xiangjiang. If you look at such a long fleet and look at the license plates, are they overwhelmingly with Xiangjiang license plates and very few with mainland license plates?"
Lin Sanqi glanced back and forth a few times: "That's right."
Lin Tianhua smiled slightly:
"This is the latest trend in recent years.
In the past, our impression was that we mainlanders went to Xiangjiang, whether it was shopping or traveling, we looked up to them with a pilgrim-like mood.
But in recent years, the situation has completely reversed. Instead, people from Xiangjiang have moved to the mainland in large numbers, mainly because the prices in the mainland are cheaper.
Oh, this price refers to things related to ordinary people, such as catering, entertainment, clothing, daily necessities in supermarkets, etc. ”
When it comes to shopping, Yin Lianyi gets excited:
"International famous brands still have to go to Xiangjiang to buy, because they have the latest styles there, which are launched simultaneously around the world, and the prices are cheaper than in the mainland. But if you want to buy ordinary daily clothes or home clothes, people in Xiangjiang now go to Shenzhen to buy them.< br>
When we come back, we can go shopping in Shenzhen's Samu Supermarket. It's exaggerated. Almost the entire supermarket is filled with people from Xiangjiang. They want to buy everything, including paper towels, condiments, and snacks, all pushed back in carts. ”
Lin Sanqi was a little confused:
"Hong Kong's commercial logistics is much more developed than ours. How come they come to the mainland to visit supermarkets? Isn't there a PARKnSHOP supermarket in Hong Kong? It was opened by Li Huanggua, which is very famous in Hong Kong movies."
Yin Lianyi rolled her eyes at her boss:
"It's so stupid. Things are expensive in Xiangjiang. For the same paper towel, it might cost a hundred cents in Xiangjiang, but it only costs fifty or sixty cents in the mainland. Other things in the mainland are generally more than one-third cheaper than in Xiangjiang.
Moreover, there are no such big supermarkets in Xiangjiang. The land there is expensive, and the supermarkets are all small and well-organized, just like the convenience stores in our community. So now, it is the turn of Xiangjiang people to come to the mainland just like Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden. ”
Several people in the car chuckled.
This time Lin Sanqi came to Xiangjiang. In addition to the driver, general manager Lin Tianhua, financial manager Yin Lianyi, and sales manager Meng Peng all came with him.
Meng Peng is a direct descendant of Lin Tianhua. Back then, Lin Tianhua poached all the most elite sales teams in South China from Mercedes-Benz Company, and the annual salary they gave them was several times higher, which was definitely the ceiling in the sales industry.
But this sales team is also worth every penny.
Although Lingnan Tang's precious Chinese medicinal materials and ingredients are not lacking in sales, in a short period of time, Lingnan Tang's reputation has become known to everyone in the wealthy medical circle of Dongguang Province, establishing a saying that "Lingnan Tang's products must be high-quality products." Brand positioning is not something that ordinary sales teams can achieve.
To put it bluntly, the most important thing about high-end sales channels is connections.
You don’t even know the top rich people, let alone have access to them, so how do you sell your products to these top rich people?
Could it be that you went to the company's headquarters and told the front desk to please help me make an appointment with your chairman? I'm here to sell ginseng. Believe it or not, you couldn't even get through the company gate and were immediately chased away by security guards.
It just so happens that the Mercedes-Benz sales team has resources from the rich. Even the top rich people at the higher level, the staff of Meng Peng's team are not afraid at all when they go out to contact them. This is the bottom line.
Lin Tianhua heard Yin Lianyi raise his head and expressed his concerns.
"Yes, Xiao Qi, although there are few restrictions on setting up factories in Xiangjiang, why are the major domestic pharmaceutical companies, except for a few leading pharmaceutical companies, other small and medium-sized pharmaceutical companies unable to set up factories in Xiangjiang? It's because the threshold for setting up factories in Xiangjiang is too high. .
I also inquired with friends in Hong Kong in advance. For example, the industrial land on Anju Street in Fanling has a total of 90,000 square feet. The auction price last year was HK$600 million. Calculated, it is only 13 or 14 acres of land, and the price is very scary. ”
Lin Sanqi was mentally prepared. He knew that land in Xiangjiang was expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so ridiculously expensive?
"I'm sorry, Uncle Shi, if you want to build a factory on these 13 acres of land, it can only be regarded as a 'small and micro enterprise' in our mainland, right?"
Yin Lianyi smiled: "The office building our company rents has two acres of land in total."
After the car passed the customs, it drove on the Shenzhen Bay Highway Bridge, and under the bridge was the vast sea level. Lin Sanqi checked the information and knew that if you wanted to go to Xiangjiang in 1960, you would basically have to sneak there.
If you are stowaway by boat, the most common route is to take Dapeng Bay in the east. The mainland there is about 10 kilometers away from Xiangjiang, so you can only take a boat.
But you have to pay the smuggler to take the boat, which is at least 300 yuan per person. People are so poor that they have to flee Hong Kong. How can they have 300 yuan? If there are four or five people in a family, it will cost more than one thousand yuan.
Not everyone is as rich as a certain Erdao dealer surnamed Lin, who treats Dahei like dirt.
What to do if you have no money? Then you can only swim there. According to the information, the most common route to swim there is Deep Bay, which was later renamed Shenzhen Bay.
In the car, Lin Sanqi looked left and right at the sea scenery outside the window. She was speechless after looking at it. She thought that the sea here is not narrow. The shortest is 4 kilometers. What kind of person can swim across it? No wonder the death rate is so high. high.
Seeing Lin Sanqi looking around, Lin Tianhua asked curiously:
"Xiaoqi, what are you looking at? Across the sea is Yuen Long in Hong Kong. It will be there soon."
"Uncle Ten, I was thinking about the time when stowaways had to swim across Deep Bay. It was terrible. Those who swam such a long distance were so lucky to get ashore."
Lin Tianhua laughed after hearing this, pointed to both sides of the bridge and said:
“In those days, smugglers either started from the mangroves in the east or from Shekou in the west, not from the cross-sea bridge under our feet, but it would be good if half of them could land ashore.
We used to joke that there were not only countless corpses under Shenzhen Bay, but also countless gold bars. It is said that people who smuggled over there had gold bars on them, and eventually they all sank to the bottom of the sea. Whoever touched the corpses would get rich. ”
In Dongguang Province, almost every family had relatives who fled to Hong Kong. There were so many local sages in Shilou Village in Hong Kong, and most of them swam there back then.
Therefore, people in Dongguang are not disgusted with smuggling. Instead, they think it is common. Young people who have no food to eat should go out and try their luck.
The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional. At this time, Lin Sanqi remembered the mangroves and Shekou in his mind, and silently evaluated in his mind that if he went to Xiangjiang in 1960, would he be able to swim there?
Suddenly Lin Sanqi felt that she was so stupid.
Why should I swim there with my golden fingers? You can buy a speedboat by yourself and install 6 engines. Isn't this the legendary "big fly"? The top speed can reach 120 kilometers per hour.
Let alone the Hong Kong police in 1960 who could not detect such a large flying vehicle, even if they were discovered, they would not be able to catch up unless they used helicopters.
Thinking of this, Lin Sanqi relaxed. How could a time traveler choke to death with urine?
After Alpha drove off the Shenzhen Bay Bridge and officially entered the boundary of Xiangjiang, Lin Sanqi felt like she had suddenly arrived in a rural area from a big city.
Looking at the vast tracts of farmland and open space in front of him, Lin Sanqi asked strangely:
"Uncle Ten, didn't you say there isn't enough land in Xiangjiang to build buildings? Don't you think these are all empty lots?"
Lin Tianhua patiently explained:
"The situation in Xiangjiang is different from that in the mainland. The land in Xiangjiang is privately owned, so the farmland you see is basically privately owned. The government cannot requisition it whenever it wants and do whatever it wants."
Meng Peng was sitting in the passenger seat. At this time, he turned around and rarely said:
"Boss, I heard a rumor that a lot of land in the New Territories is actually in the hands of big real estate developers. They deliberately do not develop the New Territories in order to push up land and housing prices in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.
There are also some people in Cao Ying who are obsessed with the Chinese banana capitalists who are deliberately causing destruction. A few years ago, they planned to build a crematorium and cemetery on the south bank of the Shenzhen River, just to deliberately embarrass the mainland. Their intentions are very sinister. ”
The Shenzhen River is only a small river with a width of more than ten meters. The New Territories is on the south bank, and the SZ city center is on the north bank, with high-rise buildings and busy traffic.
If the crematorium is really built by the river, it will have a huge negative impact on Shenzhen's urban image and residents' lives. The intentions are not evil.
Lin Tianhua nodded in agreement:
"Just like when we watched Hong Kong movies back then, the protagonist often had a line: Hong Kong is not the Hong Kong Governor's Hong Kong, nor is it the Hong Kong of you Chen Haonan, but the Hong Kong of several major families, even if they are not willing to lose their right to speak after the return. ”
Lin Sanqi became furious as soon as she heard this:
"Isn't this too much to deceive others? Shouldn't our country clean up this pest that is lurking in Hong Kong?"
Yin Lianyi is also a young man and was also very angry after hearing this:
"No wonder Hong Kong is getting worse and worse now. Even Hong Kong people have gone to Shenzhen to consume. It seems that they have been bullied by the local capitalists in Hong Kong. In the past, there was no way. Where can I go in a small city? Now I have a choice It’s different.”
Lin Sanqi looked at the farmland outside the window and thought, this is indeed a city kidnapped by capital.
If there weren't too many restrictions in the mainland, Lin Sanqi wouldn't even think of investing in Xiangjiang.
Now the city's status as a financial center and logistics center has been shaken. The decline of the brilliant Oriental Pearl Tower is inevitable, and perhaps what some bad capitalists want to see.
The car drove off the main road and turned left to Yuen Long.
Along the way, Lin Sanqi felt particularly familiar with the place names he saw, such as Lai Chi-keung, the Tiger of Tuen Mun, Yuen Long is the territory of pheasants, and Tin Shui Wai Village in "Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai" filmed by Ann Hui.
Lin Tianhua didn't know that his cousin's thoughts were wandering off again, so he continued to introduce:
"The main industrial areas in Hong Kong were originally in Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung, Kowloon West, Sham Shui Po, Lai Chi Kok, and Kwun Tong in East Kowloon, Kowloon City, etc. It can be seen that Hong Kong's economy was prosperous at that time, and even the richest man started his business by making plastic flowers. .
Later, with the rapid decline of industry, there are now only three industrial estates left, located in Yuen Long, Tai Po and Tseung Kwan O. Listen to the name, industrial village, not industrial area, which shows that the place is very small.
A direct consequence of the small size of the industrial zone is that the industrial land quota is quite tight, and the price is several times that of mainland investment. With such high land prices, no foreign investors are willing to set up factories in Hong Kong.
Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate is now following a high-tech route. All factories settled there are not allowed to pollute. Pharmaceutical factories like ours are excluded, so the only two options available to us are Yuen Long and Tai Po.
The reason why I chose Yuen Long is because there is a famous pharmaceutical company in Yuen Long, Aomei Pharmaceutical Factory. Some of our peers have already settled in, so if we want to build a factory in Yuen Long, it will be easier to get approval. ”
"Aomei Pharmaceutical!"
Lin Sanqi had really heard of this factory. The amoxicillin capsules they produced were of the best quality among similar products. The sales volume in the mainland was relatively high and the efficacy was also good.
Many patients even shook their heads when they later saw that it was ordinary amoxicillin produced in China, and asked for the blue box of amoxicillin.
"By the way, Uncle Shi, Aomei Pharmaceutical Company is a well-known pharmaceutical company after all. How big is the scale of their factory?"
Lin Sanqi thought about the combined size of the several pharmaceutical factories owned by Guangzhou Pharmaceutical Group covering several thousand acres. The old factory alone occupied an area of 600 acres.
Then an international-level pharmaceutical company like Aomei Pharmaceuticals covers an area of at least a thousand acres, right?
Lin Tianhua laughed loudly after hearing this: "You will know how big it is when you see it yourself."
Yuen Long Industrial Estate.
Lin Sanqi and his group drove around the entire industrial village in a car, and then around Aomei Pharmaceutical. Lin Sanqi discovered that the Aomei Pharmaceutical factory can only be described as mini.
Yin Lianyi handed the iPad in her hand to Lin Sanqi, who looked disappointed:
"Look, Aomei Pharmaceutical currently produces only a few drugs, and they are not exclusive patented drugs. They mainly deal in medical beauty and health care products, and it seems that they have also transformed."
Lin Sanqi swiped across the screen and looked at it. The main products were still the same as the third one, amoxicillin and some antitussive and expectorant medicines, but they had no ambition at all.
"It seems that it is too difficult to set up a pharmaceutical factory in Xiangjiang. They are all involved in finance and real estate speculation. What about the employment and income of ordinary Xiangjiang citizens?"
Yin Lianyi burst into laughter again:
"Boss Lin, are you still worried about the income of people in Xiangjiang? Their monthly salary for a security guard is tens of thousands. Think about how much a small security guard in Shenzhen earns per month?"
Lin Sanqi touched his face: "It sounds like I am a black-hearted capitalist."
Lin Tianhua still wants to secretly flatter his nephew boss:
"Xiao Yin, the income of our Lingnan Hall is also good. This year is not over yet. If you include the year-end bonus, the average income of your Finance Department will exceed one million. If nothing goes wrong, our Sales Department will have the highest sales revenue. More than 5 million.”
Lin Sanqi raised her chin: "How about it? My boss is pretty good, right?" (End of Chapter)