Chapter 635 The Iron Lady of the Future
The improvement of China-US relations has a huge impact on the world, just like a meteorite falling into the Pacific Ocean, both for zz and economy.
Affected by this, the loyal young brother of the United States, Dae-ying, established diplomatic relations with China less than half a month later. As for Hong Kong, the economy naturally became better due to this. In previous years, everyone was worried that the mainland and the United Kingdom would have another dispute over Hong Kong issues.
But now that diplomatic relations have been established, and the mainland is clearly shifting towards the Western camp in diplomacy. In this way, Hong Kong will not only not have any major problems, but will even be further used as a bridge for communication between the East and the West;
This month, China Resources Group has also begun to frequently cooperate with Hong Kong companies, especially in terms of material import and export. It also promised that the mainland will increase the supply of meat, eggs, grain, vegetables, etc. as soon as possible to ensure the basic living material prices in the Hong Kong market, and everything is developing in a better direction.
Changxing Group Headquarters:
Yang Wendong summoned several heads of the manufacturing industry and chatted while drinking tea: "The Kangle Building has been completed and is ready to be renovated now. You each discuss with Kinmen Building internally to discuss how to decorate it."
In 1970, Yang Wendong forced the land to take down the land at No. 1 Kangle Street, and immediately issued a design bid. After success, he immediately built the highest-rise building in Hong Kong: Kangle Building at a speed of 24 hours a day of continuous shutdown of machines.
The entire building has a total of 56 floors, the four floors downstairs are parking spaces, and the 52nd floor upstairs are not only the fire protection shelter floor (not absolutely useless and can store things that are not easy to catch fire), but the other ones are normal office areas, and the 10th floor is for Yang Wendong and the headquarters office, finance office, personnel department, etc. The others are for many of its core subsidiaries.
Changxing Industry, Changxing Real Estate, Changxing Finance, Honor Electronics, Watsons, Changxing Shipping, Changxing Culture, etc. are the core industries, and TVB and media are not assigned to the headquarters, and at most there will be several offices.
Of course, even for these first-level subsidiaries, only core members will come to the headquarters of Kangle Building in the future. This is also to facilitate Yang Wendong and the headquarters to quickly grasp the first-hand information of their companies, rather than doing this before, people from various departments are running around in Hong Kong, which is useless to waste a lot of precious time.
Wei Zetao smiled and said, "Okay, Yang Sheng, we will negotiate internally how to allocate, and we will take a look after it is confirmed."
The boss has so many company businesses, so he naturally doesn't need to worry about such small matters. Just wait for the internal decisions of others. It can be imagined that some high-quality locations in Kangle Building will inevitably be competed for by multiple subsidiaries.
"Well, okay." Yang Wendong no longer cared about this matter, and immediately asked, "Now that China and the UK have established diplomatic relations, this matter is very beneficial to us. Have you decided on projects to invest in the UK?"
Wang Zhiqun of Honor Electronics replied, "Yang Sheng, we have negotiated internally. This is Honor Electronics' investment plan. We are planning to invest in a factory in the UK that produces different kitchen appliances, including microwave ovens, bread ovens, electric ovens, dishwashers, etc.;
At the same time, we have contacted some supermarkets and dealers in Europe and reached a preliminary cooperation agreement with them. In the first year, they were able to digest our investment plans in the UK.
How is the future? It depends on the cost-effectiveness and quality of our products. "
Yang Wendong also took the document after hearing this, took a look and nodded, "Yes, kitchen appliances are relatively less risky, and Europe's demand is not small. As long as our channels are done well, quality and price are OK, there will be a certain market. ”
Compared with large white appliances, investment in kitchen appliances and market development are much easier. The lower the price, the easier it is to convince consumers to buy unfamiliar brands. This is the same everywhere;
A radio, consumers may listen to the sound and think it is okay, so they may pay for it and will not care much about the brand; but if it is an air conditioner or even more expensive car, then products without brands will not dare to buy them even if they are cheaper.
There is also the problem of after-sales channel construction. The cost of large-scale home appliances is too high in this regard. On the contrary, like ordinary kitchen appliances, for European and American society, if they are really broken, they may be thrown away directly.
Of course, if this is true, this brand will be completely useless to this consumer and even his friends.
Wang Zhiqun continued: "Yang Sheng, I am also planning to produce some home appliance parts with high technical content in the UK, such as high-end motors, air conditioning and refrigerator compressors, etc. On the one hand, we are striving to become a supplier of European home appliance brands, and on the other hand, we are opening a factory there, which is convenient for using the local industrial environment to carry out further R&D and process improvement. In this regard, Hong Kong is still not good."
"This idea is good. The R&D power in Hong Kong is still too weak, especially engineering." Yang Wendong agreed immediately.
It is okay to open a factory in Hong Kong to produce some things. Even color TVs can be done under the command of overseas experts and engineers;
However, it is difficult to develop and improve various technologies and processes. Although there are many talents within Changxing Group, this kind of thing is actually based on the overall talent strength of a place. Even though Hong Kong has absorbed a lot of elites from the mainland, it is far inferior to Europe and the United States in terms of population and historical education.
In the early years, all kinds of products under Changxing Group relied on creativity, and it didn’t matter at all in terms of technology. But now entering the black and white home appliance market requires strong technical capabilities. Wei Zetao also said, "Yes, there is still a problem in engineering. We finally convinced the Hong Kong government to increase investment in science science at the university level, but now new problems arise. Some science students with good grades have gone to banks or real estate companies. In these industries, they can make more money. There are even many students who study engineering, and they go to finance halfway through their studies."
"Are you poached by financial companies?" Yang Wendong shook his head and smiled, "There is really no way. The finance or real estate industry can naturally provide higher income, which is not comparable to our manufacturing industry."
Except for a very small number of technology companies, any other manufacturing, raw material industry or other industries cannot compare with the financial industry in terms of salary that can be provided;
In the past, the United States in history, the late financial hollowing out is also one of the important reasons. People with ability have gone to study doctors, lawyers, finance, etc., and even experts who specialize in mathematics will be invited by Wall Street to calculate stock fluctuations. After all, the annual salary of stocks may be one million US dollars, and the annual salary of celestial mechanics may be only one hundred thousand, and normal people will choose the former.
Wei Zetao said again: "Yes, this is the same as many of us make money because of real estate nowadays and do not do industry."
"So it. If the market does not meet the interests of the industry one day, we can just move it." Yang Wendong said indifferently.
Anyway, it has only been 6 years since the mainland's reform and opening up. Although it is not suitable for large-scale transfer in the early stages of reform and opening up, Hong Kong can still maintain production for a period of time. After all, the collapse of Hong Kong's industry in the past was also in the mid-1980s;
However, unlike ordinary small enterprises, Changxing Group's large scale must be prepared for transfers. In addition to the mainland, Singapore, Wanwan and Malaysia are all choices, and some can also produce nearby in order to consider the European and American markets.
Liu Huayu continued, "Yang Sheng, this is a plan that Watsons can invest in in the UK."
Yang Wendong quickly read Watsons' plan and said, "Okay, then build a snack factory in the UK. Whether it can be bigger depends on whether the local factory has the ability to open up the market."
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Many times, entering a place is for the market, but even time travelers, only a very small number of industries can guarantee certain success. Others depend on operations. Including many Fortune 500 companies in their previous lives, they were not very sure how much profit they could make before entering the mainland.
Yang Wendong today does not rely on the prophet ability of time travelers in many industries, but develops in a normal capital model. This itself is the norm for doing business. Many are uncertain, but when you know the direction of the future development trend of the world, there will basically be no major problems, and at most you cannot control it in small aspects.
Wei Zetao also said, "Yang Sheng, this is from Changxing Industrial."
After reading it, Yang Wendong nodded and said, "It looks okay, let's do it. At the end of the month, we will go to the UK together. This time it is quite formal, and we also need to meet some senior British officials."
At this level today, it is actually normal to go out to meet the top leaders of a country. In history, Bao Yugang became the world ship king in the late 1970s, he also received this treatment;
Of course, it is generally the president of a small country and the ministerial level of a big country. If you want to meet the US president, there must be a lot of reasons and interests. However, now Hong Kong belongs to the Commonwealth, so it is normal for him, as a representative of the top consortium, to meet the highest level of the UK. "Okay." All three of them agreed.
On March 26, Yang Wendong and a group of senior executives of Changxing Group took a private jet to the UK.
After arriving in Dae Ying, Yang Wendong did not rush to Buckingham Palace or the royal family to meet others, but first met with a future big man,
"Hello, Ms. Thatcher."
Wang Wendong met the future iron lady Thatcher, the Berkeley Hotel in London, England. This meeting was also one of the core purposes of Yang Wendong's visit to the UK.
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