My Age of Investment

Two days later, the conference hall of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Connaught Road in Central was packed with people, and flashes of camera flashes were pointed at the stage one after another.

On the stage, Xia Jingxing stood up, picked up the signed documents and exchanged documents with Guo Binglian, who was also standing next to him. Then the two shook hands with a smile and turned to face the audience together.

On the big screen behind the two people, there were also words such as "Signing Ceremony of Strategic Cooperation between Fuxing Mobile and SmarTone Telecom Group".

"Mr. Xia, are you impressed by the scene today? We have invited all the major media in Hong Kong to be present." Guo Binglian looked at the audience with a smile, and his lips moved slightly.

Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "If you are serious about it, you should give Li Huangtai some color with such overwhelming publicity."

"Only you dare to call him by his first name. Usually, we juniors still have to give him some face as a senior."

"That's right, respect the old and love the young."

Xia Jingxing chuckled. As the third son of Guo Desheng, the founder of Xinhongji, Guo Binglian managed Xinhongji Group with his two brothers after the old man passed away more than ten years ago.

SmarTone Group is the telecommunications business segment of New Hongji, and is a sworn enemy of Lai Kee Telecommunications International, owned by the Lai family.

At this time, there were more than a dozen telecommunications companies on Hong Kong Island, but only five had 3G licenses.

Li Huangtai controls Lai Ke Telecom International, Li Yikai controls Telecom Jinke, and SUNDAY was also acquired by Telecom Jinke. There are only two partners left for Fuxing Mobile to choose from.

One is SmarTone, a subsidiary of New Hongji, and the other is CSL New Universe Telecommunications, a joint venture between New Universe Group, a subsidiary of the Zhu Dafu family, and Telstra.

China Mobile also has a subsidiary on Hong Kong Island called Wanzhong Telephone, which was purchased from China Resources a few years ago. Unfortunately, it did not obtain a 3G license and could only provide 2G services.

The Fuxing FX1 launched last year was sold in cooperation with Wanzhong Telephone in the Hong Kong Island market.

But now Zhiguodu has joined forces with Lai Kee Telecom International. In order to compete with this powerful business combination, Fuxing Mobile has no choice but to choose another partner.

After many inspections, Xia Jingxing felt that SmarTone was more sincere. As the chairman of the company's board of directors, Guo Binglian personally went to the capital to have a talk with him, and today's signing ceremony took place.

On the mobile side, Xia Jingxing communicated with Wang Jianyu, and the other party also expressed his understanding of the telecommunications company that Fuxing mobile phone would cooperate with. After all, Fuxing FX2 supports 3G network, but Vanzhong Telephone cannot provide this service.

After shaking hands and taking photos, Xia Jingxing and Guo Binglian took their seats and began to answer reporters' questions.

A reporter from Ming Pao stood up and asked: "Mr. Xia, can I ask why Fuxing Mobile chose to cooperate with SmarTone?"

Xia Jingxing replied with a smile: "This is a good question. SmarTone has more than 1.1 million mobile phone users on Hong Kong Island. It is not the telecommunications company with the largest number of customers, but their ARPU value (average revenue per user) is The highest telecommunications company in Hong Kong, this is what we value most.”

Then, another reporter from Oriental Daily asked: “Mr. A penny? Is this the reason why you refuse to cooperate with Telecom Jinke?"

Xia Jingxing also didn't expect that the grievance between him and Li Yikai had spread so far that even reporters knew about it. He guessed that after the party that day, the relevant gossip news was widely spread again.

Now that the reporter had asked about it, he did not intend to save face for Li Yikai, and answered directly: "Yes, there are conflicts between us, but this is not the main reason for non-cooperation. The main reason is Telecom Jinkobi Not on SmarTone.”

Guo Binglian looked at this scene with a smile and almost applauded.

The reporters were also stunned. They didn't expect that Xia Jingxing would not conceal the conflict with Li Yikai. So how deep should this grudge be? They are all torn apart!

As a result, the reporters deviated from the topic and stopped asking questions about mobile phones. Instead, they asked about the grudges between Xia Jingxing and Li Yikai. The gossip spirit of Hong Kong reporters was immediately reflected.

It was rare that Xia Jingxing was in a better mood today. He answered the reporters' questions without hesitation, and there was an endless stream of exciting news.

"He is a kid from a big family. It's normal for him to look down on us farm kids from the mainland."

"It's not an exaggeration at all! I really am a child of a peasant family. My father's generation only entered the city. By my generation, the mud on my feet has not been washed away."

"What happened to the farmers? Counting back a few generations, the ancestors of all of us here are almost farmers. Even if they are not farmers, they should be poor people in the city."

"The grudge between me and Mr. Li Huangtai? I have never met him, but I did meet Miss Zou Xuan a few years ago..."

"She acted like she was not short of money, but she almost threw the check in my face. On the other hand, she asked me to give a discount for Mr. Li Huangtai's sake..."

"How is this a discount? Facebook is not my company, so I just said that under the same conditions, Mr. Li Huangtai will be given priority to become a shareholder..."

"Everyone knows the final outcome. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley bought shares in Facebook at a high price."

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After listening to the story told by Xia Jingxing, the reporters' eyes gleamed and their spirits of gossip burned. This was big news! The version told to Zou Xuan is completely the other way around.

Xia Jingxing's public image in Hong Kong Island is not very good, and it is entirely due to that old woman Zou Xuan.

Xia Jingxing was originally too lazy to get to know Zou Xuan, but since he was interviewed by reporters from Hong Kong today, he wanted to clarify something for himself.

It's not a problem to always be regarded as a nouveau riche.

Guo Binglian looked on, quite dumbfounded. This was a signing ceremony for the cooperation between Fuxing Mobile and SmarTone. It had suddenly become a one-man show for Xia Jingxing, and the topic had nothing to do with business.

Reporters are really interested in the story of the feud between mainland business tycoons and Hong Kong Island business tycoons! Simply scratched the itch of this group of people.

Guo Binglian then thought about it and asked reporters to expose more the grudges between Xia Jingxing and the Li family. In the future, the Fuxing mobile phone could be tied to the chariot of their SmarTone Group.

Recently, Lai Kee Telecom International has been selling smart phones as an agent, which has added a lot of new users, putting them under great pressure.

After a while, the reporter, who had received numerous gossips from Xia Jingxing, was satisfied and stopped interviewing Xia Jingxing and began to ask questions to Guo Binglian.

"As Fuxing Mobile is a well-known Chinese brand overseas, SmarTone Group is happy to cooperate with it to jointly provide services to users in Hong Kong Island and Macau."

"What discounts are there? Of course there are!"

"Next, SmarTone Group will launch a "retail price" package for Hong Kong and Macao users. The 8G version of Fuxing FX2 mobile phone will be free of charge, and the 16G version of the mobile phone will cost HK$138.

The condition is that the user signs a two-year online contract with SmarTone, and the monthly rental package is HKD 498 per month, with unlimited Internet access and 2,200 minutes of voice calls..."

Guo Binglian worked very hard in advertising and introduced in detail several contract phone packages that SmarTone sells.

Take the "retail price" package of Fuxing FX2 as an example. Multiply 24 months by 498 Hong Kong dollars, and the resulting figure is nearly 12,000 Hong Kong dollars, which is far more than the bare metal price of 3,999 yuan and 4,599 Hong Kong dollars.

It is equivalent to an agreement for a user to purchase a mobile phone in installments, except that the principal and interest deducted each month become phone bills.

SmarTone itself does not make much money, because although they pay for Fuxing Mobile Phones in installments, they pay according to several quarters, such as 40%, 20%, 20%, and 20%.

In terms of accounts receivable, SmarTone's account period is longer than that of Fuxing Mobile, and it needs to advance funds for mobile phone users.

However, SmarTone can bind users for two full years, and after factoring in the payment to Fuxing Mobile, the gross profit is also considerable.

Nowadays, Fuxing mobile phones are almost always sold in the international market by cooperating with local telecommunications operators and launching contract phones.

The 40% down payment is enough for Fuxing Mobile to pay the down payment of various mobile phone suppliers.

This is the model in the industry. One defaults on the other, and everyone likes to maintain a more abundant cash flow, and at the same time, they can earn some interest money in the bank.

After a while, Guo Binglian invited Xia Jingxing to attend a celebration banquet held on another floor of the Cultural Oriental Hotel.

After a few simple bites and a few glasses of wine, Xia Jingxing declined Guo Binglian's offer to stay, said goodbye and left.

He felt that he could not get close to Guo Binglian.

Because after Brother Hao kidnapped his eldest brother Li Yikai, he felt that the money was too refreshing. Then he kidnapped Guo Binglian's eldest brother Guo Bingxiang and went further and further in his money-making career.

However, the Guo family was not as happy as Li Huangtai in giving money. Guo Binglian and his second brother Guo Bingjiang spent their money, causing their eldest brother Guo Bingxiang to suffer a lot. In the end, Guo Bingxiang's wife went to the meeting alone and redeemed the money with 600 million Hong Kong dollars. The husband was detained for six full days.

Because of this incident, Guo Bingxiang's temperament changed drastically, and he no longer trusted his family. He even started to fight against his brothers. Later, he reported the bribery of his two younger brothers to the ICAC. As a result, the second brother Guo Bingjiang had to eat state food for more than five years. Guo Bingxiang He died of illness not long after his death.

Guo Binglian, who was lucky enough to escape, was finally able to run the Xinhongji business empire with hundreds of billions of assets, but the price was that one of his two brothers died in depression and the other was imprisoned for more than five years.

If you treat your own brother from the same mother like this, how should you treat outsiders?

Therefore, Xia Jingxing had no intention of getting close to Guo Binglian and retreated after discussing the business.

Sitting in the car, Xia Jingxing was filled with emotion. There were so many stories of grudges between wealthy families in Hong Kong Island that he began to worry about how to pass on his business empire in the future.

As a handsome boy who was only twenty-four years old, he suddenly felt that his worries were unfounded.

Dispelling his thoughts, Xia Jingxing looked out the window.

At this time, the car happened to pass by the Exchange Square.

This reminded Xia Jingxing of Huang Shengguo. The Korean guy showed him a plan and persuaded him to join him.

I don’t know how prepared that guy is.

While Xia Jingxing was deep in thought, the phone carried by Liu Xiaoduo, who was sitting in the front row, rang.

She picked up the phone and looked at it. She immediately turned to the back seat and said, "Mr. Xia, Bill Huang's phone number."

Xia Jingxing's spirit suddenly lifted up a lot. He held out his hand and said, "Give me the phone!" /15221_15221265/67433 It only took him a second to remember the address of this website: