Reborn Tycoon Rise

While in Beijing, the mainland government attached great importance to the entire Xiangjiang delegation, especially all the business tycoons. It is said that several major cooperation intentions were negotiated this time:

Xu Zhi proposed the Midea Electronics Industrial City plan and the Shanghai Mack Truck Company plan.

Bao Yugang decided to donate US$10 million to build a five-star hotel in Beijing.

Hu Yingxiang proposed to invest more than 1 billion US dollars to build an expressway connecting Guangdong City and Shenhai City.

Li Jiacheng is even more powerful. He decided to build a modern university in his hometown of Shantou. This project does not have the highest investment, but unlike Xu Zhi's two large factories and Hu Yingxiang's expressway, the university town does not have any returns. Even Xu Zhi I never imagined that Li Jiacheng would still have the courage to build this university after losing Hutchison Whampoa.

But for Shanghai, although the wealthy people in Xiangjiang have invested in many projects, the only one that concerns them is Mark's truck project. As an industrial capital, Shanghai naturally knows the economic benefits that a large truck factory can bring, and it is of great importance to Shanghai. Naturally, we attach great importance to this.

However, due to Xu Zhi's own request, Shanghai Municipality did not hold a welcoming ceremony at the airport. After Xu Zhi and others checked into the Peace Hotel, the secretary of the municipal government sent an invitation, and the leaders hosted a banquet for Xu at the Peace Hotel where they lived. Chi.

Shanghai City has an extremely special status in the entire country. It is the center of the national economy and politically, it is second only to the capital.

After sorting out his suit in the cloakroom, Xu Zhi followed his secretary who was already waiting outside and took the elevator from the top floor to the dining room on the third floor.

The Peace Hotel was built in the Republic of China. The floor of the restaurant is made of modern milky white marble, which has a modern style, and all the lamps are nostalgic ancient lamps, giving it a flavor of the Republic of China.

"Mr. Xu." As soon as he entered the private room, Xu Zhi saw an acquaintance. This banquet was a private banquet for Shanghai leaders, and Rao Bing was also invited.

Rao Bing smiled and introduced: "Mr. Xu, this is Huang Daohan and Lin Changqing, the leaders of Shanghai Municipality.

This is Mr. Xu Zhixu, the chairman of Xiangjiang Midea Company. "

"Nice to meet you two." Xu Zhi shook hands politely one by one, "Mr. Xu, I have admired him for a long time. Although I have been staying in China, Mr. Xu's name is very popular!" Huang Daohan said with a smile.

Xu Zhi smiled: "Thank you."

"Sit down!" Rao Bing greeted with a smile: "Do you want to drink, Mr. Xu?"

"It's okay to drink a little." Xu Zhi replied that in the mainland, the wine table culture is a historical tradition, especially the older generation, everyone likes to drink.

Lin Changqing smiled and said: "Mr. Xu, this is Maotai liquor that has been sealed for 20 years. It is rare in the entire mainland. Today we have the opportunity to taste such fine wine because of your credit!"

"That's a great honor." Xu Zhi said with a smile.

Xu Zhi can actually drink, but he just can't drink it normally. The hotel waiter quickly served several delicacies. As a person familiar with both parties, Rao Bing quickly lightened up the atmosphere.

After he was three-quarters full, Huang Daohan suddenly asked: "Mr. Xu, I heard that your Midea Electronics is already one of the largest electronics companies in the world?"

"If you include the RCA TV business we just acquired, that's not wrong." Xu Zhi thought for a while and replied.

Global enterprise rankings generally rank enterprise sizes not based on profits, but on sales. Before the acquisition of RCA's TV business, Midea's arcade and game consoles had high profits, but their total sales did not reach the top level in the world. That level.

However, after acquiring the RCA TV business, it directly took over a market of nearly US$2 billion. Although it was hit hard by the pollution incident, before the acquisition, the original CEO Brad temporarily stabilized the US market through the foundry model. The color TV market has also caused considerable losses. After Midea took over, this model cannot be changed for the time being. Only when the factory in Shenhai City starts construction can the losses be recovered. However, in terms of scale, it is indeed the largest electronics company in the world. One of the companies.

Huang Daohan smiled and said: "Mr. Xu, I know that you intend to build a large-scale color TV production base in Shenhai City, but I can say this, in the entire mainland, no city's electronics industry can compare with ours in Shanghai. Even if the central government agrees to provide supporting facilities for Midea's factories in Shenhai City, it will still be far inferior to our Shanghai stock market."

"I naturally believe this." Xu Zhi replied affirmatively. Not to mention the electronics industry, even other industries, basically the number one in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Otherwise, the Baosteel project and the Volkswagen project with an investment of more than 8 billion US dollars would not be the same. One of the important factors why the city is located in Shanghai is that Shanghai has been the industrial capital of Asia since the Republic of China. Its industrial system is the most complete in the entire mainland.

Huang Daohan nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Mr. Xu, I am very grateful that you can choose to put the Mack Truck project in Shanghai, but I also hope that the electronics industry in Shanghai will also have an opportunity to compete with the world's top What does Mr. Xu think of a cooperation with an electronics company?"

Although this sentence did not have any direct meaning, Xu Zhi also understood that it was actually an attempt to intercept Hu Mei's project in Shenhai City. After all, it is a company with an annual output value of hundreds of millions of dollars and can create tens of thousands of jobs. Many countries across Asia are interested in large factories, not to mention the mainland. Midea's corporate headquarters has also received inquiries from Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and even Singapore.

Xu Zhi thought for a while and said: "Secretary Huang, the main reason for placing this project in Shenhai City is that it is close to Xiangjiang and has convenient language access. This is the largest project under Midea Company, so we decided to place it near the headquarters for convenience. manage."

Huang Daohan smiled and said: "I understand this, but as far as I know, no large international company will set up just one production base. The annual output value of the American RCA TV business taken over by Midea Company exceeds US$2 billion. Can't a factory in Shenhai City be responsible?

I just hope that if Midea considers building a second factory in the future, it will be enough to give us priority in Shanghai. "