Reborn Tycoon Rise

June 2003, Beijing:

The sun hangs high in the sky.

In the second ring road, in a courtyard that was several acres in size, two children were chasing each other.

Accidentally, one of the boys bumped into a middle-aged man, who was Xu Zhi.

The boy looked up and his playful smile immediately turned serious: "Daddy."

The little girl behind was a few years younger, but she was not afraid of the middle-aged man at all. She ran up to him and said coquettishly: "Daddy, brother stole all my KFC chicken wings."

"Zi Rui, you have already eaten several KFC meals in the past few days. You can't eat more." Xu Zhi lectured.

The little boy scratched his head and asked, "But KFC is delicious, and I heard from mommy that KFC doesn't belong to our family?"

Xu Zhi smiled and said, "It's true that it's from our family, but eating too much KFC will make you fat. Do you want to become like a fat cat?"

"No..." The little boy thought about the appearance of the fat cat in the TV series and immediately shook his head like a rattle.

Xu Zhi knelt down, picked up the little girl, and asked, "Where's mommy?"

The little girl and boy were a little confused. The nanny who followed them replied: "Miss He was with us just now. Later, she received a call and said that there was a problem with the business in Macau, so she asked me to take the children around. ."

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Okay, take them away first and let them eat more fruits. There will be guests coming later. It's not convenient for them to be here."

"Okay, Mr. Xu." The nanny waved, and the two children were a little reluctant to leave at first, but they didn't know what the nanny said in their ears, and the two children immediately jumped and walked to the backyard.

"Is Vice Minister Tang from the Ministry of Health here?" Xu Zhi asked the assistant next to him after seeing the two children leaving.

The assistant replied: "We talked on the phone before. There was some traffic jam on the road. We should be there in 5 minutes."

"Okay, let's go to the door to greet him!" Xu Zhi tidied his clothes and walked outside.

The courtyard where they are currently living was formed by the merger of several courtyards acquired in the late 1980s. All the old buildings were demolished, and then a group of Feng Shui, ancient architecture and modern designers were invited to work together to build this ancient-style courtyard. It is equipped with rockeries, fountains, artificial water, redwood corridors, etc..., showing the style of a hundred years ago.

Inside the house, except for the kitchen and the bedroom with a TV, the other rooms do not contain any modern electrical equipment, and are decorated with wooden materials. They look no different from a real ancient courtyard house.

As for air conditioning and heating, duct ventilation is used and introduced from outside the courtyard.

And this is just one of the courtyard houses that Xu Zhi owns in Beijing. After entering the 21st century, with the rapid development of Beijing, courtyard houses have become an extremely scarce resource. Most of the nouveau riche, even if they have money, buy them. Less than that. As for the number of courtyard houses, no one except the government officials can surpass Xu Zhi.

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An Audi A6 car stopped at the door, and several internal leaders came out. Xu Zhi personally came to the door to greet him: "Mr. Tang, welcome."

"Mr. Xu, you're welcome." Minister Tang returned the greeting with a smile.

"Please come inside." Xu Zhi waved his hand.

Everyone followed the two men in and soon arrived at the hall.

Minister Tang took a look at the internal layout and said with a smile: "Mr. Xu, your courtyard is really ancient!"

"Since it is called a courtyard house, of course it must have an ancient style. Otherwise, I might as well just build a modern villa." Xu Zhi replied with a smile.

After the assistant served the tea, he left. Xu Zhi said a few more polite words: "Minister Tang, now that the SARS epidemic has passed, I know that many medical staff in the country have sacrificed their lives in the fight against the epidemic, and some have survived. He lost his life, but it still left very serious sequelae. This time I came to Beijing to set up an aid fund to specifically help these anti-epidemic heroes."

"Mr. Xu, the central government has already issued an order that the treatment of SARS patients shall be the responsibility of the national finance. Although there is no policy on the sequelae yet, the ministries and commissions are already discussing the matter. I think you should wait for the results to come out before making a decision. Let’s take the next step.” Minister Tang suggested.

"It seems that I didn't think it through well." Xu Zhi nodded and said: "Then I have another idea. If any SARS patients in China are unemployed due to physical reasons, they can come to my company. I will also ask The companies below try to find these people jobs they can do to help them get back to their normal lives.”

"Mr. Xu's idea is good. It is indeed difficult for these seriously ill patients to work normally like ordinary people. If they can have a stable income, it is indeed a very good thing." Minister Tang sighed: "This epidemic has indeed It’s a huge blow to our country’s public health, but fortunately Mr. Xu has invested heavily in helping our country build some cutting-edge laboratories, otherwise our losses would have been even greater!”

As early as January 1988, a hepatitis A epidemic broke out in Shanghai. 300,000 people were infected. Primary and secondary schools in Shanghai were suspended, and even Xiangjiang was affected. After several months of treatment, the epidemic disappeared.

This is the first large-scale epidemic since the reform and opening up. A major public health emergency not only endangers people's health and life safety, but also hinders economic development and social progress. Therefore, the central government decided to reorganize the national health defense system.

However, the investment involved was really high. After Xu Zhi learned about the situation, he came to the capital and negotiated with many leaders. He personally donated a P4-level biological laboratory and also built three laboratories in Shanghai, Yuezhou and Jiangcheng. A P3 level laboratory was established to help domestic scientific research and development work in the field of microorganisms.

These laboratories not only have the most advanced equipment, but also have a large number of experienced researchers. After the outbreak of SARS, several laboratories also played an important role.

"You're welcome, Minister Tang. If you can save lives, it's worth spending more money." Xu Zhi said politely.

The P4 laboratory is the highest safety level laboratory currently owned by mankind. In the 1990s, only a handful of countries in the world had such laboratories. Its main function was to study various level 4 virulent viruses, such as mad cow disease virus, Bhola wait….

How much it costs to build such a laboratory is only secondary. Xu Zhi used many contacts in the United States to purchase various cutting-edge equipment and professional materials, and then sent them to the mainland.

Cutting-edge biological research laboratories can be said to be an integral part of national security.

Later, the central government made a gift. In terms of business, the Beijing City Government transferred three pieces of commercial land next to the subway under construction at a preferential price to the Land Group, which was seeking investment in the mainland. The Ministry of Commerce also formally agreed in 1991 that Watsons could fully enter the mainland's retail industry.

Although the value of several pieces of commercial land in the former is relatively high, there is an upper limit. The opening of the retail industry in the back will provide unlimited business opportunities.

You should know that except for a few cities in the mainland that have already opened up, the entire mainland did not relax restrictions on overseas retail until 1996.

Watsons was able to enter the market five years in advance, and with tens of billions of dollars earned from the Japanese market behind it, this means that Watsons has already booked the entire mainland market.

The central government's special policies and US dollar investment opened the way. Starting in 1992, Watsons quickly occupied major cities in the mainland at a rate of 100 to 200 new stores or mergers and acquisitions each year, starting from some cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and then slowly Radiating to all sides, all stores adopt a self-owned property model to avoid the impact of high rents in the future in the 21st century.

In the late 1990s, after the logistics industry allowed foreign investment, Watsons spent another US$2 billion to build dozens of logistics operation centers. It also established its own fleet and entered the express transportation industry, minimizing operating costs in the mainland.

Today, Watsons has 1,800 large supermarkets in the mainland, and the number of large cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Tianjin is even more than 100. Other foreign capital, including local capital, can only find suitable positions in the cracks.

The policy is so good. While Watsons is making money, it will also have certain social responsibilities. For example, suitable positions can be dedicated to taking care of local disabled and needy families, and it has formed a mature operating model.

Therefore, no matter where the patients with the sequelae of SARS are, Watsons can be involved. Even in rural farming, a procurement tilt can help these people.

Minister Tang was very satisfied with this plan and said with a smile: "Mr. Xu, you invited me here today just for this reason, right?"

"Of course." Xu Zhi said with a smile: "Although SARS was suppressed in time, it also proved that the biggest enemy of human beings is these microorganisms such as viruses or bacteria, especially since our country has a large population and after urbanization, a large number of People are gathering together again, and transportation will become more and more developed. These factors not only facilitate us, but also facilitate the spread of the virus.

Therefore, I intend to build some special hospitals in the country to ensure that when a major public health event breaks out, the medical force can quickly keep up and suppress the spread of the epidemic! "

"What kind of hospital?" Minister Tang asked curiously.

Xu Zhi briefly introduced: "To put it simply, all wards in a hospital are designed with negative pressure. At the same time, the entire hospital is equipped with a large number of ICU equipment and negative pressure emergency transport vehicles. In times of emergency, it can quickly serve as a rescue base."

"All use negative pressure design? This investment is not a small amount?" Minister Tang said in surprise.

Xu Zhi shook his head and said: "In fact, it's not much. I have consulted professionals. All 1,000 wards are designed with negative pressure, and they were planned uniformly when building the building. The total cost is about 100 million yuan, which is relatively Generally speaking, ICU equipment is a bit more expensive."

"With negative pressure wards and a large amount of ICU equipment, is Mr. Xu worried that something like this year will happen again?" Minister Tang asked.

"It's not about worrying about whether it will happen again, but when it will happen again," Xu Zhi said. "The SARS that has just been suppressed, the global flu that breaks out every few years, and the Ebola outbreak that is currently happening in Africa are all , or even unknown new viruses, I hope that these investments of mine are because I am too worried.

Moreover, these hospitals have so many advanced equipment, which can be used to treat patients with various difficult and complicated diseases in normal times to ensure a normal balance of income and expenditure. Especially with so many ICU equipment, if a natural disaster such as an earthquake causes a large number of casualties, , these hospitals can also undertake the treatment work. "

"How many such hospitals does Mr. Xu plan to build?" Minister Tang asked after pondering for a moment.

"It is tentatively decided to have ten hospitals, and priority will be given to densely populated cities for location selection. As for the scale of the hospital, follow-up inspection is needed." Xu Zhi replied.

"Okay, I will report this matter immediately after I return and try to give Mr. Xu an accurate reply in the shortest possible time." Minister Tang promised.

"Thank you, Minister Tang." Xu Zhi smiled and said, "One more thing, I also hope to get help from Minister Tang."

"Oh, if you have anything else, just ask." Minister Tang smiled boldly.

Xu Zhi said: "Minister Tang, my Watsons has reached a consensus with CVS Group, the largest pharmaceutical chain store in the United States.

Watsons is preparing to fully acquire CVS Group. If this transaction can pass the investigation of US antitrust laws, Watsons will become the world's largest drugstore chain and will have the capital to negotiate with Western pharmaceutical giants.

At present, there are a large number of patients with cancer or some special diseases in our country every year, and many of them need to import expensive drugs from overseas. Because of the scattered purchase, the prices of these drugs are extremely high, and ordinary families cannot afford them at all, so I also hope, The country can set up a special working group to negotiate purchase prices with Watsons and Western pharmaceutical giants. Together, our annual purchase volume reaches tens of billions of dollars. It is impossible for any pharmaceutical company to ignore such a high purchase volume. "

In the 1990s, Watsons had huge funds behind it. In addition to the traditional supermarket retail industry, another market was also Watsons' main target, which was the pharmaceutical retail market.

With a large amount of funds earned from Japan, coupled with the huge profits earned from the third oil crisis and the Asian financial crisis, Watsons spent more than 30 billion US dollars, and borrowed more than 50 billion US dollars in borrowing and financing. Through continuous mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and Zijian has built a huge pharmaceutical chain retail network in Europe and the United States.

In 1999, Xu Zhi ordered the sale of a large number of technology stocks in his hands, including Microsoft, Oracle, Yahoo, Netscape and other companies, making another profit of tens of billions of dollars.

These funds were once again used for the expansion of Watsons. Civis is one of the most successful acquisition targets. If the acquisition is successful, 16% of the pharmaceutical retail and medical devices in the US market will be controlled by Watsons, plus In Europe and Asia, even pharmaceutical giants such as Pfizer and Merkel have to control the market share of Watsons.

Biotechnology research and development is a high-end industry, and the difficulty is comparable to that of the space shuttle. No matter how much money is invested in these non-professional fields, it may not be able to make a splash. Therefore, Xu Zhi decided to do what capital should do and use funds to Clear the way to control the pharmaceutical terminal retail market.

This is a very considerable investment. Pharmaceutical retail itself is an industry with good returns, and it is not afraid of the impact of economic crises, because even in the Great Recession of 1929, those who take medicine will still have to take medicine.

"It is indeed a good thing to be able to lower the prices of these targeted drugs. I will report this matter immediately after I return. I think there will be a reply soon." Minister Tang said with a smile.

Xu Zhi smiled and said, "Okay, thank you very much, Minister Tang. Together we will be able to hold down the price of targeted drugs."

"A few years ago, when I was still in Shanghai, I heard that Mr. Xu is patriotic and loves the people. He has always been working for the country or the welfare of the people. When I saw him today, he really lived up to his reputation." Minister Tang said cautiously.

"Thank you very much." Xu Zhi said with a smile: "Love for the country and the people should not be taken seriously. I am just doing my best while doing business! These are what I, as a Chinese, should do!"

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