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A team consisting of two Santana, two Cherokees, and one Land Rover Range Rover drove on the rugged mountain roads in northern Guangdong. With the east wind of reform and opening up, the economic level of eastern Guangdong province can be described as thriving in the whole of China. Even after 30 years, the more sensible he is, he still firmly holds the position of the most powerful province in China's economy.

However, unlike Zhejiang and Jiangsu, which began to rise in the 1990s, the economic development levels of Zhejiang and Jiangsu are relatively average. Even if the economy of northern Jiangsu and western Zhejiang is relatively poor, compared with the national average, it is actually one level. ǎn is not behind.

On the other hand, eastern Guangdong Province is completely different, and the economic development level of various regions in the province is extremely unbalanced. Relying on the dividends of reform and opening up, the Pearl River Delta has risen rapidly, and the per capita p has reached the level of developed countries in the world in later generations. However, in the remaining eastern, western and northern Guangdong regions, the economy is still lagging behind, and there are still a large number of impoverished counties.

To get rich, build roads first! The economic situation of a region can actually be clearly distinguished from the road! Although China in the 1980s did not build a dense network of expressways as it did a few decades later, most areas were still connected by at least provincial and national highways.

It's just that the financial situation of each region is different, and the maintenance level of the road is very different. After the convoy set off from the provincial capital of Guangdong, and arrived in the urban area of ​​Qingyuan, ︽dǐng︽ǎn︽小︽ said, .≡◇This distance is not difficult. But after merging with Qingyuan citizens and officials from the political bureau, the road conditions continued to get worse and worse!

Li Ying sits in the passenger seat of the Land Rover Range Rover. This luxury off-road vehicle is in much better condition than the Santana and Cherokee. But she was still being jolted so much that she almost vomited out her bile.

"Aying. This trip is not easy!" Cai Yanan handed a bottle of water to Li Ying, who was blushing, and said in a caring tone.

Cai Yanan is the head of the Haichuan (China) Foundation, and Li Ying's first job after joining the foundation. It is to serve as her special assistant to gain practical experience. Cai Yanan naturally knew Li Ying's true identity. In order to take care of Li Ying's situation, he had long deliberately asked the driver to lower the speed of the car, and occasionally stopped in the middle to repair.

"Sister Nan, I feel like the whole stomach is not mine anymore!" Li Ying forced a smile, she had anticipated the difficulty of this trip in advance. But these years of superior life have made her delicate body adaptable. It is not possible to improve only with a cavity of pride.

"Ms. Cai, Ms. Li, you can reach the county seat of Liannan County in less than 10 kilometers. There are two counties, Liannan and Lianshan in the north of Qingyuan City. They are both ethnic minority autonomous counties. The traffic here is relatively backward and the natural environment is The harmony is quite bad, and it can be regarded as the most backward area in the province!" Director Wang of the Publicity Office of the Provincial Civil Affairs Department stepped forward and explained. In fact, he was getting motion sickness just now. The face is also not very good-looking.

"It is precisely because the country's economic development is not fast enough and the people's living standards are not high enough that the central government will vigorously promote the cause of reform and opening up and shift the focus of the country's work to economic construction!" Director Wang nodded again and again.

Cai Yanan is no stranger to how to deal with government officials. Because he originally worked in the government department, but her husband had a relative aunt who fled and settled in Hong Kong in 1949. So in 1979. In the name of visiting relatives in Hong Kong, their family obtained a pass to Hong Kong.

At that time, Hong Kong's immigration policy was still based on the immigration policy. Anyone only needs to be able to successfully reach downtown Hong Kong. You can go to the Chinese Extension Office in Queensway to apply for a temporary ID card. After living continuously for one year, you can obtain the official household registration in Hong Kong.

Although Cai Yanan is already from Hong Kong, she is no stranger to the domestic way of doing things. At the beginning of the establishment of the Haichuan Foundation, she successfully applied for a job in the foundation. With outstanding ability and ability to do things, she quickly stood out in her work.

Previously, the Haichuan Foundation had been managed by Zhong Chuhong, and she, who was also a woman, naturally paid special attention to this strong woman under her. After the Haichuan Foundation began to expand its operations in the Mainland, and upgraded the office originally located in the Deep Sea Special Zone to the Haichuan (China) Foundation, Cai Yanan's special background in the Mainland gave her an opportunity to stand on her own.

"Miss Li, which country's brand is this car? It seems to be rare in China. It is indeed more comfortable than the Cherokee I was in!"

Director Wang touched the soft leather cushion on the seat and sighed. Because of the specific itinerary to be discussed, Cai Yanan specially invited Director Wang to ride with him in his Range Rover before he set off again.

"Land Rover is a British car brand. It is a car company specializing in the production of off-road vehicles, just like the American p company, which is a joint venture with BAIC!"

Cai Yanan glanced at Li Ying, who was sitting in the front passenger seat. She naturally knew the price of this Land Rover, which was worth two or three Cherokees. The fact that he was able to ride this luxury off-road vehicle on his trip was entirely due to Li Ying's light.

"The Cherokee produced by our Beijing-Beijing Automobile Factory cannot be compared with Land Rover at all! After all, the United Kingdom is an old capitalist empire, and it seems that there are still a lot of good things at the bottom of the box!" Director Wang said with a nod.

Although Cai Yanan is not very proficient in cars, she and her husband each bought a car to travel, so she naturally knows more than the director Wang next to her. The Cherokee model produced by p company and BAIC Group, which is a joint venture, is not on the same level as Land Rover's Range Rover at all.

American p company is the first foreign automobile company to negotiate a joint venture with China. It and BAIC established a joint venture Beijing-Jingeep Corporation as early as 1984, and the first model produced was the Cherokee.

The reason why the domestic side was interested in this model was to introduce a cheap means of transportation that could adapt to the poor road conditions in remote areas. It's just that for various reasons, the Cherokee is much more expensive than the Santana, which came out a few years later.

In the traditional impression of the Chinese, jeeps are far less imposing than sedans. Therefore, the popularity of the Cherokee in China is far less than that of the Volkswagen Santana. But it's actually like being in the mountains of northern Guangdong. The Cherokee's ability to adapt is much better than that of the Santana.

Just as Cai Yanan and Director Wang were chatting in the back row, Li Ying, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, began to slowly adapt to the bumps. She finally had the energy to chew on what her brother Li Xuan said last night!

What is the purpose of Li Xuan and Dongfang Group to do charity? A more noble statement. It is to give back to the society!

Being poor cares themselves, being wealthy cares the world! That's one reason, but it's not all! Politics and business have never been separated. In order to allow the Oriental Group to gain a firm foothold in the United States, Li Xuan chose speculative politics. Use a lot of political cash to make good politicians, and push them to the throne of Congress and even the president.

American politics is an electoral game, although election law certainly does not allow the direct purchase of votes with money. But money allows politicians to recruit more campaign aides to call voters one by one. If you have money, you can print more flyers and posters to promote your ruling ideas, and if you have money, you can broadcast ads on TV that smear campaign opponents.

Therefore, under the same conditions, candidates who can raise more campaign funds. Often has a huge advantage! However, China's political ecology is completely different from that of the United States. The promotion of officials depends on the appreciation of their superiors. And want leaders to promote you, the most persuasive weapon. It's just a good performance.

So if the Eastern bloc wants to get involved in politics here. The best way is actually to use various investment projects to convey political achievements to officials. In this way, Li Xuan may be able to make a good group of people, but Dongfang Group can easily be led by the nose and cannot fully follow its own established plan for investment layout.

Of course, in Li Xuan's current status, in fact, as long as he is willing to invest in China, he does not take the initiative to do anything. It will definitely become a guest of honor from Beijing-Beijing. For example, the richest Chinese in another time and space, Li Jiacheng's Cheung Kong Group, received various preferential treatment when it entered the mainland.

But Li Xuan's character is not like Li Jiacheng's long-sleeved dance, cunning and cunning. And even the later Li Jiacheng, his Changshi Department was under overwhelming attack when he withdrew from the domestic market and turned to bargain hunting in Europe.

When you come in, you talk about human relationships, and you make a lot of money in China's rapid growth. After the Chinese economy entered the new normal, you began to emphasize business principles again, and turned your head and left very coldly! The reason why Li Jiacheng was attacked overwhelmingly is not to say that the money earned from China can only be kept in China, but that his principles of doing things have undergone serious changes.

Li Xuan is neither willing to take the initiative to provide political achievements, nor to talk too much about human relations, he wants the Oriental Group to maintain a relatively detached position in the country. However, if the Oriental Group wants to obtain a favorable development environment in China, Li Xuan has to show his favor!

So in this case, charity has become the best choice. Li Xuan spends a lot of public relations money on politicians in the United States, but in China he simply spends the money on charity. Foreign investment in China already has super-national treatment, and after brushing a layer of Buddha's shining golden body, it will naturally become an indestructible body!

Therefore, the money spent by the Haichuan Foundation is not meaningless to the Oriental Group. These donated money can actually be understood as the brand public relations fee of the Oriental Group! After Li Ying has this understanding, she also has more sense of responsibility for her new job!

East Guangdong Province is now the main investment base of the East Group, so the current assistance of the Haichuan Foundation is naturally placed in East Guangdong Province. After the inspection in northern Guangdong, the Oceanpower Foundation will then conduct inspections in eastern and western Guangdong, which are also relatively backward in economy.

After completing the systematic investigation, the Haichuan Foundation will cooperate with the Guangdong Provincial Government to carry out a large-scale charity program. Compared with the previous petty troubles, Li Xuan has prepared a start-up capital of 500 million Hong Kong dollars this time, which will definitely cause quite a stir in the whole province and even higher levels in one fell swoop!

The Haichuan Foundation under Li Xuan's name is not like many other foundations. It only uses the minimum percentage prescribed by government agencies every year, such as 5% of the total assets for charity. If it can cope with the relevant verification, it will complete the task.

The funds that Li Xuan injects into the Haichuan Foundation each year are about 1% of his total assets. The British "Financial Times" just recently conducted a new assessment of his property. "Financial Times" finally concluded that the personal wealth of the world's richest man has exceeded 25 billion US dollars.

That is to say, the annual donation fund obtained by the Haichuan Foundation from Li Xuan alone is about 2 billion Hong Kong dollars. The annual balance of these funds is only about 20%, and the remaining 80% will be spent in time!

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Just as his sister was bumping in the mountains in northern Guangdong, Li Xuan attended a grand opening ceremony in the Shekou Industrial Zone. China Merchants Bank, China's first joint-stock bank held by a corporate legal person, is officially launched!

Unlike China Merchants Bank in another time and space, this one has only one network, and its business scope is limited to the small area of ​​Shekou Industrial Zone and Nanhu Development Zone. It has never accepted foreign shareholding!

Jiahua Bank invested 10 million yuan and held a 5% stake in China Merchants Bank with a total share capital of 50 million yuan. This is hailed by the outside world as a major breakthrough in China's financial sector!

As early as 1982, Jiahua Bank set up an office in the Deep Sea Special Zone. Later, in 1984, together with HSBC, it became the first foreign bank to obtain a business license issued by the central bank. As a result, Jiahua Bank upgraded the original deep-sea special zone office to its first branch in mainland China, and was qualified to engage in more comprehensive banking business.

With the help of Oriental Group's layout in the deep-sea special zone, the total capital exported by Jiahua Bank to China has exceeded 10 billion Hong Kong dollars in just a few years. China's control over foreign banks has always been relatively strict, and after learning that China Merchants Group intends to set up a bank of its own, Jiahua Bank began to actively engage with them, hoping to expand its influence in the mainland by saving the country through a curve.

You must know that although China Merchants Group is a large group, it does not have any experience in the financial industry, especially the banking field. But Jia Hua Bank is different. It has now developed into the third largest bank in Hong Kong after HSBC and Standard Chartered. Its advanced management experience can provide a lot of help for the newly established China Merchants Bank!

It's just that it's not that easy to tear a hole in China's closed banking system. Jiahua had hoped to take a 20 percent stake in the newly formed China Merchants Bank and get one or two seats on the bank's board. However, in the end, Jiahua was only allowed to hold 5% of the shares.

However, although Jiahua Bank failed to achieve its goal, it also successfully signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Merchants Bank. Jiahua will use its own advanced experience to help China Merchants Bank to build a modern bank management system that is in line with international standards.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. After the first cooperation and the gradual accumulation of more trust in the future, Jiahua Bank has undoubtedly taken a big step ahead in the race to enter the mainland market! (To be continued..)