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The next day, Su Cheng didn't get up until almost nine in the morning.

After Ah Jiao helped him dress and wash up, Su Cheng returned to the third floor to have breakfast with Zhong Chuhong and read the newspaper.

The Oriental Daily, Sing Tao Daily, Xia Yi News, Ming Pao, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, Ta Kung Pao, and other comprehensive news and business newspapers in Hong Kong extensively reported on the grand opening of Hutchison Whampoa Plaza yesterday.

October 1st saw two major news stories: first, the official opening of Hutchison Whampoa Plaza, and second, the opening and operation of Hong Kong's first subway, the Modified Early System.

As media outlets under Su Cheng's banner, the Oriental Daily and Xia Yi News naturally placed the news of Hutchison Whampoa Plaza's opening on the front page.

To their surprise, besides the Oriental Daily and Xia Yi News, the Hong Kong Commercial Daily also put the opening of Hutchison Whampoa Plaza as the top headline on its front page.

However, Hutchison Whampoa Plaza is part of the business sector, and the Hong Kong Commercial Daily is mainly known for reporting business news, so this wasn't surprising.

As for other mainstream media, even if they chose to make the subway opening the headline, the news about Hutchison Whampoa Plaza was no less significant, and its placement was also very prominent.

However, because the statistics for Hutchison Whampoa Plaza came out too late last night, and these newspapers certainly couldn't wait until then to finalize the articles and start printing, as that would definitely be too late, these newspapers only focused on extensively reporting the crowded scenes at Hutchison Whampoa Plaza.

In short, even though the data hadn't been reported through the news media yet, Hutchison Whampoa Plaza had already made a name for itself, becoming Hong Kong people's new favorite place to shop and check-in.

Merchants in Central, Mong Kok, Tsim Sha Tsui, Causeway Bay, and other prosperous business districts in Hong Kong were surprised to find that even on weekdays, when foot traffic was usually pretty good, their income had clearly declined yesterday.

Looking at the crowded and frantic scenes in the pictures on the newspaper, these business owners knew that a portion of their customer traffic had been diverted to Hutchison Whampoa Plaza in Kowloon Tong.

At the same time, major media outlets in Hong Kong received news from the publicity department of Hutchison Whampoa Plaza, which directly released the data for the entire day's foot traffic at Hutchison Whampoa Plaza.

Upon receiving the news, the editorial departments of major media outlets became even busier.

238,557 people, what an exaggerated number this was!

Hutchison Whampoa Plaza had been in trial operation for over a month, and the day with the most people had only been 94,693, not even 100,000, which was already a very exaggerated number.

But yesterday, more than 200,000 people, this data was even more exaggerated.

A weekday!

This was a day when everyone was at work!

No one questioned it, because everyone who had visited Hutchison Whampoa Plaza yesterday knew that this data was not exaggerated at all.

Even those who hadn't been there could see the situation through newspapers or television.

Moreover, the television had many aerial俯视拍摄 videos, which showed even more clearly how exaggerated the scene was. Almost all the stores had many customers, and the salespeople couldn't keep up. Long queues were everywhere in the food street. The scene of the main road in the mall being almost packed with people was impressive.

All of this indicated how exaggerated the number of visitors to Hutchison Whampoa Plaza was yesterday. Data fabrication? With the success of Hutchison Whampoa Plaza yesterday, there was no need at all.

While Su Cheng was engrossed in reading the newspaper news, in Central, at the Jardine Matheson headquarters, in the General Manager's office.

At this moment, two people were discussing something in the office, and several newspapers were also placed on the table in front of them.

These two people were none other than Jardine Matheson Property Group General Manager, Alasdair Morrison, and Jardine Matheson's Taipan, Simon Keswick.

Mr. Keswick, I think we need to speed up the progress of Jardine Matheson Group's urban commercial complex plan. The success of Hutchison Whampoa Plaza has shown us how much profit such a new product can bring to the company.

Most importantly, the construction cost of a building like Hutchison Whampoa Plaza is much lower than the cost of our financial office buildings, but the revenue it brings is not much less. We must create our own urban commercial complex as soon as possible to share this blank cake with Hutchison Whampoa Plaza!

At this time, Alasdair Morrison's face was full of longing.

Hasn't Wen Yu relented yet?

Simon Keswick asked.

No, we have repeatedly offered very sincere terms, but the other party has not agreed. The last time, they even directly and clearly rejected our invitation.

Alasdair Morrison shook his head and said.

Simon Keswick's suggestion was to invite Wen Yu to join Jardine Matheson.

As Jardine Matheson's Taipan and also the Taipan of Jardine Matheson Properties, Simon Keswick has a lot of say in Jardine Matheson.

Since we couldn't invite him, then forget it. He's just the general manager of a company. It's already giving him a lot of face to invite him to be the person in charge of our project.

Besides, he's not the only one with experience. The other senior executives of Hutchison Whampoa Plaza must have corresponding experience. I remember that Martin Smith of Hongkong Electric was poached by Mr. Su Cheng from our Jardine Matheson, right? Since they can poach people from us, then we can naturally poach people from their companies!

Simon Keswick said indifferently.

Okay, then we'll secretly extend olive branches to other senior executives of Hutchison Whampoa Plaza and see. If Wen Yu doesn't agree, someone will!

Alasdair Morrison nodded directly.

Now, Jardine Matheson has established an urban complex project department and has decided to build their first urban complex in Sheung Wan. With Sheung Wan's unique location, they believe that once it's built, it will definitely attract a lot of traffic from Central, Causeway Bay, Wan Chai, and other areas on Hong Kong Island.

The success of Hutchison Whampoa Plaza has shown them that this model is feasible!

At this time, the landline phone on the desk rang.

Alasdair Morrison immediately answered the phone.

Okay, okay, I understand!

After hanging up the phone, Alasdair Morrison's face was now full of shock.

What's wrong? Mr. Morrison?

Seeing Alasdair Morrison's expression, Simon Keswick asked strangely.

Our intelligence department has obtained shocking news. In the entire day yesterday, the foot traffic at Hutchison Whampoa Plaza reached 238,557 people, and the turnover was close to HK$80 million!

Alasdair Morrison said two pieces of data that were enough to shock even a big shot like Simon Keswick.

This was the data for one day, and it was in a near郊区 suburban area like Kowloon Tong. Such data would shock anyone.

(End of this chapter)