"How is the progress of these two businesses in the Middle East and Warsaw Pact countries?" Zhao Yi asked.
“Most of our mobile business negotiations with most countries in the Middle East are nearing completion, and it will take up to a month before we can basically end all negotiations with them and enter the implementation stage.
As for the construction of information networks, they are currently under negotiation. The resistance is not as great as that of mobile services, and there should be a relatively clear result in the near future.
As for the Warsaw Pact countries, they are still in negotiations. Judging from the current negotiation situation, it is very unsatisfactory. I think there is not much hope. He Pinyun said.
After hearing what He Pinyun said, Zhao Yi said: "Forget it, end the negotiations, withdraw the negotiators, focus on existing business, and complete the construction of relevant infrastructure as soon as possible."
After all, Hong Kong is now under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. As a company headquartered in Hong Kong, it is still quite difficult to do business in the Warsaw Pact countries. This aspect can only wait until later.
It is better to run the current business well and complete the construction of mobile networks and high-speed information networks that have entered the country as soon as possible so that their Internet companies can enter these countries to conduct business.
Others can only be seen while walking. If there is no chance now, it does not mean that there will be no chance in the future.
After He Pinyun left, Zhao Yiyi said to Lin Hexia, "What do you think He Pinyun did?"
"Although many of Hong Kong Telecom's development strategies have not been successful, overall they are still developing well, which shows that He Pinyun still has certain capabilities.
As for the mobile business in countries such as Europe, the United States, Japan and South Korea, there is still mainly resistance from the governments of various countries. This cannot be reversed by one company, and there are many large consortiums in these countries, and they can also see the benefits in this.
Therefore, under the obstruction from many parties, the possibility of success was not high. Before, we just wanted to try hard, and the result was within our expectations. Lin Hexia said.
Hearing Lin Hexia's words, Zhao Yi nodded and let it pass. Sometimes, many things cannot be accomplished by manpower.
After the three of them had a sumptuous lunch at noon, Zhou Jinyu continued to stay at home, while Zhao Yi and Lin Hexia went to the Hong Kong Housing Company together.
The current headquarters of the Hong Kong Housing Company has also changed the gun from a shotgun to a cannon. It has directly built a headquarters building, which has become a new landmark building in Hong Kong.
As the company with the largest capital in Hong Kong, it really needs a corporate headquarters that matches its strength. Now Hong Kong Housing Corporation is the well-deserved king of real estate in Hong Kong.
In the past, Hong Kong's relatively large real estate companies left Japan and Southeast Asia, hoping to find opportunities from outside. Now there are also some small real estate companies that have begun to expand their business overseas.
There is no way. Now the Hong Kong real estate market is locked up by the Hong Kong Housing Corporation, and there is not much development prospect. If you continue to stay here, not to mention relying on the Hong Kong Housing Corporation, your company will be finished sooner or later.
In the past, these small real estate companies still thought that at worst they would develop their business in Macau. Although it is a small place with a small population, it is very close to Hong Kong and has the same culture, so it is easier to develop business.
It's just that Lin Hexia's trip to Macau bought a large amount of land in Macau, and adopted the same business strategy as the Hong Kong housing company, which hindered their plans, and they had to go to Southeast Asia and other countries for development.
After Qi Xiaming finished talking about the current situation of the real estate market in Hong Kong, Zhao Yi was noncommittal. Although he felt that he was heinous, he did not feel much burden in his heart.
Not to mention that I am doing this to solve the housing problem in Hong Kong. It is conducive to the sustainable development of Hong Kong. It can also greatly improve the happiness index of Hong Kong citizens. It is a measure that is beneficial to most people.
Let’s talk about the rules of the capital market. The big fish eats the small fish, and the small fish eats the shrimp. Since they are not as powerful as others, they have no choice but to admit defeat. There is nothing nice to say.
With these measures, they have obviously given up. Otherwise, they will definitely cause trouble in Hong Kong and continue to cause trouble for Hong Kong housing companies.
If Hong Kong housing companies do not invest large sums of money in Hong Kong, these real estate developers' development of overseas markets may also have a certain impact on Hong Kong's prosperity.
The current situation is a game of vacating the cage and changing the bird, which has little impact on Hong Kong's economy. Moreover, although these real estate developers are developing overseas business, they are not in a hurry to sell off their assets, leaving themselves a way out.
It is not easy for a company to expand its overseas business. Otherwise, in the previous life, there would not have been so many companies rushing overseas excitedly and then returning lonely, leaving nothing but feathers.
After reporting on the company's affairs, Zhao Yi, Lin Hexia and Qi Xiaming went to see how the Hong Kong Housing Company's new city in Yuen Long was being built. This was Zhao Yi's benchmark project in Hong Kong and was highly valued by him.
The primary purpose now is to build it well so as to provide a reference for the mainland government. As for the specific operation situation, it is too far away to talk about now, but judging from the response of the citizens, the prospects are still relatively optimistic.
In order for the new town in Yuen Long to be highly popular, it must provide good transportation facilities to closely connect it with Kowloon, Hong Kong. Otherwise, it will be difficult to develop.
This is why Zhao Yi must let the Hong Kong Housing Company intervene in the Hong Kong subway. Without the subway, it would be very troublesome for ordinary citizens to travel, and there would be a lot of delays on the way.
Not only that, the Hong Kong Housing Company is also urging the British Hong Kong government to build the Tsing Long Highway in the previous life to connect Yuen Long and Kowloon, Hong Kong in terms of land transportation.
In the past, the British Hong Kong government made so much money from the Hong Kong Housing Corporation, which had to be used to build public facilities, and the construction of road facilities was a very important item.
Although the British Hong Kong government is very unhappy with the Hong Kong Housing Corporation, after all, the construction plan they proposed is very reasonable, and the public is supportive.
Now that the Hong Kong Metro has been acquired by the Hong Kong Housing Corporation, it spends money not only on land reclamation but also on transportation construction. The Metro no longer needs large sums of money from the Hong Kong government to subsidize it.
And because the image of the British Hong Kong government has been greatly damaged in the past, it is even more important at this time to comply with public opinion and try to restore its image.
What's more important is that the Hong Kong Housing Corporation has now become a force and cannot be manipulated by the British Hong Kong government. If it really refuses, with the financial resources of the Hong Kong Housing Corporation, it is fully capable of building the necessary transportation facilities independently.
In this case, although it will cost the Hong Kong Housing Company a lot of money, the British Hong Kong government's own purpose will be defeated, and the gain will be completely outweighed by the loss. Besides, with so much money in hand, it is not a solution, and everyone in the city is watching. .
When the car arrived at the new city, Zhao Yi looked out of the car window and saw an endless edge line. Above was a forest of hanging towers. From the outside, most of the buildings had almost been topped out.
Since Zhao Yi demanded that the new city be built as quickly as possible, not only large and small construction companies in Hong Kong obtained construction contracts, but also large domestic construction companies also participated.
Coupled with the large-scale use of Tianshu Machinery Company's high-efficiency construction machinery, the construction speed is much faster than before. The project that originally took three or four years to complete is estimated to be almost completed in one or two years.
As for the details of the new city, it will take some time. It will take even longer for it to be fully operational, to house enough residents, and to have commercial facilities operational.
Zhao Yi looked out the window silently. Although real estate is not high-tech and does not arouse people's interest, if you see it with your own eyes, it will still give people a great shock.
Especially when a large number of buildings are built at the same time, a person wandering among them will clearly feel his own insignificance. This is probably the charm of architecture. Especially for such large-scale buildings, the charm is even greater.
After the car entered the new city, Zhao Yi and the others got out of the car and looked around. Before the construction of various buildings, the construction of road traffic in the new city had already begun.
Zhao Yi, who was well aware of the difficulty of driving in later metropolitan areas, required that new city roads be built according to high standards from the beginning. Although a large amount of land was occupied, he did not hold back on this.
However, in order to reduce losses, the building floors in new cities are generally very high. The lowest residential building is 20 stories high, and most residential buildings are 30 stories high.
And those commercial buildings are more than seventy or eighty stories high. If you look down from above the new city, you will see a jungle of steel and concrete below.
However, although the building heights are very high, a large amount of space is saved for greening. The building density is actually not high, and the floor area ratio is basically only controlled at around 4.
The floor area ratio is 4, which is already quite high in the mainland. However, this is in Hong Kong. The available land area is limited, so the floor area ratio has to be increased. Compared with the building density in places such as Hong Kong and Kowloon, it is already quite comfortable.
Although Zhao Yi also wanted to provide a comfortable environment like that in the mainland, conditions did not allow it, so he had to do this. This was restricted by objective conditions and was not based on human will.
Zhao Yi looked around and saw that the surrounding construction progress was about the same. After looking around, everyone got in the car again and continued to drive in, intending to complete the entire new city.
Hong Kong housing companies obviously contract projects to construction companies on a block-by-block basis, which can be seen from their progress. This is more beneficial to the dispatch of construction materials and is also conducive to the construction company's management of the project.
However, the commercial center located in the center of the new city cannot be completed by just any construction company. It must be completed by a company with experience in high-rise construction.
Zhao Yi also discovered that several high-rise buildings in the commercial center were contracted by mainland companies. After thinking about it for a moment, Zhao Yi felt relieved.
Although there are very few high-rise buildings in the mainland, it is not without them. First of all, it is the corporate headquarters of its subsidiaries. Most of them have high-rise buildings. For example, the Hualong Clothing Company mentioned earlier has a maximum of 99 floors and a building height of four to five hundred meters.
In this era, they are already very tall buildings, and the contractors of these buildings are all large domestic construction state-owned enterprises. Although they have no previous experience, Zhao Yi's company is not afraid and really dares to let them build it.
Fortunately, they did not disappoint. It seems that the Chinese people are born with a very good talent for architecture. Although they have no experience in this area before, everyone has come here for the first time.
After the first time, there will be a second time. The more times, the more skilled the business will be. So although Zhao Yi was a little surprised to see them contracting the commercial center project here, it was also reasonable.
Moreover, Zhao Yi also intends to let domestic construction companies have more construction experience. After all, he still hopes to build a large number of new cities in the country in the future to meet the domestic urbanization needs.
By then, the teams and technologies of these construction companies have been trained. Once large-scale infrastructure construction starts in China, there will be no need to worry about no one available.
After walking around the new city, it was almost evening. The new city was really too big. Although it didn't look like it could accommodate 500,000 people, but if all the facilities were complete, the entire area was actually very large.
According to the current progress, it should be basically completed by the end of next year, and then it will be put into operation. How to make this new city operate and gain popularity, otherwise it will be troublesome.
After visiting the New Town, Zhao Yi took advantage of the fact that it was still dark and went to see the construction status of the Hong Kong MTR section from Kowloon to Yuen Long. This is one of the keys to the success of the New Town.
Since the Hong Kong MTR Corporation has been acquired by the Hong Kong Housing Corporation, it can control the construction progress of the subway, and the Hong Kong Housing Corporation is not short of money.
After Zhao Yi saw the construction progress of the Hong Kong subway, he was very satisfied. When the construction of the new city is completed, the subway lines should also be open for operation.
Today's inspection work is over. Zhao Yi originally planned to go back with Lin Hexia. Qi Xiaming invited them to have dinner. Zhao Yi was afraid that his refusal would cause him to misunderstand, so he agreed.
By the time Zhao Yi and Lin Hexia got home, it was already nine o'clock in the evening. This is not too late in Hong Kong, but in Zhao Yi's life, it is already too late.
Moreover, Zhao Yi also has a habit, that is, he doesn't like to go out and hang out when he has nothing to do at night. It's not a matter of safety. This is a habit he brought over from his previous life. He stays at home as soon as he gets off work.
After returning from rebirth, due to the lack of entertainment activities in the mainland and the unstable power supply at that time, Zhao Yi developed the habit of going to bed early. He usually went to bed around 9 o'clock.
Sure enough, when Zhao Yi came back at this time, Zhou Jinyu had already gone to bed, and Zhao Yi and Lin Hexia simply took a shower and went to bed.
The mission to Hong Kong was basically completed this time, but before going to bed, Zhao Yi felt that he still wanted to bring HSBC under the supervision of an umbrella holding company and not let it stay out for a long time.
It's just that the outside world is now speculating about the capital behind HSBC, and there is still no clear explanation. The Tengu Fund is obviously just a glove.
If HSBC is really included in the supervision of umbrella holding companies, it will be equivalent to telling the outside world who is the capital behind HSBC.
Zhao Yi is not sure about this impact now, mainly because in order to cooperate with the Hong Kong Housing Corporation in acquiring more land parcels, it announced tightening on real estate loans.
There was no connection between the two before, so it would not arouse doubts from the outside world, but if it is placed under the supervision of an umbrella holding company, the relationship between the two will be clear at a glance.
After getting up the next day, Zhao Yi told Lin Hexia this idea and asked her to give some reference opinions. After all, she had been in Hong Kong for a long time and was familiar with the situation here.
"I think there should be no problem. Although it will definitely arouse doubts from the outside world, the impact will not be great. The main reasons are as follows:
The first reason is that HSBC has now been delisted, so there will be no impact on the stock price. In the face of doubts from the outside world, there will be no immediate adverse consequences.
The second reason is that although HSBC has issued a caution on housing loans to the real estate industry, it does treat everyone equally. The Hong Kong Housing Corporation has its own funds and has not loaned a penny from HSBC.
The third reason is that although HSBC's right to issue Hong Kong dollar notes is very important, it is the basis for HSBC to maintain its top spot in the Hong Kong banking industry.
But our original purpose of acquiring HSBC was to expand our overseas financial channels, and the right to issue banknotes was only incidental.
Moreover, now that HSBC has become an important participant in Hong Kong's social economy, it is no longer easy for the British Hong Kong government to take back its right to issue banknotes.
Otherwise, the right to issue money would have been taken away long ago, and it is not unprecedented for a private institution to hold the right to issue money. The Federal Reserve is a private institution.
So I don't think we need to worry too much about the impact on HSBC.
As for whether it will have adverse effects on other companies under the umbrella holding company, I think that although there may be some, it should not be huge.
Although some methods were used to acquire HSBC, they did not violate business ethics and were normal business practices. At least this aspect will not be used to make arguments by others.
As for whether other companies will be targeted, I think there is absolutely no need to worry. The number of companies that should be targeted will not decrease because of HSBC, and the number of companies that will not be targeted will not increase because of HSBC. Lin Hexia said.
After listening to Lin Hexia's analysis, Zhao Yi was a little surprised. This was a serious deviation from his previous understanding of her. Although Lin Hexia had always been a business elite, she had always been a little woman in front of him.
Moreover, Zhao Yi had made many decisions before, and the things she was responsible for were all arranged by Zhao Yi. She seemed to have no independent opinions, and at most she had strong execution ability.
Unexpectedly, she could analyze so many reasons for Zhao Yi's concerns. This shows that Lin Hexia has grown very fast in the past few years and is much more decisive in doing things than before. (End of chapter)