Therefore, Shanghai has always been thinking about Zhao Yi, but it has never found opportunities for mutual cooperation before. However, this time the large-scale infrastructure plan formulated by the country has given Shanghai a good opportunity.
In any case, Shanghai is an important central city in our country. Such a large-scale plan, and it is also a plan about infrastructure, must not avoid them.
In fact, this is indeed the case. The first thing that comes to mind for Zhao Yi's real estate plan is Shanghai. Of course, several other central cities are among Zhao Yi's first batch of real estate development plans.
After chatting with the leaders in Shanghai, they agreed to start negotiations on related issues tomorrow. This was not because Zhao Yi and his party were tired, because it was impossible to get tired so easily on a special plane.
Instead, it is necessary to give both parties a day to make preparations. Anyway, everyone knows that this cooperation must be related to the country's major infrastructure plan.
When it comes to Shanghai specifically, large-scale urbanization is definitely needed. Although Shanghai was very large in the previous life, in fact, in this era, the urban area of Shanghai is not large, and there are many places that need to be developed.
Moreover, urbanization is not just about building houses. It also involves the issue of urban positioning. Before building a new district, it must first be determined what the new district will be used for and what industries will be arranged in the future.
If there is no such plan, then after the new district is built, it will be a sleepover. If it is not done well, it will not even be qualified to be a sleepover, and it will be completely unable to retain people and gain popularity.
After being separated from the government staff, Zhao Yi directly gave his subordinates a day off, while he himself was going to visit his own companies in Shanghai to see their development.
Before coming to Shanghai, Zhao Yi had actually determined their negotiation goals and the functional positioning of the future new city, so there was no need to improvise. This day was mainly reserved for the Shanghai government.
Zhao spent this day inspecting Tianxing Semiconductor Company, Precision Instrument Company, and Pusi Chemical Company. As for Minsheng Bank and Ping An Insurance, due to time constraints, there was no inspection.
Early the next morning, after Zhao Yi's team had breakfast, they went directly to the Shanghai Government's office. The location for their discussion was set in the Shanghai Government Conference Room.
After all the participants from both sides had arrived, the leader of Shanghai University said: "Our municipal party committee and municipal government are very happy to welcome Mr. Zhao to come to Shanghai to invest this time.
This is since Mr. Zhao’s Tianxing Semiconductor Company, Tiangong Precision Instrument Company and Pusi Chemical Company, Mr. Zhao once again thought of us in Shanghai. To be honest, we were eager to see through it. "
Although he knew that the leader was joking, Zhao Yi still said apologetically: "Shanghai, as the leading commercial capital in our country, is the first choice for business development in terms of economic scale and humanistic environment.
It's just that my personal strength and energy are limited. Although I also want to buy more industries in Shanghai, I find that there are not many industries suitable for Shanghai, so I feel deeply ashamed of the Shanghai government's ardent expectations.
Fortunately, the country is launching a large-scale infrastructure construction plan across the country, which provides a good opportunity for cooperation between the two of us. When I had the opportunity, I immediately led my team to discuss relevant cooperation with the Shanghai government. "
Although Zhao Yi expressed that he was deeply ashamed, the senior officials of the Shanghai government just listened. After all, many of Zhao Yi's other industries are actually very suitable for Shanghai.
You must know that Shanghai was the capital of light industry in the country before, and the textile industry was also very developed. However, Zhao Yi still placed the headquarters of his Hualong Clothing Company and Huansha Textile Enterprise in Shenzhen.
It is precisely because these two companies are operating very smoothly in Shenzhen and their scale has expanded rapidly in a few years that the textile and clothing industry in Shanghai is now shrinking.
Many new textile and garment companies have begun to build production plants around Hualong Garment Company and Huansha Textile Company. This is the cluster effect. Only by being closer to the giants can they gain the convenience of their industrial chain, and the cost will naturally be reduced. .
Fortunately, in the past few years, both Tianxing Semiconductor Company and Precision Instrument Company have developed well. Even Pusi Chemical, which was previously sitting on the bench, has also achieved tremendous development in the past two years.
They have provided huge tax revenue to the Shanghai municipal government and provided many jobs for Shanghai. Otherwise, Shanghai's economy would probably have shrunk due to this, let alone development.
It is precisely because Zhao Yi is so important in Shanghai's economic landscape that Procter & Gamble Daily Chemical Company's acquisition of Shanghai Jahwa went so smoothly. In addition to Shanghai Jahwa's own problems, the support of the city government is also a factor that cannot be ignored.
After the two sides made simple opening remarks, they began to enter the formal topics of the meeting. After all, everyone was very busy and would not say too many meaningless words.
The leader of the municipal government took over and said: "Although we know that Mr. Zhao's investment in Shanghai must be related to the country's recently formulated national major infrastructure plan, we still don't know Mr. Zhao's specific thoughts.
So here, I would also like to ask Mr. Zhao to tell you your specific thoughts on coming to Shanghai to invest this time, so that we can carry out the next discussion. "
After hearing the words of the city leaders, Zhao Yi took over and said: "The first stock exchange in the country is located in Shanghai, which shows that Shanghai has leading advantages in international finance.
Although the financial services industry in Shanghai is still in its infancy, I am quite optimistic about its future development prospects, otherwise I would not have set up the headquarters of China Minsheng Bank in Shanghai.
But there is currently no financial center in Shanghai that specializes in financial services. I feel very sorry. Just like the financial center of Yingjiang is on Wall Street, when others hear Wall Street, they know it is a financial center.
So I think it’s time to build a financial center in Shanghai. I don’t know if it can become globally famous. This will require continued efforts on our part to achieve it.
But at least people across the country should know that Shanghai is the financial center and the financial center of the country when they hear this name. "
When the leaders in Shanghai heard what Zhao Yi said, their eyes suddenly lit up. They had been worried about the development of Shanghai before, especially in the major cities that Zhao Yi had invested in. The current development momentum is really real. It's too fierce.
If Shanghai no longer thinks of ways to develop itself, its economic advantages will slowly be lost. Even if it has the title of a municipality, it will be in name only.
And what Zhao Yi just mentioned about building a national financial center really touched their hearts. Not to mention building a world financial center, that is a bit too far away, but an Asian financial center can still be considered.
With the continued development of our country's economy and the continued deepening of our country's financial reform, finance will gradually play an important role in our country's economic life.
Moreover, as national strength increases, some of our country's financial and economic policies will have a certain impact on the world economy, and more and more international attention will be drawn to them.
At the same time, as the pace of reform and opening up further accelerates, international capital will turn more and more attention to the country. At this time, our country really needs a financial center.
It can not only accept international capital to come to China, but also provide complete financial services for the national economy and even the world economy, helping the real economy develop faster and better.
And the current timing is also very good. China already ranks second in the world in terms of GDP and is beginning to have a certain influence on the global economy.
At the same time, the reform of domestic state-owned enterprises is also in full swing. There is also a large-scale infrastructure plan that has just been completed, which also requires perfect financial services, not to mention that there are large-scale industrial plans, which are also indispensable for financial support.
Therefore, it is time for Shanghai to make every effort to develop the financial industry.
This is also different from the previous life. Our country's stock exchange was only opened in Shanghai, not in Shenzhen like the previous life.
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The reason for this is two-fold:
The first aspect is that Shenzhen's economic development has been very rapid in recent years, and its scale has become larger and larger. There is no need for additional support at all.
Secondly, Shanghai itself has a certain financial foundation and a relatively high international reputation. More importantly, Shanghai's economic development has entered a bottleneck period, and more policy and industry support must be given to them.
It's just that the current domestic financial scale itself is not very large, the stock market has just been established, the number of listed companies is still very small, and the scale is not very large.
More importantly, the domestic people do not have much spare money in their hands, and there are very few people who need financial investment. This is destined to mean that the current scale of Shanghai's financial industry will not be very large.
But this is just the current state, and it does not mean that the financial industry has no prospects. After all, there are many examples in the world. In the second half of economic development, the scale of the financial services industry will definitely account for a large proportion of economic development.
Just because the financial services industry is currently small, we cannot underestimate it. We need to think about it the other way around.
Only when the scale is still small and does not attract enough attention from everyone, is it easy to start at this time. If it develops and grows, other cities will definitely rush in to grab this piece of cake.
After hearing Zhao Yi's words, Shanghai leaders seemed to have found the direction of Shanghai's development, which is to strive to build a national financial center city and strive to become the financial center of Asia. As for the world's financial center, they have not yet had this idea.
Because if you want to become the world's financial center, your country must also be the world's number one power. Although the country's economic development in recent years has indeed been like a rocket, it has developed rapidly.
However, compared with the world's number one power like Yingjiang, there is still a huge gap. The first is GDP. Our country may be only a little more than half of others this year. In terms of per capita, the gap is even bigger.
Moreover, economic growth also has a marginal effect. After the scale reaches a certain level, it is impossible to develop as fast as in recent years, and the growth rate will slowly slow down.
Their judgment was based on the general laws of development, and there was nothing wrong with it. However, Zhao Yi was more confident than them. If Shanghai did well, it would still be able to sit on the throne of the world's financial center.
After listening to Zhao Yi's words, the leaders of Shanghai University immediately said with a smile: "I am very interested in Mr. Zhao's idea of building a national financial center. I wonder if you have any more specific thoughts."
Even if the big leaders in Shanghai don't ask this, Zhao Yi still has to say it. After all, if this cooperation is just in real estate, he really doesn't have to come in person.
After all, if you want to develop real estate, you only need to invest a huge amount of money, and then increase publicity and strive to gather more popularity. As for industry, that is what the local government should do and has nothing to do with ordinary businessmen.
But he is different. It is true that he wants to develop real estate, but what he hopes even more is that through the combination of real estate and specific industries, the new districts or new cities he builds can have greater vitality and bring economic benefits to the local area. to greater development.
"Since we are here to have relevant talks this time, we must be prepared to be candid and honest. Although we are preparing to carry out large-scale urbanization across the country this time.
But it is not just pure urbanization construction, but also wants to help these cities find better urban positioning, develop local characteristic industries, and make urbanization construction more dynamic in the process of urbanization construction.
I position Shanghai as a city as a R&D center and a financial center. The R&D center is easy to understand. After all, the university resources in Shanghai are second only to Kyoto, which lays a solid foundation for the positioning of the R&D center.
However, although the R&D center in Shanghai has certain advantages, it is not unique. The university resources in Kyoto are richer than those in Shanghai. Wuhan in central China also has relatively rich university resources.
Therefore, in addition to striving to build an R&D center, Shanghai’s only unique advantage is the financial center. As long as Shanghai continues to leverage its advantages in this area, with the continued development of our country’s economy, we can still expect its status as an Asian financial center. . "
Although Zhao Yi's words are a bit rude, they are true. The positioning of the R&D center can be improved, but it is not unique. In the future, other cities with rich university resources will also develop in this direction.
“The current urban construction in Shanghai is mainly located on the west bank of the Huangpu River. The population density here is already quite high and the per capita living area is quite small. If we develop urbanization here, we will encounter very big problems.
The first is the issue of demolition. This task is quite troublesome. In addition to the problem of communication with the people, it is also the issue of resettlement of demolition personnel.
If it is just a small-scale real estate construction, of course there will be no problem, but when we come here this time, we are preparing to carry out large-scale urbanization construction, and we must take this difficulty into consideration.
Secondly, the urban layout of Puxi has been fixed, and there is no need for large-scale development. This will also destroy the historical accumulation here. In the future, only scattered plots of land will be developed.
Finally, there is the cost issue. The population density in Puxi is very high. To modernize these places, we must first resettle these residents and provide corresponding compensation, which invisibly increases the cost a lot.
Therefore, the area we are planning to develop is Pudong. We will start from Chuansha and slowly expand to the east. We will eventually develop the Pudong area into Shanghai's financial center and a modern new city, providing new impetus for Shanghai's economic development. .
After this area is developed and enough jobs are provided, the people of Puxi will surely slowly move to Pudong, and then it will be much easier to modernize Puxi. "
The participants from the Shanghai government side nodded unconsciously when they heard Zhao Yi's words. Although Pudong has been under the jurisdiction of Shanghai for a long time, the economy has been developing at a very average level and is still based on agricultural cultivation. Lord.
If Shanghai's economy wants to speed up again, it can no longer tinker with the old city. This undeveloped virgin land must be developed to form a new center for Shanghai's economic development.
Moreover, the urbanization construction of Puxi mentioned by Zhao Yi does face many problems. Personnel resettlement compensation is a very costly matter. After all, he is still a businessman and must take this factor into consideration.
Moreover, if Pudong is not developed, these Puxi people will have no place to settle. Zhao Yiyi is not very interested in small-scale development plans, at least for now.
Therefore, the leaders attending the meeting understood Zhao Yi's choice very well, and they had no objections to it. This was in the interest of Zhao Yi and the Shanghai Municipal Government. At least their mass work would be much easier.
In the following time, the negotiation team and the Shanghai Municipal Government conducted more detailed discussions on the development of Pudong. This cannot be concluded in a day or two.
However, important issues still require Zhao Yi's participation, so Zhao Yi held talks with the Shanghai government for a week here, and the subsequent relevant negotiations were left to his remaining negotiating team to continue.
After leaving Shanghai, Zhao Yiyou led the remaining negotiation team to Shenzhen. At the same time, he also continued to transfer personnel from law firms and accounting firms to join the new negotiation team.
Along the way, we successively conducted relevant investment negotiations with 10 municipal governments including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Kyoto, and Tianjin.
This is not because Zhao Yi does not want to continue to increase investment, but because the capital in his hands is limited, and these cities are undergoing large-scale urbanization construction and the scale of investment is huge.
And now he doesn't have enough people to use. These 10 cities are already the limit of his personal strength. If there are more, he won't be able to take care of them. Even his hometown Jiujiang is not included in this scope. .
After the construction projects in these cities are on track and he has accumulated a large amount of funds, he will start a new round of urbanization.
Although these 10 cities seem to be few, the scale of investment is actually quite huge. Zhao Yi plans to invest all the available funds in his hands, which is a trillion yuan. On average, each city can get 100 billion yuan. .
When I looked at Zhao Yi’s investment before, I felt that hundreds of billions of yuan was nothing. For example, in Chinese pharmaceutical companies, Zhao Yi invested hundreds of billions of yuan.
However, there is no comparison between this infrastructure construction and high-tech enterprise investment. In this era, land prices are actually very low. Especially for Zhao Yi, he is not only developing the real estate industry, but also providing new development impetus for local cities.
Then the land price will be even lower. If there is no need to compensate the people on the land, the local government will be willing to provide the land for free. Even so, the land is half sold and half given to the Chinese Housing Company.
In addition, the current prices of steel and cement are relatively cheap. According to Zhao Yi's estimate, the cost of an ordinary residential house, even based on a floor area ratio of 2.5, is only 200 yuan per square meter.
This is still built according to high standards. Zhao Yi has admired RB's high-rise residential management very much in the past. In the future, China Housing Corporation will focus on leasing as its main business method and attaches great importance to property management.
Therefore, every building will have a very good public space, which provides a lot of entertainment and leisure facilities, which can not only increase additional income, but also facilitate residents’ entertainment and leisure life, and improve residents’ happiness index.
If calculated purely based on residential area, if this investment continues, it will directly build 5 billion square meters of building area. Calculated based on 40 square meters per capita, hundreds of millions of people can live there.
Of course, the reality is that it is not just about building residential buildings, but also a lot of commercial facilities and buildings, and these commercial facilities and buildings require larger land areas and higher unit construction costs.
But even so, after the first batch of construction is completed, the residential area alone can accommodate more than 50 million people. If the per capita living area is smaller, the number of people living there will be even greater. (End of chapter)