People in Hong Kong create super chaebols

The next morning, Su Cheng didn't get up until almost nine o'clock.

After getting dressed and washing up under Gillian's help, Su Cheng returned to the third floor, had breakfast with Cherie Chung, and read the newspaper.

Hong Kong's comprehensive news newspapers or business newspapers such as Oriental Daily, Sin Chew Daily, Xia Yi News, Ming Pao, Hong Kong Commercial News, Ta Kung Pao, etc., all reported extensively on the grand opening of Hutchison Plaza yesterday.

On October 10st, there were two major news. The first was naturally the official opening of Hutchison Plaza, and the second was the opening and operation of Hong Kong's first subway line with a revised early system.

As media outlets under Suzhou City, Oriental Daily and Xiayi News naturally put the news of the opening of Hutchison Plaza on the headlines.

What surprised the two was that in addition to the Oriental Daily and the Chivalrous News, the Hong Kong Business News also put the news of the opening of Hutchison Plaza on the front page headlines.

However, Hutchison Plaza is part of the business sector, and Hong Kong Business News is mainly known for reporting business news, so this is not surprising.

As for other mainstream media, even if they chose to use the news of the subway opening as the headline, the news about Hutchison Plaza was no less than that of the subway opening, and the position was even very obvious.

However, as the statistics of Hutchison Plaza came out too late last night, these newspapers certainly could not wait until that time to finalize the articles and start printing the newspapers, as they would certainly be late in time. Therefore, these newspapers only reported extensively on the surging crowds at Hutchison Plaza.

In short, even though the data has not yet been reported by the news media, Hutchison Plaza has become famous overnight and has become the best new place for Hong Kong people to go shopping and check in.

Merchants in Hong Kong's bustling business districts such as Central, Mong Kok, Tsim Sha Tsui and Causeway Bay were also surprised to find that although the flow of people was very good even on weekdays, their income dropped significantly yesterday.

Looking at the crazy scene of crowded people in the pictures in the newspaper, these business owners realized that, obviously, a part of the customer flow was directly diverted to Hutchison Plaza in Kowloon Tong.

At the same time, major media outlets in Hong Kong also received news from the publicity department of Hutchison Plaza, which directly announced the entrance flow data of Hutchison Plaza for the entire day yesterday.

After hearing the news, the editorial departments of major media outlets became even busier.

Two hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty-seven people, what an exaggerated number.

Hutchison Plaza had been in trial operation for over a month, with the busiest day seeing only 94,693 people, less than 100,000. Even so, it was already an extremely exaggerated figure.

But yesterday, there were more than 200,000 people, which is an even more exaggerated figure.

Working day!

This is everyone's working day!
But on just one working day, more than 200,000 people showed up.

Once this data is reported, one can imagine how great the impact will be.

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

Even those who did not go to the scene can see the situation through newspapers or television.

Moreover, there are many aerial bird's-eye views on TV, which can better show how exaggerated the scene is. Almost all stores have many customers and the sales clerks are simply too busy to handle them; long queues can be seen everywhere in the food court; and the scene of the main street of the shopping mall being almost crowded with people is impressive.

All of this shows how exaggerated the number of people who attended Hutchison Plaza yesterday was. Was the data fake? With the success of Hutchison Plaza yesterday, there was no need for that. While Su Cheng was reading the newspaper news with great interest, in Central, at the headquarters of Landmark, in the general manager's office.

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

These two people are none other than Bao Fuda, general manager of Hong Kong Property Group, and Niu Bijian, boss of Jardine Matheson.

“Mr. Niu Bijian, I think we need to speed up the progress of our Hong Kong Land Group’s urban commercial complex plan. The success of Hutchison Plaza has shown us how much profit such a new product can bring to the company.

The most important thing is that the construction cost of a building like Hutchison Plaza is much lower than that of our financial business, but the profits it brings are not much less. We must build our urban commercial building as soon as possible to share this blank cake with Hutchison Plaza!"

At this moment, Bao Fuda's face was full of longing.

"As for Wen Yu, hasn't he given in yet?" Niu Bijian asked.

"No, we put forward very sincere conditions many times, but the other party did not agree. The last time, they even directly and clearly rejected our invitation." Bao Fuda shook his head and said.

The invitation of Wen Yu to join the company was a suggestion made by Niu Bijian.

As the boss of Jardine Matheson and also the boss of Hutchison Whampoa, Niu Bijian has a lot of say in Jardine Matheson.

“Since we failed to invite him, forget it. He is just the general manager of a company. We are already giving him a lot of face by inviting him to be our project leader.

Besides, Wen Yu is not the only one who has experience. The other senior executives of Hutchison Plaza must have relevant experience. I remember that Ma Shiming of Hong Kong Electric Group was poached from Jardine Matheson by Mr. Su Cheng. Since they can poach people from us, we can naturally poach people from their companies!" Niu Bijian said nonchalantly.

"Okay, then our people will secretly extend an olive branch to other Hutchison Plaza executives and see. If Wen Yu doesn't agree, someone else will!" Bao Fuda nodded directly.

Today, their Hutchison Whampoa has set up 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 completed, it will definitely attract a large number of people from Central, Causeway Bay, Wan Chai and other parts of Hong Kong Island.

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

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

Bao Fuda answered the phone immediately.

"Okay, okay, I got it!"

After hanging up the phone, Bao Fuda's face was full of shock.

"What's wrong, Mr. Bao Fuda?" Seeing Bao Fuda's expression, Niu Bijian asked curiously.

"Our intelligence department received a shocking piece of news. Just throughout yesterday, the number of visitors to Hutchison Plaza reached 238,557, and the turnover was close to 80 million Hong Kong dollars!" Bao Fuda said two figures that were enough to shock even a big shot like Niu Bijian.

This is the data for one day, and it is for a suburb like Kowloon Tong. Such data would shock anyone. (End of this chapter)