Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 258 Coastal Business Investment Landscape

In order to prepare for the upcoming North American season, Chen Ran had to leave Dongzhou City in mid-July and returned to Hangzhou.

He plans to train at the provincial team's base for a period of time. At the same time, as part of the cooperation, coach Zhang Depei will also provide some guidance to the young players of the eastern Zhejiang provincial team.

Occasionally sharing his team resources with other Chinese players, this was actually done by a brother and a sister in the Chinese tennis world in his previous life, and Chen Ran could not live without this pattern.

But from Zhang Depei's perspective, he hopes that Chen Ran can go to Canada as soon as possible.

The reason is simple. Chen Ran needs a training partner who is equally matched.

There is a huge gap between domestic tennis players, even those on the national team, and Chen Ran, which can easily affect the quality of his training.

This is the difference from Li Na in her previous life. At that time, Li Na, who was at her peak, could still find domestic male players to practice with to ensure the quality of training, and basically Li Na was still at a disadvantage in training confrontations.

The gap between men's tennis and women's tennis is like a chasm.

Chen Ran couldn't find a suitable training partner in China, so he could only hire two people at the same time to stand on both ends of the opposite baseline.

He was one against two in training.

But even so, Chen Ran can still have the upper hand in the bottom line tug-of-war.

As for Zhang Depei's suggestion to "go to Canada as soon as possible", Chen Ran ignored it, leaving the former helpless.

To be precise, because Chen Ran's current performance is very outstanding and he still maintains the number one ranking in the world, this also gives him confidence when negotiating conditions with his coach.

Imagine if Chen Ran was eliminated early at Wimbledon and ranked outside the fifth place in the world, he would have no choice but to follow Zhang Depei's suggestion and go to Canada early.

Even if so many cities that apply to host ATP and WTA events invite Chen Ran to be their spokesperson, it is easy to attract complaints from the outside world.

You kid is too preoccupied with making money and neglecting training. No wonder your grades have declined so quickly.

So performance is the source of all confidence.

Chen Ran's training is open to the public, so every training session is crowded with people, and the training ground is packed with enthusiastic fans.

After all, many top tennis players already know everything about each other. There is no secret at all, so there is no need to conduct closed training to keep it secret.

Chen Ran's training venue is not fixed. Sometimes he chooses Yanjing, sometimes he chooses Magic City, and sometimes he chooses Hangcheng.

Anyway, he spends his own money to hire the team, and he can train wherever he likes.

During this period, his business layout also began to slowly unfold.

"Chen Ran, it is said that you have purchased a bunch of houses in your hometown of Dongzhou City, and are you preparing to speculate on houses?" A reporter asked curiously, "Recently, house prices have been rising rapidly."

After all, Chen Ran is not the kind of big leader who can't say anything, and coupled with the relative freedom of news in this era, this kind of news cannot be hidden at all.

"House speculation? Oh no, I don't have this idea..." Chen Ran immediately denied it, "I must clarify that I did buy a lot of houses, but they were all shops in commercial streets. I did it to boost the economy of my hometown. The development has nothing to do with pushing up housing prices.”

"That's it!" The reporters surrounding him suddenly realized.

Commercial shops and residential buildings are indeed two different things.

"If you have friends or relatives who want to open a store in Dongzhou City, you can come to me. In terms of rent, I will give you discounts in the first two years." Chen Ran also immediately started to promote, "Although Dongzhou City is a third-tier small town, Because there are many tourist attractions, it has always been an import place for foreign people.”

"I believe the business of opening a store there will be good."

In fact, he knew very well that the shop at that location had no tenants at all, so he just mentioned it casually in today's interview, using his popularity as an advertisement.

A reporter joked: "Your cash flow must be the envy of many business owners."

"It did cost a lot of money..." Chen Ran also said in a slightly joking tone, "The bonuses I earned from playing basketball were basically used to buy shops. It is also my choice to earn more bonuses to buy more shops. Motivation to keep playing hard.”

"Being able to collect rent without any worries should be the life I aspire to after retiring."

Several reporters were a little confused: "We thought you would be like Li Ning and open your own company and be the boss after retirement. Don't you want to?"

"Yes, I don't want to at all!" Chen Ran said seriously, "This is too hard work. I just want to be a quiet charterer."

How much money did Li Ning earn during his sports career? That's why he wants to use his reputation to do business, and this is risky and very tiring.

Chen Ran has basically achieved financial freedom after playing tennis for a year, so there is no need to cause trouble for himself again.

He continued leisurely: "I saw this sentence from the Internet. If you have a lot of money that you can't spend all your life, is there any way to spend it in the shortest time? That is Go start a business.”

Some reporters looked at each other, somewhat surprised by Chen Ran's words.

At the turn of the century, society as a whole had been encouraging the development of the private economy. To start a business and become a respected entrepreneur is what countless people aspire to, including those college students who have come out of the ivory tower.

However, due to the limitations of information dissemination in this era, people have only seen a small number of successful people, but they have not seen many people who have lost all their money.

In addition, just because you are successful today and make money does not mean that you will be able to do it in the future. Maybe one day in the future you will spit out the money you earned with interest.

Especially in China, there are very few private companies with a life span of more than ten years.

We cannot see this in today's era of economic boom, but in a few years' time, everyone will be shocked by Chen Ran's vision that transcends the times.

"Mr. Li Ning is an excellent entrepreneur." Chen Ran shot a rainbow fart first. "But I feel that I have no business talent. If I start a business after retiring, I will definitely lose all my hard-earned money."

He believes that in a few years, his annual rental income from the stores under his name will be greater than the profits of most companies.

"It sounds strange, but I can't seem to find anything wrong with it."

"But……"

Some reporters who dreamed of being their own boss one day, although they thought what Chen Ran said was a bit strange, they couldn't find any point to refute for a while, so they had to say: "But every rich person thinks like you, China's How can the economy develop?"

Some guys started to exert pressure in the name of the country.

"Haha, not everyone has the same idea as me. This is just my personal idea. I believe that most people want to start a business."

After Chen Ran finished the interview, he returned directly to the hotel where he stayed.

Because a reporter accidentally mentioned the news about his acquisition of a store today, he realized that the attention he received was unprecedented, and almost every move he made would be exposed to the spotlight.

At this time, if you want to keep a low profile, it won't work.

Fortunately, Chen Ran had made arrangements in advance and brought his cousin in.

After all, Chen Ran was really worried about letting outsiders handle some things.

We must bear in mind Li Zhongtang’s words: I don’t use nepotism on people, so how can I still use nepotism on others?
What's more, I don't want to open a company to do business, so my ability is not the first thing to consider.

Chen Ran's head was spinning rapidly, and he immediately filtered through his relatives.

After all, these days, many people are only children and have no biological brothers or sisters. They can only find them from relatively close collateral relatives.
She came from a financial background and seemed to have a good relationship with her, her aunt.

Although my mother's brother retired from officialdom and became the general manager of a company, he was too official and too self-righteous.

The reason why people hire you as general manager is not because of your outstanding abilities, but because of your connections. However, he doesn't understand it clearly at all, and he still looks condescending.

Chen Ran immediately ruled it out.

What's more, Chen Ran currently has huge assets in his hands. What he values ​​​​is not the other party's business or administrative abilities, but hopes that the other party has rich financial experience.

After all, his cousin was still too young, so Chen Ran decided to bring his aunt, an accountant, into the team.

"Let's forget it in Yanjing. After all, the emperor's feet are full of dignitaries, so I won't wade into this muddy water."

Chen Ran thought about it and decided that his investment map should start with the eastern coastal cities.

Dongzhou City is the first stop. In fact, the money spent on purchasing shops is not much at all, less than [-] million.

Then there should be Ningzhou, Hangcheng, and Shanghai, the three coastal cities.

Chen Ran is relatively familiar with these three first-tier or quasi-first-tier cities and knows where they can develop and become prosperous commercial areas in the future.

After all, the shops in Dongzhou City alone will have too little room for rent or house price growth in the future.

In addition, in big cities like Shanghai and Hangzhou, Chen Ran decided not only to focus on shops that could be used for food, drink and entertainment, but also on office buildings.

After all, the number of companies in Dongzhou City is small, and even better office buildings are often vacant, making it difficult to rent at a good price. However, in Shanghai and Hangzhou, there are a large number of companies, and there are also many foreign investments. Enter, demand for better office buildings exceeds supply.

Chen Ran decided to take the initiative and directly buy an entire floor or even multiple floors of office buildings in prime locations in Shanghai and Hangzhou.

Even if you are a charterer, you must have a complete ecological chain, from entertainment, eating and drinking to business operations.

By the way, Chen Ran remembered that there would be a famous Internet celebrity building in Hangzhou in the future. It seemed to be called Regent International?

If you have time, go and inquire about it. As the saying goes, you can't bite off more than you can chew. You don't dare to think about the whole thing. The goal is too big, but you can take down a few of them.

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(End of this chapter)