Rebirth 1980: Marrying my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Chapter 690 Investment direction!

Jianguo Hotel. Large conference room!

Li Yi took the main seat, with Lan Xinyi, Cai Bingyan, Li Yunbao, Yang Qian and others sitting next to him. The other 40 people sat on both sides of the long conference table.

After looking around for a week, Li Yi coughed lightly and said: "Welcome to the capital, the ancient capital of thousands of years. Your work focus will be here for a long time in the future, so you must be mentally prepared to take root in the capital for a long time!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Lan Xinyi said: "Boss, except for the colleagues in the legal department, everyone else has already communicated with us in advance. You can rest assured about this!"

Li Yi nodded and said: "That's good. We mainly need to solve three things at this meeting today. The first is to establish the mainland branch of Xingchen Investment Company. Director Lan, please introduce the members of the team!"

"Yes!"

Then Lan Xinyi reported skillfully: "Boss, our team has a total of 42 people, including 18 members from the investment department, 10 from the administration department, 4 from the finance department, 2 from the legal department, 2 from the translator, and 4 from the office. , 2 people from the public relations department!”

"In addition, all members of the team are the first to join the company, and all can speak Cantonese and English proficiently, and a few can speak Mandarin (Mandarin)."

After listening to Lan Xinyi's introduction, Li Yi said with satisfaction: "It's very good. This kind of staffing is very good."

"That being the case, let me now announce the candidates for the management of the mainland branch. Now I officially appoint Lan Xinyi as the general manager of the branch, An Hong as the deputy general manager, Li Yeqiao as the financial director, and Yang Qian as the deputy general manager. Director, Cai Bingyan is the head of the investment department, Wang Yanbin is the head of the administrative department, Xu Changming is the director of the office, Qiao Yan is the head of the public relations department, and Li Yunbao is the temporary head of the legal department!"

This personnel appointment was a decision made by Li Yi after careful consideration in the past few days. Although this branch is mainly composed of people from Hong Kong Island, there must also be people from the mainland.

After all, the main business will be here in the future, so naturally we can't just rely on people there, so Li Yi arranged for An Hong and Li Yeqiao to come in.

"Do you have any opinions or suggestions on this arrangement?" Li Yi asked again.

Lan Xinyi was the first to say: "I have no opinion, but I have a suggestion!"

"Say!"

"Boss, our branch has just been established. It is not complete in terms of personnel or other aspects, so I suggest that after determining the investment direction, we can apply to the government here and recruit a group of employees first!" Lan Xinyi said.

Li Yi immediately said: "Don't worry about this now. Your next focus is on negotiating with the Beijing City Government, and this involves the second thing we have to do: strive for preferential conditions!"

"I believe that when you came with the inspection team last time, you already had a certain understanding of the preferential conditions for attracting investment here, but that is just a rough idea, and you still need to negotiate with them for details. Since it is not convenient for me to come forward to participate in the negotiations, , so General Manager Lan is solely responsible for the negotiation!"

"Yes!"

Then, Lan Xinyi looked at Li Yi and said, "Boss, are you really not going to participate in this negotiation?"

"I won't participate, but I have a few hard requirements. You must satisfy each other!" Li Yi said.

"What do you mean, those hard requirements?" Lan Xinyi said.

"The first thing is to ensure that the industries we invest in can compete fairly with the companies here in accordance with the rules, and we cannot give differential treatment based on different ownership and affiliations."

Then, Li Yi continued: "Secondly, our company can accept the supervision of government departments here, including personnel, projects, taxation and other aspects. They can even be allowed to set up party branches in our company."

"But equally, the government departments here cannot interfere with our normal operations for no reason, especially they cannot obstruct it with administrative orders."

"Understood, we will make this position clear in the negotiations!"

Then Lan Xinyi said again: "Boss, regarding tax incentives, what are your expectations or bottom line?"

"No, just talk to them yourself!"

Li Yi has no special ideas about tax benefits.

In fact, the tax incentives available to foreign investment are not uniform. Generally speaking, starting from the profit-making year, tax is exempted for the first two years and halved for the next three years.

However, some local governments even offer super discounts such as tax exemption for the first five years and 5% tax reduction for the next five years.How much discount Lan Xinyi and the others can get from the Beijing City Government depends on their abilities. Li Yi doesn't particularly care.

After all, he himself is trying every means to get money for the country, giving away hundreds of millions and billions, so why would he fight with others for some tax benefits?

It is up to Lan Xinyi, Li Yunbao and others to fight. Li Yi will never come forward.

And this was the main reason why he didn't participate in the negotiations. After all, the whole chicken and fish were already offered, so why bother fighting for the mosquito legs?
What's more, Li Yi has always felt that giving preferential treatment to foreign investors is inappropriate and unfair to domestic enterprises.

It is said that fair competition is one of the souls of the market economy, but the current preferential foreign tax policies are obviously contrary to the above requirements.

After all, the income tax burden of the entire foreign-invested enterprises is less than 1/3 of the actual income tax burden rate of domestic-invested enterprises. Such a huge difference in tax burden hinders fair competition between domestic and foreign-invested enterprises and the rational allocation of resources.

It also hinders future domestic-funded enterprises from conducting economic exchanges with foreign countries under roughly equal conditions, seriously damaging the country's rights and interests.

"I understand, boss!" Lan Xinyi said immediately.

Li Yi nodded and said again: "Next let's discuss the third thing, which industry field to invest in!"

Hearing this, everyone in the room sat upright without thinking.

Li Yi coughed lightly and said in a deep voice: "The mainland is different from Hong Kong Island, and it is even different from Europe and the United States. There is no finance to invest here, so we have only one investment direction, and that is industry!"

"For now, I prefer the electronic technology and semiconductor industry, including household appliances such as refrigerators, color TVs, washing machines, and cutting-edge technologies such as cameras and computers!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Lan Xinyi frowned and said: "Boss, these industries you mentioned are indeed new industries, but we are just an investment company ourselves and have no relevant technical reserves. If we rashly enter such a field, we will Wouldn’t it be too risky?”

Li Yi nodded and said: "I'm very pleased that you can think so, but you don't have to worry about this. Although we don't have the technical reserves in this area, we have money, and more importantly, we have the broadest market!"

"market?"

"Yes, there are one billion people in the mainland, and the consumer demand for electronic products here is increasing day by day. Even if we only purchase less advanced technologies from European and American countries, the products we produce can still be recognized by the market here."

Then Li Yi continued: "Relying on such a vast market, we are fully capable of supporting us to form our own scientific research team and conduct research on cutting-edge technologies!"

Li Yi knows very well that these high-tech companies are money-burning gold-eating beasts. Given their current situation of having neither talent nor technology, they are really not suitable for investing in such an industry.

But there is nothing he can do. Now in China, the trend of "Buying is worse than building, and renting is worse than buying" has begun in China. Many projects have either been discontinued or are on the way to being discontinued.

In order not to be choked by others in the future, Li Yi could only do this.

Fortunately, as he said, with such a vast market as a basis, there are still opportunities to catch up even if you start from scratch.

Ren Lao was able to lead Huawei all the way with a capital of 200 million to achieve today's technological kingdom. Isn't it because of the vast domestic market and the support of the people?

It makes no sense that what Li Yi can do with 200 million can’t be done with 200 billion!

Li Yi said again: "In addition, we also need to invest in local industries. This is the focus of our current work!"

"And I have reached a cooperation agreement with the Yanjing TV Factory in Beijing. You must send a team to this factory as quickly as possible!"

"Yes!"

"In a few days, I will give you a list of high-quality local companies, and then you will inspect the companies on the list one by one, and try to acquire those that can be acquired, and take shares in those that can!"

"Yes"

(End of this chapter)