Hong Kong: Starting with 10 billion

Chapter 48 Seeing that you have such a strong character, I’ll give you some connections!

At about twelve o'clock noon,
Fang Hexuan offered to leave.

But Pao Yue-kong pulled him back.
A luncheon was arranged.
And introduce some friends to him.

Fang Hexuan was deeply moved.
I couldn't resist the other party's kindness.
Then he agreed.

The luncheon was held at Yip Fung Building on D'Aguilar Street in Central.

Fang Hexuan was very familiar with the name of the street "Dejili Street".

Lan Kwai Fong in later generations is also on this street.

He had been here in his previous life.

When they arrived at the building,

Fang Hexuan has confirmed that
Lan Kwai Fong, which will appear in a few years, should be just a few dozen meters ahead.

He looked at the scattered Western restaurants and craft shops on both sides of the street.
Thoughtful.

I followed the charter boat king up to the fourth floor and entered a large private room.

The private room not only has a large round dining table, but also sofas and a bar for guests to rest.

There are already quite a few people inside.
Seeing the charter king leading a young man in,

They all stopped talking.

Bao Yugang chuckled and introduced Fang Hexuan to everyone one by one.

Tung Chao-Yun, one of the seven great shipping magnates, and the middle-aged man beside him shook hands with him politely.

Fang Hexuan also responded with goodwill and moderately praised Dong Chuanwang's career achievements.

In fact, bad luck will continue after his eldest son takes over OOCL next year.

In 82, affected by the global economic crisis, the world's shipping demand declined.

Orient Overseas' performance will drop sharply and the Dong family will be in huge debts.

We have to pay off debts while maintaining business growth.
In any case, Chief Executive Tung was always walking on thin ice, and it was not until 91 that he turned the company from loss to profit.

From a strategic perspective, Dong Chuanwang is indeed not as good as the charter king.
It is no wonder that the later son-in-law of the Bao family was dissatisfied with Chief Executive Tung.

Later, Fang Hexuan met Sir Run Run Shaw.

This long-serving entertainment mogul seems to be in good spirits now.
He even deliberately showed off his Shanghainese accent with Ningbo accent.
Fang Hexuan needs to work closely with Sir Shao in his future planning.
But in the current situation, he certainly couldn't talk in detail and could only exchange a few simple pleasantries.

Afterwards, the charter king introduced him to several other fellow Ningbo people.

Including "wool spinning king" Cao Guangbiao, "cotton spinning king" Chen Tinghua, "electronics king" Shao Yanzhong, "watch king" Li Huili,

There are also An Zijie, who is both a scholar and an entrepreneur, patriotic businessman Wang Kuancheng, Ma Lin, president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Bao Congxing, an African textile tycoon, and Ye Gengnian of the Xinchang Group.

You Bingwen, like other followers, went to eat next door.

Therefore, there were a total of 14 people at this lunch, including Fang Hexuan himself.

The oldest is Ye Gengnian, 78 years old, and the youngest is himself, who is not yet 18 years old.

The rest are basically in their sixties and seventies, the closest to him are 41-year-old Chief Executive Tung and 43-year-old Shao Yanzhong.

Fang Hexuan certainly understood that Pao Yue-kong was building valuable connections for him.
So he didn't put on airs and answered all the questions from his fellow countrymen and elders.

He was also able to cite extensive examples and express many opinions that made the bigwigs present think deeply.

For example, he predicted to Shao Yanzhong,

As semiconductors, especially ultra-large-scale integrated circuits, gradually mature and become commercialized,
In the future, the global electronic product market will be worth hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars.

For example, he asserted to several textile tycoons,

With the opening up of the mainland, the future textile base will inevitably shift northward.

He also talked to Ye Gengnian about the Hong Kong real estate market which was about to pick up.
As a construction contractor, Xinchang Group will usher in explosive growth in performance.

As he spoke eloquently,

Everyone listened patiently.

It's not that Fang Hexuan's views are so eye-opening.

Instead, I watched an 18-year-old young man, full of optimistic visions of the future world.

They were also deeply moved. Dong Haoyun and An Zijie cast meaningful glances at the charter king.
However, Pao Yue-Kong just smiled mysteriously.

Chief Executive Tung, the second youngest person at the scene, was a little embarrassed.

In the past, he also accompanied his old father to attend gatherings of elders.
But they rarely become the dazzling focus at a banquet.

"The person who made HSBC willing to lend 8 million yuan is indeed an extraordinary person."

He thought so bitterly in his heart.

After the meal, everyone sat on the sofa next door and drank tea and chatted.

President Ma Lin asked Fang Hexuan individually whether he was willing to study at CUHK.
He also promised that the school would arrange a separate exam to ensure that he would pass.

Fang Hexuan smiled gratefully but rejected his kindness.

A piece of diploma is nothing to him.

In Hong Kong, a unique zero-tariff trading port,

Even without academic qualifications, as long as you have brains, you can still rise to the top.

He talked to Shao Yanzhong, Ye Gengnian and Bao Congxing separately.

From the electronics tycoon, he can understand the actual development status of Hong Kong's electronics industry.

It provides a basic reference for his subsequent layout of the computer business.

Moreover, Shao Yanzhong also knows many bosses engaged in other manufacturing industries.

For example, there are those who make PCBs, radios and televisions, auto parts, motors, processing equipment, and so on.

Even if Fang Hexuan doesn't know these people yet,
However, if you establish a good relationship with Shao Yanzhong in advance and use him for introductions in the future, you can also reduce communication costs.

The purpose of establishing a business relationship with Ye Gengnian was purely in advance.

Wanda Real Estate will only be a developer in the future and will not be involved in the construction industry.

Fang Hexuan also disdained those small profits.

Therefore, if Xinchang Group has good construction capabilities,

Working together in the future will save Wanda a lot of trouble and effort.

As for finding the package from Xingchao,

Because when I listened to Sir Bao's introduction,
I learned that this person had entered Ghana, Africa, to build a textile factory more than a decade ago.

And it grew bigger and bigger, and was even received by the Prime Minister.

Such a legendary figure,

Fang Hexuan was very interested.

After all, his future industrial development cannot be separated from Africa's mineral resources.
If this brother introduced and reminded me,

That way you can avoid a lot of risks.

In addition to Africa's mineral resources,
Fang Hexuan also took a fancy to the chaos and disorder in Africa.
This provided him with the greatest business needs for establishing a security group in the future.

While Fang Hexuan was chatting with these Ningbo fellows,
Then I suddenly realized a very interesting phenomenon.

Most of the businessmen from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai living in Hong Kong are engaged in manufacturing.

Most of the businessmen in Guangdong are engaged in real estate and construction industries.

Hong Kong's local businessmen have already begun to enter asset-light industries such as finance.

When Hong Kong's local manufacturing industry had not yet been transferred to the mainland on a large scale,
Manufacturing bosses are ridiculed by Hong Kong people as “factory bosses”.

It is better to join a society or go into business than to work in a factory.

However, decades later,

It is nothing but a pipe dream for Hong Kong to further industrialize.

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