Video Game Empire

One of the big impressions of Hong Kong is that there is less land and more people. In order to make full use of the land, even factories have been built into high-rise buildings with dozens of floors, which is rare in the world. "Small, but in fact the total land area of ​​Hong Kong reaches 1,095 square kilometers, which is 1.5 times the land area of ​​Singapore, which is also one of the four dragons in Asia.

The reason why Hong Kong has less land and more people is largely because the Hong Kong government has actually only developed about 78 square kilometers of Hong Kong Island and about 50 square kilometers of Kowloon Peninsula during the nearly 150 years of its rule over Hong Kong. area.

In this 128 square kilometers of land, 80% to 90% of Hong Kong's five million population is now gathered, and naturally it has long been overwhelmed. The remaining nearly 9 million square kilometers of land utilization is very low.

Kowloon and Hong Kong Island have already developed into the most prosperous metropolitan areas in the world, and the situation in the New Territories is actually no better than the mainland on the other side of the boundary river. Of course, there are many reasons for the delay in large-scale development in the New Territories.

After the New Territories were leased to Britain by the Qing government, the aborigines in the New Territories erupted in fierce resistance. Although these resistances failed, they also gave residents of the New Territories greater autonomy than urban areas.

Now the New Territories have a completely different model of "squire self-governance" from the urban areas. That is to say, the British Hong Kong authorities did not deal directly with the aborigines, but through the establishment of the Heung Yee Kuk, and the leading squires in the Heung Yee Kuk carried out "using China to rule China".

For a long time, the land in Kowloon and Hong Kong Island has been able to meet the needs of urban development, so the Hong Kong government is too lazy to go to the New Territories to fight with the aborigines. Until the 1960s and 1970s, the urban land was almost completely developed. The Hong Kong government had to start developing a series of new town plans in the New Territories.

"Li Sheng, I'm sorry for being late! I was about to go out. But suddenly two neighbors came to the door because of a trivial matter, so I had to make adjustments for them. It took a lot of time!" A man who was about forty or fifty years old, with a somewhat fat body, apologized to Li Xuan repeatedly as soon as he came in.

"Uncle Fa, it doesn't matter, I just arrived soon!" Li Xuan stood up and waved his hand.

"Li Sheng, you are too polite, just call me Wangfa or Ah Fa!" Liu Wangfa said a little flattered.

"You are the same age as my father, so I should call you Uncle Fa! Don't call me Li Sheng, I'm a junior. Just call me Ah Xuan!" Li Xuan said politely.

"Since Li Sheng said so, I will rely on the old man to sell the old man once!" Liu Wangfa said with a hearty smile.

To make the richest man in the world "God of Wealth Li" call himself "Uncle Fa", Liu Wangfa also feels very proud, and his attitude towards Li Xuan is also a little enthusiastic. Of course, he wouldn't really pretend to be an elder in front of Li Xuan.

"Li Sheng, Liu Sheng, both of you are here. It seems that I will be the last!" At this time, another person walked into the box. It was Mr. Li Jiacheng, the chairman of Cheung Kong Industrial. Behind him was a well-mannered young man.

Li Jiacheng first apologized to the two of them, and then pointed to the young man behind him and introduced, "This is Li Zeju, the dog, who just came back from studying in the United States!"

Li Zeju sent greetings to Li Xuan and Liu Wang very politely, while he was looking at Li Xuan. There is curiosity and reverence in his eyes. Li Xuan is actually the same age as Li Zeju, but his current status is even more detached than Li Zeju's father Li Jiacheng.

After a group of people met at a tea restaurant in Yuen Long Market. After a few chats, we continued to drive north. Go to a previously reserved fish pond.

"Today is a cloudy day, but it's not boring. We don't need to be grilled by the sun when we go fishing!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

One of the three people is the famous "God of Fortune Lee", one is the chairman of two large real estate companies, Cheung Kong and Hutchison, and the other is the chairman of Heung Yee Kuk in the New Territories.

But this party was organized by Li Xuan. Li Jiacheng and Liu Wangfa were only acquaintances with Li Xuan before, but after receiving his invitation, they happily agreed. Naturally, Li Xuan's real purpose was not fishing. He was just taking advantage of the relaxed atmosphere of fishing to talk about something with the other two.

"There used to be a few good fish ponds in Tianshui Wai, but unfortunately they have all been filled up now!" Liu Wangfa said towards a large area of ​​overgrown weeds not far to the west, "Brother Li, you are not going to continue to develop, the Hong Kong government After taking over, the stall was immediately abandoned, and it is estimated that it may not be able to restart in a while!"

Both Li Xuan and Li Jiacheng were surnamed Li, but when the two were together, the title "Li Sheng" was naturally given to Li Xuan, who was more famous and had a higher status. So Liu Wangfa simply called Li Jiacheng, who was seven or eight years older than him, "Brother Li".

"Before the real estate market in Hong Kong was very weak, and the Hong Kong government's finances were in deficit for two consecutive years. Naturally, there was no money to develop the new town of Tin Shui Wai! However, after the Sino-British agreement was reached, the market in Hong Kong is becoming more and more prosperous.

Now there is no land in the urban area, and even Shatin, Kwai Tsing and other areas are almost developed. Sooner or later, the Hong Kong government will migrate to these new towns further north! "

Li Jiacheng helped his glasses, and then smiled at Li Xuan again, "It's still Li Sheng's Dongfang Group, so we can only eat in a corner of Hong Kong, but Li Sheng is sucking money from all over the world!"

As early as 1979, Li Jiacheng's Changshi Company, together with China Resources Company and Hu Yingbin's Dabao Real Estate Company, jointly established Weicheng Co., Ltd., and acquired a large area of ​​land from the residents of Tianshuiwei Village, and planned to develop a property here. new town.

Although the Hong Kong government has not intervened too much in the governance of the aborigines in the New Territories, in order to firmly control the political interests of the land in its own hands, it has issued a special policy. In addition to each male, the aborigines in the New Territories have the right to allocate a piece of land to build a small house when they reach adulthood. If they want to change the remaining agricultural land for commercial use, they must obtain approval from the Hong Kong government.

Therefore, the residents of the New Territories, although they have a lot of land in their hands, can only carry out agricultural cultivation with meager returns. And many real estate developers took the opportunity to acquire a large amount of land from the aborigines at a low price, and then went to get through the approval joint of the Hong Kong government. Once the agricultural land can be converted into commercial land, huge profits can be obtained immediately.

But when the time came to 1979. Less than twenty years have passed since the expiry of the New Territories lease. Where will Hong Kong go after 1997, no one has a bottom line at that time. Hong Kong's rich people are really afraid of ** after coming. Nationalize everything!

Li Jiacheng and Hu Yingbin were very shrewd and brought China Resources Company in to establish a new Weicheng Company. They also let China Resources get 51% of the shares of the new company very generously. Full control of the new company.

Hu Yingbin's father is Hu Zhong, a famous "taxi king" in Hong Kong. Hu Zhong became famous earlier than Li Jiacheng. One of Hu Yingbin's older brothers is called Hu Yingxiang. The Hopewell Center, the tallest building in Hong Kong, was developed by the Hopewell Real Estate Company under Hu Yingxiang's name.

Although Hu Yingbin is not as famous as his elder brother, with the help of the family's financial resources, the strength of Dabao Real Estate, which is independently operated, should not be underestimated. The Hu family, like Li Jiacheng, are very rich in Hong Kong. The reason why they brought in China Resources Company, which has no experience in the real estate industry, is because China Resources, together with China Travel Service, China Merchants, and Bank of China, are collectively called the four major Chinese capital by Hong Kong people. company. Every move of the four companies. In the eyes of many Hong Kong people, it represents the mainland-mainland government.

The Hong Kong government simply took this opportunity to ask the mainland for directions, so the land change in Tin Shui Wai was successfully completed.

The Tin Shui Wai project has just started to level the land, and Hong Kong newspapers are overwhelmingly using the China Resources Company to make an article, arguing that the mainland has acquiesced in the New Territories land sale and purchase contract approved by the Hong Kong government to continue to be valid after 1997.

At that time, the mainland quickly refuted it, and under the pressure of the central government, China Resources Company directly pulled out of the Tin Shui Wai development project. So all the land under the name of Weicheng Company was finally transferred to the Hong Kong government in July 1982. The Hong Kong Government will continue to be responsible for the development of Tin Shui Wai New Town.

It can be said that the Tin Shui Wai project, to a certain extent, has greatly accelerated the process of formally opening negotiations on the Hong Kong issue between China and the UK. However, shortly after the Hong Kong government took over all the land in Tin Shui Wai, the Hong Kong property market began to collapse, and it was naturally impossible for the Hong Kong government to develop a new town in Tin Shui Wai at this time.

Even from this year. Hong Kong's property market has gradually come out of the shadows, and the Hong Kong government's priority development option is still not likely to be Tin Shui Wai. Because Tin Shui Wai is almost the northernmost border of Hong Kong. The straight-line distance from the urban area is as long as 30 kilometers, but it can be expected across the sea from the Shekou Industrial Zone on the mainland.

Even after the opening of the West Rail in later generations. It takes more than an hour to go from Tin Shui Wai to the city. And now the traffic is even more inconvenient, whether it is to take the Tuen Mun Highway. Or take the Fanling Highway, it takes more than two hours to get to Kowloon city by car.

"I heard that Li Sheng, you encircled a piece of land of more than 20 square kilometers for investment on the mainland opposite the sea? This is equivalent to 4 Tianshui Wai, which is a big deal!" Liu Wangfa said with a wave of his finger towards the north.

"This is just a rumor from the Hong Kong tabloids. I'm not that capable! After the Oriental Group acquired the American ra company, it hoped to reduce the production cost, so it decided to transfer part of its manufacturing industry to mainland China.

In order to attract ra companies to settle down there, the deep-sea special zone specially applied to the central government to establish a new national-level industrial development zone next to the Shekou Industrial Zone. I just invested in a few factories in the development zone. After all, the various preferential measures that can be given there should be regarded as the best in China now! "Li Xuan smiled and shook his head.

"The wages in the mainland are much cheaper than those in Hong Kong. There used to be a steady stream of smugglers from the mainland swimming in, so the wages in Hong Kong have not risen too much! In recent years, people who have illegally smuggled in have not been able to get their ID cards. And once caught by the police, they will be sent back immediately!

As a result, wages in Hong Kong immediately began to skyrocket like a rocket. The bosses couldn't stand it, so they all went directly north to the mainland to open a new factory! In the first half of this year alone, I have mediated dozens of labor disputes! It was because the original workers could not find a new job for a while after they lost their jobs, so in a fit of rage, they pursued the former boss for dismissal compensation! "Liu Wang said with a sigh.

"As a region becomes more and more developed, it is inevitable that wages will rise! American workers are more lazy than us in Hong Kong, but the wages in the United States are much higher than ours!

With the increase of production costs in Hong Kong, it is also expected that those industries that break profits and sell well will be forced to move. What we should really do now is to introduce a batch of new factories that can withstand higher labor costs. This is what economists call industrial upgrading! "Li Xuan said indifferently.

"So it's been discussed in the newspapers recently that Hong Kong must rely on Dongfang Group to vigorously develop the electronics industry! Li Sheng, your success can be regarded as a way out for Hong Kong's future!" Liu Wangfa gently flattered.

"Uncle Fa, you flatter me too much! After all, the power of the Oriental Group is limited. In recent years, Hong Kong has started a certain degree of industrial upgrading around the games, computers and other products we have developed. The results are ultimately inseparable from the support and guidance of the Hong Kong government!"

Li Xuan shook his head humbly, then turned to Li Jiacheng, who was quietly staring at the fish float on the other side and said, "Li Sheng, it is said that the Hong Kong government and Weicheng Company have a supplementary memorandum when they signed the Tianshuiwei development project transfer agreement?"

Li Jiacheng had been quietly listening to the two chatting~www.readwn.com~ Now he finally took his eyes off the water, he did not deny: "We and the Hong Kong government have a memorandum of understanding to clarify some rights and interests! Interested in taking over the development of Tin Shui Wai?"

Li Xuan shook his head and nodded again. This made Li Jiacheng a little puzzling. In fact, he had been speculating about the real purpose of Li Xuan about his fishing. According to the previous performance of Dongfang Group, it has never meant to enter the real estate industry, but Li Jiacheng is not completely sure.

"When I had dinner with Mr. Zhong Siyuan before, he was very worried about the current situation of the gradual hollowing out of Hong Kong's industry! One tenth of Hong Kong's population now relies on various factories, large and small, all over Hong Kong to provide jobs. to feed the family.

If these factories move out of Hong Kong due to cost issues, it will have a serious impact on the employment of Hong Kong, and it is bound to further widen the gap between the rich and the poor in Hong Kong! Therefore, Zhong Sheng is going to propose to the Hong Kong government recently, hoping that the government can designate a special area and give the greatest preferential policies in terms of policies, so as to attract a large number of globally competitive companies to set up factories in Hong Kong and alleviate the employment contradiction in Hong Kong! "Li Xuan explained. (To be continued.)

ps: There is a second chapter, but the time may be a little late!