We're building a super chaebol in Hong Kong

On July 18th, Governor Murray MacLehose of Hong Kong personally called, hoping to sign the investment contract with Su Cheng on the 20th. At the same time, the Governor's Office would invite mainstream media from Hong Kong and around the world to witness the signing.

Su Cheng had no objections and agreed to their proposal.

Just then, he received a call from the design institute of Hutchison Whampoa Properties, informing Su Cheng that the most suitable location for building the wharf had been determined.

Therefore, Su Cheng called Murray MacLehose.

"Governor, I hope this signing ceremony can be held in Tuen Mun. We have already determined the construction location of the wharf, and we can hold a groundbreaking ceremony there at that time," Su Cheng said directly.

"No problem. I was originally planning to hold the signing ceremony at the Government House. Since construction can start there, let's hold the investment signing ceremony in Tuen Mun!" Murray MacLehose readily agreed.

In the following time, many mainstream media outlets received invitations from the Governor's Office, inviting them to attend an important press conference on July 20th.

The first thing everyone thought of was, what important news could there be in a remote place like Tuen Mun?

However, since it was an invitation personally issued by the Governor's Office, they naturally knew that there should be big news, but what exactly this news was, no one knew yet.

They only knew that the press conference was scheduled for 10:00 AM on July 20th, at a location 7 kilometers southwest of Lung Mun Road, San Tsz Street, Tuen Mun.

Everyone also found this location very strange, and some even arrived there in advance, only to find that it was almost uninhabited.

This made the media completely confused.

However, since the time had not yet arrived, there was naturally no need to rush.

Anyway, when the time came, the government should set up guideposts on San Tsz Street in Tuen Mun. If they really couldn't find it, they could just ask them, because they had experience holding events in uninhabited places before.

Time quickly came to the 20th.

Today in Tuen Mun, the weather was sunny, the sky was blue, and the sea was clear.

At this time, a very large platform was built 7 kilometers southwest of Tuen Mun, near the sea. More than a dozen chairs were placed on the platform.

Behind the platform was a red banner about 10 meters long and 3 meters high, with the words "Hong Kong Petrochemical Industry Base Groundbreaking Ceremony!" written in both Chinese and English.

In front of the platform, a huge red carpet covered hundreds of square meters of land. In the middle of the red carpet, there was a pit of soil, and in the middle of the pit, there was a foundation stone.

These were all arranged by Su Cheng. He had seen many similar groundbreaking ceremonies on the news in his previous life, and at that time, he was quite envious of the leaders who could hold shovels and shovel soil for the foundation stone.

Now, he has also become the protagonist.

Su Cheng got up early today and arrived here at eight o'clock in the morning, and then directed the workers to set up the site.

Since Hutchison Whampoa Properties was relatively large, Su Cheng borrowed many people from them. Of course, the wages would still be settled according to the normal wages.

The importance of energy made Su Cheng have to pay attention to it.

In later generations, no matter how the world's top ten companies changed, oil companies were always on the list, and even dominating the list was normal.

For example, in 2005, among the top ten companies in the world in terms of turnover, British Petroleum, ExxonMobil, and Shell, ranked 2nd, 3rd, and 4th respectively, were all oil companies.

In 2010, Shell, ExxonMobil, British Petroleum, and Sinopec, ranked 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 7th respectively, were all oil companies.

In 2015, Sinopec, Shell, PetroChina, ExxonMobil, and British Petroleum occupied the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th places respectively. It can be said that oil companies absolutely dominated the list.

In 2020, Sinopec, PetroChina, Shell, Saudi Aramco, British Petroleum, and ExxonMobil were ranked 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 11th in the world's top 500 companies respectively.

Look, this is the awesomeness of oil companies. Su Cheng has no reason to give up this piece of cake.

Building Tianwen Oil Company into one of the world's top ten or even the number one company is Su Cheng's future goal.

Therefore, he will invest heavily in building an oil base.

Of course, this investment is a long-term phased investment. It is impossible for him to invest tens of billions or even hundreds of billions at once to build a refining base.

As for the short term, taking advantage of the low crude oil prices, first buy a large amount of crude oil and make a short-term profit.

Time finally approached 10:00 AM.

At this time, Governor Murray MacLehose of Hong Kong had arrived at the scene with important Hong Kong officials. The invited reporters had also all arrived, and even shipping magnate Bao Yugang, HSBC chairman Michael Sandberg, Jardine Matheson chairman Henry Keswick, Cheng Yu-tung, Lee Shau-kee and other bigwigs were invited by Murray MacLehose as guests.

Obviously, he hoped that under the leadership of Su Cheng, more companies could make more important contributions to the development of Hong Kong.

As for Su Cheng's side, Hutchison Whampoa executives Simon To, Richard Li and others, Su's Group executives Yang Chaoye, Zhang Li and others, as well as Tianhe Security Company's Wang Hai, Brother Wu, Carrian Bank's Ouyang Hai, etc., also arrived at the scene.

The scene was very lively.

Below the platform, many media reporters were talking about it, and everyone was very suspicious of the Hong Kong Petrochemical Industry Base Groundbreaking Ceremony written above.

Before this, they had not received any relevant news at all.

Although the Governor's Office had said many years ago that it would develop the oil industry, everyone knew the result, which was not very good.

Now, what is this suddenly emerging Hong Kong Petrochemical Industry Base?

The invited bigwigs couldn't help but think as they looked at the nameplate positions on the platform.

Just because the two seats in the very center of the platform, one on the left and one on the right, were the names of Governor Murray MacLehose and Su Cheng respectively.

It is not difficult to see that today's protagonist is Su Cheng.

Time quickly came to 10 o'clock.

Su Cheng and his executives had already sat on the right side of the platform; while Murray MacLehose and senior Hong Kong officials also sat on the left side of the platform.

Murray MacLehose adjusted the microphone in front of him and took the lead in speaking: "I believe everyone is very curious about what we are going to do here today. That's right, as the words behind me say, the location where we are will be built into a very large oil base in Hong Kong.

Before this, Mr. Su Cheng and I had friendly negotiations. Mr. Su Cheng agreed to invest funds of up to tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars in the next few years to develop Hong Kong's oil industry, and after verification by our government, Mr. Su does have this strength."

Before Murray MacLehose could finish speaking, the reporters below instantly seemed to explode.

An investment of tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, what is this concept?

In this era, even an investment of tens of millions is considered a large investment.

An investment of 320 million like the Cross-Harbour Tunnel is already a rare large investment in Hong Kong.

But now, how much money is Governor Murray MacLehose talking about?

Tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars! Didn't I hear wrong?

If this investment project is real, this is definitely the largest investment in Hong Kong's history, and it is unique!

Not to mention Hong Kong, even in the whole world, it can be called a super investment. Once this news spreads, it will definitely shock the world's business community.

This news is too shocking and too explosive.