kingnovel Chapter 766 Response
Chapter 766 Response
Chapter 766 Response
Tuesday morning, May 1989, 5.
Capital, multi-party joint meeting.
"According to the information collected so far, Hailukong Company has acquired shares in 15 foreign ports, with shareholding ratios ranging from 35% to 55%. Among them, only three ports located in Ri Island, Tai Island and Xin Island have shareholding ratios exceeding 3%."
"After Sudefa Yingri and 15 other countries gave up their port interests, they all signed agreements with Hong Kong Island Telecom to build joint venture smartphone production plants and 4G communication services."
"At the same time, the renewable energy company will also set up renewable resource recycling stations near these 15 ports, and plans to crush the collected renewable resources into slag and transport them back to the Hong Kong Island Seawater Refinery for processing."
"Isn't Tingmei Trading Company hoarding metal materials? I heard that they are also acquiring mines abroad. Why does the renewable energy company recycle garbage? Why is the Heping Group hoarding so many raw materials?"
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Zhang Nan was sitting in the back row of the venue, looking at the men, women, young and old attending the meeting with boredom.
At the beginning of the month, my eldest aunt Zhang Zhaodi was transferred to the Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Finance Department under the Finance Department as deputy director. She is now sitting in the third row in the front with her new colleagues.
My cousin Chang Wen will study for a master's degree in economics at Renmin University next semester. Today, she was brought here by her graduate supervisor, Professor Lin. She and two classmates were also sitting in the back row of the venue, but they were a little far away from Zhang Nan.
Second aunt Zhang Pandi, as a representative of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, sat in the first row of the venue, closest to the person speaking on the podium.
Like Zhang Nan, his fellow brother Zhang Bei was deceived into coming here. After arriving at the venue, he found out that this was a meeting targeting their family.
Zhang Nan could understand why his cousin Zhang Yi, who studied computer science, and his cousin Zhou Xiaopeng, who studied communications, were brought to the meeting.
Zhang Nan's cousin Zhou Xiaochun, who studies journalism, was pulled in to be an intern reporter before she even reported to CCTV. This really made Zhang Nan feel uncomfortable, as he felt that this meeting was too targeted!
During the lunch break, Zhang Nan called his home in Hong Kong Island and learned that his father Zhang Heping was catching up on sleep, so he told his stepmother Chen Shuting about the content of the morning meeting.
Chen Shuting naturally knew why the Heping Group had been hoarding metal materials and expanding its business overseas recently.
However, when facing the question from her second daughter Zhang Nan, Chen Shuting did not rush to answer: "Xiao Nan, how long will it take for you and Xiao Bei to come back?"
"A Nian asked us to wait for her. She is expected to be back at the end of June for summer vacation." Zhang Nan responded, and then asked, "Little Mom, you haven't told me yet, why are we hoarding so many metal raw materials!"
Chen Shuting smiled and said, "The call you made to your family must have been monitored. Are you sure you want to know now?"
"Ah?" Zhang Nan glanced at the conference hall in the distance and the cafeteria more than 50 meters away, and asked uncertainly: "Little Mom, there are grass all around me, and the nearest building is 50 meters away. I won't be monitored, right?"
Chen Shuting said nonchalantly, "Those monitoring techniques were taught to the mainland by your father. Do you think you can do it?"
"Oh, okay! I'll call you later!" After Zhang Nan hung up the phone, he looked around again and didn't find anything suspicious, so he walked towards the cafeteria.
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"I told you this trick won't work!" Outside the venue, a middle-aged man took off his headset and threw it on the table. He then stood up and left his seat, pushed open the back door of the van, got out, walked to the side of the road and lit a cigarette.
"Captain Ling!" A young woman in camouflage uniform got out of the car and frowned, "Our monitoring mission is not over yet, how can you say no? As the captain..."
"That's enough! Stop it!" The middle-aged man called Captain Ling waved his right hand hastily to stop the other party from speaking. "The mission is not over yet, return to your position and monitor nearby communications at any time."
The young woman was pulled by a young man who got off the bus behind her and motioned for her to get on.
Then, two men in camouflage uniforms who got off the car later squatted beside their captain, one on the left and one on the right.
The older man on the right unabashedly reached into Captain Ling's trouser pocket, pulled out half a pack of cigarettes and a lighter, and lit one of his own.
"Lao Zhou, give me one!" The young man on the left reached out for it, but was slapped in the face by Captain Ling in the middle.
"Why are you smoking, little brat? Save your money to marry a wife and don't get addicted to smoking!" After Captain Ling said this, he looked blankly at the high wall and treetops in front of him, looking a little melancholy.
Just as the young man walked around Captain Ling from behind and squatted to the right of Lao Zhou, wanting to ask Lao Zhou for a cigarette to try, Captain Ling was burned by the cigarette butt that was about to burn out.
"Damn it!" Captain Ling slammed his cigarette butt into the ground, stood up and left, "I'll go get the water."
The young man didn't get the cigarette from Lao Zhou, but he quickly reached out, snatched the cigarette from Lao Zhou's mouth, and quickly put it into his own mouth.
"Cough cough..."
Because he smoked too quickly, the young man was choked by the smoke and tears came to his eyes.
Old Zhou took the opportunity to snatch the cigarette back and said jokingly: "If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer the consequences, hehe!"
After the young man recovered, he looked in the direction where Captain Ling left, but he didn't see anyone. He couldn't help but wonder, "Old Zhou, what happened to Captain Ling? I've never seen him so resistant when carrying out missions."
"How can I not object?" Lao Zhou took a deep breath and exhaled, "The technology related to the equipment in the car was provided by the big boss behind the Peace Group."
"When Captain Ling went to learn monitoring technology, the big boss personally gave him guidance. If you were Captain Ling, how would you feel?"
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The joint meeting in the afternoon was more pragmatic than the morning one, with fewer whys and more arguments.
"I don't recommend Shekou Port to give up its shares!" The representative from Dongshan Province said righteously: "Shekou Port, as a model of the special economic zone, must maintain your purity and not be blinded by interests."
"That's true!" The representative from Jiangsu and Zhejiang echoed, "Since Heping Group didn't build a smartphone production plant in Shenzhen, they must have their considerations."
"As one of the four major international deep-water transshipment ports in China, Ningbo Port has great negotiation advantages."
"If we were to negotiate, we would not only be able to negotiate for a smartphone manufacturing plant, but also one or two nuclear power plants."
"Ningbo Port has developed rapidly in recent years and has strong profitability." The representative of Nanhai Province nodded and agreed, then changed the subject, "If our Nanhai Province can also have another port like Ningbo Port and Shekou Port, it will not hinder economic development."
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Zhang Nan originally thought that she would not be able to resist dozing off during the afternoon meeting.
As a result, I was aroused by the open and covert fighting between these representatives.
She never expected that the discussion meeting on their Peace Group in the morning would turn into a drama in the afternoon where coastal provinces were scrambling to give up their port shares.
What Zhang Nan didn't know was that the development of Heping Group in the mainland over the years had been intentionally or unintentionally restricted to Shenzhen by Zhang Heping and Mr. Hua.
Those who are well-informed know that Shenzhen’s GDP has continued to grow, which has a lot to do with the Heping Group.
If the capital had not been suppressing the issue, representatives from other provinces would have already approached the Heping Group to attract investment.
The turning point came the year before last, when the Peace Group invested 700 billion yuan in the mainland and revitalized many mainland machinery factories.
But what made other provinces see hope for cooperation was not Tingmei Trade’s investment in Wucheng the year before last, but the Heping Automobile Branch established in Shencheng last year!
That is not just a factory, but a complete automotive industry chain!
From large items such as the engine, gearbox, motor, and body to small items such as batteries, wires, and sound insulation pads, the Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone has completed everything!
Such a large industry not only makes other provinces jealous, but also gives them hope for cooperation with Heping Group.
However, they never found an opportunity to cooperate.
Today, the opportunity has come!
By only giving up 35% of the port interests, one can get a smartphone production plant and the opportunity to deepen cooperation with the Heping Group. Which province would not want such political achievements?
As representatives from coastal provinces spoke one after another, inland provinces gradually realized that they did not have ports, but they had airports!
However, what puzzled the representatives of the inland provinces was that the representatives of Southwest Province and Beihu Province, two provinces where the Peace Group had invested in and built airports, were sitting there in silence, as if it had nothing to do with them.
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Zhang Heping slept until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, ate something simple, and then sat down at the desk in the study again.
This time, he was not idle, but was compiling a cytology textbook according to his understanding.
When Tang Xin and Chen Shuting saw Zhang Heping writing and drawing on his desk, they didn't think there was anything unusual.
It was not until Zhang Long curiously leaned over to take a look that he asked in confusion: "Dad, are you going to rewrite the cytology textbook? Why don't you just do it on the computer?"
Operating on a computer saves the subsequent data entry work.
In addition, in Zhang Long's memory, many of the teaching materials compiled by his father were operated on the computer and then directly uploaded to the world Internet forum.
Zhang Heping shook his head slightly. "If this set of teaching materials were to be spread out, there would be great risks!"
"Risk?" Zhang Long had just glanced at the papers on the table. Now he picked up the dozens of pages of written paper and started reading from the beginning.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it was dinner time.
"It's time to eat!" Zhang Heping took the half-read page of the book from his fifth son Zhang Long, put it on the stack of freshly written pages on the desk, and then was about to take Zhang Long away.
"Dad, I don't see any risk in this?" Zhang Long followed him out puzzled.
Zhang Heping casually said, "In ancient times, when fighting, weapons would be soaked in gold. Do you know why?"
Zhang Long said without thinking, "In order to infect the enemy's wounds and increase the lethality!"
"Cytology, virology, and genetics are actually very risky subjects!" Zhang Heping walked to the stairs and said in a deep voice: "You and Xiaohu just need to take a look at the data just now. Don't leak it out, otherwise it will be used in weapons."
Zhang Long said "oh" and followed him downstairs.
In the living room, Chen Shuting was talking to Mr. Hua and Director Wang. Seeing Zhang Heping calm down, she stopped the conversation.
After Zhang Heping invited them to the dining table, he didn't want to say much, but Mr. Hua and Director Wang still wanted to get Zhang Heping back to Shenzhen, so Zhang Heping had no choice but to remain silent.
Fortunately, Director Wang no longer had the attitude of accusing others like before, and simply mentioned the mainland's willingness to establish a joint venture to build a smartphone factory.
"Heping, where do you think it would be a good place to set up a smartphone factory?"
Facing Director Wang's expectant gaze, Zhang Heping turned his head to his concubine Chen Shuting and asked, "Can the production capacity of mobile phone parts keep up?"
"The power supply can't keep up." Chen Shuting silenced Director Wang with just one simple sentence.
Peace Investment Shenzhen Company has invested tens of billions of yuan in the mainland to build nuclear power plants and power grids. As a result, several factories of Tingmei Trading in Shenzhen are facing power shortages.
Seeing that Director Wang didn't say anything, Zhang Heping didn't dwell on this issue or the power supply issue.
He invested in nuclear power plants and power grids in the mainland, firstly to facilitate production in his own factories, secondly to cope with the upcoming flourishing of a hundred schools of thought in the mainland, and finally he considered long-term investment.