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Chapter 147: Who would dislike a big eater when opening a restaurant? (Seeking subscription)

"A capital of small commodity manufacturing? Do you mean… competing with Yiwu's international small commodities?" Mayor Wen began to look thoughtful upon hearing this.

"Not competing! It's about reclaiming what we lost in the past!" Chen Jue smiled slightly.

You should know that Wenzhou's development in the 80s and 90s was glorious, all supported by various small commodity family workshops.

Small things like buttons, lighters, clothes, leather shoes, faucet showerheads, and large things like switches, electrical valves, auto parts, and so on.

In the past, Wenzhou had a wide variety of small commodity manufacturing industries involving people's livelihoods, and many of them achieved industry firsts, making it a model city for China's light industry development in the 21st century.

It was not until these traditional handicraft industries were stripped away and eliminated, and industrial clusters began to be imitated and transferred to the inland where labor costs were lower, that Wenzhou's current predicament was caused.

Take the world-famous Yiwu International Small Commodity Wholesale Market as an example. In the past, it was developed by copying the shopping malls first built in Ruixian.

There is even a slightly joking rumor in the streets: "Half of the success of Yiwu's small commodities is due to the people of Wenzhou."

This joke is not a joke!

More than half of the bosses who opened shops in Yiwu were from Wenzhou. Wenzhou's overseas Chinese are all over the world, and they were also the first to do business all over the world, setting up outposts for the export of Yiwu's small commodities.

Including the supply chain of small commodities, most of the source manufacturers are also in Wenzhou.

(As mentioned earlier, this small commodity wholesale model was first learned by Wenzhou people who went to the northeastern border to do business, opened food stalls in the Northeast, and learned from the open-air container wholesale market of the Soviet Maozi.)

In this era where the winner takes all, Yiwu and Ruixian were originally two cities that were advancing side by side, competing with each other, and promoting each other. In the end, the title of the capital of small commodities fell on Yiwu.

Until the rise of e-commerce, Alibaba settled in Hangzhou, firmly controlling the online shopping and sales platform for small commodities.

Ruixian and even Wenzhou can only be reduced to the role of 'OEM factories' for Yiwu and Hangzhou, earning the thinnest profits and giving up the great first-mover advantage of the industry.

In the final analysis, it is because Wenzhou's geographical environment is too remote, and it loses in terms of high transportation and logistics costs in terms of development prospects.

At the same time, they also missed the pulse of the Internet wave and invested the original first pot of gold in speculation such as real estate speculation, which seemed to be a surefire way to make money.

The reason why Chen Jue wants to build this deep-water port terminal at the estuary of the Feiyun River in Ruixian.

In addition to wanting to contribute to the economic strength of his hometown, improving the decline in Wenzhou's economic development is also to promote the modular infrastructure technology of Cube Technology to the world with this port as a technical sample!

Whether it is the Cube Factory, the breakwater of the Xiwang Scenic Area, or the employee dormitory that is about to be completed, none of them have as much influence as a super port with an annual throughput of tens of millions of containers.

As for the competition mentioned by the mayor, Chen Jue is not worried at all.

How can there be no competition in the business world?

Ruixian lost to Yiwu in the past, but it does not mean that it will always lose in the future.

As long as there is this deep-water port terminal, the cost problem of exporting small commodities in the Wenzhou area can be completely solved.

Even if it cannot build an international trade city of the scale of Yiwu, it can rely on exporting and importing for others and intervene in ocean shipping to get a share of the pie.

Probably seeing Chen Jue's ambition, Mayor WZ did not vote to agree or object on the spot.

Because the investment in building this super port comparable to national infrastructure is too large, affecting the whole body, it is not something that a small mayor can decide.

So, after pondering for a moment, the parents official of Wenzhou nodded to Chen Jue and encouraged: "President Chen, since you young people want to do it, let go and do it! In the past, Wenzhou businessmen produced a Junyao Group who dared to contract even civil aviation routes as the first to speak up. There is no reason why a private container terminal cannot be built!"

Chen Jue's face suddenly lit up when he heard this. He knew that his drama of drawing a big cake had been half successful.

Although he did not receive financial and policy support from Wenzhou City, judging from the mayor's attitude, the subsequent procedures should not be too troublesome.

After all, the port terminal he wants to build is not a traditional terminal in the traditional sense, endorsed by local urban investment or even state-owned assets, and requiring long-term heavy investment.

But an MC black technology terminal that is funded and operated entirely by private capital from Cube Technology!

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With this private deep-water port project in Ruixian as a stepping stone, the subsequent residential land needed by Chen Jue to build dormitories for employees will be much easier to handle.

Secretary Lin made a phone call and asked Wang Kaichun, Director of the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, to send a list with map locations.

The list detailed the residential and commercial land in various districts and counties of Wenzhou that were put on the market for sale.

You should know that in recent years, affected by the real estate bubble, the price of land sales in Wenzhou has once fallen from 20,000 yuan per square meter at its peak to less than 10,000 yuan.

Not only were there fewer buyers, but even some real estate development companies that acquired land at the peak saw the situation was not good and terminated the project one after another, allowing the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau to take the land back in the form of compensation for breach of contract.

As a result, Wenzhou Urban Investment's debt became higher and higher, and the land it hoarded could not be sold, forming a vicious circle.

The emergence of a wealthy man who wanted to invest heavily in land naturally made Wang Kaichun a little overjoyed.

In addition, with the mayor's communication and care, Wang Kaichun pointed to some land on the list suitable for building dormitories and said: "President Chen, how many employees do you expect to recruit? If all these plots of land in Louqiao, Ouhai are put into use and made into a densely populated medium-sized residential community, it should not be a problem to settle 3,000 to 5,000 households! The price is also very suitable, the average price is only more than 8,000 yuan per square meter."

Upon hearing this, Chen Jue took out the list of non-performing assets from Lao Cai of ICBC and cross-compared it with the land on this list.

After all, he had promised Lao Cai before to buy ICBC's land and get some business commission for him.

He also asked the operations headquarters of Chen Ji and Cube Technology to send a list of existing personnel and the number of future expected recruitment.

But as soon as he saw the dense employee list, Chen Jue himself was a little confused!

In the end, he had to tell the truth: "Probably… the first batch of employees will be recruited to a scale of 20,000 people, so let's count it as 20,000 households first!"

"What? How much did you say?"

"20,000 households? This… this requires building 4 or 5 medium-sized communities to accommodate them!"

Wang Kaichun's head buzzed when he heard this number.

Because this outrageous number of employees is almost making Chen Jue a division commander… no, it's almost equivalent to the population of a small county in a remote mountainous area!

Even Secretary Lin, who was responsible for following up, was slightly stunned after hearing the number of employees reported by Chen Jue: "President Chen, when did your company suddenly have so many people? When I went to Chen Ji for research before, it seemed that only a few hundred people were recruited!"

By the way, he reminded Chen Jue that it is illegal for enterprises to falsely report employment positions!

Chen Jue scratched his head immediately upon hearing this and explained a little helplessly: "Chen Ji has just completed the market research in the whole province, and 50 county-level branches will be opened in the whole province within 2 months. In the future, we will also enter the national chain business, so we have recruited more than 3,000 college students as store reserve cadres in advance."

Secretary Lin's scalp tingled when he heard this number.

Although he knew that Chen Ji was making a lot of money and the salary was high, and a recruitment position casually opened on the Internet would attract a large number of fresh graduates who would sharpen their heads and want to join.

I never expected that this position would be so popular!

But on second thought, this is also contributing to Wenzhou's tight employment situation and GDP. Secretary Lin had no choice but to ask in a softer tone: "Then… then this is not enough 20,000!"

Seeing this, Chen Jue had no choice but to continue to make a big move: "The operations department of Cube Technology has also recruited more than 1,000 people. Moreover, in order to cope with future sales plans, we have already collected more than 10,000 intention resumes of engineers in the fields of construction and machinery. As long as the subsequent products are launched, they will most likely be absorbed."

Mayor Wen, who was sitting on the side, was a little anxious when he heard this exchange and wanted to slap these two subordinates who were making a fuss.

Who would dislike a big eater when opening a restaurant?

Since President Chen wants to acquire more land, let him take it!

In the current land market, it is good enough to have a buyer willing to pay real money to take over.

If you continue to be picky, what if you scare away the investors?

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