Hong Kong's new giants

"You too, you attracted me the first time we met!" Lin Zuhui lied.

He picked her up purely to satisfy the fantasy of his previous life.

For nearly six hours, the two of them stuck together, which was a normal reaction to just falling in love.

After arriving in Los Angeles, the two went shopping, watched movies, and dined together, and did not return to Lin Zuhui's villa until evening.

During the two days of getting along, the relationship between the two naturally increased.

……

After staying in the United States for a week, Lin Zuhui set off for Hong Kong.

Boeing 747 modified private jet, flying in the sky, like a castle in the sky;

Since then, Lin Zuhui can say goodbye to the boring flying time.

In fact, many rich people spend a lot of time flying a year, and this is especially true for Lin Zuhui.

It takes seven days to go to the United States, and two days are spent on the plane.

If you spend 20 meals a year on overseas business trips, one month is wasted.

With 'Sky One', Lin Zuhui no longer has to worry about wasting time.

Chapter 643 [Science and Technology Ligang]

In early October, Lin Zuhui, accompanied by the staff of the Education Department, went to the southwestern region where the conditions are difficult.Lin Zuhui, the richest man in the world, was deeply touched by the "difficult conditions" life along the way.

When he came to an alpine area in the Miao Autonomous County, he walked into a stone village among undulating mountains. Looking ahead, he saw a basin surrounded by mountains, and the houses in the town were like the "cage houses" in Xiangjiang; If there is another building in this cottage that Lin Zuhui can accept, it is the central primary school (including junior high school) he invested in.

This made Lin Zuhui feel at ease. Over the years, he has donated at least 2 million RMB every year to the basic schools of elementary and middle schools in the southwest region, and has achieved great results so far.

After the inspection, Lin Zuhui waved his hand, and the 'Lin Zuhui Family Foundation' donated another 3 million RMB for the education field in Southwest China.

After that, Lin Zuhui stepped up his work in the commercial field in the mainland.

Due to the impact of the financial crisis, the mainland's export trade has been greatly reduced, and the economic situation has also declined sharply; therefore, the mainland has introduced various "housing reform" measures in the past year, intending to stimulate the economy through domestic sales.

The New Era Group (Huaxia) is also preparing to acquire large-scale land and develop real estate and commercial real estate at the same time; especially for commercial real estate, it plans to build more "Central Plazas" and put them in the capitals of various provinces and cities with development prospects in the country.

The scale of New Era Group (Huaxia)'s mainland investment is very large this time, because the parent company is about to cash out a large amount of funds from Europe and the United States and needs investment channels.Of course, even if the mainland invests 200 billion RMB in funds, there is no problem in raising 1000 billion RMB in projects.

In addition to investment in real estate, Times Shipping, a subsidiary of New Times Group, also presented a super cake to the mainland shipbuilding industry, a ship order worth US$10 billion.

In March of this year, when Times Shipping invested US$17 billion to build ships, it caused a worldwide sensation. Afterwards, mainland officials came to recommend them one after another. After half a year of inspection, Times Shipping determined that the technical and price factors were qualified. This time the contract was formally signed.

And Times Shipping has invested 50 billion US dollars this year, which can be described as a leapfrog development.The investment in ships alone is as high as 30 billion U.S. dollars, and nearly 20 billion U.S. dollars have been spent on mergers and acquisitions.

……

Monday, May 10.

In the office of New Times Group, Lin Zuhui was using a computer.

Xiangjiang's online world is almost all Lin Zuhui's industry. The portal websites use Netflix's Sinicized Yahoo (Hong Kong) and Sina.com, social software uses ICQ, and stock trading software uses Flush (produced by Netfly). Games developed by The Ninth City...and so on.

At this time, he is considering monopolizing Xiangjiang's online world, so he made a series of investments:

For example: Let Langham Hospitality Group, a subsidiary of New Era Group, introduce American online travel 'Priceline', introduce buyer-led e-commerce services in Asia, and provide Internet travel services through the "you price" pricing system.When the time is right, Langham Hospitality Group will take over the Priceline network and become its major shareholder.

For example: enter into the "online investment service" and expand online investment business in Asia including Hong Kong, Mainland China, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan Island and Indonesia; you can consider the cooperation between New Times Group and Barings Bank, a It is a large investment bank, one with telecommunications services, a large customer base, etc.

In short, from now on, his companies will enter the Internet field one after another.

Monopolizing the offline life of Hong Kong people, but also monopolizing the online life of Hong Kong people, this is what the chaebols should do.

Soon, Lin Zuhui had already made a resolution and planned to start making arrangements soon.

"dong dong"

"Come in"

Liang Zhenxun walked into Lin Zuhui's office, chose to sit on the sofa, and Li Ke poured tea for him.

"The investment in European and American bank stocks can be gradually cleared within three months. The yen has appreciated recently, the strength of the US dollar is coming to an end, and the boom season of the banking industry is almost over." Lin Zuhui said relaxedly.

Very easy!

USD/JPY has fallen below 118 points. The USD/JPY short-sold by Barings Bank has made a profit of more than 4 million USD and is slowly clearing its positions.

Although Lin Zuhui knows many general trends and has accurate financial analysis, he is never greedy.Because he knows that once he invests too much money, he is like a living target, and European and American capital predators can make him lose everything.

But if the amount of funds he invests is not large, it means that he can make up a large amount of positions, so even if he pulls out the network cable, he will be in an invincible position.What's more, the small amount of funds also means that the target is small, and it is difficult for people to find it.

On the 7th of this month, the USD/JPY plummeted by about 7% in one day, and I don’t know how much "buy" investors will lose; the occurrence of this incident made Lin Zuhui even more cautious.

Liang Zhenxun nodded excitedly, and said: "We hold 1.52% of Citibank stock, and this alone is expected to cash out 30 billion U.S. dollars; there are also London bank stocks, which are also expected to cash out about 25 billion U.S. dollars. Such a Come on, the company's cash flow is expected to be nearly 600 billion Hong Kong dollars by the end of the year!"

Lin Zuhui said calmly: "There are more European and American stocks to be cashed out in the future. A mere 55 billion US dollars is nothing. It just so happens that shipping, real estate, and hotels all require a lot of capital investment."

After the liquidation of these stocks, New Era Group also holds a 1.83% stake in Microsoft (which will be diluted when the company is acquired) worth about 360 billion, Vodafone shares worth HK$70 billion, and Sony shares worth HK$160 billion.

Liang Zhenxun nodded, also admired his boss's calmness.Over the years of securities investment, the boss has created hundreds of billions of funds for the group. This kind of investment method is one of the reasons for the rapid expansion of the New Era Group.

At this time, the market capitalization of New Times Group has entered the 5000 billion club, accounting for about 16% of the market capitalization of Xiangjiang stock market. It has already surpassed HSBC and has become the veritable No. [-] listed company in Xiangjiang.

……

The opening ceremony of the "Silicon Valley" Cyberport in Hong Kong was held, and political and business celebrities and academic experts from home and abroad gathered for a while.

Cyberport is the cradle of "incubating" Hong Kong's science and technology industry jointly invested by the Hong Kong government and New Times Group. It started planning in 1994 and is currently in use with office buildings and shopping malls; the unfinished hotel and residential parts.

In the previous life, after the completion of the Hong Kong Cyberport, it coincided with the Internet bubble, and overseas technology companies that were originally negotiated changed their minds one after another. Only two technology companies settled in, which became a failed project.

But in this life, the situation is obviously very different, because many companies under Lin Zuhui meet the requirements for the 'Cyberport' to absorb.Therefore, Lin Zuhui moved them to the Cyberport one after another, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.That is to say, it laid the foundation of 'Cyberport' and saved a lot of rent (price difference).

At the same time, Lin Zuhui's personal connections are excellent, and he personally recruits overseas and mainland companies to settle in, and everyone will naturally give face.

The office building in Cyberport is 150 million square feet, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people to work here. The rent is currently HK$15 per square foot per month.That is to say, if it can develop, it can solve the jobs of 10000 people for Xiangjiang, and it is still a technology industry.

Because only enterprises and talents who meet the conditions of "Cyberport" can live in Cyberport. After all, the rent here is very cheap.The conditions are not high. For example, if a game studio comes to apply, it will be approved soon.At the same time, it may also receive investment from Jingwei Capital (Hong Kong).

On the opening day of 'Cyberport', domestic and foreign political leaders, Hong Kong government and celebrities came to attend the ceremony. In fact, everyone was very curious whether Hong Kong is suitable for the technology industry?

At [-] o'clock in the morning, Lin Zuhui came to the scene in person to entertain the guests.

Lin Zuhui just wants to announce in a high-profile manner that he is a technology tycoon and he wants to develop Xiangjiang's technology industry!

Over the years, he has donated to various colleges and universities to cultivate talents, start technology companies, invest in technology industries at home and abroad, etc., which is enough for him to brag about B now.

At the ceremony, Lin Zuhui was dressed in formal attire, with an elegant and calm demeanor, and greeted every distinguished guest.

"Mr. Bill Gates, thank you very much for coming!" Lin Zuhui said with a smile.

To be honest, he didn't have much hope, but he still sent an invitation to Bill Gates, not because the two are still competing for the Four Seasons Hotel.

Bill Gates said seriously: "I think Mr. Lin is a formidable opponent, so I must come and see Hong Kong's 'Cyberport'."

He knew that Lin Zuhui was not only the boss of a venture capital company, but also a competitor.For example, he spent 4 million U.S. dollars to buy the free HOTMAIL mailbox, and ICQ developed a free mailbox built into ICQ. For a while, people got used to the ICQ mailbox because it was so convenient.

Today's ICQ valuation has exceeded 30 billion US dollars, and it will only take a few years to become an Internet giant.At that time, the research and development of 'blog technology' in advance and the release of ICQ space will have a brighter prospect.

"I think the word cooperation is better, don't you?"

"haha of course!"

After a brief chat, Lin Zuhui entertained the president of Xinshe, Dong Sheng and others.

Soon, Lin Zuhui stepped onto the stage and came to the center to speak.

At this time, there were hundreds of guests sitting in a crowd, including some big names from the scientific and academia circles.

"Dear guests and friends, I am very glad that you have come to Hong Kong Cyberport to participate in this opening ceremony... Many people say that Hong Kong is not suitable for the development of technology, and there is even a saying in Hong Kong that 'High Tech is good for you, and Low Tech is good for you'. I don't think so , I think that as long as it finds its own position, Xiangjiang's technology will definitely be able to undertake important tasks in the world..."

"ICQ was developed by our local company, Netflix, and currently has 21 million users in 5000 countries around the world. Although the headquarters has been moved to the United States, it still provides more than 500 jobs for Xiangjiang."

"The development trend of Xiangjiang's game industry is very good. "Resident Evil", "Pokémon", and "Age of Empires" are all world-class games, and their sales have exceeded 500 million. "Legend 1" is the world's number one. An online game with real graphics...At present, Xiangjiang has more than a thousand people engaged in game development, and we have global distribution channels, and I believe the prospects will get better and better."

Lin Zuhui gave a well-founded speech on the podium, which surprised and shocked the audience, because they were more or less optimistic about Cyberport; in the end, Lin Zuhui shattered their thoughts with some reality.

There are more than 3000 people in the software and game companies under Lin Zuhui, such as Netflix, The Ninth City, and Stone Intelligence, and nearly [-] people from other software and game companies in Hong Kong come here to start businesses and develop .

Well-known hardware companies such as Xiaomi Technology, Kingston, and Huawei have also settled in Cyberport; Xiaomi Technology in particular will set up a research and development center with thousands of people in Cyberport.

Although it is impossible to achieve full rent (currently less than [-]%, which is larger than the previous office space), but with the development of time, there will be no problem with the full rent of Cyberport within five years.

Lin Zuhui's speech was inspiring, especially local scholars and government officials in Xiangjiang applauded frequently.

……

In the afternoon, Lin Zuhui and Bill Gates had a separate meeting.

"Mr. Lin, what do you think of the proposal if we cooperate to combine the Internet and TV to fully develop Internet TV in Asia?" Bill Gates said.

Lin Zuhui has experience in running satellite TV and TV stations, and Bill Gates is an Internet giant. This cooperation is indeed very tempting.

However, unrealistic!

"You want to enter the mainland market, right?" Lin Zuhui said directly.

"Not bad!"

"Then this cooperation may not work! It's not that I don't want to cooperate with you, but that I understand the mainland's policies better than you, and it's unrealistic."

Bill Gates said unwillingly: "I know your TV station can be broadcast in the mainland, and you have a very high network in the mainland."

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "My TV station is restricted to broadcast in the mainland (join the cable system, the three coastal provinces plus national hotels and other special places), this is already a policy consideration."

When Bill Gates saw this, he didn't force it, but he still had a candidate in his heart, that is Li Zeju who picked up the plane yesterday, because Li Zeju also ran a TV station.

Then, Bill Gates said: "Lin Sheng, let's cooperate with the Four Seasons Hotel. After all, no matter how good things are, there will be a price. What do you think?"

At this time, the two parties have raised the price to a premium of 40%.

Lin Zuhui resolutely agreed, because he had already planned to withdraw. After all, a premium of 40% would require 21.5 billion US dollars, plus 2.5 million in debt, a full price of 24 billion US dollars.

It's too expensive, and it's only the end of 1998!

"It's an honor that we can cooperate!"

"Haha, I think so too!"

Both agreed, that is to add another Waleed, and the three jointly funded the privatization of the Four Seasons Hotel.

Finally, Bill Gates asked: "Mr. Lin, I really don't plan to sell ICQ, we are willing to pay $30 billion plus stocks!"

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "ICQ is already planning to go public, and I think it is not complete. Maybe in a few years, it will be worth 100 billion US dollars!"

Bill Gates' heart sank immediately. He didn't doubt Lin Zuhui's words, because there was still a market in the mainland.

Of course, he didn't consider that there are still many functions of ICQ that haven't been released yet!

In fact, Lin Zuhui also knows that ICQ will never develop into the penguin of his previous life, because Americans don't like to use software like WeChat.

Americans like to use mailboxes, and they have been trained to use mailboxes for assignments and contacts since childhood. Everyone needs to send a large number of mailboxes every day.

Moreover, the competition in the United States is fierce, unlike penguins who monopolize the market.

At present, the reason why ICQ is valuable is that the penetration rate of ICQ mailboxes is very high, coupled with the various functions of ICQ - voice, video, file transfer, and the advantages of entertainment and convenience.

However, there are already similar software developed by two giants, Microsoft and America Online, competing in the market.

To be honest, Bill Gates asked for 30 billion US dollars because he was a little "fear" of Lin Zuhui, especially Lin Zuhui's vicious vision, and he has invested in a large number of successful Internet companies in the United States.

"Well, then I'll wait a few more years!" Bill Gates finally said with a smile.

Lin Zuhui smiled back!

If ICQ is allowed to set up a 'Blog Twitter' subsidiary, will it become more valuable?

Moreover, if it is listed in the United States, is there no need to rush to sell it?

All of this needs to be done slowly!

Chapter 644 [Monopoly Market]

Lin Zuhui came to Cyberport, looked at the huge building complex, and slowly felt proud in his heart.

As long as he develops Hong Kong's software and game industries, it will be enough to support the world-renowned 'Cyberport'.And these two industries do not need a hardware industry chain, as long as there are talents, they can be built successfully. Of course, the core is Lin Zuhui's wisdom, channels, and funds.

For example, Ninth City is not only a game development company, but also a game publisher, and can act as an overseas distribution agent for other game studios.The overseas distribution of The Ninth City is naturally based on its own channels, plus the channels of partners such as Activision and Kingsoft.

As long as you develop a good game, you don't have to worry about the market!