Return to Singapore 1995

Li Xiaofan went upstairs to pack his luggage. After finishing, he smoked a cigarette, sorted out his notes, drank some water, turned off the lights and went to bed.

However, I tossed and turned in bed tonight, but I couldn't fall asleep.

Maybe it was because I was a little excited when I thought that tomorrow would be my first time to return to China after my rebirth. It was a bit like when I was in elementary school and had to participate in the spring outing organized by the study group the next day. I was so excited that I couldn't sleep well the night before. I had to turn on the light and check the alarm clock every hour, for fear of missing the school gathering time...

After sleeping for a while, I woke up again at more than four o'clock in the morning.

Lying in bed, my mind was very clear, and I had a lot of things to think about. I couldn't fall asleep anymore, so Li Xiaofan simply got up and got out of bed.

I walked quietly to the small garden on the first floor and smoked a cigarette to refresh myself.

There is a retractable awning on the first floor outdoor for drying clothes.

Guo Hanyue had washed several pairs of jeans and T-shirts and hung them out last night.

There was even a pair of her own underwear among them.

Seeing this pair of her own underwear, oh, I'm so embarrassed! Li Xiaofan slapped his head. He had intended to wash his underwear by hand after taking a shower last night, but he forgot about it when he thought about going upstairs to pack his luggage and the two girls made a fuss. In the end, Guo Hanyue, a grown-up girl, had to help him wash it. He felt really bad!

At six in the morning, the two girls were still asleep, and Li Xiaofan had already taken the Comfort Taxi he had called and booked. In less than twenty minutes, he arrived at Changi International Airport.

At nine o'clock, the Donghai flight that Li Xiaofan took to Shanghai Hongqiao took off on time.

After the plane was flying smoothly at high altitude and the reading light in the cabin could be turned on, Li Xiaofan took out an English book "Jesse Livermore: King of Speculation" borrowed from Tampines Library and began to read.

This set of "Livermore Collection of King of Speculation" is a classic collection of American legendary speculator Jesse Livermore, including "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator", "How to Trade Stocks", "Jesse Livermore: King of Speculation", etc.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses next door saw Li Xiaofan reading a thick English book, and suddenly said to Li Xiaofan: "Are you Singaporean?" Meaning to ask Li Xiaofan if you are Singaporean?

Li Xiaofan smiled and replied in English: "No, I am Chinese!"

"Then you studied in Singapore? Studying financial investment?" He continued to ask curiously.

Li Xiaofan shook his head and smiled: "No, I am a worker in an electronics factory in Singapore..."

"Can you understand this English book?"

"It's okay..."

In his previous life, in order to get a job, Li Xiaofan spent a "huge amount of money" to study for a Sino-foreign cooperative MBA at a famous school in Shanghai. The MBA course was mainly taught by foreign teachers, and basically all classes were taught in English. After completing this course, his financial English reading level has greatly improved. Now I have no problem reading this book "Jesse Livermore: The King of Speculation".

After the two people exchanged a few sentences in English, the middle-aged Singaporean was surprised that an ordinary low-level mainland worker working in Singapore had a very good English level.

He took the initiative to hand Li Xiaofan a business card: "Young man, come and meet me, my name is Zheng Zhihuan, from Singapore JTC Jurong International!"

"Wow, JTC Group, I've heard of it for a long time!"

The earliest JTC refers to Singapore Jurong Industrial Estate, which is the English abbreviation of Jurong Industrial Estate. JTC Jurong Industrial Estate is located in the coastal area in the southwest of Singapore Island. It began to develop industrial parks in 1961. By 1968, the construction of various infrastructure such as factories, ports, docks, railways, roads, electricity, and water supply in the park was basically completed. In June of the same year, the government established the Jurong Town Administration JTC, which is responsible for the operation and management of Jurong Industrial Estate and other industrial areas across the country. Later, JTC simply took over the planning, construction, leasing and management of all industrial areas in Singapore, including Jurong Industrial Estate.

Later, JTC has established more than 30 industrial parks across the island of Singapore, attracting nearly 10,000 multinational companies and local high-tech manufacturing companies. The direct contribution rate to Singapore's GDP is more than a quarter, and it employs more than one-third of Singapore's national labor force.

In fact, many of the development zones and investment attraction models established after the mainland opened up to the outside world were learned from Singapore's Jurong Industrial Park JTC.

The "new" side of the operator of the Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park, Sino-Singapore Group, represented Singapore's Jurong Group JTC, and Suzhou Industrial Park learned a lot of experience from it.

After the exchange, Li Xiaofan learned that Zheng Zhihuan was the project manager of Jurong International. Jurong International is a subsidiary of Singapore's Jurong Group JTC, mainly engaged in consulting services.

At that time, Jurong Group was an official agency under the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore, and to some extent, it was the largest industrial real estate developer in Singapore.

Zheng Zhihuan told Li Xiaofan that their Jurong International established a branch in Suzhou Industrial Park at the end of last year. Their company mainly provides one-stop professional consulting services for investors in China, including overall planning of towns and parks, infrastructure planning and design, site selection, architectural design, equipment and process design, project management, design and construction including turnkey projects, etc. ...

When Zheng Zhihuan went to the WC, Li Xiaofan took out his notebook and took notes.

The exchange with Zheng Zhihuan just now made him think of an industry: industrial, technology real estate development and park operation.

When he was studying for an MBA in his previous life, there was a female classmate in the class who was a headhunter and often discussed the project assignments in a group. She often jokingly asked Li Xiaofan that several large industrial real estate developers in China, such as China Fortune Land Development and Liandong U Valley, were poaching people everywhere, and talents with industrial backgrounds like Li Xiaofan were more popular, and asked him if he was interested. Before his rebirth, Li Xiaofan once considered that if he was really laid off, he could find this female classmate a job in industrial real estate...

At that time, there were several classmates in the class who came from Tsinghua TusPark and Wuhan Optics Valley, which are first-class domestic technology real estate or park operators. When studying in the group case, they also discussed in depth the pros and cons of various models such as industrial real estate, technology real estate and park operation...

But the industry of industrial and technology real estate is too heavy. Li Xiaofan thinks that he can pay attention to it after the mid- and long-term capital has accumulated to a certain extent. In the future, if there is a suitable opportunity to get a suitable plot of land, he can cooperate with an experienced consulting company such as Singapore Jurong International to do a project.

Zheng Zhihuan is an expert on China. His father was a Chinese school student. He studied in a Chinese school in Singapore for a few years when he was in primary school, so he has a solid foundation in Chinese. He later went to study in the UK.

Influenced by his father, Zheng Zhihuan is very knowledgeable about Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Dream of the Red Chamber. He had a very good chat with Li Xiaofan on the plane.

At around 2 pm, the plane arrived at Hongqiao Airport on time.

"Xiao Li, goodbye. Let's meet again when we have the chance to return to Singapore!" Zheng Zhihuan now often travels back and forth between China and Singapore.

"Okay, thank you, Brother Zheng. We'll contact each other again!"