Siheyuan: Rebirth of a comfortable life starts with Shazhu

In any case, since the reform and opening up policy was implemented, everyone's life has been improving.

Even Lou Xiao'e's businesses have recently made several appearances in the south.

Local major media outlets have repeatedly reported on investments made by companies under the He Group in the area.

The reason it's local, rather than national, media.

There is a reason for this.

Lou Xiao'e's investments span a rather wide range.

Things like Mr. HUO building a hotel in Guangcheng deserve to be widely publicized.

This shows that foreign businesses are optimistic about our economic development.

The key point is that it doesn't affect our pace of development.

However, Lou Xiao'e's plans for building a commercial city and an industrial zone are still too advanced for current needs.

A very simple question: if the commercial city is successfully built...

Where should we attract investment?
As for attracting investment from the mainland, the private sector in the mainland is not yet fully open up.

If you're attracting foreign businesses, where will the goods come from? And whose business are you doing business with?

If these issues are not clarified, the local authorities really don't know how to promote their message.

It's fair to say that if Lou Xiao'e hadn't proposed both projects, it's questionable whether the local authorities would have agreed.

But Lou Xiao'e's project was approved, the initial construction funds were deposited into the escrow account, and land acquisition and other related matters had already begun.

This forward-thinking approach has left many people confused.

But Lou Xiao'e naturally had her own ideas.

In fact, of the several projects she has launched, only one is a parts and components industrial park that is currently under construction.

This is linked to the situation in Beijing.

He Yuzhu's group of "small specialized" factories will all be building branch factories in the south within two or three years.

Foreign trade of interfaces.

Lou Xiao'e's industrial park was located around the factory areas designated by those factories.

This fills a gap that small, specialized factories don't have.

It also has a certain resource integration effect on small specialized factories.

For example, plastic zippers, plastic buttons, nylon bags, plastic suitcases...

These products will be considered commonplace and ubiquitous in later generations.

But at present, these are all definitely high-tech enterprises.

The key issue is raw materials. If large-scale production is to be carried out, then raw materials such as polyester plastics will have to be imported.

Lou Xiao'e is building an industrial park and intends to attract these factories.

On the one hand, it complements those small, specialized factories.

On the other hand, it can also enable light industrial products to achieve greater scale and effectiveness, allowing the upstream and downstream to form a closed loop in a short period of time.

Those specialized fields that moved from Beijing to other parts and services, even now, haven't yet come into contact with the production of small plastic parts.

However, this is because plastic parts production lines and raw materials are scarce in mainland China.

It's not that they lack the technological reserves or the possibility of updating and iterating.

Lou Xiao'e and her partners created a brand on Hong Kong Island, breaking down their products into several parts and finished product assembly lines.

Then we put everything in that industrial park and the surrounding small specialized factories, so that everyone could improve together and earn some foreign money together.

This is not because Lou Xiao'e is so great.

Not only do they make money for themselves, but they also want to help factories in mainland China improve together.

To put it bluntly, this is the unspoken condition she had to bear in order to invest in and build factories in mainland China.

The world is hilarious, all come for profit.

Where are there so many philanthropists?
If there were no benefits, the local authorities wouldn't have provided water and electricity, as well as construction of transportation roads, to the industrial zone built by Lou Xiao'e in such a timely manner.

There are other benefits, such as loans.

This is the benefit that Lou Xiao'e, as the first to try something new, could enjoy. But the commercial city operates on a different model.

In fact, according to Lou Xiao'e's idea, the commercial city was built as a supporting facility for the industrial park.

Once the production capacity of each small factory reaches normal production levels and generates profits, the next step will inevitably be to expand production.

At that time, Lou Xiao'e will build Asia's largest wholesale market for light industrial spare parts in the south.

It's not just about being a good supplier for upstream private label brands.

We also provide supporting services for upstream enterprises both in mainland China and overseas.

In this way, the local industrial park can be scaled up within five years.

However, it is clear that there is still some hesitation on this issue in mainland China.

Therefore, the construction of the commercial city was delayed.

Currently, only land acquisition and leveling have been completed.

As for the subsequent construction and investment attraction, they complement each other.

If the local government doesn't open up the market here, there will be no investment attraction and no construction.

In Lou Xiao'e's project, the money placed in the escrow account seems to have been controlled.

But she has such a large sum of money, which is placed in a local escrow account.

Therefore, it seems reasonable to seek more loans from the local government for the construction of the industrial park.

Furthermore, the local government must try its best to lower the interest rate for her.

This approach is more complex than typical investment negotiations, loan processes, construction, production, and profit generation...
It's a bit more complicated.

Currently, the benefits to the companies under Lou Xiao'e's name are not very high.

However, Lou Xiao'e had already occupied several plots of land in advance.

And it was in Guangzhou, the center of reform and opening up, and in a small southern town.

Therefore, she believed that she had made a huge profit from this deal.

Even if the commercial city project is shelved for ten or eight years, as long as that piece of land exists.

Lou Xiao'e was confident that she could earn back her principal and interest, even if it meant working herself to the bone.

Of course, her confidence is also related to the special tutoring He Yuzhu gave her.

Therefore, the above understanding of He Yuzhu is quite clear.

This good-for-nothing is just a piece of dog meat; he's not fit for a proper meal.

If given even a slight opportunity, he will surely do something that harms the public for personal gain.

However, He Yuzhu was not guilty.

After all, when he suggested this to Lou Xiao'e, the specific time and place for reform and opening up in mainland China had not yet been finalized.

Before December of last year, Lou Xiao'e had already approached the local authorities to request those plots of land.

This kind of bargain is too good to pass up.

To put it simply, the land parcels allocated in the small southern city and Guangzhou are currently priced like dirt, extremely low.

Currently, these lands are designated for industrial use. However, if the lands are developed and the planning changes in the future, they may become commercial lands.

More than ten years later, the price increased to hundreds of thousands of yuan per mu.

This change is roughly equivalent to an average person's assets increasing from one dollar to one hundred dollars, which isn't a huge amount.

But if we go back to the new century and the land use designation changes, then tens of millions per mu would be very common.

Of course, there is no such thing as a land transfer fee at present.

Instead, they all charge certain fees under the guise of land use fees.

On Hong Kong Island, Lou Xiao'e's belly has grown even bigger.

Since He Yuzhu's visit, this woman has finally put her mind at ease, becoming quite plump and healthy.

Guo Shumiao, who was opposite her, wasn't necessarily any slimmer than her.

His three-fold chin was particularly striking. (End of Chapter)