Reborn, back to a small county town to become a wealthy family

Chapter 817 This project is good.
After Wen Wan left, Luo Yang immediately called Fu Bin and Jiang Yuanshan.

We'll definitely be staying at the same hotel on this trip to the provincial capital, so it'll be easier for everyone to communicate and share information.

After making both phone calls, it was already midnight.

Luo Yang didn't get enough sleep last night, so he took a nap after lunch. When Sun Wei came in to call him, it was already past 1:40.

Although the group's structure is being adjusted, the investment department remains unchanged, and Song Wan is still in charge of the work.

"Why do I feel like it's been so long since the last meeting?"

Before the meeting began, Luo Yang asked Song Wan with a hint of doubt, "The last meeting was probably in March or April, right? How often does your investment department hold these investment review meetings?"

There are two meetings every month.

Song Wan replied directly: "Those meetings are just internal routine discussions that don't involve decision-making. They're just for summarizing information and judging whether the goals that each group should collect are worth continuing to follow. A discussion like today's, which invites you to participate, is the meeting that decides the group's investment goals."

Her words basically summarized the daily work of the investment department.

Currently, the entire investment team consists of four groups. Group 1 is responsible for collecting information on target companies in the high-tech industry. Group 2 is responsible for screening startups in the Internet and mobile Internet sectors. Group 3 searches for information on companies in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. Group 4 is for miscellaneous items, which means that all companies not included in Groups 1, 2, and 3 fall within their target scope.

Every two weeks, the four groups would hold a meeting to summarize the information they had collected recently, discuss it at the meeting, and Song Wan would make the decision on which goals were worth continuing to pursue and which goals could be abandoned.

"It seems the process of screening investment projects is quite lengthy."

Luo Yang couldn't help but sigh, "Countless companies are registered every day across the country. With four groups in total, it's incredibly difficult to select worthwhile investment projects from so many startups. You've all worked very hard."

"People in the investment department are never afraid of hard work."

Song Wan replied with a smile, "What they want is very simple: for their chosen targets to be selected by the group and for their hard work to be successfully converted into project bonuses. That would be the greatest reward for them!"

"The company is never stingy in rewarding outstanding employees."

Luo Yang then used Song Wan as an example: "Your CEO Song has been with me for three years. Her annual salary has increased from two or three hundred thousand to over a hundred million. So don't doubt my generosity."

Sure enough, as soon as she said that, everyone in the conference room turned their attention to Song Wan.

She became a billionaire in just three years; how could anyone not be envious?

"Alright, enough with the jokes, let's get back to the main topic."

Song Wan used ambiguous words to divert everyone's attention and bring the topic back to the meeting content.

"We will be reviewing eight projects today, so the meeting will be quite long. Therefore, I hope everyone will use concise language to clearly explain the goals of your recommendations, so that the chairman can understand the information and future prospects of your recommended projects in the shortest possible time."

As the woman spoke, she gestured to her subordinate sitting to her left to open the projected PowerPoint presentation.

"Chairman, General Manager Song, and colleagues, good afternoon."

The male subordinate then opened the PowerPoint presentation and began his introduction: "I am Li Weihua, the team leader of Group One in the Group's Investment Department. Next, I will explain to the leaders and colleagues two projects that Group One has recently identified as promising."

The meeting returned to the main topic, and Luo Yang also put away his scattered thoughts and focused his attention on the PPT. "Given the favorable factors analyzed above, all members of our group believe that in the next three or four years, the new energy vehicle market will gradually emerge, and the proportion of people buying new energy electric vehicles will exceed 5%."

Li Weihua reported, referring to the data in the table on the PPT: "Don't underestimate this 5% figure. We should first look at the absolute number. Based on the current growth rate of demand for family cars in my country, the total number will exceed 2500 million vehicles in three or four years. This means that even if new energy vehicles only account for 5% of the total, the absolute number will still be in the millions."

"Secondly, we need to look at the growth rate. Once the concept of new energy vehicles is widely accepted by the market, coupled with their economic and practical characteristics, their market sales growth rate will be much higher than that of traditional gasoline vehicles."

According to a recent market research report from a leading research institution, new energy vehicles will account for more than one-third, or even more, of the entire automobile market in the next ten years.

In fact, before Luo Yang was brought back by the U-20, new energy vehicles accounted for 45% of the domestic automobile sales market that year, almost half of the market.

After listing a bunch of data and reasons, Li Weihua finally talked about a group of investment projects they recommended.

"When there are a large number of new energy electric vehicles on the market, charging infrastructure will become a new sector with great investment potential."

He didn't hear the rest of the conversation very carefully because Luo Yang's thoughts had already drifted away.

In his previous life, he worked in urban real estate, so he was very familiar with the situation.

In those years, the planning department had already made mandatory requirements for underground parking garages in newly developed projects. Although different regions had different requirements and standards, the number of parking spaces with charging piles that had to be configured for every 100 parking spaces was marked on the planning approval drawings.

Not only are underground parking spaces in newly built residential areas subject to mandatory requirements, but various companies are also starting to move into the surface parking spaces of older residential areas, installing charging piles for free and charging for the electricity used to charge new energy electric vehicles.

In the rest areas along the highway, each area has a designated space with a row of charging stations installed.

Even public parking lots in cities, such as those in hotels and tourist attractions, will reserve a certain percentage of parking spaces for the installation of charging stations.

This industry is actually worth considering for investment.

"According to our current investigation, there are multiple charging methods, such as fast DC charging piles, wireless charging piles, and even solar charging, which will become more and more common to meet the needs of different scenarios."

Li Weihua's report continued: "With the popularization of new energy vehicles, charging facilities will become more widespread, and charging piles will be installed in more places, solving people's concerns about the vehicle's limited range. Policy support will also be stronger, encouraging companies to build charging piles and providing subsidies and preferential policies. Intelligentization is a major trend. Technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence can be used for real-time monitoring, intelligent scheduling, and optimized management. Users can check the usage of charging piles, schedule charging, and pay using mobile apps or the internet. The charging power can also be automatically adjusted according to the power grid conditions."

"Team Leader Li, get to the point."

Seemingly noticing the shifty look in Luo Yang's eyes, Song Wan suddenly interrupted Li Weihua's long-winded explanation, demanding that he explain it more concisely and directly, instead of simply reading from the book.

"Investing in electric vehicle charging stations has a high return on investment. The cost can be recovered in about a year, and afterwards it is all pure profit. The revenue will also increase as the usage rate increases."

Li Weihua quickly flipped through the PPT slides to the last few pages: "Chairman, President Song, based on the above reasons, we believe that the future prospects of the charging pile project are very broad, and the return on investment will also be relatively high."

Because of Song Wan's interruption, Luo Yang also came to his senses and heard Li Weihua's last report.

"Hmm, this project is good."

Luo Yang looked at Song Wan: "What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)