My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 951 Change Happens in an Instant
So it depends on who you are to dare to think what others cannot.

Wei Dong never considered starting a bank in either of his lives; he was already doing well just to be able to make a living selling cured meat.

People like Lao Fang from the Economic Commission thought, why not give it a try?

Moreover, Wei Dong felt burdened by his own perspective, thinking that the Investment Promotion Bureau should be a super state-owned enterprise with a scale of tens or hundreds of billions in the future, so why should someone outside the system be put in charge?

But in the 1980s, there was really nothing we wouldn't dare to try.

Moreover, it was only at this point that Wei Dong realized there was a bug in his management of the Investment and Recruitment Bureau.

Old Wang casually mentioned that someone in his workplace had an elder relative working in the cultural field, and that the Ministry of Radio and Television and the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Culture were merged into the Ministry of Radio and Television during the institutional reform in 1986.

The employees of the bidding bureau, who are mainly from various directly affiliated agencies, are the ones who know the most about these things.

They didn't appear on this remote and arduous fishing village peninsula without a reason.

Furthermore, Lao Wang also gave Wei Dong a brief explanation: "Didn't you previously work in the computer industry and absorb a number of electronics factories from the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry? Actually, broadcasting and television equipment used to be manufactured by the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry, so there was a connection, cooperation, and overlap. You could also speak on someone's behalf. That guy from Shanghai came from the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry."

Therefore, the probability of others being recognized and trusted when doing this is not high.

But for Rang Weidong, it was a minor matter.

Compared to the automotive industry, the real estate industry, and computer science research, the art and literature world, like filmmaking, is ranked much lower in priority.

Moreover, his investment works have already proven their worth through works such as "The Chess King" and even the TV series "Liu Weixin".

This is really not that difficult.

When Lao Wang docked at night, he went to the post office and made a long-distance call back to his unit to convey the leader's message.

Naturally, someone immediately contacted them to inquire about the wind direction.

On the first day, I tried to travel only three or four hundred kilometers to reach Jinling. Even if it was against the current, it would only take six hours.

The hydrofoil is not significantly affected by the water flow.

Other water transport methods would take more than ten hours to travel this distance.

Therefore, this tourist speedboat, designated as Kuimen No. 1, has extremely eye-catching appearance features, making it seem like a product of an animated film or science fiction movie that doesn't belong in this scene.

Everything around it was still, except for this thing, which moved silently at high speed, while a tall plume of water vapor billowed up behind it.

Absolutely spectacular!

It surpassed all other ships along the way, attracting countless people from the bow of the ships to crowd to the side of the ship to watch the spectacle.

Therefore, it can only operate during the day at noon, as it will collide with other ships in the morning and evening.

Even though the Yangtze River waterway in the middle and lower reaches is generally only one or two kilometers wide, there are still many shuttling boats and unregulated small fishing boats.

Moreover, since we're going upstream, we should also take the opportunity to search for branch offices along the way.

Nanjing also has an electronics factory under the Fourth Ministry of Machinery Industry, which is now the largest supporting enterprise for Apple's computer manufacturing. It can be considered an external mercenary unit for Weidong's electronics cluster.

The 30-plus-story electronics building, which began construction in 1986, was also completed before the Spring Festival, giving Wei Dong, who effectively controlled the "foreign-owned Apple OEM factory," a 49% stake in the property.

It's time to come and inspect it.

So not only the Cherokees and 212s from the Jiangsu branch, but also several cars from the Jinling factory, have certainly made a fortune by manufacturing for Apple in the past two years.

The leaders have all upgraded their equipment, now owning Crown and Bluebird.

But the official cars of these factory leaders paled in comparison to Wei Dong's vehicle.

They also leveraged the connections of local tycoons to obtain a commission from the branch manager to contact the Changjiang Shipping Jinling Shipyard near the factory area for convenient docking.

Then, together with the shipyard leaders, we watched in disbelief as the hydrofoil, like Nezha descending to earth, arrived with overwhelming force, riding on three "wind and fire wheels," and then slowly descended into the water, as if it had come down from a somersault cloud.

The branch managers immediately felt extremely proud.

Wei Dong hadn't expected to be so high-profile, but only this kind of high-speed boat could meet his work needs.

So I dressed as casually as possible, carried my daughter down the boat, shook hands with everyone, and explained that the boat was on its way back to Shangzhou for tourism development purposes.

The shipyard executives here are just as eager as those at Shanghai Shipyard. Can we take a look? We'll organize our engineers to come and see right away. Our shipyard also has... Oh, right, right, and then we see the technicians and engineers from Shanghai Shipyard in the background.

In fact, they are all currently under the same long-haul shipping system.

Then I'd love to see it even more.

Let Wei Dong look around as he pleases, and leave some people to guard the ships and supplies.

We followed Jinling Factory on a tour of their towering electronics building.

In fact, in Rang Weidong's eyes, his impression of Nanjing came more from the loosely organized Jiangsu Province.

Right now, it feels more like a weaker version of Shanghai from the inland.

Its pace of life and architectural atmosphere are ahead of Jiangzhou, yet it possesses the steady and reliable foundation of Beijing, and carries the unique charm of the Yangtze River Delta region.

The 37-story Jinling Electronics Building is not located within the factory area, but rather near the intersection next to Jinling Railway Station.

This demonstrates the Jinling factory's confidence and arrogance in being able to choose any location in the local area.

Moreover, in this urban area, most buildings are three to five stories high, eight stories are considered high-rise, and ten or more stories are already very rare among super high-rise buildings.

It really looks like a crane standing there.

You can see it from afar.

Moreover, I really liked the Jiangzhou White Building when I saw it, so I had the entire exterior wall of the building covered with white stone.

Holy crap, it was completely white and sparkling, with rows of floor-to-ceiling glass windows, making it incredibly eye-catching, like a jade ribbon inlaid on a great sword. The seven-story lower level was mostly occupied by an electronics market, handling the wholesale and retail of various electronic components, equipment, appliances, and computer accessories.

This is probably the first professional electronics market in the country.

In a country where even free markets are scarce, this electronics market mimics the structure of the Jiangzhou North District Commercial Building, which opened on June 1st last year.

The basement floor houses a large, increasingly sophisticated and comprehensive supermarket chain with well-established suppliers.

The first floor, spanning over 2,000 square meters, houses the electronic product counters operated by Jinling Factory and Dongsheng Trading.

Counters are available for rent on the second, third, and fourth floors; storefronts are available for rent on the fifth and sixth floors; and the food and beverage street is on the seventh floor.

Floors 8 to 22 are the offices and R&D floors of Jinling Factory, while floors 23 to 37 are the offices and hotel of Dongsheng Trading.

Finally, a UFO-shaped circular restaurant was built on the rooftop.

It is said to be the most fashionable and upscale place in Nanjing right now.

In fact, both companies that basically share the building have set aside more than half of their space for office rental.

Nanjing still has a tradition; all the manufacturers and enterprises in Anhui Province have the ambition to set up shop in Nanjing.

Renting an office and setting up a branch office is a sign of being high-class.

Jinling Factory mainly recruited companies in the electronics industry, while Dongsheng Trading focused on various trading companies.

There are even two or three real estate companies.

The occupancy rate is now over 50%, and the place is quite busy.

Seeing this makes Lao Wang want to set up a branch of China Merchants Bank in Nanjing again.

As they gradually became more familiar with each other, Dong Xueqing couldn't help but remind him, "You should first figure out the electronic financial system."

It's no longer the internal settlement center you used to know, or the savings bank model you still think it is.

The head office has signed an electronic financial system agreement with X Computer. Now, following the fiber optic project of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the switch project led by Gui Zhenfei, network information technology will be gradually added.

Simply put, Dongsheng Trading currently operates on a standalone electronic accounting system, using manual transfer of memory cards to ensure settlement between provincial branches and the head office's financial center.

Everything was explored in collaboration with the head office's technical expert team.

The advantages and disadvantages can be immediately reflected in the head office's execution.

Once the network is connected, it will instantly form a network capability.

From local area networks to national networks, we strive to make a breakthrough starting with bank private networks.

So, following the lobby of the "American-owned" Baimao Hotel at the back of the building, Wei Dong held a meeting with the Jinling factory, branch offices, and branch and sales companies that had come from the surrounding area.

They talked about computers, the internet, and sales.

Liang Jiahui actually had the audacity to make Wei Dong his secretary.

Let's also talk about cultural work in film and television.

Even more surprisingly, the shipyard's leaders also took the initiative to come and participate in the exchange.

It's likely that they heard from those people at the Shanghai Shipyard who leaked information about this General Manager Rang.

Dong Xueqing, together with the finance staff who had arrived earlier, checked and sorted the accounts and held a finance meeting with Jinling Factory.

Old Wang originally wanted to attend the meeting there, but in the end he participated in the one to familiarize himself with the new business model.

Only the Taoist priest led Long Zhenwei to visit the auspicious feng shui site of Jinling.

However, Wei Dong declined the dinner invitation in the evening and the family strolled around the streets and alleys near the building.

The factory area here is different from the bustling city center of Nanjing.

In the dormitory area of ​​Jinling Factory, which had been bustling for decades, there were all kinds of pork belly noodles, duck blood vermicelli soup, wontons, soup dumplings, beef soup...

Ram ate with a beaming smile, but also missed her sister and felt sorry that she hadn't gotten any.

Tell Wei Dong to put her mind at ease. Zhuoma is already tidying up her unkempt hair. Now you can fly from Nanjing to Guangzhou. Are you going to go to Hong Kong again?
Lamu still adhered to her duty, saying that she had to go back to Jiangzhou to feed the dog, monkey, and myna bird, and also take care of the young master and the princess.

In fact, the next day, Dong Xueqing was still like a child, taking the children to the zoo on the island in the middle of the lake.

The result was rather disappointing. Back then, Jiangzhou was the secondary capital, and this was the main capital. How could the zoo be so small?

Aside from the chimpanzee brushing its teeth, the liger is something Jiangzhou doesn't have, and the number and variety of other animals are far inferior, not to mention the panda that's the centerpiece of the museum.

The main problem is that it's still in the mode of keeping animals in cages or cement pools for people to watch, which is far inferior to our own zoo.

Xiao Cong used to love running around in the cages and playing with the animals, but now he's disgusted by the stench from those enclosures.

Even the climbing ladders and carousels in those children's playgrounds are far more rudimentary than the situation that Dong Xueqing personally oversaw the renovation of.

So we briefly took a ride on the duck boat and then returned to the hotel, feeling rather disheartened.

Rang Weidong, who had been busy in meetings, burst into laughter after seeing the photos that evening. He realized that he couldn't compare his own business philosophy, which was two or three decades ahead of its time.

The employees of state-run zoos are lucky if they can do their jobs well; they don't see any earth-shattering reforms.

However, this does indeed illustrate the huge gap in the transformation of the system.

Shipyards, electronics factories, banks, and even film studios are all the same.

Wei Dong was immediately ordered to wait in Jinling, as someone wanted to see him.

(End of this chapter)