Tao Liangchen
Chapter 583 Exclusive News
She and her colleagues had been rushing to prepare for the exclusive interview. Afraid of provoking Su Yehao and causing the interview to be cut short, they had been focusing on questions they thought readers would find interesting.
For example, on the paper was written:
"The impact of the Kai Tak Digital Port's planning on residents in the surrounding area, and whether the rumors of building the tallest building in Hong Kong are true?"
There were also questions like "Why sell Yahoo shares? What are your views on the prospects of Nasdaq?" "Advising mainland residents to buy houses online, do you also suggest Hong Kong residents invest early?" and "Will the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's announcement of GEM listing rules bring high-tech companies to Hong Kong to list?"
All sorts of questions, totaling more than a dozen.
As for the matter of the crystal wafer foundry, it wasn't that reporter Yang Peilin didn't want to ask, but that there was no news about it at all.
Su Yehao met with the team led by Mr. Zhang Rujing in the United States this time, and after a deep conversation, he came up with a new idea of "a wily hare has three burrows," preparing to put the high-end crystal wafer foundry project in Hong Kong and the low- to medium-end part in the mainland.
If there was extra money, he would invest more in relatively mature semiconductor companies in Baodao, or even lithography machine manufacturers in Europe, America, and Japan.
In the next few years, the development of internet companies would definitely be hindered, and real estate and mobile terminal equipment would have to wait a few years before they picked up. With no place to invest the funds for the time being, it was just right to change lanes and enter a new field.
Cashing out Yahoo had yielded more than two billion US dollars, and there were still more than one billion US dollars in assets in the wealth management account, distributed among several companies led by Amazon.
This sum of money gave Su Yehao sufficient confidence, so this time he returned to Hong Kong, determined to finalize the site selection and landing of the crystal wafer foundry as soon as possible, and to strive for the most favorable policy support.
Taking advantage of the interview, he took the initiative to let reporter Yang Peilin ask him questions later, as a way of testing the waters and sounding out the above's ideas.
Unexpectedly, she caught an exclusive scoop.
Reporter Yang Peilin, a friend of his aunt, asked with a smile at this time: "Young Master Su, do you already have a plan? Are you confident in promoting the development of Hong Kong in the high-tech field? I believe that once the news spreads, it should go relatively smoothly. Last time, so many people supported you in the Kai Tak Airport reconstruction project, which shows that you have a good relationship with the higher-ups."
The interview hadn't officially started yet, but Su Yehao waved his hand and replied:
"It's not that I have a good relationship with the higher-ups. Actually, I'm too lazy and don't interact with them much. The reason why the Digital Port project went smoothly last time was first because the original plan was unpopular, and second because my plan was more beneficial to Hong Kong. Without destroying Hong Kong's natural ecology, it contributed more than 20 billion in land revenue and balanced the development of various districts."
"What's different this time? Isn't it also promoting Hong Kong's development and providing tax revenue and employment opportunities?"
"Yes, but now the finances aren't abundant, and I plan to ask for land and money, so it's inevitable that I'll have disputes with others. Other places have introduced semiconductor subsidy plans, but Hong Kong is still a blank in this regard. The previous Digital Port plan only talked about attracting companies to settle in, and didn't involve specific production and manufacturing. Hong Kong's tertiary industry is relatively developed, and many people have even forgotten the importance of manufacturing, especially high-end manufacturing."
While Su Yehao was talking, he held a pen in his hand, crossed out a few questions he didn't want to answer on the paper, and added:
"Otherwise, the semiconductor industry wouldn't be more than ten years behind Baodao. I hope to be able to facilitate my factory as soon as possible, otherwise, in order to avoid delaying valuable time, I may choose to build the factory in the mainland or Baodao. I hope you can put this question as the news headline in a prominent position in the *Taigong Daily*."
"Don't worry, many of the Hong Kong government officials who subscribe to our *Taigong Daily* are very important. We will definitely convey your ideas for you. After we finish writing the article, we will communicate with you first and give it to you, Prince Hao, to review."
"...Okay."
Few people called him by his nickname in person. Su Yehao knew that he probably wouldn't be able to shake off this nickname.
Fortunately, among the businessmen who do business, they are either gods or supermen. It seems that no one is called "emperor" or the like, otherwise, it would be quite a headache to be shorter than others for no reason.
The reason why he was called "Prince Hao" was undoubtedly due to his being too young and born into a wealthy family. He was the only heir of the Su family, so he didn't have to worry about the inheritance of the family business at all. In addition to Sihai International Group, even Bojue Medical Group gave him a portion of the shares. The news had already been reported.
Naturally, the title of "Prince" fell on Su Yehao's head.
After the preparations were completed, the interview officially began.
The assistant's office had arranged for the general manager of the public relations department to carefully monitor him to prevent the boss from saying the wrong thing, or to interrupt more sensitive questions at any time.
Assistant Zhuang Wei took a break from her busy schedule and ran over to join in the fun at this moment.
As the personal assistant who followed Su Yehao the earliest, she herself suffered from savant syndrome. Her talent in finance and business management was quite outstanding. Because she was not good at interpersonal communication, it instead prompted Assistant Zhuang Wei to be calm, decisive, and like to pursue efficiency, pragmatism, and precision, so she was highly valued.
First, he answered a few minor questions that were irrelevant, clarifying that the sale of Yahoo was only due to a change in development strategy and a lack of funds. He also admitted that he did plan to build a super skyscraper at Kai Tak Airport and had already begun preparing the design, and so on.
Immediately afterward, he talked about the idea of building a semiconductor industrial park in Hong Kong. Reporter Yang Peilin threw out a new question, asking:
"Young Master Su, then how much money do you plan to invest this time to promote the industrial upgrading of Hong Kong? I know that our Hong Kong is already far behind many regions in this regard. With the completion of this project, it should provide many jobs and tax revenue, right?"
"That's right, it will provide at least several thousand high-paying jobs, and it will attract talent to Hong Kong and drive the development of surrounding industries. I plan to provide no less than 20 billion Hong Kong dollars within five years, and build the industrial park according to the highest standards. Mr. Zhang Rujing, who is very authoritative in this field, has already signed a contract with me for cooperation. He is looking for technical support and talent support in the United States, and has decided to purchase top-notch equipment from Nikon, Canon, or the European ASML..."
Su Yehao spoke eloquently, taking the opportunity to express his view that if the higher-ups did not provide support, the business would be difficult to develop.
The core purpose of this interview was to urge the higher-ups to agree to provide policy support. Compared with tax reductions and exemptions and financial subsidies, whether they would give a large piece of land for free or something like that became a minor issue.
For their own benefit, whenever the development of Yuen Long, Tuen Mun, and other places was involved, a group of real estate merchants would act as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and would object no matter what. After all, Hong Kong was not really short of land. Once other areas developed, the reserve land they had hoarded would be worthless.
Out of consideration for avoiding conflicts, Su Yehao only talked about the industrial park itself, and did not mention its driving effect on the surrounding development. He even publicly stated that if any businessmen were willing to cooperate, they were welcome to contact him for negotiations...
The next morning, the article was published in the newspaper.
Ordinary people were indifferent to it. At most, they would sigh and say that it was really damn rich, and only blame themselves for their bad fate for not being born into a wealthy family, and so on.
However, someone above paid attention to this news and immediately sent someone to contact Su Yehao to inquire about his specific plans...