Chapter 486 I dug a hole for myself
Whether when he was working in the real estate industry or in the past few years of starting his own business, Luo Yang has participated in banquets organized by the Investment Promotion Office more than once.
Generally speaking, there will be a recommendation meeting before the dinner, where leaders will come on stage to talk about the advantages and policies for attracting local investment. Among the guests invited to the banquet that day, there will definitely be several investment companies that have already been negotiated with, to create a good atmosphere.
It is extremely rare to have a banquet like tonight where we directly skip the recommendation meeting.
Because the banquet was held in Minhang, Luo Yang and Yu Haiping did not rush and arrived more than ten minutes early.
Show your invitation at the check-in counter at the hotel entrance and sign in to enter.
I followed the receptionist up to the second floor and found that the banquet tonight was not held in the hall.
What kind of number is this?
When Luo Yang and Yu Haiping were led into the box area, they looked at each other in surprise.
"Boss, it may be a group-based PR."
Yu Haiping, who had worked in the government, was more experienced and explained to Luo Yang: "In the past, our county organized an investment promotion office to visit Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai to learn advanced experience, which was this kind of private room banquet."
"Key PR?"
“It’s group-focused PR.”
Yu Haiping emphasized the grouping: "The VIPs arranged in each box are business owners in an industrial chain. The investment promotion office arranges a public relations team in each box. Winning over key companies means winning over the entire chain!"
“Or maybe we can take over supporting enterprises and lure key enterprises to move in?”
Luo Yang smacked his lips: "There's something."
The two followed the receptionist and talked as they walked, and soon they arrived at the door of the box.
The middle box of the dining table, which seats twelve, has a width of ten chairs, and each seat has a name tag.
At a glance, there were already eight people, five men and three women, sitting in the box. Judging from the empty seats, Luo Yang and Yu Haiping were the last to arrive.
"Sorry, the traffic was stuck on the road for a while during the evening rush hour after get off work."
Although it was not time yet, Luo Yang still took the lead to greet everyone.
"It's not even six o'clock yet. It's not too late. It's not too late."
A young man in his thirties stood up and said with a smile, "Boss Luo, Assistant Yu, I'm Mao Hongtao from the Minhang High-tech Zone Investment Promotion Office."
After introducing myself, I started introducing a few other people.
There were ten people in the box.
A man and a woman also came to the Investment Promotion Office. The man was called Tang Hua and the woman was called Wang Yuan. Both were in their twenties.
The remaining seven people came from four companies. In addition to Luo Yang who brought his assistant, there was a boss named Cao Weijie who brought a female secretary. The other two bosses came to the banquet alone.
After the introduction, Luo Yang discovered that the other three companies had nothing to do with Kunpeng Technology's industrial chain.
And Chu Jianming was not in this box either.
The result was different from what he had guessed before. Luo Yang subconsciously glanced at Yu Haiping who sat down after handing out the business cards.
Group focus PR?
Perhaps because he guessed wrong, Yu Haiping felt a little embarrassed.
While Mao Hongtao was telling the waiter to serve the dishes, he leaned over to Luo Yang's ear and whispered, "When I didn't see Mr. Chu when I first entered the door, I knew I had guessed wrong. Now we can only make a judgment on the specific situation after the people from the Investment Promotion Office speak."
"Well, that's all we can do."
It was just speculation, so Luo Yang didn't mean to blame him: "Let's see what they say later."
"First of all, on behalf of the Minhang High-tech Zone Investment Promotion Office, I would like to raise a toast to everyone and thank all the bosses for taking the time out of their busy schedules to attend this banquet."
The opening remarks are all fixed routines, with no novelty to be found.
Mao Hongtao has a good alcohol tolerance, and he had already finished a round of the game by the time two or three hot dishes were served.
I thought we would start talking about the main topic after this round of drinking, but unexpectedly a young man named Tang Hua took over and started toasting in circles.
Wang Yuan, the female general of the Investment Promotion Office, was not willing to be left behind and stepped forward to continue.
What is rhythm?
From the start of the meal until now, I have only taken a few bites of the half table of food and have already drank four glasses of white wine.
Fortunately, Luo Yang adhered to the principle of talking less and eating more, and was determined not to change the topic.
"Mao Ke, I heard that the High-tech Zone has issued new regulations. Starting this year, all introduced enterprises must sign relevant agreements, and there will be clear requirements on key indicators such as revenue and tax payments. If they fail to meet the requirements, all the preferential policies they have enjoyed before will be cancelled. Is this true?"
Even if Luo Yang didn't say anything, he couldn't stop others from showing off.
Boss Cao, who brought his female secretary to the banquet, was more active.
After a few drinks, he was the first to speak: "Who can bear this? Even high-tech enterprises can make mistakes sometimes. Who can guarantee that the market will be good for several consecutive years? If a company focusing on foreign trade encounters the economic situation of the past two years, it will die unjustly."
"Mr. Cao, this is indeed the case, but it is not as serious as you say. The High-tech Zone is not blindly following the rigid rules when implementing this new regulation."
Faced with such problems, Mao Hongtao had to respond positively.
He smiled and explained, "As everyone knows, the government has been emphasizing technology improvement, technological innovation, and product upgrades in recent years. In addition, land quotas in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai have been in a tight state. In order to improve the effective utilization rate of land, Shanghai has introduced corresponding policies."
Mao Hongtao said a lot of things, but in summary there are only two meanings.
Policies are formulated based on the current environment, not only in Shanghai, but also in the surrounding Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.
Regulations are dead, but people are alive. If we really encounter force majeure, the city and district will definitely consider the actual situation and will not take a one-size-fits-all approach.
"It's easier for big companies, but small companies are at a disadvantage."
The topic just now triggered the emotion of another boss, Gao Jun: "Especially for the projects introduced by the city, district and high-tech zone, there will definitely be margins, but it is hard to say for small businesses that have got in on their own. The market is relatively fixed and they will be doomed at the slightest disturbance." In mature markets, where the incremental growth hardly changes, this situation will indeed occur.
Cao Weijie and the remaining boss named Wei Jialiang both expressed their agreement.
"What does Mr. Luo think?"
This topic aroused resonance and was difficult to answer. Mao Hongtao was quick-witted and asked Luo Yang, who had been silent, to express his opinion, hoping to interrupt the rhythm.
“I heard that the Tesla Gigafactory, a major new energy project, has been decided to be located in Pudong?”
Luo Yang doesn't want to be unique, nor does he want to make far-fetched claims.
“For this kind of high-tech industry project, will the city adopt new policies to restrict it?”
He changed the subject and started another discussion to cover the original topic, cleverly avoiding offending either side.
The reason why I dare to bring up the topic of Tesla is that few people know at this moment that a bet agreement has been signed between Tesla and the Shanghai municipal government. Except for a few insiders, the outside world either does not know or is just speculating.
"Tesla. I heard it's a very powerful company in Silicon Valley. Our city spent a lot of effort to attract investment here, right?"
The business owners who could be arranged to sit in the same box with Luo Yang were generally not too bad. If they added the local network of contacts, they would have well-informed sources of information. Wei Jialiang was one of these bosses.
He took over Luo Yang's words and said, "I heard that the land price given to Tesla is one tenth of the market price, and the loan interest rate is only . The loan amount also exceeds Tesla's factory construction costs. If the operation is good, Tesla can build the company without spending a penny."
The discount is really huge, so huge that Xiao Ma can build a factory without spending a penny.
But the Shanghai government is not stupid either. It signed a bet agreement with Tesla, which was later made public in the media.
The bet agreement requires that the Shanghai Super Factory must pay 2023 billion yuan in taxes each year starting from the end of . If this condition cannot be met, the corresponding land must be returned. In addition, Tesla is required to invest 5 billion yuan in capital expenditures in the Shanghai Factory in the next five years.
"Fuck, Lao Wei, is this true?"
Gao Jun's company had only been investing in Shanghai for two years and he was not a local so his information channels were not that wide. He was very surprised by the "rumors" revealed by Wei Jialiang.
"I've heard about it in some circles, and it seems like they enjoy quite a lot of discounts."
Cao Weijie was a talkative person to begin with, and this finally opened up his chatterbox: "But what can we do? Tesla is a US-based company that specializes in producing and selling electric vehicles, which fits the current concept of new energy. Its technology comes from Silicon Valley, and it is currently considered the best in the world."
Around 2012, it was not a big problem to say that Tesla's technology was amazing, but no one boasted as much as Cao Weijie did.
As someone who has been through it, Luo Yang has a better understanding of it.
Tesla Motors is named after electrical engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla. It specializes in the production of pure electric vehicles. Its major models include Tesla Roadster, Tesla Model S and Tesla Model X.
It can be said that Tesla is the first electric car company in the world to use lithium-ion batteries, and its first electric car was the Roadster.
However, from 2008 to 2012, Tesla sold 31 Roadsters in 2250 countries around the world, and the company was on the verge of bankruptcy from an operational perspective.
To put it bluntly, to some extent, it was the domestic market that saved Tesla.
Similarly, Tesla has also played a catfish effect in China. Before it came in, the country had been subsidizing electric vehicle companies, but most domestic car companies were not well-informed about what they were doing.
It’s either assembly or simple coping, all for the sake of getting subsidies. As for innovation, what a joke!
It was not until Tesla came into the picture that many people who cheated on subsidies were weaned off, and some who truly developed their own technology and R&D also saw the huge potential of the market and increased their investment in technological R&D, which led to the subsequent flourishing market.
Objectively speaking, they complement each other.
Luo Yang didn't care about it anymore after he started the fire, but the discussion about this topic at the table became more and more popular.
Mao Hongtao was a little anxious at this time.
The bosses were having a great time chatting, but it's been almost 40 minutes since the dinner started, and the theme of tonight's banquet hasn't been mentioned yet.
If we continue chatting like this and drink too much, it will be a question of whether what we say will count.
He glanced at Luo Yang, who was sitting on his left. From the beginning till now, they had not said much. The key point was that he was the one who brought up the topic that was being discussed enthusiastically at the table.
"Mr. Luo doesn't seem to be in a good mood tonight?"
"No, no, it's mainly because I'm a person who doesn't talk much."
Luo Yang picked up the wine cup and said, "I'm not good at speaking, I'm sorry to make the leader laugh. Everything depends on the wine in the cup. Mao Ke, let's go!"
Mao Hongtao is not a very cunning person, and his expression is all on his face.
It just so happened that Luo Yang was also curious about the topic of tonight's drinking party, so he took the initiative to ask after putting down his glass.
"Mao Ke, the High-tech Zone is organizing a gathering for enterprises in the area tonight. Do you have any message you want to convey?"
This sentence was equivalent to putting the microphone to Mao Hongtao's mouth.
"What a coincidence! Tonight's theme is actually somewhat related to Tesla."
"what?"
Luo Yang was stunned for a moment.
It has something to do with Tesla, but what does it have to do with me?
"Mr. Luo, have you noticed that at this table tonight, Mr. Wei's Jianghai Group makes spare parts for automakers such as SAIC, JAC, and BAIC, while Mr. Gao's Tianqi Technology makes intelligent systems involving computer networks, information technology, and intelligent control."
After Mao Hongtao's brief introduction, it really seemed to be the case.
“But it seems that I am here.”
Luo Yang thought about himself and felt that he had nothing to do with the automobile industry.
"Mr. Luo, please don't be so modest. Although Kunpeng Technology is engaged in drone research, you have jointly developed new materials with the University of Engineering and Technology, and have also established a power battery research and development laboratory."
Having said that, Mao Hongtao finally got back on track.
The Investment Promotion Office is responsible for attracting investment.
At this point, Luo Yang had a vague idea in his mind. The High-tech Zone wanted Luo Yang to take the integration of production and research a step further. In addition to helping with the supporting research and development of his own drone project, he could also increase investment and make investments in the new energy vehicle industry chain.
My goodness, does this count as digging a hole for yourself?
(End of this chapter)
