Also put into use at the same time was the 28-story "Four Seasons Headquarters Building".
Originally, Chen Xia meant to use the common glass curtain walls of later generations, which would look very high-end and elegant.
However, due to the limitations of domestic technology within 80 years and the lack of corresponding building materials, this plan was abandoned.
The resulting building is almost identical to the White Swan Hotel in Guangzhou in terms of the number of floors and appearance.
Later, when Chen Xia went to Guangzhou on a business trip and stayed at the White Swan Hotel, he suddenly realized that the Four Seasons Headquarters Building and the White Swan Building were similar in both appearance and interior.
It turns out that the construction unit of the Four Seasons Building was the same construction company that built the White Swan Hotel. They didn't hire any design company, but simply took the drawings of the White Swan Hotel, modified them a little, and started construction.
This amount of money saved left Chen Xia speechless, as he remembered that he had paid for the design fee.
The headquarters building opened, and four companies, including Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceuticals, Four Seasons Department Stores, Four Seasons Textiles, and Four Seasons Trading, moved in. Due to the small number of staff, they occupied about 10 floors.
What to do with so many floors left? In addition to reserving space, Chen Xia came up with another trick.
In order to attract university talents, he moved all the laboratories that he had previously agreed with several universities in Zhijiang Province into the headquarters building.
Hey, when the time comes, researchers will sit on top of a skyscraper, looking at the scenery outside the window, doing experiments and drinking tea. Wouldn’t that be a great enjoyment in life?
Anyway, the university professors who were invited to watch the ceremony were so amazed by the towering building that their hats dropped to the ground. Were they tempted? Did they want to come?
You can also make extra money.
The construction and renovation of these 21 buildings took a total of three years and cost Four Seasons Group 200 million yuan. This amount of money was spent in such a way that those who knew the inside story were stunned and amazed.
Which unit or enterprise in China would spend so much money to build a "staff community"?
Is this crazy? Only a foreign-owned enterprise like Four Seasons Group, with its foolish staff and abundant funds, would engage in such prodigal behavior, right?
Only the people of Ke Town were relatively calm. Everyone knew that Chen Xia from Qingfeng Village was a prodigal son. It was not surprising that he did something out of the ordinary for five bowls of meat.
But they didn't know that building material prices have skyrocketed in recent years. If the Four Seasons Community had been completed a year earlier, a huge amount of costs could have been saved. If it had been built a few more years later, the cost would have at least doubled.
Chen Xia is not afraid of spending money. He just wants to create the best conditions to attract talents from all over the country to come to Yuezhou and join the Four Seasons Group.
These 21 buildings are the best advertisement. At least the next day, the Zhijiang Daily reported on the country's first high-rise residential complex for employees.
The Four Seasons Group's large-scale investment in China has also attracted strong attention from the central media. Although it is inconvenient for people to come as the Chinese New Year is approaching, it is estimated that there will be another wave of news after the New Year.
By then, talents across the country will see the strength of Four Seasons Group, and I believe that it will be much easier to poach people then.
The lively Spring Festival of 1988 is approaching.
In the past year of 1987, several mainland Chinese enterprises of Four Seasons Company created a total profit of RMB 700 million for Chen Xia.
Of course, during this year we expanded investments, acquired companies, and paid for the construction of the Four Seasons Community. All in all, we spent nearly 300 million yuan.
Even so, there is an extra 400 million yuan in the account, and Chen Xia plans to invest it all next year.
The bulk of the profits are still in Hong Kong. Whether it is patent fees, Caiyunzhinan Jewelry Store, Four Seasons Trading Company, etc., the annual profits reach 1.3 billion US dollars.
All the after-tax profits flowed into the account in the Cayman Islands. Chen Xia is already considering seeking cooperation with Wall Street next year and making some appropriate investments. He would never be able to spend all the money just by shopping on his own.
So Chen Xia waved his hand and gave "year-end bonuses" to all employees under the Four Seasons Group.
The salary reform plan for Yuezhou People's Hospital hadn't been finalized, and Chen Xia had no choice. But Four Seasons Group was still his personal property, right? It wasn't anyone else's business to distribute the money, right?
Therefore, each employee receives 14 months' salary, which is equivalent to an extra 2 months' salary as a year-end bonus, including managers.
By this calculation, even the lowest-level employees received a year-end bonus of 300 yuan, which was not a small amount in the 1980s and was enough for the whole family to have a prosperous year.
You should know that the predecessor of Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Factory under the Four Seasons Group was "Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory" and "Kezhen Winery".
The predecessor of Four Seasons Textile Company was "Yuezhou Textile Factory No. 1", "Textile Factory No. 2" and "Yuezhou Zongheng Light Textile Factory".
The predecessor of Four Seasons Department Store was more than 20 small and medium-sized collective enterprises.
These factories all have one characteristic, that is, they are on the verge of bankruptcy, their employees are in a semi-laid-off state, and they rely entirely on government subsidies to survive, and they may become unemployed at any time.
The employees all have vivid memories of the life back then when they had no money and could only eat meat a few times a month.
Since being acquired by Four Seasons Group, life has been getting better and better. Salaries are paid monthly and are never in arrears. The key is that the more you work, the more you earn, and the wages are piece-rate, which makes everyone's hard work pay off.
What do ordinary people want? "Clothes on their backs and food in their mouths"—that's all.
So regardless of how much money Chen Xia made, he solved the employment of 50,000 employees and the livelihoods of 50,000 families. This is a great achievement and immeasurable merit.
Regardless of whether Chen Xia's motivation for developing so many labor-intensive enterprises is pure or not, this is a vulnerable group of people who are older, less educated, and have poor technical skills.
If Chen Xia hadn't taken them in, they would probably have had to leave their hometown and go to the south to work. How many families would have been broken up by this?
Of course, the most important thing is that the more than 50,000 employees of the Four Seasons Group have created a huge amount of wealth for Chen Xia, firmly securing Chen Xia's position as the richest man in Qingfeng Village.
So no matter what, this year was a bumper year for the Chen family.
Especially Chen Xia, he is already a father of 6 children. I just don't know if there will be a drama in the future where the first and second wives will fight over the inheritance...
When you have money, you tend to show off, and the Chen family is no exception.
During the Chinese New Year, the Chen family invited the Shaoxing Opera Troupe and the Yue Opera Troupe to perform for three consecutive days in Qingfeng Village.
In Yuezhou City, just because his little daughter Youyou said she wanted to see beautiful fireworks, Chen Xia invited a fireworks team from Hunan. After approval from the city, they set off fireworks directly on the top of Fushan Mountain for an hour.
Hundreds of thousands of people from the entire Yuezhou city, including those from surrounding towns and villages, watched this spectacular fireworks display together.
Chen Xia held little Youyou in her arms, while her two silly sons were held by their great-grandfather and aunt. The whole family watched the fireworks show outside the window of the chairman's office on the top floor of Four Seasons Hotel, which had the best view.
The Four Seasons Group has finally become a giant in Yuezhou that no one can ignore.
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