Chapter 488 Opening Ceremony Generates Millions in Foreign Exchange
Regarding the joint hotel construction project, the leaders said they needed to discuss it further. This so-called discussion basically means there's little hope.
Sure enough, two days later, news came that the city's finances were tight and it could not come up with the funds to cooperate in building the hotel.
However, the city welcomes Sheng Xiping to invest and can offer various preferential policies.
The meaning is quite clear: they are not optimistic about the hotel project and are afraid of investing money only to see no results.
Sheng Xiping didn't care about this. What's the big deal? He could just become a sole proprietor. He wasn't short of money.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the news from the city arrived, Xu Guoxing led several people from his unit to find Sheng Xiping.
Xu Guoxing said that he believes in Sheng Xiping's vision and courage, and that he has convinced most of his colleagues in the Finance Bureau that they are willing to cooperate with Sheng Xiping to jointly invest in building a hotel.
The only condition is that, once the hotel is built, staff should be mostly family members of people from the Finance Bureau.
These days are different from later generations. Currently, the whole country is focusing on economic development, and it is not uncommon for enterprises and institutions to have tertiary industries.
With Xu Guoxing and others manipulating the process, and the city offering many preferential policies, the price of this land was extremely low.
Currently, border trade is not open, and local transportation conditions are limited. If goods can be purchased in the surrounding area, there is no need to go too far. Only goods that are not available locally need to be transported from other places.
After all these matters were agreed upon, Xu Guoxing arranged for someone to lead Sheng Xiping and the others around the city to choose a suitable place.
With the weather too cold to start construction, Sheng Xiping and Xu Guoxing agreed that by mid-to-late April, once their funds were in place, each would contribute a group of people to be in charge of the relevant projects.
Especially in the years when relations with the Russians were tense, the idea at that time was that even if we temporarily lost some territory, our rear would not be too affected and we could continue to live.
On the 25th day of the first lunar month, Sheng Xiping and others left Heihe by car and returned to Bingcheng, where they stayed for a few more days.
"No need to thank me, it's not polite for us brothers to say thank you. You do a good job, and I'll come find you when I retire," Chen Ruiqing laughed.
Fortunately, Sheng Xiping and his colleagues had been in the trading business for several years and were very familiar with transporting goods, so it was easy for them.
Other supplies are mostly produced locally and have to be transported from other places.
Despite its remote location, underdeveloped economy, and small urban area, Heihe has all the necessary factories and businesses.
Afterwards, accompanied by Director Wang and others, Sheng Xiping toured the city and surrounding counties and towns to conduct a thorough investigation.
Right now, this place is empty and bare, but in the future, it will become a riverside park.
The recruitment manager selected qualified applicants from among those who applied, and the first batch consisted of nearly four hundred people.
If they cooperate with the Finance Bureau, the hotel will essentially become a subsidiary of the Finance Bureau. If anyone dares to cause trouble in the future, Xu Guoxing and his team will certainly not stand idly by.
On his way back, passing through Changchun, Sheng Xiping contacted Chen Ruiqing and, through him, ordered a lot of goods in Jilin Province.
Secondly, there are various non-staple foods, such as canned goods, as well as light industrial products.
Sheng Xiping then signed large-scale orders with several wineries, demanding that they produce high-concentration baijiu for them, as much as they could produce.
This area is quite large, and Sheng Xiping suggested that they simply set up the warehouse here as well, which would also make transporting supplies more convenient.
After staying in Heihe for about ten days, the group finally settled all the matters.
Afterwards, Wu Yucheng, Liu Yuhe, Chen Weiguo, and others flew directly from Harbin to Guangzhou.
By the time Sheng Xiping and his group returned to Songjiang River, it was already past the second day of the second lunar month.
Although we have acquired the land, it is currently covered by ice and snow, so construction cannot begin until the ice melts in the spring.
In recent years, Chen Ruiqing has gradually reconnected with his old friends. Since Sheng Xiping wants to do business with the Russians, Chen Ruiqing is happy to lend a hand.
Wu Yucheng's car was shipped back to the capital. Sheng Xiping, Liu Yujiang, and others drove back the way they came.
In trade with Russia, the most popular commodity is definitely alcohol, especially high-proof spirits, which are equivalent to currency there—a true hard currency.
Fearing the other party might renege on the agreement, Sheng Xiping immediately signed a contract with the relevant municipal departments and instructed the Shenzhen company to transfer the funds to the designated municipal account.
When Chen Ruiqing learned that Sheng Xiping was going to do business with the Russians, he also remembered his connections with the Russians.
If the hotel makes money in the future, everyone can receive dividends, which will also solve the employment problem for some employees' families.
“I have a few friends who also have relatives in the Far East. Here, I’ll give you their contact information. You can contact them and say they are my younger brothers.”
Back home, the factory is almost ready to hire workers, and people from many surrounding towns and forest farms have come to sign up.
"Oh, thank you so much, brother!" Sheng Xiping was overjoyed to hear this.
I can't say for sure whether it will work, but I hope it will be helpful to you.
Sheng Xiping found a place he liked by the river, which was quite close to the municipal government and Daheihe Island.
In addition to meeting with Sheng Xi'an and his wife, as well as the Feng family, Sheng Xiping also used the Feng family's connections to contact several food processing plants and sign various canned food supply contracts with them.
As for recruiting family members of employees from the Finance Bureau as much as possible, that's not a problem. They all need to undergo training before starting work, and only those who pass the training can be employed.
This is related to the original strategic plan. Even without the exchange of goods, regions could still make a living.
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