The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Chapter 824 Economic Research Island

Baiyun, an urban village.

This is probably the last time Chen Pingsheng will come to this place, and he will soon be leaving with Xiao Jiye.

Xiao Jiye was still confused, but fortunately, her teacher Qingqing kept explaining things to her.

A top student like her from Tsinghua or Peking University is someone that most families would never hire to tutor their children.

They simply cannot afford such high teacher fees.

Because he was still young, Xiao Jiye adapted to everything in the shortest amount of time.

In the coming days, Chen Pingsheng will take him away from the urban village and to the Economic Research Island, which he has invested over 100 billion yuan to plan and build.

That place can be said to have gathered the world's most outstanding top talents from Tencent Pictures.

The healthcare, education, and living environment are among the best in the country, all to ensure the quality of life for these top talents.

The planning for the Economic Research Island began in 2024, and it was not fully completed until 2030, taking six years and costing 1800 billion yuan.

The permanent resident population is over 50,000, but less than 60,000.

The Economic Research Island comprises the Global Economics Institute and an advisory group, making it arguably the most powerful brain of the Tencent Group.

The Institute of Economic Research has a total of 3,800 employees, while its advisory board consists of only 360 people.

To become a member of the advisory board, one must meet extremely high requirements. First, one must be a top professor at a renowned university or have served as a CEO at a Fortune 500 company.

These alone are not enough; one also needs to have made outstanding achievements in industrial development or in one's own professional field.

Only by having both can one become a member of his advisory board.

As for the staff of those economic researchers, they are basically the ceiling for working people. Any one of them would be an inspirational idol, an unattainable figure in the workplace.

To recruit these top talents globally, salary and benefits are only one aspect; the most important thing is to provide them with extremely high living security.

To be honest, the difficulty in finding a job only applies to ordinary people. Top talents are still highly sought after by major companies, who are willing to spend a lot of money to hire headhunting firms to poach them.

Even someone as capable as Chen Pingsheng took ten years to truly transform Jingyan Island into the most powerful brain in the Tengying Group and even the world.

Its most attractive aspect, besides the fact that the Economic Research Island itself cost nearly 200 billion to develop, has everything needed for a high-end lifestyle.

The most important thing is the three-generation insurance.

As long as you can work on his research island for more than fifteen years, your family will be worry-free for three generations.

These three generations include all of one's immediate family members, and they can receive corresponding benefits based on their employment level.

People like Zhang Wanyi and Chu Qiuyan became vice deans right after they arrived.

After they turn eighteen, their descendants receive a monthly allowance of 300,000 yuan until the day they die.

As for President Li Xiaoman, who has always followed Chu Qiuyan, she can only serve as an advisor after she arrives.

The next three generations will receive a monthly living allowance of 100,000, which will continue until their death.

This is not just one person, but every person in three generations of a direct lineage.

Most companies simply cannot afford such guarantees, but Chen Pingsheng has the capability to do so, and he also deeply understands the significance of top talent to a company.

It can be said that the most important reason why he was able to retire so smoothly for thirteen years was that he successfully managed the Economic Research Island and its advisory group.

For any major strategic development issues, the Economic Research Island, including its advisory group, is responsible for them.

When there is a shortage of talent, the Economic Research Island will send a president-level executive to help overcome the difficulties.

With such a powerful brain, only Chen Pingsheng could serve as its dean.

He can relinquish all his positions within the group, but he cannot pass the responsibility of the Economic Research Island, including the position of head of the advisory group, to someone else.

No one could take his two titles.

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Mid April.

A top-of-the-line luxury helicopter took off from Baiyun Island and flew for forty minutes in the blue sky before landing on the most mysterious Jingyan Island. Jingyan Island is surrounded by the sea and was originally a backward and isolated island. Later, Chen Pingsheng took a liking to this place and bought it with a wave of his hand.

It took six years to complete.

It took another year to relocate all employees and their families to the island.

It's no exaggeration to say that this place is a paradise on earth.

To leave the island, you either need to take a helicopter, a private plane, or a yacht.

Many people on the island own their own yachts, making it very convenient to leave the island.

Once you get used to living here, you rarely need to go out, because it provides everything you need for a high-end lifestyle.

All the food on the island is purely organic and healthy, not to mention the schools, where teachers are recruited according to the highest global standards.

The hospital not only has a variety of cutting-edge technologies, but also longevity medical technologies that they have been developing.

Those who live on this island generally live five to ten years longer than outsiders.

As for the newly built houses on the island, apart from the thousands of villas, the rest are all twelve-story single-level apartments with sky gardens.

The apartment layouts are all built to a minimum of 280 square meters with zero shared area; such a house would be considered a luxury residence in any city.

Not only were the houses built, but the interior decoration was also handled by them, with various styles and all the materials used being top-brand.

Once they get to the island, very few are willing to leave.

The island is inhabited entirely by top global intellectuals or their families.

Most of these people were not born in rural areas, but rather came from scholarly families.

Parents or relatives who are professors or higher.

The chances of an average family raising a child who can get into the Economic Research Island are probably only one in 100,000.

This means that only one out of every 100,000 families can produce such a person, and even a single county cannot gather more than ten.

That's how high the threshold is for the Economic Research Island.

Xiao Jiye's identity has been exposed, and for the next ten years he will have to live on this island, living with the children and families of these geniuses.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Chen Pingsheng will be living on this island for many years to come.

An'an and Chen Lu would come over often.

He used to only come two or three times a year, but now that he's staying permanently, he's naturally welcomed and anticipated by countless people.

After getting off the plane, Chen Pingsheng went home first. His house on the island was surrounded by the sea on three sides. As soon as the curtains in the room were opened, it was a beautiful scene of spring flowers blooming and facing the sea.

This is what life should be like!
His years of hard work have been worthwhile; he should enjoy life in his later years.

The villa is fully equipped with nannies and a chef, and there are three Podocarpus macrophyllus trees worth over 25 million yuan planted in the yard.

It has an elegant shape, dense foliage, and is evergreen all year round.

Podocarpus macrophyllus is known as the "aristocrat of the courtyard" and is also regarded as a "tree that brings wealth and protects the home" in South China.

Chen Pingsheng arranged almost every house according to feng shui principles, planting this type of tree.

In addition, there are nine Koi fish, also known as red and white Koi, in the pond in the front yard.

Both are said to bring wealth and good fortune.

Each one costs around 12 million, and one has even fetched a record price of 20 million at auction.

It is also one of the most expensive ornamental fish in the world.

Besides red and white koi, they also raise many other fish that cost exorbitant prices.

The life of the wealthy is truly unimaginable for most people. At least, things that seem to have little practical value to outsiders are incredibly expensive to them.

(End of this chapter)