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Chapter 147 How can a restaurant owner dislike a fat man? (Subscribe)
"The capital of small commodity manufacturing? Do you mean... to compete with Yiwu's international small commodities?" Upon hearing this, the mayor of Wen City began to look thoughtful.

"It's not competition! It's about getting back what we lost in the past!" Chen Jue smiled slightly.

You know, Vancouver's brilliant development in the 80s and 90s was all supported by various small commodity family workshops.

From small items like a button, a lighter, a piece of clothing, a pair of leather shoes, a faucet, to large items like switches, electrical valves, auto parts, etc.

In the past, Vancouver had a wide variety of small commodity manufacturing industries related to people's livelihood, many of which were ranked first in the industry. It can be regarded as a model city for the development of light industry in China in the 21st century.

It was not until these traditional manual industries were divested and eliminated, and industrial clusters began to be imitated and transferred to the inland areas with lower labor costs, that the current predicament of Vancouver was caused.

Take the now world-famous Yiwu International Small Commodity Wholesale Market, for example. In the past, it was developed by copying and imitating the shopping mall built in Rui County.

There is even a slightly teasing rumor among the people: "Half of the credit for the success of Yiwu's small commodities lies with the people of Vancouver."

This joke is no joke!

Instead, more than half of the stall owners in Yiwu are from Vancouver. The overseas Chinese in Vancouver are spread all over the world and were the first to expand their business to the world, laying the foundation for the export of Yiwu's small commodities.

Including the supply chain of small commodities, most of the source manufacturers are located in Vancouver.

(As mentioned earlier, this small commodity wholesale model was first learned by Vancouverites who went to the northeastern border to do business and set up food stalls in the northeast, from the Soviet Union's open-air container wholesale markets.)
In this winner-takes-all era, Yiwu and Ruixian were originally two cities that were advancing side by side, competing with each other and promoting each other. In the end, the title of the small commodity capital fell on Yiwu.

It was not until the rise of e-commerce that Alibaba settled in Hangzhou and firmly controlled the online shopping and sales platform for small commodities.

Rui County and even the city of Wenzhou can only be reduced to the role of "OEM factories" assisting the cities of Yiwu and Hangzhou, earning the thinnest profits and handing over the great first-mover advantage of the industry to others.

Ultimately, it is because Vancouver’s geographical environment is too remote that it loses in development prospects due to the high transportation and logistics costs.

At the same time, they also missed the pulse of the Internet wave and invested their first pot of gold in seemingly profitable speculation such as real estate speculation.

The reason why Chen Jue wanted to build this deep-water port at the mouth of Feiyun River in Rui County.

In addition to wanting to contribute to the economy of his hometown and improve the sluggish economic development of Vancouver, he also plans to promote Cube Technology's modular infrastructure technology to the world using this port as a technical sample!

Whether it is the Rubik's Cube Factory, the breakwater of the Xiwan Scenic Area, or the employee dormitories that are about to be built, none of them can compare to the influence of a super port with an annual throughput of tens of millions of containers.

As for the competition mentioned by the mayor, Chen Jue was not worried at all.

How can there be no competition in the business world?

Just because Rui County lost in the past competition with Yiwu doesn’t mean they will always lose in the future.

With this deep-water port terminal, the cost problem of exporting small commodities in the Vancouver area can be completely solved.

Even if we cannot build an international trade city on the scale of Yiwu, we can still just serve as an export outlet for others and get a piece of the pie by getting involved in ocean shipping.

Probably because he saw Chen Jue's ambition, Mayor WZ neither voted in favor nor opposed it on the spot.

Because the investment in building such a super port that is comparable to every country's infrastructure is too huge, and it affects the entire system, it is not something that a small mayor like him can make the final decision.

So the official of Wen City pondered for a moment, then nodded to Chen Jue and encouraged him, "Mr. Chen, since you young people want to do it, just go for it! In the past, Wenzhou merchants had the bold Juneyao Group, which was the first to contract civil aviation routes. There is no reason why a private container terminal cannot be established!"

Chen Jue's face immediately lit up with joy when he heard this. He knew that his plan of coming here to make a big promise was half successful.

Although it did not receive financial and policy support from the City of Vancouver, judging from the mayor's attitude, the subsequent procedures should not be too troublesome.

After all, the port terminal he wanted to build was not a traditional terminal backed by local municipal investment or even state-owned assets, which required a long-term and heavy investment. Instead, it was an MC black technology terminal that was provided by Cube Technology and funded, and operated entirely by private capital!

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With the Rui County private deep-water port project as a starting point, it would be much easier for Chen Jue to deal with the residential land needed to build dormitories for employees.

Secretary Lin made a phone call and asked Director Wang Kaichun of the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau to send a list with built-in map locations.

The list details the residential and commercial land listed for sale in various districts and counties of Vancouver.

You know, in recent years, affected by the real estate crash, the land transfer price in Vancouver has dropped from a peak of 2 per square meter to less than 1.

Not only did the number of buyers decrease, but even some real estate developers that had acquired land at the peak of the market previously terminated their projects when they saw the situation was not good. They demanded that the Natural Resources and Planning Bureau take the land back in the form of liquidated damages.

As a result, Vancouver Municipal Investment Corporation's debt has continued to rise, and the accumulated land cannot be sold, forming a vicious cycle.

Wang Kaichun was naturally overjoyed when a wealthy man suddenly appeared and wanted to invest heavily in land.

With the mayor's advice, Wang Kaichun pointed to some plots of land on the list suitable for building dormitories and said, "Mr. Chen, how many employees do you plan to recruit? If all of these plots of land in Louqiao, Ouhai are put into use, it should not be a problem to build a dense medium-sized residential community to accommodate 8000 to households! The price is also very suitable, with an average price of just over per square meter."

Upon hearing this, Chen Jue took out the list of non-performing assets of Mr. Cai from ICBC and cross-compared it with the land on this list.

After all, I had promised Lao Cai that I would buy the land from ICBC and give them some commission for their business.

We also asked the operational headquarters of Chenji and Cube Technology to send a list of existing personnel and the expected number of recruits in the future.

As soon as he took a look at the densely packed list of employees, Chen Jue himself was a little confused!
Finally, I had to tell the truth: "Probably... we need to recruit 2 employees in the first phase, so let's just count as 2 households!"

"What? How much did you say?"

"2 households? This... this would require building 4 or 5 medium-sized residential communities to accommodate them!"

When Wang Kaichun heard this number, his head buzzed.

Because of this outrageous number of employees, Chen Jue would almost be able to become a division commander... No, it's almost equal to the population of a small county in a remote mountainous area!
Even Secretary Lin, who was in charge of following up, was slightly stunned after hearing the number of employees reported by Chen Jue: "Mr. Chen, when did your company have so many people? When I went to Chen's for research before, it seemed that they only recruited a few hundred people!"

By the way, I would like to remind Chen Jue that it is illegal for an enterprise to falsely report job openings!
Chen Jue scratched his head as soon as he heard this, and explained helplessly, "Chen Ji has just completed a market survey for the entire province, and plans to open 2 county-level branches across the province within two months. In the future, we will also enter the national chain business, so we asked the HR department to recruit more than 50 college students as store reserve cadres in advance."

When Secretary Lin heard the number, his scalp went numb.

Although everyone knows that Chen Ji makes a lot of money and offers high salaries, there are always a lot of recent graduates eager to join any job posting online.

I never thought this position would be so popular!

But thinking about it, this is also to contribute to the tight employment situation and GDP of Vancouver, Secretary Lin had to soften his tone and asked: "Then...then this is not enough for 2!"

Seeing this, Chen Jue had no choice but to continue to use his big move: "The operation department of Cube Technology has currently recruited more than 1000 people. In addition, in order to cope with future sales plans, more than 1 resumes of engineers in the fields of construction and machinery have been collected in advance. As long as the subsequent products are launched, there is a high probability that they will be absorbed."

The mayor of Vancouver, who was sitting nearby, became anxious upon hearing this exchange and wanted to slap the two frightened men in the lap.

What kind of restaurant owner would dislike someone’s fat belly?
Since Mr. Chen wants to get more land, just let him take it!
Given the current land market conditions, it would be good enough if there were buyers willing to pay real money to take over the land.

What if I continue to be picky and scare away investors?
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