Chapter 1202 Official language news shocked Xiangjiang!

June 5, 1988.

Sunday.

9:30 am.

Conference room at Empire State Building headquarters.

Among them, Meris held a meeting of the Empire Group, and the participating members were mainly cabinet members, secretariat members, and key executives of major groups.

In the conference room, Merisi announced that taking into account the future domestic development, he proposed to use Chinese as the official language of the Imperial Group. The most important thing is that in the future, all executives who work in the domestic Imperial Group or related group subsidiaries will Pass the Chinese language test.

In other words, the Imperial Group has elevated Mandarin to the same status as English and Cantonese.

Meris had just announced the news. Except for the cabinet members who had known about it in advance last night, the Secretariat and other senior executives were very shocked when they heard it.

what does that mean?

It is still very clear to many people.

Although the official language in Hong Kong is English and the main language is Cantonese, as for Mandarin, basically few people speak it.

Moreover, in addition to Cantonese, there are also Chaoshan dialects, Hakka, Hokkien and so on in Xiangjiang.

However, none of these people expected that Mandarin would now be promoted to such an important position.

When Merlis announced the news as the general manager of the cabinet, he finally asked: "Everyone, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them."

"General Manager, I think Chinese is difficult to learn. It is difficult for me to learn another language at my age." said a white executive.

For these white executives, they couldn't believe it. The Imperial Group suddenly announced that Mandarin was also the official language, which was indeed a big blow to the other party.

"As for the problem you mentioned, the chairman has also mentioned that our current focus is on transferring senior executives from China. If you can't even speak Mandarin, it will be difficult to deal well with the country."

. . .

This meeting is for the Imperial Group.

Even for Hong Kong and even the Chinese community, the impact is huge.

That afternoon.

All major groups under the Imperial Group held meetings to inform them of the news.

That night.

The Li family in the Mid-Levels Villa in Deep Water Bay.

Today is Sunday.

Li Jiacheng did not go back to the company to work overtime, but went to play tennis with his friends. When he returned home, he suddenly heard news from his wife Zhuang Yueming.

The Imperial Group declared Mandarin as the official language.

At first, Li Jiacheng didn't quite understand what was going on.

Previously, when the Imperial Group held a press conference, generally speaking, white people spoke in English, while Chinese people spoke in Cantonese, and there was no requirement to speak that language.

Like Li Jiacheng's usual meetings, he does the same thing. The white people speak English, but he speaks Cantonese. Of course, he can also understand the English. If he really can't understand, someone will translate for him.

Now, the news that the Imperial Group suddenly proposed Mandarin as the official language really shocked Li Jiacheng.

"Madam, what is going on?" Li Jiacheng asked.

"Sir, I heard that in the future, the candidates for the domestic executive positions of the Imperial Group must be able to speak Mandarin."

Domestic executives of Imperial Group?

Now the Imperial Group's domestic investment scale is getting larger and larger, and it should have an investment scale of hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars.

In addition to the Empire Group, there are also a series of branches involving Hutchison Whampoa, Jardine Matheson Group, Land Group, Wharf Group, Wheelock Group, Huifeng Bank, Zada ​​Bank, Hangzhou Bank, Overseas Trust Bank, etc. .

Nowadays, many senior executives of Imperial Group's domestic branches are transferred from Xiangjiang, and some are domestic employees who have been gradually promoted to management.

Obviously, now Li Jiacheng finally understands what Sir Yang and the Imperial Group are targeting.

However, Li Jiacheng knew that this was definitely not that simple.

"Sir, do we, Changjiang Industrial Group, also want to follow?" Zhuang Yueming asked on the side.

"Let's take a look first."

In the past, Li Jiacheng knew that he was one step ahead of others in everything.

However, in recent years, many of his ideas and layouts have been much slower.

As important as the Imperial Group was now, he only learned about it from his wife when he returned home.

Not far from next door.

Baojia villa in Deep Water Bay.

Bao Yugang has been receiving conservative treatment, and his body seems to be fine. However, taking medicine regularly can still cause great harm to the body. However, most of his energy is no longer on the company, but on spending time with his wife.

Because Bao Yugang didn't know when he might leave.

Today is Sunday.

Except for the third son-in-law Toshin Ichiro and his family who are far away in Tokyo, the other eldest son-in-law Su Yiwen, the second son-in-law Wu Guangzhen, and the fourth son-in-law Zheng Weijian's family are all here.

They didn't go out today either.

However, when an important meeting was held within the Imperial Group and Mandarin was announced as the official language and a condition for staff promotion, Su Yiwen, Wu Guangzhen, and even Zheng Weijian were particularly shocked when they heard the news.

It can be said that this is definitely a very sensitive matter.

However, it is already 1988, less than ten years away from 1997.

In Wu Guangzhen's view, Sir Yang and the Imperial Group did so out of consideration for the future.

Bao Yugang's study.

Wu Guangzhen and Bao Yugang talked about this matter.

Bao Yugang learned from his third son-in-law that Sir Yang went to Dongyang for a long time some time ago and even visited the house of Toshin Ichiro.

Nowadays, Toyo Real Estate is very crazy. Watari Shinichiro and his wife have bought several billion Hong Kong dollars in Toyo Real Estate. In Bao Yugang's view, the speculation and risks involved are still very high.

I don’t know if the Imperial Group also invests in so many properties in Dongyang?

Now when Wu Guangzhen suddenly mentioned this matter, Bao Yugang said: "This is definitely what Sir Yang meant. Sir Yang is further ahead than anyone else."

"Father, are you saying that Sir Yang is already thinking about the future?"

"What do you think? Ordinary people take one step and look at it, and smart people take one step and look at three steps. However, when Sir Yang takes a step, he no longer knows where he is thinking. So I have known him for so long, and I don't know who he is. What do you think, but if Sir Yang and the Imperial Group dare to do that, they must have considered all aspects of the problem."

In Bao Yugang's view.

Xiangjiang is no longer his world, let alone the world of those white people.

But Sir Yang’s world.

Sir Yang would not do that now, and there would be no other resistance at all.

On the contrary, he also feels that the sooner Mandarin is taken seriously, the better it will be for the future stability of Hong Kong.

Most of Wu Guangzhen's properties are now in China. Now that Sir Yang has done that, shouldn't he also follow suit?

Like himself, Wu Guangzhen knows that his Mandarin is really bad, and he is usually embarrassed to speak Mandarin with others. What he speaks is either English or Cantonese.

On the contrary, he knew that Sir Yang spoke Mandarin very fluently, and even the old gentleman praised Sir Yang for speaking Mandarin very well.