Chapter 132 The Empire State Building was built with an investment of HK$20 billion! Right now

Have a night's rest.

Early the next morning, Yang Ming came down in a wheelchair from upstairs, served by Azhu and Zhong Chuhong.

In the garden of the villa.

Without relying on a wheelchair, Zhong Chuhong and A-Zhu, Yang Ming slowly stood up and walked on his own, intermittently, for about half an hour.

Yang Ming still felt that his legs were a little weak, as if they were not able to fully exert their strength.

Azhu and Zhong Chuhong encouraged him.

"Master, you are so awesome!"

. . .

Azhu and Zhong Chuhong knew that if Yang Shao really returned to walking like a normal person, he would not have to rely on them so much, and they would feel a little disappointed.

Yang Ming's face was sweating. A-Zhu brought a towel to wipe the sweat off Yang Ming's face, and helped Yang Ming return to the wheelchair and sit down.

6:40am.

Yang Ming accompanied Yang Jirong and his wife to finish breakfast.

Get in the Rolls-Royce and ride to the Federal Building.

The morning was about the same as usual.

noon.

Yang Ming finished lunch in the company canteen.

in the afternoon.

Imperial Group will announce important news to the outside world.

Imperial Group's large conference room.

Conference room reception.

Meris, general manager of Empire Group.

Ma Shimin, General Manager of Wharf Group.

Hutchison Whampoa CEO Wei Li.

Imperial Group Financial Director Tang Shilian and others were present in this conference room.

In addition, sitting below are the designers and representatives of the design industry who came yesterday to participate in the design drawings for the construction of the Empire State Building.

Three people, including Pei Yuming and his son, were present in the conference room.

Last night, Pei Yuming and his son had already learned about the design that Mr. Yang had chosen.

Coming here today is just to formally sign a contract with the Empire Group.

In addition to these, there are also reporters from major newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong.

Now Asia Television also sends reporters to conduct interviews.

Yang Ming is not only the boss of Empire Group, but also the controlling shareholder of Asia Television. It can be said that Asia Television is Yang Ming's industry.

It's his mouthpiece.

How could Asia Television not send someone over for such an important matter now?

Merith looked at the watch on his wrist.

The time came to 2:30 in the afternoon.

"Everyone, I am Morris, general manager of the Empire Group. I will host this press conference on the construction of the Empire Group Building."

The conference room fell silent.

"The person on my left is Mr. Ma Shimin, general manager of Wharf Group."

Ma Shimin stood up and greeted the reporters, designers and others sitting there.

"The person on my right is Mr. Wei Li, CEO of Hutchison Whampoa."

This is the first time for Wei Li to attend a press conference related to the Imperial Group.

It is also an opportunity for Weili.

When he decided to stay at Hutchison Whampoa as CEO, he hoped to integrate into the senior management of Empire Group.

Now an important core subordinate of Yang Ming.

Except for the financial director Tang Shilian and the female secretary Lin Xiuzhi, they are Chinese.

For example, the general manager of the Empire Group, Merliss, and the general manager of the Wharf Group, Ma Shimin, are all white.

In Wei Li's view, Mr. Yang was someone who could tolerate the presence of white executives.

At this point, he noticed that Mr. Yang was indeed different from others.

It is precisely because of that that Weili knew that in order to integrate into the Imperial Group, he must be recognized by Mr. Yang and Meris, the core executives of the Imperial Group.

Being invited to attend such a press conference this time is a kind of recognition.

At this time, Ma Shimin was the general manager of Wharf Group and Wei Li was the executive president of Hutchison Whampoa. They both belonged to Taipan.

In Xiangjiang, their status and influence are very great.

Unexpectedly, they were all invited to attend the press conference this time.

"Some time ago, the Empire Group, in the name of the Wharf Group, purchased the Murray House plot at a high price. The Empire Group is planning to build the Empire Group Building on the original site of the Murray House plot as the company's headquarters. During this period, the Empire Group invited the world Architectural designers and famous architects from the architectural design industry designed the construction of the Empire State Building. After more than half a month, hundreds of famous designers from all over the world came to Hong Kong with their works."

"Yesterday, in the conference room of our Empire Group, famous architects and representatives from architectural design firms from all over the world presented their design concepts and outstanding works. However, the Empire Group Building can only choose the most suitable ones. If a design drawing is not selected, I hope that you can still actively participate in the next time the Imperial Group cooperates."

Everyone knows.

For the construction of the Empire State Building, you can only choose one of the designs.

The rest will definitely not be selected.

They all know this very well.

If the Imperial Group can say that, it can be considered as giving them face.

Like Wharf itself, Hutchison Whampoa itself has its own huge real estate properties, and it must also have its own architects.

They also participated this time, but were not selected either.

"After our Chairman of the Empire Group, Mr. Yang, and relevant executives of the Empire Group, we finally selected and confirmed that the work designed by Mr. Pei from New York's IM Pei Architectural Design Firm was selected by us. Congratulations to Mr. Pei."

Pei Yuming and his son already knew last night.

Now, when Merlis made the announcement in public, Pei Yuming and his son were still very happy.

Other designers are already aware of Pei Yuming's work last night.

Some people may not be convinced, but most designers are convinced.

"Now I invite Mr. Pei Yuming."

Pei stood up amidst the applause of the architects and reporters and walked to the front desk.

After shaking hands with Mai Lisi, Ma Shimin, Wei Li, Tang Shilian and others, he said: "I am very grateful to the Empire Group and Mr. Yang, the chairman of the Empire Group, for their support and trust in choosing my work among so many works."

Pei began to take out his works and introduce them in front of the reporters.

"This architectural design is the result of the joint efforts of my eldest son Bei Dingzhong, my second son Bei Jianzhong, and two Feng Shui numerology masters from Xiangjiang, Mr. Chen and Professor Song."

"Among them, the overall building height is 699 meters."

699 meters high?

The reporters who were doing this were shocked when they heard it.

What is this concept?

Currently, the tallest building in Hong Kong, Hong Lok Building, is only 178.5 meters high.

The Federal Building where the Empire State Group is currently located is only 95 meters high.

The Sears Department Store Office Building in Chicago, Country M, was built from 1970 to 1973 and designed by SOM Architectural Firm of Country M. It is the tallest building in the world so far, with 110 floors on the ground and a height of 443 meters.

At 443 meters high, the Sears office building is already the tallest building in the world.

Now the building built by the Imperial Group is actually 699 meters high.

Not just in Hong Kong, but also the tallest building in Asia and the world.

The highest point of Victoria Peak is 554 meters, and the Empire State Building, which is nearly meters high, is more than meters higher.

How could such news not shock the reporters present?

With current technology, it can be built no matter how high it is, but the problem is that it requires huge financial support.

Imperial Group has exactly such funds.

According to Pei's prediction, if the Empire State Building is built according to his design, the cost will be at least 15 billion to 18 billion Hong Kong dollars.

What is this concept?

In 1978, this was definitely a huge amount of money.

Even other large groups in Xiangjiang may not be able to easily come up with such a sum of money.

What's more, some time ago, the Imperial Group had spent more than HK$600 million on the Murray Building site.

Calculated in this way, it has exceeded 20 billion Hong Kong dollars.

In Yang Ming's opinion, it is very worthwhile.

At that time, in addition to being used as an office location for the parent company of Empire Group, the rest can also be rented out or used for other purposes.

It is very possible that this building will be worth hundreds of billions of Hong Kong dollars in the future.

After Meilisi and Pei announced the news that surprised reporters, they once again lamented the wealth of the Imperial Group.

If the Imperial Group did not have so much money, it would be impossible to build such a huge building.

After IM Pei roughly stated the design aspects of the Empire State Building.

Meris continued to announce: "The construction of the Empire State Building will be jointly undertaken by Wharf Real Estate, Hutchison Real Estate, and I.M. Pei Architects. The construction period will last five years."

Five years seems a bit long to Yang Ming.

However, Yang Ming gave enough time to ensure the quality of the building.

Dangmeilisi, Ma Shimin, Wei Li, and I.M. Pei signed this contract on behalf of Empire Group, Wharf Group, Hutchison Whampoa, and I.M. Pei Construction Company respectively.

Witnessed by those reporters.

The construction of the Empire Group's parent company building is about to begin.

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