Chapter 944 Very Regrettable
The change of ownership of Sky Group is a big news in Britain.
After all, although Sky TV is not as popular as before, it is still one of the three major TV stations.
However, within Sky Group, the change of "owner" this time is calmer than people imagine.
Except for the departure of several direct descendants of Murdoch in the management, because Remy Darroch still retains the position of CEO, the business of Sky Group is still advancing as usual.
Ivanta also took this opportunity to come to London. In addition to dealing with the handover affairs of Sky Group, he also had the opportunity to get along with Barron.
Barron stayed in Joe Harriman's apartment last night. After all, the beautiful cabinet minister of the British people has been running for the country's scientific and technological innovation recently, and he must express his condolences on his behalf.
It must be said that the combat effectiveness of Cabinet Minister Joe Harriman and supermodel Rosie Huntington is still considerable under the "double maid sword", which makes Barron feel that "chess meets a match, and generals meet good talents".
After picking up Ivanta, she sat in the car, leaned on Barron, moved her nose, and then smiled:
"Where are we going?"
Barron noticed the woman's movements. Well, it is still useful to take a shower and change clothes in the morning. Otherwise, if she smells the fragrance of other women, she may not be so gentle.
"Go and have a rest first, baby. I have prepared a house for you. You can live there for the next few days."
"Don't you want to go to your house?"
Hearing Ivanta's words, Barron understood that the woman said this deliberately...
"Where you live is our home, baby."
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In mid-September, a team including Huaxia officials and representatives of China Railway Corporation, China Railway Construction Corporation, Huaxia China Railway Corporation and other companies arrived in England. They will communicate with Amber Sheen, CEO of the First Railway Group of England, on the project bidding of the High-speed Rail Line 2 of England.
Earlier, the First Railway Group of England officially announced the final route planning of the High-speed Rail Line 2 and the project bidding catalog and process.
It is worth mentioning that after the finalized route plan of the High-speed Rail Line 2 was announced, an animal protection organization in the UK claimed that the noise during the operation of the high-speed rail would disturb the animals' rest and affect their reproduction, and demanded that the high-speed rail must slow down when passing through animal habitats - according to their investigation, there are a total of 350 animal habitats along the High-speed Rail Line 2...
Then, the British First Railway Group invited the head of the animal protection organization that raised this protest and the animal protection experts found by the other party to take a helicopter to investigate the planned route.
Unfortunately, in the end, the heads and experts of these animal protection organizations were unfortunately killed in the plane crash.
After investigation, the crash was completely accidental because the thick fog on that day affected the flight of the helicopter...
So the British First Railway Group once again invited the new head of the animal protection organization to continue the investigation - the newly appointed head changed his words and believed that the technical requirements of the First Railway Group for high-speed rail would prevent the operation of high-speed rail trains from disturbing those animals.
In this way, the British First Railway Group finally "regrettably" gave up the effort to continue inviting the other party to conduct an investigation.
Although a helicopter was lost "for no reason", it is still insured...
And compared to the so-called "trains need to slow down when passing through animal habitats" proposed by those brainless animal protection organizations, this loss can only be said to be "a drop in the bucket".
After all, according to their route planning, it will pass through more than 350 so-called "animal habitats" of all sizes. In this case, why build a high-speed railway? Just put green trains directly.
There were also so-called environmental protection organizations that claimed that the exhaust gas from the operation of high-speed trains would pollute the environment - Nima, you didn't investigate before you protested, high-speed railways use electricity, not coal? Where does the exhaust gas come from?
Barron doesn't tolerate such monsters at all. It's not the British government. It's spending the government budget to build high-speed railways. He is willing to waste time with these people. He spends his own money. Whoever makes trouble has a grudge against him. If you don't want to be decent, he will help you be decent.
Moreover, in terms of public opinion, not only SEM Group and Sky Group are now controlled by him, either overtly or covertly, but even the BBC, after the previous scandal, the former BBC president Entwistle announced his resignation, and the new president also has a good personal relationship with Barron.
As for the British government, because Cameron needs to rely on Barron's power to promote the high-speed rail line 2 project as soon as possible, it can be said that the efficiency of many things has been greatly improved.
It is also worth mentioning that two members of parliament have resigned due to scandals caused by their attempts to help animal protection and environmental protection organizations to accuse the British First Rail Group. I wonder if there are still people who are willing to try again...
"We are very much looking forward to cooperating with powerful high-speed rail construction companies from all over the world. In fact, when I visited China last time, I personally took the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail and was deeply impressed. China has advanced technology and experience in high-speed rail construction and is a partner we attach great importance to."
Amber Sheehan, CEO of the British First Rail Group, met with the Chinese delegation and highly praised China's strength in high-speed rail construction. China also showed great enthusiasm for this.
They have already submitted their bids to the First Railway Group, and are preparing to have several Chinese engineering companies that have participated in the construction of the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway undertake the construction of the entire HS2 railway line.
In addition, China's CSR and CNR will also participate in the bidding for high-speed trains and other equipment.
Unfortunately, although it is no problem to hand over most of the construction of the high-speed railway and stations to the Chinese consortium, Alstom-Bombardier Heavy Industries Group can be said to be bound to win the high-speed trains and related train systems.
Even if China promises that if CSR and CNR join, they can provide more loans - even covering the entire investment of the entire High-Speed Railway Line 2.
But on the one hand, their own companies must be involved, and on the other hand, if all the bidding projects of the entire High-Speed Railway Line 2 are won by China, I am afraid that neither the British government nor the European Union can justify it.
In the end, some benefits must be left to local companies.
For this purpose, the British government has also allocated a part of the funds to subsidize local companies involved in the High-speed Rail Line 2 to enhance their competitiveness in the face of other competitors, mainly Chinese companies.
It can be said that this period of time is very tense for both Chinese companies and other companies participating in the bidding for the High-speed Rail Line 2.
Because in half a month, that is, at the end of September, the final bidding results will be officially announced.
