Chapter 457 Hong Kong Subway
In the last life, after the Hong Kong issue was settled, British companies led by Jardine Matheson began to gradually withdraw, while Chinese companies, especially Chinese real estate companies, began to gradually become the new leaders of Hong Kong's economy.
Real estate tycoons like Li Ka-shing, Li Zhaoji, and Guo Desheng began to expand their wealth rapidly like a balloon in the decade after 1985.
But it is different in this life.
In 1982, the Hong Kong issue was settled, and Panshan Group was the real biggest winner.
The second is Huo Yingdong!
The others are some businessmen who followed them, who have made more or less gains, and their wealth has basically doubled in a few years.
As for those who are disloyal, they are the biggest losers, especially those who choose to immigrate. At that time, they sold at less than one-third of the price. Now if they want to return to Hong Kong, they have to spend more money to have a house of the same level as before.
Fence-sitters, nothing, and some losses.
At this moment, they want to make a difference in real estate. In addition to developing real estate in the north, in Hong Kong, they want to develop the original land and get more land, and sell the developed houses at high prices.
Liu Tao is not interested in land that is too expensive. It’s okay if it’s a lower price, but he didn’t participate in the competition for the high price.
Because he already controls a lot of land.
One of the impressions of Hong Kong is that there are few land and many people, but in fact, the total land area of Hong Kong reaches 1,095 square kilometers, which is 1.5 times the land area of Singapore, one of the four Asian tigers.
The reason why Hong Kong has a situation of few land and many people is largely because the Hong Kong government has only developed about 78 square kilometers of Hong Kong Island and about 50 square kilometers of Kowloon Peninsula in the past 150 years of ruling Hong Kong.
On this 128 square kilometers of land, there are now 4 million people out of the 6 million people in Hong Kong, accounting for 66.67%!
This is naturally overwhelmed, and it has also formed a situation of few land and many people.
As for the remaining nearly 900 square kilometers of land, the utilization rate is very low.
Kowloon and Hong Kong Island have long developed into the most prosperous urban areas in the world, and the situation in the New Territories was not much better than that of Pengcheng on the boundary river.
In 1982, the various groups under the Panshan Group chose to build factories in Hong Kong in the New Territories, that is, in the areas of Tin Shui Wai and Tung Chun Wai.
This brought new opportunities to the New Territories, and the entire Yuen Long developed rapidly.
In just a few years, the population here exceeded one million.
The value of the land here has risen with the tide.
And this place has also become the industrial center of Hong Kong.
In 1982, the population of Hong Kong was 5.26 million, and more than 200,000 people immigrated, but in a few years, the population has now reached 6 million, and these one million people are all from the mainland.
These one million people have injected fresh blood into Hong Kong.
Originally, only factories were built here, and later those real estate developers who had land in Yuen Long developed residential buildings, communities and shopping malls.
Of course, the biggest move is the development of Landmark, Wheelock and other companies here.
However, unlike those real estate developers who want to sell houses at high prices, the houses developed by the real estate companies controlled by Liu Tao are half sold and half rented, so as to curb the rapid rise in housing prices.
If it weren't for such measures, I'm afraid that the housing prices here in Yuen Long would catch up with Hong Kong Island and Kowloon!
His real estate layout in Hong Kong is very clear, forming a pattern of luxury, high, medium, low and rental. Luxury villas like Feng Shui treasure land and reservoirs are only sold to rich people, with the most luxurious houses, the safest security measures, the best services, and the best education.
Good locations and high-end real estate are for small bosses, gold collars, and executives, and the prices of these houses will not be low.
The mid-range real estate is aimed at middle-income groups such as white-collar workers. Low-end real estate is for workers.
The rental of houses is used to curb excessively high housing prices and give others a choice. And these houses for rent are mainly apartments, and some suites.
To be honest, Liu Tao can't do it by keeping his compatriots like pigs in a pen and sucking blood from them crazily.
If it weren't for his layout, I'm afraid that the housing prices in Hong Kong would have already broken through the sky.
At about five o'clock in the afternoon, Huo Yingdong came here, and the two chose a seafood restaurant in Yuen Long to have dinner together.
The two talked about the development of Hong Kong, and then talked about business.
This time Liu Tao came to Hong Kong, in addition to taking a look at the industries here, there are four things to do.
One is the Hong Kong section of the 'Beijing-Kowloon Railway'. This section is only 34 kilometers. The original idea was to build 13 stations in Hong Kong, but it was not suitable later, so it was changed to 3 stations, one is the entry station 'Luohu Station', one is 'University Station', and one is 'Kowloon Station'!
So far, this 34-kilometer railway has been built.
The boundary river bridge was just built last month, and this section has not yet been opened to traffic.
One is the construction of main roads. These newly built main roads will be the routes for the Hong Kong garrison to enter Hong Kong, which is extremely important.
Ordinary roads, let alone main battle tanks, medium tanks will easily crush the road surface.
Only such specially built high-standard roads can support the movement of main battle tanks.
The time nodes of these main roads are all set before the Spring Festival in 1987.
Some of them have been completed and opened to traffic, but some have not yet been completed.
The third thing is that the Golden Dragon Group will go public in the United States. After the Chinese New Year, Ho Ying-tung and others will go to the United States for a roadshow. There is no doubt that this is a big deal.
The securities dealers have already reached an agreement. These capital tycoons, like sharks smelling the star, all came directly to Hong Kong to negotiate.
As for the fourth thing, it is the Hong Kong subway!
In early 1974, the Japanese consortium signed a letter of intent to undertake the project, but in November of the same year, due to the oil crisis, they were pessimistic about the investment prospects and decided to withdraw, causing the relevant plan to be suspended for a time.
In July 1977, the Hong Kong government officially approved the construction of the Tsuen Wan Line, and construction began in November 1978. The Tsuen Wan Line is about 10.5 kilometers long, from Prince Edward Station to Tsuen Wan Station. The route increases the total length of the subway map to 26.1 kilometers. There are 10 stations along the entire line, including 6 underground stations, 1 ground station and 3 elevated stations.
On May 10, 1982, the Tsuen Wan Line was opened to traffic, with a construction cost of HK$4.1 billion.
This also officially opened the era of Hong Kong subway, which means that Hong Kong has a subway.
In December 1980, the Hong Kong government officially approved the construction of the Hong Kong Island Line, but because of the cold winter of 1982, the Japanese consortium decided to withdraw, causing the relevant plan to be suspended.
Last year, the Hong Kong government sold a lot of land, and Ho Ying-tung and others were promoting the Hong Kong Island Line. After all, this is a large project with an investment of tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars, and the profit here is not small.
Liu Tao naturally plans to take advantage of this opportunity to get a project for himself.
There is a lot of room for cooperation between the two parties.
Even wait until the end to monopolize the entire Hong Kong subway construction.
After all, this matter cannot be cheap for the Japanese consortium. Why should the Japanese consortium make a lot of money?
