Chapter 553 Grand Ceremony
10 o'clock in the morning, Xiangjiang Square.
The ‘Hu Ben Brigade’, the honor guard of the three counties, the navy team, and the air force team lined up on time and are preparing to be reviewed.
Representatives from all walks of life sit at the viewing platform.
Spectators are waiting eagerly.
The military band is ready.
Leaders are appearing on the podium.
The host announced the start of the ceremony, and the first item was a gun salute.
The salutes roared one after another, and the flag guards escorted the flags and national flags of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and walked with vigorous steps to the flag-raising platform.
The gun salute roared and seemed very grand.
The sonorous and powerful footsteps were uniform and full of power.
When they were about to arrive, the flag guard began to change into the goose step. The goose step was so powerful that it shocked the audience at the scene and those in front of the TV.
Flag guards lined up at the flag-raising platform.
And this officially kicked off the grand ceremony.
This grand ceremony was conducted live, with CCTV and TVB broadcasting it live.
Countless Chinese people are extremely excited and excited because several years have passed since the last military parade.
Everyone has a deep memory of the 1984 military parade. The eyes of every soldier participating in the military parade were full of murderous intent.
This time, the warriors of the "Tiger Brigade" are extremely sharp and murderous. If the enemy is in front of them, they will tear the enemy into pieces without hesitation.
Even though the soldiers of the "Hu Ben Brigade" were lined up over there, the audience at the scene and in front of the TV still felt tremendous pressure.
The flag was raised and the national anthem was played. The 100,000 spectators at the scene could not help but sing the national anthem together and watched the bright five-star red flag rise.
The entire military parade lasted for more than an hour.
Solemn and grand!
Liu Tao was at the viewing platform with his family, holding a bright five-star red flag and waving it.
Then go to rest without finishing.
In the evening, it is the party, which can also be called a state banquet.
This grand ceremony is destined to be recorded in history and will be talked about by people for decades to come.
Now Hong Kong has returned to the embrace of the motherland, and Macau will return to the embrace of the motherland in two years.
Now only Treasure Island is left, and everyone is full of expectations.
The idea of great unification is always rooted in the bones of every Chinese person and flows in the blood of every Chinese person.
Everyone hopes that China can be unified.
Only when China is unified can we talk about rejuvenation!
And if China wants to stand at the top of the world's nations, it must be unified.
Liu Tao and his family stayed in Xiangjiang for a full week and had a good stroll around Xiangjiang. Then Zhu Lin and others took the train and set off back to the capital.
This week is also his vacation, spending time with his family.
Watching Zhu Lin and others enter the train station, Liu Tao left the train station with the guards and checked into the Peninsula Hotel again.
Liu Tao will continue to stay in Xiangjiang to handle matters.
The grand ceremony is over, the honor is in the past, and we still need to work hard in the future.
Next, it’s time to keep an eye on Dark Monday!
At present, Liu Tao's banks in Xiangjiang include two large, four middle and eight small banks, a total of 14 banks.
Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) and Bank of Hong Kong are two large banks. Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), like HSBC, has the right to issue Hong Kong dollars and now exceeds HSBC in scale; Bank of Hong Kong is a large bank formed through integration. , except that it does not have the right to issue Hong Kong dollars, its scale has exceeded HSBC and is comparable to Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong).
The four medium-sized banks are Xiangjiang Construction Bank, Xiangjiang Commercial Bank, Xiangjiang Development Bank, and Xiangjiang Wing Hong Bank.
Eight small banks are not that big.
The total assets of the fourteen banks have exceeded the three trillion Hong Kong dollar mark, and last year they achieved a record-breaking profit of more than one hundred billion Hong Kong dollars. They can be said to be golden roosters that can lay golden eggs.
There are currently eight small banks all over Hong Kong, with almost 30 business outlets and an asset size of approximately 30 to 40 billion.
Each of the four medium-sized banks has more than 70 business outlets in various parts of Xiangjiang, and their total assets have exceeded 100 billion. In addition to being in Xiangjiang, they are also in Pengcheng, Yangcheng, Magic City, Beijing, Hangzhou, etc. There are business outlets in cities.
The two major banks have hundreds of business outlets not only in Xiangjiang, but also in various cities in the mainland. They also have business outlets in Macau and Baodao, and there are more than 20 business outlets in the entire Nanyang.
Moreover, Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) and Hong Kong Bank are still developing very fast, and they are still far from reaching the ceiling.
The loan-to-deposit ratio of these banks exceeds 70%.
Loan-to-deposit ratio refers to the ratio of total loans to total deposits of a bank. The higher the ratio, the worse the liquidity of the bank's funds and the higher the risk. The money that banks take in from depositors can only create profits by lending it out. The net interest difference between deposits and loans is one of the most important sources of bank profits.
But the money deposited by savers, even if it is a time deposit, can be withdrawn at any time. At most, they will only give up the interest. However, it is impossible to get back the money lent by the bank at any time. Therefore, if a bank's loan-to-deposit ratio is too high, as long as there is a slight disturbance, a run and withdrawal storm is likely to leave the bank with no money to pay, and it will collapse instantly.
Of course, if the bank's reputation is good enough and it is fully trusted by depositors. Even if the loan-to-deposit ratio is higher, there is no problem.
A lot of the money here is loaned to enterprises in the mainland.
So far, the bad debt rate is very low.
Whenever Hong Kong businessmen go north, they will choose HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) or Hong Kong Bank.
With the reform of state-owned enterprises in the future, the introduction of shareholders into mainland banks will be Liu Tao's goal.
After all, in the elite banks in the mainland, even a pig cannot lose money, and you can make money with your eyes closed.
Liu Tao will take a big action next, and banks are an important channel or tool.
If you miss this opportunity, you don't know when the next opportunity will come.
Of course, you have to be low-key here. It's best to be untraceable and not easy to attract attention, otherwise you will be remembered by the Americans, and maybe the Americans will jump off the wall at that time.
After dealing with the Xiangjiang matter, Liu Tao left and returned to Panshan Group.
After leaving Panshan Group for a while, there were many tasks that needed Liu Tao to handle.
Even if there are other group leaders, many things are beyond their authority, so they have to wait for Liu Tao to come.
For example, this time, it involves the handling of a department-level cadre, and this matter must be brought to the party group meeting.
There are also some cadre adjustments that must be brought to the party group meeting.
Therefore, Liu Tao convened a party group meeting at the Panshan Group headquarters to centrally handle major matters.
Liu Tao returned to Panshan Group and found that the grand event of Xiangjiang's return was still talked about with great relish even after a few days, and it was also a hot topic in the news. According to the current popularity, it may last for two or three months or even longer.
Normal updates will resume on Sunday, please forgive me!
