Chapter 604 Chinese Business Group in Southeast Asia

On May 13, Tang Yu had returned to Xiangjiang from Indonesia. That night, he had a grand meeting with Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia, and the central government also participated in the meeting. Tang Yu lowered his credit to the country, which not only won the favor of Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia, but also let The senior management of the country recognizes his status more.

The Southeast Asian Chinese business circle is a huge interest group, especially for Southeast Asian Chinese businessmen. Southeast Asia has countless Southeast Asian businessmen with huge amounts of capital. They form a circle one by one and interact with each other to support each other. The country has always wanted to win over this group, but it has not been successful. This time, the accident has happened. The contribution can't help but make the country look at Blackwater International and Tang Yu himself with new eyes.

Chinese businessmen have always been a legend in the world, like a legend of Jews. We only need to study history a little to know what kind of glory Amen has.

Southeast Asian Chinese businessmen have made great contributions to the development of Southeast Asian economic circle. For hundreds of years, Southeast Asian Chinese businessmen seem to be the tireless engine, which plays a key role in the prosperity of Southeast Asia.

In fact, it is not difficult to find the reasons for the success of Chinese businessmen. They are good at changing from time to time and are good at grasping opportunities. They have keen insight, are good at predicting the direction of development in the changes of the times, grasp the development opportunities, and can turn the crisis into a turning point, and strive to expand the opportunities to make money. In this way, I can be invincible in extremely fierce business competition and take the opportunity to develop and strengthen myself.

Moreover, Chinese people do business based on integrity and faith first. Most of the Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia migrate from Minnan and Chaoshan. Local customs advocate that "benefficacy comes from sincerity, reputation comes from letters". Only by taking sincerity as the basis can they obtain credit. While trusting others, they will also get the trust of others. This is the ability of Southeast Asian Chinese businessmen. An important factor for long-term development in shopping malls.

They also dare to fight to win and never be satisfied. Southeast Asian Chinese businessmen often have nothing in the early stage of migration. They have a strong concept of getting rich that are never satisfied and have an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit. And dare to take risks and break the ban, be enterprising and actively explore. In this way, we can expand the territory and enter the high-profit field that ordinary people dare not dabble in.

Finally, it is steady and pays attention to financial management. Most Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia start from scratch. They often start from small businesses and make money bit by bit, so they can be diligent and thrifty. With a certain amount of savings, they can expand reproduction in time and develop a huge industry.

However, no matter how successful they are, in a word, the wealth in the hands of Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia makes any country in the world jealous. This time, the Indonesian family is willing to take the risk to launch riots and riots. The main purpose is to focus on the wealth of Chinese businessmen.

In fact, if you pay attention to the Forbes list of Southeast Asian millionaires, we will find that nearly 30 Chinese among the 40 people on the list in Southeast Asia occupy nearly 3/4 of the seats, and nine of the top ten are all Chinese. It can be seen that what kind of power do Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia have, and this That's why the country has always wanted to attract this group.

However, the country's previous solicitation has not been effective. In fact, these Southeast Asian businessmen were more willing to get close to the Daiwan government before, and the capitalist economic system is more suitable for their development. Although the mainland has enough sincerity, it has not been able to impress them. Now it is better. The mainland government is willing to They support, and they can provide the funds, investment and technology, management, etc. needed for China's development. By the way, they can also get rich returns. In short, they take what they need, and everyone is very satisfied.

Among them in the Chinese business circle in Southeast Asia, there are Guo Nianhe, a business giant who has influenced the economic trend of Southeast Asia, as well as political elites who have promoted the harmonious development of Asia; there are old entrepreneurs who have been fighting in the battlefield for many years, and young and creative new descendants. Many of these people have an indissoluble bond with Blackwater International in this turmoil in Indonesia. Some of them have families in Indonesia, some are in Indonesia, and some have invested in Indonesia. They are all under the protection of Blackwater International to successfully bow this country. They must accept this situation. This meeting is mainly to thank Tang Yu, who is at the helm of Blackwater International. People like them have various information channels. Naturally, they understand where the previous proposal to assist them came from, which has been bumpy on the business road. They are particularly grateful for their management.

In fact, the road to Southeast Asian Chinese businessmen entering the mainstream society in Southeast Asia in the early stage is extremely difficult, and it is rare to survive and enter the international stage for a long time. In the early days, they mainly developed in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and other countries. Those who persisted and eventually became super-rich.

Although Guo Nianhe is relatively old, he can talk to Tang Yu very well. The two of them have become forgetful friends in a few words. "Xiao Yu, our ancestors also suffered a lot when they work in Southeast Asia. It is not easy to accumulate today's family. In those years, they were able to succeed in Southeast Asia, on the one hand, due to hard work, hard work and The accurate grasp of historical opportunities, on the other hand, is also due to the influence of strict family education and the influence of traditional Chinese culture. We have never dared to forget.

Tang Yu smiled slightly. Guo Nianhe is the chairman of Guo Group, with a wealth of 5.3 billion US dollars. His ancestral home is Fuzhou, Fujian, China. In fact, most of the Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia are from the southeast coastal generation. There are many Chaoshan people, such as Lijiacheng, all from Chaoshan. Guo Nianhe's father crossed the sea in 1909 and came to Malaysia to start from nothing. Of course, he did not work hard for a big family business and barely maintained it. Guo Nianhe, who grew up in this family atmosphere, inherits the traditional virtues of hard work, thrift and simplicity, and filial piety to his parents.

Thinking of all kinds of things in the past, Guo Nianhe also sighed a lot and stressed many times: "My mother has made great contributions to my achievements today, and she is also the person who has influenced my life the most."

In fact, Guo Nianhe should be regarded as a Chinese businessman who has contacted the domestic government. Since the 1990s, Guo Nianhe has focused on his investment in his native China. At the same time, he is enthusiastic about public welfare and donated 50 million yuan to the Hope Project. He also said, "My heart is divided into two pieces. One is the country where I grew up, and the other is the hometown where my parents grew up."

Tang Yu was naturally curious about such a legend, so he took what he had seen in his autobiography before to ask for advice.

Only then did I know that Guo Nianhe started his business at the age of 25 and is still "retiring". He has created a huge business kingdom integrating sugar, hotels, real estate, shipping, insurance and media, spanning the Asia-Pacific regions such as Singapore, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Fiji and Australia. There are famous brands such as Shangri-La Hotel and Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. He is described as the most widely known Malaysian in the international community. Guo Nianhe has also experienced almost all the changes in the business world in this century, during which there are not only rare development opportunities, but also a global economic depression.

Guo Nianhe likes Tang Yu, a descendant, very much and also has the meaning of teaching. He patted him on the shoulder with a smile. In the flower business circle in Southeast Asia, he is a real legend. Almost every Chinese business circle can speak. He is an absolute veteran. Guo Group is in the southeast. Asia is also very influential.

"When it comes to entrepreneurship, my experience can be divided into several stages. The first stage should be said to be 50 years ago, that is, the late 1940s, which is the recovery period after World War II."

With that, Guo Nianhe also fell into memories of the past. Tang Yu smiled. He also read the biography of this legendary old man. He knew that in 1948, shortly after graduating from Raffles College in Singapore, Guo Nianhe founded the Li Kewu Company in Singapore, mainly to operate ships. In transportation and general business, he has formed a lifelong relationship with the shipping industry.

"Ship shipping has saved the first bucket of gold for me. In fact, so far, this business still has a pivotal position in the Guo Group. However, this industry has not allowed me to reach the peak, nor can it make me reach the peak. The real opportunity was the 1960s, which was a period of rapid progress. "

Tang Yu smiled. In the 1960s, Guo Nianhe carried forward the sugar trade business left by his father's era and won the reputation of "Asian Sugar King". At the right time, he founded the first sugar factory in Malaysia, leased a large area of land to grow sugar cane from the government, and quickly established a sales network throughout Malaysia, forming an "integrated operation" system of "raw material-processing-sales". In 1970, before the rise of world sugar prices, he bought white sugar and invested in white sugar futures in the international market. So far, it controls 80% of Malaysia's raw sugar market and occupies 10% of the world sugar market.

"Guo Lao was also known as the Asian Sugar King at that time, right?" Tang Yu also showed reverence. Although he has made great achievements at this time, when can he add a king before his name, the king of VCD? It seems that I haven't taken it seriously. It's always someone else who is in the limelight.

Guo Nianhe smiled and said, "The sugar king is not the sugar king. It's just that others are screaming, but the industrial chain of processing sugar does provide rich business for the family. At that time, we almost monopolized the Malaysian raw sugar market. It is okay to barely call it sugar king. That is our real profit base and the family's foothold. Basically, but to talk about great development, it will be in the 1970s. In the 1970s, that was the period when we opened our territory.

Tang Yu also knows what happened next. Since 1971, Guo Nianhe has officially entered the hotel industry and invested RM100 million to set up the first Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore. After that, he established strongholds in the capitals or big cities of many countries, extending all the way from Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Fiji, etc. to mainland China. Shangri-La Hotel Group has now become an internationally famous five-star hotel brand. In the 1980s, the world economic downturn, the shipping industry showed a phenomenon of "oversupply", and the freight volume of freighters was greatly reduced, causing Guo Nianhe to suffer serious losses. However, the decision to invest in China in the late 1980s laid the groundwork for another peak in his career. He became the pioneer of Malaysian enterprises to enter mainland China and was finally able to share the richest reward today.

In fact, at that time, most Chinese businessmen did not want to get close to the mainland government. One of the reasons is that they used to represent buyers' capitalists, while China was a socialist country. Coupled with the provocation of Daiwan and others, Guo Nianhe was a relatively general person. It has been online with China and the government, and the investment in the mainland has also brought him sufficient returns.

And the Guo family reached the 1990s, which was the icing on the cake. Guo Nianhe extended his tentacles to the media and film and television industries. His flagship Kerry Group in Hong Kong acquired the Hong Kong English newspaper South China Morning Post, and then joined Hong Kong TV, making him a local media tycoon.

It can be said that Guo Nianhe's way of success is to capture the economic growth hot spots of various eras. Almost every 10 years, Guo Nianhe has entered a new field and continuously expanded his business empire. Guo Nianhe's extraordinary courage, talent, super judgment and never-ending spirit have made him an outstanding representative of the older generation of entrepreneurs.

Of course, in addition to Guo Nianhe, there are countless Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia. The richest man in the Philippines is one of them, with assets of about 1.5 billion US dollars.

Cheng Caiyong was born in Jinjiang, Fujian Province in 1934 and went to the Philippines to make a living with his parents at the age of 3. Although he was born in poverty, he has been adhering to his mother's teachings since childhood and loves to study Chinese culture. He has developed the habit of learning Chinese poetry dictionaries since he was a child. He can recite the whole article of Sun Zi's Art of War and the Analects, and often use the philosophy in this treasure house to deal with the business difficulties he faces, which has laid a deep foundation for him to become a successful Confucian businessman. The foundation.

When there was a Chinese riot and riot in Indonesia, Cheng Caiyong happened to negotiate business there. His residence was attacked by Indonesian thugs, and it was only with the appearance of Blackwater International that his safety was guaranteed. Therefore, he was extremely enthusiastic about Tang Yu.

Cheng Caiyong has extraordinary ambitions since he was a child and is determined to start his own business. While working as a handyman in a tobacco factory and completing his studies in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Far East University in Manila, he founded a starch processing factory at the age of 20. Although this attempt failed, he quickly stood up and borrowed money to start a chemical company, which later became the cornerstone of Cheng Caiyong's huge career.

In 1964, Cheng Caiyong founded the Fuchuan Cigarette Factory, which is positioned in the medium-sized cigarette market with a wide audience, and boldly introduced the world's most advanced tobacco production line to the Philippines.

In the late 1970s, Fuchuan Cigarette Factory has developed into the largest cigarette factory in the Philippines. From then on, Cheng Caiyong turned his eyes to the industry related to the national economy and people's livelihood. With his extraordinary business sense and large scale, he established his own industrial kingdoms such as tobacco, beer, banking, aviation, real estate, oil refining, tourism, construction, etc., and has more than 100 enterprises and properties in Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States, China and other places. The total assets are nearly 10 billion US dollars.

Cheng Caiyong is far-sighted, dares to take risks, and is good at seizing business opportunities where others are not paying attention. He often said, "It is common for soldiers to win or lose. Opportunities and risks are together, and there are countless business opportunities in the crisis.

In 1987, the stock market plummeted when Hong Kong returned to negotiations, and many people in the Hong Kong business community either watched or transferred funds to Europe and the United States. Coinciding with the auction of Yujing Garden land, Cheng Caiyong did not hesitate to bid for 500 million Hong Kong dollars. In 1994, the value of Yujing Garden had reached 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, which impressed business colleagues. After that, he successively invested in hotels, office buildings, shopping malls, high-end residences, Kowloon City and other projects in Hong Kong, and the snowball was getting bigger and bigger.

Cheng Caiyong has a bold personality and often makes unexpected decisions. He often said, "I dare to touch the tiger's buttocks that people dare not touch. If you don't do one thing, you must do it well.

In 1995, Cheng Caiyong acquired a Philippine state-owned airline that has been losing money for years. He said that "Philippine Airlines" represents the Philippines and cannot collapse. I want to do a good job in "Philippines Airlines" to win glory for the Philippines. Since then, Cheng Caiyong has carried out management reform boldly, injected 4 billion US dollars, updated 40 aircraft one after another, and opened a number of new international routes. Philippine Airlines finally turned losses into profits since 2000, and Cheng Caiyong's move is deeply admired by Filipinos.

There is also the richest woman in Southeast Asia, who is also Chinese. She is the president of Singapore Kaifa Group, worth about $240 million.

Lin Lian'ai, born in Malaysia in 1961, is a Chinese orphan. A kind-hearted Chinese old woman adopted and cultivated her who loves life and is strong and studious with love. To this day, Lin Lianai still maintains a simple life, and her biggest expense is to support charities for the elderly, children and education. Kaifa Group, which she leads, is also constantly promoting water resources regeneration projects in resource-based water-scarce cities in mainland China. From the initial simple desire to let my mother-in-law live in a big house to the grand vision of promoting "water resource regeneration" now, the Chinese entrepreneur complex of the family has been best reflected in Lin Lian'ai.

Born in poverty and far-sighted, she was named the richest woman in Southeast Asia by Forbes with total assets of $240 million. Reversing adversity, seizing opportunities, and hard-working efforts have made a turning point in her life.

In fact, all the success, in Lin Lianai's view, is a "foresight" gamble on the future. After graduating from the National University of Singapore, Lin Lianai entered a local Dutch pharmaceutical company as a pharmacist and had a predictable career future with a good salary. After three years of work, Lin Lianai, who has a keen vision, believes that the wastewater recycling market has a huge space for development. He resolutely gave up a stable job with an annual salary of $40,000, sold his house and car, and founded Kaifa Group, which is mainly engaged in providing wastewater purification systems for $12,000.

"I didn't have any business plans at that time, but I knew that water was a good business." Perhaps the difficult memory of saving rain in her childhood strengthened her determination to act. At the beginning of the establishment of the company, there were only three people, and at that time there were 20 companies in the industry in Singapore. In order to break through, Lin Lianai decided to focus on wastewater purification using membrane technology. She rode a motorcycle in person and ran between Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia in the scorching sun, selling her company's filters and water treatment softeners door to door and factory by factory.

In 1992, Lin Lianai realized that the company needed a broader market to pursue development. With her background as a Chinese and excellent Chinese, she intelligently began to enter the Chinese mainland market. At that time, 10 friends, including her tutors when she was in college, cast an extremely firm vote of trust to her, each with about 100,000 Singapore dollars to support her development. The facts once again proved Lin Lianai's foresight, and the company finally began to make profits this year.

When it comes to Chinese businessmen in Southeast Asia, there is another person who can't be ignored. Although his name doesn't look like a Chinese, but more like a Thai, that is, Yexin, who founded Shinawa Computer Company and owns the largest telecommunications company in Thailand, worth more than $1.3 billion.

It is also called Qiu Xinda in Chinese, and he is the fourth generation of Chinese in Thailand. His great-grandfather migrated from Chaozhou in 1908. His mother was a Hakka in Meizhou and came to Thailand when he was a child. Speaking of the reasons for his success, he said: "It depends on the good character of the Hakka people in business and the honesty to make a living. This is the most precious legacy handed down by the Hakka ancestors. He also said that he advocated the loyalty and filial piety of Confucianism, loyalty to the country and the people, and filial piety to his parents and ancestors. As a Chinese, Yexin attaches great importance to relations with China. In recent years, Yexin has been committed to promoting regional cooperation and hopes to accelerate the negotiation process of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Zone.

Thais like to use words such as "be gentle", "rich in knowledge", "be able to make good judgments", "good at communication" and other words to describe Prime Minister Yexin Shinawah.

Huge personal wealth is a key advantage for building a national political network, so where does his strong funds come from? When Yexin first entered politics, many people speculated that he came from a rich family. In fact, he started a business for nothing. In the past 10 years, he has achieved three steps from an excellent police officer to a telecommunications tycoon to a strategist politician.

Ye Xin was born in 1949 in an ordinary family in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. He received a good education since he was a child. In 1966, he was admitted to the Bangkok Police Academy. Four years later, he graduated with the first place in the school and won a government scholarship. He went to the United States to study and obtained a doctorate in criminology. At the age of 30, he returned to work in the Thai Police Department.

In 1983, he founded his own Sinovac Computer Service and Investment Company with the assistance of his wife.

In 1986, the Thai government allowed private operators to operate the telecommunications industry, and the company became the first private telecommunications enterprise to obtain a license. He also decided to resign from the public office of police lieutenant colonel and concentrate on business. Using his relationship with the police station, he contacted his company before resigning to provide computers and software for the informatization of the Thai police system.

Subsequently, from pagers to mobile phones to communication satellites, the Shinawah company became bigger and bigger. The company went public in 1990 and basically monopolized Thailand's TV satellite antenna and mobile phone industry a few years later. By the mid-1990s, he had owned more than 50% of the shares of four listed companies, becoming the richest man in Thailand and the only Thai among the world's 500 "tycoons" rated by Fortune magazine.

Influenced by my father, I also believe that I have been ambitious since I was a child. When I was in primary school, I asked my teacher, "Is there a school that specializes in becoming a prime minister?" The great success of the business world did not satisfy him, but strengthened his confidence in politics. In 1994, he also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister and other positions.

Of course, Tang Yu, who comes from later generations, also knows other things. For example, if history does not change much, two months later, that is, on July 14, 1998, he founded the Thai Love Thai Party to absorb many backbones and parliamentarians of other political parties under his own banner on preferential terms, so that Thailand The influence of the Aitai Party has expanded rapidly. By the beginning of 2001, Yexin will be successfully elected Prime Minister and will be re-elected in 2005, which will create two consecutive records for the first democratic-elected Prime Minister to successfully complete his four-year term and the same political party after the enactment of the first constitution in 1932.

Of course, at this time, Yixin did not know that he was about to become a prime minister, and he would be re-elected and break a record, although he did aim to be a prime minister.

Tang Yu is also very curious about this person, so there was a lot of time to discuss with this person during the whole meeting.

Tang Yu knew that during his first term as Prime Minister, he also had credited business methods to deal with complex political issues and launched a series of bold foreign policy measures, including the "Dialogue on Asian Cooperation", "Strategy for the Development of Economic Cooperation in Southeast Asia", and the designation of Thailand by the United States as its "main non-NATO ally". These have become the highlights of the world's attention. Tang Yu also knew that ambition had many amazing actions during his tenure that were different from ordinary politicians, such as leading more than 40,000 people to set a world record for collective gymnastics; in order to quell the violence in the south, he launched a origami crane prayer for peace nationwide; took the lead in eating chicken at a chicken banquet to help people build. Build confidence in defeating bird flu; in order to speed up the construction of Bangkok's new International Airport, personally cook and cook for workers at the construction site, etc. These pioneers and new forms of pro-people style have won the admiration of the Thai people.

Tang Yu even knew that due to his previous successful business experience, he also established his own development strategy, called "Yexin Economics". Under the leadership of Yexin, the Thai economy has emerged from the depression after the 1997 Southeast Asian financial crisis and is growing steadily at an annual growth rate of 6%. It also paid off the IMF's $14.3 billion debt two years in advance. During the period of government, the friendly and cooperative relations between Thailand and China in political, economic and other fields developed comprehensively and smoothly, and achieved remarkable results.

It is precisely because he knows this person's future resume that Tang Yu talked to him, and the two had a lot of common languages, which made Yixin more and more satisfied with Tang Yu, because he found that the two always had a lot of common languages. What he was more curious about was why this young man was so familiar with Thailand. Well, and it is also consistent with his political opinions. The idea of the two is basically the same. How does he know that Tang Yu basically understands a series of measures after he came to power, which is targeted. For this fair, he has done a lot of work, not only to the vast majority of Chinese businessmen to a certain extent. I understand, and he is more prepared.

When Chinese businessmen withdraw from Indonesia this time, a large part of them will definitely choose to invest in the inside. This is also Tang Yu's own financing opportunity. Domestic business development has reached a bottleneck. If you want to develop, you need to have sufficient funds. If you don't borrow from banks, financing from the flower business circle in Southeast Asia seems to be more Add a wonderful choice, so he has made a lot of effort this time, hoping to get some funds.

As for the national people, in addition to expressing the national position, they naturally attract investment. I hope that these Chinese businessmen will invest in China. These people's investment is regarded as foreign investment, which is the political achievement of various officials.

Obviously, everyone has achieved the results they need. After a negotiation, Tang Yu got at least a verbal agreement of nearly 1 billion US dollars. This billion US dollars can finally be implemented with 500 million US dollars, so Blackwater International has not been in vain when it comes to Indonesia. Domestic officials also seem to have a good harvest. There are a large number of Chinese businessmen who are willing to invest in China, indicating that their intentions are as high as tens of billions of dollars. Of course, it will take some time to wait. After all, it is not so easy to completely evacuate from Indonesia. It also requires China and the government to come forward. Communicate and apply pressure, etc., to prevent the Indonesian government from it.