Chapter 499: Red Star Shines over Hong Kong
Chapter 499: Red Star Shines over Hong Kong
With Peng Yongqin's help in Shenzhen and Dapao's many years of smuggling experience, he and Abin worked together to set up the red oil company, which was established very quickly.
The oil depot was set up in Tsuen Wan, which was convenient for both water transport and land customs clearance. Chiu Yung-yi's men were responsible for upstream affairs, transporting the smuggled red oil to the oil depot, managing the warehouse and customs clearance.
Lao Zhong’s brothers are responsible for the downstream, such as building a bleaching plant in the country and distributing the bleached diesel to factories and gas stations.
The high-profit, low-risk links are all in Lao Zhong's hands, while the high-risk, low-profit matters are handled by Chao Yongyi.
Even so, being able to board Lao Zhong's ship was considered a success. The red oil business was doing well, and Chao Yongyi had tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars in his account every year. Lao Zhong had spent more than seven million Hong Kong dollars on building oil storage, purchasing transport vehicles, managing relationships, and initial investment.
Otherwise, Zhongyitang would not have sent out the White Paper Fan from Jordan District.
Early December, the capital, the Wanzhong Hall, the Guangdong Provincial Hall.
Twenty members of the return preparation group, dressed in suits and leather shoes, sat upright on the sofa, looking down at the documents.
In front of the eight glass-ceramic columns, more than 30 staff members were busy. The chairman of the committee, Mr. Qian Qichen, sat in the main seat, and Liang Guanghui, the Guangdong Provincial Office, was the deputy seat.
Fok Kwun-tai, Liao Yun-sum, Lau Wong-fat, Li Fook-sin, Kwok Tak-sing, Lok Tak-sin, Wan Chiu-tong. Twenty members, all of them are leading figures in Hong Kong Island and industry leaders.
The light of the red star can only shine on Hong Kong through the people present.
Each committee member had a secretary standing beside them, crossing their legs with the committee members, holding two pages of paper, and making different suggestions. The secretaries were all carrying bags, with mountains of documents piled beside them, which they hurriedly flipped through.
Whenever a topic was discussed and Qian Qichen pointed out a page, the secretaries would quickly find the document and hand it to the boss. It is no exaggeration to say that the secretaries who could enter the meeting hall with the boss were the capable assistants of each committee member.
The staff in the hall were dressed in waiter uniforms, refilling tea. Except for raising hands to speak and discussing topics, the only sound in the Guangdong Provincial Hall was the flipping of books.
Yin Zhaotang had visited the auditorium and listened to concerts in his previous life, but this was the first time he had a seat in the auditorium. When he first entered the hall, he was somewhat nervous, but after chatting, he felt more and more comfortable!
There is no irritability and bitterness that workers feel when they attend a meeting, only excitement, passion and tiredness?
It’s worth vomiting blood to set rules for the five million citizens of Hong Kong!
Qian Qichen sat in front of the bronze relief mural of "Dragon Boat Race", closed Guo Bingxiang's proposal, and said: "Commissioner Guo's proposal needs to be discussed. Now let's start discussing Commissioner Yin Zhaotang's proposal, "Suggestions on amending the education text after the handover". Everyone can speak freely."
Different from the original intention of the mainland to improve the housing difficulties of Hong Kong residents on a large scale, Guo Desheng, as a representative of major real estate developers, proposed to focus on the environment of Hong Kong Island.
Under the banner of low per capita greening rate, they are unwilling to reclaim new land in Kowloon and the island area after the handover. The reclamation strategy can, on the one hand, ensure the location advantage and scarcity of existing residential buildings, and on the other hand, increase construction costs and continue to speculate on housing prices.
Qian Qichen was unhappy, but he insisted on respecting his compatriots and "one country, two systems" and could not refute it, so he had to change his proposal. The committee members took the documents handed to them by the secretary and looked down at them.
Unlike the condensed version in Chairman Qian's hand, each document in the hands of the committee members is a complete draft. The purpose is to let the committee know the full picture and eliminate the doubts of the mainland deadline. However, many committee members' proposals are repeated or similar, so the manuscript in Chairman Qian's hand only records the valuable proposals. Yin Zhaotang did not expect that Old Qian would dig out his private goods and make them public as soon as he opened his mouth.
This suggestion was the only one in his draft that was not related to business, and it was also a proposal to "reward the gods". When he drew the Yong signature, he had promised to "pass a Basic Law proposal" to reward Guandi.
While making a basic suggestion that will surely be passed in principle, I am also using my conscience and referring to history to make a suggestion that will be useful to Hong Kong Island and its citizens.
Yin Zhaotang thought about it and finally chose to propose a proposal that was worthy of his conscience! Finally, there was a proposal to revise the education text at the meeting. In layman's terms, after the return, the text should be revised and education reform should be carried out simultaneously.
Guo Desheng, Liao Runchen, Huo Guantai and others were flipping through the documents, looking at the youngest face at the meeting from time to time. No one expected that the members of the "Business Group" would propose a proposal on education?
Lao Zhong is also investing in education?
Zhong has reached an agreement with a certain education group.
At first glance, there is no trace of profit-seeking. It is impossible that they really want to reform education! Young and Dangerous teaches people to read and write, to be patriotic and dedicated. It is really weird.
But the reason why the "preparation group" has great power is that, like the formal preparatory group, each topic needs to be divided into a "legal management group", a "trade management group", etc. for special discussions, and the authority is locked within the group.
However, the committee of the preparatory group can truly speak freely. Anyone who wants to raise any issue can do so, and anyone who wants to interject can do so freely.
After the legal representative Luo Dechen put down his proposal, he was the first to raise his hand to oppose it: "Mr. Yin, I don't agree. Amending the education text is suspected of violating the 'one country, two systems' principle."
On the night he wrote down the proposal, Yin Zhaotang had already anticipated that there would be opposition, because the whole Hong Kong atmosphere considered itself superior, and believed that it was superior to China in terms of culture, economy, and other aspects.
This has nothing to do with individuals, it is a social trend, a legacy of China’s “progress” over the past century. It is even the ideological imprint of several generations, and it cannot be reversed in the short term.
But whenever he thought about the students being misled by the young, the cockroaches on the street, and the color war that would happen, he felt that even if it would cause opposition, he should raise it, so that he would not be in vain sitting in the hall, and would be worthy of the ancient Yue ancestors in the "Dragon Boat Race"
Modifying the text will not affect everyone here, but it will affect the children here, as well as future social trends and the opinions of new young people.
In fact, it is a more radical proposal than the commercial proposal, and it has a wider impact. Guo Desheng does not want the new generation of Hong Kong Island to read textbooks from the mainland, where everyone wants to fight against the local tyrants, divide the land, and buy houses to pay off debts and become house slaves!
He immediately raised his hand and said, "I don't agree with changing the text. In Hong Kong Island, there are Chinese schools, English schools, church schools and aristocratic schools to choose from. You can choose whichever one you like. Revising the text and unifying the teaching will undermine Hong Kong Island's educational freedom, easily make students dull, lose Hong Kong Island's bilingual advantage, and affect foreign trade."
Even Liao Runchen did not speak out in support at this time, which shows how serious the topic is.
Yin Zhaotang drank a sip of tea, looked at Luo Dechen, and said sharply: "Luo Sheng, please understand clearly that one country, two systems means one country comes first, and two systems come second. It is not called one country just because we change the flag. We are one country if we share the same culture, the same race, the same heart and the same strength!"
"Schools can certainly choose and respect the freedom of education, but they must also respect the influence of education. Revising the textbooks is not about copying from the mainland, but about giving full play to the advantages of the two systems, adapting to local conditions, and rewriting the textbooks for Hong Kong people."
"New government, new world, it's not appropriate to continue to follow the foreigners' teachings, right?"
(End of this chapter)